Everything About Detective Conan:

Summary Three

In this special session I must apologize because it only covers about one volume of the Conan manga, but it is the best one I thought I should do it as thorough as I can... I think 15 pages in Verdana, 10 font, single space should cover it ^^.

We begin with a case I usual call “Conan Shot” and in this situation it’s like one of those DBZ titles that just gives away the story line. But aside from that let’s begin.

It starts with Ran practicing her lines, with Kogoro’s help, for the school play. Turns out Sonoko wrote the script and basically Conan and Kogoro are writing it off until they realize there’s a scene where the princess gets kissed. Conan asks Ran who’s going to play the knight and she smiles and bends down to ask “You’re really concerned about who’s the knight aren’t you Conan-kun?”

“Maybe just a little...”

Turns out the knight is Dr. Araide, all the boys were to shy because Ran was chosen to be the Princess and the part for the prince is really similar to how Shinichi acts. Anyway Ran realizes it’s late and wants to take a bath. Problem is the shower is broken and it’s Sunday so everywhere is closes. Conan says they can go to Agasa’s house and take baths there. Kogoro tells them not to bother the professor so late and take a quick one together. Ran immediately yells a her father (big head drawing) and saves face by saying it’s not good to teach Conan-kun things like that at his age. Conan-kun isn’t exactly convinced.

Skip to Agasa’s house and while Ran is in the bathroom, Conan is talking with Agasa explaining that Ran has been acting different recently, not how someone would usually treat a 7 year old. Agasa is worried but Conan brushes it off until Ai comes up behind him and says “Maybe she’s figured out who you are,” and then tells them that she is doing very important work in the lab downstairs and to not disturb her. Ai leaves and Agasa says to Conan “What if Ai is right?” Conan scoffs a bit and replies with a “If she knows why doesn’t she say so?” Just then Ran comes in and all conversation is stopped. Ran wonders where Ai is and Agasa tells her she’s downstairs. Ran walks off saying she’ll play with her and Conan is trying to stop her. Ran goes in saying “Hi Ai-chan!” and trails off as she sees the girl in front of the computer typing. Agasa tells Ai that she should respond but Ran says it’s all right and that she’ll see Ai later. (At this point in the series Ai has never introduced herself to Ran and constantly ignores her.) After Ran leaves Ai continues typing thinking to herself “Maybe I’m running away from it...Don’t be joking!” while she looks at the floppy disks she retrieved (see Ai’s first appearance, apparently they found them in the last file of the case, but besides the one of the APTX info another had pictures of Akemi on it.)

From there it turns into a kids case with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta singing “Mune ga Doki Doki” (DC first opening song) on their way camping. While Ai and Agasa set up the tent, Conan and the kids go to get firewood. Of course they just have to find a cave with a riddle in front. Automatically the kids think “TREASURE” and Conan teases them with a fake analysis of the riddle. But before he can stop them they are running into the cave looking for treasure. Conan finds a cigarette as they go in deeper and starts thinking there are other people in the cave. They see a light up ahead, and worried that someone has already found the treasure Genta runs forward, only to witness the scene of people trying to dump a guy with a hole in his head. He screams and runs back to the others but one of the men follows Genta and pulls out a gun. Conan covers the kids and is shot in the back while trying to get them to escape. They hide, and Conan keeps the children quiet, until they notice he’s bleeding. Conan tries to contact Ai using the Detective Boys Badge but she left it in her bag. As Conan’s fainting he hints the kids toward a way out. It’s up to them to solve the rest. As they are running out to the exit however, Genta, who is carrying Conan, trips and the leader of the burglary ring grabs Conan as a hostage. As Ayumi and Mitsuhiko are really worried for Conan, lights come on behind them at the exit. It’s Megure and the police who were already in the area looking for the robbery suspects when Ai and Agasa called them. Conan wakes up long enough to stun the guy holding him.

Conan is rushed to BeikaHospital, the gun shot wound is near the kidney so he bled a lot. The scene turns from Ai explaining that to Kogoro to Ran running next to the stretcher rolling Conan along, begging him to wake up. Suddenly, just as they are about to take him into surgery it’s discovered his blood type isn’t in stock. It would take too much time to rush him to another hospital.

Ran demands that they use her blood, sure that his blood type and hers are the same. Conan wakes up enough to hear it... Kogoro and Agasa are shocked, unsure how Ran is so sure that his blood type and hers are the same. Ai’s eyes narrow, and Conan thinks to himself “So you already know...”

Conan goes into surgery and Ran sits outside waiting holding her arm... thinking of Shinichi.

And that is where that case ends.

