- Good work today. - Good work.
- Good night. - Good work.
Good night.
Health Exam Results
...narrowing field of vision...
...will continue to degrade...
There are over 6.8 billion people in the world now.
If you wanted to meet every single person
just for one second, it would take over 200 years.
- Huh... - So what?
So we've already been talking for 5 minutes.
- It's a miracle. Cheers. - Cheers.
Inohara-san, please.
Call me Emi.
Excuse me.
- Yes. - Sakuragi, where are you?
- What are you doing? - Sorry, Ino-san
asked me to do a 3 on 3 date.
What are you saying? Come back right away.
We've got a case. A criminal group.
A criminal group?
We're going after a series of jewelry store robberies and a murder.
Tonight, a jewelry store in Nerimaku near Sasayama was targeted.
They used a blowtorch to break in.
They cut out the door handle in a half circle
as always. It's the same group.
This is the tenth time over 3 months. They've racked up over 1.5 billion yen in damages.
I've never heard of a case causing
- 1.5 billion yen in damages. - And also,
two security guards have been killed.
In both cases they were both cruelly shot in the head.
People in the neighborhood are very interested.
They're already starting to lose trust in the police.
We found hair samples at two of the scenes.
We're checking the DNA databases for
all known members of Asian organized crime groups.
We're also getting the organized crime task force involved.
So if they're getting involved, what are we doing?
We think another group may be involved.
Another group?
The entry methods are all the same.
But at first high end stores in Ginza were targeted.
Now only stores in the local shopping areas are targeted.
And it's always Friday at night.
The footprints left at the scene
show their sneaker size at 28cm. Make is unknown.
Based on the size we should look at a large man.
And we found a fiber from a rare tree in one of the footprints.
- Tree fiber? - Looking it up
turned up a tree only found in Spain.
We figured out it was used in a wood deck.
Lumber from this tree is quite expensive.
There's only one place in Japan that has it.
Where is that?
Hijiriyama Town. It's a gated community on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Gated community?
Like a castle town. To prevent crime
the houses are surrounded by fences and gates.
They were first started in America but
they're starting to show up in Japan too.
In Hijiriyama town
there are 50 houses. Each of them at least a hundred million yen.
Dream houses.
They have a club house there, the wood deck
uses the lumber from Spain.
So we need to figure out why
the robber had a fiber of this tree
- in his footsteps. - Then we can just check
- the footprints of each person there? - We can't do that.
We asked their private security to help with the investigation.
But they're like their own country.
They like to think they have their own territorial rights.
We can't get in there without a warrant.
If the criminal finds out about the investigation, it's over.
They'll dump the evidence and disappear.
There's also a high chance that the group now is using the equipment and assistance of a foreign crime organization.
In order to protect our citizens we'll need to proceed carefully.
We've only got one move.
We'll have to infiltrate their community as residents.
Zettai Reido (Absolute Zero) - Episode 7
Your cover will be a married couple in their first year.
A newly married couple that's wanted to live in Hijiriyama Town for awhile.
Yamauchi Daisuke, 32. Representative President for an IT company.
Yamauchi Yoko, 28 years old. Former flight attendant, now housewife.
You'll be undercover around the clock over there.
It will be a tough mission.
Sakuragi, you'll have to get information
all over town in your housewife role.
Good luck.
Ah, Yamauchi-san.
- Thank you very much. - Welcome.
Yoko-san, sorry to be abrupt, but could I borrow Daisuke-kun?
- Please. - This way.
Okay.
Everyone, this is Yamauchi Daisuke.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- I'm Ishida. - Nice to meet you.
I'll help.
Next group is coming soon.
Yes. Ah, okay. I'll be there.
I'll be back. Sorry.
Ah, thank you very much.
- This way. - Okay.
- Yamauchi-san. - Yes?
- What's this? - Ah,
well I wanted to thank you all for the welcome party.
So I brought my own gift.
I already checked in with security before.
Thank you very much.
But the club house
is off-limits to anyone not in the community.
Ah, I see. I'm sorry.
So we'll take the food from here.
Ah, okay, let's do that.
Only residents can get in the club house?
Yamauchi-san brought these!
- You have a wonderful husband. - Oh, Reina-san.
