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holmes_fanatic) wrote2012-04-21 03:35 pm
holmes_fanatic) wrote2012-04-21 03:35 pm
[canon] Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker.
This is becoming an annual tradition -- going to Hiroshima to watch the new Conan movie, taking notes and typing it all up for Kay afterwards! I've typed it up to share here. It's as detailed a summary as I could put together from my limited Japanese comprehension and inability to decipher my own handwriting but hopefully you enjoy it!
The Eleventh Striker.
**Usual disclaimer: Movie was very fast; note-taking was sow, theatre was dark – forget the difficult Japanese, the hard part is going to be deciphering my handwriting. Halfway through my pen ran out of ink, so things are going to be even scattier after that. This is going to be a fast and dirty translation of what people said – my Japanese only intermediate level etc.**
Official site (with pictures of the suspects) here.
Tokyo, Mouri Detective Agency.
The phone’s ringing. Ran calls out to Mouri to answer it, coming into the office to scold him. Complaining, Mouri picks up the phone. The voice on the other hand is heavily disguised via an electronic voice synthesizer.
Mouri: Who are you?
Not surprisingly, the caller doesn’t tell him. Instead they inform him that there’s going to be an explosion. Mouri’s not impressed, tells the caller not to joke – he’s going to inform the police. Laughing, the caller instructs Mouri to look out the window.
Mouri: Out the window?
Putting the phone aside, Mouri opens the Agency window and looks out, Ran joining him looking out the window. Suddenly the black car parked outside Poirot. Mouri shields Ran from the effects of the explosion. They’re both shocked but unhurt, watching as the street below explodes into chaos.
Theme song time! The usual CGI. The usual introduction from Kudo Shinichi. It’s quite cute – Conan’s seen using the bowtie and watch-dartgun before they appear to be introduced so he’s all ‘You don’t need me to tell you what these do.’
Then when it comes to the shounen tantei they’re all lined up beside Agasa’s beatle, wearing their soccer classroom uniforms. “Hakase’s late.” “Did he forget his licence again?’
Conan smirks at how seriously the kids are taking this.. “It’s like they think we’re in the J-League.”
Mitsuhiko: What are you doing talking to yourself?
Conan apologises, and as Agasa’s shown up with his licence they head for the car. Haibara stops Conan.
Haibara: You forgot it.
Conan: What?
Haibara: The thing you always say.
Conan: Oh, right. Shinjitsu itsumo hitotsu! Etc.
The soccer classroom seems to be a workshop for elementary school kids, giving them the chance to practice with, learn from and be encouraged by J-League stars – actually modelled on and voiced by real J-Leaguers. (They are so monotone it is hilarious). The kids are pretty starstruck, getting super excited by all of the J-League stars.
Hide is feeling a bit neglected, but once he suggests they start practicing, the kids give him full attention. Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Haibara form a square and Conan joins Ran, Sonoko, Mouri and Agasa on the sidelines.
Ran: Eh? Is something wrong, Conan?
Conan: No, we’re going to start with just four. My turn’s next!
--which means he is just in time to get the full benefit of the line up of the suspects who have noticed Mouri and come over to introduce themselves.
#1 – A pushy guy in a purple shirt. Yamamori. He’s a press guy, representing Nishiuri Newspaper. He’s really keen to get his picture taken with Mouri.
#2 – Yamamori’s colleague obliges taking his photo with Mouri. She’s Kouda Kaoru, a photographer for Nishiuri Newspaper.
They soon start bickering – turns out Yamamori isn’t happy with his current job, asks Mouri for some advice. What he really wants is to be covering variety events or something – and he remembers that Mouri knows Okino Yoko and can put in a good word for him. Mouri’s awkward – and at the mention of Yoko, Kouda’s face goes cold and she glares.
Sonoko suddenly defuses the situation. “Hey – those kids are pretty good.”
Everyone turns to watch the Shounen Tantei who are practicing hard. Genta passes to Mitsuhiko who passes to Ayumi, who very intensely passes to Ai – who casually knocks the ball towards Hide while yawning and being intensely bored.
Ran: That’s right – they’ve been interested in soccer a lot lately. Me too – I’ve been watching it on TV with Conan-kun.
Sonoko: Hey, didn’t I hear something about you playing soccer with Shinichi in Junior High?
Conan and Ran both look totally awkward and uncomfortable – both having the same image of Shinichi looking terrified.
Conan notices a player sitting on the bench, recognising him as Suspect #3 – Nakaoka. Once an Ace Striker for the Spirits, he hasn’t played professionally since a bike accident left his leg badly injured. He’s looking moody and grumpy, sitting not far from Mouri’s group.
The Shounen Tantei are done, and run over, Conan taking their place on the pitch with Hide. As soon as he gets the ball, he starts doing his usually bouncy thing with it – totally showing off.
Meanwhile, Suspect #4 spots them and comes over to say hi. He remembers Mouri from his University Days, and tries to introduce himself as Sasaki, but Mouri interrupts. “Ah – you’re the own goal guy!”
He immediately relates to everyone the really intense University soccer match that he watched in which the deciding goal was scored – by Sasaki, whose disastrous own goal lost the University team the match.
Sasaki’s rueful. “Man, that was ten years ago … and I still can’t escape it.”
Ran scolds Mouri for bringing it up AGAIN and Mouri apologises and asks what Sasaki’s doing now. Turns out he’s a team coach for the soccer classroom, and he has a friend who is a huge fan of Mouri’s – asking permission to introduce them, he runs off to find his friend.
Conan is still going. By now everyone else on the pitch, all the kids and J-Leagues are just staring at them. Hide’s got the most unimpressed face ever as Conan finally gives up the ball and passes it to him.
Hide: That’s enough for now!
Conan joins the other’s on the sidelines. Some Big Osaka players come over, including Sogo (the Big Osaka version of Hide) for a bit of banter. One of the J-Leagues comes over to Conan.
J-Leaguer (sorry, but at this point I wasn’t sure who they were): Kudo Shinichi.
Conan & Ran: Eh?
Ran: You know about Shinichi?
J-Leaguer: Yeah. I watched a couple of Kudo’s high-school matches. This kid’s got his form.
Conan: That’s because Shinichi-niichan taught me!
J-Leaguer leans in to ruffle Conan’s hair. “Keep it up, Kid.”
Conan is beaming. The Shounen Tantei are pretty jealous – ‘Conan’s so lucky!’ ‘Ah, I’m jealous!’
Haibara’s clearly getting concerned about Conan’s cover, and very viciously ruffles his hair. She says something to him – sadly, no idea what! But it’s clearly an instruction to keep his head down. Unfortunately, Haibara’s given the Detective Boy’s a great idea, and all three of them decide to attack Conan’s hair. He goes down in a sea of hair ruffling as Sasaki returns with Suspect #5.
Motoura wastes no time. As soon as he’s introduced to Mouri he says he wants to show him a photo. It’s of a young boy playing soccer – Motoura’s son, 10 years old and in fourth grade. There’s a lot of photos of him playing in a soccer match – all the kids crowd round, and even Conan, trying to fix his hair, is told to come over and see. Sonoko observes that the boy is good at soccer, as it seems he scored a goal.
Motoura explains that his son died suddenly of illness a few months ago – he had a weak body and wasn’t really strong enough for soccer but he loved it so much he played any.
Mouri’s a little surprised and after expressing sympathy, wonders why Motoura wanted him specifically to see the photos. Motoura says that he wanted Mouri to see the spirit with which his son played.
It’s a kind of awkard moment and Sasaki and Motoura are leaving. Genta remarks that things feel weird.
Agasa: Speaking of weird—
Shounen Tantei: Seriously? You’re going to give us a quiz?
Agasa: Of course!
I didn’t catch the question, but it was soccer related. The four options are:
1. Offside.
2. Hand ball.
3. Corner Kick.
4. Yellow Card.
Conan’s smirking away and Ayumi’s all ‘Eh? You figured it out already, Conan-kun?’
Conan: Right. The answer is—
J-Leaguer Endo: 2! Handball because of handling! (or something – Japanese puns are beyond me).
Agasa: Right!
Sonoko: Wow – you’re good at soccer, and you’re smart too!
Just then, the Big Osaka substitute striker shows up – Sanada, He’s brash, confident and clearly not bothered about being late. He gives a token apology, explaining that he doesn’t want to be there because he’s bad with kid.
Sanada (yelling at Genta): Isn’t that right, brat?
Genta: Eh – this guy’s scary.
Sanada spots Hide and announces that he is going to be Hide’s rival from now on. Hide’s expression is blatantly ‘what the fuck’ but he is too polite to say anything.
One of the kids goes ‘Eh? But you’re a substitute—“
Sanada: Don’t say it like that – I’m not any substitute – I’m a super substitute!
Hide’s called away from the scary substitute, running off to join his Tokyo Spirits teammates.
Ayumi: Wow – Hide’s good at running too!
Mitsuhiko and Genta: Running’s our weak point – I guess we’ll never be J-Leaguers.
J-Leaguer Endo: No way – lots of J-Leaguers are bad at running. The important thing is [sport’s talk].
Agasa: Trust a pro …
J-Leaguer Endo: Anything else you’d like to know about?
Conan: Tell me everything about free kicks!
Mouri: Don’t just demand stuff—
Endo: It’s okay, we’ve got time.
The J-Leaguers gather on the pitch in front of the goal, I think Narazaki playing goal-keep. All the kids and parents and coaches are standing in a half circle around them, watching as Endo talks them through the process of taking a free kick. He lines the ball up, shoots, it curves round, going past Narazaki’s outstretched hands, to hit the back of the net, the crowds erupting in a huge cheer. As the camera circles we see the scene has changed – Touto Stadium, Big Osaka versus Tokyo Spirits – and Conan has jumped up onto his seat to cheer.
Conan: Suge—that was just like Endo’s free kick that he showed us! Amazing!
Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Genta, sitting to Conan’s left give him an evil look.
Genta: Oi, Conan. What are you doing?
