You must have offended various people, huh?
- You gotta be kidding! - Bullshit!
- The hell it is! - I'm gonna crush you!
After all, we're just...
...birds in a cage at the mercy of our owner.
Try to jump out of the cage and you'll always get caught.
I told you to stay away from that woman.
Are you making light of me?
I'm going to manage this club starting today.
Just as instructed by President Hasegawa.
You will hand over this club.
Let me introduce the new Mama.
I'm loving it, the nightlife of Ginza.
This is no place for a woman who broke the rules.
How about you return to the countryside, get married...
...bear children and seek simple yet boring happiness?
A way to protect Carnet...
It's pointless no matter where you go!
Nobody wants to become our president's enemy...
- Can you show us your ID? - I don't have it on me.
You reap what you sow.
Stop!
It's my divine punishment.
I'm sorry about the baby.
Are you sure you should be out here? Where are you going?
I'm going to Hasegawa.
Take this and he will meet you.
That's all I can do.
This...
...trump card will make up for the loss of my notebook.
Welcome.
Very soon, the new Mama of this Rudan here.
My name is Haraguchi Motoko.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts (@hpriestsubs on Twitter)
Yamada Namiko
Club Carnet Mama
Murai Toru
Club Carnet Manager
Good morning.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
No customers yet?
Not even a single one again tonight.
Hey, what do you think you're doing?
I'm giving you hourly wage!
So get on your phones, write some messages...
...and get us some customers!
I'm not paying hostesses who can't get customers.
Welcome.
Welcome...
Haraguchi Motoko
Club Carnet Former Mama
What did you come here for?
Mama! Mama...
Get back inside!
You look like a woman...
...from one of those old yakuza flicks.
So, what do you want?
They say a club changes with its owner.
I guess that's true.
How's job hunting? You made a proper résumé?
I hope you didn't forget to include "former embezzling temp clerk who graduated from junior college".
You better not pretty up your past record.
I'm trying to get in contact with President Hasegawa...
...but I can't seem to get him on the phone.
I want you to convey a message for me.
A message for him?
I want to talk about the matter regarding the Haneda Airport.
Haneda? What's that about?
You're going on a trip?
Ah, back to the countryside?
I'm sorry, but I don't have a farewell gift for you.
If I did, it would assume the shape of our late branch manager.
Talking a lot of nonsense as usual.
What's this about Haneda then?
It's an airport.
I know that.
I'm a national university graduate, you know.
You're the only one who can do this for me.
I hope you can help me out here.
Even if you tell me to hurry up...
...you have to consider the other party as well.
Hasegawa Shoji
But you see, if I don't get this deal regarding the state-owned land done...
Narabayashi Kenji
Narabayashi Clinic Director
...and dealt with soon...
...I won't be able to proceed with the requests regarding the permits and the loan...
...as well as the construction of the new hospital.
I told you there's a bit of a complication with the government and the Ministry of Finance.
But don't worry.
When push comes to shove, I can go directly to the Prime Minister.
Really?
Very much appreciated.
Which reminds me, Carnet's Mama appears to have gone missing.
Who? I never heard of her.
Iwamura Eiko
Club Shokudai Mama
Ginza's youngest Mama.
Apparently she was pressured by debts and skipped town.
Well, I don't know who this is about...
...but isn't it already tradition for a Ginza women to skip town at least once a year? Right?
That's right.
Excuse me.
Hey, I just got my best hand, so don't ruin it.
- Despite that, Sir... - What?
Finally.
To get a direct call from you, President Hasegawa, despite your busy schedule.
I'm honored.
Haraguchi Motoko has arrived.
Did you already go to the Diet Members' Hall?
No, I can go now if you want.
Three konnyaku.
Make sure you to tell them...
...I'm sending my regards.
Very well.
Please.
Have a seat.
So, what is it you want to talk about regarding Haneda?
I'd like to offer you a deal.
That's...
The receipt of 100 million Yen in donations from you to the political organization...
...of the Tokyo Governor.
It's this donation that gave the construction company controlled by you the contract...
...for the construction of a new runway and expansion of the Haneda Airport, right?
If this receipt were to get leaked, the Tokyo Governor as well as you...
...would definitely get arrested under the suspicion of bribery.
