Follow Them! Detective Taxi 2 (追跡！探偵タクシー2 ,Tsuiseki! Tantei Takushī Tsū?) is the 1155th episode of the Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Every ten years, a so-called "Jewelry Washing Festival" is held at Tsubaki Shrine. Jewels that were washed by the shrine's well water will supposedly shine brighter and increase their value. The participants are wealthy people, jewelry store owners, and luxury car owners. One participant, named Yoko Matsuda, came to the shrine by the "Detective Taxi" Genki Ishikawa, As Ishikawa looks at various cars of other participants, he noticed a suspicious-looking duo taking pictures of those cars. So he went to Mouri Detective Agency to seek help with the investigation.
Mysterious people?
Location: Tsubaki Shrine parking lot
Suspects: Suspicious-looking duo
Ishikawa noticed this duo are secretly taking pictures of the "Jewelry Washing Festival" participant's cars for unknown purpose.
After Kogoro turned down his request, citing that Ran's request of making sandwich for Conan is more important. Ishikawa decided to investigate the situation by himself, while eating Kogoro's sandwich on the way. When Ishikawa came back to the Tsubaki shrine to investigate the suspicious duo. He heard a screaming voice coming from the shrine. So he quickly ran to the place and found Yoko Matsuda passed out on the ground. Only for him to got attacked by an unknown person.
Attempted robbery
Location: Tsubaki Shrine's jewelry-washing well
Victim: Yoko Matsuda
Suspects: Suspicious-looking duo
According to Yoko Matsuda. Her diamond was supposedly stolen from her, as she was the last person to came and wash the jewelry. But, in the end, they find out it was in a bucket around the well that was used for washing jewelry. She seems embarrassed when she left after she was question by the police.
False imprisonment
Location: Tsubaki Shrine parking lot
Victim: Genki Ishikawa
After Ishikawa finds Yoko Matsuda passing out on the ground and wake her up, she screamed again. After that, Ishikawa got hit on the head by an unknown person, and was tied up and then put inside his taxi's trunk. His mouth have a red-colored mark that looks like blood.
People
Resolution
Kogoro and Ishikawa initially came to the conclusion that the robber wasn't came after the jewels, but the washing fee, as every participants had to pay 100,000 yen in advance. However, the money are safe and accounted for. Conan later came to a conclusion, after hearing that the suspicious duo were taking pictures of participant car's license plates, that Yoko Matsuda was faking the attempted robbery to create a commotion and lead the shrine staffs away from the main building. So the suspicious duo can get in the shrine and take information of the shrine's jewelry record. The reason to take the participant's license plates is because they can be used to identify the name and address of the owners. Which they can cross-examine with the jewelry record to find who has the most jewels and plan out a robbery crime.
However, they didn't expect Ishikawa to came in before the shrine staffs. And because Matsuda have a red-colored mark on his mouth from eating Kogoro's sandwitch (as Kogoro was putting too much ketchup) Matsuda was terrified by his face and let out the second scream which they didn't plan for. This prompted one of the suspicious duo to attack Ishikawa and trapped him in the taxi truck to keep him away.
After hearing from the shrine maiden that the person who washed the most jewelry, that is the owner the Ginza branch of New York jewelry store named Wonder Jewelry has left the shrine a while ago. Ishikawa drive his taxi (with Conan on board) to catch up with the owner. However, by the time they catch up with her, she was already robbed by Matsuda and her suspicious duo.
Robbery
Location: Intersection of an unnamed road in Ginza
Victim: Owner of Wonder Jewelry's Ginza branch
Suspects: Yoko Matsuda, Suspicious-looking duo
Soon after the owner get out of her car. Yoko Matsuda and one of the suspicious duo came out and point a gun at her and shoot, only for the gun to be fake and shooting out confetti. But during the shock. The other suspicious duo, riding a scooter, grab her purse full of jewelry out of her hand. Causing the owner to sit down in shock.
Conan was able to track down the suspicious duo with the purse via the Telescopic Lenses. So Ishikawa tried to put up a siren for an emergency chase, but Conan warned him not to do that due to it being a violation of the Road Vehicles Act. Ishikawa's taxi did catch up to the suspicious duo with the purse, but they threw it to Matsuda and tried using the road traffic to get away from the taxi. However, Ishikawa and Conan eventually found them, thanks the jewelry they're wearing shine brighter than usual as they were washed by Tsubaki Shine's well water.
As Ishikawa and Conan catching up on Kachidoki Bridge. Matsuda and the suspicious duo form together as the duo jump onto Matsuda's scooter. While Matsuda enable the scooter's modified boost mode, putting them further away from the taxi. So Conan take out his Turbo Engine Skateboard to catching up, and kicked Ishikawa's siren with the Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes to knock the purse out of their hand. Conan was able to grab the purse and save them, while Matsuda and the suspicious duo fall down out of their scooter and were arrested by the police.
Trivia
- The names of the participants in the shrine's jewelry record notebook are named after the production team of the episode.
- Only the "beautiful woman" Yoko Matsuda was given a name in this case, the rest of the case-characters were not given any names and simply refer by their roles, such as the shrine maiden and the head priest.
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In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 French (Subbed) |
Enquête et poursuite en taxi ! 2 (deux) |
Investigation and pursuit in taxi! 2
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 Thai |
แท็กซี่นักสืบ สะกดรอย 2 |
Follow Them! Detective Taxi 2
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