The Small Eye-Witnesses
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| Episode 281 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}}) | |
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| Title: | The Small Eye-Witnesses |
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| Japanese title: | 小さな目撃者たち (Chiisana Mokugekisha-tachi) |
| Original airdate: | June 10, 2002 |
| Season: | 10 |
| Manga source: | TV Original |
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Detective Boys |
| Case solved by: | Conan Edogawa Detective Boys |
| Director: | Yasuichiro Yamamoto |
| Screenplay: | Michiru Shimada |
| Storyboard: | Masakazu Amiya |
| Episode director: | Johei Matsuura |
| Animation director: | Akiko Kawashima |
| Opening song: | I can't stop my love for you♥ |
| Closing song: | Yume Mita Ato de |
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Situation
In an abandoned house, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta are playing a horror game using store mannequins, but Ayumi repeatedly blows the mood because her fear always makes way for amusement at the sight of Mitsuhiko and Genta wielding mannequin arms. They become alarmed, however, when in one of the next rooms they hear glass shattering, and upon investigating, they witness two men calling each other Kurata and Suzuki arguing: Suzuki, apparently wishing to ditch the transportation company he's working for in favor of a better salary, has already diverted some of his company's loyal customers to their rival, Sanada Transportation. The argument quickly escalates into a fight, and while the Detective Boys are at a loss about what to do, one of the men quickly lies dead.
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The Detective Boys waste no time calling up Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency, but while they do, the killer parks a truck outside and prepares to dispose of the body. Impulsively, the hitch a ride on the truck in order to find out where it will go and are able to escape the culprit's notice as he deposits the body inside, but in the excitement Ayumi has forgotten her Detective Badge, which she had just used to call Conan, and with no time to retrieve it before the killer departs from the scene (and it being the only Badge they had brought along), Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta have no way of telling Conan about the course of their ride and eventual point of destination.
The ride leads the Detective Boys through an unknown part of the city and out into the mountains, where they become ear witnesses of the culprit burying his victim's body, before they return back to the city. They abandon the truck when it is forced to stop at a red light, and while Mitsuhiko and Genta memorize the truck's license number as it drives away, Ayumi calls up Conan. The next day, Conan, his friends and Kogoro investigate the murder scene
