" December 10, 1968" "5 years after the 300-million yen robbery, from the plethora of items found at the scene, various profiles of the perpetrator emerged." "A member of a local group committed suicide immediately after the robbery." "He was meeting frequently with the youth in question." " You mean Sawamura Hideto?" " Yes." " Seike." " His name is Tomita George, 23." "He's a member of a motorcycle gang called "Tachikawa Group,"" "born to an American soldier who died in Vietnam and a Japanese mother." " Whaddya want, old man?" " Police." "Where's Tomita George?" " Who's dat?" " You're Tomita George-san, right?" "You know Sawamura Hideto-san who committed suicide 5 years ago, don't you?" " Get outta here." " We're talkin' to you!" "Tomita George-san." "What are you going to do if the police see you here?" "It doesn't pay to get arrested by yourself, does it?" "When you didn't even get your share of the 300 million yen." "It's best you forget about Sawamura Hideto." "Forget about him." "The 300-million yen robbery remains unsolved to this day." "45 years ago, Youth S had an accomplice, right?" "What was his name?" "It wasn't Johnny..." "Geo..." "Did you end up..." "sealing his lips too?" "Why do you want to know?" "Because there's someone who wanted to know, and and there's me who took it over." "If I don't find out, it's not gonna end." "Is that all?" "Can I be frank with you?" "That's all~." "And you?" "Why did you rob the 300 million yen?" "Did you do it just for the money?" "Then I'll be frank too." "I stole this to prevent Sawatari-san from going on a rampage." "It appears yet another person was killed." "It was him, right?" "Prosecutor Echigo committed suicide?" "About 2 hours ago, when the administrative official entered the room, he found the prosecutor dead with this in his hand." "Potassium cyanide." "There's no sign of a struggle, and according to the administrative official, the prosecutor felt a great sense of responsibility for having Sawatari-san released." "I'm sure it was suicide." "He may have been killed by Sawatari-san." "I mean..." "Seike-san, do you have a minute?" "Where were you before you came here?" "As usual, I was secretly observing Kurokouchi-san..." "Isn't it about time you told me?" "About the case you and Assistant Inspector Kurokouchi have been pursuing in secret." "Well..." "Assistant Inspector Seike." "Actually, it's the 300-million yen robbery." "An evil plan?" "Sawatari-san is planning to use this money to do something evil." "Ah~ You mean that plan." "You don't have a clue, do you?" "No, I don't." "Oh, but I do know that you can't get to the 35 billion yen with that laptop alone." "That's why you captured me, right?" "That's right." "I want you to get the passcode from Sawatari-san." "The best way to stop him is to cut off the source of the association's funding." "I'm not sure about that." "If you want to shake up Sawatari, why don't you just come out and tell the world about yourself?" "Since you're the living witness who knows the history of the 300 million yen." "I've wanted to know for a lo~ng time too." "The history of your life." "That, I can't do." "The police will lose credibility." "All right then." "If I find the passcode, you tell me everything." "Deal?" "Hello, this is Sawatari." "You have a visitor at the receptionist's desk." "Hello." "This is Kurokouchi~." "Hey, wait, wait." "Just give me 5 minutes." "3 minutes then." "I'm giving you a break, you know." "Quit being so rough." "My suit's getting wrinkled..." "Oh, my~." "Did you want to see me?" "For now, I just dropped by to say hello." "Did you join?" "Yes, although somehow I ended up in the other faction." "So?" "You can be sure I'll get it from you." "Because I want to know the truth." "How the 300 million yen was stolen, and for what purpose." "I'd certainly like to know too." "Just wait and see." "I look forward to it." " Sakura Fubuki Association?" " Yes." "It's an organization created by police officers who covered up the 300-million yen robbery 45 years ago." "You may find it hard to believe, but this association had a hand in all the murders, starting with Goda-san and Hashimoto-san, that Sawatari-san was involved in." "That sounds like an urban legend." "Sugi Ryutaro was a member of that association too." "Sawatari-san is the leader." "At its center is the Shuto Sohgo Security Service." "Therefore, may I get a warrant to conduct a search at the security company?" "That would be a difficult." "I can't get in touch with Kurokouchi-san who went there with me." "It's quite possible he got into some kind of trouble." "However, like I told you before, that company hires retired police officers, and it's under the jurisdiction of MPD, so we can't venture in there unless we have conclusive evidence." "Conclusive evidence." "Conclusive evidence." "Nevertheless, you certainly did a lot of investigating." "Bloodstain other than his own was found on Sugi Ryutaro's