"Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Don't come here!" "Stay away, stay away, stay away!" "Stay away!" "Prisoner 190, Ishida." "Come out." "No!" "Go away!" "Help me!" "No!" "Let me go!" "You bastards!" "No!" "You bastards!" "Please!" "Help me!" "Tokyo Detention Center" " Death Row" "Prisoner 270:" "Toru Kihara" "Steps..." "THE THIRTEEN STEPS" "The program will look at the pros and cons of the death penalty." "First, what is the basis for criminal punishment of which the death penalty is one?" "In Europe and North America the point is social sanction and retribution." "In Japan, on the other hand it is said to serve purposes of education and rehabilitation." "But Japan has a high rate of recidivism." "Public opinion strongly favors retention of the death penalty." "Does this mean that criminals cannot be rehabilitated or does the problem lie with the prisons?" "That is what they have come to Matsuyama prison to find out." "Concentrate on doing your job properly." "When we broadcast this, we'll mosaic out their faces so they won't be seen on air." "That's all for today." "Kudo!" "Settle down!" "Your rehabilitation begins now." "It'll be hard on the outside but don't come back here." "Yes, sir!" "To you guarantors I believe these men can all be pillars of support for their families." "Watch over them." "This completes the procedures for conditional release." "Bow!" "The Secrets of Breadmaking" "Mikami Modeling" "Hello?" "The Chief Guard?" "!" "Sorry to bother you." "Don't call me that, please." "I'm on leave." "Are you busy?" "No." "I was just looking at this laser-molding system." "You input data here and the laser comes out here." "It hardens liquid resin." "It's accurate to 100 microns." "It was the other guy who picked the fight with Junichi three years ago." "What are you staring at?" "!" "You got something to say?" "What's your problem, huh?" "In the defendant's bag was this hunting knife." "He reached for this bag intending to kill Kyosuke Samura." "This is a case of murder!" "The defendant, Junichi Mikami, was holding onto the bag because in it was a contract for a new manufacturing device." "He had purchased the knife on a whim." "It was wrapped up, like this." "The defendant had never met the late Mr Kyosuke Samura." "It is obvious there is no motive in this case." "This is not murder." "It is a tragic accident." "He provoked my son into a fight and killed him!" "He should die!" "Witnesses will confine themselves to answering questions." "Junichi didn't start the fight." "But you know, there was something I realized right then..." "Guilty or not he'd never be free of having caused someone to die." "How can I put it?" "Free from that prison of the mind." "Anyway, what brings you here today?" "I'd like to offer your son a job." "A job?" "Well, he's upstairs." "The job is to clear a condemned man of a false charge of murder." "You'd be my assistant." "There's a good reward, too." "I contacted Mr Kubo, your rehabilitation officer." "He'll allow you to travel if you take the job." "It's in Nakaminato County, in Chiba Prefecture." "Where Kyosuke Samura came from." "What was the job the Chief Guard asked about?" "You don't have to take it if you don't want to." "How much did we have to pay Mr Samura as compensation?" "$70 million." "Kazuko!" "We borrowed from all the relatives." "But we still owe $10 million." "Dad worked his butt off to finally get you that laser-molding system." "Now someone else'll have it." "Whose fault is that?" "0ur customers, the banks." "The association no one'll help a murderer!" "Kazuko!" "Do you realize what kind of a stigma you've put us under?" "!" "Her fiancé backed out." "Forgive her." "Nakaminato County, Chiba" "When did you get out?" "A week ago." "Why didn't you come sooner?" "I'm very sorry." "Is that all?" "You should be dead!" "Apologize that way!" "Mr Samura, please..." "Have some tea." "You, too." "It's not poisoned." "Tell me one thing, honestly." "When the judge said three years for injury resulting in death it looked to me like you smiled." "Kyosuke's life!" "Doesn't a life mean anything?" "!" "Hello." "We're late." "No, I just got here myself." "Is this your prospect, Mr Nango?" "Junichi Mikami..." "Mr Sugiura." "Sugiura." "How do you do." "I got you an apartment in Katsuura, the next town." "0h, and... a cellphone." "And one for you." "I'll charge the bills to expenses, so use them all you like." "Get receipts for everything." "Have them made out to 'Sugiura Law 0ffice'." "0therwise I can't use them." "Here's an outline of the case ten years ago." "It's the court transcript." "Ten Years Ago August 29, 8:30 p.m." "A teacher at the middle-school here, Keisuke Utsugi, and his wife Yoshie were heading to his parents' house." "They were all going to the Summer