What the hell is going on?
It has something to do with eviction!
They set afire!
You didn't do this, did you?
No! We didn't do this!
How can we do such a terrible thing?!
This is cruel.
Mother, a terrible thing happened.
This town used to be the place where nobody cared and was very peaceful.
But tonight, a very sad incident happened.
It's the story about a young screenwriter who is the sport of irresponsible people nowhere in Hokkaido.
It's fiction.
A fire-alarm from Akahira fire department to others.
A ramen shop in 3-4, Hijirigaoka, Akahira city caught fire.
A shop is going up in a blaze.
Inconvenient handymen
Episode 8
There was a talk about the resort development in this area.
And this ramen shop was a target of eviction too.
Since having just opened a shop, they kept refusing to leave here. And the result is this.
Since they haven't filed their marriage registration, they're not officially a husband and a wife.
Anyway, they work hard to rebuild their shop.
They just opened this shop.
But I'm glad that a shop didn't burnt completely.
You're such a positive man.
Once we rebuild a shop, we can open a ramen shop again.
I always do like that.
Starting from Zero, I buildup 1,2,3,4...
That's how I lived.
Even though you're back to zero, you can come back to 4, right?
I like that.
Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for your help.
I don't mind helping my classmate.
I picked them up from a lumber mill where my friend owns.
These are free since it's nonstandard woods.
If you need more, I'll bring more.
Thank you.
Did you find out anything?
No. There's no witness, no security camera.
So far, the police don't know what to do.
Well...
Since they refused eviction, it totally has something to do with the resort development.
I think so too, but there's no evidence.
Well...
Jun-kun, watch your steps.
Nobody knows who did that, right?
Do you think that they really want to get in trouble with the police?
Remember? The harassment we got was actually a plunk done by Sakurada, right?
It had nothing to do with the resort development.
But they got a call about eviction, right?
Then, that's obvious.
Ma-chan, you've been attending meetings about the resort development, right?
They showed me a plan document and conceptual drawings.
But I only talked to the officers of city hall.
So, haven't you talked to the resort development company in person?
No. Sakurada is a point man.
It sounds really suspicious.
Anyway, let's do our job!
Matsui-san, you shouldn't give up this place.
Don't you want to film a movie here some day?
I've already given that up.
Please don't. I was asked to protect this forest by Kaede-san.
Let's go!
I'll bring shovels.
You're becoming like a real handyman.
I'm not.
I'm going to Furano.
Since Matsui-san told me that he'd evicted this place soon...
I decided to stay here until then.
But I don't think that he should give up this place.
Are you listening?
Sorry, I didn't. What did you say?
Please...
Either way, you'll stay here more, right?
I think so...
Then, let's go ploughing!
All right.
I can't believe that we're out of gas.
The oil meter is broken.
I told you many times.
Fix a meter or refill with gas ahead of time!
Ah, a savior is coming.
Hey!
It's that policeman.
Did something happen?
Since this is a peaceful town,
He must jump to conclusions as usual. Let's go!
All right.
Ready?
North Dream World Resort Development site
What's wrong?
Look!
When did the resort development progress?
Wow, this looks serious.
What's going on?
Policeman, what's wrong?
Ah, it's an emergency!
So, what's wrong?
It's an emergency! Please help me!
Grab my hand.
Wait!
Climb up!
Hurry up!
Why didn't you make a detour?!
Push us!
It's enough.
That's my line.
What's wrong?
It's an emergency!
Get out of my way!
It's an emergency!
HQ! HQ!
This is Komori speaking.
I found bones, a skeleton!
A skeleton?
What?
Let's go!
Not this way.
Go that way.
What's going on?
Hey. We were doing the ground leveling work.
And?
Then, we found bones.
Bones?
Yes, bones.
Isn't it deer or bear?
Check this.
Human bones?
Check carefully.
Check what?
What the hell?
What's that?
It's a tail.
A tail?
Can't you see a tail from the pelvis?
A long tail.
What's this?
Is this a monkey since it has a tail?
This isn't the size of a monkey.
This look like 180 cm tall.
Then, is this a gorilla?
Gorillas live in Africa, not in Hokkaido.
Then, what's this?
What's going on?
Great Heavens, right?
Great heavens!
Mishin (means sawing machine in Japan) and cleaning?
I said, Missing Link.
Engagement ring?
It's too early to buy it.
Seriously? I didn't expect this at all.
I wanted to surprise you with this.
What did you say?
Missing Link.
What's that?
It's said that man and the apes evolved from a common ancestor.
But we haven't discovered a fossil man that determines that theory.
Molecular biologically speaking, man diverged from the ancestor of Chimpanzee.
We discovered the fossil of Sahelanthropus that is possibly very close to the time of the chimpanzee-human divergence.
But it wasn't decisive.
What are you talking about?
Missing Link.
It's a hypothetical fossil form intermediate between humans and the apes.
It's also the human evolution.
You're a very knowledgeable man.
I googled that.
That means, is that fossil man with a tail a creature that connects man and an ape?
It's possible.
