Absolute Zero: Special Investigation Unit (絶対零度)

If anything’s going to happen, it will be here.

Someone is 30 meters away.

- How scary. - Another suspicious person?

- It's happened a lot lately. - That's nearby.

They were about to put him into a car.

Aren't there attempts to kidnap children by suspicious people?

You need to do something.

We've put out more patrols.

After the crime they pick easy to escape places.

That is one thing in common among all crimes.

In one of Nara's new towns,

a child was kidnapped.

In a residential area of Kawasaki, a child was attacked with a knife.

- They look alike. - They both have obstructions

which make it hard to identify the criminal.

Places where crimes occur

are deserted, have poor visibility, and look different during day and night.

They have vital points in common.

So I have begun a database to track such locations

all over the country.

With this active prevention in place

we can stop many crimes.

Even if know where the dangerous places are,

there's no way we can watch them all now.

We're already at the limit

- with our patrols. - That's true.

Yes, you are correct.

But, isn't it your job to react to the data

found on the ground?

So if there's any time you need the data

just say so.

That's all.

Maejima-san.

- Oh. - It's been a long time.

It's already been half a year since your profiling training?

Yes. This is Chief Nagashima.

And my superior, Kurata.

I'm Maejima.

You have some interesting data there.

- Thank you. - I was wondering

if you might have any other useful information

for our team to use?

Of course.

Ah, by the way, what about my request?

The places that you picked were quite dangerous,

and we have a lot of reports from there.

- That's what I thought. - But why

the same crimes are being repeated in the blind spots, we're not sure.

It seems the police in each area has had their own problems.

Thanks for the help.

Could your group maybe look into it further?

If we find out the truth,

it's quite possible that other criminals

may use the data for their own crimes.

We need to stop the crimes first.

- I understand. - Please.

Is that Maejima's data?

Yes, they said we should investigate it ourselves.

I could do without his preaching.

The people on the ground are busy enough.

The researchers think they're so important.

Ah!

My desk is too small.

You'll need to learn what to do before you study.

- What? - The only reason you don't have space

is because you don't know how to use what you have.

You should organize first.

This is how I organize.

Those who can't keep things in order

also don't know how coordinate colors. They have no balance.

Yeah, you are dressed strangely like usual.

- Hey. - Haha.

And if you don't clean up it's quite possible

you'll lose your thin image

- and start to get bigger. - Bigger?

- My desk is clean, right? - What?

Yeah, this must be the reason.

Get rid of what you don't need and clean up.

- We have an investigation. - Okay!

Over the last 3 months in Machida, Itabashi, Edogawa and Setagaya,

there have been attacks.

We found something in common with them all.

In common?

Maejima's data showed that

in all of these locations

multiple crimes are likely to be committed.

Since they were dealt with by different stations,

we didn't get the link until now.

So we're going to investigate again

and see what else we can find.

We were asked by Maejima's team to look into it further also.

- We may have a series of crimes here. - A series?

We'll need to put in our best efforts

to prevent another crime from happening.

Zettai Reido (Absolute Zero) - Episode 5

Translation: Rollins Timing: ggenglish QC: subie06

This is a criminal activity map for Machida, Itabashi

Edogawa and Setagaya over the last 3 months.

They all took place in big city blind spots.

Easy places for crimes to be committed

but especially suspicious is the number of crimes.

Purse snatching, stealing from cars, sexual assault, child kidnapping,

these crimes are five times as likely to happen here.

- Five times? - These are not happening by chance then.

In Tanio near Machida, after a brief period of increased crime,

the increased crime rate switches to another place.

It is an unnatural movement.

Take a look at this.

We looked at cameras in 1 kilometer radius around the

the time of the Machida and Edogawa attacks

and the same fake license plate comes up.

There's a guy in his forties in each one.

Maybe he's abusing Maejima's information?

But his information also has police reports in it too.

So then people can find out about police plans too.

- What's this? - Maejima's team is also

having citizen volunteers from the area

help out in making the maps.

Hoping that his research would feel closer to home,

he’s been active for years getting the communities to make crime prevention maps.

So this is grassroots work?

Quite a strange researcher.

These maps marking the most dangerous places

and the crime occurrence map

match up and show an artificial increase

- in crime rates. - So the criminal is using the data then.

The map in Setagaya was still being made

and hadn't become public. But crime still increased in the dangerous areas.

So then someone working with Maejima

is using the data to commit crimes.

- Why would they do that? - We've asked police

in Setagaya to keep watch over those areas.

During that time we'll try and uncover the truth.

We'll figure out why someone is committing crimes in all these blind spots.

Yes.

Yoshizawa Kaede, university student?

Doing it for my grandchild?

Does Maejima-san know we're looking at people in his group?

We have to keep our identities secret no matter what.

Even for other police?

That's how we do things.

Maejima-san knows that we've asked you guys to help out.

And Takamine-san lives in the Onobara part of Setagaya.

There will be a lot of people with kids. We'll help out there.

So Takamine-san, you're going with your kid?

My husband is on a business trip so just me and my daughter.

- You live nearby? - Ah, yes.

Ah that's good we have people around here helping out.

- Really. - Even though I've seen a lot of people here

it's my first time talking to some people.

Yeah.

Have you helped out before with this?

No, this is my first time.

- Hello. - Hello.

Thanks for helping out today.

It's okay, I live nearby. I'm doing this for my daughter anyway.

- Hello. - Hello.

I don't see the man from the security tapes.

There may be someone here who

associates with him then.

We don't have anyone to suspect here yet.

Shiraishi-san and Sakuragi, start looking

at the volunteer staff.

Hello, I'm Yoshizawa.

- Hello. - Nice to meet you.

There's three staff members.

There's a graduate student from Teitou University's architecture department, Toyama Kana.

The housewife with the kid is Kita Tomoko.

Kajita Masayuki works at a supermarket.

Everyone,

if you could please hand in the results of your surveys.

- Then we'll go over the results. - Okay.

That's a good reply. Let's start with A group.

Okay.

Found something dangerous based on the check list?

Why do you think the place is dangerous?

It's hard to see it because it's surrounded blocks.

I think that's dangerous like the other

- places I've seen. - Yeah.

Thank you very much. Next, please.

Ah, everyone

always helps out with Maejima-sensei's work?

Yeah, if I have time, I like to help.

Kajita-san helps out almost everytime.

Yeah, I guess so.

What do you guys do for work?

I manage a supermarket.

Aren't you usually busy on weekends then?

Ah, well, I make my own shifts.

Kajita is showing some signs of nervousness.

I think there's value in focusing on him.

We're halfway done today. Next week we'll finish up.

If you can, please come again next week.

Okay.

Thank you for today.

We can't do it without our volunteers.

Well, making a crime prevention map for your own neighborhood.

That's great.

If you can see the danger in these places,

you'll be able to avoid danger yourself better.