Detective Conan (名探偵コナン)

Detective Conan Episode 973 "Target: MPD Transportation Department (Part Three)"

Sergeant Momosaki Toko, who went to karaoke with Naeko Miike after work,

was found dead the next morning.

Momosaki Toko (28) Transportation Department

Next to her body was a bent 100 yen coin,

and there were traces suggesting that Sergeant Momosaki had been pointing at something.

Yagi Shiori (28) Transportation Department

Then, Lieutenant Yagi who was at the karaoke box with Miike and Sergeant Momosaki...

I asked one of your colleagues from work.

They said you'd be here if you weren't at home.

Japan's police truly are exceptional.

I knew it!

You're the one who killed Toko!

And next to her body is a 100 yen coin stuck inside her phone.

Just like the one found next to the body of the officer

discovered in the park this morning, it was deliberately bent.

100 yen coins are engraved with a cherry blossom.

It goes without saying that the cherry blossom is the emblem of the Japanese police.

Th-Then this is...

Yes, without a doubt.

This case is a serial murder of female police officers.

Furthermore, Lieutenant Miyamoto Yumi, who noticed something about both their bodies...

I know I took the mini patrol car,

but since I'm helping the investigation, go easy on me.

Wh-Who's there?!

Oh, just my imagination.

Jeez. I'm jumping at shadows.

Let's see. This area is...

The rhythm on my lips is footloose!

The rhythm of my detective skills is perfect!

A black shadow closes in on Yumi!

How far will the case's darkness spread?

Always determining the one truth

with the body of a child and the mind of an adult,

his name is Detective Conan!

Target: MPD Transportation Department

"Target: MPD Transportation Department, Part Three!"

Well, I just got home.

I couldn't have seen any suspicious figures.

Then do you know anything about this female police officer?

I haven't seen her.

I see.

Was she pushed from that apartment building?

Yes. That's what we believe at this time.

How horrifying.

And there was that incident just the other day, too.

"That incident?"

Did something else happen at that building?

Remember the woman who committed suicide by jumping from a nearby building?

I heard she was a resident of that building.

Suicide?

Yes.

Don't the police know more about it than I do?

When no foul play is suspected, the MPD isn't called to investigate the case.

The local jurisdiction investigates it instead.

When did that suicide occur?

I believe it was a week ago.

A week ago?

I'm sorry, but could you tell us more about the incident?

Do you know the name of the woman who died?

No, I don't know who she was.

What was that?

It came from that apartment building.

Sh-She's dead!

There's a dead policewoman!

What?

Thank you!

That mini patrol car... Could it be?

Yu...

Yumi?

No!

You're kidding.

Yumi...

Yumi!

Huh?

Whoops. I fell asleep.

Huh?

Y-Yumi?

Sorry!

Sorry, I forgot to tell you.

Yumi-san asked me for a favor.

Yumi-san?

What are you doing here?

Oh, good timing.

Uh, okay.

Apparently Yumi-san noticed something

and asked to lie on the ground in the same position as the body.

Come on, please?

You don't mind, right? You and I are friends.

Yeah, but we're not even that close.

Oh, please. That close?

You're such a naughty boy, Takagi-kun.

I'd better report this to Miwako.

No, wait!

I forgot the specifics of our conversation,

but in any case, it seemed like Yumi-san had an idea,

and forensics had finished examining the scene, so I thought it'd be all right.

I didn't think she'd fall asleep.

Did we scare you?

Yeah, sort of.

I was up all night playing mahjong, so I'm so sleepy.

Anyway, sorry I forgot to call you.

So, what did you notice?

When I saw the photo of Yagi's body you sent me,

I realized what was in the direction Yagi forced herself to face.

Since we drive past this alleyway on our patrols,

anyone from the Transportation Department would know what's there.

Yagi faced this direction before she died because she knew that was here.

She wanted us to focus on that.

A no parking sign?

What does it mean?

That sign's the only obvious thing in that direction.

Sergeant Momosaki, who was killed first, was pointing at a swing set in the park.

What does that have to do with this?

Try to remember, Miwako.

What else was in the direction Momosaki pointed besides the swing set?

What?

Besides the swing set?

What else was there?

There was something!

A no parking sign!

That's right. Momosaki wasn't pointing at the swing set,

but the no parking sign behind it.

Since Yagi knew the same sign happened to be here,

she forced herself to face in its direction.

Yagi realized what message Momosaki was trying to convey with that sign,

and this happened when she went to confirm it.

But she was trying to tell us something until the very end.

But that would mean the no parking sign...

...is some kind of direct hint to the identity of the suspect.

Something that led Lieutenant Yagi here.

It must be the three men Yumi-san mentioned.

The three traffic violators Sergeant Momosaki

and Lieutenant Yagi arrested one week ago.

One of them must have parked illegally.

About that...

Aono was using his phone while driving and didn't have his license.

Aono Kengo

Akamine was driving a motorcycle against traffic without a helmet.

Akamine Manji

Shiroyama was driving with an expired inspection and wasn't wearing his seat belt.

Shiroyama Yuzo

None of them parked illegally.

Then why point at a no parking sign?

Who knows?

If anything, I guess their names contain the characters

for the red, blue, and white used in the sign.

But that doesn't tell us which of them did it.

Or how Yagi arrived here.

None of them have present addresses in this building.

Come to think of it, what about the building's security cameras?

Apparently this building doesn't have security cameras installed.

The opinions of the residents are divided.

Oh, my.

And I just received a call from the forensic investigators.

They figured out the last number Lieutenant Yagi tried to call.

Well, we may have figured it out,

but calling the number 7155 didn't connect us to anyone.

Perhaps her mind was hazy since she was on the brink of death.

No, she wasn't trying to call that number.

She pressed the call button because she wanted to preserve the number 7155.

That way it would be left in the phone's records even if the suspect broke her phone.