Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi (2020) s01e04 Episode Script
Episode 4
1
My fridge is pure white,
and it's a stylish latest model.
After I got married
and moved to our new home,
the very first thing I bought
was this big refrigerator.
I'll use my favourite tasty food
to fill this white refrigerator.
Oh, it's lovely.
I love cooking,
and this is my own refrigerator.
- It's blissful!
- It's blissful!
I wish it'd continue forever!
We only have 90 minutes.
Maybe we feel blissful
because it's limited.
Ichigo, the French restaurant
closed after that.
Yeah, and Gourmet Daimyo's death
was treated as an accident.
- Slacked off!
- Shush!
- And?
- What?
Maria.
Like she smells sweet
It's important.
Although Mr Akechi is a detective,
don't you think
he's involved in too many deaths?
This one is murder disguised
as pulmonary aspiration,
and the poison apple
murder case
Also, his client, a housewife,
killed her husband.
There are five,
including the housewife.
It's very likely that someone
close to him will be killed again.
Next
it's your turn to die.
It's possible.
- Oh, no! Fifteen minutes left!
- You're joking!
Let's eat
- Keep eating.
- Okay.
Oh, it's so sweet.
Mr Akechi!
I brought you cake as souvenir!
People keep giving me cakes today.
Sorry.
The cakes at the pastry shop
I did the interview at
looked so good
that I've come to give him these
first.
Have you?
Takahashi, sorry for making you help
with the work I'm supposed to do.
Not at all.
If I can be useful to you,
then it's a blissful moment.
Mr Takahashi is helping,
so is there a case?
There are things I can help
besides cases.
Actually,
Mr Akechi is forced to organise
his high school class reunion.
He has to send emails to everyone
who hasn't replied, by today.
Mr Naotsugu Hasegawa
and Mr Daisuke Miyamoto
say they will attend.
The names bring back memories.
Please reply for me.
Right away!
I'll put this in the fridge.
Takahashi!
I knew you'd be here.
Is there a case?
It's quiet, so quiet.
It's too quiet!
What's the matter?
As you can see,
I'm busy helping Mr Akechi.
There's no case, but you're on duty.
Don't sulk just because
your help isn't needed.
I'd like Mr Katono's help too.
Mr Akechi?
Akechi wants my help? This is new.
If you insist, maybe I'll listen.
Tell me.
Please don't get in my way.
Takahashi, come back
and organise the documents for me!
Ouch! Ow
If you need help
on your class reunion,
- please come to the CID!
- Come with me.
"Mr Kazuhiro Kiritani"
Darn.
What?
I－ I'm sorry, but lunch is ready.
I'll go after giving
the stop-loss order.
Stock names everywhere
are in the negative.
Individual investors
always suffer the most loss.
I think it's the courier.
"Keep frozen, this side up"
It's from Mum?
Mum has been sending us
various things.
It saves me food expenses.
It really helps.
Kazuhiro, actually
I've said this before, but
our fridge is full.
Kazuhiro, Mum doesn't need
to send us things anymore.
Would you tell her?
You can just eat all of it.
But I don't really like
the way she seasons dishes.
Japanese food is healthier.
Healthy?
These?
She added
loads of soy sauce and sugar
into these pitch-black
simmered dishes.
Compared to the oily pasta
and gratin you're good at making,
they're much healthier.
I've had enough!
I'm sorry
What the heck have you done?
Don't waste food.
Even children know that,
but you don't?
Eat that.
Pick it all up and eat it!
"YaPoo! Counselling Room,
Posted by Reizoko"
My mother-in-law sends me groceries
every week.
What should I do?
"New Email.
Someone answered your question."
I had gone through
something similar,
so I understand how you feel
very well.
Ms Reizoko.
You love your husband,
so instead of dishes
cooked by his mum,
you want to cook for him yourself,
am I right?
If you like,
let's have a chat here.
"Maria's Room"
Oh, you're here already,
dear Reizoko?
Miss Maria?
Is it 2:00 a.m. where you live?
You stay up pretty late.
Lately
No, I haven't been able to sleep
at night for a long time.
It's your horrible husband's fault.
Today too, he told me to pick up
the food on the floor
and made me eat it
like a pig.
How could he?
He made his beloved wife do that?
He doesn't
love you anymore.
He
doesn't love me?
My poor girl.
The inside of your fridge is filled
with pitch-black simmered dishes
made by an old country woman.
You're forced to eat food
you don't want to eat every day.
That makes your fridge,
your stomach, and your life
the same as the rubbish bin
at the kitchen's corner.
Throw them away.
Throw everything away.
Empty your refrigerator,
and wait for my next instruction.
Make my fridge
empty.
What are you doing?
Stop it!
- Have you gone crazy? Stop!
- No!
Stop it!
Hey!
What are you doing?
Calm down! What are you doing?
How can you do something
so horrible?
Mum cooked them
Mum made the dishes!
It－ It's okay.
From now on,
this fridge
will be filled with the dishes
and desserts I make.
