Mibu!
Look.
Hm?
Someone left flowers in the same spot again.
Oh.
It's just an old grudge.
Don't worry about it.
Okay.
The smell of freshly-laundered sheets.
Thanks to you, President Koyama,
I get to enjoy all the comforts of a luxury hotel.
You're a big help.
I owe you big time, Mr. Kyogoku.
It's no trouble at all to book a room for you in my name.
It's the least I can do.
People in our world don't get to stay in hotels
where they need your ID to check you in.
We use a fake name, we do time for fraud.
Even with all our money,
we're forced to stay in crummy love hotels.
I took care of that thing you asked me to do.
Huh?
The thing with the idiot stepfather.
He ruined a top-earning girl, Shizuku Pien, for a lousy three million.
I couldn't let that stand.
The stepfather sued us, so
I fried his crotch and turned him into a eunuch.
I saw a photo of the damage.
He'll never use that thing again.
For the rest of his life, he'll need a catheter to take a leak.
What, he's still alive?
Eh?
He could talk. You're sure about this?
What?
You saying I should kill him?
No. I, uh…
I'm saying that I need a refill.
Are you deaf?
Uh, uh…
I'm sorry. Right away.
Don't worry about him squealing.
Whatever he says, they'll never connect it to you.
Of course. Here you are, sir.
Oh yeah, there's something else. I need a favor from you.
I want to borrow one of your best girls for a day.
Yes, sir. I'll arrange to have our most popular actress sent right away.
-Not that. -Oh.
I want a homemade tape of a cocky CEO, married with kids,
getting it on with a porn star.
We'll film them on the sly and blackmail him.
The long-term goal is to take over his company.
To make it happen, it'll take a little help
from Attorney Kujo.
He'll be our messenger.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
I'm gonna make him fall so hard.
Mr. Karasuma, what's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?
It's not exactly my body. It's more like my soul.
Your soul?
When we deal with Mr. Mibu, it leads to someone else.
Who's the someone else?
As if you don't know.
Kyogoku--
Thank you for coming, Attorney Kujo.
Do you remember?
I met you two before at Kiko, the old folks' home.
Of course.
At the time, I wasn't aware that Mr. Mibu and you were acquainted.
I was there on Mr. Mibu's orders, keeping on eye on President Sugawara.
Sharing this cup makes us brothers.
You turn on me, and I'll kill you.
I was caught and beaten half to death.
After all that, I'm surprised you still work for Mr. Mibu.
He saved my life. I owe him one.
Mr. Kuga.
You've been arrested on suspicion of contravening
the Employment Security Act.
They're claiming you recruited girls to a call girl agency
to get them involved in prostitution.
Sir.
I've been arrested on other charges.
What gives you the idea that it's a separate arrest?
A guy called Tonohata works for the call girl agency.
He drives the girls around.
Someone snatched him and messed him up last week.
I was interrogated. I'm considered a suspect, apparently.
Do you have any idea why they would think that?
Tonohata's a jerk. He set fire to my car a while ago.
He was caught on a security camera, so they arrested him right away.
I guess the cops really leaned on him to give them something.
Sir, are they gonna put me away?
Until I know exactly what Mr. Tonohata has told the police,
I can't give you a definitive answer.
Were you involved in the assault on Tonohata?
No. It wasn't me
I was in Fukuoka the day that that went down.
I understand. Fine.
If that's all they've got for evidence, say as little as possible.
Clam up and you'll be okay.
Clamming up might not be so easy.
The detective in charge is annoying.
This guy called Arashiyama from the Organized Crime Division.
Arashiyama interrogated you?
Yeah.
The guy's got it in for me. Always pushing my buttons. I don't know.
I could easily mouth off to him.
Do you have any idea why he treats you so harshly?
Arashiyama had a daughter.
She was murdered.
Prisoners, halt!
Fall out!
The one who killed her…
Left face. Lift them.
…was a guy named Yuto Inukai.
He was a friend of mine.
We're from the same town.
That's why Arashiyama resents us.
He's got it in for us. Me and Mibu.
Mr. Karasuma.
HONJO POLICE STATION STAFF ENTRANCE
That shop with the sign that says Japan's number one takoyaki…
-Have you ever tried it? -Huh?
The takoyaki.
Now's not the time to be thinking about food.
Can't you take anything seriously?
Let's buy some today and see if it's true.
We'll order extra mayonnaise, huh?
Attorney Kujo.
How does a lawyer like you become the errand boy for thugs and Yakuza?
They paying you?
You should watch what you say. I could sue you.
Let's see.
So your father is the famous prosecutor, Yukisada Kurama.
You've got a big brother, Kuroudo Kurama, also a prosecutor.
