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.
This is the identity of the mystery woman who set up the bombing incident.
Higashi was formerly with the PSB.
There is also truth you're better off not knowing.
I want to know it.
The absolute truth.
I am Wakamatsu of the PSB's Division Two who will take up command of the investigation.
Are you trying to say you want to take command of this investigation?
That's not it,
I just think that the investigation is being conducted slowly on purpose.
Won't you use your power to wipe away the darkness in the PSB?
Here he is.
You have lost things precious to you.
Stop tormenting yourself any further.
Until I know the truth about what happened to them,
I'll remain hollow.
Both me and shrikes are driven by the same impulse, right?
Why are you crying?
You are all eternally cursed. By me, that is.
I've seen Dharma.
Inspector, do you believe in Dharma?
Yeah, though I don't know the truth behind its existence.
Operation GLARKE Alpha.
Five years ago, Inspector Kuraki's late wife was
on a certain special assignment from the PSB.
I never talked to my wife about that incident.
Why did my wife have to die?
That's the only thing I want to know.
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The task this time will be an
operation to be conducted under a high level of absolute secrecy.
This so-called 'Dharma' has appeared in many people's dreams.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe you have already heard about it.
Normally, it would be thought of as an ancient urban legend, though underneath this image,
lies our, the PSB's, top secret program.
In the late eighties, the PSB trialled a prototype system for this program.
From there, the system expanded with the rise in usage of cell phones, Emails, the Internet and so on.
This system automatically monitored all conversations being held electronically for the purpose of intelligence gathering.
So to speak, it's a system for observing citizens.
Naturally, the Government won't acknowledge its existence.
This system was still in its infancy and consequently under absolute secrecy,
though eight years ago,
Someone found the means and power to capture the system and subsequently did.
For a long time, we've been secretly investigating and finally,
intelligence from a credible source has come in.
Our task is to recapture this system,
or if possible, completely annihilate it.
Though, even if our operation was to fail,
the nation will neglect any chance of saving you,
and won't acknowledge the existence of this operation.
Just prepare yourselves for that.
You will infiltrate a certain location.
This operation's name is
GLARKE ALPHA.
Who's the person meeting with Superintendent Wakamatsu?
It's our actual target.
You know who it is?
I can't eliminate my suspicions just yet.
Let's wait.
It's Higashi!
We've got them together in one place, let's detain them.
It's okay.
Let's have it play out.
Why?
Because otherwise, the fruits of your labor will be completely undone.
So they've gone home?
Yeah.
What happened?
We're being investigated by NPA Special Investigator, Senior Superintendent Tsuki.
Tsuki, huh?
We're being watched by the most troublesome guy.
What should we do?
When were these taken?
They were taken around the time when I had left you with the security plan after reviewing it.
Underneath here, your desk mat can be seen.
What did you say?
And this woman here,
is the mystery woman who met with Kakehi in a café on the day of the bombing incident.
Hey,
there hasn't been some sort of mistake?
No.
The one who put the bomb into Kakehi's bag was...
my wife.
Why would she?
I don't know when that photo was taken,
or who might be the person she's with.
Just what is going on here?
I don't know either.
To what extent, does Tsuki know?
He should know about your involvement.
There's no need to worry.
Even if he does know, he can't act on it.
What's wrong?
No,
it's nothing.
Let's leave.
Huh? But.
What are you doing?
She was a very excellent PSB officer.
Though, I pushed her too far into the darkness of that place.
Since we got married,
all I've done is work.
I never really took the time to properly communicate with Chihiro.
Kuraki...
Though, that wasn't really a big problem.
What really started to instantly tear us apart happened...
after Chihiro,
participated in that operation.
Since that operation,
Chihiro's appearance seemed to become stranger,
though I couldn't do anything for her.
Though as if it were to our salvation, Shizuku was born.
However...
One day, Shizuku got injured and during that blood test,
I found out Shizuku wasn't my biological child and so since then,
the distance grew between us as husband and wife.
Chihiro had then become mentally ill.
The one who drove her into a corner was unmistakably, myself.
I didn't ask Chihiro anything about what happened to Shizuku.
And she never said anything about it either.
You're wrong.
It wasn't you who drove her into a corner.
That operation,
GLARKE Alpha was an infiltration operation.
We certainly needed to use intelligence
to send six elite officers to infiltrate a facility.
And one of those people was Chihiro, right?
Yeah.
However,
that operation failed.
It was a trap.
All of the investigators who were sent to infiltrate,
fell at the hands of the enemy.
There was a seventy-two hour postponement given so as to allow them time to reveal their true identities, though...
Nobody revealed their true identities because the operation was of absolute secrecy?
That's right.
Five investigators were executed.
And yet,
she was the only one to come back alive.
Exactly what happened to Chihiro?
