Zero's Truth: Forensic Medical Examiner Matsumoto Maou
Hello? Are you okay?
Are you okay? Driver, stop!
What happened? Are you okay? Ma'am!
Ma'am, are you okay! (Passenger) Call an ambulance!
(Driver) Are you okay?! Do you hear me?
Ma'am! Ma'am! Are you okay?
Do you hear me? Ma'am!
Wow… with such heat and humid…
At noon i feel like eating something refreshing.
I found a ramen shop that would suit your mouth chief.
Miporin, are you listening? I'm saying it's hot and humid.
Their cold noodles are delicious. Good job!
(Nakayama & Izumisawa laughing)
Hey! How about a simple greeting.
(Matsumoto Mao) Good morning.
Good morning.
That third 'good morning' was for you or me?
(Kodama Yoshihito) Better than nothing.
(Nakayama) It's still early. (Kodama) Yes.
Why is she walking so fast?
(Nakayama) She grew up in the States.
Americans walk faster? I don't know.
She walk as she likes. AS for us…
Let's walk slowly. Yes.
It's hot and humid.
(Sound of Running car)
(Horn)
Good morning!!
(Kodama) Miss Indene, has a new car?
3 times the brake lights…
It's a sign to say good morning? So it seems.
(Emergency personnel) We are here to take that person!
CPA on a woman in her 40's!
She was riding the City Bus…
She suddenly collapsed. please !
… 15 16 17 18.
She's not unconscious from the fall.
(Emergency personnel) I'm moving her! 1 2 3!
Raise the stretcher. 1 2 3!
(Emergency personnel) let's go.
Miss Indene. Yes.
Miss Matsumoto's guidance I'd like to give you a week shift.
Starting today Please take care of her!
Thanks in advance.
Oops-a-daisy.
(Hiroshi Hosaka) Today we're working outside, it's hot…
Drink a lot of water. Alright.
Should i mention that it's not because Iwamatsu fails.
But that shift allows for more fairness in the workplace.
Let's all share the workload among ourselves.
(Iwamatsu) Miss indene thank you for your help.
(Indene) Alright. Nakayama will be next week.
All right.
And i could take the week after.
Great your all so enthusiast.
We're going out. alright.
(Hosaka) see you later. See you.
See you later. yes!
(Door closing)
(Inspector) This way. (indene) alright.
Please.
Gamo…! Gamo?
(Indene) Gamo Yumiko.
Kanto Women's Medical University Instructor of second surgery.
Are you Acquainted?
We we're med students classmates… Oh, i see.
That person suddenly died in the bus this morning.
Rushed to the hospital in a coma she had a CT scan…
It seems a subarachnoid hemorrhage has been detected.
Let's start.
Alright.
[Music]
Superficial abrasion to the right hand fingers.
Skin discoloration on both knee caps.
Skin discoloration on forearm 7 cm long 5 cm wide.
(Gamo Yumiko) Two of our class mates…
Have died already.
Doctors at the University Hospital are overworked.
I'm left my position of doctor at the court…
I'll try the Professor's election. Really?
Yeah.
I'm not dead yet!
You'd be the first Professor among our fellow students…
Cheers! THANK YOU.
(Indene) Wow ~…!
Dark reddish spot in the back.
Finger pressure point is still fading.
She didn't die long ago.
Suboccipital puncture. alright.
[Music]
There's no blood mixed with the spinal fluid… Right.
So it's not an hemorrhage of the subarachnoid?
Considering there is a hematoma…
And there's no blood mixed in spinal fluid.
Please take her to the Medical Examiner's Office. (Inspector)… okay.
We make an Ai. AI?
It is an diagnosis imaging at the time of death.
(Akiyama Haruko) please your signature. alright.
(Hosaka) Chief. Yes.
It seems Kodama is down…
We need someone at the autopsy room.
Who? Huh? Well.
We need a doctor. Another doctor…?
How is Kiyoshi down?
With a cold. Eh…
(Akiyama) I never saw you wear that labcoat, chief.
May i go see you? You've never seen me in it?
No!
It's not that different? ~ it is different!
