Her nickname is Nadenka. She's twelve years old now.
l'd like you to go Siberia in my place and bring Nadenka back.
l'll take the ring with me.
What? The ring shouldn't be necessary for the negotiations!
You believed in Nadenka because of her ring.
Why should the other side be able to believe in me without this ring?
Then l'll issue an official document.
How will that be?
No.
Things like that have no meaning in Russia now.
The ring is vital to this negotiation.
Hey, yeah
Doko ni iru no ka wakatte iru no?
Sou kimi wa ima itsuwari to shinjitsu no hazama
Oh, toki wa michita
Nageki no kotoba wa iranai
Oh, kono mama dewa nani mo kawaru sube mo naku natte shimau
Deep inside of my small heart, into the light
Ugokihajimeta
Nothing can be sweeter than your smile
Tojikometa no wa shuumei no oto
Sometimes l think that is me choosing the way
Furueru karada
You must not say l don't care, tell me why
Uchihanasu no wa shuumei no oto
Laymen think a copy is made just by mimicking the degree of wear or the state of discoloration,
Aerospace Engineering Laboratory Laymen think a copy is made just by mimicking the degree of wear or the state of discoloration,
Controlled Area: Radioactive Equipment Laymen think a copy is made just by mimicking the degree of wear or the state of discoloration,
Controlled Area: Radioactive Equipment so they don't stand a chance.
What's important is the fact that Earth is being constantly pelted with radioactive rays.
The age of a material is proportionate to the amount of radiation it's been exposed to, right?
Every material is in the process of decay.
We're using a comparatively stable period in the process of decay as material for our purposes.
Professor...
Ah, yes, the ring.
Just as you requested, l exposed it to the same amount of radiation
that it would have naturally been exposed to over eighty years' time.
This means the original and the copy are identical not only in form,
but even in the age of their materials.
lt does result in a slight difference in the speeds at which they conduct heat.
That's because non-gold contents of the original and the copy are subtly different.
ln other words, it's not perfect?
Set your mind at ease.
Other facilities can't hope for the level of equipment my lab has.
Given that,
wouldn't you say that telling these rings apart is impossible?
Thank you, Professor.
Yugo...
lf you don't keep the rings separate, you'll be in trouble.
l'll be able to tell them apart.
l deliberately had the copy inscribed with different numbers than the original.
Deal
Hey, young man, won't you take a look at these?
Hey, you.
Will you give me a light?
Someone's following you, you know.
Will you give me one too?
Shall we walk?
l'm working as a radio personality on a J-TAMPA program called ''Radio Zipangu.''
My name is Kuwashima.
l'm calling because l'd like to request an interview with Mr. Andrei...
l regret to inform you that Mr. Romanovski is not in at the moment.
l see, l'll call again.
What are your goods?
Goods?
ln this town, if you've got someone tailing you, it goes without saying that you're a smuggler.
You're raking in the profits, aren't you?
l guess.
You dropped the cigarette on purpose back there
and checked out the guy tailing you, didn't you?
That's not all.
l wanted to find out whether you were military or not.
Soldiers have a habit of taking out their cigarettes from the bottom
so they don't have to touch the filters with their dirty hands.
After all, there's no toilet paper on the battlefield.
You're not a soldier.
l see you're a pro.
l'm old, but l'm actually a college student.
You can trust me. Follow me.
The patrons are pretty young for a bar crowd.
This is a disco. And these guys aren't patrons.
They're enjoying the music from out here.
The music that seeps through the walls is free after all.
What do you think? Pick the woman you like best.
l'll discount my commission for you.
So the women aren't patrons?
lf you cough up the money, you can screw any of them you want to.
So l get the pick of the litter...
But the woman l want isn't here.
What l want is a college girl, a Modern Russian History major.
One with good grades would be even better.
While you're at it get me a KGB officer's uniform, complete with hat, coat and boots.
Here's part of your payment.
You're going to put on a KGB uniform and push around a brainy chick?
Looks like you've got some pretty sadistic tastes there.
Do you know someone?
Yeah, she's got glasses, but you don't mind that, right?
l'll give you the rest of your payment tomorrow morning.
l've got some other business l'd like to discuss with you too.
Here's the next letter.
''Hello, Miss Mariko. l'm currently in Bangkok on a business trip.''
''Here, even at one o'clock in the morning,
middle school students walk around town and think nothing of it.''
''The temperature here is over 30 degrees even at night,
and it seems even if you stay perfectly still you break a sweat.''
Who is it?
l'm the person who was called to come here.
You've brought what that man gave you to bring?
l was told it's a KGB uniform.
P..Please give me the money first, five hundred dollars.
l can't pay until l've checked you out.
Why are you selling your body?
That's none of your business.
lf you can't tell me,
l'll send you home.
lf l had five hundred dollars, l could pay for a year of college
without owing anything to anyone.
Put your clothes on.
Do you like modern Russian history?
l hate Russian history.
Then why study it?
Revenge.
Revenge?
My father was arrested when l was sixteen.
He was earning his money leaking Russian secrets to the West.
Suspected spies are sent to Lubyanka.
My father is a traitor who was paid by the West
for reporting the comings and goings of the warships in Vladivostok Harbor.
But if that were all,
my mother and l could have stuck together and gone on living even through our sadness.
Until l found out that the one who informed on my father was my mother.
My father betrayed the land of his ancestors with no guilt,
and my mother turned informer on my father without thinking twice.
l can't forgive the society that made them do that.
So that's why this is revenge.
l'm still only doing research right now.
l'm looking for the point where this country was warped.
lf a girl just twelve years old were at the mercy of this country's society,
what would you do?
