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MY ROOMMATE IS A DETECTIVE

Episode 5

The deceased is thin. His nails are oddly long.

Unburned skin tissue have purple spots on it and wrinkled.

The whole body is pathological.

What about the fangs?

Still there. And they are his real teeth.

Don't touch him.

You might get an abrasion.

Do you really think he is a vampire?

Even if not, his body must have bacteria on it.

What if you get infected?

There are no

obvious edema, congestion,

or inflammation reactions on his skin.

The internal organization does not show thermogenesis or

signs of respiratory syndrome.

So this shows...

He was burned after death?

Theoretically, this is the case.

Doesn't that still mean he was a vampire?

This is great!

Why is it great?

I have a headline news.

I warn you,

information about this case

cannot be disclosed with any media.

This is still an ongoing case.

Solving the case is your job, and mine is writing news.

Maybe I can get a Pulitzer Prize

with this news!

Go away.

I want to know

what caused the spontaneous combustion?

There is a strong smell of alcohol on the body.

One thing that is sure is

alcohol in the body played a role in supporting combustion.

But the dead man's stomach content also has a lot of alcohol.

So I can't confirm it yet

if the alcohol as combustion improver was intentional

or just a coincidence.

Can you give me something more?

With current technology,

I can only get so much information.

Is there something wrong with you?

What is this?

Can't you see for yourself?

No matter how I look, its' just a piece of toilet paper.

Wrong.

This is a used toilet paper.

And you still smelt it?

Pervert.

Why are you here again?

If you find any clues,

share with me. Come on.

I do have clues.

But

I can't tell you.

What do you want?

Tonight, I'm going to invite Lin Jiang for French food.

how much is it?

How much depends on what wine we're going to drink.

Cut the crap. Give me a number.

Twenty silver dollars.

You might as well rob a bank!

Hey, you will get a Pulitzer Prize for that.

Isn't it worth twenty dollars?

I know a reporter of Shanghai News.

I think he should be interested.

The case can track back

to Ireland in the nineteenth century...

Wait, wait!

Let me jot it down.

In 1897,

in Ireland on the other side of the Atlantic,

there was a writer named Bram Stoker.

Wait, wait, wait!

Stoker...

Slow down .

He wrote a novel

called "Dracula".

This novel was

based on a fierce monarch in the fifteenth century,

Vlad III.

The image of vampire

appeared in human history

for the first time.

And then what happened?

There is barely any good wine in Shanghai's restaurants.

Make do with it.

I don't drink.

I remember you had a good drink tolerance back in university.

Drinking too much will hinder someone from real business.

So I quit drinking.

As for the person who followed you that day,

did you smell alcohol on him?

No.

But the autopsy report shows that

both the stomach and blood of the dead man

have a high concentration of alcohol.

So you think I'm lying.

No.

You are too sensitive.

I just wanted

to catch up with you over dinner.

Our path basically never crossed at university.

So there is nothing much to say.

That's just your opinion.

If it weren't for you,

I might not be able to graduate to this day.

I was forcibly sent abroad to study by my father.

My lifelong dream before that was to play

and travel around.

Until the end of the first semester,

you notified me as a student representative that I had to attend make-up exams.

I can still remember

your look of despising me.

Do you remember what you told me at the time?

You said that my tuition fees for one semester alone

was enough for a Chinese family to live for ten years.

If every young man was like you,

then there would be no hope left for this country.

Why can't I remember anything?

I crossed the line.

Don't take it personally.

But you were right.

Also from that time on,

I started to study hard.

Thank you.

Here.

Cheers.

Exclusive scoop!

According to reliable sources

the mysterious spontaneous combustion

was done by an European medieval vampire who reappears again in Shanghai!

Lady, you got some guts to write such a news!

The news has spread.

If I didn't write, other media would write it anyway.

So I struck first, and I won!

Aren't you afraid of causing pubic panic?

Why? He's already dead.

How was the date last night?

Not a date.

Just some catching up between old friends.

Catching up?

What did you talk about?

Mind your own business.

I think you two are perfect for each other.

Really?

