[1992, 26 years ago]
[Hua City Music Academy]
Police Officer, the family is here.
Why is your daughter still in school at such a late hour?
She... has actually returned home.
But... she forgot something.
So she... came back again to take it.
What did she come back to take?
She... said it was a game console borrowed from a friend.
She wanted it for her brother, but she forgot to bring it home.
But her brother kept crying and asking for it.
So, she came back to take it.
- Is this the one? - Yes.
Stop snatching it!
Because of this game console, you caused your older sister's death! Do you know that?
Sorry.
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[Chi Junsheng, ID: 7901 6810 189, DOB: 12 May 1950]
[Li Huijuan, ID: 11 6810 189, DOB: 9 Apr 1955]
[Chi Zhen, ID: 3242 34912391, DOB: 18 Aug 1988]
[Hua Police Station, 22/4/1992]
♫ Between the city lights ♫
♫ The night is deeper than blood ♫
♫ Blurred years, pretending to be pure ♫
♫ No hugging ♫
♫ No praying, no smiling ♫
♫ Did not grow up as self-pity ♫
♫ This night sky ♫
♫ Falling ♫
♫ This night sky ♫
♫ My choice is not worth who is sentimental ♫
[Original Sin]
[Episode 6]
The secret pocket was sewn by the deceased himself.
Did you ever think about why he wanted to sew the boarding pass onto his own undergarment?
Someone wants to kill him.
He's afraid that after he died, other people wouldn't know who he was.
Would he know then that that person would chop him into eleven pieces?
Thirteen pieces. There were two pieces in the fourth burlap sack.
Thirteen pieces.
I worked through the whole night. My back is going to break.
Can I go now?
Thank you for all your hard work, Brother Shi.
The knife came from behind?
There's no evidence of him being poisoned while alive.
Knifed from behind in a blitz attack. The deceased's name is Chen Mingyang.
He came from Shi Zi Harbor to Hua City on this flight on the 3rd.
Thirty-three years old, lived at Yue Dengge Village in Shi Zi Harbor. He was a laborer.
We don't have information about his family members and his relationship with society.
Is this information reliable?
We asked for it from the Shi Zi Harbor Police.
But we didn't say that it is related to this case.
Is it suitable to bypass them like this?
We'll talk about that again when we make the arrest.
Please prepare yourself to make a trip.
I'm prepared to set out with Eggy Boy.
Who discovered this corpse with you?
Chi Zhen.
Then why aren't you bringing Chi Zhen along?
Every year, the police academy has more than one hundred graduates. Why must you recruit someone with white gloves (corrupted)?
It's not quite suitable.
You have a problem?
Okay.
Before I recruit anyone in the future, I'll get your permission first.
Tell Old Shi to submit the report to me immediately.
[Maple Road, Quiet Garden, Hua Manor Gated Community, J-20-9]
Chief Dong!
What kind of wind brought you here?
Northwest wind.
You are holding a gun in your hand, right?
Why should I be?
Aren't you going to invite me in?
Of course. Come.
Please come in.
Please sit.
Not bad.
You normally seem sloppy and messy.
I never expected your home style to be this tasteful.
Mr. Chen is pretty good to you.
Mr. Chen rented this apartment for me. I didn't buy it.
Chief Dong, no one has ever visited my place before.
Besides my mom, no one knows the address of this place.
How do you know about it?
Do you think I can't find you just because you filled in a fake address on your employment form?
If I could recruit a person like you to the police station, I would know where you are.
But I did put in some effort looking for your place.
Chief Dong, you put so in much effort to look for me.
I'm sure it's not for enjoying the scenery with me.
I'm not interested in the scenery around you.
I'm here to talk to you about Lu Li.
I don't want to talk about Lu Li.
It's not a matter of whether you or I want to talk about him.
I know you don't like him.
I don't like him either.
But the reason I recruited you into the police team was for you to investigate him.
Investigate what?
Do you know Chief Zhang?
Our former chief. He had absolute integrity and worked cases impartially.
