This is going to be another two-episode arc. I like how the creators have managed so far to relate Aoki’s ordinary problems to the extreme cases that we see portrayed in the cases that have to be investigated. This episode is all about privacy and the intrusion of it.
In this episode, a girl murders nearly her entire family, and her father ends up taking all the blame and smashes the victim’s heads while the daughter hides for three years until the case dies down. The father then passes away (I didn’t quite catch how), and Aoki how the girl had murdered these people. The problem however is that for some reason, Aoki is not allowed to reveal the information he discovered. I didn’t exactly understand the reasons, but I think it has to do with the fact that Kinuko (the girl) claimed a loss of memory, and she would end up being released anyway.
Aoki basically doesn’t want a killer like that to go unpunished, but at the same time, Maki reminds him how acting like this won’t bring the dead ones back. There’s one thing I don’t understand, though. I mean, what guarantee is there that the girl will never kill someone else again? If I’m not mistaken, then one of the purposes of throwing killers in jail is to make sure that they won’t repeat their actions in the future.
In any case, in the next episode we’ll probably discover why Kinuko ended up killing her parents. We already know that her father invaded her privacy once, when she was “spending time” with her boyfriend, but that doesn’t yet explain why the father was the only one surviving and the rest of the family died.
The daughter was never accused of commiting the crime. The father found his daugther at the crime scene (their house before the police did and he smashed the heads of the murdered family members and remove all prints and traces the daughter left. He then proceeds to turn himself in and take the blame for the killing; and before that probably telling his daughter to run away. While he probably told his daughter to run away, he did tell the police that he had killed her too, but dumped the body (or something like that, I couldn’t quite make out the dialogue there, it could also be threw her in the river or something like that).
The sequence you see at the start of the episode is the father right before he is sentanced to death by hanging.
The reason Aoki is not allowed to share his findings is because the daughter has already been cleared of all charges (since the father turned himself in and confessed the crime). The case is considered solved, since the father took upon himself to take the blame and was sentanced to death for the crime.
Maki also says that he if Aoki tell anyone what he saw on the “brain video”, he would be commiting a crime himself, by abuse of confidentiality.
Hope that helps some.
“There’s one thing I don’t understand, though. I mean, what guarantee is there that the girl will never kill someone else again?”
Of course there’s no guarantee. That’s probably one of the reasons that they are still reviewing the “brain” footage. If they can understand why she killed her family, they would also be able to see if it’s possible that she will kill again and maybe even WHO she would be most likely of targeting.
Aegd: ah, thanks. I now know what I missed when I watched this episode: I never thought about the possibility that the father would be sentenced to death. When I sw the beginning of the episode, I somehow believed that he killd himself. Now the episode makes indeed a lot of sense. 🙂