The next case is referred to often in the fandom and is usually called “Desperate Revival” or “Shinichi’s Rebirth.” (I note that some things maybe incorrect on something’s because the scans were from a Chinese text but I’ll do my best ^^)

It begins with Conan coming out of surgery on the stretcher. It skips to the next morning when Conan wakes up. It still hurts but not badly. He is startled to see Ran sleeping at the end of his bed with Kogoro’s jacket over her shoulders. Kogoro comes in and in his gruff way tells Conan to get better. It skips to about ten days later. The doctor tells Ran and Sonoko that Conan will be able to go home in a couple of days but that he’s caught a cold because of how weak he was after the surgery. The kids are visiting Conan and showing him a hand-held video game which Sonoko takes away when they have to go home and Conan back to his room. In three days is when the play is going to be. It’s set that Kogoro will help out that day. Sonoko asks Ran if she’s told Shinichi and that since she’s going to be the princess he’s got to rush back and see her. Ran says that Shinichi won’t, but Ran says it doesn’t matter...As long as Conan-kun can come it’ll be all right. Ran asks Conan if he will be able to come. Conan replies, stuttering he will. Sonoko senses something sappy and asks Ran if she’s taking her love of Shinichi and putting it on the kid. Ran asks Sonoko what the heck is she talking about. Conan notices a bandage around Sonoko’s wrist. Turns out she sprained her wrist and won’t be able to be the knight for the romantic scenes...which means Dr. Araide will be the knight for the whole play.

Conan starts sulking but becomes worried as he hears voices arguing coming from his room... guess who it is ^^.

“Aho! Lilies symbolize a beheading! It’s bad luck! We came to visit a sick patient!”

“Why didn’t you say so earlier?! Aho!”

It’s the Kansai couple coming to visit Conan. Heiji tells Kazuha to go buy better flowers then, and take Neechan (what he calls Ran) and Sonoko-kun with her because she’ll end up lost. Conan immediately asks Heiji why he’s there. Turns out Agasa called Heiji and asked him to talk with Shinichi about how Ran has almost figured out his identity. Conan climbs into bed and says it’s already figured out and that there were so many signs that she knew. But of course there is one thing that Conan doesn’t understand, “If she knows, why doesn’t she say anything?”

Heiji gives a great line there and I hope that is the real line... “The spectator sees the chess board better than the players. There is only one reason for her to find out the truth and not tell you... She is waiting for you to tell her first.”

(Gotta compliment Ran’s strength to not just jump at Shinichi (Conan size) and ask him... She’s patient and understands that there must be some reason why he is not telling her he is Conan.)

Heiji thinks he should just tell her. Conan argues that she’ll just take his pain and worry and cry even more, but with how alert she is Conan fears he might not be able to keep his secret and it would be easy to tell her everything. He asks Heiji what he would do...

Heiji doesn’t know.

We get a scene of a black figure moving through the hospital and stealing Potassium Cyanide.

Conan is thinking to himself what he should do...and after thinking of all what everyone has ever told him he decides he’ll tell her. He’s startled as he hears the click of a gun...that Haibara is holding...

She tells him her identity has been revealed by the men in black, someone else was there. The organization was told that the drug could grant youth. Ai thought she was going to die but they want her instead to continue the research on the APTX. She had to kill Shinichi, his parents and Heiji would be captured tomorrow, and Agasa is being held hostage. She’s done what she could already.

The gun goes off.

Conan stares awkwardly at the bouquet of roses that pop out of the gun.

“What would you do?” she asks him, “If it were just as I told you. They would kill everyone who knew.”

Ran would be a target in other words, if he obeys his emotions and tells her. Ai tells him telling Ran would be the easiest thing to do. His other option is to ignore her. Or his last one is to….

The pages skip to the play and the theater is filling up. Ran is nervous but is happy to see Kazuha there. She asks him where’s Heiji and Kazuha tells her that he didn’t come. Kazuha asks Ran if she invited Shinichi and Ran says she didn’t. Conan, wearing a gauze mask and Kogoro then join them. Kogoro complains that the kid is still sick but Conan tells Ran that he’s all right. Then Araide asks Ran for help on the last line and Ran goes over to talk with him. Conan excuses himself to get a seat. Ran looks a little disheartened as Conan walks away...

The scene then turns to a woman, Hongshang, who just bought drinks for her friends. Sangu (a large man) thanks her. She passes him all the drinks and tells them she’s going to the restroom though there is only a minute left until the play begins. Them consists of Sangu and a blond woman named Yemai. (Going by Chinese names here sorry ^^*) As she hurries off her friends pass out the drinks. Sangu got a Oolong tea, Yemai got a Lemon Juice, and both Hongshang and the last friend Genping got a cold coffee. Genping opens his drink and looks over to the counter where everyone is buying drinks. He looks at a girl names Qanju, who is a third year student (senior) at Teitan high. Just then the lights go down and the play begins.

It goes with Ran asking Zeus why she has to be treated terribly or accept a condemned marriage. Kogoro does something embarrassing skip to backstage.