- Here. - Thank you.
I've wanted a life like this for awhile.
Really?
Sakuragi, take a look around the club house.
Ask if any people outside the town come there.
Is the club house usually like this?
It's a shared space with all the residents.
Natsumi-san.
I'll introduce you. This is Okuma Natsumi.
I'm Yamauchi Yoko. I'm moving in next door to Reina-san.
- Nice to meet you. - Natsumi-san
is a mother of two kids.
Wow, you don't look like it.
I like to hear that.
Mama.
Do you usually play with your kids here?
No, my kids actually come here on their own.
- Is that okay? - Yeah, it is.
When they go to the pool, other fathers are usually there to look out.
And when there aren't?
- I'm sure there are a lot of salesmen coming in and out. - It's okay.
Only residents can get in here.
What about cleaning staff?
The residents take care of the place.
Well, my husband really does all the work.
We do have people come in once a year for repairs.
Why are you asking?
Ah, I just want to know everything about this place.
Yeah.
So only residents it is.
It's quite probable only
a resident here would have that wood fiber.
Get pictures of faces.
Yamauchi-san, do you have a moment?
This is Yamamoto-san and Saito-san.
Nice to meet you, I'm Yamauchi Daisuke.
I'm Yamauchi Yoko.
They're around 30 like you but completely different...
Ow! My glasses.
- Here you go. - Thanks.
- Thanks for today.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
Looks like a lot of hardworking husbands here.
Everyone tries to be a cool husband.
Somehow this town became full of them.
- A cool husband? - Yes.
A husband who is both successful at work and family.
There's a group of us who meet up.
- Would you like to join? - Oh? Sure!
Okay.
Thanks for today.
Good night.
Today wore me out.
We're just starting.
I know.
You should rest.
- Good morning. - We're going to start soon.
We were able to get everyone's faces and license plate numbers
from cameras we have
at the gate, nearby stores
and other nearby houses.
From that, the Friday night when the robbery occurred,
we know that these 13 were the ones who were out then.
9 guys. They have large builds too.
One of these guys left the wood fiber at the scene.
Why are rich people stealing jewelry?
Yes, the question is the motive.
Anyway, we need to account for the whereabouts of these 9.
Look into their jobs and relationships.
Also any links with criminal groups, here or abroad.
Okay.
- See you. - See you.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Morning.
Fukaboshi Akinobu left his house.
Henry Chan's car is heading east.
- C group tail him. - C group, roger.
Fukaboshi Akinobu just left the gate.
He's walking towards the station.
- A group. - A group on the move.
Your shop was the first one to be targeted
in the string of crimes in this area.
Do you remember any strange visitors to your store?
No, not really.
The loss was more than a hundred million yen.
Sorry to be rude but, do you really have jewelry that expensive here?
Detective, jewelry stores,
even ones that operate in old shopping areas like this
still have things of value.
I've still got some stuff people bought
during the bubble economy and have to get rid of.
But they took everything.
Any security camera footage?
This shopping street has a lot of closed shops. The cameras are just there.
They’re not recording anything.
Any progress with Hatakeyama Akiko?
We found Hatakeyama Akiko.
Her face was an exact match.
It's definitely her. She's in hiding nearby.
We found out where she was hiding but
she had disappeared before we got there.
It's quite possible someone knew what were doing.
Good work.
- Oh, thank you. - How's it going?
Nothing has really stood out.
- It's Shiraishi. - What is it?
There's something interesting about Fukaboshi Akinobu.
I've been tailing him. His lunch everyday seems to be a single sandwich.
Yeah. But what?
Other residents
seem to eat at fancy restaurants every day.
It's a little strange to see someone just eating one sandwich.
Yes?
It's Kurada. Could you look into your neighbors, the Fukaboshis?
Reina and her husband?
Check on Fukaboshi Akinobu's Friday night schedule.
You won't have any backup.
Be careful.
Yes.
- Yoko-san? - Ah,
I made too many madeleines.
Do you have friends over often?
Yeah. Especially Natsumi-san. Our husbands are good friends.
Ah, do you usually get together Friday nights for drinks?
No, Friday nights the men usually practice golf.
- Golf? - Yeah.