There was no one in the entire station who did not respect him.
But he's dead, and his death was dubious.
As an old policeman, my intuition tells me that
the murderer who killed Chief Zhang is Lu Li.
That's why I want you to investigate him.
Even if you can't find anything on him, you must make him disappear.
You want me to kill him?
You have to decide that yourself.
He will be going to Shi Zi Harbor these couple of days.
You can carry out the task over there. Don't be afraid of leaving extraneous factors.
I'm the chief. I can help you to clean up any mess.
Do you know what you are doing?
You are discussing the killing of a person with a police officer.
Are you crazy?
I am assigning a mission to you now as the leader of the police station.
What if I won't do it?
Isn't your mom still in the nursing home?
Say that again, and would you believe I can kill you?
Don't get so agitated. If you take care of this matter well,
it will be good for you both publicly and privately.
This is your plane ticket.
Do not forget your who you are.
[Lu Ziming, return my daughter to me.]
Return my daughter to me.
Lu Ziming, return my daughter.
Spray and clean off. Clean off and spray. I've seen it several times already.
He can't help it. It's been more than ten years.
After what happened to his daughter, he became mentally off.
Let's go.
No,
you have to be more alert these few days. Do you understand?
If any stranger
appears around my mom's room,
you must call me immediately.
No, don't call the police!
The police will only send people there. What's the use of calling them? You call me.
That's right.
Furthermore, it's not just...
not just these few days.
That...
It will be like this in these few days. Do you understand?
Thank you for sending me off. I'm leaving now.
Go!
[Shi Zi Harbor Airport]
Thank you.
Where did you buy this stuffed animal from?
I don't know. It's a gift from her father.
- Goodbye. - Thank you. Goodbye.
This is my first time here in Shi Zi Harbor. I had thought that it was quite a good city.
But it's only just like this.
What should we do now?
There are two choices.
The first one is to visit Chen Mingyang's house. The second one is to go to his workplace.
Is there any difference?
There is. If you go to his house,
it is to notify his family that he is dead.
You have to look at them crying and making a fuss.
If you go to his workplace, you can have a good chat with his supervisor and fellow workers.
We should respect the deceased. Let's go to his house.
You even rented a car. You are very attentive.
Sir, are you Lu Li?
- I am. - This is the car you ordered.
Okay, thank you.
Open the door.
Didn't you say you were going to his house? I'll go to his workplace then.
What's the meaning of this?
Didn't we come from Hua City together to investigate the case?
We are here to investigate the case, but I didn't say we were partners.
An uncivilized person.
[Lanya, Yue Dengge Village]
We are here.
The road ahead is narrow. There's no way to drive through it.
Here. Thank you.
So many houses.
Which one is it?
[May you have a prosperous New Year!]
Hello, can I ask you something?
Which way to Chen Mingyang's house?
Turn left up there.
Thank you.
Hello, Miss, may I ask
where Director Tan's strawberry farm is?
It's over there.
- Right, it's over there. - Thank you.
Okay.
Come, let me see if my name is written correctly.
[Chen Mingyun Fortieth Birthday]
Hang it up nicely for me later.
Is this Chen Mingyang's house?
You are...
I am...
the police. Let's have a chat.
Please come inside.
Oh boy.
This place is really hard to find.
Of the two of you, who is Chen Mingyang's wife?
If I didn't guess wrongly, it's you. Right?
I... am his eldest sister.
You?
I'm his younger sister. My brother doesn't have a wife.
What about his parents, then?
Our parents passed away a long time ago.
That is good.
Good? Is... Mingyang in trouble again?
He's dead.
Real or not?
My brother... No, wait a moment.
How did he die?
Someone killed him.
Kill?
Why was Mingyang murdered? How is that possible?
What about his body? Where is his body?
You shouldn't look at his corpse.
What wrong has our Chen family done? What sin have we committed?
We have no more male offspring in our Chen family!
He was not married yet.
He has not left us with any male offspring.