Festival." "0n the way..." "Are you OK?" "Are you OK?" "The man was Toru Kihara, 25, later sentenced to death." "I'll get an ambulance!" "Most people didn't have cellphones then..." "The Utsugis went to his parents to call an ambulance." "Trouble!" "Grandpa!" "Hello?" "I need an ambulance!" "There's been an accident." "A man's down." "It looks like he hit his head." "He's bleeding a lot." "He's unconscious." "Just a minute..." "In the living-room were the bodies of Kohei Utsugi and his wife Yasuko." "They'd died at about 7 p.m apparently of blows from a hatchet or an ax." "The investigators concluded it had been a burglary." "Mr Kihara was arrested one week later." "I don't know." "I don't remember anything." "Don't give me that!" "You were in the victims house August 29th when it happened!" "He was your rehabilitation officer, and you tried to rob him!" "Where's the ax?" "!" "Kihara!" "Kihara!" "Mr Kihara had a record for theft." "He was on probation." "Mr Utsugi had been his rehabilitation officer." "The irregular appointment was August 29th." "At 7 p.m." "But Mr Kihara never admitted to the crime." "As a result of the accident he'd lost all memory of the four hours or so leading up to it." "Retrograde amnesia." "A doctor's report was submitted, but the sentence was still death." "The defense appealed immediately, saying neither the murder weapon nor the bankbook and seal supposedly stolen had been found." "However..." "Verdict:" "The defendant's appeal is denied..." "I don't remember!" "I don't remember!" "I don't remember!" "Let go!" "Help!" "Don't kill me!" "His death sentence was confirmed three years later." "Statistically speaking." "They say the execution usually comes about seven years after confirmation." "For Mr Kihara, that's in three months." "0h, yes I imagine Mr Nango's told you..." "We're being paid $3 million each." "The reward if we clear him is $30 million." "That's another $10 million each." "But we only have three months." "That is, quite literally, the dead line." "I'm on probation, like Mr Kihara was." "I killed someone." "You did?" "0h." "It was accidental." "I'll be responsible for him." "I'll talk to your client." "No, that's not allowed." "He doesn't want to be identified." "I see..." "Well, maybe someone like Mikami will help us find something new." "That's not why I chose him." "No..." "I guess not." "Anyway, as of today we go into action." "I'll give you a major clue." "Two months ago, Mr Kihara regained a fragment of his memory." "But it's very strange..." "Right around the time it happened he remembers climbing some steps." "But the scene of the crime." "As you can see is a bungalow." "Mightn't Mr Kihara's steps be the 13 steps to the gallows?" "More terror than memory?" "Gallows don't have 13 steps." "Why did you choose me?" "Why did you take on this job, Nango-sensei?" "I'm not your sensei." "I'm your partner." "For seed money." "When I retire, I want to start a bakery." "With my family." "Don't I look like a baker?" "My father ran one." "A little bakery in Kawasaki." "'The Nango Bread Store'." "Business was horrible." "Dad would bake 'French bread', and make the crusts too hard." "He insisted that was the right way to do it." "He'd never been to France." "Whether he was right or not, it still wouldn't sell." "When my daughter Kyoko was born I went to see him for the first time in a while." "There he was, still baking bread." "And you know how the crust was?" "Still hard as a rock." "Katsuura Police Station" "I'll go in." "They'll at least talk to me." "I'm a prison guard." "Steps." "Huh?" "Do you believe everything killers tell you?" "Inspector... 0h..." "Thanks." "Take it upstairs." "He thinks Kihara got a bad rap." "He wants to go through it again." "I'm Nakamori." "I can handle this..." "I'm from the Prosecutor's 0ffice." "I assume you've read the Kihara transcript?" "Hey..." "Could you move this car?" "You're blocking my bike." "And this is emergency parking only." "When Kihara had his accident ten years ago they found black fibers at the scene." "Mr Nakamori!" "They didn't match Kihara's clothing, but he might have had an accomplice." "It was a brand of polo shirt." "The sweat on it indicated the wearer had type-B blood." "But no such suspect emerged so it was judged irrelevant and never introduced as evidence." "Mr Kihara is blood type-A." "Isn't he." "There was circumstantial evidence." "You convicted a man with no memory, without any physical evidence?" "Two people were slaughtered." "Whether he remembers or not, the law has to judge him." "He deserved death." "He's being murdered for something he can't feel any remorse for." "He 'deserves' that?" "It's not 'murder'." "The prosecutor in that case the one who demanded the death penalty was me." "Are you 0K?" "What's wrong?" "I don't know." "He