I still can't agree with the idea of your wife defending you.
This means you're going up against someone so tough, right?
To cover up his own corruption, Nanbara used Tomioka Seikou
to pin the bribery on Hasumi.
How's the informant?
He wouldn't say anything.
Depending on the situation, this might be bad.
Toyama Aki asked me something.
Whether there were any movements regarding the special economic zone.
She could have been pursuing Nanbara's case too.
Toyama-san, before the matter with my husband,
you seemed to be covering a major case, right?
You're awfully calm, huh?
In front of your husband's affair partner.
What you really want to ask
is my relationship with your husband, right?
So?
You asked Hasumi at that time too, right?
About the special economic zone made at the Tokyo Olympics site.
- Whether there were any movements. - I forgot.
I often met with your husband and got a lot of information.
Until those photos were taken.
You're defending your husband who cheated on you. What a capable wife.
I beg your pardon, but aren't you too outstanding
that your husband felt suffocated?
Are you trying to provoke me to divert my attention?
You were pursuing the case
regarding the special economic zone, weren't you?
- Like a politician's corruption, for example. - No.
Since you were about to publish an article, you had gotten some kind of evidence, right?
You can imagine whatever you want.
Did someone forbid you to speak?
- Ah. - Oh, you came back?
Yeah, I need to prepare for trial.
It's almost here, huh?
- Is it progressing well? - Not really.
But I will do something.
#8 Traitor
I'm sure that
it pains you all to charge a colleague for an offence, but
precisely because he's a colleague, you need to face him properly.
We will keep your words in mind.
We will definitely pursue justice.
Mitarai Naoto
Chief Public Prosecutor
It's not about justice.
Crush Hasumi.
The citizens are paying attention to this trial.
It's unacceptable for us to lose now.
We will be sure to meet your expectations.
The defendant stopped the investigation of Tomioka Seikou,
and while aware of the meaning of taking remuneration,
Hasumi Soichiro's First Trial
he accepted 5 million yen and
a pearl brooch, equivalent to the market value of 600 thousand yen at that time.
He misused his official position for soliciting and accepting bribes.
Charge and penal statute: Aggravated bribery.
Article 197-3 of the Penal Code, clause one.
Are there any errors with the content that
the prosecutor just read aloud?
I deny all accusations.
Defence counsel, please state your opinion.
I share the same opinion. We insist the defendant is innocent.
Tomioka Hironobu
Tomioka Seikou, former president
Tomioka-san, you've submitted a sound recording of a conversation
with the defendant as evidence that bribes were requested, right?
Is the remuneration enough?
Right. I will have another one.
- Is that correct? - Yes.
But according to what the defendant said later,
those lines were from the time he attended a gathering and
was recommended an hors d'oeuvre.
Did you secretly record those lines
and then edit them together?
I didn't do such a thing.
If you have proof that I edited them, can you show it?
The recording was so fuzzy that it couldn't be analysed to check if it was edited.
Didn't you deliberately make it fuzzy to cover up that it was edited?
Objection! The witness has already answered.
This is obviously a repeated question.
Defence counsel, what's your opinion?
It's fine. Then, I'll withdraw and change my question.
When you transferred 5 million yen to the defendant's bank account,
why did you use a pseudonym?
I was instructed by Hasumi-san to do that so I wouldn't be discovered.
The bank account you transferred to is one that the defendant doesn't usually use.
Isn't it so that the discovery of the transfer would be delayed?
No.
You accused him in just a day after you made the transfer.
Isn't this clearly a tactic to entrap the defendant...
- No! - Objection!
Your Honour, since just now, the defence counsel has been
pointlessly repeating questions that show contempt for the witness' honour...
I think it is a legitimate question which checks the possibility
that the defendant's alleged bribery was fabricated.
After I transferred the money, I regretted it immediately.
So that such a thing would not happen again,
I resolved myself to accept the punishment so I accused him.
Objection sustained.
