Tokyo Vice (2022) s02e03 Episode Script
Season 2, Episode 3
1
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪
[PERSON SHOUTS]
♪
Aah!
[TV CLICKS OFF]
I came off like an asshole.
No, you sounded thoughtful
and looked very, very handsome.
- Your friends are very cute.
- Oh, I know.
- I tell them all the time.
- [GIGGLES]
Uh
It's just my friend Samantha.
Mm.
St. Louis?
Yeah.
It's to go home
for my dad's 60th birthday.
And the "Meicho" will let
their star reporter
have time off?
Hmm?
Do you not want to go?
No, it's just kind of
complicated with my family.
Plus, I'd rather stay here with you.
Wait to go out.
Our rendezvous spot?
That's not going out.
Aren't you tired of sneaking over here
and never leaving this room?
Jake
You know it's too dangerous.
- I'm tired of hiding.
- I am, too.
But we have to be patient and careful.
Because I'm really good
at being patient and careful.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[DOOR OPENS]
♪
Hai.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
-
♪
♪
[BOTH GROANING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
Hai.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Why don't you let me cook for you?
Come to my house.
I'll make you a meal.
- You want to make me a meal?
- Yes, I do.
How nice of you, Ohno-san.
So what do you say?
I'm flattered.
Which usually means no.
It's just that I have rules.
Samantha
I feel we made a real
connection these last weeks.
I'd like to see where it goes,
if you're willing.
Let me think about it.
Sure.
[CLATTER, LAUGHTER]
[SOFTLY] Erika.
- I'll just be a minute.
- Sure.
Good evening, Ohno-san.
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Are you going to do
something about this?
There's nothing I can do.
Hmm.
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Hmm.
♪
[STOMACH RUMBLING]
[LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[STOMACH RUMBLES, BOTH CHUCKLE]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[CHUCKLES]
Hmm.
[ERIKA CHUCKLES]
Hmm.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Last night was
the third time this month
that he's been in my club.
He's chasing my clients away.
Who the fuck is he?
Hayama.
He's the wakagashira
of Chihara-kai
Ishida's number two.
Sato's supposed to look after my club.
Last night, he just sat there.
He wouldn't lift a finger to help me.
Yeah, well, there's not much he can do
because Hayama outranks him.
Will you talk to him for me,
see if he can do something?
To Sato?
Uh [CHUCKLES]
The last time I saw Sato,
I got kicked out of Onyx
for trying to fight him.
So we stay clear of each other.
Why don't you talk to him?
I thought you guys were, like
Not anymore.
Business and pleasure
not a great mix.
Yeah, I hear that.
Are you seeing someone?
Yeah.
For a while now.
It's really good.
I mean, it's complicated, but it's good.
Look at you, all grown up.
Well, let's not go that far.
[GROANS] I can't have
this guy in my club.
Go to Sato as a friend
and ask for his help.
[SIGHS]
Yeah!
Two articles about motorcycle
thieves, and now you're a hero.
Don't do that. Cynicism is lazy.
I agree.
It's our mission
to try and change things.
Yes, try and change things.
But why do Americans think it's your job
to fix the entire world?
- Well, someone's got to do it.
- Mm.
I have to get back to work.
But take these.
Invitations to an official function
at the U.S. ambassador's
residence tomorrow night.
You're all going to cultivate sources.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[LIGHT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
♪
I thought we were meeting
here next week.
This couldn't wait.
[GASPS]
Is this a plane ticket to Missouri?
No, it's better.
It's an invitation
to a U.S. embassy party
tomorrow night.
You're going to be my plus-one.
Shh.
[WHISPERING] Invent a name for you
and get you on the list.
[WHISPERING] Jake
it's still such a risk.
It's just one night
you and me on a real date.
It's perfect.
♪
[MUFFLED RAP MUSIC THUMPING]
♪
[SINGING IN KOREAN]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
[MUSIC VOLUME DECREASES]
[VOLUME INCREASES]
[SINGING ALONG]
♪
Everybody [CROWD SHOUTS]
Rock your body ♪
Everybody ♪
Rock your body right ♪
[CHEERS]
Backstreet's back, all right ♪
Whoo! Yeah, yeah!
