No, it wouldn't.
Cheers!
He must be possessed.
What's that smell?
How come he died in the middle of nowhere?
He's not the only one.
No obvious wounds on the victims.
There's residues of vomit at the corner of their mouths.
No, It wouldn't.
From what it seems, very likely caused by food poisoning.
The remains of food, utensils and water,
collect the evidences, send to the lab. We'll have to wait for the Forensics.
Oleander.
They couldn't have used it as chopsticks.
It's poisonous.
Not like it never happened before.
Oleander is very common in the wild.
But the whole plant is poisonous.
Supposed the victims swallowed its poisonous sap.
Reaction to poison might cause vomiting or even death.
Under-cooked dried tofu and bacon.
It's BTX, has to be.
Has to be? How certain?
Vicious!
The whole wide world nothing is definite.
Let's say it's BTX.
It could bring life, and also take life.
See, I said it's BTX.
I didn't say so.
We have to wait for the anatomy results
also after blood and feces
results come out,
then we know what happened.
But this spot on Kuan-Yu Liang's calf...
is still having inflammation.
The brown stuff is ointment.
There's no similar wound on the others,
so I supposed It's not the cause
of group poisoning.
Intern, come feel this.
No.
I've never seen such a pussy.
Your partner's gonna give you hell if she finds out.
Not like she doesn't disrespect me every day.
Want to find out the murderer?
Let the body talk.
You know sometimes I envy you plants.
So relaxed.
I feel that, us human are too emotional.
When we're working or making decisions.
No way to be fair or make the perfect decision.
- So like us human... - Hey!
Really, that miserable?
You're making me cry.
Actually, If something's on your mind,
you can talk to me.
Sorry,
my Miracle Fruit is delicate.
Please stop saying useless things in front of it.
Test
1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3.
Yeah, right it can hear me.
Of course.
It's been proven in 1966, by Cleve Backster from CIA,
using a modified polygraph, detected that plants have emotions,
afterwards, many scientists and botanists proved that,
plants communicate to human telepathically.
Just listen with your heart. You can hear what it wants to say.
You're making this up.
Let's be friends,
can you please tell me the lottery number?
Fine. No one likes you!
Be nice or you'll end up alone! Alone for the rest of your life!
From the blood samples of 4 victims,
and residues from their stomach,
we found Type-A BTX toxin.
After further lab tests of cultured feces specimens,
the results are the same.
I think we found the murderer.
But there is undigested meat in
the victims' stomach.
Which means after the time between eating the meat and death
should be within 4 hours.
What does that mean?
In order for the neurotoxic from BTX to kick in
takes about 12 hours at least.
But they were already bodies at that time.
When we found them, their bodies were tense from muscle spasm.
Is it possible they've consumed poisonous plants
like Oleander or Strychnos?
It is possible.
Toxic plants like this contains Alkaloids.
Cases like this should be common.
So I think it should be easy to find out.
Busy?
It's off hours. I'm bonding with Hatsune Miku.
Well, then, may I have a moment?
Can you deliver the samples for me?
Where?
Shennong Toxin Laboratory.
By the way,
come to my place afterwards.
Let's bond a little.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Why is it we're having barbecue, the number plates are still around?
We're not frying bodies.
It's a habit.
Dip 1 if you're having pork, Dip 2 if you're having chicken.
Steak, I recommend no dip.
Sprinkle some pink salt from number 3, should be delicious.
I made this dip according to the World BBQ Sauce's
recommended golden ratio!
Mix it together then it's for everything.
You're such a prick.
- That's why no one bother to talk to you. - Here, it's done.
Never mind.
Someone thinks I'm not nice enough, so I got everyone here today
to try to bond with the team.
Let's not talk about work. Let's have tea and gossip.
Tea.
Speaking of which,
Hsin and I confirmed,
from the teabag of the tea the victim has been drinking.
You're paying the overtime.
There's an unknown toxin same as what we found from the stomach,
but now the tag was gone.
We don't know which brand the teabag is from.
The end.