My husband and Natsumi's
go to the driving range every week.
He's probably just doing it to the escape here.
Name of the range?
Where's the driving range around here?
My husband usually goes to Central Golf Plaza.
It's about 15 minutes from here by car. Although I don't play.
D group, look into it.
Sakuragi, I'm going to call the house. It'll give you time.
Can you check Fukaboshi's shoes then?
Can you take a picture of the shoe soles so
we can check for any fibers?
If you can, tap your mike once.
- This is Fukaboshi. - Thank you for taking the call.
This is Shirase from Hakuba Estates.
Your maintenance period is coming up soon
and we're just reaching out.
Ah, okay.
Toilet?
Yes.
Ah.
No, nothing really now.
No, we're okay.
Yes, there's nothing really wrong.
If this is going to take awhile, could you call again later?
I have a guest right now.
Sakuragi, stop.
Yoko-san, did you find the toilet?
- Ah, yeah. - Oh, what's up?
Ah, I think I dropped an earring.
Oh, really?
Ah, it's okay.
Ah sorry about that.
Fukaboshi Akinobu works for a foreign investment company but
they haven't been doing well recently
and his salary has taken a hit too.
So he has motive.
And we have some strong evidence that Sakuragi got.
Every Friday evening, these two go out for golf practice.
But when we checked
these two have never gone to the range.
All the recent crimes have been during Friday nights.
Where have Fukaboshi and Okuma been going on Friday nights?
And we have this.
Sakuragi got in Fukaboshi's house and took these pictures of Akinobu's shoes.
She's been doing good.
We've been looking at the footprints left at the scene
and we've found two shoes that it matches.
And one of them has the wood fibers attached to it.
So we're sure Fukaboshi is behind this then.
So he's involved with a criminal group then.
Let's do a complete check on Fukaboshi Akinobu and Okuma Tetsuya.
Okay.
How's the newly married life?
I worry about leaving Sakuragi behind everyday.
But she's doing well.
Maybe you'll recognize the power of your right-hand woman there.
- Welcome home. - Hello.
I made dinner for you.
I already ate out.
So tell me then.
My dinner has nothing to do with the investigation.
Well, then about the investigation.
I've been talking with some of the other wives in Hijiriyama Town.
It seems the Nakamuras in F block have come into a lot of money.
The husband works in a foreign company that has had a lot of upheaval
so I think there's a chance
he's involved with a criminal group.
I think it's worth it to look into them.
Got it. Look into it.
What?
I'm leaving all the town intelligence gathering to you.
Do a good job.
Ah, okay.
Fukaboshi is on the phone.
Who's he talking to?
How many times do I have to tell you,
- Fukaboshi-san. - He's talking to Okuma.
That's not it.
They seem to be arguing about something.
What are they arguing about?
Fukaboshi threw away some note.
I'm following Fukaboshi.
Do you always shop there?
Yeah, we've decided to go organic.
We're thinking about our child's health.
Ah, I'll do the same.
- Yeah. - Chi...
How are you Yoko?
Ah, Dad?
Ah, this is my father.
- Father? - Ah.
- Nice to meet you. - Hello.
You surprised me.
I was interested to see how the married couple was working out.
How is the married life?
It's terrible. He leaves me to do everything here
while he does whatever he wants.
Chamomile tea.
The smell of apples helps to calm the senses.
- Relax. - Was this his idea?
No, this time it was my wife.
What?
My wife takes care of everything at home.
Made me feel guilty when I heard what you said.
Ah, it's good.
A pairing of detectives is like a married couple.
Because the wife figure backs you up,
you can exert all your energy tracking one thing.
This time around, Takigawa entrusted the work here to you.
That’s how it looks to me.
I'm leaving all the town intelligence gathering to you.
Do a good job.
- It's here. - What is it?
- Maybe these characters are for Fukaboshi and Okuma? - The numbers?
Maybe their share of profits?
So that’s why they were arguing.
Tomorrow is there too.
Tomorrow's Friday.
If we catch them in the act
we can probably get their criminal group too.
Okay, we've got one chance.
Fukaboshi is with Okuma.
- They're in Okuma's car. - Got it.
We have his car. We'll follow.
Okay. Don't lose him.
