Agasa comes up with an idea, and asks Ran if she can take "Conan" into her house because his house is too dangerous for a child, and his parents are not available. She asks for his name to which he replies "Conan Edogawa", a name he came up with when he noticed two books on a shelf next to him with the authors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rampo Edogawa.ĭr. Ran walks over just as Shinichi pops the powerful lenses out of the glasses, but fortunately does not realize the little boy is Shinichi. Shinichi runs behind a desk in his library, finds a pair of his father's glasses, and puts them on, only to find out how strong they are, and thus bangs into the desk. Just then, Ran walks in, saying she's concerned because Shinichi left her and hasn't returned or answered any of her calls. Agasa warns Shinichi not to tell anybody, in fear that the men in Black might come back and kill him and anyone who knows his secret. Agasa takes Shinichi into his house, to which Shinichi explains exactly what happened. Herschel Agasa in the English version), and proves to him he is indeed Shinichi. Shinichi runs away from the cops, only to discover he's shrunk to the size of a little boy. but wakes up a few minutes later to find two cops standing over him, asking, "Are you all right, little boy?" Shinichi feels a burning feeling in him, as though he's melting. The man puts the pill and some water down Shinichi's throat, and the two men run off.
The men decide shooting him is too risky, since the place was filled with cops due to the roller coaster murder, so one of the men in black takes out a case of pills, and says to the other it's a new poison that hasn't been tried out on humans yet, that is undetectable in autopsies. Just then, the other man in black sneaks up behind Shinichi and knocks him out, just as the company manager is running away with the tape. Shinichi witnesses the man in black and what appears to be a company manager trade a suitcase filled with money for a tape showing the company manager smuggling in some "naughty things". Ran gets a strange feeling, as though Shinichi will not return, but she does not know why she feels this way. He then notices one of the two men clad in black from the roller coaster case run behind a building into the dark, so Shinichi follows him in pursuit, telling Ran he'll return back later. Shinichi solves the case, and escorts a now teary Ran away from the scene of the crime. The suspects are the two people in the front, the suspect's girlfriend, and two shady men in black that sat in the back. One day, while going to an amusement park with childhood friend/love interest Ran Mouri (Rachel Moore in English version) to celebrate her winning a karate tournament, Shinichi and Ran encounter a murder on the roller coaster they board.
Seventeen year old Shinichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo in English version) was a high school detective who worked with the police to solve mysteries.