What makes you think that? Tell me.

One without a brain and one without a heart.

So, perfect for each other.

What do you mean?

When you asked Lin Jiang if she smelled alcohol,

she just casually changed the subject

and you let it go.

Is this brainless?

Lin Jiang couldn't even remember

what she said to you back in university.

Isn't this heartless?

You followed me?

No, no, no.

I don't have much time to spare.

I have informants all over Shanghai.

From restaurant manager, parking valet,

accountant, waiter,

to beggar on the street.

I have eyes and ears everywhere.

I can find out

your every move.

Are you sick?

Don't get so excited.

I just think

in this case

you are emotionally involved with her,

which will cloud your judgment.

Why are you so nosy?

Who is it?

Who is it?

Inspector Qiao told you to take a trip.

I am busy!

The vampire killed someone.

Are you sure it's a teeth mark?

Basically, yes.

Any witnesses?

Yes, we took his statement.

Last night

both the witness and the victim were eating noodles at a noodle restaurant nearby.

At checkout, the witness

accidentally bumped into the dead.

There was a brief quarrel between the two men.

The eyewitness was knocked to the ground.

The victim then left.

This witness later chased out for revenge,

but as soon as he went out, he saw

the vampire was murdering the victim.

Do autopsy as soon as possible.

Is the identity of the deceased confirmed?

Yes.

And I think you know him.

Who?

Lou Wu.

The guy in the Axe Gang?

On your eighteenth birthday,

he came to congratulate you.

Wasn't he a good fighter?

No matter how capable he was,

he couldn't beat a vampire, right?

So now

you also think the perpetrator

is a vampire?

It doesn't matter what I think anymore.

Anyway, you already gave a conclusion on the newspaper.

Come over here.

I don't care how you wrote articles before.

But this time, the deceased has a special identity.

When you write it,

be as careful as you can.

When I write an article,

I can't not be more careful!

This time this dead man was a gangster.

He was

related to Mr. Bai.

Does that have anything to do with me?

If you write something you are not supposed to,

people will think your father

made you do so on purpose.

We are two independent people.

I never make comment on my dad's business.

And he has no right

to intervene in mine!

And on this matter

I have the right to report the truth as a journalist.

What do you think?

She never listens to me.

Write whatever you want to write.

Just don't mention my name in it.

Go down into the sewer to take a look.

Sorry. No can do.

How about this?

You really don't want to go?

Sir!

Four more bodies were just found in the Concession!

Four?

Same as this victim,

there is a row of punctures at their necks.

Do we know who those dead are?

Yes.

Really?

Really.

Who? Who? Who?

Why do you still have to ask?

Must be acquaintances of your father.

The bloodsucker case.

What's going on with that?

The people from the prison said there hasn't been any update.

A lot of gangsters died.

Can be trouble in the streets.

Is there something we should do?

Do what?

They've got what they deserved.

If there is a chance,

let them fight it out.

It's a good thing.

Liang is dead.

-Cheers. -Cheers for that.

Scoop!

Vampire Enforced justice

and punished gangster scums!

Scoop!

Vampire Enforced justice

and punished gangster scums!

Scoop!

Vampire Enforced justice!

What is it?

What happened?

Didn't I tell you not to make up a story?

I didn't write it.

Look at the signature.

The author is a Lian Xin.

Lian Xin is your pen name!

You think I am stupid?

Where is the evidence?

How do you prove this is written by me?

Bai Youning.

I don't care if it's done by a vampire or not.

But among those victims,

not everyone was a gangster.

You also know Uncle Liang.

He was a wealthy philanthropist.

Really?

Do you know how much cotton clothing

he donated to the victims of disaster in Huaibei last winter?

Uncle Liang sold crude opium in French Concession

for a long time.

Don't say you don't know

how he got his money to begin with.

You hate your dad.

As an outsider I have no right to interfere.

But if you act

caused troubles to him,

I have to take measures.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I don't hate him.

I only hate those hypocrites

who earn dirty money in the disguise of law!

For example?

-Shut up! -Shut up!

What happened to you?

