" December 1968." "In the course of the investigation of the 300-million yen robbery which occurred" "45 years ago on December 10, 1968, one youth surfaced as a suspect." "Alias "Youth S."" "He's 19 years old." "A former student at National Defense Academy, originally from Tachikawa." "He's familiar with the area where the crime occurred, and due to the fact that he doesn't have a clear alibi, he will be questioned as a person of interest." "However, in view of the fact that his father is an active police officer, this matter will be handled with strict secrecy." "The investigation headquarters commenced to investigate" "Youth S covertly." "However, amidst all this," "Youth S mysteriously committed suicide." "With his death, the link between Youth S and the 300-million yen robbery was severed." "Effectively, he was removed from the subject of investigation." "The 300-million yen robbery remains unsolved to this day." "An incident occurred in which a police officer was shot." "The police officer was transported to a hospital, but he remains unconscious in serious condition." " November 21, 2013." "Police are putting forth every effort to..." "What do we do now?" "Kurokouchi's still alive." "Well... what shall we do?" "Light." "Suction." "Forceps." "No suspicious individual has been picked up yet." "Kurokouchi-kun is undergoing surgery his condition is still unknown..." "Metropolitan Police Security Bureau General Administration." "Please go in." "Thank you." "Take this." "I think you'll soon find out." "The whole story behind the 300 million yen and Sakura Fubuki Association." "Excuse me..." "How is Kurokouchi-san's condition?" "May I ask who you are?" "I'm in charge of general affairs at MPD." "My name is Takahashi." "I'm a personal friend of Kurokouchi-san." "I couldn't stop worrying." "Well, he's still..." "Sensei." "How is Kurokouchi?" "The bullet apparently didn't reach his internal organs thanks to this wallet." "His life isn't in danger, you can put your mind at ease." "Thank you." "So it didn't work." "Well, I'll come again another day." "I got word that Kurokouchi survived." "Then, there's something I want you to convey to Takahashi-san." "Yes, I'll make sure it's taken care of." "Please give my regards to Sawatari-san." "Yes." "Thank you." "Kurokouchi-san." "Did he just smile?" "Shooting Investigation Headquarters." "Ballistic analysis of the bullet that hit Assistant Inspector Kurokouchi show a 38-caliber handgun was used in the crime." "A comparison was made of the rifle mark, but there was no corresponding handgun with a prior record." "What does Second Division have to say?" "They said there's countless people who bear a grudge against Kurokouchi." "It would take considerable time to narrow down the suspects from that angle." "Goddammit!" "A police officer was shot!" "Tell them to hurry." "Moving on to the inquiries made in the vicinity of the scene..." "At the time of the crime yesterday, a suspicious man on a bicycle was witnessed near the scene." "Age late 20's to early 30's, wearing a baseball cap..." " Excuse me!" " What?" "!" "The suspect turned himself in." "The suspect... turned himself in?" "He said this is the gun he used." "Send it to the lab right away." "Hotei-kun, take him to the interrogation room." "We'll take him from here." "Let's go." "So, why did he shoot Kurokouchi?" "Well, that's..." "Sounds like the detective who was shot yesterday survived." "Yes." "I'll conduct the interrogation myself today." "He seems to find it easier to talk that way." "All right." "Sawatari is involved in a criminal organization." "Find out the story behind it." "The problem is that detective, right?" "Yo..." "Seike-san, how you doing?" "Kurokouchi-san..." "They said this is what saved you." "As they say... money is everything." "So, what's happening with my investigation?" "Actually, the suspect turned himself in a short while ago." "Figures." " And?" " The suspect is a member of a large gang conglomerate, Akaba-gumi," "Sano Mitsuru." "Akaba-gumi, huh?" "However, during the interrogation..." "Are you saying you're not acquainted with Assistant Inspector Kurokouchi?" "Not at all." "He testified that he intended to shoot a member of a rival gang, but mistook Kurokouchi-san for him and shot you." "Even though our eyes met when he shot me?" "He probably turned himself in to hide the real motive." "The real motive?" "Well, I guess I did stir things up too much." "That's probably why Echigo and Sawatari joined hands." "Does that mean Echigo-san asked Sawatari-san to have you killed?" "Through Sakura Fubuki Association that Sawatari belongs to." "Anyway, one thing's clear now." "Akaba-gumi, to which Sano belongs, and." "Sakura Fubuki Association are connected." "Cor~rect." "What are you doing?" "!" "G-gotta go investigate Akaba-gumi..." "You can't go now." "Takahashi-san from General Affairs was