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- The terminology? - Yes, I have a problem with the terminology.

Hay fever, for example. It's even considered a national disease now, but

until it was named hay fever, no one knew about it.

That goes for chemical sensitivity as well. It was only acknowledged once it got its name.

- So? - I hereby propose a new terminology.

- Intersexual social gathering. - Inter...?

Intersexual as in man and woman. Intersexual social gathering.

Men and women who don't know each other meet to dine and converse to get to know each other.

- Oh, you mean group blind date. - Intersexual social gathering.

I don't like the terminology group blind date because it sounds so superficial.

- Your terminology sounds more obscene. - Obscene is okay at times too.

What are you talking about at 9 o'clock in the morning?

I don't want to be told that by someone eating tempura bowl from 9 o'clock in the morning.

I'm eating it because it's morning. As the start of a new day...

- Let's go intersexual social gathering. - Okay, that was good.

- Come on, let's go. - I'm not going.

- Come on, let's go. - Ask someone else.

- I want Mikoto to come with me. - Why?

Men are creeped out by our profession, right?

They sure are. And there's the 7 K's too.

Their creeped out feeling will be dispersed between the two of us.

They'll be doubly creeped out from the concentration.

Are you all right? It's time to get going.

- I want to quit. - Is this job really that bad?

- Come to think of it, I hear it's 7 K's. - Kitanai (dirty), kitsui (harsh), kiken (dangerous.

You know, I worked at a medical examiner's office in Osaka for 24 years

as a clinical laboratory technician.

So I don't have any complaints with the job.

- Then what is it? - It's that guy.

- That guy? - That guy who's 175-6 cm tall.

Isn't he a little taller than that?

It's going to be Nakado-san anyway, right?

No one that's teamed up with Nakado-san have lasted.

- No one? - 3 months at the most, 3 days at the shortest.

- That was fast! - I'm sure glad you came, Mikoto.

I was about to be assigned to Team Nakado.

What kind of a person is Nakado-san?

Let sleeping dogs lie. Kinda like No Face (in Spirited Away).

- No Face? - Although as a fellow medical examiner,

I should be taking on a more cooperative attitude.

That's impossible. But you know,

he may not look it, but I heard Nakado-san's divorced.

- What? He was able to get married?! - That's what I mean.

You two are pretty terrible.

- Mikoto may look like this, but she has a boyfriend too. - May look like this?

- Oh, really? - But she hasn't seen him at all lately.

So I'm trying to get her to go to an intersexual social gathering.

-Intersexual? - I don't know the reason, but

if things aren't going well, forget about the boyfriend for a while and just have fun partying.

- I'm meeting my boyfriend today. - No way!

- I lied. - Oh.

- I lied that I lied. - Which is it?

Ah~ Today again...

- You're late! - I'm sorry!

Excuse me, excuse me.

So you're saying that you can't accept the cause of death of your deceased son.

Yes. We've been turned down by all medical universities

and just when we were about to give up, someone from the funeral home told us about you.

Let me take a look.

I heard it was the most common cause of sudden death.

Coronary artery disease includes a wide range of disease

from angina to myocardial infarction.

In other words, it's the easiest cause of death for doctors to write down.

Our son was healthy. There's no way he could suddenly...

There was an incident previously, wasn't there?

Dozens of people who were thought to have died of heart failure

actually died of carbon monoxide poisoning

caused by a malfunction in the gas water heater.

- Yes. - Did my son

really just die of sudden death?

I don't blame you for having doubts.

In Japan, more than 80 percent of the so called unnatural deaths

are attributed to some likely cause of death without the benefit of an autopsy

before the remains are cremated.

That's the lowest standard among developed countries.

This Unnatural Death Investigation Laboratory,

commonly known as UDI Lab, was created in order to change that situation.

Approved by the Government, it's the first research institute in the nation

specializing in determining the cause of death.

Led by two forensic pathologists,

we conduct investigative autopsies on approximately 400 bodies annually

as requested by the police and municipalities.

There are test labs on-site within the institute, and

outside the 23 special wards of Tokyo, with Nishi Musashino city at the center,

we are accepting bodies from all over the country upon request.

However, in the case of autopsy request from the general public, payments must be made in advance.

In this case, this would be the payment.

We're from Forest Funeral Home.

It's been 10 days since death, and state of preservation is poor.

- It's quite ripe. - I think we should hurry.

I'm sorry to give you one job right after another, but please take care of it.

Who's going to handle it? Team Nakado or Team Misumi?

Then...

let's do rock paper scissors. Or draw straws.

Shall we roll dice?

All right. Let's flip a coin.