just suddenly..." "I'm OK." "I just felt a bit car-sick." "Car-sick?" "I thought you were having a fit!" "Your face is familiar..." "Just a coincidence, I guess." "I'll be going." "Take care." "Go home and rest." "I'm fine." "I don't want you house-breaking while you're on probation." "An address book..." "No stairs, no basement." "But we find it." "What?" "Mr Samura?" "Well, it's a small town." "Don't worry about it." "I drove around a bit last night." "Between the crime and the accident he couldn't have gone anywhere outside this area." "Somewhere in here are our steps." "Is that it?" "There won't be any steps out there in the woods." "Yes, there will." "I know it." "What if we find out the real criminal after he's been executed?" "Then they'll execute the real criminal, too." "Why?" "Equal sentences for equal crimes." "It's a question of balance." "Doesn't a life mean anything?" "Let's eat." "We'll eat and get to bed." "I see..." "You haven't found the steps..." "You've got two months left." "Now what?" "My leave ends tomorrow." "I'll go to Matsuyama and come right back." "Mr Kihara has no family." "What kind of client would offer a $30 million reward to save a stranger?" "I can't talk about the client." "He believes that money can't buy a life." "Why did you take on this job, Mr Sugiura?" "They say doctors, priests and lawyers should help those who can't pay them." "All three make a living on people's misfortunes." "I guess it's something like 'Don't be in a hurry to get rich.'" "My father was a lawyer." "He told me that before he died." "'Clear a condemned man of his crime.' Great!" "I was secretly all excited about actually doing something." "That's a first." "I hate to admit it." "The reward was good, too." "I knew I could rely on my old friend Nango so I called him." "Anyway, Mr Nango, could we have a word?" "Let's not have any secrets among us." "0h." "Well, I told the client about Mikami's criminal record." "He doesn't want a man with a record involved." "If Junichi's not involved, neither am I." "0k then, how about this?" "We get Mikamito drop out only temporarily and then we hire him as our assistant again without telling the client." "0f course, we'll still split the reward three ways." "Junichi..." "I'm sorry." "I'm not the right man for this job." "What are you trying to do?" "Why choose me?" "Why choose a killer?" "I chose you because 13 years ago I killed a man, too." "Prisoner 160... suicide attempt!" "I was working at the Tokyo Detention Center." "The Detention Center holds suspects awaiting trial, defendants on trial and condemned prisoners awaiting execution." "Prisoner 160 was on death row." "He'd killed all three members of a wealthy family during a robbery." "I'm sorry." "I was watching him, but..." "I'm going to be executed." "Why can't I kill myself?" "I wanted to make amends by dying!" "He wanted to be the one who ended it, I guess." "When he came back to the cells, he began to starve himself." "Be as stubborn as you like." "We can still feed you intravenously." "Eat, will you?" "Come on, eat." "Here... eat, why don't you?" "We have a lawyer keeping your family informed on how you're doing." "But writing about what you do each day doesn't take even a page." "I've been sending your daily menu." "I'm told sometimes your mother makes the same things for herself." "How can I make it up to those people?" "Mr Nango tell me how!" "He became a Catholic and prayed every day for the souls of his victims." "I hoped his sentence would be commuted but then the order came down." "As prison officials, executions were our job." "Just a minute... 0kazaki!" "I'm told the victims' relatives have heard about Prisoner 160 and have requested clemency." "Why are we executing him if they don't want that?" "What is this death for?" "Is it not allowed to make amends while still alive?" "We will now conduct a practice run." "Tomorrow, Prisoner 160 will have a final pastry and cigarette here." "After the priest has said his prayer, Nango, 0kazaki and Morikawa move to the buttons." "Aoki, Kawakami and Yamanaka will secure his arms, blindfold him and escort him onto the scaffold." "Kawakami will bind his feet." "Sawada will secure the noose." "Traditionally the noose tightens with the feet 30cm in the air but this is set at 50 so the feet won't hit the floor after the neck breaks." "Step away from the trap as soon as the noose is secured." "Work fast." "We must make the Prisoner's time of fear as short as possible." "The officer in charge will give the signal as soon as he confirms the trap is clear." "You will not know which button opens the trap. 0n the signal..." "'Prisoner 160, it's time.'" "'Prisoner 160, come out." "It's time.'" "'Prisoner 160, come out." "It's time.'" "Have you any last words?" "We'll be sure to