My Lady, what would you like for breakfast?
My Lady?
My Lady….
Thank you for your work.
How's the situation?
The victim seems to have been stabbed on the back with a sharp object..
Stiff , Hard.
-And the first witness? -The housekeeper from this house.
Sen is interviewing her right now.
She came out of the room screaming that my daughter had been killed.
She had been wearing Lady Michiyo’s white coat, and was mistaken for her.
And...who is the victim ...?
My daughter 's assistant.
Her name is Yuriko Minegishi.
By the way, where is your daughter now?
That….
She collapsed on the spot.
There are no signs of struggle.
This must be the perp's entry point. Are there any prints?
None.
Good work ...
This is an awesome atelier.
Are the Kujos famous?
Yes.
He has already passed away, but Saneatsu Kujo was a well-known painter from Japan.
His daughter Michiyo Kujo is also a wonderful painter like her father.
-Section chief. -The victim is Michiyo Kujo 's assistant.
She seems to have stayed at the studio...
...to prepare for a solo exhibition which is to be held next month
And, were you able to talk to Michiyo Kujo?
She has been out since last night and has not come back.
-What is the trash mark? -It is not out yet.
Hey open this one.
The victim was stabbed on the back but the murder weapon has not been found yet.
Estimated time of death is between midnight and 3 o'clock today.
It seems that the suspect broke the glass and went in.
Nothing was stolen from the victim or the studio.
It doesn't seem to be a burglary.
What worries me is that Michiyo Kujo is still missing.
She may have something to do with the incident.
Excuse me!
-Niko! -Section Chief!
Yes.
There was a call from Harumi Hospital saying that the chief was brought in on an emergency.
-An accident? -No, it is...
His back hurt all of a sudden as he was practicing his dance steps.
Again ....?
Thank you, Niko.
That's enough already... Anyway the chief is OK.
Let's start the investigation!
Sendou and Toyama ....
Yes, Hello. This is Mizusawa... Yes.
Understood.
It seems that Michiyo Kujo has returned home.
I will go.
You guys look up the phone records and look for persons of interest!
-Come, Yokoyama. -Huh? Ah!
-Go! -Yes!
What's with that snobbish attitude ....
Itomura!
Please at least attend the investigation meeting. It's important to have teamwork ....
-I'm curious. -What!?
This is was in the victim's brush case. It was intentionally broken.
Why did the painter's assistant break her own tool?
At least…I cannot think of that to be related to the incident.
I'm going out.
Itomura! Where are you going!?
Yesterday at around 11 o'clock.
I went out for a drink, leaving Yuriko behind.
It was troublesome to come back after I went bar-hopping
So, I stayed at a nearby hotel.
Do you do that often?
Why not? It's normal for someone to drink when they're feeling anxious.
The painting at the scene was torn apart ....
That ...
I did it.
I did not like that picture.
Since my daughter is a perfectionist. It is common.
Mother, don't butt in unnecessarily!
I'm sorry….
Since when has the victim Minegishi been here?
Three years ago.
One day, while taking a walk,...
...I met her at a promenade walk along the Sumida river by coincidence.
She asked me if I would hire her.
What was Minegishi like?
She's silent and accepts any request without saying a word.
Permanent Yellow, deep and light. Go buy it.
Yes.
Pig hair flat brush No.8 and 12, too.
Sorry. Can you repeat from the beginning please?
Permanent Yellow, deep and light too.
Did you have any trouble with her?
Are you suspecting my daughter?
Not necessarily.
I've been wondering for a while now. Why are you wearing those gloves?
A painter's hand is her life so it's to protect herself from getting hurt.
Could you take them off for a while and show me your hands?
Why must she do that... That does not matter, right?
Please.
Excuse me.
Thank you very much.
Does Minegishi have any enemies?
Who knows? It's because she never talks about private matters ....
She was a silent and distasteful person.
What do you think of that parent and child?
There is a possibility that the mother is hiding something.
Go track down Michiyo Kujo's activity from last night.
Yes.
-Detective! -Yes?
-What's wrong? -Actually...
