The Weekly Storyland episode titled "The Sad Perfect Crime." A bank robbery takes place. The robber wears a helmet, heavy clothing, and a voice changer, making their identity completely unknown. To begin with, the robber blindfolds and ties up all the customers and employees inside. The police rush to the scene immediately, but because the suspect has a gun and there are hostages, they cannot make a careless move. When they ask what the robber wants, it is an unreasonable demand to prepare a getaway helicopter or boat within 30 minutes. One detective asks if they can at least release the women and children, and the robber readily agrees. The released hostages are four women, including a woman holding a baby and an elderly woman. Tens of minutes later, the police forcibly enter the bank. However, the robber is already gone. To escape, one must pass through the bank's entrance and exit, and there were crowds of people outside. How on earth did they escape? The detective deduces that the released female hostages must be the robber. While the customers and employees were blindfolded and tied up, the robber stole the money, pretended to be a released hostage, and slipped away in the confusion to escape without suspicion. The detectives are utterly discouraged, realizing they fell for such a clever trick. However, they left a blind spot: the robbers who fled disguised as hostages would have their faces exposed to the public. The police immediately put out a nationwide wanted poster for the four released women. Yet, for some reason, not a single yen was stolen from the bank safe. Why on earth? The police tilt their heads in confusion, wondering what the purpose of the bank raid was. The scene changes to show the women who were released as hostages. To everyone's surprise, those women were all men in disguise.
The motive of the four men who raided the bank was as follows: A man went crazy over gambling, was abandoned by his wife, and divorced. He wants to get back together, but he doesn't know where she is, and the police won't take him seriously. Desperate to see her, four men disguised themselves as their ex-wives, committed a bank robbery to get themselves wanted on the run, forcing the police to track down and secure the real ex-wives. Their plan was to stake out that location, and when they reunited with their wives, apologize to them. The real wives are then taken into police custody, but since all of them have solid alibis, they are safely released. The men watch this from the shadows. A detective approaches them and says: "We looked into you. Those four women all share one thing in common: they divorced their husbands because they were fed up with them. And you guys are those husbands. It seems you became friends at the race track. You probably carried out this crime because you pitied each other's misery. It's true that you didn't steal anything, and you didn't hurt anyone. But you still have to pay for causing a public disturbance." Hearing this, the men realize their own guilt. However, they beg the detective, "Please, just let us see our wives for a moment and apologize, I'm begging you," and the detective grants permission. At last, the men are able to see the wives they longed for and apologize for being bad husbands. Seeing this, all the wives shed tears, resulting in a deeply emotional reunion. With a smile, the detective mutters, "Next time, cherish your wife," and the story ends. The story tried to wrap up on a heartwarming note, but considering their ex-wives left them because of their own uselessness, framing them as bank robbers would only make them hate the husbands even more. Plus, it left me irritated and with a bad aftertaste, wondering what on earth they would have done if even one of the ex-wives couldn't prove her innocence.
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