The Battle Game Trap

Episode 226-227
Information
Title:	The Battle Game Trap
Japanese Title:	バトルゲームの罠 (Batoru Gēmu no Wana)
Original airdate:	February 26, 2001 (Part 1) March 5, 2001 (Part 2)
Season:	9
Manga source:	Volume 27: Files 7-9 (270-272)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Jodie Saintemillion Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Makoto Kyogoku Tomoaki Araide
Suspects:	Jodie Saintemillion, Hitoshi Dejima, Toshitsugu Emori, and Takayasu Shimizu
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Shoes (Part 1) Cupboard (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard:	Chika Ichimaru
Technical Director:	226 Masato Sato 227 Eiichi Kuboyama
Animation Director:	226 Hirobi Muranaka 227 Izumi Shimura
Voice cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Next Conan's Hint Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Saintemillion Hisao Egawa as Kengo Bito Naoya Uchida as Takayasu Shimizu Kousuke Okano as Hitoshi Dejima Takao Ohyama as Toshitsugu Emori Isshin Chiba as Man A Naoki Makishima as Man B Takayuki Inoue as Man C Junichi Sugawara as Policeman
Music
Opening song:	Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense
Closing song:	Start in my life
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Secret of the High Sales
Next episode:	The Murderous Pottery Class »
List of episodes

Characters introduced

Jodie Saintemillion
	28 years old English teacher

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Makoto Kyogoku (flashback) Tomoaki Araide (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.

Murder
	Location: Arcade Victim: Kengo Bito Cause of death: Poison Suspects: Jodie Saintemillion, Hitoshi Dejima, Toshitsugu Emori, and Takayasu Shimizu

The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.

Part 2

The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.

People

Jodie Saintemillion
	28 years old English teacher

Kengo Bito
	Victim (poison) 21 years old Unemployed

Hitoshi Dejima
	22 years old Arcade staff

Toshitsugu Emori
	41 years old Taxi driver

Takayasu Shimizu
	30 years old Game magazine writer

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Takayasu Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

See also

• Season 9