Nozomi's kidnapping has given birth to even more.
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I want to see that baby.
I'm begging you, please just don't announce it.
It's your fault, isn't it.
Sakiyama who knew the truth about Nozomi,
was thrown off by Minamoto.
I put that child in a safe place.
And, Minamoto threatened Yamahara who he
had made Nozomi with.
Where did you?
Yamahara was forced to participate because her own
frozen eggs were being held hostage.
We have to make sure Sakiyama Sensei keeps his mouth shut.
Detective Hayamizu on her own investigation,
was getting close to the truth.
...you can change the future of a person,
what do you think? Why do you ask?
To know how how the criminal feels.
This child has leukemia!
At that time, Nozomi's brother's leukemia took a turn for the worse.
To save her brother, there was no one but Nozomi
that has the matching HLA type.
If Nozomi is not found within two days and a transplant done,
it'll be to late!
I am asking for all information... to get Nozomi back.
An open criminal investigation may drive the suspect into a corner,
and endanger the life of the hostage.
I'm giving priority to keeping Nozomi chan safe.
Then I won't ask you.
Then Yuko acted unexpectedly.
The victim's family is going to the media?
Chikamori Yuko slipped out of the hospital.
The husband's not saying anything, but we think that's whats happened.
What will happen with the news blackout?
We will reinforce with the media once again.
Make sure it happens. We understand. I think so!
Have a good look at this stalled investigation!
We don't know where the hostage is.
From interviews with all the hospital employees, we haven't come up with a suspect.
If this situation were to get out!
There's still a chance to stop it.
We've deployed investigators to the entrance's of every broadcast station.
We're checking whether Chikamori Yuko has come or not.
Listen here, if you sully the reputation of the special victims unit,
anyway, you need to stop this!
Crap~! I was played!
He said come talk with me, cause I want to
convince my wife.
I really thought that he meant it.
You can be played by even elementary school kids.
We'll get her, and take her back to the hospital.
What are we doing, us here?
Not looking for Nozomi, but looking for the mother.
It's to keep Nozomi safe, right?
Not to protect the dignity of the police?
Even you, didn't you clearly tell Chikamori san yesterday?
"Priority is on Nozomi's safety."
That's right however...
Yes, this is Hayamizu.
Chikamori Yuko has appeared. At her home. Her home?
She's making a recording with a group that broadcasts on the net.
Move quickly to her home to stop them.
Roger that!
What's going on?
We were expelled from the house for trespassing.
The sooner we trespass.
Hayamizu san, wait!
Yes that's OK. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
Yes, yes. Let's go in here.
You are trespassing! It'll be a problem if you broadcast.
It's already done. All we have to do is upload it.
What are you doing!? Forcible obstruction of business!
It'll be a problem if details of the investigation leak out. We'll return it after we check it.
You have authority to stop it?
We can't allow it, it's for Nozomi's safety.
Please... look the other way.
The way things are, the suspect hasn't made contact.
I feel it. Nozomi is getting farther away.
If we don't do something, we won't just be separated, but she won't ever come back!
I am not just thinking of Arata.
I am worried about Nozomi!
Using force on a pregnant woman!?
It sent. It's uploaded!
Hayamizu san.... Why did you do that!?
I am Chikamori Yuko.
One week ago, our daughter was kidnapped.
Please, the person that took our daughter.
Please do not hurt her...
We are not relying on the police anymore.
We have stood quietly for these past seven days...
But those people haven't brought our daughter back.
And right now they do not know where she is.
The investigators didn't get there in time!?
We're now changing to an open investigation.
Chief. This is trending already on the net.
Today is the deadline to register the birth.
We have named this baby Nozomi.
Please, the person who is with Nozomi now.
Somehow, please negotiate with us.
Please contact us at the email address shown.
We'll do whatever you want, please return Nozomi.
Nozomi's stamina may be at it's limit already,
We've been told there's only two more days.
Two days?
All those that are seeing this too, please.
So sad.