Sonoko starts going through the curtain saying Doctor the play has started, he’s up soon so he should get ready...she trails off as she gets a good look at him.

Skip to the play where Princess Ran’s carriage is being attacked. Ran has to pretend she can’t defend herself, mind you this doesn’t stop Kazuha from yelling out to Ran that she should use her karate. Suddenly dark feathers drop onto the stage and as choreographed the Black Knight (yay Black Knight!) saves Princess Ran. Kazuha is absolutely gushing over how cool it looks. The “captors” retreat and Ran says her lines.

“You’ve saved me not once but twice now.”

Suddenly the Knight pulls her to him, his arms around her picking her up off the floor. Ran whispers “Doctor, this isn’t in the script…”

Down in the audience Kogoro is throwing a protective father tantrum while Kazuha is holding him back. Conan is watching the stage intently until a figure with a hair like Kudo Shinichi’s, covered by a baseball cap sits down next to him.

On stage, Ran looks off stage to see Sonoko holding a sign saying “Keep Going!” surrounded by girls who look like they are watching a romantic film. Ran, a true professional, improvises based on what was supposed to happen then.

“Are you Spade?... If you remember our childhood promise, please prove it...on my lips.”

And Ran closes her eyes just after placing herself perfectly for him to kiss her, a soft blush playing on her cheeks.

And just as their lips are coming closer and closer, about to meet –

When a scream rings out in the audience.

The murder victim, is 27 year old Genping who works as a doctor. He was watching the play when he collapsed in pain. Takagi, who is there investigating with Megure, asks if it could have been something in his beverage. Yemai, who was sitting next to Genping, says she was watching the play so she isn’t sure if he collapsed after almost finishing his drink. Megure asks Yemai for the time that he collapsed and because the play started at 2 and the scream interrupted the climax of the play, so Ran says it was about 2:40. She turns to the doctor in the knight costume to confirm, he nods. Takagi, who is with Megure, realizes that since it’s Ran’s school “that mister” must have come. Kogoro starts looking around asking Megure just who is he looking for. Megure replies that they were talking about him, and to himself Megure thinks that Kogoro is a jinx, having murders following him everywhere. (Actually we all know its Shinichi that they follow! ^^) Megure asks Kogoro if anyone came near the body, Kogoro assures him that no one has touched the body before the examiner. Takagi asks the examiner as he’s getting up what is the cause of death. We then get a panel of a voice saying “Potassium cyanide.” It is the young man in the cap that sat down next to Conan. He goes one to explain how he knows without touching the body. Then they start asking him who he is, he turns to Ran asking if she’s already forgotten him. He takes off his hat, and it’s Kudo Shinichi! And Ran’s looking at him asking herself can it really be him, when Kazuha comes up behind Kudo and asks “Heiji what are you doing?” He was wearing makeup to lighten his skin color but as he did nothing about his eyebrows well it’s easy to see...so he’s found out and Kogoro’s and Megure’s heads get really big and scary in one panel asking him if this is supposed to be some kind of joke. Heiji says he wanted to shake up everyone...but he wanted to help Shinichi fool Ran.

They continue investigating and they then start questioning the girl who bought the drinks Hongshang. Sangu tells them that he didn’t hand Yemai the drinks but Yemai took them out of the tray herself. Yemai asks him what’s the difference? Takagi then steps in to stop their bickering and asks what is their relation. Turns foursome (one now dead) were in the drama club together when they went to Teitan High back in the day. Sangu and Yemai can’t believe that Genping is dead, especially when his doctorate was about to receive recognition. Kogoro asks Hongshang why she was the only one to go get the drinks. She replies that Genping was going to help her but after looking forward to the front of the line he went to his seat pale. Then the girl who had been selling and preparing the drinks, Qanju, says its because she was there. She’s their bosses daughter. Heiji decides then to announce if someone messed with the drinks it is one of them - Qanju, Sangu, Yemai or Hongshang.

Hongshang brings up the fact that she had the same drink as Genping, if she were the one to put poison in the drinks they could have easily have been mixed up. Sangu and Yemai claim that they just passed the drinks so their could be no time to slip in something, and the only drink Sangu held on to was Hongshang’s while she went to the bathroom. Megure tells them that they must have had to open the tops to know the drink was theirs. Sangu and Yemai say that you don’t have to because the drinks have labels and the ice coffees come with crème and sugar packs. Kogoro says that you can just prepare poisoned packs. Yemai argues then he would have died instantaneously, but Genping practically finished his drink. Takagi then discovers unused crème and sugar in his pocket. Qanju says it’s because the drink wasn’t iced coffee but coke. She wanted to talk to him and making have to come see her because his drink was wrong would be a good way, she wanted him to ask her why she called off the engagement.

