The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen

Episode 578 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen
Original airdate:	June 26, 2010
Season:	19
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa (Case 1) No one. (Case 2)
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Truth Lit Up By the Fireflies
Next episode:	Suggestion of Black Thirteen »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Hideo Akagi (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Jodie Starling Andre Camel Subaru Okiya

Case 1:

Situation

The Detective Boys run into a strange man named Kyozo Daita who invites them to a cake shop after stopping a thief for him. While talking with him, Conan notices the man is acting strangely.

(Potential) Suicide
290px	Location: Train station Victim: Kyozo Daita

People

Kyozo Daita
	62 years old Passerby

Yoshimi Daita
100px	6 years old Kyozo's granddaughter Needs surgery for heart disease

Resolution

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That night, the Detective Boys confront him and reveal they deduced he planned to make his suicide look like an accident in order to get money from the insurance to pay for his grand daughter's surgery; Evidenced from the inconsistency conversation they had before. Daita confesses and reveals that after losing a winning lottery ticket, he contemplated suicide. Conan reveals that he must have kept the lottery ticket in the case containing his reading glasses after reading the winning numbers from the newspaper. Daita, happy to have the money for the surgery, jokingly tells the Detective Boys he also thought of robbing a bank causing the Detective Boys to reply they saw a man suiting Shuichi Akai's description.

Case 2:

Situation

The next day, Kogoro receives an anonymous request to investigate a case involving red shirts with long sleeves. The mysterious caller requests to meet them on the third floor of a department store. At the store, the three then run into a man who explains he has been strapped with bombs.

(Potential) Bombing
290px	Victim: Kogoro Mouri's client

See also

• Season 19