How did something like this end up in the hands of a mere Ginza woman?
Former Ginza woman.
I got my club taken away from me after all.
You want to buy this receipt?
How much?
How much is it worth to you?
You sure have guts.
Blackmailing me of all people.
In exchange for that receipt...
...I'll give back your Carnet.
As well as...
Your notebook.
Thank you very much.
With this, Carnet will be yours again.
Not just Carnet.
What?
I want you to hand over the rights to Rudan.
Rudan?
If you don't...
...I have someone keeping a copy of that receipt for me.
And in case I don't make it back safely...
...that receipt will be made public automatically.
I'm sure you'd rather hand over Rudan as well.
I need your sign and seal on here, please.
You're something else.
Where and when did you learn to pull off such a feat?
Sign the document.
Sign it, now!
I picked it up naturally.
I learned a lot from the people around me, you see.
Do you really think that once Rudan is yours...
...you'll be able to keep on doing business as usual from now on?
- I do. - Why?
No matter what happens, I'm set on pulling through.
Are you not afraid of me?
I am.
People value their lives after all.
I heard that millenials don't really care about anything.
But your courage is admirable.
Fine.
I'm giving you Rudan.
Thank you very much.
I couldn't even buy a pencil.
A pencil?
Our family lived in Kitakyushu, you see.
I was the youngest of my five siblings.
It happened when I was seven.
I lost my parents and my siblings all at once during an air-raid.
I went to Tokyo and began laundering money for other people...
...when I was 17.
You remind me of myself from that time.
I vowed to myself that I would secure just as much happiness as I had to suffer through hardships.
I was always radiant with joy.
You...
Even now you're still radiating.
Am I? With this piece of junk of a body?
Don't be ridiculous.
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
President Hasegawa?
President Hasegawa!?
Excuse me!? Is anyone there?
You keep this for now and go home.
But...
He succumbed to a disease, so they won't turn it into a case.
I'm gonna deal with the aftermath.
Go home and wait for my call.
Yasujima Tomio
Lower House Member
If anything happens, contact me immediately.
Got it.
Are you sure about this?
I'm a pro when it comes to handling trouble.
Thank you very much.
Hello, this is an emergency. He's unconscious.
I need an ambulance.
So, you two were talking, when he suddenly had an attack and ended up like this?
Yes.
Did Hasegawa-san have any kind of chronic disease?
I know he had high blood pressure...
...and had to take his medicine every day.
- Apart from that, no. - I see.
If I may ask, what were you two talking about?
About my marriage.
I came to discuss whether or not he could do a speech.
Your marriage is happening soon?
Yeah, next month on the sixth.
- Congratulations. - Thank you very much.
Anyway, the nature of this incident will require us to run an investigation.
We'll probably ask you to come in for further questioning.
- Understood. - If you excuse us.
Today, just past 4:00 pm...
...the fire department was informed of a fire in the residence...
...of Akiyama Shigeru in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward by a woman.
It took five fire engines to deal with the fire...
...which was eventually put out three hours later.
Yes?
It's done.
How did it go?
Listen carefully to what I'm going to say next.
Got it.
Hasegawa is dead.
Everyone of us will share the same fate eventually.
Life is too short.
This is President Hasegawa's signature?
Of course.
What's with this memorandum all of a sudden?
Watanabe Yoshihiko
Lawyer
If this is real, he's giving you a club...
...worth 300 million Yen without any conditions.
I don't really know the reason either...
...but he told me he wanted to sell Rudan and I should come immediately.
- You had some other bargaining point? - I didn't.
No way...
Maybe he sensed his impending death and changed his mind.
Can you transfer Rudan to me with this memorandum?
There's a much higher tax attached...
...if you take over by inheritance instead of buying it.
I know.
I want you to start with the process of changing the ownership right away.
Understood.
Club Rudan has finally become mine.
First we sell all of the club's valuables...
...deal with the severance payments and close up shop.
Why?
With the president dead, there's no point in holding on to this club.
I want to continue as Carnet's Mama.
You realize you've just been hired as a Mama, right?
Moreover, the club is and will be operating in the red.
I'm gonna make it operate in the black.
- There's no way in hell! - Why?
You don't have what it takes to be a Mama in the first place.
