Hello.
You're Domoto from Emuza, huh?
Who are you?
It’s your fauIt that the crimes won't stop happening.
Consider the feelings of the victim.
What are you talking about?
Telling names is the manners.
Sugisaki again?
Are you ok?
I’ve been training since spring.
No!
Who do you think did these calls?
Telephones are supposed to be high-tech tools
with tones that light up everyone's life.
It is so at our home.
It will be worse at Sugisaki's home.
Right?
Is he ok?
It happens after the news in the newspaper.
Since the victim's mother
appeared in the TV news program,
the public became concern about the matter.
My daughter Akiko was raped.
And she committed suicide in fear and shame.
The criminal had records in other previous crime.
He should be sent to jail.
But a lawyer from a famous law firm,
helped to plead for probation.
Akiko
then killed herself after the accused seeked revenge on her.
The mother appeared in all TV's, newspapers and magazines.
Apparently, that's the strategy from her lawyer.
All channels have this news on for the past two days.
I have had enough.
The topic caught on because of the beauty of the victim, huh?
Or because of money?
Anyway, this is too much.
What compensation is this? For damages?
Shhh...
The lawyer has to bear
responsibility for Akika's death.
My daughter died because of the probation.
Their target is not the former accused.
We never heard of claiming compensation from the lawyer.
If there's no precedent cases,
we'll create one as lawyers like the politicians,
doctors and civil service officers.
Though there are more responsibilities,
the status is higher as more money is made.
Meaning,
You have to pay for your own trouble created.
I see.
It’s time for reformation.
We've decided fight Lawyer S,
and the whole Emuza Law Firm which he is in.
We are asking for 1 00 million.
1 00 million yen?
I can understand what they mean.
But Sugisaki has his own way.
You're right.
This is all the saying from the one side.
The ruling has not begun yet?
They are making Sugisaki a bad guy.
Let's put Sugisaki go to the show on TV too.
His whereabouts are not to be tracked.
Huh ?
We haven't got him.
A few days ago.
I see.
Suing me at last.
Have you known about being the lawsuit?
No.
Thinking about mother's feelings,
the possibilities that I get accused is not totally zero.
Why don't you prepare before hand.
There are many things to do before going to court.
They are dragging in
not only Sugisaki, but also Emuza Law Firm.
Moreover, our boss will soon have the election for
the Japanese Attorney Association.
Having this scandal at this crucial time!
It was my own action to defend
for Tomita Daisuke.
I won't create any trouble for the law firm.
Thanks for helping.
One minute.
Sugisaki.
This is not only your personal problem.
Once they rule that a lawyer is to pay the compensation,
the whole Japanese arbitrary system will appear shaky.
I’m afraid it might be so.
The whole Japanese legislation is in a mess.
You should know about this.
The laws won't be the weapon for everything.
And soon the status of the lawyer
will fall for it would be hard to earn for living.
Lawyers.
This is bad.
I’m not interested about your benefits.
I’ll fight with my own faith.
Resign?
What's with the resignation?
You're too loud.
Why are they people who want to sue Sugisaki?
Domoto.
Yes.
I’m telling you two things:
A. Don't expect all your questions to be answered.
Only kids are allowed to play a child like that.
I’ve got it.
I’ll go check.
What's B?
It’s my lawsuit. It has nothing to do with you.
I’ve been waiting for the past seven years for today.
Don't get into my way.
Please just a minute.
Give way.
I’m Domoto Akari, the new lawyer.
This is the beginning of the end and the most severe
arbitrary for me and Sugisaki.
Passion for justice Episode 9.
From the next day after the resignation,
Sugisaki has never came to the Legal Aid again.
From the same day onwards,
Miss Kuramoto has started to take her accumulated leave.
She might just resign all together.
We can't lose the case.
Domoto?
We can't let it go on like this.
Hey, Domoto.
What?
Don't worry too much.
This incident is related to the one 7 years old ago.
But the Legal Aid might disappear all together.
I can't leave Sugisaki like that.
It might be too much for Domoto,
but this is what it's going to be.
From now on, this room will be the information room
for M&A and the Court Department.
There are too many documents. Great!
Hello. This is the Legal Aid Department.
I would like to talk to you.
Your parents are not doing well.
Huh ?
But Brother said the eldest son should always be the heir.
By laws, both eldest son and second son have the same rights.
I’m really sorry about it.
We can't take in any new cases at the moment.
Yes.
We can introduce you other law firm.
You can contact them...
