Elpis

False accusations and variety (1x1)

Air date: Oct 24, 2022

Ena Asakawa (Masami Nagasawa), an announcer at Taiyo TV, was both popular and talented, but left the programme after a weekly magazine filmed her kissing on the street. She now works as a corner MC on a late-night information programme. One day, Ena is consulted by new director Takuro Kishimoto (Go Atsushi Maeda) about a serial killer on death row who may be falsely convicted. Takuro, who for some reason does not care about Ena's desire not to be involved in the press, much less in a false conviction case, asks for her help in pursuing the truth of the case. There is a reason why Takuro is so eager to help... Ena dismisses the idea of digging up an incident that has already faded away, but Takuro persists and turns to ace news reporter Shoichi Saito (Ryohei Suzuki). He innocently invites Ena to go with him to hear the story of the incident...