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.
NB: MRI stands for Memory Reproduction Imaging System.
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.
One could say that the history of the United States was created by the great Presidents;
Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Bush, and the current President John B. Reed.
He is a man of great integrity and justice.
He's so flawless people even remark that the only fault in the United States's President is that he has no fault.
Today, in celebration of President Reed and his wife Sarah's 20th anniversary,
a party was held at this private beach close to the capital city, Washington D.C..
Oh?
I think that's enough filming.
I'd like to go and rest a little in my room.
Are you tired?
Yes.
I shall accompany you.
Thank you, but no, you don't need to accompany me.
Otherwise, I won't feel at rest. Will you allow me to be on my own?
Could you please tell Sarah for me too.
I understand, President.
Huh?
This victim died because their jugular was cut with a kitchen knife by their drunken father.
Hey, this is a vision from the brain of the observer.
Whatever the observer thought was fearful would be imaged accordingly.
Hey, are you all right?
For heaven's sake, he's under the influence of the observer's brain.
W-What did you do that for?!
We've got a long road ahead of us. Go home for now.
Erm, no...
I'm fine.
A naïve person, who accepts things at face value,
won't be capable of seeing images produced by brains that are frozen in fear at the precise moment of the murder.
Maki-san! And Okabe-san too!
You two still making Aoki-san work?
You've shut yourselves in here for 24 hours!
I'm sorry, I'm still not used to it and I wanted to learn my job.
We'll call it a day for now. Go home and get some rest.
What's wrong? Is there a reason why you don't want to go home?
N-No...
I get it. You haven't told your family that you're working for Section Nine, have you?
You can't tell them you're extracting brains from the dead and looking into others' secrets?
I'm going.
Everyone's like that at the beginning.
Eventually he'll be able to feel proud of his job.
It's not something unusual.
Secrets are everywhere.
I'm home.
One week has passed since the death of the President, which has left the world in a state of shock.
The whole United States is in deep sorrow and mourning over the President's death.
I wonder why he was stabbed.
This guy was said to be a devoted husband, but maybe he was in a relationship!
Maybe his wife or his lover stabbed him?!
Based on what evidence?
My intuition!
Ah, that's the wife.
She looks so suspicious too.
Everybody in this world is a detective.
Everyone wants to know the truth.
They all want to see into others' secrets.
For this day, 1000 policemen were gathered from all over the United States.
Whatever country you go to, the police have a hard task, eh?
What about you? What kind of work did you do today?
Erm, well, I'm still just a trainee so nothing important.
You've already been assigned to a section, haven't you?
Not yet...
Well, tell us the moment it's been decided then.
Dad's been boasting to all his colleagues that you got into the National Police Agency.
I'm home... I'm rather late...
What happened? Are you drunk?
Now, now, you're a girl of marriageable age. Get a grip on yourself!
Are you listening?
Why?! Earlier on you said we'd meet on Sunday!
I can't see you again?
Whatever you say is always a lie! You said you'd get a divorce, but that was just an—
Don't try to fool me anymore!
Fine, I don't care if I never see you again!
Sis?
Kou-chan...
Is that the guy from the other day, the one with the wife?
You got drunk because of him?
Why can't you stop going out with a guy like that?!
There's no way you could be happy!
Maybe...
Sis, I can't bear to see this happening!
Kou-chan, please...
Just for a second...
Sis...
I'm over it now. You must be tired from your work, I'm sorry.
No...
Don't tell mother about this.
It's a secret.
Oh, that's right, you said you were going to rent a room.
What are you going to do about that?
I'm looking for one right now.
I see. It's sad to hear Kou-chan is leaving the house, but it can't be helped.
It's rather far to commute from here...
I'm going to take a bath.
My reason for leaving this house isn't because it's far from work.
The reason...
...is a secret that I'll keep from you.
Secrets are everywhere.
Because we keep secrets, we can avoid hurting each other.
But sometimes I wonder...
What would happen if you forced open the doors behind secrets?
The President's brain?
The FBI have requested our cooperation and asked us to look at the President's brain using MRI.
Wow, that's amazing!
The cause of death is the stab wound on his back.
The favored argument is that this was retaliation by the Republican Party against the President's speech.
Only the President's brain knows the murderer.
Fortunately, the brain was frozen and preserved in perfect condition.
As this is a request from the FBI, we'll be investigating this case.
After all, America doesn't have MRI.
