"I see." "could you please tell us about what happened the day of the incident?" "750)} 750)}" "Okay." "On that day there was a Optics symposium targeted at researchers and a former female colleague named Ihara was also there." "Kikuchi-san!" "0)} 0)}" "It's been a while!" "It had been a while since we'd seen each other so we had a lot to talk about." "After having a light meal together I went with her to a bar." "I suddenly became very dizzy." "Are you okay?" "How about I help you home?" "Are you okay?" "I'm sorry about this." "It's fine." "I don't really remember what happened after that." "I had just finished my research and probably let myself get a little too loose." "You're at the end and want to take things easy." "I completely understand." "continue." "when I finally came to... so I went to check the main street." "Then..." "It was that man!" "He was the one that tried to touch me!" "And then you were arrested right on the spot?" "Yes." "I denied everything!" "But she..." "He suddenly forced me to follow him to a side street." "He forced you?" "Yes." "He pretended to be drunk and started touching my breasts." "I struggled to fight him off and then I ran." "I'd like to press charges against him!" "Then..." "I was arrested for sexual assault." "But I didn't do anything of the sort!" "I'm innocent!" "But you don't actually remember anything right?" "Yes..." "Are you sure you didn't do it?" "She was an ex-colleague!" "I would never do something like that!" "I can't even speak to my family..." "What should I do?" "You have two options:" "The first is to settle things in court and the other option is to settle things privately with the victim herself." "Do you want to get out of here as soon as possible?" "Of course!" "Then I would recommend settling things privately." "Privately..." "It will take time to settle things if your bring this to court and there is a high chance you will be considered guilty anyway. if you formally apologize to the victim and have them agree to settle things privately before you are put on trial" "then all charges placed against you can be dropped and you will be able to leave faster." "if you agree to settle things out of court you are admitting that you were guilty of the crime." "But I didn't do it!" "These types of cases are very complicated. it's hard for us to use that as evidence." "I didn't do it!" "find a way to prove my innocence!" "please leave it to me." "I understa-- don't admit to anything." "don't sign any documents." "I guarantee it." "Please leave it all to me." "Please..." "Has Kikuchi-san admitted his guilt?" "What are the actual facts to the story? but I am terribly sorry that a member of our company has caused such trouble to everyone." "0)} 0)}" "Let's start the meeting right away." "Eh?" "You worked hard today." "Same to you." "You two were pretty fast." "Is this guy that amazing?" "You don't know about him?" "It's thanks to his past research 10 years ago that there have been huge leaps in research on solar powered energy." "There are even rumors that if his current research is a success it will completely overturn everything we know about using natural energy!" "You really didn't know?" "I see..." "So that's why." "hurry up!" "What's wrong with him?" "Who knows?" "Eh?" "!" "Look at my daughter!" "You're wife is this large?" "but look at my daughter." "eh?" "Yeah... take a look at this." "that's gross!" "his name is Kikuchi Akio." "Ihara Hiroko." "The man himself denies the claims and wants us to prove his innocence." "We've got a complicated one this time... the two of them had been drinking at a bar on Kagura St." "They left the bar at 2:30am." "Kikuchi-san was arrested shortly after at 3am." "what occurred happened in a 30min timespan." "There is a chance that he did indeed commit the act." "head to the site of the crime and speak to the owner of the bar." "Okay." "Akashi and Fujino..." "Can I continue?" "check the security cameras on Kagura st. and ask around for any witnesses." "look up on the female victim." "Understood." "You know..." "I could just do this all myself." "We don't know when they'll officially press charges on him so we have to hurry!" "Tachibana." "Got it." "Why is Sada-sensei suddenly making all these orders?" "I wonder what's going on with him." "He's probably aiming for something." "Looks like the Sada Farm has finally managed to get the herd nicely through the gates and past the start line." "Although they can be too wild to handle sometimes..." "Japan's conviction rate for criminal cases is 99.9%." "A person who has been prosecuted is almost always assumed to be