Since Tokyo Vice is almost entirely set within Japan, it can be easy to forget that protagonist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) originally comes from America. But the new trailer for season 2 of the Max crime series shows Jake talking to two different family members from back home. One asks, "what exactly do you all day?"

"I chase down stories," Jake responds.

Throughout the rest of the trailer, we see what that means.

Season 1 of Tokyo Vice ended with several cliffhangers that left open questions about the fate of handsome yakuza antihero Sato (Show Kasamatsu) and the future of Hiroto Katagiri's (Ken Watanabe) investigation into the Tozawa clan. The new trailer shows Sato alive, but still recovering in a hospital bed, while Tozawa turns up the heat on Jake.

A hardened killer is after the journalist now, and the only clue Samantha Porter (Rachel Keller) has for Jake is a tattoo of an eye on the killer's wrist. We see a sketch of the tattoo, which impresses even Jake's hard-nosed editor Emi Maruyama (Rinko Kukichi).

"Chase it. Tell no one," she says.

Viewers should get ready for an action-packed season 2. In a first-look interview with EW last year, show creator J.T. Rogers said "the danger and the violence get heightened exponentially."

Tokyo Vice season 2 premieres Feb. 8 on Max. Watch the full trailer above.

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