Defence counsel, please change your question.
No further questions.
The prosecution used evidence to consolidate the parts that you didn't confess to.
As I expected, even if we fight the trial properly, there's no way of winning.
I agree.
Anyway, I will go and ask Toyama Aki-san tomorrow again.
- Sorry about this. - I'm only going as your lawyer.
Because there's no other way.
This is Toyama-san's data that you asked me to look into.
If there's anything else that you know, add to it.
Got it.
How was the trial?
If you're concerned, why don't you go and see?
Is it difficult?
At this rate, he will be judged guilty eventually.
In any case, we have to decide this time.
Who we should hire... Hasumi-sensei or Asahi-sensei.
Basically, I have an advantage.
I'm younger and my sales volume is a little higher.
The one who makes more profits for the firm wins, after all.
You haven't changed at all, Michiru.
Wait.
Excuse me, but who are you?
- I'm Michiru's husband. - You mean ex-husband.
We're no longer related.
I'll call you again.
Are you listening? Hey... wait. Ouch, ouch.
- Ouch, it hurts... - What are you doing?
- It's going to break. - Self-defence.
- Because I was abused by my ex-husband. - What?
You used to work at the same place with my husband, right?
- What? - He was my boss.
My ex-husband's violence hindered my work so
I consulted Hasumi-san and then resigned voluntarily.
But I was frustrated that I had no choice but to quit
so I always held a grudge against Hasumi-san.
Please excuse me.
Did Madoka-san really quit the Public Prosecutors Office because of that?
- Oh, I'll hold it for you. - Thanks.
She said previously that she was fired by you, but
I don't think she's someone who would hold a grudge.
- She... - Oh, never mind.
I should ask her myself.
She's full of mysteries, but she doesn't lie to her feelings and is brilliant.
She's the only person I can tell my true feelings to now.
What a fine law firm.
Do the people in this firm know?
What you did when you were a prosecutor's assistant officer that you had to quit?
- Get out of my way. - Michiru.
Just give me a 50.
My work isn't going well so I'm troubled.
What are you doing!?
Please let go of her.
Ah, wait...
Wait...
You don't want me to expose it, do you?
Please ignore him.
- You're not hurt, are you? - Could that man just now be...
You said that you won't probe into my matters anymore, remember?
So it's true.
That you had an abusive husband.
- It's hot. - Ah, be careful.
Mom, how was the trial today?
Hmm, I guess it didn't go very well today.
Then, will you lose?
It's still too early to tell. We just started.
- Here. Take this. - Okay.
- Are you okay? - I'm fine.
All right. You won't need this anymore, right?
Thanks, Hayato.
- Soy sauce. - Here you go.
Thanks. Which should I take?
- Ouch, ouch. - Komiya-san, do your best.
Foul! Foul!
What was that? You're quite rough today.
Is that so?
Komiya Takeo
Judge
Don't vent your frustration from court here.
I understand how you feel, Tada-sensei.
- What? - It must be painful.
The person that you like is defending her husband.
Don't decide on another person's feelings by yourself.
But I really understand, because I'm the same too.
I will learn karate.
Who do you want to defeat?
It's like I'm not being relied on at all.
Or maybe it's more like I'm not reliable at all.
- Are you crying? - I'm not. I'm just frustrated.
I've never cried before in my life.
All right, let's go.
Well, it's frustrating that you can't do anything.
- Huh? - What?
Did you perhaps confess to Hasumi-sensei?
But you were rejected so you played roughly?
We're talking about you.
- It's frustrating that you can't do anything. - Ah, how frustrating.
Hey, you.
Come in.
I only came to take my clothes.
Thank you for being cheerful in front of the kids.
It's not for you.
I was told by Wakisaka-san.
That expensive jewellery was one of the bribes from Tomioka Seikou.
- This is not a bribe. - I know, but...
At that time, I thought it was.
I'm defending you so that I can believe in you.
