The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department

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Episode 971-974 (Int. Episode 1028-1031)
Information
Title:	The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department
Japanese title:	標的(ターゲット)は警視庁交通部 (Tāgetto wa Keishichō kōtsū-bu)
Original airdate:	March 7, 2020 (Part 1) March 14, 2020 (Part 2) March 21, 2020 (Part 3) March 28, 2020 (Part 4)
Broadcast rating:	8.9% (Part 1) 6.5% (Part 2) 7.9% (Part 3) 8.2% (Part 4)
Manga case:	#293
Season:	25
Manga source:	Volume 95: Files 10-11 (1013-1014) ~ Volume 96: Files 1-3 (1015-1017)
English version
English title:	Target: MPD Transportation Department
Dubbed episode:	971-974
English airdate:	February 8, 2023 (Tubi)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Ai Haibara Detective Boys Yumi Miyamoto Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi Ninzaburo Shiratori Juzo Megure Hyoue Kuroda Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Shukichi Haneda Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Swing (Part 1) 100 yen coin (Part 2) Traffic sign (Part 3) Twinkle twinkle little star (Part 4)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Jiro Kanai
Storyboard:	Jiro Kanai
Episode director:	971: Minoru Tozawa 972: Akira Yoshimura 973: Nobuharu Kamanaka 974: Yorifusa Yamaguchi
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 971: • Keiko Sasaki 972: • Kenichi Otomo 973: •Asuka Tsubuki • Marie Nagano • Kana Aoki 974: • Masanori Hashimoto • Joji Yanase • Miho Tanaka • Yui Ushinohama • Marie Nagano • Hideyuki Motohashi • Michitaka Yamamoto
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	974: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Rikako Aikawa as Kazunobu Chiba (young) Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike, Naeko Miike (young) Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yuu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Chafurin as Juzo Megure Yukimasa Kishino as Hyoue Kuroda Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Ryotaro Okiayu as Subaru Okiya Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Michiko Neya as Shiori Yagi Kimiko Saitō as Touko Momosaki Hideo Ishikawa as Silhouette man (Kengo Aono) Ryoko Nagata as Aiko Midorikawa  Sho Okumura as Radio voice A Chiaki Kobayashi as Radio voice B Miyuri Shimabukuro as Woman Sayuri Sadaoka as Old lady Taisuke Nakano as Drunk man A Masayuki Oshita as Drunk man B Kosuke Onishi as Unnamed officer Yusuke Tonozaki as Detective B
Music
Opening song:	Makka na Lip
Closing song:	Sukoshi Zutsu Sukoshi Zutsu

The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department (標的(ターゲット)は警視庁交通部 ,Tāgetto wa Keishichō kōtsū-bu) is the 971st, 972nd, 973rd, and 974th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Yumi Miyamoto Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi Ninzaburo Shiratori Juzo Megure Hyoue Kuroda Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Shukichi Haneda Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai (flashback) Yusaku Kudo (flashback) Yukiko Kudo (flashback) Detective Okumura Detective Hirota Detective Sogawa Detective Nakamura Unnamed officer Detective Sugita Detective Fukui

Gadgets

Gadgets
Turbo Engine Skateboard Telescopic Lenses

Case

Situation

Part 1

Murder
	Location: Street Victim: Touko Momosaki Age: 28 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Kengo Aono, Manji Akamine, and Yuuzou Shiroyama When she was fighting with a masked man while returning house, she is stunned in the ankle and later killed by the masked man.

Part 2

Murder
	Location: Street Victim: Shiori Yagi Age: 28 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Kengo Aono, Manji Akamine, and Yuuzou Shiroyama After being stunned in her apartament, she fells of her balcony.

Part 3

Aggravated Assault
	Location: Street Victim: Yumi Miyamoto Age: 28 years old Attack type: Bashing Culprit: Drunk man The drunkman prepares to assault Yumi but Subaru stops him.

Kidnapping
	Location: Unknown Victim: Naeko Miike Age: 24 years old Suspects: Kengo Aono, Manji Akamine, and Yuuzou Shiroyama The culprit kidnapped Naeko and forced her to tell who "Yumi" was.