How long are you gonna keep making those crappy suggestions?

I just thought it would be better to decide fairly.

"Fairly." What a convenient word.

I'll do rock paper scissors or draw straws or whatever.

Once you become my equal in achievement.

Fairly.

Achievement?

Number of autopsies performed. More than 3,000 for Nakado-san.

- What about Misumi-san? - 1,500.

I'm sorry for not even being close to being his equal.

Not at all. You have an amazing accomplishment at your age.

She does, doesn't she? It's all meaningless if you have the quantity but not the quality.

It's all right. I'll quietly work on getting more experience.

I'm sorry for making both of you work with me without a lunch break.

Excuse me! May I entrust the body with you?

Yes. Sorry to keep you waiting.

The body is Takanoshima Wataru-san. Male, 35 years old.

His parents requested the autopsy in order to find the cause of death.

Takanoshima-san was found dead on the floor of

his apartment where he lived alone.

Wataru, are you home? Wataru?

His girlfriend found him when she came, suspecting something was wrong

when she couldn't get in touch with him.

There were no external injuries, nor were there any signs of a struggle.

There was nothing to cause suspicion in the room.

A simple inspection was performed at the scene and it was determined that there was no foul play.

The cause was determined to be coronary artery disease.

Can that be determined without an autopsy?

- They figured that's about it, more or less. - More or less?

In the case of this body, the location was bad. It was discovered in Tomikage City.

The closest medical university that can perform an autopsy is 40 km away.

- What does that have to do... - It's a hassle to transport it, right?

- That's the reason? - Even if there's a medical university near by,

the local police don't get along with them so they can't ask for an autopsy.

Is that a valid reason?!

Various factors, big and small, commingle to

create an unbelievable regional difference in rates of autopsy.

The 23 special wards of Tokyo have a fairly high autopsy rate of 17 percent.

For regions with the lowest autopsy rate, it's less than 2 percent.

You've got to choose your location when you die inadvertently.

You can't choose if you die inadvertently.

That was inadvertent.

No bleeding in the pleural cavity.

It's not aortic dissection, right?

No bleeding within the pericardium.

Pericardial effusion 10 ml.

No dilation of the heart noted.

No hardening of the coronary arteries.

That's not it~.

It isn't coronary artery disease.

- Does that mean there's a different cause? - Yeah.

There's a severe congestion of the kidneys overall.

Kidney, left. 110 grams.

Right, 100 grams.

The spleen and adrenal glands have dissolved.

It's been 10 days, after all.

It would be nice if they could bring the body in before it starts decaying, huh?

Renal cortex is pale. Medulla is congested.

Possibility of acute kidney failure.

- Toxic substance? - Possibly.

- Kube-kun, take a picture of this, will you?

He's still green.

- There's a shower room in the basement. - It's not that bad.

No matter how careful you are, you can't keep the smell off.

We got the creatinine level. It's 3 times the normal level.

It was acute kidney failure without a doubt.

The question is, what caused the acute kidney failure.

You said earlier that it could have been poison, but

didn't the police do a toxicology test too?

A simple inspection will only detect a few types of poison.

But if you perform an autopsy and examine the extracted liver,

- you can detect 200 kinds of poison. - Really?

Kube-kun, for a medical student you don't know anything, do you?

- I'm not taking any forensic medicine classes. - I'm surprised you were hired, even as a part-timer.

Kube-kun was the only one who applied for that hourly wage.

- I forgot about that. - Was I really?

Why don't you take this opportunity to study to become a forensic pathologist?

Forensic pathology is science for dead people, right?

Clinical doctors who treat living people are little more...

Forensic pathology is work for the future.

Work for the future?

- Did you find the cause of death? - Not yet.

I'll have to see the results of the toxicology test.

Takanoshima-san's parents

called to tell me that they heard a strange story.

This woman, Shikishima Yuka-san.

Apparently, she was someone from an outside design company who was working with Takanoshima-san.

- "Yukarin"? - She's cute.

- She's not really my type... - We didn't ask for your type.

- What about her? - She died suddenly.

What's more, the day after Takanoshima-san died.

She was found dead in the apartment she lived alone, with no external injuries or anything suspicious in the room.

The police determined there was no foul play, and

the body was returned to her bereaved family with no autopsy being performed.

Everything's exactly like Takanoshima-san. It's too good to be true to be coincidental.

Serial murder by poison...

What if it was?

Let's go examine Yukarin's body.

Before the cause of death turns into ashes.

Episode 1 Nameless Poison

Thank you.

If you'd like, please have some tea in the other room.

