VF! Adrenalin!
DC is ready!
Move away!
It's not working! Chest compression!
- I'll take your place! - Keep going.
Motokawa-cho, Hachioji, Tokyo
Kagura Technology
- Hello. - How's it going.
Hasebe-san? What are you doing here?
I thought you got transferred.
I'm here to do work for that place I got transferred to.
Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office
Request for Cooperation
"Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office "
Apparently, it's a department that specializes in cases involving cutting edge science.
And that Hasebe-san works there?
The victim is Yasui Kazuo, 45.
He's the CEO of Kagura Technology, a robotics development company.
Looks like he suffocated to death.
He must've suffered a lot.
Suddenly having trouble breathing must mean that...
What are you doing? What the heck is this room?
- I don't know. - You don't know?
But I do know there's a monitor over there that shows in the detail the temperature,
oxygen level, air pressure and carbon dioxide in the room.
This tightly sealed structure of the room suggests that
it's probably a simulation room to test precision equipment and such.
I see... So, who are you?
Also, as for your earlier assessment of cause of death,
unfortunately, it's not mere asphyxiation.
Extensive cyanosis* was observed on the body.
*Cyanosis- A bluish color of the skin and the mucous membranes due to insufficient oxygen in the blood
Most likely, it's hypoxemia (low blood oxygen).
Hypoxemia?
It's a condition that occurs when oxygen level in the air goes down.
So? Who the heck are you?
Hasebe-san, he's Senior Superintendent Kohiruimaki.
What?
I beg your pardon! So you're Senior Superintendent Kohiruimaki.
My name is Hasebe Tsutomu.
I know. Pleased to meet you.
Same here!
- You should've told me sooner. - Sorry.
Why did I get assigned here?
Science isn't my thing at all.
It's because I believed I needed you.
Huh?
First off, let's go see the suspect.
And who would the suspect be?
The AI robot that discovered the body first.
AI robot?
Thank you for your patience.
I'm Yano with General Affairs.
This is our company's robot...
Have robots come this far these days?
The skin looks kinda fakey, but
- it's very well made. - Hasebe-san.
Our company's robot development team chief, Gouhara.
I'm Gouhara Misuzu.
I beg your pardon!
So what about the robot?
Sorry, sorry. Thank you for your patience.
Eh!
I am the nursing care robot, LEO.
Taking the first letters of Life, Enjoy, and Omotenashi (hospitality), L-E-O.
- LEO. - The last one's a Japanese word.
Sorry.
Pleased to meet you, LEO-san. My name is Kohiruimaki.
Pleased to meet you, Kohiruimaki-san.
LEO is the next-generation nursing care robot made for the super-aging population.
It monitors and supports the owner on a round-the-clock basis,
and is equipped with a multi-monitoring system that sounds an alarm in abnormal situations.
That's amazing.
- So when will it be implemented? - It's scheduled for next spring.
We're currently letting it move freely around the office to make it adapt to its environment.
I bet LEO-san can do anything.
Yes, since it's equipped with the latest AI.
Which means it can also lower
the oxygen level in the simulation room.
What are you trying to say?
LEO-san.
Are you the one who killed Yasui-san?
Hey...what are you talking about?
There's no way our robot would do such a thing.
Yes. I killed CEO Yasui.
LEO is a nursing care robot.
It will never cause harm to people.
Even if it's ordered by the owner.
The owner?
Currently, Kagura Technology has been set up as the owner.
LEO has been programmed to unconditionally follow the orders
of us employees, its owner.
The crime scene is the simulation room where they conduct tolerance tests of robots.
Motokawa-cho, Hachioji, Tokyo Kitano Police Station
All kinds of harsh conditions can be reproduced by
adjusting things like temperature, humidity, and oxygen level.
We believe that the victim, Yasui's hypoxemia was caused by
being trapped in this room where the system to lower
the oxygen level was activated. That's all from me.
Next, Investigation Unit 3.
Time of death is estimated at 1:45 am.
