"In the Name of People"
Episode 3
There's more underneath the quilt.
Director Hou...
Everything is here. I never spent even one cent!
Does your wife know about the house and the money?
She does not. I never told her.
I don't want her to worry for me.
Director Hou...
Do you think I can get reduced sentence for my cooperation?
My son is still young.
If I end up in jail, how would my family survive?
If you knew this, then why doing it in the first place?
You had your post for just 4 years, yet you received...
How much is it?
239,995,400 CNY.
You remember very well! - I kept a book of everything.
I just don't dare to spend. Not even one cent!
Therefore this loving son sends his mother 300 per month.
Where's your moral boundaries? Your mother saved every penny to raise you,
and sent you to college. This is how you repay her?
No wonder your village stopped sending kids to college.
You yourself made a terrible example!
(Dream is the distant handprint,)
(turning into smoke, turning into dirt...)
Report! Ding is not answering his phone!
Keep calling! - Call his driver.
I did, the driver's phone is also turned off.
They are about to pass Shuanggouji - Report, they already passed!
Have officers block him at Chaicheng exit. - Chaicheng police dept?
Send your men to block a black Passat at Chaicheng highway exit!
The plate number is...
A reminder for you:
Don't stick your head into the Guangmingfeng-project.
You might lose it. (Ouyang Jing, vice president of Jingzhou City bank)
The hell you mean, Li Dakang? (Ouyang Jing, vice president of Jingzhou City bank)
You called me back to hear your lecturing?
Not lecturing, just a reminder.
Stop hanging around Ding Yizhen. - What about it?
Your Guangmingfeng-project borrowed 600 million from our bank.
Is it more appropriate for me to hang around you instead?
I'm not talking about usual credit activities.
I mean you should meddle less in the actual project.
Li Dakang, I actually wanted to get involved, but did you give me any chance?
I wanted you to ask Ding but you refused. Could he refuse you if you asked?
Ding Yizhen is in trouble!
Ever since the first time,
I could no longer stop myself.
In the last 4 years, everyday felt like dreaming.
Each day felt unreal...
Some days, I'd come here all by myself.
Like sleep-walking, I just sit here.
And look at my stash. - Like now you mean?
Staring at this entire wall of cash?
When I look at this money,
I felt like watching the harvesting crops of the field.
Sometimes the money looked like rice plants. Sometimes...
Director Hou, do you think I'm sick, mentally?
I request you to make an evaluation of my mental state.
Is it necessary? - Yes, absolutely!
I really feel I'm sick! - Yes you are, and terminally!
Your greed turned you into a lunatic!
(Chaicheng exit)
Since you are this rich, why not get yourself some antiquities?
Some did give me antiquities, but I sternly refused.
You refused bribes? How surprising!
Not really... There are too many fake art objects out there,
Since I'm so busy, how could I ever authenticate them?
Right. Money is the safest option.
People say the paintings of Zhang Daqian and Picasso are good.
But I can't tell. - In your eyes, a wall of cash is best!
Yeah...
This, I don't feel it's good, but I like its smell.
Now the dream is over.
I sincerely regret.
What do I need this money for?
Money is of course useful. - How?
To assess your punishment. The court needs it.
Director Hou, comrades,
I know I'm guilty. I failed the party, and the people...
Shut up! For men like you, the party and the people exist just so you can fail them!
Report! The target is not in the car!
Impossible! How?
We searched the car, chief.
We searched, there is only the driver.
Did he leave his phone in the car?
Mayor Ding went home. He sent me to Yantai to pick up his mom.
Then why did you turn off your phone?
Out of battery. He sent me away on short notice.
Did Ding drop the phone, or purposely leave it there to mislead us?
It's even in silent mode. - It shows Ding has some counter-tracking skills.
Where did Ding leave his driver? - At Yifu East Road.
Get the surveillance footage from Yifu East Road. - Yes sir.
Director Hou, I confess. I report!
Only if you had this attitude at home or in your office!
Now we have all the evidence we need!
Doesn't cooperations reduce your sentences?