Alright…!
There… All right?
What? My boots?
Here Chief. uh?
Use mine if you like.
You have an athlete's foot, right ? I do but…
But i sterilized it here. oh, come on!
But i had mine Look for it!
(Akiyama) Chief! Smile.
(Shutter sound)
[Music]
Erase!
(Kosugi) All the unnatural deaths within the 23 wards of Tokyo…
Come to the medical examiner first…
And if there is suspicion of crime…
They're sent to the Forensic Department at the University for autopsy…
Other non-criminal cases Such as accidental death or suicide…
Undergo administrative autopsy at the Medical Examiner's Office.
This way, 14,000 bodies are examined each year…
While 2500 undergo autopsy.
(Indene) It's subarachnoid hemorrhage after all.
As you saw the hematoma prevented bleeding…
In the spinal fluid.
Yes.
We don't need an autopsy…
What…?
The medical examiner has to pursue until the cause of death is identified.
The medical examiner is the last to take care of a person.
The medical examiner…
Determines the correct cause of death to return dignity to the dead…
He connects that single death to the many lives he left behind.
"Zero Truth" Medical examiner Matsumoto Mao
Alright, done.
I leave the stitching to you please. alright.
Chief, no way ! That was fast.
I because i come from Tokyo University. You have honored us.
Another one?
Good evening!
What are you doing? -uh? Kodama left early.
(Nakayama) Kodama is kind of weak.
I'm going. (Nakayama) I'm going.
Chief, wait! Uh?
You don't see? -What?
Don't you remember? Gamo from Kanto Women's Medical University…
Gamo?
Ah…! Gamo!
Huh? Is she dead? Gamo!?
She collapsed in the bus this morning.
Why?
That's what we intend to find.
The Ai showed a subarachnoid hemorrhage, but…
I thought i should autopsy anyway.
Can't believe it.
Gamo… that's where i see her again…
This body? She was a friend of yours, chief?
We went skiing together.
No way ?
[Music]
I'll start. Please. -(Hosaka) Alright.
[Music]
It's so red inside her head.
Such a swollen brain. Typical subarachnoid hemorrhage.
I take out the brain.
Is that the vessel that caused? Yes.
I'm looking for the rupture hole.
Please proceed. -Yes.
Indene… please.
Huh?
When did you last meet Gamo?
I met her last week. Huh?
One of our class mates died. -You were close then.
Not that close.
A week ago she was very much alive.
I can't believe such thing would happen…
No one knows what the future brings.
Suddenly I'm flooded with memories.
[Music]
(Sound of the door opening)
(Yashiki Ichiro) They all went back?
Yes.
Gamo Yumiko was autopsied here today ?
This is her. -Am i looking at her, here?
It is the artery at the base of the brain.
How did she die? Is a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
So, a natural death. I don't know yet.
It seems that someone threatened her.
There was a report from the hospital.
(Chief) Doctor Gamo was sued malpractice by the Family of a patient…
This case dragged her and the hospital in court…
It came to an end as we won the trial last month.
After that…
We received that kind of threatening letters. [This is your death sentence Gamo!]
(Voice of Yashiki) Than when Gamo Yumiko…
Died on the bus today.
I thought I'd come here to check.
But it's a natural death, right?
It's a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
So it IS a natural death?
So I don't know yet. But this is a natural death…
Be quiet now please!
If i can't find the rupture hole in the vessel that caused it…
The vessel that caused? And What is it?
Gamo Yumiko and indene Kyoko were fellow students in Medical University…
Gamo always came first and indene was second.
(Nakayama) Both were…
In Tokyo University, and you flirted with both of them.
How do you know that?
Well… i never was that successful with women.
It's because I'm from Tokyo University.
That's not the reason, I'm sure you were great.
Come on!
And among so many men, Indene chose you, Chief!
You could make a movie! -this is youth!
Time flies like an arrow…
But Gamo's autopsy is complicated.
Isn't it…
The wine's going to be sad tonight.
Are you OK? I'll drive you home.
Thank you.
Truffle risotto is delicious!
Is it, really?