Are you ok, Domoto?
I’m fine.
Are you really?
I told you I’m fine.
I don't have time for depression.
How should I put it. Well...
If I could...
Hello, this is the Legal Aid.
I’m sorry, we can't take any new cases...
I’m the director, Morioka.
The director?
Are you Domoto?
Yes. Thanks to you.
Thank you.
The weather is so cool today.
What?
What about going for lunch?
Huh ?
The law firm has been keeping
everyone busy for the past years.
It’s a waste of time even to go for lunch at the restaurant.
That's why I’m eating this as I walk every afternoon.
I see.
With the new Sugisaki.
Well...
Tell me what happened 7 years ago.
There's no record in the information room.
What are you going to do after investigation.
I want to know what happened.
If Sugisaki hadn't committed any illegal activities.
No, even if there is any,
I can help him anyway.
Director.
What?
Maybe nothing can be done.
If possible,
let me, as one of the team,
help up in even some trivial tasks.
I knew you'll say these.
Huh ?
These are the records of Sugisaki's case 7 years ago.
All the case records and the
interrogation records are in there.
Domoto.
Yes.
I never thought that lawyers are the partners of righteousness.
It’s all a joke to call a lawyer
the support for social righteousness and the weak.
Why don't we call lawyers to villains.
Director.
But.
As long as the conflicts on earth go on,
the country can be managed without lawyers.
Lawyers
represent human beings as imperfect creatures.
I want 1 00 lawyers to team up for a strong defend team
for Sugisaki's lawsuit.
But?
Sugisaki doesn't accept it.
Amy I ask
if you want me to persuade Sugasaki?
You're his only subordinate.
He might listen to you.
And the Legal Aid used to be your dream.
You don't want to lose it, do you?
I’ve got it.
Please.
I found a hand-written report done by Sugisaki,
slipped into these documents.
It’s for Morioka.
This is a report on Suzuki Akiko's suicide case.
That day, to investigate on Tomita Daisuke's rape case,
I came to Suzuki Akiko's house for an appeasement.
May I ask...
Excuse me.
What happened?
Akiko...
What's wrong with your daughter?
Put my daughter down !
I’m doing this for the mother and daughter
because I thought we might still be on time, and
that she might not have died yet.
The other reason is
not to bring anymore disadvantages to the case.
But when I was holding her,
I realized that everything had been too late.
Scissors. Scissors.
We'd better not touch the body.
Who are you?
The mother was in a shock
and she forgot my face, my name,
and that I had worked on an appeasement with her.
I’m...
the lawyer of the rapist, Tomita Daisuke.
I’m...
I couldn't tell her that.
Before that,
I never had to care for the victim and the family.
After my case,
I wouldn't bother what burden the victim had to bear.
Everything was based on the evidence.
I only wanted to prove that I was an excellent lawyer.
But that moment, I realized that
people that a lawyer are facing every day
are also ''human beings''.
I’m a human, and I know.
I know what's right and wrong.
What does it help to tell you about it?
The report on the lawyer of the other party is out now.
The lawyer, Fuwa and Kurokawa, the director of the law firm
know each other very well.
Is Kurokawa one of the candidates
for the Lawyer Association Party?
Yes.
This might be a surface action for his election.
This is really silly.
If he loses it to Sugisaki,
it might even hard for him to stay as a lawyer.
It’s impossible that Kurokawa
would do something to ruin his own future.
But, Mr. Morioka,
why don't we meet Kurokawa for safety's sake?
Domoto.
Why are you here, Miss Kuramoto?
Have you always been living together?
No.
He broke into my place.
What do you mean breaking in? It’s misleading.
Facts are facts.
Didn't we agree on its condition for you to stay overnight here.
Could you fulfill any of my wishes?
I’m sorry, I don't understand you two.
Forget about it.
7 years ago, when that happened,
Kuramoto.
A few days after the incident,
Sugisaki came to my place, drunk.
Huh ?
He asked if he could stay here for a night.
Then he cried in my arms.
That was so yesterday.
That's not all.
I reminded you every year.
So it's not over yet.
To allow Mrs. Suzuki Matsugumi to come and sue you anytime,
you even write in every 3 years to keep it from being expired.
It is to keep it from expiry.
I’ve got it right.
Sugisaki has been writing to the victim family
to keep it from its expiry?
It’s my rights to write to anyone I like.
Why are you here exactly?
Emuza is forming a strong defend team for you.
There's no need of it.
Why? Even Mr. Morioka...
