Aibou TV Season 3 Episode 17 - The Woman Who Rewrites(書き直す女)

Subtitle: The Woman Who Rewrites(書き直す女)

 Hiroko and the Tokumeigakari watch a well-produced play called Koroshitai Hodo Aishiteta. After the show, they go backstage and get the lead acress Nanami Kurihara(栗原 ななみ)'s autographs. While Ms. Kurihara is signing the autograph sheets, she receives a phone call letting her know that Ryūichi Take(武 龍一), the writer of the play, had been murdered. Who murdered the playwright and why?

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Nanami Kurihara(栗原 ななみ) - Veteran actress who frequently changes her lines from performance to performance. She didn't get along with Ryūichi Take and tells the Tokumeigakari pair that he was a playboy.

The Tokumeigakari pair repeatedly question her, and she constantly gets Inspector Ukyō's name wrong, calling him Sugiura(杉浦), then Sugiyama(杉山), and Sugiuchi(杉内) before she finally gets his name right.

On the day Ryūichi Take was murdered, she performed in the last rehearsal which lasted from 2 to 4:30. During the break between the two acts that lasted from 3:30 to 4, she ate the sushi box including the saba(mackerel) she hates. Once the rehearsal was over, she attended a dinner together with the rest of the staff at a yakiniku restaurant in Akasaka until around 8 PM. They then went to a bar in Roppongi and left around 11 PM. Afterwards, she went back home and stayed awake until 2AM looking over the script.

She later hears from Sergeant Kaoru that Ryūichi Take might have dropped an unusual pen made from a tortoise shell either at the murder scene or somewhere along the way to his house. The fountain pen was later found in the parking lot near Ryūichi Take's residence.

Mika Enoki(榎木ミカ) - Nanami's assistant.

Ryūichi Take(武 龍一) - Playwright who wrote the play Koroshitai Hodo Aishiteta. He is murdered between 3 PM and 4PM the day before the play opened to the public. Upset that Nanami Kurihara was changing his line, he had threatened to boycott the opening of the play. Even before that, he didn't get along with Nanami Kurihara, saying that he will kill Nanami if she changed any more of his lines.

His favorite food was sushi which he also ordered a short time before he was killed. Oddly enough, even though he ordered the finest sushi (and everything appeared to have been eaten), the uni and awabi sushi were not found in his stomach.

He lived an hour's drive away from the theater.

Hiroki Kawashima(川島 弘基) - Producer of the play Koroshitai Hodo Aishiteta. He frequents Hiroko's gay bar. He received a phone call from Ryūichi Take around 2:55 PM.

Hiroko(ヒロコ) - Owner of the gay bar "Beard and Rose and... (髭と薔薇と…) who attends the play with the Tokumeigakari pair at the start of the episode.

Jirō Uozumi(魚住 次朗) - Deliveryman for Hōrai Sushi(宝来寿司) who first discovered Ryūichi Take's body. On the day Ryūichi Take was murdered, the restaurant received an order from him around 2:30 and Jirō delivered the sushi a short time before 3PM. He plays mahjong in his spare time.

Title of the play

Koroshitai hodo aishiteta(殺したいほど愛してた) - Name of the play being performed. This title translates to "To Have Loved So Much that I Want to Kill You," but the poster used in the episode uses "Quit Love with Hate" as the English title for the play. Nanami Kurihara(栗原 ななみ) is the lead actress of the play who also came up with the Japanese title of the play. Ryūichi Take(武 龍一) wrote the play, but he is murdered the day before the play opened to the public.

Contents of the Hōrai Sushi(宝来寿司) meals from the episode

nami(並) - average

chūtoro(中トロ) - medium fatty tuna
amaebi(甘エビ) - deep-water shrimp
ikura(イクラ) - salmon roe, red caviar
tamago(たまご) - egg
saba(さば) - saba, mackeral
hotate(ホタテ) - scallops
tekkamaki(鉄火巻) - tuna roll

tokujō(特上) - finest

chūtoro(中トロ) - medium fatty tuna
amaebi(甘エビ) - deep-water shrimp
ikura(イクラ) - salmon roe, red caviar
tamago(たまご) - egg
saba(さば) - saba, mackeral
hotate(ホタテ) - scallops
tekkamaki(鉄火巻) - tuna roll
uni(ウニ) - sea urchin
awabi(アワビ) - abalone