There may be a person who you might be interested in ....
Yes?
It's gone up again.
I am not impressed with you dating a young woman while undergoing a divorce.
Who are you?
I am Morita from the Metropolitan Police Department Investigation Division 1.
An art critic must be a very popular with the ladies.
If you have something to say, please tell me now.
It seems that you are requesting a large amount of property distribution...
...and compensation from Michiyo Kujo.
I'm just exercising my legal rights.
But she's divorcing you, because you kept cheating on her, right?
I'm going to the toilet for a bit.
It is because I was harassed by that parent and child .
Even though I accepted all of their demands and became a member of the Kujo family.
As soon as I get married, every day they tell me that I'm not worthy of the Kujo name.
Is that why you seduced Yuriko Minegishi?
It is certainly true that I tried to seduce her.
But that was to find out the secrets of those two ....
The secrets of those two?
This time is this paintbrush?
I will not force you but please do it urgently.
You are forcing me, right?
I have said it every time but I find it tough to continue work till late night! I'm at my limit!
Let me sleep a little more!
Even if all the soul is exhausted, his heart won't break if one has tenacity and conviction.
Someone said that.
I do not have any tenacity and conviction in me!
Huh? Are you such a person, Muraki?
That's right, did not you know that? I'm that kind of person.
Excuse me. I'm sorry, Muraki
Itomura gave you many difficult requests... Here are some refreshments.
-Mizusawa ... -Section Chief...
Muraki seems to be spent from overworking.
-Let's go home now. -I'm OK.
I will do an urgent appraisal.
Didn't you just say that you do not have any tenacity and conviction in yourself?
I didn't say that...
They call me the spirit of the forensics lab.
-Muraki, that's cool. -I will have some right away.
Wow! Turtle jelly. My favorite!
Oh it works!
Does Kujo have such an intense temperament?
It's because artists are selfish beings.
Have you know the Kujos for a long time, Shirota?
Yes. Since the late father. I am their exclusive agent.
Excuse me, this picture ....
Is this the work which earned Michiyo Kujo the best award from the Japan Art Federation?
-Yes. You know your stuff. -No, not really...
She had an artist's block until she took this prize.
Correct. I was also surprised when I saw this painting.
Was there a reason why her talent suddenly blossomed?
Michiyo sensei was finally able to shake off her father's ghost.
She probably had been too conscious of her great father.
There is nothing here.
She doesn't use much electricity or water too.
I guess she did not come back home that much.
What is this?
Is this a pencil stand or something?
House of starlings ....
She seems to have been from here.
This is a nice picture.
Huh? Do you understand art Itamura?
Absolutely no....
Hearing aids?
Hiroaki Kujo had an alibi.
I heard he had a meeting with Michiyo Kujo's agent for the gallery pamphlet's manuscript.
-His name is... -Takashi Shirota!
He seems to be a friend of her late father.
Oh sorry!
I also heard an interesting story.
What is it?
It seems that Yuriko Minegishi was the ghost writer of Michiyo Kujo.
In addition to that, when the two enter the studio, it is always locked.
By the way, when she got the prize, it was about 1 year after they hired the victim.
But ....
But Yuriko was just an assistant, right?
When Yuriko Minegishi was killed when she was wearing Michiyo's white robe.
Paint was also detected in between her fingernails.
Michiyo Kujo is a renowned painter, is she?
And why doesn't she have a lick of paint on her fingers?
If Yuriko Minegishi was the ghost writer of Michiyo Kujo,...
...there is a possibility that someone was unhappy and started a fight.
Excuse me.
I've tracked Michiyo Kujo's movements.
Certainly from 11:30pm to around 3.00am, she had been barhopping
All the waiters from those bars all said that she was different from usual.
Even if they talked to her. She was absent-minded.
It seems that she was silent with a thoughtful face.
It's 10 minutes by taxi to Ginza from her house.
It's not an impossible distance for her to commit that crime.
I'm back!
Do not run.
Yuriko died?
Yes.
Minegishi was the assistant of a painter by the name of Michiyo Kujo.
Michiyo Kujo?
