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.
It's coming out again...
I don't wanna die yet...
Again...
It's coming out again...
We've been expecting you, Senior Superintendent Nagamine.
I'm Aoki from the Forensic Investigation Office Section Nine.
So it's you. Maki-kun's favorite newcomer.
Huh?
In other words, you're just trash.
Rat in a Box
Senior Superintendent Nagamine has just returned from his training with the FBI last week.
He will hold the post of Vice-Director as well as Deputy Minister of Police Secretariat.
Police Secretariat? That's...
It's the department that handles all the most classified materials of the National Police Agency.
The elite of elites...
Shush! He can hear you.
Well then, Nagamine-kun, I'll leave you to it.
Wow, new potential in Section Nine. That's really reassuring.
Vice-Director, allow me to explain the MRI system.
No, it's not necessary.
Vice-Director, what did you learn from the FBI?
Well then, I'll start out the introductions...
It's not necessary.
I've already looked through your history and previous investigation reports.
I was appalled.
So many full-grown adults gathered together, yet it still takes so much time and expenditures to solve each case.
Especially when you have the MRI system. It's like casting pearls before swine.
Erm, excuse me,
but we at Section Nine, have made considerable contributions to criminal investigations in the past...
Maki-kun, there've been concerns raised among the higher officers about your abilities as a director.
That case still has a lingering effect on you, doesn't it?
How did it feel? Shooting your best friend.
Excuse me...
Aoki, that was a pity, wasn't it?
In the end, you couldn't tell your father that you were working for Section Nine.
How did you—?!
I was sent here to supervise you all.
I'll fire those who are useless without hesitation, so I'd advise you all to tread carefully.
Vice-Director?
Call me Nagamine.
Nagamine-san, about the destination...
I've already told you where.
Can't you even use an automobile navigation system properly?
Uh, it's not about that. It's about the destination.
Nothing shows up on the map.
What's there?
You'll find out when we get there.
The person at the back staring at the rat is...
...Makabe Hiroshi.
He was a serial murderer that attacked and murdered women, and was sentenced to death last month.
He's a man they consider to be impossible to rehabilitate.
There are people who claim that condemned prisoners have rights too,
so this is a sanitarium that was built in response to their opinions.
"At least let them have a decent break before their execution," that's the general idea.
There are two people per room,
and they're free to enter the rooms of others as well.
It's a pretty open place then.
However, there have been a few incomprehensible incidents...
Incidents?
In the last month, two condemned prisoners have been murdered.
Despite an investigation by the police, we still haven't been able to identify the murderer.
Those guys are frightened too.
Each room is monitored via CCTV,
however, in both cases, there was a mysterious power failure at the time of the murder and nothing was recorded.
Is such a coincidence even possible?
And this is where Section Nine comes into the picture.
If we search through the brains of the dead, we may find an image of the killer—
A power failure?!
Hey!
What's going on?
We're trying to find that out now.
Hurry!
Yes, sir!
It's no good. The killer wasn't filmed.
So this makes it the third victim.
To think that the killer would kill someone right in front of our eyes...
The weapon was a toothbrush with a sharpened grip.
What caused the power failure?
Again, it's unknown.
This man...
Hiraoka Osamu, he was sentenced to death for massacring a family of three.
He complained that the rat was noisy and always quarreled with Makabe.
Though... Hiraoka hasn't moved at all.
How did he...
First we'd better look into the brains of the deceased.
We're beginning the scan of Makabe's brain.
It was truly a living hell.
Nearing his execution date, he was tortured by fear and frightened by various delusions.
We're approaching the last cut.
It's about time for the power failure to occur.
The power's failed.
The power is about to come back.
He's been stabbed!
But Hiraoka...
Hiraoka hadn't moved.
Then who did it?!
Seriously...
So now we're left with even more riddles.
Why didn't they predict that incidents like this would occur?
What?
You cannot deny that there are problems in the management of the facility.
It's none of your business, so don't interfere.
Sendou, can you trace back his long term memory?
Yes, sir. I'll try.
There's a neuron in the cerebral cortex that's responding weakly.
What happened?
We can't see it.
The memory's been blocked.
It's sunk really deep within his memories.
Try again.
Continue searching until we know what it is.
What are you doing?
Go and find out everything you can about Makabe.
Yes, sir.
This is suffocating.
How come Nagamine-san is so disrespectful towards the Director even though he's just a Vice-Director himself?
In terms of my career prospectives, I'm in a stronger position than Maki-kun. That's why.
Makabe Hiroshi had been repeatedly attacking young women, raping them, and then murdering them.
It's odd...
He was already sentenced to death.
His execution would have taken place, and Makabe would have died without the killer needing to lift a finger.
Given that, why would the killer take the risk and kill Makabe?
So in the end, we've come back to Hiraoka.
Want to question him face-to-face then?
Yeah.
We're from the police.
We'd like to ask you about Makabe-san.
