01x06 - Maelstrom

[bunniefuu]

HITOGASHIMA

MAN: We hope you enjoyed

traveling with us.

Please watch your step. Have a nice day.

Mm.

HIZURU: That man is a shadow.

Which definitely adds

some credibility to that message.

(insects chirping)

(gasps)

(panting)

(theme music)

SUMMER TIME RENDERING

ORBITAL RESONANCE

MIO: Welcome home, Shin-chan!

(Mio chuckling)

Hey!

MIO: You have a nice trip?

-"Shin-chan"?

-MIO: I wanna hear everything!

-Shin Shinpei?

-SHINPEI: Leave it to me!

HIZURU: Shinpei Ajiro.

(water splashes)

Shinpei Ajiro.

-HIZURU: That boy on the ferry.

-Shin-chan!

-MIO: Shin-chan!

-HIZURU: No, it can't be him.

Oh.

FUNERAL OF USHIO KOFUNE

HIZURU: Funeral? Kofune? Ushio.

SHINPEI: Ushio!

(pensive music)

HIZURU: It's currently 11:45 a.m.

I'm at the funeral parlor.

The deceased is Ushio Kofune.

I know her from around the island.

-MASAHITO: Hizuru-chan?

-Huh?

MASAHITO: Ah, I thought that was you!

Hizuru Minakata. That right?

You have a good memory, Masahito Karikiri.

No way, you look fantastic.

How long has it been?

Uh, about 14 years, I think.

HIZURU: I'm in his shadow, seems fine.

MASAHITO: No.

Has it really been that long?

HIZURU: He's not one of them.

Is Ushio related to the family

that owns Bistro Kofune?

Yeah, she is. She passed

in an accident yesterday.

Are you here

because you heard about Ushio?

No.

MASAHITO: Oh, then what are you here for?

You're not back for good, are you?

No, I live in Tokyo and--

Wait! Stop, stop! Just let me guess!

You were always smart, so I'm gonna say

-you must be a big corporate attorney

-Oh, god, now it's all coming back to me.

-or maybe a doctor?

-I could never stand being around you

for five minutes.

Turns out I still can't.

Guess nothing's changed.

(laughs)

-You were always such a jokester!

-Ugh!

-It's not a joke, you windbag!

-Oh.

MASAHITO: Hey, Alain.

-You remember who this is?

-(grunts)

You'll be shocked when I tell you.

-Ready for this? Her name is--

-I'm Hizuru Minakata.

-Come on! You totally blew the big reveal!

-Huh? Hizuru?

Hizuru, that you?

It's been a long time, Alain.

HIZURU: It was my second year

of Junior High.

BISTRO KOFUNE

HIZURU: I went to Bistro Kofune

a lot back then.

Alain had two little daughters,

Ushio and Mio.

Alain's wife died

soon after she gave birth to Mio.

And when Alain went to work,

customers usually looked after the girls.

Read me this picture book!

-HIZURU: This isn't a picture book.

-Hey, you can't read her that!

Not fair! Read it! Read it to me!

Read it! Read it! Read it!

You know, maybe you'd rather hear

one of my epic original stories instead?

Huh? Or… Original?

Oh! Lucky you, Ushio.

Hizuru's newest masterpiece.

HIZURU: "A very long time ago,

on an island"

HIZURU: Death is inevitable,

it comes for us all.

(gloomy music)

HIZURU: Ryunosuke, it's been 14 years.

Clearly enough time has passed

for another one to have died.

What happened? Did you say you fell?

What's the matter?

It sounds like Mio and Shinpei

-fell into the ocean.

-(Hizuru gasps)

ALAIN: Needless to say,

they'll be a little late.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Let's wait a while, then.

HIZURU: Alain, who's this Shinpei

you mentioned?

Shinpei? You don't know him.

He came here after you left the island.

He's a young man named Shinpei Ajiro.

He's actually my friend's son,

but I took him in a long time ago.

