BORDER

A man has been found dead in the courtyard of a block of apartment buildings. Everything about the "murder scene" is wrong: his clothes don't fit, he's been stabbed in the chest, but there's no blood at the scene, and he has no ID. Det. X "goes fuzzy" and sees that the dead man's face is very different and asks the pathologist to check carefully. He's had plastic surgery! The apartment residents are on edge and the manager is eerily very helpful and unshaken by the murder. The dead man has/had a secret, as do others, which will complicate this case in unexpected ways.

A serial killer stalks the city. Six young women have been found, tortured and stangled at odd locations. A car video system has recorded the last victim, walking with a fit, young adult male. He is identified, and the detectives go to bring him in for questioning. When they arrive, the man uses a large knife to kill himself, which derails the investigation. Detective Ishikawa, after a headache attack, sees the dead man, who freely admits to torture and murder. A cat-and-mouse game ensues, as the detective must find an abducted seventh victim with clues from the smug killer.

Detective Ongo Ishikawa lives for the chase. About to take time off after a long homicide investigation, he is summoned to the murder of a former police officer. He “walks the perimeter,” just in case the perpetrator returns. Unexpectedly, he is face to face with an armed man, who shoots him in the face. At the hospital, he “dies” and returns. One of the bullets has lodged deep in his brain and will have to stay for now. At the hospital courtyard, he is visited by his commander, when he a strong headache causes him to look down…at a little girl in pajamas. When he returns to the hospital, he sees her again, and is informed that she just died! Three months later, he goes to a triple murder scene, and is hit with a headache, When he looks up, there’s a little boy, silently talking to him. In the upstairs murder scene, he is greeted by the other dead family members, who tell him what happened and ask him to catch the person who murdered them. Later, a suspect is being interrogated, and the little boy shows up again, pointing to the man as the killer! Detective Ongo’s life will never be the same.