Let's do it

It's going to be a chaos

It should be interesting

Mr. Shiroyama!

We found foreign substance injected into our beer.

Foreign substance?

Let's go inside to talk in details.

Mr. Shiroyama!

LADY JOKER

LADY JOKER
Episode 4

Here are the photos of the contaminated beer

The foregin substance was found in two bottles. "Gold" and "Excellent" beer.

This Hinode "Excellent" was served at a cafe in Goto.

And this Hinode "Gold" was served a family-style restaurant in Tama New Town.

- Anyone hurt?
- So far, no.

What was the foreign substance?

The police said it wasn't poisonous.

It's red food coloring.

And we found suspicious looking bottle caps at those two locations.

There's evidence of injecting foreign substance through a hole, and then patching it.

- Was is just these two bottles?
- At the moment, yes.

But the police said there could be more.

They want us to see if we have any bottles with these marks.

We will halt our production line,

and recall all the stocks from the retailers in the metropolitan region.

And we'll try to substitute them with cans and kegs as much as possible.

That won't solve all our problems.

Once we go public, negative sentiment about our beer will spread quickly.

Our sales will take a hit.

And it will impact the entire industry.

We'll convene a board meeting tomorrow morning,

and get ready to halt our production line.

Afterward, we'll provide updates to our employees and have a press conference.

And I thought we could avoid product sabotage by paying off that 2 billion yen.

I guess our stock price will drop when we go public with this information.

- Mr. Kurata
- Yes

Do you have concrete evidence that it was the Lady Joker who injected the foreign substance?

Not at this point

Then let's report this as a unrelated case to the police.

We can't let the press report that this was the work of Lady Joker

This was well put together

I bet things are crazy over at the Hinode Beer

This would definitely freak people out.

It's not harmful

- You can't drink that!
- But it tastes the same!

- Let's try some
- What? For real?

Hrm the smell...

Cheers!

- What the hell is this?!
- This is terrible!

Any status on the sabotage case?

Red beer was found at restaurants in Fukagawa and Tama.

The foreign substance was red food coloring.

Hinode Beer claims that it's not possible for the food coloring to get in during production

- Did Lady Joker do this?
- We don't know yet

You keep monitoring Hinode Beer carefully.

Even though they're claiming this has nothing to do with Lady Joker, I'm not buying it.

Listen up team! Follow up on these cases, and find out if there are also more cases like this!

Yes sir!

Here you go

Lady Joker did this, right?

- Any information on the perpetrator?
- Absolutely nothing.

No name, no motive.

We're investigating this as an obstruction of business case.

But you have the Special Investigation working on this case!

Isn't it because Lady Joker is involved?

As I said before, no.

But this is that chance.

Everybody thinks Lady Joker did it.

Although OUR paper won't be writing a story on it,

OTHER evening papers definitely will.

There's nothing holding them back.

But they have no proof!

If they publish news that Lady Joker was involved, our stock price will take a hit!

Maybe that's what they're hoping for.

Okada Association?

Well, we don't know yet if they're involved.

Regardless, please don't publish anything!

I sincerely apologize for the incident that has taken place.

We are currently investigating the situation.

Did Lady Joker inject the foreign substance?

No. Such name has not surfaced related to this case.

We've reported this as a completely separate case to the police.

I hope you in the media will exercise impartial judgement.

Mr. Shiroyama!

It's out

Foreign substance injected into beer

Shocking!
Lady Joker Delcares War!

How can they do this?!

Shocking!
Lady Joker Delcares War!

I'm back

I didn't see any Hinode beer at supermarket

Not surprised.

I guess people will avoid other beers too

I know we've been able to dodge police detection,

but this has blown up bigger than I thought

- You sure we'll be ok?
- It's going as I planned it.

Hinode Beer will be forced to meet our demand

This is getting interesting

So we actually caused this mayhem, huh?

Hinode stock keeps making new lows.

Maybe I should buy some stocks?

Mr. Go is probably having a field day.

Stock trading halted

- Good morning
- Good morning

Mr. Shiarai is here.

- Let him in please
- Go ahead please

Excuse me

Hello?

He is here?

Hold on. Please have him wait there.

Excuse me

Please take him to the board room. President will be there shortly.

Please wait here. I'll be right back.

It's Goda.

Please send somebody over to Hinode HQ parking lot entrance right now.

Someone here is here to meet Mr. Shirayama, and I need to know what that is.

Who? I need more detail!

Is it person or business?

That's what I'm trying to find out!

Whoever it is, he is powerful, and Hinode wants to keep it hush hush.

Hurry up please.

I need to know what this man looks like

- I'll be at the president's office
- Ok

President's office.

He is not here at the moment

About the CSR meeting...

yes, let's reschedule it.

I'm so sorry.

You must be in a bind because of the product sabotage case, right?

Yes...

What a cowardly thing to do.

Stock price is hitting new lows

You can't let them get away with this!

Do you know who did it?

