LIAR GAME

Secret Plan

Good morning, Country of Day team.

Were you able to get a good night's rest?

How could anyone rest in this situation?

The game will now resume.

I would ask the first smuggler to proceed to the border checkpoint.

Yeah, I'm on it.

How much you think Akiyama's gonna carry?

He'll take 100 million, of course.

This game is about securing as much money as possible.

We need to minimize what we've got left sitting in the Country of Night.

He's obviously going to take 100 million yen.

It's been fifteen minutes.

What's taking him so long?

The rules say you only get ten minutes in the inspection room,

but there was nothing about how quickly you need to get there...

You think he's got some kind of plan?

Hey, he's there now!

The heck's he been up to?

Pass, pass, pass...

For the love of all that's holy, pass!

Doubt 100 million.

He doubted!

The Country of Night inspector calls doubt of 100 million!

But what's inside the case?

It's empty!

The Country of Day smuggler makes a brilliant play for 50 million yen!

Nice work, Akiyama!

That 50 million comes out of the Country of Night's pocket, right?

I'm not pleased.

You said it yourself yesterday.

The point of this game is to move over everything we can.

And then you go and smuggle an empty case?

What's it matter? He won!

Now, now...

Fukunaga's right.

I owe you an explanation as to why I did that.

I'm sure the question on everyone's mind

is why I took so long to enter the inspection room, yes?

I was actually running experiments.

Experiments?

Feeling out our possibilities for winning this game.

Take this card, for instance.

You think its only purpose is withdrawing money from the ATM, right?

Well, yeah, it is.

But you can also use it to make deposits.

For real?

Yeah. I tried it.

Say you withdraw 100 million,

then change your mind and want to go with 50.

They must have anticipated that possibility.

So you could return 50 million to the ATM?

Yes.

And there are other things they didn't tell us.

How much can you withdraw with your card in one go?

It's 100 million, right?

They told us that each smuggler can only carry 100 million per round.

But nobody said that was the limit on how much we could withdraw.

To prove it, I withdrew 200 million.

As long as you leave it at the bank, you can withdraw all you want.

There's more.

These cards don't have to be used by their owners.

Really?!

I was actually carrying Nao Kanzaki's card just now.

It worked for me.

I asked a staff member,

and they said it's okay to smuggle using someone else's card,

but that the money would go to the owner's third-country account.

Never even thought of that...

There's still more.

What happens if your card is damaged?

That'd be pretty bad for you, right?

I inquired and got an unexpected response.

If we confirm the card is nonfunctional, we'll issue a new one.

Seriously?

After hearing that, I broke the card in my pocket.

Here. It broke when I stuck it in the ATM just now.

Indeed, this is useless now.

I'll issue a new one.

The ATM stores all the withdrawal and deposit data,

so they just gave me a new card.

That was so reckless!

What would you have done if they'd said they wouldn't?

It's fine.

I only broke the card after they confirmed that they would.

And it was your card anyway.

That said, if you lose your card, they won't replace it.

Nao Kanzaki

You can't get your prize money without it, so be careful not to lose it.

You haven't answered my question!

Where is all this going?!

You think I'll forgive you for chickening out

just because you learned a few things?!

After all that, you still haven't caught on, Fukunaga?

The information I've gained through this suggests an obvious winning plan.

A winning plan?

What?!

What is it?!

Tell us!

I can't share just yet.

We're missing one ingredient to carry it out.

Would the next inspector please head to the inspection room?

Oh, right!

Guess I'm off.

Sure. Give it your best.

So, what is it we're missing?

We need someone from the Country of Night to play along.

You mean like... a traitor?

You think someone would do that?

I think it's quite likely.

From what Kikuzawa's told us, Yokoya has an iron grip on his team.

There are only two ways to keep control of a group:

through greed and through fear.

For instance, why do office workers do what their company tells them?

Their relationship with the company ensures them a wage

and a degree of social credibility.

In other words, the company keeps them under control by satisfying their greed.

That's true.

But Yokoya's hold over the Country of Night is clearly built on fear.

You can say that again.

Exactly like what he did in high school.

Control by fear is a powerful thing.

Greed is quite varied across individuals,

but fear is an emotion we experience more or less equally.

By the same token, however, if that's really what's going on,

the other eight members are probably unhappy with Yokoya.

They'll even turn on him under the right conditions.

I've entrusted her with the job of feeling out a potential traitor.

I've asked her to talk to players as long as she can

and learn as much about them as possible.

You think Nao-chan can handle it?

She seems so helpless...

That's why it'll work.

People are more likely to slip up when the pressure is off.

Like how after an exam, you might forget your pen at the test site.

Yeah, I've done that...

As you know, Nao Kanzaki is stupidly honest, slow on the uptake, and clumsy.

She looks frail and helpless.

But those weaknesses are a weapon in a situation like this.

If I were to enter the inspection room,

the other person would instantly feel under pressure.

But she has a natural talent for setting people at ease.

In fact, she's the one who got Yokoya to reveal the keyword of his operation...

"Control."

True enough.

I worked hard to feel out my opponents and carry out my mission.

I talked earnestly with them the whole time I was in there.

And that's why I really like this stuffed bear!

Um, aren't you gonna try to find out what's in my case?

By the rules of the game, my turns seemed uneventful,

Pass

Empty

but I actually learned a lot about my opponents.

Pass

Empty

How'd it go?

It wasn't very obvious, but I picked up on traces of fear.

I'm sure someone will be willing to defect.

Got it.

Would you just tell us already?!

How do we win the game?!

The way to win the game...

is this.

We move our money in the Country of Night ATM

to the Country of Day ATM without passing it through the inspection room.

We genuinely smuggle it.

What?

I don't follow.

2.31884 billion yen

0 yen

Country of Day Bank

Country of Night

1.91000 billion yen

Country of Night Bank

Country of Day

I'll go into detail.

Right now, our bank in the Country of Night holds 2.3 billion yen of our money.

We're not winning unless we get that number down.

So a representative from our team

will take everyone's cards and withdraw the full amount.

They leave the money next to the ATM.

The Country of Night traitor picks it up

and deposits it into their ATM in the Country of Day.

4.22884 billion yen

Our bank on their turf will be empty,

End of Game: Divided among the Country of Night

End of Game: Divided among the Country of Day

and 2.3 billion gets added to their bank on ours.

Wait, is that possible?!

It is.

My experiments earlier proved there's no limit on how much you can deposit.

And the corridor between the two ATMs is a total black box.

You can do anything there.

Even carry over a huge sum like 2.3 billion yen.

Incredible...

1.319485 billion yen

1.651675 billion yen

The ideal outcome of this game is to make money while losing in score.

My plan will result in us taking nearly all the cash

but losing per the scoreboard.