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.
Why are you keeping Ami-san frozen?
It's impossible to bring her back to life with today's technology.
- You should at least... - I know that.
But still... I placed my faith in the future of science.
Science has a dangerous line that should not be crossed.
Don't you think science is the light of mankind?
And you, Doctor, are the one who produces that light. That's what I believe.
What are you doing, turning into an old biddy?
Hayami-san wanted you to return to the scientific community.
That's why she continued the research by herself.
She believed that you would come back
if she could eliminate the side effect of the virus.
It may be good once in a while.
To believe in the light.
Ami...
If it's between the dinner with Business Federation after this and the meeting from 15:00,
Sensei can remotely...
Cardiac arrest
Sensei! Sensei, Sensei!
By Kurusu, you mean that Kurusu who got flamed for his
Meishun University
Dept. of Forensic Medicine
"That's impudence for a housewife" statement, right?
- Yes, it's that Kurusu Masato. - Who's that? Is he famous?
- Don't you know him, Doctor? - No.
He's Kurusu Masato, a member of the House of Representatives.
He recently announced his engagement to Secretary-General Gouda's daughter.
Never heard of him.
Is something good in it for me if I know that?
I don't know about something good, but...
The prime minister may be a different story, but
I don't think you need to know the name of a member of the Diet.
Who's the current prime minister?
What?! Is there some kind of inconvenience if I don't know that?
If it's about the endangered species in Japan, I know them all.
That's very like you, Doctor, and it's wonderful.
- Okay, let's go. - Are you making fun of me?
I'm not prepared for anything at all.
- Are you ready? - Yes.
Hm?
- Are you ready? - You said it twice.
Is something wrong?
I'm sorry. I thought you all might need some time to prepare yourself.
I've never seen a body like this before either... Please don't be shocked.
Please go ahead.
No way!
Every opening on the face is closed up.
It's featureless!
A featureless corpse...
Micro Infiltration Command
Pandora's Fruit
Scientific Crime Investigation File
The cause of death?
Suffocation due to blockage of the mouth and nose.
- Why did they get blocked? - That, we don't know yet.
The crime lab is running various tests on blood, body fluid, and cells.
Did he have any other pre-existing conditions?
According to his medical records,
Kurusu-san developed a severe case of sick sinus syndrome a year ago.
Does that mean he had a pacemaker?
This is what we took out of the body.
That's surprising. He looked so healthy on TV.
Apparently, only a handful of people was informed about the pacemaker.
Kurusu Masato, even among the younger members of the ruling party,
had the image of an athlete.
He probably didn't want to ruin that image.
Any signs of injection or trauma?
Nothing, other than the surgical scar from the pacemaker.
Except for all the closed openings on his entire body,
no abnormality was found.
This is unprecedented.
Yes, Trance Brains is
one of the companies that I'm investing in.
What about it?
Their server is down. I was wondering if you knew anything about it.
Ah, about that.
At the Trance Brains Headquarters in the U.S.,
there was theft of a frozen body.
I believe that may be the reason.
Theft? Whose body was stolen?
I'm not sure. I don't know the details either.
I see.
Kohiruimaki-san.
Are you interested in Trance Brains?
No...
Thank you for the info.
These are the death threats
Minato-ku, Tokyo
Shirogane Police Station
Kurusu received in the past month.
That's what he gets for saying things like "That's impudence for a housewife."
He made a lot of other indiscreet remarks too.
I'm sure he had a few enemies.
He was in a heated argument with someone on the phone,
and he was heard yelling things like "It doesn't belong to you,"
and "I'll do whatever it takes."
"It doesn't belong to you."
There's talk that there was a dispute over the construction of a
local industrial waste disposal site, so it may have something to do with that.
Could it be a land deal or something?
What are you looking at?
Kimizuka Momoko...
Ah, the victim's ex-wife, right?
They lost their daughter to an illness, huh?
Was that information written in there?
It doesn't seem to be in his recent profile.
Is that so?
Here's the result from the Crime Lab.
Poison, virus, radioactive material.
None of these was detected, huh?
Yes, which means the reason for the blockage of the mouth and nose
is still unknown.
Doctor, Kurusu's ex-wife, Kimizuka Momoko, is actually
employed by Trance Brains as a researcher.
Are you still talking about the ex-wife?
Is something the matter with that company?
Carl Kahn is one of its investors.
It's a company engaged in cryonics.
Cryonics?
Everything about that guy, including his name, is shady.
It's the technique of quickly deep-freezing the bodies of people who have just died,
in the hope that scientific advances may allow them to be revived in the future.
