"In this world,
the brain is the only unexplored region remaining."
You ran away...
from the pain.
Remember that.
Doctor?
Nishigoori!
- Doctor? - I'll do it.
Why is Dr Miyama called "ice Lady"?
Mami?
The doctor bears her own wound too.
Tamotsu, six years old.
He's your son.
I don't know the brain very well,
but maybe it's our heart.
It's okay to cry.
This is where everyone takes off their Armor,
one in the form of a lab coat.
Don't tell me, you...
Yes?
I see.
What? Yes? What is it?
"Bar Casablanca"
"Neurosurgery"
You...
You're in love.
In...
In... in love?
Go to school from here?
Yes, I don't want to go home.
What happened?
Mami?
I won't bring you trouble, live your life as usual.
Excuse me...
What?
Please forget it. I don't think you have experience.
What?
I mean, just less than other people. Maybe it's rude...
Go to school from here?
His mother's gone. Look after him.
I'll pay as much as you want.
Until when?
About a week. I'll stay at a hotel.
Excuse me.
Hello? Keiko?
What are you doing now? Let's have a drink.
What? Is that so? We had drinks till the morning the other day.
He's too experienced.
You have time to drink here?
It's okay, I've prepared for the journal club meeting.
This is tea.
Welcome, doctors.
Gosh!
- What would you like? - Laphroaig on the rocks.
- Bowmore on the rocks. - Oh?
Feel like something lslay tonight?
I...
- I love you? - Shut up!
It's lslay whiskey. Would you like some, Sacchi?
Yes, a lot please.
Okay! You're in high spirits today too!
Here we go!
"Touto General Hospital"
Excuse me, where is Neurosurgery's outpatient clinic?
Walk straight down that corridor.
You'll find the reception on the right at the end.
Thank you.
Died?
You drank too much
and found yourself on your own bed when you woke up?
And I feel that someone carried me back home.
Somehow...
The arms were strong.
Don't tell me you...
No, I don't remember.
I only felt like I was wrapped in something very big.
Wrapped?
What? Wait a minute! Oh, no! What should I do?
Could it be... Ouch.
It was me.
Dr Miyama?
Don't drink so much, you're a bad drinker.
Kuroiwa fled, so I had no choice but to carry you home.
Get ready for the conference and outpatient. Hurry.
- Hurry up. - Yes!
What? it was her?
I'm impressed you made Dr Miyama carry you home.
She should, because she's my boss.
She's too preoccupied for that.
Her daughter went to her home.
Is that so?
The girl stays with her ex-husband since their divorce.
It's been 10 years.
She's divorced and has a daughter that age?
The ex-husband remarried and has another child.
There must be a serious reason.
- She left a boy with you? - Yes.
He isn't my child though.
I was deceived by the nasty woman.
She pretended to answer a call and ran away.
I can't get a hold of her either. This was planned.
I've just called the police and they're searching for her.
I'll make her take the boy back when we find her.
But if there is a child,
you better go home and stay with him.
There isn't a problem. I'll work as usual.
But this...
Your daughter came?
Yes.
You must want to stay at home more.
- Okay, I'll change your schedule. - No, thanks.
But you haven't seen her for a long time, right?
I'll make her go home soon.
Many neurosurgeons like to be alone.
They have no colleagues or subordinates,
and they are too busy to have a family too.
Yes.
But to the brain, the happiest thing...
is to interact with people.
It is for our doctors too.
He does too many surgeries.
He volunteers to do long surgeries for days,
like he's possessed by something.
Did something happen to Dr Nishigoori?
Miyama!
- Let me do surgeries. - What?
Surgery!
I'll do VP shunt too! Just let me do it!
I thought simple surgeries weren't part of your job?
I need them to calm down.
If you don't, I won't see any outpatients.
There's another person who'll die if he can't do surgery?
Don't be silly!
I'm the one who wants to do surgeries most!
It's you...
"Shinjiro Akasaka"
Mr Shinjiro Akasaka, 31 years old.
Sent here after being injured in a traffic accident last month.
He had traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage,
but it was just 3 mm big.
So he only stayed one night for observation,
and today is the first day he comes back after that.