body." "That's right." "For some reason, only on his arm." "Only on his arm." "Most likely, this guy Sugi put his arms around someone from behind like this, and maybe as they struggled, that person's blood got on his arm." "Struggled." "Did you recently grab a knife with your bare hand or something?" "Excuse me a moment." "Kurokouchi Keita." " What?" "!" " Oh, I'm sorry." "Where have you been?" "Well, things happened." "I thought for sure you were captured by Kaga-san." "Cor~rect." "Consequently, in order to investigate," "I confided to Chief Ushii about the 300 million and Sakura Fubuki Association." "What?" "You told him?" "!" "I'm sorry." "That's okay." "They probably don't care since there's no evidence." "Did you know?" "That 300 million yen, believe it or not, increased over a hundred times to 35 billion yen now." "I didn't know that." "Do you know this?" "The person who increased the capital by money laundering was, believe it or not, Ayakawa Shinnosuke." " I didn't know that either." " Then how about this?" " I joined the Sakura Fubuki Association." " I didn't know..." "What?" "That being said, investigation of the 300 million yen is hereby closed." "Thank you for your hard work~." "You're joking as usual, aren't you?" "I'm serious." "Really serious." "Really, really serious!" "After all, there are things in this world that are best left unknown." "That's why," "I gave some serious thoughts as to who has anything to gain by exposing the truth about the 300 million yen robbery." "Cuz look, the more we find out, the more people die around us." "If you didn't find out that your father was murdered, don't you think you'd have been happy not knowing?" "In other words," "I figured Sakura Fubuki Association might not be bad after all." "I'm going to continue investigating." "Don't." "Let evil rest in the dark." "That's how order was maintained for 45 years." "But you told me before, remember?" "Each of us have to decide for ourselves who's good and who's evil..." "That's why I decided that they're good." "Even if you should find evidence that could identify Sugi's killer, don't you dare pursue it." "If you do, I'm gonna distribute the photo of you peeing in your pants." "Please." "Go right ahead." "I sent you the photo, so look at it and think real~ carefully." "You're disgusting." "This is..." "For now, there hasn't been any noticeable movement." "Takahashi-san." "It's definitely Sugi Ryutaro." " Kurokouchi-kun sent you this?" " Yes, but he told me not to investigate." "There might be a reason he said that." "Don't you think that's entirely possible with him?" "It could be that Kurokouchi-san's planning to do something again." "If that's the case, what could be his objective..." "There hasn't been any movement with the money, so I think it's fine." "Thank you." "Sawatari-san, I want to ask you a big favor." "What is it?" "That is..." "I'm finally free again, so" "I'd like to take this opportunity to retire from working behind the scene." "I'll never talk about the association, so please!" "I understand." "I'll have one of my staff go pick up the data." "Please give it to him." "Thank you for all your cooperation until now." "Please take care of the rest." "I'm here for Sawatari." "Here's the data." "What's that?" "Thank you for your hard work until now." "Shinnosuke!" "Are you all right?" "!" "Accha~." "Did you kill him?" "Didn't I tell you to capture him alive?" "There were all kinds of things I wanted to ask him." "Is the passcode in here?" "The passcode to get to Sakura Fubuki Association's 35 billion yen is in here, isn't it?" "Really?" "Ajapaa~." "Then can we at least see how the money's flowing?" "Ayakawa-chan." "Now that things have come to this, you're gonna be pursued by both the police and Sakura anyway." "Until you die." "Come on, let me see how the money's flowing." "You won't regret it, I promise." "At Ayakawa-san's office?" "Yes, it's already been 10 minutes since he went in there." "I'm extremely sorry to inform you that." "Ayakawa didn't know the passcode." "One moment please." "Excuse me for just a minute." "Hello~." "Please wait a little bit more." "Also, I remembered." "Your friend back then was George-san, right?" "If I remember right." "Who might that be?" "Aw, come on~." "I'll go recover the money that belongs to you and George-san." " Shuto Sohgo Security Services Company?" " Yes." "The uniform worn by the security guards surrounding Sugi Ryutaro is the same as this." "Incidentally, this uniform belonged to Sugi Ryutaro." " Sugi was a security guard there too?" " Yes." "Next, please take a look at this photo." "Sugi Ryutaro and a woman appear to be struggling." "Bloodstain other than his own was found on his arm." "Are you implying that the bloodstain is hers?" "Yes." "Incidentally, she's the receptionist at Shuto Sohgo Security Services Company." "Who is that man in the photo?" "He's Kaga Hiroki-san, the president of the company." "In