Haibara (on his right with Agasa) tugs him back on to his seat.
Haibara: Shouldn’t you be rooting for your team? I’m the Big Osaka fan.
Conan: Oh … Right.
Haibara scolds Conan some more, slapping his Tokyo Spirits cap back on his head. Conan smirks, twisting it to the back (Hattori moment), remarking that Haibara doesn’t seem that bothered.
Haibara: I’m not interested in soccer. I only support them because I like the colours.
Conan is frankly sceptical; Haibara gives him an evil look.
And suddenly – explosions! We’re back in present time, at the detective Agency where the mysterious caller has just set off his explosions outside the window. After a moment of shock, Mouri grabs the phone again.
Now that the caller has made his point and Mouri’s listening, he reads out his hints. He’s going to set off more bombs, but the riddle he’s giving is beyond my Japanese ability, and Mouri’s also struggling. “A blue boy? A Zebra? I’m never going to figure this out – give me a hint!”
Amazingly the caller does. “Next stop is Beika. (in English) ‘Next Beika.’”
Mouri: What … ? Another hint … ?
Caller: The game’s started – and you’re going to lose.
The caller hangs up. We seem them in a basement. They’re using a laptop with a voice synthesizing thing to make the call, and they shut the laptop down, leave the room. Two posters fall to the ground behind them – one is a Tokyo Spirit’s poster, the other is for a big concert, the Power of Music.
Megure and the usual police crew are gathered in Mouri’s Office, the hints drawn up on a white board while they try and work them out. The bits I understood were the blue boy, the zebra, and a tree on the left.
Chiba arrives to report that the explosives used were plastic, triggered by the phone. They’ve got 1 hour and give minutes until the next explosions.
Mouri thinks he’s got it – the stop after Beika on the local train line is Haido. And in Haido park, there’s a fountain with a statue of a boy and a horse – seen from above, the boy could look blue! Also, park means there will be a lot of trees. The police agree and they rush to Haido Park, ordering the people gathered there out of the way while they search for explosives.
Unfortunately, it turns out the statue of the boy is with a donkey, not a zebra … and despite Mouri wading into the fountain and the police searching every tree in the park, no explosives are found.
The scene is intercut with shots of the kids enjoying the very exciting soccer game – the score is 2-2 – and shots panning up the huge digital screen with the score and up the open-roofed stadium to the blue sky.
Mouri: “What – no explosives?”
Megure: It looks like we need to start again.”
There’s only 40 minutes left – Ran’s worried, and decides to consult Shinichi.
It’s break time and the kids have left their seats to mill around. Genta and the others are overwhelmed by just how many people are attending the game. Conan realises that Shinichi’s phone is ringing and hastily excuses himself to hide behind a pillar and take the call.
The call has just gone to his answer message, and Ran’s looking pretty anxious and then he interrupts. He takes down the hints into his notebook, frowning. It reminds him of something – but what? What is he thinking of?
Fortunately there’s a tv camera woman near by interviewing a bunch of kids. She’s quizzing them on whether they know their soccer mascots. The three kids have the usual monotone of the actual children in the Conan movies – but they know their mascots! A boy and a zebra!
Conan rushes to railing to look down at the stadium where the half-time show is going on, the two costumed mascots on the field amusing the crowd. The boy is wearing a blue uniform and the zebra is a zebra.
Conan: The bombs are somewhere in this stadium? But that’s too easy …
He turns to work on the next part of the clue. He realises that the hints are actually a play on kanji compounds. If you take a single kanji from certain words in the hint, and pair them with another related kanji, the new kanji form the name of the soccer stadium – Touto.
Agasa, the kids and Haibara are back in the seats, looking forward to the start of the second half, when Conan turns up and demands the car keys.
The kids are dismayed – the second half is about to start! Where are you going … ?
Conan: Just give me them!
Agasa obeys and Conan rushes off.
Conan grabs his skateboard out of the car, skating towards the stadium , much to the bemusement of some curious onlookers, milling about outside. But then Conan kicks the turbo into gear and skates up the curved side of the stadium.
Amazingly, a woman spots him and is all – ‘what the – there’s a kid skating up the stadium!’ Finally, a concerned citizen! But she’s too late to stop Conan getting all the way to the top. The stadium’s open roofed, but there are arches crossing around it. Conan’s got to jump over the bits that join them. He loses his cap, and has a few close shaves – he doesn’t quite make a jump and ends up hanging on to the roof with one arm.
Meanwhile, a Spirit’s player is yellow carded and there’s a lot of argument on the pitch. Haibara yawns, happening to glance up – and notice that there are sparks coming off the overhead arches. Conan’s managed to pull himself back up and is skateboarding again. Haibara stands up.
Mistuhiko notices that something is off. Haibara san … ?
She runs off without answering him.
Meanwhile, Conan is scanning the stadium from above, using his glasses to check for bombs and not seeing anything. He decides he has to go to the opposite side of the stadium and try there, but he doesn’t make a jump. His skateboard hits one of the connect-y things and both Conan and board go sliding across the roof. The skateboard falls off the roof. Conan slides limply, coming to rest just at the edge, one arm dangling over the edge.
Someone involved in the soccer game scores a goal, Haibara has ducked into the Ladies’ to call Conan. The buzzing of his phone wakes him up from his fall, and he’s able to pull himself to safety. “Nice timing.”
Haibara is not impressed – and she’s even less impressed when she hears what he’s doing. Conan gives her the barest facts, urging her not to alarm anyone but to follow his instructions. And then he hangs up. Haibara’s exceedingly unimpressed.
Some part of their conversation, however, has led Conan to the realisation that the culprit is someone there in the stadium at that moment. He calls Megure as Shinichi to let him know that the place is Touto Stadium, and the police go rushing off to try and get there.
Conan figures out that the hint ‘Next stop Beika. Next Beika.’ Is a reference not to the train line, but to the electronic screen that announces and updates the stations – these are a staple of trains in Tokyo, and a bigger one of those is placed in the stadium itself – and that’s where the bombs are. Having found them, Conan realises that there’s so many of them that there is no way to defuse them all in 30 minutes – but using his suspender thing that Agasa invented for him, he’s able to lower himself from the ceiling and start defusing the ones that he can.
Haibara rejoins the group and Agasa’s all ‘something happened right.’
Haibara: Right.
She tells Agasa secretly and he’s also not thrilled about hearing that they are to stay put.
I think Hide did something, but I honestly can’t read this writing. Oh well!
Getting increasingly concerned about Conan’s absence, the kids decide that they’ll go looking for him. Haibara orders them to stay put – which they do.
Meanwhile, the police have got in touch with the stadium crew, and they’re not telling people why, but first the players are told to call off the game, then they start systematically moving the audience seated in that one area of the stadium to leave their seats and evacuate onto the field – there’s not enough time to evacuate the stadium and a stampede would be deadly is the reasoning, I think.
The purple shirt guy from the newspaper, Yamamori, is looking very triumphant about something. Meanwhile the photographer is on the field, taking shots of the crowd. Someone asks her what’s going on and she replies, “I don’t know, but I’m going to photograph it!’ She’s told to move away and the field staff ask the media representatives to join the players and audience in the middle of the field.
Conan’s still trying to defuse as many bombs as he can, but it is just not going to work, so as they get down to the last twenty seconds, he loops his suspender belt around the column supporting the stadium roof and the giant screen.
And suddenly the explosions start! It’s not one big one but a couple of smaller delayed ones moving up the screen – there’s smoke, fire, screams and panic and the people on the field run away from it. The photographer is still taking photos of the chaos as the screen suddenly starts to lurch. Conan’s yelling at the people on the field to run, but no one seems to grasp that the screen is going to fall on them – until it lurches, sliding towards the field. People start to run, a small girl falling and scooped up by the guy in charge of the stadium who yells at people not to panic and to say where they are.
The police arrive, just in time to see the smoke go up from the stadium, know that they’re too late.
The suspender seems to hold – but fire has broken out behind the screen and the flames have reached the suspender which gives way, I think – more of the ceiling falls. The screen slides all the way onto the field but miraculously no one is hurt. The girl’s mother comes forward to claim her from the manager and everyone is trying to work out what just happened – the newspeople pair are pretty pleased --- they’ve got the top news story, and they know it.
Behind the screen, the smoke clears and we see a huge pile of rubble, Conan’s glasses resting amongst them – broken. I can’t remember if he gets hurt this time or not – I think he was clutching his arm, but that also happens later, so apologies if I’ve got that wrong.
Another big jump! This time it’s to the TV news where we see that the stadium explosions are the main story. We then cut back to the people watching the news story – the location is Mouri’s office, and Megure and his team are there for the debriefing.
Credit for solving the riddle and averting major disaster has been given to Mouri, at Shinichi’s request, and the police get down to the serious consideration of what to do next.
Ran invites Megure and everyone to take a seat while she makes tea, to which Conan cheerfully replies ‘Hai!’ and sits down, inviting himself into the debrifing. Mouri’s less than happy about this but they get underway before he can evict Conan.
Conan’s scolded for his involvement, which he explains by saying that he heard from Shinichi-niichan and noticed something strange. Anyway, Conan points out that the awful pun in the answer to Agasa’s quiz is repeated in the caller’s note – handling’s hand. This proves that the culprit is someone who was near enough to hear that conversation take place. Obviously Yamamori and Kouda are prime suspects, benefiting hugely from the explosions by being in place to photograph and report on them. Kouda’s photo was picked by many newspapers and it seems that Yamamori’s been given some prestigious advancement or something.
However, the fact that the caller phoned Mouri suggests that it could be someone with a personal grudge against him, which leads them to consider Sasaki and Motoura. Sasaki’s grudge could be Mouri’s recollection of the embarrassing end goal, and everyone agrees that Motoura’s behaviour was weird.
Conan pipes up that there is one more suspect – Nakaoka, who although he didn’t speak to them was close enough to have heard the conversation. Takagi is also a big fan. He enthusiastically tells the rest of the room about Nakaoka’s most famous moment – he took part in an open-air match (possibly at Touto stadium) and they were playing in heavy snow. However, despite the difficulty of the conditions, Nakaoka didn’t give up and succeeded in scoring the goal that won the match in the final minute of the game. It was an impressive achievement.
