Episode 2 - Company President’s Daughter Kidnapping

◄Case: Company President’s Daughter Kidnapping►

Shinichi wakes up as a small child due to the effect of the poison. After proving his identity to Professor Agasa and explaining the conditions, Agasa decides that he must hide his identity or else those men in black will come back to finish off those connected to him. Shinichi Kudo was renamed "Edogawa Conan" and was placed in the care of Ran and her father, Kogoro Mouri who owns a detective agency which may allow him to gather information on the men in black.

Kogoro receives a case about the company president's kidnapped daughter, Akiko Tani. According to Asao, Akiko was kidnapped by a man dressed in black while she was playing in the garden.

Case Information

Case: Kidnapping

Victim: Akiko Tani

Suspects

1. A man dressed in black

2. Asao - Butler for the Tani family 

3. Akiko's Kidnapper – kidnapper

Investigation, Evidence, Deduction and Resolution

→ Conan hints to Kogoro that it is strange that Jumbo, the guard dog, did not bark at the man dressed in black while kidnapping Akiko since the kidnapper supposedly used the pine tree were in Jumbo was near to escape the household.

→ Asao seems surprised when Tani claims the kidnapper is asking for ransom money in addition to shutting down his company temporarily.

→ During a phone call with the kidnapper, Akiko manages to say that she thinks she's in the storeroom of a school and sees a chimney outside the window.

→ Kogoro, thanks to hints from Conan, figures out that Akiko's kidnapping is a fake and that she should be in a nearby hotel.

→ Unfortunately, Akiko was kidnapped for real after the fake kidnapping by a man demanding ransom money in return for Akiko's safety.

→ After searching nearby schools using Jumbo as transportation and a guide, Conan determines that what Akiko saw outside the school window wasn't a chimney at all, but rather the side of a large skyscraper.

→ Conan then finds Akiko but was unable to take down the kidnapper due to his shrunken size.

→ Ran came in time to save them and uses her karate on the kidnapper.

Kidnapper

Akiko's Kidnapper

Motive

Akiko's motive for getting Asao to cooperate with her "kidnapping" was that she wanted to spend more time with her father who is always at work and doesn't play with her very much anymore.