He took the seaside turnoff.
This could be our man.
We're rechecking all reports from that area.
Next, the bullet train.
It isn't that different from other express trains.
He knows every detail of it...
but that may not mean...
he's a railroad man.
But we checked...
the bullet train personnel...
who were absent that day...
or who had quit recently.
There were very few.
I'll have all the data soon.
Next, grudges or other motives.
I saw the executives at National Shoes.
What a gruesome lot.
A grudge?
Do you think...
we were behind the kidnapping?
Absurd.
We went to join forces with him.
What a narrow escape.
Until Kawanishi told us, we had no idea.
Served him right.
He tried to buy up enough stock to gain control...
and then this happened.
Poetic justice, huh?
It's not that I doubt you...
but you've known Mr. Gondo a long time.
I just wondered...
if anyone held a grudge against him.
Anyone?
You couldn't count them all.
One more question.
The kidnapping occurred just after you left his home.
Did you notice anything near the gate?
A car, for instance...
or a suspicious-looking man?
We'd just been thrown out. We weren't admiring the view.
They were no help.
But at the factory--
Mr. Gondo has a temper that sure can rip into you.
But he keeps an eye on the work, all right.
A fine boss to good workers.
No one here...
holds a grudge against him...
except maybe the front office.
I don't think anyone holds a grudge against Mr. Gondo.
Except the big shots.
They'd decorate the kidnapper.
Your blood pressure, Taguchi.
Now for the results of our meeting.
Inspector Tokura.
So far, this case sounds almost impossible to break.
But we've got to find that "almost."
Follow every lead through to the bitterest end.
And when you're worn out and discouraged...
think of Mr. Gondo's pain.
Take the boy...
and drive to the shore tomorrow.
Find this "Fuji and the sea" scene.
If you can jog his memory, you may find the hideout.
Division Three.
Hello. Tokura speaking.
We'll be there right away.
Don't touch anything.
They found the car.
Abandoned on a highway. Get the lab.
Have more men sleep over here...
the rest on call.
Mud-spattered, but there's been no rain lately.
It's dust that settled on drops of water.
What's this?
- What's wrong? - Listen to this!
Hello. This is Gondo.
The boy's fine. I'll let him talk to you.
Daddy? Are you there?
Hear that? A trolley.
So?
A trolley runs near the hideout.
Three different trolley lines...
run through Kamakura.
Maybe a specialist can tell which streetcar it is.
I'm on my way.
An Enoshima trolley?
Absolutely. I live near there.
I've heard that sound...
a million times.
It's an old single-wire trolley.
Only the Enoshima line uses those old lines.
There are lots of curves...
and the rails are narrow.
The wheel base is short, so it makes that noise.
Thanks.
Is Mr. Aoki in?
I'm sorry. He's out.
At your husband's office?
No.
Where?
He took Shinichi in the car.
He wants to make him remember.
He's a nuisance.
He just felt he had to do something.
You were let out here?
We came that way.
Good. You look out the back.
Tell me if you remember anything.
Now what?
We can't move without the boy.
Aoki will go to the Sakawa River.
Let's follow him.
Daddy!
What? Remember something?
I peed there.
We'll find Aoki's car and get the boy.
Wait, Bos'n.
The lab says...
there's fish oil and blood...
bonito and mackerel scales on the stolen car.
It must have gone through a puddle of refuse...
from a fish market.
The Koshigoe market is the only one near that trolley.
Got it.
We get bonito and mackerel around here.
And other types of fish...
come by truck from Tokyo.
Thanks. Where does the trolley run?
Under the cliff.
Does it look like this from up there?
Let's see.
You should see Enoshima Island from there...
a little more to the right, near the station.
With that cape in front, it must look like this.
You saw Enoshima Island?
You must have.
We didn't come this way.
Bos'n, I feel we're getting closer.
Up there. Try not to look like a cop.
Okay, but you'll need plastic surgery not to.
Daddy! I saw this tunnel!
You passed here?
Which way?
From there.
Here, Shinichi?
Look.
Enoshima doesn't look like an island.
Let's go back to Koshigoe.
They'll have Aoki by now.
The boy will show us that hideout.
We'll raid tonight.
Got your pistol?
I'm not going after a madman with my bare hands.
Let's look around on foot.
That car!
It's Gondo's.
Don't be stupid. Stop playing detective.
When I got the car out this morning, he said...
"Aoki, we aren't going to the factory anymore."
He was smiling...
but I know how he felt inside.
Those executives are cruel...
but it's really my fault.
But you can't walk around here with the boy.
What if the kidnapper saw him?
Bos'n! He's gone!
Daddy!
