[2011] [Seven years ago]
[Lanya Country - Hua CIty - at a certain apartment building]
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This kid, I am letting you eat but not this much.
Based on experience, after you see a dead body,
you wouldn't be able to eat during the forty-eight hours afterward.
Take this chance and eat what you can now.
Are you all right?
♫ 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 12]
Napa, Guan Zhiyuan, He Xingyu: these three died.
There's four more left: Xu Liang, Feng Tingting,
Wei Qiang, Liu Yuan.
Exactly, who is the one lying?
[Personal Profile: Liu Yuan]
My dear friends.
[Before the incident - Long City - a certain telecommunication company]
Tomorrow, I am going away for a meeting.
This time period that I am away,
I hope everyone completes the tasks you have on hand.
Don't slack off while I am away. Meeting is adjourned.
Thank you, CEO Liu.
[Personal Profile: Feng Tingting]
[Before the incident - at Sheng Country Public University] - We will be on break starting tomorrow.
Yay!
I hope you all have a great vacation.
All right, the class is dismissed.
Bye-bye.
[Personal Profile: Wei Qiang]
[Before the incident - Long City - at a certain construction site]
[Personal Profile: Xu Liang]
[Before the incident - Hua City - Security School]
[Male]
- Xu Liang. - Here.
You didn't even fold three thousand cards the entire morning.
You've been to the bathroom fives times already.
I have diarrhea.
Come out here quickly. I want you out.
Don't get me angry, all right?
The next one is going to be Cheng Fei.
There's a possibility that more than one person is lying.
[Li Lixing]
Hello, I know you are calling about the realtor case.
You already said that Cheng Fei will be the next target! He will get killed tonight!
Let me tell you! Even if you are part of the royal police force,
but this is Hua City. We--! Hello.
Deputy Director, I have some documents needing your immediate attention.
They really can keep quiet.
Come out with me for a moment.
I shouldn't have f*cking come here.
I know one of you want to kill me.
Come. Kill me.
No one wants to kill you. Sit down and write.
What can I write?
Tell me who is the one wanting to kill me!
Is it you? Or you?
You can't be suspecting that I am the killer?
Then are you the killer?
[Cheng Fei]
Fine.
[Cheng Fei]
- All right.
I will admit.
I did kill someone before.
At Lanya, I killed an elderly couple.
Also, hit and killed a housekeeper.
I will admit to the ones that I committed, but I didn't kill the ones here.
You killed people before.
You are really the one.
What are you doing? Get away from me.
I can kill you. Believe it or not?
Who wants to kill me?
We... We all want to kill you.
Who wants to go first?
I'll go first.
Even if we are going to kill, you wouldn't be the one.
Everyone stop.
That last case was weird.
But I did learn a lot from it.
Actually, we young ones need experience.
With some more experience, we can do a lot better.
Let me do it.
Put your weapons down.
Squat down.
Check him, Chi Zheng, check him.
Hold on.
Do you know why I didn't want you inside?
- You're not here to investigate. - Chi Zhen, put your gun down!
- You couldn't prove he was the killer.
- Chi Zhen, put your gun down! - You are abusing the power of public office to avenge a personal grudge!
- This is our domain! - Put the gun down!
- If he dies... - Put it down!
...I should execute you!
- You are a murderer! - PUT THE GUN DOWN!
Isn't it rubbish?
If we'd been three seconds late, just three seconds,
if that pen had gone through;
tomorrow, we'd have made the headlines for sure. You get it?
Why? Three people have died already.
If a fourth person dies in front of our eyes,
we're just an example of the most ridiculous cops in the world.
I'll ask you a question.
Between Cheng Fei and Li Lixing,
which kind of person is more hateful?
I hate both.
If the world didn't have people like them, what need would there be for us?
The world would just be perfect!
Then if we bring Li Lixing to justice,
won't this world have a lot more people like Cheng Fei?
