Yasuko Sawaguchi stars in the Getsuku drama "Absolute Zero: Emergency Investigation of Information Crimes" (Fuji TV, Mondays at 9pm). The synopsis and stills for episode 6, which will air on November 10th, have been released.
Kurosawa Michifumi (Imai Kiyotaka), the leader of the religious organization Luminous Society, posts a video inciting apocalyptic theories, claiming that a great disaster will strike Japan. He also sells "sacred charms" to his followers, claiming that the possession of such charms will bring salvation. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Saso Shinjiro (Ken Yasuda Ken) suspects that the profits are flowing to international criminal organizations, and orders DICT Director Hayami Hiroshi (Matsukado Yohei) to obtain evidence.
Shimizu Sae (Kuroshima Yuina) and others trace the trail of the money but are unable to identify the destination. Ninomiya Nami (Sawaguchi) suggests infiltrating online. They infiltrate an online salon disguised as followers and discover that an offline meetup will be held at a cafe near the cult facility. Minakata Mutsuro (Ichinose Hayate) and Kakegawa Kei (Satoshi Kanada) decide to infiltrate there.
Yamauchi Toru (Yokoyama Yu) receives information from detective Sakai Mika (Miura Maya) about an unidentified skeleton discovered in the suburbs. Among the remains are items belonging to the Luminous Society, raising the possibility that the cult is involved in the incident.
Shimizu discovered a user in the online salon who had multiple secret accounts and was criticizing the cult. He identified her as Maki Koizumi (played by Shiori Hashiba), and Minami and Kakegawa contacted her. Koizumi said, "The traitor who tried to sell the cult to the media has been brought to justice and disappeared."
A subsequent infiltration of an offline meeting reveals conflict within the cult's members. Nami is excited that this is the perfect opportunity to arrest Michifumi, but it turns out that his son Satoshi (Ichikawa Tomohiro) is acting as the cult's leader...
The drama is the fifth in the "Absolute Zero" series. It is set in the DICT, an investigative agency that investigates information crimes that abuse advanced information technology and threaten the lives and property of citizens. They tackle a variety of information crimes, including special frauds, such as anonymous and mobile crimes (tokuryu), and cyberterrorism.
