Mysterious Case Near the Pond/Gallery
This is a gallery for the Episode Mysterious Case Near the Pond
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Having a non-native animal could disrupt their ecosystem. Conan notices a woman listening in to their conversation so he says to go to the pet shop that the owner would go to. He says they must have bought a lot of small fish to make turtle food.
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Then all of a sudden a man claims the turtle to be his! His name is Nihonmatsu. The group confront him.
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He claims he was trying to make up for a mistake he regretted. When he was little he bought a green turtle but then he couldn't be bothered to look after it so he released it into a nearby pond.
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Conan and the group discuss that Nihonmatsu is lying. He mistold a fact about the snapping turtle - also he spoke angrily about the turtles once.
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Conan and Mitsuhiko discover Nihonmatsu has a lot of debt in addition to all of the rent he owes. He's a pretty bothersome tenant and has made no unusual purchases of turtle food. They realize he's not intending to sell the turtles because it wouldn't cover his issue.
Conan and the group follow Nihonmatsu to a shop. They see him sighing and guess that he really only wanted one of the four snapping turtles specifically. But they got mixed up, and he can't tell them apart. It'd be better just to take them all back. There must be something special about one of those turtles. Conan then follows Nihonmatsu meeting two debt collectors. He says he has the 1 million yen. Conan realizes that somehow, when Nihonmatsu gets that turtle, he can pay off his debts...
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Conan, Takagi, and the rest of the group decide to research the turtles. Meanwhile, Nihonmatsu is told he is not allowed to raise the turtles because there is paperwork that needs to be dealt with, so he'll have to wait a week. Conan and the group wait outside Nihonmatsu's location.
Nihonmatsu then runs off to his locker. He trys to put the coin in but it won't go in. Conan is one step ahead of him. "You wanted to pay a one-week rental fee. If you leave it there for more than three days, management will confiscate the contents inside. The coin locker was made so that, without a key, you can't open it." Takagi and the police then open the locker with the key and find the 3 million yen!
Because he was in debt, he stole 3 million yen from Fukurokouji last night. But once he put the money in the coin locker he failed - He burned the mask and gloves that way he'd only need to retrieve the money one dawn broke - but unexpectedly whilst he was burning the evidence a snapping turtle swallowed his key! (During the process he gets bitten) That's where his plan failed!
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The research the group did was actually an x-ray of the turtle proving the key is inside. Then Conan continues to say he ran city hall so they'd capture it and that he could retrieve it from the stomach.
Nihonmatsu makes a run for it but Conan uses the combination of his Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes and Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt to cause Nihonmatsu to stumble and fall. Takagi and his assistant catch up to him and arrest him.