Aibou Season 9

Kimura!

There's somebody on the roof.

What?

Did you really see somebody?

I'm pretty sure.

Aibou Season 9

Why the hell was it the Special Mission Division that first discovered it?

The victim is an assistant of Mizumoto Shoko.

The victims fingerprints and shoe marks were discovered on the handrail.

He climbed up the fence and jumped.

So, is it a simple suicide?

Then, what's his motive?

It's not suicide.

This is, without doubt a murder case.

Mizutani Yutaka as Sugishita Ukyo

Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Kanbe Takeru

It's very tidy.

Why did Okazaki have to be killed?

Excuse me, Inspector!

This is it!

The suspect wanted to take this back.

The sender was Mizumoto Shoko san.

It was sent at 7 P.M. on the 19th.

A few hours before she died, a delivery service man received this.

The delivery date was at 3 P.M. today.

Tokushige Satoshi as Kadono Takahiko

It was set that when Okazaki san came back, he could receive this immediately.

When we arrived here, we saw an express truck.

The suspect must have waited for Okazaki san to receive this and then killed him.

May I see it?

Tukayama Masane as Fushimi Kazuyoshi

What's this?

These are just magazines.

Ah, Sugishita san, look at this.

This is Chief Yamane who is the boss of Kasai san.

Why is his picture here?

Isn't it about time you explain to us what's going on?

Probably, the suspect knocked him unconscious in this room, then carried him to the roof, and pushed him off.

How did the suspect make him unconscious? There were no external wounds other than the cerebral contusion.

That's right.

There's a method that can make people unconscious without leaving any wounds.

For example...

Excuse me.

If you strangle the carotid artery for a stretch of time...

I'll pass out!

Just like this.

Isn't that a Judo technique?

Not only Judo but also people who are fighters or have had advanced tactical training can do this.

You say so but...

If the suspect used this method on Mizumoto Shoko, it would be easy to make it look like a suicide.

Wait! You told us that she committed suicide, didn't you?

You insisted a suicide was murder, and said that the motive was to steal the file...

But nothing was stolen.

I'm afraid that Inspector Sugishita saw a suspect who fled the crime scene.

Kanbe, then, you didn't see anybody, right?

He must have been mistaken.

You messed up the investigation of Mizumoto Shoko and caused a lot of trouble.

That's Special Mission Division!!!

Didn't you appreciate that we brought out the truth that Kawashiba Naoya wasn't a suspect?

Sugishita, mind your language!

If you do unnecessary things, you'll be punished.

#Mizumoto Shoko commits suicide

When we heard that she was murdered, we thought that you had made a mistake.

But Sensei is happy now that you cleaned up everything.

This is the record of Kasai Hiroki's drowning incident.

I got this from the Shibaura Police Station.

Mizumoto Shoko's suicide and Okazaki Atsuya's fall,

if those are disguised murders, there may be some other similar cases prior to this one.

Kasai's death may be the beginning of the series of crimes.

On October 6, the first port, Minato-ku,

there were no witnesses.

The cause of death was death by drowning.

No questionable injuries or drug reactions were found.

The suspect must have used the same method as in Okazaki san's case.

The suspect made him unconscious and pushed him into the sea.

The same thing was also done in Mizumoto Shoko san's case.

May I ask a very basic thing?

Go ahead.

To begin with, if there's a suspect who can carry out a perfect crime without leaving any proof,

then, how can we investigate that?

There is no perfect crime in this world.

There must be some proof.

It was less than 3 minutes when we rushed to the rooftop after Okazaki san fell off.

By the way, that's the only exit.

Then, there's only one possible escape route from here.

Yonezawa san, have you checked this area?

No, because this is totally the opposite side to the crime scene.

I see.

What's this?

Ah, paint has come off.

Since it's a circular in shape, this must be the trace of a rope or a wire.

Do you think that the suspect got down directly from here?

Right, if the suspect made a big loop, it'd be easy to collect.

Yonezawa san, can you examine this?

I will.

