Just... who are you?
Does Akiko-san know?
I'm very sorry.
She's found out about my identity.
You're already at your limit.
I...
...know that.
Onee-chan and Mama were in an accident!
A scaffold from a construction site fell and...
Is it true that you're unlicensed? Is it true that you're unlicensed?
I cannot allow you to operate!
Do you think she would want to be saved by an unlicensed doctor?!
It's fine if everyone says...
...that I'm a worthless, fake doctor!
"Length of Operation"
- A 3-0. - Yes.
- Cooper. - Yes.
Okay, that should do it.
Let's verify that the fetus is safe.
- Sonogram. - Yes.
It's moving healthily.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness...
Akiko-san...
How's the baby...
- How's the baby? - Don't worry.
It's safe.
Thank you...
...very much.
Where's Saburo-san?
Yoshie!
Yoshie...
...can you understand me?
Ako, right?
About how Ako is, right?
Where is Tasaka Saburo?
Sugihara-san.
That's him.
I am Detective Sugihara of the MPD's Security Division.
You are Tasaka Saburo-san, aren't you?
Yes.
You are under arrest for alleged violations of the Medical Practitioners’ Law.
His arrest time is 14:30 hours.
"Had I been afraid..."
"...that this time would come?"
"Or else..."
"...had I been waiting for it?"
"What I can say with certainty..."
"...is that..."
"Is that..."
"...everything about you right now..."
"...is meeting this moment calmly."
Heiwa Fansubs Presents: "Kumo no Kaidan" "Staircase of Clouds"
Episode 10 (Final): "The Shocking Ending! The Place the Unlicensed Doctor Returns To"
Saburo-san?
Is everything okay? How do you feel?
Where's Saburo-san?
He...
...was arrested.
This was on the equipment shelf in front of the operating room.
When that man was arrested...
...that was the first time I knew...
...he was an unlicensed doctor.
All of us here...
...were deceived by that man.
I...
...trusted him completely; even giving him my daughter in marriage...
As for my wife, the Board Chairman...
- ...she is as much a victim as I am. - Such crocodile tears.
He's the lowest.
"Suspicions that Tasaka General Hospital's Deputy Director is Unlicensed"
In other words, when this article came out...
...that was when your identity first came to light.
That's right.
And so until then, you had completely fooled both the Director and other authorized personnel.
Yes.
Well then, what about those on Mikotojima?
You also fooled the people there the same as you had here?
Yes.
Yesterday...
...I went to this Mikotojima.
Approximately 2 years ago...
...this copy of your resume was submitted to the Mikotojima Village Office.
You were employed as a clerk!
In other words...
...the people on that island knew from the start that you weren't a doctor.
I had fooled them!
- I... I fooled them all! - Enough!
Unlike you...
...not a single one of those island people tells lies.
They all knew you were a false doctor and, in addition...
...they said they dearly missed their "Young Doctor."
As for the people with the clinic there...
...their Director Muraki in particular seems to feel the greatest responsibility.
As for Director Muraki's future, that will come as...
...a charge of either instigating a violation against the Medical Practitioners’ Law or complicity to do so.
After returning from Mikotojima last night, I also spoke with Suzuki Akiko-san.
She asked me to give you this message.
"This... is enough."
"You don't need..."
"...to lie anymore..."
"Several Months Later"
At that press conference...
...you strongly emphasized we were all victims, didn't you?
That's only natural.
You should overturn that...
...with the truth by saying we did know that man was serving with us as a false doctor.
We couldn't make such a thing public, now could we? What are you saying?
Well then, are you saying we can escape our crimes as the ones in charge of this hospital that way?
What I think is that I felt I had to make a big play at that press conference.
There's no way I could have said that...
...the hospital had circled around him, now could I?!
Liar.
Like I said, it was for the sake of protecting this hospital.
Therefore, to compensate...
...for all our crimes, including mine...
Look, Board Chairman Tasaka.
Yuichiro-san.
Couldn't you and I together...
...start over...
...from scratch once more?
From scratch?
Let's sell off this place and donate the majority of the proceeds to charity.
With the remaining funds...
...we'll open a medical office in some sparsely populated rural area...
...and perform community-based medical service there.
Yoshie.
The you at the time we met would, I think...
...have surely have understood.
You're...
You're asking me to go back to the me of those days!?
With it having gotten this large...
...I'm supposed to just hand over this hospital...
...which I've grown until now?
Yoshie...
...don't tell me your feelings have become conflicted, have they?
Truth is...
...I've already decided... to sell off this place.
Huh?
"Transfer of Business Agreement"
"Tasaka Yoshie"
What have you done?!
Can't I get your consent?
Of course not!
Well then, as of today...
...you are hereby fired.
Yoshie...
I will also be preparing divorce papers.
You...
...might have died in that accident, right?
Who do you think it was that saved you!?
You did.
Who do you think you have to thank that you're alive right now?!
With those words...
...I now understand.
You are no longer...
...a doctor!
Are you...
...going to destroy me, who got you to the top like this?
Oi!
Ako...
Ako!