Shiratori joins the group. While investigating the backgrounds of the five suspects he’s turned up interesting information about Motoura. It seems that his son died after collapsing at Touto stadium. An ambulance was called but it arrived late, and the boy wasn’t able to be saved.
Mouri and Conan react to this visibly.
Mouri: An ambulance?
Megure: What is it? Does that mean anything?
Mouri: … whatever’s it is, it’s gone … must be my imagination.
But Conan’s got the same feeling that there’s something more to that.
Anyway, going by people’s alibis during the game, Nakaoka is decided as the most likely suspect. He wasn’t at the game, but claimed to be visiting his home in Gunma but the police can’t confirm this. Because he’s from Gunma a call is made to Yamamura-keibu for any information about him.
Yamamura describes him as having a reputation for being arrogant and brash and rough, definitely not good with kids. On this basis, the police decide to bring Nakaoka in for questioning.
He’s spotted driving his bike on the motorway and ignoring the police cars trying to flag him down (it wasn’t Hattori in the trailer it was this dude). A police barricade is set up and he is forced to stop. Angrily taking off his helmet and getting off his bike, he confronts Sato and Takagi as to why they’re chasing him. He insults them when he learns they want to question him, and decides to punch Takagi. Sato objects to this and Nakaoka promptly finds himself thrown, in a choke-hold and being taken into custody.
Back at the detective agency, Conan’s really surprised to learn that Nakaoka’s in custody – the evidence doesn’t justify it, but it’s because of his behaviour. Questioning doesn’t go as expected either – although the police suspected that his motivation might be a grudge against his former team, Nakaoka just laughs when it is presented to him during questioning.
Nakaoka: All this for something that silly … ? Don’t make me laugh.
Takagi: Don’t start with us—
Sato hushes Takagi with a gesture.
Sato: Explain yourself. What do you mean?
Turns out that rather than holding a grudge against the Spirits, Nakaoka’s grateful to them – the team funded his hospital treatment and rehabilitation after the accident. However, it’s not widely publicized because of his pride – having been a J-Leaguer he doesn’t want to admit that he needs help. In fact, he was visiting some children in Gunma, has a couple of photos that prove he spends time coaching kids. In short he’s totally different from the image Yamamura presented and the police are surprised to realise that he’s actually a seemingly nice guy!
-- which means that they are back to square one and the previous four suspects.
While the team discuss the possibilities, Conan remembers that he saw an open page of the photographer’s notebook when they talked at the soccer classroom. She had the date of the Tokyo Spirits game written down as well as some initials – K.K and Haido Park. He decides to investigate.
Early morning the next day he goes to Haido park, trying to figure out what the initials could mean. It doesn’t take him long to realise – there’s a J-Leaguer jogging around the park periphery. Conan recognises him as Konno Yasauyuki – or as he’s better known, King Konno. Deciding that Kaoda might have realised that he likes to train in the park, Conan approaches Konno to ask if he knows the photographer. He confirms Conan’s suspicions and recognising him from the soccer classroom, asks if Conan would like to train with him.
Conan: YES PLEASE!
He promptly plays soccer with Konno, practicing passes, shooting and generally having a great time (and not showing off too much). Practice finished, Conan decides that the notebook page he saw is probably nothing to do with the bombing case. A guy walking his dog comes by and Conan stops to pat the dog. Konno reappears to thank Conan (dogwalker getting totally starstruck) and remarks that the practice reminded him of something he heard from Nakaoka – apparently he met a small boy who really liked soccer in a park once and began training with him. He gave the boy his red wristband as a thank you, and the boy wore it every match he played in. Conan’s impressed and wants to know where the boy is now, but Konno doesn’t know. He gives Conan his sweaty white wristband as a thank you (dogwalker very jealous) and Conan and Konno say goodbye – but not before Conan’s hair gets ruffled again.
While this is happening, a van pulls outside the Agency and a special delivery envelope is placed in the mail box.
We also see Yamamori at the News Agency building, being very self-satisfied. Kouda runs into him. She apologizes and they have a bit of banter, before Kouda explains she’s in a hurry and rushes off – but she’s dropped her notebook. Realising this, Yamamori picks it up. It falls open at the page Conan saw, but some of the initials have been crossed out.
Yamamori smirks.
Ran comes down in her short-sleeved t-shirt complaining about how cold it is (it’s December) and notices the envelope. As she pulls it out of the slot (it was too big to go through into the actual mail box) she hears a noise and opening the mail box discovers the second letter.
The police again gather at the Agency. They can confirm that letter and the call were made by the same person because the sign off phrase used by the caller appears in the letter.
The letter states that this time, the bomber is aiming at more than how many people were at the Touto stadium. The capacity of Touto stadium is 80 000, so they’re trying to think of a place that could hold that many people when Chiba spots the poster for the Power of Music concert and realises that it’s bigger than the Touto Stadium game. It’s happening December 13th at the Shiodome. (or something).
Mouri: Eh! Yoko-chan’s playing there!
Chiba: That’s right – Yoko-chan – ah, I mean, Ookino Yoko-san is playing a major role in the concert.
Since Yoko’s name came up in the soccer classroom conversation, the suspects know of the connection between Yoko and Mouri. However, it seems that Yamamori has been promoted to producing the concert (despite Mouri not helping him – a grudge there?) – and it also comes out that Kouda has a grudge against Yoko. She thought she had an amazing scoop on her but whatever the story was, Yoko shot it down, and Kouda is known to still be resentful of that.
Conan remembers seeing the initials ‘O.Y’ and the date 12/13 in the notebook and Mouri scolds him for keeping such important information to himself.
Anyway, using the time that the message was delivered (Ran knows it wasn’t there last night), to try and work out an alibi for the suspects, it turns out that only Nakaoka is clear – because he was still in custody at that point. The other four are still all equally suspicious.
Megure asks to look at the special delivery envelope. It turns out to contain some spirits memorabilia and tickets to the game. Picking it up, Megure notices that the envelope seems sticky, but amazingly no one picks up on this.
Agasa, Haibara and the kids are at a movie theatre, watching a live broadcast of the Spirts/Osaka game – I’m guessing that because the first game ended short because of the explosions, this is a replay, broadcast to multiple locations to make up for the fact that Touto Stadium is out of commission. (this is also the point where my pen ran out of ink, so we’re going on memory alone – sorry!)
Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko are sitting in the row ahead of Haibara and Agasa. They’re clearly enjoying the game, remarking that it’s just like being there! Genta’s got some snacks and Agasa’s watching wistfully, remarking that he’d like to have some too.
Haibara’s in a good mood – Big Osaka have just scored. “I guess a little snack’s okay,” she decides. Agasa is elated, but before he can make good on this, Haibara’s phone rings – Conan. She answers it with a “What?”
Conan wants to check that nothing suspicious has happened and that the kids are okay. Saying ‘see for yourself,’ she holds up the phone so that Conan can hear their conversation. The conversation ends – and Haibara’s favourite big Osaka player has been sent off with an injury.
“On second thought – no snacks for you, Agasa.”
Asuka from Poirot interrupts the police meeting. She’s had a phonecall from the guy with the disguised voice. He told her to go to a public phone where a file of his demands was left. The demands are typed on A4 paper with a staple in the front middle and an instruction written in red paint at the top of the page.
We get another shot of the basement the criminal is using as his base. We’ve been cutting back to him intermittently. He’s been busy making more bombs and being creepy. Last we saw, the bombs were packed into harmless looking sports bags. Now they’re all gone – but one.
Closing the laptop down, the criminals picks up the last bag, pausing a moment to look at the picture of Motoura’s son playing soccer.
The letter’s demands are really confusing – he will set the bombs off if the game is stopped in anyway. He wants all the strikers to wear red wristbands and he refers to the 11th striker. But even if all his demands are met, if something isn’t done by the last minute of the game, the bombs will go off and everyone will die.
Conan wonders aloud why on earth there would be red paint on the staple – the document was printed out with the white space at the top for the message, then stapled, then written.
Sato has also noticed this and she’s certain it’s a clue. Conan announces that it’s really easy to solve if you look at it from above! The character that intersects with the staple is a す and Sato realises that circle part of the character refers to the circle at the centre of the soccer pitch while the line is one of the boundaries and the staple is the goal. Realising that this means that there is a sensor placed at the centre crossbar, the police inform the soccer teams to keep playing but to tell their strikers not to score any goals, but to aim for the sensor on the crossbar.
We see a guard walking down a utility corridor in a soccer related building. The criminal, bag with a bomb inside over his shoulder sneaks up behind him and knocks him out. At the same location, the big Osaka coach is talking to the Super Sub. Because their ace striker, Higo, is injured, Coach is asking Sanada to take his place – but because of the situation, he tells Sanada that it’s okay if he thinks he can’t do it – the team won’t judge him. Sanada has a cocky smart arse reply – he’s not going to turn down the challenge. But he complains about having to wear the red wristband which he feels is unfashionable. The Coach tells him to shut up and do it.
Shiratori phones in to say that he’s got evidence connecting the case to Motoura, and Megure and Mouri rush to a waiting police car to join him at Motoura’s house. Mouri is not impressed to find that Conan is already in the police car and buckled into his seat but again, there isn’t the time to throw him out.
At Motoura’s house, Shiratori reveals that the ambulance that came to take Motoura’s son to hospital was delayed by Mouri and a crowd of football supporters. Mouri’s shocked – but because he was drunk, he only remembered the incident now.
Motoura explains that the 2 minutes that the ambulance of delayed might or might not have been enough to save his son, but he can’t forget it.
Shiratori: What team supporters were they?
Motoura: I don’t know – it was a mixed group.
Shiratori: And that’s why you’re targeting supporters in general and not just one team?
Motoura: What?
Mouri: Please listen to us – I apologise for delaying the ambulance but it was my mistake! Don’t involve unrelated people!
