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[Dark Night and Dawn]

[Episode 11]

I killed your comrade using a butterfly knife

with just one stab.

You're quite strange.

You don't hate me?

It's been four years,

and this hate hasn't made you any smarter.

Still so stupid.

It's good that you can talk.

Wang Liqun, you overestimate yourself.

You're just a pawn.

Hating you

is pointless.

We're giving you a chance to live.

If you don't say anything,

you're sentencing yourself to death.

Do I still have a chance?

You'll find out how many people I've killed.

Take your time.

I'm tired.

I want to sleep.

Let him sleep.

[Surgical Clinic 1]

[Internal Medicine Clinic 1]

[TCM Clinic]

[Be quiet]

[Ward 9]

You stay here.

Wang Liqun,

fasting won't do you any good.

They're giving you nutrients,

so you won't die anyway.

Hey,

don't be mad.

You're pretty,

just in the wrong line of work.

I can hook you up with a job that pays better.

Think about it.

Don't be shameless.

You might not know me before.

I'm

not as good-tempered as Director Lu.

Shaobai.

You can't do this, Shaobai.

Isn't he acting tough?

Let me tell you,

if this were before,

I'd have used a tiger bench

and chili water.

See if he can still be so tough.

Lin Shaobai, what you did was wrong.

You're a public security officer,

not an old-school cop.

We have rules now. We have no choice.

He's counting on that.

There's always a way to get him to talk.

I trust Director Lu

can make him talk.

Stop going on about Director Lu all the time.

Listen,

I can make him talk too.

Shaobai, I have an idea.

Go on.

Since Wang Liqun's hideout is at Hongda Trading Company,

there must be clues.

Since he refuses to confess,

why don't we go and have a look?

Good idea.

Really?

Think about it.

So many of us have

gone over it so many times.

We must've

missed something

that needs your sharp eyes to find.

You...

Alright.

You just joined last week.

The most important thing

is to listen and learn.

Reading a few detective novels doesn't

make you a detective.

Here's my advice:

Listen, observe, and learn.

Bye.

[Be quiet]

Hello.

Could you tell me where the gastroenterology department is??

I don't know.

I'm here to visit my uncle.

Thank you.

[Surgical Clinic 1]

Well,

what did she ask you?

She asked about the gastroenterology department.

I said I didn't know.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

[Internal Medicine Clinic 1]

Eat well and take your medicine.

Thank you, doctor.

[Internal Medicine Clinic 1]

[Surgical Clinic 2]

[Internal Medicine Clinic 1]

How do you feel?

[Special Work Certificate]

Doctor,

what's wrong with that lady?

She has a stomach issue.

So, her illness is real?

Officer,

I've treated stomach problems for years.

I never get it wrong.

I was just asking.

Next, please.

[Guangci Hospital]

Put the gun away.

The police left us no openings.

What do you mean?

We're not taking the money?

If we want to,

we'll have to wait.

We can't act at the hospital.

We'll wait until they leave.

What's wrong, Shaobai?

Yan,

can you get me some truth serum?

What do you want it for?

That Wang Liqun

is as stubborn as a rock

in a latrine.

I need him to talk.

Are you out of your mind?

You believe that?

I heard that

intelligence agencies use it all the time.

It works.

Don't fall for it.

It's just scopolamine, sodium thiopental,

and LSD,

stuff that messes with the mind.

It's like how

people spill secrets when they're drunk.

But he's a trained agent,

mentally tough.

The drug might not work,

even if it does,

the organization won't allow you to use it.

So

we can't do this, can't do that.

When will we find out?

Wang Liqun's killed so many people.

yet they are still saving him.

I just don't get it.

Lin Shaobai.

Director Lu.

Dr. Jin.

You must know one thing.

Keeping Wang Liqun alive

is to find out who's behind him.

You should know one thing.

Wang Liqun is like a dead man.

I don't believe

words alone will break him.

We have our ways and procedures.