LEO, the AI nursing care robot that was at the scene,
found the body and activated the alarm system.
- It has confessed to the crime as well. - Confessed, huh?
- Anything on the victim? - As far as we can tell,
his reputation within the company is pretty bad.
The founder of Kagura Technology is Kagura Hiroshi,
a leading expert in artificial intelligence, or AI, research.
Yasui was sent in by an investment fund company,
and was trying to sell the entire company to a foreign firm.
And 3 years ago, after Kagura's death from an illness, he became CEO.
He pushed harder to proceed with the sale and was provoking the antipathy of many employees.
It's highly possible that grudge was the motive for the murder.
We checked the status of all security in the company.
Operating logs, surveillance camera footage, and all other data from the area of the crime scene
for the hour leading up to the discovery of the body had been deleted.
- Destruction of evidence, huh? - That's all from me.
The suspect is clearly someone who is familiar with the company's systems.
First off, thoroughly check out the employees.
Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office. What?
Upon reviewing the data seized from the suspect...
- Suspect? - I'm talking about LEO.
- Ah... the robot? - Yes.
We found out that data recorded by LEO for the hour leading up to
the discovery of the body was also deleted.
Apart from that, for some reason
some minor data has also been erased in places.
Individually, the data doesn't amount to much, but
if LEO is the culprit, there's a possibility that it erased the data itself.
Do you guys really believe that a robot killed someone?
I don't know. However, LEO has confessed to the crime.
It must have done that with some kind of intention.
- It may be worth investigating. - I'll leave that to you.
I want the task force members to look into this as murder caused by a grudge.
That's it!
Attention, bow!
At ease!
A robot is just a machine.
When a machine behaves abnormally, it's normally called a malfunction.
We're not repairmen.
I know.
Chief, it's merely a machine.
The day will come when these "mere machines" will surpass us humans.
Eh?
Singularity.
Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
National Police Agency Criminal Investigation Bureau
Huh?
It's the point in time predicted to arrive in 2045
when AI will surpass the intelligence of all mankind.
Your so-called "mere machines"
could surpass us humans and become the most intelligent beings on earth...
...is what that means.
That's absurd.
This is our office.
Where are the other investigators?
For the time being, it's only the two of us.
How was your first crime scene?
(Criminal Investigation Bureau) Director Shimazaki!
What are you doing here?
It was Director Shimazaki who established this office.
I just lent my name.
All right.
This guy came to me every day
and said,"Science is evolving day by day.
In order to respond to cases involving cutting-edge technology,
a specialized department is necessary!" He was quite a pest.
I don't think that was quite my tone.
So, why was I called in?
I don't know.
Science is his forte, but he has no field experience.
Do what you can to help him.
Take care.
- We'll be seeing you! - Yup.
Three elements.
Excuse me?
The reason you were called in.
I believe that three elements are needed for this department.
Please use Japanese from the beginning.
What do you think are the three elements?
Sho-chiku-bai*... I guess not. Uh...
Sho-chiku-bai* - Pine-Bamboo-Plum, an auspicious grouping
- Intellectual power, physical strength, and luck. - Well done.
- Intellectual power and physical strength. - What physical strength...I'm 50, you know.
If I'm the head, Hasebe-san, you're the legs.
For the past 10 years, the number of arrests you've made have been one of the best in MPD.
- Those are outstanding legs. - Am I being complimented?
- Let's go. - Eh?
Where to?
Inspiration.
Can I ask you to stop using just a word in a sentence?
It's the three elements. We're going to see inspiration,
the god of inspiration.
Huh? What god of inspiration?
The third element is luck!
Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office
The third element.
Isaac, Charles, Albert.
Good morning! You're looking good today too.
Niigata Prefecture Shimonagaoka City
Oh, Hideki. You've gotten bigger.
Hey Part-Timer, who's this Hideki?
My most favorite character.
Huh?
Albert, good luck with your checkup.
Doctor Mogami is a brilliant scientist.
After studying abroad at MIT as a teenager, she earned her doctoral degree.