short, I believe it's very likely that Shuto Sohgo Security Services Company." "is involved in some way with the murder of Sugi Ryutaro." "But they're, you know, the place of employment for police retirees..." "Excuse me for a minute." "Hello, Kakizaki speaking." "Certainly." "I'll be there at once." "Did something happen?" "Ayakawa Shinnosuke who was released the other day seems to have disappeared." "Ayakawa Shinnosuke disappeared?" "The person who further increased the capital by money laundering was, believe it or not, Ayakawa Shinnosuke." "Come to the conference room." "Kurokouchi." "Kurokouchi-san." "Did you get any news?" "By any chance, was the disappearance of Ayakawa Shinnosuke your doing?" "Yup." "I helped him get away from Sawatari." "Wait a minute." "Kurokouchi-san, you joined the Sakura Fubuki" "Association because you had something in mind, right?" "The hint is the internal rift between Sawatari and Takahashi." "Do you get it now?" "No, I don't." "Ouch!" "I'm trying to tell you that Takahashi and Kaga revolted against Sawatari's methods." "And that's why they asked me to get out from Sawatari the pass code to the 35 billion yen." "Are you planning to take the money by pretending to be taken in by Takahashi-san's side?" "Half cor~rect." "Getting the money alone isn't evidence enough to substantiate the 300-million yen robbery." "What's needed is the money and testimony." " Which means?" " Takahashi-san, right?" "Cor~rect." "In other words, you approached Takahashi-san in order to obtain the testimony and evidence at the same time" " for the 300-million yen robbery." " But then... his cohorts Kaga and the woman kept getting in my way, so I sent you that photo hoping you'd arrest them." "About that... the photo was helpful, but apparently, it's not that easy for us go into that company." "Then don't go in there." "Chief Ushii." "Yes?" "Can I ask for your help?" "Why are we doing radio exercise?" "To kill some time." "No, there's no movement with Kurokouchi." "That's odd." "Anyway, I'll be there shortly." "Is it about time?" "My condolences to you~." "Kaga-san." "Prefectural Police here." "Please open the door." "Please come with us in regards to the murder case of Sugi Ryutaro." "What am I going to do with you?" "We've got to capture murderers." "I'm still a police officer, you know." "Oh, are you still officially a police officer too?" "You got separated from your comrades again, huh?" "What is your intent?" "All I did was grant you your wish." "Because, you know, if Kaga tells everything, it can be stopped, right?" "Sawatari's coup d'etat plan." "Did you hear that from Ayakawa-san?" "Yes." "This is it." "What kind of company's this Grumman and Black Fox?" "They're private military contractors." "Sawatari-san's been investing billions of yen in those companies." "Private military contractors, huh?" "Just as Sakura Fubuki Association had Akaba-gumi carry out those put-up jobs in order to increase the arrest rate for the police, isn't he trying to do the same thing on a much bigger scale?" "By bringing in soldiers from abroad." "You thought that was going a bit too far, and that's why you and Kaga betrayed Sawatari, right?" "Exactly." "Oh, but wait." "Kaga might tell them about you too during interrogation..." "It'll be all over for you then." "What will you do?" "Will you go to the police station and kill Kaga?" "What are you going to do?" "Why don't you confess before someone else tells on you?" "Think about it real~ carefully." "If you'll excuse me." "Aren't you guys the ones who killed Sugi Ryutaro?" "This is voluntary questioning, right?" "Yes." "If it's voluntary," "I think I'll leave now." "Oh, please put up with us a little longer." "Seike-san, can you go get him something to drink?" "No food or drink allowed in the interrogation room." "Don't be such a stickler for rules." "Okay?" "All right." "How much longer are you planning to keep this up?" "Who gave you the order to kill?" "Please think carefully before you answer." "Whose order it was, think real carefully before you answer." "Tomita George" "Takahashi-san." "Visiting someone's grave?" "No, not especially." "Why, isn't Tomita George..." "Was he your accomplice after all?" "Although I do understand why you wouldn't want to admit it." "If you don't say it, you're thinking that I'll expose it to the world, aren't you?" "But now that you're all alone again, what can you do by yourself?" "Unlike 45 years ago, there's no one to prompt you to disappear into thin air." "You had a comrade back then, but was caught, right?" "I wonder what triggered someone like you who was raised in a police officer's family to take the wrong path." "Why don't you just tell me everything already?" "Did this person called Tomita George egg you into it?" "He... just lent me a hand." "That means you're admitting to it, right?" "So Youth S had an accomplice after all, right?" "Won't you tell me everything?" "If you do, I