I hear your brother's got a big career ahead of him, so keep out of his way.
I wouldn't worry about that.
We're individuals. There's a world of difference between us.
You really shouldn't lump people together.
Anyway, I've already cut ties with my family.
That's not what people say about you.
Do you think I'm bothered about what people say?
If you'll excuse me.
You're Attorney Karasuma, right?
That's right.
You too, you're all about the cash? But you're just a kid.
Did you go to law school to run errands for thugs?
No, of course not.
Is it true you cut ties with your brother Prosecutor Kurama?
Yeah. It's true.
Why did you do that?
So… who were we just talking to?
Detective Arashiyama from Organized Crime.
Oh, that's the guy.
I don't like how cops like him think.
Detectives see the world in binary terms.
If you don't cooperate with them, you're automatically a suspect.
It's impossible to have any real dialogue with them.
So he's the detective whose daughter was killed, right?
Do you know anything about that case, Mr. Kujo?
It happened ten years ago.
A woman's body was discovered down by the river.
The deceased was identified as Manami Ogawa, 20 years old.
She was Detective Arashiyama's daughter,
but she went by her mother's last name after the parents divorced.
Body fluids found at the scene indicated there were multiple perpetrators.
And the police arrested several minors in short order.
-Got anything? -This.
Manami Ogawa was attacked from behind on her way home.
The assailants took her money and valuables.
Then they raped her.
At some point, she started screaming, so they strangled her to death.
-Second dish. -Third.
-First dish. -Third.
The one who did the killing was Yuto Inukai.
He was sentenced to between ten and fifteen years,
and he's still serving his time in a juvenile facility.
His two accomplices have already served their sentences
and are in rehabilitation programs.
Detective Arashiyama, are you sure Kuga's guilty?
He's guilty as hell.
But he has an alibi for the day of the incident. He was in Fukuoka. And--
Fukami, unless you're paying very close attention,
a person's true nature will be invisible to you.
A person's true nature?
People show the public one face. They show the family another face.
Those aren't real.
They show their true face only to themselves
and to those who share in their sins.
Don't just look at the perp.
Look at the victim too, who they were, the world they were in.
How did the crime come into their lives and why?
That's what every good investigation does.
Sir.
Okay, good job today.
You're leaving?
I have something to do at home.
Okay. I get the basic picture of the case.
Why does Detective Arashiyama hate Mr. Mibu
just because of an old connection with Inukai?
Hard to know for sure, but if I had to guess,
Detective Arashiyama knows that Mr. Mibu is operating under Mr. Kyogoku.
See, it's just what I was saying.
Not a good idea for us to work with Mr. Kyogoku.
Now we're talking about two of your clients
who could be implicated in a murder, right?
If you get involved with people like that, they'll disbar you for real.
As I explained to you previously, it's really just a guess.
So… are you saying that the murder of Arashiyama's daughter
is still an open case?
Hey, how'd it go?
Uh…
Where's Arashiyama, anyway?
He said he had something to do.
Keep a close eye on him.
I'm getting worried about him, Fukami.
Why?
Pretty soon, they're releasing the guy.
Why is Arashiyama continuing his own investigation
even though the perpetrators have been arrested?
He says it doesn't add up.
What doesn't add up?
Come here.
There's nothing to link the territory where Inukai and his crew operated
and the neighborhood where Arashiyama's daughter lived.
She wasn't even close to downtown.
So why would they go out of their way to be there?
In their statements,
Inukai and the other two said they didn't even know his daughter.
So he suspects that someone ordered them to do it.
Maybe it was Mibu.
Or the guys above him, the Fushimi-gumi gang.
Yeah, but talk about not adding up. Why would that be?
He says he's playing a hunch.
But the trial is over.
The perpetrators were convicted, and the sentences were finalized.
Isn't it all too late?
And isn't Arashiyama investigating by himself, as a private citizen?
They found her cell phone among her belongings, but it was locked.
Nowadays, you can get a tech expert to unlock it
for about 500,000.
Back in those days, it wasn't possible.
The investigation is complete, the case is closed, the trial is over,
but nothing's over for Arashiyama.
A six-digit passcode has a million possible combinations.
Enter the wrong code too many times,
the phone locks you out for a day.
He's been at it for years, day after day in limbo.
The probability of unlocking that phone is one in a million.
Why doesn't he just pay a professional?
It's a father's obsession.
Compulsively trying to unlock her phone
is the only way he can feel connected to his murdered daughter.
It's a miracle.
On the anniversary of her death, a miracle.
HISTORY
MIHO
MIHO, MANAMI
MIHO CALLING…
Uh… Hello?
Uh…
This is the father of Manami Ogawa.