I'm looking for him.

You guessed right.

At the end of the sewer

is indeed Hongren Hospital.

At the scene of the first victim,

I found next to the body there was a

manhole cover

and there were traces of it being moved.

This is the plan of the sewer system in the Concession.

All the sewers at

the five crime scene

connect to Hongren Hospital.

That's why I let Salim go down into the sewer

to see if it really led to the hospital.

It turned out he could!

Hongren...

The hospital where Lin Jiang works.

Yes.

The five dead also have one thing in common.

That is

neither of them was a good citizen.

If it was really vampire enforcing justice.

Then how does Lin Jiang fit in the picture?

She is just a doctor.

How bad can she be?

You don't know that.

Sometimes it's hard to really know someone.

Then there follows another problem.

Why only she escaped?

Maybe it was purely good luck.

You and you little brain.

What are you trying to say? Spit it!

Come on, Inspector Qiao, the post-mortem report should be out by now.

Just...

tell her.

I can't discuss specific details with the media.

At this moment I am not the media.

I am like your little sister.

The autopsy found out all five bodies

had injection marks on their veins.

Injection marks?

I found it at the scene.

Why didn't you say so earlier?

You didn't ask me.

The corpses looked like they were been drained of blood.

But actually

their blood was drained by a large-bore puncture needle.

Where could you find such kind of needles

except the hospital?

That's why I let Salim go into the sewer.

When did you begin

to suspect Lin Jiang?

That day in the police station when

I asked her to dinner.

There is a French restaurant newly opened at Avenue Petain.

They make great food.

I don't know what time I can be off work today.

Let's talk later when I am off.

If the case is not closed，

will any normal person

dare to walk alone at night after this?

But she was not afraid.

It means she knew the danger was not there anymore.

Or,

there was no danger at all.

I think

you begin to hate her because she doesn't love you back.

You are so heartless.

When I was nice to her, you said I had no brain.

Now I suspect her, and you say I have no heart.

What do you want from me?

I have only one question.

Say it.

Why would Salim listen to your order?

Rolex.

I am going to Hongren Hospital to follow the lead.

Bye!

Is this your watch?

It's yours now.

Excuse me. Where is Dr. Lin Jiang's office?

Hello. It's the corner office upstairs .

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I beg you, give me some time.

You ask me to give you some time?

How much more time did I give you?

I have spent a lot of effort

on this project.

I beg you to give me some more time.

Forget about it.

I gave you so many opportunities.

Excuse me. Are you looking for Dr. Lin?

She seems to be busy at the moment.

How many chances have I given you?

Come with me.

You can wait there.

I promise this time I will succeed.

Are you a friend of Dr. Lin?

We went to the same university.

You are also from Cambridge.

Yes indeed.

Then you must be very close with Dr. Lin.

No.

We are just

ordinary friends.

Dr. Lin is a good person.

She is good to the patients and to us.

It's pity that she's too busy

to go out for dates.

Who is the man in her office just now?

Her former boss.

From Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory.

He came here a lot these few days.

They would start to quarrel as soon as he was here.

For what?

I heard

Dr. Lin was in charge of drug development in Huaxing.

But the project was suddenly suspended.

Dr. Lin didn't even

get paid the month before she quit.

Do you know what medicine it is?

I don't know.

But as for a kind person like Dr. Lin,

what she wants to do

must benefit the country and the people.

Whoever bullied her

is definitely not a good person!

You were classmates.

If you have a chance, help her find a boyfriend.

I see, Mr. Bai.

Don't worry, I will take care of it as soon as possible.

OK.

Don't get angry. Take care of yourself.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Good bye.

Mr. Bai scolded you again?

That article was written by his daughter.

Why didn't he just scold her?

The two of them haven't talked in a long time.

Why?

It's not my secret to tell.

What do you want from me?

I want to get a search warrant from you.

Where do you want to search?

Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory.

Why?

I suspect the vampire murder

has something to do with a research project of that pharmaceutical factory.

Is there any evidence?

Not yet.

If you have no evidence, how can I apply a search warrant for you?

