Jikou Keisatsu Hajimemashita (Time Limit Investigator / 時効警察はじめました)

You know

there's a saying that men without hobbies are nitpickers.

I have no hobbies.

- Men without hobbies are nitpickers. - Aren't there any nice hobbies?

You said that to Kiriyama-kun right in the face, huh?

Found it!

And then, Kiriyama-san decided to investigate cases past the statute of limitations.

- Was that more than 13 years ago? - It was.

"Then, I'll investigate time-barred cases as my hobby", or so he said.

He accepted.

But I can't accept it at all.

You say you can't accept it, but even if it's called "Nude-festival"

they usually wear a loincloth.

Ayakumo-kun, are you satisfied with your job in the Criminal Department?

I'm fine with everything.

No, I can't accept that at all.

Kiriyama-kun, what's wrong?

Reiko-san from the canteen handed me this just now.

Reiko-san? The one who resembles Merlion? (symbol of Singapore)

- She resembles Merlion? - Yes, she does.

The Merlion of Singapore splashes water out of its mouth, right?

But the face is similar, I mean.

Instead of Merlion, isn't it rather the face of Hannibal Lector?

No, it's not like Lector. It's more like John Parr. (British Rock singer)

Could it be Reiko-san is interested in Kiriyama-kun?

Oops.

Mikazuki, I wonder why you are saying this now.

You only said it to change the topic, right?

I mean...

Mikazuki-kun, Ayakumo-kun, if you pass lame remarks,

would you return to your own departments!

Are you middle schoolers, you guys!

So, what is this? Frozen food?

This here

are the leftovers of a case that became time-barred 10 years ago.

It was stored in the refrigerator of the canteen.

What kind of leftovers might that be?

Look,

"Store in a cool place", is written there so wasn't it alright?

Mikazuki-kun, look carefully.

It's not "Store in a cool place".

It's "Kaname Tamazou".

You're right, it's "Kaname Tamazou".

In other words,

someone misread "Kaname Tamazou" as "Store in a cool place"

and left it for 10 years in the refrigerator of the canteen.

- Uwah! - Uwah!

Kaname Tamazou, who was that again? The name rings a bell, doesn't it?

Yes, it does, it does. Kaname Tamazou, who was that again?

- Who's that? It's a rare name. - It's on the tip of my tongue.

I remember! Yes!

Okay, Matarai-san!

Kaname Tamazou was the Utamaro of Sobu.

Kiriyama, you're noisy!

If you don't behave decently, I'll knock you bastards down!

All you guys do is crying "Uwah, Uwah",

but I'm so busy that everything is spinning around before my eyes!

You should get that already!

For today, I'll content myself with this.

Who is that? The Utamaro of Sobu.

You don't know the Utamaro of Sobu?

He was rich and his relationships with women were a public scandal.

On top of that, his mistress froze to death in a freezer.

And now, the leftovers were frozen in the canteen refrigerator.

- How long are you going to wait? - Welcome back

to the original world!

A case that's been frozen in ice for 10 years is melting now.

~Frozen or molten, they're all the same~

The man with the hobby

to investigate time-barred cases, Kiriyama Shuichiro,

has returned from America.

Jikou Keisatsu Hajimemashita Episode 1.

Crunching his beloved dried anchovies Utamaro gives up his life.

This gives birth to all kinds of conclusions.

Welcome to the show.

- Detectives, fight! - On!

- Fight! - On!

- Arrest the perpetrator! - On!

- Arrest! - On!

Say, do you think a trenchcoat gives them any advantage?

How much do you think they cost apiece in a shop?

- I haven't the slightest idea. - Just like me.

Furthermore, I haven't the slightest idea yet

of this Utamaro of Sobu case.

25 years ago, on February 26,

in the walk-in freezer of a fish processing company in the fishing port of Sobu

the corpse of a frozen woman was discovered.

The corpse was Kaminuma Kinue,

the leader of a religious group.

On the video of the surveillance camera

the scene where Kinue enters the walk-in freezer can be seen.

Mysterious was that after she had entered,

the door was manually locked even though nobody was to be seen there.

Kinue was the guru of a religious group but she had yet another face.

She was the mistress of the president of Kaname Fisheries,

Kaname Tamazou alias Utamaro of Sobu.