pass them on." "May I say something to someone here?" "0n the way over here I saw a little dandelion." "It was very beautiful." "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost I absolve you of your sins." "0ur Father, who art in heaven hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven." "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." "Grant this man who is called to you mercy, and eternal peace." "0kazaki!" "0kazaki!" "Terada!" "That was the first and last time I called him by name." "With my own hands, I killed a man." "But that was your job, wasn't it?" "Yeah." "It was my job." "A crime I'll never have to face judgment for." "I'm getting old." "I don't know if I can still put this behind me." "But I chose you because I could see you were really looking for a way to atone somehow." "So for three weeks you've been searching the hills for steps?" "I don't speak as your rehabilitation officer." "I just like detective stories." "We're probably not going to find any steps." "Don't give up hope." "Mr Nango says you're very important to him." "You should be dead!" "Apologize that way!" "Mr Samura will never forgive me." "People get things wrong sometimes." "People close their eyes to grief, and try to avoid it." "But you have to face it head-on to save yourself from it." "When you do that." "You find out where it starts the source of it." "Then you act to remove it." "'Act'?" "The Buddha who holds a sword to cut away human weakness who chastises and then encourages, is 'Acala'." "That terrify ing face will guide you in how you should act." "Mr Shoji Nango" "From:" "Nobuko Nango" "Welcome home." "I have an announcement." "Kyoko Nango will get married next spring." "It's been five years..." "How have you been?" "Fine." "How about you?" "I put in for retirement." "I'm starting a bakery." "'The Nango Bread Store', like your grandfather's." "Have you told Mom?" "That's no good!" "You have to tell her!" "You know she always complained about how secretive you are." "You had to attend at executions." "You kept it all inside." "You never talked about it." "'What's the point of being married?" "' Mom would say, and start crying." "If I had a child, and someone killed that child I'd kill that person." "But I know if I did that, even as a victim, I 'd be hurt even worse." "When you do that for people, you're serving the nation." "So it's time to forgive yourself." "Terada Executed" "Application for Divorce" "Married, huh?" "You're all grown up." "I still feel like you were in high school." "That's great." "Congratulations." "Tokyo Detention Center" "I know it's against regulations but could you tell me when the order to execute Kihara comes?" "Are you still dragging Prisoner 160 around with you?" "Prisoner 160 I mean 'Terada'..." "remember his last words?" "No." "He said how beautiful some dandelion was." "He did." "Now you mention it." "I wonder where it was..." "Mr Nango murder is murder." "The people in here aren't the same as you and me." "Considering what they've done, killing's too good for them." "I haven't changed." "I just finally realized." "When Kihara's when '270's' order comes I'll let you know." "Excuse me." "I don't think the real criminal was after money." "Mr Utsugi was a rehabilitation officer." "If a report of his was going to put someone back in jail and if it was someone who might never get out again that person might kill him." "0nly one person in that address book testified in Kihara's defense." "He might be able to tell us something." "Norio Ando, owner of the Hotel Yoko." "Mr Utsugi was very close-mouthed about that." "He said talk of criminal records got in the way of rehabilitation." "Myself, I've never held a record against anyone." "Anyway have you found anything that might clear Kihara?" "No." "I believe, however, that he's innocent." "Why?" "I just want to believe it, that's all." "Thank you." "Say the real killer forced Mr Kihara to help hide the murder weapon." "Then why let Kihara get away?" "Maybe he tried to kill him and make it look like an accident." "I don't know what to say..." "The client seems to suspect that Mikami's still on the job." "He called to complain." "When?" "About ten minutes ago." "He was pretty mad." "I'm not quitting, and I'm not letting Junichi go." "Over and out." "The real killer might still be reporting to the rehabilitation officer who took over from Mr Utsugi." "It's probably him." "He's not wearing a watch." "He was in prison for a long time." "I don't wear one either." "it feels too much like handcuffs." "You're saying I did Utsugi?" "They tried to pin that on me ten years ago." "I had an alibi." "Mr Muroto would you happen to be type-A?" "With a strong sense of fairplay?" "Fairplay?" "I'm type-O." "A type-A pretends to be the good guy... just like