“Negotiator" A person who makes a living by mediating talks with concerned parties for the purpose of bringing a specific thing about.
Where is Mr. Iwase?
Mr. Iwase is...
Until we can confirm that Mr. Iwase is safe,
the company can't take up negotiations!
Why are you staying silent?
Are you having some kind of doubts about me?
Please say something!
Just what are you dissatisfied with?
Haven't I've come out here alone like this, just like you instructed me to?!
I thought I told you to come alone.
You're not a hero.
Hey, yeah
Do you understand where you are?
Yes, right now you're between truth and lies
Oh, the time is ripe
I don't need words of grief
Oh, at this rate we'll end up losing the means to change anything
Deep inside of my small heart, into the light
It began to move
Nothing can be sweeter than your smile
What I sealed away was the sound of my life being saved
Sometimes I think that is me choosing the way
Body trembling
You must not say I don't care, tell me why
What I'm letting fly is the sound of my life being saved
Pakistan, May 13
Is this area all right, Mister?
Yeah.
That's fifty rupees even.
Thanks.
I can hear the adhan.
You know your stuff, Mister. Welcome to Pakistan.
Thanks.
Are you a tourist, Mister?
No, I came to negotiate.
Honestly! I've been telling you that you shouldn't stay overnight at the office, haven't I?
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Tokyo, May 11
Oh, Ms. Custodian... Good morning.
Don't you “Oh, Ms. Custodian" me.
Sheesh, and you went to sleep on top of the billiards table.
Honestly!
It was just so convenient. I let the feeling take me.
That smile of yours just takes people in.
Here, the morning paper.
Thank you.
But why did you go to the trouble?
You have a customer.
You're Mr. Yugo Beppu?
Miss Mayuko... You're Miss Mayuko Iwase, aren't you?
Am I wrong?
No...
Yes, you're right. I'm Mayuko Iwase.
But how...
It looks like the negotiations in Pakistan aren't going well.
Mr. lwase's Safety Still Uncertain Rumored Gunfight With Criminal Group it looks like the negotiations in Pakistan aren't going well.
Mr. lwase's Safety Still Uncertain Rumored Gunfight With Criminal Group
Without Sleeping A Wink, She Watches the Phone
You knew I was Mayuko just from this newspaper article?
It was half a gut feeling.
A woman with a face that said she probably hadn't slept a wink,
coming to my office early in the morning with a brooding look...
It's been a week since they demanded a ransom.
I thought he'd be released safely, but...
It looks like the situation is worsening, isn't it?
Someone who was a subordinate of my father's told me yesterday.
The man in charge of the negotiations was murdered.
Was the company carrying out the negotiations on its own?
They said the Pakistani army was backing them up fully.
So it would definitely be okay, they said.
My father would definitely be released, they said.
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What do the company people say they'll do now?
They just said they'd do their best and told me to wait and not worry.
Please.
Please save my father!
Miss Mayuko...
I heard about you from a newspaper reporter who came to interview me.
He said you were a professional negotiator, the best of the best.
He said you've negotiated with any number of kidnappers,
and that you've succeeded in all your cases.
Not all of them. That's an exaggeration.
But...
Mr. Beppu...
I don't have a mother. For me, my father is my only close relative.
But when my father's in trouble, I can't do anything.
I can't do anything but cry.
If the negotiations were to be broken off because of this,
my father would... my father would...
Please, I beg you! Save my father!
The ones who kidnapped your father are dacoits.
I've been told they are a kind of bandits.
Well, that might be a little off the mark. Come look.
Certainly, they're hiding themselves in a mountainous area, but...
Right about here, maybe.
They're not just lawless bandits. They're anti-government guerrillas.
Guerrillas?
The goal of their activities is to deal a blow to the current government
and effect a regime change.
For those activities, they need funds.
In short, they want ransom money.
So I don't think they'll give up on negotiations so easily.
Then my father...
It's all right.
He should be doing fine.
Mayu, put the nine-ball to the west of Larkana, in the mountainous region.