It's by no means a shady business.
Freezing and thawing people.
Who the hell does that?
That's disgusting!
Oh well, but
don't you think there are people who'd like to see their deceased loved ones again?
Doctor, this is the latest research results presented by Kimizuka Momoko.
- Isn't this... - Yes.
Oh...
Even I can tell that this is English.
So this was used and it turned out like that?
Then that would explain the condition of the body.
Yeah, stop right there.
I don't understand how "this becomes that."
Please explain so that I can understand it too.
I'm sorry. Then here's the video of Kimizuka Momoko's presentation of her research results.
Do you all know how long 1 nanometer is?
It's one-billionth of a meter.
It's hard to grasp, isn't it?
Then please take a look at this.
Supposing the earth is 1 meter,
a 1-yen coin would be 1 nanometer.
Of course, you can't see it with the naked eye.
We have succeeded in the development of
this tiny, tiny nano-sized robot.
We call this the nanomachine.
What do you do after making a robot you can't see?
A nanomachine is smaller than a cell, so
for example, it would be possible to just deliver
anticancer drug to cancer cells of a cancer patient.
That's amazing.
She's not just a pretty face, this woman.
Once a nanomachine enters the body,
it repairs disease-damaged cells.
And from within the body, it can diagnose diseases
and perform surgeries as well.
Once it's served its purpose,
it's automatically expelled out of the body along with body fluids.
Naturally, it has no ill effects on the human body.
Are you saying that this nanomachine was used to commit the crime?
It's still just a speculation.
That's why nothing was found from the body.
Nanomachine is a cutting-edge technology that would revolutionize
not only the future of medicine,
but the future of mankind as well.
We have devoted everything to the development of this technology.
For my...
No, for the future of mankind.
I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn't think it would be so soon.
But this is for curing diseases, right?
Why did Kurusu become featureless?
I have a rough idea.
But let's hear what she has to say first.
We thank you for your cooperation.
That's okay.
I saw your research presentation.
What you're making is incredible.
Will the nanomachine cure my chronic fatigue too?
Let's get down to business, shall we?
I have plans today for a meeting with a pharmaceutical company and a gene therapy experiment.
At 8:00 am on the day Kurusu Masato died, where were you
- and what were you doing? - She's keeping her composure.
You already know, don't you?
I was meeting with Kurusu.
Then we can cut to the chase.
Will you take a look at this video?
It looks like you're having a heated argument, but
what were you talking about?
It's a common fight between divorced couples.
I don't remember what it was about.
- At all? - At all.
Then what about after that?
You put something in your coffee, didn't you?
What did you put in there?
Sugar.
Sugar?
You took it out of your pocket, didn't you?
I carry my own sugar with me.
May I see that?
I started a diet so I threw it away.
No wonder I thought you looked thinner than in this video.
Is that what I should be saying?
Go ahead and do as you please.
Why did you switch coffee with Kurusu?
We got the hot and iced coffee wrong.
Would you get something like that wrong?
We got it wrong.
Kimizuka-san.
Yes?
Enough with your lies.
The truth is, you put a nanomachine in there, didn't you?
It was sugar.
Sugar.
Kurusu Masato died 2 hours after this.
We think it's because your nanomachine was working in his body.
Trance Brains is trying to use nanomachines to resuscitate frozen bodies, isn't it?
In order to resuscitate frozen bodies,
it is necessary to repair cells that have been damaged by freezing.
You were working on the research and development of the nanomachine
that would do that.
But it was far from ready for implementation.
Your nanomachine was unable to sort out the cells that needed to be repaired
and those that didn't,
and ended up repairing all cells.
The human body has 37 trillion cells.
Every day, 300 billion cells are born, and in exchange,
300 billion cells need to die.
By repairing all of those cells that need to die,
cells proliferate abnormally,
and end up filling up all the openings of the body.
That was why the body was featureless.
Kohiruimaki-san, was it?
You're an odd one, aren't you?
Lecturing me, a scientist, on the number of cells.
I think that's a wonderful reasoning.
- Scientist, huh? - However,
do you have proof to support what you said?
Isn't that video the most decisive evidence?
I'm asking if you have solid evidence that
a nanomachine got into that man's body.
Let me change the question.
Was my nanomachine
found from that man's body?
I am a scientist.
I will not accept anything but solid evidence.
If you'll excuse me.
Aren't you... Doctor Mogami Yukiko?
She's currently working as an advisor for us.
Oh, really?
Did you wish to talk to me?
