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 operation's name is
GLARKE ALPHA.
The infiltration you mentioned,
where was it into?
That's the only thing I can't say.
That guy knew too much.
we intended to use him from the start, but...
Why did you want a terrorist attack to occur in Japan?
There's no need to answer.
Since I already know.
My father was also in the police force.
Your father went missing while on a certain assignment.
About my father...
You're still not in a position where you're able to know.
I really damn hate it when the PSB does reckless investigating.
Higashi was formerly with the PSB.
Huh?
The police, as in the PSB, are involved in the backing of a criminal group?
To them, I've already settled this business with you.
I'll disappear for the time being.
Senior.
Why did you use Chihiro?
She was my former subordinate.
Not just your former subordinate,
but also your former lover, right?
Have you caught the mystery woman?
That woman...
was my wife.
I just can't be stopped from avenging Kazuhiko!
Don't think these chains will stop me!
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Weren't you intending to run off somewhere?
If you were, you'd better get lost right this minute.
This is the only chance you'll have.
You say some scary things.
What do you want?
I thought I'd give you some advice as an old boy of the PSB.
I don't need any.
Get lost.
Do you know about Omelas?
It's from a certain short story about an utopia.
TL Note : The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a quite well-known short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, which was written in 1973.
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,
and its body was 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 which had to be met 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.
What are you trying to say?
That it's the same, right?
The way society is right now and the way it was in Omelas.
In order to maintain what's known as the structure of this country,
the things which give off a foul odor must be concealed.
That's the reason for having doormen at the basement where the child was confined.
That's the reason for having the Public Safety Bureau.
And that's the truth.
That's how they preserve order in this country.
Though, I grew tired of that sort of work.
And so I quit the PSB.
Kuraki,
you who thinks the same way as me, should definitely reach the same conclusion.
Don't compare yourself to me.
Have you reached this absolute truth of yours?
No, not yet.
Then you should give up on it.
I think you'll come to unravel something quite interesting about Assistant Commissioner Muroi.
I like that guy.
He has been staying more human-like much longer than anyone else has,
no matter how deep into the darkness he goes.
You also resemble him a lot.
You guys are my favorites.
I understand quite well the reason why the same woman fell for you both.
See you.
Now, don't come chasing me.
Ciao!
Until the president of Saldonia visits next month, I have decided to
leniently confine Assistant Commissioner Muroi to a safe house.
So really, you're going to shroud the conspiracy of the attempt to assassinate the president in darkness?
I still haven't made a decision about that.
Could there perhaps still be someone else who's been pulling the strings behind Assistant Commissioner Muroi?
Why would you think that?
Because I have a feeling that it was a tactical move by you not to immediately deal with Muroi because
there is someone in the shadows.
That may be the case,
though Police Lieutenant Osugi,
you're not in a position to know.
Especially now that Shingai has been restrained,
there is no longer any reason to be worried about Muroi being killed though,
This series of events has become an inconvenience to the government.
To place an assistant commissioner under house arrest,
I'd like the co-operation of you two men as well.
It's not like I can say no.
Inspector Kuraki?
I'm alright with it.
Much appreciated.
Though,
please don't kill him.
Of course not.
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'Shrike' Season 1 - Cries of the Night
Please don't be the source of any strange happenings.
Since I've been caught by Senior Superintendent Tsuki, I'm done for.
I've also become one of his pet dogs like you people.
I'm not his pet dog.
I'm not too sure about that.
You people haven't seen what he's really like.
Police Lieutenant Osugi, please refrain from engaging in any unnecessary conversation.
It's that sort of tone you have which reminds me a lot of Kuraki's wife.
Inspector Kuraki.
I'm just going to have a little look around.
Even so, this is a real problem with Muroi, isn't it?
Who would've thought that those with leadership roles in the force would be involved in that bombing incident.
The punishment is still pending.
As I'd like to hear everyone's opinions first.
What shall we do, chief?
Of course, this incident can't be made public.
Yes.
Since parts of this incident are still in the process of being resolved.
Yeah.
I'm counting on you to keep things on track, Tsuki.
The problematic question is what to do with Muroi.
Didn't I mention that we should deliberately take it slow with a decision.
Because he wants the heads of everyone here on a silver platter.
While cleaning the toilets of the PSB,
I caught wind of various interesting things.
Everyone here is aware of what became of the top secret task carried out by PSB five years ago,
Operation GLARKE Alpha, right?
What are you doing?
I was thinking of peeling the skin off of this.
I'll peel it.
Thanks.
About the whole origin of that operation...
Origin?
There should be someone behind Assistant Commissioner Muroi's actions of late.
I think it's Chief Cabinet Secretary Morihara.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Morihara?
TL Note: In Japanese politics, the chief cabinet secretary is basically the press secretary of the government, however in times of national crisis, they have the ability to coordinate and manage all government ministries and their agencies. Hence it can become a very powerful position to hold.
Do you have any basis for that accusation?
Regarding that Operation GLARKE Alpha, Assistant Commissioner Muroi took responsibility for his role in it.
Though at that time, the Government's Cabinet went into crisis management mode as the operation was ordered by Morihara.