guilty." "This drama is a story about a group of lawyers who take on difficult cases in order to find the truth hidden within that remaining 0.01%." "He didn't seem like the type of guy who would do something like that though." "Was the girl he came with a regular?" "it was my first time seeing her." "The first time..." "What were they like?" "What do you mean?" "flirting around?" "0)} 0)} but the guy was really trying to come on to her." "He was trying to come on to her?" "That's what it sounded like to me." "They were just sitting over there." "Where?" "There." "Here." "Yeah." "And the girl?" "To his left." "Here." "Yeah." "Sit." "And then?" "Then the guy brought his face really close to the girl..." "Hey!" "Hm?" "Aren't you a bit too close? I just want to know what happened!" "That's kind of what it was like when he was coming on to her." "What did he say?" "I've been interested in you since back then..." "How much did Kikuchi-san have to drink?" "He was pretty drunk." "If you had to rate him out of 10?" "A solid 9 or 10." "The girl had to carry him out of here." "What time did they leave?" "2:30am." "Did you see them out to the top?" "I just saw them out from here." "I don't know what happened after they left." "I see." "could you phone Akashi-san?" "Akashi-san?" "Why?" "are you good with alcohol?" "I'm average." "Why are you even asking?" "huh." "There weren't any cameras in between the street and the alley and there weren't any witnesses around either." "I said I can walk!" "Watch out!" "you started drinking since noon?" "Watch out!" "so he's acting as Kikuchi-san." "But if the person acting as Ihara-san doesn't drink then..." "I drank the same that he did!" "Eh?" "!" "let's start." "What are we doing?" "Re-enacting the situation during the incident." "Eh?" "Carry him." "I have to carry him?" "if we want to use this as proof we need to do everything exactly as it was described." "Start filming." "I really don't like this... hurry up and carry him." "Eeh..." "Zitkaycarryme?" "what?" "Is it okay for her to carry me?" "You can really understand him." "Akashi-san." "Are you in there?" "but I'm completely sober!" "let's do it." "It's still totally bright out right now!" "We can totally keep going after this!" "Excuse us..." "Oh!" "You two sure are lively!" "Just shut up already!" "He's so heavy... turn here." "He's heavy!" "Did you like the place we went to?" "just a bit more!" "here." "lean yourself here." "Do you mean here...?" "You worked hard." "I'm exhausted..." "The time is..." "Over-Kumiko." "42)}[T/N:" "Miyama is making a pun on the word "over" (ooba) and the name of actress Ooba Kumiko who makes a guest appearance at the end of this episode] 8000 points!" "I got a big one today!" "Did you figure something out?" "Yeah." "It took 45min for us to get here." "it should've only taken 30min." "For Ihara-san to carry Kikuchi-san all the way here before 3am should've been close to impossible." "I've never seen another woman as immune to alcohol as you seem to be." "Hah?" "So what you're saying is...?" "Either she used a taxi to bring him here... or maybe... someone helped her out." "I get it now!" "The World!" "...." "And it's gone!" "44)}[T/N:" "Akashi is referencing an old travel/quiz show called "Naruhodo!" "The World" after Fujino said "naruhodo"]" "You want to settle things privately?" "The victim used to be one of our staff and I'm sure if we spoke to her she would agree to it." "I wouldn't want this case to put a permanent mark on his record." "He alone has spent so much on this research and if the results go through it would be a dream come true for him." "I see." "To tell you the truth..." "West Japan Glass." "and I'd like to put a stop to that if I can." "I don't care how much money this will take." "If you can help him..." "I wouldn't be opposed to signing in to an investment advisory contract with this firm." "Are you okay?" "Of course not." "That guy..." "One day I'll send him to the hospital with a One-Winged Angel." "which he named in reference to Sephiroth from FFVII.]" "Is it really true?" "That Kikuchi-san did something like that?" "but the man himself is still denying the claims." "There's no way a guy as nice as him would do something like that." "Did you know the victim?" "she worked here for a short time... but she ended up transferring to another company." "That place went bankrupt didn't it?" "apparently." "Ah..." "Go ahead." "sorry I can't really speak on the phone right now-- just get back here right now." "Eh?" "Here are the Out of Court settlement documents." "Kikuchi-san's side has agreed to pay 10 million in