What ways?

Didn't you see his attitude?

He knows all our interrogation skills.

If we keep going like this,

it's just a waste of time.

I'll say it again,

we have our own ways.

There's another situation.

Zhao Wangju's parents

came here from Anhui.

They're staying at the guesthouse.

Go and comfort them.

Here's some money we collected.

Give it to them

and let them know

we've found the murderer.

The Public Security Bureau

will bring them justice.

What kind of justice?

She's dead.

What do you expect me to tell her parents?

What's important right now is...

Director Lu,

don't worry, I'll handle it.

Okay.

Thanks, Dr. Jin.

Alright.

Let's go.

I found some for you.

Look at the layout of these posters.

There should be blanks.

It's more comfortable to watch.

Look at this one.

Madam, this is the paint you ordered.

Bring it upstairs.

Our boss needs to check it

before payment.

Okay.

I've made contact with

the Anti-Communist Salvation Army.

Besides Kuomintang soldiers,

they have a lot of officials

and businessmen who didn't manage to escape.

They all hold deep grudges against the Communists.

Sir.

I heard that Falcon has been captured.

Why so tense?

We're still here,

which means he hasn't confess.

He won't confess,

at least not in a short time.

Xu Wei,

you know, a lot of people object

that I let you join.

That's why I haven't

given you a code name yet.

You've been looking for

a chance to prove yourself.

Do you mean rescuing Falcon at the hospital?

The hospital is obviously inappropriate.

Lu Zhengyang is suspicious.

In a crowded place

like a hospital,

he'll be more suspicious.

We need to let him

transfer Falcon soon.

What do you need me to do?

Go back to where you came from.

Use your connections.

Understood.

Bai.

Bai.

Bai.

Look at me.

Bai! Bai! Bai!

I'm Wei, remember me?

He...

Help.

[Treasures Fill the Home]

Where have you been recently?

I went out of town.

Bai,

quit this.

It's ruined your

family and life. Don't you regret it?

Don't preach to me if you haven't been through it.

You have no idea.

After Liberation,

I haven't found anything this good.

I...

I can't get it,

I feel like

I can't live any longer.

Where did you get it?

Wei.

Help me out. Tell me.

Where did you get it?

I beg you.

Look at yourself, do you even look human?

Without this, I'm not human anyway.

I can't live without it.

Then just die.

I'm already dead, Xu Wei!

At the police station's

backyard,

you killed a Communist.

Bai,

we're friends.

Don't talk like that.

As long as you promise me one thing,

I'll help you

till the end.

[Lanting Studio]

Is that Director Liu?

Hello.

This is Lanting Studio.

Last month, your hospital asked our studio

to draw a batch of slogans for you.

We agreed to refresh the colors

once a month.

I remember this.

When are you coming?

How about today?

I'm worried the colors will fade

if it's too long.

No problem.

Okay, I'll be right there.

Bye, Director Liu.

Okay.

Okay.

[Be quiet]

[Be quiet]

[Ward 10]

[Surgical Clinic 2]

[Guangci Hospital]

[Ward 10]

Thank you.

I could've used the bathroom inside.

No need to bring me out here.

If you can walk, deal with it yourself.

No one wants to clean up after you.

What's wrong?

First day walking,

the wound's not healed yet.

[Waiting for rescue]

Can you walk or not?

Yes.

Hurry up.

Okay, let's go.

Weren't you on a hunger strike?

Now you're eating well.

I'm starving.

Add another black fish for me tonight.

I have a wound here.

I need nutrition.

Get me some water.

Director, I have something to report.

After Wang Liqun came back from the toilet,

he suddenly started eating.

Anything else?

We've been watching him

from the bathroom to his room.

Nothing unusual.

Is this new?

Yes.

Is there a problem with this painting?

How is Wang Liqun's recovery?

Basically, he's fine.

The hospital is complicated.

We need to arrange for his transfer soon.

Let's interrogate him.

