Episode
Cat's Eye: The Challenger Smells Like Paris
Overview
Lupin's Bride, a rival thief from Paris, arrives and challenges Cat's Eye by targeting the same art pieces. The Kisugi sisters must outsmart Lupin's Bride and evade the traps the Inunari Precinct has devised in order to prevent some of their father's art collection from being taken out of the country.
Details
- Series
- Cat's Eye
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1983-08-01
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
The Challenger Smells Like Paris is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Cat's Eye. It aired on 1983-08-01. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 3: Be Careful of the Mini-Devil
While guarding an emerald targeted by Cat's Eye, Toshio discovers by accident that his nemesis is in fact a woman. As a rattled Hitomi makes her escape, Kazumi, member of a newspaper club at Ai's school, catches her flight on camera. Ai frantically tries to stop the film from being developed but fails. While Cat's Eye finalizes their plans to steal the emerald, Kazumi pursues her suspicions. The Kisugi sisters must therefore outwit Toshio and Kazumi to keep their identity from being exposed.
Episode 5: Night Flight Is a Dangerous Scent
Toshio gets a new partner in Detective Asatani. Young and talented, Asatani has no trouble working the Cat's Eye case. She even has a suspect in mind: Hitomi. It's going to take the creativity of all three Kisugi sisters to put her off the scent.
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Episode 2: Welcome to the Police Station
Kagawa Shunzo, a private collector who claims to have a painting that Cat's Eye might steal, asks Toshio for help but is found dead thereafter. Cat's Eye become the chief suspect of his murder. With Nagaishi's help, the Kisugi sisters must do what it takes to clear Cat's Eye's name and reputation.
Episode 6: Feeling a Bit Like Lovers
There's trouble in paradise when Toshio spoils a romantic moment with Hitomi worrying over Cat's Eye's next heist. Preoccupied with their fight and trying to work up the nerve to kiss Hitomi, catching Cat's isn't exactly the first thing on Toshio's mind.
Episode 1: You're a Sexy Thief
After Cat's Eye pull a heist and evade Toshi's efforts to capture them yet again, Kacho gives him an ultimatum. With his career as a police officer at stake, Toshi vows to put romance and marriage on hold until he apprehends Cat's Eye. Even though Hitomi sympathizes with Toshio's predicament and is affected by it, to get back all of their father's art collection is the only way for the Kisugi sisters to figure out the mystery of his disappearance.
Episode 7: Make the Love Sign Glamorous
Hitomi's birthday plans are ruined when the serial bomber Toshio's been chasing strikes a museum during her party. Toshio will go to any lengths to catch the bomber and make up with Hitomi, but he may not be able to pull it off alone.
Episode 8: Far and Away Tottoccino
Cat's targets one of a set of paintings by an Italian master, but they get more than they bargained for when a foreign embassy also wants the paintings to unearth the clues to a Medici treasure they're said to contain.
Episode 9: Bizarre Track, Thief Chases Police
Toshio decides the only way to outwit Cat's is to steal their target first. With their roles reversed, Hitomi and Toshio set out on a chase across Yokohama that ends at the bottom of a well. Now thief and detective must work together to escape.
Episode 10: Do You Like Dog Food?
Between forgeries, lecherous department store owners, and killer dogs, Cat's Eye and Inunari Station have problems in spades. It'll take plans set in motion by both thieves and police to pull off this heist and bring the corrupt businessman to justice.
Episode 11: Dangerous American Temptation
Hitomi tags along when Toshio mounts a sting operation on an illegal mafia-run casino. Finding one of her father's long-missing paintings in the lobby, Hitomi uses her wiles to try and win it back. But all is not as it seems.
Episode 12: Gorgeous European Temptation
Hitomi awaits her big roulette game for her father's painting aboard the Queen Scheherazade. Meanwhile, Rui infiltrates the ship by posing as a dancer and works to install herself as the dealer for Hitomi's game. But who will Hitomi be playing?
Episode 13: Don't Go, My Love
Toshio has a chance to become an inspector, but in order to take the promotion he has to move away for a year. He asks Hitomi to come with him, but can either of them leave Cat's Eye behind?