The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case

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Information
Title:	The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case
Japanese title:	喫茶店トラック乱入事件 (Kissaten Torakku Ran'nyū Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 7, 2000
Season:	7
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Professor Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Sculpture
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Satoshi Kitagawa
Storyboard:	Takashi Kobayashi
Episode director:	Hiroshi Kurimoto
Animation director:	Masayuki Hiraoka
Music
Opening song:	Mysterious Eyes
Closing song:	Free Magic
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Reunion with the Black Organization
Next episode:	The Nocturne of Red Murderous Intent »
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Professor Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Conan and the group go to a coffee shop to meet up with Agasa. Nearby, two men are having a meeting. One of them gets up to go to the bathroom, and while he's gone, a truck slams into the coffee shop and smashes the other man who was still seated. Conan realizes it was a planned murder.

Murder
	Location: Peach Sunday Victim: Toru Aida Cause of death: Truck collision Suspects: Kazuo Ohara A truck slammed into the coffee shop and smashed Aida, resulting in his death.

People

Kazuo Ohara
	52 years old Ohara Planning Corp president

Toru Aida
	Victim 35 years old Ohara Planning Corp designer

Chief Saito
	Policeman

Jiro Kobayashi
	25 years old Delivery truck driver

Michiko Segawa
	46 years old Ohara Planning Corp secretary

Resolution

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Evidence

• The cut on Ohara's finger, as a result of the piano chord. Blood from the cut was found on the windowsill.
• A piano chord used to attach the stop to the back of a bus.
• When Genta knocked on the bathroom door, there was no reply, indicating Ohara wasn't in the bathroom.
• A wooden stop was found, which served to stop the truck.
• A glove was found inside Ohara's car with blood on the same spot as the cut on Ohara's hand.

Motive

• Ohara killed Aida because Aida had supposedly forgotten the favors he owed Ohara and threatened to quit the company. This would have resulted in the company's bankruptcy, so Ohara decided to kill Aida in order to collect the insurance money. Furthermore, Aida spoke of collecting large sums of money before quitting.

Conclusion

Ohara admits to killing Aida and apologizes for his crime. He is then arrested. Later, the truck driver presents Agasa with a bouquet of flowers, grateful that he was proven innocent.

See also

• Season 7