THE GREATEST CITY OF FAR EAST, SHANGHAI, FELL ON NOVEMBER 12TH, 1937.
SEQUESTERED ENEMY'S ASSET
FENGS' RESIDENCE 6 BAILEY ROAD
Dad, Mum
I'm back.
The war is over.
Peace finally came to Shanghai.
You were right about the war.
You are still not wearing the uniform,
Is it because you're still not willing to serve the Imperial Army?
No.
I'm glad to hear that.
Only if your heart stays with the Imperial Army,
I will not care about what you wear.
We have to quickly stabilize the situation in Shanghai.
Hence to bring the peace and stability for citizens in Shanghai.
The Command is now establishing a new office that
specifically tackles anti-Japanese groups...
and a National Salvation Association.
It will be called the Special Operation office.
Outwardly the office belongs to the Shanghai Police Station.
However it is
directly led by the Special Agent Division.
Mr. Watanabe will lead Kempeitai station at the office.
He will then take charge of certain operations,
arrest those anti-Japanese groups who interfere with us.
And the person who will manage the office
is you.
Me?
Yes.
I suppose the office will be...
located at your old mansion, what do you think?
Uh, Division Director.
I am too young to take this on.
This responsibility is too challenging for me.
I would recommend Mr. Zhou Yuhao for this role,
and I could be his assistant.
Your appointment is an order from the Special Agent Division.
You are the first ever female commander in the whole division.
The Nationalist Party, Communist Party, and the anti-Japanese groups
will soon realize who the real rival is:
Your Special Operations Office.
All equipment and facilities will be promptly set up.
That includes vehicles, radio stations,
and radio monitoring vehicles and others.
Frankly speaking,
this will be a Chinese Special Agent Division.
Shanghai's stability will now be in your hands.
FU DAXIANG
Making new uniforms right after the war,
don't you worry about gossip?
Let's get inside and you will see.
-Master Lu. -Hey, Miss. Feng.
-Are the clothes ready? -Yes.
-Hao, bring me the clothes. -Got it.
We can fix whatever you need.
Please take your time.
-I'll go make some brew for you. -Okay.
Wow.
Isn't it nice?
My inspiration for the special design comes from German military uniforms.
Don't they look good?
Aren't they much better than the Japanese ones?
That one is for you.
Why do we need this?
Hitler once said...
Uniforms must be stylish
so young people would be willing to join the army.
No matter what we wear, we all do the same thing, don't we?
Third.
Why are you being such a downer?
Manna.
Your war is finished.
You can go back to where you were.
No.
There is no other way back.
This is now the future I choose for myself.
I will be strong,
only the strong can take vengeance.
You are a nice lady.
Shouldn't you be doing some more suitable tasks?
I can do this much better than a man.
As for my femininity...
I will only reveal it to you.
You will help me,
won't you?
PROMOTE PEACE IN CHINA, CONSTRUCT PARADISE IN SHANGHAI
You were all subordinates of my late father,
and all once served him.
Surely,
your names are on his Contact List.
And my parents protected
the Contact List with their lives.
Superior Feng saved all our lives.
Though he has now passed away,
and Miss Manna has taken the position.
We will surely assist her
and follow her orders.
Great.
Then I need you to demonstrate your loyalty with actions.
Secret agents from the Chinese National Party in Shanghai are all very active.
They assassinated peace activists, made liaison teams.
Secret radio stations keep contact with their headquarters.
In this case,
the first mission of the Special Operations Office is
to completely destroy their liaison stations and secret radio stations.
In order to eradicate those anti-Japanese institutions in Shanghai.
-Yes -Yes
OSMANTHUS CLOUDS CAKE
Radio facility.
Code Pamphlet.
And here's the fool,
who got caught red-handed.
You cost me a great deal of effort and now you dare to stare at me.
How rude you are.
Rude. You...
Go to hell.
You can't...
What? Here's civilian house.
You can't trespass, sir.
It's an enemy's asset.
The Imperial Army's order says to confiscate it.
No, sir. All this...
My master will be home soon.
Once your master dares to back here,
I will shoot him right away.
No, you can't, sir.
Sir... you can't
Don't say anything about this place.
Not even to Manna.
Did they decipher all the codes?
Yes, they did.
We located the communication station based on the code.
Miss Manna purposely used the decode to contact them,
and found out their secret location.
It's as I predicted.
You will outperform your parents.
Thanks to Division Director Aoki and Mr. Watanabe.
Besides...
Mr. Zhou has been really helpful.
You're surpassing your predecessor.
The Special Agent Division is lucky to have you.
At this moment,
we need to stabilize the situation here in Shanghai
and get rid of those rebels.
Besides, those subverted people are our priority.
Okay.
Let's go to the Office.
I'll make some announcements.
Please.
Hello, everyone.
Please sit.
I want to say...
what a good job you did.
The Special Operations Office
will integrate operations, intelligence, and investigations.
I will be the adviser,
and we are integrating relevant staff.
The positions of Director and deputy director remain vacant.
