Saikyou no Futari ~ Kyotofukei Tokubetsu Sousahan (2015) [J-Drama]

Shinonome Jinpachi has returned to the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division as a specially commissioned detective. Meanwhile, Natsuki Asako, a team leader, has just been assigned to the division. Shinonome and Asako solve the same cases with completely different investigation methods. Shinonome has many information sources that he cultivated through his years of investigation. He would hit the streets and gather information that is not considered to have a direct relationship with a case. Asako has many fans within the police because she has moved from post to post. She is adapt at mobilising these allies and makes use of her inexperience in investigations to carry out daring ones. When these two investigation methods overlap, there will never be a typical investigation and unknown facts a step ahead of the solution will emerge. A series of six arson attacks occurs within Kyoto City. While residents in the immediate area are getting jittery, a casualty emerges in the seventh case of arson and the Kyoto Prefectural Police sets up an investigation task force. Asako is pysched up for her first case, but annoyed with Shinonome who does not answer his mobile phone no matter how many times she calls. In fact, Shinonome, who is a widower, is in the middle of an arranged introduction to a former teacher, Mita Yuriko. Garbage collection points and vacant houses were deliberately set ablaze in the previous six arson attacks. But this time, a Japanese-style house was targeted and the 77-year-old physically disabled lady who lived alone failed to escape and was burned to death. The head of the First Investigative Divsion, Marugami Toshiaki, concludes that the crime was committed by the same criminal, but Asako feels something is odd about the series of incidents. If these were crimes for pleasure, the crimes would often be committed around a 2 km radius from the area where the arsonist lives. However, the locations of the seven fires are scattered about. Led by Asako, Team Natsuki is assigned to do legwork in the vicinity of the crime scenes. But Asako instructs a team member, Yoshida Mio, to check the backgrounds of the victims. On the other hand, Shinonome, who has been partnered with the young detective, Owada Ryota, encounters an elementary school student, Iijima Sho, shoplifting at a bread shop. After that, they discover Sho in all the surveillance camera footage near the seven locations. Is he the arsonist?