Disclaimer, that brand is definitely not
the one I'm offering right now, Ballet German Tea.
The garbage we brought back from scene I have Kao taken care of.
Kao.
Did you find wrappings or tags?
Yeah.
Here.
This is poisonous!
When didn't you tell us earlier!
Stop panicking. We will get to the bottom of this.
Where did you buy the tea?
From the internet...
It's impossible. This type of tea from Ballet,
I've been their customer for years,
never a negative review.
- How old are you? - I'm 40.
- What's your name? - Hsien
- You like jogging or swimming? - Neither. Why ask?
Seems like he's telling the truth.
A malware is sabotaging my disk, it's dead.
Hey, I drank the most of this tea.
It would be me that's gonna die first. You're exaggerating.
Guys
From the tea sample given by seller, we found only three ingredients.
Rosemary, Verbena,
and Peppermint.
But from the tea Genie gave us, there's...
What?
There's nothing.
Psycho. Boring.
Neither of the tea includes the unknown toxin from the body.
Just ignore him.
- Miku-chan, I'm OK. - I told you nothing's wrong with my tea.
Hold on, if this toxic can only be found in victim's tea bag, this means,
this is not an accident.
But a murder.
I heard Ta-Hsiung Li has been visiting Tzu-Ling Feng.
Yeah.
He's still in love with Tzu-Ling Feng?
No, Ta-Hsiung Li, he never liked Kuan-Yu Liang.
Ta-Hsiung Li hates Kuan-Yu Liang...
I didn't say that.
Kuan-Yu Liang has an outstanding performance.
It's quite obvious in our lab many jealous TAs are against him.
Ohhh.
By jealous TA, you mean Ta-Hsiung Li?
I didn't say so.
Is Kuan-Yu Liang among them?
He's the only one,
so talented in botany that I'm afraid of him.
I'm afraid I have nothing to give him in the field of botany.
Wen-Hao Chang and Chun-Chia Wang,
do you know them?
I know Kuan-Yu often invites classmates to go camping in the mountains.
They seem to get along.
Professor, another question, on January 3rd,
the day they went camping,
Kuan-Yu Liang went to your office?
Yes, I saw him that day.
Professor, are you free during lunch time?
I'd like to invite you to lunch.
There's something I want to tell you.
I just didn't think that,
it would be the last time I saw him.
I'm not that evil.
If I find out who's behind all this gossip,
he's dead meat.
I get along with Kuan-Yu pretty well.
We might have some disagreement in our studies,
but it's a healthy competition.
That sort of make sense.
But if you are in love with Tzu-Ling Feng, then it's a complete different story.
Motives... does it increase a bit?
I have a girlfriend.
We're about to get married.
I see her as a younger sister.
It pains me more than anything, knowing they're dead.
Ma'am, it's empty.
Wen-Hao Chang, Chun-Chia Wang, and Kuan-Yu Liang,
the three are elementary school classmates.
Five years ago Kuan-Yu Liang and Tzu-Ling Feng started seeing each other.
Ever since then, the four of them
often went camping or barbecuing in the mountains.
Among the four,
only Kuan-Yu Liang,
has a habit of drinking Ballet Rosemary Tea.
Everyone that knows him, knows that it's a habit of his.
If we consider the possibility of a murder,
I think there's only one target, Kuan-Yu Liang.
As for the rest...
it's bad luck.
Which means, only the jealous TA has the motives.
His name is Ta-Hsiung Li.
Don't forget the rules,
it's strictly forbidden to call person of interest nicknames
as a respect.
Genie once said, “Those who lie are very insecure.”
So they would put something between the other person and himself
- as a way to escape stress. - Yeah.
Like this, I build a wall in front of you to form a sense of secure.
That jealous TA,
Ta-Hsiung Li,
he does have a pile of things on his desk.
Like the Great Wall.
If he's not lying, why is he insecure?
He could be lying,
but I'm curious, why is he lying?
Kao just heard back from Shennong.
In the teabags of the victim,
and in their stomach, the unknown toxin has been confirmed.
