Story about Keiji Inukai Hayato / Inukai / 刑事 犬養隼人 / 刑警 犬养隼人
One morning in mid-summer, a dead man with a knife in his chest is discovered on a park bench. The v...
One morning in mid-summer, a dead man with a knife in his chest is
discovered on a park bench. The victim is Shinojima Taku (Yoshikawa
Sumihiro), the vocalist of a famous rock band who had made waves after
winning a literary prize for his first novel. At the meeting of the
investigation task force, Director Tsurusaki (Horibe Keisuke) gets
excited to have the murder case of a well-known person. Because
Shinojima’s award-winning novel was
poorly-received, this gave rise to rumours that his win was rigged and
he had received considerable criticism from book critics as well as the
general public. While the attention is focused on Shinojima’s
interpersonal relationships, the Tokyo Metropolitan Department’s
detective with the best arrest rate, Inukai Hayato (Sawamura Ikki),
finds it odd that there was barely blood spurted from the dead man
although he was stabbed to death. The investigators hurriedly begin the
investigation. At the same time, a man comes to the police precinct
where the investigation task force is based to turn himself in for the
murder. Calling himself a novelist, Arashiuma Shuto (Endo Yuya)
confesses that he killed Shinojima out of hate. However, Inukai and
Kotegawa Kazuya (Seto Koji) do not believe his clumsy words during the
interrogation. Meanwhile, Toyosaki Sayaka (Sakurada Hiyori), Inukai’s
only daughter with his ex-wife, is discharged from the hospital after a
successful kidney transplant surgery three months ago. She makes the
acquaintance of a popular top idol Shikura Kaede (Fukuhara Haruka) at a
symposium that she began to attend by chance. Sayaka has few friends
because of her long hospitalisation. Her friendship with Kaede deepens
and she learns that Kaede belongs to the same entertainment agency as
Shinojima. Inukai and Kotegawa continue investigating by questioning
Shinojima’s wife; entertainment agency company president Takamori Hideo
(Kato Masaya); and Vivre & Co, the publishing company that organised
the literary prize. Then a letter claiming responsibility for the
kidnapping of Shikura Kaede is delivered to Kanto Chuo TV. A photograph
of Kaede bound in packing tape and her mobile phone are enclosed with
the letter. The criminal demands that hostage negotiations be done
through a news programme televised nationwide and designates Inukai to
be the negotiator. What is the criminal’s true intention?