Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case

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Episode 2 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case
Japanese title:	Shachou reijou yuukai jiken (社長令嬢誘拐事件)
Original airdate:	January 15, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: File 2~5
English version
English title:	The Kidnapped Debutante
English airdate:	May 25, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo (background) Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Dr. Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Toshiya Shinohara
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Yuzuru Fujimoto as Tani Houchu Otsuka as Kidnapper Yukitoshi Hori as Man in Black A Kae Araki as Akiko Tani Takashi Naka as Asou Yoshiko Okamoto as Maid Isshin Chiba as Cop A Wataru Takagi as Cop B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Doki Doki
Closing song:	Step by Step

Characters introduced

Conan Edogawa
	7 years old Shinichi Kudo Detective

Cast

Characters

Shinichi Kudo (background)

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Dr. Agasa

Case

Situation

Kidnapping

Location: Tani household

Victim: Akiko Tani

Suspects: "A man dressed in black"

According to Asao, Akiko was kidnapped by a man dressed in black while she was playing in the garden.

People

Tani
	Company President

Akiko Tani
	Victim (kidnapped) Daughter of Company President Tani

Asao
File:Asao.jpg	Butler for the Tani family

Jumbo
	Tani family guarddog

Kidnapper
File:Kidnapper.jpg	Akiko's kidnapper

Resolution

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• Evidence

Conan hints to Kogoro that it is strange that Jumbo the guarddog did not bark at the supposed man dressed in black kidnapping Akiko, since the kidnapper supposedly used the pine tree Jumbo was near to escape the household.

Asao seems surprised when Tani claims the kidnapper is asking for ransom money in addition to shutting down his company temporarily.

During a phonecall with the kidnapper Akiko manages to say she thinks she's in the storeroom of a school and sees a chimney outside the window.

• Conclusion

Kogoro, thanks to hints from Conan, figures out that Akiko's kidnapping is a fake and that she should be in a nearby hotel.

Unfortunately, Akiko was kidnapped for real after the fake kidnapping by a man demanding ransom money in return for Akiko's safety.

After searching nearby schools using Jumbo as transportation and a guide, Conan determines that what Akiko saw outside the school window wasn't a chimney at all, but rather the side of a large skyscraper. Conan then finds Akiko but is unable to take down the kidnapper due to his shrunken size. Thankfully Ran uses her karate on the kidnapper in the nick of time.

• Motive

Akiko's motive for getting Asao to cooperate with her "kidnapping" was that she wanted to spend more time with her father who is always at work and doesn't play with her very much anymore.

See also

• Season 1