Mr Akasaka, please come in.
Doctor, please help me!
What's the matter?
Somehow the way I talk is wrong.
- The way you talk? - Yeah. What should I do?
You're the best neurosurgeon, right?
Yes, I am.
The way you talk...
it only sounds like a very strong Kansai dialect.
That's it! The Kansai dialect!
After I hit my head, I can only speak in Kansai dialect!
This is absurd...
Right, Dr Kuroiwa?
It is foreign accent syndrome.
"Foreign accent syndrome"
Excuse me, is Dr Miyama here?
Dr Miyama isn't at Outpatient now. What's the matter?
I think I should contact her...
because I was killed by Dr Miyama.
Oh, I see.
Yes? Killed? Excuse me...
"Police"
"Touto General Hospital"
What was wrong with your hand?
Nishigoori!
- Doctor? - I'll do it.
I can't ignore it. Tell me.
It was no big deal. I just didn't feel very well.
Do you have a chronic disease?
Or did something happen at your last hospital?
You've been on call for days, you'll make an error someday!
This is absurd!
If I've made an error, I'd be arrested now.
Wait!
- Are you Dr Miyama? - Yes, I am.
Please come with us.
On suspicion of murder.
"Top Knife"
We're very sorry about this!
Thank you.
- We're sorry. Please excuse me. - Thank you.
So why did you call the police?
Because...
I was killed, so I should.
Who was killed?
I was.
Because...
After you did surgery on me...
I died.
So...
Who died?
What are you talking about?
I died.
I'm dead.
"Cotard delusion"
It's Cotard delusion.
Mr lchiro Kambe, 54 years old.
A year ago, he came here by ambulance
for traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
and I did the clipping for his right middle cerebral artery aneurysm.
It was bleeding and it spread before he was sent to hospital,
and formed a big haematoma in the right brain.
Lately, he doesn't feel alive and thinks he is dead,
so he came to verify this.
What is Cotard delusion?
If the right brain is damaged,
facial and spatial recognition
of the temporal lobe and parietal lobe fail,
and one doesn't feel connected to reality.
If there's also an impairment of the frontal lobe,
no information will reach the limbic system as a result.
He feels nothing no matter what he sees or eats.
That's why he assumes he's dead.
I see.
You didn't know?
Cases of Cotard delusion are extremely rare.
I'd only seen one at a hospital in Croatia.
It's a first for me too.
Even for a senior like you?
Anyway, he's seriously convinced he's dead,
and it's hard to deal with.
What about his family?
Well, he's divorced and now lives alone.
It's partly why I suggested hospitalization.
Oh, that reminds me.
This guy is a bigwig of a huge company, right?
You know him?
He was staying here when you took me on a tour round the hospital.
I think he was quite flashy.
Yes. We refused all visitors...
because there were too many.
I'll visit you when I get better.
He was a cheerful man, but now...
Well, anyway, it depends on the check-up result.
And Dr Kuroiwa has a new patient hospitalized?
Oh, okay.
Mr Shinjiro Akasaka, 31 years old.
Last month, he came for traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
caused by an accident.
What's wrong?
He has foreign accent syndrome.
What is that?
The injury of the language Center at the frontal lobe
causes a foreign accent when they talk.
Their main-language intonation and accent get hindered,
and they talk in a rhythm like a foreign language.
In Mr Akasaka's case, it's Kansai dialect.
That's troublesome.
It could be a transient ischemic attack too,
so we asked him to stay here to do some check-up.
This sounds difficult too.
Okay, everything depends on the results of check-up.
Guys, thank you.
Thank you.
"Mami: What time will you be home today?"
How is yours?
She stayed at mine without asking.
What? I mean your patient.
What?
He's stable now.
I see.
And yours?
I'll kick him out. I swear, I'll catch his mother!
- What? - What?
You mean Mr Akasaka?
I'm going to propose to her.
You have told us.
This is my girlfriend.
Pretty.
She was born in Tokyo too,
and she absolutely hates the Kansai dialect.
She says it sounds like comedians.
You're kidding me! I absolutely love it.
You picked up too much.
I absolutely hate the Kansai dialect too!
