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Over 68 million Americans leave the safety of our borders every year.

If danger strikes, the FBI's International Response Team is called

Fun. Well,

you know what?

Let's do this. Let's go.

Hey, hey, hey.

We're not at some strip mall back home.

What's your point?

We're at the center of sushi.

Take it all in.

Stop. Savor the moment.

I got it.

So, what's on the menu, old wise one? This is oyster on the half shell,

quail egg yolk, smelt roe, chopped green onion.

And a dash of mirin. It looks so pretty, I almost don't want to eat it.

I did say almost. Cheers.

Cheers. Down the hatch.

That is the freshest oyster I've ever had in my life.

Truly amazing.

No doubt.

And that is why you deserve a toast.

To my big brother, my best friend, and my business partner.

The future is so bright, it hurts my eyes.

Whoa. Yeah.

No.

You sure? No.

That just means more for me, bro.

All right. Get out of here. I'm going.

We have stuff to do tomorrow, so not too late.

Okay, Mom.

Have fun.

Clara, don't stand me up again.

All work and no play makes me a dull, dull girl.

Wow. Special occasion.

Well, a girl can't just put her pretty on.

Don't be mad. I'm not mad.

I'm concerned.

You need to have a life outside of work.

It's not that easy.

Yeah, well, it's easier if you try.

We have a long flight ahead of us, so here's some reading material.

Oh, Dossier is my favorite.

Monty, let's download everyone.

Konnichiwa. American entrepreneur Damien Hall was found dead in Tokyo after a

night of fine dining with his brother Christopher.

Now, the two were visiting Tokyo for some business opportunities, and local

police ruled it a suicide by hanging. The Japanese call that kubitsuri.

Why are we traveling all the way across the world for a suicide?

It's the third American death by suicide in Tokyo. Within a week, the U .S.

consulate asked us to take a look.

First victim, Dee Brown, was engaged to be married when she was found dead in a

Japanese school where she taught English.

Her knees are tied together.

That's chukai, a historic form of female ritual suicide meant to preserve a

woman's dignity after death.

Second big, Bobby Freeman, 32 male, a travel blogger who threw himself in

of a bullet train.

Toby, call me.

There were so many words for suicide.

You know, the practice of suicide has been an integral part of the Japanese

culture from the days of the samurai to the kamikaze pilots in World War II.

To the Japanese, suicide is considered honorable.

which explains why six Japanese citizens commit suicide in Tokyo per day. Now,

what about Americans in Tokyo?

On average, there's only about five American suicides per year in all of

So with three suicides in the past week, that's just over 33 times the normal.

And why we're going.

Damien Hall's body was found in a place called Aokigahara.

You've heard of it, Clara?

Aokigahara is a park at the base of Mount Fuji.

Its name means sea of trees, but it has another more nefarious name, the suicide

forest.

Okay, well, that's not creepy at all. Aoki Gahara is the most popular

destination for suicides in all of Japan, averaging more than one suicide

week. The park's in Tokyo?

Negative, about two hours.

Did Damien rent a car, take a cab, train, anything?

There's been no credit card or ATM activity ever since he left dinner with

brother. So how did he end up there?

That's what we're going to find out.

Lonnie, check the victim's background, see if there's any connection between

them. You got it.

Since these were all seemingly suicides, the Japanese consider them open and

closed cases. But if this is foul play, whoever's doing it is showing no signs

of slowing down.

A Japanese proverb tells us, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

Our contacts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are on their way here

to greet us.

Well, that's nice of them. Well, they're offended we're here.

Oh, okay, so not so nice of them. Well, our very presence here means that we're

questioning their investigation, which the Japanese see as disrespectful.

Jack, the ambassador has gotten the Japanese government to grant you special

permission to carry your firearm.

And the rest of us?

That's a negative. Jack is the rare exception because of his international

reputation and rank. Now, this is considered a high honor because guns

outlawed in Japan since 1971.

Got your business cards ready, Jack? What, the badge, jet, and weapons

isn't enough?

In Japan, business cards still play a huge role in professional interactions.

Yeah, it's considered rude to not provide a business card to a new

We need to build a bridge between local law enforcement so we can have their

blessings to take a look at these supposed suicides. So we're saying hi to

and Dad before we take their daughter out on a date.

Except Dad doesn't have a baseball bat. He has a whole police force behind him.

So everyone will follow my lead.

That was intense.

