The eighth episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Caster " starring Hiroshi Abe (Sunday 9:00 pm) aired on June 1st. The "betrayal" of an unexpected character at the end of the episode caused a lot of surprise.
◇The following contains spoilers
In episode 8...A large forest fire breaks out in Ashine Village, where nuclear power-related facilities are concentrated. Ashine Village is the birthplace of producer Yamai (Otoo Takuma). As Yamai joins the broadcast crew, Yamai's father Kazuo (Yamamoto Manabu), who lives in a facility with dementia, goes missing near the fire scene. There were concerns about his safety, but he was eventually found. According to Egami (Inoue Hajime), director of the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Center, he was found in front of the center.
Becoming suspicious, Shindo begins to investigate and discovers that Kazuo was heading toward a cave near the scene of the fire, but someone pushes Kazuo off a cliff...
The mysterious cave was near the site where a Self-Defense Force transport plane crashed 43 years ago. When Shindo questions Egami about what happened 43 years ago, he tells him that his father, Matsubara Tetsu (Yamaguchi Makiya), who was covering the incident at the time, committed suicide after covering the incident. Egami is upset and tells Shindo not to get too involved, but Hanyu Shinichi (Uchimura Haruka), who has become a politician, appears in front of Shindo and hints that Shindo will be forced to leave the program.
At the end, Takimoto (Haruhiko Kato) from the programming department tells JBN chairman Kunisada ( Hideki Takahashi) that an article exposing Shindo's past receipt of secret funds from the Cabinet will be published in "Weekly Seicho." And it turns out that Motohashi (Shunsuke Michieda) appeared before Kunisada as the person who leaked the information...
Many viewers expressed their surprise, saying, "I was really shocked and got goosebumps." On the other hand, some people read too much into the story, saying, "I can't imagine that someone like Shindo would accept money in full view from the outside."
