Undercover high school girl cop Saki's (Yoko Minamino) boss and mentor Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie)
gives her a new assignment: To spy on boy genius Osamu, formerly a member
of evil organisation Seiroukai's inner circle. Thing is, Osamu attends an
all-boy school, so instead of her usual high school girl guise, Saki has
to pretend to be a lunchlady. Soon enough, Saki finds out about Osamu's
secret hideout, slips in when he leaves - and finds blueprints for the
airport, with special attention to the air ducts, plus a remote controlled
car obviously trained to travel through these airducts. Osamu catches her
in his hideout and tries to shoot her, but Saki's trusted yo-yo disarms
the guy, and when the gun does go off it hits Osamu's leg. Saki drives
Osamu to the doctor's and doesn't give away his secret, which makes him
trust her. Later, in his apartment, Osamu tells Saki that he's indeed been
with Seiroukai but left a year ago after the organisation's leader Kage no
Soto (Nagashima Naoto) killed his sister, just because she has found out
that he has a pacemaker. Now for maintenance of his pacemaker Kage no Soto
has to go to the US once a year ... Eventually, Saki and her sidekick
Okyo (Haruko Sagara) find out that Kage no Soto is to leave for the US
today, and they rush to the airport to stop Osamu from carrying out his
plan and deliver a timebomb to the airport's VIP suite via remote
controlled car through the airducts as it could cost many innocent lives - but when the girls catch up with him
he has already launched the car, and now they chase through all the
airport to stop it, but always seem a little too far behind - when the car
drops out of the airduct through a panel opened for maintenance, and a
little boy finds the car and wants to claim it his own. But everything
ends happily, and how Saki disarms the car with the help of two yo-yos is
just priceless. Maybe not the greatest episode of the series,
but a good suspense piece neverthess, and one that takes itself rather
seriously and doesn't have too many brushes with the camp side of things -
though especially in regards to this series, camp isn't necessarily a bad
thing. But the scenes of Saki and Okyo basically chasing an invisible foe
are rather dynamically put together and tightly executed, so good
entertainment for sure.
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