Aibou TV Season 7 Episode 11 - Cross-border Investigation(越境捜査)

Subtitle: Cross-border Investigation(越境捜査)

 Inspector Ukyō is helping Superintendent Kakuta and his anti-organized crime division locate Osamu Nagamine(長嶺 修), a gun-wielding criminal hiding out in Kawasaki City(川崎市) near the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture(神奈川県) .

As the search for Nagamine concludes, Inspector Ukyō notices something wrong with another family household in the area. Inspector Ukyō goes back to the house by himself and finds out that the Tohdoh family is going through a crisis of their own: their daughter Arisa had been kidnapped. Four men from the Kanagawa Police Department are there already to help the family get their daughter back safely. Hayakawa, the leader of the detectives there, asks Inspector Ukyō to stay. While there, the inspector figures out that there is more this kidnapping than meets the eye.

Locations

Machidashi(町田市) - Machida City in Tokyo.

Kawasakishi(川崎市) - Kawasaki City.

Midorigaoka(緑ヶ丘) - Location in Kawasaki City.

Minato Mirai Chiku(みなとみらい地区) - Minato Mirai district. Central business district in Yokohama, about an hour away from the Tohdoh residence.

Aka Renga Sōko(赤レンガ倉庫) - Red Brick Warehouse. The kidnapper instructed Mr. Tōdō to bring the money to this warehouse..

Tsudzuki Intāchenji(都築インター, short for 都筑インターチェンジ) - Interchange leading to Dai San Keihin Dōro(第三京浜道路) in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Dai San Keihin Dōro(第三京浜道路) - Highway that runs through Kawasaki.

Ōsanbashi(大桟橋) - Primary international passenger pier located in Yokohama.

Kokusai Ōdōri(国際大通り) - Another name for Yokohamakō Rinkō Kansen Dōro (横浜港臨港幹線道路). A road that loops around the Port of Yokohama.

Yokohama(横浜) - Yokohama

Yokohama Pākutawā(横浜パークタワー) - The kidnapper called telling them that Arisa was released on the top floor of this tower.

Time Line of Events

6:50 AM Inspector Ukyō is helping Superintendent Kakuta and his men look for Nagamine in Machida City, Tokyo. Nagamine shoots Ōki(大木) and escapes. Ōki(大木) survives because his bulletproof vest stopped the bullet.

7:30 Arisa leaves her house and starts walking to her school as usual.

7:40 AM Arisa is walking to school in Kawasaki City when she is kidnapped.

8:03 AM One of the kidnappers call the Tohdoh household using a voice changer and demands a ransom of five hundred million yen by noon and orders Mr. Tohdoh not to call the police. Mr. Tohdoh calls the police anyways.

8:40 AM Hayakawa shows up at the Tohdoh residence with several men, saying that they came from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.

8:45 AM The Kanagawa Prefectural Police report that Nagamine has been spotted in the residential area in Midorigaoka.

8:50 AM Kyōko Nakatani(中谷 京子) drives back to her house and is taken hostage by Nagamine as she tries to enter her house.

9:13 The kidnapper makes a second phone call to make sure that Mr. Tohdoh can prepare the money. The kidnapper will call later with instructions for the delivery method. When Inspector Ukyō listens to this recording later, he notices the sound of the helicopter in the background.

9:30 AM Inspector Ukyō reports to Detective Morioka that the Nakatani residence is suspicious.

9:45 The kidnapper makes the third phone call and orders them to feign being out because the police is currently going door to door looking for Nagamine.

10:00 AM The police are in position and call Ms. Nakatani's residence to tell Nagamine that he is surrounded.

Some time before noon Though the kidnapper was supposed to call at noon with instructions on how to deliver the money, the kidnapper makes the call about twenty minutes before noon. The kidnapper instructs Mr. Tohdoh to drive to the Aka Renga Sōko with the ransom money and park the car behind building number 1. The kidnapper says he/she will give further instructions once Mr. Tohdoh gets there. Oddly enough, the kidnapper did not ask for Mr. Tohdoh's cellphone number.