To be honest, I'm amazed with your research.
If it can be implemented,
I think it will really change the future of mankind.
I'm honored.
But
you used the nanomachine to commit murder.
That means you abused scientific technology, right?
I don't think someone like that
has the right to call herself a scientist.
I see no reason to get lectured by someone who's no longer a scientist.
If you'll excuse me.
Me? That hurt.
Kimizuka-san.
May I ask you one question?
At the Trance Brains Headquarters in the U.S.,
there was an uproar over theft of a frozen body, wasn't there?
At the same time, this incident occurred.
Isn't there some relationship between the two?
What are we talking about?
I have absolutely no idea.
If you'll excuse me.
I have absolutely no idea too.
Hasebe-san, please contact the First Investigation Division to ask for their help.
In order to prove Kimizuka Momoko's crime,
we must find the nanomachine no matter what.
Got it.
There are two places that need to be searched.
One is the pool where the body was found.
The other is the cafe where Kurusu was given the nanomachine.
- I'll send it in to the Crime Lab. - Thanks.
They submitted the nanomachine?
Yeah. If the nanomachine is really being abused by their researcher,
Trance Brains would be in trouble too.
They asked us to check it out to our heart's content.
All right.
Oh, also,
this is footage from 3 days ago that was sent to us this morning
from the authorities in the U.S.
It's the surveillance camera footage of
Trance Brains Headquarters in the U.S.
Looks like there was a commotion over the theft of a frozen body.
Although as you can see, it ended in a failed attempt.
The one who hired these mercenaries was
Kurusu Masato.
It was confirmed that Kurusu's secretary deposited money into the mercenary's account.
What about the body Kurusu targeted?
I have no information on that.
In any case, it was the secretary who deposited the money.
I don't think the investigation would have extended to Kurusu.
Why would he try to steal a frozen body.
What's more, by using mercenaries... That's insane.
I know. I don't know for what purpose.
Looks like it's been restored...
Ouch! My back.
- My back... Ouch. - Are you okay?
This mirror is hung too low because Doctor moved it.
Since I have to crouch to see, it hurts my back.
It certainly is low.
I think I seriously hurt it.
Oh, no.
I have to crouch to see...
- They lost their daughter to an illness, huh? - It doesn't seem to be in his recent profile...
There was a need to crouch...?
Huh?
What do you think you're doing, coming all the way here?
I heard from your colleague that you were having dinner here.
Did you find the evidence?
Then I must ask you to leave.
You're having your daughter's body frozen, aren't you?
I'm a believer in science, just like you.
If possible, I'd like to see science
bring the dead back to life too.
You're odd that you don't not feel aversion
towards the idea of cryopreservation of body.
I don't think it's an unusual thing to want to see
a deceased loved one once again.
If that's what you really think, then you really are an odd one.
You're not very police-like.
I'm odd?
I thought the Japanese police
had a lot more hard-headed people.
I see.
You don't think I'm police-like?
Was your husband
against freezing of the body?
"Kurusu" is fine.
It was your daughter's body that Kurusu-san was trying to steal, wasn't it?
Are you saying that's why I killed him?
Am I wrong?
"Killed"?
You're having quite an unsettling talk here.
Sensei.
Then I shall take my leave now.
Kohiruimaki-san, right?
I've heard a lot about you from Carl Kahn.
I've known Kahn
from around the time he founded Body Hacker Japan.
I beg your pardon.
My name is Sakakibara Kousei.
I'm Kohiruimaki.
Sensei is a virologist, but
he's also the leading expert in the research of immortality.
Would you like to join us?
You don't mind, do you?
- Of course not. - Okay, then it's settled.
There's one more person.
Certainly. Let me show you to your table.
Kohiruimaki-san.
Do you know long a lobster lives?
As I recall, ise-ebi (spiny lobster) lives about 10 years, so
- is it about the same? - Well...
actually, the correct answer is not known.
When lobsters molt,
not only their shell, but their internal organs get replaced with new ones as well.
So theoretically, they can live forever.
Then why
isn't the world overrun by lobsters?
That's because...
the stronger ones
eat the lobsters.
In other words, even if the power of immortality is achieved,
the weak cannot live a long time.
That's why it's necessary to evolve to be strong.
But Sensei,
evolution of living beings
can be said to be the result of natural selection, can't it?
Darwin's theory of evolution, huh?
The giraffe's neck got longer because
giraffes with long neck that are better able to feed themselves
had the advantage in the race for survival,
and long-necked giraffes bred with each other
and left a lot of offspring.
