Aibou TV Season 6 Episode 2 - Lieutenant Jinkawa's Misfortune(陣川警部補の災難)

Subtitle: Lieutenant Jinkawa's Misfortune(陣川警部補の災難)

 Lieutenant Jinkawa returns, this time as a suspect in the murder of a printing company division chief, Nobuhiro Seguchi(瀬口 信大). A beat cop had found the Lieutenant looking over Mr. Seguchi's body shortly after Mr. Seguchi fell to his death. In the interrogation room, the lieutenant refuses to say anything. Is Lieutenant Jinkawa really responsible for Mr. Seguchi's death? Why is he staying silent?

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Kōhei Jinkawa(陣川 公平) - Accounting clerk at the second division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He was apprehended because he was suspected of killing Nobuhiro Seguchi(瀬口 信大). Although the lieutenant refused to say anything at first, the Tokumeigakair pair eventually discover enough information to make him reveal how he ended up getting into a scuffle with Mr. Seguchi

Lieutenant Jinkawa ran into Ms. Shitō while he was searching for the culprit behind the recent spate of sexual assaults in the area. She mistook him as the stalker, and as a result, two men walking nearby subdued Lieutenant Jinkawa instead before he could reveal that he was a police officer. As a way to apologize, she invited the lieutenant to dinner, where she confided that an anonymous caller had been calling her home late at night. He escorted Ms. Shitō to her apartment, where the lieutenant discovered that someone had poured a gooey substance over her mail. Ms. Shitō then rushed the lieutenant to her apartment so that he could clean his hands. There, she pointed through her window at a man walking briskly away and claimed that the suspicious man had been staring up at her apartment. Immediately afterwards, someone called her apartment. The lieutenant answered the phone, demanding to know who the caller was and what he wanted. The caller immediately didn't say anything and hung up immediately.

To catch the stalker, Lieutenant Jinkawa disguised himself on a day off, secretly keeping an eye on Ms. Shitō's mailbox. Around lunchtime that day, Mr. Seguchi walked up to Ms. Shitō's mailbox and placed his hands inside. Lieutenant Jinkawa came out of hiding and demanded Mr. Seguchi explain what he was doing. Mr. Seguchi tried to run away, and they got into a scuffle. Mr. Seguchi succeeded in throwing the lieutenant on to the ground and ran down the stairs. When the lieutenant manged to get up and look down, he found Mr. Seguchi's body sprawled on the middle landing section of the stairs. The Lieutenant ran down the stairs to check on Mr. Seguchi and discovered him dead. That's when a beat cop patrolling on a bicycle rode by and demanded to know what's going on. Of course, as expected,  Lieutenant Jinkawa had forgotten to bring his police badge this day.

Sakie Shitō(紫藤 咲江) - Community college graduate who worked in a securities exchange company. After that company went out of business, she later scraped together money on her own and started her own successful fund managing company, Shitoh Consulting, which specializes in buying and selling construction, fiber, and scientific company stocks. She has an amazing ability to notice details important to stock trading while simultaneously listening to multiple news reports.

She met and talked to Lieutenant Jinkawa about a week ago and confided in him about a stalker who had been causing mischief in her life.

She currently lives in an apartment in Nogizaka(乃木坂).

Nobuhiro Seguchi(瀬口 信大) - 42 year old proofreader for the Large Tokyo Printing Co., Ltd.(大東京印刷株式会社 Dai Tōkyō Insatsu Kabushikigaisha) who was found dead at the bottom of a set of stairs locate outside the apartment where Ms. Shitō lives. He died from a brain contusion caused by head fracture sustained when he fell down the set of stairs. The autopsy report also revealed that he had a blood congestion on his right ankle.

He loved to drink but didn't gamble. Because his company publishes information sent out to shareholders, the company employees are not allowed to buy stocks to prevent insider trading.

He divorced years ago and had remained single. As evidenced by his collection of expensive wine in his apartment, he was doing well financially. His checkbook showed multiple deposits of around eighty million yen(八千万 Hassen man) each made in cash to his account.

Takekawa(武川) - Shitō's subordinate.