Here it is!
They're asleep.
Take the boy away.
They're dead.
The inspector will explain.
Yes, but we're asking you not to print it.
The accomplices...
a man and a woman, were found dead.
Heroin overdose.
Suicide?
I'll explain.
Their arms were covered with needle marks.
Both were advanced cases of drug addiction.
It's unlikely they'd make a mistake...
in the dosage.
And dealers don't sell heroin that pure anyway.
They died in bed.
Near their pillows...
were two empty packets and syringes...
and a cup for dissolving the heroin.
There were two more used packets nearby.
So they had four...
and had taken the first two.
It doesn't suggest suicide.
Then why did they die?
The heroin was unusually pure.
What they took was over 90% pure.
When it's smuggled in...
it's 70% to 95% pure.
The dealers cut it...
with glucose and hydrochloric procaine...
till it's only 30% pure.
A one-gram package...
contains only 0.3 grams of pure heroin.
What happens to an addict...
who takes heroin that pure?
A very clever murder.
Here's important evidence.
It was found in their room.
The imprint...
of what they'd scribbled on the page above.
It's been restored and enlarged.
It shows the agony...
of an addiction withdrawal.
"Bring us the stuff. Fast.
"lf you don't, we'll spend the money.
"We won't do what you say anymore."
Obviously, they tried to blackmail him.
We can't be sure...
but it looks like he killed them.
And the money?
We found 2,500 of Mr. Gondo's 1,000-yen notes.
The kidnapper figured that out too.
He gave them a share...
but made them wait to use it.
Who were they?
Caretakers of a villa.
We found that out from the villa owner.
So you're close?
No, now we have to start all over again.
Of course, Narcotics is doing its best.
We'll get valuable data from them...
but the accomplices' death...
is a great setback for us.
The line leading straight to the kidnapper has been cut.
So I'm asking you:
Don't print a word of all this.
Why not?
The kidnapper doesn't know they're dead yet.
If he did...
he wouldn't have left all that money there.
What'll he do...
if we convince him they're still alive?
He'll probably try to kill them again.
So you don't report anything.
He'll go back to check.
And you'll arrest him there?
Right.
Even if we keep quiet...
the neighbors will talk.
It's a new development.
There aren't many houses.
And it's off-season. Hardly anyone's there now.
Drug addicts are cautious.
They had no visitors.
Our keeping quiet will convince him?
No, I want to ask you another favor.
Print that one of the 1,000-yen notes was spent.
Say it's our announcement.
I'm asking your cooperation for Mr. Gondo's sake too.
Did you know he lost his post at National Shoes?
That's bad. Don't they care about public opinion?
They'll vote him completely out of the firm soon.
I think we ought to give National Shoes a whack.
Let's do it.
"Gondo Shut Out Public Opinion Ignored"
"Women Start Boycott Of National Shoes"
"Second Tragedy Gondo Voted Out"
"Marked 1,000-Yen Note Found"
"30 Million Ransom In This Briefcase"
We've recovered 2.5 million.
Will you come for it?
Sorry it's so late.
No, it's a great help now.
We want it all back.
The kidnapper hasn't spent any.
But he'll be hard to catch unless he does. Ironic.
Mr. Kawanishi is here.
Kawanishi? What for?
A request.
Send him in.
Nice to see you.
I must thank you.
You've made Mr. Gondo a hero.
Now what?
Don't be so cold.
We've been so close all these years.
I objected to your being fired.
I risked my own position...
to keep you as an executive.
The Old Man's stubborn...
and the executives are schemers.
I had a hard time.
Fortunately, public opinion is for you.
So I succeeded.
Get out! Tell your new master for me:
You can't use me to save your hides.
I won't be an executive with no power.
I'm no puppet.
Can you afford to say that?
You went too far.
If you quit now, you'll have only debts.
Back on the payroll, your credit stands.
Get out!
I'm my own man now.
You're nothing-- not even a man.
Excuse me.
I'd like you to see something.
It's not much, but the last one seemed to be of use.
Shinichi drew it-- the kidnapper.
Dark glasses and a mask. Not much to identify.
What's this?
A handkerchief. He always wore it.
Mom! Look at the pretty pink smoke!
Burn anything here about 9:00 a.m.?
Yes, yesterday's trash.
What do you burn?
Junk that can't be disinfected.
They even bring stuff that won't burn.
Who does?
The janitors.
Anyone else?
The hospital nurses and attendants, sometimes.
Anyone like that today?
Come to think of it...
a man brought a cardboard box.
How big?
Know him?
No. An intern maybe.
A young man?
Yes. Too young to be a regular doctor.
"Burn this, pop," he said.
