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.
Don't do it!
(Asterisk)
Huh? Amachi, you're working on your day off?
What about yourself, Okabe-san?
Nah, as you can see, I'm going on a day trip to the hot springs.
Got to devote some time to my parents every now and then.
Let's see... The camera... where was it?
There!
Huh?
Hey, Amachi?
Yes?
Take a rest when you can, okay?
I'm not really fond of Sundays...
I'm more comfortable doing work.
Oh? The director's working on his day off too?
Sorry Okabe, but you're going to have to give up your day off.
A phantom serial killer.
He seems to be the fifth victim.
The fifth victim is a male?
In the space of two months, four women have been murdered.
Their bodies were engraved with what appears to be an asterisk symbol; this is a bizarre homicide case.
A sharp, double-edged blade was used as the weapon.
The damaged arteries were in his upper arm, the muscular artery, and the abdominal aorta.
The victim died within a few minutes due to excessive blood loss.
However, the killer was unable to slash the common carotid artery in the neck because of the victim's resistance.
Both of his hands have defensive wounds, inflicted while trying to disarm the killer.
It must have been a bloodbath...
"Please, stop him."
Amachi-san?
I promise you that we'll catch him.
Director, please let me work on this case.
Very well.
You're in charge.
The observer is Yoneda Yuuichi, aged 61.
He was a resident worker of a backstreet workshop in the Adachi ward.
According to the investigative report by the police that have jurisdiction there, Yoneda Yuuichi lived on his own. He had no family.
Show me the images five minutes prior to his death.
Yes, sir.
What's going on?
This man...
He didn't look at the killer's face?
What does he look like?!
He sacrificed himself to save that woman!
An old man, over 60 years of age, went against the killer bare-handed...
A very strong emotion...
Rather than courage or a sense of justice, he was driven strongly by something else...
Something that made him sacrifice himself without a moment's hesitation.
The killer's of average height and weight, male, and approximately 30 years of age.
He enjoys slaying those weaker than himself.
He's likely to have experimented with rabbits and cats prior to this.
From what we can see, he doesn't seem to have any distinctive features...
That Yacht parker is likely to be a mass-produced item.
So it'll be impossible to identify him by investigating those who've purchased that parker.
He's likely to be two-faced.
On the surface, he's an ordinary student or worker who merges into society,
but underneath the surface, is all the frustrations that have built up from living in society waiting to be unleashed.
He engraved those symbols onto the bodies as a unique signature; it satisfies his twisted need for attention.
Director, these are the victim's belongings.
Other than his wallet and driver's license, there was this...
This is?
Some kind of symbol?
Did you get any fingerprints?
Yes, only the victim's.
Nevermind, go find the woman who escaped.
Yes, sir.
According to the taxi company, there was a woman with an injury on her face who got a lift near the scene of the murder.
Apparently, she was dropped off somewhere around here...
Erm, Amachi-san?
Yes?
It's been bothering me a bit...
In the autopsy room when you were facing Yoneda, you said you "heard him," right?
Sure...
What did that mean?
Aoki-san, please listen to me without getting too startled.
That was something like a sixth sense.
Huh?
I can't call it anything other than a sixth sense...
My power's pretty strong.
I heard him saying, "Please, stop him," so...
Oh! It was how you felt. That's what you're trying to say, right?
Come on, Aoki-san.
I don't remember anything!
I understand your feelings.
You were frightened and couldn't bring yourself to report this to the police.
Nobody can blame you for that.
But there was someone who saved your life, wasn't there?
W-What happened to him?!
Unfortunately, he passed away.
Don't try to carry the burden of your frightening memories all by yourself.
It doesn't matter how insignificant, can you remember anything?
Asami...
What?
That person shouted:
"Don't do it! Asami!"
Don't do it!
Don't do it! Asami!
"Asami"?
The observer knew the killer?
Director, we need to investigate further back.
Do you feel something, Amachi-san?
That evening, after Yoneda finished his work at the backstreet workshop, he headed towards the office complex.
Then, he started following a man.
When Yoneda lost sight of the man he was following, he looked around the park,
and it was then he saw the attack.
The man who he was following and the killer have a similar build.
He got changed in the park.
So this office worker is Asami...
That must be the face he shows on the surface.
But why did Yoneda-san follow him in the first place?