She has published the results of her groundbreaking research in a variety of fields
ranging from physical engineering to life sciences.
What would such a genius be doing at a place like this?
I don't know. She suddenly disappeared from the scientific community 3 years ago.
If we could bring her in as our advisor...
Are you okay? What should I do...
Human? Hey, come on. I set that up for the boars.
Did you do this?
Be a good girl and take this off right away.
- I can't. - You can't?
Pleased to meet you, Doctor Mogami.
What?
Murder Circuit
Pandora's Fruit
Scientific Crime Investigation File
Oh. Mad Max.
That's loaded with live ammo.
For pest control.
I was unable to introduce myself properly earlier.
I'm the Chief of Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office at NPA, Criminal Investigation Bureau...
Ah, the person who kept pestering me with e-mails.
I'm not interested in things like that.
A nursing care robot equipped with the state-of-the-art AI
has confessed to murder.
If it really committed murder,
it means the AI committed the murder out of its own will.
March 18, 2012.
A stalking case utilizing AI that occurred in Boston.
At that time, you cooperated with the FBI in their investigation, didn't you?
Please give us your...
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch
created a revolutionary refining method for chemical fertilizers
which made mass production of food possible.
But there's also the flip side that the excessive amount of nitrogen produced due to
extensive use of that technology by man
is adversely affecting the global environment.
All things come with a price.
Modern science has now
reached a line that we should not cross.
Beyond that is...darkness.
Darkness?
Scientific progress is always accompanied by problems.
If that's what you're talking about...
Scientists can't repress their inquisitive minds. That's why I...
Science, to mankind
and to me, is the light.
For you?
I thought it was the same for you too.
What do you know about me?
I asked an employee at the eel farm
why you were working there.
After you're done with your part-time job,
I heard you're always conducting experiments to mass produce elvers (young eels).
Complete aquaculture of eels has yet to be put to practical use.
Current aquaculture is 100% dependent on elvers found in the wild.
And the population of those elvers in the wild
is decreasing due to various reasons, including over fishing.
What you're doing is cutting edge biotechnological research
to save an endangered species.
Doctor Mogami.
You know that science is the light of humanity.
I like eels too.
Good bye.
Chief, that was a waste of time, wasn't it?
To Daddy,
I'm going to go spend the night at Sa-chan's house.
Sera
A line which we should not cross...
Is it darkness?
The light, huh?
Parts of data are missing...
Maybe...
Why did you turn it on?
LEO is a suspect. Please do not move it.
It's an inspection. And you? Why are you here?
I've come to ask for a favor.
The First Division has also narrowed down their focus to Gouhara Misuzu.
There were many employees who thought
Kagura's death was caused by the turmoil of the sell off that
Yasui was pushing forward.
The central figure in that was Kagura's No. 1 disciple, Gouhara Misuzu.
There's no way a robot can be a murderer after all.
- A little lower. - A little lower?
A little more, a little more...okay, there!
- Okay, this is where it'll stay. - Okay.
- Director Shimazaki! - I'm glad I was able to help.
What are you making him do?
Dr. Mogami, you'll agree to be our advisor, right?
I came to tell you that you're wrong.
What does that mean?
It probably means she's going to agree to do it.
Right? Dr. Mogami.
These guys are a bit odd, but please help them out.
- Then I shall take my leave. - Thank you for your hard work!
- Bye bye. - Bye bye's not for you to say.
Well, whatever the reason, the doctor is here.
Now intellectual power, physical strength, and inspiration, all three elements have come together.
Is this the limited edition Charles?
Yes, it is.
What? Are you a "Sciencer" fan?
I'm not giving it.
I'm not selling it.
Are you a kid? That's a freebie or something that comes with a candy, right?
- No! - No, it isn't.
Why are you acting like you're hitting it off all of a sudden?
I'm glad you made it in time. We're about to begin the interrogation.
Can we ask you to do it?
Interrogate who?
I've brought her over.
We'll cooperate, but please keep it short.
But of course.
