Official Website
www.tbs.co.jp/S-saigonokeikan-
Broadcast
Sundays, 9.00 – 9.54 p.m. from 12 January 2014
Station
TBS
Story
At a housing estate, in a gloomy room with the curtains drawn, NPS (National Police Safety Rescue) member Kamikura Ichigo who is clad in an assault suit stands by the wall with his gun. Two men armed with guns have taken a housewife and her young son hostage and are holed up in the apartment next door. On the other hand, SAT (Special Unit) sniper Soga Iori has the cross-hairs of his rifle trained on the men from the outside. He waits for the instruction to shoot without moving an inch. However, the SAT’s mission this time is to provide logistical support to the NPS so commander Nakamaru Fumio can only standby for another order which never comes. NPS commander Kashii Hideki gives instructions to his men through their wireless devices. The objective of the third “S” is not to let hostages as well as captors die. Then, he begins the count to charge in. In the summer of 2013, half a year before this case, Ichigo was working hard as a police officer at a police box in the metropolis after his retirement from boxing. One day, a detective was shot in the foot at a multi-tenant building in Shinjuku. A large quantity of firearms and hand grenades were placed there. Looking at the police assembled outside the building, Okitsu, the leader of a loosely organised organised crime group that was showily committing crimes related to assault and drugs, called out to his associates that it was war from now. The prime minister gave the command to immediately deploy the SAT. Iori and the SAT members were dispatched. When Nakamaru was about to order his men to bring things under control, there was a directive to standby until there were directions from the superintendent general. Okitsu and his associates kidnapped a woman in the vicinity and demanded 300 million yen in cash as well as an airplane for their getaway overseas. Furthermore, because they took it lightly that the Japanese police would not be allowed to return fire if there was a hostage since lives are the number one priority, they shoved the hostage out a window. Shinoda, a member of the firearms control unit on the frontline, darted out with the intention of catching the hostage. However, the hostage was a mannequin. By the time Shinoda realised it, the sound of a gunshot echoed and he was struck down. Okitsu and his associates sprayed bullets at Shinoda, their target, and crowed about this being “police hunting”. Among the other immobilised members of the unit was Ichigo who was there as auxiliary police to stop curious onlookers. He joined two shields together and bolted off toward Shinoda. As the people around him stirred, he set up the shields to protect Shinoda and came under a relentless hail of gunshots. That was the moment that the third “S”, a special assault team which had still not been made public, covertly went in. It possesses both the mobility of the SAT as well as the investigative skills of the Special Investigations Team (SIT), and is tasked with bringing criminals into custody alive. This small elite team is a new approach to fighting against heinous crimes.
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