I got fingerprints!

Do these belong to the suspect?

Can you check them?

Certainly.

But why didn't the careful suspect wipe off the fingerprint?

The suspect knew that we were going up to the rooftop,

that was why the suspect had to escape from here.

In this urgent situation, even a careful suspect made a mistake.

In that case, these fingerprints are...

Yes, this is the only proof that an invisible suspect left.

Ah, there's a match!

He was on the register of the M.P.D..

Kadono Takahiko became a police officer in 1998.

In 2003, assigned to the 6th riot squad of the Security Division.

His job profile after that is deleted.

He was a member of SAT (Special Assault Team).

Look at his last job.

In 2005, resigned from his post voluntarily.

Resigned his post voluntarily...Isn't it suspicious?

As I expected, he is a candidate for observation.

Yes. I'm not in charge, anyway.

But you know something, don't you?

The incident occurred 5 years ago during summer.

The incident?

I can say it was a scandal.

A young member of SAT was shot to death during training.

Since they used live cartridges, was it a training simulation?

That's training performed in an infinite environment near practice, right?

And it was strictly confidential training that set up the ultimate situation.

Fatigue from training over two days and nights,

tension and fear of death,

and the incident occurred.

Blow off.

In that extreme situation, a young member who panicked began suddenly shooting at random.

Kimura!

Kimura!

That was Kadono Takahiko.

Wait, isn't emergency evacuation applied for that kind of situation?

In fact all 15 members admitted that Kadono's decision was proper.

And if he didn't shoot Kimura, they thought they'd have died instead.

But only Shinohara was...

I know exactly how good Captain Kadono's shooting skill is.

With that good a skill, Captain Kadono should have been able to shoot Kimura's shoulder and could bring the situation under control.

Instead, Captain dared to shoot Kimura in the head!

You mean...

Captain Kadono had murderous intent.

Shinohara was Kimura's best friend.

Although it was during training, you didn't want to make this scandal public.

That kind of pressure was applied, wasn't it?

Yes. As a result, that incident was disposed of as an accidental-discharge accident during training.

Take care, everybody.

Captain!

Captain Kadono took responsibility for a subordinate's death by voluntarily resigning.

I want to see Shinohara san.

He belongs to the Sniper Division of SAT now.

We're investigating Kadono Takahiko.

We'd like to hear from you what kind of person Kadono is.

That man is a killer.

Do you still believe that your best friend Kimura was killed by him?

As an objective decision...

How do you, who weren't there at that time, understand the incident?

Above all, he admitted it.

Captain.

Do you want to kill me?

What?

I killed Kimura.

There's no way to change this fact.

But why am I not punished?

Kadono at that time seemed to become a mere shadow of himself.

He seemed to be empty inside.

It was very creepy.

Thanks to him, I know one thing.

Really?

If he was a Captain of a SAT team, it's understandable that he would have the physical ability to commit the crime, as well as the knowledge the escape an investigation.

Even so, why did Kadono have to kill Kasai, Mizumoto and Okazaki?

Kadono doesn't have a motive for killing them.

I'm not sure but I think somebody made him do that.

He is the perfect killer who can murder people perfectly...

But it's hard to think that a man like Kadono kills people for money.

Inspector Sugishita.

I've looked for Kadono some more.

Did you find something?

I didn't expect it, but I found his address.

I asked the Job-Change Union to send me a list of retirees.

His name is in here.

S.S. Security?

It's a company in Tokyo and Kadono lives in its dormitory.

Kadono san lives in suite #408.

He should be home today.

Thank you.

Excuse me, Kadono san?

Are you there?

Excuse us.

By any chance, did he escape from here?

It's too late to chase him.

Did he really live here?

I guess so.

#Si le grain ne meurt André Gide

But there's nothing in here.

An ordinary person won't be able to bear it at all.

That's Kadono.

Welcome back. I just finished the analysis of the photos.

The photos that were in Okazaki's room?

Yes.

From the top, this man is Yamane Yukihiro who is Kasai's boss.