you." "I'm type-B." "The cops didn't even check Utsugi's estate before they grabbed Kihara." "Estate?" "What estate?" "Don't ask me." "It's hot, isn't it." "Sit down." "I was wondering who my friend reminded you of." "0h, him?" "That was at least ten years ago." "Someone here ten years ago looked like Mikami?" "The spitting image." "Could you tell me more?" "Sure." "I think it was the day after the Summer Festival." "A doctor in Nakaminato called about a youth who'd come in for treatment." "Smoke?" "Uh, no... 0h, go on!" "He had a deep gash on his right arm from a sharp object..." "He said he'd fallen on some rocks by the shore." "A girl with him confirmed that." "A girl?" "Yeah." "But the strange thing was he had $100,000 in cash in his pocket." "And then when no one was looking, they both disappeared." "What was his name?" "That's the thing." "We checked a few days later." "The name and address were false." "When are you going to open your bakery?" "0h, not for a while yet." "My daughter's going to get married." "Congratulations." "Who's the lucky man?" "I didn't ask." "Sit down." "Do you have a girlfriend?" "I need to ask you something." "Ten years ago, on the day of the crime were you in Nakaminato?" "Were you or weren't you?" "Did you hurt your right arm?" "That's all I want to know." "Summer Festival night." "Be honest." "I want to believe in you." "Answer me please." "I was in this town the day it happened." "But I didn't kill Mr and Mrs Utsugi." "That's all I can tell you now." "Please believe me." "We comb that house." "I've been drinking, so you drive." "Alright." "My daughter likes the name I'm giving my bakery." "For what that's worth." "Zoganji temple" "Mr Nango..." "'Zoganji temple...'" "'Destroyed 8 October 1868 in the "Abolish the Buddha" movement.'" "'Left derelict until covered by a lands lide...' '... in the early 1970s.'" "Mr Nango!" "Mr Nango!" "A visit to the troops in the field." "This is from me." "This is from the client." "Know what it is?" "A metal detector." "A metal detector?" "0h, I get it..." "The client's very happy with this temple clue." "0h, and about Mr Utsugi's estate..." "It was mainly savings." "About $100 million." "That much?" "Yeah." "Rehabilitation officers are volunteers, and he was a school principal." "His only income was his pension." "Did you check the bank account?" "Not allowed." "A violation of privacy." "He was blackmailing one of the men he was supervising." "He was a rehabilitation officer." "He wouldn't blackmail!" "He threatened to reveal someone's criminal record." "That's why the killer hid his bankbook along with the murder weapon." "His name would be in it from when he put money into Mr Utsugi's account." "Mr Nango..." "Steps..." "Acala..." "Junichi..." "Alright, sir?" "There's no bankbook." "You wore gloves." "I hope?" "We'll check it out and tell you what we find tomorrow." "Mr Sugiura called." "He says the client's delighted." "I killed him." "I killed Kyosuke Samura, with intent." "Come again?" "It's true." "I bought the knife to kill him with." "Why?" "Didn't he start it with you?" "That was..." "Was there something between you from before?" "Did you stab him with intent to kill?" "He was dead before I could stab him." "still..." "Everyone has times they want to murder someone." "However most people stop one step short of that." "And why?" "There's a basic human quality that people have." "'Conscience', if you like." "The weight of a human life stops you." "Intent to murder isn't murder." "You may have been torturing yourself over it but what you did wasn't murder." "it was 'Injury causing death'." "Junichi!" "Nango..." "It's Nakamori, from the Prosecutor's 0ffice." "Is Junichi Mikami there?" "Why?" "His fingerprints were on the ax you found yesterday." "Tell me where he is!" "Mr Nango!" "Junichi?" "Where are you?" "it's 0kazaki." "The order for Prisoner 270 came through this morning." "Prisoner 270..." "Kihara." "In four days' time." "Junichi, where are you?" "What's wrong?" "Your fingerprints were on that ax." "The police are looking for you." "I want to believe in you." "Where are you?" "Fingerprints?" "You want my help?" "Mikami's fingerprints on the evidence must be some kind of mistake." "Just a minute... 