Do you know her?
Oh no ... Not that.
Since when was Minegishi here?
Since she was five years old.
Her only relative, her mother, died of illness.
And she was sent here.
Her father?
He doesn't exist on her family register.
She must have been really shocked at the death of her mother.
She had a disease in the ear that made it hard for her to hear things, right after coming here.
Her ears?
Although she could still hear slightly with her right ear.
I do not know what happened back at that time that could caused it but,...
...Yuriko closed herself in her own shell and did not open her heart to anyone.
This is something I found from Minegishi's room.
Do you recognize this?
This sketchbook ....
She still had it!
Meaning ...?
When Yuriko was in junior high school ...
A person who donated a lot of money to this facility organized a sketch event.
And she received this book at that time.
Yuriko then felt something and started drawing pictures like crazy.
And so, she gradually began to change.
Little by little, she began to talk to us...
..and began to look after the little children as well.
I'm sure she cannot express it well with words, but there were various emotions.
By releasing it through painting it.
I think that she had been able to express them in words.
Wow awesome!
Yuriko ... by this sketchbook ....
No ... I think that she was saved by painting!
When will she be able to enter the atelier?
There is not much time until the solo exhibition.
On the other hand, isn't it convenient for her?
What?
Actually the late Minegishi was your ghost writer according to some rumors.
Who had been spreading such rumors?
There's no way a girl who hasn't studied art as much, draw as well as my daughter.
It is possible to travel in less than 10 minutes from the bar to your house but...
...why did you stay at a hotel?
-Was there any anything inconvenient for you? -You, stop it already!
My daughter happens to be as shocked as she is, and is unable to hold the brush anymore.
Sorry but I'm not feeling well. Excuse me.
Michiyo ...
Are you OK? Michiyo!
Section chief! Please look at this for a moment!
That's fast. It hasn't been long since the incident.
The problem is this.
The article describes how Michiyo Kujo is barhopping.
When is the date?
It's the night of the incident.
I have heard from the publisher.
They seem to know of the rumors of their divorce proceedings...
...and are staking them out to find out whether they were having an affair.
The reporter has followed her as she left her home that night...
...until she came out from the hotel till the next morning.
Did she return home during that time?
No, she went straight into the hotel after barhopping.
Her alibi checks out...
Excuse me...
-How about the mother? -Michiyo Kujo's mother?
Yeah. She overprotective of her daughter and is not fond of the victim.
She was a silent and distasteful person.
Couldn't the mother had killed Minegishi to protect her daughter, right?
Miki Kujo had testified that she had been in the house all night long.
If the mother is the culprit,... ...she wouldn't have killed the victim to make her own daughter suspected.
...she wouldn't have killed the victim and make it look like her own daughter a suspect.
In the first place, was the target of the criminal really Minegishi?
What do you mean?
I investigated the factory where Minegishi worked three years ago.
Minegishi is very quiet and wasn't the type who would pick a fight.
By the way, during the home search, there were no signs of any interaction.
In other words, people who resent Minegishi don't exist to begin with.
So who is the culprit?
Minegishi and Kujo are similar in stature, right?
If the perp had mistakenly attacked her in the dark...
Do you mean that Minegishi had been mistaken for Michiyo, and was murdered?
When you think of it that way...
It would explain the stab from the back.
Minegishi, on that day, had sent her hearing aids for repair.
Just a moment ...
The victim was deaf?
Yeah ... she had an ear disease when she was young.
And because of that, she didn't realize that the perp broke in...
-Let's check out the scene thoroughly again. -Yes.
-Thank you! -I'm sorry.
I am Itomura from Tsukishima Central Precinct.
Do you have any business?
Yes.
There is something I would like you to see a little.
This was in Minegishi's brush case.
Why was she carrying a broken paint brush around?
Do you have any ideas?
This ... is my paintbrush.
I see….
You hated me that much...
It wasn't the case when I met her....
Was it three years ago right?
When Minegishi became your assistant.
Yes.
At that time I was at the limits of what I could draw.
To ease my mind...
I went to sketch at the promenade along the Sumida River.