Motoura protests that he has no idea what they’re talking about. As the police continue to interview him, Conan’s attention goes to a photo of the son at his soccer game. The son is wearing a red wristband. He’s not looking at the camera but is waving to someone on the sidelines. Conan spots the video camera that he suspects was used to take the photos of the son’s game and asks if he can look at it. He’s got a sudden suspicion – and if he’s right ‘that person’ will be on the film.
Meanwhile, Ran and Sonoko are at the live game, enjoying the second half. They arrived late, but Sonoko’s making up for lost time by getting really into the raoucous cheering. The players are holding up well under pressure, the strikers doing a so-far brilliant job of only hitting the cross bar. The J-Leaguers are particularly awesome and there are lots of cameos just in case we weren’t sure how awesome they were. However, the crowd, unaware that their lives depend on the player’s ability to not score goals are getting frustrated by the fact that no one is scoring! Sanada in particularly is getting booed – especially by Sonoko. Ran’s pretty embarrassed – but some ominous music and the way the shot is suggests that Sonoko and Ran are sitting on the bombs placed at that particular stadium (the bombs are at this stadium and presumably all the places where they game is being broadcast live – we saw one of the sports bags behind the screen at the theatre that Agasa and the kids were watching the game).
Motoura isn’t crumbling under the police questioning, so Shiratori reveals his next trump. Mouri and the soccer supporters weren’t being rowdy. An elderly man had collapsed, and Mouri was providing him with first aid. They’d also called an ambulance and when they saw Motoura’s son’s ambulance coming down the street towards them, assumed it was the one for them. When the ambulance turned in a different direction, Mouri assumed it was lost and told the crowd to redirect it to the collapsed old man.
Motoura is shocked – he had no idea.
Mouri urges him to put his grudge aside and call off the bombing, but Motoura continues to insist that he is unrelated to the case.
The police and Mouri withdraw to have a team talk. This isn’t going as planned – could Motoura genuinely be innocent?
Conan announces that he thinks Motoura is telling the truth – because he’s not been glancing at his watch throughout the interview. The real villain would be really concerned with the time since the letter specified that the bombs were going to go off at the last minute of the game.
Agreeing that this seems strange, Megure asks Motoura to turn on his TV so that they can watch the game. So far the strikers have avoided actually scoring, but Sakada gets too carried away – and the goal goes in. The crowd goes wild celebrating – and Conan and the police express shock. The bombs were supposed to go off – so why haven’t they? Conan suddenly realises – this was simply a distraction. He rushes out of the house, making his way towards the abandoned Touto stadium. Running over the distinctive bridge that leads to the stadium, he’s delighted when Agasa pulls up in the Beatle. Conan’s delighted, jumping into the car – but it appears that this isn’t simply coincidence. Reasoning that if something was going on, Conan would be at the heart of it, the kids decided that they should find him – and Haibara used the tracking glasses to stalk him. Conan’s uncertain about all this, but they don’t have time to waste – it’s not long until the end of the game!
Pulling up in the empty parking lot to the stadium, Conan tells Agasa and the kids to stay in the car and watch for anyone suspicious – he’s going to look for bombs! The shounen tantei agree!
The criminal is waiting on the pitch, the fire damage of the stadium still visible. The sports bag is with him, but he’s plainly not expecting to see Conan.
Conan: You’re expecting Mouri, right? Sorry – it’s just me.
Conan outlines the evidence so far.
He suspects that the criminal’s connection to Motoura’s son began at Haido Park. The criminal would have been in high school then, practicing before school when the kid ran up to him and asked if he could play too. Coaching the son in the basics of soccer enabled the criminal to progress in his own soccer career, and it was at this point that he gave him the red wristband.
Hearing about the kids death and the involvement of Mouri and the supporters the criminal targeted Touto stadium because that’s where the accident took place and he intends to destroy it. The eleventh striker referred to in the message is actually the 11th stadium – Touto.
However, the stickyness on the envelope indicates that there was a clever trick involved. The criminals message was stuck to the back of the mailbox, out of anyone opening it’s line of sight. However, the too large envelope was designed to reach the back of the mailbox and dislodge the message, meaning that the criminal is the only person with a perfect alibi for that time – former J-League player Nakaoka, the fact that the bombs go off in the final minute of the game a shout out to his own accomplishment.
Nakaoka’s non-plussed at being called out, and demands who Conan is. Conan does his usual introduction – Edogawa Conan. Tantei sa.
Meanwhile the kids are beginning to suspect they’ve been had. Genta complains that no one suspicious has come by. Mitsuhiko think that they should be helping Conan look for bombs and Ayumi agrees.
Haibara tells them all bluntly that they’re staying put – only to hear the door slam, as the kids take off. Agasa and Haibara scramble after them, but they’re too late, the kids are gone. Haibara yells to Agasa to wait by the car on stand-by and goes after the kids.
Meanwhile, Nakaoka lets Conan know that his reasoning is wrong on one point – he doesn’t just want to destroy Touto, but everyone watching the game. To underscore how serious he is, part of the stadium explodes at that point. Conan has to dodge debris.
Nakaoka starts to talk about Motoura’s son, and what the kid meant to him. Turns out that the kid’s love of soccer impressed him so much that watching him play and score in the soccer game made Nakaoka determined to make a fresh start, and resume his football career, despite the difficulties. However, walking back to his apartment with two cans of juice, clearly having intended to hang out with the son, Nakaoka was informed of his death.
Conan tells him what he learnt from Shiratori, of the fact that there was another injured person at the game and the ambulance confusion but Nakaoka accuses him of lying and refuses to listen. He claims that because the kid loved soccer more than anything else, he can’t forgive Mouri for his death.
That’s why the only way to defuse the bombs and stop everything is for someone to kick a ball and hit the sensor on the crossbar of the Touto stadium goal. Nakaoka’s confident this isn’t going to happen – there are no striker’s here – it’s a challenge that Mouri was meant to fail.
More debris fall. Conan’s hit. His arm is injured – blood runs down his face (like the promotional image) and his arm, turning the white wristband he’s wearing red. Conan yells at Nakaoka, who doesn’t see him – but the son. He urges the dead kid to flee the stadium, insisting that there’s no other way to escape the bombs.
Conan yells that he’s wrong – it wasn’t soccer that the kid loved, but Nakaoka himself. All he did, playing soccer and practicing with him was because he liked spending time with Nakaoka – so Conan’s going to stop this.
Popping the soccer ball from his belt, Conan takes off down the field. He’s got the goal in his sights, lines it all up perfectly and kicks the ball exactly right. It’s heading straight for the sensor. Conan cheers, but just before the ball can hit, part of the ceiling gives way, taking the ball out.
Conan’s expression of ‘what the fuck’ is worth the movie fee alone.
A major part of the ceiling gives way, and Conan and Nakaoka barely manage to escape getting taken out. Nakaoka’s pretty spooked – he’s just realised that hanging out in an exploding stadium’s not the best idea. Meanwhile Conan’s drawn himself up only to realise that there are major amounts of debris between them and the goal. There’s no way to reach it and they don’t even have a soccer ball.
Ayumi picks them to pipe up – she and the other shounen tantei are there to help. The kids split up to search the stadium, Conan less than thrilled to see them. He yells them to run – without a soccer ball there’s nothing we can do.
Genta: Oh, did you want a soccer ball?
Genta’s been toting around Mitsuhiko’s precious soccer ball that Hide signed since they left the Beatle. He asks Mitsuhiko if it’s okay to use it, Mitsuhiko agrees and Genta passes it to him. Mitsuhiko is halfway down the seating and he yells out to Ayumi to get ready – she’s at the bottom of the seating part of the stand. Ayumi’s nervous about whether or not she can do this, but Mitsuhiko and Genta reassure her, telling her to remember what they learned at the soccer classroom.
Conan’s really touched and impressed by the kids, and Ayumi does her best. She gets the ball okay, but when she passes it to Conan, it rebounds off some of the wreckage and rebounds. There is expression’s of horror all around – until the ball rolls to a halt beside Haibara.
Haibara: I have to do everything, don’t I.
The Shounen Tantei cheer her on as she passes the ball over the wreckage to Conan. Conan’s got a very feral grin as he lines it up. It’s just like the free kick scenario that J-Leaguer Endo talked them through. We’re also shown the back of Conan’s sweatshirt that he’s been wearing all movie and for the first time we see that it has the word ‘striker’ written across it. Rehearsing Endo’s instructions, Conan goes through the free kick perfectly – the ball has enough spin to clear the wreckage and enter the goal. There’s a moment where no one is sure whether or not it’s stopped the bomb – but the clock face on the bomb timber has stopped with 0.15/6 seconds to spare.
Nakaoka congratulates Conan telling him that he was wrong – Conan is the eleventh striker. The police surround the Touto stadium and the theme song begins.
Sonoko and Ran are at the park watching the Shounen Tantei who are playing soccer in their soccer classroom uniforms.
Sonoko: Geez … even after nearly getting blown up at Touto stadium, these kids are still playing soccer? … come to think of it, Ran, you never told me what happened when you and Shinichi played soccer together.
Ran: … well …
Genta gets the ball, excitedly yelling that he’s going to shoot! Unfortunately he slips and trips and the ball goes wide, heading straight for Ran. Conan yells out to warn her, running towards her, but Ran glances up, reacting instinctively by falling into a karate stance and kicking the ball away.
Ran is wearing a short skirt.
She’s just flashed Conan, who has the best delayed reaction. He’s come to a halt, and blinks. “White.” And then a second later his brain kicks in and he gasps and goes pink.
Ayumi’s outraged. “Conan, how could you?”
Genta: What? What’s white?
Mitsuhiko: Conan, I would never have believed this of you.
Conan tries to defend himself. “You guys! You know that wasn’t on purpose—“
Ran clears her throat. She is standing over Conan and looking ready to kill.
Conan: (meekly) I’m very sorry Ran-neechan.
