Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small

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TV Special Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small
Information
Title:	Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small
Japanese Title:	エピソード"ONE" 小さくなった名探偵 (Episōdo "Wan" Chīsakunatta Meitantei)
English Title:	Episode "One": The Great Detective Turned Small
Broadcast rating:	10.7% 10.4% (rerun)
Original airdate:	December 9, 2016 September 11, 2020 (rerun)
English airdate:	December 7, 2019 (CharaExpo USA) July 28, 2020 (Blu-ray)
Story
Cast:	Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn Akemi Miyano Shiho Miyano Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Eri Kisaki Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Sonoko Suzuki Shiro Suzuki Tomoko Suzuki Jirokichi Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Jodie Starling Shuichi Akai Hina Wada Kunihiko Shumoto Toichi Kuroba Kazuha Toyama Kazuhiro Otaka Ronsuke Efune Slasher Jumbo Kidnapper Yuko Ikezawa Denjiro Maru Ikuya Hatano Makoto Akutsu Yuji Suwa Yutaka Abe Gozo Hatamoto Kitaro Hatamoto Ichiro Hatamoto Mariko Hatamoto Akie Hatamoto Tatsuo Hatamoto Kenji Suzuki Norikazu Sasai Man in bar
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Iwao Teraoka Jiro Kanai Hajime Kamegaki
Technical Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Atsushi Nigorikawa Yoshihiro Sugai
Animation Director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Nobuyuki Iwai Nariyuki Takahashi Chiemi Hironaka Assistants: Kanako Ono, Yoshiharu Shimizu, Keiko Sasaki, Kyoko Yoshimi, Yuko Iwasa, Kosei Takahashi, Ayu Imoto, Mina Otaka, and Akiko Motoyoshi
Voice Cast: Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo, Kaitou Kid Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Gara Takashima as Eri Kisaki Yukitoshi Hori as Gin Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka Mami Koyama as Vermouth Kikuko Inoue as Chianti Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Starling Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Sakiko Tamagawa as Akemi Miyano Kosei Tomita as Jirokichi Suzuki Fumio Matsuoka as Shiro Suzuki Miru Hitotsuyanagi as Tomoko Suzuki Kunihiko Yasui as Man in bar Yousuke Akimoto as Takanori Sewa Ai Satou as Miss Sewa Kouzou Mito as Sewa's son Ryouko Shiraishi as Maid Yuri Amano as Hitomi Asako Dodo as Aiko Shiho Kawaragi as Reiko Hideo Ishikawa as Kishida Jin Urayama as President (CEO) Mikako Komatsu as Hina Wada Kento Itou as Policeman Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Megumi Hayashibara as Shiho Miyano
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki

Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (エピソード"ONE" 小さくなった名探偵 ,Episōdo "Wan" Chīsakunatta Meitantei) is the sixth TV Special of Detective Conan. The special is a retelling of the first and part of the second episode of the series. It is a commemorative work for the 20th anniversary of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Hina Wada
	17 years old Haido High School karate player Ran's self-declared rival

Cast

Characters

Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Gin Vodka Chianti Korn Shiho Miyano Akemi Miyano (flashback) Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Eri Kisaki Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Makoto Kyogoku Sonoko Suzuki Shiro Suzuki Tomoko Suzuki Jirokichi Suzuki (background) Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Yoko Okino (flash forward) Joji Hatamoto (flash forward) Natsue Hatamoto (flash forward) Takeshi Hatamoto (flash forward) Sango Yokomizo (flash forward) Seiji Asoh (flash forward) Heiji Hattori (flash forward) Kaitou Kid (flash forward) Vermouth Jodie Starling Shuichi Akai Bourbon (background) Rena Mizunashi (television) Weapons Smuggler Kunihiro Shumoto (cameo) Toichi Kuroba (manga flash) Kazuha Toyama (manga flash) Kazuhiro Otaka (manga flash) Ronsuke Efune (manga flash) Slasher (manga flash) Jumbo (flash forward) Kidnapper (flash forward) Yoko Ikezawa (flash forward) Denjiro Maru (flash forward) Ikuya Hatano (flash forward) Makoto Akutsu (flash forward) Yuji Suwa (flash forward) Yutaka Abe (flash forward) Gozo Hatamoto (flash forward) Kitaro Hatamoto (flash forward) Ichiro Hatamoto (flash forward) Mariko Hatamoto (flash forward) Akie Hatamoto (flash forward) Tatsuo Hatamoto (flash forward) Kenji Suzuki (flash forward) Norikazu Sasai (flash forward)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Earring Cellphone Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Plot

Sherry Opening Scene

A lady enters a suspicious testing lab by pressing her hand on the passcode to enter. She pours coffee and milk and starts to open her desktop computer. It is revealed she is Sherry. She is working on a suspicious experiment in the Black Organization Lab. She views some live footage of test subjects (mice) on a computer screen. She then phones her sister Akemi and asks her to come over, saying that she will show her something interesting.

