Sept 19, Mon.
05:.55 PM
Next stop Shibuya---Shibuya---
How far are we going?
A bit further
A bit further?
What is there
Nothing. So it's great
Unlike mountain climbing there's no destination
It's bottomless
The inside of Mt. Fuji is full of spaces made by hardened lava
What is this sound?
Is it the wind?
It's the Siren
She's calling those who are lost
From long ago, people are led astray by her
Are you shaking
I'm okay
A suicide?
Could be murder
Look at the icepick
Whichever it may be it's an unsolved case
Let's go back
Can you get back
Tomoo
Tomoo?---Tomoo---
Excuse me
It seems urgent---a call for you
Ms. Suma, are you a fashion model?
A rush job perhaps
SEPT 26, MON.
06:.00 PM
Special lnvestigation Team File
Jr. Yamanote Line Multiple Homicide Case
She is from our Science Dept
She'll cooperate in our investigation
I'm Dr. Suma,
an analyst on abnormal criminal personalities
Contrary to her looks she's extremely efficient
You must all be familiar
with her contribution on Case 28
Those are your partners
Banba and Ashida
I dressed her as you requested
As you expected---
there's no sign showing the victim had struggled
The stab mark on the left chest is the only external wound
It was fatal like the sting of a bee
Was it acssezullin again
Direct cause of death is respiration failure---
triggered by acute toxication
The murder weapon is an injection needle---
or something similar to that
at least 2.5 cm by 1 mm
The perpetrator injected poison with that
In the same way as the first victim
This type of acssezullin---
is sold at any gardening goods store
Difficult case, huh?
Excuse me
Do you know?
A dead person's retina---
records the last scene he saw before he or she died
I hate Dazai
He's too sentimental
If it's true---
who needs the police?
That's fiction
Is she psychic or something?
Not exactly
She analyzes the evidence---
and slips her mind into the evidence---
to assimilate the thoughts and emotions of the perpetrator
The perpetrator stood in front of her---.
and quietly watch it all
If you were the perpetrator---
Me?
Who would you kill here
Wha---what're you saying
There were other young women around
Wasn't it indiscriminate murder
Something made him choose her
Even indiscriminate there must've been a reason
It's the chief's decision
If it's pleasure killing we can't prevent it
You're ideas are useful
Serial Killer At Large 6 PM Yamanote Line
Syringe Killer
Every officer will aid the investigation
It'll be war tomorrow
It's today
No, thanks
When he's on a case he stops smoking and drinking
I'm the opposite
It's a full moon
It's enormous
No, tonight's the full moon
See?
It's chipped a little
Inspector Banba
On a moonlit night---
there's a wounded camel in a desert somewhere
quietly waiting to die
If you passed by this camel, what would you do?
Are you analyzing me
I hate that
With sad eyes the camel pleads kill me...
With my detective's eyes
I'd say think twice and try to persuade it
Yamanote Line Murder Site
This is Shibuya Station crowded with commuters
At 6 pm two Mondays ago---
---the first victim was found at this station
Today is the 3rd Monday
Will the murderer strike again today?
The murderer seems to be aiming at young women
All the young women look very tense today
If you're going out and if you're a young woman
please extra cautious on the Yamanote train today
The Monday killer was a werewolf?
I knew it
In English
Monday came from moonday
The urge to attack people on a full moon
It was proven in the recent Moon Tide research
It says the werewolf legend originates from this
It sounds logical
Even I feel like attacking on Mondays
So the killer is a blue Monday office worker, huh?
This is serious
Is it annoying
Sorry
But if you were to strike which one would you choose
Let me see---
I'd probably choose her
MURDER VlCTlM
KAZUKO ODAWARA (age 20)
Metropolitan Police
The victim was a student living in Yoyogi
Kazuki Odawara, age 20
Autopsy reports show---
toxic substance was injected to her breast
by a syringe-like object
Despite the police's effort to place numerous officers
at all Yamanote Line stations
The killer boldly struck again
amidst the commuters and police on guard
The police has taken serious concern for the killings
which have all taken place on JR Yamanote line trains
They are calling out to the public to find witnesses
who may shed light to the murders
Please recall your positions at the time of the crime
Thank you very much
Are you ready
Please listen carefully
Everybody here in this room are witnesses from Monday this week
Nobody from Monday last week or the week before?