Wang Liheng, your brother,

was killed by the Japanese eight years ago.

I'm not a fool.

I know.

Cut the crap.

You and Wang Liheng both worked

at the Suzhou station of NBIS at the time.

Where were you

when he was arrested?

It's been so long. I don't remember.

You were at a brothel in Suzhou.

I like that sort of thing.

I wouldn't be

somewhere else.

A few minutes before the Japanese military

police came to arrest you,

someone tipped you off.

He even got injured during the escape.

That's how you survived.

Keep making up stories.

The one who tipped you off

was your superior,

your brother's friend.

Ever since,

you've considered him as your savior

and have been loyal to him.

Even now, you won't betray him.

Loyalty

is deep in my heart.

You wouldn't understand.

Hu Suyi,

a major traitor

at the bogus government in Suzhou eight years ago.

You must know him.

His face is unfamiliar.

I don't know him.

After we won the Counter-Japanese War,

he was executed in Shanghai.

We found a transcript

from his prison interrogation.

In February

or March 1941,

he got intel from someone inside the NBIS's Suzhou station,

revealing the cover identities

and hiding places of Wang Liheng and Wang Liqun.

Wang Liheng was captured and soon shot,

but for some reason,

Wang Liqun escaped.

They suspect it was an internal power struggle

within the Suzhou station.

I've really

underestimated you.

You forged a fake transcript to fool me?

So the superior you've been protecting all this time

is actually the one who killed your brother.

At the time, your brother

and your current superior

were fighting for the head of the Shanghai station.

Wang Liheng died,

and he still failed.

Trying to fool me using a dead man?

I believe more than just

Hu Suyi knew about this.

Then go find them.

Go!

Go find someone alive.

Just you wait.

Wangju moves often,

and we just found where she's living.

It's Ju!

Why?

If it wasn't for paying off family debt,

you wouldn't have been killed.

Why was my daughter so miserable?

This is fate.

She was kidnapped as a child.

If Mr. Lin hadn't tried his best to help us,

she would've been sold overseas long ago.

Excuse me, does Zhao Wangju live here?

There's a letter for her.

Thank you.

[Recruitment Letter of Editorial Office of Liberation Daily]

Wangju

got accepted into a newspaper.

This is the job offer,

hiring her as a proofreader.

It's too late now.

Why wouldn't the killer let you go?

You were only 22.

You are so good at drawing.

Keep it up and become a painter, alright?

I want to be a journalist.

I want more people to know

about heroes like Officer Lin.

My daughter...

Shaobai.

Where are you going?

She worked so hard

to escape her hell, finally.

If it weren't for Wang Liqun,

she could have started a new life.

If I had done more,

she wouldn't have ended up like that.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to interrogate Wang Liqun.

Take care of her parents for me.

Send them home later.

[Ward 10]

Huzi,

here,

I brought you some food.

Lu's inside?

He went to the bureau.

Eat while it's hot.

Fried buns.

Xu.

Shaobai.

What are you doing?

Joining Wang Liqun's hunger strike?

He's not fasting.

He ate well.

Really?

Well then,

you can't starve yourselves.

I brought you food. It's outside.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

I'll watch things here.

Okay.

Eat while it's hot.

It won't be good when it's cold.

Alright, stop pretending to sleep.

Lin Li

was the dancer you killed.

She had another name, Zhao Wangju.

When she was 13 or 14,

she was sold multiple times like livestock.

She was so terrified of being beaten

that she gave up running.

But in order to save

the girls who were also kidnapped,

she floated

on the Huangpu River for three days before reporting it.

I saved them.

I thought

she had suffered enough,

and her future days

would be sweet.

How could you do that?

Lin Li...

was born to be a prostitute.

She felt so soft

when I held her.

Bad luck. She met me.

What a pity.

Do you think just because I'm police,

I won't kill you?

Dying is good.

Early death, early rebirth.

What are you doing?

I want you to die.