Shinichi Kudo's Aquarium Case

Shinichi explains Ran how detective are like sharks. The opening features snapshots of important manga pages accompanied with the first soundtrack of Detective Conan, "Mune ga Dokidoki". After Shinichi has solved the case and they are on their way back home, it starts to rain. Ran puts on her hood and the phone that Shinichi put on it accidentally falls. Ran is very upset and blames herself for trusting her new phone with Shinichi. Shinichi tells her he'll buy her a new one and to further lift her up, promises to take her to Tropical Land.

Gin and Vodka's Meeting Scene

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A man walks into a bar called "Black Widow" and sits next to Vodka and orders the same drink. The make an exchange of money for information. Gin appears and sits on the other side of the man and announces that the Organization was having a rat problem. He also says that the drink they were drinking was called "XYZ", a drink made from Rum and lemon juice, which is mentioned to imply an "end". The man quickly tried to defend himself by saying that he isn't a rat and tries to excuse himself. He gets into his car, but is hesitant to start it for fear that it may explode. The car starts right up, which results in him trying to put on his seat belt, which again is met with hesitation. With this out of the way he shifts the car into drive and it immediately explodes.

Murder
	Location: Beika Harbour Victim: Man Cause of death: Car explosion (car bomb) Suspects: Unknown The car exploded when the man shifted the gear into drive.

Mysterious man
	Black Organization member Victim (explosion) Spy? Exchanged information with Vodka

Barman
	Black Widow barman

Haido's Karate Champion

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Ran visits Shinichi at his house and they leave to buy the new phone Shinichi promised.

On their way, they meet Genta, Ayumi and Mitshuiko who are playing soccer. Genta hits the ball hard and it goes off-side. Shinichi and Ran travelling through the same footpath give them their ball back. Ran questions why Shinichi left soccer, since he would have been a Samurai Blue Member by now if he continued. Shinichi explains he wanted to develop the reflexes needed for being a detective and cites Holmes who practised fencing. While Shinichi is expressing his fondness about Holmes, they hear a woman cry for help. A thief has stolen her purse. The thief makes a run but is intimidated by Hina Wada. Sonoko approaches Ran from behind and takes her to her home with Shinichi following them behind.

Thief
	Purse snatcher Stopped by Hina Wada

Police Officer
	Tokyo MPD Police officer Arrested the thief

Suzuki Family Scene

There apparently are guests at Sonoko's home. Her mother scolds her for not knocking the door before she entered. The guest, Takanori Sewa seems to have some problems with his New Year Party. He has been receiving threatening letters. Shinichi offers Sewa his assistance, but he declines saying that he has already increased the number of guards. When they stand to leave, Takanori accidentally puts his electronic wheelchair on reverse. Shinichi rushes to help, but Ran pushes him off, saves Takanori and catches the vase which was falling. Takanori initially scolds Ran for trying such a reckless stunt, but realizes his mistake and praises her.

Sonoko and her parents want Ran to use a special suit they made for her for the coming Karate Competition, but there are regulations for the dongi they wear in competitions. She still accepts it saying that she'll use it for her practice, if they don't mind. They are still happy. Sonoko seems all excited, since she had carved "Love Shinichi" on the back collar of the dongi.

In the end, Ran's new phone wasn't bought. Before parting ways with Shinichi, she remembers she forgot her wallet at his home. She finds it and goes to bid goodbye to Shinichi, who is reading at his home library. Ran thinks Shinichi's first crush was his actress mom, but he denies it. Ran questions then who was it? Shinichi stares for a while at Ran and tries to say that it was she, but Agasa interrupts this moment with a mobile rocket experiment gone wrong. Ran provides first-aid to Agasa. Shinichi thinks his experiments are way dangerous for a device carrying out transportation. Agasa brags that he put safety first in building his mobile rocket and starts it again. His rocket flies him away screaming.

Meanwhile, Vodka expresses his suspicions regarding the man who wants to hold their important transaction in an open ground. Gin seems to despise Bourbon.

Karate Tournament Scene

Ran is doing well in the competition, going further step-by-step. Sonoko cheers her while Kogoro and Eri argue on which one's characters their daughter inherited. In her fight with Hina Wada, she faces tough competition and on the brim of losing. At such a vital time, Shinichi gets a call from the Inspector regarding a case and he has to leave urgently. He apologizes to Ran for leaving. But she is in a burning rage, surrounded by dark aura. Hina Wada and even the referee is scared at her look. She is definitely going to win the tournament.

