[2008] [Ten years ago]
[Hua City University Law School]
[Hua City University Law School 2nd Year Final Examination] [Lanya Law & Jurisprudence]
Dean Zhang, none of my grades are less than eighty. Why didn't I get any credit?
You are Chi Zhen, the school's well-known gifted student?
I think I saw you once on Honors Day when school started.
The next time was when you sat for this exam.
Why should I let you pass when you had not attended classes for more than a few days?
Why didn't you attend classes?
I have to go and take cases. I have to earn money.
If I didn't see incorrectly, you are on a full scholarship.
Not just the school tuition, there's more than even enough for your meals.
I can't just eat alone. My mom has to eat, too.
Are you saying besides paying school expenses, you have to also support your mom?
Correct. My mom is staying in a nursing home.
Her health is poor. I have to get someone to look after her.
But she's much better now.
It's not so difficult now.
In my second and third year, when my dad just passed away, it was harder then.
What kind of lawsuits are you taking on?
I accept everything.
I have not graduated yet. I also don't have a law license.
I'm a student. So, those who look for me are definitely not those with good cases.
The defendants in most of the cases are not good people.
What I mean is... There are actually people who look for me because they want to lose their case.
I think you are equipped with the potential to be a genius lawyer.
But everything depends on opportunity.
I'll introduce you to my friend so you can go and work for him.
But you can't miss any more classes.
Lawyer Wang Zhensheng. Have your heard of him?
Of course, I've heard of him. Those of us in this trade all know about him. He is like this.
You go first. I'll give him a call.
Go now?
Thank you.
Thank you, Dean Zhang. I'll go now.
I believe the law is just.
Can you tell us about it?
I have never fought a battle which I have no confidence in.
Can you tell us more?
Can you tell us the details, Lawyer Wang?
Hello, Barrister Wang.
I... went to the law firm to look for you. Perhaps the receptionist was not clear, so you didn't see me.
My name is Chi Zhen. I'm a 2nd-year law student.
I'm a student of Dean Zhang. I hope I can learn from you.
- You are the one he's talking about? - Yes.
I've already turned him down. Didn't he tell you?
Turned him down?
He did tell me. He told me he turned it down.
But I think this is my only chance
where I can learn from you. Perhaps, this might not even be a chance.
Perhaps, I might not even get such a chance in the future at all.
I'm very hard working. I can work twenty-four hours a day.
- Get in. - Thank you.
The matter is settled. Don't worry. Let's go.
Go cash this check.
[Great Citidal Bank: ¥2,000,000]
¥2,000,000?
It's not for you.
This is the child sexual assault case against the old anchorman, La Di.
I know about that case.
It's good that you have heard of it.
A total of six children were involved. Use that to take care of them.
For each family that you can settle with, you'll get a hundred thousand dollars.
Aren't all those children victims?
The oldest is only twelve years old.
La Di is being falsely accused.
Why did that child's parent sue him? Wasn't it because of money?
Give them money and it'll be settled.
Okay.
Is he really being falsely accused?
You don't believe it?
I must believe that my client is innocent.
Only then will I have the confidence to win the lawsuit for him.
This is not being despicable,
but the professional work ethics that we must have as lawyers.
Do you understand?
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♫ 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 10]
Go? All of you go first.
I won't talk anymore.
Eggy Boy, where are the public washrooms?
Straight ahead and turn right. Supervisor Li and the rest are already there.
Close the door.
There's no need for me to explain about the fatal wound, right?
The murderer strangled him from behind.
There is an excess of blood in the neck. The deceased kept struggling but did not die,
until his throat was cut open resulting in a hemorrhage.
The murderer is male and is right-handed.
I really can't tell you whether the time of death is between thirty-five or forty-five minutes ago.
Another one is dead.
Chief Dong has already exploded.
Get him to send six policemen here.
One guard for each. Whether eating, bathing or sleeping, follow their every step.
I think that'll work.
Can I come in now?
Nobody is stopping you from coming in.
