You're Under Arrest Discussion Thread

[Jimmie M]

File 4.1: "10,000 from the Heavens"
This one starts on the roof of Miyuki & Natsumi's apartment building where a lone man has apparently decided to commit suicide by jumping-But as he nears the ledge, Miyuki bursts onto the roof with a taser & a baseball bat, trying to fend off Natsumi who's short on funds yet again & wants to borrow some cash from her until payday! Miyuki relents & lends Natsumi a 10,000 yen note but the breeze blows it out of Natsumi's hand & to the feet of the man as he's about to jump. At first, he wouldn't give it back but he eventually tells Miyuki & Natsumi the reason why he wants to end it all-He's run up a gambling debt to the earth-shattering amount of 50,000 yen! Once it's all over (They did keep the man from jumping) & Natsumi had recovered the 10,000 yen, she has the nerve to ask Miyuki to treat her to something to eat! Some partner, eh?

File 4.2: "Mystery! The Naked Woman in the Tunnel"
There's an urban legend concerning the Ushimitsu Tunnel that a naked woman appeared to a man who was driving in the tunnel on a rainy night-The man stopped his car upon seeing the woman & got out, was kissed by the woman...And was never heard from again. At least, that's how the story goes in a magazine that Yoriko shares with Miyuki (Who's screaming on almost every word of the story) & Natsumi. A picture of the "ghost" is also part of the story & since it resembles Aoi, Natsumi decides on a plan to use Aoi as the "ghost" with him revealing that he's a man once the drivers stop to see, hopefully putting an end to the traffic jams that always occur at this tunnel. That night, another traffic jam at the Ushimitsu Tunnel as Natsumi's plan goes into effect-Aoi really seems to be getting into this & as he drops his sheet & turns around, Natsumi, Miyuki & Yoriko are shocked to see that not only does Aoi have a nice body but no male "thingy" to boot! As Natsumi calls for an end to the plan, Aoi comes running up behind them (He had trouble with his makeup so he was late). Wait a minute-If this is Aoi, then who's that in the tunnel?

File 4.3: "Held By Concrete"
While moving past a construction site, Miyuki & Natsumi come to the aid of a female flagman named Takako who's getting fussed at by a taxi driver. As they are about to leave, three punks in a Mercedes come barreling around the corner at high speed, ignoring the flagman's signal to stop & nearly colliding with a truck leaving the site! Turns out these guys have been giving the poor girl a hard time every night with their reckless driving so Miyuki & Natsumi (Plus Takako & some of the construction workers who gladly lend a hand) decide to teach these guys a lesson they'll never forget. They did threaten Takako with a "concrete bed"-Now let's see how they like it!

File 4.4: "A Spring Night's Dream"
It's cherry blossom time & the traffic cops are having a late night viewing party at the station complete with beer, karaoke & pizza for all. When the pizza delivery man arrives with the pizza, the Chief reaches for his wallet to pay him-It's gone & so are the wallets of all the other officers! Before long, accusations are flying high & fast from Natsumi, Ken, the Chief & even Miyuki (With her suspecting Natsumi & vice versa to the point of them dissolving their partnership). The Chief is crying over his apparent failure as a supervisor & when Yoriko goes to get a Kleenex from a large bag for him, she finds...The missing wallets! She forgot that she borrowed them to pay for the supplies for the party-YORIKO!

Next time-We finish the Mini Specials with File 5!

[Jimmie M]

File 5.1: "Convenience Store Panic"
Aoi & Yoriko make a stop at a convenience store to pick up some snacks for the traffic section & as they pick up their items a man wearing a surgical mask & brandishing a small knife holds up the store! He only gets a few yen from the cashier & if that's not bad enough for our hapless thief Miyuki & Natsumi walk in so now he becomes desperate to the point where he takes a pregnant woman & a little girl hostage. Natsumi, Miyuki, Yoriko & Aoi are stymied since the hostages' lives come first but they're about to get some unexpected help from the pregnant woman & the girl (Not to mention Yoriko who trips & "breaks" her leg)! It's just not this guy's day, is it?

File 5.2: "Flame's Silver Chase"
A man in a yellow Mazda Carol 360 sedan is holding up traffic on a one-way street but when Miyuki & Natsumi pull him over, he complains that the sign for one-way traffic wasn't there before & drives off! They try to pursue him but "Today" won't start (A ROM problem that Miyuki hasn't been able to fix yet) & as if to add insult to injury, the man in the yellow sedan comes back & lectures them on how cars are meant to be maintained! Just then, a speeder in a Ferrari rushes past them & since "Today" still won't start the man offers Miyuki & Natsumi the use of his car-For a late model sedan that Mazda can really move, can't it?

File 5.3: "Feel My Heartbeat"
A tipsy businessman on his way home encounters a female flasher (Yes, with nipples! ) who gives the man a "shocking" look at her goods (Along with robbing the man)! With most of the male officers only interested in the man's description of the flasher's goods (D-cup, nipples the right shade of pink, etc.) and the other male victims only wanting another up-close encounter with the flasher, Miyuki & Natsumi decide to take up the case themselves & with Yoriko & Aoi's assistance (Plus a special weapon that would make Mylene Hoffman (009-1) proud), they track down & trap the "female" flasher!

