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Two murders are thought to be committed by the same person.

The dead bodies have something in common

with the Touo University Student Murder Case 11 years ago.

She was stabbed in the throat. Don't you think it looks like...

the wound on Ayaka Akiu's throat in the murder 11 years ago?

The real murderer is another person and they put the blame on someone.

This time it was the man Fujita. 11 years ago it was Daisuke Asama.

The Public Prosecutors Office will set up a specialised agency

independent from the police to conduct forensic investigation.

I was invited to join it.

By your own father.

Very soon,

maybe we can clear Senior Asama's false charges and avenge Ayaka!

You don't know how cold a dead body is.

I don't mind that Asama ended up being the murderer.

Instead of the truth,

having a ready answer can stop our agony.

Mr Kurokawal!

Miss Wakura.

My nails...

What?

Clues...

Miss Wakura?

Miss Wakura!

"Operation in progress”

You mean the lady was stabbed to protect you?

Excuse me, will you analyse this?

We are going to properly collect evidence ourselves.

I've seen you on the news.

Well, I guess you don't trust the police.

How can they say something so mean?

You asked for it yourself, didn't you, Kurokawa?

The reason you agreed to be the case's defence lawyer is because

you suspect it's related to the case 11 years ago, right?

But to the police and the prosecutors, the case is closed.

You're doing this now just to satisfy yourself, aren't you?

Mr Beppu, please don't say anymore.

"Innocence, Fight Against False Charges"

"Final episode”

Miss Wakura?

Mr Kurokawa.

Thank goodness, you've opened your eyes.

I had a horrible nightmare.

Your pile of books and files kept falling onto my desk.

I had no idea I was unconsciously stressed out by that.

I'm sorry.

And...

Why are you holding my hand?

I am really sorry.

"Hoshundo Law Office"

Miss Arima, it isn't your fault.

Kurokawa would've been stabbed if you hadn't called.

He might have died in that case.

His power to survive seems weaker than Miss Wakura's.

"Junpei Fujita"

"KooZ"

Among Mr Fujita's and Hanamaki's followers,

KooZ here is the only one who follows both of them.

I'm impressed that you found them.

Let's say Kyoka Hanamaki didn't die because

Junpei Fujita stalked and killed her.

In that case, the real culprit clearly did something to deceive us.

If that's the case, they must know the life of the victim

and the "murderer” to a certain extent.

Also, look at this.

They had been closed,

but they're Ayaka Akiu's and Daisuke Asama's blogs.

"Asama's Ruins Tour"

"KooZ: I will go there next time."

"Ayaka's Diary"

"2. KooZ: I like it too."

Even 11 years ago...

"KooZ: Tweet: 3, Following: 15, Follower: 11"

The symbol...

So, what do you think?

What do I think of what?

I'm saying, do you think this KooZ is the real culprit?

Look at the Magatama.

Doesn't it look like the wound on the victims' necks?

Apostrophe.

Apostrophe?

You add it to a noun to turn it into possessive form.

In other words, the wound on their necks

could be the murderer's claim that the victims were his possessions.

But this alone can't even be circumstantial evidence.

So you have never met KooZ?

No. He sent me a follow request, so I accepted it. That's all.

Could the person be the murderer?

"Junpei Fujita, defendant"

We have to investigate.

The person arrested in the murder 11 years ago

killed himself after he lost the case, didn't he?

Yes.

I know how he felt!

He was arrested for something he didn't do,

so he would rather die in that case!

Mr Fujita!

Please don't give up.

Until the very last moment...

I'm going to go all out to investigate, and defend you.

"Todoroki Police Station"

Excuse me.

Yes?

I'm here to turn myself in to the police.

Last night,

I stabbed someone.

Impressive.

The guy turned himself in and he's here to negotiate already.

If the negotiation is successful,

it'll give him an advantage in the trial.

He said he was sorry about what he did to Miss Wakura,

and he regrets doing it.

He did not plan the assault, he just did it on impulse.

In other words, the victim could have been anyone?

Yes, he got frightened after that and turned himself in to the police.

This is my client's personal details.