It's been 15 years since we got married, right?
Pretty. Look at that face.
Your face is red.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
- I'm really... - A fool.
I will go and meet Toyama Aki-san's boss again tomorrow.
I will like to ask you again about your former subordinate, Toyama Aki-san.
Regarding the case that Toyama-san was pursuing,
do you know anything?
Uemori Takaaki
Maicho Shinbun, Aki's former boss
Like I said,
she didn't tell me.
- Anything is fine. - Don't tell me that
Toyama was involved in Hasumi-san's corruption case?
- Surely it's not that? - No.
I just want to refer to it for the trial.
If that's the case, then can you leave her alone already?
Toyama even sacrificed her family to devote herself to work and
was a newspaper journalist by nature.
But then she had to quit being a journalist so she must be bitter.
Even her family? Was Toyama-san married?
- Additional investigation of Toyama Aki? - She seems to be divorced.
Can you immediately look into whether there's any information of that?
I'm sorry that I can't say the exact details yet.
I don't need them. I understand.
I'm counting on you. Thank you as always.
I'll investigate immediately.
Does Hasumi-sensei's trial seem tough?
Looks like it.
Please excuse me.
Since you were about to publish an article,
you had gotten some kind of evidence, right?
- Cheers! - Our investigation was leaked to Nanbara.
- I'm late. Oh no, oh no... - Here.
Have a nice day. Did you take your bento?
- We'll be off. - Have a nice day.
Coming~
- Good morning. - Let's go, let's go.
Sorry to disturb you in the morning.
It's fine. What's the matter?
Do you have a moment?
Yeah.
Sorry to come without notice in the morning.
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Can you let me help with your defence?
I heard from Kamiyama that you seem to be struggling.
I appreciate your sentiments, but there's no need.
If you lose this trial, she will be fired.
Fired?
She's competing with another newcomer to be hired. If she loses the trial...
- Tada-kun. - She will lose in that competition too.
Tada-kun, don't say that now.
Do you want her to sacrifice herself for you even more?
Compared to her now, I'm more experienced.
If you want to win, please use me.
The man is Tokaji from the Criminal Division.
The woman used to work for us
and now, she's a paralegal at Hasumi Kyoko's law firm.
From what I saw, it seems that they were
exchanging information from quite a while back.
- What? - Great timing~
Come in.
With just this... How did you intend to expose his illegal acts?
In the end, you couldn't meet the informant either...
If you think it's impossible, you can step down from the case.
I'm saying, how can you let her take up this case all by herself...
We don't have time to argue.
I'm the one who decided to take up this case.
I've looked into this. Shall we try a different approach?
- Approach? - Yes.
Why was Idens the one?
Including Idens, there were five companies suggested as
candidates for the special economic zone.
What was the reason Nanbara chose Idens from these five?
Reason?
Do you know the actual details of this slush fund?
I investigated all the bank accounts around Nanbara and Idens, but
there wasn't any illegal flow of money.
Looking at this, Idens was the only unlisted company here.
But before the announcement of its assignment to the special economic zone,
the company became listed and its stocks could be traded freely.
Nanbara had obtained unlisted stocks beforehand and
after the announcement that the company got listed,
the stock price rose so he sold those stocks and profited?
But that's insider trading. It will be discovered at once.
No. If he didn't hold on to Idens' stocks directly,
- the possibility of discovery is low. - That's the thing.
When Idens became listed and its assignment to the special economic zone was confirmed,
Idens' stock price would rise sharply and along with that,
the asset value of shareholder companies that held Idens' stocks would also rise sharply.
He bought the stocks of those shareholder companies.
This is also insider trading, but the possibility of discovery is greatly reduced.
- It's worth looking into, but... - A different name might have been used.
I'll look into whether there are companies connected to Nanbara.
I'm counting on you.
Hasumi-sensei, here's the investigation result on Toyama Aki-san.
Oh, you're already done? That's fast.
