In season 2 of Tokyo Vice, Jake and Katagiri persist in taking down a rejuvenated Tozawa and his clan. The series is streaming on Max.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary:
Jake takes the tape showing Polina’s death to Katagiri’s place, and they decide to chase it down.
Jake takes the tape back to the Meicho while Katagiri tries to gather more evidence to back it up.
Sato is rushed to the doctor so that he can be treated for his stab wounds as Gen is tracked down for betraying his brother.
Maruyama and Tintin visit Minister Shigematsu to get a comment on the videotape but they are met with resistance.
Samantha is still searching for Polina and gets the news from Jake that she is dead. Katagiri gets a tip leading him to Miyamoto’s dead body.
The tape is kept in a safe at the Meicho, but the room is burned down and their evidence is destroyed, sending them back to square one.
Sato’s brother, Kaito, comes looking for him and is incredibly worried but he is assured that Sato is safe and recovering.
Gen is taken to Sato for punishment once he awakens, but Sato shows him mercy. Samantha gets drunk to deal with Polina’s loss.
Katagiri promises to get justice against Tozawa for the deaths of Polina and Miyamoto.
Samantha opens up her new club and business is booming, but the co-ownership of the Yakuza comes with its troubles.
Jake begins searching for other stories since there is no sign of Tozawa and he has no other leads to follow.
He also starts an affair with Misaki despite the danger involved. Ishida’s second-in-command, Hayama, is released from prison and takes his place in the clan.
Shoko Nagata joins the precinct from the National Police Agency and she enlists Kataigiri’s help to form a task force intended to take down the Yakuza.
Sato serves Hayama, but Hayama is rash and hot-headed which makes Sato’s life difficult. Jake finds out about an underground biker gang that steals bikes for parts.
He makes a deal with them to follow them around and write a story about them. Tozawa returns and Misaki has to end things with Jake.
Maruyama believes that someone with the Meicho destroyed the tape on purpose and suspects Baku because of his right-winged ideology.
Nagata and Katagiri begin arresting smaller clans of the Yakuza and use the law of obstruction of justice in their favor to keep the criminals inside.
Jake follows Tozawa to a provincial clinic and sneaks inside to discover that Tozawa was suffering from liver disease before seemingly recovering completely.
Tozawa wishes to take his clan to new heights by getting on the boards of legitimate financial institutions and using his position to fill the Yakuza coffers.
He kills his boss, Nakahara, and takes over the Tozawa clan. Jake is certain that Tozawa got a liver transplant, but they don’t know how he would have traveled to the US to get one.
Sato’s patience with Hayama wears thin but he cannot do much about it. Hayama takes an interest in Kaito and begins grooming him to join the clan despite Sato’s reluctance.
Samantha is forced to snoop on a customer and get information from him for the Chihara Kai, but she gets caught.
They return to Ishida with a plan that will help all parties, but the meeting at Samantha’s club is interrupted by two shooters who show up and kill Ishida.
They were sent by Tozawa, although no one has any proof to connect him to the killing.
Jake travels back home for a holiday and Katagiri uncovers a link between Tozawa and a hospital in the US.
He asks Jake to investigate and he learns that Tozawa jumped the transplant list and then bribed the operating doctor for his silence.
Hayama takes over after Ishida’s death, even though Ishida privately believed that Sato is better suited to the job.
Kaito is sent on a suicide mission but Sato stops him. When Sato stands up against Hayama to protect his brother, he is banished from the Chihara Kai.
Jake continues to follow the story of Tozawa’s visit to the US but the FBI liaison in Tokyo tells him that he might be mistaken.
When yakuza members are arrested in the US, Jake and his colleagues believe that Tozawa might be an informant which is how he managed to bypass the transplant list.
Tozawa realizes that Jake is getting close and threatens his family. His secret affair with Misaki is also exposed, putting him and Misaki in danger.
Katagiri and Nagata capture one of the shooters involved in Ishida’s murder, but a dirty cop helps Tozawa cover his tracks by killing the informant.
Katagiri pressures the dirty cop to set a trap for Tozawa’s right-hand man and arrests him. Tozawa appears to be close to ruling all when Shigematsu is announced as the next Prime Minister.
Before that can happen, however, Jake and Katagiri work on two fronts to take him down.
Ending explained:
Setting the plan in motion
Tozawa’s wife meets Katagiri and tells him that if there is evidence that Tozawa is an informant, it will be in his penthouse or the Yoshino.
The police decide to hit both locations at the same time for maximum success. Sato and a few of his men escape an attack from Tozawa’s men and go into hiding.
Jake goes to him for protection while he writes his article on the Tozawa. Misaki goes to Samantha because she is worried about Jake.
They also end up where Sato is hiding. and Katagiri goes there to let everyone know about the plan.
He tells Sato that once he gets the evidence, he’s giving it to Sato so that the Yakuza can definitively take care of Tozawa.
A tainted victory
Along with the FBI agreement, Jake and Katagiri also find evidence of payments made from Tozawa to Shigematsu.
The Meicho refuses to print the article about Tozawa being an informant because Tintin was stabbed and ended up in the hospital.
However, the Shigematsu angle doesn’t directly connect to Tozawa so Baku lets Maruyama write the article.
She is then stopped by Oazaki, who admits that he burned the tape to protect the Meicho’s relationship with the government.
She quits the paper and takes the evidence to Shingo Murata so that he can print it on his paper.
Jake reveals Jason as his source to get the story from the FBI, and Jason is punished as a result.
This hurts Trendy as he has a relationship with Jason, and he tells Jake to never talk to him again.
The end to violence
Tozawa holds Misaki’s mother hostage and tells Misaki that he wants to meet her and Jake. With some help from Samantha, they set up a meeting in a public place.
Sato takes the contract to the other clans and they all decide to get their revenge against Tozawa.
When Tozawa reaches the restaurant, he finds the heads of all the clans facing him. He offers to pay them for his transgressions but his wife refuses to lend him the money.
He has no choice but to kill himself as per Yakuza tradition. Tozawa’s wife tells Jake that she was the one who sent him the tape, but he messed it up back then.
Samantha takes the information she was planning on giving Ishida and gives it to Kazuko Tozawa in exchange for payment.
Sato ascends to head of the Chihara Kai and Samantha tells him that she’s going away for a while to recharge.
Misaki tells Jake that they cannot be together because she wants a calm life and he cannot do that.
After taking down Tozawa, Katagiri retires. Jake tells him that he’s certain the old cop won’t be able to stay quiet for too long and will be back in the saddle soon enough.