The 14th
Target
Someone
is targeting the people around Kogoro Mouri whose name contains the numbers
13 going down to 1. Thirteen being the king and the 1 being the ace from a deck
of cards. The first victim is Inspector Megure, shot while jogging in the park
with a crossbow. His first name is Jyuzo, in kanji, ten and three, making thirteen.
Near the where the incident occured, a strange looking knife is found, which
Conan finds it familiar.
The next victim is Eri Kisaki, Ran's mom. The number 12 in a deck of cards is
the Queen. Kisaki means "Queen" in English. Eri was poisoned by chocolate.
Eri thought the chocolate sent to her was by Kogoro after a fight they had at
a French restaurant. And there was a flower attached to her favorite brand of
chocolate. Once again, Conan finds the flower familiar.
The third victim is Dr. Agasa. While Conan was over at Agasa's house, someone
broke the window to the front door. When Agasa opened to door to see who did
it, he was shot in the back by a crossbow when Shin'ichi tried to warn Agasa.
*Note: When Conan is at Agasa's house, he isn't Conan, but Shin'ichi.* The motorist
left behind something that resembled an infinity symbol. The number 11 if found
in Dr. Agasa's first name, Hiroshi. Hiroshi is spelled the same as 'hakase'
meaning scientist, or the Dr. in front of Agasa's name. Aoyama Gosho purposely
made Agasa's first name have the same spelling as his title.
Anyways, the 11 in Agasa's name is from the 'shi' in Hiroshi. 'Shi' is composed
of a ten and a one, thus making 11.
Conan figures what the items left behind mean. They're from the spade king,
queen, and jack in playing cards. The king is holding a knife, the queen a flower,
and the jack an infinity symbol. (I tried to check this, but my deck of cards
have "Ah! My Goddess" all over them!) That means there is going to
be 10 more victims. Their first suspect is a man that recently was paroled,
Jyo Murakami. Kogoro was the one who arrested Murakami, and now that he was
released, he probably wanted to have revenge on Kogoro. Kogoro is number 5,
the 'go' in his name means 'five.' They have to find victim 10, 9, 8, 6, 4,
3, 2, 1. But first victim 10, and get to him before the murdered does.
Of course, Kogoro being Kogoro, he thinks the mistress of a Club Towako, Towako
Okano is the next victim. Shiratori takes Ran and Conan home. Shiratori tells
Ran about the time when she was 10 years old, her mom was held hostage by Murakami,
Kogoro shot Eri in the leg and when she went down, shot Murakami in the shoulder.
While Kogoro, Megure, and Shiratori are staking out at the club, Conan figures
out that the next victim is to be a pro golfer, Hiroki Tsuji, in his last name
is the kanji for 10. Tsuji likes to fly helicopters and he was about to take
off when Megure, Shiratori, and Kogoro stop the man. It turns out, he was victim
10. Somehow, the eye drops that Tsuji always uses before driving or flying a
helicopter was switched with a chemical that dialates the pupil of the eyes.
The sun became too bright for the man and he started to lose control. Luckly,
Conan had experience flying helicopters, and with the help of the now blind
pilot, Conan was able to land in the playground of his elemtary school, Teitan
Elementary School. They got out in time before the thing exploded.
Kogoro couldn't figure out who victim 9 would be, but he could think of one
person who could be victim 8. He was a wine taster (romaji: somurie, if anyone
knows the English translation spelling of that word, please tell me!) from the
French restaurant that Kogoro, Eri, Ran, and Conan went to earlier in the movie,
Kohei Sawaki. At Sawaki's place, he mentions that he was invited to go to Aqua
Crystal by Katsuyoshi Asahi, the man who build the place. Asahi also asked Kogoro
to find a lost cat for him, and hired Kogoro. It turns out that Asahi has the
kanji for 9 in his name.
Asahi built a restaurant called Aqua Crystal in the middle of the harbor. When
Conan, Ran, Kogoro, Megure and Shiratori arrive, 4 other characters arrive also,
claiming they received invitations from Asahi. Nana Osanai (7), Eimei Shishido
(6), Peter Ford (4, it's the phonetic sound of his name that makes him the 4th
victim), and Minoru Nishina (2).
As they wait, Megure explains to them that Murakami is after everyone that knows
Kogoro with numbers in their name. It turns out that everyone has something
in their name that has to do with numbers, including Shiratori. His first name,
Ninzaburo, had the kanji for 3 in it. Ran and Conan don't have numbers to their
names. But victim number 1 is missing.
While they wait around, it starts to become obvious that something is wrong.
A hidden trap almost killed Sawaki, but Conan noticed the trap in time to warn
him.
Then after that incident, Asahi shows up...as fish food. He is in the aquarium
with the 9 of spades card on his overcoat. The group decide to leave, but they
find out that they're are locked in.
The next victim, Osanai, is a model. The lights go out and during the commotion,
she gets stabbed in the back. Her nails glow in the dark because of the nail
polish that was given to her by Asahi as an invitational gift. Someone kicks
over the can that Conan placed on the floor.