I made mistake
3..2..1. To your position
It's moving in this direction
He's the perpetrator
I'll play the victim
Hey, who's whistling
Be serious
I was only recreating the scene
Inspector Ashida
What's Re-freezing Psychorium
The 1st victim was treated there
A clinic of some kind Reverse brain-washing
To abandon faith
This victim was a follower of the Ultimate Truth Church
You see them around at train stations
Are you happy?
Her family requested Reverse brain-washing to
make her abandon her faith
We've examined it
There was trouble between the church and the clinic
we examined it thoroughly
She was the 1st victim
And?
Neither the 2nd nor the 3rd victim had anyhing to do with it
I've already told you everything about Yumiko
the killer didn't mind who it was
as long as it was a young woman
Maybe---maybe not
But if it had to be Yumiko it could be the key
I need the details of the reverse braining-washing your daughter received
No people in these photos thus Spake Zarathustra
Oh, yes. This is it
The Re-Freezing Psychorium
There's a person here
Aku---Rei---
Akuryo (evil spirit)?
The second victim Masumi Takagi was an art student
The three victims didn't know each other
There is no element linking them together
Not in their past either
But you attempt to find a psychological bondage between them
Yes
The three victims has some common consciousness
The signals they were sending out attracted the perpetrator
Only Yumiko Asahi was into religion
I feel a strong sense of isolation and destruction in them all
Kazuko Odawara was normal
She was studying to be a nursery teacher
Because she studied autism she acted like an autistic child
and didn't speak for 6 months
You call that normal?
What do you suggest?
Announce that young women with feeling of destruction
and isolation must not ride trains at 6 pm on Mondays?
Even old women don't ride trains at that time
The 2nd and 3rd victims were stabbed from the front
Only the 1st victim was stabbed in the back
Are you telling me the 1st victim knew the killer?
I don't know
But I feel the 1st murder is the key to it all
You could get away?
Did I wake you
Don't worry
I was watching this
The Sleeping Beauty
At the hospital today, my patient asked me
whether I like a blue dress or a pink dress
I wondered why she asked
It was The Sleeping Beauty
On Princess Aurora's 16th birthday---
the three fairies made plans to give her a dress
What happened was two fairies quarreled over
what color the dress should be
One wanted blue, the other wanted pink
Ouch
All right?
It's okay
Let me
The princess stung the needle of the spinning wheel and slept on
When she woke---
she was not a year older
I just thought you're like her
Shall we make love
Psychiatry Dept. Dr. Aku and
Setsuko Takahara questioned
Everyone at the university thought they were an ideal couple
At the time, Aku was the black sheep of the psychiatry world
After she died, he left the university
and went to study in the U.S.
I heard he and Setsuko separated after that
Setsuko married Tomoo Suma who was working in the same lab
Was Aku experimenting on the re-brain-washing?
The psychiatry world at the time considered it as
an abominable field of study
He used an upper possibly a drug like LSD
to be used in voluntary meditation
to control personality destruction suicidal drives
and possession schizophrenic paranola
Whether this is effective is difficult to say
He seemed to have directed his research to mind control
re-brain-washing and brain-washing are basically the same
I am told that anyone without any expectation
can be brain-washed within 72 hours
Yes. The Ultimate Truth Church has filed suit
They say their followers were were abducted by force, confined
and subjected to rebrain-washing
Though not directly related to our case
I have been investigating that Psychorium
and discovered they undertake that as part of their business
Families of patients have been paying quite a lot for that treatment
Only, there's nothing illegal about the whole thing
We asked him to come in today for an informal interview
It's over, but since you're coming in today
we asked him to wait
Yes---over here
Please
What is this
AOKlGAHARA
Mountains are a bore
Just climb up and climb down
No matter what mountain I climb
I always see Mt. Fuji far away
The idea depresses me
I had a dream I was caved in
That's great
You remembered me
But you weren't in my dream
I dreamed I slept with you
Didn't even know you were in Japan
Suppose you lived in a mental island
No man is an island
So you remembered John Donne's poem
You're not an island either
I'm here on business
An analyst on abnormal criminal personalities
You knew It doesn't suit you
I want to know about one of your patients
Her hobby is photography
She reads Nietzsche and Grof
Her name's Yumiko Asahi
You should know her
What about Nietzsche?