I'll divorce you.
I'm so sick of it.
Please
Get divorced with me.
Oh, my. You've killed him already?
This knife
I wanted to use it to cook
many, many dishes, but
The pure white dream of a housewife
is covered in black stains
and is dyed red at the end.
Thank goodness,
you've emptied your fridge.
Huh?
The pure white big refrigerator
you love.
If you were to be killed tomorrow,
what would be
the last thing you eat?
"Goro Akechi, Kazuhiro Kiritani"
Kiritani,
we haven't met in a long time,
so I'm looking forward to it.
"Episode 4"
Dressed like that?
Wearing a bolo tie
to a class reunion is
They'll think you're weird.
It isn't a problem then.
I went to an integrated boys'
primary, middle, and high school.
They all know I'm weird.
You're aware that you're weird?
Wait, what? A boys' school?
A guys-only class reunion?
Whoa, so there's no passionate love
that starts at the first reunion
after a long time?
There might be between men.
It's romantic in its own way.
So
drive me to the venue.
I told you, this isn't a taxi!
"Today's Organiser"
"Sojo Gakuen High School
Class Reunion"
It's weird.
It'll start soon,
but Kiritani hasn't arrived.
"Kazuhiro Kiritani"
He said he'd attend in the email.
Don't answer.
No need to answer.
Now
let's begin.
I can't leave a message?
Kiritani quit his job
at the trading company
and became a day trader?
How come his wife let him?
What is his wife like?
Akechi, you attended Kiritani's
wedding ceremony too, right?
Hurry up.
It takes two people to finish
dissecting one grown-up man.
But－ But I can't do it.
You have to because you killed him.
It's okay.
After a man dies, he's only flesh.
First, let's start from the head.
It'd creep me out
if we don't remove the head first.
Do
Do you do this often?
By－ By Miss Maria's order
I usually make dishes
that are more refined
though.
It's here?
"Call"
He's out, as I thought.
Kiritani, who is a serious man
It feels like a small bone
is stuck in my throat.
Excuse me.
Please go ahead.
Thank you.
Thanks.
"Kiritani"
I'll go have a cigarette.
The electric meter
and water meter are running.
Oh, wonderful.
You can throw away rubbish
throughout the day there?
That's what the extremely expensive
administrative fee is for.
- What's more, it's a grinder type.
- Grinder type?
"When you put rubbish in,
the cutter inside will spin
and grind the rubbish.
The tank mixes and dries it.
Rubbish is kept
till the next collection day,
without odour leakage."
If we dissect him and feed
the parts bit by bit into it,
no one will find his dead body.
The murderers' paradise, Japan,
is amazing.
The police can't do anything
if there is no dead body.
Excuse me
Can I do it?
Don't worry, you can do it.
You're good at cooking, right?
Reizoko,
this is the first dish you'll make
to gain your freedom.
Chef, teach her how to cook.
Certainly.
Excuse me, I have a frozen parcel
for Mr Kiritani.
I am Kiritani.
"To Kazuhiro Kiritani"
It's from Kiritani's mother?
Don't answer.
Okay.
Who is he?
Why?
Do－ Do you know him?
Miss Maria, he
Oh, I can't believe it.
What a coincidence!
Leaping various barriers,
I knew the two of us were tied
together by the red thread of fate.
My love
Adam.
First, a taxi,
then courier delivery!
What am I, your carrier?
"Dear Kiritani.
Your mother's frozen parcel
arrived,
- so I'm keeping it for you."
- He's not listening.
"I'll keep it in the fridge
to prevent it from going bad,
but if I'm hungry,
I can't guarantee anything.
Please come and get it immediately.
Akechi."
"Immediately. Akechi."
Good. Send it, Ichigou Kobayashi.
It's Ichigo!
Okay, let's open this.
Whoa, it's all food!
Pickles, simmered shiitake
What?
Pickles in their fermented
rice bran bed.
Wow, it's an assortment
of Mum's cooking.
He came from Niigata
and was transferred
to our high school.
He stayed at the dorm,
and his mum has been sending him
his favourite dishes since then.
We had this noppe very often.
But his wife must think
it's annoying.
Annoying?
It'd be hell if stuff like this
were sent to them often.
- Hell?
- Gosh.
Look, I can't put
so many things in it.
Is it hell because you can't
put them in the fridge?
That too,
but if the husband doesn't stop
loving his mum's cooking,
it's like hell too.
The monster called
"don't waste food" comes out,
so the wife ends up eating it too.
Then it's like hell
because she can't cook.
It's hell and monster,
just like Halloween.
Forcing them to eat Mum's cooking
is proper harassment to her,
isn't it?
Yes, that's it!
This is "kitchen harassment"
by the mother-in-law!
Oh, dear.
But even I am a little reluctant
to call his mum's cooking
harassment.
Why do you say that?
Because his mum's cooking
is the first time
I've tried a mum's cooking.
Wow, it's the aroma of dashi stock.
If I recall, you stay at the dorm.