Kogoro and Megure then whisper to themselves it must be suicide, the vengeful ex wanting to pin it on his ex-fiancé. Hongshang then brings up the fact that Genping was acting odd when they arrived and was looking for something in the car. Takagi and them go out to see the car, it is raining outside, but Hongshang doesn’t put on the hood of her shirt. Heiji then takes the opportunity to whisper to Conan if he’s figured it out. Behind them the Black Knight is looking out of the window. Heiji starts thinking about it and Conan walks away. Then we get a shot of Sonoko looking outside, sad that the rain came and theat the play was interrupted. “It’s a shame, right doctor Araide?” who is not wearing the knight outfit. Switch scenes to the person who is wearing the Black Knight costume. He looks as something and smirks to himself.

Takagi and the rest run inside saying they found cyanide near the dash board, it looks like suicide. Megure agrees. Suddenly the Black Knight speaks up.

“No it wasn’t suicide. It was a very simple elementary murder.”

Ran looks at the knight in surprise as he is walking forward...past her.

“Yes Mr. Genping was poisoned,” continues the Knight, “In front of this ebony stage, by someone who took advantage of his insignificant little habit. And the murderer is still holding the evidence.”

He removes his helmet and says, “If my deduction of this crime is indeed the truth.”

And standing there, freaking out Takagi and Megure, as well as all of his classmates is the real Kudo Shinichi. (^^ yay yay yay!)

Heiji even has a heart attack and Ran is saying to herself it can’t be and looks between Conan standing behind her and Shinichi who’s in front of her. The school starts cheering for him. He looks behind him and frowns with a finger to his lips to silence them.

“Be quiet, celebrate after the curtain of this bloody stage closes.” Insert shot of Sonoko and Araide looking from back stage saying he’s still such a cocky punk. Ran steps forward...

“Shinichi? Is that really you?”

“Idiot what are you talking about?”

The last panel on that page is him whispering in her ear, “I have something important to tell you later, don’t go away.”

Then Shinichi turns to Heiji and asks him if he has a ten-yen coin. Heiji immediately turns behind him and knows what Shinichi knows. He hands Shinichi the coin with a grin on his face. Megure comes up behind Shinichi and tells him what has happened and that they think it is suicide. Shinichi interrupts him and tells them that the murderer committed murder by putting the poison in the ice. The poison will only leak out when the victim has almost finished his drink...Megure then tells Shinichi if that were the case they would have found poison in the cup, which they wouldn’t. Shinichi then brings up the fact that the lid was open when they found him. Kogoro says he might have squeezed it off as he was struggling in pain. Megure instantly calls him an idiot and says that the cup would have been bent out of shape. Shinichi then says there is only one reason why a person takes off the lid of a cup when the drink is finished.

“Mr. Genping didn’t drink the poison, but ate it.”

Kogoro is confused but Takagi (yay Takagi) catches on quickly.

“People who like to eat the left over ice-cubes when they finish the drink!... Inspector you like to chew on them too!”

(I couldn’t chew on ice after reading this one for a few weeks ^^*)

Kogoro, trying his best not to acted impressed, (or he really isn’t) then asks who put in the poison.

Shinichi agrees that Sangu and Yemai didn’t have time to put in the poison. Ms. Qanju filled the cups but if it’s true that she wanted to talk to him she wouldn’t have killed him. Besides, after she handed them the drinks there would only be a 50% chance that the poisoned cup would have gone to Genping.

That means that the person who killed Genping by poisoning the ice was Hongshang. She bought the drinks so she would have the opportunity to say she put in the milk and sugar. But when she realized it was coke she left that caps on top and waited for the show to almost start so Genping wouldn’t have the chance to exchange his drink.

She carried the ice with dry ice in a coin purse. She threw away the dry ice in the bathroom, in the sink or toilet, and threw away the change purse outside.

After Shinichi is done explaining this she says that if that were true she only had a 50% chance of the drink to go to Genping.

Shinichi tells her, no she had a 100% chance of killing him by putting the poison in both cups.

Megure then asks “how is it possible if she finished her drink too.”

Shinichi then explains that she’d be fine if she finished her drink before the ice melted. And what if she put the ice in her mouth, and in the darkness of the theater hid it somewhere on her.

He tosses the coin into the air as Heiji pulls open the hood of Ms. Hongshang’s shirt. Heiji then takes out the coin after a few seconds and the coin comes out shiny and clean.

Shinichi knew she had it hidden in her hood because of the rain...when she didn’t put on her hood.

She admits she killed him, because he was an unfit doctor. He misdiagnosed a patient that contradicted his doctorate, and the patient became very ill. She thought he was a horrible man after he told her “I who can control the life of a man was dumped by a little girl. What a stupid world.”

