Japanese drama: Mr.Brain, Episode 1

This is a Japanese detective TV drama, starring Takuya Kimura (木村拓哉), which tells about a university student encounters an accident which makes his brain bit  strange and but more brilliant... He helps solving some criminal incidents with the excellent knowledge and insight, but his behavior is bit strange to others...


Episode 1


A university student Tsukumo Ryusuke works in some night club, one night a big piece of wood panel falls down to him, he's sent to the hospital, doctor opens the skull for operation...


The image turns to 5 years later... Hayashida Toranosuke, who works in Investigation First Division, gets a call from an unknown person, saying there are 5 bombs in Gotanda area of the city, he and his superior Tanbara Tomomi go to the site to check the situation... Meanwhile one policeman captured a suspicious man, who's Tsukumo and submits him to Tanbara, Tsukumo is taken to the police station, but he solves the case and convinces the criminal, the policeman who caught him, to confess his crime... 


After the case Tsukumo goes to Institute of Police Science for work, he's a brain scientist in the institute, and it's his first working day... uri Kazune, who has specialized pharmacology, is assigned to work with Tsukumo as his assistant... 


Two leaders of Ministry of Industrial Development are murdered, but fingerprint of a prisoner is found at crime scene... The prisoner says he has commits the murder, since he has super power to pass through the wall... Tsukumo goes to meet the prisoner and asks him to show the super power, pass through wall for them, but the man fails... Tsukumo figures that the prisoner can't pass through wall at all, just there might be some people who have forced him to leave some  fingerprint and hair, then hit some police officer to get arrested then put into prison...    


According to Tsukumo's analysis, Tanbara and Hayashida question the prisoner again, and he admits it's true, but the people who have forced him to do so are from police, threatened if he tells this to anyone he would be killed... However, he gives some hint that those guys have mentioned a name 'Doi', who's superior of the two victims...  Police starts protecting Doi and his family


Hayashida tells Tsukumo there's a guy called Takei in the police station who seems to be linked to mob, Tsukumo goes to meet him along with Hayashida and Yuri... Tsukumo shows his suspicion about him, but Takei doesn't get angry...






  

Tsukumo go to the first crime scene along with Yuri, figures who's the criminal... At the same time, Tanbara and Hayashida go to a den to arrest two persons working in the police, since the prisoner tells that he has seen those two persons among the guys who have come to him for the crime, among which there is Takei...


Tsukumo goes to meet Tanbara and Hayashida when they have arrested the two suspicious characters, Tsukumo tells Tanbara that these two are not the criminal, takes him to the first crime scene and explains the dying message left by the first victim that the crimical is Doi...


Tanbara and Hayashida bring Doi to Tsukumo's brain science lab, Tsukumo's gonna be giving a liar test to Doi...


Since this is a detective drama, it's better that I leave something unsolved, otherwise it wouldn't be so interesting for you to watch it...


Casts: 


Tsukumo Ryusuke: Takuya Kimura 
Yuri Kazune: Haruka Ayase
Hayashida Toranosuke: Hiro Mizushima
Tanbara Tomomi: Teruyuki Kagawa