Tokyo Vice
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it’s crucial that you watch this.
And true to form, the season-two premiere picks up right where we left off.
Katagiri puts the tape in his VCR and studies the footage.
A government official they can tie directly to Tozawa.
Katagiri gives Jake the go-ahead to initiate the story.
At the offices of Meich Shimbun, the senior editorial team mulls over what to do with the tape.
Baku (Kosuke Toyohara) figures they have enough to run with.
Itll be the biggest political scandal in years.
Things heat up real quick at the vice-ministers office.
Largely thanks to Jake, who cant help but go Wild West on his interlocutor.
Youre not the one who killed the girl, Jake retorts.
Youre being set up by Shinzo Tozawa, who made this tape to blackmail you.
Give us Tozawa, and well make that clear in the article.
Jakes cavalier, classic-American-TV-hero approach isnt without its merits (dramatically, at least).
Threatening a government official was a calculated risk if they want to connect Tozawa to the murder.
But they donthaveTozawa yet, Emi reminds him.
We have the vice-minister, one nameless Yakuza, and another missing woman presumed dead.
Who deserves to have her story told.
This seems to get through to Jake, or at least calm him down enough to rethink the scenario.
Maybe he can do right by Polina in this story first.
Time to deliver the bad news to Samantha (Rachel Keller).
I was actually hoping that you could tell me a little bit about her.
Where shes from, what brought her here, he says.
I wanna do right by her in the article.
I dont want her to be another faceless victim.
Timeisof the essence here, and Jakes heart seems in the right place.
Theyre saying a prayer and walking the grounds; Polina tells her a story from her childhood.
Around 3 a.m. along comes a wolf.
Best lesson I ever got, she tells Samantha.
You see a wolf, youd better not miss the shot.
Promise me: Dont ever fucking miss.
(Hey, thats the name of the episode!)
Okay, lets go back a bit and see whats up with our boy Sato!
Kaito arrives a few minutes before the boys from Chihara-kai come rolling in and pick up Sato by force.
Gen knows its curtains the second Sato wakes up.
Or is something more sinister afoot?
Either way, hes backed into a hell of a corner.
My Oyabun left the country recently, Yabuki tells Ishida.
He is very ill.
He claims never to have agreed with Tozawas move on Ishidas territory.
Nows the time to mend fences and hostilities.
Returning the traitor is the first step.
Its hard to know how on the level this conversation really is.
Nevertheless, this is good news worth taking at face value.
Ishida bids Yabuki a well be in touch and gets back to the task at hand.
No more, Sato manages to get out.
His emotional arc at the end of season one put him on a path of contemplative lamentation.
Hell show temperance and mercy where his peers might not.
Contain the collateral damage of his devils bargain.
At the police station, Katagiri gets an envelope with a matchbook from the Apio Hotel inside.
Room 107, it reads.
Katagiri brings the assistant commissioner up to speed on Miyamotos mini-undercover operation gone south.
Um, its going to be a no on that one.
Protecting the organization is a top priority now.
Its time to let sleeping dogs lie and avoid public scandal.
You think this office is going to trust you with a task force after this?
The threat against your family.
Our first sign is that this whole nail Tozawa thing isnt to go as planned.
Harsh move, but the smart one, and a route to putting Tozawa in the article.
But its all for naught.
A mysterious fire has conveniently destroyed the tape and every copy theyd made of it at the Meicho office.
Tozawa is an octopus, says Katagiri, tentacles extending everywhere.
Cut off one, another grows in its place.
Tozawa may be gone, but make no mistake, hes got eyes on our guys.
Polita and Miyamoto will have their justice.
For now, Katagiri says, they wait.
There are other stories, other crimes to be exposed.
Thats Jakes job, after all.
The next lie out of your mouth, I take a finger.
It turns out that Tozawa was trying to get some help getting off the U.S. no-fly list.
This meeting never happened.
If you say otherwise, Ill come back and kill you.
Acting on instincts, they warn their allies to quell.
Ken Watanabe remains one of the most mesmerizing actors of all time.
Every expression and contemplative twinkle of the eye communicates waves of mood and thought.
The way his cigarette quivers in his mouth when he gets the matchbook.
Damn, Watanabes good.
Taking a beat to appreciate how awesome it is were back here, man.
Im sure we have the shows popularity in Japan to thank for that.
It really sings in the final product.