It's a fossil man with a tail after all.
You mean...
It's the great discovery of the human history.
How great?
It's the global discovery.
Global?!
That's right.
If so, will people come to this town from all over the world?
Not only academic researchers but also a lot of tourists are coming here.
I'll ask Mori-san to design a banner and a brochure.
"The history of the human beings started in this town", something like that.
They're so peaceful.
I sometimes want to be a sneak.
And I want to give such people forbidden fruit.
What's wrong?
What should I do the resort development plan?
We can't build the resort facility there, right?
But since it'll be the academic resort, if a lot of people come here, we need hotels.
Should I go to talk to them?
Go where?
Sapporo! I'll visit the resort development company.
You can't drive there since you had drinks.
I'll take a taxi.
Do you know how much it'll be? Nobody wants to drive that far.
I should leave here now, meet and negotiate with President in person the first thing in the morning.
Make hay while the sun shines!
You should calm down.
Policeman, it's rare that you come here at night.
Yeah...
What's wrong?
About that incident...
A fossil man?!
Since I thought that it was a murder incident in this town in a while, I was very excited.
But I was too excited...
That was just an old bones.
That's excellent news!
Hokkaido Prefectural Police and some university professors are coming here tomorrow morning.
All right. I'll go and see President of the resort company the first thing in the tomorrow morning.
Bullshit! I hate this peaceful town!
Do you want something to drink?
Yes. What would I like to drink...
I can make anything.
Give me something cold.
Damn, it! I forgot to lock the door!
I'll be back!
Well well...
What? What's going on?
Were you deceived?
That's right.
What do you mean?
If so, who placed an order for that construction?
Hasn't the land leveling already started?
Tell you the truth...
I pinched money from a city budget to push forward the resort development tentatively.
What the hell did you do?
It's no problem.
I think that it's a big problem.
Well, it's too late.
Anyway, it'll be all right since we have "The history of the human being started in this town" project.
It'll work out somehow.
I'll have to move to the next step.
You'll be sorry later.
What do you mean?
We could find that fossil man because I was deceived.
I should be praised, shouldn?t I?
You should thank me.
How about money? You did something stupid.
It's a trivial matter.
People will come here from all over the world and this town will be the cosmopolitan city.
Ah, I'll have to deal with that.
See you!
Hey!
Wait!
Thank you for your hard work.
How many policemen?
How many of you?
Three isn't enough!
It's heavily guarded.
Human evolution may be solved.
So they said...
But they haven't found out anything yet.
We shouldn't expect too much.
I talked to Sakurada a little while ago.
He told me that the resort development was a fraud.
Really?
Since we just talked on the phone, I couldn't get details.
He said that that resort company was a dummy company.
What the hell is that?
Ma-chan, how come you're so calm?
You decided to sell that land, didn't you?
Yes, I did...
That's good news.
So, that forest is saved, isn't it?
You changed a lot.
What about it?
You get into this town.
You kept saying that you wanted to get out of this town until recently.
Well...
What?
Don't push me.
Mother, I don't know why I keep staying here.
I had a lot of chances to go to Furano.
But I'm still in this town.
What? A dummy company?
What happened?
That resort company doesn't exist.
Were you deceived?
I think so.
But without being deceived, we couldn't find that fossil man.
What was that resort company's purpose?
Why did they make up such an imaginary story?
We were almost extorted money from them.
What happened?
That construction work...
That resort company ordered the affiliate company to do the land leveling work.
Ah, that affiliate company may also be a dummy company...
And this affiliate company ordered the local construction company to do the construction work.
And that local construction company found that fossil man.
By doing that, they pretended to be a real company.
That moron tried to steal money from the city budget and pushed the resort development forward on his own.
He almost became a criminal.
As a city employee, I thought that we should have got involved in the project as much as possible.
Anyway, it's no problem since I haven't paid them yet.
Hey, if you weren't careless, you'd be arrested on a charge of embezzlement.
Not this time.
You have to thank to that fossil man.
Since you found a fossil man, construction was stopped. And we could find out that the resort company was actually a dummy company.
If you didn't find a fossil man, you'd pay them, right?
How much was that?
80 million yen.
80 million yen?!
That fossil man prevented that disaster from occurring.
And if the resort company were real, they'd get this sweet deal to themselves.
You're right.
That fossil man brought us happiness.
I'm glad that you weren't cheated.
By the way, a fire of Tsubakihara-san's ramen shop...
Who did that?
A great thing seems to happen soon.
I think so too.
Yes.
I have a bad feeling.
Whenever he is hyper, everything goes wrong...
It should be a big banner.
Like fluttering in the wind.
But if it flutters too much, nobody can read a message.
It has to be flashy and catch the eye.
"The history of the human beings started in this town", right?
So you can write something like, ?The world began in here".
Is it too abstract?
I'll leave a design to you.
Are you listening?
Please.
What?
Tasty.
Well, I'm...I'm...
I'm pleased to see you today despite your busyness.
As you know, we found a valuable fossil man that involves in the human evolution in this town yesterday.