Gosh, seriously...
What the heck?
Why am I hospitalized now? I'm already dead.
I've explained.
Please let us do a more thorough check-up.
It's called subarachnoid hemorrhage.
There's a haematoma in the space between your skull and brain.
We need to pay attention.
What if it's left alone?
It might put your life at risk.
I told you, I'm dead.
Well, why not, Mr Kambe?
You seem tired, so just have a rest, okay?
We're doing this for your own good.
Well...
What's the matter?
Doctors, are you alive?
We are alive, of course. And you are too.
- Why are you living? - Why?
Even if you ask me that...
For what?
I wonder.
You still haven't found his mum?
No. Please look after him 24 hours a day.
I won't be back for a while.
If she lived in the same school area, it must be planned.
Yes, this is well-organized.
Anyway, I'm counting on you.
Hang on.
She is sleeping.
She'll go to school from there? She planned to run away from home.
We're also at a loss on what to do.
What did Kaoru say?
She cries every day.
She thought it was her fault.
Anyway, when she wakes up, I'll try to convince her.
I'm counting on you. She probably has caused you trouble too.
Bye.
"I'll return to the hospital. Call my mobile if you need me."
"Bar Casablanca"
You aren't with the ladies tonight?
There are times I want to drink alone.
What about you?
There are times I want to be alone.
Seriously?
I'm amazed that you have time for a drink.
I... I'm here to study! This is my study room.
What the heck?
Are you looking after the FAS patient, Mr Akasaka properly?
Of course I am!
- Welcome. - The usual, please.
Oh?
She works part-time.
He asked me to do it no matter what.
Well...
Where's the bartender?
Bartender?
Oh, you mean Mr Kijima?
He went surfing.
Surfing? To where?
He went to Tahiti.
Tahiti!
Oh, no!
What are you going to do?
I'll have this.
The boy.
If we make no progress...
I have to send him to an orphanage.
He really isn't your son?
Of course he isn't!
I only have no-strings-attached relationships to avoid trouble.
You're as terrible as I remember.
The world's best neurosurgeon has no time for romance.
Right?
Exactly.
Romance?
No. Absolutely not. This isn't romance.
Cheers.
Cheers!
What a pain in the neck.
"Touto General Hospital"
You’re joking!
Look. There's a hurricane going to Tahiti.
"Hurricane Strikes Tahiti Directly"
Oh, no!
Why do you keep mentioning Tahiti? You have a friend there?
Mr Kambe, you'll do an MRI scan on the ground floor,
please go there later.
- Let's go! - Yes.
Mr Kambe... You'll do a check-up?
The lift is right round the corner, over there.
What? You're keeping an eye on me?
Yes, unless you tell me what happened.
Do whatever you want. Nothing happened to me.
I'm dead, it should be fine even if I jump down.
Emergency!
- Can you hear me? - Excuse me.
Please make way.
Can you hear me?
Bring a bag valve mask and a spinal board.
- Call A&E. - Yes.
Coming in.
JCS 10, BP 120 over 76,
- SpO2 is 98. - Yes, doctor.
Let's move him.
One, two, three...
Pain in left shoulder joint, chest and abdomen area seem fine.
Okay, we'll do a FAST exam.
I'll move your head. The contusion on the head is quite deep.
I'll suture his head first.
- Disinfectant and stapler. - Yes.
I'll start an IV. Excuse me.
Left shoulder dislocated and a contusion on the chest.
Luckily, he fell on the safety sign and was just slightly injured.
He thought it was quicker to jump down?
How terrible.
Anyway, he thinks he's dead.
So he's afraid of nothing.
You moved him to the recovery room to monitor him?
Dr Kuroiwa is watching him now.
I think we can start talking to him a bit.
According to documents overseas,
something trivial can make patients become aware they're alive.
I hope that will happen.
Are you awake?
Where am I?
This isn't heaven, is it?
Please don't do that again.
Not again.
Why?
Well...
Because it'll make someone sad, won't it?
When they look at me, a dead man?
Nobody will be sad.
So I died at the perfect time.
No, you are not dead.
Doctor, are you married?
