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Jack: Over 68 million Americans

leave the safety of our borders every year.

If danger strikes,

the FBI's international response team

is called into action.

♪

Business. It's about fun.

I know. It's about, you know...

Well, you know what? Let's do this.

Let's just... let's go. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

We're not at some strip mall back home.

What's your point?

We're at the epicenter of Sushi.

Take it all in.

Stop, savor the moment.

I got it.

So what's on the menu, o wise one?

This is oyster on the half shell...

Mm-hmm. Quail egg yolk...

Smelt roe, chopped green onion,

and a dash of mirin. Oh!

It looks so pretty, i almost don't want to eat it.

I did say "almost."

Good. Cheers?

Cheers. Down the hatch.

Mm! Mm!

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.

Future's so bright, it hurts my eyes.

Ha!

Whoa. Yeah.

No. You sure?

No, 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.

♪

Come on, Clara.

Don't stand me up again.

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

Wow. What's the special occasion?

What, a girl can't just put a pretty on?

Hmm.

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, dossiers, my favorite.

Thanks.

Monty, let's download everyone.

Konnichiwa.

American entrepreneur Damian hall

after a night of fine dining with his brother Kristopher.

Now, the two were visiting Tokyo

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.

The first Vic, Dee brown,

was engaged to be married when she was found dead

in a Japanese school where she taught English.

That's jigai, a historic form of female ritual suicide meant

to preserve a woman's dignity after death.

Second Vic, Bobby Freeman, 32,

who threw himself in front of a bullet train.

Tobikomi.

Who knew there were so many words for suicide?

Well, 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.

And what about Americans in Tokyo?

On average, there's only about five American suicides

per year in all of Japan.

So with three suicides in the past week,

that's just over 33 times the norm.

Damian hall's body was found in a place called aokigahara.

You're 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...

Suicide forest.

Okay, well, that's not creepy at all.

Aokigahara is the most popular destination

for suicides in all of Japan,

averaging more than one suicide per week.

That park's in Tokyo?

Negative, about two hours east.

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

There's Ben no credit card or atm activity

ever since he left dinner with his brother.

So how did he end up there?

That's what we're gonna find out.

Monty, check the victims' background,

see if there's any connection between them.

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.

♪

Jack: 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.

Oh, 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 got the Japanese government

to Grant you special permission to carry a firearm.

And the rest of us? That's a negative.

Because of his international reputation and rank.

Because guns have been outlawed in Japan since 1971.

Got your business cards ready, Jack?

What, the badge, jet,

and weapon clearance isn't enough?

Still play a huge role in professional interactions.

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

to a new acquaintance.

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 mom 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.

♪

Hajimemashite.

Hajimemashite.

FBI, no Jack Garrett desu.

That was intense.

Silence in Japan shows credibility.

Jack's using his calm to convey authority.

Jack rocks.

Chief superintendent kazumi fukui.

Agent Jack Garrett.

Your department's stellar reputation precedes you.

Kazumi: 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 have 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 ryo mirante.

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 was to be married.

Bobby Freeman's blog posts were being picked up

by major sites around the world.

And Damian hall was young, successful,

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

Were very positive, no sign of what was to come.

It's been our experience

when someone had committed themselves

to the whispering death,

they show an uptick in happy behavior.

They believe they have finally found a 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 Damian's brother, Kristopher?

Yes, we took his statement.

Kristopher 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 secretary confirms that Kristopher

returned to his room at the time that he stated.

What did the restaurant employees say?

Damian's death was ruled suicide.

Taking statements

from any of the other employees was unnecessary.

But Kristopher is at his hotel,

if you would like to speak to him.

We may want to circle back with him later,

depending on our findings.

Of course. Can you escort agent Simmons

to where Damian's body was found?

And agent Jarvis will need to go to the morgue

to examine his body.

I will accompany her myself.

Clara and I will go to the restaurant

where Damian 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.

Well, 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 get used to.

Mm-hmm.

There's something on your mind.

Sorry.

I... 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, uh... I feel like I'm having

a hard time reconnecting since we got home.

Why?

I guess D.C. has changed for me.

Now it's...

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 Damian.