Brothers, sisters, everybody sing ♪
[ALL SHOUTING]
ALL: Everybody, yeah ♪
Rock your body, yeah ♪
[LAUGHS]
Am I the only one? ♪
Yeah ♪
Am I sexual? ♪
Yeah ♪
Am I everything you need?
You better rock your body now ♪
Everybody, rock your body right ♪
[ENGINE REVVING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey.
I just left you a message
about meeting up.
I was already on my way here.
I need to talk to you, too.
Okay. [SIGHS]
We have a problem.
- You mean about Hayama?
- Mm-hmm.
Will you talk to Ishida?
Make him understand
Hayama's bad for business.
The Oyabun will keep him out of the club
after you do something for him.
The architect.
Ohno-san? What about him?
He works for the city
chief designer of a new shopping center
to be built on a railway station.
The Oyabun wants to know which
station before it's public
to buy all the surrounding land
before the announcement
makes it prime real estate.
I'm not spying on a customer for you.
The success of my place
depends on discretion.
For Oyabun,
knowing which railway station
is more valuable than the club.
And the club belongs to him.
So now you're threatening me?
I told you not to fire Claudine.
She was fucking stealing from me.
She was working for us.
[GRUNTS]
She was sitting
with the architect every night,
getting information.
But now all he wants is you.
So you must finish the job.
And if I say no?
Please, trust me
do not say no.
I'm sorry. I need your answer tomorrow.
[SIGHS SHARPLY]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[SHOUTS]
Uh
Uh-huh.
[CHUCKLES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[GUN CLATTERS]
♪
[APPLAUSE]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
[LINE TRILLING]
[CHUCKLES]
Mm, bye-bye.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS,
DISTANT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]
ALL: In daylights, in sunsets ♪
In midnights, in cups of coffee ♪
In inches, in miles,
in laughter, in strife. ♪
How about love? ♪
ALL: Seasons of love, love. ♪
Here we go.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you to the cast members of "Rent."
So please say hi to them
as you enjoy something to eat.
[MAKOTO SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[ELEGANT MUSIC PLAYING]
Lynn is in the FBI,
so she only deals with federal crimes.
Well, at least American law
acknowledges the problem.
Women in the U.S.
can take out restraining orders
against their stalkers.
Yes, that's true,
but we could be a lot more
effective with prevention.
If you'd like, I could get you
the latest American statistics.
I would.
- Can we talk on Monday?
- Absolutely.
♪
Yes, I had the shrimp puffs.
- They were delicious.
- [CHUCKLES]
Jason Aoki, U.S. Embassy.
Jun Shinohara, "Meicho Shimbun."
A journalist? [LAUGHS]
I was wrong.
My colleagues and I play a game
where we try to guess what
people do before we meet them.
- What were the guesses?
- One did guess journalist.
One bet retired baseball player.
[CHUCKLES]
And I just lost money
betting you're a model.
You should meet another of my reporters.
Jake Adelstein, this is Lynn Oberfeld,
legal attaché at the embassy.
I've really enjoyed reading your work.
When Hal Lieberman first said
there was an American
working on the "Meicho,"
- I thought he was kidding.
- We are slowly civilizing him.
This is Jason Aoki from my office.
- Nice to meet you.
- And you.
This is my friend Mari.
- Ah, journalist also?
- No.
I'm a choreographer modern dance.
Oh, forgive me.
I see a colleague
from the Korean embassy
who's been trying to get me for weeks.
I'm sure we'll talk again.
Enjoy your evening.
You too.
I'm going to try a shrimp puff.
I hear good things.
Modern dance?
You have no idea how talented I am.
[BOTH LAUGH]
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- Ah
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CHUCKLES]
[ELEGANT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Excuse me. Are you
the famous choreographer?
[CHUCKLES] Yes, I am.
And you choreographed tonight's show?
Yes, I did. Wasn't it great?
We're touring the world.
Our next stop is Missouri.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Come with me.
Meet my family.
I-I know we've only been
together for a month,
and the very idea of us
being together is crazy,
but
I want to believe that we have
a future together.
♪
What?
Did he see me?
Who?
That man. I've see him with Tozawa.
Don't worry.
Nobody here has
any connection to Tozawa.
I have to go.
