What we're looking at,
are just fragments of the truth.
What you've been told is far from the truth.
Type-B
Blood Transfusion
Vertical Headline : Explosion in the heart of Tokyo
Chief Cabinet Secretary Morihara.
I only want to know the absolute truth.
Commissioner-General of the National Police Agency heavily wounded in attack.
Vertical headline : What are they aiming to hide?
I've had enough and seen my limit of...
Mystery of the 300 million yen incident finally revealed!
Deputy Commissioner-General appears defeated at press conference.
the distorted truth.
You still have those dreams, right?
How are they?
This man has been sighted in Japan.
Sighted?
Yep.
Inside dreams.
Operation GLARKE Alpha.
Do you think...
that operation and Dharma...
could be related?
Perhaps even in...
my daughter's dreams too.
Today's Friday, right?
Today's Friday, isn't it?
I... love you.
I ran away from the truth once,
that's why I won't run from it again.
However, we also still don't know who the mystery woman is.
What I'm cleaning up this time is...
the toilets of the PSB.
Please just openly tell everyone that Hiromi is really a boy so that they realize.
Higashi and his men decided to seal Kazuhiko's mouth shut for all eternity.
Big brother!
Forgive me...
You guys must redeem yourselves by death for the crimes and sins you've committed.
Shingai Hiromi and Shingai Kazuhiko are identical twin brothers.
Did someone call forth a monster?
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Right now, are you...
hollow?
Yeah.
I'm hollow.
You're one to talk.
Those people who have become hollow,
how do you think they go on living?
Isn't that obvious?
The corpse of Nakajima Ami has been discovered.
How cruel.
Shingai was tortured, wasn't he?
Most likely alongside Nakajima Ami.
It's unforgivable.
We're still confirming their identities but...
the one's who were killed were Higashi's men, right?
The reasoning behind Shingai's behavior wasn't clear until now.
Could it be?
Yeah.
His memory might have returned.
Yes, please proceed in that direction.
Confirm the identities of the deceased suspects along with the so-called 'innocent victim'.
Okay.
Does this mean that once again you're shrouding an incident into darkness?
Are you leaving this devilish homicide to take care of itself?
I'm not intending to, no.
Though, we may have to catch a hold of Shingai Hiromi's movements first.
You say it so nonchalantly, yeah?
If his memory returned, the most important thing would be...
the IC chip.
This IC chip is what Higashi and his men are searching for, right?
Yeah.
It's Shingai, right? You're not mistaken?
Yes, he took something out of a locker at a train station five hours ago.
Where was Shingai headed after that?
He wasn't captured on any of the surveillance cameras.
So he vanished?
What do you usually eat?
Convenience store food.
That's widowhood, huh?
Aren't you kind of in the same boat?
I can go to a yakiniku store by myself since I'm already a veteran.
TL Note: Yakiniku is grilled meat, usually beef.
Why would you take pride in something like that?
It's sort of like...
I'm beginning to see how it all comes together.
The scenery has changed.
Isn't it great now that I understand your feelings of hatred towards the PSB?
I never wanted you to understand them.
Shingai has?
Gone underground.
His whereabouts are completely unknown.
I see.
A TBS & WOWOW Drama Co-Production
'Shrike' Season 1 - Cries of the Night
TL Note : The 'α' symbol denotes 'alpha'.
What do you want?
We can't catch a hold on Shingai's movements.
You could've reported that to me over the phone, right?
What do you want to hear about?
Inspector, do...
you believe in Dharma?
Why do you want hear my thoughts on that matter?
Of course, I too...
thought it was just an ancient urban legend.
Though…
So you've seen Dharma in your dreams?
Yes.
It wasn't the first time I have,
I've seen Dharma a few times in my dreams,
even during the time when I had yet to hear of its existence.
Inspector,
please answer me.
Do you believe in Dharma?
Yeah, I believe it exists.
Though I don't know the truth behind its existence.
Because you're an inspector in Division One of the PSB,
I thought you would've known something.
I'm sorry.
Last night...
this thing arrived.
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Yes.
What's up?
Assistant Commissioner Muroi, you're aware of Operation GLARKE Alpha, right?
What of it?
You took command of it, right?
Hey, these are...
how did you grab a hold of these?
Won't you tell me about Operation GLARKE Alpha?
You know that operation is top secret, right?
Yes though, Chihiro was involved in that operation.
Please tell me about it.
There's a possibility that Chihiro saw Dharma in her dreams.
And also my daughter, Shizuku, might have.
No way.
They couldn't have...