I don't know.
Why she was the only one to come back alive?
What happened?
She remained silent until the very end.
She became mentally ill because of that operation, right?
In order to keep the operation under absolute secrecy,
the deaths of the investigators who didn't return,
couldn't even be treated as having been killed in the line of duty.
As the person in charge of that operation, I take full responsibility for what happened.
I'm terribly...
sorry.
The infiltration you mentioned,
where was it into?
That's the only thing I can't say.
Please understand.
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'Shrike' Season 1 - Cries of the Night
What did you come here for, you inelegant fellow?
I'll take revenge for Kazuhiko.
I'll kill all of you myself.
I'm not the Shingai Kazuhiko you knew.
I'm his little brother.
Thanks to you guys, my memory was revived.
So he didn't have a little sister?
Even though my name is Hiromi, no.
You're a funny fellow.
You've finally retrieved it to me.
I've already removed myself from this matter.
To them, I've already settled this business with you.
So give up the ghost.
I'm not the one you should be targeting.
What do you think is the real reason for the bombing incident having occurred in times like these?
Why can't I be caught?
See you.
Now, don't come chasing me.
Oh yeah.
You can have this back.
Ciao!
But...
Why would your wife...
I kept those documents stored in my house.
I didn't want someone like Superintendent Wakamatsu seeing them, only the people from the upper echelon's.
Basically, this means your wife was a collaborator-
No, this means she may have been used,
by Higashi and Superintendent Wakamatsu, right?
That's something Senior Superintendent Tsuki should know.
Doesn't this mean the photos taken of the security plan were the materials transacted
to Kakehi for their plan to assassinate the president, right?
Assassinate the president?
The reason we were gathered here today was...
because you have proof of that, right?
I do have something to show you.
This is what we've heard from Superintendent Wakamatsu.
So you two did the interrogation yourselves, huh?
Please don't think badly of us.
There is something called the order of things.
Superintendent Wakamatsu sent Higashi on a mission to
erase people considered inconvenient to the country and so forth.
He was contracted to take part in illegal activities for the so-called 'dark side' of the PSB.
Aren't those systematic crimes?
That's right.
In order for us to observe these activities,
we've been marking Superintendent Wakamatsu.
Please playback the footage.
We have no intention of going public with this matter.
However, if you do not seize this opportunity to tell the truth,
we must restrain you and will
have no choice then to take this matter through official channels.
I understand.
Kakehi's aim was to?
He shared a common cause with Saldonian terrorists,
and requested means from them to assassinate the president.
That's why he desired the bomb and the photos of the security plan.
And the proof he was a threat?
News came in that Kakehi had stolen confidential information from the PSB,
which was on the I.C Chip.
How did you obtain the bomb?
We trusted Higashi with that.
He would've paid off a customs officer.
And also, while you were making plans for the transactions with Kakehi,
you seemingly ordered Shingai from the criminal underworld, to kill Kakehi, right?
Yes.
And so to destroy more evidence, you would've disposed of Shingai Kazuhiko as well?
That guy knew too much.
Well,
we intended to use him from the start, but...
This is as far as you'll see.
Superintendent Wakamatsu coerced Kakehi
and used Inspector Kuraki's wife.
All in order to take and transact photos of the security plan for the Saldonian president's visit next month.
Aren't you mistaken about that?
No.
Even if that were the case, why did he have to go as far
as allowing Inspector Kuraki's wife to be involved in the transaction?
Superintendent Wakamatsu would've needed a person with common ground wherever practicable, right?
You've omitted essential parts to the story.
What are they? These essential parts?
Why did Superintendent Wakamatsu use my wife?
And why was my wife made to activate the bomb?
Those are your own personal queries.
There's plenty of other things too.
If they had used Shingai to kill Kakehi,
there shouldn't of been any need to make preparations for the photos and the bomb.
That would've been because they were approaching a time limit, right?
I'll say it once again.
The truth behind the bombing incident has become clear.
Superintendent Wakamatsu coerced Kakehi into making arrangements to obtain the photos of the security plan and the bomb,
though that same very day, the bomb exploded and Kakehi died.
Shingai Hiromi who was trying to kill Kakehi, retrieved said photos and the I.C Chip.
However, Superintendent Wakamatsu's decision to dispose of Shingai Kazuhiko,
caused the situation to deteriorate even further.
Since furthermore, in the shadow of Shingai Kazuhiko,
was the actual killer, Shingai Hiromi, who had come to loose his memory.
And thus like a spiral, all of the information about what had happened joined into a growing entanglement and things became complicated.
The truth behind the bombing incident has become clear.
End of story.
How are you planning to deal with Superintendent Wakamatsu?
I'll have him remain as commander of the investigation's HQ as he has been.
And why is that?
Wakamatsu still has duties to perform.