Toyama Aki-san divorced three years ago. She has a four-year-old daughter
- who stays with her ex-husband. - Daughter?
There was interesting information about that daughter.
- Tell me when to stop. - Stop.
- Is this enough? - Ah, no.
A little more? Ha ha.
[Association to save Koharu-chan]
- Stop. - Okay, be careful.
[Koharu went to America, and received a transplant surgery successfully]
Yes.
Adachi Teruo
Aki's ex-husband
Thank you.
I met your daughter.
She had a heart transplant surgery in America, right?
- Give me a break. - I heard from your ex-husband that
you prepared money of tens of millions for the surgery.
So what? Why are you probing into my matters?
Was that hush money?
For evidence of a politician's corruption.
The timing matches exactly too.
Your wild imagination has gone too far.
Then, I will release this to the press.
Even if it's just a suspicion, as long as it's interesting,
they can publish an article about it.
Stop it. Do you want to involve my daughter in this?
If you don't want that, please tell me the truth now
and protect your daughter.
This is a letter from your daughter.
Adachi Koharu
Aki's daughter
My daughter doesn't know how her mother looks like.
We separated before she turned one.
Since then, she hasn't met her.
I pasted a lot.
But she knows that a woman donated a lot of money for her surgery.
Okay.
Aren't you going to read it?
I don't have the right to do that.
What matters isn't you, but your daughter's feelings.
I like you. - Koharu
I have kids too.
They've been in pain and suffering because of their father's matter.
For the sake of the kids' future,
what the parents did, what happened...
I have to investigate the truth and tell them.
It's true that...
I accepted money from a certain politician.
Is it Nanbara-san?
I think so.
But...
That isn't hush money.
What?
It's money in return... for doing something.
Something?
I was told to have a relationship with your husband to lower his social credibility.
A honey trap.
I was approached by Nanbara's personal secretary with this deal.
If I entrapped your husband, he would pay my daughter's surgery fees.
I was sometimes alone with your husband for my interviews.
That's why I was singled out, I think.
Doing that interview when your husband was on bail
is also an instruction from that secretary.
But...
Nothing happened between your husband and I.
What?
I knew that your husband wouldn't give in to that kind of temptation.
So that day, I called him out on the pretext of an interview...
and spiked his drink to let your husband think
that we had an affair.
I chose work over my daughter and got a divorce.
I sacrificed my daughter for my ambition.
That's why at least...
Let's go in.
I'm really...
I'm really sorry.
Then, you only made a deal, right?
You didn't actually obtain evidence of Nanbara's illegal deeds.
That's what Nanbara and his people think.
What?
It's true that I was covering the special economic zone back then.
At that time, someone provided me information
about Nanbara's corruption.
Then...
I promised to write an article about it,
but verifying the information took a long time so
the person said they'll give the information to Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.
If you met that person, did you receive any documents?
I did.
Without telling Nanbara,
I kept it.
The evidential document that you had arranged to receive--
Toyama Aki-san had received the same thing.
I've arranged to take it from her tomorrow.
What kind of document is that?
A decision document about the special economic zone, apparently.
The publicised document has already been falsified.
But it seems that the document before falsification
contains records that will prove Nanbara's illegal deeds.
Speaking of people who can instruct a falsification of the decision document...
It has to be the Chief Secretary of Promotion for Special Mission
who's in charge of the special economic zone.
I was looking into him before I was arrested.
Cabinet Office, Chief Secretary of Promotion for Special Mission Miyamae Fumiaki
Which means, Nanbara put pressure on this Chief Secretary and
made him instruct the falsification of the document.
I found out something about the stocks.
This is a list of major shareholders right after Idens became listed.
I examined these 23 articles from the beginning,
investigated the shareholder composition of each shareholder company here
and found that the dummy company which Nanbara manages
- was a shareholder of this company. - I knew it.
Nanbara bought stocks of this company on 17th March.
