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[War of Faith]

[Episode 5]

[Safe Deposit Box Registry]

Hello.

Hello.

I'd like to check out on the stuff I placed here.

Sure.

Okay. Just a moment.

Please show me your key.

I'll be right back.

This is your safe deposit box.

Hello.

Morning.

Put this announcement

on the fourth page of The Crystal.

Thank you.

Secretary Huang, there you are.

Water.

I'll get you some hot water.

Wei Ruolai.

How come you're so clumsy?

Something happened at home? You seem distraught.

No. I just haven't got a good rest lately.

Make yourself a strong cup of coffee.

You'd better not inconvenience Mr. Shen.

I won't. I won't.

Come here!

These official letters have been signed by Mr. Shen.

Mail them out now.

Okay.

Come back here!

Hold on.

Send this too.

But this...

It's also real business.

Just go.

The postman is leaving soon.

Okay.

Mr. Wei.

The Department of National Treasury seems quite good.

I'm not going there.

I'll be working in the Department of Government Ethics.

The Department of Government Ethics?

So I can supervise you!

Mr. Wang, I beg for your mercy!

Wang Shanbin!

What's up, Secretary Huang?

Instead of staying downstairs,

what are you doing here?

W-We are...

We're lost!

What kind of gibberish is that?

There's a telegraph lesson in the afternoon.

Go back to where you should be!

Yes, Secretary Huang.

"What kind of gibberish is that?"

Hoity-toity!

He's just a secretary,

but he sure acts like he's the boss, right?

What's to feel smug about?

"There's a telegraph class in the afternoon."

Mr. Mailman! Mr. Mailman!

Sir! Mr. Mailman!

Here you are.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

[Hong Fang Clothing Shop]

Mr. Xu.

Miss Shen.

Is the customized outfit I ordered last time done yet?

It's quite windy in Shanghai lately.

I need it soon.

Okay.

Inside the chamber, please.

Please.

Shen Jinzhen!

Do you still take yourself as a party member or not?

Does discipline mean nothing to you?

Mr. Xu...

We aren't supposed to meet today.

You shouldn't have come here.

Mr. Xu,

please don't be mad. Just chill out.

Anger is bad for health.

There's a risk of blowing our covers and losing our lives.

Worse still, the communication center might be exposed.

Can you bear the consequences of that?

You have no idea what you're doing!

Take a look at this, will you?

It's my brother's work schedule in the Central Bank.

I don't know much about it.

Please hand it over to the superiors,

and have it analyzed by professionals.

I'll have it delivered to Jiangxi right away.

By the way,

I'd like to ask you for one more favor.

Please pawn the gold bars and jewelry.

They'll bring in several thousand silver dollars.

I know

it's far from enough,

but now I don't have much cash on me,

and I can't sell the stocks and real estate I'm holding

in case my brother gets suspicious about me.

I know you're eager to save lives,

but you shouldn't make an unwise choice.

Those crazy garrison command officers

have been scouting around in these days.

Just now, when you were reading The Crystal downstairs,

did you find anything about the Lonely Star?

No.

The organization is looking for him through all kinds of approaches.

It's like he has vanished into thin air.

I'm afraid his life is in danger.

Give me two more days.

I'll try to find where the Lonely Star is.

You're not at liberty to do so.

The organization not only worries about the Lonely Star's safety,

but also concerns if the gold bars he has

will fall into the clutches of the enemy.

Besides

saving the captured comrades,

we need to make an effort to introduce new funding to the nearly paralyzed

transportation lines linking the central office to the soviet regions.

Otherwise, the transfer of personnel, material resources

and intelligence from the former to the latter

will be interrupted.

How about this?

I'll talk to Lin Qiaosong again.

No.

We can't just sit back and do nothing, can we?

Don't worry.

I have experience in dealing with people like him.

C-Captain Lin,

t-t-there's some water for you.

Did you catch him?

Go away!

Sir.

Still no news about him?

We're canvassing the shantytowns nearby.

It's a large area.

To be honest,

I'm not having high hopes for it.

Well,

he came all the way from Jiangxi.

He must be very good,

or he would've failed on the halfway.

It's fine if you can't find him.

It's a common practice among the communists

for the agents who can't get in touch with their handlers

to initiate emergency action to contact each other

by putting announcements on newspapers.