After the lights go back on, Conan figures out that who ever has the stain on
his pants from his drink is the murderer. He also figures out that the murder
is right handed, not left, Murakami is left handed. He decideds to carry out
an experiment on something he saw one of the victims do. So, he serves mineral
water in the group. They all drink it commenting how the water tastes wonderful.
Conan figures out who the real murderer is.
Then the place explodes and the lights go out again. The back up light comes
up and then the place explodes again, this time, it takes out the glass protecting
the group from the aquarium water surrounding them. All of them make it to a
small area with air, but Ran is missing. Her foot is stuck underneath a car.
Conan goes to the rescue. He grabs a floating bottle and fills it with air before
going under. When he reaches Ran, he puts the bottle in her mouth to give her
air. In order rescue Ran, the car had to be lifted. Conan tries to lift it by
himself, but gets his foot stuck instead. In his struggle, Conan loses the air
in his mouth and falls unconscience. Rans saves Conan by giving the air that
he gave Ran back to him. It's a kiss! Okay, sort of... Anyways, Conan wakes
up and uses his suspenders to lift up the car. Kogoro comes and grabs Ran and
they swim back up to the surface, followed closely behind by Conan. Ran thanks
Conan for rescuing her and Conan turns red and goes under. (He was so cute!)
Because of the blast, there is now an opening for them to leave by, but they
had to swim underwater. But Nishina couldn't swim.
So Shishido help him to the surface. They all made it to the surface outside
and climbed up onto the sunken building. Nishina stopped breathing, so Sawaki
offered to give CPR. Then Conan, using Kogoro's voice, told Shiratori to do
it instead. Shiratori gave CPR and the man was saved.
Conan shoots Kogoro with the stun-gun wrist-watch (as given in English in the
movie, lucky). And explains to all who the real suspect is.
First of all, it couldn't have been Murakami, because the person who killed
Osanai is right handed. No one stabbes anyone with their weaker hand. Murakami
is left handed. Conan tells them that the murder is still in their group. Of
course, this stuns the group. He tells them that the real murderer is Sawaki.
Conan noticed Sawaki tasting chili powder, something that wine tasters wouldn't
do because that would ruin their palate. It meant that he had a disorder that
would make the person lose their sense of taste. In order to make sure his theory
was correct, Conan served everyone a cup of water, with the one to Sawaki a
cup of salty water. He also tells everyone that in his pockets should be the
proof. Sawaki checks his pockets and out comes a wine bottle cork with the graffiti
that Osanai painted with her nail polish. And Conan finally tells them that
Sawaki should have on him the ace of spades, Kudo Shin'ichi's card (the number
1 is in his name)!
Now the reason why Sawaki tried to kill everyone. Tsuji, Asahi, Osanai, and
Nishina caused him stress and injury. About 3 months ago, Osanai ran him over
in her car, it was a hit and run. Tsuji was almost killed because he made fun
of him at a party four months before. Asahi was killed because of work related
stress. And Nishina was almost killed because he wrote a book about wine that
was totally wrong. All this caused him so much stress that he lost his ability
to taste wine. He wanted them dead, the source of his problem and he didn't
care if he died along with them in the process. Where did Murakami and Kogoro
fit in? Right after Murakami was released, he went to visit Kogoro, not for
revenge, but to apologize. Kogoro wasn't there at the time, he was out playing
mah jong. At the bottom of the stairs to the office, Sawaki met Murakami and
he pretended to know Kogoro as a friend. Sawaki invited Murakami to his place
where Murakami told Sawaki of everything. Seeing a chance for revenge and making
it look like it was done by someone else, he killed Murakami. Now that everyone
knew the truth, Sawaki grabbed Ran, who is really out of it right now, and uses
her as hostage. He heads up to the top of the tower where a helicopter is waiting.
Conan, Kogoro, Megure, and Shiratori follow. At the top, a face of ensues. Shiratori
is the only one with a gun, but his hands are shaking, if he was to fire, he
might hit Ran. Sawaki tells Shiratori to toss the gun toward his way and makes
Conan bring the gun to him. Conan picks up the gun, and he realizes why Kogoro
shot Eri. Conan takes aim at Sawaki and fires. (Shin'ichi looked really kakkoii
when he did it! Shin'ichi's image overlapped Conan's) Ran goes down, now a useless
weight to Sawaki. While Sawaki is confused, Shiratori and Kogoro charge at him
and he goes down. Because of the blasts, the tower is now heavily leaning, and
Ran begins to slide down. Conan grabs and stops her decent.
The reason why Conan shot Ran, and why Kogoro shot Eri when Murakami had her
as hostage, was not to capture the suspect, but was to protect the hostage.
If the hostage was injured, then it would just be weight and the hostage would
be disgarded. Ran told Kogoro that she felt that Shinichi was protecting her,
and Conan/Shinichi says (not to her of course) that if it wasn't for her, then
he wouldn't have been able to save her.
After the ending credits, Ran asks why Eri left Kogoro 10 years ago. Eri replies
that that night after the hostage, Kogoro complained about how terrible Eri's
cooking was. She got really angry, after all she was injured and she tried to
cook for him. They had a really big argument and Eri left.
The End