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Where was Sakie the day of the crime?
She came back home after school and didn't go out again.
She has difficulties walking.
Believe me, prosecution and defence often differ completely when it comes to psychiatric evaluations.
Psychiatry isn't a science.
It's pure fiction.
You enjoy picking apart the evaluations.
Here you are.
This is the file I promised Rumoi's case, homicide and robbery.
I was surprised by your call, I wasn't expecting it.
I present you, Judge Shigemori, now retired.
Your father.
Thank you very much, sir.
This will be very helpful.
You shouldn't have bothered bringing it.
You could've sent it via messenger.
- Which promotion are you?
- Number 69.
It must be hard, with all the competition.
Your son keeps me busy.
- Have you always worked here?
- Almost always.
Your father told me you wanted to be a judge when you were little.
Really?
I didn't think so.
Would you mind not talking about my childhood?
- What's up with her?
- What?
Divorced women are very patient.
I'm not legally divorced.
Then, I'll offer myself as a candidate.
OK, do me a favor and go home as soon as you finish your tea.
No, I intend to stay a few more nights.
What?
Do you know the Italian restaurant La Bisboccia.
In Hirono?
I don't.
So, where will you sleep tonight?
Would you like me to reserve a room?
A suite for two, please.
You're so funny, sir.
His only intention was to kill someone.
Was it the only motive?
Exactly.
Killed for fun, then burned the body.
Some people resemble beasts more than they do humans.
However, during sentencing, you used his conflicted childhood, and his poverty as mitigating circumstances.
That was 30 years ago.
We still believed that social condition was an influencing factor.
In other words, you blame the times?
I've never been in favor of abolishing the death penalty.
Now, because of a too-lenient sentence,
another person had to die.
And it weighs heavily on me.
Listen.
An abyss sets apart killers from the rest of humanity.
To cross that abyss is a matter determined at birth.
I think that's a very arrogant affirmation.
Don't you believe rehabilitation is possible?
Remember he sent you a postcard.
You are the arrogant one.
To think people can change so easily.
This time, he killed for money, right?
No.
Something tells me the motive had nothing to do with money.
Don't waste your time finding that out.
Don't say it's a waste of time.
If we can't even understand family, imagine a stranger.
Dear Judge Shigemori,
It's been long time since you presided my trial I'm Takashi Misumi.
Last year, I was granted parole.
Now I'm working in a food plant in Kawasaki.
I'm now working in a food plant in Kawasaki.
Last week we had a snowstorm that reminded me of my hometown in Hokkaido.
When my daughter turned four we made a huge snow cake.
My daughter wasn't using gloves.
I gave her one of mine.
Her hands were red from the cold we made a cake taller than she was.
Even though it was cold, it was a warm memory.
Next stop, Rumoi, end of the line.
How old were you when he was tried the first time?
What year was it?
1986.
I must've been at the institute.
Do you remember it?
No.
Hokkaido is a big prefecture.
Who can remember a killing in some small town?
He killed two moneylenders.
Stole their money and burnt the floor.
It's amazing they didn't give him the death penalty.
If they had, he wouldn't have killed again.
Your father wouldn't talk like that.
Those were his exact words.
I arrested him, let's see,
January 22nd, 1986.
The train wasn't running because of the storm.
Hell of a cold night.
Did you personally arrest Misumi, Mr. Watanabe?
Yes.