In case you found nothing,

what should I do?

You can say you suspected the factory was making and smuggling drugs.

Just make up any charge.

Bro give me a break.

I have foreign bosses.

That pharmaceutical company has foreign shareholders.

This is the Public Concession.

If anything ugly happens,

I will take the blame.

Don't be a wussy.

Get out of my hair and get out.

Are you used to living here?

I know what you are doing here.

You have something to say, just say it.

You caused me a big trouble!

I know.

Youning.

I can ignore

your childish behaviors.

But this is a matter on the street.

I can't hide from it.

I am a reporter.

My duty is to report the truth.

You want to hit me, right?

Ok, hit me!

I will call the police immediately if you do.

I will accuse you of trespassing and breaking personal property.

If the Police Station doesn't take my case,

I will write a report.

You can shut down the newspaper office if you can.

Believe it or not,

I'll ask someone to take you back home

and lock you up for a lifetime.

I believe you.

Didn't you treat my mother like that?

It is only normal you do the same thing to me.

I will warn you

one last time.

Stay out of trouble.

You know

I can't bear to lay a finger on you.

But I won't hesitate to do something to your editor

or burn down

some newspaper office.

I don't believe

you don't have anyone you care about.

OK!

Do it! I dare you, I 'll wait for you!

Turn off the light.

Keep the light off!

You were crying.

Mind your own business.

Your dad was here.

How do you know?

No one but him can make you angry like this.

He threatened me.

That's normal too.

You did make a big trouble with your article.

Are you also taking his side?

I don't know

what happened between you and him.

But if I recall it right,

among all the mafia leaders in Shanghai,

your dad is the only one who does not sell crude opium.

That's because my mother.

He watched my mother die on the smoke couch.

Your father is angry

but he's still willing to talk to you.

You should feel content already.

Look at my dad.

Growing up,

there has not been a day when he liked me.

In my impression

he never smiled at me

or hugged me.

Not to mention saying a word of encouragement to me.

That's just tough love.

Maybe he has too much hope for you.

Okay.

Don't make excuses for him.

We are quite alike at this matter.

Nobody really loved us growing up.

Let me take you to a place.

Where?

Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory.

What for?

If we don't go there soon,

the lead is about to disappear.

[Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory]

Hold this.

You two are dating behind my back?

Split up and look for it.

Found it!

[Research Results of Potent Medicine for Porphyria]

It really is you.

Who is it?

Why are you here?

You tell me.

Please leave immediately,

or I will call the police.

I am with the police.

This is a private institute.

Do you have a search warrant?

if you need one,

I can write one for you now.

What's so hurried?

Let's have a chat first.

I have nothing to talk to you.

I read

this file.

So?

So what you researched here

was a potent medicine for treating porphyria.

What?

Porphyrin is a light-sensitive pigment.

It exists in people's skin,

bones and teeth.

Most porphyrins are benign in the dark

and don't cause harm to human body.

But when it's exposed to the sun,

it produces harmful substances.

Patients at the middle and later periods of porphyria

start to fear the sun,

with symptoms of extremely severe anemia,

teeth becoming sharp and pale complexion.

At the beginning of the experiment, the medicine's effect was remarkable.

But in the middle and late stages,

the patients began to show lesions.

Shut up!

The pharmaceutical factory's owner was afraid there might be disastrous consequences,

so he immediately stopped the project

and dismissed all patients.

As a medical worker

of course you couldn't live with this failure.

So you called

all those dismissed patients

and together you

played a cheap-budget horror movie.

First of all

you pretended to be chased by a vampire.

Your purpose

was when the sun rose,

with eye witnesses present,

the so-called vampire would combust spontaneously.

This was the first step in guiding public opinion.

But I found

a bug in your statement.

The man who chased you and the one that spontaneously "combusted" under the sun

were not the same person.

I confirmed it later

that the eye area of the dead

had no signs of being hit by a stone.

So the one who got into fire

with an eyewitness

should be a patient who died of porphyria.

First you hid his corpse

in the shade of the alley.

When the sun rose,

you pretended to fall to the ground.