Split our people into two teams,

and have them check every newspaper publishing house in Shanghai.

I need them to make a copy of each announcement

that has been paid to be published.

Okay.

Where do you think he is hiding?

I think he's still in Shanghai.

He hasn't left yet.

And then?

Then...

Then...

By the way, Captain Lin,

well...

There's something I didn't tell you last time.

When he dropped by last time

and drove me out of the room,

I felt like

there's something he wanted in my place.

After I returned, I checked around.

I found some books missing,

including the Classical Chinese Prose Anthology,

and the Collection of Zhuangzi's Works with Annotations.

Would you say

this is a helpful lead?

The first communist I caught on my own

was a classmate of mine in the Huangpu Military Academy.

I shared a dorm room with him.

Before I tortured him,

I treated him to a meal.

At that time, I felt a bit guilty,

and my heart ached.

Do you know what he said to me?

He said the deaths of some people

were as awe-inspiring as a majestic mountain,

but some

were as meaningless as a light feather.

He said he'd sacrifice his life for the great cause

of saving the country without regrets.

I was shocked.

I meant to shoot him dead.

But hearing what he said,

I had a change of mind.

I had him flayed

when he was alive.

He screamed in agony.

He howled for a long time before he died.

Such a long time.

As he went into his death throes,

I said one last sentence to him.

That is, the real savior of the country

should be the Three Principles of the People,

instead of those

poor and deranged freeloaders

who think about nothing but carving up other people's wealth!

The use of telegraph

is necessary for modern banks.

The working mechanism of telegraph is based on long and short pulses.

Long pulses are translated into lines.

Short pulses are translated into dots.

When these parts combine, different numbers are formed,

and can be interpreted into Chinese characters.

Today, our study will start from

the globally universal Moss code.

Ahead of Assistant Manager Lin, there is an electric telegraph.

In front of each of you,

there is a button.

When I speak of different codes,

I hope each of you

will listen and memorize carefully,

as you watch Assistant Manager Lin's moves

and practise on your own.

A.

A short pulse, plus a long one.

B.

A long pulse and three short ones.

C.

A long pulse plus a short one, and repeat.

Ruochuan, have you thought it through?

What are we gonna do in Shanghai?

I'll get a job,

so I can make money.

You'll enroll in a good school

to receive education.

Again?

I don't wanna go to school.

I wanna go to work with you.

Then we'll buy a big house in Shanghai,

and settle down there with our family.

No school?

No school.

I'm gonna beat you up!

You're very smart.

If you get into a good school and study hard,

I'm sure you'll turn out better than me.

The whole family's counting on you.

Shanghai

is a big city.

There must be tons of opportunities.

If we both go to work,

we'll rake in money quickly!

You think so?

Other than learning,

what else are you capable of?

Look what you're doing with that sickle.

You're good at nothing but learning.

About all that money stuff, I'll take care of it.

All you need to do is study.

E.

A short pulse.

F.

Two short pulses followed by a long and short one.

G.

A long pulse.

Go on, guys.

Go on.

Alright, everyone.

Let's keep it going.

Here's a reminder for you.

I hope each of you

will cherish this opportunity to learn.

Well done!

In the head area,

you scored the 10-point ring twice and the 9-point ring once.

In the chest area,

two shots are in the 10-point ring and two in the 9-point ring.

The speed was a bit slow though.

That's my problem,

not the gun's.

No, no, Miss Shen.

That's not what I meant.

The gun's is really nice. I like it a lot.

The 38-caliber Colt revolver

is way better than the 32-caliber model.

This time,

I'm really grateful for you

to share some of these imported guns

with us.

Now,

we'll have enough guns for the tax and police officers.

I have nothing to do with this matter.

It's Mr. Weng who made the approval.

You offered a high price after all, right?

Captain Lin,

why don't you

check it out again?

It's well structured with even weight in each part.

What a nice gun!

Bullets shot from a Colt M1903 38-caliber revolver

can go as far as 50 meters.

The initial speed is 320 meters per second.

It's overwhelming, but also safe.

Plus, there are three safety catches near the grip panel.

The manufacturer says it's not equipped with a hammer,

but obviously that's a lie.

Actually, the hammer's hidden inside,

with two swivels in the lower end,

consisting of a simple but reliable structure.

