Episode Number: Episode 2 - The Kidnapped Debutante
Airdate: May 25th, 2004
Season: 1
Featured Characters: Conan, Rachel, Richard
A few days ago, I reviewed the First Episode, and now I am reviewing the next episode, Episode 2: The Kidnapped Debutante, which originally aired in Japan on January 15th, 1996, and later aired in the United States on May 25th, 2004.
In this episode, Jimmy wakes up and discovers he survived. However, police are searching the area and find him, and after they start to make him uncomfortable calling him "Little Boy" and "Kid", Jimmy runs away and finds his way into the city. After tripping and getting up, he sees his reflection in a window and discovers he has shrunk back into his body from when he was 7 years old. He then runs to Dr.Agasa's home, to where he convinces him he is Jimmy and they come up with an alias to protect him, and they use Conan, named after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Next, Rachel enters the house and Agasa lies and tells her that Jimmy had a case, and that Conan needs a place to live. Rachel takes him home and a case pops up.
It turns out that a little girl was kidnapped by a man in black. Thinking he has a lead on the people who shrunk him, Conan gets into the Taxi Cab with Richard and Rachel and goes along. They get to a mansion of a rich business man and he says his daughter was kidnapped. Later they discover the kidnapping was a hoax but later they discover that she was kidnapped again. Conan and a dog track her down to a shed at a school, and get attacked by the kidnapper. Just when the kidnapper is about to kill Conan, Rachel thankfully intervenes and knocks the culprit out. He is arrested, and the little girl is taken home.
After, Rachel asks Richard if Conan could stay, and after a few seconds of thinking, he says its fine if he does. The episode then ends. In the epilogue, Conan introduces himself to his classmates at an elementary school and says to himself: "Please just be a dream."
This episode is a pretty good episode. Good action and a plot twist. Also with every CC viewer, it is probably the most memorable, especially if you watched Case Closed on Adult Swim from 2004-2005. Case Closed had been cancelled after the 50th Episode aired on August 16th, 2004 due to low ratings, however, Adult Swim continued to air re runs until March 2005, and a they constantly kept replaying the first and second episode, so this episode is a memorable one. I can actually remember every single line. Hmm...
I think that I liked this episode more than the last one, but it still was not that great of a start, since things were still a bit too obvious here.
ReplyDeleteAs for being memorable, I have to disagree, at least with the anime version. After all, when it comes to the events of this episode, I remember the manga version better, because how Jimmy found out that he shrunk there was much funnier, especially with police dogs chasing him, because the police think he is a lost child.
I agree that it was at a slow start, the it got pretty interesting once they went to find the girl.
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