The Mysterious Mole Alien Case

Episode 107-108 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Mysterious Mole Alien Case
Japanese title:	モグラ星人謎の事件 (Mogura Seijin Nazo no Jiken)
Original airdate:	June 28, 1998 (Part 1) July 6, 1998 (Part 2)
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Mysterious Moletian Case
Dubbed episode:	Episode 113-114
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Manhole (Part 1) Muddy water (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	107 Yasuichiro Yamamoto 108 Kazuo Nogami
Animation Director:	107 Keiko Sasaki 108 Hirobi Muranaka
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kousei Tomita as Yoshikazu Watanuki Shigeru Chiba as Masao Kouda Yuko Kato as Sanae Kouda Satoru Yanase as Shinichi Mochida Hiroshi Yanaka as Detective Shimizu Isshin Chiba as Policeman
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Scoop Picture Murder Case
Next episode:	Detective Club Pursuit Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Detective Boys Badge Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan and the Detective Boys are playing baseball at the construction site. When Mitsuhiko throws the ball, Genta hits it so hard that it went away to someone's yard. When they go there, they rang the door bell, and the mysterious man named Yoshikazu Watanuki appears to them. Conan asks if he could have the ball back from Watanuki's yard. Watanuki refuses and won't give the ball back. He then tells Conan and the Detective Boys to go away. The Detective Boys think that he's really mean. When Conan and the Detective Boys went to the Mouri Detective Agency, they see a man named Masao Kouda. Conan asks him if he's meeting the private detective, Kogoro Mouri. After that, they went inside, and Kouda asks Kogoro if he could find his missing sister named Sanae Kouda. Masao Kouda claims Watanuki has killed his sister and has buried her in his yard.

Missing Person - Murder
	Location: Somewhere in Watanuki's yard Victim: Sanae Kouda Cause of death: Blunt trauma to the head Suspect: Yoshikazu Watanuki

Masao Kouda begs Kogoro to go with him to find his missing sister into his yard but unfortunately, Kogoro can't do that. Later, Kouda had stolen the jewels.

Robbery
	Location: Enokida Jewelry Culprit: Masao Kouda

Making things worse is the intent he has to break into Watanuki's yard when Watanuki's gone to the hospital for his weekly Saturday treatment. Conan believes the story at first, but a call with Kouda's voice causes him to begin doubting everything he has heard.

Part 2

Kouda hides stolen jewelry in Watanuki's yard to force the police department to dig it up, but unbeknown to him is that Mother Nature has caused an optical illusion to fool witness Shinichi Mochida. Can Conan prove Masao's innocence before a guilty man gets away permanently?

People

Yoshikazu Watanuki
	63 years old

Masao Kouda
	29 years old

Sanae Kouda
	Victim (missing) 26 years old Masao's sister

Shinichi Mochida
	35 years old Witness

Detective Shimizu
	Police detective

Resolution

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Effectively, Yoshikazu Watanuki did kill Sanae. She worked for a firm which Watanuki had invested for, so Sanae tried to convince him to keep investing so she wouldn't lose her job upon it. Watanuki refused and went towards his room in the second floor, but Sanae tried to stop him; he tried to push her away and then Sanae lost her balance, plumetting down the stairs and dying when she hit her head on the wall.

Watanuki, upon seeing that he had accidentally killed the girl, buried her body in a small empty place near the construction site. He incessantly vigiled it so no one would find it... but there was something he didn't know. Sanae had a small flower seed bag in her pocket, a gift from one of her friends; the seeds grew and the flowers blossomed, signaling the place where she was "buried".

Masao had to go to trial due to the robbery, but was declared not to be a danger to society and given a suspended sentence. He retrieved his sister's ashes as well as the flower plant "born" from the seeds, and returned to his hometown in peace to arrange for Sanae's official burial.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Yoshikazu Watanuki - Walter Rivers
• Masao Kouda - Matthew Kohler
• Sanae Kouda - Celia Kohler
• Shinichi Mochida - Sean Moss

See also

• Season 5