I know what you're trying to say.
I don't care. I'll do as you say.
Do you have a problem with me?
I don't have a problem with you.
But I have a problem with you handling Cheng Fei!
Do you know what Cheng Fei did?
I DON'T KNOW! How many people he killed has nothing to do with me!
What the law can't manage, as a policeman I just...
Do you still deserve to call yourself a policeman?!
- IT'S A HUMAN LIFE! - CHI ZHEN!
We found this in the karaoke hall.
it's a cyanide button.
Pretty smart.
You're right.
I don't deserve to be a policeman.
I wrote my resignation letter countless times,
But each time I took it back.
We just came back from Long City.
We saw that lawyer.
That Barrister Wei, he got a huge break.
Nobody thought this case could be won.
What were you doing at the time?
Just like you, a supervisor.
My personality is also quite like yours.
As soon as I had a case, I'd rush forward, catch the murderer, give the answer due to the victim.
This is what I wanted to do.
That was my last case.
When I received the case, a white couple in Biying Garden was killed,
I had seen a number of cases.
But when I got to the crime scene, I got a scare.
Not because there were too many victims,
but for the brutality of the death.
They had been tortured to the point of dying.
[Three years ago - Long City - Australian couple's home]
Code! What's the code?
Give me the code!
- Get a towel. - What?
TOWEL! Roll it up to stop the blood.
That's my girlfriend. If you--
If you say any more crap, I'll whip you! Do you believe me?
Somebody is here. Let's leave, quick!
No one can leave.
If we don't get the money, we can't leave.
But what do we do if the cops get here? What if they catch us?
She didn't even dare come in. I bet she won't call the police!
I took you on rounds for 2-3 months.
Already saw a hundred houses...
And the money? The money?
He's dead.
She also died!
Take anything that's worth money.
Take anything that's worth money! Hurry!
Okay.
Let's go! I say, let's go!
You know all that happened next, right?
More or less.
This gang of thieves was quite coarse, too.
They stole all they could. Since they couldn't get that safe box open,
they just took anything that was worth money in the house,
including the robot vacuum that helped to solve the case.
It had a location detecting system connected to the mobile phone.
Let's go! I say, let's go!
Take the stairs, you dunce!
We found He Xinyu thru the robot vacuum.
From surveying the crime scene, there were three culprits:
two men and a woman
By the time we found He Xinyu,
the two accomplices had run already.
He Xinyu wouldn't admit to the crime even to save himself,
nor was he willing to confess who the accomplices were.
But we had another way; we had witnesses.
You mean that housekeeper, Zhang Lin.
On the second day, as soon as she arrived and opened the door,
she saw the consequences of the crime.
So, she just ran away and didn't go to the police to report it.
Later, I found her. She agreed to testify in court against He Xinyu.
This was a foolproof trial.
He Xinyu would be convicted for sure.
But I never thought that on the day of the court hearing, she'd be killed by a car!
After this case ended, I was transferred to general administration.
I never touched a case again.
I want to tell you both.
As a policeman, having my last case at a dead end,
I really couldn't sleep. I also felt ill at being an official.
Among Napa, He Xinyu and Cheng Fei who was the leader then?
Does it matter?
I just want to know why they left Cheng Fei for the last kill;
also, how did the killer
gather the three of them all together here?
The rest is up to your skills to investigate.
I know my method was wrong; I almost led Cheng Fei to almost being killed.
I want to thank you two for stopping me in time.
These files hold the information I found that year.
From now on, this case will depend on two of you.
I'm going.
Can I... go?
Let go of your obsession.
Be a good cop.
Thank you.
Eight people in total.
Now only the four of you are left.
You've killed more or less all the targets?
All right. Change these clothes.
After all, we still haven't found the true killer yet.
Your clothes are all in your respective rooms.
Go change back.
Let me ask you.
Say, how much money was that white couple's house worth?
Should be over a million yuan.
