JOKER GAME (ジョーカー・ゲーム)

Colonel

This program is a work of fiction. The characters, organizations, locations, laws, names, etc. being portrayed are unrelated to actual events.

Remember that, as the protection of the state and

the maintenance of its power depend upon the strength of its arms,

the growth or decline of this strength

must affect the nation's destiny, for good or for evil.

Therefore neither be led astray by current opinions nor meddle in politics,

Young Heroes

but with single heart fulfill your essential duty of loyalty,

and bear in mind that duty is weightier than a mountain,

while death is lighter than a feather.

Remember that, as the protection of the state and

the maintenance of its power depend upon the strength of its arms,

the growth or decline of this strength

must affect the nation's destiny, for good or for evil.

Therefore neither be led astray by current opinions nor meddle in politics,

but with single heart fulfill your essential duty of loyalty,

and bear in mind that duty is weightier than a mountain,

while death is lighter than a feather.

As the embers of world war smoldered

in autumn of 1937,

the Imperial Army

established a clandestine spy training agency.

Greater East Asia Cultural Society

The histories, names, and even ages

of the elite men who pass its rigorous application process

are all treated as top-secret information.

They easily complete training exercises that push them

to their physical and mental limits.

Under the command of founder Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki,

they operate worldwide, within the shadows.

And so a brand-new intelligence agency was created.

Its name is "D-Agency."

Episode 2: Joker Game (Part 2)

Are you even Japanese?!

Lieutenant!

Order them to take off their shoes!

Stop! Stop it!

What're you looking for?!

Are you trying to break my house?

Oh, no, knock it off! Hey, that's my treasure!

Don't even touch it!

Hey, are you listening?!

I've had enough of you people.

Once was bad enough,

but twice is unforgivable!

What'd you say? Twice?

What do you mean?!

The kitchen is clear.

The yard is clear.

Drawers are clear.

Above the ceiling is clear.

There wasn't anything here

for us to find in the first place!

What's the matter, Captain-san?

Is it show time now?

Don't tell me...

I'm the one who ended up

drawing the joker?!

Kill or commit suicide...

The worst possible decisions a spy can make.

Ah, so spies are cowards, huh?

We...

weren't playing poker at all.

Japan was preoccupied with the rules for the façade.

We never even noticed the true nature of the game being played.

Tautology. "With enough faith, you can worship a sardine's head."

It's a deeply entrenched belief...

When these men leave here, they'll be scattered all over the world,

where they'll have to make themselves invisible.

Invisible people... Invisible places...

Invisible places?

Come on, you can't quit now.

Back of the imperial portrait.

Sir!

That's right.

There's one place in Gordon's house that a real military policeman

would never dare to touch.

It's in plain sight, yet invisible at the same time.

But an impostor MP,

someone from D-Agency...

Stop! Stop it!

The man who organized them, Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki,

even if he never saw it in person...

Hey, don't touch that!

He understood that something was there.

I have one question.

Did you know that the real military police

had already searched Gordon's house?

What makes you think that?

You always say that spies are invisible.

The reason you dressed everyone up as MP

and sent them over in broad daylight was

to make Gordon lower his guard,

so that the MP would have less trouble in the future.

Excuse me.

Miyoshi...

Heading back to the General Staff Office?

I'm sure the Colonel will be shocked to hear your report.

Did you come here to mock me?

No. I've changed my opinion of you a bit.

I didn't think Sakuma-san the soldier

would have caught that.

More importantly,

we're going out on the town.

Would you care to join us?

Maybe splurge and go to a classy restaurant?

Back there, why...

No, forget it.

I'm afraid I'll have to pass. Maybe next time.

I see.

I have no proof that Colonel Mutou commanded the military police

to search Gordon's house beforehand.

But if he didn't,

he must've been shaken by the fact that they didn't find anything.

If his failure were to go public,

it would tarnish his record

and ruin his chances for further promotions.

It must have occurred to him then

that he could cover up his own failure by

having someone else make the same mistake.

If someone else failed at the same task...

The question is,

how did Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki learn

that Colonel Mutou had already raided Gordon's house?

The colonel would've kept that failure a secret.

Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki only could've learned what happened

on the night the raid took place.

Come to think of it,

the day I went to the General Staff Office

and received the order to search Gordon's home,

Colonel Mutou was clearly hungover.

Maybe splurge and go to a classy restaurant?

You... found proof?

Impossible... There's no way...

I wasn't told that it was the second time.

What? What did you just say?

Sir, yesterday,

you ordered me to use D-Agency

to search the home of the American spy John Gordon.

However, I was not informed that the

military police had already searched Gordon's home once before.

Of course not!

Listen. You're nothing more than

a liaison between us and those guys.

You think I need to explain everything to you?

Keep your ego in check!

That doesn't matter.

Tell me where you found the evidence.

Yes, sir. If you'll excuse me...

Behind the imperial portrait.

Impossible!