HIZURU: Shinpei Ajiro.

Was it ten years ago now?

He lost his parents

in a tragic boating accident.

After that, he was all alone,

he didn't have any relatives--

Excuse me.

ALAIN: Oh, Hizuru.

What the

HIZURU: The boy who was sitting

in front of me on the ferry,

that was the Shinpei Ajiro

Alain's talking about.

I should avoid meeting him.

I can't, right now.

I can't afford to trust anyone yet.

Wait a minute, Hizuru!

HIZURU: Uh Ligature marks?

ALAIN: Yes. They said it looked like

someone was trying to strangle her,

and she put up a fight.

Wait a second, Alain.

Are the police idiots, or what?

The attacker's DNA, like blood or skin,

is still on the victim's

fingernails sometimes.

So did they bother to check

her fingernails?

ALAIN: Hm, no.

HIZURU: Unbelievable.

Doesn't this remind you

of that time a while back?

HIZURU: Oh

ALAIN: It was around 14 years ago

when Ryunosuke died.

(crying)

No, Ryunosuke!

HIZURU: Heine!

-HIZURU: Move!

-(crowd gasps)

MAN 1: Why?

-(grunts)

-MAN 2: Whoa!

Hey, hey! What are you doing?

(grunts)

Don't touch me!

TETSU: What the hell is this?

Don't think I won't arrest you.

HIZURU: Nothing seems unusual

at first, but

(ominous music)

Who did the makeup for this body?

I think it was

It was a nurse at the Hishigata Clinic.

What is this? The dead deserve respect.

It's okay, doctor. Don't worry.

She's a friend of the family.

Who's really being disrespectful here?

HISHIGATA: Hm?

Hizuru.

ALAIN: Hizuru.

Sorry about that. I'll get going.

It was because I said

all that nonsense before.

Just forget about it.

HIZURU: Before I go,

I have one last question for you, Alain.

ALAIN: Hm?

Did Ushio ever mention her doppelgänger

before she passed away?

-ALAIN: Doppel

-ASAKO: Hizuru?

Isokone Asako Isokone.

I always wanted to get in touch with you,

but, you know, you never gave me

your address or your phone number.

Are you doing okay?

Depends on how you define "okay,"

but at least my heart

is still beating, I guess.

(Asako chuckles)

You haven't changed at all.

ASAKO: Do you remember much about Ushio?

HIZURU: Yeah.

At the wake yesterday, we got together

and shared a lot of stories about her,

like how I always changed her diapers.

(Asako sobs)

Why did Why did this happen to her?

Ushio saved my daughter's life, you know?

ALAIN: It's all right, that's just

the kind of person Ushio was.

All that matters now

is that your Shiori is safe.

HIZURU: Give me a break.

What's it crying about? Stop it.

This disgusting, phony charade

makes me sick.

(Asako sobbing)

HIZURU: Damn shadow.

-TATSUO: Asako.

-HIZURU: Hm?

HIZURU: My guess is Asako

is probably already dead.

"Ushio saved my daughter's life?"

"Why did this happen to her?" What a lie.

How dare you come in here

pretending to be Asako,

mocking Alain and Ushio in the process?

NEZU: So you're telling me

all three Kobayakawas are shadows?

Yes. No doubt about it.

Believe me, I confirmed it myself.

The shadows are multiplying.

NEZU: Seems to me like

it only takes one of them

-to propagate and make more shadows.

-HIZURU: Hmm

The shadows I know

aren't capable of something like that.

HIZURU: What is happening on this island?

Who knows? I have no idea about that.

HIZURU: How about this theory?

One day a shadow attacks Shiori Kobayakawa

while she's in the water.

It kills and erases the real Shiori,

deciding to pose

as the vulnerable

and aggrieved little girl.

But then Mio saves the shadow Shiori.

After that,

it mercilessly kills Shiori's parents

-and replaces them with shadows.

-(Hizuru sobbing)

NEZU: Are you Are you crying?