Did you make lunch yourself?
No
"17 years ago"
Actually,
I just don't like
the taste of the school meals,
so my mother sends me
food and dishes she made
from my home in Niigata.
But it makes me embarrassed
if our classmates see this.
It's the proud food culture
of the place you grew up in,
isn't it?
I'm actually jealous.
Huh?
Actually
I don't really know
the taste of my mum's cooking.
Care to try?
You were touched by the taste
of your first "mum's cooking"
and cried, Mr Akechi?
Why would I cry?
I was joking.
This is annoying to the wife?
Yes, it is.
The good intention of someone
may not always be good
for someone else.
But even so, why would she think
that it's ill-intentioned?
Then Mr Akechi,
if I travel somewhere
and buy you lots of bad souvenirs－
- I'd absolutely refuse them!
- Hey! I haven't finished!
It's extremely annoying.
Your argument is absurd.
- It's not an argument.
- Quibble then.
An email from Kiritani.
"My Absence From The Class Reunion"
This is
"My mum's simmered dishes
Please throw them away for me."
It's not just a fish bone.
Maybe it's the main dish.
Ichigou Kobayashi.
What is going on?
That man Akechi who just came,
was your husband's classmate.
I got his email on the computer.
It seems
they had a class reunion today.
I pretended to be your husband
and replied to him.
Okay.
You're okay with this cheap one?
The jewel on the ring
will get in the way when I cook.
Kazuhiro, wear yours too.
No, give me your left hand.
I'll let you sleep on my arm. Come.
What's the matter?
Somehow,
I'm remembering random stuff
At first,
we enjoyed being married so much
We were so happy
I'll deal with the arm.
You knife can't do it anyway.
I'll go and get some fresh air.
Mrs Midori Kiritani, I presume?
Sorry for coming so late.
I am Akechi, your husband's
high school classmate.
I don't think you remember,
but we had met
at your wedding ceremony.
I'm a private detective.
Once I see a face,
I never forget it.
Detective
I－ I don't
remember you.
Where are you going at this hour?
The corner shop nearby.
Actually,
we had a class reunion today.
Kiritani is a serious man,
so I got worried
when he didn't show up.
I came to see how he was doing
this afternoon.
My husband isn't feeling well today.
I was probably in the shower
and didn't hear the doorbell.
Is Kiritani home now?
If you don't mind, may I see him?
My husband
has already gone to bed.
Please tell me if you need anything.
I see.
After my visit this afternoon,
I couldn't get a hold of Kiritani.
But he suddenly sent me an email.
Kiritani's mother has been
sending him food from his hometown
since he was a student
and giving him support.
But he told me
to throw the food away.
"Throw them away"
He wouldn't have said that.
Regarding that, I
Well, I'm in a hurry.
If your preferences in taste
are different,
it makes cooking difficult.
Because having meals together
is important for married couples
until one of you dies.
What are you trying to say?
Whether the two of you
are happy or not
There is no way I can be happy
with a man like him.
A man like him?
I've been putting up with it
the whole time.
It has been always been tough.
Between you and him
What happened?
What happened?
Just husband-wife issues.
But if there's misunderstanding
between you,
you should talk about it.
I wanted to talk too!
But if he doesn't try to face it,
then how?
How should I face the problem?
He doesn't listen to me.
He doesn't even look at me.
What should I have done?
What should you "have done"?
In past tense?
Please let me see Kiritani.
I refuse.
Excuse me.
Is this okay?
I have to go somewhere.
But she
Get a warrant now?
It seems my dear friend
has been involved in some trouble.
To have this main dish,
I need a sharp knife, that is,
the state power.
There is no case,
but you want me to search his home?
A person has gone missing.
Just because you can't get a hold
of a grown-up man for a day,
who'd say he went missing?
The court probably won't issue
a warrant either.
His wife is hiding something.
I want to know
what happened in the flat!
Please.
I need your help.
Mr Akechi
Well, indeed,
it's rare for Akechi
to ask me a favour.
You probably have
your personal thoughts on it.
Mr Katono
Akechi
I refuse!
Are you serious?
I see.
I can't force you.
I turned down Akechi's request!
Oh? It feels so good.
So small
You are so small-minded!
Fine, I'm small-minded.
He looked so serious
when he was looking at you.
Has Mr Akechi ever shown you that
until now?
Excuse me
Sorry about what happened just now.
I got a little worried about you.
Talk to me if you don't mind.
You would've run away
if I hadn't gone there, right?
I really can't
Recall it again.
Recall what your husband did to you.
He made you eat
the rubbish on the ground.
You were treated like a farm animal.
Farm animal
The real you
is still young and beautiful.
You can turn a new leaf if you want.
Marrying a nasty husband
who didn't let you cook
was a bit of a failure,
but you can have a wonderful
romantic relationship again.
And this time,
you'll cook delicious food
for your beloved husband.
To do that,
make the man who tortured you
disappear without a trace.
You can do it.