You don't know how to manage time or money, you're egocentric...
...and all you ever think about is pampering yourself.
Whatever. I'm gonna run it by myself from now on.
Paying off debts with even more debts is the most common reason for bankruptcy.
You might not know as a temp worker, but as a proper bank clerk...
...I've seen more than enough managers who ruined their companies that way.
This has nothing to do with being a temp or a regular bank clerk!
Temps and regular bank clerks are on a completely different level, socially.
The Mama is in charge of Carnet and I am that Mama.
Do whatever you want. I'm out.
That worthless former Torin Bank pride.
I hope it will get you far in your life.
Mr. Former Vice Director.
Goodbye.
Bye.
What?
If you're looking for Murai-san, he won't come here anymore.
What's the deal with you? You creep me out.
Ah, I get it.
You want to become an hostess again, right?
Want me to hire you?
I'll be the boss now and you're the employee.
Doesn't that sound nice?
Enough with the jokes.
What did you come here for?
I only came to take back what's mine.
Before his death...
...Hasegawa told me I can have it back.
What kind of rotten woman are you really?
You tricked him and stole the contract, didn't you?
You shouldn't talk like that about other people.
We both know you're that kind of woman.
A wicked woman twisted to the core by nature.
Believe whatever you want...
...but legally this club is mine again.
So can you please get the hell out of here?
Get out.
What's so funny?
I just remembered the old days.
When we worked at the bank...
...and both of us feigned ignorance.
Say, do you remember?
When we went to the kaiten-zushi for my birthday.
It was merely a 450 Yen plate...
...but I had to summon all my courage to take the plunge.
I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.
I forgot about that. It's been too long ago.
That doesn't change the current situation, though.
Right.
You're wicked after all.
I envy you. You just forget about all the inconvenient stuff.
But you better not forget this.
The wicked will always receive their divine punishment.
I already got mine.
Take care.
Meeting with the Committee Chairman at three.
After that, the Chief Secretary.
At seven, dinner with the president of Karamatsu Construction.
I'm gonna leave the latter to you.
Tell him I had to attend another schedule.
Understood. About your wedding reception...
The Chief Secretary, Committee Chairman and the Prime Minister with his wife will be able to attend.
- Even the PM and his wife? - Yes.
Hello.
Dobayashi Kyoko
Daughter of Dobayashi Group
I just had a preview of another venue.
Considerung that the number of guests might increase even further...
...I like this one here better, since it's more spacious.
No matter the costs, I want you to get us the most spacious room available.
I'm gonna leave all the details to you.
See ya.
I guess we'll take the most expensive room.
- Rudan? - Yeah.
Hashida Tsuneo
Josei Seminar Chairman
I'm going to run both it and Carnet at the same time.
That's great
That said, I have something very important I need to discuss with you.
Got it.
I already have plans tonight, so how about we meet now?
Mama!
Thank you for taking some time out of your busy schedule.
I'm glad you're still among the living.
People said you got killed, so I was worried.
Nah, I'm just kidding.
Still, you're amazing. You finally bought Rudan.
It's the talk of the town.
Congratulations.
- Thank you very much. - How much did you get it for?
I didn't buy it, it got transferred over to me.
From Hasegawa? How?
Just like that.
Just like that. Huh?
You wanted to talk?
We already talked about this before.
But I'd like you to lend me some money again...
...using the information in this notebook as security.
How much?
200 million Yen, please.
200 mil?
You already got your precious Rudan, so what else could you want?
Since I basically inherited Rudan, there's quite a tax attached to it.
I thought so.
Thanks to my persistent and strong observation...
...I've become quite good at reading you.
I also learned a lot from you, you could say.
However!
However, however, however!
I never would've thought for you to go that far.
That far?
I was also called in by him that day.
I saw you.
You killed him, didn't you?
I didn't.
You killed him...
...let Yasujima-kun deal with the aftermath and went home.
You seem to be in quite a haste.
- I did not do it! - I saw it.
Just after you got home, the ambulance and police came rushing to the scene.
It was death by disease. The police already announced it.
- Then why did you run? - I didn't run.
If I were to turn in those pictures to the police and made a witness report...
...they'd definitely reopen the investigation. You'd get exposed!
I'm telling you, I didn't kill him!