I tell you everything now!
It depends on what you report.
I report on Ding Yizhen, deputy mayor of Jingzhou in Handong province!
He's corrupt as hell! The last 3 years he sent people to bribe me 6 times.
With a total sum of 15,633,000 CNY!
You remember very clearly! You must tell the truth!
It's true! Director Hou, I told you I keep a book.
I write down every sum of money I received as bribe.
There is a small booklet with everything written.
It's in the ventilation shaft of the bathroom.
You two, go get it. - Yes sir.
Get footages for Yifu East Road and the surrounding roads. Check everything! - Yes sir.
Director Zhao, look at your book-keeping.
Did you study accounting? - No, mining.
But you didn't go mining, you left this mine instead.
Director Hou, does what I told you,
count as cooperation?
It's up to the court of law.
Let me ask you.
You wrote: 6 times has Ding Yizhen sent people to bribe you.
Why did you reject him afterwards? - He asked me for bulk price.
But it's impossible! I told him about my work ethics and that it's a different issue!
He then threatened me. He's actually much worse.
The ones he sent me, he collected from them first!
Frankly speaking I hate him to death!
If he never slipped me a 500 thousand bank card the first time, I won't have...
Ended up where I am today!
Right. Your first bribe of 500 thousand came from Ding Yizhen.
My predecessor got lifetime.
I didn't dare to take it. So he asked me out to drink.
I got drunk, so he slipped a bank card into my pocket.
I hesitated for a month,
before finally taking out the cash.
Once the floodgate of greed opens,
nothing can stop it.
Director Hou,
you must write down this lesson of mine, and tell the other comrades.
Tell them to never repeat my mistake.
No!
My crime!
Chief Qi, director Ji, do you see this?
Ding has excellent counter-tracking capabilities!
He walked 4 street blocks before taking a taxi to the airport.
How's it going at the airport?
They are still checking. But what we do know is:
there is no ticket purchase or boarding information of Ding Yizhen.
They suggest us to check the other nearby airports. - Keep checking.
Wait a sec!
Tell the bank to get two more cash counters and drive one...
No, two cash vans to transport all the money. - Yes sir!
Some instant noodles would be nice! We are hungry.
Director, this is a great victory today! Why do you still eat noodles?
Even a rich man like him eats noodles! - He's different!
His money is dirty! We are not like him!
Fine, order whatever you want, I'll treat you!
Director, then we'll rip you off big time today!
Chen Hai, here's some good news. Zhao Dehan bursted!
He snitched on dozens of bribers!
It's total victory here. How about you? Is Ding caught?
Ding might've escaped abroad... - Stop him! Don't let him escape!
According to Zhao, he received over 10 millions from Ding alone!
The sum of bribes Ding himself received could be huge too.
You really really must stop him within our borders!
Relax Liangping, we're doing our best... - Got him!
Got him!
We got him! I'll call you later.
Using our photo, the airport checked every traveler flying abroad today.
Ding Yizhen used a passport of "Tom Ding" and left 2 hours and 5 min ago,
with the flight 23432, to Los Angeles in US!
What? He left 2 hours ago already?
Find out which company does the flight 23432 belong to. - Yes sir.
It's United Airlines! - American?
Counting the hours, this flight 23432 must still be in Chinese airspace!
Chief Qi, please contact the air traffic control and let the plane land somewhere nearby!
Old Ji,
even if the air traffic control in Beijing listen to us and send out the order,
do you think the United plane will land?
Besides, if we do this, does it conform to the international laws on air traffic?
Then what do you suggest we do?
I must try, no matter what. - I agree!
Contact the air traffic authority in Beijing immediately! - Yes sir!
Beijing Beijing, it's Handong here.
Director Hou.
I have a request.
This time, I don't know when I can come back.
I wanna have a good look at this home of mine.
Beijing replied, the airplane already left China and entered international airspace.
It's currently at 99th East and 47th North.
Well played.
I worked on this case for so many days, yet he got away!
Old Ji.