The man who chased you

took the opportunity to get out of the witness's sight.

Then on the floor around the corner of the ally,

a prepared body spontaneously ignited under the sunlight.

So everyone was preconceived

to think, just like you wanted,

that the one who chased after you

was the same person

who was spontaneously combusted under sunshine.

No wonder at the autopsy

the coroner said the dead was burned after death.

Yes.

This would also make everyone believe

that person was a vampire.

How did it catch fire?

I guess

the body was covered with "fire paper".

Fire paper?

Remember the piece of blank paper

I found at the scene of the first case?

I knew it with one stiff that

that paper was covered with white phosphorus.

This kind of paper is easy to catch fire when the temperature heats up.

And there will be no ash of paper left after burning.

At this point, the first step of manipulating public opinion had been completed.

Next step, some real murders.

Drain their blood with a large-aperture pinhole.

Use a brace to create bite marks.

Later leave their bodies in public places.

Five wicked people were killed in one night.

The public opinion was turned to

"vampire enforced justice for God."

The purpose was to make

this black-hearted pharmaceutical factory owner feel guilty

so that he would restart this drug research and development project.

The owner did come to you afterwards.

It also meant that your plan was almost successful.

It surprised me that

you are naiver than when you were at school.

How so?

Your story is full of imagination, but very illogical.

You really think

I'm stupid enough to use a large-aperture puncture needle

to drain one's blood

while also leaving so obvious evidences on the body?

You can question my character,

but don't insult my IQ.

You are a scientist,

not a professional criminal.

As a senior medical researcher,

do you think I will be stupid enough to

rely on folklore to create panic?

If it's not you, who else can it be?

I'm sorry.

One wrong step in my deduction.

Who is that murderer?

Dr. Lin I still need your favor to

give me your address book.

I want to talk to your patients.

[Huaxing Pharmaceutical Factory]

They agreed to meet at eleven o'clock.

Why haven't they come?

Be patient.

They have no reason to play us again.

Where is Dr. Lin?

We want to see Dr. Lin!

Yes, Dr. Lin!

Who? Who are you?

Everyone please calm down and be patient.

Listen to what Inspector Qiao has to say.

I have figured out the fact that

you killed people indiscriminately

for your own interest.

Everyone, you are already very ill.

I don't want to waste the short life you have.

It doesn't matter if you want to deny it.

We have all the time in the world,

which might not be the case for you.

We want to see Dr. Lin!

Ask Dr. Lin to come see us!

Call Dr. Lin!

We want to see Dr. Lin!

Let Dr. Lin come out!

Dr. Lin is here!

Everybody,

I am sorry to inform everyone that

the medicine's study is unlikely to restart.

Dr. Lin!

But you promised us

to cure us.

Please save us!

Sorry.

It's not that I don't want to continue.

But with current science and technology,

this theory does not have enough support at all.

Dr. Lin, do something!

Yes, think of a way for us!

Save us.

I beg you!

Just do something!

I

already know all your criminal facts.

Now I just want to know

if there is any other accomplice in this case?

As long as you tell me,

you will get a lighter sentence.

There is no accomplice.

This case was planned and

done by ourselves.

It has nothing to do with others.

That's right!

Dr. Lin, take care of yourself.

Come on.

Sorry, sorry.

I am sorry.

You did nothing wrong.

Why would you apologize?

If I was a better researcher,

or if I persisted longer,

you guys wouldn't have gone to this point...

Scoop!

The real murders of the vampire case were arrested!

Detective Inspector Qiao at Concession Police Station solved another big case!

Scoop!

Mr. Lu, nice to meet you.

I heard so much about you.

Please take a seat.

You heard of me?

You are a famous alumnus of Cambridge.

In the Concession

you are also the most powerful person.

I'm not really important, you know, I just lived a bit longer than them

and a bit more experienced. That's all.

So, why did you want to see me?

I see the pharmaceutical case has been solved.

Mostly.

Why would you be interested in that case?

I've got shares in that factory.

And I'm just thinking whether I should pull out or not.

I do wonder,

why did you stop your researching at the beginning anyway.

