Yuka reveals a clue to Asako about the identity of Emili's killer. Asako investigates online and decides to pay a visit to where the suspect runs a school. While roaming the grounds, she runs into an old college friend, Aoki, with whom she shares a painful history, and realizes he must be the one responsible for her daughter's death. As she walks back home down an empty highway, Aoki attempts to run her over, but at the last moment cuts the wheel and crashes. Asako reveals to him that she knows he killed Emili and that she has a secret that will forever change his world. Asako again speaks with Yuka and admits she's confused as to what to do. Yuka tells her it is her duty to kill the man who ruined the lives of the Asako and the young girls. Asako's first attempt to kill Aoki is thwarted by the police. In her second attempt, however, she reveals her secret to Aoki, who shows no remorse for his crime. But he then pays for his act by taking his own life. Asako discovers she cannot legally be responsible for Aoki's demise, however, thereby leaving her in limbo, perhaps never to atone for her own actions. ABOUT THE SERIES Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerie, intense psychological thriller Penance (Shokuzai) unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako (Kyoko Koizumi) demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing. Growing up in the shadow of this tragic debt, each of the four girls cultivates a warped survival mechanism – avoidance, desperation, fear, and obsession. A disturbing, sensitively helmed chronicle of post-traumatic stress from a female perspective, Penance offers Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s trademark creepy twists as well as a subtle commentary on Japanese society and gender expectations. This gripping long-form serial drama highlights a new facet of renowned auteur Kurosawa (PULSE, CURE, CHARISMA) and features absorbing performances from a stellar line-up of award-winning, up-and-coming young actresses.