We broke up 10 years ago.
Any children?
I abandoned her.
Yeah?
Yes.
I had a daughter too.
With my ex-wife.
When did you get divorced?
It was before my daughter turned 4.
When she was at her cutest.
That's why.
That's exactly why...
I thought a life like that wasn't one I wanted.
Well...
Maybe I just didn't want to take the responsibility.
So I ran away.
I wanted to go all out and work.
Other things were nothing but a hindrance.
I enjoyed it.
I worked, and played around with women.
Yeah?
But...
I know very well now, since I'm dead...
that I lived selfishly.
I only spent my life for myself.
Can you say that I lived?
It's so stupid.
I love you... nen.
I don't need the "nen"!
I love you.
Will you "merry" me? No!
I can't! Somehow my throat feels itchy.
Mr Akasaka, how are you?
You're practicing how to propose again?
Yeah.
- Let me check. - Okay.
Oh, what's the matter? You aren't cheerful as usual.
You seem to be enjoying yourself, I’m jealous.
Enjoying myself?
What are you talking about?
I'm desperate! My life depends on it.
- Your life depends on it? - Of course!
For now, it's half and half.
If she rejects me, it's over for me.
Why do I speak in Kansai dialect and feel so light-hearted?
Do you love her that much?
Of course.
Why? What makes you love her so much?
What makes me love her? How can there be any reason?
There is no reason? What?
What? Why do I need a reason to fall in love with someone?
I was in love with her before I knew it.
That's what it is.
But there's a reason for everything.
I want to look at her smile forever.
That's all.
You must've experienced it too.
I have, indeed.
That's love.
Hearing someone breathing close to you.
That alone will make you happy.
Very well said.
High fever?
Yes, but nobody else is available today.
Beats me...
Here.
- Thank you. - Good boy.
You might catch a disease if you stay here, let's go there.
A lovely boy like him is Dr Kuroiwa's son?
That's impossible.
- Dr Kuroiwa's son? - Seems like he is.
He's looking after the boy.
Oh, that boy.
Dr Miyama, what did Mr Kambe's ex-wife say?
She coldly refused.
They haven't been in touch since the divorce 20 years ago.
I knew it.
You contacted the family Mr Kambe had?
Yes.
I thought talking to his family would catalyze change, but...
Change, huh?
So please marry me.
This is it!
Short sentences "yanen." Not the "yanen"!
Shinjiro.
Can't get a hold of him?
So it seems.
I just asked the secretary, Shizuka.
But a hurricane is coming. He went surfing, right?
She said he liked to go surfing when there's a storm anyway.
What an idiot! It's so like him.
What should I do? What if he's been blown away?
Oh, gosh...
As I said, you are in love.
So you'll have surgery?
There's a lump of blood in my head, so they'll remove it, nen.
- "Nen"? - Huh?
Oh?
Somehow...
My throat feels weird, Ne...
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
I...
I want to say this before I have the surgery.
You...
Please...
Please marry me!
Marry you?
I...
Shinjiro?
Shinjiro!
Someone, help!
A paper about Cotard delusion?
There've been only a few cases in the world,
so I got it from Germany.
There was a patient who shot himself to check if he was dead.
That's dangerous.
I'll do it with someone this time.
If that person dies...
that means I am dead too.
Tamotsu is such a lovely boy.
He's sitting still, watching videos with a smile.
Maybe I should take some days off.
- What? - And go to Samoa.
Samoa? Not Tahiti?
Yes, Tahiti.
What are you talking about? Dr Miyama will scold you again.
Help!
Please come!
What's the matter?
- Check him. - Yes.
Mr Akasaka, we'll lift you. One, two...
- I'll get a crash cart. - Yes.
Mr Akasaka, can you hear me?
Mr Akasaka?
I'll touch you.
JCS 200, in a coma.
Heart rate very rapid.
Mr Akasaka!
"Operation in progress"
Probably an increase in intracranial pressure due to haematoma expansion.
I wonder why the haematoma in the CT scan image isn't that big.
But he's unconscious, so it must be.
I'll do a large craniotomy to reduce pressure.
- Scalpel. - Here.
He suddenly collapsed when I looked back.