You guys go back and prepare the files on Ding, the detailed the better.
We apply a red notice with the Interpol and hunt him down!
Chief Qi...
I remember we have no extradition agreements with US.
I know. - Save your breath, Chen Hai.
Procurator director, briefings after briefings. He's already in US!
What's the attitude?! Chen... - Old Ji...
I understand his attitude.
It is after all, our fault.
So this is how it went.
Great.
Police and procurators catching one target, but still let the target escape!
Qi Tongwei,
What a great chief of police you are!
With a promising future!
I am responsible for this failure.
I'll reflect upon myself, mentor.
What mentor? How many times have I corrected you?
We address people's title at work! - Yes secretary Yuliang.
Which airline did he take? Air China?
If it were Air China, I would've detained him at the airport. It was United.
We contacted the air traffic authority in Beijing and tried to stop him within our airspace.
But we were late.
Then why don't you have Interpol get him at LA airport and extradite him?
Don't be angry, secretary Yuliang.
We have no extradition agreement with US.
That's why corrupt officials from China all escape to US.
Ding Yizhen's escape happened at the moment the new party chief arrived.
This operation that Gao Yuliang personally oversaw ended surprisingly in failure.
What will the new party chief think? This made Gao Yuliang incredibly frustrated.
(Handong International Airport)
(picking up director Hou from Beijing)
I am Hou Liangping.
Director Hou,
are you here to deliver punishments?
How do you know such a secret? Chen Hai told you?
Everybody in the bureau knows that you are clinging onto your chief Chen!
You insist that it's our chief who lost Ding Yizhen.
Our chief is so scared he doesn't even dare to receiving you at the office!
Seriously? I'm just here to transfer Ding's case.
But truth be told,
your Handong procuratorate lost me a hugely corrupted official.
I'm not cool about it! - Yeah right!
To make you feel better, our chief is receiving you at his place!
I'm not falling for that!
Hey honey, I arrived safely. You can relax.
Girlfriend or wife?
You look so young you must still be single?
Now you are being nosy, comrade!
Isn't being nosy a specialty of our profession?
It's a professional task. Why do you wanna treat him at home?
Wanna act clean and honest?
Go ask your uncle. This Monkey is a foodaholic!
Every time he visits Handong he must eat the local cuisines I prepared!
Besides, he keeps nagging about me owing him a corrupt official.
If I get him to the office and he gets a burst of Monkey temper and starts shouting,
in the worst case, director Ji will be dragged in.
Moreover, if he really makes my life difficult here,
I might suffer for another 3-5 months. So why risk it?
Is he blackmailing you for something you did? - And what could that be?
Other than blaming me for Ding's escape,
during college years, I always pulled him by his Monkey tail!
Keep talking!
My uncle told me he's like the Monkey King who destroyed the heaven palace! (Chinese legend from "Journey to the West")
You pulled him around?
Comrade Yike, now you are being unfair.
Your uncle, our mentor Gao, secretary Gao, always favored Hou.
Your aunt almost made him their son-in-law!
Therefore they always speak of him full of love.
You can't trust everything, you know. - Really?
Of course!
Is your chief Chen still single?
You don't say. Even I feel stressed for him.
Why director Hou? You wanna introduce him some girls?
No I don't. But why don't you help him out?
We do help him out, you think it's easy? It's not grocery shopping!
Besides, our chief is too deeply attached to his late wife!
Director Hou, are you married or not?
Don't change subject! We are talking about Chen Hai!
You must help him change his mind! I know him best.
He's nostalgic and values friendship.
You must find ways to pull him out of the old dreams!
You could organize some parties...
He won't even come to the parties! Besides he's busy.
Director Hou, I think you are not only here to cause trouble,
It seems you care about our chief!
"Seems"? I do care about him and it's killing me!
Let's skip his place for now. Go to the office and finish the task first.
Is it necessary? It is necessary!
Yike, be careful for your hands when cutting.
Aye, got it!
Chen Hai, there are two crabs in the sink. Shall I steam-boil them?