Asami?
He's about 30 years old and an office worker.
No idea. Yone-san wasn't exactly sociable.
By the way, can you take a look at this?
Huh? Oh, this?
Yone-san was always carrying this around with him.
Really?
It was like it was a part of him.
I wonder what that was all about though...
Oh, Director...
Yoneda had been following that man for a month now.
That's the man's residence.
Is that the man's wife?
This is it, right?
Seems so.
There! Asami.
So now all the pieces have fallen into place.
Yeah...
They're a loving, ordinary couple...
They looked at Yoneda!
Director, just now... they definitely did!
So they didn't know each other?
Only Yoneda-san knew that person...
Are you crying, Yoneda-san?
Go back!
Ah... Yes, sir.
Director?
These kids...
...They all have the same face!
Why?
That's what it appeared like to the observer's eyes.
Huh? There's a neuron activated due to a response in long term memory.
Maki-san, the children's faces are linked to a memory in his distant past.
Distant past...
Judging from the quality of the image, around twenty—No, twenty-five years have passed since then.
Aoki-san, what's she saying?
"This is it. It's time to say goodbye to Papa."
"Here, it's Papa!"
It was a drawing done by a child...
She must have tried her best to draw her papa's face.
Yoneda abandoned his child...
Please excuse me.
Erm...
Are you all right?
I just got thirsty all of a sudden.
I'll be back right away.
Asami Tohru, 32 years old.
An employee of the firm, Touto Products.
He was an elite, expected to move quickly up the ranks, but he's been cast away from the path of success.
In addition,
there was an incident three months ago where a rabbit kept at a junior school near Asami's residence was killed with a knife.
I see.
Take care when observing him.
Maki-san, take a look at this.
He's looking through the garbage bag Asami threw away.
Yoneda must have discovered that Asami was hiding something,
but instead of reporting it to the police, he continued to follow him on his own.
What relation does Asami have to Yoneda-san?
Okabe, keep an eye on Asami-san no matter what.
Yes, sir.
Wait, Soga!
Lunch time?
I'm really sorry about earlier on... To be tricked like that...
Don't worry about it.
Then again, would Asami-san make his move knowing that he's being watched?
He'll definitely make his move.
He's the type of serial killer who'll commit a crime because he can't suppress his impulses for too long.
Welcome home.
I don't need dinner. I'm tired.
I see...
And now, the news.
The phantom serial killer continues to kill as if to taunt the police.
The police have no leads to the killer, and the investigation appears to be running into difficulties.
Hold it right there, Asami!
Accept that you've lost!
You!
Save your breath!
Asami Tohru admitted to committing the series of murders.
He killed the rabbit due to pent up stress from work, and vented his anger upon it.
It started to escalate, and he began to kill women.
It's from hunting.
Since ancient times it was a tradition only permitted to the privileged classes; the marking of killed game with a seal.
Amachi-san?
Do you have a moment?
Take a look at this.
It can't be...
Here, it's Papa!
One day, Yoneda-san decided to trace the daughter he abandoned.
He traced Sachie-san's high school and the career she pursued...
And eventually discovered she married Asami.
"What kind of person is her husband, Asami?"
"Is my daughter truly happy?"
Yoneda-san visited their flat frequently.
And then, he saw Asami throwing away bloodstained clothes, and began to have doubts about him.
This resulted in him following Asami around.
So it was all for his daughter...
Director, I'm in turmoil.
I want to tell Sachie-san that her father was secretly watching over her...
But if I do, she'll find out that her husband killed her real father.
Do what you think is best.
Yes, sir.
Is that so...
I'm sorry, you came all this way to tell me this, but I can't think of him as my father.
He left me and my mother behind, so that he could live with another woman.
A selfish, cold-hearted man, that's what my dead mother told me.
My father's nowhere to be found.
I don't even remember his face.
This... You drew this, didn't you?
Your father's face...
What?
Yoneda-san always carried this with him.
He's a father, after all.
He was always thinking of you—
I don't want to hear!
Could you please leave?
We don't need this drawing anymore, so we're returning it to you.
Just one last thing...
Yoneda-san tried to stop him with his own life, because he simply didn't want his daughter's husband to commit another crime.
Please just try and understand his fee—
Please leave!
What do you know about it?!
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...
Rat in a Box