TL Note: In Japan, when a government is elected, the Prime Minister chooses a small amount of ministers from their party to form cabinet, where they are each given portfolios of various government departments to manage.
Will the Saldonian President attempt to use his diplomatic power in Japan next month!?
There is a possibility that Japan has grown out of using fainthearted diplomacy.
There are also large expectations being held.
Ahead of the President of the Saldonian Republic's visit to Japan in one week's time,
for the duration of the president's stay, the government
Will the Saldonian President attempt to use his diplomatic power in Japan next month!?
has prepared a 24/7 escort consisting of more than 5000 police offers and security guards...
This isn't something which should concern you.
So it would seem.
If things do go as Assistant Commissioner Muroi plans,
the president will get involved in a terrorist attack while in Japan,
and of course, everyone here would be made to take the blame and we would thus loose our standing.
If that happens,
CCS Morihara and AC Muroi would have more than enough breathing room to
possibly stand at the top of the Japanese Police Force's chain of command.
Yet thanks to you,
Muroi's scheme has suffered a setback, right?
What exactly could the chief cabinet secretary be scheming?
Since Chief Cabinet Secretary Morihara wants an era of police bureaucracy,
he wants to call upon a rearrangement of the police force's structure.
It seems to me...
You're all having an interesting conversation.
Could I also be welcomed as one of your good friends?
What brings you here, Chief Cabinet Secretary?
I came here because I heard you were talking about me.
Only joking.
I was also having a luncheon meeting close by, with my colleagues from the financial world.
You seem to come to this store and use it often, Chief Cabinet Secretary.
It was Tsuki... right?
Yeah, you must know everything.
You're like an accomplished reporter for one of those weekly gossip magazines.
So, was there anything we could do for you?
Stop sneakily wandering around the people in my circles.
Is that advice, Chief Cabinet Secretary?
It's a warning.
I understand.
Does that conclude this conversation?
You...
like baseball, don't you?
Yeah.
Are you anti-Giants?
TL Note: The Yomiuri Giants is a somewhat controversial professional Japanese baseball team who has been accused of using underhanded tactics. The company which owns them has also been accused of having underworld ties (so far unproven). Thus, a protest movement has been set up with supporters calling themselves anti-Giants. What Tsuki is really asking is something along the lines of "Do you support corruption?"
Two out, bases loaded,
I wonder who would be victorious.
And with that, I'll excuse myself.
Chief Cabinet Secretary.
What could it be?
What would be the similarities and differences in the structure of a so called 'Ministry of Public Safety'?
TL Note: In Japan, there is no Ministry of Law-Enforcement, the National Police Agency (NPA) manages and is responsible for the Japanese Police Force instead.
Ministry of Public Safety?
That's the structure of your dreams which you want to make a reality.
You want to reorganize the current National Police Agency and the MPD's Regional Headquarters,
to form a new organization, the Public Order Agency, with the Public Safety Bureau at its center.
This is the first time I've heard anything about that.
Yet, aren't you considering some interesting ideas as well?
And with that, I'll excuse myself.
This is a peaceful place.
Yeah.
When I was little,
once I heard the sound of keys moving into the door outside the entrance,
I could tell that my father had come home.
Even after he wasn't around anymore,
For some reason, I still heard that sound once or twice.
And then the sound of the door opening.
After loosing someone precious to you,
you wonder how you can go on living.
I still don't understand how to.
Though...
spending every day feeling as though you're an empty shell,
I don't think those precious people,
would've wanted that.
If you please would.
What's wrong?
Are you alright?
What are you doing!?
Is this place to your liking?
Yeah.
This pie is also something made with organic ingredients from a local farm.
That reminds me, yesterday,
Chief Cabinet Secretary Morihara came to meet me.
Why would you tell me about such a thing?
I wonder why.
Although he did it in order to twist my arm,
I was impressed by him heading all the way over just to see little old me.
You still haven't given up?
Even though you can't break the stalemate of this chess game?
I've become your pet dog, right?
And so,
what are you so worried about?
Well then, just stop struggling in vain.
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Use this.
My bad.
Sorry I bothered you.
Have a seat.
Before,
you said that Assistant Commissioner Muroi was your wife's former lover, right?
Yeah.
Before we met, those two dated each other.
I see.
Then you think that Assistant Commissioner Muroi was the only one who could've used you wife?
Yeah.
So your daughter's biological father?
It's Assistant Commissioner Muroi.
So you're confident that's right?
Yeah.
I had the wrong idea.
I thought your wife got the child after getting involved in something during Operation GLARKE Alpha.
That so?
Yeah.
I loved my daughter.
Even after I found out she wasn't really mine.
I always loved her.
My daughter's precious to me too.
That's why
I understand how you feel.
Chihiro became heartsick.
Shingai thinks
that it was Chihiro's impulse to activate the bomb.
That's what he told me.
Impulse?
There's no need to worry.
I won't run away.
Myself and your father must have done joint-mobilizations countless times.
Is that true?
Yeah.
What kind of... person was he?
He was an excellent person.
Only,
he used to act a little high-handed.