Mr. Shiroyama

Let me get to the point.

Won't you purchase the vacation house for 4 billion yen?

If you do, I see what I can do to help

I found out who that visitor was.

It's Tamaru Zenso from Okada Association

Tamarau Zenso

I want you to free up Mr. Shiroyama's schedule.

I want him to listen to voice recording of potential suspects

I want you to be there and observe Mr. Shiroyama's reaction.

I want you to be there and observe Mr. Shiroyama reaction.

Hinode's stock is making new lows. How is it over there?

It's pretty quiet here.

I found out the names of about half the people on that list.

Wow, you're fast.

I got my eyes on someone interesting right now.

I'll tell you more about it later at our usual place.

Ok

Yashiro, I heard you never went home last night

It's not like I have a family waiting for me

Wanna go for a drink?

Sorry, I have another appointment

Even though we're doing our best with our investigation

we have not been able to find identiy any suspect

Is that so

I'd like to hear your honest answers today.

I'll ask this again.
Have you heard from Lady Joker?

No

Have you heard from anyone else besides Lady Joker?

No

What about from Sokaiya?

I have not.

Is that right.

Well, regarding Lady Joker...

We were able to dig up a few pieces of evidence.

And we were able to narrow the suspect down to just a handful.

I want you to listen to their voice recordings

Let me know if you recognize any of the voice from the time you were kidnapped or phone conversations

Understood

I'll begin then.

If you recongize anyone, please let us know

Ok

No. 1

That's correct. That was included in the case report.

I notified right away because they were having issues.

No. 2

That's right! He always drinks sesame drink, and eat sesame tofu!

No. 3

Did you watch "Don't Laugh" today? I really love that show.

Kishida is hilarious!

Sakata Yasukazu...

No. 12

About what you asked earlier...

it looks like we're able to keep up the production.

Can you give us more time?

No. 13

I was on night shift two nights ago.

Don't take me for a fool!

I know, but isn't there someone else?

Ok understood.

I'll see you tomorrow

No. 14

Good morning! Ah, can you send me the files I sent you yesterday?

That's the end.

Do you recognize anybody?

No

Anybody that gave you a pause?

No

I'm sure you know, but the samples included 4 cops.

No.1, No.2, No.8, No.13

That's right.

Those four were either on standby or on night-duty on the night of the kidnapping

It was as you as had suspected.

You know the guy No.13, right?

You guys worked on the last year's Kamatakita murder case together.

Yes

But No.13 has no women or money problems, or other social ties.

Everything about him is ordinary, so I can't find any motive.

- Is he still at special investigation HQ?
- He is back at Kamata as of today.

All 4 cops including No.13 are dead leads at this point.

We can't tie any of them to Lady Joker.

- You know that can't be true
- As of now, they're dead leads!

I know it's hard to investigate fellow cops,

but if we can't stay objective, there will be no progress in the investigation.

Hello?

Hello, this is Enomoto from "Toho Daily"

Why are you being so formal? What's up?

Have you heard the Lady Joker case might be a police insider job?

Insider job? What do you mean?

Direct From Factory
Hinode Beer Tasting

- Two please
- Thank you!

Here

Beer right from the factory tastes so good!

What do you mean, that it was a police insider job?

I don't think we will be publishing that story...

If YOU guys can't publish it, then I guess it's not a credible information.

A cop I know told me that he is under police surveillance.

You heard it directly from the cop being watched?

Yup

He is a detective over at Ikegami Nishi station,

and he realized few days ago he was being watched.

It's probably because he went to a loanshark to make payment on his apartment mortgage.

You're not going to drink it?

Thank you

The original source of my story apparently came from Kabutocho (Japan's Wall Street)

So this is somehow related to stocks?

Perhaps somebody at the Special Investigation team leaked this information to Kabutocho.

Welcome back

- Sorry for intruding
- Oh hi, you're here.

We were just having some drinks

- Would you like some?
- Sure, beer please.

Sugihara (her husband) is on business trip?

Yes

That's what she came over to talk about

Huh?

She says Sugihara hardly comes home these days.

Even when he doesn't have business trip, he sleeps at hotel

What's going on?

He seems to be staying over at hotel and working late,

because he feels responsible for what has happened to the company

That's not true.

It's not his fault

But because of Yoshiko...

This case has nothing to do with Yoshiko either.

I know, because i was the one kidnapped.

I'll talk to Sugihara about it.

Thanks for stopping by every month to bring flowers to Takayuki

Takayuki liked those flowers

Ah is that so. I didn't know.

I'm Monoi, Takayuki's grandfather.

I'm Yoshiko Sugihara.

I've known Takayuk since college...

Excuse me.

Lady Joker
Hinode President Kidnapping
Police Insider Job

Hello?

- Did you read "Toho Daily?"
- Yeah

What a piece of work.

Someone is probably leaking investigation information.

Who told you that?

Yashiro from "Toho Daily"

You guys have met once, right?

