Dispatch from the Metro Police Department...!
In the neighborhood of Kannai Chuo-ku, Harumi 5-chome intersection,
a bleeding man is down...
That's nearby.
Mr. Waku!
You're getting carried away.
You're going too fast.
It's all right. Just hang on tight. It'll be dangerous.
The location is Iwasaki-cho, 7-chome...
The victim is in critical condition...
I'm sorry.
The citinzen's tax pays for this.
Don't worry. I pay taxes, too.
There it is.
Stop the car.
Let's go, Section Chief.
Wait!
It's on the other side of the street.
What shall we do?
What a problem.
What's wrong?
The other side is Kachidoki Station's jurisdiction.
Our jurisdiction is up to this point.
That's irrelevant at a time like this.
A crime has been committed right before us!
It's a delicate situation between branches!
The 2 branch managers have a strong rivalry.
They're here.
Hey! Vacant station, what are you doing here?!
We thought it was our jurisdiction!
This is our jurisdiction!
I know that, but...
This isn't the time for quarrelling!
Apprehending the suspect is first priority! Cooperate in the investigation!
We have caught the suspect!
We'll take care of the rest! Don't you dare step into our territory!
Territory?
We're not yakuzas.
Let's leave.
It can't be helped. They don't need our help.
If you really want to investigate, then tell the victim
to walk on this side of the street.
ODORU DAISOUSASEN The Spirited Criminal Investigative Network
Ep. 3: Erased Written Evidence and a Female Incident
Please submit a report on the call we were on.
We didn't investigate anything.
Just write a report saying we didn't investigate anything.
I'll do it.
Mashita, you have to study for your exam.
Never mind, then.
Don't discriminate just because he's on the career track and I'm not.
Don't be unreasonable.
Aoshima, re-take your police license!
You have a phone call from Kousei Chuo Hospital.
Hello, this is Aoshima.
Line 3.
Hello, this is Aoshima.
I understand. I'll do something.
Ms. Onda, this girl's bag was stolen on 4-chome.
A purse snatching?
I heard her screaming while I was checking passers-by
and I chased after the suspect, but he got away.
Did you see the purse snatcher?
He attacked me from the back, so I didn't see.
He knocked me down and I skinned my knee.
Let's treat her wound first.
Please use the back conference room.
Get the first aid box.
I saw the suspect.
Come here.
What is it?
It's the report for the murder of that company director.
Why are you reading that?
Do you remember the victim's daughter?
The one who can't speak due to the shock?
She disappeared from the hospital last night.
It's the job of he Life Protection Agency
to entertain missing person reports.
That's not it.
She came home suddenly two months
before she was supposed to graduate from a university in Los Angeles.
Does that make sense to you?
She got tired of studying and got homesick.
We have a mountain full of cases that haven't been solved yet.
Where would a daughter whose father was killed want to go to?
To her father, of course.
His hair was standing up more...
Around here...?
Like that!
Is this what he looked like?
Exactly! You're a genius.
Is this the only thing you took?
When he snatched the purse, he was seen by a female police officer
who was in the vicinity. He came crying to me.
Did you touch anything inside?
When he saw the bag, he got restless and took it.
May I help you, Chief?
Have a seat.
Muroi, there's a problem.
I'll introduce you. This is a high school classmate of mine.
Mr. Fukami. He's the Vice-Minister of the Cabinet for the Ministry of Construction.
Please return to the hospital.
You should rest a little while longer.
I know it's painful.
I also understand your sadness and loneliness...
If you're suffering,
I'll protect you.
I'm a detective.
Let's go back.
What do you want me to do?
It's difficult to say...
It didn't happen.
The detective chief has helped on two other occasions.
No matter how much he's reprimanded, it's a habit that won't go away.
Additionally, don't release it to the media. Absolutely.
I'll leave it in your hands.
You're a superintendent.
You'd better study politics.
Thank you very much.
Ms. Onda... I had the main office computer check it out.
We checked by style of attack and targetted female students,
but we couldn't find him.
There's no habitual offender.
I've finished the injury report.
She only had a handkerchief and make-up in her bag.
There was no money?
We didn't have to go through the trouble of getting a sketch done.
The victim was injured!
Is it regarding this morning's purse snatcher?
We've received the injury report.
This is the case where the female officer witnessed the suspect, right?
How did you know?
Section Chief Hamakada!
The manager wants to see you.
What is it about?
I'll let you speak to the section chief of the detective department.