I have his permission.

"Kazunari Kozu."

Kozu?

It says he works at a university's student affairs office,

which university is it?

I heard that it is Seiran Arts University.

Excuse me.

"Seiran Arts University."

Mr Kurokawa...

Does the name Kozu ring a bell?

"KooZ"

My client's father is now retired,

but he is a renowned pathologist.

He will pay more to settle this...

We'll talk to Wakura whether we'll settle it out of court or not,

but on one condition.

Condition?

"Name: Kazunari Kozu"

I am going to interview this man.

"Todoroki Police Station"

You were actually going to stab me, weren't you?

"Kazunari Kozu, suspect"

Well...

I saw you on the news. You're a famous lawyer, right?

No.

Clearing someone of false charges must be difficult.

The police...

leaps at someone's self-confession or simple circumstantial evidence.

You work at a university's student affairs office?

My father got me the job.

I had been idling about at this age, it's been half a year,

but I couldn't fit in at work.

Half a year?

I had been living abroad for nearly 10 years,

so my dad said it was time for me to re-join society.

But I ended up working at the student affairs office again.

You had worked at the student affairs office before?

Yes, at Touo University.

It made me feel inferior.

All the students were gifted and enjoying their youth.

It annoyed me so much at that time.

But you know,

no matter how gifted they are and how much they enjoy their youth,

when people die, they die in no time at all.

You...

Actually,

I killed all three of them.

In the case 11 years ago and the two lately.

When I stabbed the knife into their necks and twisted it,

it was so satisfying!

What's the matter?

The lawyer suddenly...

He is the murderer! He just confessed it.

I didn't say that.

The public didn't know the wound on their necks!

He knows that, because he is the murderer, without a doubt!

- What are you talking about? - Calm down.

The interview is over.

You treat me like a murderer without any evidence.

Are you a detective who forces people to make a confession?

Mr Kurokawa, how did the interview go?

Kurokawa.

Mr Kurokawa, what's the matter?

Hey, don't ignore us!

Kurokawa.

He confessed it.

He said to me that he killed all three of them.

Mr Kurokawa. Breathe in.

Take a deep breath. Slowly.

I'm sorry.

But I have no evidence!

Evidence... None was found in those two murders too.

It must be even harder to get the evidence 11 years ago.

The investigator at that time.

Do you have any clue who it was?

When I produced the documentary, one person was evasive.

He was still active at that time, so he refused to be interviewed,

but he should be retired now.

Are you bringing up the murder 11 years ago again?

We heard that you participated in the initial investigation,

so we hope you'd tell us about it.

At that time, in Kanagawa,

there was another major case, right?

A family in Hodogaya was murdered.

A man arrested by the police wasn't charged

by Yokohama Prosecutors Office due to lack of evidence.

The man committed the murder right after that, right?

It was...

A family of five was brutally murdered.

The prosecutors' office's stupid young prosecutor

caused the death of people who didn't have to die.

The Touo University Student Murder Case happened at that very moment.

To regain people's trust,

the police wanted to solve the case at an early stage, right?

So they rushed it...

We made no mistake in our investigation.

We, the police,

arrested the most likely suspect and collected evidence.

The method was the most proper one in an investigation.

We want to pick up the pieces, starting from that juncture.

If in the case 11 years ago,

something wasn't used as evidence,

another truth could be hidden in it.

Please tell us anything you know.

- Please help us. - Please help us.

A cigarette butt?

It was found at the crime scene,

but it wasn't even presented as evidence at the trial at that time,

because Senior Asama didn't smoke.

The prosecutor can choose what they present as evidence, right?

That's why they didn't present anything unfavourable to them.

If we analyse the cigarette butt,

maybe we can prove that Kozu was involved.

I'll file an appeal

in Yokohama District Court for the retrial of the case 11 years ago

and request for the disclosure of the cigarette butt collected.

In Kanagawa's Touo University Student Murder Case 11 years ago,

there was a mistake of fact in the evidence at that time,

so today, a law firm in Tokyo filed an appeal

in Yokohama District Court for a retrial.

