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
Broadcast rating:	20%
Filler case:	#36
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Deadly Art
Dubbed episode:	Episode 93
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
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 Juzo 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 Juzo 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 Age: 58 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Katagiri Anaconda and Rika Okano 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

Kotaro Imamura
	Football player

Marika Aochi
	Actress

Koji Takahata
	Soccer player

Clerk
	Hotel clerk

Bellboy
	Hotel bellboy

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan smells chloroform's scent the victim's flower.
• Searching Rika's belonging, Conan found a bottle of Chloroform which is used in the murder. First the culprit put the victim to sleep first before murdered him. He also found a bottle of Potassium Cyanide, concluding that the culprit must plan to murder 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

It turns out that Rika's secret ikebana techniques to make flowers bloom onstage weren't hers to start with: the real creator was Midori's older sister, a fellow ikebana expert. Some years before the murders, Rika and Shiraki stole Ozaki's secrets and blacklisted her from the ikebana circles. This caused her to fall in despair and commit suicide by poisoning several bunches of flowers in her bedroom and then performing her signature trick to make them open at the same time, releasing the poison that took her life away. Few later, Midori found her sister dead on her bed, her corpse surrounded by open flowers.

Midori searched for info on who stole her sister's trademarks and soon found out about 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 and strangled him, then poisoned Rika's stage flowers and got ready for the rest. Had her gambit worked, both Rika and Midori would have been fatally poisoned: Rika would've been "punished/executed" for indirectly causing Miss Ozaki's death, and Midori would've escaped punishment and been "reunited" with her sister in death.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Midori Ozaki - Madison O'Connor
• Rika Okano - Rita Jordan
• Daisuke Shiraki - Ty Sherwood
• Katagiri Anaconda - Slughead McGraw
• Aochi Marika - Maria Stone
• Takahata Kouji - Bert Jacobs

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
11	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
13	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
15	コナンの夢 （夕暮れver.）	Konan no Yume (Yūgure ver.)	Conan's Dream (Twilight ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
17	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Trivia

• The Car Show in The Scene is Red 1992 Ferrari 512 TR.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French	Meurtre au parfum	Murder With Perfume
Galician	O asasinato das flores perfumadas
German	Tödlicher Duft	Deadly Scent
Italian	L'artista floreale	The Floral Artist
Spanish	El asesinato del perfume de flores
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người bằng hương hoa	The Flower Scent Murder Case

See also

• Season 4