" December 1968." "Investigation of the 300-million yen robbery that occurred on December 10, 1968 had hit a snag with the suicide of Youth S who was thought to be the suspect." "Seike." "Endo-san, what brings you here?" "You're getting off soon, aren't you?" "You wanna go?" "Oh, come to think of it, the memorial service was today, wasn't it?" "I think so." "I'm burning my son's belongings." "Did you think my son was suspicious?" "Youth S, that is." "In order to destroy the evidence," "I must be burning the 300 million yen in cash." "Is that what you're thinking?" "You won't find big money like that anywhere." "Come here and take a look in here too." "There's no need to hold back." "Come take a look." "Even if I had that 300 million yen here," "I would probably burn it." "That's how parents are." "The 300-million yen robbery remains unsolved to this day." "Youth S is you, right?" "Takahashi-san." "No I'm not." "He committed suicide 45 years ago, remember?" "Where's the 300 million yen in hard cash right now?" "You're not going to find big money like that anywhere." "I don't have 300 million yen in my possession, nor am I hiding it or looking for it." "But the onset of Sakura Fubuki Association to which you belong was the 300-million yen robbery, right?" "You shouldn't go around making unwise remarks like that." "This day and age, you never know who might be watching." "That goes for me as well as for you folks." "Camera..." "In that respect, you were lucky that they didn't have surveillance cameras back then." "Actually, maybe someone was watching you back then and that's why the incident was covered up." "Well, even if that was the case, it has nothing to do with me." "You do know, don't you?" "The whereabouts of the 300 million yen." "I guess I'll just have to look elsewhere." "You and Sawatari aren't the only ones, right?" "Who know the whereabouts of the 300 million yen." "Isn't there an entrance somewhere else?" "I know there is." "Another entrance." "The entrance to the 300 million yen." "It hurts." "It's cold." "Seike-san, hurry up please." "By "the entrance to the 300 million yen,"" "are you perhaps talking about someone with the police who was involved in the cover-up?" "That's right." "Since it happened 45 years ago, it's quite possible that he's still alive." " If he was 30 back then?" " 75." " If he was 35 back then?" " 80." " If he was 40 back then?" " 85." "Yes, cor~rect." "In other words, the founder of Sakura Fubuki Association is alive." "Although it doesn't necessarily mean there was only one person." "That hurt." "Is the person who killed my father among those people?" "That's why, we'll know that too once we find the entrance, won't we?" "Seike-san." "I'm cold~." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Go ahead." "Are you sure you didn't hear anything from your father?" "About the investigation at that time." "Yes." "I didn't even know that he was investigating the 300-million yen robbery." "What about like your father's superiors?" "I don't remember." "My father didn't talk much about his work at home." "He must've been an admirable man." "Incidentally, tomorrow will be exactly 10 years since my father passed away." "Which means tomorrow's his death anniversary?" "Yes." "Therefore, I've asked to take a day off to go visit his grave site." "I see." "This is from Takahashi-san." "It's what we've been protecting." "Still... managing to survive." "Excuse me~." "May I ask who you are?" "Are you by any chance Seike-kun's daughter?" "Yes." "Is that right?" "I'm as you can see here." "Endo Takeshi-san." "There was a time when your father and I were on the same investigation team." "Now, I'm doing something that's more like volunteer work." "Judicial Research and Training Institute (Police Pension Seminar)" "And you?" "I'm currently on loan from the National Police Agency to the First Investigation Division at the Kanagawa Prefectural Police." "I'm Seike Mashiro." "So you're working for the police, just like your father." "Is that right..." "I owe a lot to your father." "It's been 45 years since we first met." "45 years..." "Well, there's work I have to do, so I'll get going." "Thank you for coming today." "Perhaps we'll meet again somewhere." "Excuse me." "Judicial Research and Training Institute?" "Police Pension Seminar." "Kurokouchi-san." "That man, wasn't he hinting around that he met your father 45 years ago?" "He wasn't hinting around." "He clearly said so." "Which means it's possible that he was investigating the 300-million yen robbery." "Seike-san, go ask him about the investigation at that time." "He might have seen the entrance person, right?" "The person who's the entrance to the 300 million yen." "What are you planning to do by tracking down the 300 million yen?" "Well, I got a lot of reporting to do." "Reporting?" "There were people who wanted to know the truth." "But there were people who were unable to know the truth." "And there's us, who know their feeling." "Isn't it like that with your father, too, who died before he could wipe off the shit completely?" "While you're at it, why don't you ask about your father too?" "He might know something." "Come