Silence in Japan shows credibility.

Jack's using his comm to convey authority.

Jack rocks.

Chief Superintendent Kazumi Fukui. Agent Jack Garrett.

Your department's stellar reputation precedes you.

What can we assist the FBI with?

We believe your findings on the recent American suicides have been investigated

with proper care, but we have American families back home who've lost loved

ones, and they need closure. So...

With your permission, we'd like to take a closer look at these cases.

I'm Officer Real Milan.

What makes you think that these suicides are anything but? One of our agents

spoke to the families of the deceased, and all of the victims seem to have had

everything to live for.

Dee Brown must be married.

Bobby Freeman's blog posts are being picked up by major sites around the

And Damien Hall was young, successful, about to close on a health.

And none of them had a history of mental health challenges.

Even their latest social media posts were very positive. No sign of what was

come. It's been our experience. When someone had committed themselves to the

whispering death, they show an optic and happy behavior.

They believe they have finally found the direction.

Even though it is death, it is comforting to them.

Your continued expertise in this area is welcome, but three American suicides in

a week.

Deserves a closer look.

Where would you like to begin, Agent Garrett?

Have you spoken to Damien's brother, Christopher?

Yes, we took his statement.

Christopher said he had a business meeting the next morning, so he left the

restaurant to get some sleep while his brother stayed behind drinking.

Hotel security confirms that Christopher returned to his room at the time that

he stayed.

What did the restaurant employee say?

Damien's death was ruled suicide.

Taking statements from any of the other employees was unnecessary.

But Christopher is at his hotel, if you'd like to speak to him. We may want

circle back with him later, depending on our findings.

Of course.

Can you escort Agent Simmons to where Damien's body was found?

And Agent Jarvis will need to go to the morgue to examine his body.

I will accompany her myself.

Claire and I will go to the restaurant where Damien was last seen and question

some of the employees.

World famous Tsukiji Market.

I've been to Tokyo more times than I can count, and I've never been down here.

It's been around since 1923.

This market handles more fish per day than any other market in the world.

Explains the smell.

You know, I know they wear them for health purposes, but it's still hard to

used to.

There's something on your mind.

Sorry. I should be more focused on the case.

Yeah, when we're working. Right now, all we're doing is walking.

Um... I guess I feel like I'm having a hard time reconnecting

since we got home.

Why?

I guess D .C. has changed for me.

You know, it's less of a place and more of a time.

A time when I was married.

Well, I get that.

My kids are growing up, leaving the house, and suddenly home feels a lot

different.

So what do you do?

I guess we'll know when we're ready.

Here we are.

Let's go see what they know about Damien.

Because of bureaucratic delays in transporting the bodies back to the U

three victims are still here.

Seems to be my lucky day.

How is this lucky? Well, it's just this thing.

See, I'm lucky because all three of the bodies are... I'm just gonna get to

work.

All right, anti -mortem contusions around the neck, along with the hyoid

being snapped, all point towards asphyxia.

You see something?

Yeah.

Do you see how at the time of death these bruises weren't there?

Now they are.

But how?

The owners of these cars, they went in but they didn't come out.

Yeah.

Let's think once more about the life you are given. Your parents, your brothers

and sisters, and children.

Don't suffer alone.

First, please contact somebody.

Many of the elders believe suicide is respectable and acceptable.

But my generation doesn't feel the same way. We are wary of this niche tourism.

We don't want our country to be known as the suicide capital of the world.

Some say the forest is hunted by the victims of ubaste.

It's an old Japanese custom of leading elderly women to a forest and leaving

them to die of starvation for the elements, thus becoming vengeful ghosts

prowl the forest.

This is where we found Damien.

You have something? Yeah, wood shavings.

I think this rope's been moved.

Somebody installed this and had to focus on the crime scene.

It has a transmitter.

This is a network camera with no storage capabilities.

Whoever did this was streaming the footage for viewing somewhere else.

So the question is, who's watching?

Well, the kitchen staff was no help. What about the servers?

They said Damien left first, not Christopher.

Which contradicts his statement.

Why would Christopher lie about who left the restaurant first?

Maybe he's hiding something.

Simmons and me.

Yeah, what do you got?

On the tree where Damien was found, I noticed some marks, and underneath it,

some wood shavings, which suggests that the rope wasn't just swinging, that it

was being pulled.

Poor man's pulley system.