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We'll think of the nine-ball as the dacoits.
And to the north of Larkana is the four-ball.
This is the army. In other words, the government troops.
Larkana, where your father's company has their task force,
that's the eight-ball.
And Karachi Airport is the one-ball.
Take a look. It's a very delicate layout,
with everything acting as a check on everything else.
First, it's necessary to start out from the one-ball, Karachi,
and without being noticed by the army or the task force,
make contact with the dacoits.
The negotiator who was murdered had ties to the government troops.
No, it's possible that he was actually military personnel.
Most likely the dacoits found that out.
That's why he failed.
Then if we could negotiate directly with the dacoits...
That's the only way to free your father safely.
But you know, even if we were able to negotiate directly,
if the negotiations dragged out and were noticed by the army,
that would end it.
We wouldn't sink the nine-ball.
In this case, money,
time,
and human psychology...
The important thing is to boil matters down to those three things,
and sink our ball with a bank shot instead of a straight one.
If the timing is just right...
This matter has room for negotiation.
Then you mean...
As a general rule, the client pays the expenses, all right?
And one more thing.
Yes?
The fact that I've been hired is to be kept secret from everyone.
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Yes.
The four-ball, eh?
They've lined up some pretty flashy tools.
Things have gotten more tense than I'd reckoned.
It's like I thought. I have to avoid contact with the army as much as I can.
Buy one of these, Mister. I'll take the price down for you.
Who's that?
That's the Hero.
The Hero?
That's the best-selling one right now.
In that case, would you give me one of those photos?
Thanks for the business!
Yusuf Ali Mesa...
People are calling him Hell's Hero.
He's the tall man there.
You're sure about that, Rashid?
Yeah, he's a famous man among reporters.
Yusuf Ali Mesa...
There's a particular characteristic to the way he kills.
He does this with their necks...
He kills by twisting them until they break.
The negotiator who was killed was the same way.
Yugo, you can't be!
I am.
Yugo...
You must know that there are also political motivations involved in this kidnapping.
Yeah, I know.
The army, not the company, is leading the negotiations.
If you know that, then why?!
If things keep going like this, the hostage won't be saved.
No!
I'm not about to make that mistake again.
You told me about it once. Your first negotiation, wasn't it?
I don't know anything about that situation except what you told me,
but what about the time with NATO?
You saw that one from close up.
That's how it was then,
and it's like that this time too.
They aren't mere kidnappers.
They have a faith that they believe in.
Do you think they'll listen to you? You, who have no faith?
Rashid, it isn't faith that's the issue.
It's trust.
The army doesn't have the slightest intention of negotiating with them.
Rather, they're probably thinking that maybe
they can take advantage of the ransom delivery to wipe out the guerillas.
The life of the hostage is a secondary concern.
Mr. lwase's Safety Still Uncertain Rumored Gunfight With Criminal Group Who Kidnapped Him The life of the hostage is a secondary concern.
The life of the hostage is a secondary concern.
It's like it's a repeat of that time.
I don't want to see the same result twice.
Are you leaving soon?
Yeah.
But before I do, there's still someone else I want to see.
It's been a while, hasn't it, Yugo?
Keio University It's been a while, hasn't it, Yugo?
Keio University Yes.
What is it today, for you to come so suddenly?
No way you came to see an old man like me for the fun of it.
Humanities Department, Psychology Division Tonoi's Office No way you came to see an old man like me for the fun of it.
No way you came to see an old man like me for the fun of it.
Right?
The truth is, I have something I'd like to ask you, Professor.
Who, me?
What business does Yugo Beppu, who trained himself through fieldwork, have with me?
I'd like to ask you about the relationship between the combative spirit and religion.
To teach me how far religious fervor can lessen fean'ulness.
It's not as if you don't know that already.
I know through many examples that faith
is something one sacrifices even one's own life for.
What I want to know is, physically...
I mean, can it conquer the pain of injury or death?
Can it conquer?
Faith... No, you could call it the certainty of your own righteousness.
If you just have that, you can do anything.
