1 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,360 ALL STORYLINES AND IMAGES IN THIS WORK ARE FICTITIOUS. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,040 ANY SIMILARITIES ARE COINCIDENTAL. 3 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,440 Do you know who I am? 4 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,520 ADAPTED FROM THE PERIOD HORROR NOVEL BY THAO TRANG 5 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,840 IN THE LAST EPISODE 6 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,200 Tu just committed murder! 7 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,680 Have you ever heard of 8 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,040 something called Skull Wine? 9 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,800 Congee Tu was a brute, a menace. 10 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:08,760 But I had no idea 11 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,800 he had collected such bad karma. 12 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,600 So are the carps ready yet? 13 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,400 Tomorrow morning you'll go with me, yeah? 14 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,040 May! 15 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,160 Come down and play with me. 16 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,840 My love is a big drum… 17 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,760 What a pain you are. 18 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,520 What now? A pain, how? 19 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,800 Pain, huh? 20 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,000 Here's pain. 21 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,560 Some more pain. Oh? 22 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,800 You say I'm a pain, 23 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,120 but last night you didn't let me sleep. 24 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:45,640 So who's the pain here? 25 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:47,640 It's your fault, 26 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,520 leaving me here for days. 27 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:50,960 I didn't mean to. 28 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:53,680 In fact, I was so troubled. 29 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,280 That guy, Mr. Tam, he has helped me plenty. 30 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,600 Now, he has to take care of the funeral. 31 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,360 Had I not stayed, it would have felt wrong. 32 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,840 I heard your story, and it gave me great chills. 33 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,160 I never thought 34 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,160 that in life there'd be such freakish stories. 35 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,120 You are right. 36 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,600 Even I, who witnessed it all, didn't even want to believe it. 37 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:23,560 Mr. Tam of late, 38 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:25,760 he's in horrid shape. 39 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,400 His house still has no kids, 40 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:32,840 and now there's no wife either. 41 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,880 I don't even know how he'll get through things. 42 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,760 Tam's house also can't conceive like ours? 43 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,400 Then we share the same struggle. 44 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:55,560 My dear. 45 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:56,480 Yes? 46 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:58,640 Do you still take your medication? 47 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,040 I still do. 48 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,120 Last month, Madam Tu gave me new herbal mixes. 49 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,480 Here's hoping our kid will get to be here. 50 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,200 I'd give up anything. 51 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:15,800 You will have a kid. 52 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,640 You'll have one right now. 53 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,040 A kid! 54 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,440 Stop! 55 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:25,360 What? 56 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,760 It's way past morning. 57 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,880 I must cook for the Kitchen God. 58 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,360 If it's noon and there's no offering, 59 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:33,680 that's bad karma. 60 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,000 Come here, I'll tie it. 61 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,680 I can do it! 62 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,640 Those in your village 63 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,280 will continue to die. 64 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,400 Mr. Tam. 65 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,400 Oh, Mr. Tam! 66 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,400 Mr. Tam! 67 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:31,720 Like a lost ghost or something. 68 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,040 Demon! Beast! Ghost! Creature! 69 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,640 It's me. 70 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,600 You awake yet? 71 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:47,840 Just a cripple, not a creature. 72 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:48,760 Right. 73 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:51,840 So? 74 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,360 Stop now. If you're up, we go. 75 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,120 But wait. 76 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,200 Huh? 77 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,360 So I am… 78 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:03,360 still alive. 79 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,560 Or have you died with me? 80 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,280 Are you fully awake or not? Huh? 81 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:16,720 Wait, wait. 82 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,520 You, just try and hit me. 83 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:19,800 -Try and hit you? -Yes. 84 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,480 Whoa, really taking your chance, there! 85 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,040 Really. 86 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,360 Go home and rest. 87 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:30,400 I think I'm just dreaming. 88 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:31,600 Sure thing. 89 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,240 -I smell a bit mature. -Oh God! 90 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,120 -Hey, Mr. Tam. -Huh? 91 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,000 I forgot! 92 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,800 What a scary dream. 93 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:12,280 23RD DECEMBER 94 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,560 -Late blooms for this Tet. -They are beautiful, though! 95 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,480 It's also a lot colder, right? 