on, now." "Research, research." "Aren't you going, Kurokouchi-san?" "I have to, you know, go back and wait." "For what?" "What could it be?" "For the time being, polish the headstone." "I already did the weeding." "Are you going to have the handgun re-evaluated?" "Yes." "Something Sawatari said in his testimony bothers me." "I turned in the request this morning." "I see..." "This is being done strictly to investigate what really happened." "If you don't mind, please stand by at the office today." "All right." "Hello." "Is Sawatari's investigation going well?" "You're not planning to release him, are you?" "Prosecutor Echigo." "I understand how you feel, though." "They're scary, aren't they?" "Sawatari and his people." "But if you do that, won't you be a slave to them for the rest of your life?" "As Sakura Fubuki Association's personal cover-up prosecutor." "Oh, but you're good at cover-ups, huh?" "What do you want now?" "Can I have you buy me some time?" "I'm in the process of making various preparations." "Preparations?" "I'll try to get the re-evaluation of the gun prolonged as well from my side." "Thank you in advance." "I submitted the request for re-evaluation." "However, the results won't be back for a week." "A week." " They're pretty busy right now." " Did that detective say something to you?" "Like what?" "Oh, well... never mind." "Come in." "Hi there!" "I've been waiting." "Assistant Inspector Kurokouchi Dies" "I like it." "I'm really photogenic, aren't I?" "Oh, that's right." "I was playing around and made these too." "That's technology, huh?" "But this one's fine." "Be ready to go with it." "Okay." "But are you really going to use that?" "Sure I am." "Any time now." "But please." "Don't really die on me, okay?" "Yeah, right." "I bet you're hoping I'd die." "I'm hoping to track down the entrance with this." "Although" "I'm getting tracked down too." "This must be it." " Endo Judicial Research and Training Institute" " Police Pension Seminar" "Excuse me~." "Let me verify that with the National Police Agency." "Yes." "Good bye." "Pardon me for dropping in unexpectedly." "That's all right." "Seike-kun's daughter is welcome any time." "Please come in." "The 300 million yen robbery?" "The other day, you mentioned 45 years ago, so..." "It's true we were participating in the investigation." "Both me and your father." "At the time, your father was still a policeman working out of a police box." "He was a very motivated policeman, and." "My name is Seike Shinji." "There were no signs of 300 million yen at the residence... your father was actively participating in the investigation." "You do know, don't you?" "That the incident ended up unsolved." "Yes." "That unforgettable day," "December 9, 1975." "I can only say that we are extremely disappointed." "In spite of our investigation, the statute of limitations on the 300-million yen robbery had expired." "Everyone left the scene with a big unanswered question." "Without finding out anything." "My father was trying to find that out..." "My father continued to investigate the 300-million yen robbery on his own." "That's what I heard from someone." "Is that right?" "That, I didn't know." "Is that so." "That picture is...?" "Ah, they're my old colleagues." "Were these people also involved in the investigation of the 300-million yen robbery?" "Yes." "The one on the far right is me." "May I ask the names of the others?" "The person next to me is Kanai-san." "And next to him is Yamaji-san." "On the far left is the man by the name of Shiroo-san." "Kanai-san." "Yamaji-san." "Shiroo-san." "All three have already passed away though." "Is that right?" "Excuse me~." "Sawatari-san?" "Charges will be dropped and he'll be released soon." "I bet you're wondering why I'm still here when I told you I'm a temp." "So, what do you want today?" "I'm a temp, but I'll help you." "Let me borrow one of your rooms." "Yamaji-san was in First Investigation Division." "Kanai-san was in First Division too." "Shiroo Heizo-san was in..." "Public Security." "Oh, Seike-san." "How did it go with Endo-san?" "He was a very nice helpful man." "That's not what I meant." "Did you ask him about the investigation?" "There was nothing in particular relative to the entrance." "However, there was a photo on display of the people who were involved in the investigation with Endo-san, and I just found out that one of those people by the name of." "Shiroo Heizo-san was formerly with Public Security." "What are the names of the others?" "Yamaji Takeharu-san, formerly with First Division, and a person by the name of Kanai Michio-san." "Shiroo." "Yamaji." "Kanai." "Unfortunately, all of them have already passed away, so we won't be able to talk to them." "No, Seike-san... that's a hit." "What do you mean?" "Add Endo-san's name to that list, and try blinking your eyes." "I bet you'll start seeing something." "EN" " ZAN" " KIN" " JYOU (first character of each of the four people's name)" "TOU" " SAN" " KANE" " SHIRO (each character has several ways it can be read)" "TOU" " YAMA" " KIN" " SHIRO" "Touyama Kinshiro" "(popular character from the Edo period famous for his tattoo of...)" " (flurry of