It happened so suddenly, I don't know what's what...

The police said that since Yuka was taking medication for asthma,

she must have died from difficulty in breathing brought on by a sudden attack.

- Does she have a history of attacks? - Yes.

They were never that bad, but

after being told that's what happened, I started thinking maybe so.

We were living apart, and

she was a sweet child who didn't want to cause any worries for her parents.

I saw her for the first time in a while at the morgue...

Excuse me.

I'd say it's gray.

It's possible the attack was induced by some kind of poison.

In any case, we can't tell without the body.

Why did they cremate it?

It's impossible with bones. We can't tell anything from just bones.

Even with just bones, Professor Bones can find out anything.

Is that right? Then bring me this genius professor from the TV please.

That's like being to told catch the tiger on a folding screen.

It must be nice in America. If they decide to re-investigate,

they just have to dig up the body from the grave.

Instead, zombies will appear.

No they won't. When muscles decay, they can't move or walk.

Unwalking dead.

That's not scary.

That's just a corpse.

A person died and they saw her mother crying in front of their eyes, yet

they were already laughing on their way home.

Forensic pathologists don't consider people to be people after all.

I'm happy to hear you like it there.

- Were you listening to me at all? - For the time being, you passed the first phase?

Do you smell something?

- What's this smell? - Where's it coming from?

- You'd better not get too close. - Is this woman forensic pathologist cute?

- She's okay. - What the heck, is she your type? Does she have big boobs?

- I don't know. - How many/old?

- Two? - Idiot.

I'm asking you her age. How old.

I know. I wonder how old Misumi-san is.

- Misu? - Misumi. Mi plus sumi.

Her name's like a tongue twister.

MisumiMikoto MisumiMikoto MisumiMikoto MisumiMikoto MisumiMikoto MisumiMikoto...

You're not saying it correctly either.

How's your new workplace?

It's not new. It's been 4 months already.

Has it been that long already?

I have a lot more freedom compared to the university.

Originally, we only did projects for the Cabinet Office, but now we're more like a private institution.

- It's suited for you, huh? - Although it still comes with the usual 7 K's.

Kitsui (harsh), kitanai (dirty), kiken (dangerous), kusai (stinks).

Smells nice.

- I washed my hair before I came. - But it's gonna smell like smoke by the time we leave.

You like yakiton (grilled port skewers) too, don't you?

I came to like it because you like it.

That's not true. You're the one who chose this place first.

- Did I really? - You sure did.

In the summer, 2 years ago?

- Has it been that long? - It's been that long.

Have you given some thought to that matter?

I'm home.

- Mikoto? - Hi.

- What are you doing here so late at night? - I just happened to be nearby.

Here, Aki-chan. Present for you.

- They're all beer. - Let me have one.

- You're gonna drink what you brought? - I'm gonna have one too.

Thanks.

Where's Dad?

He was in Bolivia last month. He's probably somewhere in Asia now.

The border patrol may have riddled him with bullets.

- Will you be spending the night? - I'm going home. I have work to do too.

Did you really come home just to drink beer?

Next time, I'll bring the guy I've been seeing.

Marriage...?

- Well, probably. - What do you mean "probably"?!

Anyway, I guess that's the story.

Congratulations~!

Don't you have something to ask first? Like what kind of a guy he is.

If Mikoto chose him, I'm not worried.

- Shall we open a bottle of champagne? - That's okay.

- We just happen to have one. - Mom, you're working tomorrow, aren't you?

What's he like?

Someone whose goofy sleeping face is endearing?

- Sleeping face? - You know what Mom says all the time.

No matter how stupid Dad looks when he's sleeping, she can overlook it.

That we should marry someone whose sleeping face is endearing to us.

Is that for real?

She said that sleeping face gets annoying when they have a fight.

Well, I guess there are times like that too.

This guy, does he know about you?

- Sure... - Does he really know?

This is my only home.

- ♬～ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. - You're getting too carried away.

Okay, so what could be the cause of death.

The result of Takanoshima-san's toxicology test is out~.

- What was found? - Nothing. Nothing was detected.

- Nothing was found, huh? - So it wasn't murder by poison.

- No, that's not what I said. - What?

Up to only 200 types of toxic drugs can be examined by a screening machine.

Other toxic drugs, such as tetrodotoxin found in puffer fish,

- aren't included in the 200 types so they can't be detected. - Is that the system...

If we get information that this person ate puffer fish, we can look into it separately.

In other words, anything suspicious beyond this point, we have to look into it one by one.

Do you know what the scariest poison in this world is?

- No, I don't. - Poison without a name.