96 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,480 Indeed It's much colder this year. 97 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,200 Hach! 98 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,440 Hach! 99 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,480 Are you home? 100 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,200 Hach! 101 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,200 Hach! 102 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,360 Oh, Hach! 103 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,440 Hach! 104 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,039 Let's release some fish! 105 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,760 Oh, Hach! You home? 106 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,440 This girl. 107 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,760 Asking me to come over early only to disappear. 108 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,360 Madam Tu! 109 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,440 You're done with the offerings way early, no? 110 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,520 I have to be so the Land Genie and Kitchen God 111 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:09,760 can be up in Heaven's Court on time. 112 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:10,760 MADAM TU - SIR KHAN'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW 113 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,120 Leave it later and they'll all be sick. 114 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:30,240 Are you done? 115 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,520 Hey! Who's that up there? 116 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,680 Didn't village rules bar butchering near the creek? 117 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:17,440 Mrs. Thap! 118 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,280 -That you, Mrs. Thap? -It is I. 119 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,800 Madam Tu and everyone have finished with the offerings? 120 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,480 Oh! You know what? 121 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:58,480 I was up way early, 122 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,920 before the rooster, even. 123 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,440 Done with everything. 124 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,560 Had plenty of free time, as a result. 125 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:10,720 Madam Tu and all are so diligent. 126 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,960 Can't say the same for Mr. Thap. 127 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,160 I bet you he's still enjoying his rolled tobacco at home. 128 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,280 You're talking silly, missus. 129 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:20,720 All of us here, 130 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,800 all year, all our lifetime, we can't leave the village. 131 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,680 We know absolutely nothing. 132 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,760 Meanwhile, your husband can be here and there, 133 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,120 can know this and that. 134 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,120 That's wonderful! 135 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,880 That law applies to our entire village. 136 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,960 No one except Mr. Thap can go down the mountain. 137 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:47,520 That's true! 138 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,160 -Someone's dead! -Is that May's voice? 139 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,480 What's wrong with her? 140 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,880 Everyone! 141 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,800 What is wrong? 142 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,120 Someone's dead! 143 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:11,760 Where? 144 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,120 Who died? 145 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,280 There! There's a dead body! 146 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,880 Someone's dead! Fish attack! 147 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:23,760 A deadly fish attack! 148 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,040 The fish killed her! 149 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,640 Move aside! 150 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,640 The fish have killed someone! 151 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,200 The fish have killed someone! 152 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,040 -Mr. Thap! -Carnivorous fish! Careful! 153 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,160 Hey there, watch out! 154 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:47,640 There are still many fish. 155 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,000 Murderous fish! Good heavens! 156 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,480 Bring her in! Mr. Thap! 157 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,560 Help her! 158 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,840 Ma'am, please take my wife home. 159 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,080 -Let's go back now. -There! 160 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,440 Do something. 161 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,320 Everyone! Find a way to get the body. 162 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,160 -Get that body out. -No! I'm afraid! 163 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:06,240 What are you afraid of?! 164 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,920 Come here quickly! 165 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,480 Everyone, everyone… 166 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,360 Help her! 167 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,880 You all! Get a stick to pull the body out. 168 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:15,920 Absolutely do not enter the water. 169 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,760 The fish are fierce! 170 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,040 All… 171 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:21,000 Nhanh lên. 172 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,400 Go and find a stick, something to get the body. 173 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,600 The fish are fierce. Stay away from the water. 174 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,680 -Where? Let me see. -Who is it? 175 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,040 Who is that? 176 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,640 It's little Hach! 177 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:34,760 Hach! 178 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,120 My daughter! 179 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,840 Good gods! 180 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:40,760 -Hold Madam Tu back! -Get her up. 181 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:41,760 Madam! 182 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,280 -Go in. -Come back, madam! 183 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,120 Let go of me! 184 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Get her down first. 185 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,280 -Let go of me! -Hach! 186 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,320 Hach! 187 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,600 Hold Duc back! 188 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Calm down. 189 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:00,720 Calm down. 190 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,360 -Let go of me. -Calm down. 191 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,160 Don't go near there. 192 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,360 Get away! 193 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,440 Hach! 194 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,040 Quickly! 195 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,880 How unjust! 