There's no need of it at all.
If we lost the case,
he might lose his qualification as a lawyer.
This is what they plead for.
I don't need a defend team.
Low!
Let me prove for
how much pain Sugisaki had gone through,
how much tears shed.
I’ll give my testimony.
Get out, you two!
No.
I’ll leave then.
Lawyer...
Sugisaki and all,
I’ve quitted Emuza, and you have nothing to do with this.
People whom a lawyer meet on a regular day are like us,
they are ''human beings.''
I read your report.
Mind your own business.
That's what I thought.
After becoming a lawyer,
you're always very irritable and you beat me.
And you said a lot of ridiculous things.
It’s painful.
But now I understand.
Sugisaki and I are all human beings.
Please let me fight for you in this lawsuit.
Didn't you help me a lot?
Please allow Emuza to help you.
Please let me be one of the 1 00 member in the defend team.
Domoto.
Don't think that you can understand someone so easily.
Please give way.
It’s my own business whatever happened 7 years ago.
Pain or sadness, they are all mine.
Don't make me repeat this.
You have nothing to do with this case.
Start the car.
I won't give up.
I know that Sugisaki is not a bad guy.
I know.
I’m Domoto.
I’m Katase.
About Sugisaki's case tomorrow,
I have to show you and Kudou one place.
What is it?
For this case,
Domoto should go, rather than me as I’m a man.
So that it won't irritate the family.
I’ve got it. I’ll do anything for Sugisaki.
I’ll go.
Thank you.
No matter what Sugisaki said,
we still have to safeguard Emuza, right?
We have to put our priority to this case.
That's the order from the law firm.
Right? Who am I meeting tomorrow?
Miss Hatori Kana, an earlier victim by Tomita Daisuke.
Thanks for leaving this important task to me.
You can't be left lazing around.
Keep it up!
Hmm.
That night.
The first time Ms Suzuki Matsugumi appeared on TV.
Even though he's in jail,
but the defendant is living a normal life.
This is unbelievable.
Please take a look.
From this point of view, we can see that probation in Case 2
is very inappropriate.
Lawyer S knew that the culprit
might commit the same crime again,
but he defended for him.
That resulted in the 3rd case happening.
And Suzuki Akiko's death,
is the result of Lawyer S's pleading for
a probation even though the culprit
was a second-time offender.
Meaning, Lawyer S is an excellent lawyer in some way.
Absolutely excellent!
That's why he is the ultimate sinner.
I’m confused
for who's right and who's not.
Sadly confused.
But one thing you can understand,
as a lawyer,
I’m safeguarding Mr. Sugisaki.
Have you seen him?
Hmm, but I’ve not asked him.
I want to keep looking for him. I won't give up.
Sugisaki admires you.
Is that right?
Yes.
And Sugisaki, likes Mr. Morioka too.
He likes Emuza.
That's why he had stayed until then.
This time, he's trying not to drag us in.
I can't believe that
a lawyer has to be questioned just because he's too bright.
I agree.
If he loses this stupid case,
I’ll quit the job.
Why are the people from Emuza
still looking for us at this time?
You want to see my daughter?
But she's locked herself up in the room after the incident.
Has it been 1 0 years?
Yes. 1 0 years.
Are you trying to say that
my daughter is being weak and unable to overcome the tragedy?
No.
Excuse me.
Sorry, the newcomer doesn't know
how to handle a proper conversation.
We're here to visit, and first, we're visiting your daughter.
A sudden visit after all these years?
I did think that Sugisaki should have come himself,
but he did sent in a few letters already.
Do you want to read?
I’m sorry.
Miss Hatori Kana. Uncle. Aunt.
Do you still remember
that I knelt down before you
hoping you would agree on Tomita Daisuke's appeasement?
Tomita Daisuke has repented sincerely.
He'll lead a new life. Please believe him.
Could you grant him a chance to rebuild himself?
Please.
But think about it now,
I never believed in Tomita Saisuke's
repentance and rebuilding of his new life.
It was a mere hope from a lawyer to get an appeasement.
And kneeling down is the best way.
I knelt for that reason.
I don't know if that's right for a lawyer.
But as a human, I made a mistake.
I apologize.
Sugisaki Tadashi.
Why did he write the letter...
The expiry.
I heard that Sugisaki has been sued.
You've heard that too?
Hmm, Ms Suzuki came to our house
hoping to have us working together.
I saw it on TV yesterday.
We are female.
I understand how you and your daughter feel.
