In recent years, the number of vicious crimes was increasing rapidly.
In order to arrest the criminals and solve the cases, the police's scientific research center,
Forensic Investigation Office Section Nine, has begun investigating cases using MRI.
The image produced by the extracted brain of the victim not only shows the suspect, but also the victim's entire memory.
Monokuro ni some ta hibi
モノクロに染めた日々
I stain the days in monochrome,
Maki modoshite wa sore wo kuri kaesu
巻き戻してはそれを繰り返す
and replay them again and again.
Dokoka no eiga de mita serifu narabete
どこかの映画で見たセリフ並べて
Lines with words from movies you've seen somewhere,
Kono kokoro kakushita mama heiki na kao shite aruiteta
このココロ隠したまま 平気な顔して歩いてた
I hide my feelings and walk on pretending I'm fine.
Ashimoto ni utsuri konde ita
足元に映り込んでいた
My face was reflected beneath my feet,
Yuganda boku no kao ga kanashisou ni miete ta
歪んだ僕の顔が悲しそうに見えてた
and contorted as if I was in sorrow.
And now, it's time for the news.
The National Police Agency announced the resumption of using MRI during investigations,
Wouldn't this be better without the radio?
however the cause of death of the investigator from the team remains—
True.
Hmm, you look great.
Did you wait long?
You must be Aoki-san.
Yes.
I've talked with you over the phone, I'm Amachi.
I'm Aoki Ikkou.
Let me show you the way.
It's odd for a member of Section Nine like me to say this,
but Aoki-san's been placed in a troublesome post.
Huh?
The door here will unlock itself when you approach it with your ID card from Section Nine.
Ah...
In investigations using MRI,
the authority gets involved with personal secrets, so many moral issues need to be resolved.
I see...
So to the public, we're not exactly welcome.
It's true that we must continuously watch the scenes of people murdering and being murdered, and of course, intrude upon their privacy.
I heard Aoki-san's considerably skilled in lip reading, we're all counting on you.
So here's—
A-Amatsu-san! Are you all right?!
Be careful, Michiru-chan!
I'm sorry.
Is it that funny?
N-No! I heard that Section Nine was formed of elites, so...
Well, I might not look it, but I'm an expert of criminal psychology!
Amachi, the MRI is ready. Come over.
They're test running it today as well?
Ah, I'm coming too!
What? Erm... But... What should I do?
Please meet the Director, Aoki-san.
The Director?
But he's absent...
Is that...
The Director of Forensic Investigation Office Section Nine,
Senior Superintendent Maki?
He looks so innocent.
The investigator who's seen numerous brains of convicts from frightening murder cases,
someone like that can still look so young?
Oh, erm, Director Maki.
Maki-san, excuse me?
Could you please wake up?
What? A bulletproof jacket?!
Suzuki...
Erm, I'm beginning my post today...
You must be Aoki. I've heard about you.
I wonder if you're suited for this place.
If you wish to transfer, you better notify us as soon as possible.
Otherwise, what we teach you will be wasted.
What on earth?
Who's Suzuki, anyway?
Where's mom?
She's with a visitor.
Anyway, Midori, don't you have school today?
I've already told you that today's my substitute day off from last week.
Hey!
Mom!
Yukino! Yukino!
Mom, what happened?!
Yukino! Yukino!
Midori, quickly call the ambulance!
Okay!
Musashino town, Inokashira, a residential housewife.
We confirmed her death earlier on.
Three hours prior to this incident, a firearm was robbed and the gun type and bullet used have been matched to this case.
The policeman who was attacked is seriously wounded and remains unconscious.
A gun from the Police was used in this case,
we cannot create anymore victims!
Enforce the MRI system.
The brain will be extracted at the police hospital.
Then the brain must be placed inside the scanner within 48 hours of death,
otherwise it becomes difficult to reproduce the image, is that correct?
That's right, you've researched this well.
I have, Okabe-san.
I'm counting on you, Mr. Newcomer.
Thanks, I'll do my best.
By the way...
What is it?
About Director Maki...
Yeah?
The Director was wearing a bulletproof jacket even in his sleep.
Ah, well, he said it's there so he'll be shot in the head if he ever gets shot at.
What?
That's not all, wasn't he holding a book?
Yes, I think it was a Bible.
That book's hollowed out and has a gun inside it.
It's there so he can kill himself anytime by shooting himself in the head, so he said.
What does he mean by that?
He's haunted.
Here it is. Please take care of it.
Okay, load it into the car.
Inside of here is a human brain.
Huh? Wha—Really...
Please, kiddo...
I-I'm fine. I'm coming over now.
Hey! You!
The brain was stolen?!
Yes, we've found the car, but we don't know the whereabouts of the brain.
Idiot!
I have no excuse.
It's all my fault.
Of course.
The man who stole the brain, perhaps it's the same man who killed the victim.
It's possible that the murderer found out
about the MRI investigation and was afraid that his image would appear from the memory of the victim's brain.
So, this is the living room.
Okabe-san.
It's like a gallery of his wife's photographs.
She must have been very loved.
Huh?
She's in shock right now from losing her mother.
Keep it short.
All right.
Well, to tell you the truth...
Your mother's brain was snatched by someone...
Maybe it was my dad who did it.
He left this note.
So the husband's now traveling around with his wife's brain?!
Do you know where your dad is likely to go?
I don't know.
Your dad, is photography his hobby?
