Is that how you act when you receive an order, punk?
This is for our motherland.
If you die, be content. Don't let death stop you!
Sir...
Sir, if I may, it seems foolish to be content
with dying in what amounts to a training exercise!
Besides...
I don't think these men are fit to be scouts.
What "amounts to" a training exercise?
Tobisaki!
Are you, a soldier who swore allegiance to the army,
saying that your superior officer's orders are "foolish"?!
No, sir, I'm not! I just—
You "just" nothing!
Stop complaining and move out!
Grab him!
Violence against a superior officer! Refusing orders!
Are you the one they called "untrainable?"
Any plans for after you quit the army?
Good question.
Maybe I'll move to Manchuria
and become a roving bandit.
If you feel up to it, come take my exam.
As the embers of world war smoldered
in autumn of 1937,
the Imperial Army
Greater East Asia Cultural Society
established a clandestine spy training agency.
The histories, names, and even ages
of the elite men who pass its rigorous application process
are all treated as top-secret information.
They easily complete training exercises that push them
to their physical and mental limits.
Under the command of founder Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki,
they operate worldwide, within the shadows.
And so a brand-new intelligence agency was created.
Its name is "D-Agency."
Somebody call the police!
Episode 12 - XX (Double Cross)
Call the police!
What's going on?
He's dead?
"I've lost all hope. I want to die."
Was he killed?
The target I was watching died.
It was an inexcusable failure.
Greater East Asia Cultural Society
1939, Spring
The deceased is a German man named Karl Schneider.
Publicly, he was a writer for Berlin Allgemeine,
but was a suspected double agent for Germany and the Soviet Union.
This program is a work of fiction. The characters, organizations, locations, laws, names, etc. being portrayed are unrelated to actual events.
On the day of the incident, Schneider bought flowers from a street vendor
and headed for the apartment of his lover, Nogami Yuriko, a theater performer.
They met about a year ago
through a friend of Nogami's and began dating.
Schneider furnished the apartment in question for Yuriko.
Nogami was out that day,
but just after 3 PM, she returned with her friend
and fellow performer, Yasuhara Miyoko.
According to the report,
they'd arranged to go eat cake together.
As far as Schneider's death goes, the police ruled it a suicide
and will not be investigating further.
How likely is it that Schneider realized you were watching him,
decided he had no chance of escape, and killed himself?
Schneider was a top-class spy.
The thought of him choosing death
seems rather unnatural to me.
However, the suicide note's a problem.
How do you explain it?
The handwriting analysis said he wrote it himself.
In short, Odagiri,
you believe someone killed Schneider,
and the note was forged?
Given that he was a double agent,
it wouldn't have been odd for either Germany or the Soviets to go after him.
All I'm saying is that we need to consider the possibility.
But your contributions have already given us
enough information to reject the idea.
You heard screaming a moment after
the woman and her friend came home.
No one exited through that door before then.
What was the target's cause of death?
Asphyxiation from cyanide poisoning.
The same compound was found on the glass of wine he'd been drinking from.
You're saying that when Schneider died,
you didn't notice anything at all?
This Schneider...
He was fluent in English, wasn't he?
Is that from him testing the pen?
Maybe.
But it also looks like two crosses side by side.
In English, "double-cross" means "to betray."
Someone betrayed Schneider...
Or he betrayed them.
What do you think?
Whatever the case, we have to take control of his spy network.
Kaminaga, investigate everyone who went to Schneider's house again.
Hatano, double-check the actual suicide note.
Miyoshi, check the latest developments at the German and Soviet embassies.
Amari, investigate any native
English speakers who lived near Schneider.
Tazaki, look into the wine import channels...
Fukumoto...
What do you want me to do?
Investigate the woman who was at the scene.
The woman?
But she...
Nogami Yuriko had an airtight alibi.
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At the time I suspect Schneider died,
she was in a dress rehearsal with her theater company.
According to witness testimonies,
she was never off the stage for more than five minutes.
I leave tomorrow.
We may never meet again.
Knowing that, will you still wait for me?
I will.
I'll forever be here, waiting for your return.
So please, come back...
I loved him with all my heart.
So much that I want them to live the life they truly want.
I will disappear quietly.
Even if a future
of darkness and solitude awaits.
It will
still be proof that I lived!
Great show!
Today's performance was amazing!
Miyoko-san, you've really got a flair for this.
Thank you.
Yuriko-san was the real star, though.
In spite of what happened...
She was just splendid.
Tokyo Flower Girl
I wonder if Yuriko-san's all right....
Excuse me, sir?
Is anything the matter?
Oh, no.
Yasuhara-san's quite popular, isn't she?
Look at all these flowers for her.
Oh, yes, thank you.
Congratulations to Yasuhara Miyoko
It's just talent, I suppose.
Miyoko-san's gotten better and better...
These days, she's our marquee actress.
Are those flowers for Yasuhara-san, too?
What a calming scent.
Yes,
they're Miyoko-san's favorite flower.
To be honest, after some time,
a nearby florist takes Miyoko-san's flowers off our hands.