Don't! How would 4 people share 2 crabs?
It's leftover from Little Leather Ball's birthday (Chen's son)
I don't have time to buy the Monkey more. Hide them quickly!
Just don't eat them! Hide them?
You are funny!
Yike, you don't know.
Once the Monkey gets here, prepare for him to mess up the heavenly palace.
He'll look for food everywhere.
Hide the 2 crabs and save them for my Little Leather Ball.
The kid ain't getting much living with me.
Don't say that!
You play the role of both dad and mom, it's not easy.
If I may ask...
Your wife passed away for more than 2 years now, or?
Isn't it so? 2 years and 1 month.
Thinking about it, it's like dreaming.
One always wake up from dreams.
What about you Yike.
Don't always talk about me, think about yourself.
Your mom, the great judge Wu, came to me again.
Would you give some thoughts to the second half of your life?
Don't talk about me. It's annoying.
My life is mine to decide!
This matter,
depends on fate after all.
Fate is just an excuse.
I already listed your matter as my priority task for the second half-year.
Let me tell you.
The chief of our municipal police department, Zhao Donglai, is not bad.
I'll introduce you two! - Zhao Donglai wont do!
Why not? He's such a manly guy!
He divorced!
Yike you are funny. How could he marry you without divorcing first?
What do you know?
People will say he divorced because of me!
It will send a bad message!
You think too much! He's been divorced for more than 2 years!
Just like you, cannot have one's heart's desire but won't stoop to less.
And delayed the life matter.
You are still single yourself, yet you wanna match-make others.
The 50-step deserter laughing at the 100-step deserter. (Chinese idiom)
Hello?
What? In my office? I see.
The Monkey arrived. I'm back in a moment. Hide the crabs!
Monkey?
Monkey, I'm cooking for you at home. What are you doing here?
Chief Chen, nice to meet you!
Director Hou, nice to meet you too!
What's wrong with you? - No more bullshit, transfer the case first. Here.
Sign it!
Right, Monkey.
I knew you'd come looking for trouble. Let's transfer the case.
According to Zhao Dehan, Ding Yizhen's corruption is not minor, but major!
As a bureau chief, how could you lose him?
Indeed it's my fault. We are still looking for him.
And never gave up.
Of course not! My boss chief Qin told me, that Chen Hai schmuck...
He didn't say "schmuck". I added it in my disappointment of your failure!
Ding's case is now handed to Handong Procuratorate, or Chen Hai to be precise.
No matter where Ding ends up, he must be taken back!
Director, I have indeed failed. Chief Qin already called me.
If the transfer is complete, would you come to my place for lunch?
Alright, let's eat.
This way please! - Let's go and eat!
Are you getting too excited or what?
Secretary Gao, we completed the investigation on the call.
There were 4 of them. 3 came from cellphones via 3 closely situated base stations.
The last one came from a phone booth on Jianshe Road.
Secretary Yuliang, this means someone informed Ding beforehand,
and planned the escape route for him.
Don't all phone booths in the city come with surveillance cameras?
Right. We checked the one on Jianshe Road.
But this person has some counter-surveillance abilities.
He wrapped himself tightly, we can't recognize his face.
A bunch of veterans eagle-tamers, got their eyes plucked out by the eagles!
You really are something!
I tell you Qi Tongwei, if you don't catch Ding, I won't forgive you!
Don't call yourself my student! - Don't worry, secretary Yuliang.
I will complete this mission!
What about the 3 other calls? Any of them from the provincial office?
No. We can exclude the possibility of internal leaks.
How can you exclude it so easily?
What if an insider leaked the information to a middleman,
and had another person coordinate Ding's escape?
Check all phone calls from the provincial office station during that period!
I said all, including mine!
Yes sir.
Come on Monkey, we are home.
You know best who I am. I don't mix up professional with personal affairs.
Don't think treating me can make me forget your fault.
I know, Monkey.
You've put up this scene for a while now, aren't you tired?
Director Hou right? Glad to meet you!
Let me introduce you two.
