[Subtitles translated from FIX C-subs, TVBT C-subs, and Jpsubbers J-transcripts]
It all began with the Musashino gang rape case.
I wish to hand something over to you.
It is evidence that can... identify the real culprit.
My brother is going to be murdered!
Sergeant Ōyama?
Sergeant Ōyama!
Ōyama senpai is dead.
He's still alive...
on the other side of this walkie-talkie.
Found him!
Saegusa Kento,
you are under arrest for the murder of Chief Iwata.
What's going on?
We have evidence and witness.
Evidence?
We found the weapon in the washroom of the hospital.
Your fingerprints were on it.
That's a lie.
We will question you on what
both of you were doing here later.
Hey, hey.
Stop! Wait!
Suspect is trying to escape from the hospital!
Request backup!
MARCH 20, 2000
Here you go.
I'm sorry. My mother is at work so I can only serve you plain tea.
Thank you.
I hurried over here
so I was thirsty too.
Ōyama Takeshi
Ōyama was detained at the last minute
so I came in his stead.
I see.
I hear that you were looking for Ōyama urgently.
You were just released from juvenile detention today.
Does this have to do with that case?
Ōyama has told me everything.
Can you tell me the details?
I am not the culprit.
I know the identity of the real culprit
who first raped Iguchi Nana.
The real culprit.
Ogawa Yōichi who is in same year as me.
The oldest son of Ogawa Urban Development's president.
You have proof?
This.
No!
Poor people should just obey quietly.
Everyone in this city
depends on my family to survive.
I see.
That is important evidence indeed.
Can a reinvestigation be done?
Yes.
Even now, you are still looking for proof
to submit to the police.
You have a strong sense of justice.
Even now, you are still trying to clear your name?
Yes.
That way,
I will be able to bring my younger brother home.
Only then can my brother and mother,
all three of us live together once more.
So you're doing it for your family.
Yes.
So
you will never give up no matter what happens.
Yes.
I will not give up no matter what happens.
I see.
Can I have another glass?
Yes.
Older brother! Wake up!
Wake up!
Older brother! Older brother!
- Older brother! - Ryōta!
- Hey! - Ryōta! Ryōta!
Older brother!
- Older brother! - Ryōta!
Older brother!
- Ryōta! - Older brother!
Please! Please!
1 2 3.
- Older brother! - Ryōta!
- Older brother! - Ryōta! Ryōta!
- Older brother! Older brother! - Ryōta!
Committed suicide on the same day
It can be changed.
The past can surely be changed.
SIGNAL: Cold Case Investigation Team Episode 10
What?
Katō Ryōta...
is not a boy who would commit suicide.
He contacted me
saying he obtained evidence of the real culprit.
It is a cassette tape with the recording of the entire incident.
I do not trust the other detectives.
Mr. Ōyama, you were the only one
who took my words seriously.
So, it has to be you, Mr. Ōyama.
After Katō Ryōta's death, I searched through his room
but there was no cassette tape.
Someone murdered Katō Ryōta,
made it look like a suicide,
and took it away.
Someone who would be in trouble because of the evidence.
Who?
It was you.
You heard from Chief Iwata
that the child contacted me.
Katō Ryōta?
Oh Katō, it's you.
Evidence of the real culprit?
I'll be right there.
I don't know what you are saying.
Get out.
Stop pretending!
Why did you have to kill him?
Ōyama!
That child tried to prove his innocence
not for himself!
It is so that his family who had been torn apart
will be able to live together once more!
- That was all he wanted! - Someone!
He was only hoping for an adult to help him.
Throw him out.
Yet...
such a small desire
has been destroyed by you!
Are you still human!
Let me go...
Let go!
I will never forgive you!
Lieutenant Saegusa.
I'm sorry.
Your older brother...
I could not save him.
It was my fault.
If I had gone there sooner...
Senpai?
Are you really
Ōyama senpai?
0.5,
why do you have this walkie-talkie?
It really is you, isn't it?