Referee
	Karate tournament referee

Case 1: Crime at the Private Mansion

Situation

Takanori Sewa's New Year Party has been interrupted by a murder: one of the guests, President Yamazaki of Yatsubishi Bank, was found dead with a knife that pierced through his heart. The police, led by Inspector Megure, have been investigating the crime scene, but have no conclusive evidence as to who the killer is. Shinichi makes his grand entrance and claims he has figured out the case.

Murder
	Location: Guest house Victim: Tetsu Yamazaki Age: 38 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Party guests President Yamazaki of Yatsubishi Bank is found dead in a locked room with a stabbed kinfe his chest.

People

Takanori Sewa
	Mansion owner In a wheelchair due to injured leg

Tetsu Yamazaki
	Victim (stabbed) 38 years old Takanori's best friend Beika Bank president

Mrs. Sewa
	Takanori's wife

Maid
	Sewa household maid

Mr. Sewa
	Takanori's son

Resolution

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Evidence

• Shinichi states that the room Yamazaki was killed in was locked from the inside. The only possible entrance into the room was the window.
• The mansion owner claims that there is at least a 10 meter gap between the two windows that Shinichi states the killer used. Shinichi points out, however, that if the killer used the roof to get closer to the other window, this gap is shortened to a mere 2 meters. Therefore, it could easily be jumped across.
• Shinichi notes that there is an indentation on the balcony where the killer attached a rope with a piece of wood at the end, allowing the killer a way to get back across to the 3rd floor window, as it is impossible for the killer to have successfully landed on the 10 centimeter roof ledge coming back. By using a piece of wood rather than simply tying the rope to the balcony, the killer was able to remove evidence of his method of escape while on the other side of the building.
• The lack of footprints below the window implies that it was an inside job.
• Shinichi claims to have spoken with the killer's doctor.

Conclusion

Shinichi concludes that the murderer could only have been someone who knew the mansion very well and eventually points his finger at the landlord. The latter, being in a wheelchair, then starts to laugh, claiming that he's in no position to be able to commit such a crime. Shinichi then grabs a globe and throws it towards the owner who immediately jumps out of his chair to avoid it. The maid and guests are all in shock. Shinichi then says that he's been healed for a while now as reported by his doctor, which Megure confirms.

Motive

Although the episode does not clearly state the mansion owner's motive, it likely had something to do with the "under-the-table" financial dealings that the owner had with Yamazaki.

Case 2: Roller Coaster Murder Case

Situation

Murder
	Location: Tropical Land Victim: Kishida Cause of death: Decapitation Suspects: Aiko, Hitomi, Reiko, and Men in Black While they are riding on the roller coaster, he was decapitated.

People

Kishida
	Victim (decapitated) Aiko's boyfriend Third car right seat

Aiko
	Kishida's girlfriend Third car left seat

Hitomi
	Gymnast Reiko's friend First car right seat

Reiko
	Hitomi's friend First car left seat

Man in black
	Mysterious man Fourth car left seat

Man in black
	Mysterious man Fourth car right seat

Tropical land employee
	Tropical land employee

Weapon smuggler
	Doing business with the men in black CEO

Security guard A
	Tropical Land security Found Conan

Security guard B
	Tropical Land security Found Conan

Resolution

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The culprit is Hitomi. She had dated Kishida in the past and was dumped by him. She killed him with a necklace he had purchased for her and tried to shift the blame to Kishida's new girlfriend, Aiko, by leaving a knife in her hand bag. Putting the weaponized "necklace" around his neck as the ride was going through the tunnel is something only a very flexible and agile person could do, and Hitomi was the only one able to do so since she was a skilled gym practitioner. Shinichi had deduced this after the wind lifted her skirt and he saw marks on her upper thighs, coming from her practising her gym routines. Afterwards, the police found a large quantity of sleeping medicine in her purse. Apparently, she planned to commit suicide after the murder. The necklace used in the murder was also found in the tunnel.

Later at Shinichi's House

Sherry and her team members search for whereabouts of Shinichi and Sherry finds that she already saw Shinichi when she came across in her car near the park. She also discovers that his childhood clothes are missing.

New York Scene

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In busy street of New York Vermouth is talking to Gin where she tells that she will come there and observes that she is followed by Jodie Starling in the car behind she cuts the call and drives away and Jodie losses her. It is prevailed that Akai is sitting behind and tells her that she is moving to Japan.

Sherry Closing Scene

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Sherry check the list of persons need to be investigated and finds Shinichi's name where she enters dead in place of unknown and signs the sheet "SHERRY".