If the dead body is gone,
no one will find out it's murder.
You are the children
I gave birth to in this world.
I will protect the children I love.
Every single day,
you made me eat the black rubbish.
My pure white refrigerator too
was occupied by rubbish.
You seem to have gotten over it.
Yes,
now that I've gotten used to it,
I'm gradually starting to enjoy it.
By the way,
Miss Maria called you Reizoko.
It's the handle I use
on the online counselling room.
Reizo in Hiragana,
plus "ko," meaning "child."
"Reizoko," refrigerator.
It's a pun.
I see.
Chef, Reizoko, and Ringo.
Ringo?
A criminal group with members
whose names are related to food?
It's funny.
Okay, Kurukku.
Okay, Kurukku!
Yes, how can I help?
What's the matter?
I'll go and throw the head away.
Okay, Kurukku. Call Mr Akechi.
Call Mr Akechi.
"Calling Mr Akechi"
Please answer it.
My, my. What a bad girl.
You're calling him secretly.
Who are you?
Okay, who am I?
What's the matter,
Ichigou Kobayashi?
Mr Akechi!
Sorry, I think they've got me.
Probably at the tower block
just now.
The French chef the other day
is here too!
What a surprise.
The husband here was your classmate,
wasn't he, Mr Detective?
Mr Akechi, you know her?
Maria
You realised it's me. I'm so happy.
Why are you there?
Wait－ Wait a minute.
The Maria who's always involved
in cases?
What are you doing?
We've been having a little chat
alone.
Miss Maria.
What's the matter?
No
It's nothing.
Keep your nose out of it.
Let's finish it off.
You seem to be in a hurry.
Shift into top gear, please.
Hop on.
One part is done for now.
Who's here at this hour?
The Bureau of Waterworks
sent me here.
The flat downstairs
reported water seepage.
I'll call the management company
if you aren't home.
This is bad. You'd better answer it.
Shush.
I'll open the door now.
Thanks for coming so late
Sorry for coming
at such a late hour.
What are you doing?
Mrs Kiritani,
I'd like to ask something.
The cute assistant who came with me
yesterday has gone missing
I haven't seen her!
Her van is stopped
at the tower block.
It's none of my concern!
Let me see Kiritani then.
My husband is out!
- Mr Akechi!
- Please leave!
Don't make any sound.
Miss Maria,
the private detective is outside.
He must like his assistant a lot.
But it's okay.
Just don't let him
come inside the flat.
If you don't open the door,
you'll ruin my Italian shoe.
Move your foot away!
- I'll call the police!
- Just open it!
- I really will call the police!
- You're only manipulated by Maria!
No!
No?
Miss Maria saved me.
She does this to make me free!
Excuse me, we just walked past.
I think I heard someone said
she would call the police?
Did I hear it wrong?
I wish you had walked past earlier,
inspector.
The private detective
brought the police here.
That will cause trouble.
Run away then, Chef.
But his assistant
Leave her there.
- And Reizoko?
- Leave her.
Run away on your own.
Hello.
We're detectives passing by.
Oh, dear. Your foot
Is that it?
Goro Akechi, you're caught
red-handed for trespassing!
What did you want to steal?
By the way,
my heart has been stolen.
So, madam,
we'll write a report.
Please let us come inside.
Cute little assistant
I've made up my mind.
Someday,
in front of Goro Akechi
I'll kill you.
If you don't want that,
disappear in front of him and me.
Madam,
what's the matter?
Okay.
Akechi, you owe me one.
You arrived too late,
so my Italian shoe is ruined.
Mr Akechi, you're released on bail.
When we go in, Mr Katono,
please check the bathroom.
Takahashi, keep your eyes on her.
What's going on here?
Ichigou Kobayashi.
Mr Akechi!
Ichigo!
- It hurts!
- It hurts
It hurts
Hey, Akechi, what the heck
Mr Akechi!
The fridge?
"Meat"
Mr Katono, what's the matter?
Where is she?
"For combustible waste"
Mr Akechi
Thank you for saving my life.
I'll make a confession.
I
lied to you.
You were right.
On that day
I cried.
Not bad.
That day
I cried after eating
for the first time.
That
You didn't have to.
You didn't have to make a confession
about that.
Near where you were tied up,
there was a laptop.
Did Maria say anything to you?
Someday
in front of Goro Akechi
I'll kill you.
If you don't want that,
disappear in front of him and me.
Did she say something to you?
Mr Akechi
Tomorrow's bento will have
fried chikuwa wrapped in seaweed.
Wonderful.
I failed.
I exposed my innocent assistant
to danger.
I couldn't save my dear friend,
not even the murderer
who killed my friend.
Mr Akechi
I
As a private detective, I failed.
How was the taste of the main dish
this time?
Shut up!
Mr Akechi and Maria.
Between them, is there something
that only they can understand?
That is
Killer Maria's next target is
I have found you.
Inspector Katono's daughter.
Group food poisoning
using a school meal.
I'll surely stop it.
But the Maria Family
Game over.