But I'm not that tasteless.
I don't care whether he died from a disease or got killed.
Whether you're a murderer or not...
It won't affect my standard score for love.
Standard score?
Today is the day I give up.
Give up what?
I don't need your heart.
I'm fine with just the body. I can make that compromise.
I'm also an adult. I can't help being attracted.
What are you talking about?
Let's have a little entrance ceremony.
Entrance ceremony...
- Entrance ceremony... - Stop it!
Please let me enter!
Backdoor... That's fine, too. I'm fine with the backdoor!
You sure? It would cause a lot of trouble for your beloved Yasujima-kun as well.
You're not the only one I have pictures of.
Yasujima-kun finally got elected. I wonder what's going to happen to him.
If the police finds out that he wasn't telling the truth.
I doubt "that slipped my mind" is going to help him there.
Now, take a seat.
Take a seat, I said!
You do as the teacher says!
Bad girl! Bad girl! Bad girl! Bad girl!
- Stop... - Bad girl!
- Stop! - Bad girl! Bad girls need...!
- Exuse me. - Who are you?
We're from the Setagaya Chuo Station.
Mama, we'll talk about Hakone another time.
Are you Haraguchi Motoko?
Can you accompany us to the station?
We'd like to ask you few questions in the case regarding Hasegawa Shoji.
Can you accompany us to the station?
We'd like to ask you few questions in the case regarding Hasegawa Shoji.
So the talk with the guy from the Ministry of Finance got posponed?
The bank loan, permits and licences, it's all on hold for now.
Can't Yasujima-san help out now that he's a member of the Diet?
Nakaoka Ichiko
Narabayashi Clinic Head Nurse
For now he won't be able to do much either.
The next Don.
I wonder who is going to take the place of Hasegawa.
- You can't come in here! - Out of the way!
Move! Out of the way!
Stop!
Regional Taxation Bureau, Tax Inspection Office.
Tax inspection...
This is a compulsory search following doubts of you evading taxes.
Don't move! And don't touch anything!
Hold on a sec! Those are my personal effects!
Whose is this?
- It's mine. - Confiscated.
Why? You don't need the phone! Give it back!
We'll need your things as well.
- Why!? - I'm taking it.
- My bag...! - Let it go!
That's an invasion of privacy!
The Personal Information Protection Law!
- Enough, stop it. - How can you be so calm!?
Keep this up and you'll get arrested for obstructing a public servant.
Please don't... Please forgive us.
- Out of the way. - Stop it, please.
We had such a hard time.
We had to lead such a stingy life...
Sure, now get out of the way!
Watch where you're touching! What's wrong with you!?
- Enough! Out of the way! - Molester! Molester!
- Don't get in our way! - Stop it...!
We're gonna arrest you!
It's our money!
- Give it up already! - I can't just give it up!
How can you give up that easily? It's our money!
It's our money...
My... My youth...! Give me back my youth!
17:27, you enter his room.
18:21, Congressman Yasujima arrived.
And at 18:36...
...it's you leaving the room by yourself.
Congressman Yasujima told us...
...that he was alone with President Hasegawa when he died.
However, knowing the estimated time of death.
The only two people in this room when he died...
...were you and President Hasegawa.
And nobody else, am I right?
Can you explain that?
It's exactly as you say.
That means, during his time of death...
...you were the only one with him, right?
Yes.
Why were you trying to hide this fact?
I thought it would cause unnecessary trouble.
Cause trouble?
I'm a Ginza woman, I work in the night entertainment business.
Finding out that he was alone with a woman during his time of death...
The press would've made a fuss about it, hurting his bereaved family...
...as well as his prestige.
Are you saying you two were in that kind of relationship?
That's right.
I'm young and he was crazy about me.
However...
I promised him not to tell anyone about us.
It would cause a lot of people a lot of trouble...
...if our relationship were to be made public.
And that's why you called Congressman Yasujima?
He's the only person who knows about our relationship.
I had to call him first and ask him what to do.
Excuse me.
The testimony of Congressman Yasujima.
He's here?
He's being questioned in a separate room.
That's enough for today.
Thank you for your cooperation.
I'm truly sorry about all the trouble I've caused.
You really helped me out a lot.
I told you, didn't I?