It must be your influence
A tool for your rebrain-washing?
Analyzing the personality of the Yamanote Line Murderer?
Or---you want me to do it
Or is this part of the questioning?
It's ironical
Our reunion after 8 years
is again related to a serial killing
There is no such thing as random killing
That was your hypothesis
The current serial killing can't be indiscriminate
There must be some common factor
I see the three victims had it coming
because they possessed a certain feeling
A strong feeling of self-destruction
to lure the killer to them
It was synchronic with that of the killer
Yes
It's a strong feeling like your feeling of isolation
Very interesting
The killer chose stabbed her in the back
That's why I need the details of your analysis on her
Shall I get a warrant
Impossible
You know well, my practice as a therapist is legal
and I can't declare information on my patients
I wish you can do it as a personal favor for old times sake
You mean in bed
Very funny
How the mind becomes a camel?
Or how a camel becomes a lion?
And finally, how a lion becomes a child?
This never seems to have gotten through to Yumiko
Yumiko wasn't the only one who became a victim of Aku's rebrain-washing
But recently we have taken stronger measures
to fight against diabolical temptations by crooks like Aku
The punishment she received has strengthened our follower's faith
Aku diagnoses our followers as mentally ill
force them to be hospitalized
Confines and brain-washes them
It is ethically unpardonable
It would help us if you can tell us
about the people who were especially close to Yumiko
We consider all of us to be a family
Love is distributed equally
Never more, never less
Excuse me
Are you Dr. Setsuko Suma?
Sorry for the interruption
There's an urgent call from the police
Dr. Suma speaking
Hello
It's me
It's me, Aku
Excuse me
There's something I remembered after we parted
I thought you should know
It was so long since we last met so I must have been nervous
I feel you're isolating yourself with a barrier
I doubt whether you'd be able to get close to the killer's mind
Wipe your perspiration
I'm sure a change is occurring in you
What do you mean
Part of the killer's mind was already inside you
I felt that you probably don't notice it yet
Be honest
Like the time when you were with me
I am now in Tsurumaki-cho, Waseda where the killing took place
Although it has not yet been officially announced
there seems to be little doubt that
the killer is identical to the Yamanote Line murderer
The killer has finally shifted from the Yamanote Line
Why did the killer chose a less crowded
residential area for the site of his crime
The police is now required to expand its sphere of investigation
And danger to the citizens has increased
Concerning these bizarre murders claiming young women
the police still refrains from offering detailed information to the press
To put an end to the murders
it is essential for the press to inform the public
I, too, cannot help but wish the case will be solved immediately
Sorry
I knocked but there was no answer
I was thinking a bit small sprout appear from the ground
and 7 roses bloom one after another
Tomoo
Have I changed since I began working on this case?
The way I talk or the way I behave
Why?
I---well---never mind
It's a bizarre case
Slow down a bit. Rushing will only confuse you
When I think that someone maybe killed again next Monday
It's not your fault
Guilt can only drive you mad
Monday 3:.30 pm Clear - rain
Rain fall rate - 80%%
Special lnvestigation Headquarters to all stations
3 hours to assume crime time
Maintain state of emergency throughout the city
Inspectors must question all dubious personnel
The perpetrator is armed with on object resembling a syringe
and assumed emotionally unstable
Body search must be undertaken with utmost caution
That's enough
Stop
Is there any special meaning in 6 pm Monday?
1st Div to Commanding Room lnvestigation Headquarters
This is 1st Div Banba
Any information from other divisions?
There is no information of any importance yet
Roger
1st Div. Banba to Superintendent 1-0-2-3.
Report
We are undertaking intensive questioning
around Shinanomachi Station of all dubious personnel
We have not yet been able to come across any possible suspect
Roger
You're smoking more
Sunglasses to hide your bags
They don't suit you
The killer is inside me
Shibuya
Sugamo
Hamammatsu - Cho
Tsurumaki - Cho, Waseda
Korakuen
Inspector
do all veteran inspectors assimilate with
the perpetrator they are after?
What're you getting at
Are you seriously taking up Suma's theory?
If we don't, what do you suggest
Just do your job
She's the one in danger