Because of bureaucratic delays

in transporting the bodies back to the U.S.,

all three victims are still here.

Oh, well, seems to be my lucky day.

How is this lucky?

It's just a saying.

See, I'm lucky because all three of the bodies are...

I'm just gonna get to work.

All right, antemortem contusions

around the neck,

along with the hyoid bone being snapped, all point

towards asphyxia.

♪

You see something?

Yep.

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 haunted by the victims

of ubasute.

It's an old Japanese custom

of leading elderly women to a forest

and leaving them to die of starvation or the elements,

thus becoming vengeful ghosts who prowl the forest.

This is where we found Damian.

♪

You have something? Yeah, wood shavings.

I think this rope's been moved.

Somebody installed this

and had it focused 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 Damian left first, not Kristopher,

which contradicts the statement.

Why would Kristopher lie about who left the restaurant first?

Maybe he's hiding something.

Simmons and Mae. Yeah, what do you got?

On the tree where Damian was found,

I noticed some marks, and underneath it,

which suggest the rope wasn't just swinging,

that it was being pulled.

Poor man's pulley system.

It might explain how Damian got all the way out there.

We also found a camera.

We believe someone may have been filming all this.

Already have monty tracking the camera

through the serial number.

Let me know what else you find.

I found perimortem bruising on the other victims,

which is called subcutaneous hypostasis

or postmortem staining.

Which tells us the Vic was physically manipulated

or in some kind of confrontation at the time of death.

Bingo.

Monty: Sorry to crash your party line, Jack,

but Tokyo police have discovered

another suicide in your vicinity.

American? They didn't say.

Seppuku, better known as harakiri.

It'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 be a coincidence.

It's not.

Look at this 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 in his right hand.

Someone staged this body.

And he froze this way.

He didn't kill himself.

He was murdered.

Jack.

♪

Damian's body was indeed staged and recorded.

As well as the Sushi chef's.

All previous victims show postmortem bruising,

which proves that they were physically attacked

so someone is using suicide as a cover for murder.

But why?

Perhaps suicide left a significant imprint

on our unsub at an impressionable age.

But unlike the American victims, the 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 Damian'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.

Clara: Which tells us our unsub is familiar with the region.

A Tokyo resident. Yeah, statistically speaking,

he is probably of Japanese descent.

Simmons: Based on his ability to reposition

and overpower his victims, he's most likely a 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 vics,

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.

Yeah, his propensity towards voyeurism

and the nature of these blitz attacks tells us

that he probably is incapable 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.

The unsub could be seeking to purify his victims

by giving them honorable deaths.

There's no shame in the act of suicide in Japan.

But there is shame in the act of murder.

Monty, anything on the cell phone

they were both bought at a kuru 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, Mae, go grab Damian's brother, Kristopher.

I want to have a little chat with him.

Clara and I will head to the police station,

interview the Sushi chef's wife,

see what her husband's story is.

Mrs. nakano, I'm Jack Garrett with the FBI.

This is agent Clara seger.

Mind if we sit down?

Mrs. 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.

Gomen nasai.

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 would 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.

Excuse me.

What is it?

His great shame was that he was different.

This feels like a dead end, Jack.

Well, maybe not.

Mrs. nakano didn't know if there was any bad blood

between her husband and daichan,

so let's go right to the source.

What's up, Jack?

Monty, I need you to look

into chef daichan's Sushi restaurant.

I need to talk to the owner.

The restaurant closed a month ago

and there was no forwarding address.

Track them down, asap.

Hey. So I checked kris' 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.

I bet you say that to all the boys.

So it seems that kris has flown the Coop.

Can you get eyes on him?

Or see if he skipped town.

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. Let's roll.

Damian: To my big brother...

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

Damian: Okay, mom.

♪

What the hell, man?

Hey, hey. Kristopher hall? FBI.

We need to speak to you about your brother.

My brother's freakin' dead.

Hey, Jack. Yeah, we got Damian'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 us as soon as he can.

Come on.

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 was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.

What kind of business?

Damian 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 redeveloping 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 that Damian left the restaurant

first in the pursuit of some...

Professionals.

So can you describe these professionals?

Dark, tan skin, sunglasses.

