Decipher
Huddling in the office for lunch every day
and keep losing weight like this,
a gust of wind could blow you away.
I have no appetite.
Why?
Lan Rouge still refuses to bend?
You seem to care about her more than me?
I came out with you today
because I want you to tell me the truth.
Everything I told you
is true.
Is it?
Who the hell are you?
Which side are you on?
Why did you approach me?
I am your love.
And I love you too.
Knowing that is enough.
Then why did you send a cryptogram with the egg cipher?
What?
Why did you send a message with the egg cipher?
I deciphered it.
You were there then.
But only the two of us knew it.
-Did Chief Aoki tell you this? -No.
It's the message intercepted by the Electronic Communication Department.
But I have already disposed of it.
No one else would know about it.
But Third.
Don't lie to me.
You can't lie to me.
I have nothing but you.
Have nothing but you.
All right, Manna.
Tell me. What is the message about?
Printing plates, printing plates, printing plates.
You are being reckless.
Why didn't you report it to the superior?
What will happen if something goes wrong?
If there were a mole,
everyone who attended the special meeting would be a suspect.
Well...
go report it to the Special Higher Police right away.
I'll look into it
and find the mole.
Decipher: Printing plates.
Few people knew about it, right?
It's still the set of ciphers Rouge brought there.
Hasn't that cipher been disabled?
Yes.
So, we don't know if it's from our enemy or a friend.
Anyway...
we should prepare for the worst.
The business at hand is to transfer the printing press and the plates out.
Aren't they in Lan Changming's hands?
Lan Changming has two plates.
So does Manger Cao.
It should be in the warehouse of the central bank in the concession.
The two halves together
make a template consisting of four plates.
The reason we transferred the two plates into Lan Changming's hands first
is because the Special Operations Office was watching him.
Now with Rouge's arrest...
we don't know what will happen to Lan Changming.
So we need to transfer the plates into Manger Cao's hand first.
Even if the Special Operations Office found the plates with Lan Changming,
the Japanese couldn't print real banknotes with only half a template.
Within three days,
we must transfer the printing press and the printing plates out of Shanghai.
Yes.
That night,
Manager Cao of the Central Bank, received notification,
came to Pudong with the template
waiting for the agent from Chongqing.
What is it?
Nothing.
Who?
Go after him.
You go that way. Go.
-Yes. -Come on.
Freeze.
Leave the suitcase.
If you leave the suitcase,
you can go.
What are you doing?
Boss.
Why didn't we save him? Why...
It's useless. He is dead already.
And it's too dangerous.
Let's go back.
Then what shall we tell the Unit Director?
Leave that to me.
Let's go. Go!
What on earth is it? So shady?
And you have to sink it into the river.
I must see it.
-Yes. -Yes.
JAPANESE IMPERIAL ARMY SHANGHAI HUXI KEMPEITAI
The Central Bank printing press.
Miss Manna.
You have impressed me.
Division Director.
I have another surprise for you.
Miss Manna.
I will take you somewhere.
Yes.
You screwed it up again?
Captain Song.
You are so capable.
-Unit Director. -Don't explain to me.
You don't have to explain it.
If you want,
report it to Chongqing in person.
I forgave you when the Japanese found the printing press.
But those two sets of plates.
I have given you repeated orders...
We won't be worth one tenth of them.
Excuse me.
Come in.
Unit Director, Chongqing replied.
Read it.
In fact, there are only two words.
Would you mind reading it yourself?
Deserve Death
Get out.
Both of you.
Deserve Death
You are my last hope.
Rouge.
Takeshige Aoki from the Special Agent Quarters.
Yes.
SUGI
Miss Manna, let's go.
The Sugi Institute, also called the Sakata Organization,
belongs to the Ninth Research Institute,
which is directly under the Army General's Staff.
It's also a top-level institute
and established by the order directly from Premier Tojo Hideki.
It's top-secret
and you are the first Chinese allowed in here.
Let me introduce you.
This is the Chief of Sugi Institute, General Oshima.
This is the Chief of the Department of Recon,
Miss Manna.
Hi, Miss Manna.
Hi.
Miss Manna, please sit down.
Please have some tea, Miss Manna.
Thank you.
You must be very curious
about why there are so many butterfly specimens in my office.
Yes.
I thought I'd come to a butterfly museum.
Butterflies are the most beautiful.
I love everything that's beautiful.
If Miss Manna is interested,
we can study the collection of specimens together.