It's for you.
This is Hakamada.
This is Muroi of the Main Office 1st Investigative Section.
There's something that must be taken care of secretely.
Please don't go out alone anymore.
I looked at your record.
You were studying abroad at a university in Los Angeles, until 2 months ago.
Why did you return to Japan when you were on the verge of graduating?
Did something happen?
Was there something between you and your father?
I talked to the doctor.
You held a secret from your father,
and parted with him before you could disclose it.
That's why you can't speak.
I'm sorry.
The case is closed and yet I'm still interrogating you.
I'm sorry.
If there's anything, please call me.
"Waiting in the 2nd interrogating room."
What is it?
You got involved in a sticky situation.
What do you mean?
The manager is acting strange, so I asked
my colleague at the main office.
We went to law school together at Today University
and joined the detective force.
Next month, he'll go to the Nagano main office...
The purse snatcher is the son of the Vice-Minister
of the Cabinet for the Ministry of Construction.
He's committed 2 offenses in the past.
It's been erased off the records and there's no trace of it.
He's a habitual offender.
Pressure is being placed on the investigation.
I think the investigation will be cancelled.
It can't be helped. The bureucrats are friends.
Thank you very much for the wonderful news.
I'm a career officer, but I don't discriminate
with other non-career officers.
Hurry and become an inspector.
I'll do my utmost.
I'm going back to work.
Wait!
We're cancelling the investigation of the purse snatcher.
Why?
It's cancelled!
Where's Ms. Onda and Officer Yamashita?
They were here until a while ago.
They're not here?
What are you doing?
I'm going to inform the media! We have a witness!
Where were you?
I'm sorry.
Aoshima, did you see Detective Onda?
She was walking down the hallway with Keiko.
Did she say anything?
We have a witness...
Why did you let them go?!
Contact Police Affairs section! Block all exits and entrances on the first floor!
Everyone gather!
Detective Onda is suspected of taking custody of Officer Yamashita
and has escaped. Everyone search the premises.
Bring them to the station immediately upon discrovery!
This office will be the front line headquarters.
Get on it now!
What are you saying!
Find one of our own and haul them in?
Just do it!
Please explain.
I can't say anything. Please understand!
This is the enforcement section.
Please block all exits and entrances on the first floor.
You're going to disclose the details of the incident to the media.
You saw the suspect.
But he's the son of a very important man.
I don't want the incident to be hushed up!
Ms. Onda, you look scary.
A scary face is necessary to bring out courage!
I want you to write a disclosure letter before we're caught.
Write down that he's the suspect.
The son of the Vice-Minister of the Cabinet is the suspect?
I thought she would give up, so I told her everything.
I didn't know Ms. Onda had such a strong will for justice.
I'm going to research the investigation in the data room.
Shall I help you? I have no motivation.
You help look for Sumire.
I feel sorry for her if she's found by the superiors.
Mr. Waku's always doing some kind of research.
I wonder what it is.
I'm going up to the fourth floor.
You're surely taking a long time.
Mr. Morishita!
Isn't that Ms. Onda in there?
Excuse me... Did Ms. Onda come in here?
Speak in Japanese!
You call that Japanese?
Did you see Ms. Onda?
I did.
Where?
She went inside to talk to someone in detention.
Sumire! The section chief wants to see you!
Over here!
Keiko?
Where's Sumire?
What are you doing?
I can't have you contact my colleagues.
Haven't you found Ms. Onda yet?
It seems she's still within the building.
Superintendent Muroi keeps calling.
We're doing our utmost to find her.
What are you doing, you fool!
Why are you creating such a scene?
This man is definitely...
the suspect.
You did a good job.
Is my face scary, too?
You become cute after you've done a good deed.
I think you should just leave it alone.
Everyone's worried about you.
Please take this off. It hurts.
If I take it off, you'll tell the section chief.
No, I won't!
I don't believe you.
I'll support you.
You don't like the way the bureucrats are handling it, right?
I don't care about that. I just want this matter
to be brought out into the open as an incident.
Is that all?
I can't forgive a purse snatcher.
He even injured a junior high school student.
Do you know why the majority of purse snatchers are men?
Women aren't purse snatchers because...
They need to be strong.
Strong men target weak women. That's violence.
Should men be allowed to do anything they want to women by force?
I can't forgive men like that!
Did something like that happen to you?
You were saying you're afraid of Tuesdays.
I am.
Were the rumors true?
Three years ago...
