Drowning Fish (溺れる魚)

Drowning Fish

Who are you?

You like tropical fish?

Do you think it's possible to drown a fish?

No way. Fish can't drown.

...in the west, weather conditions will be worsening.

Cloudy skies are...

...and now let's look at current conditions in Tokyo.

Taking a look at our Ginza live feed,

we can see some heavy clouds overhead.

It's 20 degrees in Tokyo right now.

I think I'll be heading back after all.

Wait.

What? It's too late for that now!

Ogata...

Just think back to when you were a kid,

swimming in the ocean or river.

I'm no kid, and this isn't any ocean or river.

Sometimes a man's got to fight even when he knows he'll lose!

This is one of those times!

"No. 1 Well-Hung"

Cover it up!

It's time!

Ogata!

Ogata, wait!

No running!

Your dick!

What about your dick?

Ogata, what do you think you're doing?

Hey, let's wash this car.

Nah, gonna rain soon.

Intellect Bread: Banana and Margarine Snow Brand Milk

I'll go around the back.

You take the main entrance.

Who's there?

Who are you?

I said, who are you?

Um, your precious home is being targeted by termites.

Let go!

That really hurts!

It... actually feels really good.

Police!

Well, all right.

You...!

Are you all right?

Stay back!

They're still alive. You'll get shot!

You bastards still won't give up?!

Stop resisting! Resist and I'll shoot!

I'm ordering you to stop resisting!

Surrender already!

Do as I say!

Stop! Look out!

Shirasu!

You killed them?

It was self-defense!

These two are just right.

I'm not sure Inspector Shirasu is fit for this job, much less Officer Akiyoshi.

Those two would make a good team.

Based on my self-taught name fortunetelling,

the combination of fifteen and eleven strokes in their names is ideal for a work partnership.

That's just one point on the graph, anyway.

Has my judgment ever been wrong before?

What? Hey! Who are you?

You're Officer Munetaka Akiyoshi, right?

We're special inspectors from the National Police Agency.

Special... inspectors?

Let's go over it again, Inspector Shirasu.

I don't know what I don't know.

You allegedly shot and killed two criminals and pocketed tens of millions of their yen.

You acted alone in that firefight,

embezzling the cash while keeping your fellow officer out of the room.

Did you actually see this happen?

'Course you didn't.

That's why everyone thought you were Ms. High-and-Mighty in the Academy.

You're Joe Shishido, are you not?

What are you saying? You're way off track.

Three days after the incident,

five million yen in cash was deposited into an account in Joe Shishido's name

at a bank near your home.

So?

Sayama.

Rolling.

This is security camera footage of Joe Shishido making the deposit.

That's you, isn't it?

Turn it off!

Stop the video! Cut the power!

This isn't me!

I've had enough. You're a disgrace!

I have a proposition for you.

Let me get right to the point.

If you do what we ask, we'll agree to overlook the crimes you've committed.

It's not a crime to dress up in women's clothes.

Certainly, cross-dressing itself isn't against the law.

The problem is how you happened to acquire those clothes.

We've searched your apartment.

You have quite a lot of women's outfits and undergarments,

especially uniforms.

Sayama.

Rolling.

A nurse.

The Daiei in Himonya, third floor, ladies' clothing.

Japanese restaurant Yumean.

A Hato tour bus guide.

The Kokiriko pub in Nogata.

Cashier, Marusho Grocery, Edogawabashi.

A female SDF official

and a policewoman.

Of these, the policewoman's uniform

bears a striking resemblance to the one

a certain someone stole from the station last month.

That's you.

Police who commit crimes are often punished more harshly than ordinary citizens.

Could you handle it?

In prison, you wouldn't be allowed to wear

nice women's clothes or makeup.

Now you've got me worried.

As you know,

we special police inspectors belong to a bureau

that investigates police misconduct.

Currently we're carrying out the secret investigation of a certain person,

but we've run into some difficulties.

Why are you telling me all this?

Because you're the only one who can do it.

Kippei Shiina

Yosuke Kubozuka

Yukie Nakama

Ken Watanabe

Yoshitaka Haga Presented By: Masao Sato

Mitsuru Ito Planning: Shigeyuki Endo

Kenji Sugano Hiroshi Deme Producers: Norio Watanabe

Original Story: Keita Tokaji

Screenplay: Masahiro Yokotani

Photography: Satoru Karasawa Music: Akira Mitake

Recording: Soichi Inoue Lighting: Kenji Ishida Art: Hisao Inagaki

Production Coordinator: Shinichi Asahina Assistant Producer: Hisashi Kimura Editing: Toshihide Fukano

Directed By Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Hey, why so secretive?

So you are hiding something!

Tell me.

A naked guy.

You want to see it that badly?

Who, me? Yeah, right.

I could show you...

...but I won't.

What's next? --Shibuhito

Already on it

New Email Received Subject: New Order From: Drowning Fish

Drowning Fish

Next Sunday at noon

in front of NHK in Shibuya. Sing a Morning Musume song.

It's kind of old, but do "Happy Summer Wedding".

General affairs director Takehashi, PR chief Shimada,

and accounting manager Takimoto. All three in dresses and doing a choreographed dance.

They must also strip off items of clothing while they sing.

In the event that you don't comply with these demands,

a certain you-know-what will be mixed into

200 of Daito's 60-minute DPE PhotoStation developing tanks

throughout the city.

Drowning Fish

Morning Musume...

We'll arrange for the costumes to be rented.

Any special requests?

I never said I'd have any part of this!

What are you talking about?

Yeah, you.

You think you can weasel out of this?

You know full well you have to do it.

This guy is serious. He proved it when his first demand went ignored.

Only four locations were hit that first time,

but business ground to a halt with all the customer complaints

and then having to scrub out the developing units.

If something like that should happen again,

our reputation will take a nosedive.

What's our defense plan?

The culprit puts this stuff in a film canister to get it into the developer.

In order for our shops to deliver 60-minute prints,

the process is almost completely automated.

Checking every single negative ahead of time would be impossible.

Isn't it the job of you guys in engineering

to make stuff like that possible?

Like hell it is!

You just want to make more work for us!

You win, so stop the tape already.

It's a DVD.

Why are we still putting up with all this nonsense?

Why don't we just report this to the police already?

What do you think will happen when this hits the media?

A crime so easy to imitate is sure to spread far and wide.

Ever since the Glico Morinaga case,

food companies have been faced with threat after threat.

That case spurred them to develop a new kind of cellophane,

to the tune of several hundred million yen.

But...

Even so...

I'm scared!

But sir, it's Morning Musume.

Anyway, please wait a bit longer.

I'll see what I can do on my end as well.

What the hell is happening to Japan?