The plot of this episode is roughly as follows: A Kabuki actor is seen by security for a hit-and-run and gives the security guard a large amount of hush money.

However, the security guard condemned him out of conscience, so he found the kabuki actor while he was putting on makeup, refunded the hush money, and said that he would inform the police about it.

In order to stop the security guard, the actor pushed and shoved the other party, and during the pushing, the security guard's head hit the corner of the table, resulting in death.

The actor first hid the body of the security guard in the dressing room, and after the performance ended, the actor moved the body to the basement under the stage, and then transported the body to the stage by elevator, creating the illusion that the security guard had fallen from the stairs and faked his death, and broke the deceased's watch to falsify the time of death.

After doing all this, the actor made himself another bowl of chazuke, and the actor who had eaten the chazuke was just about to leave, but unfortunately ran into Furuhata who was buying coffee.

Furuhata told the actor that he had come to do the eucalyptus, and the police received a report that someone had found a body on the stage, and after investigation, it was found that he had died of head injuries......

Furuhata took the actors to the eucalyptus scene, and the deceased seems to have fallen from the ceiling and fell to his death on the stage. But what puzzled Furuhata was, in the middle of the night, why did the security guard climb to the ceiling?

The actor told Furuhata that a stray cat had recently entered the theater and often barked during performances, and that the security guard was supposed to go to catch the cat, and that something bad happened.

Furuhata asked his assistant to go up to the ceiling and check it, and found that there was nothing on it. Furuhata was keenly aware that there seemed to be something missing from the scene: a flashlight. Enter the pitch-black ceiling to find the cat, how can you not bring a flashlight.

The actor suddenly became nervous.

In addition to this, Furuhata points out other suspicions: the rumbling of the elevator scares the cat away, and the dead man's broken watch, which is common sense that the watch at the scene of the eucalyptus is as untrustworthy as the blow of a middle-aged man.

And the most important evidence is the flashlight, Furuhata claims that as long as he finds the missing flashlight, he can catch the murderer.

At the beginning of the play, the identity of the murderer and the method of doing it were informed, so there was no suspense in this regard, and what really made the audience look forward to it was the confrontation between Furuhata and the murderer.

Asahara Teruo watched the TV, and the movements of the exercises subconsciously slowed down.

After hearing Furuhata's words, the actor immediately panicked and hurried back to the makeup artist to find the security guard's portable flashlight.

But the "torture king" Furuhata came back at this time and asked the actor for tickets for tomorrow's performance. However, at this time, the actor realized that the flashlight was next to the sofa where Furuhata was sitting......

The actor had to pretend to knock over things, and secretly hid the flashlight while picking up things.

"I think I found ......," Furuhata said, lifting the curtain of the door, "a flashlight."

The actor who had just hidden the flashlight in a drawer was shocked and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where did you find it......?"

"Hmm...... It seems to have fallen in the hallway next to Naraku, so I'll take a look at it again...... Huh?"

Furuhata suddenly bent down and looked around, "Where's my own flashlight?"

"What was left next to the couch is now gone."

"Ahh

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, and the actor silently opened the drawer, took out the flashlight, and handed it to Furuhata.

"Ah, that's it." Furuhata happily took the flashlight and left.

"That bastard!

！」 After Furuhata left, the actor was almost silently roaring with his soul.

Asahara Teruo suddenly laughed, and then the smile faded away, replaced by a sigh.

It's really a good drama, it seems to be very suitable for me, and it is more in line with the tastes of young people.

If it weren't for the work of director Hidaka, I would definitely choose this work.

Asahara Teruo felt a little regretful, this should also be a sweet trouble as a well-known actor, that is, among the two very good works, only one can be chosen to star.

However, although the quality of this "Renzaburo Furuhata" is acceptable, director Hidaka will definitely be better.

After all, compared to dark horses, it is still an evergreen tree that is more trustworthy.

The ratings of the second episode have dropped a little compared to the first episode, and the drop is not small, falling to 23%.

Many viewers who watched the first episode also came for gimmicks, [Sima Keita's new work], [Kabuki actor Matsumoto Konoemon played the main role of a TV series for the first time], [Arima's father and daughter perform on the same stage] and so on.

So the highest ratings of the first episode were frighteningly high, even surpassing "The Long Holiday", but many people just watched it and left, and they didn't seem to be interested in this drama that focuses on flashback reasoning.

And the average ratings of the first episode were eventually pulled to around 28% because of these lively viewers.

So when Kei Fujiwara saw the ratings of the first episode report the performance of each time-sharing period, he also predicted that the next few episodes should drop a lot, but it still hurt him to drop by 5% all of a sudden.

This belongs to the entire ratings volume of some dramas...... To be honest, being able to fall so much shows that the base itself is thick, and if it is seen by those street dramas, maybe it will be envious......

At the producers' meeting, the creators of "Renzaburo Furuhata" looked a little depressed, except for Shibasaki Hideaki's calm personality, Yui Mizuhara who is well-informed and has expectations for the later stage of the play, the other creative team members have some loss on their faces.

This is inevitable, because the ratings have dropped too much, how gratifying the first episode is, how sad it is to see the ratings of the second episode.

What if the third episode drops the ratings?

Are we abandoned by the audience?

Everyone couldn't help but think about it.

"Looks like everyone's morale is low." Yui Mizuhara said as she looked at the people in the conference room.

"Blame me." Fujiwara Keido, "I should have given them vaccinations in advance, the kind of thing that the ratings are getting higher and higher will not happen every time, what happened to "Furuhata Renzaburo" is a normal phenomenon."

"That being said." Yui Mizuhara looked at Kei Fujiwara and smiled, "But maybe the previous success has made them accustomed to feng shui, so they can't accept it for a while. Now many people still think that they didn't shoot well, but I'm sorry Fujiwara, the script you wrote, it's very low."

Fujiwara didn't say much, walked into the conference room with Yui Mizuhara, and held today's planning meeting as usual.

At the meeting, Kei Fujiwara smiled frequently, deliberately aroused everyone's emotions, and finally said at the end of the meeting: "Everyone has also seen the ratings of the second episode, 23%, to be honest, this is already higher than I expected, this is not a bad result, if the following episodes can maintain this rating, we will be considered successful."

The creative team in the conference room looked at each other for a moment, and then lowered their heads again.

Fujiwara-sensei was comforting us...... Everyone's hearts are like mirrors, and Fujiwara-sensei is really a gentle man.

Kei Fujiwara looked at everyone present, and continued to smile gently and instructed the next work content, listening to the feedback from the staff. Even if the content of the other party's feedback was not very satisfactory to him, he changed his usual strict words.

As a team leader, sometimes you have to show the opposite emotions of your teammates;

While everyone is cheering for success, stay calm and don't get carried away by joy.

When everyone is depressed, lost, or even anxious, it is necessary to boost morale and not act as depressed as everyone else.