He was well in the morning. Why is he dead by noontime?
What? Wait a moment. Did you say he was well in the morning?
I really shouldn't have quarreled with my brother in the morning.
I even asked him to go eat outside. I told him I wasn't serving him.
If only I knew that was going to be his last meal...
Wait a moment. Don't cry yet. Don't cry.
He ate at home this morning?
I made noodles for him without fried eggs, so he quarreled with me.
Is this true? Is that really him?
He's my brother! My biological brother!
How could I have made a mistake?
Mingyang!
Maybe you made the wrong identification?
Show me your brother's photograph. Quickly.
Not possible.
- There are three men in your family. Which one is he? - This...
This? Why is he so thin?
Is he still this thin now?
This photo is from 2014. He is exactly the same now.
Then who is this?
Our eldest brother.
- he passed away in a car accident in 2015. - And this?
Our youngest brother.
He drowned in 2015.
Where is Chen Mingyang now?
He was working in the orchard.
Xiao Ming!
Come! Someone is looking for you.
This is Police Officer Lu from Hua City. He wants to ask you something.
You are Chen Mingyang?
That's correct. What is it?
Have you made a mistake?
Aren't you looking for Chen Mingyang?
Chen that is made up of "er" and "dong." Ming as in "tomorrow" and Yang as in "sail."
I am Chen Mingyang.
I went to Hua City on the 3rd, to visit my eldest sister-in-law.
We caught some mandarin fish. Also, I brought some dried satay fish
to my sister-in-law.
Did you go alone?
I went alone and came back on the early morning of the 4th.
Is this your boarding pass?
[Southeast Asia Airline]
Looks like it. Why is the police looking for me?
This is a dead person!
Why is he chopped into pieces like this?
Do you know him?
I don't.
If you don't know him, why was your boarding pass on him?
I don't know.
He is Chen Mingyang.
I just meet your elder and youngest sisters.
This person was chopped up into pieces like this and
put into four burlap sacks.
He had nothing on him,
except for your boarding pass.
What is your relationship with him?
I really don't know.
I threw the boarding pass away after I disembarked. Anyone could have picked it up.
Picked it up and sewed it inside his undergarment.
He must have loved you quite a lot.
Please don't joke.
Where is his elder brother?
A car accident in 2015.
Didn't you say you went to Hua City to visit your sister-in-law?
My elder brother is no longer around. My sister-in-law is still around.
You have a younger brother
by the name of Chen Mingguang. He died three years ago, too.
Two of the three brothers are dead.
The police thought you were dead, too,
and came here to notify the family. What a coincidence.
I wouldn't know anything.
Is that so?
Go back and tell your elder and younger sisters that
tomorrow, the two of us will go and offer our birthday congratulations to her.
What birthday? Did my elder sister say she was inviting the two of you?
We don't need her to invite. We'll go there ourselves.
Go.
Hey!
Hat.
Thank you.
The deceased is not Chen Mingyang.
Then who is this dead fatso?
I have been investigating cases for so many years. This is the first time I hear the police calling the deceased "dead fatso."
Is he dead or not?
Is he fat or not?
I really hoped that he was Chen Mingyang.
But instead, he is here alive and jumping around.
Supervisor Lu, you really can't do it this way.
You came to Shi Zi Harbor to investigate someone here, yet you wouldn't tell me what's going on.
Really, it is nothing serious.
It's just that suddenly, Chief Dong
acted abnormally and insisted on investigating
one of his distant relatives.
- Come in. - Chief.
Is it this Chen Mingyang?
The information on his boarding pass is the same as his ID.
On the 3rd, he flew to Hua City from Shi Zi Harbor.
In the early morning of the 4th, he flew back.
Are you investigating a relative,
or are you checking for his alibi?
[Chen Mingyang, 3 April 2018, Flight RT236, Seat No. 41B] [Chen Mingyang, 4 April 2018, Flight 236, Seat No. 23A]
Stop there.