I was assaulted from behind and had my handbag stolen.
I desperately investigated, apprehended and prosecuted. However...
He came out in 2 years. He said he deeply regretted his actions.
Since then...
He began to show up every Tuesday.
Why Tuesday?
Because that's the day I arrested him.
If he's harassing you, you should arrest him again.
He hasn't done anything. He just watches from afar.
If he's bothering you...
Even if I arrest and send him to jail...
He'll just be released.
I'm sure he'll kill me next time.
I'm scared.
What are you doing?
They found her!
They're in the detention cell!
Mr. Hattori, they're in the detention...
Let's go!
You're coming, too!
Why are you here, Aoshima?!
Don't interfere!
- What do you want to do? - I'm going to the newspaper company.
They're going to disclose the incident to the media.
The Ministry of Construction head son's purse snatching!
Don't interfere!
You're late...
Lock the door.
That's going overboard...
But locking the door...
Lock the door! That's an order!
Hakamada, could you lock the door?
That's an order.
I knew it was coming.
That's an order.
Is there anyone below me?
Aoshima, could you lock the door from the inside?
Never mind! How can you lock it from the inside!
Please calm down.
Stay out of this!
Do you realize what you've done?
You've utilized the detention cell without permission,
kidnapped Yamashita and handcuffed Aoshima.
You've violated public service regulations.
It's a violation to erase an incident by order of the main office!
I'm going to request a court of inquiry!
Go ahead! I don't care if I'm banished!
Sumire, please calm down.
What shall we do?
We're past that point...
Ms. Onda is your subordinate.
You will be instructed and warned due to lack of correct supervision.
Your salary may be reduced.
You too!
Everyone's salary will be reduced...
Yours, too!
But I have nothing to do...
Please take the paper away from her.
That's an order!
I'll go, then.
I blew it.
I'll rush in!
Don't use violence!
Ms. Onda, please forget about the purse snatcher.
I don't want to create waves. I don't care.
There are many reasons in a company, such as relations and scratching each other's back...
If we stick to the rules, the organization will not evolve.
You threathen the suspect and conduct illegal interrogating at times.
We look the other way when you do that.
You understand, right?
You know the vendors that sell clothing in the station,
we accept them as a necessary evil.
Hakamada, don't speak unnecessarily.
Yamashita... I mean, Keiko.
You won't do anything foolish like pressing charges, right?
- You are, right? - I am.
Keiko... don't you want to work at the Wangan
Police Station until you get married?
I see...
I have a perfect marriage prospect for you.
I told you people, right?
He's the manager of the Enoshima station of the Kanagawa Prefectural Office.
He's a 28-year-old single male.
Manager?
He's a national public servant career officer.
He's also a graduate of Todai University.
He's a future bureucrat of the main office.
Am I allowed to have a marriage meeting with him?
If you don't press charges...
What shall I do?
Your record last month was superb.
You'll be promoted one rank.
Am I going to be a police sergeant?
If you don't press charges.
Hey! What are you all thinking?
That's right! Section Chief, the marriage prospect for Ms. Onda...
I'm thinking about that right now.
Superintendent Muroi from the Metro Police Dept. 1st Investigative Division has arrived!
There was no report on my request, so I came here personally.
I deeply apologize.
It's still not resolved?
Hello...
It's you again.
It's me again.
What's going on?
I'm disclosing the incident to the media.
Don't do it.
I'll arrest the suspect.
Don't.
I got involved.
Sumire, let him go.
Handcuffs aren't to be placed on detectives.
You have the wrong person.
The detention cell is cold.
How about some coffee?
Let's go.
Will she be all right?
I'm coming in.
I poured delicious coffee.
Tell me your demands.
I have no demands.
I just want to be allowed to do what's normal.
When a purse snatching incident occurs, we find the suspect,
arrest him and prosecute. That's my job. An average job...
Even if you prosecute, an offense of this nature will only be dropped.
Don't change the order of events. I'm not dropping the prosecution
because the case will be dropped. The case will be prosecuted and then dropped.
Let me make this clear. I don't want you to prosecute.
By whose orders?
The higher executive of the main headquarters.
I thought there were people with backbone at the main office,
but you're just another middle manager, too.
How dare you say that to Superintendent Muroi!
- What shall we do? - State the conditions.
I'm not submitting to negotiations. I'm an investigator of the crime scene.
Don't bring politics into the crime.
I came here to practice politics.
I'll bring the suspect here. You can conduct your interrogation and prosecute him.
