Original subtitles

Love and hate are brought together.

Through both reasoning and suspense.

What is the dying message?

There's something we're missing.

He sees through the one and only truth.

A child in appearance with the I.Q. of an adult.

His name is Detective Conan!

While we were at the cafe with teacher, Ms. Jodie,

all the lights in the building went out.

And after the blackout,

the dead body holding an envelope was

found by an escalator near the cafe!

The victim was Mr. Katsunori Nakajo,

the manager of a detective agency.

His dying message as written with his own blood

on the envelope.

But, the murderer pulled the document out of it.

And...

Inspector, we've found another character written with blood!

What?

A square?

It also looks like a Kanji character, mouth

or "ro" in the Katakana alphabet.

But judging from the previous circle, cross and triangle,

is most likely to be a square.

Well... I'm more confused than ever now.

Isn't that square...

a little bigger than the other circle, cross and triangle?

"Hide, Hurry up and Abbreviate it (Part 2)"

Hey! Ran!

What?

We can make a character by combining two

of the marks-the circle, cross and triangle, can't we?

For a example,

combining the cross and the square would create

the word for rice field.

Yeah.

If so, this Mr. Hari is very suspicious.

And this last name is very unique.

But how about this Mr. Nawata?

His last name has three parts containing the same word!

Mr. Asai also has a unique shape of two overlapping crosses!

Shape?

Yeah, that's it! It's a shape!

For example,

think about the word "Suzu" in Mr. Suzuki's.

It has a round shape. So, could indicate Mr. Suzuki.

How rude!

I'm a Suzuki too!

There are no bad people by the name of Suzuki!

Oh, but...

Anyway, leave it to us, the police.

And stay away from the crime scene, okay?

Come on.

Takagi! You go ahead

and help Chiba search and help Chiba the upper floors.

Yes, sir!

I have to tell dad

that I'm going to be late!

Hello.. Chiba?

Where are you now?

The eighth floor?

Yeah, Inspector told me to go help you.

Yeah.

All right! Just hold on.

I'll be right up there!

All right.

Wait...

Ran, what's wrong?

What is it?

What is that "X"?

What?

You know. You said a little while ago...

You said it's a tease.

Oh, well. Yumi often puts "XXX" at the end of the mail

to tease me.

Well, Ran, just you wait.

Someday, sooner or later you'll see what "X" means.

Right now! Tell me right now!

Please. Detective Takagi!

Ran.

That's...

Fine.

Ms. Mouri, is sure taking a long time to come back.

That brat has gone somewhere, too.

Oh! You mean that cool kid.

-He's over there! -I'm sorry.

Gosh.

Hey! Cool kid!

You look like an Ostrich.

What? An Ostrich?

The meaning of the circle, cross and triangle...

Have you figured it out yet?

Not, yet.

Not at all.

Well, as Ran said,

don't you think that those shapes

may be representing something else?

Let me see. For example,

the department of defense in America

is called the Pentagon.

That is because the actually building itself

is a pentagon.

In the U.S., there are many words that represent something

other than it's original meaning!

The White House means the Presidential residence,

while the word the Oval Office refers to

the official office of the President of the United States.

And there is another word,

Bureau, that originally means an office.

But the word as it stands alone,

it often means F. B. I.

Which is an abbreviation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation!

Was my advice any good to you, cool kid?

Yeah.

By the way, what did you mean

when you said the word, Ostrich?

Oh! I was talking about you, cool kid!

The officer caught you even though you were hiding yourself

behind the suitcase.

We, Americans, call such dorks Ostrich.

Once he sticks his small head into the sand,

the ostrich usually fails to realize what remains exposed

and thinks he can't be seen because he can't see!

There is a similar expression in Japan here!

That is, Hiding your head but leaving your rear end exposed!

Hiding the head but leaving the rear end exposed?

Let me see the envelope for a second!

Hey, you!

Now I see.

So that explains it.

There's no doubt!