This is Chen Mingyang. He came back in the morning.
He came back in the early morning of the 4th.
This means that he is not the deceased.
He also didn't kill the deceased.
What really is his relationship with this fat fellow?
[Elder Sister]
[Elder Sister Chen Mingyun Fortieth Birthday]
They really got a banner?
I'm going to have a chat with that Director Tan.
Then I'll go chat with the younger sister.
Come, please have some drinks and eat some melon seeds first.
You can eat more when we start the meal.
Come, come. Thank you for coming all the way here. How is your daughter?
Younger Sis!
I won't take care of you now.
- Police Officer Lu! - Hello, Director Tan.
Hello, hello.
My older brother said you were coming over.
I have been waiting here for more than two hours.
Of course, we will come.
I bought this especially for you and was delayed a little.
For you.
Thank you.
Is that a policeman, too?
Don't bother with him.
When are you coming with me to play in Hua City?
You stay here in the mountain every day, and that's really boring.
I have a bar in Hua City. You can come to the bar and have a drink with me. How about that?
Really?
But you have to answer my questions first.
I can only bring you with me
after I finish my work. Don't you think so?
Please speak.
Mainly, I want to know about
the circumstances under which your eldest and younger brothers died.
It was the year 2015.
That time, it was the younger brother who died in a drowning incident first.
The eldest brother came back for the funeral with his wife and child.
They were very busy for seven to eight days.
It was on the way to the airport
when he had an accident.
The collision caused the gas tank to explode.
Quite a good car, but it was burned to a mess.
Fortunately,
he pushed his wife and child
out of the car in time, but he couldn't escape.
He was burned into charred remains.
That means, within a matter of a dozen days, two persons from their family died.
How did the younger brother die?
My third brother fell into the river and drowned.
At that time, there was a pair of shoes on the ground.
We searched for many days before we found his body.
Did your younger brother know how to swim?
Their brother was a crazy person.
Since he was young, he had mental problems. He loved to go to the entrance of the village--
it's right here.
Goblin, don't run!
The Monkey King is here!
Let's see where the goblins runs to!
Goblin, don't run!
Goblin, you're here again!
He held a pole and said he was the Monkey King.
When he saw anyone walking by, he would hit them with the pole.
He would call them goblins.
What could we do about it?
They were so poor then they couldn't even afford blankets.
Was the family very poor in the past?
Poor. Our family was really poor then.
Everyone looked down on our family. Our parents had seven children.
They never took care of us and passed away just like that.
At a young age, we had to earn money ourselves.
Two of the seven children starved to death.
They starved to death?
Was the money for their meals used to buy jewelry for you?
You don't look poor.
That was because their eldest brother
went to the Kohn (fictional country) at the age of sixteen.
Right! He went to work in the country of Kohn.
Later, he started to do business, and the business grew bigger over time.
Every month, he sent money home
to support the whole family. Every year, he would send at least a few hundred thousand
to even more than one million!
He gave all the money he earned to his brothers and sisters.
Look at Chen Mingyang. He works for me.
He fishes for three days and dries the net for two days.
Sometimes, he leaves before the workday is over!
He doesn't even let me know.
Sit here, sit here!
Thank you for coming!
Doesn't the elder and younger sisters work?
What kind of work can I do?
I can only earn a few thousand dollars a month
even if I work very hard.
It's not even enough for my eldest brother to treat us to a meal.
My elder sister has already said that we should just live and be happy.
We will wear what we want to wear and eat what we want to eat.
This will be the best reciprocation to our eldest brother.
Doesn't your sister-in-law have any opinion about
the way your eldest brother supported all of you and gave money to you to spend?
Their sister-in-law is quite beautiful.
They met in the country of Kohn.
At first, all the brothers and sisters objected.
Later, because the eldest brother persisted, they then had the wedding ceremony.
Sure enough, he sent less money home after they got married.
The three younger siblings
chased him all the way to the country of Kohn.
They looked for their sister-in-law because they wanted money.