If someone else was involved, it might explain how Damien got all the way out

there. We also found a camera.

We believe someone may have been filming all of this.

I already have Monty tracking the camera through his serial number.

Let me know what else you find.

May? I found paramortem bruising on the other victims, which is called

subcutaneous hypostasis or postmortem staining.

Which tells us the victim was physically manipulated or in some kind of

confrontation at the time of death.

Bingo.

Sorry to crash your party line, Jack, but Tokyo police have discovered another

suicide in your vicinity.

American? They didn't say.

Better known as harakiri.

That's when the victim shoves a knife into their own stomach, disemboweling

himself. This case has nothing to do with your case. This victim is Japanese,

not American.

We have two suicide victims from the same area within 24 hours. That cannot

coincidence. It's not.

Look at his watch.

It's on his right wrist.

Which means he's left -handed.

And look at where the hilt of the blade is. It's on his right hand.

Someone staged this bounty.

And he froze his way. He didn't kill himself.

He was murdered.

Jack.

Damien's body was indeed staged and recorded. As well as Sushi Chef.

All previous victims show post -mortem bruising, which proves that they were

physically attacked just before their death.

So someone is using suicide as a cover for murder.

But why?

Perhaps suicide left a significant imprint on our unsub at an

age. But unlike the American victims, Sushi Chef is Japanese.

So what's the pattern?

It's not clear yet, but now that we know that this is a murder investigation, I

want to talk to Damien's brother ASAP.

I'm sorry to say, but the conclusion to your investigation was incorrect.

Perhaps we should look deeper into this.

Good. Then we're ready to deliver our initial profile.

Three of the four vics were found in a local school, sushi restaurant, and

subway. Which others are unfamiliar with the region?

A Tokyo resident.

Yeah, statistically speaking, he is probably of Japanese descent.

Based on his ability to reposition and overpower his victims, he's most likely

male. Six foot tall, 140 to 160 pounds. But the average Japanese male is only

about 5 '7", so he's a big man on campus.

That might be part of the problem.

In Japan, you don't want to stand out, or you can be ostracized.

Based on the ages of our vix, we believe he's between 25 and 35.

And he's also streaming his kills remotely, which means he's technically

sophisticated. Then why film it?

to admire his work.

His propensity towards voyeurism and the nature of these blitz attacks tells us

that he probably isn't capable of normal social interaction, and he may be

unemployed. What of the suicides? Why fake them? Well, it's either a forensic

countermeasure, which has been working, or it's a ritual.

The staging of the bodies must mean something.

Neon Sub could be seeking to purify his victims by giving them honorable death.

There's no shame in the act of suicide in Japan, but there is.

Shaming daft of murder.

Money. Anything on the cell phone and camera we found?

They were both bought at a crude tech vending machine with cash.

Any common thread between our vics?

Sorry, Jack, right now I'm striking out, but I'll keep swinging. Good.

Simmons, May, go grab Damien's brother, Christopher.

I want to have a little chat with him. Claire and I will head to the police

station, interview the sushi chef's wife, see what her husband's story is.

This is Nakano.

I'm Jack Garrett with the FBI.

This is Agent Clara Seeger.

Mind if we sit down?

This is Nakano.

Was your husband a sushi chef his whole life?

Yes. He took great pride in his work.

But it came with a price.

He had little time to be father and husband.

Why did your husband leave Daichan's after 30 years?

He realized Daichan was never going to retire.

And if he did, he would most likely leave the business to his son.

Did this cause any bad blood between your husband and his employer?

He never spoke of such things to me.

Once he left Daichan, he cut all ties with him. Do you know of anyone who

have wanted to hurt your husband?

I'm not sure.

My husband carried a great shame.

It followed him all his life, but maybe it finally caught up with him.

Whatever it is, you can tell us.

It's important that you do. It can help others.

His great shame was that he was different.

This feels like a dead end, Jack.

Yeah, maybe not.

Mrs. McConnell didn't know if there was any bad blood between her husband and

Daishan, so let's go right to the source.

What's up, Jack?

Money, I need you to look into Chef Daishan's sushi restaurant. I need to

to the owner.

Uh, the restaurant closed a month ago, and there was no forwarding address.

Track him down ASAP.

Thanks.

So I checked Chris's room, the gym, bar area, no sign of him. Yeah, hotel

surveillance shows that he left 10 hours ago and he hasn't returned.

Hey, Monty, just the man I'm looking for.