But there is a hole in that theory.
You mean how the evolutionary process can't be explained because
no fossil of giraffes with intermediate neck length has been found?
Yes. What's more persuasive is
the theory of viral evolution.
What about the possibility that the giraffe's neck which was originally short
was affected by a viral infection which caused them to suddenly grow longer?
Once Sensei starts talking about viruses, there's no stopping him.
Hey, you make it sound like I'm always going on and on
and being an nuisance for everyone.
By the way, Kohiruimaki-san,
how is the doctor doing?
Doctor?
Doctor Mogami.
I understand she's working with you as an advisor.
Are you acquainted with Doctor Mogami?
No, I've never met her, but
I'm interested in her work on virus research.
Oh, is that so.
It's extremely unfortunate that she gave up on her virus research.
Are you sure you don't need me to take you home?
Thank you.
Then I shall take my leave now.
Next time, let's have Doctor Mogami join us too.
Yes, let's.
As long as there's no evidence,
I won't tell you anything.
Kimizuka-san.
You will be brought to justice.
Kohiruimaki-san.
Do you think my nanomachine
will be able to bring my daughter back to life?
Next time you barge in,
please bring the evidence with you.
But of course.
I see.
Then continue with the surveillance.
Kimizuka Momoko's nanomachine is formidable.
As far as this technology goes, it's in another dimension.
That's for sure. I took a close look at it the Crime Lab, but
that was an incredible nanomachine.
If you're acknowledging it, it must be something else.
Well, yeah... What's this data here?
Ah, that's data on Kurusu's pacemaker.
Senpai insisted that I thoroughly look into everything.
Senpai, finding Kimizuka's nanomachine
is like looking for a grain of iron sand in a sandbox.
You can just use a magnet for iron sand.
But it's just a grain, you know. One single grain.
I see...
That's the ticket.
What is it?
I found a way to find the nanomachine.
Chief, what is the doctor planning to do?
She must have something in mind.
Since you called me out all the way here,
I'm assuming you found some evidence?
After repairing the cells, your nanomachine
had been programmed to be discharged out of the body.
If it was really discharged,
even we would not have been able to find it.
What do you mean by that?
The nanomachine wasn't discharged.
Kurusu was so concerned about his public image
that he only notified a handful of people
that he had a pacemaker implanted.
Pacemaker?
As I suspected, you didn't know either.
It was 2 years after he divorced you that he got it implanted.
Alien Occult, explain it to her.
Alien Occult?
Thank you for your patience.
I'm Saegusa, section chief with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare?
Why a government official?
Saegusa is my junior from my school days.
With all due respect, please allow me to explain.
The pacemaker Kurusu-san was using was
the latest model our Ministry has been developing with Leiden Corporation.
When it senses something abnormal with the user, it's set up to immediately transmit
the alert data to the affiliated hospital.
Due to the magnetic field that was formed when the pacemaker triggered the alarm system,
the nanomachine did not get discharged out of the body,
but was drawn to the pacemaker.
This is solid evidence that you are the culprit.
There's no way that can happen.
You're lying, aren't you?
You heard the Ministry's explanation, didn't you?
What a bad loser.
Why don't you just admit it?
We have the evidence.
Well, although it wasn't me who found it.
What was the motive?
Surely it wasn't because you weren't pleased with the fact that Kurusu got engaged to
Secretary-General Gouda's daughter, was it?
That's not it.
The cause was your daughter who was cryopreserved, wasn't it?
Why do you think so?
If the same thing was done to me,
I wouldn't be able to control myself.
That's what I thought.
I, too,
am having my wife cryopreserved.
What?!
My wife died 5 years ago.
It was immediately after she gave birth to our daughter.
That's why
I took my chance on the possibility of science too.
If my wife comes back to life,
she'll be able to see the daughter she risked her life to give birth to.
My daughter will be able to see her mother for the first time too.
For the past 5 years,
I've been watching over my wife who's been cryopreserved.
Through the screen.
I've been reporting everything about our daughter.
Sometimes I even have her listen to my complaints.
That's why I think I can understand a little.
When I learned about your research, I was truly happy.
To be honest, resuscitating a frozen body with nanomachine
may be difficult to realize during our lifetime.
But still, it was definitely one step closer
to the resuscitation of my wife.
That's what I thought.
But you used that to commit murder.
What drove you that far?
I read through all of Kurusu Masato's recent information.
Your daughter wasn't there.
Even though there was information about his marriage and divorce with you,
in regards to your daughter, there was nothing about her death,
let alone the fact that she was even born.