We're not sure yet...
From now on, people will come to this town from all over the world.
So, to deal with those people,
I'd like all of you to learn multiple languages in a short period of time.
To be a cosmopolitan city, we give you a language lesson today.
Is he serious?
Now, please repeat what teachers say.
Let's go for a drink!
A language lesson associated with becoming a cosmopolitan city.
It's terrible.
What do you think since you don't have to sell this land?
I'm still thinking.
It may be a message from God.
God said that we should have stayed here.
God? A fossil man brought us happiness?
It's not like you.
No?
No.
What's like me?
Never mind.
If this place disappears, there're people who are troubled.
I don't think that we're relied on that much.
The biggest problem is to find another job.
I'm not talking about handyman business.
I'll be troubled.
What?
And...
And what?
Your fiancée loses a place to come back.
She won't come back here.
If there's no family restaurant or video shop,
she can't survive.
Is that so?
I'll go face-down.
All right.
Ready? Go!
So fast.
Your sled is nice and big.
Batsu-san, that's too small for you.
Why is mine smaller than yours?
Why did you buy that small sled?
You can sled very fast.
Can you buy me a big one?
How do you want to sled?
Not backward.
It's dangerous.
What's wrong? There's nobody.
They made a great fuss not long time ago.
Just an ordinary human bones?
How about the human evolution? How about Missing Link?
Since it's an ordinary human bones, there're no such things.
Depressing...
Come on!
What was that tail?
That was a snake.
A snake?
Human bones and a snake.
On close examination, there was a cemetery around there in pioneer days.
When they buried a dead body, they buried a snake by accident.
What's that?
That's my line.
Did you hear?
Well, it was just a possibility.
You didn't sound like that.
Is this my fault?
If you didn't mention us Mishin and Cleaning, this mess wouldn't happen.
Missing Link!
You're too imaginative. You must have Delusional Disorder.
Oh, please.
Whom did you inherit that from?...
I didn't do from you!
From who?
It's not from you!
From who?
You're not my father!
Hello! I made a banner.
Hello.
What the hell are you doing?
Nothing. Just leave them alone.
Everybody is here, right?
Since it's the historic discovery, I tried to do my best.
Check this!
I worked very hard.
This is excellent.
Whose idea is this?
Mine!
Mori-chan, you're genius!
What? What's wrong?
Was the cause of the fire through carelessness?
Batsu-san, calm down.
I'm sorry.
Since our speciality is Fire Ramen, if customers knew that the cause of a fire was our carelessness,
it's same as ?Physician, heal thyself", "Shoemaker's wife goes barefoot",
"The fortune-teller can't tell his own fortune", "Rough-coated wall in a house of a plasterer",
"Bowl maker has a chipped bowl"...
That's enough.
Since everybody made a fuss about the eviction, we couldn't tell the truth.
I'm sorry.
I don't know why...
Everything goes wrong.
Yes. Everything goes wrong...
No resort development, No human evolution.
It was just a small fire.
What's wrong?
Why are we out of luck?
Hey.
Thank you.
Everything goes wrong.
Yes.
It's just like that...
Just like this handyman business?
I didn't say that.
You were about to say so.
Ma-chan, you think too much.
How can I say...
All excitement are gone suddenly.
Hey, can you help me?
Me?
You're a screen writer, right?
That's right. I almost forgot about that.
Can you write?
About what?
The story about this town.
The story about this town?
An unknown town where I arrived by accident.
I don't know why but I'm still here.
The story about this town.
What should I write?
Even though I try to find it, all I see is a few lights in the distance.
Let's go!
Go where?
For drinking.
Hey, Jun-kun, don't fall.
Is it your prediction?
Not at all.
See? That happened.
This is like a silly comedy.
Jun-kun, if you're not going to fall, we'll leave now.
If you're going to fall, we'll stay here to watch you.
Are you?
Ah, I won't fall.
Then, we'll leave.
All right.
You're harsh.
Hey, what do you do with those foreigners?
No problem since the world becomes united.
What?
Don't worry.
Don't you become desperate?
Let's have fun!
Hey! Wait!
Everybody drank a lot that night too and had fun.
The resort development and a fossil man incident.
That was our hope.
Even though that hope disappeared, people in this town try to greet next morning with a smile.
Batsu-san takes too much time.
He may poo.
Why didn't he finish that before leaving?
How long have we waited?
We'll be late again.
I'll check him
Take him even though he is still in a business.
All right.
Batsu-san! Time to go!
Time is up, Batsu-san.
Batsu-san? Batsu-san!
Batsu-san, are you all right?
What the hell...
Matsui-san, call 911!
Batsu-san? Batsu-san! Batsu-san!
Mother, Batsu-san vomited blood and fell down.
Batsu-san? Batsu-san, are you all right?
Is his condition really bad?
So a doctor said.
Batsu-san has a limited life expectancy, right?
Is Umemoto-san here?
Batsu-san killed a person in a gang war in the past.
You again?
I'm not pleased if I don't do anything.
He has a gun!
Batsu-san, you're my father.