(and in his thoughts) – and that’s why soccer is [mystery word!]
It’s clearly a pun to end the movie – and it sounded like hebi, which I think is heavy and not ‘snake’ – but yeah, that was the humorous moment on which the movie ended!
The Eleventh Striker.
**Usual disclaimer: Movie was very fast; note-taking was sow, theatre was dark – forget the difficult Japanese, the hard part is going to be deciphering my handwriting. Halfway through my pen ran out of ink, so things are going to be even scattier after that. This is going to be a fast and dirty translation of what people said – my Japanese only intermediate level etc.**
Official site (with pictures of the suspects) here.
Tokyo, Mouri Detective Agency.
The phone’s ringing. Ran calls out to Mouri to answer it, coming into the office to scold him. Complaining, Mouri picks up the phone. The voice on the other hand is heavily disguised via an electronic voice synthesizer.
Mouri: Who are you?
Not surprisingly, the caller doesn’t tell him. Instead they inform him that there’s going to be an explosion. Mouri’s not impressed, tells the caller not to joke – he’s going to inform the police. Laughing, the caller instructs Mouri to look out the window.
Mouri: Out the window?
Putting the phone aside, Mouri opens the Agency window and looks out, Ran joining him looking out the window. Suddenly the black car parked outside Poirot. Mouri shields Ran from the effects of the explosion. They’re both shocked but unhurt, watching as the street below explodes into chaos.
Theme song time! The usual CGI. The usual introduction from Kudo Shinichi. It’s quite cute – Conan’s seen using the bowtie and watch-dartgun before they appear to be introduced so he’s all ‘You don’t need me to tell you what these do.’
Then when it comes to the shounen tantei they’re all lined up beside Agasa’s beatle, wearing their soccer classroom uniforms. “Hakase’s late.” “Did he forget his licence again?’
Conan smirks at how seriously the kids are taking this.. “It’s like they think we’re in the J-League.”
Mitsuhiko: What are you doing talking to yourself?
Conan apologises, and as Agasa’s shown up with his licence they head for the car. Haibara stops Conan.
Haibara: You forgot it.
Conan: What?
Haibara: The thing you always say.
Conan: Oh, right. Shinjitsu itsumo hitotsu! Etc.
The soccer classroom seems to be a workshop for elementary school kids, giving them the chance to practice with, learn from and be encouraged by J-League stars – actually modelled on and voiced by real J-Leaguers. (They are so monotone it is hilarious). The kids are pretty starstruck, getting super excited by all of the J-League stars.
Hide is feeling a bit neglected, but once he suggests they start practicing, the kids give him full attention. Ayumi, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Haibara form a square and Conan joins Ran, Sonoko, Mouri and Agasa on the sidelines.
Ran: Eh? Is something wrong, Conan?
Conan: No, we’re going to start with just four. My turn’s next!
--which means he is just in time to get the full benefit of the line up of the suspects who have noticed Mouri and come over to introduce themselves.
#1 – A pushy guy in a purple shirt. Yamamori. He’s a press guy, representing Nishiuri Newspaper. He’s really keen to get his picture taken with Mouri.
#2 – Yamamori’s colleague obliges taking his photo with Mouri. She’s Kouda Kaoru, a photographer for Nishiuri Newspaper.
They soon start bickering – turns out Yamamori isn’t happy with his current job, asks Mouri for some advice. What he really wants is to be covering variety events or something – and he remembers that Mouri knows Okino Yoko and can put in a good word for him. Mouri’s awkward – and at the mention of Yoko, Kouda’s face goes cold and she glares.
Sonoko suddenly defuses the situation. “Hey – those kids are pretty good.”
Everyone turns to watch the Shounen Tantei who are practicing hard. Genta passes to Mitsuhiko who passes to Ayumi, who very intensely passes to Ai – who casually knocks the ball towards Hide while yawning and being intensely bored.
Ran: That’s right – they’ve been interested in soccer a lot lately. Me too – I’ve been watching it on TV with Conan-kun.
Sonoko: Hey, didn’t I hear something about you playing soccer with Shinichi in Junior High?
Conan and Ran both look totally awkward and uncomfortable – both having the same image of Shinichi looking terrified.
Conan notices a player sitting on the bench, recognising him as Suspect #3 – Nakaoka. Once an Ace Striker for the Spirits, he hasn’t played professionally since a bike accident left his leg badly injured. He’s looking moody and grumpy, sitting not far from Mouri’s group.
The Shounen Tantei are done, and run over, Conan taking their place on the pitch with Hide. As soon as he gets the ball, he starts doing his usually bouncy thing with it – totally showing off.
Meanwhile, Suspect #4 spots them and comes over to say hi. He remembers Mouri from his University Days, and tries to introduce himself as Sasaki, but Mouri interrupts. “Ah – you’re the own goal guy!”
He immediately relates to everyone the really intense University soccer match that he watched in which the deciding goal was scored – by Sasaki, whose disastrous own goal lost the University team the match.
Sasaki’s rueful. “Man, that was ten years ago … and I still can’t escape it.”
Ran scolds Mouri for bringing it up AGAIN and Mouri apologises and asks what Sasaki’s doing now. Turns out he’s a team coach for the soccer classroom, and he has a friend who is a huge fan of Mouri’s – asking permission to introduce them, he runs off to find his friend.
Conan is still going. By now everyone else on the pitch, all the kids and J-Leagues are just staring at them. Hide’s got the most unimpressed face ever as Conan finally gives up the ball and passes it to him.
Hide: That’s enough for now!
Conan joins the other’s on the sidelines. Some Big Osaka players come over, including Sogo (the Big Osaka version of Hide) for a bit of banter. One of the J-Leagues comes over to Conan.
J-Leaguer (sorry, but at this point I wasn’t sure who they were): Kudo Shinichi.
Conan & Ran: Eh?
Ran: You know about Shinichi?
J-Leaguer: Yeah. I watched a couple of Kudo’s high-school matches. This kid’s got his form.
Conan: That’s because Shinichi-niichan taught me!
J-Leaguer leans in to ruffle Conan’s hair. “Keep it up, Kid.”
Conan is beaming. The Shounen Tantei are pretty jealous – ‘Conan’s so lucky!’ ‘Ah, I’m jealous!’
Haibara’s clearly getting concerned about Conan’s cover, and very viciously ruffles his hair. She says something to him – sadly, no idea what! But it’s clearly an instruction to keep his head down. Unfortunately, Haibara’s given the Detective Boy’s a great idea, and all three of them decide to attack Conan’s hair. He goes down in a sea of hair ruffling as Sasaki returns with Suspect #5.
Motoura wastes no time. As soon as he’s introduced to Mouri he says he wants to show him a photo. It’s of a young boy playing soccer – Motoura’s son, 10 years old and in fourth grade. There’s a lot of photos of him playing in a soccer match – all the kids crowd round, and even Conan, trying to fix his hair, is told to come over and see. Sonoko observes that the boy is good at soccer, as it seems he scored a goal.
Motoura explains that his son died suddenly of illness a few months ago – he had a weak body and wasn’t really strong enough for soccer but he loved it so much he played any.
Mouri’s a little surprised and after expressing sympathy, wonders why Motoura wanted him specifically to see the photos. Motoura says that he wanted Mouri to see the spirit with which his son played.
It’s a kind of awkard moment and Sasaki and Motoura are leaving. Genta remarks that things feel weird.
Agasa: Speaking of weird—
Shounen Tantei: Seriously? You’re going to give us a quiz?
Agasa: Of course!
I didn’t catch the question, but it was soccer related. The four options are:
1. Offside.
2. Hand ball.
3. Corner Kick.
4. Yellow Card.
Conan’s smirking away and Ayumi’s all ‘Eh? You figured it out already, Conan-kun?’
Conan: Right. The answer is—
J-Leaguer Endo: 2! Handball because of handling! (or something – Japanese puns are beyond me).
Agasa: Right!
Sonoko: Wow – you’re good at soccer, and you’re smart too!
Just then, the Big Osaka substitute striker shows up – Sanada, He’s brash, confident and clearly not bothered about being late. He gives a token apology, explaining that he doesn’t want to be there because he’s bad with kid.
Sanada (yelling at Genta): Isn’t that right, brat?
Genta: Eh – this guy’s scary.
Sanada spots Hide and announces that he is going to be Hide’s rival from now on. Hide’s expression is blatantly ‘what the fuck’ but he is too polite to say anything.
One of the kids goes ‘Eh? But you’re a substitute—“
Sanada: Don’t say it like that – I’m not any substitute – I’m a super substitute!
Hide’s called away from the scary substitute, running off to join his Tokyo Spirits teammates.
Ayumi: Wow – Hide’s good at running too!
Mitsuhiko and Genta: Running’s our weak point – I guess we’ll never be J-Leaguers.
J-Leaguer Endo: No way – lots of J-Leaguers are bad at running. The important thing is [sport’s talk].
Agasa: Trust a pro …
J-Leaguer Endo: Anything else you’d like to know about?
Conan: Tell me everything about free kicks!
Mouri: Don’t just demand stuff—
Endo: It’s okay, we’ve got time.
The J-Leaguers gather on the pitch in front of the goal, I think Narazaki playing goal-keep. All the kids and parents and coaches are standing in a half circle around them, watching as Endo talks them through the process of taking a free kick. He lines the ball up, shoots, it curves round, going past Narazaki’s outstretched hands, to hit the back of the net, the crowds erupting in a huge cheer. As the camera circles we see the scene has changed – Touto Stadium, Big Osaka versus Tokyo Spirits – and Conan has jumped up onto his seat to cheer.
Conan: Suge—that was just like Endo’s free kick that he showed us! Amazing!
Mitsuhiko, Ayumi and Genta, sitting to Conan’s left give him an evil look.
Genta: Oi, Conan. What are you doing?
Haibara (on his right with Agasa) tugs him back on to his seat.
Haibara: Shouldn’t you be rooting for your team? I’m the Big Osaka fan.
Conan: Oh … Right.
