Kochikame Episode: 42

"The Great Flying Nakagawa" (とんだ大空の逃亡者) Original Air Date (Imagined): November 15, 1998 Episode Synopsis The episode opens on a quiet afternoon at the Kameari Police Box. Nakagawa is polishing his already immaculate motorcycle, while Honda (the former juvenile delinquent turned traffic cop) watches with a mix of admiration and annoyance. Ryotsu is, predictably, asleep at his desk, drooling onto a lottery ticket.

Ryotsu, desperate, has a "brilliant" idea. He runs to a nearby pachinko parlor and grabs a giant magnet used for cheating at the machines (a running gag). He climbs to the top of a police watchtower. Kochikame Episode 42

But then he sees a small, familiar yellow cap flutter down from Nakagawa’s pocket: that Nakagawa had been holding for the station’s communal pot. Ryotsu, desperate, has a "brilliant" idea

Ryotsu wakes up, sees Nakagawa drifting past the second story of a department store, and grins. "What a stupid way to go. Oh well, time for tonkatsu ." But then he sees a small, familiar yellow

The numbers are read...