Subtitle: A dead scammer and an art museum's lady director's fingerprint(死んだ詐欺師と女美術館長の指紋)
During his off hours, Inspector Ukyō visits the Akiyama Ryokufū Memorial Museum of Art(秋山緑風記念美術館) hoping to see Ryokufū Akiyama(秋山 緑風)'s painting The Boy of the Shining Wind(光る風の少年). The painting had left an impression on him when he saw it displayed at a small gallery in London. He meets the director of the museum, Aya Kikumoto(菊本 アヤ), who tells the inspector that the painting had been sold and is no longer available for viewing at the museum.
Meanwhile, Masao Tsuchida(土田 雅夫), one of Sergeant Kaoru's informants, drops by to return money to Kaoru and even treats the sergeant to dinner at the gay bar Beard and Rose and... (髭と薔薇と…). (A yakiniku restaurant used to be at the same location, but the owner changed it to the gay bar.) Inside the bar, Tsuchida tells the sergeant that he is going to find a steady job so that he can get his son back from his divorced wife. Unfortunately, someone stabs a drunk Tsuchida in the heart in a park late at night a few days later. His wallet is missing, but he was holding a picture of his son and had Sergeant Kaoru's name card in his possession.
A short time later, the members of the second division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's determine that Tsuchida was involved in a scheme to steal money One hundred fifty million yen had been transferred from MM Financial to a fictitious account at Nakanoue Branch(中乃上支店) of Meiwa Bank(明和銀行). The security video footage from the bank captured Tsuchida leaving the bank after withdrawing that money, although money was neither found on him nor from his residence.
Sergeant Kaoru can't believe that Tsuchida would do such a thing. Tsuchida didn't have a criminal record, and Inspector Ukyō is also doubtful that Tsuchida could have come up with this scheme by himself.
Looking through Tsuchida's meager belongings in the crime lab, Inspector Ukyō finds a ticket stub for the Akiyama Ryokufū Memorial Museum of Art(秋山緑風記念美術館) inside a pocket from Tsuchida's pants.
Why did Tsuchida take part in the plot to steal that money? How is the Akiyama Ryokufū Memorial Museum of Art(秋山緑風記念美術館) the painting The Boy of the Shining Wind(光る風の少年) involved in this case?
Other characters appearing/mentioned in the story
Hiroko(ヒロコ) - He was the eyewitness in the third episode of the season. This time, we find out that he closed his yakiniku restaurant(焼き肉屋) and opened a gay bar Beard and Rose and... (髭と薔薇と…) at the same location.
Masao Tsuchida(土田 雅夫) - He is a former employee of a trading company and Sergeant Kaoru's somewhat unreliable informant(情報屋). He first met Sergeant Kaoru during a hostage incident. A young man who failed an entrance examination snapped and took a young boy hostage. Tsuchida distracted the suspect allowing the police, including the sergeant, to arrest the young man and safely rescue the boy.
Tsuchida dropped by the Tokumeigakari office to return some money he had borrowed from Kaoru and also along with some rice crackers(おせんべい) in a Nankyu Department Store(南急百貨店 ) shopping bag. He turns up dead a few days later.
Kenta Tsuchida(健太 土田) - Masao's son
Ryokufū Akiyama(秋山 緑風) - Famous artist who painted The Boy of the Shining Wind(光る風の少年). He is called the maverick of the art world(画壇の異端児).
Aya Kikumoto(菊本 アヤ) - Director of the Akiyama Ryokufū Memorial Museum of Art(秋山緑風記念美術館), and Ryokufū Akiyama's daughter.
Kunimatsu(国松) - A curator at the Akiyama Ryokufū Memorial Museum of Art(秋山緑風記念美術館) who remembered that Tsuchida used to come to the museum often, sitting all day at a particular chair in the museum.
Kakizaki(柿崎) - Loan manager at MM Financial who transferred the money to the Nakanoue Branch(中乃上支店) of Meiwa Bank(明和銀行) after receiving a call to do so from the senior director of one of the company's big customers, even though the customer always used the account at Tomika branch(富岡支店) in the past. According to him, the man on the phone sounded just like director. He was using Ryokufū's drawing Reverberation(響き) as his cellphone's wallpaper.