We don't believe in you.
Neither Saki...
...nor Mama...
...nor me, either.
"West Tokyo Prison"
The accused will please stand in front of the witness stand.
"Tokyo District Court - First Round Hearing"
Yes.
Indictment facts.
The accused, in spite of not having received a doctor's license...
...first at Tokyo District's Mikotojima village, address 26...
...he colluded with Mikotojima Medical Clinic's Director, Eiji Muraki...
...from February 16, 2013 of this year...
Though not a doctor, he practiced medicine.
This is a named crime as well as punishable by Article.
Of the comprehensive criminal code, Article 60.
Medical Practitioner's Law, Article 31, Clause 1, Article 17.
Accused.
Are there any mistakes in the truth of the written indictment?
There are...
...no mistakes.
I have this feeling...
...that he's betrayed me...
...and I should cursed him...
...or hate him somehow.
I'm not pretending to be tough.
I...
...loved him and loved him...
And even though I was...
...in that state of loving him...
...I don't know what's happened to make me become this way.
Maybe I should be thinking...
..."I want to kill him."
Still, it was always me...
...who was so demanding.
"I want to be loved by him more..."
"...than I love him."
That's was all I was thinking.
He...
...may not understand himself...
...just what his true self is.
It may be...
...he just wanted a place to be.
A place to be?
Akiko-san...
...you understand...
...Saburo-san very well, don't you?
That's not true...
My demand of him...
...was to find his place with me.
I...
...was the same.
"Interview Room"
We've decided...
...to sell the hospital.
Instead...
...we've decided to start a small regional hospital.
Mom and I decided to do that.
We'll restart our lives...
...from there once more.
That's why, I...
...can't afford to have a husband...
...who is a criminal.
With just this child alone...
I will raise it with care.
I will let...
...this child...
...walk a genuine life.
After this...
...I will send you...
...the divorce papers.
Farewell.
Take care.
Thank you.
"Second Round of Hearings"
I was the only...
...doctor on the island.
One day...
...Saburo, who was working there as a clerk...
...gave me...
...this ship in a bottle he had made.
I thought, "this guy is deft with his hands."
"Perhaps he might have..."
"...some talent as a surgeon."
I first attempted to try it...
...by having him read some medical books.
And then...
...he came to read them properly...
...and understood them.
Then day after day after day...
...I hammered medicine into him.
"If it's this guy..."
"...and if..."
"...he's a doctor for this island and this island alone..."
"...well..."
"...I'll make him a doctor."
That's what I had decided.
Saying it was "for the sake of everyone on the island" would be wrong...
...but...
...it was more like...
...a "just cause."
Still, when I spoke to...
...a lawyer about it during that time...
...he said "Ala?!"...
...like that.
Thinking back on it now...
...that "just cause" thing...
...comes off more like an excuse.
It was fun.
The time I spent teaching that guy medicine...
...was so much fun.
It was so much fun...
...that I just couldn't...
...help myself.
This guy would study...
...and study and study so much.
Day...
...after day...
Presiding Judge, I feel that this testimony has drifted away from the subject at hand.
It hasn't drifted off!
Director...
But...
Presiding Judge.
I understand...
...both this and that...
...are just excuses.
Someone such as me...
It was someone such as me...
...who set this guy's life...
...out of order.
Director...
I feel...
...truly sorry towards him.
All of this...
...was my fault.
Director!
That's wrong!
- It's wrong! - Silence!
Director...
Um, excuse me.
Um, I'm...
...Saburo's...
His mother, right?
Yes.
My name is Aikawa Kimie.
I'm Suzuki Akiko.
I knew it!
You were the one who called me many times over, weren't you?
Yes.
Here you go.
From the first time I saw you in court...
...I just knew somehow.
That you were someone important to Saburo.
After all, you were crying...
...for that boy's sake.
But I...
I got this letter...
"Tasaka Akiko" ...from Saburo's wife.
Her and Saburo are getting divorced.
Eh?
No...
They mustn't!
Um, excuse me.
Wait.
But...
...the baby inside her... Saburo-san's baby is...
It's not like you say.
She thought this up on her own...
...and decided it on her own.
But...
"I will firmly..."
"...raise the child inside me, alone."
That's what she wrote.
And with a firm hand. Look.
"I will firmly raise the child inside me, alone."
Akiko-san.
At least a few times...
...over the course of a long life...
...I wonder if it isn't best to think more selfishly sometimes.
After all...
...you've already endured more than enough.
You have endured things, haven't you?
That's true isn't it, Akiko-san?
"Final Opinion Statements" Well then...
...is there is anything the accused wishes to say at the end?
For a long time...
...I've given thought to...
...just who it is I am.
I think it was back when I was in the 2nd grade.
I drew this picture...
...in the arts and crafts classroom.
It was...
...a picture of my father...
...in a suit and tie.
But...
...I...
...had never seen that.
Always in his workshop...
...I had never seen my father in anything other than...
...the oil-stained work clothes he normally wore.
I...
...wasn't able to show that drawing...
...to either my father or mother.
I...
...threw the picture away in a ditch.