Handong anti-corruption bureau 1st investigative division director,
Miss Lu Yike.
Comrade Lu Yike, hello. - Hello.
The great director Hou from Beijing!
Cut the crap Chen Hai, write me an IOU.
What do I owe you, you Monkey?
Stop acting innocent!
Lin Huahua, you write this down:
"Chen Hai owes Hou Liangping a corrupt official",
in brackets, "on provincial and bureau level".
Monkey, I think it's not as simple as you think.
I think it's collective corruption, we might catch a whole bunch.
You are right.
Huahua, write like this:
"Chen Hai owes Hou Liangping a bunch of corrupt officials",
in brackets, "including one on provincial and bureau level".
You changed to "a bunch"! - Get paper and pen!
Director Hou, hearsays is no substitute for meeting you.
No wonder they call you "Monkey".
Look at your price hike, "one" became "one bunch"!
You gotta raise when you gotta raise. Hurry up and write it!
Go get pen and paper from my study and write it down!
Huahua, you go get them!
For real? - For real! Write something!
Just look at him! Hurry!
What do we drink?
Handong brew again?
You guessed right! Don't you love Handong brew? We prepared 2 bottles!
I also like Maotai and Wuliangye, but are you willing to let me drink?
I'm going all in today!
My dad left half a bottle. I'll get you!
It's just half bottle, why grinding your teeth?
Are you drinking it or not? - Alright alright.
All veggie? Is there any meat?
Ha!
You Chen Hai, hid 2 crabs from me!
Where did you find them?
It's not that he wanted to hide them, how do 4 people share 2 crabs?
Easy. I'm the guest, and the hero.I take both.
Director Lu, steam-boil them for me.
I told you to hide them well!
He doesn't see himself as a guest at all!
You don't know my special relationship with your chief...
Chief, is this OK?- OK.
Back then at Handong Uni,
we were the only best buddies sharing a bunk bed that everybody knew.
Right, Chen Hai? - Yeah yeah, best buddies.
Monkey, I wrote it for you. - Sign it.
as "Chen Hai", do I need to write "bureau chief" too?
Pretty ladies, who can borrow me your lipstick? - I can!
Gimme a sec.
What's that for? - Your handwriting ain't bad!
My lipstick costs more than 200 and you use it to swab fingers???
We don't have ink paste do we? It counts as your contribution to anti-corruption!
Thanks! - Give it to me!
Come on Monkey, it's between us, why so serious with fingerprint?
Of course it's serious!
Director Hou, you look experienced!
OK!
Yeah right.
Monkey,
I really feel like Yang Bailao right now! (A character from Chinese tale "The White Haired Girl")
Have you heard that "victors are above all critiques"?
Never heard of it!
Victors ought to be even more modest, have you heard?
Never heard of it either!
We received dozens of reports on Ding lately, but mostly anonymous.
There is only one un-anonymous. - And who's this comrade?
It's the retired deputy procurator director, Chen Yanshi.
But he's not the one reporting, it's the people.
Comrade Chen Yanshi is just a messenger.
The content is mostly hearsay, therefore we ignored it.
You must know old Chen very well. - Of course.
He was my first superior, an old leader.
This comrade is unlucky to have worked 20 years at bureau level,
and remained deputy director, without reaching provincial level director.
Therefore he's dissatisfied, and it even affected his son, Chen Hai.
Nonsense! His son is the same as chief Qi, also my student.
Right.
After this comrade retired, his mood was never too good.
He refused to move into the housing provided by the bureau and sold it.
He donated the money. Now the couple lives at the retirement home.
This matter caused lots of discussions and bad influences.
I don't get it.
I donate my money and pay for the retirement home with my pension. (Chen Yanshi, former deputy procurator director)
Whose toe did I step on? So much discomfort among the officials!
You contrasted their puniness. How could it not upset them?
What should I do instead? To wallow in the mire, and corrupt like them?
Is that how they get mental balance?
What's wrong these days?
Being honest and clean has become exceptions!
The way I see it old Chen,
you've retired for how long now? Why bother?