The convict, Daisuke Asama...

Is this okay?

The Public Prosecutors Office warned us to report this with care.

It's all right.

I've prepared myself for the worst.

Miss Ayaka Akiu was stabbed by a knife and her body was found.

The convict of the case had already died.

An appeal for a posthumous retrial has been filed.

Mr Taku Kurokawa, the representative of the victim's family,

wants to reinvestigate the evidence collected by

the investigation organisation at the crime scene,

and he requests for the disclosure...

The press is making too much noise about it.

The Prosecutor General is outraged.

We hope the prosecutors' office will respond quickly.

"Hoshundo Law Office"

"List of evidence"

"Cigarette butt"

Mr Kurokawal!

Look! A cigarette butt was also left at

the scene of Kyoka Hanamaki's murder.

Later. We're in trouble.

Hey! Don't do whatever you please! It's an unjustifiable search!

What's your reason for the search?

Mr Tokunori Isawa violated the Lawyers Act.

Me?

20 days ago, when you had dinner with your friend,

you gave him legal advice and accepted a fee, didn't you?

Oh. My friend is starting a business and we talked a bit about it.

But I didn't charge him. He only paid the bill.

Do you have to go so far for something so trivial?

In other words, you're harassing us

because we brought up the case 11 years ago, right?

We're Tokyo's Public Prosecutors Office and not related to Yokohama.

It's the Deputy Prosecutor-General's order?

Kurokawa, calm down!

That man worked at Yokohama's office originally, so he...

Kurokawa. Don't.

Excuse me. It's a document for you.

Why now?

"Yokohama District Court?"

- Kurokawa. - Let me have a look.

"Appeal for retrial of this case is dismissed?"

"Dismissed"

"Cigarette butt not found among the evidence."

It isn't among the evidence?

They say there is no cigarette butt among the evidence?

Excuse me.

Miss Wakura?

I've been discharged from the hospital.

What is going on here?

Excuse me.

"Hoshundo Law Office"

"Touo University Student Murder Case"

"Cigarette butt"

"Not found among the evidence."

Welcome home, Shin.

Taku just came home.

You are too nasty.

The search in our office and the concealment of evidence...

Everything was your order, wasn't it?

Do you have to go so far to stop us from finding out the truth?

Taku, your dad just came home...

Why is someone here now?

Anyway, both of you should calm down.

Yeah?

The real murderer was someone else.

The man himself confessed it in front of me.

He laughed and said we had no evidence.

If only we have the evidence, we could prove what he did!

But the prosecutors' office and you...

Are you going to turn a blind eye to it just for your own dignity?

Miss Wakura is here too.

Sorry for coming so suddenly again.

It's okay. Anyway, your face is very pale.

I am fine.

Just wait a second.

Deputy Prosecutor-General Kurokawa.

I am here for the same thing as Mr Kurokawa.

So far, Mr Kurokawa has been handling all the cases honestly.

He investigates what he doesn't know until the last moment,

does experiments to prove it,

and it all started because of how he feels about the case 11 years ago.

If you really think the prosecutor's conclusion was right...

Miss Wakura.

I had no idea.

I didn't know about the cigarette.

That's my answer.

It was a waste of effort.

No matter what we ask him...

Was it really?

What?

Your father didn't say "there was no evidence."

He said he had no idea.

He had no idea...

If he was telling the truth...

The police didn't give it to him.

"Hoshundo Law Office"

You're back, Kurokawa.

What's the matter, everyone?

We talked about what we're going to do.

Our office is on the verge of closing now because of you.

I am very sorry.

I'll take the responsibility and quit my job here.

But please let me finish the case.

Can you take the responsibility by resigning?

You inflicted such a big loss on our office,

can you take the responsibility by resigning from your job?

No, I think I can't.

But what should I do, then?

Show people that our office is correct.

In other words, prove that the defendants of

this case and the one 11 years ago were falsely charged.

Don't yield to the oppressive prosecutors.

But the appeal for the retrial of the case 11 years ago was dismissed.

We will adopt a secret tactic.

In Mr Fujita's trial, we'll bring Kozu out as a witness.