It's Coniine.
Hemlock is a rare kind of toxic plant.
Someone once told me, in ancient Greek,
one of the death penalties, enforced on the outstanding people,
is to have them drink hemlock juice.
And watch themselves slowly walk in to the arms of Death.
Look, Socrates,
the cup he's reaching for is hemlock juice.
He died after he drank it?
Yeah.
Teacher, I find it strange, why do plants kill people?
Plants themselves don't kill people.
Hemlock juice can be a poison,
but can also save lives.
All comes down to how human use it.
Understand?
Even though I moved, I remembered clearly,
if it wasn't the encouragement from my teacher,
I wouldn't be standing here, doing forensics.
I often wonder,
where did that boy next door who loves flower and plants end up at?
I just never thought, I'd meet you under this circumstances.
Teacher, do you understand hemlock?
- Heard of the magazine, New Botany? - Of course.
In last year, the ratings of New Botany in influence, is 29.095.
In the international botany journal, ranked number one.
Kuan-Yu Liang submitted his work.
If his papers were accepted,
he would become the youngest professor in our faculty.
It's a shame that this happened.
We can't be sure whether or not it's an accident.
From the four victims, the collected samples,
anatomy specimens, and vomit, beside BTX, all of them have 126 to 152 milligram of
an unknown toxin.
And we just found out, it's Coniine.
But does this mean hemlock is the murderer?
What about BTX?
OK, OK, I've asked Dr. Yang,
he said the characteristic of that particular type of BTX is,
let's say you're dead...
Me. I'm dead.
Even If I'm dead, its spores are able to sprout and grow inside of me
release toxin.
Which means, in the bodies of four victims,
contain Type-A BTX.
But before it's combined with the muscle and neurons around them.
- They're already dead. - Exactly.
By cross assessment,
Coniine is the cause of dead of the four victims.
Who added Coniine into the teabag?
See this?
Ta-Hsiung proposed to me six months ago.
We're going very steady.
That girl, Tzu-Ling Feng,
they didn't even talk to each other privately.
Murder in the name of love? Please.
I am very willing to believe that you are innocent.
But this is for eliminating your suspicion,
I'd like to see your phone.
Um...
Give it to her, what are you afraid of?
Just hand it to her.
Thank you.
If not troubled, may I have a word with you in private?
I've told you everything last time.
We have a wedding dress appointment.
Excuse me. Ta-Hsiung, let's go.
- They're so weird. - Mhmm.
You see, their relationship is pretty bad.
This girl, she never once
looked at Ta-Hsiung Li, for the whole time we're talking.
They did it in front of us,
holding arm and such, but there's no other body contact.
There's more.
She said they're going to try on wedding dress.
Sounds sweet, but she's acting very cold.
Ta-Hsiung Li doesn't have a ring mark.
I think he doesn't wear it as much.
Engaged for 6 months should be like,
"You're a flower,
at the edge of a cliff,
requires courage to collect it."
Every day during noon, Ta-Hsiung Li Calls Tzu-Ling Feng.
- It has been going on for 6 months. - So uncreative.
This is from that Casanova tutoring website.
- Exactly the same. - How do you know?
I...
Right... Oh, and this, look.
Message log of his coworker and him, trash talking the professor, see?
I'm telling you, an engaged man, keeps harassing other girls.
Trash like him, deserves a cut.
Think about it.
If your girlfriend finds out after you've proposed to her,
you're still going after Tzu-Ling Feng.
I think she will be...
Take care.
No.
Please, she can't find out.
Or I will be next.
But you're not cooperating, I can't help you.
I confess that I didn't tell the truth in the beginning.
But as much as trash I am,
I won't murder just because I didn't have her.
What?
Ma'am, I ran through the seller's records,
Ta-Hsiung Li didn't purchase from them,
but this one did.
YUNG-LING WANG
Professor, do you have high blood pressure?
How did you know?
Because from the professor's pantry,
the foods are either low in sodium, or high in potassium.
Also, the high blood pressure prescriptions on your shelf.
