Ms. Kinue Tabata has to cancel the reception for her wedding to Mr. Arakawa after Arakawa has to pay an old friend's large debt. Meanwhile, wealthy art collector Sataka sees one of a set of carved wooden three wise monkeys in a photo of a ceramic vase taken by Arakawa and owned by the notoriously difficult collector, Hoichi Matsumori.
小泉局長最愛の猫・パシャが消化不良をきっかけに拒食症に。大好物のアジの干物も効果なし。このままでは命が危ないと土郎に泣きつく小泉。対策を探る内、土郎は干物作りの現状に思い当たる。