196 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,200 Almost there. 197 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,880 The fish are still biting! 198 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,200 Here, pull fast. 199 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:50,640 Let go! 200 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:52,640 Let me go! 201 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,760 My daughter! 202 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,200 It's her. 203 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,640 My child! 204 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,000 My child, my child! 205 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,160 Good heavens! Oh, no! 206 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,000 Sir Kham! 207 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,880 Oh, sir! 208 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,480 This is your grandchild! 209 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,880 Hach! Don't leave me, Hach. 210 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,320 Please don't leave me. 211 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,800 Has anyone suffered like my child? 212 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,200 This badly?! 213 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,359 Hach! Don't leave me, Hach! 214 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,440 Ma'am, please ask someone to get an ox cart to bring the body back. 215 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:35,760 Oh, May! 216 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,000 Just get Hach back. 217 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,320 Oh, Duc, just bring her back. Duc! 218 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,880 Duc! We have to get her back. 219 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,640 Come! Come back to me. 220 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:51,560 Madam Tu! 221 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,280 Come on, come back. 222 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,680 Come back. 223 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,280 Return! 224 00:17:58,360 --> 00:17:59,920 Come on back! 225 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,760 Ma'am, please… 226 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:10,840 Oh, Hach! 227 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,560 Back! You, back to me! 228 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,040 Come back to me. 229 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:20,520 Hach! 230 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,240 Hach! 231 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,320 Hach? Wake up, dear Hach. 232 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:27,640 It's me, Duc. 233 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,600 It is cold here. 234 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,040 Let me get you back safe. 235 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,560 Oh, gods, my child! 236 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:01,080 What's wrong? 237 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:02,640 Hey! 238 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,080 Can't you even push? 239 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,160 Is it that hard, huh?! 240 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,840 -What's wrong? -Heavens above! 241 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,120 You're all men here but somehow you're weaker than women now? 242 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,200 Useless! Get away! 243 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,280 Away! 244 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,440 Why is this? 245 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,520 Why, my dear child? 246 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,440 Why is your death so horrible, dear? 247 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:26,000 Why must you leave us so harshly and so soon?! 248 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,520 Maybe we just take her home? 249 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:31,360 We can't. 250 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,640 She died far from her home. 251 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:34,960 We can't get her back. 252 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,840 We must bury her now. 253 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:38,800 Push, everyone, push! 254 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,080 Come on now! 255 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,120 Come on now! 256 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,760 What's wrong, my dear? 257 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,560 To the Goddess of Mercy. 258 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,920 To the gods we know. 259 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,400 To the deities guarding this soil. 260 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,800 It's unlucky this child passed on early. 261 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,960 I bow my head, ask for your help. 262 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,920 That her grave be still, be neat. 263 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,680 Your fate was to be distant from your mother. 264 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,560 Please have mercy on your mother. 265 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,000 Have mercy on me. 266 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,000 Have mercy on your fellow villagers. 267 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,720 Go to the afterlife. 268 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,040 Be with your ancestors, dear one! 269 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:03,920 It's moving fine now. 270 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,960 How can that be? 271 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,160 -Go! -Let's push it. 272 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,680 Little Hach passed away so horribly… 273 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,440 But how can carps be carnivorous? 274 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:53,800 Don't think too much about it, dear. 275 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,960 What has happened, happened. 276 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Let's rest. 277 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,840 We'll tend to it tomorrow. 278 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,600 Look, there's fish! 279 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,320 Don't throw too hard. 280 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,120 What that's delicious smell? 281 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,800 Someone is grilling, I think? 282 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,560 I'm hungry! 283 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,000 I think it's from up there. 284 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,360 -Let's go! -Go! 285 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,320 Hey! 286 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,680 Did you brats ask for a bite? Huh? 287 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,400 Sir Vo Tong! 288 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,320 VO TONG - THE BUTCHER 289 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:47,440 I'm just kidding. 290 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:50,400 Whoever wants a bite, come and sit. 291 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,160 Here! 292 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:02,680 For you. 293 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,320 -Thank you, sir. -Sure. 294 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,760 It's good, sir! 295 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,240 -So tasty! Here, for you. -Thank you, sir. 296 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,360 Sir Vo Tong, this fish is from the creek? 