That operation was related to Dharma, wasn't it?
Fancy a smoke?
Up until now, I thought it was strange that you hadn't come to ask about it.
I won't tell you about the fine details of the operation.
Just...
that half of the people involved,
became heartsick.
As of now, practically none of those people remain with the PSB.
There are some who have died too.
Did the people who participated in that operation,
see Dharma in their dreams?
No.
It wasn't everyone, judging from the counseling reports.
Plus, I haven't seen it.
Members of the general public have also seen Dharma.
Therefore, you can't tell anyone that Operation GLARKE Alpha is related to the instances of people seeing Dharma.
Is that how it is?
Could you have...
also seen it before?
No, I haven't.
I see.
I'm glad to hear that.
Say, Kuraki,
Yes?
Won't you come with me for a little while?
Won't you come with me to see Rin?
Sure.
Rin, I brought Kuraki along with me today.
Hasn't she grown up quite a bit?
Yeah.
It's quite mysterious.
Even though she's sleeping,
her body steadily grows larger.
On the morning of that traffic accident,
I wanted Rin to do the washing.
Rin, who was headed off to school,
called out to me and said "I'm leaving."
And I...
said "Go on and be careful."
Without having even looked her in the eye...
that was...
the last conversation I had with Rin.
I didn't get to see the look on her face when I said that last thing.
I still regret that, even now.
Like it is now,
I'm gradually starting to forget what Rin's face looked like when she was younger.
Though now, by doing this,
aren't you watching Rin's face as she grows up?
Rin, would you like to be moved for a little while?
There are people out there who argue...
that there's no point in prolonging her life with treatment.
Though,
those people don't know anything.
That is that they speak out without seriously considering this child's future.
Is that so?
You have...
lost things precious to you.
I believe you...
understand better than anyone,
the feeling of not being able to accept this reality.
But listen here, Kuraki,
you still have a bright future ahead of you.
Shizuku and her too,
would have wished for you to be happy.
So stop,
tormenting yourself any further.
I...
don't know how...
or whether I can go on living after all of this.
To Shizuku...
and to Chihiro.
Until I know the truth about what happened to them,
I'll remain hollow.
Rin,
I'll come again.
Kuraki, wait.
What could it be?
No,
it's nothing.
Thank you.
Bye.
Who are you?
A thief?
I came here to return this to you.
Oh...
I'm glad.
You didn't waste any time in returning it, huh?
What happened to that girl?
The one who came and borrowed this album.
That girl went to a distant country to cover an event.
Since she's a reporter.
Still, it's been a while, hasn't it?
Do you remember me?
Why are you saying that when you've come all this way?
As if I could ever forget you, Shingai Kazuhiko.
I see.
So you do remember me.
Is your little sister doing well?
TL Note: The grounds keeper either never knew Hiromi was a boy or he is referring to Hiromi as a girl because he believes that's what he wanted to be.
She's living life how she likes to.
I see.
I'm happy for her.
I feel as if though a burden has fallen off my shoulders.
Ah!
I just remembered!
About what?
About the time you two started attending school here.
There was that incident when the rabbits died in their hutch.
They had been stabbed in the neck.
You called out your name and said "I was the culprit."
And then the teachers became furious.
You were made to come and apologize to me since I was looking after those rabbits.
Do you remember that?
Since that happened a long time ago...
I had a feeling that you may have been covering for your little sister.
Why are you crying?
Huh?
Well, go on and drink some hot milk,
It will raise your spirits.
Hiromi,
do you know why the shrike's behavior still hasn't been explained?
I don't know.
I've thought it through.
There isn't any meaning to the agile shrike's behavior.
Is that how it is?
Yeah, only...
that they do things they want to do because it's in their nature to do so.
I see!
That's known as being driven by an impulse.
Impulse?
Being driven by an impulse.
Both me and shrikes are driven by the same impulse, right?
I decide who your prey is.
Hiromi,
no matter who you are or what may happen, I'll protect you.
Okay!
I'll kill the remaining ones by myself.
Welcome.
The usual?
Yeah.
Quite the coincidence.
There's no way it could be.
How may I be of service?
Police Lieutenant Osugi,
if there was a conspiracy underlying this current bombing incident,
what would you do?
Not everything.
I wouldn't do something borderline illegal.
People like you fail to restrain themselves in that regard, right?
So you really don't have the resolve to fight great evil after all?
I have the resolve.
I may not look like one, but I am a police officer.
TL Note: Police Lieutenant is a rank, though Osugi's class would be that of an officer, thus he is referring to himself as one.