Then we'll present the evidence and prove the crimes he committed.

It's Mr Beppu's idea.

Mr Beppu!

Don't get me wrong, Kurokawa.

I hate criminal cases. They don't earn me money.

But my brother defended the case 11 years ago.

If it'll settle the old score, then it's a different matter.

Now, the whole Hoshundo Law Office

will work to exonerate Asama in the Touo University Student Murder Case

and Fujita in the recent murders!

We have to be thorough!

Yes, sir!

"Seiran Arts University"

Mr Kurokawa.

- Let's go. - Okay.

Hello.

- I'm Kurokawa, a lawyer. - Yes?

I'd like to ask you about student affairs office's Mr Kozu.

Have you seen Nana with this man?

No idea.

Please have a closer look.

What?

- I've never seen him. - No.

We're gathering witness information about this murder,

please tell us if you know anything. Thank you.

We're seeking information about a murder!

Not him.

All right. Yes.

Mr Beppu.

Go to Narikawa Children's Park next.

"Kanagawa Prefecture Yokohama Police Station"

Is the cigarette butt 11 years ago really here?

I don't know.

Not knowing something is important, isn't it?

That means we are going to try very hard to find it out.

What a slave driver you are, Mr Lawyer.

Thank you, sir.

But are you really sure?

What do you want?

"Touo University Student Murder Case Cigarette butt"

The murderer was another man.

Senior Asama was falsely convicted,

so please help me do scientific experiments to prove it.

Dr Akiu, you are right.

I don't know how cold a dead body is.

And the pain it brought you.

The sadness too.

But...

I know the warmth that Senior Asama had when he was alive.

We grew up together.

He had told me a lot.

About how much he loved Ayaka.

And how much he respected you as a senior too.

The murderer was someone else.

Please help me this one last time.

I beg you.

You son seems to have gotten some new evidence.

I can't let him do something that makes people criticise

the Prosecutors Office more!

My son...

He only wants to seek the truth.

Kurokawal!

Regarding the case 11 years ago...

"In custody. Daisuke Asama"

"Shin Kurokawa"

I will settle it in my own way.

Not knowing something is important, isn't it?

That means we are going to try very hard to find out.

"Personal Details"

"Failed Touo University Medical Dept. Enter prep school”

"Passed Medical Dept. Rescission of passing"

"One criminal record"

"Violated Anti-Nuisance Ordinance" The police...

leaps at someone's self-confession or simple circumstantial evidence.

You treat me like a murderer without any evidence.

Are you a detective who forces people to make a confession?

"Courthouse”

"Defendant witness examination"

This case, Kyoka Hanamaki's murder,

and Touo University Student Murder Case, which happened 11 years ago,

have many things in common.

Like the wound left on the victims' bodies,

evidence stained with the victim's blood found near the body.

Also, after 11 years, in this case,

we've found new, common evidence.

It shows that other than this case's defendant, Mr Junpei Fujita

and Mr Daisuke Asama, who was seen as the culprit 11 years ago,

a third-party was possibly involved in both cases.

He's saying that the murderer is someone else?

Please have a look at Defendant's Exhibit number 63.

The cigarette butt was found at

a riverbed in Ota City, the scene of this murder.

The police found several cigarette butts,

but did not treat them as evidence.

It is because the defendant is a non-smoker.

Next, please have a look at Defendant's Exhibit number 64.

This cigarette butt...

was found at the ruin in Kanagawa,

the scene of the murder 11 years ago.

However, it wasn't even presented to the public prosecutor

and was hidden in Kanagawa Prefectural police's evidence room.

It's also because,

like in this case, Mr Daisuke Asama was a non-smoker.

What? The police conducted investigation under an assumption?

The two cigarette butts have already been analysed.

Now, with special permission,

Touo University Science and Engineering Department's

Dr Akiu will explain it.

The DNA on the evidence of this case and the one of the case 11 years ago

have been analysed using STR analysis.

A certain truth has been found after that.

The same person's DNA was attached on both cigarette butts.

The same person?

It's a man being charged for another crime.