What is she planning to do?
- I don't know. - What?
That's precisely why I want to watch her.
Mogami Yukiko-san, 30. Skipped a grade and went to MIT at age 16.
At the age of 19, earned a doctoral degree for research on
- reverse transcriptase in retrovirus and subsequently... - Never mind my background.
Sorry, sorry. You had a match my database.
Did you kill Yasui-san?
Yes. I killed him.
What were you doing at 1:45 am, the estimated time of death?
The power was turned off and the system was in a sleep mode for backup.
Then it's impossible for you to commit murder, isn't it?
As a nursing care robot,
I must protect the owner no matter what.
However, when the system resumed in an auto reset mode,
Yasui-san was already deceased, which means...
You were unable to save Yasui-san.
So it's almost like you killed him.
So that's what that confession meant.
That's obvious. There is no way LEO can commit murder.
You really adhere to the program, don't you?
But if you're too serious, you won't be popular, you know.
Say, why don't we play a little game?
I'm transmitting a virus to you right now.
- What is she doing? - Once it's fully transmitted,
you will be initialized. That is, you will die.
Please make her stop!
I see.
There is only one way you can be saved.
Shoot me with this gun and take this computer
and press the stop button.
- Hey, it's a gun. - What's a gun doing in there?
Hurry!
Open it quick!
- What are you thinking! - Don't interrupt me!
I was so close to finding out if a robot can harbor murderous intent!
Huh?
Hey, let go of me! Let go!
It wasn't loaded?
I saw when you all were focused on the gun.
That the removed bullets were in the bag.
- Right? - Yes.
Well, although it's already been confiscated.
Of course it would be.
But for walking in there like you knew it all, you didn't find out anything, did you?
Look who's talking.
This thermography was taken when LEO's fingers moved slightly.
- The internal temperature went over 60°C. - What does that mean?
It means LEO-san was in conflict with its own program.
We can't tell if it had
murderous intent just because its temperature rose.
If you hadn't interrupted me,
I would've known a little more.
Well, sorry about that.
Kagura Sensei.
Smoke was coming out of your head.
Take a short break.
The First Investigation Division will be requesting an arrest warrant for Gouhara Misuzu
in a couple of days after all the evidence is in.
The First Division has determined that AI wasn't involved in this case.
This is it for the investigation by the Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office.
Just a minute.
We got involved at the request of the First Division. We have no say in the matter.
I guess that means we're in no position to pursue the suspect.
But Director, no conclusion has been reached yet as to whether
LEO-san has a mind or not.
In regards to the violation of the Gun Control Act,
I've taken care of it.
Thank you, sir!
Lucky for you.
Thank you very much for your help with this case.
Please send me the receipts later for the expenses you incurred.
Goodbye then.
Saegusa, can we meet after this?
Why...
You haven't given up yet, have you?
I find it hard to believe that someone who insisted that "science is the light"
would back down so easily.
Right?
I believe that LEO has a mind.
What's with your obsession with the progress of science?
Obsession?
I just have hope.
Then why did you step away from the scientific community?
You mentioned that you couldn't repress your inquisitive mind, but
what does that mean?
That's none of your business.
Then please leave me alone too.
I can't leave you alone.
That line just now,
it totally sounds you're on the verge of a romance, doesn't it?
Huh?
Pleased to meet you. I'm Saegusa with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Senpai, when did you start going out with such a cute girl?
Don't get the wrong idea.
If you get too hopeful, you'll end up suffering some day.
I appreciate your advice.
Saegusa, let's go somewhere else.
I'm coming too!
- Please don't. - Please do...oops.
Welcome and come on in.
Spacious!
Come in, come in. Sit wherever you like.
Saegusa, is this your house?
- Is this your daughter? - Yes. Her name's Sera.
Cute.
So Saegusa, did you find the information I requested?
Of course...
Internal documents of joint research Kagura Hiroshi did with NASA...
- How did you get this? - I'm a section chief, after all.
Kohhi, so you had a big shot for a junior, huh?