Physical pain and the fear of death
are both no more than problems of consciousness after all.
Oh, here it is.
A man who cut his own head off with a knife.
What's more, it's written that he walked around HOLDING that head.
Besides him, they say there's also an example of someone burned at the stake,
whose entire body turned to ash, and yet he still continued to chant prayers.
The Muntzer disciple.
Yes.
In this day and age, do you still think those things were real, Sir?
Of course! These are things even you or I could do.
But the social setting becomes important.
Without exception,
these people were being persecuted by the authorities of the time.
When the solitary feeling of being driven into a corner
and the fervor of “God is with me" come together...
You don't even feel pain.
That's right!
Professor...
People who aren't persecuted and don't even have faith
experience the consciousness of pain running through their minds.
In circumstances where you go beyond the feeling of pain,
the religious fervor within you needs to be absolute!
The moment you compare it to someone else's...
The mysterious power vanishes.
It's a fusion of god and self, isn't it?
An absolute fusion.
It sounds like this is a dangerous negotiation.
Is it the kidnapping in Pakistan or something?
Professor...
I think you know this already, but...
You can't stage what we were talking about just now.
You'll end up in such pain, you'll think you'd be better off dead.
I believe I understand that.
Get that family's smiles back for them.
Mayu!
Mr. Beppu...
You could've kept resting.
I'm sorry. But I couldn't sleep, somehow.
Mr. Yugo!
Mr. Kimura, how did it go? Were you able to get it?
Yes, this is it.
A plane ticket to Karachi.
This helps me out.
So what's the planned time of arrival in Karachi?
You'll end up there tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow?
I plan to leave tonight.
Mr. Beppu...
You can call me Yugo.
Mayu, starting tomorrow, will you stay here for me?
I'll talk to the custodian. All right?
Yes, that's fine. I'll do that.
Well, if you run into any inconveniences, please don't hesitate to tell me.
I run the travel agency downstairs. My name is Kimura.
My name is Mayuko Iwase. I'm pleased to meet you.
While you're at it, introduce me.
So are you the client?
Hey now, Kogure,
if you look at her with eyes like that, you'll frighten her, you know.
Quit messing with me. I was born with sinister-looking eyes!
Lay off already.
So, did you get it?
Who do you think you're talking to?
I'm a radio ops professional, you know.
Here, it's a small model that the U.S. forces used in Vietnam, made even smaller.
This won't be too bulky.
This remote made me cry, I'll have you know.
The remote stuff gave me a lot of trouble.
The radio ops professional had trouble?
That's because you told me to keep the remote's waves as small as possible!
Sheesh! Listen, that remote has an internal microphone.
The transmission waves are ultra-high frequency.
Normal radar won't be able to catch this thing's waves.
You're as impressive as ever.
Of course. I'm a radio ops professional.
Oh, that's right. Kogure...
Can you teach her how to operate the office radio for me?
What? Me?
Yes, I'll contact you from there about your father and things,
so I'd like you to learn.
All right, I understand.
Hey, I'll teach you to use this thing, so come over here.
All right.
Okay then, starting tomorrow, I'll be counting on you.
All right. Mr. Yugo, please be careful.
Don't worry about me; I'll be fine.
Mr. Kogure, my sincere thanks to you too, for everything.
I look forward to your kindness in the coming days as well.
Right.
Well then, goodnight.
See you.
Mr. Yugo...
My father... Please help my father...
Mayuko...
She was crying, wasn't she?
Yeah.
Work something out for her.
Yeah, I know.
I'm a professional negotiator, you know.
This matter has room for negotiation.
Episode One Negotiator
The piercing words that are horribly tangled up in my heart
Can't be so easily untangled
A friend leaves me again
I don't want to become a doll adrift in a sea of humanity
I'll sing my own kind of song
This town has a smell to it that makes me nostalgic
It brings back memories of my childhood
It gets you, gets you, grabs your heart and never lets go
Baby, baby, when will I be able to slip away?
I don't know
Episode Two Resolve