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Ran notices Conan has some new shoes, which are from Professor Agasa. Really they're muscle stimulating shoes that makes his legs and feet stronger. Conan also has new glasses with a listening device in the frame.
Conan glimpses two suspicious men in black! But why are they on the train?
The men go to meet a client. Conan plants the glasses' transmitter in some gum under their seats, but gets caught. Ran and the Detective Boys scold him, wrap the gum in paper and put it in the seat's ash tray - where Conan will be able to hear even better!
Conan sees the men face to face and realizes they aren't the men in black, but strangers! They also don't have the same briefcase that they left with.
Through the bug, Conan hears that the men exchanged briefcases with their client, who now has a bomb in their case, and by pressing a few buttons at 15:10 the person will unknowingly detonate it! The men then leave at the next stop, with Conan unable to catch them.
Conan thinks all is lost but remembers that their client is still on the train. He has 40 minutes to find who the passenger is, get the briefcase and disarm the bomb. But there must be over 200 passengers on board!
Conan loses Ran and tries to inform train security, but they won't listen. The only help he can get is the Detective Boys, who think he's up to something, though he denies it. Conan deduces from the conversation he overheard that the meeting was in a non-smoking dining car that could see the scenery.
They arrive at the top floor of Train Car 7 knowing the mystery client has to be there. There are four suspects. All Conan can do is investigate one by one.
The first suspect is a businessman. He is on his laptop looking at Online Stock Trade and wears a gold watch: probably loaded, and info on the gold market is right up his alley.
The second is a woman with a newspaper, a cell phone and a briefcase. When Conan asks she denies meeting any men in black, but she could see Mount Fuji from her window.
The third suspect is an old man. He's hard of hearing so when Conan asks if he's been to the Dining Car, he replies that he loves amusement parks!
The fourth is a man that looks like a gangster and wears a lot of gold jewelry. The man wipes his glasses using a napkin with the logo of the diner. Conan is sure this man is the client.
When Conan tries to open the briefcase, the man notices and startles him into dropping it. The Detective Boys catch it but then the businessman scares them into dropping it again - it opens to reveal nothing but boxer shorts, and the kids are kicked out of the train car.
Ran finds the four kids and takes them back to their car. Conan checks his watch: 14 minutes left. Conan has cleared one suspect but which of the remaining three has the bomb?!
Conan is about to tell Ran his true identity, but then he realizes the woman must have lied - her seat is on the wrong side to see Mt. Fuji. She had no reason to lie about seeing it from the dining car except to cover up the deal with the men in black. She's the client! She has the briefcase bomb and Conan has only one minute to stop her!
Conan escapes Ran again and with only seconds remaining, kicks the briefcase out of the window. The train is safe!
Conan is found by Ran (who hopes the explosion had nothing to do with him) and she takes him back to their train car.
The Express Train stops at the next station - Inspector Megure's squad has come up from Tokyo to investigate. The Mouri family misses the wedding, but they get souvenirs.
The business woman is arrested for her part of the deal: she had bought the briefcase but they didn't tell her how to open it. They gave her the cell phone with instructions to call at exactly 15:10, to keep both the information and the money to themselves.
After a little legwork, the goons are arrested at the penthouse suite of a hotel and the case is closed.
But Conan's mystery remains unsolved: the real men in black, whom he mistook the goons for, are still at large. Until he finds them, he'll have to remain a kid detective solving other people's puzzles as he unwraps his own.
Ran tries to make Conan finish what he said before about who he really is. Luckily, the Detective Boys save him and say he's called, "Mr. Genius Trouble Maker".
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