The gun is

only made up of 37 parts.

It can be easily dismantled,

and the maintenance doesn't require much.

It's fair to say

such a gun is a piece of art.

Captain Lin,

are you okay?

Perfect.

This is a work of art.

Thank you for what you did that day.

If you hadn't let us leave first...

Miss Shen,

it's water under the bridge.

From now on,

do not mention about it again, alright?

How about this?

Captain Lin,

let me treat you to dinner.

It's a token of gratitude.

Okay.

I wanna post a notice about a missing item.

Again?

How come people keep losing stuff lately?

Will it be on tomorrow's newspaper?

Yes.

But if you had come a bit later,

there wouldn't be room for that on this page.

Sorry.

I'm sorry. I've caught a cold.

Captain Lin?

Captain Lin?

Listening intently, aren't you?

Miss Shen, I'm sorry.

Last time at the party held by Mr. Shen,

I had to leave early for an emergency,

so I didn't get to see the end of your performance.

It's such a pity.

But I didn't expect today

I could sit here

face-to-face with you

for a nice dinner.

Plus, there's a piano too.

I...

Sorry for being rude.

Maybe I can

play for you next time.

It'll be a great honor for me.

Miss Shen,

did you start learning piano when you were little?

Yes.

Captain Lin,

what kind of music do you usually enjoy?

The expensive kind.

We don't really have a chance to go to concerts.

Vinyl records are our only choice for music.

Well, in terms of records,

the expansive ones are of higher quality.

That must sound like a joke to you.

Not at all.

You strike me as an honest man,

unlike those

who know nothing

but pretend to be elegant.

After memorizing a few musicians' names,

they come around and try to chat me up,

only to be busted before a conversation goes deeper.

Even I feel embarrassed for those people.

I know who you're talking about.

That person

is not giving you a hard time, is he?

I'm just doing my job.

I can get over the rough patches.

Do you need

my brother to send him a message?

Please don't. Don't.

If your brother gives him a warning,

he'll think of me as a backstabber,

throwing my weight around.

In this line of business I'm in,

it's a taboo.

It's never occurred to me

that you actually have a strong ego.

Miss Shen,

I appreciate your intention to help.

When you hold a concert again,

can you spare two tickets for me?

I'll give you ten tickets.

Will that be enough?

Sure.

I can even bring my friends to the concert.

But when that happens,

I'm afraid the audience will be scared.

That's not true.

You're the elites of the party.

If they are scared,

it can only prove

that they're hiding dirty secrets.

Miss Shen,

I can't agree more

with what you've said.

The party does need

elite members like your brother in the top brass,

but it also needs us errand boys

in the lower levels like the imperial guards in the Ming Dynasty.

We stay in dark places,

do the ugly and tiring stuff,

clean up trash, and so on.

That's right.

Such tedious work

has to be shouldered by someone.

However,

these people are usually underappreciated.

Captain Lin,

you're upset about it, aren't you?

Sometimes.

But every time I finish a mission,

the sense of achievement provides huge relief.

The party is very lucky to have

a competent member like you.

Did the mission that day

give you

a sense of achievement?

Was it completed?

Not yet.

But I've cast a net.

I believe in several days,

there will be a result.

Then I hope you'll finish

your mission successfully and early.

Thank you.

[The Crystal Newspaper Publishing House, Shanghai]

Hello?

What?

I got it.

Sir,

are you going home?

No. I need to meet the president.

Ruolai,

go to the security office now,

and tell all the guards on duty

to go the Avenue Petain in the French Concession.

I need them to stop Zhang Mingquan

from emptying the vault of the Imperial Bank of China.

Okay.

But the security guards aren't law enforcers, are they?

They have to be there anyway.

Got it.

Try to avoid head-on confrontations.

Don't worry, Sir.

Be careful!

Okay!

Hurry up! Hurry!

Move the stuff! Move!

Mr. Zhang,

don't rush into a decision.

Emptying the vault

is destructive to our bank.

Don't say that!

It's not our bank anymore.

The Imperial Bank of China has a new owner now.

Hurry!

Hurry up!

Zhang Mingquan!

Put everything down!

Leave the boxes right here!

Drop them down!

Move! Keep moving!

Zhang Mingquan, this is a warning.

Don't you violate the law. You know it's a crime.