In exchange, any information about the father will not be leaked to the media.
But an interrogation...
Will you bring him here?
If you agree about the media.
It's like a company.
This is just like the company I used to work for.
He changed fields and became a detective.
The company I worked for did a similar thing.
What do you want to say?
If you have something to say, just say it.
It was a small computer company.
I was working there.
One day, an employee embezzled the company's money.
But he was a distant relative of the president.
So the other executives tried to cover it up.
The employees didn't keep quiet.
It is similar...
The president gave the whole staff a special bonus,
to keep them quiet.
I accepted the bonus, too.
I disliked that kind of intra-company transaction.
That's why I quit being a salaryman.
I became a police officer.
It's the same...
Let me borrow the phone.
Wait!
A police station is not a regular company!
This is Muroi.
We've been waiting for you.
I'm his attorney, Okuri.
You're very efficient.
Are you sure this won't be released to the media?
- I promise. - Get it over quickly.
I will stand as witness when the deposition is taken.
This way.
You witness it, too.
Don't stand behind me.
What is your name?
Fukami Tetsuya, 21 years old.
My address is Minato-ku, Minami Azabu, 6-chome 3-ban.
You're so sincere to offer information that wasn't even asked of you.
We drew a sketch based on the witness' account
of the suspect involved in this morning's purse snatching incident.
I did it. I regret it.
You're the one who took a junior high school student's purse and injured her.
I did it. I regret it.
Are you sure?
I did it. I regret it.
This is your first offense.
I did it. I regret it.
Did your attorney instruct you to repeat those words?!
I did it. I regret it.
It'll be recorded as a first offense.
He turned himself in and the stolen item was returned.
The records will indicate that he truly regrets his actions.
The case will definitely be dropped.
Just for this...
I ran around the station and even handcuffed someone?
Get out!
Please excuse me...
I have to thank Dad.
What are you doing?
Let him go! Violence during an interrogation is a violation of regulations!
Listen good.
Just because your father is an important man,
it doesn't mean you can get away with anything.
Only your father's friends are the ones who can pardon you.
We officers at the front line are different!
I don't care if your father's a vice-minister.
If you hurt a woman with violence, we'll run you down.
Do you know how many women suffer for years
because of being hurt by someone like you?
We don't make distinctions.
That's not how we live.
I deeply apologize.
Violence! The detective was violent with me!
This is a question of human rights!
Which detective?
That detective.
Is that true?
Superintendent, please answer.
You saw, didn't you?
Nothing happened.
You're lying!
I'll reply as the Metro Police Dept. 1st Division Superintendent.
The interrogation was conducted in a proper manner. Please leave.
You're covering up for each other.
Would you like to take this to court?
The whole incident will be disclosed to the media!
What did you do?
I hope you didn't act like a true detective...
I'm leaving.
Shall I drive you back?
I'll take the taxi today.
There's a lot more commotion at this station than in the city itself.
That's true.
That's wrong.
You're a bureucrat,
so you must be placed in many difficult situations.
We underlings will do our utmost.
I'm going to climb to the top.
My name is Aoshima...
It's the same last name as the governor of Tokyo.
Yes, that's right.
A famous partnership with you...
Don't misunderstand!
You violated the interrogation rules as established by the main headquarters.
If you do it again, you'll be reprimanded.
I'll return this to the victim of the purse snatching.
I'll tell her she doesn't have to worry anymore.
Thank you.
If you have any problems, please tell me anytime.
I may not look it,
but I'm a detective.
I didn't know.
Please give this to the young victim for medical expenses.
I'm entering.
I'm sorry about this afternoon.
Today...
was such a strange day.
I wonder what being a detective means.
They fight over territory...
And hush up cases...
It's kind of funny.
It's difficult to act like yourself.
It's really difficult.
I'll come again.
I'll call the doctor!
Doctor! Doctor!
Written by KIMITSUKA Ryoichi
Theme song: "Love Somebody" by ODA Yuji with Maxi Priest
ODA Yuji
YANAGIBA Toshiro
FUKATSU Eri
MIZUNO Miki
ONO Takehiko
ZATOI Kenta
Yusuke Santa Maria
SAKURA Kinzo
SHIMIZU Shogo
KITAMURA Soichiro
IKARIYA Chosuke
English Subtitles by Nippon Golden Network Timing by DoramaWorks
Directed by SAWADA Rensaku
A Production of FUJI TV, Japan
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