Haibara scolds Conan some more, slapping his Tokyo Spirits cap back on his head. Conan smirks, twisting it to the back (Hattori moment), remarking that Haibara doesn’t seem that bothered.
Haibara: I’m not interested in soccer. I only support them because I like the colours.
Conan is frankly sceptical; Haibara gives him an evil look.
And suddenly – explosions! We’re back in present time, at the detective Agency where the mysterious caller has just set off his explosions outside the window. After a moment of shock, Mouri grabs the phone again.
Now that the caller has made his point and Mouri’s listening, he reads out his hints. He’s going to set off more bombs, but the riddle he’s giving is beyond my Japanese ability, and Mouri’s also struggling. “A blue boy? A Zebra? I’m never going to figure this out – give me a hint!”
Amazingly the caller does. “Next stop is Beika. (in English) ‘Next Beika.’”
Mouri: What … ? Another hint … ?
Caller: The game’s started – and you’re going to lose.
The caller hangs up. We seem them in a basement. They’re using a laptop with a voice synthesizing thing to make the call, and they shut the laptop down, leave the room. Two posters fall to the ground behind them – one is a Tokyo Spirit’s poster, the other is for a big concert, the Power of Music.
Megure and the usual police crew are gathered in Mouri’s Office, the hints drawn up on a white board while they try and work them out. The bits I understood were the blue boy, the zebra, and a tree on the left.
Chiba arrives to report that the explosives used were plastic, triggered by the phone. They’ve got 1 hour and give minutes until the next explosions.
Mouri thinks he’s got it – the stop after Beika on the local train line is Haido. And in Haido park, there’s a fountain with a statue of a boy and a horse – seen from above, the boy could look blue! Also, park means there will be a lot of trees. The police agree and they rush to Haido Park, ordering the people gathered there out of the way while they search for explosives.
Unfortunately, it turns out the statue of the boy is with a donkey, not a zebra … and despite Mouri wading into the fountain and the police searching every tree in the park, no explosives are found.
The scene is intercut with shots of the kids enjoying the very exciting soccer game – the score is 2-2 – and shots panning up the huge digital screen with the score and up the open-roofed stadium to the blue sky.
Mouri: “What – no explosives?”
Megure: It looks like we need to start again.”
There’s only 40 minutes left – Ran’s worried, and decides to consult Shinichi.
It’s break time and the kids have left their seats to mill around. Genta and the others are overwhelmed by just how many people are attending the game. Conan realises that Shinichi’s phone is ringing and hastily excuses himself to hide behind a pillar and take the call.
The call has just gone to his answer message, and Ran’s looking pretty anxious and then he interrupts. He takes down the hints into his notebook, frowning. It reminds him of something – but what? What is he thinking of?
Fortunately there’s a tv camera woman near by interviewing a bunch of kids. She’s quizzing them on whether they know their soccer mascots. The three kids have the usual monotone of the actual children in the Conan movies – but they know their mascots! A boy and a zebra!
Conan rushes to railing to look down at the stadium where the half-time show is going on, the two costumed mascots on the field amusing the crowd. The boy is wearing a blue uniform and the zebra is a zebra.
Conan: The bombs are somewhere in this stadium? But that’s too easy …
He turns to work on the next part of the clue. He realises that the hints are actually a play on kanji compounds. If you take a single kanji from certain words in the hint, and pair them with another related kanji, the new kanji form the name of the soccer stadium – Touto.
Agasa, the kids and Haibara are back in the seats, looking forward to the start of the second half, when Conan turns up and demands the car keys.
The kids are dismayed – the second half is about to start! Where are you going … ?
Conan: Just give me them!
Agasa obeys and Conan rushes off.
Conan grabs his skateboard out of the car, skating towards the stadium , much to the bemusement of some curious onlookers, milling about outside. But then Conan kicks the turbo into gear and skates up the curved side of the stadium.
Amazingly, a woman spots him and is all – ‘what the – there’s a kid skating up the stadium!’ Finally, a concerned citizen! But she’s too late to stop Conan getting all the way to the top. The stadium’s open roofed, but there are arches crossing around it. Conan’s got to jump over the bits that join them. He loses his cap, and has a few close shaves – he doesn’t quite make a jump and ends up hanging on to the roof with one arm.
Meanwhile, a Spirit’s player is yellow carded and there’s a lot of argument on the pitch. Haibara yawns, happening to glance up – and notice that there are sparks coming off the overhead arches. Conan’s managed to pull himself back up and is skateboarding again. Haibara stands up.
Mistuhiko notices that something is off. Haibara san … ?
She runs off without answering him.
Meanwhile, Conan is scanning the stadium from above, using his glasses to check for bombs and not seeing anything. He decides he has to go to the opposite side of the stadium and try there, but he doesn’t make a jump. His skateboard hits one of the connect-y things and both Conan and board go sliding across the roof. The skateboard falls off the roof. Conan slides limply, coming to rest just at the edge, one arm dangling over the edge.
Someone involved in the soccer game scores a goal, Haibara has ducked into the Ladies’ to call Conan. The buzzing of his phone wakes him up from his fall, and he’s able to pull himself to safety. “Nice timing.”
Haibara is not impressed – and she’s even less impressed when she hears what he’s doing. Conan gives her the barest facts, urging her not to alarm anyone but to follow his instructions. And then he hangs up. Haibara’s exceedingly unimpressed.
Some part of their conversation, however, has led Conan to the realisation that the culprit is someone there in the stadium at that moment. He calls Megure as Shinichi to let him know that the place is Touto Stadium, and the police go rushing off to try and get there.
Conan figures out that the hint ‘Next stop Beika. Next Beika.’ Is a reference not to the train line, but to the electronic screen that announces and updates the stations – these are a staple of trains in Tokyo, and a bigger one of those is placed in the stadium itself – and that’s where the bombs are. Having found them, Conan realises that there’s so many of them that there is no way to defuse them all in 30 minutes – but using his suspender thing that Agasa invented for him, he’s able to lower himself from the ceiling and start defusing the ones that he can.
Haibara rejoins the group and Agasa’s all ‘something happened right.’
Haibara: Right.
She tells Agasa secretly and he’s also not thrilled about hearing that they are to stay put.
I think Hide did something, but I honestly can’t read this writing. Oh well!
Getting increasingly concerned about Conan’s absence, the kids decide that they’ll go looking for him. Haibara orders them to stay put – which they do.
Meanwhile, the police have got in touch with the stadium crew, and they’re not telling people why, but first the players are told to call off the game, then they start systematically moving the audience seated in that one area of the stadium to leave their seats and evacuate onto the field – there’s not enough time to evacuate the stadium and a stampede would be deadly is the reasoning, I think.
The purple shirt guy from the newspaper, Yamamori, is looking very triumphant about something. Meanwhile the photographer is on the field, taking shots of the crowd. Someone asks her what’s going on and she replies, “I don’t know, but I’m going to photograph it!’ She’s told to move away and the field staff ask the media representatives to join the players and audience in the middle of the field.
Conan’s still trying to defuse as many bombs as he can, but it is just not going to work, so as they get down to the last twenty seconds, he loops his suspender belt around the column supporting the stadium roof and the giant screen.
And suddenly the explosions start! It’s not one big one but a couple of smaller delayed ones moving up the screen – there’s smoke, fire, screams and panic and the people on the field run away from it. The photographer is still taking photos of the chaos as the screen suddenly starts to lurch. Conan’s yelling at the people on the field to run, but no one seems to grasp that the screen is going to fall on them – until it lurches, sliding towards the field. People start to run, a small girl falling and scooped up by the guy in charge of the stadium who yells at people not to panic and to say where they are.
The police arrive, just in time to see the smoke go up from the stadium, know that they’re too late.
The suspender seems to hold – but fire has broken out behind the screen and the flames have reached the suspender which gives way, I think – more of the ceiling falls. The screen slides all the way onto the field but miraculously no one is hurt. The girl’s mother comes forward to claim her from the manager and everyone is trying to work out what just happened – the newspeople pair are pretty pleased --- they’ve got the top news story, and they know it.
Behind the screen, the smoke clears and we see a huge pile of rubble, Conan’s glasses resting amongst them – broken. I can’t remember if he gets hurt this time or not – I think he was clutching his arm, but that also happens later, so apologies if I’ve got that wrong.
Another big jump! This time it’s to the TV news where we see that the stadium explosions are the main story. We then cut back to the people watching the news story – the location is Mouri’s office, and Megure and his team are there for the debriefing.
Credit for solving the riddle and averting major disaster has been given to Mouri, at Shinichi’s request, and the police get down to the serious consideration of what to do next.
Ran invites Megure and everyone to take a seat while she makes tea, to which Conan cheerfully replies ‘Hai!’ and sits down, inviting himself into the debrifing. Mouri’s less than happy about this but they get underway before he can evict Conan.
Conan’s scolded for his involvement, which he explains by saying that he heard from Shinichi-niichan and noticed something strange. Anyway, Conan points out that the awful pun in the answer to Agasa’s quiz is repeated in the caller’s note – handling’s hand. This proves that the culprit is someone who was near enough to hear that conversation take place. Obviously Yamamori and Kouda are prime suspects, benefiting hugely from the explosions by being in place to photograph and report on them. Kouda’s photo was picked by many newspapers and it seems that Yamamori’s been given some prestigious advancement or something.
However, the fact that the caller phoned Mouri suggests that it could be someone with a personal grudge against him, which leads them to consider Sasaki and Motoura. Sasaki’s grudge could be Mouri’s recollection of the embarrassing end goal, and everyone agrees that Motoura’s behaviour was weird.
Conan pipes up that there is one more suspect – Nakaoka, who although he didn’t speak to them was close enough to have heard the conversation. Takagi is also a big fan. He enthusiastically tells the rest of the room about Nakaoka’s most famous moment – he took part in an open-air match (possibly at Touto stadium) and they were playing in heavy snow. However, despite the difficulty of the conditions, Nakaoka didn’t give up and succeeded in scoring the goal that won the match in the final minute of the game. It was an impressive achievement.