Then, Idens got listed and furthermore,
due to the announcement of its assignment to the special economic zone,
the stock price rose sharply.
After that, Nanbara sold the stocks and profited about 500 million yen.
That's the real truth of the slush fund Nanbara received, huh?
- Well done, Tada-kun. - You did pretty well yourself.
We're only missing Toyama Aki's document.
If it's written there that Nanbara was aware that Idens would be listed before
he bought the stocks on 17th March, we can expose his illegal acts.
Regarding Toyama Aki-san and you...
Nothing happened between
you and Toyama-san.
- A honey trap? - It seems so.
Which means...
Perhaps Hasumi-sensei and I don't have to compete anymore.
Why?
If her husband is innocent of corruption charges,
he will be cleared of all suspicions and they can go back to normal.
Then, Hasumi-sensei won't need to work as a lawyer to earn a livelihood anymore.
I guess so.
- I'll report to you again. - Okay.
- Thanks for the drink. - Yes.
- Do you want one? - Yeah.
- Did I say something bad? - It's fine.
With this, everyone will settle back down to where they can.
I'm sorry.
You're the victim, right?
It's because I let my guard down.
I want to talk to the kids after everything including the trial ends.
- Is that okay? - Yeah.
I've prepared dinner and set it aside so have it with the kids.
What about you?
I have to pass some documents to Madoka-san so
we will have dinner together while we're at it.
Got it.
Take care.
Nothing happened?
I don't know what to think anymore.
Too many things have happened up to now.
Just because nothing happened, can we go back to normal?
It's not that simple.
My husband doesn't look happy either.
It's impossible to do that right away.
You two showed each other a side that you didn't want to.
I agree.
- Thanks for your hard work~ - Thanks for your hard work.
I had a completely different life only one year ago.
Every day, I had small troubles, cooked and cleaned.
I wanted to meet you at that time.
If we had met back then, we might not be like this now.
Do they know?
What you did when you were a prosecutor's assistant officer that you had to quit?
I'm glad that I can meet you now, Madoka-san.
All right, let's eat.
Rest assured. Your ex-husband won't come.
I heard from our Tokaji-kun that you're close to him.
You were abused by your ex-husband
and even pestered for money, right?
As you're a former colleague of the prosecution, I can't ignore this.
I've met your husband directly and drove him off.
Thank you for your kindness.
However, I heard something of concern from your ex-husband.
If this is...
found out by your current firm, it will be bad, right?
Of course,
I don't intend to tell.
If you listen to my request.
Isn't this bad for Hasumi-sensei?
I'll call you back later. I have an appointment with Toyama Aki-san...
Hasumi-sensei, this is terrible.
Toyama Aki fell down the stairs of a station.
The online news say that she's unconscious and in a critical condition.
What?
Former Maicho Shinbun Journalist Toyama Aki Unconscious and in Critical Condition
Yes, I just confirmed it.
An accident at this timing?
Or perhaps she was pushed down by someone.
I went to the hospital, but she hasn't regained consciousness yet.
- What about the document? - It was not in her belongings.
This is too much of a coincidence.
Someone could have been leaking information.
- Oh? Kamiyama-sensei was looking for you. - Thank you.
Anyway, we need to obtain the document.
Tada-sensei said he will check with the Chief Secretary of Promotion for Special Mission.
I will investigate Toyama Aki's surroundings.
Is that okay? It'll be dangerous if you do that.
I can't possibly stop here.
I aimed for a strong prosecution with Hasumi-san.
For justice, we have to carry it through at any cost.
Hasumi-san taught me that.
- Strike. - Oh~
This place is off limits.
This is a good game, isn't it?
Hey, you know him, don't you?
The former head of Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Department.
Well, come here.
You miscalculated, huh? Toyama Aki didn't die.
This kid is good at batting.
If she wakes up and the culprit who pushed her is arrested,
it's the end for you.
Do you intend to silence the culprit next?
- Strike! - Strike?