Bet you say that to all the boys.

So it seems that Chris has flown the coop.

Can you get eyes on him?

Or see if he skipped town.

Um, his passport hasn't been scanned anywhere, so he's still in the country.

No activity on his credit cards.

But he did use his ATM card 15 minutes ago at a liquor store not too far away.

All right.

What's wrong?

My big brother.

We have stuff to do tomorrow, so not too late.

Okay, Mom.

Oh, God.

Mr. Brawl, FBI.

You can speak to me about your brother. Brother's freaking dead.

Hey, Jack.

Yeah, we got Damien's brother, but he's got his wobbly boots on.

Okay, you got it. See you soon.

Okay, Jack said take him back to the hotel and pump him with some coffee. He

will meet as soon as he can. Come on.

I'm just waiting on the paperwork to go through so I can take my brother home or

I'd be out of this place already.

What brings you to Tokyo?

Food, business, fun. This is supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.

What kind of business?

Amy and I have a hedge fund company that's done fairly well in the last few

years.

We recently put some money into an American investment group that's

land in Tokyo.

Taylor Investments.

That's right.

So what else aren't you telling us?

I'm telling you everything.

Like that your brother left the restaurant first?

Not you?

Our reputation is important to our business. I didn't want it out there

Damien left the restaurant first in pursuit of some... professionals.

So, can you describe these professionals?

Dark, tan skin, sunglasses.

They're Japanese, but they had long, blonde, surfer girl hair.

You know, blonde, tan sunglasses in Japan should make it easier to find.

I'll see what Rio and I can dig up.

Excuse us.

Thoughts? Well, he is using the present verb tense when speaking.

People who are guilty tend to use that tense.

It also provided details in his story, even at his own expense.

So why don't you go take a hot shower, get some rest?

I might need to speak to you again.

So be available.

I'm all ears, Monty. Okay, Daichan and his wife, Reiko, recently lost their

business when the building they leased the restaurant in for the last three

generations was sold.

And then, Jack, they committed suicide.

Yeah, I'm fine, Monty.

But Chris Hall was just murdered.

The room is empty.

Unsub's gone.

We found an unconscious security guard near the back fire exit. Must have been

how he got out of here so quickly.

Hi.

Jack, I think he's using Chris's computer to record all this.

Turn it around.

The unsub is not admiring his work. He's enjoying the aftermath.

You're right.

Money, the camera that Simmons found in the suicide forest was off, but that's

because the police had already been there. The unsub already got his fix.

But the camera in the freezer was still on, just like that one is now.

Meaning the unsub is watching us through Chris's laptop.

See if you can find where the speed is leading to.

Give me a second to hack into the hotel's internet connection.

Your agent is hacking into a Japanese hotel secured internet connection.

This is not protocol.

I'm trying to catch a killer. There's no time for protocols.

Okay, so the unsub is bouncing the video off of a torrent distributed relay

service. No central server, no log files.

I cannot trace how many times the video has been accessed or by whom.

I'm not going to be able to get an ID here, Jack.

Did you learn anything about the girls that Damien was with before he died?

They're from an escort service that specializes in gyaru. It's a Japanese

glam style.

They use tanning beds, wigs, and sunglasses to look like California

And we reached out to the service, and we talked to the girls, and... Their

alibis checked out. Yes.

Damien approached them, and he didn't want to pay that much, and the girls

on to find another job.

How did you know that, Jack?

Money. It was a company that bought Chef Daichan's Taylor Investments.

That's affirmative.

The restaurant is our common thread.

Jack, the common thread is not just Jeff Dichon's, but where it fit.

This is Kijin Market.

Taylor Investment's business plan was to redevelop Tsukiji Market.

Dichon and his wife lost the sushi bar committed suicide just prior to the

American being killed. But Dee Brown is not connected to the market.

See, she died a week after Daichan and his wife committed suicide.

Now, because she was found in her school, no one noticed that all three

live in the same building. Now, according to this checking account, she

making monthly deposits to Daichan, who owned her apartment and subleased it to

her. But there's a note here saying that the payments stopped this month.

She was getting married.

Moving on.

You know, the sushi chef's wife said that her husband left Daichan's when he

realized Daichan was going to leave the business to his son.

Strange that the sushi chef held out so long knowing that it's customary.

Unless he thought there was some reason Daichan's son could not fulfill that

commitment. The police report said the son, Yukio, first heard the shot, found

his parents dead, then called it in.