Manami's… father?
Would it be okay
for me to ask you something about my daughter?
Uh.
Hello, there. You're Ms. Miho Kinugasa, right?
I'm Arashiyama. We spoke on the phone.
Oh.
Hi. Nice to meet you.
Uh…
How did you know my daughter, Ms. Kinugasa?
You could call us drinking buddies, I guess.
Manami, she wasn't really a drinker, was she?
Sure, she drank.
I'd say… quite a lot.
We were, like, the early adopters of the paid drinking thing.
In Nishiazabu, usually, or Roppongi, we'd meet up and do a bit of drinking.
What's paid drinking?
With CEOs in, like, IT.
Rich guys, you know. who like to party with girls around.
We usually didn't know what they did for a living.
We'd hang out and drink with them and get 30,000 for the evening.
Thirty thousand? All that for just drinking?
Yeah. And now I'm a 30-something single mom.
I guess I won't be getting that kind of gig again.
The baby's crying. Shouldn't you do something about that?
Oh. He'll be fine.
If I don't let him cry in the day, he really goes for it at night.
And before I know it,
I've got the guy next door banging on the wall.
Um… Ms. Kinugasa,
can you give me the contact information for those executives,
the men you drank with?
Uh… I don't have a clue how to reach them.
There I was, constantly obsessed with work,
and I barely knew anything about my own daughter.
That was before. Now, I want to know everything.
Is there anything you can remember that might help me?
Let's see if it's still there.
Manami's alt account.
Alt account?
Mm. Like social media.
Uh…
Here it is.
IMPOSSIBLE CAT
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
You know…
I'm struggling to make ends meet right now.
I went out of my way and made time to talk to you,
so how about you give me 30,000 yen?
So you weren't cooperating because you cared?
You were just looking to score some cash?
That comes from having made money the easy way.
How do you hope to raise a child with such an attitude?
Screw you. You're just like she said you were.
You know, old man, your daughter hated you
because of that self-important way you look down on everyone.
I SAW KOYASHAN’S PHONE.
THERE WERE PICTURES OF HIS WIFE AND BABY. I WAS BEING DECEIVED.
I want to be praised.
Even if it's a lie, I just want to be praised.
Were you that needy, Manami?
I saw Koyashan's phone.
There were pictures of his beautiful wife and newborn baby.
I was being deceived.
An affair?
At one point, Koyashan was the father of a child of mine, you know?
Dad's job is to punish bad people for what they did wrong.
He would say, "If anything bad happens to you, tell Dad."
But Dad was constantly working late, and we hardly ever got a chance to talk.
Bad things were happening all the time in my life, but I couldn't say anything.
I'm going to tell Koyashan's wife about our relationship.
I'm going to tell my dad all of his secrets.
If I have to live in hell, Koyashan's coming with me.
I finally plucked up the courage to call Dad.
I wanted to ask his advice.
What should I do with my jealousy and anger?
Is it okay to give way to them?
I'm worried that I'll do something wrong. I don't wanna lose my way.
What would Dad have said to guide me?
DAD CALLING…
MANAMI
Is there a problem, Arashiyama?
No, no. It's all good.
-Let's go. -Yes, sir.
Okay, then.
I was way too busy with work.
So, I ignored the call.
BUT I COULDN’T TELL HIM.
President Koyama, what is this place?
Oh, uh…
Just an empty room that was used for hookups.
You're welcome to use it anytime.
Consider it a favor from Mr. Kyogoku.
MR. KYOGOKU CALLING…
Ah, Mr. Kujo, it's Kyogoku.
The room you're in now… It's yours. Whenever you want it.
Where's this coming from?
Mibu told me you're camped out on the roof.
I'm worried that you'll get sick living that way.
No, thanks, Mr. Kyogoku.
I would much rather find a house on my own terms.
Mmm.
Well, then, Attorney…
How about you go on retainer with President Koyama?
The president will pay you plenty.
I can really use a guy with your skills.
I've got a long list of companies that need advising.
Well, it's true they're all, uh, a little on the shady side.
I never say not to a client on the basis of social status or moral judgment.
However, I won't work on retainer for anyone.
What the hell's the difference?
Well, whatever.
If you don't like the carrot,
I'm just gonna have to hit you with the stick.
Soon enough, Attorney Kujo.
I'm gonna make you my obedient little carrier pigeon.
Mr. Mibu.
Mr. Karasuma.
Where's Mr. Kujo?
Uh…
You came alone?
Yeah.
Well, that's a first.
So, what's up?
Mr. Mibu, have you met Detective Arashiyama?
From the Organized Crime Division.
Maybe.
What's he like as a detective?
The kind of cop who's always bugging you.