Any information,
Please, please, can you help Nozomi.
Let the communication center know. Have a response ready, OK.
Add more lines here. Move forward with the information.
Yes!
This is your fault you know.
That the victim's family would lose trust in us like this,
is because the investigation didn't keep up.
Enough now!
Wait here for notification of a change in jurisdiction.
What were you guys doing!!
Please allow me to explain. Why didn't you stop it?
We could have stopped it. I'm really irritated.
Hayamizu, what did you do? Because of that broadcast, the chief....
Enough! My jurisdiction was bound to.
For seven days, we haven't solved this.
Jurisdiction? If you had stopped the broadcast,
this wouldn't have happened!!
Hayamizu, this is your fault! Stop now!
Weren't you able to stop it? Didn't you stop it?
I didn't stop it. Why?
Because as it was, I didn't think the suspect would move.
Please explain.
The suspect took Nozomi in the evening the day before yesterday,
and has been silent ever since, perhaps the purpose of the kidnapping
has something personally to do with Nozomi.
In other words, the suspect has no need to make a move.
Therefore I thought things needed to be shook up.
So now the suspect will move?
You see it? I had to laugh a little, however.
But Chikamori san kept her promise, Didn't say too much.
"Two days", what's that?
Their son is in a dangerous situation, seems they want to take some bone marrow.
It seems they are limited to the next two days.
But, that baby is just a newborn.
Taking bone marrow from her, that's really difficult, right!
She's at her wit's end, doesn't know what to do, her mother.
Please don't be angry, Sensei.
Stop calling me that. Why?
Sensei's hands are God's hands. You can change a person's destiny.
This is first time I've thought we have a chance.
With that video, sympathy will grow. Then, the sooner everything
can be exposed to the world.
Now with the brother about to die, both the parents grieving,
then the spectacular return of the kidnapped sister.
the brother is brought back with her bone marrow.
literally, his savior!
What are you saying? It's all in the context.
Everything we've done, up to now
tinkering with life, it's only been a strange technology.
But if we talk about it with this deeply moving story,
it will become the latest miracle cure.
So if Nozomi is barely found in time,
this gets even bigger, right?
Now you're on board?
So, where is Nozomi right now?
At a friends... maybe.
"Friend"?
Please forget it. There's the frozen eggs.
I'll give you instructions soon. Please wait.
Who is it?
I'm Yamahara, Minamoto Sensei's representative.
Even on twitter, there have been many comments.
Excuse me.
The tank that has Yamahara san's eggs.
I do know how important those are
to Yamahara san.
How long are we to look after it?
That baby is the one with all the ruckus on TV, right?
I will take it.
Mama.
Are you Nozomi's friend?
I do remember you! However you were still only an egg.
You were so healthy, bursting with energy.
It's good that you're getting big.
Minamoto Sensei also wanted me to keep that tank.
Is he still going to leave that?
Certainly, the Sensei made my son, but
But this here is too much.
Chief.
I really am sorry.
Really now, I guess it was good having you go to the scene.
Cause of that, I'm being pushed out.
However there is that, even though the thing isn't over,
it is weird having to go to the scene.
Sorry. I'll end it soon.
You can do that?
If I'm not pushed out.
I did pull you into this,
cause I thought a pregnant woman was perfect for this case.
For this case, there's things that only someone like you
that's about to become a mother would understand.
Yes, this is the Nozomi chan kidnapping hotline.
Can I please take details?
Going to the Hospital? I'll go too. Want to check on Professor Sakiyama.
You listening?
Enough showboating, it's going to get nasty.
If the suspect doesn't move, the Chief will die a dog's death.
You haven't dismissed that investigator?
Just wait one more day, to see if the suspect
makes a move or not. The latest news.
All the talk right now is about the youtube video
posted on the Internet.
The marathon gold medal winner...
Listen up, the next press conference has to be the last.
If anything more about this case gets out, things will get even worse.
Find the baby before the day is over!
Yes.
The baby's name is Nozomi chan,
an infant not even two weeks old.