She turns to Shinichi and tells him he was lucky. If it weren’t for the rain she wouldn’t have been found. He tells her she’s very wrong. He would have told the police to check her clothes anyway because he saw her holding the milk and sugar in her hand. She had said she came back from the bathroom when the play had started and the theater was dark. The only way she would have known not to put in the milk and sugar was if she had opened the lid before hand. But he does admit it’s only because Ms. Qanju changed the cold coffee to coke.

As Takagi takes her away Megure turns to Shinichi, “You’re still so reliable!” forgetting that Kogoro is there completely. Megure asks Shinichi if he wants to go hear the confession, he hasn’t heard one in a long time. Shinichi says it isn’t necessary...

“I still have some personal business to attend to,” he says as he glances at Ran. He does remind Megure to keep his name out of the case. Megure says it’s fine but wonders why Shinichi has been so modest lately.

As Shinichi is talking to Heiji, Shinichi breaks into s sweat and starts breathing heavily. Shinichi’s legs give out from the pain and he leans on a chair. Heiji realizes what is happening as Shinichi thinks to himself that the cure Ai had was going so well...and that if he transforms now...Ran will know...but he can’t move away.

Shinichi faints and slides to the floor. Ran is immediately over him worried.

We skip to Shinichi waking up and thinking...

What is that smell? Oh I must be in the health office... Ah it’s Ran...her face is so pale...I can’t blame her...she’s just seen an adult turn into a kid.

Then he realizes a lot of people are in the office besides Ran, Heiji and Kazuha. Heiji immediately tells him, “Kudo you woke up!” Shinichi looks around then down at his hands...he can’t believe that he didn’t transform.

The next file of the case begins with Ran and Conan ringing the doorbell of the KudoMansion, repeatedly as Shinichi yells that he’s coming. Suddenly Shinichi is out there yelling at Ran, “Stop making so much noise! I can hear you after you ring it once!” toast hanging in mid-air from his mouth. Ran asks him if he knows what will be happening in school today. He tells her he guesses they’ll be cleaning up the school like last year. He goes inside and slams the door behind him yelling, “I’m not ready yet, wait for me!” Ran peeks inside and as she watches Shinichi thinks “He’s really here, I’m not dreaming…. He really came back!” She smiles to herself and then turns to Conan asking him “Isn’t this great?” only to find he isn’t there.

Inside Shinichi is getting ready in front of the mirror (mind you there isn’t really anything he needs to do ^^) whistling and enjoying being back in his own body. A voice behind him tells him not to let it go to his head.

He turns and looks at Haibara disguised as Conan. She explains what happened after he collapsed and the general message is that he has to be careful. He looks at her and asks her why is she doing all this. She calls him an idiot and tells him that she has to make sure the antidote works before she decides to do anything...it really is only a trail one. Shinichi then bends down to her height and asks her a favor.

“Can you not sound like a girl when you’re Conan? It sounds awkward.”

“Really? I thought it sounded like you...”

Scene changes to Ran and Shinichi walking to school talking about the play, that since Shinichi didn’t know the lines the play was all messed up.

Shinichi in his head blames Sonoko who told him “The Knight suddenly embraces the princess and kisses her. If you talk it’ll be messed up!”

Ran then asks him what he thought.

“You mean the play? Well we stopped in the middle so I don’t really know.”

“No I mean the princess...actually you don’t have to know...”

Shinichi smiles, “Oh! You looked really good in that outfit... Some people look good in old clothing.”

After getting over the shock of Shinichi praising her, she tells him smugly, “What’s this? Praise from you?”

Suddenly the kids come up yelling out “Conan!”

Shinichi, out of stupid unchecked habit, says hello and ask how they are doing. The kids treat him like an adult and say hello very respectfully. Genta then whispers to Conan (Ai) who he is. “Conan” replies it’s Agasa’s neighbor. And off the kids go on their way to the primary school. As Shinichi thinks the whole day feels like a dream, Ran wakes him up by telling him to hurry or they’ll be late. As she starts running he yells out “Wait Ran-neechan!” Ran stops and looks at Shinichi “What?” He is able to laugh it off as a joke while Ran scolds him to be keep a clear head. (neechan is older sister or Miss., Shinichi as always said Ran’s name without adding a honorific like that. And if he did use one he’d probably use “chan.”)

In school the guys start teasing Shinichi by saying the married couple are back in school together. Shinichi tells them it’s not like that. They start telling him about the new English teacher who has a really “nice body.” Shinichi, like any teenage boy says “Really?” (which brings him down 5 points -_-* oh Shinichi...).

Ran, not to let Shinichi get out of her grasp says “Hey!” and then asks him about what he wanted to tell her. Shinichi turns to Ran and whispers “About that thing...” we then get a panel showing Shinichi realizing everyone in the class was trying to hear what he told Ran. “You guys...” and then Shinichi loses his temper on them and starts yelling at them as Ran thinks to herself, “Tonight at 8 o’clock, at Tokyo’s sight seeing restaurant.”