They were Japanese,

but they had long, blonde, surfer girl hair.

Well, blonde, tanned, sunglasses in Japan

should make it easier to find.

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

Excuse us.

Well, he's using the present verb tense when speaking.

People who are guilty tend to use the past tense.

He's also provided details in his story,

even at his own expense.

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

We 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 their restaurant

in for the last three generations was sold.

And then, Jack, they committed suicide.

♪

Jack?

Jack, you okay? What was that?

Yeah, I'm fine, monty.

But kris 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.

Jack.

I think he's using kris' computer to record all this.

Turn it around.

The unsub is not admiring his work,

he's enjoying the aftermath.

You rang?

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 kris' laptop.

See if you can find where this feed 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's been accessed or by whom.

I'm not going to be able to get an I.D. Here, Jack.

Mae, did you learn anything about the girls

that Damian was with before he died.

They're from an escort service that specializes in gyaru.

It's a Japanese girly glam style.

They use tanning beds, wigs,

and sunglasses to look like California girls.

We reached out to the service,

and we talked to the girls, and...

Their alibis checked out. Yes.

Damian approached them

and he didn't want to pay that much,

and the girls went on to find another job.

How did you know that, Jack?

Monty, is the company

that bought chef daichan's Taylor investments?

That's affirmative.

The restaurant is our common thread.

Jack, the common thread is not just chef daichan's,

but where it sits.

The tsukiji market.

Taylor investment's business plan

was to redevelop tsukiji market.

Daichan and his wife lost the Sushi bar,

committed suicide just prior to the first 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 victims

live in the same building.

Now, according to Dee's checking account,

she had been making monthly deposits

to daichan, who owned her apartment

and subleased it to her.

But there's a note here saying that the payments

were to stop this month.

Yeah, 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 gonna leave the business to his son.

Strange that the Sushi chef held out so long,

unless he thought there was some reason daichan's son

could not fulfill that commitment.

The police report said that the son, yukio,

first heard the shot,

found his parents dead, then called it in.

Okay, yukio has no records and no I.D.

Except for a birth certificate going back 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.

That's why he's using suicidal methods to kill.

The blogger badmouthed the market,

and the Sushi chef left daichan's to go to a competitor.

Dee brown was moving, leaving daichan without a renter.

And Taylor investments put them out of business,

making Damian and his brother the nail in the coffin.

We've got our unsub.

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

♪

Clear.

Password locked.

Monty, we're in the unsub's apartment.

Can you hack into his computer?

Okay, I need you to 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.

Jack: 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 this take-out,

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 ties

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.

Well, the pressure to take over the family business

could have made yukio retreat back to his bedroom.

Thought the son could never take over the restaurant.

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 the gun

prior to 1971, you were allowed to keep them.

Looks like an old nambu pistol from world war ii...

Probably belonged to daichan's father.

So yukio is most likely armed.

I found yukio's hit list,

and there's two extra names on it... Sean kagame,

who is a Japanese-American businessman,

and jarod Taylor, the owners of Taylor investments.

One of them is yukio's target.

We need to find him before he does.

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?

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 shibuya crossing. I'm sending the address now.

Let's go.

Ugh.

♪

Aah!

Lock this place down... Nobody leaves!

He's alive.

Yukio is here, watching. Clara: Yeah.

He knows we were in his home,

he can't go back there.

To savor this moment, he's got to stay here, in it.

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 gonna stick out in a crowd.

He will be alone, his body language

will be stiff and distant... He's not used to these crowds.

♪

Yukio-kun.

They did not care for me.

They were ashamed.

I was weak.

I failed them.

But now they have their revenge.

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 us?!

Yukio, listen to me.

You can have honor.

Turn yourself in right now, right here.

I'm not done yet!

You okay?

Thank you for your assistance and your understanding.

We are much more flexible than the world believes.

So how much trouble are you in with the boss lady

for talking out of turn?

Whatever it is, it was worth it.

Hey.

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 gonna have a long road ahead of him,

but he's gonna be all right.

And his business partner, jarod,

was found safe in their hotel room.

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

No, 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 gonna 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 quite ready for that excitement yet.

Yeah, okay, cool. I'm good with baby steps.

Good.

Let's go home.