The Flower Scent Murder Case

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Episode 90 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Flower Scent Murder Case
Japanese title:	花の香り殺人事件 (Hana no Kaori Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 9, 1998
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Deadly Art
Dubbed episode:	Episode 93
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Cream puff
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Next Conan's Hint Tomoko Shiota as Rika Okano Saeko Shimazu as Midori Ozaki Yutaka Nakano as Daisuke Shiraki Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Katagiri Anaconda Isshin Chiba as Cloak room clerk Naoki Makishima as Boy
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

A threat on a flower show artist causes Kogoro Mouri to be hired during a local flower show, but when one of the guests is murdered.

Murder
	Location: Bay Front Hotel Victim: Daisuke Shiraki Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Katagiri Anaconda The victim was first put to sleep with chloroform then kill by a tie.

Conan must find a way to prevent yet another possible murder from happening during the same show.

People

Midori Ozaki
	33 years old Rika Okano's manager

Rika Okano
	28 years old Avant-garde Ikebana artist

Daisuke Shiraki
	Victim (strangled) 58 years old Bay Front Hotel owner

Katagiri Anaconda
	35 years old Pro wrestler

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan noticed that there was a chloroform scent from the victim's flower.
• Searching Rika's belonging, Conan found a bottle of Chloroform which is used in the murder to put the victim to sleep first before murdered him. He also found a bottle of Potassium Cyanide, concluded that the murder must plan to kill someone else as well.

Conclusion

Conan soon figured out that the second target is none other than Rika Okano. As the flowers that all the guests received should already bloom meaning the flowers on the stage was the one that was poisoned. As Midori Ozaki, Rika's manager was the one who prepared the flowers for the guests and the stage only she could have done this.

• A frozen chloroform would be put in a flower that had it temperature reduced so it would reverted to flower bud. When time passed, the flower will bloom and the victim will be put to sleep.
• A frozen Potassium Cyanide would be employed in similar tactic, except that it's put in the flowers that were to be used in the show and this time, to kill targets directly.

Motive

Some years before the murders, Rika and Shiraki stole the secret ikebana techniques that Midori's beloved older sister invented and blacklisted her from the ikebana circles; Miss Ozaki fell in despair and commited suicide by poisoning several bunches of flowers in her room and then performing her signature trick to make them open at the same time, releasing the poison that took her life away. A little later, Midori found her sister's body.

Midori searched for info on who stole her sister's trademarks and soon found Rika, who was claiming she was the true creator. So she became Rika's manager and staged a gambit to kill both her and Shiraki. She first drugged Shiraki ans strangled him, then poisoned Rika's stage flowers and got ready. Had said gambit worked, both Rika and Midori would've died; Rika would've been "punished" for indirectly causing Miss Ozaki's death, and Midori would escape punishment and be "reunited" with her dead sister in death.

See also

• Season 4