promise I won't make it known to the world." "Why are you so obsessed with this?" "I told you." "I've been wanting to know for a long time." "45 years ago, what did Youth S see?" "My dream was to be a police officer." "However, student activism was in full swing at that time." "That there were some things even the police couldn't fight against," "I saw with my very own eyes." "The police had become weak." "That's how it appeared to me." "I wanted the police to be absolute." "It was around that time that I got picked on by some hoodlums one day." "He just happened to by passing by on his motorcycle and he came to my rescue." " January 1968." " Hey, George." "You okay?" " What happened to your face?" "He was a member of a motorcycle gang called Tachikawa Group." "Tachikawa Group's those guys who raided places like supermarkets by using smoke bombs made to look like dynamite, right?" "That's right." "When I heard that story, an idea came into my mind." "The 300-million yen robbery?" "It was an era when robbery of a few tens of thousand yen made the headlines." "In an era like that, what do you think would happen to the police if big money like 300 million yen was robbed?" "The Japanese Police will be disgraced like never before." "Exactly." "In other words, the motive of the 300-million yen robbery wasn't money, but to give the police a wake up call." "That might trigger the police to reassess their system." "That's what I thought." "And I approached him with my idea." "With all the preparations, I didn't think I could do it alone." " April 1968." "He agreed without hesitation." "Was he your only accomplice?" "Yes." "As I recall, there were items like hunting hat and woman's earrings among the things left behind at the scene." "Was that camouflage to befuddle the investigation?" "Yes." "Including that, I made an elaborate plan and prepared for it." " June 1968." "Hey!" "Cut that out." "I knew it was wrong, but" "I felt most alive back in those days." "That I was going to make the police reassess their system." "That this was for the good." "But there was a man from the police who was watching you the whole time." "It was Detective Shiroo who was with Public Security at the time, right?" "Due to carelessness on my part, I didn't realize it at all." " October 1968." "Unaware that we were being marked by Public Security, we awoke to the morning of that day." "December 10, 1968." "The morning of pouring rain." " December 10, 1968." "Get away from the car before it explodes!" "Hey, you." "The 300 million yen!" "After that, the 300 million yen was snatched away by Shiroo and Sawamura Hideto reportedly committed suicide." "That was Public Security's plan too, wasn't it?" "I didn't have the option to refuse." "If, in the worst case, should you get arrested, our existence will be endangered as well." "You'll have to commit suicide." "What happened to Tomita George-san?" "I never saw him after the robbery." "I didn't go to the place we were supposed to meet at." "If we met, he would've been incriminated too." "What you saw 45 years ago was the dark side of the police, wasn't it?" "This is you starting tomorrow." "What did you do after that?" "Through Public Security's connection," "I worked abroad for Red Cross and embassies." "No wonder you were never captured." "I've been captured all this time." "Does that mean you didn't join Sakura Fubuki Association on your own free will?" "I had no choice but to be kept in a cage called Japan." "In order to survive." "Your life is the history of the dark side of police itself, is that it?" "But still, that's no reason to have a hand in murder, is it?" "That started when he became the leader." "Is that Sawatari..." "Kazunari?" "Why did you continue to serve him until now?" "Long~ time ago," "Shiroo-san promised me." "That he'll make sure that some day." "Sakura Fubuki Association is recognized officially as the nation's investigation agency." "But that never materialized." "It was supposed to." "If you hadn't interfered." "You mean by having Sawatari arrested?" "Yes." "He was planning to run in the national election this year for the sake of the association." "But he was arrested, and after the door to national politics closed on him, something snapped inside of him." "Actually, that's what I was aiming for." "What are you going to do with that laptop?" "It's money you originally stole." "Shouldn't you be the one to bring it to an end?" "Can you stop Sawatari-san?" "That's... why you got the police." "Accepted." "Kurokouchi-san." "You're truly untrustworthy, aren't you?" "But..." "Did you arrest Takahashi-san?" "Yes." "The perpetrator of the 300-million robbery was finally captured after 45 years." "So?" "I went and stole this." "So?" "Now, it's you from Sakura Fubuki Association and me, just the two of us." "So?" "50-50." "Disappear." "Thank you for your hard work." "Finally, it's going to end." "This drama is based on a hypothesis."