(Kume) you don't think so?
Your palate isn't working right.
That is…
(Nakayama) we need 2 more cents.
Let's pay those 2c. (Iwamatsu)I'm paying.
Kume-chan? Oh…hi!.
You're alone?
Well…hm… let's say i am.
Your boyfriend left you there and went? -Chief!
So rude of him!
Tsukuda just had to go back home.
(Iwamatsu, Izumisawa Nakayama) Tsukuda?!
Right.
You went out to drink with Tsukuda ?
Well…yes.
You mean? -he's such a weirdo.
Absolutely weird.
How about a drink with us?
I'd love to!
(Hitting sound) I'd love to!
(Hitting sound)
Alright, let's go!
Let's pay for her tab. This is so kind!
No problem we share the cost.
We're going Dutch.
He lost me there.
Haa…
(Train horn)
(Gamo) My parents in the countryside are still on my case.
"…But when are you getting married?"
How old do they think their daughter is?
If i had to share my life with someone now…
I don't think i could either.
I wonder why they're still on my back.
Still, you're so lucky to have someone concerned about you.
You mean you don't?
I don't.
Boyfriend?
I don't.
I can't even remember how sex works.
Come on…
(Gamo)in my line of work, i have grateful patients…
Respect from colleagues and elders, it's rewarding…
Don't you think that is more authentic than sex and love?
You feel that you are respected?
Because that is the case.
-You're still the same.
You haven't changed either.
[Music]
It's torn…
What is?
Hey! Where to?
(Mobile phone)
(Clerk) Miss? It's your phone.
(Mobile phone)
Thank you.
The vessel that caused Gamo's death was torn…
The carotid artery has been split lengthwise.
It was torn?
The bleeding didn't come from an aneurysm.
It is not a artery malformation.
The subarachnoid hemorrhage has an external cause.
External cause?
I'm coming. Sorry.
Would you explain one more time?
A subarachnoid hemorrhage is endogenous, it's a common brain aneurysm rupture…
It is caused by an arteriovenous malformation.
In Gamo's case there is no aneurysm…
The carotid artery has ruptured vertically.
It means the cause of the hemorrhage is traumatic.
(Indene) What happened to her head?
Some kind of external pressure was applied it seems.
So i have a case! What are you doing here?
Miss Indene, your class mate…
Received threats from a patient's family.
Huh?
We need to re-autopsy.
Re-autopsy?
That means much fuss!
You're up to it?
I'll do it.
… she's so cool!
You girls are a scary team!
[Music]
No abnormality in the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
[Music]
No back side subcutaneous bleeding.
(Indene) alright.
No abnormality in the trapezius muscle.
No abnormality in the erector spinae.
I open the skull again.
You worked quite late!
(Iwamatsu) who's that ?!
We have an intruder!
Who…? Call the police!
(Hosaka) police!
The police has arrived!
Noisy bunch…
So tired.
You two guys spent the night here?
You're tired? Scattered clothes…
Kodama, you feel better?
Thank you. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Indene, you went home yesterday, and then you came back ?
(Indene) I'll write a letter of apology, now.
So you found something?
Nothing!
We've "done" it all night and still found nothing?
But you worked hard on it!
I'm going home. Bye!
Goodbye! -Good morning.
(Hosaka) Good morning doctor Matsumoto.
Indene was with Matsumoto?
You're quite a dodgy character.
You did your business with Miss Indene all night?
It's hard to understand why.
I'm the one who found the vessel that caused it…
We know it's a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
You can't fiddle with bodies endlessly… (Phone)
The family is waiting for the body.
Chief, you have director Ohara on the phone.
Gamo Yumiko has no close relative, no one is claiming the body…
We'll have to keep her for a while. you're on line No. 1.
Yes, this is Izumisawa (on the phone).
Yes… Yes.
(Akiyama) Gamo Yumiko has no close relative…
No one is claiming the body, We'll have to keep her for a while.
Doctor Indene.
Before i go home today…
I need to tell you that round-the-clock work is not allowed.
Please tell that to Mrs. Matsumoto, too.