- Poison without a name? - With poison,

the only way you can detect it is to compare the substance with existing poisons.

In other words, no one would be able to detect

a completely new poison with unidentified components.

If you can succeed in creating a nameless poison...

you can kill all you want without being noticed.

Take your talk of murder elsewhere, okay?

- Director, what's that? - It's from Takanoshima-san's parents

asking us to investigate as we please.

- Okay, let's go fishing. - For the nameless poison?

- The poison that's there. - We're going to the 6th floor.

Why don't we open some windows.

This must be where he died.

- Onion 8. - Onion 8.

- And carrot 9. - Carrot 9.

Apple 10.

Get me 15.

We don't know what poison killed Takanoshima-san, so

we're trying to find that out right now, right?

But if the perpetrator has already retrieved whatever it was that had the poison,

wouldn't all this work be meaningless?

There may not necessarily be a perpetrator.

For people with allergies, things like soba and eggs and honey may be poison.

This, for example.

Highly pure caffeine can be toxic.

Tomatine, which can be found in tomatoes, is a poison called alkaloid.

I eat a whole lot of tomatoes.

- Was it more than 2 kg of leaves and stems? - If you eat more than 4 tons of red tomatoes, you die too.

You'd die if you eat 4 tons of anything.

- Gray hair dye is extremely toxic too. - Take one drink and you're dead for sure.

Anything and everything is poision then.

Poison is in everything, and nothing is without poison.

The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

- By? - Paracelsus.

I'm Misumi with UDI Lab.

Excuse me, but...

I'm Baba.

Takanoshima and I worked at the same company.

Are you perhaps the girlfriend who...

discovered the body?

Yes.

I found Takanoshima.

He was absent without leave on Monday and Tuesday, and

his supervisor told me he couldn't get in touch with him.

Since I had the spare key, I came.

And when I got here, he was already...

Did you notice anything suspicious?

Like a smell or anything?

I smelled decay, but nothing else in particular.

Did he tell you that he wasn't feeling well lately or anything like that?

I don't think he would've been able to tell me even if he wasn't feeling well.

Since he knew I was busy with work.

Incidentally, do you have an alibi?

Takanoshima-san's estimated time of death was

was sometime between Sunday night and midnight.

- Where were you at that time? - I was at home. Sleeping alone.

- Is there someone who can attest to that? - Kube-kun...

I live alone so there's no way I can prove it.

What is it?

Didn't Takanoshima die of sudden death?

- That's supposedly what happened, but... - He just started working with us...

Incidentally, why did you come here today?

I came to spend the night.

Here?

Are you trying to say I killed him?

How?

I'm Misumi with UDI Lab. I have an appointment with Matsudo-san with the Advertising Department.

- Please sign in over here. - Look, Baba-san.

It's really her.

How can she come to the office, huh?

This is it. I've gathered all his personal effects from his locker too.

Confidential documents may be included in the paperwork so please don't touch them.

Got it. Thank you.

Excuse me, but I don't see Baba-san around.

Oh, Baba works at a different division.

Were Baba-san and Takanoshima-san really dating?

- What do you mean? - Hey, hey...excuse us.

What are you asking him? You're not a detective, you know.

Something's wrong with that Baba-san. How can she be so calm and collected when her loved one just died?

Maybe she's just a calm and collected person.

- Would you be able to sleep in that room? - Yes, I can.

- You may be able to, but... - Excuse me.

- Shall I escort you to Baba's department? - Please.

Wait. Make sure you don't say anything rude.

I know.

I wonder if he really knows.

You wouldn't think so, but he's quite the time bomb kid, isn't he?

Excuse me.

You're investigating about Takanoshima-san, right?

Yes. Excuse me.

What about Shikishima Yuka-san from another company?

Yes, we heard about her too.

Then have you heard that those two were in a relationship?

Takanoshima told me that he was planning to marry Baba-san.

They just couldn't proceed with the preparation because they were too busy.

It's over there. Research and Development.

Baba-san's young but she's very capable.

Non-medical Toxic Substance

Toxic substance...

- Love triangle? - Perhaps Baba Michiko who got cheated on

and killed Takanoshima-san and Yukarin.

That's the rumor that's going around.

I can't believe Takanoshima was a two-timing bastard.

Baba Michiko was handling toxic substance.

I didn't get to find out the name of the drugs, but

I heard she's doing research on polyester.

If she's working with polyester,

- she'll be using ethylene glycol. - Ethyl?

When ethylene glycol enters the body,

abnormalities appear in the digestive organs and central nervous system within 30 minutes, and

respiratory distress occurs after 12 hours.