falling cherry blossoms)" " Sakura fubuki" "Spot on cor~rect." "Found you, entrance." "Fubuki Holdings." "Hello?" "They realized, did they?" "So you're alive after all." "Then he'll be here any minute now." "Sakura Fubuki Association was formed by." "Endo-san and his colleagues." "The one who killed my father was..." "Endo-san?" "H-hello?" "Please back out." "Who is this?" "You don't want to end up like your father, do you?" "Todai-chan." "What the hell... go away." "He hung up on me." "Awesome." "It doesn't make any noise at all." "Captured~!" "I bet you never thought you'd be captured alive, huh?" "To tell you the truth, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time." "You're a police officer, aren't you?" "I remember... that face." "Where's the 300 million yen right now?" "That's 3..." "That's 2..." "C-cut it out." "That's 1." "Don't do it~!" "Don't, please." "I'm just kidding." "An underling like you wouldn't know anyway." "But since you're already here, look." "Yup, it's an article that exposes the disgraceful state of police affairs." "If something happens to me, you face is gonna end up in this space." "That's not all, though." "This might trigger the exposure of Sakura Fubuki Association to the world." "All because of you." "Tell Takahashi to stop trying to kill me." "How come he's not answering?" "That's cold." "That Sakura Fubuki Association." "That can't be." "I don't know why you joined, but why don't you take this opportunity and quit the police and all?" "Although you'll have to give up your pension." "But if you ask that guy, you can get some money, right?" "Right?" "Sonoda-chan." "Good evening, Sugi-san." "Good evening." "How did it go with Sonoda?" "Apparently, he didn't succeed." "You were attacked too?" "Does that mean you were attacked again?" "But I was actually waiting for it." "What do you mean?" "I don't think we'll have to worry about getting attacked anymore." "But now, there's practically no doubt that Endo's the one who tried to get you to back out from the 300-million yen robbery." "What's more, he's the entrance we were looking for." "But Endo may not have anticipated you getting attacked." "What is going on?" "Are you planning to kill Seike's daughter?" "We, too, ought to have our pride as police officers." "I'm just keeping my promise, that's all." "From now on, we want you to protect that." "It's my honor." "I'm just following what Shiroo-san told me to do." "This is a pretty heavy duty lock he's got on here." "Doesn't this mean the 300 million yen is in here?" "You can't use that." "I think we should wait for him to return." "Did he go to counsel someone about pension?" "I'd like to withdraw from Sakura Fubuki Association." "Can I talk about compensation?" "North Yamate Police Station." "Sonoda-kun..." "Please come to the First Miyamoto Building underground parking lot." "Endo-san." "Hello." "Nice to meet you." "I'm Kurokouchi with Prefectural Police Second Division." "Seike-kun." "Oh." "Were you meeting someone?" "Just a minute, please." ""I'd like to withdraw from Sakura Fubuki Association."" ""Can I talk to you regarding compensation?"" ""North Yamate Police Station Sonoda."" "Oh, I'm sorry." "When I was attacked by Sonoda-san," "I took his cell phone away and just held on to it." "In other words, doesn't the fact that you came here mean that you're Sakura Fubuki Association?" "Endo-san." "Did my father know about that?" "Did you kill my father, Endo-san?" "Won't you answer my question?" "I don't think he can." "If he admits easily," "Seike-san might get killed too." "I know you're afraid that her life may be in danger if she finds out, or what Sawatari might do, and" "I understand that you want to protect her, but if you remain quiet, nothing will be resolved." "Like the 300-million yen robbery." "I wasn't involved in your father's case." "But" "I do feel sorry." "There, you admitted." "But why, in the first place, did you people decide to cover up the incident?" "Was it because the perpetrator was the son of a police officer?" "Do you know what Japan was like at that time?" "It was an era of internal strife with elements of revolution." "In an era like that, what would happen if word got out that the perpetrator of the sensational 300-million yen robbery was the son of a police officer?" "Public peace and order will fall into disarray, and Japan will be in chaos." "In other words, in order to keep up appearance, you swept it under the rug." "That's right." "Her father continued to investigate and closed in on the truth." "Is that why he was killed?" "That's what I was told, but" "I don't know who killed him." "But you know who robbed the 300 million yen." "If it was a police officer's son, there's just one person, right?" "Shiroo from Public Security was handling the perpetrator." "This is you starting tomorrow." "The perpetrator's new name was..." "Takahashi Hideo." "Isn't he the man in charge of general affairs at MPD," "Takahashi-san?" "That's right." "So what did you do with the actual 300 million yen?" "You didn't burn it after covering up the incident, did you?" "And you didn't just hide it away." "What did you do with it?" "After the