Air date: July 2003
Speculating from an oil painting scribble at the vocational training institution, Togusa comes up with what seemed to be the truth of the Laughing Man Case, and he volunteers to investigate files at the Health and Labor Ministry. He comes across an NGO named Himawari Group, which aims to spread an unauthorized drug for cyber-sclerosis. Just as he was visiting the group, he gets involved in an incident.

Script: Dai Sato
Storyboard: Jun Matsumoto
Director: Toshiyuki Kono
Animation Director: Kyoji Asano