Jake Adelstein and Detective Katagiri continue to investigate who was responsible for Polina’s murder in Season 2 of the MAX series Tokyo Vice. In case you missed anything, our recap of Season 2 details everything that happened in Episodes 1-10.
Tokyo Vice Season 2 Recap
Episode 1 – “Don’t Ever F**king Miss”
Jake and Hiroto have the Vice Minister’s back against the wall after he is identified as one of the men on the boat that raped Polina on the videotape sent to Jake. But after a fire at the news station, all the recordings and copies being made were destroyed. Detective Miyamoto turns up dead in Episode 1, and with his boss blaming him for what happened, Hiroto gets in a lot of trouble. This leads to Hiroto telling Jake they must back off and bide their time.
Episode 2 – “Be My Number One”
Samantha’s club opens and clicks on all cylinders until she finds out that one of her prominent ladies is taking money from her. Although she fired her, Sato arrives to let Samantha know she must hire her back, but Samantha stands her ground.
Naoki Hayama, the eldest son, has returned from school, and Ishida has made him second in command. He makes his presence known in Episode 2 by heading into the Tozawa territory and taking over their clubs.
Episode 3 – “Old Law, New Twist”
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With her back against the wall, Samantha agrees to get information from her new friend, Masahito Ohno, about a shopping center project in exchange for full ownership of her club. Detective Nagata and Hiroto start ruffling feathers within the local gangs’ foundation by arresting 24 men with the understanding that more is to come.
Episode 3 teases with the return of Tozawa as he walks up to talk to Misaki.
Episode 4 – “Like a New Man”
Tozawa has returned and is wondering why Chihara-kai is taking over his business. While Ishida explains that they have bigger things to worry about, he doesn’t want to hear it. Sato and Hayama’s ride to pick up guns turns deadly when Hayama kills the man that they are meeting with.
Tozawa pays a visit to Nakahara in Episode 4 to discuss how he will run the operations moving forward. He fights back, and Tozawa has his men throw him off the roof, and his body lands right in front of Jake.
Episode 5 – “Illness of the Trade”
Ishida reveals to Sato in Episode 5 that he plans to make him the man in charge of Chihara-kai upon his passing. Samantha and Ohno sit down with Ishida to discuss a plan to satisfy both parties in the wake of the news about the shopping center.
After agreeing to a deal, a group of men come into Samantha’s club and open fire on everyone. The shootout turns deadly with a massive body count, including Ohno and Ishida.
Episode 6 – “Choose You”
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As Ishida took his last breath, Hayama cemented himself as the leader of the Chihara-Kai. He pushes the blame on Sato because he allowed him to go into the club without much backup. Hayama’s first course of action in Episode 6 is to try to get Sato’s brother Kaito to kill Tozawa, but Sato is able to stop him before he does it.
Jake gets Samantha to help with a lead, but it turns out deadly on several fronts. First, his newspaper runs an article saying Samantha was in cahoots with Ishida. Then, with her identifying the tattoo of the two men at the shooting, Detective Katagiri and Nagata find one of the men dead, with the other arriving at Katagiri’s house that night pleading for help.
Episode 7 – “The War at Home”
Detective Katagiri and Nagata lock in an agreement with their witness for them to get manslaughter in exchange for testimony against Tozawa. However, on their way to court, the witness is shot and killed. Back to the drawing board in Episode 7, Katagiri was listening to the tapes from the wiretap of Tozawa’s phones and overheard a bill collector from a Minnesota Hospital call him. Katagiri calls Jake and asked him to hop on a plane to Minnesota to talk to the doctor.
Jake uncovers that Tozawa came over under a different alias, jumped the line, got the surgery, and gave the doctor a quarter-million-dollar watch to keep quiet.
Episode 8 – “The Noble Path”
When Sato discovers that Hayama sent his brother on a mission to kill Tozawa’s men, he takes matters into his own hands to confront him. Sato demands that he let his brother come with him, but Hayama refuses, and the two fight one another. Sato gets the best of Hayama and kills him, along with the help of the other Chihara-Kai members.
Jake’s deep dive into Tozawa turns out to be deadly in Episode 8 as it leads to a sit down with Tozawa’s right-hand man. The man threatens to kill Jake and everyone he loves if he doesn’t back off. Although Jake agrees, Detective Katagiri pushes Jake to move forward as he is their only hope to take him down.
Episode 9 – “Consequences”
Sato is seeing his fellow members of the Chihara-kai drop like flies in Episode 9 and heads over to work with Tozawa. Because he is the lone yakuza left to join him, Tozawa sends men after him to kill him. Jake, Eimi, Tin Tin, and Trendy put together the pieces that Tozawa is an FBI informant, and that is how he got into the States.
Tin Tin approaches the doctors who work on the yakuza, but it leads to him getting stabbed and put in the ER. Misaki heads to Samantha to find Jake, but both end up in trouble. Detective Katagiri and Nagata take down Tozawa’s right-hand man, Yabuki, while his wife, Kazuko, provides inside information on where to find Tozawa’s FBI agreement with Katagiri.
Episode 10 – “Endgame”
After Detective Katagiri finds the FBI agreement on Tozawa’s boat, he delivers it to Sato in Episode 10, the finale. Sato takes it to the yakuza bosses, who confront Tozawa at a dinner that he thought was for him and Misaki. Tozawa tries to play it off, but when his wife Kazuko arrives, she informs him that the only way to end this is for him to kill himself, and he does. This leads to us seeing Sato sworn into the Chihara-kai.
That was our recap of Tokyo Vice Season 2 (Episodes 1-10). What did you think of the second season? Do you have a favorite moment or highlight? Let us know in the comments.
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