Mitamura encounters Sara atop the Empire State Building and asks her about the van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting which Mitamura, as the new director of the Tokyo Takada Museum presented to the museum one year earlier. The damaged phantom "Sunflowers" painting was believed burned and lost during World War II. Later, a woman from a wealthy Arab family asks Fujita to obtain the phantom "Sunflowers" painting on her behalf. When Fujita asks Mitamura for the painting, she agrees, but asks Fujita to assist in restoring some historic Shigaraki pottery from a collection of shards to trap him as a charlatan. Mitamura fails to trap Fujita, but he manages to convince Mitamura of his skills. He demands the painting, but she refuses. Fujita explains that it is a fake, but highly valued by the young woman who rescued it after losing her whole family. When Mitamura returns to Takada Museum, she finds that Fujita has replaced the fake painting with the restored original.
エンパイヤ・ステート・ビル展望台。フジタとの出会いを思い返すサラと三田村。一年前、三田村が高田美術館館長に就任した際、彼女が公開した絵画、ゴッホの『幻のひまわり』。戦時中に行方不明となったその絵画には、無残な焼け焦げの痕があった。数日後、その絵画を売ってほしいという依頼を受けたフジタは三田村を訪ねる。そのクライアントがサラだった。
