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?
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,
the police alert the neighbors not to go out alone at night.
Apollo, scary...
I saw him in Sapporo
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?
When a minority commits a crime, adults make a fuss over that.
But I think if discreet adults commit a crime, it's much more dreadful, isn't it?
I killed Yuko.
You may be right, but I can't just say yes or no to that question like giving directions.
You should find the answer by yourself.
That boy got off a bus here.
He looked just like them.
We're not sure if he is really Apollo.
If I knew that, I could stop him.
Stop him?
I could stop him committing a crime.
I thought that a boy looked a little like Himura when Himura first came to my house.
I was thinking same thing.
What Himura told me...
Because I wanted to kill somebody.
Himura may have thought so when he was a high school student just like Apollo's age.
Did he just writhe in agony under the intention to kill?
Or did he actually plan a murder and stop it just before putting it into effect?
I don't know.
But he didn't kill anybody.
If Himura meet Apollo,
what will he tell Apollo?
Ah, there they are.
Hey, Sakashita. Thank you for coming.
No problem if there's anything I can do.
Tell us the progress in the investigation.
Yes. About Ogi Shion and Zama Kensuke,
They used to go out but broke up while ago.
Ogi's parents told me so.
Come on! Teenagers tell parents what they like!
In fact, Ogi kept blocking Zama's e-mail.
Really?
If so, his e-mail didn't reach to her in the first place.
It's very different from what you imagined.
Don't make me miserable.
She may have seen him sneakily.
Love of the youth is out of my purview.
Let's meet the first person to discover her body.
Sounds good.
Well, please make sure not to tell this to Nabeshima and Komachi.
You owe me big time.
Please forgive me.
I won't.
Oh, you scared me!
He doesn't welcome us.
Ouch...
Ah, I only made a tea for myself.
Don't worry.
Sorry.
Ouch...
This incident is becoming a media circus.
A lot of interviewers came to my house to interview me.
Things finally calmed down.
Sorry to pile on after that.
No problem.
I don't want to be suspected by the police by not to cooperate with them.
A policeman whom I met this morning...
I think that he is a very serious man.
He wanted to conduct a thorough physical examination.
I'm sorry if you felt bad.
I'm fine.
I'm telling you that I was drinking at a neighborhood bar around midnight last night.
Ah, we don't suspect you.
Did you know the incident of Ogi Shion when you went for a walk this morning?
Yes. I read a newspaper.
That was why when I found her body, I was surprised.
I thought that it was a spree killing.
I don't know them personally but they often came to my store.
Their face looked familiar.
We interviewed your store staff this morning when he brought us coffee.
Yes. I told him to bring coffee.
There's a gathering spot for students in front of a store.
Do you know anything about them? Did you see them arguing?
I don't know.
But he'd come to a store by himself lately.
They may not have got on well after all...
Who is Apollo?
Ah, Apollo everywhere.
What the hell is Apollo?
Doesn't the police or mass media already knew his personal information?
Since he is a minority, we're investigating in a careful manner.
If he is really a criminal, you should release his ID and put him on the wanted list even though he is a minority.
You expose good citizens to danger and try to make Apollo a better person.
It's very silly.
With all due deference to you,
I think that we should keep an anonymous report to give the minority a fresh start in life.
The heart of man
I read that book too.
Did you read such a difficult book?
Since I read that when I was 15 years old, there were a lot of words that I couldn't understand.
I read his "Escape from Freedom" too.
I read that when I was a high school student.
Really?
I've never met people who read that book.
Me neither.
Yes, I often saw them come together.
I talked to him a short time ago when he was alone.
What's wrong?
Where's your girlfriend?
Why do I care?!
Hey!
He was in a sulky mood.
I thought that it was a typical attitude of youngsters.
I feel sorry for them.
What a tragedy!
Most surely, he got dumped by her.
It's not a same love story that I imagined.
May I ask about Anou?
Store manager?
We visited him today. Does he live alone?
Ah, he lives apart from a wife and a son.
His son suffered from bullying and refused to go to school.
After that, his son moved to his mother's place and transferred to a free school.
Manager complained to a school about bullying for a period of time.
Do you admit that my son suffered from bullying?
Then, can you release the name of assailants to everybody?
They're bad students.
We can't do that.
We have to protect their life and future.
What? Does a school put assailants' future ahead of victim's future?
I'm dissatisfied!
I see.
That's why he was against the idea of an anonymous report of the minority.
Is something wrong with store manager?
Nothing.
I became curious about a lot of things other than actual incidents.