Put the boxes back.

Keep moving, guys!

Put them down!

The Imperial Bank of China now belongs to the Central Bank.

All the assets should be under the control of the Central Bank.

You're violating the law. Do you know that?

What are you doing?

Zhang Mingquan, I'm warning you.

You...

You'd better not knowingly break the law.

Now it's not too late for you to stop.

What are you waiting for?

Fight!

Screw you!

I was kind enough to you!

Who do you think you are?

You punk!

You...

You wanna die or what?

It's the Central Bank's property. You can't take it away.

Do you believe that I'll shoot you dead?

I won't let you take anything away!

On the count of three!

Zhang Mingquan!

One!

You can't take anything away!

Zhang Mingquan!

Two!

Zhang Mingquan!

Zhang...

Zhang Mingquan, you can't take...

Three!

Zhang Mingquan!

Shen Tunan?

You're not a law enforcer!

This...

This is the French Concession!

How dare you mess around!

So what?

If you wanna bring this up to the French president,

be my guest!

I'm protecting the legal property of the Central Bank.

If things get out of hand,

I won't mind going down with you.

You...

Are you out of your mind?

There are two options for you.

One,

you'll resign.

I promise the rest of your life will be secured.

About this ridiculous theft,

I'll pretend that it didn't happen.

What's the other option?

A severe punishment where blood will be shed!

Shen Tunan,

remember what happened to Deng Tong?

He had a tragic ending.

In the Han Dynasty, Sanghong Yang competed with the commoners for profits

on the emperor's behalf by violent means.

How did he wind up?

He was killed in a pot!

Fine.

I'll let you have the satisfaction now.

Guys,

let's go!

Go! Go!

Mr. Zhang,

are you alright?

I'm fine. Just some scratches.

Let's go.

Get up.

Wipe the blood.

Do you know what you did wrong?

You need to make sound judgments regarding the circumstances.

A wise man wouldn't stand near a collapsing wall.

He held you at gun point,

and was counting down to three. Why didn't you quit?

That's not a meaningful way to end your life.

Sir, I was protecting the interests of the Central Bank.

How? If you died,

he'd keep on with the moving.

Then your death would be in vain.

You need to keep alive first,

so you could stand a chance of turning the tables.

Heroes wouldn't lose their lives for nothing.

But fools would.

Do you understand?

Yes.

There's a western restaurant on the 18th, East Bund Road.

Go there,

and let the manager know you're sent there by me.

Then you'll have a free meal.

Thank you, Sir.

Thank you.

Your behavior was foolish,

but you showed great courage.

The property of the Central Bank

must be kept intact!

Seal the boxes off!

Yes!

Mr. Song,

some tax officers were deployed for an operation in the French Concession.

I'm afraid the administrators there

would complain about it.

I sincerely hope that you will

talk to them in advance.

It's quite a disturbance this time,

but it's necessary.

You'd better tell the newspaper publishers

not to write bad stuff about it.

These people

would love to see more riots happen.

Sure. Consider it done.

Thank you, Captain Lin.

Have a safe trip home.

Alright.

Goodbye.

Tunan,

did you come out to welcome me?

You wish. Who would do that?

What took you so long?

I had dinner with a friend.

A friend?

Lin Qiaosong from the Shanghai Garrison Command.

When did you become friends with him?

What's wrong?

Is there a problem with him being my friend?

Do I need your permission?

Are you dating him?

It's just an innocent dinner.

Do you have to make a fuss about it?

Why would you dine with him if you're not dating him?

Do you know what kind of person he is?

Like an imperial guardian in the Ming Dynasty.

What a braggart!

What imperial guard?

All he does is dirty work.

He reeks of blood.

You'd better keep a distance from him.

Without people like him,

can you work safely in the office?

Are you gonna do all that dirty work yourself?

You lectures me all the time.

What about you?

Kang Shaojie is their leader.

You have to deal with them quite often, don't you?

That's different, isn't it?

How so?

It's different!

You talk back to me all the time!

Sir!

You got it?

Hell no!

Go back to your work.

I'm working.

As you ordered,

we're looking for suspicious content.

Listen up, everyone.

Search for suspicious notices about missing persons.

Find out if there are codes and numbers

or letters that look like codes!

If you can't finish the work tonight,

I won't let you go home!