Oh...Yukarin's asthma attack?

- After 24 hours... - kidney failure. Takanoshima-san's symptom.

That's got to be it then. That ebeth...

- Ethylene glycol. - Ethylene glycol.

Baba Michiko had them take it and killed them.

They say ethylene glycol is sweet if you lick it.

It might be convenient to put it in drinks or sweets.

Oh, I remember now!

I remember where I saw this cookie.

Picture of a horse?

Oh, it was in Yuka's bag.

I thought it was something she liked, so I put it up with the offering.

This is the horse cookie that was on Takanoshima-san's desk.

This is the horse cookie that Yukarin had.

As a result of examining the ingredients of both cookies, ethylene glycol...

was not detected! To be sure, we had a rat eat it, and

- it's alive and kicking. - It's alive and kicking~!

- It's a good thing it's alive. - It's good, but it isn't.

The cookies didn't contain any poison.

No ethylene glycol was detected in Takanoshima-san's specimen either.

What about the samples we collected from his office and apartment?

Everything's clean. There's nothing that could be relevant to the cause of death in this case.

We did all this work and still no leads.

If you can't determine the cause after a thorough investigation, it could be a rare case

of sudden death that can't be explained, don't you think?

Let's put a report together by the end of the week and submit it to the bereaved family.

How do you explain two people dying one after the other?

A rare coincidence. See you.

What's rare coincidence times the probability of coincidence?

If it wasn't coincidence,

it means it's got to really be a nameless poison.

Can it be made that easily?

If Baba Michiko's a genius.

Nakado-san.

Are you knowledgeable about bodies with acute kidney failure?

No medical history, no external wounds.

Checked for conceivable drugs, but nothing was detected.

The other person who died one day later suffered respiratory failure.

Are the two unnatural deaths coincidence, or

was it the doing of a scientific genius?

Why are you asking me?

Because you have the experience of having performed 3,000 autopsies.

If you want to ask someone, ask this guy.

You have unlimited use of all the knowledge in the world.

That's the Director's office, you know. Is it okay to go in without permission?

What? Is he living there?

Oh, the world...

Cases from abroad, huh?

liver disease

This is going to take some time~.

How's it going.

You're back, Detective Kube. How did your investigation work go?

- Did you find anything in the horse cookie? - We found nothing. It was unrelated.

That's what I thought.

Of course it would be unrelated. Those cookies were bought by

Takanoshima-san himself, not Baba Michiko.

You got back today?

Yes, that's right.

- Takanoshima-san brought them back from his business trip. - Business trip?

Apparently, he gave it to Yukarin too.

- Are you all right? - I'm fine.

- I'm going to help myself then. - Go right ahead.

The way the rumor that they were in a relationship got started was ridiculous too.

Takanoshima-san gave his cold to Yukarin.

Then people started saying that she caught it from him because they were smooching in a private office.

There was smoke where there was no fire.

When did they catch this cold?

Where did this cookie come from?

Where did Takanoshima-san go on his business trip?

Saudi Arabia.

What is it?

It was neither a rare coincidence nor murder by poison.

There was a different cause of death.

This is Misumi with UDI. This is an urgent message to all the on-site companies.

Are there any businesses that have the capability to

detect MERS coronavirus from frozen autopsy samples?

Middle East respiratory syndrome

- MERS?! - Considering the elapsed time from death,

detection by gene amplification, such as the RT-LAMP technique, is deemed necessary.

Those who are knowledgeable, please contact us immediately.

What's this about MERS?! What about disinfection? Sterilization!

By the time we got the body, more than 200 hours had elapsed since death.

The virus inside the body were already inactive. In other words, dead.

When you talk about MERS, travel to the Middle East is involved, right?

He had gone to Saudi Arabia.

He had symptoms of a cold too after he came back to Japan.

He thought it was a slight cold, but his condition suddenly worsened over the weekend.

Cases have been reported where acute kidney failure was brought on by hypersensitivity, and

death occurred within a short period of time.

He should have had pneumonia too, but

- the inflammation couldn't be distinguished due to decay. - What about Yukarin?

Most people who died of MERS developed acute respiratory illness.

That was mistaken for an asthma attack.

Is that Mars, the planet?

Excuse me~. We can do it if it's detection by the PCR method.

We have breaking news. MERS coronavirus was detected from the body of

a man in his thirties who died in Japan.

This is the same coronavirus as SARS that broke out in China in 2000, but

the type is different, and the fatality rate is 38.5 percent.

More than 500 people have died so far, mostly around the Middle East countries.

This MERS coronavirus for which infection has been confirmed,

is said to spread through coughing, sneezing, and even through talking at times.