Please answer me!
18 years...
I've waited 18 years.
However...
However, senpai...
you returned as a corpse.
"Everything will be resolved by this weekend."
"Let's talk about it then."
Senpai, you told me that, did you not?
What I said the other day...
Everything will be resolved by this weekend.
Let's talk about it then.
I even wanted to apologise properly to you.
The story regarding movies... I am already aware of it.
Someone important to senpai
was harmed in a case.
Movie tickets.
Go watch it with someone.
I don't watch movies.
Sorry.
Ōyama will not watch movies.
A long time ago,
a girl Ōyama was watching over
was supposed to go to the movies with him.
Unfortunately, she was killed in a case.
Since then, Ōyama never went to the movies.
To be honest, I was jealous back then
because I was too young.
I really wanted to offer you a proper apology...
face to face with you.
But you had gone.
Sakurai.
How I wish for you to come back.
However, what came back was your remains!
If...
If it is not too late...
Please listen carefully.
On April 15th,
Tanihara Memorial Hospital...
You mustn't go there.
Are you listening?
Tanihara Memorial Hospital!
You mustn't...
Senpai?
Senpai!
Public payphone
Yes.
Saegusa speaking.
Saegusa.
Where are you now?
First Investigation Division is
preparing to arrest you.
The fingerprints on the chief's murder weapon...
Sakurai, I have a request.
Well?
Okamoto has left his house.
Make sure to find him
before First Investigation Division does.
Understood.
Please let me off.
What will happen if the higher-ups find out
you are checking the suspect's bag?
Important investigation materials have gone missing.
The likelihood that Lieutenant Saegusa has taken them is very high.
By right, we should be following proper procedures.
Thank you anyway. You are a great help.
- Here, please do it quickly. - Of course!
By the way, have you been drinking too much?
You look terrible. Your face is sallow...
- I did drink a little yesterday. - See?
I have had no time to drink
due to Lieutenant Saegusa's investigation.
- I understand... - It's true. I only had one drink yesterday.
That's fine, that's fine. One needs to relax every now and again.
Yamada, the materials are not here.
Really? Understood. Where has it gone to?
Sorry for troubling you.
By the way,
What is going on?
We will keep quiet about your drinking.
Hey... hey.
You spoke with Sergeant Ōyama?
If that was indeed Ōyama senpai.
If that really is him,
then your older brother...
I know.
My older brother was not saved.
The past was not changed.
Did you bring my handphone?
Okamoto
This is Okamoto.
I know all of Nakamoto's crimes.
The police cannot be trusted.
On the 6th, come alone at 11PM
to the underground parking lot of the First Gulf Coast building.
It is just as I thought.
But why would Okamoto contact you?
Okamoto has now been targeted.
By whom?
The one person involved in my brother's case, Chief Iwata's murder,
Sergeant Ōyama's murder.
Commissioner Nakamoto.
The reason the truth behind these string of cases was concealed up to now
can only have been due to his tight control over all intel.
What does that mean?
Chief Iwata's weakness was a sick daughter.
As soon as the weakness ceased to exist,
the chief was murdered.
Before the investigators could make their move,
Okamoto managed to escape
because he could reveal the secrets.
However, the meticulous Commissioner Nakamoto
should already have planned to get rid of Okamoto.
- Okamoto as well? - Yes.
Okamoto was probably aware of it.
That's why he contacted me.
By contacting the person who intends to uncover the truth
behind all the cases Nakamoto is involved in,
he hopes to protect himself.
If Okamoto is caught,
you would be cleared of Chief Iwata's murder.
And we might find out...
the circumstances of senpai's murder.
In that case,
there might be a chance to save Sergeant Ōyama.
MARCH 21, 2000
Are there any prints?
None apart from the family members'.
However, there are many suspicious traces of the crime scene being wiped down.
Wiped down?
However this...
It is a glass found inside the sink at the scene.
This is from the kitchen...
Let's analyse all this.
This one. Thank you. This one too.