This is a bottle of bromine water.

Don't do anything stupid.

Are you crazy?

If this bromine water gets injected into your veins,

and there's enough of it,

your whole body will rot from the inside out.

Killing me won't help you at all.

You know?

I won't say anything

-Shaobai! -Lin Shaobai!

-Open the door! -Open the door!

What are you doing, Lin Shaobai?

Open the door!

If you're not afraid of death,

you wouldn't have asked for food.

Right?

Calm down.

Lu Zhengyang asked you to interrogate me.

Don't listen to him.

He used you, you know?

You're the one who's being used.

The bromine water has entered.

Who's your handler?

What's your cover identity?

Where's Xu Wei? Tell me.

Make it stop first.

You only have ten seconds left.

Tell me.

Tell me!

Fine.

Tell me.

His name is Shrike, over 50 years old,

the head of the Shanghai Special Station.

What's his real name?

What's his cover identity?

I don't know his real name.

Don't play dumb!

You've been with him so long

and don't know his real name?

Our organization is very strict.

We don't ask what we shouldn't.

Make it stop first!

Lin Shaobai, open the door!

[Ward 10]

Open the door, Shaobai!

Lin Shaobai!

What happened?

Lin Shaobai locked the door inside.

Lin Shaobai!

What do you and Shrike want?

Sea Subversion Plan. Overturning Shanghai.

Sea Subversion Plan?

What is the Sea Subversion Plan? Tell me.

I don't know.

Make it stop first!

Stop it!

Hurry! What is the Sea Subversion Plan? Tell me!

Someone, help!

Watch it.

The bromine's about to enter your veins.

He's sick!

Tell me, what is the Sea Subversion Plan?

Help!

Lin Shaobai!

Speak!

Fine!

Help me!

Lin Shaobai, what are you doing?

Lu, he's already talking!

Pull out the needle!

There's bromine water in there!

He's working on something called Sea Subversion Plan.

Quick, ask him, Lu!

Get a doctor in here to check the prisoner.

Yes.

Lu, why did you stop me?

Lin Shaobai.

Shrike, in his fifties.

They're carrying out Sea Subversion Plan.

Keep questioning him. Go!

Lin Shaobai, what did you inject him with?

Speak!

Is it bromine water?

It's horse urine.

What is it?

It's just riboflavin,

a vitamin.

It's harmless to the body.

You tricked me!

What an idiot.

Lin Shaobai,

you've violated the discipline by torture.

Lock him up!

Let's go.

Lu!

Come here.

Who are you with?

I'm helping you solve the case.

Keep questioning him!

Why lock me up?

Let's go.

Lu!

Lu, ask him!

Even you get scared.

How's the investigation

going on that thing?

Soon.

Your handler's Shrike, right?

You should know,

the one who betrayed your brother was Shrike.

Alright.

Once you find the evidence,

I'll tell you

everything.

Hello.

[Bayi]

These are all eagle paintings.

Does the company sell paintings too?

[Hongda Trading Company Purchase Record]

[Jan 22, 1931]

[Jan 25]

[Jan 30, 1931]

[Feb 7, 1931]

There are detailed records for all the goods,

except these paintings.

Who could've sent them?

Director Lu,

I'm here to deliver food to Shaobai.

Time to eat.

Breakfast Delight.

Take it away.

Look,

all your favorites.

I quit.

I know the Zhao Wangju case

hit you hard,

but handling cases

requires following methods and discipline.

Come on, eat it while it's hot.

If you don't eat, I will.

Can you stop preaching?

I said I'm not eating.

This baked roll's pretty good,

with lots of sesame on it.

The vendor's quite generous.

Do you even know how to eat?

You're supposed to dip it in soy milk.

Don't eat it if you don't know how to eat it.

Once it's in your stomach,

what difference does it make?

What are you looking at?

You're locking me up,

You should be the one to be locked up.

Wang Liqun is a big fish.