Now to business.
Do you bring the plates?
Amazing!
Please.
Banknote printing is very complex.
A real template is engraved manually.
Ten fine lines are engraved within each millimeter.
The Chinese printing technology comes from the United States and Britain.
We haven't mastered the key techniques
involving paper, secret marks and coding.
It's hard to mix them with the genuine ones.
Look.
It is a genuine banknote.
We have been trying it.
But we are still far off
from technical success.
The lines in the template are not clear enough.
You'll see it if you look carefully.
The counterfeit notes Mr. Watanabe gave us are all printed here.
They are easily detected.
So we must find the real template
and print genuine banknotes.
Exactly.
CENTRAL BANK, 10 YUAN
This is the confidential order from headquarters to start a monetary war.
The main idea of a monetary war
is to crash the monetary system
under Chiang Kai-shek‘s regime,
incapacitate it from resisting, change "disable" into "incapacitate"
help Nanjing Government establish a new financial order
and realize Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity.
Its code name is "Project Sugi".
If we can complete this task,
it's the best chance we have to destroy thousands of enemies.
Division Director.
I hadn't realized that the two plates we intercepted
were so important.
But we can't celebrate yet
because we haven't found all the plates.
We still need to find the other two
to print out genuine banknotes.
What you need to do now
is let the counterfeit money flow into the market.
Not the common markets but the financial world.
Banks?
Banks in China?
For example,
Lan Changming.
Use Lan Changming's Jinxin Bank to issue counterfeit banknotes?
Clever.
But I am afraid it won't be easy to get him to cooperate with us.
Isn't Lan Rouge in your hands?
Manna,
remember my words.
A real master
shouldn't be bound by present resentments.
He must look at the big picture
and consider the whole war.
Hello, Sir.
Need photos?
Is your boss in?
Yes...
Well...
go deliver these photos to its address.
-Yes. -All right.
Please come in.
That kid is named Chun.
I brought him here from the base.
He knows about the transceiver and can help you a little.
He doesn't seem too smart.
His parents are martyrs and he is reliable.
-I have to tell you something. -Go ahead.
I used the transceiver when you were absent.
What was the transmitted message about?
The Japanese got the message
that the banknote printing plates are still in Shanghai.
They are searching for them.
If they were to find them,
the financial order of all East China
would be in turmoil. Civilians would suffer.
Issuing counterfeit money?
It's urgent.
You weren't here and I had no other choice
but taking the risk, using the cipher Rouge left
to warn the Shanghai Liaison Unit.
Any response?
It's urgent and I left there as soon as I was done.
After the intel is sent,
the Special Operations Office would also intercept it.
You are more likely to expose your identity.
When I sent the message,
I already had a follow-up plan.
That transceiver was lost at Great World amusement park.
So both Takeshige Aoki and Manna began to suspect me.
Now with its reappearance
we can use it to send another message
and with clues to direct them elsewhere.
It's only that the transceiver would be detected.
A hundred transceivers can't match your worth.
So...
to whom do you want to direct this clue?
the captain of the Action Team, Chen Jialun.
He recruited many of Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong's henchmen.
In the Special Operations Office, he ranks only second to Manna.
Besides, they are in conflict.
Du Yuesheng is now in Hong Kong.
The transceiver and the cipher were grabbed by his men.
They are close with Chen Jialun.
So the information about the template should come from Chen Jialun.
They wanted to do a deal with the Shanghai Liaison Unit.
Do you think this will work?
Absolutely.
Just tell me what to do?
We make a schedule
and you ask Chun to send the message as I write.
Remember, pull out once you finish it.
We will go there later.
If you want to know where the printing plates are,
prepare five kilograms of gold, we'll discuss it later.
Record this and see what it is.
-You. Come with me. -Yes.
Master,
guard the intersection.
The rest go inside and search.
-Yes. -Yes.
Sir, I found it.
-Bring it back. -Yes.
Let's go.
This is the cryptogram just intercepted and deciphered.
This part confirmed
my inference about the mole before.
According to this,
the mole
is not someone who's been hiding among us for a long time.
He just after personal gain
from the plate printing business.
Maybe he really knows where the template is.
Or he just wants to make a fortune with it.
If it is the latter...
it won't have serious consequences.
But what if not?
So we must find him out immediately
and ask him about the plates?
Or just monitor and follow him.
Let him lead us to the template without knowing it.
Who could it be?
Neither you nor me.
Or the Japanese.