compensation." "These documents are to officially remove all claims you have filed against him." "Everything has been settled without any problems." "we'll settle the rest at a later date." "thank you." "Why are we settling this out of court?" "Didn't Kikuchi-san say he wanted us to help him prove his innocence?" "Unfortunately this was a request made by those supporting Kikuchi-san and the man himself also gave his permission." "There is a chance a rival company might get their research patented before they do." "There were holes in Ihara-san's testimony." "Kikuchi-san could be innocent." "Do you get it?" "Claims of sexual assault are only brought to court if the victim wants it." "If the claim has been dropped then there is no more case." "I get it now..." "What Sada-sensei wants isn't for the person to be innocent but to get the rights to that patent." "What are you talking about?" "This is what the CEO of their company and Kikuchi-san himself wanted." "It's not what I wanted." "What you wanted?" "I said it's not want I wanted!" "It's not what you wanted." "There's nothing that I wanted." "It's not what you wanted." "It's not." "We really don't see eye to eye at all." "We really don't." "That punk..." "You two have become quite the team." "I really don't think that's the point here." "Thank you very much for everything." "I will never be able to repay you for what you've done." "Don't say things like that." "You are an important person to our company as well as to me." "There is no way I could've stood by and watched you suffer like that." "President..." "It's good you were able to get out without any further difficulties." "into a reality." "Thank you!" "Let's go." "Thank you for acting as my attorney." "Are you really okay with this?" "Everyone is hoping for my research to succeed." "Excuse me." "Can I ask you one thing?" "Would you say you're good with alcohol?" "Yes..." "I think I am." "But you had managed to drink to the point where you lost your memories?" "I guess so..." "He was tired." "He constantly buries himself in his research from morning until night." "Are we done here?" "Let's go." "Good work today." "Good work today." "this won't last" "Thank you for your hard work." "Same to you..." "Thank you for your hard work." "Thank you for your hard work." "You too... while I was gone..." "We put the results over there already." "welcome back!" "This is really great!" "your father's home!" "I'm back." "You're the worst." "Coming back after settling things like that." "I didn't actually do it." "So why did you say you did?" "There was nothing else I could do." "You're fine with lying like that?" "You're fine with saying you did something you didn't even do?" "I believed in you and ignored what everyone else at school said about me!" "How could I be happy that you came home because of a lie!" "Eri!" "Eri!" "where's the owner?" "Hah?" "Where is the owner?" "he's at a casino in Macao." "A casino?" "He said he'd be staying for a night and two days." "but does this bar always play the music this loudly?" "we do." "That's what it sounded like to me." "They were just sitting over there." "What did he say?" "I've always been interested in you since back then... do you know Ihara Hiroko?" "Eh?" "This person." "the boss's girlfriend." "Is that so..." "There is no way he could've heard what they were saying at the counter like that." "are dating..." "Things are looking pretty fishy..." "Everything the bar owner said was pretty much a lie." "Hiro-kun!" "I came to see you!" "How annoying... this is my seat." "Really?" "There are other seats open though." "gets to sit here." "She's your girlfriend?" "Not at all." "He denied it." "For now!" "It's an afro restaurant for afros about afros!" "It's Apollo!" "Apollo Sugawara] sorry!" "How was it?" "Apparently Nemoto has a pretty big dept to payback to some money lenders." "Even though he's in debt he's still going to a casino...?" "Something suspicious is definitely going on." "That 0.1% is finally becoming clearer." "Hiroto." "Sorry." "It's fine." "Thanks a lot." "238)}Miyama's Special Appetizer Plate" "It's good!" "It's done!" "This is good!" "It's a hundred times better than when I make it." "Don't say stuff like that." "Even though we've got the same blood in us your sense for this is on a whole other level." "Same... blood?