It was from that time.
That there was...
...another me outside of myself...
...who was...
...always watching me.
"You are a liar," it said.
"You..."
"...have no value."
That's...
...the sort of person I am.
I...
...understand it clearly now.
It wasn't...
...that I...
...was made to perform acts of medicine.
Rather...
I was glad...
...I could do it.
I experienced several operations.
Sometimes...
...I was almost crushed by the fear...
...but I never thought of quitting.
Even though...
...I was a fake...
When there were people...
...who were suffering from illness...
...or injury right there before me...
Then if I could...
If it were possible for me...
...then I wanted to help them out.
That way...
...I could become a person with value.
Even if...
...I was a fake.
But, with my ego like that...
...I wonder how many people...
...I could have involved in that and injured...
If a fake doctor like me...
...had let a person die...
...that...
...would have been murder.
I am...
...truly very sorry.
I've been conducting a signature campaign recently.
Signature campaign?
For the survival of Mikotojima's Medical Clinic.
And...
...a plea for a commutation...
...for Director Muraki and Saburo-kun's sentences.
I didn't know.
I didn't tell you.
Because if I had...
...you would have said, "that's enough already." Like that.
Well, I don't think it'll be all that big a help...
...but I'll have you hand these over to the attorney.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Are you going back to the island?
Yeah.
How about you, Takaoka-kun?
I think...
...I might try finding something here.
"Something"?
A purpose for living.
Something other than Aki.
Somehow...
...I want to widen the possibilities...
...of my life.
Well, coming right down to it, my qualifications as a pharmacist are pretty much junk.
But I'm in...
...pretty good health.
Maybe.
Thank you.
I was surprised.
That the Board Chairman had sold the hospital.
Yes.
But she left undone who it was...
...who would succeed him...
...in establishing the Critical Care Center.
Somehow...
Yes?
Somehow you've become an adult beyond all recognition.
Really?
And? What did you want to talk about?
You're going to go from Tasaka General Hospital to a rural, depopulated town to start over with a clinic?
Yes.
Then you could call this a consultation...
...or a favor.
Would I be fine, too? Together.
- Eh? - What I mean is...
...I've already decided.
Nogumi-san?
Excuse me.
I think I can completely remove this scar.
Will you entrust it to me?
Hook pin. Electric scalpel.
Hook.
Blade apex.
Mettsen.
Hey! Quiet down.
"If there is such a thing called fate..."
"...I had come across it..."
"...on that island."
"I'm grateful for having saved people."
"That was the time when..."
"...the life I hadn't given any thought to before had started."
"I believe the me of that time..."
"...if you had been there as a doctor..."
"...would have just gone on at this island."
"While watching you, I could tell you were in ecstasy over medicine..."
"I loved that."
"That was the first time..."
"...I had been in ecstasy over something."
"But, I..."
"...also knew it was something I would lose someday."
"Because I was trying to grab onto something..."
"...that wasn't there to begin with."
"I'm scared."
"What happens when..."
"...the precious thing you had found at long last..."
"...is lost to you?"
"And you lose everything?"
"The thing I had thought was destiny..."
"...wasn't."
"But..."
"I believed."
"In you..."
"Yes..."
"Because..."
"...right from the start..."
"...I had come across..."
"...one other destiny on that island."
"You said..."
"...that whenever I was lost..."
"...there was a place for me to come back to."
"Welcome home."
"I'm home."
"I think there is a place..."
"...where such modest words..."
"...can bring happiness."
"But, I wonder if..."
"...the me I am now..."
"...can be forgiven?"
"Ruling"
Main clause.
I hereby sentence the accused to 1 year of penal servitude.
I reprieve the execution of this sentence...
...for 3 years from the day this trial has settled.
"West Tokyo Prison"
I didn't come to pick you up.
I came to see you off.
Yes?
It's me.
Yes.
Could you...
...forgive me?
I...
...am returning.
Yes.
Saburo-kun.
Have you ever read...
...the short story by Kajii Motojiro called "The Lemon"?
No.
A young man obtains a lemon by chance...
...and becomes enchanted with its fragrance.
The young man takes the lemon...
...and unexpectedly enters a place he normally hesitated going into before...
...where people different from himself in the world...
...lived and gathered...
...and he places the lemon there.
And then he walks away.
Afterwards he fantasizes...
...that the lemon will "go off in a huge explosion."
You have...
...the lemon smell of an unlicensed doctor on your hands.
I can tell.
You...
...still haven't let go of it yet.
Your hand...
...still reeks of lemon.
You will...
...go on still as a fake doctor.
No...
I've already...
I understand you.
I'm...
...you.
You're...
...me.
What's wrong with him?
Blood!? That's scary!
Welcome home.
"We'll have the Japanese doctor examine you right away!"
"Look, he's over there!"
Doctor! Doctor!
"What's up?"
"It's not that big a deal. I'll fix it up right away."
"Let's go to the clinic."
"This Drama is fictional. All names including island and hospital names are fictional."
"In addition, the practice of medicine by unlicensed persons is prohibited by law."