The fifth episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Caster " (Sunday 9:00 pm) starring Hiroshi Abe was broadcast on May 11th. The behavior of the cleaning lady Masako Nabeta, played by Hikorohi, attracted much attention.
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Set in the TV station "JBN" news program "NEWS GATE," this socially conscious entertainment series pursues the truth buried in the darkness and punishes evil. Abe plays the unconventional newscaster Shindo Soichi, while Hana Sakikubo , and Shunsuke Michieda of " Naniwa Danshi " plays Mei Nagano Yusuke, a rookie AD with an aspiration to be a journalist who respects Shindo.
In episode 5, Chief Director Kajiwara (Tamaki Reo) gets information about the cover-up of a police assault case. Kajiwara's old friend, Akasaka Minami Police Station Chief Takeno (Ogawa Tamaki), wants to make an internal complaint. Shindo ( Hiroshi Abe) and his team head to interview Takeno, but she doesn't show up at the appointed time. Instead, Takeno holds an emergency press conference to deny the assault incident itself.
Kajiwara thinks that Erika (Kikuchi Akiko) from the Social Affairs Department leaked information to the higher-ups of the police as an insider and put pressure on Takeno. He begins to investigate the truth behind the assault on his own, but it develops into a major problem that involves the police and the entire JBN.
According to the official website, Nabeta is "a slightly eccentric cleaner at JBN," but he has previously attracted attention for his knowledge of gambling laws and for picking up trash from the chairman's office with a meaningful look on his face. At the end of episode 5, Shindo calls out to Nabeta and shows him a photo of Komai (Yasui Junpei), the head of the social affairs department who was the real insider, purposely throwing documents in a trash can, and asks, "Is this you?" However, Nabeta just says, "I don't know," and leaves.
Until then, there had been many voices saying that Nabeta was connected to Shindo, so on social media there were many confused voices saying things like "I thought Shindo was giving the instructions," "I thought he was someone on Shindo's side," "Who is Hikorohi?" and "Could he be a key person?"