297 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,960 Yes, down there, there's so many of them. 298 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,680 But my elder told me catching a fish from the creek is a sin, sir. 299 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,320 It's all nonsense. 300 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,600 When you're hungry, nothing is sinful. 301 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,800 Hey! If it's a sin, that's all on me. 302 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,280 Those who eat, stay. If not, scram! 303 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,600 Go, Thap! 304 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,600 It's so good! 305 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,360 Our elders said eating a fish from the creek is a sin, Thap. 306 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,680 Don't eat! 307 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,240 -It's good. -Good, huh? Here, for you. 308 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,520 -May I have one? -Sure, you can. It's good. 309 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,240 So good! 310 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:14,080 Is it good? 311 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,520 Creek fish is good! 312 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,000 -Darling! -I'm up! 313 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,320 He's up! 314 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Is something wrong? 315 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:09,840 Good heavens! 316 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,640 Did you know you passed out for two days straight? 317 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:14,880 Sir Kham's been here, 318 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,760 doing your pressure points, acupuncture. 319 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,360 Only now are you awake. 320 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,600 Are you well inside, my dear? 321 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,440 But… 322 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,080 Whatever did you dream 323 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,360 that had you unconscious and screaming? 324 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:30,120 I… 325 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,240 I was screaming? 326 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,000 I'm feeling completely fine. 327 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,600 Ah, hold on. 328 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,320 Could you leave us 329 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,200 and boil some remedial water? 330 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,760 Yes, sir. 331 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:54,800 Mr. Thap. 332 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,240 There is this thing I have to tell you. 333 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,040 I've been thinking on this. 334 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,840 I came to you much earlier. 335 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,960 But you were ill or something. 336 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,120 Feverish and unconscious. 337 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,560 Talking in your sleep. 338 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,600 And screaming too! 339 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,280 Yes… 340 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,160 What is it? 341 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,760 Please speak, I'm all ears. 342 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,640 When you brought Hach's body to the shore, 343 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,400 did you notice anything strange? 344 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,720 My child! 345 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,120 My dear! 346 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,240 It's her. 347 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,400 In all honesty, 348 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,800 I saw nothing, sir. 349 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,240 -Nothing? -Yes. 350 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,320 The body was still supple, Thap! 351 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,240 How… 352 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,120 How are you so certain? 353 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:13,920 When the youngsters 354 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,200 brought little Hach back. 355 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,800 That entire evening, 356 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,760 I really inspected her body. 357 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,160 My family has been healers for generations. 358 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,200 Of course, one's time of death, that I can estimate. 359 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,680 On Hach's face was a snakebite. 360 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,560 I'd even say that it was a krait bite. 361 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,760 And I will also use my healer's oath 362 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,040 to state this. 363 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,760 When Hach was thrown into the creek, she was still alive. 364 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,680 For sure, 365 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,120 I will find out the truth about Hach. 366 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,560 Today, I'll descend the mountain. 367 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,320 You have my word. 368 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,640 I will not let you down. 369 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,000 My dear! Darling! 370 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,120 Where are you going? You aren't yet well. 371 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,560 Hach's funeral is done, now I have to descend. 372 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,200 For what reason? This has naught to do with Hach. 373 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,960 You shall find out. 374 00:30:58,680 --> 00:30:59,720 Go! 375 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,280 Mr. Tam. 376 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,160 You're drunk all day. 377 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,400 What's your plan here? 378 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,680 What plan, plan what? 379 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,240 You're still youthful. 380 00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,600 A whole life to live. 381 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,640 Unless, 382 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,800 you're planning on ending it. 383 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,680 You think I have never thought of that? 384 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,120 I have! 385 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,560 But, fucking hell, I can't do it! 386 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,120 I'm afraid of death. 