And before that?
Somehow, he seemed nervous.
Nervous?
He proposed?
Yes. He spoke in a weird Kansai dialect out of nervousness
and said his throat felt weird and touched it.
Did you say you'd marry him?
I...
Go to the operating room!
- Sorry. - The proposal! He...
Oh?
- What's the matter? - Mr Kambe is not here.
"Waiting Room"
- Elevator. - Here.
Weird, his heart rate doesn't lower.
- How is he? - Beta blockers can't lower it.
BP 70 over 40, SpO2 90. His blood pressure is dropping too.
His heart will stop at this rate.
Kozukue, was there anything strange before he was carried here?
He...
Proposal!
Why do you say it at a time like this?
No, she said he touched his throat when he proposed!
I thought I was imagining things, but his throat was a bit swollen.
Swollen throat.
It's thyroid storm!
Inject thiamazole and steroid into his vein now.
Take a blood sample and check his thyroid hormone.
- I'll take the thiamazole. - I'll take a blood sample.
Have you seen Mr Kambe?
- Hey... - Thanks.
It's starting to fall.
It's back to normal.
Thank goodness!
So it really was thyroid storm.
I'll take care of the rest.
Mr Kambe.
It's so stupid.
Oh?
Did I just smile?
Yeah, you just smiled a bit.
I smile when I watch a stupid video like this...
Does it mean...
I'm alive?
You are alive.
Yes.
Life is so absurd that it makes you smile, right?
In that case...
Maybe I'll live for a bit longer.
Cotard delusion is often a complication of depression,
so smiling is a good sign.
Yeah, the paper says some cases overseas recovered like that.
And your patient had thyroid storm as a complication?
That was a close call.
People easily confuse thyroid storm with brain disease.
It wasn't in his medical history.
Maybe the nervousness of proposing to his girlfriend caused it.
How did you realize?
The credit is Kozukue's, just this time.
He nearly died?
His life was in danger, but the surgery was successful.
So please don't hate him just because of his Kansai dialect...
What?
Wait!
- He can't talk... - No one hates it.
It's just a Kansai dialect. So what?
I had made up my mind a long time ago.
Let's get... married.
We'll be a family.
Why? Why?
Mr Kambe, I'm happy for you.
But...
it doesn't change the fact that it's pointless to be alive.
From now on...
what should I look forward to when I live?
Life...
isn't about results.
Mr Kambe.
She said her father's life is in danger, so she hurried here.
Let's go.
It's been a long time since we last saw each other.
You've grown up so much.
My life...
I wasted it.
If you're sorry for what you did...
then I'm glad that I came.
He's back?
Is it so surprising?
Is he... in a coffin or something?
Coffin?
- What? - Hey... Wait!
"Bar Casablanca"
He's alive!
- What's the matter? - You...
You surfed in Tahiti... The hurricane... You...
Tahiti?
Oh, Japan's Tahiti, Niijima? Why? Didn't I tell you?
Niijima?
In Tokyo?
It was fantastic! The sea was beautiful.
Oh, this!
Boom! Dried horse mackerel!
Why? You heard I bought this, so you hurried here?
Well...
Wow, you love it so much your face turns pale?
I've never seen anyone love it so much.
You're as funky as always, Sacchi.
Come on, have some.
Until you're stuffed. Come on.
- It stinks. His breath stinks too. - Come on...
it stinks!
Please look after him for a while longer.
"Welcome home."
Someone breathing...
Female, about 70 years old, unidentified.
She passed out on the street and her head bled,
someone called the ambulance.
JCS 20, barely answered when I talked to her.
A 70-year-old passed out on the road? What a hassle.
The doctor is here.
Can you hear me?
"Top Knife"
There are traces of craniotomy done before.
She had surgery somewhere?
I think Dr Nishigoori's judgment was right.
Severe bleeding during the surgery.
You were scared.
I would remove all of it.
It's my job and I can't abandon it.
His memory hasn't been updated for nearly 30 years.
His memory doesn't last three minutes.
I want to do something to help him regain his memory.
Let's get things straight.
Mr Yamaguchi!
Sometimes it leads to love too.