At the moment we need to first set up
the offices of investigation, operations and confidential work.
Now I will announce some appointments.
-Watanabe Ichiro. -Division Director.
You are the Captain of stationed Kempeitai of the Special Operation Office.
Yes.
Chen Jialun is the Captain of the Action Team of Special Operation Office.
Yes.
Will serve to Imperial Army.
Master you will be the Deputy Captain.
Yes.
-Zhang Xiang. -Yes.
You are the chief of the general administration section.
Yes sir.
Feng Manna.
Yes.
You will be both the Section Chief of the Recon Unit
and the Confidential Unit of the Special Operation Office.
In this important period,
we are in need of talented people.
You can do it.
Sorry for putting you in this position.
Thank you, Division Director.
Division Director.
You missed one person.
Really?
Who he is then?
Mr. Zhou.
Mr. Zhou Yuhao.
I interrogated the convicted until dawn,
and just rest for a while.
Division Director,
you called me?
Division Director,
Mr. Zhou's contribution and ability are much greater than mine, maybe
Division Director...
What about it?
Are you defending him against injustice?
Not at all.
I just thought...
"Shadow" has completed his spy work in the Staff Office of Military Commission.
He deserves a better opportunity.
Mr. Zhou has been appointed already.
He is designated as...
stationed Inspector of the Special Operations Office, Special Agent Division.
Hadn't you heard?
Congratulations, Inspector Zhou.
Chief Manna.
Do you have more questions?
No.
SPECIAL OPERATION OFFICE OF SHANGHAI POLICE STATION
What's going on?
Inspector Zhou, we are fixing the radio.
Didn't the Division distribute some?
They'll be new ones.
This was captured from a liaison station,
but was broken by the telegrapher.
We try to fix it, see if it still works.
Is this repairable?
Not really,
we've been working on it for a while.
Just try your best.
Have a snack if you get hungry.
-Treats are on me. -Okay, thank you.
FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY
Are you still awake?
Just doing some light reading after work.
What are you reading?
THE LEGEND OF THE SHUSHAN SWORDSMAN
You'd rather read this boring novel than come to talk to me.
Don't you have something to say?
I do.
You work too hard.
You won't be able to keep up with this workload.
If I don't work this hard,
how will my subordinates trust and respect me?
How would the Division Director have a high regard of my ability?
This is all about exploitation
and it's all deception.
Then what is real?
In the world of espionage everything is unreal.
Are you real?
Reality is...
what you believe.
But if you believe it...
then you lose.
You are my only prop now.
What if...
I don't have your love,
then I lose everything.
You won't leave me, will you?
No.
Swear it.
I swear.
I voluntarily join the Communist Party of China.
I will obey the party's manifesto, constitution and discipline.
Serve the Party with absolute loyalty.
Never betray
and keep the Party's secrets.
Obey all the resolutions.
Shanghai falls,
our members and contact points all suffered great losses.
How quickly the Japanese set up the Special Operations Office.
This is a big threat to us.
The core members of the Office
are followers of Feng Zixiong.
They all have their weaknesses.
Give me time. I'll crush them.
Here's floor plan of the Office.
Keep it for now.
Now
you are our only hope.
But I didn't complete a single mission.
I tried to get Manna to leave.
If the Nationalist Party controls her,
then Feng’s intelligence network will be destroyed.
It turns out that
she works with the Special Agent Division,
and she's now stuck in it.
She's got great talent and always works hard.
If we can't recruit her,
she will be our greatest threat.
Why would the Division put this novice in such important position?
Do they not trust you?
I've been appointed the Inspector of the Special Operations Office
with no specific authority.
But they've the main authority to Manna.
The way they see it,
Manna is easier to control.
This indeed makes sense.
As "Shadow",
no one knows about you after of Feng Zixiong's death.
Therefore...
you must be really careful.
Do I have any orders?
You have a new code name.
"Tungsten Wire."
What?
Tungsten, inside light bulbs.
You will now keep quiet and maintain a low profile.
You shall wait for the next telegraph
to arrange certain missions.
The light won't be lit until then.
Do you understand?
Yes.
Report.
Come in.
Chief.
That guy confessed.
His statement.
Master, how about you?
All of their liaison stations have been located.
Their radio stations might not work for a while.
Good.
We successively uncovered radio stations and deciphered their codes.
They might send more new radio equipment and codes.
I have given orders,
for our team to conduct diligent inspections at the docks for now.
And taverns and guest houses will be included.
You're right.
Captain Chen, check this out.
SECRET AGENT PROFILE
Where did these come from?
These all came from the intelligence station uncovered yesterday,
the documents that they didn't have time to destroy.
Wonderful.
I'll take care of these.
No.
The Recon Unit will join you.
Once they show up in Shanghai,
we will make sure they have no way to go home.
DOCK NUMBER FOUR
Clothes.
Take them off.
Hurry up.
What is this?
A dictionary. I am a teacher.
I know. Do you think I don't know how to read?
Take him.
For what?
Can't I bring a Kangxi Dictionary?