Skip to that evening as Ran and Shinichi are seated at a really expensive looking restaurant, which makes Ran ask Shinichi if this is really okay, it all looks so expensive. (Think a restaurant that doesn’t put prices in the menu...it’s just that ritzy.) Shinichi tells her not to worry, he brought his Dad’s credit card. Ran teases him and says he’s a disgrace to his family. Shinichi counters that it was disgraceful of them to leave him alone while they enjoy themselves abroad.

“You’re so much like Conan!”

“Huh?”

“His parents out of the country too...to tell you the truth, I always thought that Conan was really you!”

“Huh really?”

“Yeah, I thought you met some trouble and had to hide so you asked Agasa to make you a drug to turn you into a child. Wasn’t I stupid?”

Shinichi all the while should be thinking “No Ran, you’re not stupid...you’re very close in fact.” All he can think of though is that “She’s almost exactly right.”

Then Ran explains that since Shinichi has come back Conan has been acting like a different person.

Shinichi just laughs...until Ran leans over the small table for two and asks, “So, what was it that you wanted to tell me?” not having the smallest clue of what he wants to tell her.

Shinichi’s heart starts pounding and he’s blushing as he tries to act like a man and tell her straight out….

The scene then skips to the president of a company walking with three men. He asks why the lights are dimmed and one whispers to the president it’s because of that performance. The president understands and gets into the elevator leaving the three behind. The presidents daughter shows up and stays to “talk” with one of the younger men, Dachang, as the other two leave for the party that is about to begin.

When alone he asks her why she’s late. She says she took some extra time getting ready and then asks him if he told her father about them. He says yes and that her father approves. He holds her close and wraps his left arm around her neck and up to her ear, her back is to the elevator. A square shows something he’s holding is calling up the elevator, it’s covered in plastic wrap. As he’s kissing her the elevator with the president inside opens up and the president stiffens as he sees Dachang holding out a gun ready to fire.

There’s a bang as the party starts in the next room and after the elevator closes he lets go of the president’s daughter. She guesses the party has started based on the amount of noise. He then presents her a gift, a pink pearl necklace to match the pink earrings she’s wearing.

Skip to Shinichi finishing telling Ran something about Sherlock. (-_-* oi Shinichi!). Ran says “Wow, Holmes is so great!” Shinichi gloats and tells her “I told you so.” Then Ran asks him what he really wanted to say. Shinichi starts stuttering (It’s cute but really Shinichi...another time please -_-*) and his mouth stops working completely as Ran tells him-

“I know it’s hard for you to say so, but a man has to brave and you should just say it... If you need the notebook I used while you were gone you should just say it!”

“What?”

“Wasn’t that what you wanted to ask? That’s what I thought and copied the pages and brought them with me.”

“Ah no... That’s exactly it! It was hard for me to ask!”

Ran smiles “I knew it!”

Suddenly it’s Shinichi leaning a bit over her saying, “You should know that’s not it...”

Ran looks at him surprised.

“I invited you to dinner because I have something important to tell you...”

Ran at this point is blushing a bit as her heart is beating because she doesn’t know exactly what Shinichi is going to say.

“And that...” continues Shinichi, “Is that...”

And God, don’t you just know it, a scream rings out as someone finds a body.

Ran: Who’s scream was that?

Shinichi: I’m sure it was someone who found a cockroach...

Behind them someone is telling someone else “The President was found dead in the elevator.”

“What I wanted to say...” continues Shinichi, trying really hard to stay focused on Ran as people are talking about the body.

“I wanted to say...”

“I won’t make you stay.”

“What?”

“You actually care about the murder very much...I won’t run away or hide like someone else did...You can go...Tantei-san.”

Shinichi stands up, “Sorry Ran...”

“I’ll be back soon,” he calls over his shoulder.

The police are already at the scene and they notice the president’s clothes are messy, and the murderer must have used the party as an opportunity for the murder. Megure stops as he thinks the case is familiar to one when he was a rookie officer. Takagi says he wouldn’t know anything about it...he was an elementary student then. Megure remembers a young man telling him then, “I’m sorry, I don’t think this is a burglary case.” That’s when he realizes someone just said those words. Megure and Takagi turn to see a young man giving his analysis of the body and turns.

“Kudo!”

Shinichi quiets him and asks him just to pretend he’s a police officer. Megure asks, “Why? Didn’t you always proudly declare you’re identity?”

Takagi asks Shinichi why he’s here.

“Oh I’m having dinner with Ran.”

Megure laughs, “Wow the times have changed.”

Shinichi smiles and tells them, “No there’s actually a reason for this...”