The victim scratched the man and his DNA was obtained

by taking the pieces of skin scraped off.

In other words, the evidence...

shows that this murder is directly related to the one 11 years ago

and we can identify the man who is likely to be involved in both cases?

That's right.

Witness.

"Defendant witness cross-examination”

In response to the lawyer's claim just now,

I think there is another possibility. For example...

A third party with an ill intention got a cigarette butt

and planted it at the crime scene. It's a possibility.

Yes, you are right.

In that case,

that piece of evidence makes no contribution as a clue.

I can say the same about the prosecutor's evidence too.

The sketchbook stained with blood found in this murder

and the blood-stained clothes and shoes

presented as evidence in the murder 11 years ago

could also be planted to put the blame on the two defendants.

But...

Relying on circumstantial evidence

to construct the image of the culprit

is the most risky and foolish act.

The investigation organisations choose evidence intentionally

and even conceal them. This is outrageous!

People are falsely convicted,

not due to lack of ability to inspect or lack of evidence.

It's caused by prejudice, assumption and useless dignity,

the weakness and ugliness of people's heart.

No matter how advanced forensic science gets,

it's pointless if the people who use it are corrupt.

What we need is...

the simple and honest will-power to seek the truth.

Without that,

the victim's resentment

and the agony that the victim's family suffer...

will never be able to be settled in the real sense.

That was the case for the prosecution.

Thank you.

Please call the next witness.

I swear that...

the evidence I give shall be the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the truth.

Witness, Kazunari Kozu.

You'll be accused of perjury if you lie,

please be aware of that.

Now, please begin.

First, please watch Defence's Exhibit number 65, a video.

It's a video taken by security cameras at a place

related to both murders.

"Campus of Seiran Arts University"

Mr Kazunari Kozu,

at places near the victim, Kyoka Hanamaki,

near the defendant,

and the scene where Nana Yamashiro's body was abandoned,

you were caught on the security cameras.

Also,

3 witness testified that they saw you with Nana Yamashiro.

From the result of the DNA analysis and these evidence,

you're extremely likely

to be involved in these two murders and the one 11 years ago.

If you can deny the accusation, please explain yourself.

Well...

I cannot.

I've told you already, haven't I?

I was the one who killed Ayaka Akiu 11 years ago.

I was also the one who killed Kyoka Hanamaki and Nana Yamashiro.

He admits to all the crimes?

Why did you do that?

If I must say, it was to reveal...

the problem of Japan's police and public prosecutors' office.

I came up with the idea 11 years ago.

If I plant evidence that points directly to someone as the murderer

and go to kill someone,

what would you guys do?

I carefully selected the person I would kill and the culprit...

Put the bait there...

I half-prepared myself for the worst.

I thought, they would find out at once anyway.

But the result was, you guys simply took the bait.

So, I did it again,

using Kyoka Hanamaki and the stalker there.

I stole Hanamaki's student ID card and let the stalker find it.

I took the sketchbook

from the crime scene to the factory and threw it away.

The only thing that went wrong, was someone saw me.

By the kid, Nana Yamashiro.

She saw you, so you killed her to shut her up?

No.

The idiot shamelessly showed up in front of me

and told me to give her hush money. That's why.

I did feel sorry for the stalker.

She was killed in the same way,

so they suspected that you were a serial killer.

No wonder false convictions still exist in this country.

I've been able to say everything and I feel amazing now.

The press will make a fuss

and I'll become famous tomorrow.

"The vicious serial killer confessed his crime in court,” they'll say.

I'll be sentenced to death anyway.

If you like,

I'll tell you in detail how I killed the women.

Mr Akiu!

Good lord, my work was amazing!

The useless police, prosecutors.

In your faces!

Kazunari Kozu, 35 years old.

Your father is a renowned pathologist,

you applied to Touo University's Medical Department to do pathology,

but failed four times.

What?

After the four years,

you finally passed the exam, but just before your enrolment

on 20th March, 2008,

you were suspected of molesting a girl in high school on a train.

- You were arrested... - Hey!

Stop it.