Why?
Do you know why he went missing?
So you joined the PSB to find that out, huh?
Please answer me.
If I receive some help from you when the time comes,
I'll tell you.
Assistant Commissioner Muroi,
Are you still scheming something?
Well, I wonder if I am.
I now understand the reason you're working so hard for Tsuki.
Though he's taken you for a ride.
Sound the alarm immediately!
Okay!
Shit!
Kuraki.
You may not believe me though...
When I heard from her
that you two were dating each other,
I encouraged her to tie the knot quickly.
So when it was decided that you two would get married,
the relationship between me and her would've ended long ago.
So I could really give you two my blessing for your marriage.
Since I too
hoped and wished for her to be happy.
Then why?
Why did you involve Chihiro in Operation GLARKE Alpha where her heart would be scarred?
At the time, she needed
someone to support her.
One day,
I received a phone call from her.
It dawned on her that
judging from Shizuku's blood type,
Shizuku's biological father was actually me.
I was shocked.
So that's what you discussed then?
Yeah.
I'd say she had given me the cold shoulder after that.
What do you think happened to Chihiro?
I have no obligation to answer that.
Chihiro may have been the one who killed Shizuku.
You suspected it was Chihiro, right?
She said it herself.
Do you still think she did it, even now?
You do still suspect it was her, Kuraki.
Did you hear something about Shizuku's death from Chihiro?
If I did hear something, what would you do?
Answer me!
What did Chihiro tell you?
Did she kill Shizuku?
Kuraki,
even if you knew the truth,
the reality you wake up to won't change.
Stop dodging my questions!
You're the one who caused everything, Kuraki.
What?
Shizuku dying and also
Chihiro becoming heartsick,
and her activating the bomb too.
Everything happened because of you.
And that's the truth!
Kuraki!
Inspector Kuraki.
An Intruder?
Most likely.
Why is your ambition to kill me?
Kazuhiko died because of you.
Now I'm going to stab you excessively.
Revenge, huh?
How ridiculous.
Listen up,
for the sake of preserving order in this country,
we need someone who's willing to do the dirty work.
People like you.
Don't fuck with me.
You...
and your older brother too,
are just sacrificial pawns.
Where do you think you're going?
Assistant Commissioner Muroi.
Shit!
Now that I've done something myself, I finally understand the meaning of life.
You, huh?
You're the one who helped Shingai escape!
Yeah.
I released the boy who was confined to the basement.
What's your objective?
Objective?
I've realized what it is.
It's to play my part in disturbing order.
The peaceful times of Omelas have already come to an end.
Dammit!
Hey!
Can you hear me?
Hey!
I'll tell you about one other interesting thing.
I obtained two bombs.
That other one is
in Muroi's possession.
Things seem to be getting interesting, right?
You're completely insane.
You may be right!
Though I'll say it once more.
You will definitely reach the same conclusion I did.
See you, Kuraki.
I'm walking away from Omelas.
He's intending to stage a terrorist attack using a bomb and aims to assassinate the president.
A terrorist attack using a bomb?
If a terrorist attack occurs,
public opinion for Morihara will grow stronger while it will grow weaker for the Police Force.
And then by amending the act, the National Police Agency and the MPD's Regional Headquarters will be restructured
to form a new organization, the Public Order Agency, with the Public Safety Bureau at its center,
under the control of the Ministry of Public Safety that he wants to make.
Ministry of Public Safety!?
If there was breathing room and Assistant Commissioner Muroi was made top cop,
Morihara would hold absolute power over the country.
If that happens,
anything he has a hand in, be it wiretaps, cover-ups, suspicious dealings etc.
He can keep on doing them as the holder of the highest position in the government.
What a conspiracy!
That's why once a terrorist attack occurs,
everything is over.
Even if we were to complain,
everything would be shrouded into darkness.
If I was Muroi, I'd target the president's life in a place which couldn't change no matter how many alterations to the security plan are made.
MPD's Public Safety Bureau.
This room, I wonder what you'd call it.
This is my office.
We're seizing everything here.
On whose orders?
Senior Superintendent Tsuki, you have been accused of plotting a domestic conflict,
to disrupt the order of this country as a terrorist,
thus, you're being restrained.
Inspector Kuraki,
the mastermind of this latest bombing incident has been identified as your wife, Kuraki Chihiro.
She was suspected of aiding and abetting and now, so are you, as her husband.
Thus, you'll be placed under surveillance.
Naturally, I'll have you taken off the president's police escort team.
Kuraki,
It's tough for me to lose such an excellent and talented person like you.
So you intend to use Chihiro as a scapegoat for everything?
I definitely won't let things go as you've planned them to.
Farewell.
President Tarakii of the Saldonian Republic,
Main Headline : President Tarakii of the Saldonian Republic to arrive in Japan tomorrow.
Extreme high-level security measures in place.
in order to negotiate an oil supply route with Japan,
will arrive in Japan tomorrow.
There is planned to be 3000 police officers mobilized into the vicinity of the venue for the negotiations.
The arranged security measures are of an unprecedented scale.
Next time, on the season finale of Shrike...
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