Looks like it's gonna snow tomorrow.

-HIZURL: It never snows this time of year.

-NEZU: Ow!

(Nezu grunts)

HIZURU: If anything, it'll rain,

but the forecast for tomorrow

is sunny and clear.

Get your facts straight.

NEZU: What is this?

HIZURI: That's my secondary cell phone.

Please let me know if it rings at all.

I need you to do something for me.

HITOGASHIMA HALL

SHINPEI: I'm gonna follow

my memory like last time,

and repeat the funeral again.

Same movements. Same conversations.

(inaudible)

Listen, Shiori. I heard you saw

someone who looked like you.

Be careful. That could be

a monster called a shadow.

If you see her again,

just try to stay away from her, okay?

SHINPEI: I'm repeating everything I did,

but this version of Shiori

isn't doing anything to me.

Coffin comes in at one.

Good. It's all going well.

SHADOW ASAKO: Hey, Shinpei.

SHINPEI: Oh.

Did Mio tell you

that Shiori maybe saw something

a look-alike or a shadow?

Oh, yeah. When she was

she was little

(gasps)

SHINPEI: Huh? Both of them.

Shinpei, you okay?

Ah, yep. So when Mio was a little girl,

her grandma told her about it.

Sorry that probably sounded weird.

-SHADOW TATSUO: Asako, let's go.

-SHADOW ASAKO: Okay.

SHINPEI: It can't be.

Are all three of them shadows?

So then the real three are already

Come on. Where are you, Ms. Nagumo?

We're running out of time.

Hey, Shin-chan.

-Uh

-Hey. Are you okay?

(Shinpei sighs)

SHINPEI: Mio, can I ask you something?

Were you wearing

white underwear yesterday?

(Mio gasps)

That's really the first thing you ask me

after being away for two years?

Mio, it's very important I know

what color your underwear were.

MIO: What happened to you, Shin-chan?

SHINPEI: Right before Mio's

shadow k*lled me the last time,

I accidentally saw up her dress,

and the shadow's underwear were white.

But the ones Mio had on weren't.

Well, yesterday I went home

after the wake, and I changed.

Yeah, the the new pair

I changed into were white,

so what does that matter?

SHINPEI: That means Mio

was copied yesterday.

I don't think there's any way

to prevent that.

I have to k*ll it. I have to protect Mio.

(metal creaks)

MIOH: So you don't know, either, Dad?

(static)

Do you have any idea where Sis went?

MIOH: Didn't think so.

SHINPEI: It's 1:30.

Ushio is cremated in her coffin.

After that, we have lunch

before we pick up the ashes.

(indistinct chatter)

SHINPEI: There are really two questions

I want to ask people.

Question one.

"Do you know the shadow sickness?"

Huh? Oh. The ghost story?

You know, it's funny,

someone just asked me something similar.

Well, of course, I know about it.

Actually, my great-grandfather named it.

He called it "shadow sickness."

It is true that a peculiar type

of mental illness did occur

among certain isolated groups.

SHINPEI: Question two.

"Have you seen a busty woman recently?"

(Tetsu laughs)

I saw her! She's a G cup.

Are you talking about Hizuru, by chance?

Don't know who you mean.

Shinpei, I'm pretty sure

you know Hizuru, don't you?

She used to come over

to our place all the time, remember?

Huh? To our place?

SHINPEI: How did we never meet?

ALAIN: By the way, Shinpei.

Can you take a quick look at this?

I asked Hizuru for her number,

but she just gave me this instead.

I can't seem to figure it out.

Maybe you can.

(gasps)

SHINPEI: Ms. Nagumo's contact info.

This This is

Excuse me, Shinpei. Nature calls.

SHINPEI: Hmm I think this is

the unbreakable code from that case

in her novel, Drifting Ashore.

(door opens)

(door opens)

(door closes)

(approaching footsteps)

OUT OF ORDER

(line ringing)

-Hi there. Is this Ms. Nagumo?