Among those 31 suspects, that person...

is the culprit!

I understand.

We will send investigators there right away.

Yes.

Now, please don't touch the manager's computer anymore.

Well then...

What's going on?

Nothing.

The victim killed was the director of a detective agency

and the culprit is most likely to be

the embezzler of the company he was investigating.

So that's why I inquired at the agency,

just hoping to find someone who worked with him

and can tell us the name of the embezzler.

And then?

Unfortunately, Mr. Nakajo was working on this case alone

and kept it in strict confidence.

So none of his employees know anything about the case.

And our last hope is the data stored on his computer.

But no one can access it without the password.

Password.

That's it. That's the password!

The circle, cross, triangle and square.

Isn't that his password?

Yeah, I thought so too

and asked the agency staff to enter the password box,

but it failed.

But...

Of course, they tried all 24 possible combinations.

They couldn't make it.

Then, could the circle, cross, triangle, square

be the name of the culprit?

Isn't that about Quiz?

-What? -Japanese Quiz Show

often uses those marks

instead of answering Yes or No.

Oh... I see. It's like that!

So... Is the culprit the King of Quiz?

Yeah. Could be.

Anyway, you just stay still here and keep quiet!

Don't interfere in this case anymore.

But, if the the circle, cross, triangle and square

is the name of the culprit

then Officer Chiba could also be a suspect?

What?

Because just look at the character of Officer Chiba.

It looks like a cross if I hide it like this.

And it looks like a triangle if I hide it like this!

Don't you think he is also very suspicious!

Hide?

Look at that! If you look at it that way,

Officer Takagi could be a suspect too.

What?

Look! The word "Taka" of Officer Takagi's name!

It looks like both a square or a circle if I hide it like this!

I understand it looks like square

but why does it look like a circle?

Because there are some people who write "mouth" as a circle.

Dr. Agasa also often writes in that way

when he writes his name.

Dr. Agasa said it's okay to abbreviate something sometimes,

particularly when you're in a hurry.

Hide it.

Hurry it up and abbreviate it

Hey, come on! Officer Chiba and Officer Takagi,

both came here because I called them!

Both of them can't be the culprit.

Hey! Are you listening to me?

Oh, wait a minute.

There is someone

on the suspect list.

I think...

This is it!

Wait a minute.

There is someone

on the suspect list.

I think...

This is it!

It's Bunta Kuniyoshi!

Bunta Kuniyoshi?

Ah, that's right.

Well, then how does he become

the circle, cross, triangle and square?

There appears to be no connection between those two.

But, if you hide the top halves of the three characters...

See? These characters become the symbols.

Oh, yes!

They sure are the circle, cross, triangle and square!

But don't you think that

it is difficult to look upon the character

Sonoko! You're...

The character doesn't look like a triangle when it is printed,

but if it were hand-written

and the dot are elongated,

then wouldn't it look like a triangle?

But why were the top halves hidden?

They weren't hidden

but they were removed.

Don't you remember that

the characters were written down at the edge of the envelope?

And that the square, which was discovered later,

was one size larger than any other marks.

This means that the three characters other than the square

were written across both the envelope

and a sheet of paper sticking out of the envelope.

And the murderer took the documents

including the sheet of paper

with the top halves of the three characters written on it.

And how about the square?

Well, of course, it's the "kuni" of his name.

If the victim had written it in a hurry

before the culprit noticed him doing so,

it is quite reasonable to think that he abbreviated it.

Now I've got it!

It's true!

Yeah, I've seen people

who abbreviate to shorthand dictation!

Great!

You're just like Jules Maigret

straight coming out of the novel.

Oh, Come on!

Now we know who the culprit is.

Let's go get him on the upper floor.

-Yes, sir! -Yes, sir!

Oh, it's this late already.

I wonder where Ms. Mouri is.

Maybe she's asking Shinichi

about the meaning of the "X" on the phone.

Yeah! As I suggested,

if he gets the answer right, she may give him her special "X".