incident," "Shiroo came to us with a suggestion." "You mean in regards to the use of the 300 million yen?" "Yes." "Police officers get very little compensation." "So this money should be used for police officers, their families, and their bereaved families." "Not only that, but it should be used for the police organization in general." "In other words, that 300 million yen became the slush fund for the police." "Yeah." "Sakura Fubuki Association was formed to maintain and administer that slush fund, right?" "That's right." "At that time, even if evil was evil, we all believed that is was for the good." "45 years ago, you may have been able to turn evil into good, but" "45 years later, didn't good fall apart and turn into evil?" "You know that many people who came in touch with Sawatari have died, don't you?" "We were almost killed too." "Isn't order, as you people call it, actually already on the brink of collapsing?" "Or rather, isn't Sakura Fubuki Association starting to go down the worst possible path?" "To stop that, there's only one way, right?" "The 300 million yen?" "It's worth much more by now, isn't it?" "About how much is it now?" "What are you planning to do with that information?" "Are you going to make it known to the public?" "Before I make that decision, won't you let me confirm it first?" "Before Sawatari and his men become aware." "All right." "It must've took a lot of courage to tell us the secret he kept for 45 years." "Were you recording everything Endo-san told us earlier?" "It's an invaluable testimony, isn't it?" "Just in case we may need it." "What are you planning to do with the 300 million yen?" "Well, we're not in an era of internal strife right now, but if this comes to light, the police will lose all credibility, right?" "If you ask me if that's a good thing or a bad thing at this point in time, it's probably not a good thing, but." "Seike-san, what do you think?" "I..." "Who's good, and who's evil." "I'm sorry." "I can't answer that right away." "Well, yeah." "Considering that Endo-san was looking for the answer for 45 years." "Accha~." "We just lost the entrance." "Is that what he decided." "When the two of us came walking from that direction... was that about 30 minutes ago..." "something suddenly..." "So Kurokouchi-kun, you're saying that as you were walking with Seike-kun, someone coincidentally came falling behind you." "Yes, exactly." " Was it really suicide?" " Really, huh?" "And so, if you'll excuse me now." "The files were missing from his office, weren't they?" "Which means Endo-san didn't commit suicide." "Seike-san, let's keep that to ourselves." "It's not gonna do anyone any good exposing the deceased for a crime he committed 45 years ago." "All right." "Then based on Endo-san's testimony, shouldn't we probe into Sawatari-san's involvement with the 300 million yen?" "That, I refuse to do." "But earlier you said you'll make it known to the public..." "That's only if I got a hold of the 300 million yen." "3036, you have a visitor." "It's Kurokouchi." "You're looking better than I thought." "Sawatari Sensei." "Do you have some business with me today?" "So the 300 million yen was still around after all." "I heard a lot of things from Endo-san who passed away recently." "What you heard... do you have proof that Endo-san said that?" "Fortunately, I had recorded it secretly." "I see." "I wonder if Endo-san really committed suicide." "Wasn't he killed?" "By someone's order." "Because if Endo-san dies, you can do as you please from now on." "Now that all four founders of Sakura Fubuki Association are dead." "Didn't everything go according to your plan?" "You used Assistant Inspector Seike to shake up Endo-san and set him up to commit suicide or else be killed." "In order to bring me to the negotiating table." "Aren't you going to say "correct"?" "You got me there." "Actually, it didn't matter to me either way." "As long as I found out the whereabouts of the 300 million yen." "That girl... were you in that kind of relationship with her too?" "So it was you that killed her too?" "No match." "Frankly, I don't want you out of here even if it kills me, but if you tell me where the 300 million yen is," "I'll get you out." "So, know that Prosecutor Echigo is under my control, not yours." "Where's the 300 million yen?" "I'll ask you one more time." "Where's the 300 million yen?" "I'll ask you one more time." "The 300 million yen... where is it?" "That..." "I'll tell you after you join the Sakura Fubuki Association." "Did you hear anything good?" "Are you talking about the headhunting?" "But I don't know about going to work for a company that's about to collapse." "It won't collapse." "Ah, is that why you went to work for them?" "45 years ago, after being reborn as a man by the name of Takahashi Hideo." "Why are you still alive?" "Were you used by adults like Shiroo?" "Then why are you working for the police now?" "We'll be waiting for your answer." "Youth S!" "Your life... what was it like?" "Kurokouchi-san, what do you think about the state of Japan today?" "45 years ago, what do you suppose." "Youth S saw?" "There, you admitted." "This drama is based on a hypothesis."