For over a million yuan, sell it to me!
Estimated 4.5 million yuan.
Look.
This white couple didn't have any children,
so no heirs and no legacy.
Where did the money go?
Ping Li Trust Fund authorization form.
Look here. Exactly 4.5 million yuan.
I suspect someone used this trust fund [Financial Foundation Transfer Application Contract] [Fund Manager: Mrs. Liew, Transferor: Mr./Mrs. Steve Cascatta]
to gobble up the money.
How's that? What do you think?
Let's go check.
[Pingli Trust Funds]
Clients choose these family trust funds.
They represent a more stable method of distribution than leaving an inheritance.
For instance, if you inherited a sum of money, you may gamble it all away in one night
or you may get ripped off by some woman.
But with our family funds, you can put in this sum of money,
agree on how many years; and including the interests,
then for 50 years, divide it into 600 months. They are distributed monthly to the heir.
There is no way to collect the whole amount in one solution.
It is possible one wants...
Even if one says they're in a hurry to get married, buy a house, that wouldn't do.
Okay, Manager Liew, thank you. We aren't here to buy a trust fund.
Now, I just want to know whom you sent this money to every month.
I'll have a look... It was all withdrawn.
Withdrawn?
Didn't you just say a moment ago that you can distribute by a certain number of months?
- This was a special case. - What special case?
I am not clear on the specifics.
I wasn't the person handling this case at the time.
- Who withdrew it? - I really can't say that.
It was a child adopted by the couple, whom they raised to the age of 17.
The child found its biological parents. But maybe our clients still felt concern,
so they appointed the child as heir.
- What was the name? - I really can't say that.
Hey, let's analyze this a bit.
Your trust funds company's name is a Chinese word: "Pingli Trust Funds."
It shows that it was funded by Chinese people, and the main target will be Chinese customers.
But the victims were clearly an Australian couple.
Why did they choose a Chinese trust fund company?
The heir is Chinese.
Let's do it this way. Just tell me where the heir is from. Okay?
Just this piece of information; as soon as you say it, we'll go.
We'll absolutely not bother you.
It's a Chinese from the country of Sen.
[Five years ago - Long City - Home of Feng Tingting's adoptive parents]
...and then outside there is a park.
Mom, there's no need for me to translate. You can just speak Chinese
because when I was little, Daddy was always afraid I wouldn't learn Chinese
so he dragged me to Chinese language class and studied it with me.
Good.
After many years, I cannot speak, but I can listen.
He says he can't speak, but he understands.
Why did you want her to study two languages?
Tingting has a Chinese face.
She's my Chinese daughter,
always my daughter.
You chat at your ease. We'll wait for you outside.
Dad. Mom. I was wrong.
I shouldn't have looked for my biological parents.
I was just curious about how our faces would look alike.
I just wanted to see what they looked like.
I can't go back there.
I'll tell them.
It's all right.
I'm sorry.
Don't cry. It's okay.
[Pingli Trust Funds]
After they murdered my mom and dad so savagely,
the court found them not guilty and let them go.
What do you mean, "They"?
Wasn't it just one guy, He Xinyu?
Three people.
It's these three. It took me two years to find them.
But the case has been settled for so long, it can't be reopened.
I don't have any more money.
As per your adoptive parents' instructions, there's a sum of ¥12,400 every month for you.
I want to withdraw the whole amount.
I'm sorry. You absolutely don't meet the conditions to collect the whole amount.
It's not to spend it, I want to do something for my parents.
Twelve thousand a month for 50 years, I won't need it by then.
Please!
Please! I just want to do something for them.
Help me out, okay?
What do you want to do?
Are you Liu Yuan?
Yes. Can I help you?
Was Liu Ren from Xinda Real Estate your elder brother?
Yes.
You're Zhang Lin's son, aren't you?
[One day before the crime]
[Burger Bar]
[Container Hotel Group]
Thank you.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
Steve, from Australia,
wants to say hi.
