Galileo - Episode Guide

The body of a male has been discovered, strangled to death, his face pulverized beyond recognition and fingers burned to a crisp. Assigned to the case are local precinct detective, Kaoru Utsumi, and her ex"colleague from headquarters, Shunpei Kusanagi. It turns out that the neighbor of the victim's ex"wife is a college alumnus of brilliant physicist, Manabu Yukawa, aka "Detective Galileo."He is Tetsuya Ishigami, a high school math teacher whom Yukawa personally considers a true genius. When Yukawa is brought onto help with the case by Utsumi, he begins to suspect that this "true genius"and a with whom Yukawa shares a bond of friendship as an intellectual equal is somehow connected to the murder. Elaborate bluffs, false testimonials, loopholes in logic − all begin to appear in Detective Galileo's way as if intentionally placed as a challenge by someone with mathematical brilliance.

Detective Utsumi Kaoru, who works at Kaizuka Kita Police Precinct, has not been able to find her place in the male-dominated world of the police precinct. She is eventually encouraged by her boss to train for a year in Oklahoma in the United States, and stands at life's crossroads. One day, Kaoru detains Jonen Kenichi, a man placed on the Nagano Prefectural Police's wanted list. He is with an old woman who is already dead. The old woman was being cared for by him. Jonen had killed a lady at the nursing care facility after getting into an argument with her, and came to Tokyo with this old woman. Kaoru gets a confession from him and is about to regain her confidence as a police officer. However, just as Jonen gets transferred to the Nagano Prefectural Police, he completely denies the charges, declaring that it is entirely different from the statement Kaoru had obtained. Kaoru ends up suspected of lying in order to take credit for herself.

Manabu Yukawa is invited for a presentation on Submarine Mineral Resources Development in Harigaura. He stays at an inn. Manabu meets Kyohei who came to the inn, which is run by his aunt's family, for summer vacation. The next morning, Tsukahara, who is another guest at the inn, is found dead on the bank of a port. Manabu becomes involved in the case.