Aibou TV Season 8 Episode 7 - The Chicken and the Butcher's Knife(鶏と牛刀)

Subtitle: The Chicken and the Butcher's Knife(鶏と牛刀)

 The Social Pension Office begs Superintendent Supervisor Onoda to delay arresting Masaki Fuji'ishi(藤石 正輝), the chief clerk of the collection division at Shinjuku's Second Social Pension Office for stealing pension funds. The superintendent supervisor agrees, and the social pension office employees rush to recover something called the FA file. Before Fuji'ishi is arrested, he falls to his death from a window at Shinjuku East Hotel. Though Assistant Commissioner Nakazono is anxious to rule Fuji'ishi's death suicide, CSI Yonezawa finds a glass shard stuck in the deceased's suit's collar. The shard should not have ended up there if Fuji'ishi had committed suicide. How did Fuji'ishi really die? What is the FA file that the Social Pension Office is so desperately trying to hide?

Locations

Shinjuku īsutohoteru(新宿イーストホテル) - Shinjuku East Hotel. Fuji'ishi falls to his death from a room in this hotel.

Shinjukuku(新宿区) - Shinjuku District

Hyakuninchō(百人町) - A city in Shinjuku District.

Shinjuku Dai Ni Shakainenkin Jimusho(新宿第二社会年金事務所) - Shinjuku Second Social Pension Office. Fuji'iishi works here.

Five of the Ten Named Deceased Yakuza Members Whose Pensions Were Still Being Paid

Yūichirō Saitō(斉藤雄一郎)

Daisuke Matsumoto(松本 大介)

Kiyoshi Asada(浅田清)

Yūji Meguro(目黒雄二)

Takeshi Kondō(近藤 武)

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Masaki Fuji'ishi(藤石 正輝) - 35 year old chief clerk of the collection division(徴収課係長) at Shinjuku's Second Social Pension Office. He lives in Hyakuninchō in Shinjikuku. The Sōni investigated him because they found out an account in his name (opened two years ago) collecting pension funds from ten deceased people.

On the day he died, he took time off to deal with an urgent business. That day, he met his girlfriend at the Shinjuku East Hotel. Even though it wasn't her birthday, he gave her a gift, and out of the blue, he told her that he was going to quit his job. They got into an argument. She threw the heavy gift back at him and stormed out out of the hotel.

Shortly afterwards (between 9:30 and 11:30 PM), he fell to his death from a hotel window. The window opened just part way to prevent people from falling out, so he apparently removed and dropped the window just before jumping out himself. CSI Yonezawa found bloody fingerprints on the window frame. Both the blood and the fingerprints belonged to Fuji'ishi.

Though at first glance, it appeared that Fuji'ishi had committed suicide, but CSI Yonezawa found a glass shard in his business suit collar that was different from the window glass. Later, CSI Yonezawa finds a trace amount of rose petals stuck to his clothes.

Ayumi Kurita(栗田 亜由美) - Fuji'ishi's girlfriend three months pregnant with his child. On the day Fuji'ishi died, she met him at the Shinjuku East Hotel. Fuji'ishi gave her a present then told her that he is going to quit his job. This resulted in them arguing, and she threw his gift, her favorite flower roses in a heavy vase, back at him shortly before leaving the hotel.  After she found out that Fuji'ishi had died, she stormed into Shinjuku second social pension office and accused his coworkers of killing him.

Makoto? Shibata(柴田 真) - Manager at the Shinjuku second social pension office.

Ikuo Suzuki(鈴木 郁夫) - Fuji'ishi's coworker. He came into the room while the Tokumeigakari pair were talking to Shibata and Takimi to say that they can't contact Fuji'ishi.

Sakiko Takimi(滝美 穂子) - Fuji'ishi's coworker.

Tamotsu Masuzawa(増沢 保) - Bureaucrat working for the Ministry of Health and Welfare. He is one of the three bureaucrats who pleaded with Superintendent Supervisor Onoda to delay Fuji'ishi's arrest. He is sitting on the right side of the sofa at the start of the episode. (He doesn't wear glasses.)

Manato? Washinaga(鷲永 学人) - Bureaucrat working for the Ministry of Health and Welfare. He is one of the three bureaucrats who pleaded with Superintendent Supervisor Onoda to delay Fuji'ishi's arrest. He is sitting in the middle of the sofa at the start of the episode. (He wears glasses and is the oldest of the three.)

Kenjirō Kawai(川井 謙次郎) - Bureaucrat working for the Ministry of Health and Welfare. He is one of the three bureaucrats who pleaded with Superintendent Supervisor Onoda to delay Fuji'ishi's arrest. He is sitting on the left side of the sofa, (He wears glasses.)

Yasuo Hitotsugi(一ﾂ木康雄) - Leader of the business yakuza Futami group(二見組).

Shūji Rokuhara(六原 修司) - Futami Group gang member(二見組構成員). He is a business yakuza who has been arrested in the past for causing injuries, He carried on his illegal business activities in Shinjuku using a dummy corporation located within the jurisdiction of Shinjuku second social pension office.

Superintendent Kakuta and his anti-organized crime division arrest Rokuhara for not paying pension premiums for non-existent employees in his dummy corporations. He had illegally applied to the Shinjuku Second Social Pension Office saying that these corporations had shut down to get out of making these payments.

His fingerprints were found on a glass shard taken from Fuji'ishi's body. The hotel's security camera captured him walking out of a hotel elevator around the time Fuji'ishi fell to his death. Rokuhara wasn't staying at the hotel so he didn't have any reason to be there at the hotel.

Yoshio? Tachibana(橘 義郎) - Member of the sōni who was investigating Fuji'ishi, Fuji'ishi had his business card when Fuji'ishi died. He told the Tokumeigakari pair that the sōni investigated Fuji'ishi because they suspected that he was pocketing pension funds being paid to deceased people. They were getting ready to arrest Fuji'ishi when they were ordered to delay making the arrest.

Shinji Mizuki(水木 信二) - Member of the sōni.

Kōken Onoda(小野田 公顕) - Superintendent Supervisor Onoda agrees the request made by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and delays Fuji'ishi's arrest. Fuji'ishi dies during that delay. He also meets Inspector Ukyō at a restaurant to confirm that the Ministry of Health and Welfare asked him to delay Fuji'ishi's arrest. At the end of the episode, he tells the inspector that without solid evidence, the police can't go after the head of the ministry.