"This drama is fiction"
My fridge is pure white,
and it's a stylish latest model.
After I got married
and moved to our new home,
the very first thing I bought
was this big refrigerator.
I'll use my favourite tasty food
to fill this white refrigerator.
Oh, it's lovely.
I love cooking,
and this is my own refrigerator.
- It's blissful!
- It's blissful!
I wish it'd continue forever!
We only have 90 minutes.
Maybe we feel blissful
because it's limited.
Ichigo, the French restaurant
closed after that.
Yeah, and Gourmet Daimyo's death
was treated as an accident.
- Slacked off!
- Shush!
- And?
- What?
Maria.
Like she smells sweet
It's important.
Although Mr Akechi is a detective,
don't you think
he's involved in too many deaths?
This one is murder disguised
as pulmonary aspiration,
and the poison apple
murder case
Also, his client, a housewife,
killed her husband.
There are five,
including the housewife.
It's very likely that someone
close to him will be killed again.
Next
it's your turn to die.
It's possible.
- Oh, no! Fifteen minutes left!
- You're joking!
Let's eat
- Keep eating.
- Okay.
Oh, it's so sweet.
Mr Akechi!
I brought you cake as souvenir!
People keep giving me cakes today.
Sorry.
The cakes at the pastry shop
I did the interview at
looked so good
that I've come to give him these
first.
Have you?
Takahashi, sorry for making you help
with the work I'm supposed to do.
Not at all.
If I can be useful to you,
then it's a blissful moment.
Mr Takahashi is helping,
so is there a case?
There are things I can help
besides cases.
Actually,
Mr Akechi is forced to organise
his high school class reunion.
He has to send emails to everyone
who hasn't replied, by today.
Mr Naotsugu Hasegawa
and Mr Daisuke Miyamoto
say they will attend.
The names bring back memories.
Please reply for me.
Right away!
I'll put this in the fridge.
Takahashi!
I knew you'd be here.
Is there a case?
It's quiet, so quiet.
It's too quiet!
What's the matter?
As you can see,
I'm busy helping Mr Akechi.
There's no case, but you're on duty.
Don't sulk just because
your help isn't needed.
I'd like Mr Katono's help too.
Mr Akechi?
Akechi wants my help? This is new.
If you insist, maybe I'll listen.
Tell me.
Please don't get in my way.
Takahashi, come back
and organise the documents for me!
Ouch! Ow
If you need help
on your class reunion,
- please come to the CID!
- Come with me.
"Mr Kazuhiro Kiritani"
Darn.
What?
I－ I'm sorry, but lunch is ready.
I'll go after giving
the stop-loss order.
Stock names everywhere
are in the negative.
Individual investors
always suffer the most loss.
I think it's the courier.
"Keep frozen, this side up"
It's from Mum?
Mum has been sending us
various things.
It saves me food expenses.
It really helps.
Kazuhiro, actually
I've said this before, but
our fridge is full.
Kazuhiro, Mum doesn't need
to send us things anymore.
Would you tell her?
You can just eat all of it.
But I don't really like
the way she seasons dishes.
Japanese food is healthier.
Healthy?
These?
She added
loads of soy sauce and sugar
into these pitch-black
simmered dishes.
Compared to the oily pasta
and gratin you're good at making,
they're much healthier.
I've had enough!
I'm sorry
What the heck have you done?
Don't waste food.
Even children know that,
but you don't?
Eat that.
Pick it all up and eat it!
"YaPoo! Counselling Room,
Posted by Reizoko"
My mother-in-law sends me groceries
every week.
What should I do?
"New Email.
Someone answered your question."
I had gone through
something similar,
so I understand how you feel
very well.
Ms Reizoko.
You love your husband,
so instead of dishes
cooked by his mum,
you want to cook for him yourself,
am I right?
If you like,
let's have a chat here.
"Maria's Room"
Oh, you're here already,
dear Reizoko?
Miss Maria?
Is it 2:00 a.m. where you live?
You stay up pretty late.
Lately
No, I haven't been able to sleep
at night for a long time.
It's your horrible husband's fault.
Today too, he told me to pick up
the food on the floor
and made me eat it
like a pig.
How could he?
He made his beloved wife do that?
He doesn't
love you anymore.
He
doesn't love me?
My poor girl.
The inside of your fridge is filled
with pitch-black simmered dishes
made by an old country woman.
You're forced to eat food
you don't want to eat every day.
That makes your fridge,
your stomach, and your life
the same as the rubbish bin
at the kitchen's corner.
Throw them away.
Throw everything away.
Empty your refrigerator,
and wait for my next instruction.
Make my fridge
empty.
What are you doing?
Stop it!
- Have you gone crazy? Stop!
- No!
Stop it!
Hey!
What are you doing?
Calm down! What are you doing?
How can you do something
so horrible?
Mum cooked them
Mum made the dishes!
It－ It's okay.
From now on,
this fridge
will be filled with the dishes
and desserts I make.
I'll divorce you.
