A/N: As I write this chapter, I'm listening to the perfect background music. Detective Conan OST 2 Jiken Genba (Nazo Version). :3 You can probably find it on youtube if ya wanna listen... they play it in the episodes usually after someone's been murdered and the Inspector+Police arrive on the scene to investigate.

Also, sorry for the names, I kind of suck at making them up, especially English ones. XD

And yes, there will be a part 3 to this. But that will bopefully be the conclusion!

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Episode 7: Movies and Murder, Part 2

The eighteen year old Jimmy Kudo had seen plenty of dead bodies before. In fact, he seemed to be a magnet for them, and it was no difference if he was eighteen or eight by the looks of things. However, Jimmy couldn't remember seeing a dead body before now. At least it wasn't full of blood. There wasn't a wound on the outside so Jimmy most likely assumed the way he was killed was through some sort of poison.

Beside him, Rachel was shaking. The last time she had seen a dead body was the roller coaster murder at Tropical Land, the last time Jimmy had been eighteen. He'd solved the case and the criminal had been arrested. However, how was he supposed to solve it now? Nobody knew Jimmy Kudo had shrunk other than herself, his parents and Dr. Agasa. Would they really believe him? No, if he told the police anything, they'd probably laugh because he was just a kid.

"Rachel, call the police," Jimmy said looking up at her. That was when he noticed she was shaking. It was only natural, after all, the victim had been quite close to their seats not to mention in the same theater. He frowned and gently placed his small hand over hers. She jumped and looked down at him.

"O-Oh... Jimmy...did you say something?" she asked, blinking a few times. He nodded. "You should call the police." Rachel nodded and took out her cell phone from her pocket and turned it on.

In about fifteen minutes, the police along with Inspector Meguire and of course, Rachel's dad, Richard, had arrived at the scene of the crime. Police began taking pictures and examining the body.

"The victim's name is Michael Coleson, age 22. There are no injuries on the outside so death is most likely poison..."

Inspector Meguire went on a bit more while Richard made sure his daughter was okay. That was when he noticed Jimmy. Of course he had no idea who he was, but he looked awfully familiar. Jimmy didn't know who he was either, other than the fact that he was obviously her father.

"Who's this kid?" Richard asked, pointing to him. The question seemed to have also gotten Inspector Meguire's attention, to look over at Jimmy. He blinked at the striking similarities between the kid and Kudo.

"Um...well..." Rachel mumbled, trying to think of something. She obviously couldn't use his real name, and Jimmy knew that too. 'Come on Rachel, think of something!' she told herself, when suddenly an idea popped into her head.

"This little boy is Conan," Rachel told her father. At the name, Jimmy looked over at her. 'I bet she got that name from Conan Doyle.' "He was in an accident and injured his head. Remember I told you about the little boy I was visiting in the hospital?" At Richard's grunt, she continued. "Well, this is him. He got out a few days ago, and when I came to his house for a visit, his mother suggested I take him somewhere because he hadn't been out of the house much."

"Why were you visiting the boy anyway? I don't remember seeing him before today," Richard said, which meant that she couldn't have known him for very long. She paled. Uh oh. Um...

"H-He's Jimmy's cousin! That's why they look so much alike!" she answered, and he looked over at Jimmy, studying him.

"He does? Hmm... hadn't noticed."

Both Rachel and Inspector Meguire sweat dropped. Meguire turned his attention back to the victim.

"Where is Kudo anyway? Usually I can't get him away from crime scenes," said Meguire. "I thought he'd be here already, especially if you were involved, Rachel."

"Oh, well um... Jimmy had to leave on a really difficult case he took on and won't be back for some time," Rachel replied. "But Jimmy taught Conan how to be a good detective. Right, Conan?"

"Uh, yeah!" He smiled. Guess he was going to have to get used to that name.

"Really? Kudo taught an eight year old how to be a detective?" Meguire raised an eyebrow.

"He was over at Jimmy's house a lot and really into detective stuff, so, yeah."

"Hmm." Meguire wasn't about to let a child solve a case, even if he did get it right. And even if it was Kudo who had taught him, a kid shouldn't be around corpses anyway, right?

"Well, Meguire, I think we can assume that the brat and my daughter aren't suspects in this case," Richard spoke up again, looking at the people in the theater who were now all standing together but as far away from the victim as possible. "So that means that the nine of you remaining are suspects."

"Who are you to just come in and say stuff like this?" a girl, a rather upset one, asked as she pointed a finger at him. "And how can you count them out as suspects?"

"My dear, I'm Richard Moore, private detective," he said, pointing a finger at himself. "And as for your last question, my daughter couldn't kill anyone. Anyone who knows her would know that, and the brat...well, he's just a kid who likes to play detective. He's probably only squashed a bug or two in his short lifetime."

Jimmy and Rachel both sweatdropped at that one. If he only knew.

They had gotten the names of each of the suspects. The girl who had screamed and sat beside the victim at the time of his death, Raven Meyer, age 20. Chelsea Jacobs, age 23. Loly Mora, age 19, and the last girl, Rina Baxter, age 18.

The guys: Steven Marks, age 20. He'd been seeing the movie with Loly at the time, and they'd been sitting in the row behind the victim. Andrew Larsen, age 19, was sitting close to Rina at the time but they hadn't come here together. They didn't even know each other but had been sitting near the front row. Mitchel Greyson, age 25. He'd been sitting near the next guy, Arthur Thompson, age 24. They didn't know each other, either but had been sitting in the same row as Andrew and Rina. Lastly, the other two guys, Johnson Laine, age 18, and Ken Colt. They'd been sitting in the row right behind the victim but almost on opposite sides of the row. They were all suspects, but Meguire was suspicious about was Raven, the girl who had been sitting next to the victim. She claimed that they had just come from a restaurant together and had then gone to see this movie. They had been going out for over a month now.

But even if she seemed most suspicious because she had been right beside him, everyone was still a suspect. They were all sitting rather close to the victim aside from Andrew, Rina, Ken and Johnson. They had indeed been in the row behind the victim, but there were still a good distance away.

Jimmy was walking around and looking at the body and the area around him while no one was looking. Rachel noticed and had kept her dad occupied so he wouldn't. He was going to solve this case, right? Even though he had no memories of his past, he still knew the stuff he'd learned as a detective, so he'd surely solve it.

With a keen eye for detail, only one truth prevails.

TBC

A/N: I think everyone in this chapter was strangely in character... especially Richard ^^, but that's my opinion... it helps when I listen to the background music from the show. As I said above, there will be a part three which will most likely be the conclusion to this. And I warned you before, I suck at names especially last names. I went to Wikipedia and took a few from there, using a few of my high school classmates names for the first names. ^^ What do you think so far? Is it really Raven? Hmm....