I've seen many photos of your mother, they were beautifully shot.
I've looked through your old albums, but there's one photo that's recently been removed.
Do you know what it was?
The two look really young in these photos.
I heard my mom and dad met each other when they were students.
These photos are from that time.
But whenever I asked mom about that time, mom always diverted the conversation and so I was never told about it.
What about this person?
I was told he was my dad and mom's mutual friend, but nothing else.
That's beside the point! Please hurry up and arrest the murderer who killed my mom!
We know, Midori-chan. That's why we need your mother's brain.
Okabe-san, Aoki-kun, that's enough for today.
All right.
You got it, Onogida?
I'm working on it right now.
But seriously, ordering me to find the location of where the missing photo was taken by referring to the images in other photos?
Director certainly makes an impossible request.
But with this much information, the proud super computer of Section Nine will sort it out.
Can you see it, Yukino?
Can you see this view? I really miss that time...
I won't let anyone see the secrets within your heart, anyone!
We promised we'd die together...
We found him!
The missing man has been located, the missing man has been located.
Well, he's even got a license for piloting a helicopter?
Dad! Why did you do this?!
Midori, I'm sorry.
You loved your wife, didn't you?
You hadn't even thought of her dying...
She was living happily with you and your daughter.
You want to let the criminal who snatched her life escape?!
I didn't want my wife's brain to be seen.
We understand how you feel, but the murderer is still on the run with a gun.
The husband risked his life to prevent people from seeing the memories of his wife's brain...
Do we really have the right to see it?
Search.
Percentage of operative brain nerve cells, 30%.
40, 50, 60%.
Human brains store an enormous amount of memories.
During MRI investigation, the brain of the dead is stimulated by electrical pulses and made 120% operative.
90, 100, 120%.
I want to see the scene of the murder, find the hippocampus.
Hippocampus?
It's the area of the brain where you store the most recent memories.
The most recent?
The memory of the moment she was murdered.
The last shots of her life.
The last shot...
Image from hippocampus is reproduced.
There's someone!
So this guy came to see her.
Aoki, what's he saying? Read his lips.
Why won't you understand?
I still love you.
Loves her?
Can't we be together again? This is your last chance.
So it's about an emotional entanglement.
The wife said something.
Aoki, what's he saying?
Yes, erm, what?!
The flashbacks are about to begin.
Flashback?
That thing, when you see a kaleidoscope of memories before your mind's eye.
The dying brain will produce dopamine, a narcotic, to reduce the pain and anxiety.
Then it'll replay the happiest moments.
Hold it there. Can you rewind?
Yes.
Stop.
The focus is on the forest at the back?
What? Yeah...
Enlarge it.
The murderer from earlier on?!
There are neurones responding to this image that are in the cerebral cortex.
Can we go there?
I'll try.
Connecting to the cerebral cortex.
It's from ten years ago.
The murderer?
Ten years ago... But the wife was already married by then!
The long term memories are something the cerebrum particularly wanted to store.
That means the wife found the memory of that guy more important than her husband or Midori-chan?!
The memory of the man who'll kill her.
Who's this man?
T-This?
It's an image printed from your wife's memory.
So there was an image of this man in Yukino's memory...
This man is dead.
Dead?
This is Kanazawa Yuusuke.
He was my best friend, and the man my wife was going out with since her teens.
I took her away after Yuusuke and Yuki fought after a trifle matter.
It was unfair of me...
He went missing in the mountains during the winter soon after that.
From then on, Yukino and I promised each other that we'd forget the past and live on together.
But I knew, I knew she hadn't forgotten him.
As I thought, in her mind he was still there...
This man is still alive.
The one who killed your wife is this man, seventeen years later.
You must be Kanazawa Yuusuke.
Seventeen years ago, when he got lost in the mountains, Kanazawa Yuusuke lost his memories.
But his memory suddenly returned three months ago, and he went to see Enoki Yukino.
He contacted her a number of times, but he couldn't take back the lost seventeen years.
Play it again, please.
Ah, sure...
Can't we be together again? This is your last chance.
The sunglasses, please enlarge them!
More!
What did she say?
Maki-san!
Good job for noticing that.
What did the wife say at the end?
Maki-san, I don't know if MRI investigation is really necessary.
The secrets of others are so heavy.
Even so, Aoki, the dead cannot speak out why their life was taken from them.
Who else can clear the victims' regrets and their final cry other than us?
The wife could not forget about that man.
So what did she say at the end?
I want to forget about you.
I love my husband and my daughter.
Shitte itano nanimo kamo
知っていたの 何もかも
I knew about it, everything.
Matte itano imamo nao
待っていたの 今もなお
I was waiting for you, even now.
Ittai dokomade yukeba ii noka
一体どこまで行けばいいのか
How far do I have to go?
Mabutano urano kioku se kono kakawari wo nurasu
まぶたの裏の記憶背 この関わりを濡らす
Memories of his back are burnt into the back of my eyelids; it soaks our relationship.
Anata wo wasurete dokoka tooku e ikitai
あなたを忘れて どこか遠くへいきたい
I want to forget about you, and go somewhere far away.
Ikenai Ikitai
いけない いきたい
I can't leave yet I want to leave,
Ikenai atashi wa
いけない あたしは
because I can't leave.
You fade, your play, your play
You fade, your play, your play.
Atashi no namida wo anata to...
あたしの涙を あなたと・・・
My tears with you will...