Manga to special changes

• In the manga, the victim of the first case was the mansion owner's wife. In this version, similar to the original episode, a bank president named Yamazaki was killed instead.
• Both Gin and Conan are shown in possession of cell phones in scenes that originally did not contain them. In the original, Shinichi simply witnessed the Black Organization deals and Gin had a camera; in the Special they both use their phones's cameras instead.
• In the manga, Gin uses a metal rod to knock out Shinichi. Whereas in this version he uses his retractable walking stick, which makes more sense since such a blow to the head would have left him with more than a minor injury.
• In both manga and anime, Gin just places the pill in Shinichi's mouth and then forces him to drink the contents of a bottle to force him consume the poison that would shrink him. In the special, he also sticks his fingers up Shinichi's mouth to make sure the pill will be swallowed.
• Hina Wada, a character created rather recently in the manga, gets a brief scene where she apprehends a thief by herself.
• Characters not yet created at the start of the manga (like Wataru Takagi, Kazunobu Chiba, Chianti and Korn) get cameos in the special.
• Sewa was in a normal wheelchair in the manga and anime, whereas he uses an electronic one in the special.

Anime to special changes

• In the original episode 1, Yamazaki was shot in the chest. In this version, he is stabbed with a knife.
• In the original episode 1, Yamazaki was Yatsubishi Bank president. In this version, he is Beika Bank president.
• In the original episode 1, The evidence that caught Sewa was his hospital records that Shinichi earlier investigated instead of first meeting him at Sonoko's residence, and him noticing his foot was already healed.
• Sewa's wife is seen alive and well. Her and Sewa's son shows up too.
• The news castors that are talking about Shinichi as he walks by have been replaced by Rena Mizunashi and a co-host.
• The scenes with the Detective Boys sneaking into the Mystery Coaster and finding the pearl strand were cut. Instead, Shinichi and Ran encounter them playing soccer earlier in the Special and Shinichi even plays soccer with them a little.
• Ran and Shinichi visit Sonoko and her parents in their mansion, right before Sewa kills Yamazaki. Sewa himself is there and briefly freaks out when he realizes Shinichi's identity.
• The karate tournament won by Ran is shown, with Hina Wada as her opponent. Additionally, both Makoto and Sonoko are seen and it's stated that this is when Makoto fell in love at first sight with Sonoko.
• The scene with Shinichi leaping out of the way of Ran's kick from the manga is used instead of the anime version where he ends up under her skirt.
• Instead of a shining white light censor, a dark blood fountain is seen during the decapitation scene. There's so much blood that Ran gets all stained with it.
• The scene from the manga where Reiko suggests that Gin and Vodka could be the culprit, while Shinichi points out that they would be have been expecting the police to show up if they were guilty is included in the special.
• Whereas original episode 2 had shrunken Shinichi fleeing from the cops immediately upon being conscious, the special follows the manga in which he is taken first to the Tropical Land medical center, before he flees from there.
• During the flash forward, the scene where Akemi Miyano is killed is exactly like how it was in the original manga, while the anime altered this scene so that she would live, and later another episode had to be made in order to fix the plothole. However, she is wearing the clothes she wore in the later episode, rather than what she wore in the manga or first episode.
• The scene where Shiho sees Shinichi and Ran came from Nazo.

Trivia

• Insert song: Unmei no Roulette Mawashite, by ZARD.
• This special was released on June 28, 2020 by Discotek Media and will be the home media debut of the Bang Zoom! Entertainment English dub. This is the first English dubbed release since The Phantom of Baker Street in 2010.
• The subtitle of this episode "The Great Detective Turned Small" (Chīsakunatta Meitantei) is the same title that was used by file 002 of the manga.
• During Yusaku and Yukiko's brief appearance, they are in their "Night Baron" and "Fumiyo Edogawa" disguise from Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case.
• During the scene where Eri is talking to Kogoro over the phone, a calico cat is shown lying on her desk. This is Eri's previous cat that is mentioned in file 528, it had died a month earlier off screen resulting in her taking in Goro from a friend. Since this Special takes place before that, her first cat is still alive.
• The number Ran bears during the karate tournament is "910", which can also be read as "Kudo" in Japanese.
• On the cover of file 984 Ran's texts for Shinichi are the exact same structure and content that were on Ran's note in this special: the note she left for him after their date at Tropical Land in, the one where Shiho finds with a picture of Shinichi and Ran.
• The car of the man in the bar is a atomic silver Lexus RC 350 F Sport although the logo is modified to avoid product placement.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Episodi u: El detectiu que es va encongir	Episode one: The detective who shrunk
English (American dub)	Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small	Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small
German	Episode ONE – Der geschrumpfte Meisterdetektiv	Episode ONE - The shrunken great detective
Italian	Episode “One” – Il detective rimpicciolito	Episode “One” – The shrunken detective
Spanish (Castilian sub)	Episodio 1: El detective que se encogió	Episode 1: The detective who shrunk
Thai	Episode ONE ตอน กำเนิดยอดนักสืบจิ๋ว	Episode One: The Origin of the Great Little Detective
Vietnamese	Episode One: Ngày thám tử bị teo nhỏ	Episode One: The Day the Detective Turned Small

See also

• TV Specials