Season 1
Ninth Step Station
Created by Malka Older. Written by Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Fran Wilde.
Years of disaster and conflict have left Tokyo split between great powers. In the city of drone-enforced borders, bodymod black markets, and desperate resistance movements, US peacekeeper Emma Higashi is assigned to partner with Tokyo Metropolitan Police Detective Miyako Koreda. Together, they must race to solve a series of murders that test their relationship and threaten to overturn the balance of global power. And amid the chaos, they each need to decide what they are willing to do for peace.
Episodes
Episode 1
The Faceless Body
In a city divided by war, a Tokyo cop and a US peacekeeper are brought together by murder, missing guns, and politics way above their pay grades.
Episode 2
The Bodiless Arm
A severed arm leads Miyako and Emma into the world of extreme body modders, with a side dish of organized crime.
Episode 3
The Fallen Executive
A powerful corporate chairman crashes to his death on a Tokyo pavement. Is it suicide? Or murder?
Episode 4
The Blackout Killer
Power failures are a fact of life in post-war Tokyo. But now, someone is waiting in the dark.
Episode 5
The Deadly Defection
Miyako and Emma must untangle whether a man who shot a woman on the street is a defector, or a murderer.
Episode 6
The Stolen Xiǎohái
The child of a Chinese diplomat disappears, and Emma and Miyako are on the case, with a little unwanted help from the other side of the drone curtain.
Episode 7
The Loud Politician
A politician is dead. Two of her colleagues were caught on tape saying they wanted to kill her. Case closed. Right?
Episode 8
The Clawed Limb
When a man obsessed with body modifications attacks his girlfriend, he says his hand has a mind of its own. Yeah, right. Right?
Episode 9
The Assassin's Nest
A deadly attack threatens to tear Tokyo’s fragile peace to shreds.
Episode 10
The Foreign Mischief
“Our job is to solve murders.” As terrorists and the Chinese army attack in Tokyo, Emma and Miyako must decide what really matters.