Doctors don't talk like that.
Now look at that, will you?
You can't burn tin.
You know what section he's in?
No, but he headed toward Internal Medicine.
Bos'n's report says his name is Ginjiro Takeuchi.
He took three days off during the kidnapping.
He lives in a studio apartment in Nishi-ku.
His room faces north and looks up at Gondo's house.
One of the phones we marked...
is near his apartment.
The accomplices had been examined...
at his hospital.
They were lung patients and drug addicts...
suffering from edema of the lungs...
and heroin withdrawal.
Pure heroin would cause death from shock.
Takeuchi's name was on their medical reports.
We can conclude that he is the kidnapper.
But we can't arrest him.
If we arrest him now...
he'll only get 15 years.
But he gave Mr. Gondo, who paid the ransom...
a life sentence.
We can't allow that.
The kidnapper deserves capital punishment.
It's clear he killed his accomplices...
but if we arrest him now...
we can't prove it.
There's only one way to bring him to justice.
Let him reconstruct his crime.
How?
With this.
Lower the blinds.
"Give us more stuff. We'll talk if you don't."
Not a bad imitation, huh?
Mr. Takeuchi?
He'll start moving today.
First, he'll have to buy heroin.
When he gets it, he'll try to kill them again.
But what he does till then...
and how he gets the drugs...
we can only find out by watching him.
Don't get too close...
but don't take your eyes off him.
Bos'n, Nakao, Arai and l...
will head for the hideout when he goes after the drugs.
I'll give orders from the car.
He's waiting for a dealer?
Just killing time, I'd say.
Walking up and down for two hours already.
He may recognize us if we stick together.
Inspector!
Yes. Tokura here.
He's in a florist's.
What? Flowers? Have someone buy some flowers.
There's no face here fit to buy flowers.
He bought one carnation?
Yes. One red one.
A girlfriend?
Now the suspect is at a pay phone.
It must be his connection...
and the flower must be a sign.
Watch who approaches the red carnation.
Watch how the money and dope change hands.
Inspector Tokura!
Tokura speaking.
He changed his course.
He got out at Dope Alley.
Didn't he buy any?
We thought he did.
We're turning back. Watch him.
What are you looking at?
Get out!
What are you doing here?
A lot of strangers around tonight. Be careful.
What are you, a cop?
We don't know you.
Get out. Get out, I said!
Bos'n, I don't understand what he's up to.
He should be taking the dope to the hideout.
And if he hasn't got it yet, why go to the junkies?
They don't have any pure heroin.
- Inspector! - This is Tokura.
He picked up a girl.
"Hotel"
Oh, no! He'll use her as a guinea pig!
He wants to test the drug he's got.
He came out.
- And the girl? - One moment.
Two men went to check.
On to the hideout?
Wait. The girl's a clue as to what he'll do.
He's going to lsezaki-cho.
This is lsezaki-cho. Which side?
Left side.
- Stop! - No standing, sir.
The girl's dead. Overdose.
He's coming.
We found him. I'm cutting off the radio.
A real prize. To the hideout.
No standing.
I brought the stuff.
Takeuchi, you're a dead man.
We recovered 27,480,000 yen.
He had spent only 20,000 yen on the heroin.
It's a great help.
- Too late? - It's all right.
Have a seat.
You can use them till the auction.
"Attached Article"
"Kidnapper Gets Death Sentence"
Thank you for coming.
He refuses to see a priest.
But he insisted on seeing you.
Well, Mr. Gondo. Thanks for coming.
You seem well.
What are you doing now?
Making shoes again...
for a small company, but I'm in charge.
I'm trying to make it as good as National Shoes.
Why do you look at me like that?
I'm going to die, but I'm not afraid.
So you needn't feel sorry for me.
That's why I refused a priest.
I should repent, pray for mercy, ask forgiveness.
But why?
I have no time for lies. I want the truth.
Are you glad because I'm going to die?
No?
Why should you and l hate each other?
I don't know.
I'm not interested in self-analysis.
I do know my room was so cold in winter...
and so hot in summer I couldn't sleep.
Your house looked like heaven, high up there.
That's how I began to hate you.
That gave me a purpose in life.
It's interesting to make fortunate men unfortunate.
Were you so unfortunate then?
You want my life story?
I'm not looking for your pity.
That's not why I sent for you, Mr. Gondo.
Why did you then?
I didn't want you to think I died crying and afraid.
My hands don't tremble because I'm nervous.
It's from being in solitary so long.
Just being outside that cell makes them tremble.
I'm not afraid of death or hell.
My life has been like hell since I was born.
But if I had to go to heaven, I'd really tremble.