There are so many Chinese in the Special Operations Office.
Who would be so bold
to risk his life for this kind of money?
Do you have any idea?
Chen Jialun.
What are you doing?
Reporting it to the Special Agent Division.
Report what? Do you have any evidence?
Is this not evidence?
These are only clues.
It's only our hint that he is the suspect.
We risk our lives at the front
while he shoots us in the back
and injures you like this.
We can't just let it go.
Let's wait.
Wait for him to make more mistakes.
I am sorry.
You have been wronged.
Now we have a few new missions
that need everyone here...
to pull together.
A Russian named Riboyeuf has a piece of intel.
The Army Headquarters is very interested in it.
But due to our relationship with Soviet Union,
we can't intervene in it ourselves.
Riboyeuf is living in the French Concession.
We don't want to cause an international dispute either.
The Amy Headquarters doesn't want Riboyeuf to realize the intel is missing.
If anything goes wrong...
they hope none of our men are involved.
This is the first mission.
As for the second one,
the war goes on.
We are in urgent need of a lot of US dollars and gold
to buy American weapons.
The Army Headquarters hopes we can raise money as soon as possible
As of today
the real monetary war has just begun.
Mr. Zhou,
you are kidding, aren't you?
Did you say she hasn't slept for 18 days?
Yes.
She has exceeded the limit that a human can bear.
One with such willpower can accomplish anything.
I think we should use
a talent like her.
Can we make that happen?
It will take time to make her work for us.
But the intel about the Russian Chief we spoke of last time
and the task of collecting US dollars in the Bund Concessions,
I think we can get her to complete them.
Will she listen to you?
I'll try.
What do you estimate your odds to be?
One hundred percent.
You are so confident.
It seems that I have no reason to say no.
It's only that we can't let her escape again.
Division Director, rest assured.
If she escaped,
I would give you my life.
Turn off the music.
Yes.
You have finally made it.
How long has it been?
Eighteen days.
The previous record was 12 days.
Let me sleep for a while.
Just a while.
I have been through this too.
Let me go. Let go of me.
Hello, Uncle Lan.
Long time no see.
You want to see your daughter?
Rouge.
She is right in this building.
Guess where is she?
Rouge...
Do you want a heroic martyr?
Or a living daughter?
Lan Changming.
Look carefully.
No.
No...
Papa...
Do you want him to see what you look like now?
If you join the army to protect your country,
you should protect your family
and keep them safe
to the best of your ability.
So...
what exactly do you want from me?
It's not something that will go against
your morals or your beliefs.
Can you do that?
I can guarantee your father's safety.
No...
Mr. Lan,
next we will throw your daughter.
What do you want me to do?
Whatever you want me to do...
I will do it
as long as you release my daughter.
Please...
let my daughter go.
Save your family.
We won't bother you.
HAVE FAITH IN ME
If you want,
you can inject this medicine intravenously.
Within 24 hours
you would be unable to wake up again
unless I gave you another one.
The medical diagnosis would be myocardial infarction.
Sleep here for a while.
We will leave in five hours.
Let's go.
I want to become a shareholder of Jinxin Bank
with an equity share of fifty percent.
We will split all the profit fifty-fifty.
Is that all?
Fine, I accept.
Go back and prepare all the documents.
I will go get them soon.
As for the fund to buy the shares, I will pay you in cash.
But...you do this...
for what?
You will know later.
Our target is a Russian named Riboyeuf.
He and his Chinese mistress Ruan Xinxin live in the central villa
in the American and British concession.
It's quite open there
and there are few neighbors.
Only he and his mistress are at home
with a driver and a housekeeper.
The whole family will go to the theatre in the French Concession.
The play will begin at 7:30 and end at 9:40.
Counting their commute
You will have three hours.
The information we need should be in his safe.
The safe is behind the portrait in his bedroom.
It's a roll of film.
This is the layout of the house.
I will tell you the code for the alarm system
and the password of the safe now.
Since you know it so clearly,
why don't you do it yourself?
Knowing it and doing it are different.
Just as the airplane maker can never become a pilot.
This is Riboyeuf's villa.
We will retreat along the same route we came here.
Got it?
It's all here.
I'll remember this better if you cut the crap.
We'll be here waiting for you
at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow.
Bring what we want.
If something goes wrong,
for your parents' safety,
you'd better not grass on us.
Give me one thousand bucks,
one gun,
and my identity documents.
Subtitle translation by Hua Wu