It has a good touch to it.
At that time, Yuriko was painting over there. -May i?
But I feel that this around here ....
This may be better.
It's true! Amazing!
Umm ... I think may be sudden but could you teach me how to draw?
Please!
No matter how bad I treated her, she did not show disgust and devoted herself to art.
This was not the color I asked for!
Even though I got into a good mood. What will you do now!?
I'm sorry. I will repurchase it soon!
Enough already. You're useless.
Sorry…
You did improve a lot.
Would you draw properly for once?
No…
Recently I have a lot of pain in my hands and I can't hold a brush.
Look, try drawing on it.
I intended that as a joke, but she outperformed me.
That was a wonderful picture.
That was the piece that took the Grand Prize of the Japan Art Federation two years ago.
Did something happen with Minegishi on the night of the incident?
She was trying to overthrow me.
Overthrow?
She had been secretly marketing herself to my agent, Shirota.
That's a misunderstanding, Michiyo! I'm not going to do that!
How do you think I've been suffering so how far?
Because I'm the daughter of Mr. Saneatsu Kujo , I am always compared with him...
That I was untalented and his shadow...
Do you understand how much I suffered?
Michiyo...
You thrive on the talent of others. Getting ahead of yourself and making a fool of me!
-It is wrong, it is really different! -You're free to go now!
Go anywhere.
Michiyo ....
I am exhausted already ....
The pain in my hand wouldn't disappear.
It's just painful to draw pictures!
She hated me.
Having this broken brush.
She just wanted to condemn into giving up my drawing career.
Is that glove to relieve the pain?
While I kept deceiving everyone, my tendonitis had gotten worse.
Now I can no longer hold a paint brush.
I cannot draw any more pictures.
I thoroughly searched the house, but got nothing,
How about you?
Looking at the state of the house, there were witnesses who saw a suspicious man...
But it turned out to be that photographer from that photo magazine.
Welcome back.
Oh, thanks for your work.
Itomura, who did you meet?
I met Michiyo Kujo.
I turns out that Minegishi was her ghost writer after all.
What?
-Did she admit it herself? -Yes.
Yes Hello. This is Itomura.
Nothing was found, which is related to the case directly...
...but there was a trace amount of paper clay adhered to the handle of the brush.
Paper clay?
And...that's quick. I couldn't explain it to him.
Thank you everyone.
Chief!
Chief! Is your hip okay?
It's not okay at all.
I have a ballroom dance tournament this weekend ....
So, you will be absent this time?
I'm wearing by a corset like this now.
It helps with the pain a little.
Chief! That's it!
-What's wrong? -Itomura!
Hey please look at this.
It's on an online art auction site.
All 5 of Michiyo Kujo's paintings were on auction since last week.
Eh What do you mean?
The price of her pictures were soaring and someone successful bid for it.
Generally, the value of a painting rises when the artist won a prize, or if she retired or died...
Does that mean that the successful bidder knew that Michiyo was attacked?
The name of the winning bidder is ... Shoko Hada !
It is the new lover of Hiroaki Kujo.
She works at a cabaret club in Roppongi , called On-Bullet.
-I will go. -Yes!
Sendo Sendo Sendo Sendo Sendo Sendodo Sendo
-Toyama. -Yes.
-Hey Yokoyama. Let's go. -Yes!
Well then Sendo...
Go confirm with the magazine's cameraman whether...
...he encountered a suspicious person the other day.
Roger that.
Everyone is dependable!
I have to be diligent.
That's it! Oh ouch.
As I expected.... That's how it was done...
The director willl return soon.
Don't mind me.
Did you find the culprit who murdered Yuriko?
No...not yet.
I ... grew up with Yuriko since childhood. She was like a sister to me.
It feels good! Hey look look!
-It's nothing! -Liar!
She said that she was saved through painting. Drawing pictures opened her to the world.
She started drawing during sketching party, when she was in Junior High school?
Yeah.
Please wait for a moment... I'm sure...
There was a picture at that time.
Yuriko is on the far right.
Um ... This is Kachidoki Bashi?