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "EEH?" "!" "you didn't know?" "We're just cousins though." "Even that is hard to believe." "I agree." "Sometimes the world is just really unfair." "But I think our noses at least..." "Look nothing alike." "But maybe if he got an afro..." "Which I'd never allow!" "Could we bring this to court and prove that I'm innocent?" "but we can't do that anymore." "What do you mean?" "the case is considered closed." "You cannot bring it back to court and try to get a different ruling." "So you're saying I will never be able to prove my innocence?" "Unfortunately..." "There is one way." "You could sue them instead." "What do you mean?" "It's called a "Badger Game"." "worked together to trick you and make it look like you had sexually assaulted her." "If we can find concrete evidence to support this then you can sue them for framing you." "Do you remember anything?" "For now let's just walk until the location of the incident." "Okay." "000yen?" "Yes." "The rights belong to my company so... you don't mind?" "I might not be living a life of luxury but I'm making enough to support myself comfortably." "there's no other place for me to conduct my research." "Although..." "Although?" "About half a year ago I was head-hunted by someone overseas." "But now that the president has helped me out of this case I'm planning to decline their offer." "Who knew about this offer?" "Just me and one other researcher whom I'm close with." "A green taxi!" "Eh?" "There was a green taxi that had parked nearby." "Right around there!" "You're sure about this?" "Yes." "Alright." "let's stop every green taxi that passes by." "Hah?" "!" "If there was a taxi stopped here that means the driver could have witness what happened with Kikuchi-san." "Their dashcam might have even caught a video of what happened." "Hah?" "!" "How many green taxi's do you think there are in Tokyo?" "We'll never know if we don't try." "hurry up and call the others." "Hah?" "Hurry!" "sorry." "But on the 6th at around 2:30am did you stop around here?" "I didn't." "Then..." "Did you see a taxi that stopped over there?" "I didn't." "Did you hear anything about a taxi stopping here?" "Nope." "Then what about" "I said I didn't stop here!" "I don't know anything!" "I'm sorry!" "Excuse m" "I wonder why it hurts so much..." "What the hell?" "!" "I'm sorry!" "This is impossible..." "There's no way we'll find it." "We still have plenty of time!" "The night is still young!" "Here you go." "We should be sleeping." "I want to take a bath." "Thanks..." "You can't energize people with candy you know." "It's scary asking all of them..." "Eh?" "oh... this is bad." "Are you the guys asking around for taxi's around here?" "we don't know." "Yes." "You're clogging up our radios!" "All we keep hearing about are a bunch of people asking around for green taxi's." "we didn't mean anything by it." "Please forgive us!" "Please forgive us!" "We're sorry!" "It was at night on the 6th?" "Eh?" "Huh?" "that's right." "There was a green taxi that stopped over there cause they got into an accident with a bike." "Do you know the company of that taxi?" "Meiji Automobiles." "Thank you very much!" "Thank you very much!" "You're such a nice person." "You're a god!" "Have some candy!" "And mine!" "Mine too!" "I don't need that many... wait...!" "Is it really okay for me to take all this?" "We haven't overlooked anything." "Nothing." "Absolutely nothing." "We've got everything set perfectly." "Will everything be okay?" "Sada-sensei will be surprised." "He will be." "What?" "What happened?" "Good morning." "We've been waiting for you." "We know who was the culprit for Kikuchi-san's case." "That case is already settled!" "Didn't I tell you?" "Eh?" "Kikuchi-san came and said that he wanted us to help prove he was innocent after all." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I forgot." "But let's put that aside for the important stuff." "That is important stuff!" "take a seat." "He came himself?" "Yes." "Yesterday?" "Yes." "Why didn't you tell me either?" "We've uncovered quite a few lies." "Eh?" "Take a look." "some irrefutable evidence." "watch this." "Here is a taxi that is pulled over on the night of the incident because it got into an accident." "This is the footage from the taxi's dashcam." "Here." "said she carried Kikuchi-san all by herself but there were actually two people who carried him" "Nemoto-san." "Next thing." "Nemoto-san said that at the bar Kikuchi-san was clearly coming onto Ihara-san but if you go to the bar during their hours they play music so loud you can't even hear the person sitting beside you." "Nemoto-san shouldn't have been able to hear Kikuchi-san and Ihara-san's conversation at all. Nemoto-san said this was the first time he had seen Ihara-san but the two of them are actually in a relationship." "She's the boss's girlfriend." "despite