I see.

Phew! I made it.

Aren't you hot in a trenchcoat?

I'm on the verge of a heat stroke.

Anyway, Jumonji-san says, "In the Criminal Department the trenchcoat is a must".

He's strange, isn't he?

Kiriyama-san, could it be this concerns your hobby?

Well, yeah.

In the Utamaro of Sobu case I'll also cooperate as good as I can.

- I'll do my best! - I'm glad.

It's convenient to have a member of the Criminal Department on board.

Right, Mikazuki-kun?

That's true.

The relationship between Utamaro and Kinue was good in the beginning,

but had become horrible at the time the incident happened.

Then, Utamaro was the prime suspect, wasn't he?

Why did it become time-barred?

Because at the same time of the same day when Kinue was killed,

Utamaro also died.

Now I remember. The frozen corpse of his mistress was in the freezer,

and when the police visited Utamaro...

...he was found dead in his room!

The Utamaro of Sobu and the woman he had a love-hate relationship with died simultaneously.

If you keep yelling, "Utamaro, Utamaro", you leave me no choice!

Hachi-san, thank you very much.

- What are you guys up to? - No idea.

- We don't need such a melancholic mood. - That's true indeed!

There she is! Ayakumo, you're not in a position to say this.

Your stories are boring.

Buy yourself a book containing French anecdotes and read it.

Yes~

You shouldn't have said "Yes" now, it's "Oui"!

Ayakumo, you really have no sense of humor.

- Right, Matarai-san? - Well, I wonder about that.

Never mind! Tell me,

the Utamaro of the Sobu Police Criminal Department, who is that?

Mikazuki-kun!

Jumonji-san.

I am not the Utamaro.

- I am the Rasputin of the Criminal Department. - We don't care.

The Utamaro of the Criminal Department is Hachi-san.

- Eh? Me? - So it seems, Hachi-san.

- You're 50 but have a girlfriend who's 21. - Oh, oh!

Hey, don't talk about something like that!

Now you look like a snake.

That's funny.

Indeed, he's like a snake!

Ayakumo, this is what humor is!

Hey!

I'm sorry.

These guys are really a mystery.

No! The mystery is this here!

The cause of Utamaro's death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Apparently he had grilled squid in a closed room

and so the carbon monoxide generated from the charcoal filled the room.

His estimated time of death matches that of Kinue.

In other words, they died at almost the same time but at different places.

There were 2 corpses and 2 locked rooms.

And so they left 1 mystery behind.

~Absolutely, absolutely incomprehensible~

There's one more thing they left behind.

- Kaminuma Misako. - Right.

Kaminuma Kinue was the guru of a new religion and her daughter Kaminuma Misako

took over the religious sect her mother had founded.

Moreover, she was the deceased Kaname Tamazou's wife.

Wait a moment!

Kaminuma Misako must have been a high school girl at that time.

That's right.

It's so easy to read your mind.

This brings back memories, doesn't it?

- What? - Riding a train with you.

Feels good, doesn't it?

Really?

I'm glad!

If you think about it, it's a little mysterious that this is happening again.

- Speaking of "mysterious", Mikazuki-kun... - What is it?

When I went out to go to the convenience store,

in front of my house a bear and a gorilla had a ghastly dispute.

"I can't get out", I thought.

I watched them for a while, but they wouldn't stop.

But I wanted to go to the convenience store so I said, "Excuse me" and sneaked past them.

Excuse me.

Then I went to the convenience store and when I came back,

the bear and the gorilla weren't there anymore.

"Huh? They're not here anymore", I thought,

but now I wonder what has been going on there?

Sorry, no idea.

Are you believers?

No. Is Kaminuma Misako-san at home?

What do you want from our kyouso?

Well, I'm from the Sobu Police Station Limitation Task Force. Kiriyama is my name.

The thing is, an incident happened 10 years ago

and this is for the bereaved family.

That's... very nice of you.

No, this is for the rightful person only.

Our kyouso is busy commemorating the Running-Water ceremony now.

I'll hand it to her.

Hanasaki, is something wrong?

No.

Hey, wait!

You are Kaminuma Misako-san, right?

Step aside!

Yes. I'm Kaminuma Misako.

I'm Kiriyama from Sobu Police.