But I feel better.
Thank you.
Ah, wait.
I just got evening newspaper.
There's an article of that incidents too.
Thank you.
Did Apollo kill them?
Hot!
What happened between the two?
How could he reply her and said "I'm going now" since his e-mail didn't reach her?
Did they break up once and want to get back together again?
You're more interested in that than actual reasoning for a crime.
This is a part of the reasoning for a crime.
By the way, check this!
This looks like that Apollo is a suspect of the incident in Kyoto.
Damn, it's Nabeshima.
At any rate, we should solve this incident as soon as possible to settle this dust.
Copycat criminals may appear soon.
Yes.
Putting aside the eyewitness reports on the internet,
I'm curious if Tokie really met Apollo.
If it was him,
It's not good.
Nabeshima knew that I'm with you guys.
That's him. He let you work with us on purpose.
Himura, he wants you to go to the police station.
He has something talk to you.
He finally decided to tell me his secret.
You should be on my side.
Why are you still staying at the wrong side?
Moroboshi is smiling.
She must be thinking how to kill the target.
But she looks like thinking about a person she loves.
Don't talk junk.
Sorry.
While the police are looking for Apollo, we should get this done.
I knew a girl who was killed by Apollo.
I only chatted with her a little.
Before the police arrest him, why don't we find and avenge him?
Forget about a dead girl.
What?
There're soldiers who has a meaning of existence only by dying.
That's her words.
Why were you reading a book in a crowd of people?
It's weird, isn't it?
It's not weird, but I'm just curious.
Because I don't feel lonely when I'm in a crowd of people.
When I'm alone, I can't stand loneliness.
I used to smile like them.
What?
I came to Kyoto for the school trip.
I could smile with friends at that time.
Since I can't do that, I tried to come to Kyoto again.
But I can't remember the old me.
I can understand a little bit.
I also have the time that I couldn't smile well.
What did you do?
I read a book alone.
Just like while ago.
I ran away from home.
I'm not like you. I feel special when I'm in a crowd of people.
I'm different from everybody else.
I'm god and they're not worth living.
It's too strong a word.
Everybody has a value.
That's not true.
How about people who become nobody but a criminal at the end?
Sensei, please come this way.
I've been having the same feeling to Himura ever since I first met him.
It's my wrong assumption.
I think that Himura is going to the other side one day.
What's the other side?
The opposite side of the police...
Do you mean that he'll become a criminal one day?
Arisugawa, you feel so too, right?
Don't you think that you're the only person who can hold Himura?
I do.
I thought that I should have told this to you.
Moroboshi Sanae ran away during the transfer.
Sensei...
I see.
We don't know where she went into hiding.
From now on, Public Safety Bureau is in charge of that.
Why do you think that a suspect is a minor?
You should know it if you see these pictures.
Nabeshima,
May I see the documents of phantom assaults in Tokyo?
Sensei, do you think that 2 incidents occurred in Kyoto are committed by Apollo?
All pictures are brutal.
If you don't glance away, you'll see something.
I don't feel revenge, grudge or anger from their wounds.
It's the pure interest in murder.
Certainly a boy says like this...
"I wanted to kill somebody"
Ogi kept blocking Zama's e-mail.
If he is really a criminal, you should release his ID and put him on the wanted list even though he is a minority.
You try to make Apollo a better person.
It's very silly.
This crime isn't beautiful.
It's getting chilly.
Let's have that.
It's my treat.
Really?
Then, I'll go and get that.
Thank you.
Damn, you found that.
Are you Apollo?
I've never identified myself as Apollo.
That red bean soup is sold out.
I see.
By using Moroboshi’s phrase, I see the pure interest in murder in 2 incidents occurred in Tokyo.
I see grudge in Ogi's incident and hesitation in Zama's incident.
I see different feelings for each incident.
Maybe Moroboshi and Himura can see that feeling.
But we as ordinary people don't know the difference.
Don't you know?
Alice, you too?
Well...Sorry.
Can you explain to us?
2 incidents in Tokyo that was committed by Apollo and 2 incidents in Kyoto,
the location, the number and the depth of wounds, and the intention to kill,
everything is distinctly different.
The existence of Apollo that haunted us made us difficult to see the truth.
It's not Apollo to kill Ogi and Zama.
Then, who killed them?
There's only one person who hated Ogi and hesitated to kill Zama.
Hatred and hesitation...
I got it.
Zama killed Ogi.
After having killed Ogi, Zama committed suicide.
How about these wounds on his neck?