I wonder if he thought that
it would tarnish his image as a politician if cryopreservation became known.
What you couldn't forgive was the fact that Kurusu, who was the father,
not only objected to the cryopreservation of his daughter,
but tried to even erase the fact that she existed in this world.
You just could not forgive him for that.
I don't regret it.
Huh?
Do you realize that you abused science?
But I was able to kill Kurusu.
If it wasn't for the nanomachine,
I may not have been able to kill him.
Nanomachines weren't born to do things like that.
I examined your nanomachine that was submitted.
How much time and effort it took
to take it that far,
I think I know a little.
That is truly incredible.
Isn't that nanomachine your child too?
Maybe so.
Kohiruimaki-san.
How did you know that the body Kurusu was trying to steal
was our daughter's?
He was crouching.
On the surveillance camera footage,
the man trying to steal your daughter's body
was crouching.
When you go to see your daughter, don't you
get on your knees
to look at your daughter too?
7 years old must mean
she was about 110 cm tall?
119 cm.
Her growth ended there.
But she was
definitely alive for 7 years.
There's no way those 7 years can be erased.
No one can say that Mai... that child wasn't born.
Mai weighed
3,786 g at birth.
She was big, wasn't she?
She was a girl, but a tomboy...
She was constantly getting into fights at kindergarten.
I don't know how many times I went to apologize.
A tomboy who fights a lot,
she's exactly like you.
What do you think...
was the first word Mai spoke?
It was "Papa".
"Papa," she said...
And yet, Kurusu...
That's why I have no regrets.
But what would Mai-san think if she came back to life?
Shouldn't you think about that too?
Please continue to be the person that Mai-san loves.
The thing you can do now
is to atone for your crime.
What the heck. You can say police-like things too, huh?
In spite of what you may think, I am a police office after all.
Good job finding it.
That's the Doctor Mogami Yukiko I know.
Shall we go?
You can tell us
all the details at the station.
Chief, I didn't know anything...
- I'm sorry. - Eh?
I mean, about... the cryonics.
How I said it was shady and disgusting...
It's okay. That's the normal reaction.
Excuse me ... I didn't understand what was going on at all, but
does that pacemaker attract nanomachines?
Never mind, never mind.
Huh? How can I not? I want to know.
Huh?
We won.
Doctor, why did you lie?
Hm?
I mean... there's no way
a nanomachine can be found from a pacemaker.
- Was I busted? - You were busted.
It's certainly true that the pacemaker has a system that sounds an alarm in case of an emergency.
But that doesn't generate enough magnetic force to attract a nanomachine.
Kimizuka Momoko doesn't know that, right?
That's why it worked.
If she hadn't submitted the container for the nanomachine used for the crime,
who knows if she could have been indicted.
Why did you do such a reckless thing?
Because I felt sorry.
For the nanomachine, by any chance?
After getting used for a crime,
it got chased around by everyone.
That's just so like Doctor Mogami Yukiko.
What's that supposed to mean?
So? What happened to the nanomachine in the end?
The organization that holds the patent
will be continuing the research.
- Isn't that... - Yes.
It's Carl Kahn.
That guy again?
He finds ways to get involved somehow.
Mr. Kahn.
Thank you very much for joining us today with your busy schedule.
I wish you all the best with your research.
Thank you.
We haven't been able to determine the identity yet, but
Meishun University
Dept. of Forensic Medicine
all the blood in the body is gone.
All the blood?
- How can that be... - You mean it was drawn out by someone?
If you don't have medical knowledge and skills,
you can't drain the blood completely, can you?
Well, let's take a look anyway.
What's going on with this body?
The blood has been completely drawn out.
Ami...
At around 4:30 am, a police officer on patrol
found a minivan that had gone off the shoulder
of a road in the mountainous area of Yukima-cho.
When he tried to help,
Tokyo Kurazumi Police Station
the driver suddenly fled the scene.
In a subsequent search of the van,
he found a body of a woman in the back.
Her identity is currently under investigation. That's all from me.
Next, Investigation Unit 3.
Since there is an industrial waste disposal site near the scene,
we believe he was trying to dump the body.
We are searching for the whereabouts of the driver. That's all.
Consider the possibility of homicide and find out the identity of the body ASAP.
Scientific Crime Countermeasures Office will work quickly to determine the cause.
Yes, sir.
Chief, are you okay?
Yes, of course.
A body that looks exactly like Ami was found.
When you adopted Ami, did you hear anything about her having a twin?