Well, well, I will give my cherished "X" to him.

Sonoko!

I have asked Detective Takagi

about the meaning of "X"!

I see.

How could you?

If I say that I'd give him my "X",

Shinichi wouldn't answer even if he knew the answer.

Well, I bet he doesn't know the answer

because he knows very little

about this sort of thing.

By the way, I wonder where is Conan?

What? Oh, don't tell me he is missing again!

That little brat is always going straying off somewhere!

Kuniyoshi?

Oh, yes. He's here!

Hey, Kuniyoshi!

What is it?

Sorry to bother you

but we have questions to ask you.

Could you come with us to another room, please?

That's...

No problem.

A shredder!

Okay.

And you're saying that...

"Square, circle, cross, triangle".

Those marks signifies my name

"Bunta Kuniyoshi" -if you add those missing parts to them?

Yes, exactly.

But, Inspector?

It seems too hasty to conclude based only on the deduction,

that I am the culprit. Don't you think so?

Yet, that is his dying message!

Well, look at it this way.

The murderer might have written those bloody marks

with that old man's finger,

trying to put the guilt on me!

So, if you want to grill me,

you go find the missing document

and show it to me first!

Let's say, if I were the culprit,

I wouldn't stay in this building

where the murder was committed,

but run away outside and try to burn the papers.

That's why you destroyed them with the shredder, right?

But it was much easier than a jigsaw puzzle to put together

because of the red marks.

Right, Officer Takagi?

Yeah.

Here it is.

Oh, you've found it!

Yes!

It wasn't too difficult to find shreds of paper with blood on it

and then piece them together.

They correctly matched the characters on the envelope!

So, there is no doubt that these bloody characters

signify Bunta Kuniyoshi.

"Bunta"

As you've already identified the shredder,

if you spend a little extra time,

you can put the remaining pieces together, right?

Yes! And since we've also found the murderers cast-off gloves

at a rest room on the way to this office,

if Mr. Kuniyoshi put the papers into the shredder himself,

we can detect his fingerprints attached to them.

Circle, cross and triangle.

Now I see.

I had the nicknames of Big Mouth

and Circle, Cross and Triangle when I was in college.

But back then I didn't know why they called me by these names.

So that explains it.

I started embezzling from the company

because I really wanted to give my family a better life,

not one that was all mouth.

But once I made it, I just couldn't stop myself.

After all, I have a big mouth, I know it.

All evil comes from the mouth.

Oh, the police arrested the guy already?

Yeah, he was taken to the police just now through the back door.

Hey...

Now, you gotta tell me!

What's the "X" anyway?

Oh, do you still wanna know?

Yeah.

If you really want to know about it,

ask Ran!

Look! She's tapping out an e-mail over there.

So hurry

and come back!

Hey! What does the "X" mean?

Sonoko told me to ask you!

It's not good for you.

No...

Not good?

Oh, yeah! The "X" means "no good"!

See you then, Ms. Mouri and Ms. Suzuki!

Watch out for the stalker!

-We will, Ms. Jodie! -We will, Ms. Jodie!

Is it almost time to pick the apple?

Hey, Sato, Yamamoto and Kobayashi!

Are you all right, Mr. Tozawa?

Shut up!

I got a mail.

It's from Ran.

Today, I got involved in an incident again!

Maybe, I must be...

I must be cursed!

I know you want to hear more about the case.

I'll let you know the details later.

So hurry and come back!

XXX.

What's this?

Does this mean I am three times "no good"?

Can you tell me, please, Gin?

Do you believe in heaven?

You may say coldly...

"It's not like you to be so silly".

Please find the answer.

Until we exchange our glasses filled with rotten sherry.

I can't wait.

XXX.

Well, "X" means a kiss.

It's a feminine expression of affection.

But it could be also...

a sign of hatred.

Sure.

X also means the target.

With the silver arrow is shot.

Next Conan Hint:

"Cat"