Don't blame the provincial leaders.
You annoy them, they avoid you.
I think,
even if you don't consider for yourself, you gotta consider for your son Chen Hai.
So he's annoyed by me, then what?
He can't kick me out of here.
Even if he likes me he can't let me stay for free!
Why not?
How many times has secretary Yuliang said,
that we could move to the special-care dormitory of the national hospital?
But you refused!
Look at the old chief of construction,
boy, he stayed there for 18 years!
That's shameless!
How tight is the medicare resource nowadays?
Common people has trouble meeting doctors!
As an official, he occupied some for 18 years!
That's over the top!
Do you want some? Here, take a leg.
Director Hou, is teasing Chen Hai a habit of yours now?
Dear director Lu,
you didn't see him teasing me at the Uni!
Back at the Uni, I paid to have coffee with a female classmate.
But he went out to date her!
Did you do it? Did you?
Is it true?
BTW Hou Liangping, how's your buddy treating you in Jingzhou?
I prepared you a full table of meal,
and invited the two best-looking ladies of the Procuratorate to dine with you!
The crab you eat is mine, as well as the Maotai.
Do you still wanna drink more? If yes then shut up!
Fine I shut up, OK?
What bad influence?
Everyones says old Chen is dissatisfied. But I tell you:
he contributed tremendously to our political and legal systems!
You tell me, has he received a fair treatment?
I think its not! He should've been at provincial level long ago!
But the circumstances didn't allow it.
Given the bad social conduct these days,
It's perfectly normal for old Chen to have opinions!
True.
But he's not limited to opinions, but also formal complaints!
His retirement home is becoming the 2nd provincial Procuratorate!
Given his seniority, he dares to receive all kinds of complaints.
He often calls us to remind of us the "new developments of class-struggle".
We don't know how to react. - It's not bad at all.
This 2nd Procuratorate is another channel to communicate with the people!
Like this incident with Ding. If we paid attention earlier,
we won't be in this bad position!
I must remind you to pay more attention to the old comrades' opinions!
Talk to them more often! And better understand the situation!
I agree, secretary Yuliang.
We didn't pay them enough attention in the past.
Even if Chen Hai avoid him, we can't.
Rumor has it that you,
the 2nd procurator director is retired and cannot squeeze profit anymore.
Therefore you feel wronged and spend days bullshitting.
How vulgar!
Say what they want!
As a person, you cannot betray your conscience!
As Party member, you cannot betray your ideal!
You can talk like this with me at home.
Don't say it outside. Nobody listens anymore!
I don't care! I'll say it regardless if they listen or not!
And I'll say this loudly: the party members are to serve the people!
Not to serve the money! - OK OK OK...
Oh my dearest mother...
Check out what your grandson is up to before he gets into trouble. Hurry!
My grandson is after all, the only one who doesn't upset me.
It's weekend today, isn't his dad coming back?
Today he's not.
His old classmate Hou Liangping is here,
to transfer a case or something.
That Monkey from Beijing?
Yeah, the Monkey is here. Therefore,
we old farts can enjoy ourselves.
Now your son is bureau chief, don't count on him anymore.
(Los Angeles, USA)
(Mr. He)
You must be boss He!
I tell you, we are already working on Ding's files.
Interpol will soon issue a red notice on him.
But I still feel we got a mole in Handong.
Director Hou, you cannot imagine at the evening of the arrest,
With just one phone, Ding lured our police into the mountains!
Such professional counter-tracking skill, he must be advised by an expert.
Not advised, but coordinated!
So the target could disappear right before our eyes!
And escape abroad just in time!
It really is inconceivable.
Chen Hai, what does our school-brother Qi Tongwei say?
Qi Tongwei actually called me yesterday.
He said the international manhunt has begun.
Based on currently available information, Ding has a sister.
She owns a restaurant in L.A.
Keep an eye on her! I bet he'll contact his sister!
Uncle Ding, you can't contact your sister anymore.
You are in grave danger! They wanna take you back!
I know.
I know...