A Honey Cocktail Murder Case

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 (Hanii Kakuteru Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 19, 1998
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Big Sting
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Packing tape
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 Officer Suzuki
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case
Next episode:	The Locked Bathroom Murder Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Gadgets

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?

Murder
	Location: Below of Yamazaki Household Victim: Hiromi Yamazaki Cause of death: Blunt Trauma to head after falling Suspects: Shingo Aihara, Hachibe Hachimaki, and Eri Nakamura

People

Shingo Aihara
	53 years old Caretaker

Hiromi Yamazaki
	Victim (felled) 50 years old President of Yamazaki Development

Hachibe Hachimaki
	62 years old Mayor of Iwami City

Eri Nakamura
	32 years old President Yamazaki's secretary

Officer Suzuki
	Policeman

Sakurai
	Doctor

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.

See also

• Season 5