What of it?
Although it is very faint,
there are traces that were not wiped off.
Someone else's fingerprints?
No, blood stains.
Blood stain?
Katō Ryōta collapsed in the room.
To get to the kitchen in that state...
It will not be possible.
Can a sample be collected?
I am Ōyama of Josai Precinct's Criminal Investigation Division.
I have some evidence
that urgently requires DNA analysis.
MAY 6, 2018 First Golf Coast building Underground parking lot
Are you alone?
That's right.
What do you know?
What do you think?
The statute of limitations has expired on bribery and corruption charges.
However,
there is one crime with no statute of limitations.
Murder.
That's it.
Didn't I tell you to come alone.
Don't worry.
Lieutenant Sakurai can be trusted.
You don't know that guy Nakamoto.
You would have been tailed.
Do you remember Sergeant Ōyama?
Who is that?
April 15th, 2000.
Tanihara Memorial Hospital.
I do not know...
Sergeant Ōyama's remains were recovered from your villa.
How do you explain that?
Tell me! Why did you kill him!
I was not the one who killed him.
That guy got what was coming to him.
Got what was coming to him? What do you mean?
He just had to investigate the death of a nobody.
Since he insisted on uncovering the truth,
he was killed to shut him up.
Was it
the death of Katō Ryōta who was framed as the culprit
of the Musashino gang rape case?
That's the one.
The past...
can be changed.
What a fool.
If he had not poked his nose where it did not belong,
he need not have been killed.
Cold cases exist because someone gave up on it.
No matter what happens,
I will never give up on this case.
Sergeant Ōyama.
Please save my brother!
My brother is going to be murdered!
I beg of you...
Please save my brother!
Sergeant Ōyama was the only one...
who did not give up.
It is my fault.
It's because of me...
that Sergeant Ōyama is dead.
You were tailed after all!
- Stop! - Sakurai!
Okamoto…
Okamoto.
What nonsense is this.
Okamoto!
Hey! Hey!
Get out of the car.
Turn around.
Keep your hands on the car.
Okamoto!
Sakurai!
Saegusa.
Saegusa, hold on.
Look at me.
Walkie-talkie...
I'll call an ambulance right away.
Please tell him...
Don't talk.
Sergeant Ōyama...
I must save him.
APRIL 15, 2000
DNA is a match? Are you sure?
Thank you.
Culprit remains at large 5 years since Ayaka's kidnapping and murder
Ōyama senpai.
Well... senpai...
What I said the other day...
Everything will be resolved shortly.
Let's...
talk about it then.
I will definitely return.
I promise.
Iwata speaking.
Ōyama is alone.
Tanihara Memorial Hospital April 15
The walkie-talkie always...
connects...
at 11:23...
Tanihara Memorial Hospital
Notification of Hospital Closure
December 1994
Lieutenant Saegusa.
Lieutenant Saegusa. This is Ōyama.
Please connect...
Is that 0.5?
Can you hear me?
I am at Tanihara Memorial Hospital that you spoke of.
There is a corpse with a noose around the neck in the manhole.
Although it looks like a suicide,
there is still a possibility of murder.
The right thumb of the corpse has been severed.
By any chance, could it be the suspect of the
Tashiro Ayaka abduction murder case, Hashimoto?
Who are you?
Tanihara Memorial Hospital? Where is that?
Lieutenant Saegusa.
Sergeant...
Ōyama...
Saegusa, hang on.
Saegusa, hang on!
Ōyama...
Ōyama.
Hey Ōyama!
Wake up, Ōyama!
Ōyama, give up.
It is useless to go against them.
Are you listening, Ōyama?
No matter how hard you try,
it does not change anything.
Iwata...
Are you too in league with a murderer?
What are you getting in return?
Murderer?
What are you saying?
Nakamoto...
killed Katō Ryōta and made it look like a suicide.
That's enough.
What is going on?
Didn't Katō Ryōta commit suicide?
Stand aside.
I respect your resolve to have come this far.