As expected of a man with a bravado.
Well then, I have a favor to ask of you.
What is it?
Won't you use your power...
to wipe away the darkness in the PSB?
Thanks as always.
Outer Signs: Police Slogans.
Metropolitan Police Department's Taitou Police Station.
Whoa!
What are you doing?
I'm smoking tobacco.
I could tell by just looking! Um hey,
there's no smoking here! Okay?
Geez, it's so hazy in here.
Ah!
There's donuts.
Don't mind if I do.
Narumiya.
What?
I joined the police force because I wanted to be a man.
No matter how you look at it, you're a man.
I wanted to become a man of manliness.
Just recently,
the scenery changed.
AH!
What are you doing!? What are you doing!?
What? So this was just a replica?
But to me, it was the real thing.
But thanks to that, I've been able to see this situation from a different point of view now!
Is something really troublesome bothering you at work?
Yeah, it's the worst possible situation.
Well, I'm off.
Have a safe trip, Police Lieutenant Osugi!
Signs: Front - Letter of resignation. Back - Osugi Ryota.
You don't hand this to me,
rather, you should hand it in to the MPD's CIB's Division One, yeah?
TL Note: Division One of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department, which Osugi is assigned to.
To be precise, it would be to the General Affairs Bureau.
I don't give a shit about which one it is.
Well, I won't stop you from resigning.
Of course you won't.
Well then,
since I have some arrangements to deal with soon, go home.
The Public Safety Bureau is
covering up an underlying conspiracy relating to the bombing incident!
Is there some sort of proof to back up that claim?
I'll tell you only one thing.
That there are people investigating into this conspiracy.
Investigating?
It's NPA Special Investigator,
Senior Superintendent Tsuki Shunsuke.
In exchange for resigning from here,
I'm able to collaborate with Senior Superintendent Tsuki as a whistle-blower.
That's the reason why I have proof of you obstructing the bombing incident investigation.
And soon, the information Senior Superintendent Tsuki has acquired will
be used to report you and others to the upper echelons!
Well then, if you'll excuse me.
Good work back there.
Hop in.
Please hurry up and get in.
Here he is.
Please watch your step.
This is where you'll be seated.
Welcome.
Take your time in ordering.
I'm counting on it.
Nice to meet you,
Shingai Hiromi.
TL Note: Kuraki put emphasis on the usually-male honorific of 'kun' to indicate to Hiromi that he knows he is a man.
Senior Superintendent Tsuki, who could Superintendent Wakamatsu be going to meet with?
I'm still unsure.
Have you always been observing Superintendent Wakamatsu?
It's as it seems.
All for this day.
It's good.
How did you know I was here?
I followed Higashi.
Make it a full course with servings for two, plus a champagne.
Coming right up.
You're not cross-dressing today, huh?
Have you seen the whole picture?
TL Note: This is an idiom meaning (in this context) "Do you understand everything regarding the situation?"
Did Shingai Kazuhiko really die?
Yeah.
He fell from a cliff and died.
On the day of the bombing incident,
those who believed Kazuhiko was responsible for it, decided to kill him in order to silence him.
I wasn't able to save him.
You followed Shingai Kazuhiko who had been carried away, right?
By the time I reached the cliff, he had already fallen off.
However, Kazuhiko had been caught between tree branches.
Though one of the branches snapped and I who had tried to save him, also...
fell from the cliff along with Kazuhiko.
And yet only your life was spared, right?
Yeah.
Though, I had lost my memory in the process.
So that's what happened?
You ran wild on an extremely flashy rampage, didn't you?
They've killed people who weren't even involved.
Haven't you killed countless people, too?
Yeah.
Both you and them have mistaken my actions for Kazuhiko's
and now I have to explain this complicated story.
Well, that's unfortunate.
Who would've thought that you two were identical twins?
None of this would've happened if I hadn't lost my memory.
Those guys must be immediately...
murdered.
Well, well, isn't this turning the tables on those who helped you regain your memory?
The car has been turned around.
That's right.
So hurry up and let me go take them out.
Did you think I'd let you?
I'll attain revenge for your wife.
So the bombing incident wasn't your doing?
It wasn't.
Sure, Kazuhiko received the order from Higashi to kill Kakehi,
and then Kazuhiko passed it on to me.
And so then on that day, I
was aiming to get rid of Kakehi.
Though, the one who placed the bomb inside his bag wasn't me.
It was the mystery woman Kakehi met with?
If you know that much, then that makes this conversation a lot quicker.
I wasn't the culprit.
It was that woman.