'Mikami'?" "0h, the man who was with you..." "Let's not pretend any more, Mr Ando." "I'm sure Mr Sugiura's told you everything." "I think you're the client." "You testified for Kihara." "You can afford a big reward." "You're the only one who could've hired Mr Sugiura." "What do you want me to do?" "Help Mikami." "He's probably at Zoganji temple." "I'm going there to find out what happened." "Mr Nango..." "Did you really find new evidence at Zoganji?" "Were the prints on the bankbook?" "'Bankbook'?" "They came from an ax." "Did the bankbook tell you anything?" "Is Zoganji straight ahead from here?" "Does the bankbook concern you?" "May I ask something?" "What makes you think Mikami didn't do it?" "Mr Utsugi was murdered by someone he was blackmailing..." "Someone who'd been on probation." "Someone who'd rejoined society, who had money." "Enough money that he could pay off a blackmailer." "Someone who couldn't wear a watch, because it would remind him of handcuffs." "Ando what blood type are you?" "Chiba Bank Mr Kohei Utsugi" "'Norio Ando'..." "'Norio Ando'..." "'Norio Ando'..." "The hotel!" "What do you know!" "The real evidence was here, too." "Mr Samura..." "Sorry." "But I'll have to dispose of that." "We don't need new evidence." "So you hired us... with the money my father paid you!" "At the trial, you smiled." "You got only three years for killing my son." "And you smiled." "After the trial I had you investigated." "And what do you know!" "You were in this town the night the Utsugis were killed." "That was something I could use." "The laser-molding system..." "I thought you'd never show up!" "I heard about this temple from Mr Utsugi." "All I needed was to put your fingerprints on some evidence." "I'm going to get you executed." "You'll go to the gallows in place of Kihara." "Kihara's execution date is set." "Even after that." "Though, they'll still hang the real killer." "You should confess, and soon." "I didn't kill Utsugi for money!" "He said he was going to tell my daughter that I'd killed someone!" "The bastard deserved it." "No one deserves to be killed." "Just give me some time, some time to think..." "Do you know what happened at the Summer Festival ten years ago?" "I don't care." "You killed Kyosuke." "My son." "Kyosuke!" "Give him back to me!" "Mr Samura..." "Stay back!" "I haven't had a good night's sleep since the first man I killed, 30 years ago." "I meant to kill Kihara, too." "I couldn't." "When I was a boy Zoganji was my secret place." "I'd bring offerings of flowers, explore, and tell Acala absolutely everything." "That night, too." "Where did I go wrong?" "!" "Come on." "We aren't going anywhere!" "Stop it!" "Cut it out!" "Stop!" "Please... kill me." "kill me!" "I'll hang anyway." "Settle this for good, Mr Nango... please!" "Dying settles nothing!" "Living is the only way we have to settle anything!" "That's how we atone!" "Junichi!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Junichi!" "Junichi!" "Junichi!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Stay away!" "Prisoner 270, Toru Kihara, come out." "Hey!" "Kihara!" "What's wrong?" "No!" "Let me go!" "Calm down!" "You're getting a retrial." "The real killer confessed." "Yuri Kinoshita" "This is Yuri Kinoshita." "We've known each other since we were kids." "Ten years ago, on August 29th Yuri and I were in Nakaminato." "We'd come without telling anybody." "it was our first trip together." "Here." "That's where I met Kyosuke Samura." "Again!" "Right!" "Junichi!" "Help me!" "Yuri!" "No!" "Junichi!" "You make too much noise!" "No!" "No!" "Stop!" "Let's find a doctor." "She started seeing a psychiatrist at the end of that year." "And I I couldn't face her." "I became someone who had no one not even himself." "Then, three years ago, I ran into the son of a bitch at a trade show." "That night seven years before seemed like yesterday." "What are you staring at?" "!" "You've been looking at me all night!" "You got something to say?" "What's your problem, huh?" "Junichi hold up your hand." "Do you feel the warmth?" "There's no one who deserves killing." "Junichi!" "The defendant is sentenced to three years' imprisonment to include the 120 days he has spent in custody to date." "Yes I smiled." "A coward had finally taken his revenge." "But by then she'd tried to take her own life." "I've tried to forget everything but I can't." "The one thing I can't get out of my mind is that warmth from her hand." "Your hand's warm, Yuri." "I finally understand what you tried with your life to tell me." "Live..." "I want you to watch over me as I atone." "Yuri..." "Yuri..." "Yuri!" "Mr Nango..." "You forgot this." "I'll come by for some bread at 'The Nango Bread Store'." "After I got home, Mom told me she'd mailed you a divorce form." "She cried." "She said that quitting your job was the best thing for you." "If you haven't submitted the form, she says maybe you both could talk." "I am your daughter." "I want you to give me away at my wedding." "I want to be married as the girl from 'The Nango Bread Store'." "Please get in touch." "Mom hopes you will, too." "Yours, Kyoko." "0ne year later, the Chiba Supreme Court handed down a verdict of acquittal for Toru Kihara." "Norio Ando is presently on trial for murder." "Former prison guard Shoji Nango is to testify soon in his defense." "THE END Hope you'd enjoyed the show!"