Dealing with trouble is my specialty.
So, what about Rudan?
When's the opening?
Sometime next week, I hope.
I see.
When I first met you...
...I couldn't figure you out at all.
My money, my...
When I met you at the golf club later...
...you became even more of a mystery to me.
Then you became the Mama of Carnet in the blink of an eye...
...and now even the Mama of Ginza's number one club.
It's all thanks to you.
No, I had nothing...
Because...
...of what you told me back then.
No matter your current situation...
...if you never give up, your dreams will definitely come true.
We actually jumped out...
...from the birdcage.
You only live once after all.
I'll make sure to be the first one to congratulate you on your opening day.
Thank you very much.
Well then, see you soon.
Yes.
I bought us some lunch.
Ah! There it is!
Look, my secret savings!
They didn't find it! I'm so glad!
Like that's gonna help...
How can you!?
That should be enough for several meals.
We're done for. There's nothing left.
No, this is just the starting point for something new.
The secrets accounts and all our marketable securities.
It won't take long and they'll take away this clinic, too.
We still have what's most important.
We didn't have anything in the beginning either.
Let's just start again from scratch.
Women sure are strong...
I was trained by a certain someone after all.
Yes, who's there?
It all started with this notebook.
False-name accounts opened by the Setagaya-Kita branch.
I have transcribed everything.
That's gonna be a huge scandal for the Torin Bank Group.
I'm going to start a nightclub. Here, in Ginza.
You will follow the rules of Ginza.
The money you're hiding amounts to 250 million Yen.
Seriously, what kind of woman are you?
Just your average Ginza woman.
All the bribes you received through backdoor admission services...
You're hoarding on those hidden false-name accounts.
To think that you're such a money-mad person...
That's rich, coming from you!
I'll give back your Carnet. As well as your notebook.
Your courage is admirable. I'm giving you Rudan.
Yes?
Sorry for the late visit.
I just would like to give my thanks to you.
I'm really sorry for the sudden visit.
I'll make us some tea.
We had to close the clinic for now.
The Regional Taxation Bureau did a compulsory search...
...and took just about everything from us.
The hospital, our assets...
Even our dream about the new hospital.
So, you wanted to thank me?
That person came back to me.
Director Narabayashi?
I'm left with the one thing I treasure the most.
I know we've talked about this before, but I feel like I owe this to you, so yeah.
You must think I'm a fool.
Achieving happiness out of being together with a man who won't even marry me.
But you see, that's my generation.
Devoting ourselves...
Pretending to serve him until the end...
While keeping the men on the palms of our hands.
That's how the men and women tick in this country.
- Just a sec. - Sure.
Yes?
Good evening. Yasutake Sushi.
I didn't order any sushi.
I ordered it.
I wanted to eat it with you.
Don't worry. I'll pay for it.
No, I can...
No! How's that gonna make me look?
It's fine, really. Make yourself at ease.
Really? You're too kind.
- My apologies. - It's fine.
Excuse me, may I come in?
Sure.
We actually jumped out, from the birdcage.
I'll make sure to be the first one to congratulate you on your opening day.
Say, dear.
Will I also become this country's First Lady some day?
I'll try my best.
The PM and his wife have arrived.
Got it.
Shall we?
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
I'm Motoko, the Mama of Rudan.
We're from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.
Could we ask you a few questions?
About what?
You're under suspicion of mediation-bribing in relation...
...to the Haneda Airport runway expansion.
We ask you to come with us.
Mama, we're opening.
Welcome. Thank you very much.
Welcome.
Mama...
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
You've actually made it this far with your own methods.
You didn't listen to any of the advice I've given you.
- That's not true. - Must be great to be young.
If possible, I'd also like to start over again from scratch.
You shouldn't have anything to complain about.
Although it's a small club, you've been protecting it all this time.
Although it's a small club?
No, that's not what I meant.
I'm looking forward to your continued guidance...
...and encouragement.
- Welcome. - It's doing great.
Thank you very much.
- Oh, Mama! - My, I haven't seen you in a while!
Congratulations. You're doing well.
You taught me a lot.
Hold on, what's this?
Can we talk to Haraguchi Motoko?
Hold on, you can't just!
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts (@hpriestsubs on Twitter)