Hey, slow down.
Do not touch me.
Stay away from me.
♪
You seem preoccupied?
Do I?
Not at all.
Are you concerned about my proposal
that we spend time together
outside of here?
I'm still thinking about it.
I just need you to be patient.
Take all the time you need.
Can you excuse me for a minute?
Sure.
God damn it.
- Sam?
- Yeah?
You deal with him.
I'll deal with them, okay?
- Okay.
- Divide and conquer.
Thank you.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[CAN OPENS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
♪
Ahh.
♪
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[BANGING CONTINUES]
If the newspaper speaks up for him,
we could get him in reform school.
It doesn't matter that he's a juvenile.
He was arrested while stealing
a motorcycle,
and he hit a policeman.
Reform school is off the table.
Maruyama-san, he's been
in a holding cell for a day.
The other prisoners
have already beat him up.
It will get worse
when he is transferred.
Juvenile prison here can be
even worse than adult ones.
Jesus.
[SIGHS]
Yo.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GRUNTS, SPEAKS JAPANESE]
- [CHUCKLES]
I'm busy, "Meicho" -san.
Listen
the last time I saw you at Onyx
Oh.
I was out of line.
You tried to help me,
and I jumped to conclusions.
I heard you got beat up.
Yeah.
I heard you got stabbed.
Yeah.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[PERSON SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[SPEAKS JAPANESE]
[SLURPS]
Which prison is he going to?
Probably Asaka in Saitama.
Guards there like to turn
the fire hoses on prisoners.
Um, one boy
um
[CLEARS THROAT] [LIGHTER CLINKS]
I'll take care of it.
Take care of it, like?
Make sure he is protected inside
and give him a place with us
when he's out.
- Eh?
- Mm
Uh
[SIGHS]
And you are paying for dinner.
- Seriously?
- Yeah.
Maybe you should have skipped
the Kobe beef, huh?
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[LAUGHING]
[DISTANT INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Aren't you all going out for afters?
We are here, with you.
Sit with us.
Minami got some food.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Kanpai.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
♪
Huh?
♪
♪
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[LINE TRILLING]
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- [SIGHS]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
♪
[PERSON SHOUTS]
♪
Aah!
[TV CLICKS OFF]
I came off like an asshole.
No, you sounded thoughtful
and looked very, very handsome.
- Your friends are very cute.
- Oh, I know.
- I tell them all the time.
- [GIGGLES]
Uh
It's just my friend Samantha.
Mm.
St. Louis?
Yeah.
It's to go home
for my dad's 60th birthday.
And the "Meicho" will let
their star reporter
have time off?
Hmm?
Do you not want to go?
No, it's just kind of
complicated with my family.
Plus, I'd rather stay here with you.
Wait to go out.
Our rendezvous spot?
That's not going out.
Aren't you tired of sneaking over here
and never leaving this room?
Jake
You know it's too dangerous.
- I'm tired of hiding.
- I am, too.
But we have to be patient and careful.
Because I'm really good
at being patient and careful.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[DOOR OPENS]
♪
Hai.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
-
♪
♪
[BOTH GROANING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
Hai.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Why don't you let me cook for you?
Come to my house.
I'll make you a meal.
- You want to make me a meal?
- Yes, I do.
How nice of you, Ohno-san.
So what do you say?
I'm flattered.
Which usually means no.
It's just that I have rules.
Samantha
I feel we made a real
connection these last weeks.
I'd like to see where it goes,
if you're willing.
Let me think about it.
Sure.
[CLATTER, LAUGHTER]
[SOFTLY] Erika.
- I'll just be a minute.
- Sure.
Good evening, Ohno-san.
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Are you going to do
something about this?
There's nothing I can do.
Hmm.
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Hmm.
♪
[STOMACH RUMBLING]
[LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[STOMACH RUMBLES, BOTH CHUCKLE]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[CHUCKLES]
Hmm.
[ERIKA CHUCKLES]
Hmm.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]
Last night was
the third time this month
that he's been in my club.
He's chasing my clients away.
Who the fuck is he?
Hayama.
He's the wakagashira
of Chihara-kai
Ishida's number two.
Sato's supposed to look after my club.
Last night, he just sat there.
He wouldn't lift a finger to help me.