You kept denying the charges,

but you were charged, put in custody for 58 days

and found guilty.

As a result, you couldn't study at the university you wanted to go to.

I said, stop talking about my past!

I went to meet the woman who accused you of molestation.

She regretted it very much.

She lied and accused you of molestation

to get the money for settling it out of court.

She said she falsely accused you.

She confessed to me that she messed up your life.

This is ridiculous!

This is ridiculous! What's the point of doing this now?

Ridiculous!

Falsely charged of molestation...

This is the reason that you committed the series of murder?

Mr Kozu,

I cannot forgive you.

If you'll serve your sentence without regretting what you did,

I will never accept it!

If you don't look properly at what you had done,

the victims and those who lost a family member

won't get closure.

I don't care! What's wrong with you?

Because I didn't know.

I want to know everything about you.

- I want to understand you. - Shut up!

Your Honour, I killed three people.

A serial killer who killed three women.

I don't want that to be all I know about you.

Shut up!

Kazunari Kozu.

Shut up.

- You were innocent 12 years ago. - Shut up!

Shut up!

- You were innocent. - Stop...

That is exactly why...

I am very frustrated.

You should be the person...

who knows the agony of being falsely accused most.

As a person...

Please face the pain in your heart until the very last moment.

That was the case for the defence.

Prosecutor, any cross-examination?

No, Your Honour.

Come on, stand up!

In that case, next...

Your Honour.

I would like to say something.

Just now,

the truth of a murder 11 years ago

and these two murders have been revealed.

I prosecuted Daisuke Asama and claimed that he was guilty

and drove him to his death.

As a judicial professional,

a decision I made took away a person's life.

I would like to apologise wholeheartedly.

I've finished.

People make mistakes.

That's why there are criminal cases,

people are falsely charged sometimes,

and many people are hurt.

Even so, I don't want to lose hope in the judiciary.

If we want to seek the truth,

admit our mistake if we made one,

and have the courage to correct it,

I believe...

that we can surely clear someone of false charges.

The defence lawyer...

insists that the defendant, Junpei Fujita,

and Daisuke Asama in Touo University Student Murder Case

are innocent.

It's over.

Yes.

But I still don't feel relieved.

Because Ayaka and Senior Asama...

and the two victims this time...

will never come back.

True.

But at least I feel better now.

I can now...

mourn over the death of Ayaka and Asama, the person she loved.

Yeah.

Why do you follow me?

What? You go for a drink at a time like this.

But I'm telling you, I'm going to have Oolong tea.

I want to file an appeal for the retrial

of the murder 11 years ago.

A public prosecutor has the right to do so, indeed, but...

One needs to correct his mistake.

Good evening, dear.

This is impressive!

It's packed with criminal case orders!

It isn't impressive and I am not happy!

We are short of staff and they don't earn me money!

Calm down, a young man who aims to be a lawyer

because he wants to handle criminal cases has shown up.

Someone who is going to bring us even more trouble than Kurokawa.

"Pass"

Have some tea.

Thank you.

Ms Kinosaki, is it okay to be so relaxed

when the bar examination is coming up?

Ms Kinosaki's result in the mock exam was better than mine.

Really?

After I pass it,

I can help Mr Kurokawa on many, many more things.

I am going to work much, much harder too.

"Taku Kurokawa's home"

What's the matter?

- Okay. - Yes?

Interview!

My boss finally lets me do a special programme on you!

I really don't know how to be interviewed.

You really won't do the interview, Kurokawa?

I am sorry.

Oh, I have to work now. Sorry...

In that case,

I'll make it using the videos I've filmed so far.

We've got loads of materials.

But in that case, you have to get Dr Akiu's permission too.

Speaking of whom,

Dr Akiu is planning to set up a private forensics science lab.

It'll be heartening to Kurokawa if he sets up the lab.

Kurokawa will surely make Dr Akiu do large-scale experiments for him.

Excuse me.

Okay, where is the document?

Oh, no!

I've learned my lesson.

It's useless asking you to tidy up your desk,

and I know that now.

I'm impressed.

"This drama is fictitious"