These are not Guan Zhiyuan's clothes.
These belong to He Xinyu.
[Personal Profile : Wei Qiang]
[Personal Profile : Liu Yuan]
[Personal Profile : He Xinyu]
Everyone, please keep quite.
Stop making so much noise!
- Feng Tingting's boyfriend. - Me.
- Xu Liang's father. - I'm here.
- Wei Qiang's cousin. - Present.
- Liu Yuan's assistant. - I'm here.
- Guan Zhiyuan's girlfriend. - I'm here.
- All of you follow me. - Let's go.
[Mr. Daily Sport & Wear Outdoor Shop]
Why did you go through my things? I'll file a complaint against you, do you know that?
You can file the complaint after you leave this place, okay?
Come, you're a backpacker. Let's take a look at the belongings of a backpacker.
Binoculars.
Compass.
Portable gas canister.
But you don't have a portable gas stove.
Portable alcohol stove, but you don't have any alcohol.
Are you going on a trip with Bear Grylls (Edward Grylls, English adventurer)?
What can this prove?
Can't prove anything. But this thing might prove to be problematic.
I think you should have thrown it away.
This is your purchase receipt from the fifth of last month.
All the things on the table, including this bag,
were purchased by you on the same day, from the same shop.
A real backpacker would not buy all his equipment
within one day.
You are not a backpacker.
Who are you? What are you doing here?
What is your relationship with Napa?
Have you finished checking everything?
If you have, can you return my belongings to me?
Okay. I'll return this to you, too.
I... was looking for this all morning.
You left this in the bathroom.
That's the place where Guan Zhiyuan died.
That's right. I...
went to that bathroom first.
Later, he came over in a panic and kept rushing me to finish up quickly.
Then, I left this there.
If you want to talk like that, then it's meaningless.
Before you came in, I already knew these are the prepared answers. Let me remind you that
you hung the coat there on purpose.
You are very clear that once the temporary questioning is completed,
we must release all of you.
And the murderer wants to kill you.
To put it accurately, he wants to kill you and Napa.
You knew that he would not allow you to leave here alive, so you were afraid.
You hung this coat on the hook.
Guan Zhiyuan died for you!
Tell me who the murderer is.
I knew that I was the one the murderer wanted to kill.
Yesterday morning when Napa died,
I knew that the murderer tricked us to come here because he wanted to kill us.
After you hang your coat outside Guan Zhiyuan's clothing,
where did you go?
At that time, I was going to leave, but...
I heard someone approaching, so I hid in the next stall.
I didn't even dare to turn the shower on.
Then...
I could see the murderer's legs under the door.
But I couldn't see his face.
I could hear the sound that was made when he straggled Guan Zhiyuan to death.
Was it a male or female?
Male.
Definitely a male.
What were you doing when Guan Zhiyuan was killed.
Didn't you go out?
How would I know if he had anymore cyanide with him? A whiff of that thing is enough to kill you.
Furthermore, I think if the murderer
saw that it was Guan Zhiyuan, and not me, he would have stopped.
In this way, everyone would know who the murderer was.
When he discovered that the person in the bathroom was not you,
no matter who that person was, he'd be killed.
Speak. How did you know Napa?
I really don't know Napa that well.
We just did some small business together.
You're lying!
It's really doing business.
Okay. Go.
Who should I ask to come in here for questioning?
We will question whoever you ask.
You said you saw him before. What do you mean?
Have you defended him in a lawsuit before?
No. I would definitely remember him if I had defended him in a case.
[Personal Profile : He Xinyue]
I think I saw him somewhere before.
[Personal Profile : Xu Liang]
I have been investigating cases for almost ten years.
I have investigated all kinds of major cases, serious cases, and strange cases.
There were many murderers in these cases who were only kids your age.
Do you know why?
Because you are still a minor.
Tell me. Why did you come to Hua City?
Not for anything.
I know you didn't do anything.
You stayed in the room the entire week without going out.
So, I really want to know why you came to Hua City.
I ran away.