I don't think you can...
When I talked to him, I didn't get a direct response even once.
Hiraoka-san, did you notice anything when Makabe-san was murdered?
Who killed Makabe-san?
Hiraoka-san?
Makabe used to talk to that rat everyday.
Now, that's the only thing Hiraoka will talk to.
May I have a look at this cage?
Stop it...
Stop it! Please!
F-Forgive me! Please!
Please! Don't kill me!
Sawanami Hospital
There's nothing physically wrong with him.
Do you know what happened to him?
He must have experienced extreme mental stress from his everyday life.
Hiraoka's not the only one.
The expressions on all the condemned criminals' faces weren't normal.
There's something going on in that facility.
So do you know what happened to Makabe at the time of his death?
Nagamine-san, what's the purpose of that facility?
What do you mean?
Please tell us! What's frightening the condemned criminals so much?
What's frightening them? It was you, Aoki.
Hiraoka mistook you for the executioner and became deranged with fear.
The executioner?
Well, same thing.
We, members of Section Nine, go around receiving the brains of the dead; we're like Death himself.
What's wrong? You don't like this job anymore?
Then go ahead and quit immediately.
That way I can cut expenses.
Here you go.
I was wondering...
Why would a serial killer like Makabe take care of a small life like this...
Perhaps...
It was a sign of him wanting to redeem himself.
Redeem himself?
When people face their death,
they begin to regret the mistakes they made in the past, and become aware of their own guilt.
Maybe Makabe was trying to pay for the numerous sins he committed in the past by raising a small life.
He wasn't only frightened.
As he faced his death, he was repenting over all the mistakes he'd made in the past.
If so, maybe his soul was saved right at the end of his life.
That's just my personal speculation though.
Not at all, thank you.
We may have a lead on the killer!
Really?
Makabe had been frightened by numerous mysterious shadows since a few days prior to his death.
Among those shadows, there's one we can recognize particularly clearly.
This is?
The night before the murder.
Clarifying and enlarging the image.
Aoki, what's she saying?
"Hi-ro-shi...
"Hi-ro-shi."
She's calling Makabe's name.
Right, find her from the lists of people related to Makabe.
I found her.
The woman's name is Ichinose Harumi.
Ichinose Harumi
She's Makabe's ex-girlfriend.
Get a witness statement off her immediately.
We can't...
Why?
Ichinose Harumi has already passed away.
Makabe killed her half a year ago.
Excuse me.
I've succeeded in retrieving the long term memory stored in the cerebral cortex.
It's coming onto the monitor.
Please.
Makabe asked Harumi to come back to him, but she rejected him.
He lost his head, and stabbed Harumi to death with the kitchen knife he was secretly carrying.
Then, how did the dead manage to commit murder?
You're saying this was committed by a ghost?
Maki-kun, is your investigation over?
I'm disappointed in all of you.
Ouch!
Why you!
Hello?
What? Hiraoka has?
Don't be so disheartened.
He was going to die soon anyway.
If you've got time to be sentimental, why don't you use that time to search through Hiraoka's brain?
Maki-san...
Don't waste his death.
I'll go back to the moment when Makabe died.
It's pitch black!
Has the power failed already?
No, it's a couple of minutes prior to the power failure.
Come to think of it, that time...
Hiraoka had his head down and eyes closed...
This is the moment when the power failure occurred...
It's not pitch black!
Of course!
Hiraoka had his eyes closed the entire time, so he would've been able to see in the dark.
Ah, there's Makabe!
Suicide...
No way...
There wasn't a murderer from the start.
Now I see! Those strange shadows were just delusions created by Makabe's sense of guilt!
You took a while, but I'll give it a pass.
What do you mean?
Nagamine-san, did you drive them to commit suicide?!
That's right.
But how?!
I was feeding the condemned criminals particular pieces of information every day.
This is no sanatorium.
It's their execution chamber.
Every day in that place, a condemned criminal will be selected at random and executed.
Who and where the executioner is, is not revealed.
In order to be freed from their fear, those guys ended their lives themselves.
In another words, they were executed by an executioner created by their own delusions.
The power failures at the facility was something I set up.
Why did you do such a thing?!
In order to observe how humans react under extreme conditions; they're just samples.
So it's an experimental facility with condemned criminals as the guinea pigs?
Well, they're gonna die anyway.
They might as well be of some use to society; that way they'd rest in peace.
Another objective was to examine your group's ability to investigate.
Thanks to them, I got some excellent data.
You're in my way. Move.
Move!
Aoki, he said move.
Sorry to disappoint you, but we have no intentions of becoming your guinea pigs.
Section Nine's leader is me.
There are plenty who can replace you, Maki-kun!
No one can replace Maki-san!
Maki-san...
An organization has no use for members who cannot follow their orders.
We're always being watched...
...in the corner of this rigid society.
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...
Don't Meddle with that Head