Kosaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda) grows more certain that Tsuyoshi Shimomura (Teruyuki Kagawa) is still alive after Rikako Ogaki (Ko Shibasaki) claims to have seen him at a party. Kuroda asks Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shoko Kanjo (Tamiyo Kusakari) to use her authority to open an investigation, but she refuses, stating that Rikako's testimony alone isn't enough to act on.