I stole two thousand dollars from a teacher.
I went to the police station to voluntarily surrender myself.
I begged them to lock me up, but no one paid attention to me.
With such a small amount of money, I couldn't afford a hotel.
I slept at internet cafes and underground tunnels.
Finally, I decided coming here was the safest.
You'd rather go to prison?
Why do you feel so insecure? Who is trying to catch you?
The teacher from school.
He already warned us.
Just like what he said: "Don't try to run away."
"Even if you run to the end of the earth,
I will still catch you."
What kind of school do you attend?
Hua City Defense School. It's for stopping internet addiction.
We don't go to classes. We spends every day folding greeting cards.
What kind of cards?
Christmas greetings... stuff like that.
It's greetings on the top,
a photo on the bottom. Fold it together and it becomes a greeting card.
Is your internet addiction severe?
I don't have any internet addiction. I don't play video games.
Then why do you go to that school?
My father remarried.
I don't have any issues with that woman, but she has some with me.
- You mean your stepmother? - She is not my stepmother!
She is my father's wife.
I am sorry.
I am begging you.
I killed that person.
Please lock me up in prison. All right?
I will think about it.
You may go now.
Try to relax more.
What do you mean you will think about it?
I already thought this kid was not normal.
What if he gets upset later and kills someone? Will you take responsibility?
I was only humoring him. He was so anxious before.
You humor him? He wants to go to prison now. What if he kills someone?
Who do you pick?
You're here.
Feng Tingting, please sit.
Did he ask you to come in here?
No, I came on my own.
I chose this youth hostel because...
Did I ask you a question?
Wh-Why did you pick this hotel?
I picked this hostel because it is close to my boyfriend's school.
I only knew Napa from here.
I can't believe that she is like this on the second day.
Did Napa tell you anything?
Nothing. She speaks Thai and I speak Chinese.
We can barely communicate with English.
That's it.
[Personal Profile : Liu Yuan]
Are you guys thinking that I voluntarily came to stay at this hostel?
I already made a hotel reservation elsewhere.
It's because my cell phone was out of power after I got off the plane.
I couldn't call my damn assistant to pick me up,
or else I wouldn't have wound up here.
The cab driver brought me here.
Now I am stuck here.
Couldn't... you just charge your phone?
A stranger in a strange land. Who do I ask to borrow it from?
But I tried to use those public chargers.
But there's a problem here.
You need to turn on the phone and scan it
before charging.
If my phone had power,
do I need to scan and charge?
That's true.
Is there any compensation?
What compensation?
I am not the same as those people.
Did I tell you about this matter already?
I make money by the minute.
If you keep me here for two days,
do you know how much money you stopped me from making?
Do you know how much money I lost?
It's a lot.
Especially when there's laborer next to me, giving me a hard time every day.
Would you be happy in my place?
If you are the perpetrator
and can put this act up, making yourself seem this despicable,
I think you are a great actor.
You are good enough to be a superstar.
I am not kidding around with you.
I don't need the compensation.
But you must immediately release me.
All right?
Where is my assistant?
Our female officer is questioning your assistant out there.
That's all right. I am definitely going to fire him.
If it wasn't because he didn't pick me up at the airport,
would I be stuck in this damn place until now?
You may go now.
Liu Yuan.
You are the only one...
of all the people who answered
the questions most perfectly.
I came looking for my cousin.
I'm a laborer in their construction team. I'm a bricklayer.
I can make ¥4000 a month.
On the day I arrived, there was a problem with a worker;
my brother couldn't come, he told me to find a place for the night
and, in the end, I wasted time up to today.
Where did you find this cousin?
Where did I find him?
My mother's third sister's son! He's waiting for me outside now!
What is he waiting for?
That you finish killing and swagger out?
You suspect me!
I wouldn't dare kill a person, and I don't have the time.
I'm pretty awesome with construction work: in three to four days, I can finish one floor;
a 40/50-story building can be over in three months!