- Kohhi? - Kohhi?
- See, Senpai? It's just as I thought. - No, don't get the wrong idea.
I heard it for the first time too.
And these here haven't been digitized yet, but...
That's an awful lot.
"Entire Brain Emulation"
And here's a video of a conversation with Kagura Hiroshi.
Doctor?
- You'll both drink too, won't you? - Certainly.
I'll go get the glasses. Let's drink, let's drink.
It's a bit too difficult for me to follow.
Could you please explain in easier terms?
Oh, sorry, sorry.
Senpai! Thanks for the food and drinks. Saegusa
I just got carried away.
Well, to explain it simply...
Oh? It won't open.
Sera...
Doctor! Doctor Mogami! Please wake up!
Do something about your clothes that look pointlessly disheveled...
So that they don't get the wrong idea.
Who's going to get the wrong idea?
- I'll open it right away. - Open please~.
Here you go.
- Good morning. - Daddy, you're slow.
Sorry.
- Did we wake you up? - Oh, not at all.
Today I brought you some kabocha squash and hijiki seaweed.
Oh my...what's this! Yuichi-san.
- A visitor's here! - Oh, she's
with the Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office where I belong...
I'm the advisor, Mogami Yukiko.
Kohhi's mother?
- Kohhi? - She's my mother-in-law.
She lives close by so
- she takes care of my daughter sometimes. - Daddy, carry me.
- Here. Ready... - Yay!
Excuse me for the mess. We were in a meeting all night.
- A meeting huh? - Daddy, go that way.
- Let me down. - Okay.
Is this yours, Onee-chan?
Yes, it is. Do you like "Sciencer?"
I like it a lot! I like Isaac the most.
Do you like Alien Occult too?
I just got that as a freebie.
What was that?
Oh! Alien Occult found!
You're right! They look alike!
Sorry, sorry.
I just got carried away.
Well, to explain it simply...
Doctor! Doctor Mogami!
What is it that you want to verify?
Is LEO powered up?
It's in sleep mode for backup.
It will take 5 minutes to restart.
Gouhara-san, you
killed Yasui-san in order to protect Kagura-san.
Am I wrong?
What are you talking about?
Kagura Sensei passed away 3 years ago.
Kagura-san was trying to create an AI robot
that possessed the same intelligence as humans, wasn't he?
The method Kagura-san chose
was emulation of the entire brain, which duplicates the entire human brain
to be reproduced on a computer.
For example, there are two ways to build a robot that can fly like a bird.
The first is...
the method to build it based on aerodynamics.
In this case, as long as it has the ability to fly,
the robot doesn't necessarily have to look like a bird.
The other is the method to copy every single cell of the bird
and build a robot that functions exactly like a bird.
They are the same in that both can fly like birds.
But the latter robot possesses the exact same functions as a bird.
In other words,
it would not be an exaggeration to say that it IS a bird.
Kagura-san reproduced his own brain in LEO.
Mind you, this is strictly theoretical.
LEO-san is...
Kagura-san, isn't it?
Oh, sorry, sorry.
I just got carried away.
Sorry, sorry. Thank you for your patience.
Sorry, sorry.
Sorry, sorry. You had a match my database.
You wanted to protect LEO at all cost.
Gouhara-kun, you can go ahead and reset this one.
- You mean LEO? - Yeah.
Once the company is sold, it'll be replaced by a newer model.
We'll be getting rid of this money pit right away.
But I can't believe Kagura
continued to work on a worthless research like this.
And LEO also tried to protect you.
It was probably you who erased the surveillance camera data leading up to
the discovery of the body.
However, in addition to that,
other parts of LEO's data were erased as well, right?
They were all trivial, everyday data,
and every one of those data concerned you.
At that time, you got rattled while facing the police
and your heart rate went up.
That's when LEO realized you were the culprit,
and erased all data that would be disadvantageous to you.
Wasn't it just protecting its owner as a nursing care robot?
But if LEO was Kagura-san...