Follow 300 meters behind.
Got it.
Good evening.
Ah, good evening.
Oh, I'll bring a cake over tomorrow
as thanks for the madelines.
- Okay. - See you.
The target car has entered Tajima Engineering.
We'll go around the back. Shiraishi, keep following.
Got it.
They went in the factory.
Are they meeting their partners here?
Probably their group hideout.
We'll be on the lookout here.
Got it.
Assault team, standby. Don't use any guns.
I repeat, don't use any guns.
Understood.
It's been over an hour and there's been no movement.
Please let me go in and check the situation.
Okay. Be careful.
We checked with the factory.
Fukaboshi and Okuma come here every Friday night for part time work.
They were here the night of the crime too. They have an alibi.
What about the phone argument?
Maybe it was just about work shifts.
They're not in any criminal group.
I don't know where we went wrong.
Me neither.
But that wood fiber was at the scene of the crime.
And Fukaboshi Akinobu's shoes matched up with the footprints there too.
Those two things are true.
But what did we miss?
There's another criminal out there.
- It's Nagashima. - Yes.
We just got word a jewelry store in
a shopping street in Toshima was robbed.
Same method of entry. It's them again.
Tonight?
Oh, I'll bring a cake over tomorrow
as thanks for the madelines.
- Okay. - See you.
- Takigawa-san. - Yeah?
The only other one with access to Fukaboshi's shoes.
- Chief. - Yes?
Can you look into Fukaboshi Akinobu's footprints again?
Fukaboshi Reina is at home.
It's Kurada.
We checked the pressure left on the footprint.
We figured out that it's someone
of a smaller size than the shoe.
- It's like you thought. - It's Shiraishi.
We followed Okuma Natsumi from the gate but
she’s meeting someone we didn’t expect.
- Sugiyama Taizo. - The victimized jewelry shopkeeper.
So that's it.
If you'd like, want to eat some? My husband went to the gym.
Is that Fukaboshi's house?
- What happened? - Who is it?
We arrested Okuma Natsumi for
trying to exchange stolen jewelry from Sugiyama's jewelry store.
She testified that you're behind the robbery.
Please tell us everything, Fukaboshi-san.
What were you up to?
It's been several years now, my husband's salary has gotten lower.
I'll do part time work? Dispatch is okay too.
If you went to work, what do you think the neighborhood would say?
But we can't...
It's fine. I'll work on the weekends.
In this neighborhood,
you can't live without money.
Around then I suddenly
got an invitation for a meeting about currency exchange.
I thought it would help my husband.
So I fell completely for it.
I knew Natsumi-san was worried about money too so I invited her.
But before we knew it, we were in debt for several hundred thousand yen.
Of course we couldn't tell our husbands.
We had to
pay back the debt without telling our husbands so
we went to Sugiyama-san’s store to sell our jewelry.
But we were still far away from paying it all off.
So around then, Sugiyama-san sent us a message.
Pretend to be a criminal group,
and rob his jewelry store.
He would then be able to get insurance payments.
Sugiyama-san was having trouble with his jewelry store too.
We figured if we used men's shoes we wouldn't get in trouble.
And the store itself was cooperating so
it was very easy.
And then Sugiyama-san would
give us part of the insurance money.
Why did you go after the other stores?
Sugiyama-san told other stores in the
neighborhood about our plan.
Sugiyama-san would then sell off the stolen jewelry.
We just didn't want to be looked down on
by people in the neighborhood.
We did some unbelievable things.
Reina. I'm her husband!
I heard things were tough for them.
Terrible. This will bring down the value of the neighborhood.
Value?
Does this neighborhood have any?
All you have is money!
You should study cooking a bit more for next time.
You never ate my food though.
You don't have enough spice in your curry.
You should put garlic in your spice.
The allicin in the garlic will cook together well
with the vitamin B1 in the pork.
Good work.
He ate some?
A gift?
Yeah. A wedding anniversary gift.
I'm sorry sir.
It seems your card was rejected.
What?
I'm coming home now.
What is it?
You don't have to worry.
I'll go to the hospital tomorrow.
It's okay.
Yes. Yes.
- Get her. - But!
You're a detective.
Go get her!
Close the case...