Model-actress Chiaki Kuriyama makes her first leading-role appearance in a TV drama series, as a housewife with a secret past in "Himitsu Chohoin Erika" ("Secret Intelligence Agent Erika"; Nippon TV, Thurs., 11:58 p.m.).
Erika is married to a salaryman and is the mother of a kindergarten-age son. She is perfectly happy in her domestic situation until one day her former boss shows up at her house, saying he wants her to come back to work for him.
Her boss is the head of intelligence in the prime minister's office, and when Erika balks at returning to her old position as a spy, he threatens to tell her husband about her past, which Erika would prefer to keep secret. She accepts, and on her first assignment back on the job she meets a woman who was sexually assaulted at a matchmaking party.