I hope you're not offended.
They're beautiful and shouldn't go to waste.
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I understand.
Café Suzunari
No invisible ink. The paper was bought from a local store.
No suspicious activity from
the people who went into Schneider's home.
I looked at the wine importing companies.
None were connected to an intelligence agency.
Nothing unusual at the German and Soviet embassies,
but someone new may have taken over Schneider's spy network.
Why are you reporting to me?!
Why...
This is your case.
My... case?
See you next time.
Thanks again.
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Yuriko-san! Get ready to go on!
I leave tomorrow.
Knowing that, will you still wait for me?
I will.
I'll forever be here, waiting for your return.
So please, come back...
I loved him with all my heart.
So much that I want them to live the life they truly want.
I will disappear quietly.
Even if a future
of darkness and solitude awaits.
It will still be proof...
It will still be proof that I lived!
Looks like...
Nogami Yuriko wasn't the murderer in the Schneider case.
Nope.
No actor could cry tears like those as a performance.
What'd you find about Schneider's accomplices?
Just like you thought.
I tailed the man removing the flowers from the theatre.
He stopped at what looks like an ordinary florist's,
Arekiyama Commerce Association
but the place doubles as a secret post
for Soviet spies to exchange intel.
They communicate in code using a specific flower.
In Russian, it's called
"romashka."
In Japan, it's commonly called "chamomile."
Two Soviet spies made contact with Schneider.
One is the florist who collects the flowers.
And the other...
Nogami Yuriko's friend,
Yasuhara Miyoko.
What tipped you off?
It was simple.
The scent in Nogami's apartment just after the murder
was the same as the flowers delivered to Yasuhara Miyoko.
Meaning there was another connection
between Schneider and Yasuhara besides Nogami Yuriko.
Schneider probably planned to give
the movements of the Germans and Soviets
that he got from Japan to the British.
And with the chance that he was now a triple agent,
the Soviets planned Schneider's assassination.
They set things up to look like suicide at his lover's apartment,
but to do so, Yasuhara Miyoko needed some time to be in there alone.
After seeing Schneider's body,
Nogami rushed off in a panic to the police station
while Miyoko put the prepared suicide note on the table.
The double cross in the English alphabet
might've been a message to the English-speaking side.
How did she get the note, though?
Surely she didn't make him write it.
Maybe she said it was a hint for the next code they would use?
The day it happened,
Miyoko knew Schneider would be in that apartment,
so she called him and said,
"At our next exchange,
I'll say, 'I've lost everything.
Let's die together,'
using the plant that carries that meaning."
Then,
while waiting for Yuriko to come home,
he figured he'd have a glass of wine.
I'm told Yasuhara Miyoko confessed to Schneider's murder.
The police send their thanks for the information.
Quite a rare occurrence.
Did Nogami Yuriko resemble...
Nishiyama Chizuru?
When Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki ordered me to monitor Karl Schneider,
and I first laid eyes on Nogami Yuriko,
I couldn't believe my eyes.
Chizu-nee...
I never knew my parents' faces.
I was left with my paternal grandparents,
but they were so advanced in age,
they couldn't be expected to care for a baby,
so it fell to the young daughter of a nearby farming family to raise me.
Hiro-chan.
She, and she alone,
was the one person in the world who accepted me.
Nishiyama Chizuru practically raised you.
She eventually eloped with a young man who abandoned her,
and she never made it back to her hometown before dying of tuberculosis.
When the target died,
you reported that you didn't notice.
The only thing that could distract you,
a man trained by D-Agency,
would be the specter of Nishiyama Chizuru.
It was a simple deduction.
Because I was so focused on
Nogami Yuriko in that moment,
I failed to see the feelings of the other woman in the equation.
You won't reconsider, correct?
Letter of resignation
Do you know why
D-Agency only takes men?
Because women kill even when it's not necessary.
For foolish, trivial reasons
like love and hate.
Being completely unencumbered...
It requires
not believing in anything else in the world...
Abandoning trivial things like love and hate,
betraying what's in your heart that supports you,
and casting it aside.
No matter how I tried,
I couldn't rid myself of Chizu-nee's memory.
No...
If I'd abandoned her,
I'd no longer be sure of my reason for living.
In the end,
I'll never be able to become a monster like them.
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Excuse me...
Will Nogami Yuriko-san not be performing?
Oh, I remember you.
Yes, I'm afraid Yuriko-san quit.
She quit?
First she lost her boyfriend,
and then Miyoko-san got arrested...
It must've really taken a toll on her.
I see...
It's so sad to think I'll never see Yuriko-san perform in Japan again.
Where is she going?
She said she wanted to start her acting studies over in a new place.
A movie studio wanted to sign her, too...
So she's going to Manchuria.
Here's your dismissal.
You've been to assigned to Kwantung.
Apparently you'll be a lieutenant in a Manchurian unit.
Lieutenant Tobisaki Hiroyuki.
Don't die.
Are you stupid?
Who bows while wearing a business suit?