Yes. You can get infected from touching spit that landed on the desk

and that somehow ends up in your mouth.

Make sure you wash your hands and gargle often.

In regards to the number of people

who have had contact with Mr. A, a man in his thirties, and Ms. B, a woman in her twenties,

those who have been confirmed rose to 82 people.

Until negative results are confirmed, they will be

quarantined in a designated facility.

The man A was originally diagnosed with coronary artery disease, but

as a result of UDI Lab's autopsy investigation,

the cause of death has been determined to be MERS coronavirus infection.

In regards to the body of woman B,

if we had been able to do an autopsy investigation.

we should have been able to stop the infection from spreading.

Investigating the exact cause of death

leads to protecting everyone's life as well.

Forensic medicine is medical science for the future.

- For the future... - At the UDI Lab,

in order to accomplish our important mission to determine the cause of death...

Oh, he got cut off at the important part.

The question is, why didn't the man go to the quarantine station

at the airport at the time he returned to Japan from Saudi Arabia. That's the problem.

There were subjective symptoms of a cold, right?

He probably thought a slight fever was no big deal, don't you think?

No, no, no. That's not good.

Because of him, all of Japan is in a big panic.

That was an unfortunate thing that happened to Mr. A because of a business trip.

But although I feel bad for saying this,

if Mr. A didn't bring in the virus,

my daughter wouldn't have had to die.

This man had visited Saudi Arabia

Why didn't he report it?

Because of this guy, the situation got worse.

He must've known about it.

2 weeks before he died.

Please let us through. No pictures, please!

Shikishima Yuka-san died because of your son.

How are you going to take responsibility!

I can't apologize enough. I'm sorry.

There will be more deaths in the future!

Move back! Please move back!

I apologize for causing you trouble because of my son.

I think the reason my son pushed himself to come back

was because he felt he shouldn't take time off from work.

From the time he was a child,

I told him not to miss school for something like a cold.

To be a persevering man.

That's what we taught him while we were raising him.

Were we mistaken?

He was a hard worker.

Maybe he just worked too hard.

We're really sorry.

The chief priest is here.

My condolences for...

Wataru-san is innocent.

I have the evidence.

It got lost in the junk mail in his mail box.

He had a medical check-up 3 days after he got back.

The result showed that he was in excellent health. No problems were noted.

They don't check for coronavirus in a medical exam.

- It's only natural they wouldn't find it. - He was a logical person.

If he had subjective symptoms of a cold, I'm sure he would have declared it at the airport.

I think it would be difficult to prove when it was that he started having subjective symptoms.

I'm sorry.

Things may get even worse in the future.

At the university hospital where he got his check-up,

there are many patients with weakened immunity.

Infection is a matter of life or death for them.

We have to find out how many people Takanoshima-san came in contact with and

spread the infection.

Here at Touo Medical University Hospital,

the number of outpatients and inpatients who underwent medical exam on the same day as man A rose to 48.

After inclusion of hospital staff members, 8 people with MERS infection have been confirmed, and the infected people...

Gosh, that was a terrible thing that happened.

How are the infected patients doing?

They're being treated in isolation in a room where negative pressure can be controlled.

It's not a dreadful disease if it can be dealt with immediately.

Those two who passed away could have been saved too if we realized sooner that they were infected.

No one would think they'd die from a cold.

Kamikura-san, I was surprised when you quit the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, but

I see that the UDI Lab is doing great.

Not really. I'm in constant fear not knowing when grants would be cut off.

- It's not much, but... - Thank you.

Uh, Director Kago. I'd appreciate it if you could send in a report to the Health Policy Bureau

of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in regards to the good work UDI Lab is doing.

- Of course. I will gladly cooperate. - Thank you.

Isn't the UDI Lab getting more requests after the recent scare?

- I'm not sure about that. - If you get any busier,

it'll affect your extracurricular activity, won't it?

It's good in that we're accumulating bodies.

We didn't get any this month. Red goldfish.

Please continue to work on it.

Talk about accumulating bodies, it looks like

there's a lot at Touo Medical University these days.

Dead people, that is.

Thank you.

I...

was entrusted with a large project at work.

I was frantic, and

I was constantly giving first priority to work.

I should have stayed with him.

More often.

Every day

I should have gone to spend the night with him.

If we had already registered our marriage

and had been living together...

I wouldn't have

let him die alone like that.

Did you see it on the net?

Takanoshima shock.

His real name

and lot of pictures of his face too.

An honest man like him

being treated like an atrocious villain.

All because I found this thing.

