Fuji TV is airing a series of two-hour dramas based on the best-selling mysteries of Keigo Higashino. This week, it presents "Brutus no Shinzo" ("The Heart of Brutus"; Fri., 9 p.m.), which belongs to the "perfect murder" subgenre.
Takuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a young executive in the robotics division of a major manufacturer of industrial equipment. Ambitious to a fault, he is now dating Seiko (Sei Ashina), the daughter of the company's founder-president (Morio Kazama), in hopes that he may someday become president himself.
But the president's former secretary, Yasuko, starts blackmailing Takuya, saying that she is pregnant and he is the father, though there seem to be many candidates for the job. Seiko's brother, Naoki (Yoshihiko Hakamada), hears of the blackmailing scheme and offers Takuya a solution to his problem.