Just then the President’s daughter gets there and starts crying. She is accompanied with Dachang and the two other men, the last to see him alive. The president’s daughter, Taozi, says the party started at eight, the time on the watch confirmed it. Takagi asks, “Watch? You’re not wearing a watch.”

She says she read Mr. Dachang’s watch when he was feeling her earring.

Shinichi whispers to Takagi “Don’t you think it’s strange...” Takagi then asks Taozi if she really saw the face of the watch. Mr. Dachang explains how the hands of the watch glow in the dark.

Shinichi whispers to Takagi, “It’s still strange...” Megure joins the two whispering, “I want to hear too!”

Mr. Dachang demands to know what is so strange. Shinichi explains that if he used the hand with the watch to feel her earring then she wouldn’t be able to see the face of the watch. Dachang says he felt the other earring. “But then wouldn’t you use the other hand?”

“But I guess I can’t blame you,” continues Shinichi, “You must have been holding something in your other hand.”

Skip to Ran alone in the restaurant thinking “What is it...what could it be...that thing that Shinichi wanted to tell me...what could it be?”

She imagines Shinichi saying “Long time no see, how come you got fatter.” Ran thinks to herself depressed, “That could be it...My clothes have gotten tighter at the waist... But why would he ask me to dinner to tell me that?”

Just then the waitress comes up with Ran’s desert. Ran asks that she doesn’t serve it until Shinichi gets back, that “he went out when they heard the scream, but he’s a detective so he should be able to take care of it quickly!”

The waitress giggles and explains that she and Shinichi are like the famous couple here 20 years ago. 20 years ago they sat at that very table and the man went out to solve a case and when he came back he loudly said it. She tells Ran, “You better be prepared!”

“What did he say?”

“He proposed marriage to her! Good luck!”

Ran at that point is starts thinking that maybe that is what Shinichi wanted to say...

“Nah, that can’t be it...”

Back to Mr. Dachang yelling at Shinichi, “Are you saying I had a gun in my hand?”

“Gun? I didn’t say that! ...Did you have one?”

Dachang turns to Megure, “Inspector who is this youth!”

“Don’t look at me that way,” starts Shinichi, “I’m the new 20 year old officer that happened to pass by today on my day off. Right Inspector!” (^^ yay Shinichi!)

Taizo then comes in and explains that she was with Mr. Dachang the whole time, that is until they entered the party and she went into the restroom to look at the necklace he gave but that only took 2 to 3 minutes. Then the officers come in saying that they found a gun with a silencer in the garbage that is dropped from a chute. Megure asks if the floor they are on has a chute, turns out it’s next to the restroom.

“I see so you can toss it while you talk,” comments Shinichi. Mr. Dachang maintains that they were always on that floor and never left, and if he did fire the gun there would be gunpowder residue on his sleeve. Megure asks to examine it and Dachang consents.

While they go off Shinichi steps forward to speak with Ms. Taizo.

“May I ask...whether you kissed Mr. Dachang in front of the elevator?”

“What?! Did you see us?” (Think of a girl in her twenties blushing and freaking out a bit.)

“No,” starts Shinichi, “But my mother said that women like to go to the restroom after eating or kissing to reapply their lipstick.”

Shinichi then asks her, “How did he do it?”

“How...well his hands were like this…” and so she helps Shinichi recreate the situation. Takagi nearby sees and is like “WTF?”

“You had your back to the elevator?” Shinichi asks with his left arm all the way around her, touching her ear.

“Yes my back was facing it...”

She at this moment is blushing a bit because she and Shinichi are really really close (^^ oblivious Shinichi Thank god he only has eyes for Ran!)

Takagi is calling out “Wait!”

Shinichi asks her, his face inches from hers, “Do you two do this often?”

“Yes,” she’s fully blushed, her eyes half-closed, very taken by the young man holding her.

Suddenly Shinichi has stepped back, his hands on her shoulders, saying, “Thank you that was very insightful!”

She looks slightly let down.

Takagi...well his expression is that either saying Shinichi missed out on something or confused as to what that was all about.

As they are walking away Shinichi asks her where she got her earrings... she bought them in a rush today.

Shinichi smirks sure that Mr. Dachang killed the president but is missing one piece of evidence. The conversation of two female workers give him the information.

Megure asks him “Did you figure out anything?”

“I know what happened. Don’t you think it’s hot?”

“You must be kidding the AC is much too cold!”

“What? But...”

Suddenly Shinichi feels the stab of pain that comes as warning...telling him time is running out.

“Oh no...I’m really in trouble...at this important moment...I can’t let anything happen to me!!!”

All the while he is thinking of Ran.

Megure turns to Shinichi who is being helped by Takagi, “Are you okay?”

“Darn* it!” thinks Shinichi.

Takagi: Kudo?

“At this important moment...I can’t let anything happen to me...”

