S1.E4 ∙ Case of Bad Luck

Police series consisting of two mini-series. In the first (episodes 1-4), a pharmacist, an eyewitness to a political assassination, becomes the target of the killers. In the second (episodes 5-9), three robbers hide in a hotel. There, the owner and her lover plan to kill the robbers and get the loot.

Sakura Morita is a peculiar "freeter" (freelance part-timer) who dreams of becoming a mystery novel writer. While switching between various jobs throughout the series, she also becomes an assistant to Officer Kyosei Udagawa, a detective who discovers her excellent memory and reasoning skills. On the other hand, Udagawa, who has just joined the police ranks through his father's connections, is fairly inept and has a tendency to fall in love with female suspects.

Nastya and her son, Vanya, leave their Old Believer village and come to an unfamiliar and unwelcoming metropolis. During their stay Vanya becomes an involuntary witness of a murder of a prominent journalist. Captain Alexander Leshchev will have to crack this case but the investigation leads him to believe that the murder of the journalist is connected to the corruption case he's been recently probing. Vanya claims the killer is a high profile authority, the Chief of Police. Now that not only the witness' but his own life hangs in balance, Captain Leshchev takes the family to a safe place. However, the hired goons have already sniffed out the location of the hideout. There's no turning back for Alexander, he'll have to stand his ground for the sake of protecting innocent lives.