I'm so sick of it.
Please
Get divorced with me.
Oh, my. You've killed him already?
This knife
I wanted to use it to cook
many, many dishes, but
The pure white dream of a housewife
is covered in black stains
and is dyed red at the end.
Thank goodness,
you've emptied your fridge.
Huh?
The pure white big refrigerator
you love.
If you were to be killed tomorrow,
what would be
the last thing you eat?
"Goro Akechi, Kazuhiro Kiritani"
Kiritani,
we haven't met in a long time,
so I'm looking forward to it.
"Episode 4"
Dressed like that?
Wearing a bolo tie
to a class reunion is
They'll think you're weird.
It isn't a problem then.
I went to an integrated boys'
primary, middle, and high school.
They all know I'm weird.
You're aware that you're weird?
Wait, what? A boys' school?
A guys-only class reunion?
Whoa, so there's no passionate love
that starts at the first reunion
after a long time?
There might be between men.
It's romantic in its own way.
So
drive me to the venue.
I told you, this isn't a taxi!
"Today's Organiser"
"Sojo Gakuen High School
Class Reunion"
It's weird.
It'll start soon,
but Kiritani hasn't arrived.
"Kazuhiro Kiritani"
He said he'd attend in the email.
Don't answer.
No need to answer.
Now
let's begin.
I can't leave a message?
Kiritani quit his job
at the trading company
and became a day trader?
How come his wife let him?
What is his wife like?
Akechi, you attended Kiritani's
wedding ceremony too, right?
Hurry up.
It takes two people to finish
dissecting one grown-up man.
But－ But I can't do it.
You have to because you killed him.
It's okay.
After a man dies, he's only flesh.
First, let's start from the head.
It'd creep me out
if we don't remove the head first.
Do
Do you do this often?
By－ By Miss Maria's order
I usually make dishes
that are more refined
though.
It's here?
"Call"
He's out, as I thought.
Kiritani, who is a serious man
It feels like a small bone
is stuck in my throat.
Excuse me.
Please go ahead.
Thank you.
Thanks.
"Kiritani"
I'll go have a cigarette.
The electric meter
and water meter are running.
Oh, wonderful.
You can throw away rubbish
throughout the day there?
That's what the extremely expensive
administrative fee is for.
- What's more, it's a grinder type.
- Grinder type?
"When you put rubbish in,
the cutter inside will spin
and grind the rubbish.
The tank mixes and dries it.
Rubbish is kept
till the next collection day,
without odour leakage."
If we dissect him and feed
the parts bit by bit into it,
no one will find his dead body.
The murderers' paradise, Japan,
is amazing.
The police can't do anything
if there is no dead body.
Excuse me
Can I do it?
Don't worry, you can do it.
You're good at cooking, right?
Reizoko,
this is the first dish you'll make
to gain your freedom.
Chef, teach her how to cook.
Certainly.
Excuse me, I have a frozen parcel
for Mr Kiritani.
I am Kiritani.
"To Kazuhiro Kiritani"
It's from Kiritani's mother?
Don't answer.
Okay.
Who is he?
Why?
Do－ Do you know him?
Miss Maria, he
Oh, I can't believe it.
What a coincidence!
Leaping various barriers,
I knew the two of us were tied
together by the red thread of fate.
My love
Adam.
First, a taxi,
then courier delivery!
What am I, your carrier?
"Dear Kiritani.
Your mother's frozen parcel
arrived,
- so I'm keeping it for you."
- He's not listening.
"I'll keep it in the fridge
to prevent it from going bad,
but if I'm hungry,
I can't guarantee anything.
Please come and get it immediately.
Akechi."
"Immediately. Akechi."
Good. Send it, Ichigou Kobayashi.
It's Ichigo!
Okay, let's open this.
Whoa, it's all food!
Pickles, simmered shiitake
What?
Pickles in their fermented
rice bran bed.
Wow, it's an assortment
of Mum's cooking.
He came from Niigata
and was transferred
to our high school.
He stayed at the dorm,
and his mum has been sending him
his favourite dishes since then.
We had this noppe very often.
But his wife must think
it's annoying.
Annoying?
It'd be hell if stuff like this
were sent to them often.
- Hell?
- Gosh.
Look, I can't put
so many things in it.
Is it hell because you can't
put them in the fridge?
That too,
but if the husband doesn't stop
loving his mum's cooking,
it's like hell too.
The monster called
"don't waste food" comes out,
so the wife ends up eating it too.
Then it's like hell
because she can't cook.
It's hell and monster,
just like Halloween.
Forcing them to eat Mum's cooking
is proper harassment to her,
isn't it?
Yes, that's it!
This is "kitchen harassment"
by the mother-in-law!
Oh, dear.
But even I am a little reluctant
to call his mum's cooking
harassment.
Why do you say that?
Because his mum's cooking
is the first time
I've tried a mum's cooking.
Wow, it's the aroma of dashi stock.
If I recall, you stay at the dorm.
Did you make lunch yourself?