But Sugasaki is a lawyer who did his job.
Demanding a 1 00 million compensation is too far.
I think it's cruel.
He wrote the letter and he admitted his fault.
Of course, he should be sued.
Well, the letter.
Let's buy it.
I never thought of settling this with money.
But apart from money,
there's no other method to show our sincerity.
Please.
Kudou.
Sugisaki is an excellent lawyer.
All lawyers in Emuza
want to be him, and work hard to be like him.
Please don't ruin Mr. Sugisaki's future.
In the end, none of you have changed.
And never thought of changing.
Kneeling down, pleading in tears, paying.
What do you think, Mr. Hatori?
Just as what I told you, isn't it?
You...
Nice to meet you.
I’m the plaintiff, Suzuki Matsugumi 's lawyer,
Fuwa Kenichi.
Has Fuwa been dismissed?
Whatever saving the weak and safeguard the victim's rights.
He's trying to win the sympathy.
So Kurokawa shouldn't get into this case, huh?
No, he shouldn't.
He knows
how much impact this case will bring us.
Yes, he just wants to deal that lawyer.
That will do.
Could you stop Fuwa from doing it?
You don't want your effort
of becoming the president go to waste, don't you?
But he doesn't respect his bosses.
Normally, he just won't agree.
Kurokawa, you're to decide.
Isn’t this doing things by hook or by crook?
I’ll leave it to you, Mr. Kurokawa.
Please stop Fuwa.
Mr. Hatori will be the witness for the plaintiff,
and help us in the ruling.
Please don't meet Mr. Hatori directly.
Right, Domoto.
Yes.
I want to talk to you.
I’m to represent Emuza for this case.
But to be honest I’m not interested in Kudou.
What do you think, Domoto?
Why are you here?
Fuwa told me so.
Why are you doing?
I’ve been keeping my eyes on Domoto.
You're in Emuza
but you went against the private high school,
the university hospital, and similar big clients.
Your brave actions to help the poor and needy are many.
Why...
Kudou, however, immerges into the old lawyer world.
She can't be on our side.
Our side?
To be direct,
would you like to leave Emuza and come to us?
Fuwa Law Firm safeguard the poor and needy,
and our target is to be the best law firm in Japan.
We need talents like Domoto.
One minute, I’m Sugisaki's subordinate.
I’m against Mr. Fuwa.
No, we're not enemies.
Sugisaki is the one who
recommended you for us.
Why did he recommend me to Fuwa's Law Firm?
Once the Legal Aid is gone from Emuza,
you'll lose your job, won't you?
Instead of bugging into my business,
why don't you think about your own case?
If you lose it, you'll have to pay 1 00 million yen.
The worst will be losing our qualification as a lawyer.
Yes.
Doesn't that bother you?
Please let me defend for you.
I want to help you as a lawyer.
Domoto.
Yes.
Have you heard of an office lady being followed and murdered?
She went to the police many times,
but they didn't do anything.
And in the end, it turned out to be a murder case.
The police are not sued.
Why?
It’s...
She was killed partly because of the police dereliction.
The police were so slow
and unmoving
because they were not
to be questioned if anything happened.
But if I lose it,
the police will be questioned
and they will be dragged in.
The judge
who dozes off at the ruling,
the teacher who ignores the bully victim in class,
they are being asked to bear the responsibilities.
The selfish lawyers can do just the same.
The politicians cause the slow economy
with their wrong policies.
People commit suicide when
the medium and small entrepreneurs close down.
But no one goes to the politicians.
If I lose, nothing changes.
With my lawyer badge, I might change the country.
Don't you think it's worth it?
Mr. Tomita.
I’m Kudou from Emuza Law Firm.
Do you know that
Sugisaki and Emuza have been sued because of you?
I know. Someone came to me and asked me be the...
the witness for the prosecutor.
Will you do it?
He said it, ''without evidence, you can't be sentenced.''
But in the end, I went to jail for 7 years.
1 00 million yen?
So what? You lawyers are highly-paid.
Mr. Tomita,
would you have a deal with me.
We can't lose this case.
Sugisaki.
What?
I understand what you feel.
But you might not want to listen.
However, I don't want a lawyer like you to go.
I want to be like you one day.
I’m Sugisaki.
Huh ?
Right? I’ve got it.
Mr. Fuwa has been stabbed.
Huh ?
Go to the hospital to visit.
Yes.
Domoto.
If Mr. Fuwa can recover,
you'll defend for Suzuki.
What ?
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