Then you really don't intend to go public with this matter?
It won't matter how many times I say it, will it?
And with that, this incident has been shrouded into darkness, huh?
I won't let that happen.
Did you figure something out?
Yeah.
That person is the mastermind.
That person?
Hey!
Who is it?
Hey!
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I snatched this away from Shingai.
People are evil.
So this means there was never any confidential information entered into it, right?
I could tell that much as soon as I saw your face.
The one who ordered the retrieval
was Wakamatsu.
It was his arbitrary decision, right?
He should have checked in advance.
I'll disappear for the time being.
Senior.
No matter what the conditions are, you'll always come here on a Friday night, right?
Assistant Commissioner Muroi.
Kuraki?
Let's talk someplace else.
Nah.
It has to be here!
Why did you use Chihiro?
Kuraki...
What are you thinking?
Only answer the questions I ask.
Why did you use Chihiro?
Just stop.
Why!?
Answer me!
Hear me out...
Why did you use Chihiro?
Say it in front of your daughter!
You...
Why did Chihiro have to get involved?
It's your fault!
It's because of you, Kuraki!
Inspector Kuraki!
Please get away from Assistant Commissioner Muroi.
I ANSWERED YOU! KURAKI!
Dammit!
NOOOOOOO!
Well then, getting straight to the point of my inquiries.
You were the mastermind behind the bombing incident, true?
Yeah, that's true.
This matter originated from...
Kakehi obtaining this I.C chip.
We analyzed the contents though,
since there are only numerals, deciphering it is impossible.
What do you think Kakehi would do with something like that?
He probably thought the encryption was part of the PSB's confidential information.
though there isn't any meaning to those numerals.
I see.
So this 'threat' was really just a charade you fostered, right?
That's right.
At the time when the security plan for the president's visit next month was being fine tuned,
we received information that Kakehi and Saldonian terrorists who shared a common goal,
were possibly planning to assassinate the president.
And then you anonymously sent off the I.C Chip to Kakehi,
and persuaded him into thinking it was an important item.
Thus, by using your scheme of priorly handing over the I.C Chip to gain his trust,
you were then able to coerce him into the transaction for the bomb and the security plan, right?
I also used Higashi and Superintendent Wakamatsu to prepare the explosives,
and Kuraki Chihiro to prepare the security plan.
TL Note : Reminder that Inspector Kuraki made a wrong assumption earlier when he said the photos were taken of the security plan after he reviewed them (in episode one). However the photos were actually taken before Inspector Kuraki was even put on the president's police escort team, as has been revealed.
You miscalculated that Superintendent Wakamatsu would randomly decide to use Shingai in order to kill Kakehi for you.
So it would seem.
You skillfully deceived too many of your colleagues, right?
Like you're one to talk.
Actually, with Inspector Kuraki and company,
I had planned to get them to believe that Superintendent Wakamatsu was the mastermind.
Though Inspector Kuraki terminated that plan when he reached the conclusion it was actually you
and I lost the ability to conceal your involvement.
Now, hey.
You can't believe anything this guy says!
And now the real issue at hand.
You wanted Kakehi to make a terrorist attack occur.
That is correct.
Why did you want a terrorist attack to occur in Japan?
There's no need to answer.
Since I already know.
I don't know.
Hey!
He means that we're not in a position to know.
I have nothing further to inquire about. This ends the inquiring from myself.
Please give Inspector Kuraki the answers to his inquiries too.
Otherwise, I can't guarantee your safety.
Why was Kakehi carrying such a photograph?
TL Note : It may be hard to see, though the photo of the 'mystery woman' is on the desk.
Ever since I began trying to coerce Kakehi, he had been continuously
spying on me.
Sorry for the wait.
That's why,
I purposely let him take a picture of me with her somewhere.
In order for him to remember the person who would make the transaction.
How were you able to use Chihiro?
She was my former subordinate.
Moreover, she was mentally ill.
Persuading her into becoming my collaborator,
wasn't a difficult thing to do.
Not just your former subordinate,
but also your former lover, right?
That's right.
You couldn't of been able to order Chihiro to activate the bomb.
So why did she activate the bomb?
I also don't know why.
I never saw it coming.
You of all people should know if I'm lying, right?
You should have had the security plan documents close at hand.
So why did Chihiro have to get involved?
For insurance.
Insurance?
That's right.
You said it was my fault, didn't you?
Yeah, it's because of you.
Because you're too excellent as an inspector.
The only person who would've interfered in the realization of this plan was you.
That's why she had to become involved.
In order for you to be blinded by your loss of composure.
It was all done in order to change this country.
I couldn't let any personal feelings interpose there.
Those two things weren't even comparable in scale.
What concept made you consider going this far?
It's the future.
The future?
For your daughter's sake?
