A Honey Cocktail Murder Case

	Accident?
Location:	Below of Yamazaki household
Victim:	Hiromi Yamazaki
Age:	50 years old
Cause of death:	Blunt trauma to head after falling
Suspects:	Shingo Aihara, Hachibe Hachimaki, and Eri Nakamura

Sakurai
	Doctor working for Nagasaki Prefecture police;

	Episode 120 ; (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
	Information
Title:	A Honey Cocktail Murder Case
Japanese title:	ハニーカクテル殺人事件 ; (Hanī Kakuteru Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 19, 1998
Broadcast rating:	18.2%
Filler case:	#46
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
	English version
English title:	The Big Sting
Dubbed episode:	Episode 127
	Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa ; Kogoro Mouri ; Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Balloon
	Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto ; Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Masaaki Sakurai
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast:
	Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint ; Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint ; Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri ; Akiko Takeguchi as Hiromi Yamazaki ; Rei Igarashi as Eri Nakamura ; Kinryuu Arimoto as Shingo Aihara ; Masaaki Okabe as Hachibe Hachimaki ; Hideyuki Umezu as Ichiro Suzuki
	Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni

Chronology
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Characters introduced

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

A woman Kogoro helped in an earlier case, Hiromi Yamazaki, invites Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to a new planned mountain estate hoping to get them to endorse it. Little do they know that someone from Hiromi's past now has feelings of hatred for her, and they plan on using bees to teach her a lesson. Will this lead to another murder, and if so, can enough clues be found to solve the case?

People

Shingo Aihara
	53 years old Caretaker

Hiromi Yamazaki
	Victim (fell) 50 years old Yamazaki Development president

Hachibe Hachimaki
	62 years old Iwami City mayor

Eri Nakamura
	32 years old Yamazaki's secretary

Ichiro Suzuki
	Nagasaki Prefecture policeman

Sakurai
	Doctor working for the police

Resolution

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Using a knocked out Kogoro, Conan declares the housekeeper, Shingo Aihara to be the culprit, and reveals that there is honey in the connecting part of the doorknob of Yamazaki's room. Then, if wasps attack inside, they would normally run out the door but there was a bunch of wasps on the honey-covered doorknob, so President Yamazaki ran in the opposite direction to the window, the rail on the veranda was quite corroded, it had been corroded in advance using sulfuric acid, and reveals he put wasps into the bag attached to the balloon and placed it in the chimney. They were probably gathered after spraying them with ether. To incriminate him, Conan concludes that he found a beekeeper outfit that smelled of ether in the shed, and also reveals that there were three helium tanks in the shed were used to test flights for the balloon with a bag attached in it. And reveals he murdered Yamazaki by:

First, to temporarily keep the balloon inside the chimney, he tied fishing line to it led it to the downstairs kitchen through a small hole in the floor by the fireplace, and tied it to a nail.
He also stuck fishing line to a piece of tape on the bag and led it to the kitchen.
And reveals the call President Yamazaki recieved, was actually from Aihara to get her into the room.
After confirming that she had picked up the receiver, he pulled a thread leading into the kitchen, the tape covering made a pre-made rip in the bag came off and sent wasps flying out.
The balloon blocked the chimney's top, so the wasps flew into the room, the agitated wasps then attacked President Yamazaki. While spraying the insecticide, she headed for the door, but she was unable to open it because it was crawling with wasps.
With no other choice, she ran around the room, broke the window and leapt onto the veranda. she leaned against the rail and aimed the spray at wasps, but the rail broke and she fell over.
After they rushed outside, he quickly returned to the kitchen and undid the other thread, and so the balloon went flying out the chimney, and also reveals that his towel must've used in covering the doorknob in honey and there is the thread he used in his pocket.

Aihara confesses and reveals Yamazaki lied to him that she will make him as the manager of the spa resort, so he tried so hard to endure it and also he wanted to ruin the ground-breaking ceremony of the spa resort tomorrow.

Translation changes

Anime

The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

Shingo Aihara - Stanley Aikman
Hiromi Yamazaki - Stacy Young
Hachibe Hachimaki - Hadley Monahan
Eri Nakamura - Allie McNair
Officer Suzuki - Officer Salley
Sakurai - Doctor Wentz

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	想い出（摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Omoide (Mantenrō Vājon)	Memories (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	毛利小五郎のテーマ（ファンキーver.）	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.)	Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	謎解き（その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	事件現場（謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	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	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
8	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	推理（オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	悪のテーマ（パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	闇の男爵ナイトバロンのテーマ	Yami no Danshaku Naito Baron no Tēma	Baron of the Darkness, The Night Baron's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	対決のテーマ（落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	氷の上に立つように	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni	Like Standing on Ice	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
15	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

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat del còctel de mel	Honey Cocktail murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat del còctel de mel	Honey Cocktail murder
French	Un meurtre au goût de miel	A Honey-tasting Murder
Galician	Asasinato con mel	Murder with honey
German	Angriff der Killerwespen	Attack of the Killer Wasps
Italian	Api e miele	Bees and Honey
Spain (Castilian dub)	El asesinato en el cóctel de miel	Murder at the honey cocktail
Spanish (American dub)	El caso del asesinato de miel	Honey cocktail case
Vietnamese	Vụ án cocktail mật ong giết người	A Honey Cocktail Murder Case