The kind that treats guys like me worse than animals.
He hauls your ass in for the stupidest thing
and bullshit half the time, and his interrogations are ruthless.
I suppose that's the right thing for a detective to do, isn't it?
Is that the right thing for an attorney to say?
Were you just about done here?
I'd like you to talk to me about Detective Arashiyama's daughter.
About her murder case.
You're starting to sound like a detective.
No, I'm not trying to find out exactly what happened,
just whether Mr. Kyogoku or you were involved in the case somehow.
Yeah, we were.
What if I said that?
Cut all your ties to Attorney Kujo right away then, please.
Detective Arashiyama will stop at nothing
to get to the bottom of his daughter's murder.
I wouldn't put it past him to make up a reason to arrest Attorney Kujo.
If any charges stuck and he were found guilty,
he'd be disbarred for life, and we'd both be finished.
That's not gonna happen. I need Attorney Kujo too.
I'll protect him no matter what.
So step away from him right now.
You'll give Attorney Kujo your protection
just so you can use him for your own advantage.
It's about money for you.
But I'm not like you.
Attorney Kujo is the only lawyer I know who defends the weak and those in need.
I wanna protect that.
So, if we don't have him, who's gonna protect us?
There's always you.
You should be the next Attorney Kujo.
Become that kind of lawyer.
Anyway, isn't it up to Attorney Kujo himself
to choose if he wants to stay away from us?
ORGANIZED CRIME DIVISION
Uh, wait here for a moment, please.
Detective Arashiyama.
Yeah?
There's a woman who wants to talk to you.
All right. Do you remember something?
I'm sorry, Ms. Kinugasa. I'm afraid there's nothing I can pay you.
Your kid's quiet today.
I thought about it, and I realized.
Manami was the only one.
Nobody else gave a damn.
Manami was the only one who really listened
when I was going through things.
You know,
everyone was, like, worried about getting dragged down with me.
Social relationships are such a hassle, huh?
Sometimes, I think if Manami were alive,
we could've ended up being good friends.
Okay, so what do you remember?
That guy, Koyashan,
he was… you know… a pimp or whatever.
And that worked how?
He'd get to know struggling pop singers or swimsuit models
and introduce them to rich guys as escorts,
and he'd get a percentage.
He was going out with Manami at the time.
His name's Yoshiaki Koyama.
-Hey. I was talking to Fukami. -Huh?
He told me you've been looking into your daughter's case.
While I'm totally sympathetic,
we solved that case ten years ago.
How about working on what's in front of you, huh?
With all due respect, Lieutenant Sumiyama,
I'm convinced nothing's been solved.
If we can't act on our convictions,
how can we be asked to put our lives on the line?
We risk our lives because we believe in justice.
Listen, Arashiyama.
The system decides what we mean by justice.
You wanna run the system? Improve your arrest rates.
Forget about investigating a 10-year-old case, okay?
If you think that's unfair,
whine all you want on your own time, but suck it up at work.
Hey. Arashiyama.
Just like Mr. Kujo said. 20 days and they cut you loose.
Yeah.
Hey, Mr. Mibu, you set me up with a great attorney.
Much appreciated.
Was clamming up hard?
I'll say.
Arashiyama sank his damn teeth in.
Arashiyama, huh?
Oh.
Inukai. He'll be getting out soon, right?
Yeah.
Attorney Kujo, please!
I can't forgive my ex-husband!
Sachiko, please calm down.
Start by telling me the details?
I can't forgive him!
Ms. Kinugasa, this is Arashiyama.
Is now a good time to talk?
Yeah, sure. If you don't mind keeping it short.
In Manami's messages, I keep seeing P5 and P7.
What do they mean?
Oh. Those are the rates for prostitution.
It means 50,000 and 70,000 yen for sugar dating.
Two hours for one means paid drinking.
I didn't want to go into the details because the truth is, well…
Koyashan's a little scary.
But now that I'm a parent myself, I think I get how you must feel,
so I'll tell you some stuff.
Go on.
The guy had plenty of young girlfriends.
He made them do PCP,
got them really scared of the Yakuza,
and forced them into sex work.
Girls who always fight with their dads, you know,
the ones who never got praise from their parents.
They grow up feeling totally worthless, so they never develop any self-confidence.
They turn to romantic relationships for validation,
even if it means always submitting to the other person's demands.
They go through all kinds of abuse
and tell themselves that everything's okay.
That's me all over.
Maybe Manami was like that too.
Hey, I'm back.
You're kidding me.
Okay, then.
Thank you, Mr. Karasuma.
Hello. Kujo speaking.
Attorney Kujo, Koyama's been arrested.
Please do something. 's been arrested.