The fourth episode of the drama series "Good Things and Bad Things" (NTV, Saturdays at 9 PM), starring actors Mamiya Shotaro and Araki Yuko, aired on November 1st. In the episode, a "possibility" emerged about the close-knit group of six friends, including Takagi (Mamiya), a former member of Class 6-1 whose face was blacked out in their yearbook, sparking a stir on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers.
In episode 4, Takagi and Sonoko (Araki) investigate the truth behind a series of murders that have been hitting their classmates one after another. As they suspected, after Takeda (Mizukawa Katamari), Sakurai (Kudo Asuka), and Emi (Matsui Rena), Takagi's best friend Koyama Takahiro (Shintaro Morimoto) is attacked. The crimes are carried out in the order of a parody song that Takagi and his friends wrote 22 years ago, and there is no doubt that the fifth target is "Chonmage" (Mori Yusaku), also known as Hatachi Taisuke.
22 years ago, Hatachi had drawn a picture of a "samurai with a topknot holding a sword" as his dream for the future, and if he were attacked in that way, he would stab him to death. Takagi and the others head to Hatachi's apartment to let him know as soon as possible. Hatachi had been living a reclusive life in a messy room, his hair tied up with a rubber band. Having heard about the incident on the news, Hatachi knew he would be the next target, and handed the knife to Sonoko, saying, "It can't be helped. We... were the ones who bullied you," and demanded that she kill him quickly, saying, "Don't be shy. I'm worthless."
Takagi and the others try to persuade Hatachi, who has no will to live, by saying, "We're here to protect you. Friends should protect each other...", but Hatachi rejects them, saying, "We're not friends." After that, Takagi gives up and goes to the snack bar "Imakuni". He feels something is off when Koyama says that the other three, excluding Takagi, Koyama, and Emi, are playing the game "Bomberman", and he questions, "There are seven of us missing? Who's the other one?" Sonoko then sighs and mutters, "That's how memories are," and the story unfolds.
Later, at the urging of Sonoko, who came to see him alone, Hatachi cleans his room himself, then goes to Imakuni with Sonoko and reconciles with Takagi and Koyama. During this scene, in a flashback to when Hatachi was in elementary school and playing a game with Takagi and the others, the hand of what appears to be a "seventh person" who was present at the scene other than Takagi, Koyama, Emi, Takeda, and Sakurai, is shown behind Hatachi, causing a stir on social media. Comments such as "Did you see another hand?", "There's another person behind him," "There's a seventh person behind the topknot!", "Maybe it's the phantom seventh person," "Who is the other one...?", and "Scary, scary, scary" were posted, attracting a lot of attention.