After their eldest brother passed away, why did they still have so much money?
At that time, my eldest brother bought five insurance plans.
The payout for each plan is a bit more than ¥2,000,000.
We never expected that something bad would really happen.
The insurance company had to pay more than ¥10,000,000!
More than ¥10,000,000?
It was distributed among all of you? How much did each of you get?
The sister-in-law and the younger siblings received ¥5,000,000 each.
They had already spent their ¥5,000,000 a long time ago,
so they visit their sister-in-law every year.
Isn't it because they need to ask for money?
What is their sister-in-law working as in Hua City?
She runs a beauty salon.
Wang Beauty Salon. Have you heard of it?
She already has several branches in Hua City.
Dear fellow villagers,
let's celebrate our elder sister's fortieth birthday today! Let's start eating!
Enjoy yourself! As you wish!
- Please eat more! - The two police officers
came from thousands of miles away to look for our Chen Mingyang.
At last, it was a misunderstanding!
But it's okay. Its fate, isn't that right?
Come! No matter what, I have to drink a toast with you!
- Come. - Come.
Bottoms up. You two drink as you can.
No need, no need. Just as you wish!
Good, good. Drink some more!
Enough. We still have to work later.
Good, good! As you wish.
Eat more! Eat more!
Elder Sis, happy birthday!
Good boy!
He smells very strongly of smoke. Even after drinking so much alcohol, it couldn't be covered.
Who is that fat fellow?
Fat fellow?
I don't know him.
But he was really fat.
How did your eldest brother die?
Brother, today is my elder sister's fortieth birthday.
How could you mention the words "dead person"?
It's not auspicious!
Come over here for a drink!
Coming.
There's something wrong with Chen Mingyu's accident.
I know. ¥10,000,000 insurance payout!
How could it be so coincidental?
Accident. The car even exploded. That is obviously done by plunging in a knife.
And this part about the body burnt to a crisp.
Did his wife take part in it?
I'll go over there for a while.
Director Tan!
Did you drink too much?
I can recognize you. Aren't you the second fiddle to
Police Office Lu?
That... Have you drank too much?
If I asked you questions now, would you be able to remember them tomorrow?
Remember. I didn't drink too much.
The eldest of the Chen family bought five insurance plans.
Can you check these five insurance companies for me?
Why should I work for you?
No. With one look I know you are a good person.
You will help me, right?
The two of us are collaborating.
[How is it going?]
[In progress.]
I think you mom is still in the nursing home, right?
You are the one in charge of Chen Mingyu's insurance plans?
Two companies in Kohn sent two investigators.
There's one company in Hua City, and two in Shi Zi Harbor.
One of them is our company.
Five insurance companies, five investigators.
They investigated the same matter.
Did Chen Mingyu die in a homicide
or in a car accident?
In the first half of the year, he bought insurance plans from five companies.
He died just like that in the second half of the year.
This is definitely abnormal.
If it is abnormal, why did you still compensate them the insurance payouts?
No matter how abnormal, the truth was before us.
The person who died was indeed him.
We studied the surveillance footages of the highway exits involved.
He was the person driving.
His wife was in the front passenger seat carrying their child.
In the end, the car got into an accident just like that.
The two companies in the country of Kohn decided to pay out the compensation according to procedures.
How could we act shamelessly under such circumstances?
But that company in Hua City insisted on not compensating.
Dead or alive, they wanted the identity of the corpse.
But at the end of it all, they compromised, too,
and admitted defeat.
Wait a moment. Wasn't there an autopsy?
The person was already totally burned. What autopsy was there to do?
You paid out the compensation without an autopsy?
There is such a provision under the law.
For non-criminal cases like accidental deaths resulting from car accidents,
as long as the family can confirm the identity of the deceased,
they have the right not to subject the deceased to autopsy.
Who will confirm the identity of the deceased?
Generally, it would be the deceased's parents or partner.
This... his wife, Wang Shuyi.