People

Shiori Yagi
	Victim (defenestrated) 28 years old Traffic Department Assistant Inspector

Touko Momosaki
	Victim (bludgeoned) 28 years old Traffic Department Sergeant

Unknown man
	Assaults Touko and Shiori Kidnaps Naeko

Aiko Midorikawa
	Deceased (fell) Office worker

Kengo Aono
	Suspect Traffic offence: smartphone use while driving

Manji Akamine
	Suspect Traffic offence: motorbiking without helmet & wrong-way driving

Yuuzou Shiroyama
	Suspect Traffic offence: driving without seatbelt & overdue inspection

Yumiko
	28 years old Hostess Touko and Shiori's old classmate and close friend Nicknamed "Yumi"

Old woman
	Neighbor

Man B
	Drunkard

Man C
	Drunkard

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Kengo Aono.

Kidnapping
	Location: Inside Hall Victim: Naeko Miike Age: 24 years old Culprit: Kengo Aono

The "No parking" sign is an overlapping of the letters N and O, meaning "No". The color blue of the sign is pronounced as "Ao" in japanese. The two words combined gives "Aono". Furthermore, the "7155" message that the second victim left, is a reference to the article of japanese traffic law, that mentions that a driver must never use his cellphone while driving. Aono's girlfriend committed suicide the week before. He drove without his license while trying to call her, which got him caught by the two police women, Touko and Shiori, who held him back. He believed that he could have prevented the suicide, if they had let him go, and that they wasted time, when they got a call from their friend Yumiko, known as Yumi to them, who invited them to karaoke. But Chiba explains that he was held back, because he could have caused an accident, especially if he drove his car in a panic. Moreover, right after he got his girl friend's text message with a goodbye she had called him and left him a voicemail, that also recorded her fall. It proves that he could never have stopped her in any circumstances. Aono missed the voicemail, because he had been busy trying to call her phone and because he was too distressed to notice, realizing that he murdered two innocent women he breaks down crying.

Accident
	Location: Unknown Victim: Naeko Miike Age: 24 years old Injury: Crossbow shot wound Culprit: Kengo Aono Naeko saved Chiba from a crossbow arrow that the culprit had rigged earlier resulting in her injury.

Chiba finally recognises Naeko as his childhood friend after the latter used the same words that Chiba said to her about not crossing the red light and respecting traffic laws.

At the end of the case, Kuroda calls Amuro on the phone, calling him "Bourbon".

Trivia

• Naeko is seen at the karaoke box singing closing 60 and closing 61.
• The unknown man's van is an effect blue metallic 2006 Honda Mobilio Spike [GK].
• The vehicle in the last episode is a 2018 Honda N-VAN [JJ].
• Kazunobu Chiba's grand tourer sports car is an ultimate silver 2017 Nissan GT-R [R35]. The license plate number is 新宿 351, ち 6-26 (Shinjuku 351, Chi 6-26).
• Conan recognizes Twinkle Twinkle Little Star lyric from hearing 4 sets of 7-times tapping on the phone, and can sing this song very well and on key.
• The name of the characters come from colours and numbers:

• Shiori Yagi (八木 紫織) comes from purple (紫) and eight (8, 八);
• Toko Momosaki (百崎 橙子) comes from orange (橙色) and hundred (100, 百);
• Kengo Aono (青野 健吾) comes from blue (青) and five (5, 五);
• Manji Akamine (赤峰 萬治) comes from red (赤) and ten thousand (10 000, 萬);
• Yuzo Shiroyama (白山 裕三) comes from white (白) and three (3, 三);
• Aiko Midorikawa (緑川 藍子) comes from green (緑) and indigo (藍);
• Additionally, blue, red and white are colors of traffic violation tickets.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'objectiu és el Departament de Trànsit	The target is the Traffic Department
French (Subbed)	La Sécurité routière prise pour cible	The traffic department is take as the target
Thai	เป้าหมายคือแผนกจราจรของกรมตำรวจ	The target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department
Vietnamese	Mục tiêu là bộ giao thông của sở cảnh sát Tokyo

See also

• Season 25