Follow Them! Detective Taxi 3

Man A
	Ogawa's assistant; Municipal worker;

Masaharu Ogawa
	61 years old; Mayor of Furai City;

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Follow Them! Detective Taxi 3 (追跡！探偵タクシー3(スリー) ,Tsuiseki! Tantei Takushī Surī^?) is the 1188th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Transmitter

Criminal Tracking Glasses

Case

Situation

Riding in a taxi driven by Kogoro-superfan Genki Ishikawa, Conan and Kogoro travel to Furai City to attend an event organized by the city. They had supposedly been recommended to be special guests of the event by Megure, but Megure himself denies any knowledge of this. Megure adds that, recently, a series of mysterious jewel robberies have occurred in the metropolitan area...

Serial robberies

Location: Various jewelry stores in Tokyo

Stolen items: Expensive rings, necklaces, and crowns

Culprits: Multiple thieves-for-hire
(crime boss is unknown)

Although various jewels and crowns have been stolen, there is no sign of them being sold domestically. Therefore, it is likely that these stolen items will be smuggled out of the country.

Group of robbers subdued by female employees

Since there has been no sign of the jewelry being sold domestically, the police thought the crime boss would attempt to smuggle them out of the country, and therefore set up the blockades in order to capture him. In the most recent robbery however, nothing was stolen, and the thieves were captured by the jewelry store staff so easily that it makes Megure suspect someone is toying with the police.

People

Woman A
	Ogawa's assistant Municipal worker

Resolution

Show spoilers »

Deduction

The group of elderly thieves-for-hire, the shortest one suddenly having a heart attack

Conan is able to figure out that the recent robbery and Kogoro's invitation to the peculiar event were a distraction for the real intent of the scheme: The stolen jewels were to be minced in Furai City's newly-built and smuggled out in the form of fried foods. He asks Megure and his subordinates to come to the Furai City’s Frozen Foods factory, whilst inviting Kogoro, Ran, and Ishikawa separately using Megure's identity. Once they meet at the factory, Megure informs Kogoro that the police have indeed caught the wrong target, as the thieves were elderly thieves-for-hire. Moreover, the shortest thief suddenly had a heart attack and was sent to the police hospital.

Man D
File:EP 1188 Man D.jpg	Hospitalized (Heart attack) Elderly thief-for-hire

Robbery

Location: Furai City's frozen foods factory

Stolen items: A container with the jewels in the form of factory products

Culprits: Four well-dressed men

Since the jewels are in the form of factory products put in a container, they need to take it somehow. The crime boss decides to have the container attached with 4 drones so that he can take the container easily.

Just then, a group of 4 well-dressed men come out with a container attached with 4 drones, but they were quickly apprehended. But the drones suddenly activate and take the container flying into the air, forcing Conan and Ishikawa into a pursuit for the jewelry.

The chase

Genki Ishikawa's colleagues offering helps to find the "flying" container

Man B
File:EP1188 Driver A.jpg	Taxi driver Ishikawa's colleague

Man C
File:EP1188 Driver B.jpg	Taxi driver Ishikawa's colleague

The container flies around the area, and with help from Ishikawa's fellow "taxi assistants," they are able to track it down. Strangely enough, the destination of the container is the police hospital. Conan quickly deduces that the controller of the drones, who is also the crime boss, is none other than the old man who previously had a heart attack. Or rather, he had faked his heart attack just for this to slip away from the police.

Although Conan is able to corner the old man at the rooftop of the hospital, the old man uses the container as a makeshift aircraft, and flies away from the hospital towards a boat docked at a nearby port. If he were to land on the boat, he would have successfully finished his escape plan, along with smuggling the jewels. But as Ishikawa and Conan chase the man via the city roads, Ishikawa decides on a bold move. He performs a leap off a road bridge just as the old man passes under, landing onto the container with his taxi. This causes the criminal to lose his balance and fall into the arms of Megure, who then declares the crime boss "arrested at 4:15 P.M."

Aftermath

Aside from the potential reward Ishikawa can get for help in subduing the crime boss, he also receives a stern scolding from Megure due to his reckless actions. Still, Ishikawa decides to enjoy the Mayor Fried Food Combo emcee the homemade frozen costume test with the Mouri family, obviously, without the fried food costumes. But his joy has to be postponed until he moves his taxi onto another parking location.

Trivia

Furai City (不来市) is a pun on the word "fry" (フライ ,furai^?), which references western-styled fried food in breading (e.g. fried shrimp and potato croquette).

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Enquête et poursuite en taxi ! 3 (trois)	Investigation and pursuit in taxi! 3
German (Subbed)	Verfolgungsjagd im Detektiv-Taxi 3	Chase in the Detective Taxi 3

References

^ Note: Kogoro is not actually knocked out with the Stun-Gun Wristwatch and Conan simply simulates Sleeping Kogoro over the phone.

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