BTW, if you value your life don't diss Miyuki & Natsumi about their bust sizes!

File 5.4: "We're In Action"
A couple of cameramen (Who previously did adult videos) are here at Bokuto Station to shoot footage of the traffic cops as they go about their duties for a police public relations video. After recording Yoriko & Aoi with kindergarten kids at a crosswalk, they then ride with Miyuki & Natsumi in "Today"-In the middle of a high speed pursuit of a speeder (Who's stopped just short of a waiting roadblock thanks to Miyuki's expert driving (Nitro-on!) & Natsumi's feet brake at just the right moment)! Don't sweat the final cut, Chief-It looks to be a hit with the public!

Next time we'll bring this thread to a close with You're Under Arrest!-The Motion Picture!

[Jimmie M]

ANN Listing
ED: "Calling" (Performed by nitro)

-We open on a Sunday morning with Bokuto Station providing traffic control & support for the JSDF & Tokyo Fire & Emergency on an operation to remove an unexploded WWII era bomb from an abandoned factory. Also providing tech support is the Metropolitan Police Criminal Affairs Science Lab (Which includes Miyuki on her last assignment with them after being assigned to their office for training over the past year). The operation is a successful one & soon the detours begin to be taken down...

-While on patrol, Yoriko & Aoi are asked by an elderly lady to check out a white Mercedes Benz that's been sitting abandoned for several days. The trunk looks to have been broken into & as Yoriko & Aoi open it they discover-Automatic weapons! Are they real?

-At Headquarters later Chief Inspector Arizuka assigns Inspector Kinoshita to Bokuto Station to head up the investigation into the confiscated weapons-And since Miyuki & Natsumi are due to return there after their training, she is also make sure that things are in hand on that front as well.

-Miyuki reports in to the Chief & gets a "Welcome back" from Detective Tokuno but where's Natsumi? Late again (As always) from staying out all night last night (A farewell party at HQ's Traffic Department where she had been training over the past year) & showing up hung over as Inspector Kinoshita begins her briefing with the officers on the cache of weapons found in the Mercedes (SIG P226s, Beretta 92Fs, & Glock 17s plus various other sub-machine guns & MP5A5s).

-An apology to the Chief for being late also includes some important mail that the Chief asks Natsumi to take charge of. Important indeed-It's a postcard to her from Toukairin saying that he's returning to Tokyo from Kathmandu & should arrive in a couple of days! That sobered her up quick, didn't it? Let's go on patrol, Miyuki-Woo Hoo!

-As Natsumi lays out their patrol route Miyuki notices something wrong with the traffic lights at the Kinishi Station intersection-They're malfunctioning! It's not isolated here either as reports come over the radio that traffic lights at two other intersections as malfunctioning as well. Miyuki's investigation finds traces of hacking into the central traffic system as well as Kinishi Station's phones also being out while this was going on.

-A tip comes in that an illegal weapons deal is about to go down by the Yokojukken River so Tokuno asks the Chief for all available officers to help (Including Miyuki & Natsumi as well as Aoi, Yoriko & Ken). Wetsuits & airtanks make effective weapons to take the perps down, don't they?

-Along with the illegal arms (Now stored temporarily at Bokuto Station the next day) Tokuno also discovers an optical disk in a briefcase-Miyuki, we're counting on you to hack it for whatever info it may have concerning this case. Meanwhile, the Chief pays a visit to Tokyo Tower hoping to see an old friend-Who could it be?

-Inspector Arizuka arrives at the Traffic Section, stating to the Chief that perhaps the biggest case ever was developing & that he was at the center of it. Arizuka asks the Chief for the whereabouts of Detective Emoto & when the Chief says that he doesn't know, Arizuka orders Tokuno to arrest him on charges for aiding & abetting and possibly destroying evidence.

-So Emoto was a close friend of the Chief who went missing 2 years ago, eh? And what does "Bee Number One" mean? And yes, Arizuka & Kinoshita knew all about the bug that Aoi planted in the interrogation room so BACK TO WORK EVERYONE!

-Another night passes & Miyuki's efforts to hack into the optical disk only yield a map of Sumida Ward, regardless of any passwords & usernames that she's tried. Then, a call comes in with a synthesized voice on the other end-A multiple bomb threat with the Sakura Bridge given as the first target to show they mean business!

-With the destruction of the Sakura Bridge, the Chief finally reveals what he knows about all this: "Bee Number One" is the name for an outline for a theoretical assault on a police station that Emoto was ordered by the brass at HQ to devise to go along with developing a manual to protect police stations from attack by terrorists. This outline was locked away in HQ's supercomputer & was the only one that Emoto developed as he disappeared soon after writing it but it has Sumida Ward & Bokuto Station as the center of the outline, meaning that the bomb threats on the bridges along with the destruction of the Sakura Bridge were all red herrings & Bokuto Station is the real target!

