Aibou Season 14 (2015) [J-Drama] (04 RAW)

A murder occurs inside a prison under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice. It is an unprecedented case in which an inmate Mikura killed a prison officer Tashiro. Mikura will not talk at all during the interrogation and Vice Minister of Justice Kusakabe Yahiko instructs his former subordinate, Kaburagi Wataru, to join the investigation. A career bureaucrat seconded from the Ministry of Justice to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department under the pretext of a personnel exchange, Kaburagi has been given a room that was once the Special Missions Section. None of the career bureaucrats seconded from other government ministries and agencies have ever received special treatment at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. In the meantime, in an interrogation together with Itami Kenichi and other detectives from the First Investigative Division, Kaburagi hears a surprising story from Mikura. Three months ago, an inmate by the name of Umezu died. Although this was treated as death from illness, he was murdered by Tashiro. Mikura says in his statement that he advocates taking revenge and after Umezu’s death, he had heard from Umezu himself that Tashiro was the murderer. In other words, if Mikura’s words are taken for the truth, he had talked to Umezu’s ghost, but it sounds farfetched. Naturally, the people related to the investigation pay no attention. Only Kaburagi catches onto something about this statement. At that moment, Sugishita Ukyo who has been put on an indefinite suspension since his partner Kai Toru was arrested, is doing an investigation in some country … …