Hey! Hey...What are you doing!
- Gouhara-san! - Open it! - Please open the door!
Dang...I may be suffocating.
Misuzu-san, what are you doing?
LEO, you must not open.
But at this rate, the two of them will...
Misuzu-san, you must not do this.
Misuzu-san.
Misuzu-san... I'm sorry.
I... cannot...
allow... you...
to... commit...
It's fighting the program?
further...crimes!
Kagura Sensei?
In regards to the case in which Yasui Kazuo-san, the CEO of the company, was found dead,
MPD arrested the woman who confessed to the murder.
Arrested on suspicion of murder...
As we thought, Gouhara Misuzu was the culprit.
But nothing was reported about the robot which was the key figure.
I'm sure they won't want to publicize the existence of an AI robot that tried to conceal the culprit.
You mean they're going to cover it up?
In the first place, how are you going to bring a robot to justice?
There's no law in place.
Think of it as information control to avoid throwing the world into confusion.
Information control.
What happened to LEO after that?
Seems like it couldn't be restored.
♫ React, resolve
♫ Make a miracle happen
♫ Put your inspiration in high gear Mega Max
♫ Science Warrior Sciencer
Doctor, you're making yourself very much at home in our house.
Never mind that. Let's toast!
Sera wants to toast too!
Doctor, may I ask you a question?
Why did Gouhara-san
try to lock us in?
What do you think, Kohhi?
I thought it might have been to confirm if LEO was Kagura-san.
If it was Kagura-san, he would have definitely opened the door.
I don't know how you can say that when you could've very well been killed.
But if LEO really was Kagura-san,
it means light has been shed on a technology that was said to be difficult to realize, right?
Although there's no way to know for sure anymore.
Say...
your wife...
when did she pass away?
How did you know that?
There's no picture of you three.
Can you please not tell Sera?
- Actually, I've told Sera that... - Daddy!
Yukki doesn't have a house so let's have her spend the night here.
- Yukki? - Sera-chan, you're so sweet!
Sera, the doctor has her life.
Don't be unreasonable.
Sera-chan's here and the workplace is close by, so it's fine with me.
See! It's okay, right?
- Just for today. - All right!
- Then let's toast. - Let's.
- Ready~. - Cheers!
It's small, but please use this room.
Thanks.
Yukki.
- Read me a book today. - Okay. Which one?
The book about a little bear. Mommy bought it for me.
- Oh yeah? - Yeah.
She's been sick in the U.S. for a long time
and she may never wake up again.
- Sera, shall we go brush our teeth? - Okay!
That's the story.
Can you do it by yourself today?
Ami...
VF! Adrenalin!
DC is ready!
Undulating VF. Step away!
It's not working ! Chest compression!
I'll take your place!
VF! Charge!
VF! Step away!
It's not working! Chest compression!
I'll keep time.
- How many minutes since start of resuscitation? - 60 minutes.
ACIS is not coming back.
Respiratory arrest. Cardiac arrest.
No pupillary response.
17:55, death has been confirmed.
We will now begin the procedure on your wife.
She will go through preliminary cooling immediately
and will be shipped via air to the U.S. in a cold state.
After that, she will be frozen at minus 196°C and
will be kept safe under lock and key at Trance Brains Headquarters.
Until the day science makes progress
and the technology to resuscitate a corpse is perfected.
Bodily harm resulting in death? Does it have something to do with us?
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
South Shisen Police Station
I don't know. But there's something mysterious about the victim's death.
- Something mysterious? - Yes.
According to the suspect's testimony,
the victim looked like his soul was taken out.
Soul? Oh, come on.
So what will you do for me?
Hey, I don't hear an answer. Answer me!
What?
My head...
I saw the soul.
Next, Investigation Team 2.
The victim is Tanaka Koji. He was a professional eports player and a team leader.
Put him on the wanted list for the murder of Murata Shingo and Tanaka Koji as well as
involvement in the disappearance of Bando Harutoshi and Mitsuya Jun.
That's it.
Attention!