These are the indication
that you're using meds and food to control your high blood pressure.
What is it you want to find out?
The truth.
According to investigation,
anyone in your faculty who has bought Ballet Herbal Tea,
besides the victim Kuan-Yu Liang, is you.
Why would you buy something
that's forbidden for high blood pressure patient,
rosemary herbal tea?
I bought the tea so I could improve the formula.
To modify it into something
edible for high blood pressure patients like me.
There are so many herbal tea sellers on the internet,
why did you choose Kuan-Yu Liang's favorite brand?
He knows I want to improve formula, he recommended.
Where are the leftover teabags?
They were thrown away during experiment.
Are you asking me questions as a fellow kid in the neighbor.
To show your concerns,
or as an inspector from the Florence department?
Questioning a suspect?
Hemlock is poisonous in all parts of the plant.
Especially it's root and stem.
This looks like the celery pancakes Hsiang likes to eat.
Scary.
He's lying. I'm very family with celery.
What you had is 100 percent celery. Don't panic.
We're having a meeting, why is there celery pancake?
Inside the wound of Kuan-Yu Liang's calf,
found mild doses of hemlock.
We suspect it's been rubbed onto the surface of the skin.
Hemlock kills, but also heals.
The Coniine of hemlock is deadly, however,
a mild dosage of hemlock root made into ointment,
cures Osteomyelitis, neuralgia, gout, or wound.
This reminds me, on his office desk there's an ointment without label.
KUAN-YU LIANG
OK, Hsiang could you please bring the ointment back to Hsin for tests.
Got it.
- Hold on, sharing my investigation report. - Right.
Immigration records of Yung-Ling Wang...
she traveled to Korea 6 months ago for academic research.
Korea.
Ah!
Yung-Ling Wang went to Korea, obtained hemlock seeds,
then plant them back here in private. Yes.
Ah!
- That's it, a hundred... - This is a possibility.
Let me go to the washroom.
This is the ointment made from hemlock.
According to comparison results, the mild hemlock on Kuan-Yu Liang's wound
and the hemlock doses in this ointment is the same.
Why would Kuan-Yu Liang uses hemlock ointment?
Where did he get the ointment?
Ta-Hsiung Li said...
What do you know?
That's Professor Wang's ointment.
That ointment was given to Kuan-Yu Liang by Professor Wang.
Professor Wang cared to him herself.
Yung-Ling Wang is definitely studying hemlock, why would she lie?
What is she afraid of?
AUTHOR HECATE
Are you Mr. Chang?
I'm Officer Yang.
I'd like to ask you a question.
Who's the creator of Hecate?
I'm sorry it's confidential. I can't tell you.
Mr. Chang, you can see I'm sleep deprived,
we're are now investigating, a murder case of four.
I'm begging you don't give me this
"confidential, can't tell you" kind of answer.
What do you want to know?
Is she Hecate?
Thank you, professor.
I remember when I was a kid, Professor used to tell me,
hemlock is dedicated to the goddess of darkness and magic, Hecate.
Can't believe you still remember.
Because the name, Hecate, is special.
Reminds me of Professor.
This medical research publication of hemlock, is written by Hecate.
I wonder if you are this person.
I think I've already told you, I didn't study hemlock.
How could I publish any paper?
I'm sorry, professor.
We've already confirmed, that you are Hecate.
You were in fact, studying hemlock.
But you kept on lying which confuses me.
Or is it that you already know, hemlock is the murder weapon of the four.
You're trying to get out of it.
Does this silence mean you've admitted?
I am in fact writing, a research paper on hemlock.
But before the results were confirmed, I don't want anyone to know.
Therefore, I used an alias for publication,
just to get a feel of how readers would react.
So I could decide my ways of research.
If that's the case, I believe you wouldn't mind if we
take some samples of the soil from your garden.
Please.
What? This is ridiculous.
Thunder Lei acting like Justice Pao.
Ready to bring Yung-Ling Wang in.
What happened in our lab right now is placing laws above paternal affection.
No, it wouldn't.
Cheers!
