Absolute Zero: Special Investigation Unit (絶対零度)

The murder count of long black haired women got up to 4,

and the country was shaken by this so-called God of Death case.

Here, the corpse of

Taguchi Narumi-san was discovered,

but since then, the murders have stopped.

Director Sakuma.

We have the identity of the man leaving the scene.

A rental video store worker,

- Yasuoka Koji, 40 years old. - Tell me more.

He fits the description of the victim's stalker

and it also seems he left threatening letters at her place.

Fingerprints on the letter match those found at the murder scene.

- Do everything you can to make sure it's him. - Right.

Yesterday, in a Tamagawa riverbed in Ota District,

interior designer Uchiyama Hiroko, 28...

- Good morning. - Hey.

Oh man, everyone is here.

3 minutes...

Wonder if those Kamata people will be okay.

Shiraishi-san,

so speaking of my time at the South Kamata police station,

there was a really interesting guy...

Michi-chan! Hey hey hey!

Wait a second!

Michi-chan, you're a fan of the Swallows right?

- How about we go to the next game? - I have plans that day.

Please invite me out again next time.

Damn!

Hey, sleepyhead!

2 tickets, originally priced at 6,200 yen,

- they're yours for 6,000. - Huh?

I am a Hanshin fan anyway.

- And a bonus. - But I'm not really

interested in baseball at all. Oh Takamine-san.

I can't, my kid has a cultural festival.

- Shiraishi-san. - Go with your boyfriend.

I've been so busy I haven't spoken with him in 3 months.

Well then, I guess that love is over, huh?

- Haha. - I'll ask him out.

Good morning.

- Morning. - Fukuzawa.

Here.

You bought them again?

Didn't I tell you?

Excuse me. Chief, I have to talk to you.

What is it? That's quite a serious face you have.

The number you have dialed

- is no longer in service. - His number changed...

Everyone listen up! We have a reopened case.

- What case? - The God of Death case from 8 years ago.

It might be related with that Kamata murder from yesterday.

Zettai Reido (Absolute Zero) - Case 3

- There's a lot of evidence. - That's because there were 4 victims.

I actually thought the murderer had died.

What was he doing for 8 years?

Maybe he was in prison?

He ran away to another country and just came back to Japan?

Well I don't even think it's the same person to begin with.

According to the report from headquarters, the Kamata murder victim

was stabbed with her hands and feet tied up.

8 years ago, the suspect in the God of Death case

carved "GOD" on his victims and cut off some of the hair to bring home.

But that didn't happen in this case.

And also, in the previous 4 murders, the victims were tied up to a chair,

the execution style here isn't the same.

And this time he took the body from the murder site

to a dry riverbed, that's different too.

However, there is one point where they all agree.

His focus was on long black haired females in their late 20s.

Tying both hands and feet together and stabbing her to death.

And there's one special characteristic to focus on.

- The method of tying the rope. - The method?

Sakuragi, sit.

The tying method in the Kamata murder and the past

- look to be the same. - Like this,

you make a butterfly loop and then

make a knot through there.

Athletes usually

tie up like this so they don't get untied by accident.

The middle schooler who found the victim told us about it.

They used the same kind of method in their baseball club.

- So we started to notice it. - Yes, but just that

is enough to call the murderers the same?

The murder happened on April 23.

8 years ago, the first murder happened on April 23 also.

From then on it started to escalate

and 3 more women were killed.

So some differences but also some similarities too eh?

It's a loose foundation Fukuzawa.

But if it is the same person,

there's a chance someone else will die.

If there's even a chance, we need to hurry and investigate.

We haven't been able to solve this case because there are no good eyewitness reports,

and besides their outward appearance,

there is nothing else linking them together.

Look at this.

The murder locations don't match up with their route to work

or even to any of their friends' places.

So then he targeted them at random?

If you know the area, it makes the murder easy.

Maybe he was involved with work all over the city?

I've already asked forensics

to start looking over the data once again.

This time I want to focus on finding things we didn't then,

find anything else connecting the four of them,

and prove a link to the Kamata murder.

Get a complete account from those involved.

A recorder will make that pretty easy.

No, later you have to transcribe them all.

- Huh? - Chief said you were suited for it.

If you have a problem, say so.

No no, I believe that I am.

I'm going to go search around the Kamata murder site.

- Takamine, go with him. - Okay.

Sakamoto and Sakuragi, go get the accounts from people back then.

- Yes. - Shiraishi-san,

Go find out the alibi for any suspects from

8 years ago on the murder that happened this time.

- Okay. - Uh, wait a second!

If there's a chance the murderer is the same,

don't we need the data on the murder this time too?

We requested the data from Special Investigations already

but they haven't replied yet.

Huh? Why?

Uh, hey!

What?

Hey!

Abandoning a dead body at a riverbed near a busy walkway,

there's a chance someone would've seen it.

Maybe the small flaw in this crime.

The middle school student who found her first

saw someone running from the scene right?

He doesn't remember anything?

Only that it was a man in his 40s.

Takamine-san, you were on the

profiling team for the God of Death case, right?

The profile was a man in his 30s or 40s.

Strong and also had intelligence.

He craved attention and power.

He experienced stress or had

a traumatic event with a long blacked hair woman.

After the crime, he brought the hair back home as proof of his victory.

Why is the execution style different this time,

no cut hair or carving of GOD on the skin?

People's tastes and character don't change that easily.

Isn't it too early to focus on them being the same killer?

What? Some personal involvement with this case?

Not really. It's just another unsolved case.

I'm Fukuzawa from Investigations.

We're looking for a link to an unsolved case.

We'd like to search the scene.

What's Investigations doing here? Messing up our crime scene?

We just want a detailed account of the murder scene.

There's no way we're telling you that.

Marking your territory eh?

Piece of advice.

You won't be able to solve this case.

Fukuzawa is terrible at negotiations.

Please.

8 years ago my daughter was murdered by a serial killer!

Anything will help. Please, any information!

Please!

The police?

What do you want now?

I don't expect anything from the police.

Do you know about the woman murdered in Kamata a few days ago?

- Huh? - We're looking for

a link between that murder and the one from 8 years ago.

Isn't that amazing, a gallery in Akasaka?

I'm glad you worked hard and never gave up.

Yeah. But I still have more to do.

Dad and I will go everyday.

Stop it! That's embarrassing!

I'll go visit too!

Why do you say it like that?

- It's a very good picture. - Thank you very much.

Apologies for the mess.

It's a little hard living by yourself.

It's a little rude but, your wife?

She left with my youngest daughter.

It's because you were watching TV back then.

If you had noticed Narumi's call and met her on the way to the station.

It's your fault Narumi died!

I blamed her too much for what happened.

The murder still bothered me.

And I took the pain out on my wife.

I didn't just lose Narumi from this.

- Good work today. - Oh, Sakuragi.

I heard the story from the family of the first victim,

- but there was no link to the current murder. - No good for us too.

We did all we legally could, there's nothing left for us.

How timid. Outwitted like that by Special Investigations,

- you won't be able to solve this case. - You're one to talk.

Big trouble! There's someone here who's really really angry!

- Who? - Well...

Seems like you're asking for information from our investigation?

We're looking into a link with the God of Death murders from 8 years ago.

We're the ones focused on actually catching the murderer.

And you just blindly link it to some unsolved case?

Hey, Koga.