The Smash of Determination and Love

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Episode 294-295 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Smash of Determination and Love
Japanese title:	愛と決断のスマッシュ (Ai to Ketsudan no Sumasshu)
Original airdate:	September 9, 2002 (Part 1) September 16, 2002 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	16.7% 16.6%
Filler case:	#98
Season:	11
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	E-mail (Part 1) Awards ceremony (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	294 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 295 Chika Ichimaru
Episode director:	294 Minoru Tozawa 295 Yoshio Suzuki
Animation director:	294 Keiko Sasaki 295 Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Takeshi Watabe as Kenzo Narimasu Jin Yamanoi as Akira Doi Nobuo Tobita as Hideki Mamiya Nobutoshi Canna as Masato Tachikawa Yutaka Nakano as Inspector Tamana Kousuke Okano as Sergeant Kato MAI as TV announcer Naoko Nakamura as Sonoko Kakei Junichi Sugawara as Staff Isshin Chiba as Announcer
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Mushoku

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku (cellphone puppet)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Earring Cellphone

Case

Situation

Part 1

The Detective Boys along with Kogoro, Ran, and Sonoko take a trip to Kumamoto, so the Detective Boys may participate in a Tennis Tournament. Ran and Sonoko explore the city and finds a cell phone on the floor. When Sonoko picks up the phone, an unknown person sends her a message declaring their love for her and leaves a location and time so they may meet. Ran and Sonoko allocate to the meeting place. While Sonoko is in the bathroom, Ran hears two men talking about killing someone, they see her. She tries to run away, but another man knocks her out.

Kidnapping
	Location: Abandoned Factory Hostage: Ran Mouri Culprits: Akira Doi and Hideki Mamiya During her attempt to return a lost cellphone to its owner. Ran was kidnapped!

Ran awakens in a locker room with her hands tied and using the phone, manages to contact Conan. She tells him her current situation and describes her surroundings. The three men return and destroys the phone Ran was using. The Detective Boys along with Kogoro and Sonoko report the kidnapping to the authorities while Conan wonders what the objective of the three men is.

Part 2

The police department receive a ransom demanding a large sum for Ran's life. The police send their men to search around town for Ran. Conan and Haibara soon deduce from Ran's description of her location. Once there, the Detective Boys are able to save Ran and apprehend the two kidnappers. However, it is revealed the third kidnapper is planning to murder the announcer for a Tennis match. Conan informs the police and they are able to persuade the murderer to surrender peacefully.

People

Kenzo Narimasu
	60 years old Chairman

Akira Doi
	25 years old Factory worker

Hideki Mamiya
	25 years old Factory worker

Inspector Tamana
	Inspector from Kumamoto Prefectural Police

Sergeant Kato
	Sergeant from Kumamoto Prefectural Police

Masato Tachikawa
	25 years old Tennis player

Kyouhei Mabuchi
	25 years old Tennis player

Sonoko Kakei
	Woman

Hiroaki Saeki
	Deceased (suicide) 40 years old Narimasu's secretary

Richard Woodbridge
	Reigning tennis champion from America

Michael Owen
	British professional tennis player

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Masato Tachikawa and he tries to kill Kenzo Narimasu. Before becoming professional tennis champion he used to work at Tachikawa's company where he was ill-treated as a worker and received sympathy only from Narimasu's secretary. Kenzo eventually left his secretary as a scapegoat for one of his corrupt political affairs and Hiroaki Saeki committed suicide in grief. Masato along with two of his colleagues stage this plan to kill Narimasu during the awards ceremony and by chance kidnap Ran to further divert attention from their real plan. He is finally stopped by another Sonoko who was against their entire operation.

Trivia

• Akira Doi's car is a Gray Nissan Rasheen.
• In an English-subbed release of this episode, the newspaper portrait of male secretary Hiroaki Saeki (佐伯弘明 ,Saeki Hiroaki) was replaced with one of female Renge Kataoka for some reason. The same release also referred to the secretary with female pronouns in the subtitles. The references used by the voice actors in Japanese were gender-neutral. This is despite the original Japanese version, showing Saeki as male in the newspaper. In the Italian dub he is a woman and Masato Tachikawa's girlfriend.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	蘭のお姉さんぶり	Ran no Onēsan Buri	Ran's Elder Sister Style	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	パーティー会場へ	Pātii Kaijō e	To the Party Meeting Place	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
4	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	パーティー会場へ	Pātii Kaijō e	To the Party Meeting Place	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
6	１０年後の歩美	10 Nengo no Ayumi	Ayumi 10 Years Later	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
7	パーティー会場へ	Pātii Kaijō e	To the Party Meeting Place	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
8	雄大な富士山	Yūdai na Fujisan	Grand Mt. Fuji	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
9	ドライブ気分	Doraibu Kibun	Driving Feeling	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	黒い影─挑戦	Kuroi Kage - Chōsen	Black Shadow - Challenge	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
11	爆破計画スタート	Bakuha Keikaku Sutāto	Bombing Plan, Start	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
12	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
13	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
14	第３の犠牲者	Dai 3 no Giseisha	The Third Victim	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
15	犯人の謎	Hannin no Nazo	The Mystery of the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
16	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
17	無色	Mushoku	Colourless	Mushoku

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
4	暗殺者のテーマ─狙撃	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Sogeki	Assassin's Theme - Sniping	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
5	顛末（TENMATSU）	Tenmatsu (TENMATSU)	The Facts (TENMATSU)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
6	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
7	５・４・３・２・１！	5・4・3・2・1!	5・4・3・2・1!	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
8	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
9	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	怒りのメッセージ	Ikari no Messēji	Message of Anger	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
11	コナンの賭け	Konan no Kake	Conan's Gamble	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
12	怒りのメッセージ	Ikari no Messēji	Message of Anger	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
13	蘭の決意～ホースに火が	Ran no Ketsui ~ Hōsu ni Hi ga	Ran's Decision ~ Hose and Fire	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14	無色	Mushoku	Colourless	Mushoku
15	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan	L'impuls de l'amor i la determinació
German	Die Entführung	The Kidnapping
Italian	Incontri di tennis, incontri d'amore	Tennis Meetings, Love Meetings
Spanish	Smash de amor y determinación
Vietnamese	Sự tan vỡ của quyết định và tình yêu	The Smash of Determination and Love

See also

• Season 11