Aibou TV Season 8 Episode 1 - The Canary's Daughter(カナリアの娘)

Subtitle: The Canary's Daughter(カナリアの娘)

 Lieutenant Kanbe drives to the Narita Airport to pick up Inspector Ukyō who had just returned to Japan from London. While driving back, they observe a motorcycle cop from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department talking to a driver in a car stopped on the shoulder of the highway. Inspector Ukyō voices that this is odd since the cop stopped the driver in Chiba Prefecture, outside the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Sure enough, the motorcycle's license plates are not found in the police database. Inspector Ukyō had also memorized the car's license plate number and uses it to track down the car's owner Yukio Imamiya(今宮 幸夫). They discover Mr. Imamiya's body at his residence.

Shortly afterwards, Superintendent Supervisor Onoda receives a call from an old acquaintance and wanted terrorist Atsundo Honda(本多 篤人). Honda tells the superintendent supervisor that some terrorist-wannabe threatened his daughter's life and forced him to come back to Japan. These would-be-terrorists want Honda to prepare a bomb for them.

The police realize that the man driving Mr. Imamiya's car in Chiba Prefecture was Honda and they start to investigate in full force. The Keishichō starts to hunt for Mr. Imamiya's killer and the Kōanbu tries to track down Honda's whereabouts while the Superintendent Supervisor assigns the Tokumeigakari pair to protect Mari. They, however, spectacularly fail at this task when Mari is kidnapped just a short time after they take her to a hotel for safety. How did the kidnappers know where Mari was staying? Can the Tokumeigakari pair rescue Mari and prevent the bomb from being used by the terrorists? Will Honda be apprehended after all these years or will he slip through and fade away into darkness once more?

Locations

Nerima(練馬) - The district where Yukio Imamiya(今宮 幸夫) lived.

Minatoku(港区) - Minato District. The N System recorded Honda driving Mr. Imamiya's car towards this district.

Chūō Dōri Kanpachi hōmen(中央通り 環八方面) - Central street, vicinity of Kanpachi. Wakita took this road when he headed from Mari's house back to the hideout.

Shin Shibaura Futō(新芝浦埠頭) - Shin Shibaura Pier. Honda made the bomb here.

Trivia

Kuriminaru Fīrudo(クリミナルフィールド) - "Criminal Field," the movie shown at the movie theater where Mari Hayase(早瀬 茉莉) and the Tokumeigakari Pair met.

Nerima Dansei Satsujin Shitai Iki Jiken(練馬男性殺人死体遺棄事件) - Nerima Male Murder and Corpse Abandonment Case. This is the name the Keishichō gave to the case involving Yukio Imamiya(今宮 幸夫)'s death.

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Kōken Onoda(小野田 公顕) - Superintendent Supervisor Onoda. receives a phone call from Honda after Honda finds out that the terrorist group who forced him to come to Japan killed a man, Yukio Imamiya(今宮 幸夫), to steal the man's driver's license and passport to give to Honda. Honda makes a deal with the superintendent supervisor: if the police can ensure Honda's daughter's safety, he will stop making the bomb. Otherwise, the bomb would be used to commit an act of terror somewhere in Tokyo.

When the superintendent supervisor explains the delicate situation to the Tokumeigakari pair, he also makes a surprising admission that he dabbled in left wing activities when he was a student.

Mari Hayase(早瀬 茉莉) - Atsundo Honda(本多 篤人)'s daughter. Honda left the country when she was about an year old, and she says that she doesn't think of Honda as her father.

After meeting the Tokumeigakari pair at the movie theater, they escort her to a hotel. Shortly afterwards, she calls Lieutenant Kanbe to tell him that she wants to go buy feminine hygiene products. Right after the lieutenant shows up at her door, a man comes up behind him, knocks the lieutenant unconscious, and kidnaps Mari. For some reason, she left her clothes in her suitcase even though they ended up getting wrinkled as a result. Shortly afterwards, Takakura sends a live video of Mari with a bruised face to Honda.

Yukari Hayase(早瀬 ゆかり) - Mari's mother who died 9 years ago.

Shunji Takakura(高倉 俊司) - Son of a wealthy father and an assistant professor at Eirin Academy University(営林学院大学 Eirin Gauin Daigaku) teaching economy and politics who used the pseudonym "Yamamoto," He is a computer expert and can easily hack into systems.

He forced Honda come back to Japan and make a bomb by threatening Honda's daughter Mari. He greets Honda at the hideout and claims to be Honda's "big fan." He says that he discovered Honda's email address after hacking into the email account of Honda's former supporter, a printer living in Japan.

For some reason, he was in the same movie theater room as the one where Mari and the Tokumeigakari pair met.

Atsundo Honda(本多 篤人) - 56 year old former high ranking member of the terrorist group Red Canary(赤いカナリア), He is on the wanted list for carrying out various destructive activities during the 1970s including a bomb off he set off at the main branch of Keiwa Bank(啓和銀行Keiwa Ginkō) in 1972 which resulted in multiple deaths

He landed in Narita around the same time Inspector Ukyo did. He drives a car out from the airport, but oddly, he took his keys out from an envelope and his license was already in the car. He came back to Japan because he had received an email threatening his daughter Mari's life.

Teruyuki Wakita(脇田 輝之) - A car mechanic who used to be a gang member with a tattoo "Truth Lie" on his back. He is Takakura's childhood friend.

He made the fake driver's license for Honda and also stopped Honda on the freeway. He knocked Lieutenant Kanbe unconscious and kidnapped Mari from the hotel. He ran into the Tokumeigakari pair at Mari's residence and tried to flee but they catch Wakita with the help from the Trio the Sōichi who was investigating the list of women Mr. Imamiya met through a marriage agency.

Yukio Imamiya(今宮 幸夫) - 55 year old single man from Toyotama(豊玉) in Nerima District(練馬区) who loved to travel.

He was actively looking for a potential wife through a marriage agency. Mari Hayase was one of those women.

He told a neighbor that he would be going on a trip for two weeks. He had been gone for a week when the Tokumeigakari pair visit his house, He left an entrance unlocked for some reason.

Inspector Ukyo could not locate his passport nor his driver's license. Someone used his passport to pass through the Japanese customs at 3:41 PM.

Haruki Ōkōchi(大河内 春樹) - General Inspector Ōkōch meets Lieutenant Kanbe at a club and asks the lieutenant why he was sent to the Tokumeigakari. The general inspector cannot believe that the lieutenant could possibly have screwed up so badly that he would be demoted and sent to the Tokumeigakari. Lieutenant Kanbe jokingly replies that he was sent there to drive Inspector Ukyō out of the police force. To this, the general inspector says that no matter how clever Kanbe has become, he still won't be a match for the inspector. Then the lieutenant continues his joke and asks the inspector general's help if he were really given such an order at some point in time in the future.