The First Errand Murder Case

Episode 59 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The First Errand Murder Case
Japanese title:	初めてのお使い殺人事件 (Hajimete no Otsukai Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	May 19, 1997
Season:	3
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Shopping Can Be Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 61
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Contact lens set
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Shinichi Kudo (young) Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Tetsuo Kaneo as Murase Isshin Chiba as Liquor store clerk Shoko Kikuchi as Clerk Yasuhiro Takato as Driver Mika Watanabe as Hiroshi
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman
Chronology
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys is back on the case when a young boy finds himself the unknowing target of a killer! Conan and his friends must use all their deductive powers to protect the tiny tot and bring a murderer to justice before he strikes again.

Murder
	Location: Abandoned building Victim: The broker Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Culprit: Abandoned building owner

Attempted Murder
	Location: Abandoned building Victim: Hiroshi Suspects: Culprit

People

Hiroshi
	Victim (abducted) Shopping for his first errand

Man
	Abandoned building owner

Man
	Victim (beaten) Broker

Resolution

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The kid was on his way shopping when he was on his way he stopped in a abandoned place and he accidentally saw the man killing the broker and that made him the target of the man, but Conan is finding a way to save the child and knowing why the man wants to kill the child. After some time Conan revealed that the child didn't accidentally stopped on the abandon place but because the child remembers that the old abandoned place was once a famous shopping store and the kid went there to buy the stuffs he need not knowing that the store already bankrupted. The man is the owner of the store but the broker wants to demolish it and that is the reason why the man killed the broker.

Trivia

• "Hajimete no Otsukai" ("The First Errand") is actually a TV program broadcast in Japan since 1991 that goes quite similarly to the event shown in this case.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters and events in the Funimation Dub are:

• Hiroshi - Christopher Lenarden
• First Errand Contest - Toddler Shopping Challenge

• In the Funimation Dub, the abandoned building owner is credited as Archie Gailand

See also

• Season 3