Shiratori joins the group. While investigating the backgrounds of the five suspects he’s turned up interesting information about Motoura. It seems that his son died after collapsing at Touto stadium. An ambulance was called but it arrived late, and the boy wasn’t able to be saved.
Mouri and Conan react to this visibly.
Mouri: An ambulance?
Megure: What is it? Does that mean anything?
Mouri: … whatever’s it is, it’s gone … must be my imagination.
But Conan’s got the same feeling that there’s something more to that.
Anyway, going by people’s alibis during the game, Nakaoka is decided as the most likely suspect. He wasn’t at the game, but claimed to be visiting his home in Gunma but the police can’t confirm this. Because he’s from Gunma a call is made to Yamamura-keibu for any information about him.
Yamamura describes him as having a reputation for being arrogant and brash and rough, definitely not good with kids. On this basis, the police decide to bring Nakaoka in for questioning.
He’s spotted driving his bike on the motorway and ignoring the police cars trying to flag him down (it wasn’t Hattori in the trailer it was this dude). A police barricade is set up and he is forced to stop. Angrily taking off his helmet and getting off his bike, he confronts Sato and Takagi as to why they’re chasing him. He insults them when he learns they want to question him, and decides to punch Takagi. Sato objects to this and Nakaoka promptly finds himself thrown, in a choke-hold and being taken into custody.
Back at the detective agency, Conan’s really surprised to learn that Nakaoka’s in custody – the evidence doesn’t justify it, but it’s because of his behaviour. Questioning doesn’t go as expected either – although the police suspected that his motivation might be a grudge against his former team, Nakaoka just laughs when it is presented to him during questioning.
Nakaoka: All this for something that silly … ? Don’t make me laugh.
Takagi: Don’t start with us—
Sato hushes Takagi with a gesture.
Sato: Explain yourself. What do you mean?
Turns out that rather than holding a grudge against the Spirits, Nakaoka’s grateful to them – the team funded his hospital treatment and rehabilitation after the accident. However, it’s not widely publicized because of his pride – having been a J-Leaguer he doesn’t want to admit that he needs help. In fact, he was visiting some children in Gunma, has a couple of photos that prove he spends time coaching kids. In short he’s totally different from the image Yamamura presented and the police are surprised to realise that he’s actually a seemingly nice guy!
-- which means that they are back to square one and the previous four suspects.
While the team discuss the possibilities, Conan remembers that he saw an open page of the photographer’s notebook when they talked at the soccer classroom. She had the date of the Tokyo Spirits game written down as well as some initials – K.K and Haido Park. He decides to investigate.
Early morning the next day he goes to Haido park, trying to figure out what the initials could mean. It doesn’t take him long to realise – there’s a J-Leaguer jogging around the park periphery. Conan recognises him as Konno Yasauyuki – or as he’s better known, King Konno. Deciding that Kaoda might have realised that he likes to train in the park, Conan approaches Konno to ask if he knows the photographer. He confirms Conan’s suspicions and recognising him from the soccer classroom, asks if Conan would like to train with him.
Conan: YES PLEASE!
He promptly plays soccer with Konno, practicing passes, shooting and generally having a great time (and not showing off too much). Practice finished, Conan decides that the notebook page he saw is probably nothing to do with the bombing case. A guy walking his dog comes by and Conan stops to pat the dog. Konno reappears to thank Conan (dogwalker getting totally starstruck) and remarks that the practice reminded him of something he heard from Nakaoka – apparently he met a small boy who really liked soccer in a park once and began training with him. He gave the boy his red wristband as a thank you, and the boy wore it every match he played in. Conan’s impressed and wants to know where the boy is now, but Konno doesn’t know. He gives Conan his sweaty white wristband as a thank you (dogwalker very jealous) and Conan and Konno say goodbye – but not before Conan’s hair gets ruffled again.
While this is happening, a van pulls outside the Agency and a special delivery envelope is placed in the mail box.
We also see Yamamori at the News Agency building, being very self-satisfied. Kouda runs into him. She apologizes and they have a bit of banter, before Kouda explains she’s in a hurry and rushes off – but she’s dropped her notebook. Realising this, Yamamori picks it up. It falls open at the page Conan saw, but some of the initials have been crossed out.
Yamamori smirks.
Ran comes down in her short-sleeved t-shirt complaining about how cold it is (it’s December) and notices the envelope. As she pulls it out of the slot (it was too big to go through into the actual mail box) she hears a noise and opening the mail box discovers the second letter.
The police again gather at the Agency. They can confirm that letter and the call were made by the same person because the sign off phrase used by the caller appears in the letter.
The letter states that this time, the bomber is aiming at more than how many people were at the Touto stadium. The capacity of Touto stadium is 80 000, so they’re trying to think of a place that could hold that many people when Chiba spots the poster for the Power of Music concert and realises that it’s bigger than the Touto Stadium game. It’s happening December 13th at the Shiodome. (or something).
Mouri: Eh! Yoko-chan’s playing there!
Chiba: That’s right – Yoko-chan – ah, I mean, Ookino Yoko-san is playing a major role in the concert.
Since Yoko’s name came up in the soccer classroom conversation, the suspects know of the connection between Yoko and Mouri. However, it seems that Yamamori has been promoted to producing the concert (despite Mouri not helping him – a grudge there?) – and it also comes out that Kouda has a grudge against Yoko. She thought she had an amazing scoop on her but whatever the story was, Yoko shot it down, and Kouda is known to still be resentful of that.
Conan remembers seeing the initials ‘O.Y’ and the date 12/13 in the notebook and Mouri scolds him for keeping such important information to himself.
Anyway, using the time that the message was delivered (Ran knows it wasn’t there last night), to try and work out an alibi for the suspects, it turns out that only Nakaoka is clear – because he was still in custody at that point. The other four are still all equally suspicious.
Megure asks to look at the special delivery envelope. It turns out to contain some spirits memorabilia and tickets to the game. Picking it up, Megure notices that the envelope seems sticky, but amazingly no one picks up on this.
Agasa, Haibara and the kids are at a movie theatre, watching a live broadcast of the Spirts/Osaka game – I’m guessing that because the first game ended short because of the explosions, this is a replay, broadcast to multiple locations to make up for the fact that Touto Stadium is out of commission. (this is also the point where my pen ran out of ink, so we’re going on memory alone – sorry!)
Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko are sitting in the row ahead of Haibara and Agasa. They’re clearly enjoying the game, remarking that it’s just like being there! Genta’s got some snacks and Agasa’s watching wistfully, remarking that he’d like to have some too.
Haibara’s in a good mood – Big Osaka have just scored. “I guess a little snack’s okay,” she decides. Agasa is elated, but before he can make good on this, Haibara’s phone rings – Conan. She answers it with a “What?”
Conan wants to check that nothing suspicious has happened and that the kids are okay. Saying ‘see for yourself,’ she holds up the phone so that Conan can hear their conversation. The conversation ends – and Haibara’s favourite big Osaka player has been sent off with an injury.
“On second thought – no snacks for you, Agasa.”
Asuka from Poirot interrupts the police meeting. She’s had a phonecall from the guy with the disguised voice. He told her to go to a public phone where a file of his demands was left. The demands are typed on A4 paper with a staple in the front middle and an instruction written in red paint at the top of the page.
We get another shot of the basement the criminal is using as his base. We’ve been cutting back to him intermittently. He’s been busy making more bombs and being creepy. Last we saw, the bombs were packed into harmless looking sports bags. Now they’re all gone – but one.
Closing the laptop down, the criminals picks up the last bag, pausing a moment to look at the picture of Motoura’s son playing soccer.
The letter’s demands are really confusing – he will set the bombs off if the game is stopped in anyway. He wants all the strikers to wear red wristbands and he refers to the 11th striker. But even if all his demands are met, if something isn’t done by the last minute of the game, the bombs will go off and everyone will die.
Conan wonders aloud why on earth there would be red paint on the staple – the document was printed out with the white space at the top for the message, then stapled, then written.
Sato has also noticed this and she’s certain it’s a clue. Conan announces that it’s really easy to solve if you look at it from above! The character that intersects with the staple is a す and Sato realises that circle part of the character refers to the circle at the centre of the soccer pitch while the line is one of the boundaries and the staple is the goal. Realising that this means that there is a sensor placed at the centre crossbar, the police inform the soccer teams to keep playing but to tell their strikers not to score any goals, but to aim for the sensor on the crossbar.
We see a guard walking down a utility corridor in a soccer related building. The criminal, bag with a bomb inside over his shoulder sneaks up behind him and knocks him out. At the same location, the big Osaka coach is talking to the Super Sub. Because their ace striker, Higo, is injured, Coach is asking Sanada to take his place – but because of the situation, he tells Sanada that it’s okay if he thinks he can’t do it – the team won’t judge him. Sanada has a cocky smart arse reply – he’s not going to turn down the challenge. But he complains about having to wear the red wristband which he feels is unfashionable. The Coach tells him to shut up and do it.
Shiratori phones in to say that he’s got evidence connecting the case to Motoura, and Megure and Mouri rush to a waiting police car to join him at Motoura’s house. Mouri is not impressed to find that Conan is already in the police car and buckled into his seat but again, there isn’t the time to throw him out.
At Motoura’s house, Shiratori reveals that the ambulance that came to take Motoura’s son to hospital was delayed by Mouri and a crowd of football supporters. Mouri’s shocked – but because he was drunk, he only remembered the incident now.
Motoura explains that the 2 minutes that the ambulance of delayed might or might not have been enough to save his son, but he can’t forget it.
Shiratori: What team supporters were they?
Motoura: I don’t know – it was a mixed group.
Shiratori: And that’s why you’re targeting supporters in general and not just one team?
Motoura: What?
Mouri: Please listen to us – I apologise for delaying the ambulance but it was my mistake! Don’t involve unrelated people!