Once Mr. Tohdoh got to the warehouse, the kidnapper (a man who did not use a voice changer) called and told him to leave the car then walk to Ōsanbashi(大桟橋).

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Osamu Nagamine(長嶺 修) - Possesses an illegal firearm for the second time and on the run from the police at the start of the episode. This is the second time he got hold of an illegal firearm. He takes Ms. Nakatani hostage, but is eventually apprehended.

Kyōko Nakatani(中谷 京子) - The woman taken hostage by Nagamine. When the police knocked on her door, Nagamine prevented her from answering the door. Inspector Ukyō notices that the car engine is still warm, making the inspector suspicious.

Shunsaku Tōdō (or Tohdoh)(藤堂 俊作) - President of a real estate company whose daughter Arisa is kidnapped. Shortly before he leaves for work at 8:15 AM, he receives a call from the kidnapper ordering him to prepare give five hundred million yen by noon that day. Though he is told not to contact the police, he calls them anyways. Though five hundred million yen is a lot of money to prepare in such a short time, Mr. Tohdoh finds a way to get the money ready. He asks Senior Managing Director Maruoka to bring the money his real estate company prepared to bribe a politician who acted as a middleman for a certain land development project.

Inspector Ukyō later borrows his video recorder so that they could record the bill numbers from the five hundred million yen.

Reiko Tōdō(藤堂 玲子) - Arisa's mother.

Arisa Tōdō(藤堂 亜里沙) - The Tohdoh family's nine year old daughter who is in third grade. She was walking along the path she usually takes to school when she is kidnapped.

Kazue Enami(江波 和江) - Housekeeper for the Tohdoh family who has worked for the family for over 10 years, She was already there when Arisa was born, and she knows more about Arisa than her parents. Inspector Ukyō listens to her gossip on the way to the bathroom. She is leaving the job at the end of the month because Mr. Tohdoh lost a lot of money when his stocks plummeted in value. The family will sell the house and move to an apartment. They had also considered transferring Arisa to a public school, though they found a way to have her stay at her current school.

She tells Inspector Ukyō that President Tohdoh and Director Maruko don't get along, each leading his own faction in the company. Because of this, Mr. Tohdoh decides not to tell the director about Arisa's kidnapping.

Shigeru Morioka(森岡 滋) - Detective from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department(神奈川県警) who led the group of policemen who came to help look for Nagamine.

Maruoka(丸岡) - Senior managing director at the real estate company. He delivers the 5 million yen to the Tohdoh residence not knowing that Arisa had been kidnapped.

Hitoshi Hayakawa(早川 仁志) - He is the leader of the men who showed up after Mr. Tohdoh called the Kanagawa Prefectural Police. He explains the details about the Tohdoh family to Inspector Ukyō. Mr. Tohdoh prepared the 5 million yen in a short period of time. That money was originally meant to be used as a bribe money. Mr. Tohdoh also lost a lot of money recently. Hayakawa is worried about the possibility Mr. Tohdoh conspired with his lover to fake Arisa's kidnapping so that they could steal the company's money. To prevent them from contacting each other Hayakawa uses a jamming device to prevent all cellphone calls in and out from the house.

Taizō Kurata(倉田 泰造) - One of Hayakawa's men. He wears glasses and is in charge of recording the incoming messages.

Kuwahara(桑原) - One of Hayakawa's men who later went out to accompany Mrs. Tohdoh to pick Arisa after the kidnapper released Arisa.

Maeda(前田) - One of Hayakawa's men.

Kaori Sakurada(桜田 佳織) - Woman who kidnapped Arisa and made the calls to the Tohdoh family residence,

Masami Naitō(内藤 雅美) - Kidnapper who drove Mr. Tohdoh's car away from the Aka Renga warehouse.

Kuroda(黒田) - The politician who was supposed to receive the five hundred million yen bribe money.