This umpire has a wide strike zone for low pitches.
Once it's judged to be a strike, even if he's wrong,
he can't help but judge subsequent pitches in the same course as strikes.
Are you going to continue doing the same thing?
Why don't you call off the game now!?
If you suspect me,
why don't you formally investigate me?
However...
I don't think the prosecution will listen to you now.
Is there anyone who will call off a game when he's winning?
Judge Komiya.
- Promotion for Special Mission Bureau? - Yes.
If you know anyone there, I will like you to introduce me.
Yeah...
[Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Office]
Chief Secretary, I'm Tada, a lawyer.
Sorry, but can you make an appointment for another time?
Miyamae Fumiaki
Cabinet Office, Chief Secretary of Promotion for Special Mission
You know Toyama Aki-san, right?
She was covering a certain politician's alleged corruption...
I'm in a hurry.
Your son is attending Teito University, right?
You seem to be golf friends with the chancellor of that university.
When I asked an acquaintance to investigate,
many suspicious rumours about you came out.
Please be careful. Scandals can be fatal, after all.
What on earth do you want?
An exchange of documents that prove a politician's corruption.
Nanbara will get rid of you when the moment arrives!
You're the one who ordered your staff to falsify the document.
If this matter is discovered,
you know who will be made to take responsibility, don't you?
For now, you can still stop this by whistle-blowing.
If her husband is innocent of corruption charges,
he will be cleared of all suspicions and they can go back to normal.
Come in.
How was it? Did you meet the Chief Secretary?
Hasumi-sensei won't need to work as a lawyer to earn a livelihood anymore.
It was hopeless.
He wouldn't say anything.
I see...
I went to investigate Toyama Aki's house,
but couldn't find any documents.
I see.
They paid 80 million to Toyama Aki to make the deal.
Nanbara's side must be desperate too.
And actually, I'm being watched.
We have to be careful where we meet.
Then, I'll see you later.
Got it.
I heard that Toyama Aki-san hasn't regained consciousness yet.
- We're back to square one. - There's still a way. Let's regroup.
I obtained the evidential document from the
Chief Secretary of Promotion for Special Mission.
What? But you said it was hopeless yesterday.
After that, I went to meet him again and persuaded him.
This is before falsification.
This is the document after falsification.
The minutes of meetings of the interviews with each of the five candidates
for the special economic zone are in this document.
In the minutes before falsification,
it's written that at that time, Idens was already being reviewed
to get listed and its listing had already been confirmed.
Since that meeting, Nanbara strongly pushed for Idens.
Three days after the meeting, Nanbara bought the stocks of Idens' shareholder company.
In other words, before Nanbara bought the stocks,
he already knew that Idens would be listed.
For the purpose of insider trading,
Nanbara chose to assign Idens to the special economic zone.
This document before falsification will prove his illegal acts.
Is that genuine?
- What? - It doesn't make sense.
Toyama Aki hasn't even regained consciousness yet.
Will they pass the genuine document to us so easily?
Do you mean the Chief Secretary passed a fake document to Tada-sensei?
The Chief Secretary is someone from Nanbara's side, after all.
This could be a trap.
Or Tada-sensei could have received the genuine document from the Chief Secretary,
but tampered with its contents and brought it.
I beg your pardon, but Tada-sensei has special feelings for your wife.
It won't be strange if he wants to obstruct proving Hasumi-san's innocence
and you and your wife getting back together.
No way. He's not someone who will do that.
If you use the fake document to accuse Nanbara,
it's really the end for Hasumi-san this time.
If it isn't totally credible evidence, you cannot use it.
I understand. Let's disregard this document.
Wait a minute.
He said yesterday that it was hopeless, right?
It's certainly unnatural to bring this today.
I will think of another way. Discard this.
Got it.
Let's go and ascertain it.
Huh? What?
Who the real traitor is.
I finally know.
You're the one who leaked information to Nanbara, huh?