Motoura protests that he has no idea what they’re talking about. As the police continue to interview him, Conan’s attention goes to a photo of the son at his soccer game. The son is wearing a red wristband. He’s not looking at the camera but is waving to someone on the sidelines. Conan spots the video camera that he suspects was used to take the photos of the son’s game and asks if he can look at it. He’s got a sudden suspicion – and if he’s right ‘that person’ will be on the film.
Meanwhile, Ran and Sonoko are at the live game, enjoying the second half. They arrived late, but Sonoko’s making up for lost time by getting really into the raoucous cheering. The players are holding up well under pressure, the strikers doing a so-far brilliant job of only hitting the cross bar. The J-Leaguers are particularly awesome and there are lots of cameos just in case we weren’t sure how awesome they were. However, the crowd, unaware that their lives depend on the player’s ability to not score goals are getting frustrated by the fact that no one is scoring! Sanada in particularly is getting booed – especially by Sonoko. Ran’s pretty embarrassed – but some ominous music and the way the shot is suggests that Sonoko and Ran are sitting on the bombs placed at that particular stadium (the bombs are at this stadium and presumably all the places where they game is being broadcast live – we saw one of the sports bags behind the screen at the theatre that Agasa and the kids were watching the game).
Motoura isn’t crumbling under the police questioning, so Shiratori reveals his next trump. Mouri and the soccer supporters weren’t being rowdy. An elderly man had collapsed, and Mouri was providing him with first aid. They’d also called an ambulance and when they saw Motoura’s son’s ambulance coming down the street towards them, assumed it was the one for them. When the ambulance turned in a different direction, Mouri assumed it was lost and told the crowd to redirect it to the collapsed old man.
Motoura is shocked – he had no idea.
Mouri urges him to put his grudge aside and call off the bombing, but Motoura continues to insist that he is unrelated to the case.
The police and Mouri withdraw to have a team talk. This isn’t going as planned – could Motoura genuinely be innocent?
Conan announces that he thinks Motoura is telling the truth – because he’s not been glancing at his watch throughout the interview. The real villain would be really concerned with the time since the letter specified that the bombs were going to go off at the last minute of the game.
Agreeing that this seems strange, Megure asks Motoura to turn on his TV so that they can watch the game. So far the strikers have avoided actually scoring, but Sakada gets too carried away – and the goal goes in. The crowd goes wild celebrating – and Conan and the police express shock. The bombs were supposed to go off – so why haven’t they? Conan suddenly realises – this was simply a distraction. He rushes out of the house, making his way towards the abandoned Touto stadium. Running over the distinctive bridge that leads to the stadium, he’s delighted when Agasa pulls up in the Beatle. Conan’s delighted, jumping into the car – but it appears that this isn’t simply coincidence. Reasoning that if something was going on, Conan would be at the heart of it, the kids decided that they should find him – and Haibara used the tracking glasses to stalk him. Conan’s uncertain about all this, but they don’t have time to waste – it’s not long until the end of the game!
Pulling up in the empty parking lot to the stadium, Conan tells Agasa and the kids to stay in the car and watch for anyone suspicious – he’s going to look for bombs! The shounen tantei agree!
The criminal is waiting on the pitch, the fire damage of the stadium still visible. The sports bag is with him, but he’s plainly not expecting to see Conan.
Conan: You’re expecting Mouri, right? Sorry – it’s just me.
Conan outlines the evidence so far.
He suspects that the criminal’s connection to Motoura’s son began at Haido Park. The criminal would have been in high school then, practicing before school when the kid ran up to him and asked if he could play too. Coaching the son in the basics of soccer enabled the criminal to progress in his own soccer career, and it was at this point that he gave him the red wristband.
Hearing about the kids death and the involvement of Mouri and the supporters the criminal targeted Touto stadium because that’s where the accident took place and he intends to destroy it. The eleventh striker referred to in the message is actually the 11th stadium – Touto.
However, the stickyness on the envelope indicates that there was a clever trick involved. The criminals message was stuck to the back of the mailbox, out of anyone opening it’s line of sight. However, the too large envelope was designed to reach the back of the mailbox and dislodge the message, meaning that the criminal is the only person with a perfect alibi for that time – former J-League player Nakaoka, the fact that the bombs go off in the final minute of the game a shout out to his own accomplishment.
Nakaoka’s non-plussed at being called out, and demands who Conan is. Conan does his usual introduction – Edogawa Conan. Tantei sa.
Meanwhile the kids are beginning to suspect they’ve been had. Genta complains that no one suspicious has come by. Mitsuhiko think that they should be helping Conan look for bombs and Ayumi agrees.
Haibara tells them all bluntly that they’re staying put – only to hear the door slam, as the kids take off. Agasa and Haibara scramble after them, but they’re too late, the kids are gone. Haibara yells to Agasa to wait by the car on stand-by and goes after the kids.
Meanwhile, Nakaoka lets Conan know that his reasoning is wrong on one point – he doesn’t just want to destroy Touto, but everyone watching the game. To underscore how serious he is, part of the stadium explodes at that point. Conan has to dodge debris.
Nakaoka starts to talk about Motoura’s son, and what the kid meant to him. Turns out that the kid’s love of soccer impressed him so much that watching him play and score in the soccer game made Nakaoka determined to make a fresh start, and resume his football career, despite the difficulties. However, walking back to his apartment with two cans of juice, clearly having intended to hang out with the son, Nakaoka was informed of his death.
Conan tells him what he learnt from Shiratori, of the fact that there was another injured person at the game and the ambulance confusion but Nakaoka accuses him of lying and refuses to listen. He claims that because the kid loved soccer more than anything else, he can’t forgive Mouri for his death.
That’s why the only way to defuse the bombs and stop everything is for someone to kick a ball and hit the sensor on the crossbar of the Touto stadium goal. Nakaoka’s confident this isn’t going to happen – there are no striker’s here – it’s a challenge that Mouri was meant to fail.
More debris fall. Conan’s hit. His arm is injured – blood runs down his face (like the promotional image) and his arm, turning the white wristband he’s wearing red. Conan yells at Nakaoka, who doesn’t see him – but the son. He urges the dead kid to flee the stadium, insisting that there’s no other way to escape the bombs.
Conan yells that he’s wrong – it wasn’t soccer that the kid loved, but Nakaoka himself. All he did, playing soccer and practicing with him was because he liked spending time with Nakaoka – so Conan’s going to stop this.
Popping the soccer ball from his belt, Conan takes off down the field. He’s got the goal in his sights, lines it all up perfectly and kicks the ball exactly right. It’s heading straight for the sensor. Conan cheers, but just before the ball can hit, part of the ceiling gives way, taking the ball out.
Conan’s expression of ‘what the fuck’ is worth the movie fee alone.
A major part of the ceiling gives way, and Conan and Nakaoka barely manage to escape getting taken out. Nakaoka’s pretty spooked – he’s just realised that hanging out in an exploding stadium’s not the best idea. Meanwhile Conan’s drawn himself up only to realise that there are major amounts of debris between them and the goal. There’s no way to reach it and they don’t even have a soccer ball.
Ayumi picks them to pipe up – she and the other shounen tantei are there to help. The kids split up to search the stadium, Conan less than thrilled to see them. He yells them to run – without a soccer ball there’s nothing we can do.
Genta: Oh, did you want a soccer ball?
Genta’s been toting around Mitsuhiko’s precious soccer ball that Hide signed since they left the Beatle. He asks Mitsuhiko if it’s okay to use it, Mitsuhiko agrees and Genta passes it to him. Mitsuhiko is halfway down the seating and he yells out to Ayumi to get ready – she’s at the bottom of the seating part of the stand. Ayumi’s nervous about whether or not she can do this, but Mitsuhiko and Genta reassure her, telling her to remember what they learned at the soccer classroom.
Conan’s really touched and impressed by the kids, and Ayumi does her best. She gets the ball okay, but when she passes it to Conan, it rebounds off some of the wreckage and rebounds. There is expression’s of horror all around – until the ball rolls to a halt beside Haibara.
Haibara: I have to do everything, don’t I.
The Shounen Tantei cheer her on as she passes the ball over the wreckage to Conan. Conan’s got a very feral grin as he lines it up. It’s just like the free kick scenario that J-Leaguer Endo talked them through. We’re also shown the back of Conan’s sweatshirt that he’s been wearing all movie and for the first time we see that it has the word ‘striker’ written across it. Rehearsing Endo’s instructions, Conan goes through the free kick perfectly – the ball has enough spin to clear the wreckage and enter the goal. There’s a moment where no one is sure whether or not it’s stopped the bomb – but the clock face on the bomb timber has stopped with 0.15/6 seconds to spare.
Nakaoka congratulates Conan telling him that he was wrong – Conan is the eleventh striker. The police surround the Touto stadium and the theme song begins.
Sonoko and Ran are at the park watching the Shounen Tantei who are playing soccer in their soccer classroom uniforms.
Sonoko: Geez … even after nearly getting blown up at Touto stadium, these kids are still playing soccer? … come to think of it, Ran, you never told me what happened when you and Shinichi played soccer together.
Ran: … well …
Genta gets the ball, excitedly yelling that he’s going to shoot! Unfortunately he slips and trips and the ball goes wide, heading straight for Ran. Conan yells out to warn her, running towards her, but Ran glances up, reacting instinctively by falling into a karate stance and kicking the ball away.
Ran is wearing a short skirt.
She’s just flashed Conan, who has the best delayed reaction. He’s come to a halt, and blinks. “White.” And then a second later his brain kicks in and he gasps and goes pink.
Ayumi’s outraged. “Conan, how could you?”
Genta: What? What’s white?
Mitsuhiko: Conan, I would never have believed this of you.
Conan tries to defend himself. “You guys! You know that wasn’t on purpose—“
Ran clears her throat. She is standing over Conan and looking ready to kill.
Conan: (meekly) I’m very sorry Ran-neechan.
(and in his thoughts) – and that’s why soccer is [mystery word!]
It’s clearly a pun to end the movie – and it sounded like hebi, which I think is heavy and not ‘snake’ – but yeah, that was the humorous moment on which the movie ended!
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