Futaba and her family are moving again. They send off Futaba's grandmother to a home since it's getting harder to pick up and leave with the grandmother's physical state. As they start unloading their car, a police officer comes by handing out a flier that a little girl had been kidnapped in the surrounding area. The same day, Hiroki is at his father's funeral along with Kohei. Kohei brings Hiroki back to his families house for dinner on behalf of his father-in-law. During dinner, Hiroki brings up his father and all the taboo around their families problems (did that make sense?) despite Kohei telling him not to in the first place. Before he could really tell how he feels, he stops himself and leaves the house.
That night at Futaba's house, Futaba watches as her sister puts on makeup and asks her why she's doing it. She tells her that she's just practicing before she goes to school. Akari tells Futaba that she doesnt want to live her life like her sister, that she wants to live her own life and not have it set by the fate of their older brother.
At Kusuma Farm, Kenji (Fumiya), greets the Kusuma family as he heads into the kitchen. Goro (the owner) asks where he's been at night, Maki (Goro's daughter) tells him to leave him alone and notices very large wounds on Kenji's left hand. Goro had a look of concern about what he's been doing all night. The same morning, Futaba is seen going to the Fukami fishing spot/house. Just like in the first episode, theres this awkwardness between the two of them, especially when she first enters the shop. Futaba shows Hiroki a newspaper telling him that a little girl had been abducted and that it's possible it was Fumiya who kidnapped her because the figure in the newspaper is similar to his. Hiroki believes that if Fumiya is the culprit, then maybe he had taken the girl to Mikazuki Mountain to where Aki was killed.
They travel through the mountain area, getting closer to the lake. As theyre walking, Hiroki asks Futaba why Fumiya would kill Aki. Futaba doesn't have an answer to that, but she explains all the positive qualities about her brother. The more she talked, the angrier Hiroki got. After she mentions a letter that she received from him a year after the incident that said he was sorry about the summer festival being cancelled, she mentions that maybe the charges against her brother could have been false. Hiroki furiously pushes Futaba to the ground and yells at her about how she thinks that it can't be true her brother is the criminal and that how could she have enjoyed her Christmas that year after the incident. In a rage, he starts to strangle Futaba telling her that she should feel how Aki must have felt. As she's choking, Hiroki realizes what he's doing and lets go. Futaba lets him know that he should go ahead and kill her as others have told her family that they should all die to repent for the sins of their son. As Hiroki was about to walk away, Futaba tells him that her family didn't eat the Christmas cake that he had mentioned, but was returning that. With that, he walks away and the rain falls in dramatic fashion.
Hiroki returns back to his house and turns on the TV. He calls Futaba reaching her voicemail, leaving a message telling her that the news reports that the missing child had been with her divorced father and that Fumiya had nothing to do with it. At the Kusama farm, Maki tells her father that Kenji had been fixing up her daughters bike for her, which is why he's been gone late and getting injured. Outside the farm, Goro asks Kenji what he thinks of his daughter in which he responds with "I will never love someone again, nor will I let someone love me for the rest of my life"
Hiroki heads back to the mountain to find Futaba sitting in a bed of Red Poppies (how he found her so easily, who knows..). She tells Hiroki that now she believes her brother is the murderer, as her and Fumiya had planted red poppies before over the death of the kittens they had found a long time ago. She also reveals that Fumiya had tried to kill her before and that if she had died then, then maybe Aki wouldnt have had to die.
The story ends with Futaba and Hiroki heading to the festival that's nearby. They have an almost irrelevant conversation about the World Cup. Hiroki asks if they'd be able to one day be able to say "we did it" with a victory pose. In the end, they see his mother at the festival and at that moment, they meet eye to eye.
Comments:
(Awkward, just real scenes)
What I like about this drama so far is the realness of how the story is executed. It's not over dramatic, especially when they add the awkwardness between the main character and it's a simple story with no twists (so far). There are small details to the drama that make it have a realness to it, such like when Kohei takes Hiroki's cup noodle from him, or when Hiroki drinks from the spout of the tea kettle or when Futaba looks at a tube of lip stick. The anger that Eita portrayed seemed so real. You can really feel his emotions when he was yelling in the mountains and his gestures as well. He really had become his character. Mitsushima Hikari is actually doing pretty well. In the first episode, I didn't really see much in her acting, but in this episode it was really coming through. When she was getting strangled, her coughing for air really sounded like it was real (lets hope it really wasnt forreal), not a fake cough, but it really sounded like she was gasping for air. What I wasn't impressed with was her cry, not that I was saying it looked fake, its just that whining sound coming from her was irritating. Kazama is really scaring me with his emotionless character. Im used to seeing him happy and loud and really out there, but him playing Fumiya is a really big change which is always a good thing and I think he's doing exceptionally well so far. I just hope they give him more screentime, which I'm sure will happen closer to the end of the series.