Steve? Who?
My father.
- Hurry, hurry! - Your girl.
...you saying? Two murders. He's the killer!
All right, all right.
- What are you laughing at?
Retard
In a little bit, you'll all be released.
Did you figure it out?
That year, after the case was concluded,
He Xinyu and Napa broke up.
Cheng Fei was not with them to begin with.
But the three of them had agreed
that from then on, they wouldn't see each other again
and they could never mention this matter.
Until one day these three murderers received a letter.
Even though we have not found this letter,
the content should only have had three points:
1) I know you killed someone,
2) I need you to do something for me,
3) I want you to go to the Xiangzi Temple Youth Hostel.
What I said was correct?
He's the murderer!
Wei Qiang, do you know why I kept asking you?
How come a migrant worker would stay at a youth hostel?
It's not that I look down on rural migrants,
even less did I want to know the answer,
I only wanted to know your attitude towards the question.
You cared too much about letting us know that you were a migrant worker.
Because you were hiding your true identity.
Your true identity is a son avenging his mother.
Your mother was the witness
who was killed that year on the day she should have testified.
The housekeeper, Zhang Lin.
And you alone could not have killed
He Xinyu, Cheng Fei and Napa; three people.
So there's still another.
That real estate manager who died was your brother.
That's to say that these two killed everyone?
No. There's still another murderer.
It's the adopted daughter of the Australian couple who were murdered,
Feng Tingting.
You're also the one who called in Wei Qiang and Liu Yuan, right?
Why did you decide to kill Napa first?
My adopted mom was hit many times,
they were all from her.
Liu Yuan, you acted too well. Not a flaw.
I kept thinking, such a haughty guy,
so insufferably arrogant, so unsympathetic,
how could you have reached your position at your age?
In your colleagues' description, you're not like this.
- Xinyi! - Yes, Director Liu.
What's up? Today, you're out of sorts.
No, Director Liu. She has some issues at home,
but HR didn't approve her days off
so she's a little unhappy.
HR didn't approve.
Then come to me, I'll approve for you.
The first day you met Wei Qiang, you used the excuse of alcohol to have a fight
to make everyone pay attention to you two.
So that Feng Tingting could take advantage of the chaos to kill Napa.
You killed Guan Zhiyuan.
But you'd never considered that He Xinyu had hung
his jacket over Guan Zhiyuan's jacket.
So you had no choice but to kill him.
I killed the wrong one.
What wrong one?
Guan Zhiyuan.
The next victim was He Xinyu.
He Xinyu was murdered under all of our eyes.
None of us knew how the poison was given to him.
Until we found this.
This is a button, you recognize it?
It was very clever,
holding the cyanide in the button and then administering it.
He Xinyu kept his face towards you as he died.
He was looking at you.
You do have guts.
Weren't you afraid he'd shout your name?
The most foolish is just you.
When Li Lixing detained everyone,
you still wanted to kill Cheng Fei.
The three of them were all here, could Cheng Fei escape?
He's the one who stopped me.
We already said that killing was not for you!
Handcuff everyone and take them to the precinct.
Feng Tingting,
you paid such a high price to avenge your loved ones.
Was it worth it?
Why did you come back?
One day you say you quit, the next day you're back.
You pushed me so hard to come back to work,
I had to hurry back to look for you.
Today I asked Feng Tingting a question.
To avenge her adopted parents,
was it worth it to kill so many people?
She answered yes. I can't get over it.
If it were you, what would you do?
If it were me, I'd do the same.
Really?
Do you know?
Director Zhang was just like a father to me.
I've been investigating his case all along,
I want to find out who the killer is.
I can't spare him.
Perhaps we have no control
on how the unbearable and unpredictable begin.
Perhaps we also have no way to make those pains and regrets
subside and disappear.
But... maybe we can decide how all of this
should end.
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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? ♫