At the Suzuki Balloon Festival in Beika, a group of balloonists were racing to the end. During what appears to have been a ballon crash, a man's wife falls out. Did the crash throw her out or did something else?

A serial blackmailer is found dead. An office worker he was blackmailing admits she did it, but Kogoro saw her in another neighborhood during the time of the murder. Why did she admit to a murder it was impossible for her to commit or is she hiding something else?