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The Big Shrink (Japanese: ジェットコースター殺人事件 ''Roller Coaster Murder Case'') is the first episode of the Anime series Case Closed that first aired in Japan on January 8 , 1996 . It later aired in America on May 24 , 2004 SUMMARY The show opens at night at some large mansion. A teenager by the name of Jimmy Kudo has figured out a case and is showing off his soccer skills which assist in capturing the criminal. He explains how he is a teenager detective and solves many cases that baffle the police. The next day, he meets up with his childhood friend and crush, Rachel Moore who blames Jimmy for her father's lack of business. Although she claims she is 'not angry,' she punches a lamp post which indicates that she is indeed frustrated and annoyed. It's revealed that Rachel is the captain of their school's karate team and that Rachel's father Richard Moore is also a detective, albeit a rather hopeless one. Rachel reminds Jimmy that he promised to go to Tropical Land (an amusement park) if she won a karate championship. He forgets (or pretends to forget) but agrees to go. At Tropical Land, Jimmy and Rachel go on a roller coaster ride. All the while, Jimmy is talking about how much he likes Sherlock Holmes and his detective powers. He claimed that by just a handshake he could tell what profession a person was in. To demonstrate, he shakes a girl's hand right beside him and instantly claims that she is a Gymnast . She is indeed a gymnast, and when asked to explain his reasoning, Shin'ichi said that the girl had many calluses on her hand, and only a gymnast could have a hand like that. On the roller coaster ride, Jimmy feels a drop of wet something fall on his face. He doesn't know what it is, because they're inside a dark tunnel. As soon as they're out, he turns back to see what was going on, and a fellow passenger has been Decapitated/murdered . Jimmy lays out a list of suspects (the people riding the roller coaster with him) before the Inspector Megure , which are: the victim, the victim's girl-friend, the victim's two friends, and two men in black. The men in black are extremely uncooperative and Jimmy notes that the men's eyes are cold and cruel, "like those of a killer." He eventually figures it was the girl who was the gymnast. She had used piano wire slipped around the victims neck and then a hook hooked to the side of the track. The momentum cut the victim's head clean off. The murderer cries that the victim had left her for the victim's current girlfriend, and wanted to kill him. While returning home, Rachel cries that the murder was extremely sad. Jimmy said that those things happen all the time. He then notices the two men in black from before and decides to follow them. He tells Rachel to go on home, and that he would catch up later. Rachel feels that she will never see him again. Jimmy follows the men in black, and witnesses an illegal transaction concerning Gun Smuggling . What he doesn't see is one of the men in black sneaking up from behind him. He knocks Jimmy down and gives him a poison that is supposed to leave no traces in his bloodstream. Jimmy feels like all his bones are melting, but eventually wakes up to find that his body has shrunk to that of a 7-year old. THEMES
''"Mune ga doki doki"'' by The High-Lows
''"Step by Step"'' by Ziggy TRIVIA
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