This girl's name is Nadenka.
My job is to help her emigrate from this country.
Emigrate from this country?
Do you know about the East Siberia Company?
lt was a company that was controlled by the lmperial government.
lt had a monopoly on sable fur, which people used to call ''running jewels,''
and it grew really big,
until the Russian Revolution happened in 191 7.
The girl in that photo is a descendant of the East Siberia Company's last governor-general,
Alexsandor Fyodorvich Romanovski.
And now she's under surveillance by the Russian authorities.
ln 1919, Alexsandor disappeared along with his younger son Vladimir.
l want to obtain records from right before that happened.
lf you're looking for records of the Russian Far East from around the time of the Revolution,
they're being kept in the State Archive in Khabarovsk.
Tomorrow morning will you take the first flight to Khabarovsk?
You'll get $500 in expenses and a $1000 fee.
l'd like to buy your expertise.
l'll fly out later.
There's something l want to investigate in Vladivostok.
lt's nice to meet you.
l'm Yugo.
l'm Lyuba.
Yugo, open up.
Well? Wasn't that girl just what you wanted?
She was a virgin, right?
You tasted the finest scholar at our university. l want top dollar.
l have one more request for you.
Ask me for anything. Requests from Japanese people are profitable.
This is a twelve-year-old girl with no relatives.
Her address is on the back.
l want you to find out whether she really lives there or not.
lf she's the real thing, she'll be wearing this ring.
You see it there in the photo.
Mine has Mary the Holy Mother of God on it.
Hers has Christ, Kristos.
l see, this would be worth money. So your goods are people, eh?
Hey, this is close by.
Why aren't you going?
l've got someone tailing me, you know that.
l don't want them to find out what l'm after
and then have the authorities soak me when l make the deal.
So it's about money, just like l thought.
All right, pay me in advance too then.
So, how will we contact each other?
The people who are following me have seen your face.
lt should be somewhere crowded but with an unobstructed view.
lf that's what we're looking for, l know the perfect place,
Amur Bay.
You were really meeting him here?
Yes...
Have you seen this man?
Don't know.
Have you seen this man?
There was definitely a man in that coat, over there.
lt's not here!
Where is the ring?! Tell me!
l don't know anything about a ring!
So the photo really was a trap.
There's only three of them. This isn't the way the military operates.
The army would mobilize a squad.
Hello...
Hello, Romanovski residence.
l'm sorry, l have the wrong number.
Why isn't he showing up?!
Answer!
l don't know...
Think back! He must have told you something else!
Where is he?!
l don't know...
You're in the way. Move!
Excuse me, Sir!
We've finished deploying men to all the train stations, airports and major roads,
but the wanted man hasn't been discovered yet.
Dammit! Where is he?!
Where is he hiding?!
He didn't tell me anything.
Think back! Remember something, l don't care what!
What did he ask that girl for?!
The girl?
A... a uniform!
What?
He had me get him a KGB uniform.
Why didn't you say so sooner?!
Tell everyone right away!
The negotiator may be wearing a KGB uniform!
This is J-TAMPA broadcasting Radio Zipangu.
l'm your host, Mariko Kuwashima.
Today's first song is the Theme from Papillon, since l like butterflies.
Papillon... babochka...
So Olga's made a move?
You're under arrest.
l'm transferring you to our compartment.
l get it. This gesture means ''vodka.''
To Japan and Russia! And to the honor of the Russian Army!
To the health of everyone here!
Captain!
Someone saw a man in a KGB captain's uniform get on the Russia Express bound for Moscow!
What?!
All right, get all the men on the train at Ussuriisk!
But the men are standing by in Vladivostok!
How will we get them on the train at Ussuriisk?
A snowstorm is beginning outside, and it's the middle of the night.
We can't use helicopters.
Do you want to be subject to disciplinary measures?!
lf we let the negotiator slip through our fingers and go on, this is what will happen to all of us!
Send out the attack choppers equipped for night use!
The men are pros working directly under Her Excellency, Major General Garrachova!
l'll make a lot of noise.
Covering up a dead body is a piece of cake for you then?
But if there's a ruckus now,
the soldiers l met on this train will come running.
lf that happens, the situation might get a little thorny.
You're the one who'll be in trouble if this leaks to the public.
lf you need the ring,
l'll trade it for Nadenka.
lf you get it, then leave the ring and go.
Hey!
Yugo, hang out with us a little longer!
Wait!
ls that you, Olga?
Don't move.
Do you have any evidence that that ring is the real one?
You're bluffing.
What about you?
Do you intend to release Nadenka if you get the real ring?
No.
Leaving your mission aside, what do YOU think?
What do YOU consider just?
To me, my country is justice.
Don't!
Hidoku kokoro ni karamatta tsukisasaru kotoba wa
Sou kantan ni wa hodokenai
Tomo ga mata satte yuku
Hitonami ni nagasareru ningyou ni wa naritakunai
Boku wa boku nari no uta wo utau
Kono machi wa natsukashii nioi ga suru
Osanai koro wo omoidasu
Get you, get you, kokoro tsukande itsu made mo hanasanai
Baby, baby, itsu ni nattara nukedaseru no?
l don't know
Next Episode
An enormous library and a mountain-high pile of documents...
Thick layers of dust tell us that much time has passed.
However, the information Yugo is searching for
has already been replaced with blank pages.
And the party to be negotiated with reveals its brutal, true form.
Next time on Yugo the Negotiator, third episode of the Second Negotiation:
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