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In "The Fourteenth Target" movie, Ran was being held hostage by Kohei Sawaki,
Conan picked up the gun and shot Ran, then he was forced to leave Ran (The
same scene also happened when Jo Murakami held Eri Kisaki hostage and Mouri
shot her).

I still don't understand why he was forced to stop holding her hostage.

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Why was Kohei Sawaki forced to leave Ran when Conan shot her in the second movie? (The Fourteenth Target)


It is because a wounded person is harder to carry even as a hostage. Conan
shot Ran in the leg or knee so that she wouldn't be able to walk if Sawaki
forces her to. Which leaves her with a bruise, and spares her from being a
hostage with a death threat.

There's also a similar flashback of Kogoro shooting Eri at the beginning of
the movie, noting that Kogoro is one of the finest and most precise shooters
in the story who graduated with unprecedented marks in the Police Academy.
Conan also explains that scene here, that wounded hostages are harder to
carry, so they're abandoned by the criminal in most cases.


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