The third episode of the TBS Friday drama "Fake Mummy" (Fridays at 10 PM), starring actors Haru and Rina Kawaei, aired on October 24th. Nakamura Aoi plays Sasaki Tomoya, a teacher at a prestigious private elementary school known as "Sasaeru," whose "sharp intuition" has become a hot topic.
◇The following contains spoilers
The drama is a serial adaptation of the winning work by Sonomura Mitsuru, who won the grand prize in the first TBS NEXT WRITERS CHALLENGE screenplay competition. Hanamura Kaoru (Haru), who suddenly quit her job and struggled to find a new one, interviews with the venture company RAINBOWLAB, where she meets Hidaka Makie (Kawaei), the company's president and single mother. Makie then asks Hanamura to act as a stand-in for her daughter Iroha (Ikemura Aoi), who is applying to a prestigious private elementary school.
Tomoya was concerned about the handwriting on documents related to Iroha, a student under his care. Only one document submitted to the school was written in cursive letters, while the rest were written in neat handwriting.
After learning that Kaoru's mother's name was "Seiko," Tomoya found the name "Hanamura Seiko" in her smartphone contacts. When he checked another cell phone she used in the past, he found the name "Hanamura Kaoru" as well as a photo of her as a private tutor.
Hidaka Makie, who claims to be Iroha's mother, is actually her former student, Hanamura Kaoru.
Kaoru, who was participating in a school event as Iroha's mother, and Kaoru, who was her student, became connected to Tomoya, who later spotted Kaoru at school and called out to her, "Hanamura-san." When Kaoru replied, "Yes," Tomoya confronted her, saying, "I just called you Hanamura. Stop pretending not to know me. You're Hanamura Kaoru, aren't you?"
On social media, people were talking about how "Sasael really has a keen sense," "The birth of handwriting detective Sasael," "With each episode, Sasael seems more like a detective than a teacher. But still, isn't it too early for him to find out?", "Is Sasael a detective? lol," "He should become a detective right away," and "Sasael, who is as sharp as a detective, found out, but I want to believe he'll be on our side."