Minamoto Sensei.
Professor Susami. About the recent broadcast,
Chikamori san's? Yea.
She said the limit for her son is two days.
As the attending physician, were you aware the kidnapped baby was a sibling savior?
There was a chance I was thinking that.
Weren't there more things that you were aware of?
You sent me an email, right.
Along with the copy of Sakiyama Sensei's research notes.
So you figured that out?
Why would a person overlooking Sakiyama Sensei's research,
order something like this?
Restriction enzymes. It's used for gene editing.
You used it for gene editing, making a sibling savior,
then pushed Sakiyama off the stairs when he found this secret out.
Am I wrong?
Answer!
Professor Susami...
you really don't know anything about reproductive medical treatment.
Gene editing, isn't just something anyone can do.
Experience and skill are necessary.
Besides I understand you have come up with this order form, but
it wasn't me who did it. Then who!?
Change with me.
Protamine to neutralize the effect of heparin.
Stop.
Death is confirmed at 11:35.
Why so sudden? A blood clot.
Why was that? He was getting heparin, right?
We don't really know.
Isn't something strange?
Sakiyama san had a small blood clot in the brain.
So that it wouldn't get any worse, he was getting blood thinners.
Is there something you know? I'll verify.
He was getting the right medicine.
The written report from the control department... it's here.
Inventory of the drugs, it's here.
Protamine? It will neutralize the effect of the blood thinner.
Look there's some unaccounted for.
You mean someone took some without permission?
Do you have records of who comes and goes in the depository?
There's a record of security cards. If I use my code,
I should be able to check from the management company's site.
Yamahara Akemi.
So Yamahara Akemi would have no reason to enter
the depository, right? The chemicals used in the lab,
seemed to be kept in the lab. So why Yamahara?
She left at noon, and hasn't returned to the hospital.
Giichi san's group has been looking for her.
You believe Yamahara has now kidnapped Nozomi?
Well, not yet...
Anyway, I'll come there and talk.
Alright.
Our hospital too, has gotten busy interacting with the media.
Thank you for all you're doing.
Please make sure you arrest Yamahara san.
Well a designer baby, now it can really be made to
a considerable level.
You want information, right?
I am not married. Have no children.
I like my job. That's all.
What do you like about your job?
When they don't come together naturally,
when the sperm meets the ovum, it becomes an egg.
Maybe it's witnessing that moment.
I don't think we are God, doing this job.
Why is that...
I have this, we have a photo of Yamahara from Jonan University hospital,
please check it with news just now.
You're in, Sensei.
Hey, I tried to stop her, but.
Declaration of war?
The police, can they find
her in the two days?
Nozomi chan's life is in the balance.
Chikamori san's taped plea on youtube, has now
been viewed over 3 million times,
we can now guess the whole world is aware.
The police have also been receiving much information...
We have her here, right.
Yamahara Akemi, is our suspect for both Sakiyama's murder and Nozomi's kidnapping.
After this, so she won't be shown on any security cameras,
she's going to be careful with her movements.
Hey, you know anything else about Yamahara?
Before you said something.
I heard about gene editing from Susami Sensei today.
Gene editing? Technology to rewrite genetic information.
It seems Yamahara san was involved with a gene editing project on animals at a veterinary school.
But was absolutely opposed
to using such technology on human fertilized eggs.
When she was found out, she killed Sakiyama.
But... why would she take Nozomi and flee?
It's be a lot easier if she was alone.
That... I think I can explain.
Perhaps, the reason she took her,
is because that baby is the Sensei's production.
Well... something that the Sensei would
call from a embryo culture technician?
In reality, more or less, that is what my position is, however
Yamahara san is different. She believed she had God's hands.
She was a Sensei that lectured on wanting to increase fertilization rates through intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
Her power of concentration is overwhelming.
As soon as she talked with Professor Sakiyama,
he immediately brought her on the infertility staff here.
After that, she recommended
I do research on gene editing...