That's not it.
For this country's sake.
Inspector Kuraki, that's far enough.
Let me ask you one last question.
Who is Shizuku's father?
You know, don't you?
Answer me!
Inspector Kuraki, this is over.
Inspector Kuraki!
Assistant Commissioner Muroi, you've been sufficiently helpful, you can leave now.
Though you can be arrested at any time and loose your standing.
Please don't forget that.
Hey, wait a minute.
That guy is a brutal criminal, who knows if he's still up to something?
I'll go public with the truth!
I won't allow you to do such a thing.
The authority and respect of the police force in this country would come crumbling to the ground.
Even if that's so, like hell I'll be silenced!
Society doesn't even want to know the truth.
I don't know what you're aiming to do,
though, is this all for now?
Yes.
I'll prepare a car for you.
Headquarters of the investigation into the bombing incident in front of the Izutsu store in Ginza.
Judging from the new report completed by the Crime Scene Investigation team,
by combing through the scene of the explosion for remnants, they found
a messenger bag and a wristwatch called the H226, manufactured by a Swiss company, Pisaro,
which have both matched up consistently.
This Pisaro brand wristwatch is understood by Interpol to have been used as a time bomb
as discovered throughout their probes.
It has been used in fourteen terrorist incidents overseas.
Twelve incidents involved those within the sphere of Islamic extremism for the purpose of a coup d'état
while the other two were used in disputes of interest by the Deiba drug cartel in South America...
The conspiracy under these current chain of events
is still unable to be made public.
Therefore, I have decided that Shingai Hiromi will be temporarily isolated from society without trial.
It's you, huh?
What do you want?
Why didn't you consider what would happen after you did such a stupid thing like that?
I couldn't consider anything.
Animals and myself share the same impulsive behavior.
I couldn't stop it, my impulse.
Have you caught the mystery woman?
That woman...
was my wife.
My wife had no motive or reason to activate the bomb.
And yet my wife,
was the one who activated the bomb and placed it into Kakehi's bag.
I don't know the reason why.
Did you come here thinking I would know the answer to that question?
You're also a strange guy.
Do you understand why?
There's no reason for instinctual impulse.
Do you know about the shrike, as in the bird?
Yeah.
The shrike skewers their captured prey on branches.
And then they immediately fly away without eating them.
For what reason the shrike has to carry out this trait is still unclear.
What of it?
The reason no theories can explain it is...
because it's the shrike's impulse.
So are you trying to say it was my wife's impulse to activate the bomb?
How the hell can I grasp a stupid concept like that!?
You won't be able to understand as you are now,
what our impulse is!
Hey.
Hey!
I'll avenge Kazuhiko without fail!
I'll kill every one of my enemies!
I just can't be stopped from avenging Kazuhiko!
Don't think these chains will stop me!
Hey!
About Athena Security,
Higashi and those related to his company have gone missing
and everything has been dismissed.
Well, Superintendent Wakamatsu's scheme from the start
was to orchestrate some of Higashi's actions as a human puppet.
There's no causal relationship with the company.
About my father...
You're still not in a position where you're able to know.
WHETHER IT'S IMMINENT IN THE YEAR 2000 OR NOT?
So far there is concern in the lower-class of society.
Loud blasts interrupts event.
September 9th 1999
These are the words we're going to exchange from now.
Nation.
Organization.
Individual.
No one is expecting or considering you to assume responsibility.
Once again, you won't have to assume responsibility.
Well then, I'll ask you a number of questions which I hope you'll answer.
Out of the investigators sent to infiltrate who were detained,
you were the sole survivor.
All of the other personnel passed away.
Please let me hear why.
Why were you the only one left alive?
Why were you the only one who came back?
During the seventy-two hours you were underhandedly restrained,
what happened, exactly?
Next time, on the penultimate episode of the first season of Shrike.
Do you know about Omelas?
It's from a certain short story about an utopia.
Omelas was naturally blessed.
Without a class system, they could also live without a despot.
No one lived in poverty either,
it was a peaceful city.
Even so, somewhere in that city
where the light couldn't reach,
was a basement which had been firmly shut.
The interior of that basement was almost like a sewer,
where one child had been imprisoned for such a long time.
That child was gifted without good food,
with its body continually smeared in its own excrement.
This was the same pitiful life it had always lived.
The truth is, all of the citizens of Omelas knew about this child's existence,
Though, no one tried to rescue them.
The reason being because keeping that child imprisoned
was a condition they had to follow if they wanted to preserve their utopia.
All of Omelas's natural beauty and good fortune
depended entirely on this child's abominable misery.
Everyone understood that.
If for everyone else to live in happiness meant
that one child had to be kept confined to a basement,
then the citizens were able to turn a blind eye.
The peaceful times of Omelas have already come to an end.
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