No
"17 years ago"
Actually,
I just don't like
the taste of the school meals,
so my mother sends me
food and dishes she made
from my home in Niigata.
But it makes me embarrassed
if our classmates see this.
It's the proud food culture
of the place you grew up in,
isn't it?
I'm actually jealous.
Huh?
Actually
I don't really know
the taste of my mum's cooking.
Care to try?
You were touched by the taste
of your first "mum's cooking"
and cried, Mr Akechi?
Why would I cry?
I was joking.
This is annoying to the wife?
Yes, it is.
The good intention of someone
may not always be good
for someone else.
But even so, why would she think
that it's ill-intentioned?
Then Mr Akechi,
if I travel somewhere
and buy you lots of bad souvenirs－
- I'd absolutely refuse them!
- Hey! I haven't finished!
It's extremely annoying.
Your argument is absurd.
- It's not an argument.
- Quibble then.
An email from Kiritani.
"My Absence From The Class Reunion"
This is
"My mum's simmered dishes
Please throw them away for me."
It's not just a fish bone.
Maybe it's the main dish.
Ichigou Kobayashi.
What is going on?
That man Akechi who just came,
was your husband's classmate.
I got his email on the computer.
It seems
they had a class reunion today.
I pretended to be your husband
and replied to him.
Okay.
You're okay with this cheap one?
The jewel on the ring
will get in the way when I cook.
Kazuhiro, wear yours too.
No, give me your left hand.
I'll let you sleep on my arm. Come.
What's the matter?
Somehow,
I'm remembering random stuff
At first,
we enjoyed being married so much
We were so happy
I'll deal with the arm.
You knife can't do it anyway.
I'll go and get some fresh air.
Mrs Midori Kiritani, I presume?
Sorry for coming so late.
I am Akechi, your husband's
high school classmate.
I don't think you remember,
but we had met
at your wedding ceremony.
I'm a private detective.
Once I see a face,
I never forget it.
Detective
I－ I don't
remember you.
Where are you going at this hour?
The corner shop nearby.
Actually,
we had a class reunion today.
Kiritani is a serious man,
so I got worried
when he didn't show up.
I came to see how he was doing
this afternoon.
My husband isn't feeling well today.
I was probably in the shower
and didn't hear the doorbell.
Is Kiritani home now?
If you don't mind, may I see him?
My husband
has already gone to bed.
Please tell me if you need anything.
I see.
After my visit this afternoon,
I couldn't get a hold of Kiritani.
But he suddenly sent me an email.
Kiritani's mother has been
sending him food from his hometown
since he was a student
and giving him support.
But he told me
to throw the food away.
"Throw them away"
He wouldn't have said that.
Regarding that, I
Well, I'm in a hurry.
If your preferences in taste
are different,
it makes cooking difficult.
Because having meals together
is important for married couples
until one of you dies.
What are you trying to say?
Whether the two of you
are happy or not
There is no way I can be happy
with a man like him.
A man like him?
I've been putting up with it
the whole time.
It has been always been tough.
Between you and him
What happened?
What happened?
Just husband-wife issues.
But if there's misunderstanding
between you,
you should talk about it.
I wanted to talk too!
But if he doesn't try to face it,
then how?
How should I face the problem?
He doesn't listen to me.
He doesn't even look at me.
What should I have done?
What should you "have done"?
In past tense?
Please let me see Kiritani.
I refuse.
Excuse me.
Is this okay?
I have to go somewhere.
But she
Get a warrant now?
It seems my dear friend
has been involved in some trouble.
To have this main dish,
I need a sharp knife, that is,
the state power.
There is no case,
but you want me to search his home?
A person has gone missing.
Just because you can't get a hold
of a grown-up man for a day,
who'd say he went missing?
The court probably won't issue
a warrant either.
His wife is hiding something.
I want to know
what happened in the flat!
Please.
I need your help.
Mr Akechi
Well, indeed,
it's rare for Akechi
to ask me a favour.
You probably have
your personal thoughts on it.
Mr Katono
Akechi
I refuse!
Are you serious?
I see.
I can't force you.
I turned down Akechi's request!
Oh? It feels so good.
So small
You are so small-minded!
Fine, I'm small-minded.
He looked so serious
when he was looking at you.
Has Mr Akechi ever shown you that
until now?
Excuse me
Sorry about what happened just now.
I got a little worried about you.
Talk to me if you don't mind.
You would've run away
if I hadn't gone there, right?
I really can't
Recall it again.
Recall what your husband did to you.
He made you eat
the rubbish on the ground.
You were treated like a farm animal.
Farm animal
The real you
is still young and beautiful.
You can turn a new leaf if you want.
Marrying a nasty husband
who didn't let you cook
was a bit of a failure,
but you can have a wonderful
romantic relationship again.
And this time,
you'll cook delicious food
for your beloved husband.
To do that,
make the man who tortured you
disappear without a trace.
You can do it.
If the dead body is gone,
no one will find out it's murder.