-NEZU: Hmm? Who the hell is this?

(Shinpei gasps)

Uh This is

SHINPEI: It's not Ms. Nagumo.

My name is Shinpei Ajiro. Who is this?

NEZU: I see.

That was faster than I thought.

My name is Nezu. Ginjiro Nezu.

But Ms. Nagumo is, uh,

an acquaintance of mine.

Now, how exactly did you get this number?

SHINPEI: Well, Ms. Nagumo

gave Alain this number in code.

NEZU: And you cracked it, didn't you?

Uh, yes. There was actually

a similar code in one of her books.

NEZU: Ah, are you

at the crematorium right now?

SHINPEI: Uh, yes.

NEZU: Leave when I hang up,

and go to the funeral hall. Go alone.

(Nezu clears throat)

I'll contact you later.

Uh, excuse me! Hello

(line beeping)

(door opens)

(static)

OUT OF ORDER

(toilet flushing)

Hmm It's open.

-What the

-(metal clanks)

(phone buzzing)

Oh. Hello? Mr. Nezu? I I made it.

SHINPEI: So, what should I do now?

Don't move a muscle.

Just stay where you are.

Like you're a scarecrow

standing in a field.

NEZU: It will be over soon.

Huh?

NEZU: There.

(g*nsh*t)

Huh?

HIZURU: Time and place. Of course,

you'd attack when Alain is alone.

But I predicted 17 different patterns.

You chose the bathroom.

Why are you here? This is the men's

Normal, huh?

ALAIN: What the What was

all that racket in the next stall?

What's going on in there?

GINJIRO NEZU

SHINPEI: Ms. Nagumo.

I can finally meet her.

NEZU: HIZURU WILL MEET YOU

AT THE FORT NO. 4 RUINS

HIZURU: If you really can,

go back in time to the 22nd,

just remember to tell me your name,

and I'll save you.

SHINPEI: If we work together

from the beginning,

we can k*ll Mio's shadow.

How does she even know

about shadows in the first place?

I have so many questions.

(Shinpei gasps)

-SHINPEI: Hello, Mr. Nezu. Right?

-Hmm

NEZU: Huh? This is the first time

we've met, right?

Oh, of course! You, uh, found out

found out about shadows, too?

If you have a bunch of questions,

I'm going to need you

to answer mine first, all right?

NEZU: To break the code you saw

from Ms. Nagumo's novel,

you need to know Ryunosuke Nagumo

and her real name.

But Hizuru has been careful

not to tell anyone

that she is, in fact,

the real Ryunosuke Nagumo.

So, really, the only one out there

who could possibly know enough

to call this number is Hizuru's shadow.

-HIZURU: But it turns out you're human.

-Oh.

(gasps)

SHINPEI: Ms. Nagumo.

NEZU: So

SHINPEI: It's

It's S-H-I-N-P-E-I A-J-I-R-O.

Please make it out to Shinpei Ajiro!

I'd I'd love your autograph.

I'm a huge fan of yours.

I have all of your books!

I read them over and over.

SHINPEI: I told you my name

like you asked.

Even with the bird's-eye view,

I sound like such an idiot.

Okay. What next?

Even with the current situation,

you aren't normal.

Lord Byron said,

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

Honestly, I'm not big on fantasy,

but when I see

what's possible in the world,

I come to the same conclusion.

TO SHINPEI AJIRO

RYUNOSUKE NAGUMO

(gasps)

Wow. Thank you so much.

Feel free to correct me if I have

the wrong impression about things.

On the ferry this morning,

you didn't know who I was.

No one knows who I am unless I choose

to tell them the truth about myself.

But I never told you who I am.

HIZURU: This is not the first time

you're living through the same July 22nd.

I think you must have repeated

this day many times.

(Shinpei gasps softly)

So in other words, you're a time traveler.

(sucks teeth)

That's right.

(closing theme music)