In that instant an officer comes up to Megure telling him no gunpowder residue was found on Mr. Dachang. Takagi starts thinking it might be an outsider who committed the murder. Megure orders for officers to start looking around the area of the hotel but Shinichi interrupts him.

Shinichi: That is not necessary. We already have the murderer...step on to the stage and the truth will be revealed.

Once everyone is gathered in front of the elevator, a slightly winded Shinichi begins the deduction, the lights dimmed just as they were when the murder occurred. Until one part comes under question which Shinichi explains perfectly.

“The pink pearl.”

“Huh?”

“Didn’t you said you gave her a necklace that matched her earrings? How did you know that her earrings were pink?”

“You can tell just by looking at...” Dachang trails off realizing that in the dark the pink isn’t pink.

Shinichi continues, “She bought the pearls today in a hurry, you hadn’t seen them before and in this darkness they would look like black beads. It would have been impossible to tell they were pink, unless while kissing her noticed when the elevator door opened, letting in light.” (Picture of a good-looking Shinichi standing in front of elevator as doors stand open ^^).

Mr. Dachang confesses and that 20 years ago his father committed a similar murder...right there.

“But his plan was discovered by a youth equally smart to the youth today.”

Megure then remembers, that 20 years ago it was Yusaku who solved that case (we get a picture of a 20 year old Yusaku! ^^ equally as good looking as Shin-chan ^^).

Takagi: Oh that mystery story writer!

Megure: In other words Dachang got inspiration for this scheme from his father only to be discovered by the son who uncovered his father’s scheme.

He turns to Shinichi saying, “How ironic?” but Shinichi is not there.

(actually its coincidental ^^)

In the men’s restroom Shinichi is standing over the sink, steam rising from his skin begging his body to hold a little longer...

She...She’s waiting for me...I can’t change into Conan now...not yet!

Shinichi is startled to hear a stall open behind him. He looks up into the mirror to see Ai, still dressed as Conan looking at her watch...

Shinichi slumps to the floor in pain asking why.

24 hours is the most it worked...

She takes off the glasses from her face and thinks, “I’ll lend this to you, Edogawa-kun.”

Skip to the restaurant where Ran is waiting, the waitress talking to her (wanting a front row seat.)

“Did you hear the case was solved? You’re about to see you’re other half!”

“He’s not my other...”

She trails off as she sees Conan standing there, out of breath but properly dressed.

“Conan?” (The waitress at this point is smart enough to walk off.)

“This is the credit card... Shinichi told me to give it to you.”

Ran looks at Conan surprised.

“Ojisan told me to check up on you, but I saw Shinichi.”

“My dad is here?”

“Yeah he’s in the parking lot.”

Flash of Kogoro waiting in yet another rental car.

“What the heck is the kid doing? It’s been an hour!”

He starts to get out of the car but goes back in deciding it would be very uncool. During Kogoro’s tantrum Ai, got into Agasa’s VW and went home.

Ran looks at Conan, still hopeful and smiling a bit, “Where’s Shinichi?”

“Uh...he’s...Someone called him on his cell phone and said there was a problem with the case from before and he ran off. He’s so stupid.”

Ran’s eyes turn sad as she has to agree, “Yeah...”

“I’ve been stood up again.”

“Ran-neechan...Shinichi-niichan said-”

“Don’t! I don’t want to hear it!... I don’t want to hear any excuses!”

Conan stops for a second watching the tears at Ran’s eyes that are about to fall, so sad he’s hurt her so badly. That she’s just sitting there with her eyes closed and her hands over her ears.

Conan looks down, “He said he’ll be back one day. Even if he dies. He’s going to come back.

“He wanted me to tell you to wait for him no matter what.”

Ran’s hands fall away as she looks at the intensity that Conan is saying the words with, almost bewildered by the child’s necessity to not to let Ran give up on Shinichi.

“So...So...”

Ran’s face breaks into a smile, “I’m so stupid. You don’t have to look at me like that!” Then her face turns into a bit of a pout, “The one who is stupid is the one who goes all over the world for a case. That deducing fool!”

Conan isn’t exactly pleased with her choice of words to describe him but stops thinking when Ran asks him if he wants desert. He says okay and the waitress brings over menus so they can have desert...

“*Darn it,” says Ran as she starts her 5th cup of ice cream, “Why do I have to wait for him? I’m not his mother.”

Conan is kind of amazed just how Ran can keep attacking the ice cream but stops thinking as Ran interrupts his thoughts again.

“But what is it? What is the important thing Shinichi wanted to tell me? Don’t you want to know Conan?”

“No way.”

“Why did he bring me to such an expensive place? He probably didn't have anything important to say anyway...”

In his head Shinichi thinks sadly that he can’t tell her now but he purposely brought her to the place where his parents decided their future...

Ends with a small square of Kogoro looking at his watch, not the least bit happy. (^^)

End of Part 3