worrying about you too." "He even rushed over to the hospital last night." "Takahashi-san rushed over?" "Did you know?" "That Takahashi-san's from the Public Security Bureau and he was Yakushiji-san's friend." "In fact, he invited me to go drinking before I was shot." " Before you were shot?" " Oh, that's right." "Seike-san, can you go see Hatakeyama Sensei?" "You mean Hatakeyama Sensei of the House of Representatives?" "He knows a lot about yakuza-related matters." "I'm saying that if we trace Akaba-gumi's path, we can track down Sakura Fubuki Association." "If we're lucky, the 300-million yen incident too." "Uh... can I ask you one question?" "I've been meaning to ask you, but what is your final objective?" "Are you trying to do something by investigating Sakura Fubuki Association?" "Or are you trying to find the whereabouts of the 300 million yen to make it your own?" "That and the truth behind the 300-million yen robbery is what I want to ask the perpetrator." "Are you saying the perpetrator is still alive?" "We'll find that out when the true identity of." "Sakura Fubuki Association is exposed." "True identity of Sakura Fubuki Association..." "Actually, speaking of true identity, there's more." "All kinds of true identities." "Kurokouchi-san." "I'm okay, so." "H-Hatakeyama Sensei..." "H-hurry!" "Go see Hatakeyama Sensei, right?" "Got it!" "This isn't what you promised." "Kurokouchi is still alive." "You're the one who said you'd take care of him." "I'll keep my promise." "So please proceed with the re-evaluation of the gun that supposedly has my fingerprints." "I've never actually touched it." "Excuse me." "I, Ayakawa Shinnosuke, 10 years ago, in order to cover up the window-dressing of company accounts..." "Hello." "Did you get it?" "My present to you." "You know, I'm really bummed." "Thanks to someone," "I got a hole in my boob." "I'm feeling a draft, you know." "What do you want me to do?" "Why don't you side with me?" "If you want to continue being a prosecutor of spotless integrity, that is." "Think about it real carefully." "I'll call you again." " Akaba-gumi?" " Yes." "Kurokouchi said that you would have the information." "I know nothing about Akaba-gumi." "That's..." "The person Kurokouchi-san was blackmailing is you, isn't it?" "In the amount of 3 million yen." "Incidentally, I had the fingerprints taken too." "All I want from you is information on Akaba-gumi." "About 10 years ago, approximately 90 percent of." "Akaba-gumi went straight." "Nowadays, they've changed their name, their face, and moved into various fields such as real estate, security, and elderly care." "All legal corporations." "A crime syndicate successfully switched to a corporation?" "They were bought out." "Now, they're a subsidiary of a holding company called Fubuki Holdings." "Fubuki Holdings..." "Fubuki..." "Sakura Fubuki." "That's all I can tell you." "I really don't know any more than this." "It's precisely because I don't know that I stay alive." "But if you still want to know, go see Akaba Jingoro-san, the last boss, now retired." "In other words, this Fubuki Holdings that bought out Akaba-gumi is Sakura Fubuki Association." "Without a doubt." "However, I was told that digging any deeper would be dangerous." "Seike-chan, you don't have to do it." "I can't have the future executive doing dangerous work." "Oh, and on your way back, stop by my apartment and pick up my red sports bag." "Red sports bag?" "That's right." "If you give that bag to Akaba Jingoro-san," "I think he'll tell you about Fubuki Holdings in detail." " I'm counting on you do to that one thing." " W-wait a minute." "Yes." "Who is it?" "How do you feel?" "You had me worried, you know." "Takahashi-san." "I brought you a little something." "Thank you." "Go ahead." "You'll be hospitalized for a while, right?" "Yes." "I can't even get up by myself yet." "Is that right?" "You can't even get up." "So if they try to kill me again, I'm dead for sure this time." "Again?" "I thought you got mistaken for someone else?" "Accha~." "The truth just slipped out." "Just between you and me," "I think I was shot because I was pursuing an unsolved case." " An unsolved case?" " Yes." "The case that occurred 45 years ago." "It's the 300-million yen robbery." "300 million yen?" "Ah, the one with a photo montage of the motorcycle police." "But subsequently, that was found out to be a fake, wasn't it?" "Ah yes, that's right." "I'm getting forgetful these days." "I must be getting old." "How old are you?" "Let me see..." "I'll be 64." " 64?" " Yes." "Which means, at the time of the 300-million yen robbery," "you were 19?" "Yes, I guess so." "Come to think of it, back then everyone was talking about the fake motorcycle police." "Then did you know this?" "That the Public Security Bureau made up the 300-million yen robbery in order to crush the opposition to the 1970 