Why weren't you eating?
This sulking,
won't give you strength for the fight tomorrow.
I surely don't hope that before justice is found,
I'm finding you on my dissection table.
Dr. Yang, are you showing your concerns for me,
of the Forensic report?
You may look like you're strictly about business,
but what you truly hope, is that the professor is clean, right?
Professor Wang,
according to the comparison results,
the hemlock pieces we collected from your garden,
and the hemlock residue from the four bodies,
are the same source.
It proves that you've killed them.
Look, her fingers are clenching tightly together.
Means that she's distressed.
Higher the hands go, the worse she's feeling.
Everyone knows Kuan-Yu Liang is my favorite student.
What motives do I have?
Are you as close as you claim you were?
That's not what the report tells me.
Kuan-Yu Liang does have a remarkable insight for botany.
He's a genius.
Kuan-Yu Liang will become a professor in no time.
It would be his era by then.
You should consider early retirement
before your own student kicks your ass.
It would be such a shame.
This to you, must be a pretty big shock.
You were afraid that he would succeed you.
And become the most renown botanical authority in the whole country.
It would have meant the end of you.
This was something you can't take.
So you killed him.
You never thought, the price of this mistake is four lives.
But you're not a bad person, I believe.
You once cared for Kuan-Yu Liang,
using your homemade hemlock ointment.
This proved that you once loved him deeply.
It's my mistake.
The minute I knew three innocent lives were gone because of me,
I blame myself every day.
But I just can't forgive Kuan-Yu. Why publish that paper?
Good morning, Professor Wang.
Good morning, Kuan-Yu.
Professor, are you free during noon?
I'd like to have lunch with you. I'd like to tell you something.
I'm pretty loaded this afternoon.
I need to prepare for my afternoon classes during noon time.
Oh I see… it's okay.
- Lunch next time then? - Sure.
How can I say yes to a traitor.
What makes you think Kuan-Yu is a traitor?
While he was gone,
I checked his research papers.
I am positive that,
his papers will be published in the journal that I've been dreaming of.
How can he get all the spotlight?
When the idea is actually mine.
He stole from me.
He betrayed me.
Jealousy drove Yung-Ling Wang mad.
She thinks she's under great threat.
Hence activated her defense mechanism, to kill.
What?
Professor Wang,
I think you might not understand Kuan-Yu as much you think you do.
According to the statements of a witness.
You submitted for New Botany? I'm going to tell professor.
Stop this nonsense.
I want to wait until it's officially recognized,
then I would tell professor the good news.
New Botany hit the shelves today.
It's the day Kuan-Yu Liang asked you for lunch.
He wanted to tell you personally.
If you would have gone to that date with him,
you would have seen, that he was only trying to surprise you.
You wouldn't have killed with hemlock,
and sabotage yourself.
I'm lucky it's you who brought me in.
If it wasn't for Professor Wang,
this paper wouldn't be published.
Professor Wang didn't just provide me guidance in the world of botany,
she's a mentor of my life.
I will be forever grateful.
Miracle Fruit is magical.
Magical, how?
Come, let's try one.
Put a piece of lemon in your mouth.
It tastes sweet!
Actually, it's not lemon that turned sweet,
it's the Miracle Fruit.
It makes your sweet sensory extremely sharp.
So the magic of Miracle Fruit, is turning sour into sweet?
Right.
So when we're in a sour mood, sour from our heart,
all we have to do is change our mind, a different way of thinking,
and we can make ourselves extremely sweet and happy. Right?
Right!
Hey!
I find your theory of changing a sour life into a sweet life very interesting.
Are you talking about Miracle Fruit?
How did you know?
It told me.
It also said,
you insisted that evidence would speak for itself,
so you wouldn't let professor down.
So you wouldn't disappoint her.
It also told me something else.
What?
Not telling you.
Let me put it this way... it said you need to brush up a bit.
Go be alone. Go talk to your tree.
Try to be nice or you'll end up alone! No one likes you!
Alone for the rest of your life!
Subtitle translation by Veronica Chi