Okay, Yukio has no records and no ID except for a birth certificate going

33 years.

He's practically a ghost.

Yukio is the only person at the center of this who's still alive.

The death of his parents could have been the trigger.

He blames all the victims for his parents' suicide.

And that's why he's using suicidal methods to kill. The blogger bad

market, thus hurting Daichan's business.

And the sushi chef left Daichan to go to a competitor.

Ebron was moving, leaving Daichan without a renter.

And Taylor Investments put them out of business, making Damien and his brother

the nail in the coffin.

Got her on something.

Monty, we need Yukio's family's home address.

Clear Password locked

We're in the unsub's apartment.

Can you hack into his computer?

Okay, at least look on the back of the router for me.

I've got it.

Great, now read me the ESN. It should be nine hexadecimal characters starting

with... 2 -1 -alpha -3 -7 -2 -3 -echo -1.

How fast can you do this?

Sorry it took me so long.

I need you to find me anything that points to who the next Vic might be.

Jack, the slot in the door, dirty dishes, all the takeout.

It reminds me of something I read about on the way over.

Hikikomori. Yes.

Hikikomori is a sociological phenomenon here in Japan.

It's when young people retreat into their rooms, they cut off all social

and spend their time watching TV or surfing the Internet.

Yeah, some of them spend up to 30 years in their self -inflicted seclusion. What

causes it?

My people have a keen sense of shame if you do not live up to social pressures.

The pressure to take over the family business could have made Yukio retreat

to his bedroom.

Explain why the sushi chef thought the son could never take over the

So our unsub hears gunshots, he's forced to leave his bedroom after many years,

and then he finds his parents have committed suicide in the living room.

I think you may be correct, Simmons.

Yukio has pictures of his parents' dead bodies on his computer.

How could they shoot themselves if guns are banned?

If you owned a gun prior to 1971, you were allowed to keep them. Looks like an

old Nambo pistol from World War II. That belonged to Daichan's father.

So Yukio's most likely armed.

I found Yukio's hit list, and there's two extra names on it. Sean Kagami, who

a Japanese -American businessman, and Jared Taylor, the owners of Taylor

Investments. One of them is Yukio's targets. We need to find him before he

Whoa, guys, I have an external device trying to contact the computer.

He's recording again.

Means he's about to strike.

Hey, what happened?

Yeah. So Yukio knows we're in his home and shut us down, but not before I got

his location.

He's in a nightclub in Tsubuya Crossing. I'm sending the address down.

Good call.

He's alive.

Yukio is here watching.

Yep. He knows we were in his home. He can't go back there.

To save her this moment, he's got to stay here.

Minutes. Which means we're looking for the one person who is not filming.

Jack, if he's been in his room for years, chances are he has a vitamin D

deficiency. Look for rashes and rickets.

He's also taller than the average Japanese person, so he's going to stick

and cry.

He will be alone. His body language will be stiff and distant. He's not used to

the crowds.

They did not care for me.

They were ashamed.

I was weak.

I failed them.

But now they have their ribbons. You think that makes what you did okay?

I gave them each an honorable death, which is more than they deserved.

My parents will finally be proud of me. There's no honor in what you did, for

them or for you. You're wrong!

What do you know about me?

What do you know about me?

You can't listen to me.

You can have honor.

Turn yourself in right now. Right here.

I'm not done yet.

for your assistance and your understanding.

We are much more flexible than the world believes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So much trouble you made the boss lady for talking out of turn.

Whatever it is, it was worth it.

Thank you.

Please accept this as a token of our appreciation.

Only if you let me send you some American whiskey in return.

Twist my arm.

So, any updates on our burn victim?

Yeah, we were able to get to Sean in time.

He's going to have a long road ahead of him, but he's going to be all right.

And his business partner, Jared, was found safe in their hotel room.

You're not going to lock yourself in a room for 30 years, are you?

Our job sort of prevents that.

Can I say something?

Can I stop you?

I admire you, Clara.

You're so giving, so warm, so smart that sometimes I want to punch you.

But the longer that you isolate yourself...

the harder it's going to be to come back to the real world.

So let's just rip off the band -aid and go for it.

Okay.

Really?

Yeah. But just you and I.

No, guys, I am not very ready for that excitement yet. Yeah, okay, cool. I'm

good with baby sex.

Good.