Aibou TV Season 8 Episode 3 - Miss Green's Secret(ミス・グリーンの秘密)

Subtitle: Miss Green's Secret(ミス・グリーンの秘密)

 Hiroshi Nomura(野村 弘) was murdered in his home. Tatsuko Sasaki(佐々木 たつ子), a housewife, calls the Tokumeigakari office to report that she has vital information about this case. A while ago, a letter she wrote to the editor appeared in a magazine. In the letter, she mentioned finding a music box with a lily of the valley decoration on the murder victim's veranda. A short time before Nomura was killed, an old lady named Miss Midori came by to find out more about that music box. Inspector Ukyō instructs Lieutenant Kanbe to keep an eye on Miss Green. Miss Green injured her leg half year ago and has a hard time reaching items placed high. She hardly seems capable of killing a grown man in his twenties, but she seems to be hiding something...

Locations

Sei Yakobu Yōchien(聖ヤコブ幼稚園) - St. Jacob Kindergarten, Miss Green has been sending newborn plants to this kindergarten from time to time.

Kamizono Mae Kōban(神園前交番) - Kamizono Mae Police Box. The policeman working at this police box rushed to the park when Ms. Aoi passed away.

Mizutori Kōen(水鳥公園) - Waterfowl Park. Aoi passed away after falling into a pond here.

Nakanoku(中野区) - Nakano District. Atsuo Takei(武井 敦夫) lives here.

Uehara(上原) - Takei was heading in this direction when the police tried to track him down.

Minami Chūōkōen(南中央公園) - South Central Park. Miss Green meets Takei here,

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Midori Ninomiya(二宮 緑) - aka Miss Green. She is an old dignified lady who maintains an English garden in her backyard. She sends seedlings to a nearby kindergarten, St. Jacob Kindergarten, from time to time. She is proficient at using the Internet and orders daily necessities and gardening supplies through the Internet.

She never married in her life and had lived with her sister Aoi until half year ago when Aoi died in an accident.

She injured her legs half an year ago working in her garden and has a hard time reaching items placed up high. As a result, she walks around with a cane.

After Tatsuko's letter appeared in the magazine, Miss Green visited Tatsuko to ask about the music box with the lily of the valley on its outer cover that plays Pachelbel's Canon.

Inspector Ukyo thought it odd that one, Miss Green never asked why they interviewed her, and two, she left the bulbs of orange ballerina tulips in her box without moving them to a safe storage location for five days because she takes such a good care of her garden.

Because of these concerns, the inspector gets Lieutenant Kanbe to keep an eye on Miss Green. She promptly catches the lieutenant trying to spy on her and gets him to help her take care of her English garden. Later, Lieutenant Kanbe discovers a bent bloody walking stick hidden in her shoe rack.

Atsuo Takei(武井 敦夫) - College student and video mania who lives in Nakao District. He is the son of a dentist. His phone number was registered on Nomura's cell phone, Miss Green asks Takei to film a gathering of elderly people at South Central Park and meets him there.

Hiroshi Nomura(野村 弘) - 27 year old video mania and computer programmer who was found dead in his own apartment (room 105) 10 days ago by an insurance salesman. The front door to his home was left open. Nothing of monetary value was stolen nor was the room ransacked. He had numerous videotapes in his room.

He used the Internet screen name Charlie to post home videos of funny events he accidentally recorded. Some time after he started posting these videos, he started to create those accidents himself. Viewers vehemently complained, and he stopped posting his videos at the site.

Aoi Ninomiya(二宮 葵) - Miss Green's late younger sister whose hobby was bird watching. She had a heart condition and kept her medication inside the music box she carried around.

Half year ago, she died from an heart attack after falling into a lake in Waterfowl Park(水鳥公園 Mizutori Kōen),She had visited the park for birdwatching. She apparently dropped her bag in the pond at the park and had tried to retrieve it. She fell into the pond and pass away after suffering a heart attack shortly afterwards. A witness to this incident said that he didn't see anyone in the vicinity at the time. Inspector Ukyō noticed that the strap on her bag was 120 cm long. Since Aoi was 155 cm tall, she must have worn the bag across her shoulders. Worn that way, her bag shouldn't have slid off into the pond.

Tatsuko Sasaki(佐々木 たつ子) - She first talked to Lieutenant Miura then called the Tokumeigakari office to report that she had information relevant to Nomura's death. In a letter published in a magazine, she wrote that she saw a music box with a lily of the valley decoration on Nomura's veranda. Shortly before Nomura was killed, an old lady named Miss Green dropped by her house to ask about the music box.

Jin Takashina(高階 仁) - Principal of St. Jacob Kindergarten. He tells Inspector Ukyō that Aoi used the music box as a medicine case.

Masaharu Ishida(石田 正治) - Bird watcher who explained why birdwatchers at the lake leave their bags on the ground to Inspector Ukyō.

Masanobu Ikegami(池上 正宣) - Drug dealer whose arrest record includes arrests for drug dealing and blackmailing. A store clerk witnessed Ikegami and Nomura getting into a scuffle a few days before Nomura was killed. About half year ago, Ikegami seized Nomura's video because Nomura was walking around with a video camera near the place in the park where Ikegami had been selling drugs.