If you really are the killer dressed up for this occupation
and you manage to make it look so professional, I really believe that you are awesome.
Good play.
I'll ask you a question.
It's purely personal curiosity.
You're a migrant worker. What are you doing in a youth hostel?
What's wrong with bricklaying?
A bricklayer can't stay here?
How come even you cops look down on me?
That's not it. We aren't looking down on you.
You can stay as long as you please. Stay all you want.
You misunderstand me. I didn't mean it like that.
I'm honestly asking you why you decided to stay here.
I like it, okay?
I'd never been here before. I make ¥4000 a month; I can afford it!
Okay, okay, okay. Stay here. You can stay here a lot.
[Personal Profile: Cheng Fei]
[Attended eight years of college; could not graduate]
That professor you had at UCLA,
were you involved in his death?
In Los Angeles, I went through six hearings total.
Every time in court I said:
"I killed the tutor."
"That gun my classmate had, it was mine."
"I'm the one who took the tutor to the parking lot."
"He was in the 7th year, I was in the 8th, I certainly had a part in it."
But they thought there was something wrong with my mind.
I even admitted it, and they said there was not enough evidence.
They let me go.
Really, I'd rather be in jail.
No death penalty in the U.S., prison food is good, too.
Putting me in jail for a few decades beats letting me into the community again; I didn't know what to do.
I stayed in the lab for eight years.
When I came out, I couldn't even swipe a credit card.
I knew that the magnetic strip of a credit card had three tracks,
every track has 41 characters,
the length of every character is four bits plus a parity code.
But in my credit card, there was no money.
Those things I had were all right?
Your things were all right. But you aren't.
Okay.
If you like beating around the bush, no problem.
We'll get straight to the point.
What have you done these days?
What have you been up to? Who have you killed?
Talk. We're listening.
I really didn't kill them.
I had no grudge with them. Why would I kill them?
But I saw Guan Zhiyuan dead.
I went to the bathroom. I saw him lying there,
the tap running, the blood flowing to the drain.
I saw all of it.
And then?
Then I went over to the next stall and showered.
I'd gone for a shower.
I can't go without showering just because someone died, right?
Mm... makes sense.
During this time, did anyone come in?
Yes. Liu Yuan, Wei Qiang, He Xinyu.
Except for Feng Tingting, almost all the guys came in.
When they saw the body, they left.
Nobody wanted to say it.
"Another one died. We have to be locked in one more day."
Just pretend I didn't see.
Go back, pack up, wait till you guys release us.
Okay, go back out there.
He scared me to death.
Wasn't it useless?
Shut up! Listen to me.
The contract must be signed. I'll be there tomorrow.
I came all the way from Long City. I've put up with so many hardships and wasted so much time.
This deal needs to go through, even if it's at a loss.
That's it.
If the killer isn't found, none of us can think of going out.
Even so, I can't stay here and waste two days for nothing.
Two threes.
Where are you planning to go have fun with your boyfriend?
Some island... I'm not clear. He's organizing it all.
I don't care. It's fine as long as I'm going with him.
As soon as we can go out, leave. Don't stay all the time here in Hua City.
I don't like it here.
Two threes! You want them or not?
I don't.
In your school, can they really make you quit Internet addiction?
I'm not addicted to the Internet.
I know. I'm saying, have your Internet-addicted schoolmates quit?
One four.
It's possible. They didn't just quit the addiction, they quit disobeying.
One four! I still have two cards left.
I don't want it.
Two fives.
Two threes, one four, two fives. What are you playing cards for?
No fun.
I'll tell you a secret.
If He Xinyu is lying,
fooling us all,
and he's the one who killed Napa and Guan Zhiyuan, what do we do then?
You're asking me?
I'm speculating on this possibility.
Hurry and look at the file I gave you,
I interrogated those loved ones for several hours.
I read them all.
There's nothing wrong.
Nothing wrong with the father.
Nothing wrong with the cousin or with the boyfriend, either.
It's as if they'd talked about it outside and laid it out for them.
They're cooperating so well.