It's because you found this

that we were able to hold the damage to a minimum.

I can't think of it that way.

I don't care

who dies.

Would you like to eat one?

Let's eat together.

No thank you.

- Don't you like sweets? - That's not it.

Their smooth red bean paste is delicious.

- I don't want it. - Just take one bite.

I'm not in the mood for that!

You have to eat it precisely because you're not in the mood.

Why...

does it taste good at a time like this.

It's terrible, isn't it?

It's beautiful.

It's a souvenir.

Engagement rings originated in

ancient Egypt, he said boastfully.

Takanoshima-san said that?

The day after he got back.

It ended up being the last night

we spent together.

Excuse me for asking, but

did you do it that night?

Did you do it? With Takanoshima-san.

The act between man and woman. Sexual intercourse.

Do you like to kiss? About how much, how many times

did you exchange kisses with Takanoshima-san?

The problem is this intimacy here.

That night, the two spent a sweet night together.

She wasn't counting so the exact number of times they kissed is unknown, but

as a result of hearing her story in detail,

- they kissed deeply more than 20 times. - 20 deep kisses...

She says Takanoshima-san loved to kiss.

- Yes, there are people like that. - How did you get her to tell you that?

But Baba-san hasn't developed MERS,

nor had her body produced any antibodies.

It makes more sense to think she never came in contact with the virus.

Then...

It wasn't Takanoshima-san that spread the infection.

He contacted it at the hospital.

That's what happened. Touo Medical University has a coronavirus research team.

It could be that the virus leaked and...

- Hospital-acquired infection. - Takanoshima-san was the victim.

But we can't prove it.

If there's no proof, let's pretend this never happened.

Because you know...

Here's the proof.

A rumor was going around among the undertakers.

That lately Touo Medical University has a lot of dead people.

When we looked into it, we found that the number of deaths for inpatients had doubled.

The beginning of last month was when the increase started.

That's a whole month before Takanoshima-san went to get his check-up.

18 deaths are suspicious. Acute pneumonia with complications from a past illness.

Death due to kidney failure, acute respiratory distress.

If the cause of these deaths was MERS...

But Nakado-san, this is...

Why are you dressed like that?

- Oh, there's no particular reason. - I've been wondering all day too...

- It's been bugging me too. - I know, right? It bugged you too, right?

What does it matter when a woman wears what?

- But she looks totally different. - There are times we want to wear different clothes.

- We're not saying it's bad. - Aha. To the contrary, you like it.

- I didn't know you were so easy to read... - What does that matter anyway...

Forget about my clothes!

Even if the cause of death of these 18 people was really MERS,

this doesn't prove anything.

The cause of death of patients who die in the hospital is determined in the hospital.

If the hospital wants to hide the cause of death, they can hide it.

It would be different if we had internal records, but there's nothing we can do with just numbers.

It's not just numbers.

The proof is the 19th patient.

The 19th patient?

55 year-old male hospitalized with diabetes.

After he got symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, they put a ban on visitation.

The hospital's explanation was that his condition worsened, but instead of ICU,

he was quarantined in a negative pressure controlled room.

The man hovered between life and death for 3 weeks

and he died the day before yesterday.

Day before yesterday.

Backside.

Tsubaki Memorial Hall Kadono Yuji, 55 years old Memorial Service at 13:00

The evidence will turn to ashes in 30 minutes.

We'll make it on time.

- Misumi-san, this way! - Coming.

Mikoto!

- Catch! - Thanks!

Misumi-san, hurry up and get on...

I'm going to speed up. Please hang on.

Misumi-san, look!

Excuse me, excuse me. Excuse me.

It's in the furnace already!

Hey, what are you doing?!

The coffin had burned down.

But the the body inside was safe.

Actually, it got burned a bit.

How shall we transport the body?

- Tie it up on the motorcycle carrier? - We can't tie it up.

- I was just kidding. Call UDI.

Ask them to send a car and body bag.

Then...I'll go get permission from the family to perform an autopsy.

Misumi-san. Here.

From Nakado-san.

He said if you have this, you can perform the autopsy without the family's consent.

We only found out about it today, but he's well prepared.

I don't need it.

Even if I forced the machine to stop,

I don't want to force people.

Oh, hurry up and make that call, okay?

You, there. What right do you have to do something like this!

I never heard of anyone canceling a cremation!

This isn't something you can do without even an explanation to the family.

I apologize deeply for causing a commotion at the time of your farewell.

It's not a matter that can be settled with an apology.

Please give me a little bit of your time.

It's an important matter.

Are you saying that the source of infection is our school?

Don't be ridiculous.