-Between HQ's supercomputer & the laptop in "Today" (With Miyuki, Natsumi & Tokuno speeding back to the station), Natsumi & Kinoshita finally find the info on "Bee Number One" but only the contents page-The rest has been erased, possibly by Emoto prior to his disappearance. Suddenly, the online connection to the supercomputer & Bokuto's phones go dead & the building's power is cut off-The assault on the station has begun!

-As Kinoshita & Arizuka lead Aoi & the other officers through the building to find weapons, the Chief & Yoriko make it to the command post room. The Chief enters the password & username (Emoto) & finds that the version of "Bee Number One" on the disk is an updated one geared around attacking the economies of Japan & several other countries! Just then, the intruders come in with a tear gas bomb & get what they came for-The laptop with the disk inside!

-After the intruders leave Yoriko & the Chief meet up with Arizuka, Kinoshita & the other officers in the women's locker room & at the closest source of weapons they have-Miyuki's locker! They're all non-lethal of course but still effective against the intruders as they try to escape through the building's front entrance (Along with some "Party favors" to welcome Tokairin back). Despite it all, they still manage to escape with the "Bee One Mod"...

-...But the game's not over yet! With the help of a river boat captain transporting "Today" to bypass the traffic congestion (Just as the intruders are no doubt doing), Miyuki & Natsumi head off in pursuit of the intruders. Hey, Toukairin's back in town & he now lends his assistance in getting Arizuka to an older bridge along the Sumida River that's about to be put to good use! BTW, where's the Chief?

-Nice throw, Natsumi! But these guys don't have the disk-Two others not accounted for are headed for Shinkiba & with the help of the Harbor Patrol Boat's helicopter Miyuki & Natsumi (Now joined by Toukairin in "Today") are on their way to the Tokyo Heliport...With one hell of an airdrop!

-No, you're NOT getting away if Natsumi & her Motocompo have anything to say about it (With assists from Toukairin, Ken & Arizuka)!

-Meanwhile, what about the Chief? He's gone to Tokyo Tower where he finally meets up with his old friend Emoto-Who has a gun trained on him just as Miyuki & Natsumi arrive! Once Emoto sees that the game is up he shoots the Chief in the leg then shoots out one of the windows in the observation deck, intending to jump-But he's not getting off that easily, thanks to Miyuki & Natsumi.

-A long, long week finally comes to an end for our favorite cops as they arrive home but it's still not over yet-SURPRISE! Welcome back to Bokuto Station!
Natsumi (Saluting): I, Officer Natsumi Tsujimoto...
Miyuki (Saluting): I, Officer Miyuki Kobayakawa...
Both: ...Returning to duty at the Bokuto Station Traffic Department! We look forward to working with you again!

"Bokuto's Best Partners" are back!

[Jimmie M]

Just an FYI that the Season 2 discussion is now under way over at FP. All are welcome to join in the discussion there!

EDIT: And now here as well.

[Damius]

Watching that episode bringing so many memories back. It was so fun to watch the episode where they met, now that I know all that happened to them afterward! Nice episode, nice introduction. Even better now that I care for Natsumi & Miyuki compare to the first time I watched the series and I didn't know them at all!

[Damius]

This was a great episode to make us know the Natsumi & Miyuki even more. To let us know how important they will be for each other.

Love the race in that one, car vs motorcycle! Of course, the motorcycle always win, doesn't it!

Touching ending for sure!

[Jimmie M]

Originally Posted by Damius

Nice episode, nice introduction. Even better now that I care for Natsumi & Miyuki compare to the first time I watched the series and I didn't know them at all!

You didn't? How did that happen while you were watching it?

[Jimmie M]

Originally Posted by Damius

This was a great episode to make us know the Natsumi & Miyuki even more. To let us know how important they will be for each other.

Yeah, like we saw in the first episode Natsumi wasn't too keen on being Miyuki's partner at first but thanks to the "Fox's" little game they're not only partners but friends (And their friendship continues to grow here during the typhoon).

Love the race in that one, car vs motorcycle! Of course, the motorcycle always win, doesn't it!

It does when it's "The White Hawk of Bokuto" riding it! Ken might be all thumbs when he's with Miyuki but he knows how to handle perps though!

Touching ending for sure!

The kids could've used water-based paint on "Today's" windshield though! Still, the ending was very nice indeed.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by Jimmie M

You didn't? How did that happen while you were watching it?

I meant, the first time I watch the series, they introduced me to 2 characters that I would care for afterward, but now I care about them before even starting the episode, I enjoy even more to be remembered how they met.

[Jimmie M]

Originally Posted by Damius

I meant, the first time I watch the series, they introduced me to 2 characters that I would care for afterward, but now I care about them before even starting the episode, I enjoy even more to be remembered how they met.

Ah, I see now. I feel the same way each time I watch it too.