Makabe Yukiko, the head of the Special Investigation Team’s Third Section, prides herself on her superior negotiation skills. She tries to convince a criminal who is holding a bus hostage. However, an unanticipated situation arises and she fails. Yukiko is held fully responsible and is ordered to transfer to the Emergency Investigation Response Team, which goes by the name of Kintori. The director, Kajiyama Katsutoshi, whom she has always not got along well with, heads the Kintori. It is a professional team of outstanding interrogators put together to carry out interrogations, particularly for cases that are deemed important. Yukiko embarks on a new chapter at the Kintori surrounded by idiosyncratic veterans Hishimoto Susumu, Nakata Zenjiro, Koishikawa Haruo. She also determines the truth of an unsolved case deeply linked to her past.

At that moment, a man wearing leather gloves calls out to a female elementary school student and asks her to put a cookie tin in a police box in the Tokyo metropolis. This tin explodes inside the police box, and claims the life of one police officer. From a tip-off obtained from an anonymous caller’s and the statement of the elementary school student, detectives Watanabe Tetsuji and Kenmotsu Daijiro of the First Investigative Division establish that the man with leather gloves is the famous lawyer Fujishiro Tamotsu who only undertakes cases involving wrongful convictions. But Fujishiro completely denies the charges and even holds his own under the Kintori’s interrogation. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be the real criminal turns himself in to the police. However, the man simply will not divulge his identity, and says with arrogance, “I surrendered because I want all of you to recall who I am.”

Furthermore, the man has planted an unconventional bomb at some place to claim the lives of countless residents. It has been rigged to explode 42 hours later. Yukiko is picked by the man and immediately starts to interrogate him. But he is extremely formidable and skillfully parries her questions no matter how she presses him. With a time limit of just 42 hours, will Yukiko and the Kintori be able to uncover the man’s true identity and motive, and save people lives?

There are over 600 orphanages across the nation, housing approximately 30,000 children; Most of them had been abused by their parents. Maki, was placed into the orphanage "Kogamo no Ie", after her mother, Ryoka, was arrested and jailed. There she was handed over to the care of Kana, and also Sasaki, the eccentric caretaker of the home. Under Sasaki's management, the home is a calm and safe haven from all the madness of the real world. At the home, Maki befriends 3 other little girls, who all go by their nicknames instead of their real names. Piami who plays the piano really well, Bombi who came from a very poor family, and Post, who is the leader of all the kids.

One day, an affluent family offered to foster Post. For a trial period, Post will be staying with the family, to check if they are well-suited. Although every kid at the home hopes to be adopted into a loving family, Maki is different as she prays for her mother's return.

ased on the character from the same-titled novel by Ohkura Takahiro, the drama focuses on Assistant Inspector Fukuie, and the murder cases that she handles. Her supervisor, Inspector Ishimatsu, is often exasperated by her unorthodox investigation methods, but as all the glory garnered by her case closures are shared by him, he tolerates her eccentricity.

Akemi Ninomiya (Ayame Gouriki) is a hardcore mystery fan. Although she is only a college student, she is wealthy and owns a building. Private Detective Morio Ukai (Hiroshi Tamaki) prefers tracking down lost pets for wealthy clients rather than murder cases which brings in little money. The duo join forces to solve various suspicious cases.

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.