We are the victim. Takanoshima Wataru brought in the virus.

There's no doubt about that.

We're starting the autopsy of Kadono Yuji-san.

So you're saying that the first time you confirmed a patient infected with MERS in the hospital

was after the fact that Takanoshima Wataru-san visited the hospital was revealed.

Yes, of course.

It's an infectious disease for which there were no reported cases in our country.

I never even dreamed that

our school would affected by it.

The lungs are hard as a rock. He was inflicted with acute pneumonia.

Right lung, 520 gm. Taking a specimen.

Kube-kun, leave the tube cap opened.

The virus is still active inside the body up to 48 hours after death. Be careful not to get infected.

Have this tested ASAP.

- 15 minutes to detection. - No way.

- It's true. - We ordered a secret weapon from Nishi Hama City College.

It's the MERS virus detection kit using the immunochromatographic technique.

The coronavirus can be visually inspected in 15 minutes.

I happened to hear that your research department chief obtained this kit.

It's a natural measure to take after the recent scare.

The acquisition date was a whole month before the scare happened.

Why did you order beforehand detection kits for

an infectious disease you never dreamed about?

That was for research sake.

You got 200 lots, you know.

That's a lot of kits, isn't it?

So what are you trying to say?

This doesn't prove that we're the source of infection.

We'll be back again at a later date with the documents.

Any further discussion will be conducted at that time.

Excuse me for not knocking or saying my greeting. We're done with the autopsy.

- Thank you for your hard work. - MERS coronavirus was detected

- from Kadono Yuji-san's lungs. - It got detected, huh?

- Kadono? - The inpatient

who died at Touo Medical University.

We had the specimen delivered to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases as well.

- With whose permission?! - The bereaved family's permission.

Examining the phase of change in the antibody

would reveal the general time frame from the time of infection.

If you compare it to Takanoshima-san's specimen,

you can also tell who got infected first.

Hiding the leakage of virus

is the same thing as scattering a nameless poison.

Many people who didn't have to die ended up dying.

Going forward at least, I hope you make a wise decision.

Also,

I ask that you restore Takanoshima Wataru-san's reputation.

So that his bereaved family can go on living hereafter.

Anyway...

let's just admit to what you need to admit and hold a press conference.

You have one new message.

Sorry. Did you read my text?

I'm on my way.

Satoshi, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for being late.

- I thought you didn't have any autopsy today. - I didn't, but one suddenly came in.

Where are your parents? I'll go dry my hair real quick...

There's no need to hurry.

I had my parents go home.

If we were just meeting as usual, I'll wait all day.

That's what I've been doing all this time too.

But today was...

I wish you had given priority to me at least for today.

I wanted us to become a family.

Did you feel the same way too?

All this time,

I don't know why, but

I felt there was something like a distance between us.

Even after dating 3 years, I feel as if I don't know you.

Why do I feel that way, huh?

When we're like this,

do you think we can become a family?

Oh, okay. Got it.

She said Sunday is canceled.

The plan to have Mikoto's boyfriend come here. It's canceled.

I wonder what happened?

"Fall in love with someone whose sleeping face you is endearing to you."

Nee-chan probably can't show it. Her own sleeping face.

It's terrible, isn't it?

Takanoshima Wataru-san was

a victim of hospital-acquired infection, and

if our school had been able to detect it sooner,

Takanoshima Wataru-san, Shikishima Yuka-san would not have died of infection.

It was revealed that the deaths were due to hospital-acquired infection caused by the leakage of coronavirus.

Again, I apologize deeply.

Autopsies are super important, you know.

If autopsies aren't performed, the truth will be buried in the dark.

Oh, that's right. That lady forensic pathologist.

Yes, the one with a name like a tongue twister.

She had big breasts.

No, I didn't touch her. I just checked out her back.

Misumi-san's real name?

Be quiet.

I'm returning this.

This is fake, isn't it?

Counterfeiting of official documents.

Even without pulling out something like this,

his family was understanding.

You were lucky then.

It's unusual in this crappy world.

Whether it's crappy or not depends on the person, doesn't it?

Don't talk big until you're able to find the evidence all by yourself.

Nakado-san, if we add your autopsy experience of 3,000 cases and my experience,

they'll add up to 4,500 cases of knowledge.

Don't you think we'll be invincible if we cooperate?

Invincible...

What are we fighting against?

Illogical death.

Not Misumi, but Amemiya?

Does that mean she was adopted?

Amemiya, spelled with ame and miya.

Urawa City? Okay.

Family.

Family of four...

Excuse me. Can you repeat that...

"Family of four in a forced suicide"