Even if you killed me,
your crimes will be exposed sooner or later.
Are you referring to the DNA results?
I was informed by the Forensics Dvision.
Everyone is tarred with the same brush.
You should stop being naive.
Stay out of this case.
That way, you can still keep your life.
Do you understand?
I have no wish to kill you either.
Be smart about it.
I refuse.
I...
have no intention of obeying you.
Do whatever you want.
No... Please wait.
This punk rejected my offer.
He's getting what he deserves.
Stop! Hey!
What are you standing there for? Go after him!
If he escapes, it's over for us.
You no longer care what happens to your daughter?
Ōyama or your daughter? Choose!
Let Iwata finish the job.
Saegusa.
Saegusa, hang on!
The walkie-talkie...
I didn't get to tell him...
The past...
The past could not be changed.
Older brother...
Sergeant Ōyama...
It's okay.
I told him.
On April 15th,
Tanihara Memorial Hospital.
You mustn't go there.
I have told senpai
not to go to...
Tanihara Memorial Hospital on April 15th.
During our transmission in the past,
the one who told him about Tanihara Memorial Hospital
was me...
Lieutenant,
why did you tell me not to come here?
What is going to happen here?
However...
this time,
the one who told him not to go to
Tanihara Memorial Hospital is...
Saegusa?! Saegusa, hang on!
If I die, this case will become unresolved.
The Musashino case.
Katō Ryōta's case too.
Also...
18 years...
I've waited 18 years.
"Everything will be resolved by this weekend."
"Let's talk about it then."
Senpai, you told me that, did you not?
Are you crying?
11:23 PM
was the moment Sergeant Ōyama died.
Although he faced death,
he did not give up on the investigation to the last.
So,
he sent me a message through the walkie-talkie.
Sergeant Ōyama...
can you hear me?
I know.
You too
will never give up.
Hands up!
Come here, you bastard.
Secured.
Get up.
Are you okay?
You guys... are so late.
- Are you alright? - Oww... that really hurts.
It's hard to locate by GPS.
Never mind me.
Nakamoto...
Director Nakamoto is in the warehouse.
Quickly!
- Shibata! Let's go! - Okay.
Senpai! Are you okay?
The ambulance will be here soon.
What on earth happened?
Senpai?
0.5...
Thank you.
Why are you thanking me?
Thank you.
Metropolitan Police Department Josai Precinct City Division Minamiyamada Police Station
Sergeant Saegusa Kento
Thank you!
He's home ~
The park we have not been in 10 years
Kento's surprise
He's home ~
The park we have not been in 10 years
Congratulations on your promotion!!
Mother's Day with Kento
APRIL 29, 2000
Ryōta's wish was...
to live together with his family once more.
So he never gave up.
For not being able to save Ryōta...
I am truly sorry.
Mr. Detective!
Thank you very much.
Truly...
Thank you very much.
- Thank you for the food. - Eat up.
- Well, how is it? - Delicious.
Delicious? That's good.
By the way, where do you wish to go for Golden Week?
- In the 1995... - I wish to learn how to play baseball.
- Tashiro Ayaka abduction murder case... - Baseball?
under the jurisdiction of Josai Precinct,
a 28-year-old woman has been arrested.
The suspect Yoshimoto Keiko, a nurse
is arrested on suspicions of abducting and murdering Tashiro Ayaka.
In the early stages of the case...
Memories are changing.
Sergeant Ōyama is alive.
It should be the Nishi-Shinjuku mortar murder case this time.
No. Let's go for the police murder case that has more physical evidence.
However, from the special characteristics of the bodies,
I care more about the case of children's bodies discovered in North Kanto.
That case is also fraught with mystery.
Good morning.
Can I help you?
Ah, no...
May I know where Lieutenant Sakurai is?
Do you know each other?
Team Leader has taken three days' leave.
The body of Katō Ryōta's murder suspect who had been on the run,
former Metropolitan police officer
Nakamoto Shin'nosuke has been discovered.