If you came one minute later,

or pretended not to see,

he would have confessed everything.

Looks like the confinement is in vain.

You didn't learn a thing.

What's wrong with me?

You're the problem.

How could you be so merciful

to an evil agent?

We're the People's Police,

not thugs.

No more torture during interrogations.

How was I thuggish?

Did I really do anything to him?

Lu,

those people are vicious

and ruthless.

They can use any tricks.

But we tie our own hands

while trying to catch them.

How can we fight them like that?

How many people need to die for this?

Even so, we must follow methods and discipline.

We can't do things at will,

ignore the discipline,

or...

Alright, alright!

Whatever you say is right!

Whatever I do is wrong.

I, Lin Shaobai, shouldn't even be a cop.

Fine, I quit!

What are you doing standing here? Get out!

I didn't explain clearly.

You think torture

is the only way

to make Wang Liqun confess?

You're wrong.

After Wang Liqun's arrest,

the Social Affairs Office, the Military Control, and even the army

conducted thorough investigations.

They found several people

connected to him, including agents,

fellows, teachers,

even lovers.

The local government

also tracked down his family.

Everything's ready

for cross-examination.

So, let me tell you,

without torture,

we'll still get him to talk.

How long

would that take?

How much manpower and resources?

It doesn't matter

how long

or how much it takes.

Because this is the only right thing to do.

I'm done arguing with you.

Anyway, don't blame me for not reminding you.

Wang Liqun is a big fish.

The hospital is not safe now.

They must have sent someone there.

We're arranging the transfer now.

You can

[On the People's Democratic Dictatorship]

read this.

I don't understand it.

You once said

people used to call the police

"guard dogs"

because of your bad habits

and bad thoughts.

But this is a new society now.

Whether you continue being a guard dog

or become a proper policeman,

that's your choice.

[Guangci Hospital]

You've recovered well.

It's not that I'm strong.

I'm taken good care of.

Even got apples to eat.

You better behave.

Don't push your luck.

Last time, you asked for

a witness to confront in person.

I found one for you.

Bring him on, then.

He's in Suzhou,

arriving in two days.

Forget it.

Don't you want to know what your brother, Wang Liheng,

went through from his arrest

to his execution?

Wang Liheng was arrested in Suzhou,

and quickly

transferred to Shanghai,

detained at the headquarters of Special Branch 76.

The interrogation was led

by Ma Jianqi,

the captain of the Third Action Team of the First Division.

Ma Jianqi?

Never heard of him.

Is that the barber?

Here's the interrogation record.

Ma Jianqi

admired your brother's ability

and tried to persuade him to defect to Branch 76.

It's all in the records.

Wang Liheng resisted the arrest fiercely.

He confessed that he got captured

because Shrike,

your superior,

betrayed him,

as only Shrike knew

his exact hiding place.

But when asked about Shrike's real identity

and his hideout,

your brother hesitated.

He endured severe torture and didn't say anything.

Considered a diehard, he was executed by Branch 76.

Quite the story.

If my brother knew

Shrike betrayed him,

why didn't he confess?

Why protect him?

It doesn't add up.

You're wrong.

The person your brother was protecting wasn't Shrike,

but you.

At that time, you were already under Shrike.

If Shrike got caught,

you'd definitely be next.

Shrike

exploited this,

using you,

unknowingly, as his hostage.

So,

knowing Shrike betrayed him,

your brother chose death

to protect you.

I'm sorry.

For eight years,

you have revered your enemy

as your savior.

Lu Zhengyang,

I underestimated you.

You've improved.

Trying to turn me

against Shrike by inciting defection.

Ma Jianqi will soon be in Shanghai.

You can confront him face to face.

You once worked for NBIS,

well-acquainted with Branch 76.

You can judge for yourself

if what Ma says

is true or not.

We'll talk when he gets here.

Take a good look.

You might find this interesting.

Once the witness arrives, he'll surely confess.

Prepare for the transfer.

Yes.