U.S." " Japan Security Treaty." "Isn't that an urban legend?" "Do you suppose this is an urban legend too?" "That the real perpetrator of the 300-million yen robbery was Youth S." "Youth S." "As I recall, he was originally from Tachikawa, and his father was a police officer." "A former student at the National Defense Academy, he was familiar with the area of the crime scene." "What's more, he didn't have a clear alibi on the day of the robbery." "The youth was 19 at the time." " Is that who he was?" " Oh?" "Coincidentally, he's the same age as you." "I suppose so if he was still alive, but didn't that youth commit suicide?" "But Yakushiji-san seemed to think that the perpetrator was still alive." "There's something I want you to have." "It's data in regards to the 300-million yen robbery." "In that association is the perpetrator from 45 years ago." " The perpetrator?" " Yes." "Could that person be Youth S?" "That's what I'm wondering." "That's amazing." "And so, did you get the name of the perpetrator?" "Unfortunately," "he was murdered before he could tell me." "More than likely, by the same person who tried to kill me." "Thank you." "The mysterious death of a woman journalist." "Hazuki Tomo-san." "Excuse me." "Where the hell did he go?" "Did he disappear?" "Yes." "We got a call from the security guard saying that when he took a look in the room this morning," "Kurokouchi-kun was nowhere to be found." "Is that right?" "Yes." "I was standing here all last night." "How can that be?" "I'll go look at some likely places." "Wait..." "Seike-san?" "Is everything going smoothly?" " Akaba Jingoro." "Who's there." "I'm from Kanagawa Prefectural Police First Investigation Division." "My name is Seike." "What do the police want?" "I have something" "I want to give to Akaba Jingoro-san." "Path of Sincerity." "How does this Kurokouchi from Second Division who's not even an organized crime cop know that I'm being forced out of here?" "Money for forced removal." "If you can tell me about Fubuki Holdings, all this money will be yours." "If I tell you, then what?" "It provides us with a starting point." "You're better off not knowing." " Too bad about detective Kurokouchi." " 10 years ago," "I heard my father was murdered too." "My family was told he died in the line of duty." "What's your father's name?" "Seike Shinji." "Did you know my father?" "Akaba-gumi changed since it became a subsidiary of Fubuki Holdings 10 years ago." "Outwardly, we became respectable citizens, but on the flip side, when gang incidents occured, members were promptly arrested." "When fraudulent receipt of welfare occurs, a member's arrested immediately." "When there's a raid for handguns, only Akaba-gumi gets arrested for some reason." "It's as if we're the purveyors to the police that only exist to improve their performance." "Purveyors to the police?" "That's right." "Fubuki Holdings is who you work for, the police." "So that the police can always be a righteous entity, they have Akaba-gumi hidden in the background, and Akaba-gumi, in turn, in order to survive, yielded to the police, who should be their biggest foe." "The one who defied that and got expelled from the organization was me." "Who's good, and who's evil is something we have to judge for ourselves." "Who's good, and who's evil." "Sakura is within the police." "Sakura..." "You'd better watch out." "Was my father really murdered?" "I don't know much about that." "Do you know the connection between Sakura Fubuki" "Association and the 300-million yen robbery?" "The outset of Sakura was" " san..." " Grandpa." "Grandpa." "You have a visitor?" "He's my home helper." "Come back tomorrow." "We'll talk again then." "I'll do that." "This is Seike." "Is this Kurokouchi-san?" "Seike-san?" "Kurokouchi-san..." "What is going on?" "Well... you see," "I had this bad feeling, so" "I moved to a room on a different floor." "Excuse me." "By the way, I'm in Room 9651 now." "9 (ku) 6 (ro) 5 (ko) 1 (chi)." "Ku-ro-ko-chi, right?" "So, did you find out the true identity of Fubuki Holdings?" "Were you perhaps planning to make me go to see Akaba-san from the very beginning?" "Cor~rect." "I'd heard he was a pretty bullheaded old fart, so" "I thought money plus a victim's daughter might get him to talk." "The true identity of Fubuki Holdings is the police." "Anything else?" "As for the onset of the Sakura Fubuki Association," "I thought he started saying "san" (three)." "He probably meant to say 3-million yen robbery." "In other words," "Sakura Fubuki Association was started because of the 300-million yen robbery." "Right?" "Yes." "It's quite possible that the police had a part in the 300-million yen robbery from the beginning." "Good thinking~." "You're getting closer~." "Next, then, try unraveling the strings of history." "What do you mean by history?" "If you can do that," "I think you'll find out Youth S's