having a huge dept to pay back to money lenders" "Nemoto-san continues to travel to Macao and play around in casinos." "Ihara-san left Udo's company and moved to another research company that company went bankrupt in the summer and she is currently jobless." "So what are you trying to say?" "The link between the two is they both needed money." "So they decided to work together and trick Kikuchi-san out of his money which has led to the incident we have now." "So the motive was money." "Kikuchi-san has a patent on his research so he must have a couple million under his belt." "He's the obvious prey." "It's easy to see." "right?" "You're actually wrong though." "About what?" "000yen from his research." "Eh?" "000yen?" "Yes." "000yen?" "000yen?" "Yes." "Not in American dollars?" "No..." "Not just as a pre-payment?" "000yen?" "No." "Yes." "000yen?" "YES!" "but Ihara-san worked in the same company and should have known that he only received that amount." "Money really is a terrifying thing... 30)}[T/N:" "Sada is repeating a pun Miyama made in episode 2]" "As expected of Mr. Monopoly." "why would she target him?" "They didn't have any guarantee that they could get any money from settling things privately." "That's true." "But what if they did have that guarantee?" "Hm?" "So that's what it was..." "When Ihara-san saw that the compensation fee was 10 million yen she didn't even blink and signed it right away." "Really?" "Normally someone would be like "10 million?" "!" "If it was me I'd definitely have freaked out." "Right?" "Who was it that proposed settling things Out of Court?" "But these are all still just speculations." "We still have to prove it." "How are we going to do that?" "There's.... ...no way!" "No way?" "!" "Sada-sensei?" "Togawa-kun." "Yes." "Call the bar owner and the victim here at the same time." "The same time?" "Then... right?" "What are you planning on doing?" "The only way to prove this is to get a confession from the people themselves." "Can we get them to do that?" "But to do that we need to play one more card don't we?" "You're right." "Huh?" "We're actually matching up today for once Sada-sensei." "Because that's actually the only way!" "It's pure coincidence!" "to do this we can't just have you guys with your scared-looking faces all the time." "Nice one!" "Ochiai" "Yes?" "O-chi-a-i" "Y-e-s?" "Who's breaking up my game?" "I'm sorry." "Check!" "Y-Yes!" "Come in." "Excuse me." "Welcome!" "What have you come for today?" "I'm sorry for calling you here you when you're busy." "You'll receive your remunerations for this after we're done." "This will be over before you know it." "I'm sorry for bothering you when you're busy." "it's fine." "please follow me." "Okay." "She's arrived." "Excuse me." "He's here." "but there's been an oversight on our part and we need you to check if everything is okay and sign one more time." "I understand." "Kikuchi-san must have been quite heavy." "Did you get injuries from carrying him?" "it was hard carrying him by myself... but could you take a look at this for a moment?" "It's footage from the dashcam of a taxi that was at the location." "You just said that it was hard carrying him by yourself didn't you?" "but about halfway through we carried him together." "Halfway through?" "Yes." "Until when?" "I don't really... could you please tell us the truth?" "This is the truth." "Have you met the girl who was assaulted before?" "it was the first time she'd ever come to my bar." "And you don't know where they went after they left the bar?" "they left and then I started cleaning up right after." "Please take a look at this." "didn't you?" "What?" "aren't you?" "What is this about?" "that's it" "Staying silent won't help your situation you know." "There's nothing I have to say." "Excuse me." "That's what he said?" "Yes." "So that's what it was." "Is that it?" "Wasn't there something in it for you too?" "Is that so?" "This is getting quite complicated." "I see." "She said there was an easy way for me to pay back my loans and dragged me into it." "I see." "did Kikuchi-san get drunk on his own?" "I put some sleeping pills into his water and gave them to him..." "Well that won't do." "Looks like we have you tied up." "I was just doing what she was telling me to do!" "It was all her idea!" "isn't that right?" "I did no such thing." "Excuse me." "Sleeping pills?" "Yes." "With sleeping pills?" "Yes." "Seems like your boyfriend has pretty loose lips." "Are you sure you won't start talking?" "If you want to continue to stay silent that's fine as well." "Miyama." "Got it." "and have you charged for commiting a