It goes without question that the brain of the President contains top secret information.
We must pay our utmost attention to ensure complete confidentiality.
Investigators from the FBI will be attending as well.
Will we be ordered around by the FBI every step of the way?
No matter what, the murderer will be identified by our hands.
Understood?
Erm, everyone, this is Investigator Rick Ananin and Investigator Michael Casey from the FBI.
This is a joint investigation by Japan and the United States, so please be polite.
Erm, nice to meet you.
I don't mind speaking Japanese.
Also, can we leave out the greetings as courtesy demands and get started?
Sorry, he's an impatient man. Please start when you're ready.
Proportion of active brain nerve cells:
30%, 50, 70, 90, 100, 110, 120.
Who'd have thought we'd be seeing the world the President saw?
The chandelier in the President's bedroom...
It's the morning of the murder.
The President has woken up.
Brilliant, it surpasses my expectations.
This is MRI.
That's Mrs Sarah.
She looks more beautiful than on TV.
I didn't think a morning at the White House could be so moving.
Please, not you as well...
This isn't actually showing you what the reality is, but the image as seen by the brain of the observer.
Fast forward it.
That's their only daughter, Deborah.
I thought she was a little older than that.
To the president she still looks like a child.
She's soothing my heart.
Go forward. Can you go to the moments just before death?
Yes.
Fifteen minutes before the point of death.
A cottage by the sea.
This was the President and his wife's anniversary, a private party was held.
I hear his wife used to be a classmate of his at university, so romantic.
The Secret Service...
Aoki, what's he saying?
Ah, let's see...
He seems to be saying that the President says he's a little tired, so he's going to take a rest in the cottage...
He's walking away from the cottage!
Show me what happens ahead.
Is he waiting for someone?
His eyes aren't focusing...
He got stabbed?
So easily?
Can't we see the face of the murderer?!
Would you like to rewind?
Wait.
A wallet?
He ripped something and threw it into the sea?
With such a serious wound...
What was that thing he ripped and threw away just now?
Rewind.
Sure.
Play it again.
Stop.
That's a photograph.
It is!
But a photograph of what?
Can't you make it clearer?
This isn't all that MRI can do, is it?!
Clean up the images of the moment of the murder, and analyze the paper he ripped up.
Right away.
The murderer must be someone close to the President.
Aoki.
Yes.
Identify his murderer from the images stored a few days prior to his death.
If he was summoned to be there, he must have been in contact with him at some point.
Yes.
The President has a regular lifestyle with schedules planned minute-by-minute.
Meetings take up 60% of his schedules, while the rest of the time is spent on checking reports and speech manuscripts.
He doesn't watch TV, nor does he see his friends.
He works while traveling. There's nothing that makes you suspect him of doing anything wrong...
There's nothing there, fast forward it.
Erm, but I was told to search through all the documents...
They're classified documents. We'll decide what's necessary to search or not.
Fast forward it.
Not even Maki-san can over rule the FBI.
Even the private life of the President was being revealed...
But the President hardly had anything in his private life to reveal.
The wife's inviting him to the bedroom.
Do you need the scenes from the bedroom too?
So they slept, eh?
Fast forward it.
The President is a devoted husband, there's no question about that.
He only sleeps four hours daily.
On top of that, has he been living like this for the last three years?
Can't find it, can we?
The photograph, the one the President took out from his wallet.
When did it even get into his wallet?
Did you know, Aoki? The President was nicknamed "Father."
I did hear that.
I didn't think he was literally like his nickname though.
I've become a complete fan after watching what he was seeing for the last few days.
To tell you the truth, me too.
Why should such a great person be murdered?
Yeah...
Do we have a right to look into the brain of someone so great?
Huh?
I feel as though I'm doing something unforgivable.
But then, the murderer will remain unknown.
A great person was murdered for an unjust reason!
That's when our job gains a purpose.
Right now, isn't our priority to figure out who murdered the President?!
Right?!
Sleeping time again.
Fast forward it?
Wait.
He seems to be looking outside.
Has the daughter returned from her date?
Who's this handsome boy?
Deborah's boyfriend, Mathew Harvey.
A researcher from the Economics Research Laboratory.
Can you enlarge the image?
Sure.
Well, this is harsh on daddy.
The former United States's President, the cleanest president;
a man who loved his wife and daughter and was faithful to his duty.
Right at this very moment, we're probing the secret that such a man protected with his life!
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...