Yeah, well, there's not much he can do
because Hayama outranks him.
Will you talk to him for me,
see if he can do something?
To Sato?
Uh [CHUCKLES]
The last time I saw Sato,
I got kicked out of Onyx
for trying to fight him.
So we stay clear of each other.
Why don't you talk to him?
I thought you guys were, like
Not anymore.
Business and pleasure
not a great mix.
Yeah, I hear that.
Are you seeing someone?
Yeah.
For a while now.
It's really good.
I mean, it's complicated, but it's good.
Look at you, all grown up.
Well, let's not go that far.
[GROANS] I can't have
this guy in my club.
Go to Sato as a friend
and ask for his help.
[SIGHS]
Yeah!
Two articles about motorcycle
thieves, and now you're a hero.
Don't do that. Cynicism is lazy.
I agree.
It's our mission
to try and change things.
Yes, try and change things.
But why do Americans think it's your job
to fix the entire world?
- Well, someone's got to do it.
- Mm.
I have to get back to work.
But take these.
Invitations to an official function
at the U.S. ambassador's
residence tomorrow night.
You're all going to cultivate sources.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[LIGHT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
♪
I thought we were meeting
here next week.
This couldn't wait.
[GASPS]
Is this a plane ticket to Missouri?
No, it's better.
It's an invitation
to a U.S. embassy party
tomorrow night.
You're going to be my plus-one.
Shh.
[WHISPERING] Invent a name for you
and get you on the list.
[WHISPERING] Jake
it's still such a risk.
It's just one night
you and me on a real date.
It's perfect.
♪
[MUFFLED RAP MUSIC THUMPING]
♪
[SINGING IN KOREAN]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
[MUSIC VOLUME DECREASES]
[VOLUME INCREASES]
[SINGING ALONG]
♪
Everybody [CROWD SHOUTS]
Rock your body ♪
Everybody ♪
Rock your body right ♪
[CHEERS]
Backstreet's back, all right ♪
Whoo! Yeah, yeah!
Brothers, sisters, everybody sing ♪
[ALL SHOUTING]
ALL: Everybody, yeah ♪
Rock your body, yeah ♪
[LAUGHS]
Am I the only one? ♪
Yeah ♪
Am I sexual? ♪
Yeah ♪
Am I everything you need?
You better rock your body now ♪
Everybody, rock your body right ♪
[ENGINE REVVING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey.
I just left you a message
about meeting up.
I was already on my way here.
I need to talk to you, too.
Okay. [SIGHS]
We have a problem.
- You mean about Hayama?
- Mm-hmm.
Will you talk to Ishida?
Make him understand
Hayama's bad for business.
The Oyabun will keep him out of the club
after you do something for him.
The architect.
Ohno-san? What about him?
He works for the city
chief designer of a new shopping center
to be built on a railway station.
The Oyabun wants to know which
station before it's public
to buy all the surrounding land
before the announcement
makes it prime real estate.
I'm not spying on a customer for you.
The success of my place
depends on discretion.
For Oyabun,
knowing which railway station
is more valuable than the club.
And the club belongs to him.
So now you're threatening me?
I told you not to fire Claudine.
She was fucking stealing from me.
She was working for us.
[GRUNTS]
She was sitting
with the architect every night,
getting information.
But now all he wants is you.
So you must finish the job.
And if I say no?
Please, trust me
do not say no.
I'm sorry. I need your answer tomorrow.
[SIGHS SHARPLY]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[SHOUTS]
Uh
Uh-huh.
[CHUCKLES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[GUN CLATTERS]
♪
[APPLAUSE]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
[LINE TRILLING]
[CHUCKLES]
Mm, bye-bye.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS,
DISTANT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]
ALL: In daylights, in sunsets ♪
In midnights, in cups of coffee ♪
In inches, in miles,
in laughter, in strife. ♪
How about love? ♪
ALL: Seasons of love, love. ♪
Here we go.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you to the cast members of "Rent."
So please say hi to them
as you enjoy something to eat.
[MAKOTO SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[ELEGANT MUSIC PLAYING]
Lynn is in the FBI,
so she only deals with federal crimes.
Well, at least American law
acknowledges the problem.