These wounds weren't made by resistance.
These are hesitation wounds.
That's what his e-mail meant.
Alice, it's your turn to explain.
Though Zama knew that she blocked his e-mail, he sent her e-mail.
His strong lingering affection turned to hatred.
He sent her the last message after having killed her.
"I'm going now"
And their love story had the worst ending.
Wait a second.
E-mail isn't qualified as evidence of suicide.
We should be able to find a knife beside Zama, right?
That knife was taken away by someone.
And only one person could do that.
Right now, I have a few choices.
One, I stab you with this knife.
But if I did that, I'd instantly be arrested.
Two, you promise me not to call 911 and I run away from here.
But I'm not sure if you really won't call 911.
Three, we go to a deserted place and I stab you.
Or...
Anything else?
Scream for help?
Escape from me?
Or...
I'll be here with you and call 911.
I see, I didn't think of that choice.
Hello.
What's going on with so many detectives?
We forgot to ask you something.
Really? I've already told everything I know to the police.
You stood with holding a shovel at the crime scene this morning, right?
I always take this when I take a dog for a walk.
But you didn't have that plastic bag this morning.
You didn't have something that you should normally have.
That caught my attention.
It's not a big deal.
No, it's not if a knife wasn't missing from the crime scene.
Do you think that I put a knife in a plastic bag and took away?
That's right.
That's bullshit.
Besides all that, the police conducted a thorough physical examination to me.
Where did you hide it?
Since your legs are physically disabled, it's highly unlikely that you moved far from the crime scene.
Go ahead and search my house.
It's a bit messy but please search inside my house until you're happy.
Wow, you scared me again!
It's a very smart dog.
He seems to protect an owner.
Alice.
What?
Can you pad a dog on the head?
He doesn't like me.
Do it.
You're very smart.
You're very cute.
I like your clothes.
What?
Don't tell me...
Nabeshima.
What's this?
You took a knife away...
Because you wanted to make Zama be a victim.
Am I right?
You see through anything.
I got a clue from your opinion about an anonymous report of the minority.
What do you mean?
When Gonta found him,
he was dead with one hand on a knife.
I knew that Ogi was stabbed with a knife.
And I knew that he didn't get on well with her.
So, I thought that he killed her before killing himself.
The picture and the name of that girl who was murdered miserably are exposed to the public.
But the privacy of a boy who killed her is protected.
It's totally unreasonable.
I didn't want a suspect to be called "Boy A".
There's no Boy A in this world.
Just as you planned, the picture and the name of Zama Kensuke was disclosed in public as a victim.
Even though you surrender to the police with a knife,
we can't erase his ID that was once on TV from the public.
It's like the perfect crime.
Anou, you'll be charged with destroying evidence.
You're not allowed to do this for whatever reason.
Of course, I'm prepared to be punished.
I thought that it was well worth doing even though I made self-sacrifice.
Gonta, I'll go away for a while.
I'll go with you.
I heard about your son.
Do you admit that my son suffered from bullying?
Does a school put assailants' future ahead of victim's future?
You may think what you did is justice.
But what you did is an unjustified resentment to a boy who had nothing to do with you.
Yes?
What? Nabeshima,
The police arrested a boy of who looks like Apollo.
What?
The informer is Kijima Akemi.
Akemi?
Why did you suspect me?
Did I make a mistake?
I know a man whose personality is similar to you.
What?
A man who can kill people with a straight face.
You have a same smile as his.
I have hard luck.
You don't have to hold me so tight. I won't run away.
Have you waited for being arrested?
No. I won't be arrested.
Apollo, Boy A, it's not me.
I'm Sakamata Kiyone.
Nobody can catch me.
What do you mean?
Apollo will be arrested with having committed beautiful crimes.
And Apollo will fall off the edge of the earth.
That may be a good idea.
What you did isn't beautiful.
Akemi!
Shall we?
Are you all right?
I...
Nabeshima, please let me talk to him some time.
What?
All right.
The murder incident of a high school student in Kyoto,
According to the police, an ex-boyfriend of Ogi, 17 years old is likely to be a suspect.
From the next day, Zama Kensuke is changed to be "Assailant Boy A, 17 years old".
The phantom assaults in Tokyo,
a boy who was asked to come voluntarily to the police in Kyoto basically admitted to the allegations.
And the name of Apollo and Sakamata Kiyone vanished away like the heat haze.
It left me a bad taste in my mouth and emptiness.
Here he is.
I'm going.
Himura Hideo.
You're...in my cage.