[Shi Zi Harbor, Zhonghe Hospital]
[Chen Mingyu, Male, 35 years old] - Of course, it was him. The wallet was his.
The documents were his.
After doing the blood test, it was also him.
We were the first to pay the money, followed by the two companies in Kohn.
Only that company in Hua City was hard to handle. They dragged until end of the year before making payments.
Even if it was him,
without an autopsy report, if it wasn't an accident,
what's going to happen if it was murder?
Impossible. His wife was beside him.
If he was killed by bad people, his wife would have said it.
How much did you give Director Tan?
If you're begging others to help, it depends on how serious the matter is.
But if you are inquiring about something, it's one price, ¥500.
I am applying for reimbursement.
He came early knocking on our door.
He said he already inquired with the insurance companies.
Have you gone to investigate those few insurance companies?
These are all my work. Why have you done them for me?
Thank you for your hard work.
That box is yours.
Nowadays children, including girls, don't play with dolls anymore.
They develop their intelligence from early. Mountain artillery.
That's what you promised your child. Don't waste your trip to Shi Zi Harbor.
This one is suitable.
Are you expecting me to carry such a big box by myself?
I should have shot you in the head last night!
[Hua City Airport]
Let's say this family, in order to cheat for the insurance money,
collude and killed their eldest brother.
This is a murder case.
Even if it's a murder case, it happened in the year 2015.
I thought you would never allow even one murder case to get away.
I can't care so much anymore. I have to think of my own case.
Think about that fat fellow who was chopped into thirteen pieces.
- Where are you going? - Washroom.
Give me your boarding pass.
What are you going to do with it?
The toy.
It's very heavy.
[Southeast Asia Airline] [Chi Zhen, Flight 336, 11 April 2018, To : Hua City]
That was how he got the boarding pass.
It was Chen Mingyang who gave it to the fat fellow. They knew each other.
They were on the same flight. Look at 41A.
[Zheng Xiaogang, Dest : Shi Zi Harbor, 3 April 2018, Flight RT 236, Seat 41 A]
- No. - 41 C.
Also not him.
Are all the passengers of this flight listed here?
Yes. These are the photos we took of them
when they passed through security checks.
According to their flight details, they are all recorded here.
Stop.
[Sun Wei, Origin: Shi Zi Harbor, Dest: Hua City]
Economy class, 22 A, Sun Wei.
[Sun Wei]
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♫ Like not knowing what to do when faced with the vicissitude of being imprisoned ♫
♫ As if those yet-unknown possibilities had also already been discovered ♫
♫ Hands in my pockets, I face the fierce winds, passing by the road you walked ♫
♫ Not even this unbelievable cruelty can stop my steps ♫
♫ Trying to hide my apathetic face, in this incomprehensible world ♫
♫ All my smiles have already been earnestly rehearsed, again and again ♫
♫ I went through innumerable justifications to try to package up my brokenness ♫
♫ And even actively admitted I’ll never be able to come to terms with my own cowardice ♫
♫ Putting on a show in some corner with no regard for my own safety ♫
♫ Fresh blood ♫
♫ Is burning dry fallen leaves ♫
♫ Forgive me for not making the same mistakes ♫
♫ Illuminating these glittering lights ♫
♫ The road ahead will always be this winding ♫
♫ The instant that the flames consume us, just who will it be ♫
♫ That’s by my side? ♫
♫ Trying to hide my apathetic face, in this incomprehensible world ♫
♫ All my smiles have already been earnestly rehearsed, again and again ♫
♫ I went through innumerable justifications to try to package up my brokenness ♫
♫ And even actively admitted I’ll never be able to come to terms with my own cowardice ♫
♫ Putting on a show in some corner with no regard for my own safety
♫ Fresh blood ♫
♫ Is burning dry fallen leaves
♫ Forgive me for not making the same mistakes ♫
♫ Illuminating these glittering lights ♫
♫ The road ahead will always be this winding ♫
♫ The instant that the flames consume us, just who will it be ♫
♫ That’s by my side? ♫