Women in the U.S.
can take out restraining orders
against their stalkers.
Yes, that's true,
but we could be a lot more
effective with prevention.
If you'd like, I could get you
the latest American statistics.
I would.
- Can we talk on Monday?
- Absolutely.
♪
Yes, I had the shrimp puffs.
- They were delicious.
- [CHUCKLES]
Jason Aoki, U.S. Embassy.
Jun Shinohara, "Meicho Shimbun."
A journalist? [LAUGHS]
I was wrong.
My colleagues and I play a game
where we try to guess what
people do before we meet them.
- What were the guesses?
- One did guess journalist.
One bet retired baseball player.
[CHUCKLES]
And I just lost money
betting you're a model.
You should meet another of my reporters.
Jake Adelstein, this is Lynn Oberfeld,
legal attaché at the embassy.
I've really enjoyed reading your work.
When Hal Lieberman first said
there was an American
working on the "Meicho,"
- I thought he was kidding.
- We are slowly civilizing him.
This is Jason Aoki from my office.
- Nice to meet you.
- And you.
This is my friend Mari.
- Ah, journalist also?
- No.
I'm a choreographer modern dance.
Oh, forgive me.
I see a colleague
from the Korean embassy
who's been trying to get me for weeks.
I'm sure we'll talk again.
Enjoy your evening.
You too.
I'm going to try a shrimp puff.
I hear good things.
Modern dance?
You have no idea how talented I am.
[BOTH LAUGH]
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- Ah
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CHUCKLES]
[ELEGANT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Excuse me. Are you
the famous choreographer?
[CHUCKLES] Yes, I am.
And you choreographed tonight's show?
Yes, I did. Wasn't it great?
We're touring the world.
Our next stop is Missouri.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Come with me.
Meet my family.
I-I know we've only been
together for a month,
and the very idea of us
being together is crazy,
but
I want to believe that we have
a future together.
♪
What?
Did he see me?
Who?
That man. I've see him with Tozawa.
Don't worry.
Nobody here has
any connection to Tozawa.
I have to go.
Hey, slow down.
Do not touch me.
Stay away from me.
♪
You seem preoccupied?
Do I?
Not at all.
Are you concerned about my proposal
that we spend time together
outside of here?
I'm still thinking about it.
I just need you to be patient.
Take all the time you need.
Can you excuse me for a minute?
Sure.
God damn it.
- Sam?
- Yeah?
You deal with him.
I'll deal with them, okay?
- Okay.
- Divide and conquer.
Thank you.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[CAN OPENS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
♪
Ahh.
♪
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[BANGING CONTINUES]
If the newspaper speaks up for him,
we could get him in reform school.
It doesn't matter that he's a juvenile.
He was arrested while stealing
a motorcycle,
and he hit a policeman.
Reform school is off the table.
Maruyama-san, he's been
in a holding cell for a day.
The other prisoners
have already beat him up.
It will get worse
when he is transferred.
Juvenile prison here can be
even worse than adult ones.
Jesus.
[SIGHS]
Yo.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GRUNTS, SPEAKS JAPANESE]
- [CHUCKLES]
I'm busy, "Meicho" -san.
Listen
the last time I saw you at Onyx
Oh.
I was out of line.
You tried to help me,
and I jumped to conclusions.
I heard you got beat up.
Yeah.
I heard you got stabbed.
Yeah.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[PERSON SPEAKING JAPANESE]
[SPEAKS JAPANESE]
[SLURPS]
Which prison is he going to?
Probably Asaka in Saitama.
Guards there like to turn
the fire hoses on prisoners.
Um, one boy
um
[CLEARS THROAT] [LIGHTER CLINKS]
I'll take care of it.
Take care of it, like?
Make sure he is protected inside
and give him a place with us
when he's out.
- Eh?
- Mm
Uh
[SIGHS]
And you are paying for dinner.
- Seriously?
- Yeah.
Maybe you should have skipped
the Kobe beef, huh?
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[LAUGHING]
[DISTANT INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Aren't you all going out for afters?
We are here, with you.
Sit with us.
Minami got some food.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Kanpai.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
♪
Huh?
♪
♪
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[LINE TRILLING]
- [CELL PHONE VIBRATING]
- [SIGHS]
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