Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

That's it!

I'll turn you in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.

Kagome kagome,

Stop it!

The bird in the cage,

Shut up!

Your wife and daughter are in my cage.

Help me!

Stork brings a baby.

Are you all right?

Are you all right?

We're going to a hide-out.

You can hide yourself from the police.

I change our plan.

I'm going back to Kyoto.

The new target is Himura Hideo.

Himura? Who is he?

It's your job to find out who he is without asking her.

Head back to Kyoto.

Yes.

Why didn't you tell us that your wife and daughter were kidnapped?

That woman is a devil.

You'll never be able to understand her.

Nanba, pull yourself together!

Himura Hideo...

When he visited her, something inside of her was awakened...

That's right, it's his fault.

I've heard that you suggested to Himura to see Moroboshi Sanae.

Moroboshi is tough to beat.

If I can mix a dangerous drug called Himura with her, it may bring about chemical change.

I can't help feeling that that chemical change is too risky.

Don't mix. Hazardous...right?

But we never know what happens until we mix them.

That's not true.

It's you who went out of control.

There's a betrayer in the police.

A betrayer?

It's a gross act of the evasion of responsibility.

Anyway, Public Safety Bureau of Tokyo MPD is in charge of this incident from now on.

As you warned me earlier,

It may have been my mistake to let Himura talk to Moroboshi.

Are you going to tell this incident to Himura?

We were ordered to keep silent on this incident.

I'll tell him at some future date.

I can't keep investigating with him since I have this uneasy feeling.

Nabeshima, I can't understand Himura.

Komachi, whether you understand him or not,

I trust his brain.

I'll keep asking him to help our investigations.

Got it?

All right.

Since you're a full-fledged detective, don't show your dissatisfaction.

"I'll achieve successful career by using Himura", why don't you think like that?

I'm not skillful like you.

Anyway, keep this incident to yourself.

I was chatting with an editor earlier.

People are making a fuss over the internet about the murder incident of 2 young people in Tokyo,

Who were members of Shangri-La Crusade.

A suspect may be a high school student.

In your opinion, this is committed by the same phantom killer who is a minority, right?

What's the basis for fussing?

The fuss stemmed from a posting in the underground website of a high school.

At first, it was dismissed as a prank.

But that boy was actually missing.

And that rumor leaped to public attention and spread in SNS.

They have a testimony that that boy complacently said that he killed them.

A small lie becomes true and spreads to the public...

It's unreliable.

Yes, that's right.

But according to an editor, it became more than a gossip in the underground website.

Some of them found boys name and picture. They post them on the internet for fun.

There's an argument between them and people with good sense who request to delete them.

It's ridiculous.

People nickname a boy "Prince Ripper" or "Apollo".

A boy is also praised as a hero by some people.

A rumor spreads much faster when a target person has an interesting nickname.

It's a law of SNS.

Well, as I thought all of his pictures are deleted.

I found him!

Ah, this boy...

What? He is a high school student in Tokyo.

It's him.

What's wrong?

I met him today.

Seriously?! Is he in Kyoto?

Yes. It's him.

Who is he?

What's wrong, Gonta?

Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa

Episode 8, Apollo's knife

Excuse us.

2 high school students were stabbed to death in a row from last night.

The first victim is Ogi Shion,

Her body was found on the empty lot where is 1 km away from here around midnight last night.

Do you see the sequence between those incidents?

Our Crime Lab is examining right now.

Excuse me.

We're sorry for troubling you.

It's painful incidents.

For all we know, 2 crimes are thought to have been committed by the same suspect.

The first person to discover her body is him.

The first person to discover Anou Moriyuki

He was taking a dog for a walk.

May I check a crime scene?

Please do.

Do you think that he notices that I hid something?

You had an awkward attitude too!

I'm not skillful.

Don't be like Takakura ken.

Takakura Ken was a Japanese actor whose favorite phrase was "I’m not skillful"

He is Zama Kensuke, 17 years old.

He died from blood loss resulting from being stabbed throat.

He must have offered resistance. There're a few cuts on his throat.

The estimate time of death is between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. yesterday.

Since we haven't found his body soon enough and also it was raining last night,

We can't find anything like suspect's footsteps or any other clues.

How about the other crime scene?

She was killed first.

A suspect used a same knife to stab her.

Suspect clothes may have been stained with her blood.

They aren't born to die like this.

Since I have my baby, I realize how insensible I was for the death.

I feel sorry for them.

Damn, I can't work properly.

Let's find a suspect for them as soon as possible.

I count on you, Himura.

Yasoda, do you have a baby?

Not yet. She is 6-month pregnant.

It's not the right place, but congratulations.

Thank you.

Anou who owns a convenience store gives this to us.

Thank you.

Ogi Shion and Zama Kensuke, they went to the same high school.

At 11:41 p.m. last night, Zama sent e-mail to Ogi.

He said, "Sorry, I'm going now".

But according to Crime Lab, she was killed between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. before she got that e-mail.

She was killed while having waited for him in the rain.

He had no idea that she was already killed and sent her e-mail.

While having gone to see her, he met a suspect by accident.

A suspect killed those innocent young people.

There're so many media people today.

There's a bizarre rumor.

Have you heard a rumor about Apollo?

Ah, that Prince Ripper?

Don't call him that.

That Apollo may be in Kyoto right now.

That rumor is sparked more by these 2 murder incidents.

The police can't ignore that rumor any more.

Sensei, what do you think?

It's incredibly foolish to be influenced by rumors on the internet.

I only trust things that I saw and listen by myself.

Us too, of course.

I hope so...

We're going to see the family of victims.

Then,

We don't want you to come with us.

What?

I don't want you to ask them insensitive questions.

I have a class.

So, excuse us.

Excuse me.

What?

Hey, shouldn't we have mentioned them that Tokie met a boy who is most likely Apollo in Kyoto?

Uncertain information messes up the investigation.

And they also hide something from us.

This is the crime scene of the high school student murder incident in Kyoto.

Continuous phantom killer incident occurred between last night and this morning is,

thought to be committed by the same suspect by the method employed in a crime.

Apollo is in Kyoto

Prince Ripper moved to the west

Apollo is in Sendai

I saw Apollo at Hiroshima station

The police bring the relationship between this and phantom killer incidents in Tokyo into view...

A victim is believed to be a high school student, Zama Kensuke, 17 years old.

Since 2 high school student were killed in a short time,

Apollo, scary...

I saw him in Sapporo

the police alert the neighbors not to go out alone at night.

Wow, Apollo was seen Hokkaido and Okinawa.

How many Apollo are there?

Ah, the news about Apollo has a huge amount of traffic.

Hey, are you talking about Apollo?

Have you seen his picture?

No.

I have one. Do you want to see it?

No thank you...

Himura-sensei, as Criminal Sociology class, we can't ignore Apollo, right?

Do you think that Apollo killed those 2 students in Kyoto?

The dangerous crimes committed by youth increase these days.

You're a youth too.

Uncertain rumor makes the truth inconspicuous.

You just said that the crimes committed by youth increased.

What's your basis for saying so?

Ah, well...

Juvenile delinquency has been decreasing mathematically after peaking in 1960s.

Since the mass media is developed and make mention of juvenile delinquency,

we feel that juvenile delinquency is increasing.

Juvenile delinquency is a big research theme in Criminal Sociology.

It may be a good theme of your thesis.

Do you have a question?