We found the man who threatened Kanto Women's Medical University Hospital…
Kanemoto Yuichi.
They are the family who sued Gamo and lost in court.
Call him for questioning.
He hasn't showed up at the companies or at hid place. Call him for questioning.
He hasn't showed up at the companies or at hid place.
He's gone missing.
What's that ? Search properly!
Yashiki!
We have the footage from the bus CCTV.
[Music]
It's Kanemoto!
We have our culprit.
(Gamo) My parents in the countryside are still on my case.
"…But when are you getting married?"
How old do they think their daughter is?
(Akiyama)Gamo Yumiko has no close relative…
No one is claiming the body, We'll have to keep her for a while.
[Music]
(Doctor) Since you're doctor Gamo's friend…
Could you take this?
What is that ?
Her belongings from her locker.
We didn't know what to do with it.
[They're offering condolences bow]
(Doctor) Frankly, her reputation wasn't too good…
Both among hospital staff and patients.
Becoming professor you say? No, not doctor Gamo.
She had managed to be lecturer recently.
[Music]
(Kosugi) No relatives.
She was lonely.
I'm in that case too.
Your mom didn't have friends…
She had cut off ties with her relatives…
But she had shining eyes, she was happy.
She cut off ties with them…
But kept seeing you?
"A tie is like a shadow…
Run away, it follows, chase it, it flees".
After all… it is all vanity.
(Tomita) Hey! Stop!
(Tomita) Hey!
[Music]
Hey there!
[Music]
Cretin! (Kanemoto Yuichi) It hurts… stop…
Why did you run away?
You threatened the Medical University, we know that.
Why did you kill Gamo Yumiko on that bus?
What?
Don't try to lie, I'm listening!
I didn't kill her. Liar!
Yes, i intended to But it's not me!
Gamo died naturally on that bus.
You were on the same bus by accident ?
Not an accident…
I was waiting at her place.
You had an intent to kill.
[Music]
(Voice of Kanemoto) Gamo started to chat with a lady…
A lady?
They we're murmuring…
They started to become aggressive.
It turned into a quarrel.
(Voice of Kanemoto) Gamo should have waited for her stop at the hospital…
But instead she tried to get off two stops ahead.
(Sound of swaying bus)
(Mariko Sudo) excuse me.
(Voice of Kanemoto) It seemed she was going after her…
Gamo went towards the exit…
(Voice of Kanemoto) She bumped a student…
Oh!
Bumped…?
Gamo Yumiko as she was about to get off, bumped someone.
She fell immediately thereafter.
(Knock) (Tomita) sorry.
King. Hi.
The record of her credit card…
That bus from Azami bus stop to Nobaradai station…
Only one young man rode it, he's identified.
But there's no connection with Gamo.
He can't remember he bumped her.
What's that ?
On Gamo's body there are no…
Fatal traces no bruises.
But we have a witness.
Even though, causing such brain incident by a brush on her shoulder isn't possible…
In that same bus…
There's another person who remembers Gamo.
Oh?
(Voice of an old lady) She was chatting nicely…
With the lady next to her.
So they weren't arguing?
Well…
But the man who was seated in front of her…
(Male voice) I heard a strange sound, when i looked…
She stood there like stunned.
It seems the other woman was seated…
A strange sound? What kind of sound ?
He said, a sound…
Something like a big burp. he said, a sound…
Something like a big burp.
A burp ?…
Human memory is so fuzzy.
That one saw a nice chat…
The other one saw a quarrel.
And then someone hears a burp… Which is it?
I open the throat. We saw her throat.
No bleeding in the sternocleidomastoid muscle. We confirmed that!
(Sound of door close)
What an attitude… More autopsy?!
The platysma muscle!
Again just three bodies today. -Great!
My throat is so dry i need some bubbles. -Let's go.
After an autopsy there's a blissful feeling!
I saw her go home a while ago!
Didn't you say you'd take a break? - I'll write letter of apology again tomorrow!
Indene is turning into another Mao Matsumoto.
[Music]
(Indene) Taking off the skin…
Under the neck skin, it's a thin muscle called platysma.