This is a code book.
You are wrongfully accusing me.
-Wrongfully accusing you? -Yes. I'm incorrectly accused.
Wrongful accusation?
Take it up with the Special Operations Office then.
Take him.
These were all found with those secret agents.
These are all old tricks.
Are there any new ones?
The Office has uncovered all liaison stations and radios in Shanghai.
The point is they've deciphered all the code.
We've suffered great damage.
Can't believe the Jap put Feng Manna in such powerful position.
She's becoming our main adversary.
-Report. -Come in.
Urgent telegraph from Chongqing.
The higher-up has ordered us to rebuild liaison stations and radios in Chongqing.
Are we able to do that?
At the time of our retreat
the Unit Director managed to keep a few secret radios and liaison stations.
We could activate them now.
The important thing is to send the code pamphlet.
The code applies the technique we got from the Frenchman.
The Frenchman was compromised and we took advantage.
Did the Japanese know this?
According to our sources, they have no idea.
So we need to move quickly
and try to send this code pamphlet to town.
Rouge offered...
She could use her great memory
to memorize the entire code pamphlet.
No one would find out the codes.
Surprisingly,
Song Mian immediately objected to her suggestion.
If Rouge were to memorize and deliver the code
but was caught by the Japanese
and coerced
the codes might be revealed,
ruining the Shanghai Liaison Unit.
They'd have to find another way to deliver the code so it could be destroyed in time.
When Rouge and Song Mian were deliberating, they didn't know
this operation was just a part of the higher-up's plan.
That they were just pawns in a bigger game.
Their survival is not so important.
Why are you guys staring at me?
We are waiting to hear your idea.
Why do I have to figure this out?
If you have no idea, then we won't be able to either.
True indeed.
If we can't deliver the code pamphlet in time,
then all liaison stations in Shanghai will be paralyzed.
Smith's code pamphlet is the only available one now,
if the Japanese were to find it
we might not be have a code pamphlet for a couple months.
Consequently,
we must not make any mistakes.
You're right.
Anything useful?
Speak out.
Say something to get us started.
Say something.
Each of you propose one thing.
I got one.
Stick a note into a steamed bun.
Put another insole into shoes.
Put down your shoes. We are eating now.
Do you have any new tricks?
If we could just write and keep the code on the egg white...
and leave the shell attached to it,
how great would that be?
I just wrote on the egg shell with acetic acid.
When the acetic acid dries,
the words then disappear.
-Am I right? -Yes.
Alright. Now I will
boil the egg in this beaker.
Everyone,
you'll find out the result in a little while.
Okay.
This is a good idea.
Does it really work?
Wait and see then.
I wonder if it will work.
Your idea will succeed.
It's boiling now.
Okay, don't burn yourself.
Why weren't you resting?
What are you doing?
Explain this to me.
Didn't you ask us to deliver the code?
Have you got anything?
Yes we do.
It's now beneath your foot.
You guys even use this bad excuse for sneaking out for a snack.
Shell the egg.
Quick.
-There writing is there! -Yes.
We did it.
-Rouge, you're smart. -Rouge.
What are you doing?
-It's brilliant. -How did you do it?
You two macho guys, is it that hot?
It is.
-Be careful. -Is it hot?
Take care.
What if they are broken?
Separate them in different baskets.
If the Japanese were to intercept them, they couldn't decode them all at once.
Keep that in mind.
Whenever you're out on a mission, prepare for the worst case scenario.
-Yes. -Do it then.
We are making a mandala within a snail shell.
It's difficult to find out where the entry is.
Any negligence will lead to failure.
A move, an expression, a word
might endanger your life or your comrades' lives.
Do you understand?
-Yes. -Yes.
Yes, sir.
Those we sent to Shanghai were all captured on site at the docks and stations.
They may have all the profiles of comrades in the Shanghai Liaison Unit.
So this time
we can't assign the mission to our old crew but you new recruits.
Shen Lanlan.
Yes.
-Liu Xiao. -Yes.
The mission will be handed to you.
Disguise as a couple.
Tomorrow Xu Tao and I will
-drive you to the dock. -Report.
You can only speak after senior officials speak.
Report to you, sir.
I came up with this so it should be my mission.
No it shall not.
Feng Manna knows you.
Because she knows me she'll never think it will be me.
That would arouse the least suspicion.
-Why is that? -What if something unexpected happens?
Won't there be problems when you do it?
Compared to them,
I have more practical experience.
Besides,
you've recognized my capability.
Now you do not believe in me,
isn't that contradictory?
You're too arrogant.
I am because I've never failed,
Right?
Okay then.
Answer my question,
if I am satisfied with your answer you can do it.
When you meet Feng Manna
what will you do?
Answer me.
Answer it.
She lives, I die.
-Rouge. -Stop.
Rouge.
Rouge, are you mad?
-Rouge. -Are you crazy?
Rouge.
Do you dare?
Experience doesn't stem from luck.
I don't rely on luck
but on my abilities.
Trust me.
Subtitle translation by Judy Yu