While the police search his home, the suspect flees with a hostage. While trying to figure out why Akio never harmed Seiko, Shigeko has an epiphany.
Shigeko's goes to find 'Shige' at his home is but finds a bloodstain in his place. Later, Harumi tells her Hajime's still hiding something.
In Harumi's office, Shigeko comes face-to-face with Hajime, who admits he was threatened by 'Shige.' Meanwhile, Toshiko gets a strange phone call.
Chairman Kanekawa stops Shigeko's foray into the Aozora-kai but Toshiko may have a way in. Later, Harumi asks Hajime's if someone's threatening him.
An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hagitani visits Shigeko Maehata who works for a small editing company. Toshiko tells Shigeko that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi might have a special ability to see other people's memories. She pulls out a picture drawn by Hitoshi. The picture has a girl with a grey colored face lying in a house that has a bat shaped weather vane on its roof. The picture seems to depict the incident involving the Doizaki couple. Shigeko decides to do some research, but Hitoshi dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the attorney for the Doizaki couple tells their second daughter Seiko that the couple has cut off all ties with her. Around that time, a female high student is confined.