The Carbuncle

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Black Jack
25th February 2000 52 mins Season 1 Episode 9

A street urchin attacks and damages luxury cars, and the case is handed to Takasugi in the Juvenile Division. Investigators find a match between the youth's fingerprints and a woman known as the Love Hotel Killer who has been killing her clients. Meanwhile, Jack is called to examine Koichiro Tsuzuki, the young head of the Tsuzuki corporation who has developed a large carbuncle-like tumor on his abdomen which resembles a human face. Some nights he mysteriously disappears for hours. Meanwhile, a beautiful woman calling herself Ryuko, seduces and kills men who cheat on their wives. Later, Jack encounters Mariko, a homeless teenager, who asks him to help her wounded friend Ryuko, whom he discovers has a carbuncle similar to that of Koichiro. When Jack returns to the Tsuzuki residence he finds Ryuko there and the carbuncle then changes her back into Koichiro. Jack determines that Koichiro suffers from a dissociative identity disorder and operates to remove the tumor, but during the operation, the personality of Jun, a street urchin surfaces and he escapes. Suddenly, the police arrive to arrest Koichiro Tsuzuki who has the same fingerprints as the urchin and serial killer on suspicion of the recent murders. Jun attacks the police and is shot, transforming back into Koichiro before dies.

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The D.L. Chemical company is found guilty of poisoning people who ate fish caught in the bay which were affected by the toxic waste that flowed into Mikazuki Bay. It is ordered to pay damages for many people who have died and hundreds who have suffered various symptoms as a result of heavy metal toxemia. Representatives from D.L. Chemical ask Jack to assist in helping 300 patients urgently needing surgery. Jack and Pinoko stop at a Shinto shrine, which locals call the Mermaid Shrine. It based on the story of Jiro, a fisherman fell in love with Nagi, a mermaid. Nagi prayed the Lord of the Dragon Palace to change her tail into legs so she could be with Jiro, however when she dived back into the water to find a blue pearl demonstrate her love for Jiro, she drowned. Jack and Pinoko stay a Inn and hot springs where they meet Tsukiko, a young woman crippled by the Mikazuki syndrome who sells fish for a living even though the buyers don’t eat them. Jack visits Dr. Fox at the hospital to discuss to project, but rumors circulate of an unlicensed doctor on the team, and Jack declines to work on the project. Returning home, Jack sees Tsukiko who is no longer able to walk and he performs knee replacement surgery. However, Tsukiko misses the sea, and one night she returns to the bay and drowns. When carrying out the autopsy, blue pearls are found in her duodenum which Jack keeps as a possible key to curing the Mikazuki syndrome.

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