Yes, I took that picture along the Sumidagawa walking trail.
To ease my mind...
I went to sketch along the promenade along the Sumida River.
At that time, Yuriko was painting over there.
-Welcome back. -Yes.
I'm sorry, Director, I have something I'd like to ask you.
Sorry. Are you Shoko Hada, correct?
Could you accompany us to the station for a while?
Eh? What?
Five pieces in a week. Amounting to... 4 million yen.
For a person not interested in art. Why are you buying up all of Kujo's paintings?
Because Hiro told me on the phone.
He said that the price of her paintings will double, at least.
-Hiro? -It's Hiroaki Kujo.
Who did he talk to?
I do not know.
Welcome.
I am Mizusawa from the Central Tsukishima Precinct.
Hiroaki Kujo confessed that he got money from you and faked his alibi.
We have also investigated this gallery.
Business has stalled and you're raking up debt, right?
And you think that you'll be in trouble if you don't pay up soon...
Please tell me the truth!
The repayment deadline is approaching... There was nothing I could do.
If she dies, I thought that her paintings we have here would sell at a higher price.
You are her agent, right?
If you did that, didn't you think that her paintings can never to be sold again!
Michiyo sensei doesn't draw pictures anymore.
Yuriko Minegishi.
Was Michiyo's ghost writer..
You knew that?
When did you notice it?
When I saw this piece, as she won the prize at the competition.
Because I've seen her paintings for many years.
I knew immediately that it was not her touch.
So even if Michiyo sensei died, I thought that I could still sell Yuriko Minegishi's work .
But, I didn't know that it was Yuriko Minegishi ....
Stand up.
Michiyo, hello.
Is there something?
The culprit who killed Yuriko was caught.
I saw it on the news.
Can we talk a little bit?
There is nothing to talk about.
Three minutes is fine.
Can I have some time?
Please look at this.
I may not know by just looking at it but ...
Look. It fits perfectly.
Can you try holding it a little?
It was in Yuriko's room.
As you can see, it is designed not to strain the holder's hand.
Yuriko broke your brush for that.
You knew that Yuriko had a hearing disability.
Yes.
I think that it was because she had her disability,...
...she couldn't bear watching you suffering from tendonitis.
She wants you to draw pictures once more and made that...
...so that you will be able to hold a brush without feeling pain.
That... but Yuriko was approaching Shirota ....
That is your misunderstanding.
Yuriko told Shirota about your tendonitis and asked that he postponed the exhibition...
...so that you are able to focus on treatment.
Even though you misunderstood her, she remained silent..
...because she felt guilty, talking to someone about your tendonitis.
Why... Why did she go that far for me?
That's...
Because Yuriko is your older sister.
Yuriko's dead mother...
...had an affair with a teacher when she was studying at art university.
She had to give birth to her by herself.
The father was your father, Saneatsu Kujo .
Mr. Kujo was a public figure and had to leave young Yuriko to a facility.
When Yuriko was a middle school student,...
...Kujo invited the children of the facility to have a sketching party.
Yuriko at that time,... ...
...did not try to open her heart to people and did not try to draw any pictures.
But there was a girl who called out to her.
The second child from the right in this picture.
-This is…. -Yes, the girl was you.
Let's draw together.
From then on,...
..she learned to express herself through drawing and was able to talk to people again.
Yuriko was saved by you.
I do not remember anything.
That's normal.
But for Yuriko, it was surely a special experience.
I think Yuriko kept watching your piece that you drew all this while.
And probably she noticed that you were facing problems.
That's why I'm pretty sure that she tried to bump into you by coincidence...
...and volunteered to become your assistant.
I also think that ripped her own picture because she felt that she,...
...had drove you to a corner.
She felt that it was her turn to save you from the darkness.
She would like you to draw you r paintings freely as in the past.
Yuriko....doesn't she wish for that to be so?
It was a lie.
My tendonitis has already healded long ago.
I didn't want to admit Yuriko's talent ...
I was afraid of losing ...
I was lying all along.
Yuriko ... I'm sorry ....
I’m sorry…