true identity." "Youth S?" "Grandpa, who was the lady who was here earlier?" "No one important." "I thought for sure you told her something unnecessary." "February 26, 2003." "Suspect, member of Akaba-gumi." "Department in charge, Public Security" "August 13, 2004." "Suspect, member of Akaba-gumi." "Department in charge, Public Security." "Akaba-gumi and Public Security form a set?" "Hello, this is Seike." "What?" "The suspect, Machida Ikuo says he's been a victim of Akaba Jingoro's violence on a daily basis, and before he knew it, he flew into a rage and killed him." "I think he's lying." "I think so too." "Machida's a former gang member too." "The general welfare company where Machida's registered is Akaba-gumi's company." "What does that mean?" "Conversely, there's something we'd like to ask you." "We understand you were here until shortly before the crime occurred." "What were you doing here?" "That's... to look for Kurokouchi-san." "And?" "Kurokouchi-san was found." "Where was he?" "Right now, in the same hospital, in..." "Assistant Inspector Kurokouchi." "I'm with the police." "Allow me to confirm your presence." "Excuse me." "Sorry~." "I didn't mean to deceive you, but just to be sure, I moved to a different hospital." "Do you remember?" "Some time ago there was a woman who changed her face and was running away from place to place all over Japan." "Is she the woman who was arrested right before the statute of limitations expired?" "That's right." "This is the place that made that woman's face." "In exchange for keeping that a secret, they're letting me use this place as emergency shelter." "So, were you able to unravel the strings of history?" "Yes, I did." "Let's go then." "To look for the person who made all kinds of people unhappy." "Including Hazuki Tomo-san, right?" "Why don't we forget about her for now?" "That aside, don't you want to know who stole the 300 million yen?" "Is that," "Youth S?" "I have the bait scattered." "X F 2 2 7" "0 0 1 A" "XF227001A through." "XF229000A." "Exclude those 500 yen bills." "They could identify the perpetrator." "This is what we've been protecting." "Hello." "What's going on with Kurokouchi?" "It'll be over soon." "Sawatari-san." "Don't forget that your fate is in my hands." "There's no need to side with him." "How did you..." "I have the bait scattered." "I thought you'd be here." "It seems I received something strange." "Did you think you lost it somewhere?" "Aren't you supposed to be resting?" "But you know... there are people who won't let me rest." "Thanks to them, though, I found out." "About the people who killed Yakushiji-san and tried to kill me." "Isn't it the association called." "Sakura Fubuki Association that you belong to?" "Akaba-gumi who tried to kill me is a subsidiary of a corporation called Fubuki Holdings, and that Fubuki Holdings is actually." "Sakura Fubuki Association which exists within the police." " Right?" "Seike-san." " Yes." "Furthermore, I checked Akaba-gumi's criminal history and found that practically all those cases were, for some reason, handled by the Public Security Bureau." "Doesn't this mean" "Public Security and Akaba-gumi are connected?" " I don't know what to say..." " In-other-words, doesn't it mean that the Sakura Fubuki Association, that's manipulating Akaba-gumi in the background, is actually the Public Security Bureau?" "As I recall, you're also with the Public Security Bureau, aren't you?" "I'm just in charge of general affairs." "Didn't Sawatari used to be with Public Security Bureau as well?" "Which makes the one who tried to kill me and the one who killed Yakushiji-san under the guise of accident a member of the Sakura Fubuki Association who's with the Public Security Bureau." "Aren't you the one who killed Yakushiji-san in order to hide the truth behind the 300-million yen robbery?" "I know nothing about it." "In the first place, that..." "Sakura something or other... what does that have to do with the 300-million yen robbery?" "Wasn't the onset of Sakura Fubuki Association the 300-million yen robbery?" "Police want to keep their mishaps a secret, right?" "So if that perpetrator was Youth S, and since, as I recall, his father was an active police officer, they covered it up." "Isn't that what triggered the birth of the Sakura Fubuki Association?" "That's why that famous photo montage was a fake too." "Maybe the perpetrator's life was spared in exchange for the 300 million yen he stole." "I guess money is everything after all, huh?" "He's alive, isn't he?" "The perpetrator." "Or could it be that... the motorcycle police was you?" "The funeral and cremation are over." "This is you, starting tomorrow." "Well?" "Takahashi Hideo-san." "It was you, wasn't it?" "The one who faked suicide 45 years ago and was removed from the subject of investigation, alias." "Youth S." "This drama is based on a hypothesis."