387 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:33,800 Damn it! 388 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,760 I want death but I fear it! 389 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,080 Because often, 390 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,320 I've even less courage than a dog. 391 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,200 Death doesn't come easy. 392 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,920 Take a look at me. 393 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,960 I'm not at all better 394 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,040 living my days with stumps for legs. 395 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,480 But in the end, I have to live. 396 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,320 Because every time I pick up a knife 397 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,800 I will feel that someone within gets awakened 398 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,120 and holds me back. 399 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,400 I'm then shaken. 400 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,600 Shaken at the thought that there's nothing after. 401 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:44,640 Oh, crippled man… 402 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,440 Let me ask you this, good sir. 403 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,200 A man like me… 404 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,000 can't be all bad, right? 405 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:58,680 Yes! 406 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:04,080 But damn it, I even loved my wife fully. 407 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,600 Whatever was tasty, I'd give her. 408 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,760 Whatever was pretty, I'd gift her. 409 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,480 Whatever I did, it was for her. 410 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,199 And her? 411 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,199 I don't know what I had to do to please her. 412 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,040 So what, crippled old man? 413 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,840 Again you ask me about marriage bonds. 414 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,520 How could I know about that? 415 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,280 But then I think 416 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,120 if a person leaves you to find another, 417 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:55,639 it means they need something that you don't have. 418 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,160 Life isn't perfect. 419 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080 The sourest thing here 420 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,560 is that only when she's gone, 421 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,440 do I find out 422 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,400 that she was cheating with another all this time. 423 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,680 Damn it! 424 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,680 Fuck it! 425 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,600 I'm so inept! 426 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,800 Inept! 427 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,760 Inept and weak! 428 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,280 Useless! 429 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,440 Useless! 430 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,320 Useless! Useless! Useless! 431 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,080 Mr. Tam! 432 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,040 Not just useless, 433 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,800 but also weak. 434 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,800 I think you're realizing something. 435 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,480 Dying is difficult, 436 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,600 but living is not much easier. 437 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,480 You're a man. 438 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,920 Be strong and continue. 439 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,440 You get my drift, no? 440 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,200 Yes. 441 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,680 Once a person no longer needs you, 442 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,360 then why the fuck should you be sad. 443 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,280 No shortage of women out there. 444 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,280 Mr. Thap! 445 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,760 Why do you smell like death? 446 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,440 Did you host someone's funeral? 447 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,720 And this someone died submerged, by water, I believe? 448 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,840 My child! 449 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,680 I beg you. 450 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,480 You know a lot about Heaven's ways. 451 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,480 Please help me out. Help my village, dear sir. 452 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:43,720 -Sir. -Mr. Thap. 453 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,360 Please calm down. 454 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,960 Tell me what happened. 455 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,000 I will not lie. 456 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,040 A person in my village just died. 457 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,080 Never would carp prey on human flesh. 458 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,400 I reckon those in your village 459 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,600 have become demons. 460 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,480 Surely your villagers 461 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:35,720 did something 462 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,400 to insult the fish 463 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,240 to the point that death was compensation. 464 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,880 And based on your words, 465 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,320 the girl that died was still young. 466 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:54,800 Could it be, 467 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,120 the youth are paying the elders' bill? 468 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,360 Mr. Thap. 469 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,240 Try and remember. 470 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,440 Could her father or grandfather 471 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,520 have either caught or eaten fish from the creek? 472 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,800 Creek fish are good! 473 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,200 Then it's bad. 474 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,400 Feasting on holy animals is a great sin. 475 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,800 The payment is hefty. 476 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:42,600 Those in your village 477 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,200 will continue to die. 478 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,160 VO TONG'S HOUSE 479 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,400 What should be forgotten, 480 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,160 burn it down. 481 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,960 A grave was robbed here! 482 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,080 What did you do? 483 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,640 Once you have entered my village, 484 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,040 you will never get to leave. 485 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,840 -That is such a strange smell. -Very strange! 486 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,040 Everyone! 487 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:28,760 Someone is being roasted! 488 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,600 It's Vo Tong!