Eventually, what do you expect to do with gene editing?
Anything. Because the genetic code is rewritten.
But the value to researchers, is for medical cures.
Illness that can't be cured after birth, are now cured.
You can do that?
For example, there's a fertilized egg,
it has a gene for an incurable disease.
Then we rewrite it with gene editing,
then that illness will never attack. Serious...
You think it's the ultimate medical treatment?
The disease is cured before being born.
This is the job of a god.
Can we back up a bit? Nozomi being a production of Yamahara?
That baby is the result of the Sensei's and my research.
And, this became know to Professor Sakiyama.
Now such research is not allowed. If it were made public, as a doctor,
he knew well what could happen.
I was prepared for the worst, however,
she said "we have to talk".
The next day, I heard Professor Sakiyama took a fall.
Is that not odd?
Given the situation, not to suspect Yamahara san, would be strange.
Wouldn't it have been much more convenient for you
to have kept quiet?
I'm sorry...
The truth is, I thought it would be good to keep the research under wraps
as it is.
But when I heard Professor Sakiyama had died today,
I was really sorry...
So I've told you everything I know.
Therefore please track down the Sensei. As it is...
What?
If she's backed into a corner, that baby she's taken with her,
Perhaps....
You're talking about suicide?
Immediately, Yamahara is wanted for questioning. Roger that.
Yamahara Akemi is wanted! Contact all departments for assistance.
Please wait.
Did you believe everything he said?
Takes up the rear. For now, it'll be a problem if Yamahara dies.
There's something odd. The embryo culture technician Yamahara san,
don't think she knows about blood thinners. And why would she take Nozomi...
Knock it off!
Now we have to catch Yamahara as soon as possible.
We don't have need for your empathy.
Go home now, Hayamizu. We'll capture Yamahara.
Don't worry.
Thank you so much.
What? Investigation over?
I was told to go home.
It's been five hours since Chikamori Yuko san's video was posted,
there has been a new development. The police are focused on finding a woman on
the hospital's staff that seems to know something.
Real things are awful...
Here's water.
What, something wrong? Not really.
Somehow, I am happy but...
Yusuke's watching.
Oh, I'm just going to change. I'll be gone soon, OK, continue.
Wrong, wrong, it was just some lint...
Yusuke kun, sorry about yesterday.
I skipped out when you came to the checkup.
When you want to skip out, that reminds me,
even I have times I want to skip out.
I suppose so.
You don't need to smirk!
Trying to look cool.
Chikamori san is planning on an interview tonight,
attention is growing on whether the case will be solved by then.
With all this racket, they should find her soon, right.
You mean their luck is about to run out?
Why has the suspect been successfully continuing to run?
Nozomi chan's safety is now a concern.
Yes, Hayamizu. Oh, this is Susami.
I checked into Yamahara san a little and....
I don't know if it's important to the search, however.
Well, then.
Yuri san, you can go.
Go there. If it's something, you should go.
Sensei.
Even though you're so busy, you looked into it?
No, no, no nothing else to do,
It's a little calm. Look, here, here.
Yamahara san's gene editing here,
was not to create a sibling savior.
More likely, it was to cure a disease. Disease, so you mean,
cure an incurable disease? Yes.
Chikamori san, he walks with a cane, right.
I was curious about it and investigated,
Two years ago, they requested pre-implantation diagnosis.
Pre-implantation diagnosis, of the fertilized eggs?
To avoid miscarriages and serious diseases.
Chikamori san, has a hereditary progressive neurodegenerative disease.
The extremities of his body gradually become numb,
eventually he'll not be able to move and become bedridden.
With this disease, the chances are 50/50 it'll be passed on to a child.
Dismissed... the application wasn't taken.
In the 20s until the 30s, because the symptoms are mild,
it's been judged not a disease to be avoided
in pre-implantation diagnosis.
This baby will become a strong child,
like her mother.
Chikamori san wanted to protect his child from the inherited disease.
Therefore he asked Yamahara san to do gene editing.
