Episode 1017: The Monorail Sniper Case (Part Two)
Scenario: A bullet injury occurs on the monorail that Conan and Kogoro are riding. The two track down the perpetrator and arrive at an apartment building, but the perpetrator they find there escapes to the Tohto Market. At the Tohto Market, an employee is found bound and with his mouth covered. The culprit steals the employee's belongings and seems to be trying to do something with them.
The group consisting of Kogoro, Conan and Takagi later arrive at the fish market. A police officer already stationed there informs them of something having happened in the parking lot. There, they find a wholesaler who has been assaulted probably by the same man they are pursuing, since he says that he was attacked from behind after noticing a large bag, most likely containing the body. Since his clothes and his turret truck were stolen, the group deduces that the culprit used them to blend in with the wholesalers. Detective Chiba then calls them from MPD and informs them that he has gathered information regarding the resident of apartment 505. The resident is Ichiro Akiyama, a leasing company worker who recently went unemployed, and a suspect in a robbery from four months ago.
The drivers were delivering 150 million yen to the bank, but they were robbed by two people. One of them might be Ichiro Akiyama, but he had an alibi at the time of the robbery. |
From the information obtained, it is most likely that, even though he was cleared since he had an alibi, Akiyama was still involved in the robbery. The gun used was a Tokarev, the same one that was used in Maruta's attempted murder, and Akiyama had recently started a lavish lifestyle, most likely after earning a large amount of money. Since Akiyama was just a company worker, he would have most likely been collaborating with a bank employee to be able to get the information about the convoy's schedules, and Takagi thus asks Chiba to check up on the bank employees that were absent on the day of the robbery. Officers then arrive in the parking lot and inform the group that they have found the turret truck, which presented traces of blood on it. Since the truck was abandoned, the body was most likely disposed in an abandoned place, and Takagi and Conan figure out the only place in the market that would have less people would be the underground warehouse. At the location, they see that the lock had been broken, and decide to go inside to investigate. At the same time, the culprit is standing next to Akiyama's body in the warehouse, and is preparing to open his body with a knife, but is stopped when he hears sounds coming from Takagi and the others. While searching, Takagi looks up the list of absent employees, but is interrupted by Kogoro, who notices sources of light coming from the other direction.
While nearing in on the light source, they hear sounds of a struggle and end up finding Takuro Samejima, one of the absent bank employees on the list, injured on the ground, along with Akiyama's body next to it. Samejima says he was attacked by an unknown person, and is then brought out of the warehouse by paramedics. While still searching for the culprit, Conan figures out the truth.