You are the children
I gave birth to in this world.
I will protect the children I love.
Every single day,
you made me eat the black rubbish.
My pure white refrigerator too
was occupied by rubbish.
You seem to have gotten over it.
Yes,
now that I've gotten used to it,
I'm gradually starting to enjoy it.
By the way,
Miss Maria called you Reizoko.
It's the handle I use
on the online counselling room.
Reizo in Hiragana,
plus "ko," meaning "child."
"Reizoko," refrigerator.
It's a pun.
I see.
Chef, Reizoko, and Ringo.
Ringo?
A criminal group with members
whose names are related to food?
It's funny.
Okay, Kurukku.
Okay, Kurukku!
Yes, how can I help?
What's the matter?
I'll go and throw the head away.
Okay, Kurukku. Call Mr Akechi.
Call Mr Akechi.
"Calling Mr Akechi"
Please answer it.
My, my. What a bad girl.
You're calling him secretly.
Who are you?
Okay, who am I?
What's the matter,
Ichigou Kobayashi?
Mr Akechi!
Sorry, I think they've got me.
Probably at the tower block
just now.
The French chef the other day
is here too!
What a surprise.
The husband here was your classmate,
wasn't he, Mr Detective?
Mr Akechi, you know her?
Maria
You realised it's me. I'm so happy.
Why are you there?
Wait－ Wait a minute.
The Maria who's always involved
in cases?
What are you doing?
We've been having a little chat
alone.
Miss Maria.
What's the matter?
No
It's nothing.
Keep your nose out of it.
Let's finish it off.
You seem to be in a hurry.
Shift into top gear, please.
Hop on.
One part is done for now.
Who's here at this hour?
The Bureau of Waterworks
sent me here.
The flat downstairs
reported water seepage.
I'll call the management company
if you aren't home.
This is bad. You'd better answer it.
Shush.
I'll open the door now.
Thanks for coming so late
Sorry for coming
at such a late hour.
What are you doing?
Mrs Kiritani,
I'd like to ask something.
The cute assistant who came with me
yesterday has gone missing
I haven't seen her!
Her van is stopped
at the tower block.
It's none of my concern!
Let me see Kiritani then.
My husband is out!
- Mr Akechi!
- Please leave!
Don't make any sound.
Miss Maria,
the private detective is outside.
He must like his assistant a lot.
But it's okay.
Just don't let him
come inside the flat.
If you don't open the door,
you'll ruin my Italian shoe.
Move your foot away!
- I'll call the police!
- Just open it!
- I really will call the police!
- You're only manipulated by Maria!
No!
No?
Miss Maria saved me.
She does this to make me free!
Excuse me, we just walked past.
I think I heard someone said
she would call the police?
Did I hear it wrong?
I wish you had walked past earlier,
inspector.
The private detective
brought the police here.
That will cause trouble.
Run away then, Chef.
But his assistant
Leave her there.
- And Reizoko?
- Leave her.
Run away on your own.
Hello.
We're detectives passing by.
Oh, dear. Your foot
Is that it?
Goro Akechi, you're caught
red-handed for trespassing!
What did you want to steal?
By the way,
my heart has been stolen.
So, madam,
we'll write a report.
Please let us come inside.
Cute little assistant
I've made up my mind.
Someday,
in front of Goro Akechi
I'll kill you.
If you don't want that,
disappear in front of him and me.
Madam,
what's the matter?
Okay.
Akechi, you owe me one.
You arrived too late,
so my Italian shoe is ruined.
Mr Akechi, you're released on bail.
When we go in, Mr Katono,
please check the bathroom.
Takahashi, keep your eyes on her.
What's going on here?
Ichigou Kobayashi.
Mr Akechi!
Ichigo!
- It hurts!
- It hurts
It hurts
Hey, Akechi, what the heck
Mr Akechi!
The fridge?
"Meat"
Mr Katono, what's the matter?
Where is she?
"For combustible waste"
Mr Akechi
Thank you for saving my life.
I'll make a confession.
I
lied to you.
You were right.
On that day
I cried.
Not bad.
That day
I cried after eating
for the first time.
That
You didn't have to.
You didn't have to make a confession
about that.
Near where you were tied up,
there was a laptop.
Did Maria say anything to you?
Someday
in front of Goro Akechi
I'll kill you.
If you don't want that,
disappear in front of him and me.
Did she say something to you?
Mr Akechi
Tomorrow's bento will have
fried chikuwa wrapped in seaweed.
Wonderful.
I failed.
I exposed my innocent assistant
to danger.
I couldn't save my dear friend,
not even the murderer
who killed my friend.
Mr Akechi
I
As a private detective, I failed.
How was the taste of the main dish
this time?
Shut up!
Mr Akechi and Maria.
Between them, is there something
that only they can understand?
That is
Killer Maria's next target is
I have found you.
Inspector Katono's daughter.
Group food poisoning
using a school meal.
I'll surely stop it.
But the Maria Family
Game over.
"This drama is fiction"