I am a businessman.

In Asia,

The chance of getting porphyria is very very difficult.

And to make profit with it.

It's simply not worth it.

So I am thinking changing production to malaria, or stomachaches.

It's gonna be much easier for us to make money.

Lin Jiang is a good doctor.

Letting her go would be a terrible decision.

I know. But she lacks of cooperation.

She doesn't understand the importance of profit like you do.

You do understand me.

Of course.

You have been educated and well-known

in the University of Cambridge.

I hope we can work together more in the future.

Work together?

Yes.

In what fields exactly?

I have no doubt for certain

we're going to have many cases.

I'd love to help you, but

I don't dare to get involved

in any illegal activity.

Don't worry.

I don't want to push you to do anything you don't want to.

I only need a little information at the right moment.

And that is not

going to be difficult for you.

I see. I'll see what I can do.

Cheers.

Why so many dishes?

Look at what time it is now.

Why are you back so late?

The dishes are cold.

You cooked them?

Delivery from a restaurant, right?

I heard that Dr. Lin resigned?

She is going to return to Cambridge to continue her studies.

Bless her.

Do you really think this case has nothing to do with Lin Jiang?

If she really didn't know anything,

she wouldn't have that kind of reaction

after we exposed the truth.

Then she's an accomplice.

At least she concealed what she knew from the police.

If you want me to keep digging,

I can definitely find

clues or evidence that she hid the facts from police.

But

do you really want me to do this?

I do!

Really?

You kicked the problem back to me

because you just wanted me to let her go!

I won't let you have your way.

Go investigate this case now!

Immediately!

What's wrong with you?

Lin Jiang didn't do anything to you.

Are you jealous of her?

Why should I be jealous of her?

Because she is smarter, prettier,

and more attractive than you.

I won't let you get under my skin.

You must investigate this case to the end.

The murderers have pleaded guilty.

And all the dead people are gangsters.

This case ends here.

No, do you really think those patients

were capable of pulling off such a huge

and meticulous action of murder?

But they did kill them!

This is an indisputable fact.

Fingerprints of the dead

also matched their fingerprints.

I think the case can be closed.

I want to know more who is behind the case.

You should go on with

this case's investigation.

Sorry.

The money paid by Inspector Qiao

is only enough to this far.

I'll pay the rest.

I only accept legal commissions from the police.

Actually

you are just worried about your own personal safety right?

Aren't you?

Someone or some organization

can make a group of terminally ill patients

easily kill mafia leaders

and the mastermind got away with it.

No matter how the police interrogated those patients,

none of them revealed

any information related to the real mind behind it.

This kind of ability of risk control

is much higher than

that of any political party and organization I know.

Don't you want to know the truth?

I don't.

I want to stay alive.

I despise you.

Miss Bai, you are brave.

You have a sense of justice and compassion,

which are very, very good qualities.

I have no doubt that

you will give your precious life away

for a greater cause.

But please also allow a coward like me

to have their own way of life

providing he observes discipline and law.

An ideal world

should have space for

this kind of person like me to protect himself.

Don't you want

to make the world a better place?

The basis of a wonderful world

is the rule of law,

not morality.

I can choose not to do bad things,

because I have my bottom line.

I can also choose not to do good things

Because that is my birth right.

Why don't you understand

such simple logic.

I understand alright.

You are selfish in your heart and bone.

There you go!

So

don't hold any

unrealistic expectations on me.

I finally know why you are single.

It's as if you are so loveable.

Hey, use your mouth, not your muscle!

All suspects insisted that there was no one behind this case.

That's impossible.

Shao Liang had three bodyguards around him

but still they didn't stop such a large-scale operation.

Several patients in the hospital alone

couldn't have pulled it off.

Do you want me to keep looking?

Of course.

Around us

suddenly there is such a powerful force.

Who knows when they will come at us?

Ok. I understand.

I'll investigate now.

Fire! Fire!

There are still people in there!

Why didn't they run out?

There are still people in there!

Help the people inside! Hurry up!

Fire!

Come on!

Is there anyone?