Therefore, don't get in my way!
If you could do what they call 'cross dress',
then it's feasible that Kazuhiko could too, right?
You're quite serious even when your being a smart-ass.
So the mystery woman wasn't Kazuhiko?
It wasn't!
I know.
Kazuhiko's movements have already been investigated and accounted for.
When the bombing incident occurred,
he was confirmed to be in his apartment.
So you said that on purpose to agitate me?
Yeah.
I really don't like that about you.
The thing I hate most is having to match another person's pace.
TL Note: Hiromi literally said "to ride another person's pace", however "to match another person's pace" makes more sense in English.
I didn't know that.
I'm not responsible for either Kakehi's death or your wife's death.
Though I'll kill you whenever I want.
That so?
Me too.
That's right.
Well then, I look forward to working with you.
Yes, right back at you.
I'll take revenge on your part too, so hurry up and let me go.
Move and I'll shoot.
Want to to test me?
Give up on it.
These are Kakehi's personal belongings.
Their eyes will become bloodshot searching for this I.C Chip.
As long as I have this, Higashi and company will inevitably appear before me.
It's a real problem when people realize that they're being tailed,
especially when the situation calls for us to tail the chief of the PSB's Division Two.
What are you going to do with Athena Security's Higashi?
What I'll do?
That many employees of his company
had connections in the PSB and had their solicited killings covered up by them.
Meaning it would be a huge problem for society if he didn't take responsibility, right?
If he doesn't, then the one in most trouble is our country.
There's no way you could allow that.
Let's save that conversation for when we've caught him.
That won't do!
Higashi was...
formerly with the PSB.
Huh?
That's what makes those guys so difficult to nab.
N-no way...
Firstly, we'll obtain a confession from Superintendent Wakamatsu,
and then we'll give it to the upper echelons,
then they will have no other choice except to arrest Higashi and his men.
We all have the same objective.
Well,
I'm not so sure about that.
It's Inspector Kuraki, right?
That's right.
He's on the move with a completely different objective from us.
Not for justice,
not for the sake of the country,
only for the woman he held closet to his heart.
There's one photo amongst these which was taken of a certain woman.
Shown there in that photo, is the identity of that mystery woman.
Let me see.
Choose one.
Don't play mind games.
How many times do I have to say it?
I won't match your pace.
As Kakehi entered the café,
he looked at this photo and then compared it against a customer's face.
He then sat in front of a woman.
Basically, this means that the woman in this picture was the other party in a transaction.
Hurry up and let me see it!
Now, now, don't rush me.
We should get along well since we've both lost people precious to us.
Don't compare yourself to me.
There's no way I could.
Do you have any other family?
Do you have children?
I had a daughter though she passed away.
So it's like that?
That means you have nothing more to lose, right?
What about your family?
My mother died after giving birth to me.
I also killed my father.
That so?
Our feelings of loneliness are mutual, right?
Right now, are you...
hollow?
Yeah.
I'm hollow.
You're one to talk.
Those people who have become hollow,
how do you think they go on living?
Isn't that obvious?
They only go on living with hatred and suffering.
Like you and me.
People like us who are left behind can only take revenge.
Don't compare yourself to me.
Have you calmed down now?
I'm finally talking at your pace.
Thank you for being considerate.
Show me the photo taken of the woman.
The woman Kakehi met with was the same one who put the bomb into his bag.
While Kakehi had gone to the restroom,
I saw that woman place the bomb into his bag.
What I'm holding now is everything besides the photo of the woman.
Security Plan
These are...
And finally, this is...
the identity of the mystery woman who set up the bombing incident.
(Is she an acquaintance?)
Hey! Are you listening?
Is she an acquaintance?
She is.
I see...
That's the mystery woman's identity.
Coming up on Shrike...
And next episode...
You're still not in a position where you're able to know.
The operation's name is GLARKE ALPHA.
You won't be able to understand as you are now,
what our impulse is!
Aren't those systematic crimes?
Society doesn't even want to know the truth.
Inspector Kuraki!
We're being watched by the most troublesome guy.
The fruits of your labor will be completely undone.
I'm not the Shingai Kazuhiko you knew.
Why did you want a terrorist attack to occur in Japan?
There's no need to answer.
Since I already know.
Five investigators were executed.
Though, she was the only one to come back alive.
Exactly what happened to Chihiro?
The truth behind the bombing incident has become clear.
You've omitted essential parts to the story.
That guy knew too much.
We intended to use him from the start, but...
I'll disappear for the time being.
Senior.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the product(s) of the staff's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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