frameup." "For cases like this where there was obvious malicious intent... but may even have to spend some time in jail." "Also you might have to pay up to hundreds of thousands in compensation. there will be a higher chance that you may be exempt from the prison sentence." "We will also try to see to it that you will not need to pay for the compensation fees yourself." "will you tell us the truth?" "You were ordered to do this by someone were you not?" "Will you really try and make my sentence lighter?" "I promise." "I apologize for asking you to come here so suddenly." "Please take a seat." "The contract for the new patent is still going to take a while you know!" "Of course." "what did you want to talk to me about today?" "please look at this." "You can move closer if you'd like." "This was footage taken from a dashcam on the night of the incident." "This is... conspired to frame Kikuchi-san with sexual assault." "would you like to?" "we've already settled things." "I thought this case was over?" "What has ended was the sexual assault case against Kikuchi-san." "What do you mean?" "The two of them set up this incident by themselves." "It could be considered a scam." "I see." "right?" "Isn't that right?" "I will appear in court." "You'll be wasting your time." "What about your research?" "Are you going to ignore your colleagues who you've worked so hard and long with?" "In regards to that..." "Actually I have something to say about that." "Tachibana." "Yes." "This is in regards to the patent you received for Kikuchi-san's new lens." "everything will be handled by Sada-sensei." "This can't be!" "You can't just do something like this without permission!" "That is true if this was between us and your research company." "But if he quits your company and completes his research in another company then..." "That can't be..." "You're not actually planning on moving to JanOptics are you?" "Huh?" "What's this?" "How did you know that Kikuchi-san had been head-hunted?" "That's because..." "Because...?" "do you understand how important you are to me?" "That's why I've helped you so much and even thought of you as my own son!" "Did you really think that?" "why didn't you give him any of the money he earned from the research he had worked so long and hard for?" "It's only natural the company would have the rights to that!" "According to Article 35 the amount that the inventor should have received is a very large amount." "It's in the hundreds of millions." "000yen?" "we're not talking chump change here!" "Those who have achieved something should be rightly rewarded for their work!" "We also heard from West Japan Glass that the research on their new lens has barely even started." "You didn't insist on settling things out of court for Kikuchi-san's sake." "You did it for yourself!" "What proof do you have to make these claims?" "You heard rumors that Kikuchi-san had been head-hunted and didn't want to lose him." "But you also didn't want to pay him more than you already are." "and buy his gratitude so that he would never leave the company willingly." "I've heard enough of this!" "We've already heard the whole story." "From those two." "come in." "who Miyama referenced earlier] who thought up this idea in the first place?" "President Udo." "Udo-san." "it's your move now." "I am going to take you to court." "president Udo Katsutarou conspired with one of his former employees and her friend to commit this offense." "has been proved innocent." "Cheers!" "Isn't it great honey?" "Right Eri?" "to celebrate can you give me some money?" "Huh?" "I'm going to Disneyland with my friends next week." "this isn't just spare change you know!" "Please!" "you're always asking for more allowance all the time!" "I'll bring back souvenirs!" "We don't need souvenirs." "Excuse me." "Looks like Sada-sensei was able to sign a new contract with Kikuchi-san's research team and the company they moved to." "I wonder if that's what he was aiming for at the start..." "Who knows..." "You were calculating what advantages you could gain no matter which way this case went weren't you?" "Who knows?" "The Sada Farm has become quite a good one." "Although there's one horse who has completely different views from the stable leader." "but I still think he's a good horse." "All you need for a good horse is Sada-no-Win." "If you'll excuse me." "230)}Miyama Daisuke" "368)}Miyama" "You finally got your pay right?" "Give me my money back." "are there are any Pro-Wrestling matches on recently?" "Pro-wrestling?" "Yeah." "are you interested?" "I am." "Then say so sooner!" "I think my arm just broke..."