Somone at the investigation unit leaked information to Kabutocho (Japanese Wall Street)

The investigation information is mighty useful to those wanting to profit from Hinode stock.

I wonder what is leaking information.

Who knows.

Whoever did it will be getting sacked soon.

Hello?

I heard there's talk of police insider job. You o.k. over there?

Some idiot leaked the information

Are you under suspicion too?

That I don't know.

Even if that was the case, they have no evidence against me.

There's nothing to worry.

That's good then, but...

this has gotten a lot bigger than I thought.

I wonder if we are the one in charge of the situation...

I'm not so sure anymore.

The fact that it has gotten big is a good sign.

It'll be over soon. It's our victory.

I guess so.

Anyway, take care of yourself.

Bye

It's Goda.

I'm on my way to Mr. Shiroyama's

There's white cloth by the Sannou area's light post again.

Was there any patrol report from last night?

No, nothing yet.

The white cloth showed up again!

I had asked you to beef up the patrol!

No use saying that at this point

I'll send over two investigators

You must figure out where Shiroyama is calling tonight.

Use any means possible

Why don't you tell me how I'm supposed to figure that out?

That's your job.

Hinode Beer just received a letter from Lady Joker.

It's their third cash demand and they want it 2 days from now.

Most likely this is another fake transaction.

If Hinode pulls off another backdoor deal, we'll never be able to catch Lady Joker!

I'm gonna get going.

Have a good day.

Good morning

-Good morning
-Good morning

Mr. Goda?

Yes

I received their third cash demand this morning.

Yes I know.

Thank you.

Haruko is worried that you haven't been coming home.

I've been busy with things.

Sugihara

As I said before...

this incident has nothing to do with that audio CD.

It's not your fault.

I know, but...

I've been thinking about deceased Mr. Hatano lately.

I'm a parent too, so I can understand his feelings of losing a child suddenly.

I don't blame him for sending that letter and the CD.

When this first happened, I was too busy thinking about own family.

But, then I tried to figure out the root of this problem.

The red beer signified the blood of Mr. Hatano and his son.

Enough Sugihara! You're thinking too much.

You need to take a break.

Don't worry about the work. Take couple days off and go to hot spring with your wife.

She won't want to go with me.

Are there problems with you two?

Tell me please.

Do you think it was the right decision to have made deals with the prepetrator?

Yes it was.

We did not have a choice.

You must figure out where Mr. Shiroyama is calling tonight.

If Hinode pulls off the backdoor deal again, we'll never catch the prepetrator!

I'm sorry

Before you go in, there's something I need to tell you.

There's no need for me to talk to you at the moment.

Special investigation unit has determined that we DO need to talk.

Then I'll have that talk with your chief.

It's important that we talk right now. I'm here, because my chief sent me here.

And I thought your chief sent you as a bodyguard?

Mr. Shiroyama!

We think that you and the prepetrator have a method of communication.

And we have evidence of you using that method to make the last two contacts with the perpetrator.

You have been making calls to the perpetrator from your office, correct?

I don't know what you are talking about.

This morning, you saw a white cloth wrapped around the light pole by Sannou bus station.

We think that you and the perpetrator will be making a contact tonight.

If you tell me that phone number,

I can promise you that we will be able to arrest the perpetrator.

Please move out of the way.

You have the power to help us arrest Lady Joker tonight!

Move!

There's no need to report to work tomorrow.

Hello, this is Shiroyama.

I've been relieved of my duty tonight.

What did you do? What's the reason?

That's what Mr. Shiroyama wants

Did Shiroayam make the call tonight?

Yes he did.

And you couldn't figure out the number?

That seems to the case.

It's Mr. Kanzaki from police HQ.

Hello, this is Shiroyama.

I'm sorry for calling at this hour. It's Kanzaki from section 1.

Did Goda do anything to upset you?

Not at all. He did not do anything wrong.

It's strictly business matter.

If that's the case, then I guess I can't do much.

Did Goda say anything inappropriate?

No not really.

If that's the case, then I can only conclude that tonight's dismissal has something to do with the third cash transaction with Lady Joker 2 days from now.

I don't think it's something you should be concerned about.

Anyway, the reason for dismissing the bodyguard was strictly business related.

Excuse me then.

If you tell me that phone number,

I can promise you that we will be able to arrest the perpetrator.

Tell me, please.

Do you think it was the right decision to have made deals with the prepetrator?

Hello

This is Shiroyama

I apologize for what happened earlier

It's ok

I'm not sure if it's any use at this point,

but can I tell you the phone number now?

Sure

Go ahead please.

If anybody asks, you never got this number from me, o.k?

Sorry for calling at this hour.

Wait...

Thank you.

This place...

No. 13

I was on night shift two nights ago.

Don't take me for a fool!

Are you certain?

Yes

The place Lady Joker designated to call is a public phone near where No.13 lives.

Right by the police force housing units.

We need to interrogate No. 13 right away.