Metropolitan Police Officer forcibly appropriated the evidence in the female student gang rape case
Suspect Metropolitan Police Officer Nakamoto Shin'nosuke
had forcibly taken the cassette tape evidence
Currently, the police have
identified Sergeant Ōyama as an important person of interest in the homicide
Jun 6th, 2000. The body of Katō Ryōta's murder suspect, Metropolitan police officer Nakamoto Shin'nosuke has been discovered in an abandoned factory in Kisarazu. He is suspected to have been killed after being assaulted. Suspect Nakamoto is believed to have been with Josai Precinct's Sergeant Ōyama before his death. The Metropolitan Police Department is currently looking for Sergeant Ōyama, who has gone missing since June. Sergeant Ōyama was injured during the pursuit in the abandoned factory where suspect Nakamoto was killed.
and are pursuing his whereabouts.
I don't believe that Sergeant Ōyama would kill Nakamoto.
If only I had the walkie-talkie.
- Thank you for the food. - Yes.
Next time I plan to make
a new type of omurice.
Cut an opening here with a knife to give it a fluffy texture...
By the way, Mother.
Do you remember the detective who solved Older brother's case?
- Mr. Ōyama. - Yup.
Um.. I was wondering whether you received anything from him,
or did he leave anything with you?
- Here you go. - Thank you.
16-9-23 West Karasuyama, Setagaya District, Tokyo To: Saegusa Kento
Not long after the case was solved, Mr. Ōyama contacted me.
He said when you become an adult,
there will come a day when you would want these.
Until then, he wanted me to keep it safe.
"I do not know whether this will reach you safely,
"this letter that I am sending to you, Lieutenant Saegusa.
"Since that day, the walkie-talkie no longer made any sound.
"So this is the only means of communication left."
Thank you very much.
"That day, I was thinking.
"If the real perpetrator is left unpunished,
"this nightmare will recur once more.
"These floppy disks
"were with Nakamoto when he fled.
"They contain evidence of Congressman Nozawa Yoshio's corruption,
"as well as records of cover-ups pertaining to numerous other crimes.
"He is the mastermind behind it all."
Why the police, procuratorate could not touch Nozawa Yoshio
Thorough investigation into funding chain
Minister Nozawa's scandal
Receive over 100 million in funds a year through a dummy corporation
Receive bribes amounting 10 billion in business transactions
Don't accuse me without proof
The man no media could rattle
Earmarked Contribution Scandal
I was very conflicted about whom I should send this to.
However, there is no one suitable in my time.
So I entrust it to you.
I believe yours is a righteous world where the evildoers are punished.
Please take good care of yourself.
Cape Ryūgū August 3, 2003 (Heisei 15)
I wish you happiness.
Have you seen this person before?
No.
If you see someone similar, please call me.
Welcome.
Ms. Sakurai.
Do you remember me?
I am…
Saegusa Kento.
I saw Ōyama senpai's remains with my own eyes.
However, that fact has ceased to exist.
However, the fact that senpai went missing remains unchanged.
As such,
I have been looking for senpai for 18 years already.
Sergeant Ōyama
left this with my mother.
He entrusted me with his hope.
The postmark is from here.
Why are you here?
Not long after senpai went missing,
I received a silent call.
JUNE 29, 2000
Criminal Investigation Division, Josai Precinct.
Hello?
Senpai?
I traced the number
- Is that you, senpai?
to a public phone around this area.
Hello?
So I wondered
if senpai is in this small town
and have been looking for him ever since.
There must be
some clues around here.
It never made sense from the start.
From the moment a walkie-talkie with no batteries began transmitting.
I do not know what awaits us at the end of this road.
Will I meet my closest partner
whom I have never met?
Or perhaps...
does danger lie ahead of us?
Only one thing is certain.
The words that the voice from the walkie-talkie taught me.
If you do not give up, the future will change.
Yes.
If you do not give up, there is hope.
Translation: liddi @ D-Addicts