In a usual autopsy we don't examine it…
Where did you learn that technique?
What will you gain from that ?
What the…?!
(Indene) Subcutaneous bleeding in the shape of a fist.
Like… this.
The size of that mark in her neck…
Points to a small fist… possibly a woman.
A suspect can be identified with such mark.
It can be held as evidence in court.
A woman.
(Bell book) Gamo started to chat with a lady…
They started to become aggressive.
It gradually turned into a quarrel.
[Music]
(Mariko)Thank you!
Thank you.
Welcome!
One lunchbox with pork fillet! - you're buying?
Pork fillet. - what ?
Miso soup or tea? I'm fine thanks.
500 yen please.
Thank you every time.
You're Mariko Sudo?
Yes.
(Tomita) We're the police.
In the morning on July 28 You met Gamo Yumiko in the bus?
Yes.
Gamo Yumiko is dead.
Eh?
What were you doing in the bus?
(Voice of Mariko) I was seated next to her…
It was a coincidence.
(Tomita) how do you know doctor Gamo?
She was my father's doctor when he died.
(Voice of Mariko) Doctor Gamo…
(Mariko) Doctor Gamo.
3 years ago my father was in your care in the University Hospital.
I'm his daughter, Sudo Tomohiko.
Mr. Sudo's ?
Sorry, there are so many patients in our care.
My father was running a small laundry.
The treatment for lung cancer was so expensive…
My Mother used her health looking after of my father and the shop.
Mentioning this to her…
Doctor Gamo teacher was so unpleasant…
I am sorry.
Of course you're not supposed to remember…
I'm sorry about that…
If the doctor had in addition to be concerned about the families…
That would be the end of us.
(Mariko) The way she spoke…
Called back all the memories of my father's death.
At that time the way Doctor Gamo treated us…
(Mariko) Doctor Gamo!
Could you alleviate my father's pain?
It's terrible. I'm doing my best!
(Mariko)From the point of view of the doctor…
She was tired and i was pushy…
Reminding her of the past…
It couldn't bring any good…
And whatever i say…
It couldn't bring my father back to life…
She was also hinting to me to move on…
I tried to stop the doctor as she stood up.
Please doctor. Don't touch me!
(Sound of swaying bus)
(Cough)
Excuse me… I'm sorry.
Could it be…?
That i did it?
I'm so sorry…
(Mariko) I'm sorry…
I'm sorry…
I'm sorry…!
(Mariko) really… really… I am sorry.
[Interrogation room]
The report for Gamo's autopsy.
She received a blow to the neck that caused a subarachnoid hemorrhage…
She was hit in the neck…
Blood pressure suddenly rose into the vessel.
Rushed to the base of the brain…
Where the vessel ruptured.
What a rare case.
The Traces left on the neck matched Mariko Sudo's fist.
I see.
Her remains will be cremated at the University, I'll pay for a ceremony at the temple.
You're relieved? -If i may leave.
(Iwamatsu) She doesn't listen to anyone…
A woman beating another woman in a crowded bus…
Such a sad world. -so true.
And the man who saw that…
Intended to kill Gamo.
(Kodama) What kind of bus is that!?
Gamo made too many enemies in her duty at the University…
Woman know no moderation.
Same for my wife. (Nakayama Kodama)really.
To lump woman together is sexual harassment.
There's no avoiding it.
(Phone)
Medical Examiner's Office !
You feel good ?
Every day 3,000 people come to the Kanto Women's Medical University Hospital…
Of course a doctor can't remember them all…
I didn't think her attitude could be a problem.
As for us we investigate the cause of death…
We exposed a bad side of her to the world.
And a young women without ill intent…
Was dragged into the role of the suspect…
The medical examiner's task is to investigate the cause of death.
Some truths are better left unexposed.
No they aren't. -they are!
Absolutely !
Subtitles : Eric Paroissien
According to your angle…
According to who is looking…
Things are different.
There's no difference.
Whichever way you look at it, the truth is one.
You're 24 years old now.
Yes.
That was……
In August 1986...
Your mom was 20 years old that summer.