If it was you, what would you do?
If you had the gene editing skill yourself,
and there was a person in front of you that you could help.
I don't know.
By the way, that's my weak point, that kind of talk. Weak point?
In the hundreds of births I've witnessed,
there's so many miraculous things I don't understand.
To me, pregnancy and birth, it is such a thing....
It might be something
we can't control.
Yamahara san said something the same.
I don't think we are God....
... whether we can make children or not,...
There's things we cannot do with our hands.
Either way, Nozomi is not some product to Yamahara san.
More likely, she's thinking of her as a child.
That's why she feels she needed to run.
Huh, what do you mean?
Mama, look! This baby is tiny!
That's right, She will have to get bigger.
She works hard, drinks her formula, she'll get big soon, we can only hope.
Yes, cute. Thank you.
Room 607. Yes.
So sorry.
Our target is walking with a baby!
Where's the pride of Special Victims!?
It's mostly useless information!
I think it's just like Hayamizu reads it. Huh?
Yamahara isn't just running to protect herself.
She has some specific purpose?
Why did she take the baby and run, Hayamizu was concerned about that.
You were once such a tiny cell.
You remember?
I cared for you everyday.
Sato san at the scene.
Yes, we are now at the place for Chikamori san's news conference.
In the news conference coming up shortly, the father, Doctor Chikamori will also join,
it seems they are going to make another appeal.
That's at the scene.
The conference seems to be starting, I'm going in.
How is Arata?
I'll have my phone, please let me know if anything happens.
Chikamori san, please come into the room. Yes.
What's wrong?
I saw this.
You didn't receive pre-implantation diagnosis, right.
Sorry to be so nosy. But I understand a little.
You didn't want gene editing just for Arata kun's sake.
For the child born... you wanted Nozomi
to be protected from the illness, right.
I understand you wanting to help Arata kun.
But is it really OK like this?
If you don't do anything for Nozomi, won't you have regrets?
Doctor, please now.
Please talk about your feelings.
I know it might be different than your wife's.
But for Nozomi.
Stay calm, and please take your time answering.
Doctor. Yes.
Police.
Well, first please tell us how you are feeling.
There's many that saw the
video this morning, and are concerned about Nozomi,
thank you so much.
But we haven't yet found Nozomi.
We think if people see this, that we will get information from even more people.
About your husband, what are your thoughts?
Your time limit is now one day.
She can't be found one minute too soon, right?
For me...
For me... I do not...
want the baby found.
What will happen to her after she is returned, frightens me.
What did you say...
Why is that? What is frightening?
Chikamori san!
I can't endure it anymore.
That baby...
Nozomi will be used for a transplant. Stop it!
What's he saying.... How did this come to this?
Transplant, what do you mean? Are you talking about selling organs?
Wrong, you're wrong! It's not like that!!
Our son has leukemia.
His current situation is serious, he's waiting for Nozomi's bone marrow.
We made...
We had Nozomi, so we could help our son.
A parent would do such a thing!?
You made a child for a transplant?
Such a thing is not legal.
Did it cause we're parents.
We did it cause we're parents. Cause we're parents..., Wanted to save Arata.
Is there another way?
Now matter how long, there was no donor.
Arata's time, was starting to run out...
You know what I am saying.
If he doesn't get a transplant, Arata can't be saved.
So what if it's not legal, what's bad about it?
I gave birth to Nozomi. I'm her mother!
I decide what to do with the baby I gave birth to.
If you're a mother, you can do whatever you want?
If you're a mother, you can use your child's body as you like?
Yes.
Because I gave birth to Nozomi for that.
We will surely recover Nozomi.
Hayamizu....
Could it be...
As it is, I don't think the suspect will move.
Something needs to shake.
Hayamizu san?
A call came in that seems a little strange. I'll take it.
Hello? Hello, hello.
Hey, is Detective Hayamizu in?
You say Hayamizu? Please hold on a moment?
I'll take it. Connecting.
Hello.
I want to talk.