Chi Zhen, look at this.
- Actually, I rather like it here. - Why?
One person died and we were locked in for 24 hours.
If nobody else dies before noon tomorrow, I'll kill another one
with the cops watching. We can't go out, they can't come in.
Don't worry. I won't kill you.
Where are we sleeping tonight?
We sleep where we slept yesterday.
Can I request the police to protect me?
What are you saying?
There really is someone who wants to kill me.
No sleeping tonight.
We stay up all night again?
As friends or foes,
the four of us, with the six of them, we'll have a nice chat.
Here, here. Have a seat, I prepared lemonade for everyone.
Why are you not drinking?
Here, here! Drink, drink!
Supervisor Lu, you set the rules: everyone says something true, it doesn't have to be related to the case.
If you don't speak, how can we come up with true words?
How about you go first?
Tell us your biggest secret.
Fine.
I'm a cop because of my father.
When I was little, I had a dream: to become a sports star
because that way I could get win many medals.
But my father took ten years telling me
that all the applause and medals are just glory.
He told me, I may as well be a policeman,
because policemen can steadily contribute to this society
and also protect justice.
- Doesn't it sound childish? - Not at all.
I believed him.
So I took the exam for the academy. In every subject, I was the first.
But in my third year at the police academy,
my father committed a crime.
Since then my view of the world changed.
What crime did he commit?
Murder.
My view of life was built by my father brick by brick.
And in one night, he smashed it.
- Senior, I never heard you say... - Why do you ask so many questions?
Next.
Where's your mind gone to?
It's your turn.
If you can say it out, it's no big secret. Is it?
I'll say something I can say.
My older sister.
Since I was little, whatever was good to eat, to use or play with, she'd leave it all to me.
Brother Zhen, I never heard you say you had a sister.
She died.
I caused her death.
Because of that, my mother can't stand to be with me.
If it wasn't because I was too young and she had to raise me,
she would have broken off our mother-son relationship long ago.
Then I grew up. I wanted to move to another place.
I asked my mom, "Mom,
do you want to go with me?"
She said, "No."
She preferred to go live alone in a nursing home.
I'm quite afraid to face her
because every time I'm with her,
I see my mother's eyes
as if looking at me
she just saw sin.
It's as if she could imagine
everything my sister went through when she died.
I don't have any choice.
She's still my mother.
So, people's greatest tragedy is not to have a choice.
I'll never let myself fall in that position.
I never will.
You haven't said how your sister died.
It seems that that's another question.
And you?
Me? I don't know what to say.
I know you all look down on me.
Yes, I'm a migrant worker. What can I say?
You all think I'm not on the same level as you.
I build places, you live in them; very amazing!
- So what? - So nothing!
Nobody looks down on you. Who dares?
But then again,
the speech you just gave perfectly illustrates
that if a man becomes a migrant worker,
it is for a reason.
What are you saying? Two murders. He's the killer!
- Sit down. - All right, all right.
- Have a seat. - What you laughing at?
Retard.
I... I'll say a word.
I know in your midst
there's someone who wants to kill me.
I don't know who sent them.
But I want to tell that person,
I didn't take a cent of that money.
I...
Well...
This is the first time I came to Lanya.
Today, both Xu Liang and Qiang Wei asked me,
after meeting such an accident the first time I came here,
would I dare come again?
To tell the truth, I wouldn't.
I actually just wanted to take a trip with my boyfriend.
I never thought something like this would happen.
Come, I'll say something happy.
In the beginning, I opened this place because of one sentence:
"One moment, one meeting."
There's always certain good restaurants, or fun places, or interesting people
that in this life you'll only meet onc--
Cyanide. In here.
EVERYONE STAND UP!
My name is He Xinyu.
This year I'm 26. I'm from Long City.
In Long City, I used to be an intermediary.
Now I'm a backpacker.
I like staying in hostels
because this way I can meet several kinds of friends,
get to know many different friends' stories.
But this time the story was a little bloody.
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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? ♫