Ryoko goes into hiding after the media broadcasts negative articles and news reports about her fame and her standing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Ryoko takes Izumida to a NPP stronghold in the Greater Tokyo Area after being defamed by a secret organization of renegade police officials led by a woman named Ruriko Isurugi. In the NPP stronghold, Ryoko and Izumida discover a child who has the same identical facial features like the former.
涼子が海外へ向かった。同僚たちは涼子の不在を喜んでいるが、泉田は単独で行動した涼子に対して違和感を覚える。そんな中、泉田は室町由紀子から、警視庁芝庁舎を牛耳る「芝の女王」を捜査している話を聞く。