Yes!

Keep searching!

Scour carefully!

-The Shen Bao Newspaper. Here you are. -20 copies please.

Fifteen copies of The Crystal.

The Crystal,

15 copies.

Newspapers!

The Crystal! The Shen Bao Newspaper!

Newspapers!

The Crystal! The Shen Bao Newspaper!

Newspapers!

The Crystal! The Shen Bao Newspaper!

Newspaper!

Kiddo!

Thanks.

[Missing items of Zheng Rong Shoe Factory]

[Hong Fang Clothing Shop]

Sir,

these are the last notices we found suspicious.

The number doesn't exist.

The initial numbers

of these lines

can't get a few words across.

Anything else?

This one is the most suspicious.

It contains a lot of numbers.

A staffer from Zheng Rong Shoe Factory posted a notice about missing items.

Most of these numbers are about his household registry.

Sir,

Chen used to be a police officer in that area.

When he sees a fake Shanghai household registry number,

he'll know it.

The registry code for those live in Jing'an starts with 10,

while that for those in Hongkou starts with 11.

These numbers are all wrong.

Call the shoe factory.

Zheng Rong Shoe Factory doesn't exist at all.

These numbers should be a coded message.

What's the use of knowing these numbers

without a way to crack them?

Li Shengda!

Li Shengda knows how to crack them!

[Closed]

[Rixin Bookstore]

Have you finished reading it?

Please, Captain Lin,

I really don’t know

what you're talking about posting a secret message on newspapers,

or code books. I...

Shut up!

You're responsible for the communication center.

Why can't you not know these things?

But I really don't!

Captain Lin. Captain Lin!

My job in the communication center

is to offer a cover-up and escort the personnel.

Those who work on the actual communication

play by their own book.

They wouldn't tell us about it.

Didn't you find a code book

when you went through his stuff?

No!

If I had found one, I would've...

I shouldn't have been so polite to you!

Captain Lin! Captain Lin!

I really don't know!

It hurts!

Say it.

Captain Lin.

Captain Lin!

I'm innocent. I really don't know.

I really don't know

about the code book,

and newspaper notices...

I really...

I found some books missing,

including the Classical Chinese Prose Anthology,

and the Collection of Zhuangzi's Works with Annotations.

Five books!

Wenbiao!

I really don’t know. I’m innocent!

Where are the books

you said he touched?

Take them out.

Where are the books?

The five books!

I know about those five books!

Go get them!

[New situation in Rixin Bookstore]

Cigarettes!

What do you want?

To buy books.

Get lost!

What's wrong with him?

Gosh!

Cigarettes!

Among these five books,

one must be the code book.

Captain Lin, you're smart. It must be true.

Let's go back to the headquarters.

We'll ask the digital information department for help.

Captain Lin, bye!

Newspapers! The Shen Bao Newspaper!

I want a copy of the Shen Bao Newspaper.

Thank you.

Newspapers! The Shen Bao Newspaper and The Crystal!

Newspapers! The Shen Bao Newspaper and The Crystal!

Newspapers! The Shen Bao Newspaper and The Crystal!

Newspapers! The Shen Bao Newspaper and The Crystal!

The Lonely Star has sent a message on newspapers.

[Hong Fang Clothing Shop]

I've talked to Lin Qiaosong.

But so far there isn't any news yet.

It means the Lonely Star is still alive.

He has been chased after before.

It must have something to do with Rixin Bookstore.

I've made an urgent report to the organization.

They'll get to the bottom of it.

The most important thing now

is tomorrow's meeting.

I'll go!

The location is the lobby of the Central Bank.

I know that place very well,

so I can get prepared beforehand.

His identity has been exposed.

He could be caught.

The worse is,

he might have been caught already.

In that case, the message

and tomorrow's meeting

would be a hoax designed by the Investigation and Arrest Unit.

It's too dangerous.

Then you can't go either.

You're in charge of the Shanghai communication center.

What should we do if anything happens to you?

Mister!

Chief Xu,

let's stop the argument.

No one's more suited than me for this task.

My brother works in the Central Bank, remember?

Should there be danger,

I can turn to him for help.

You must be cautious.

As soon as you smell something fishy,

stop the meeting right away.

The biggest part of your task

is to come back alive.

Sir! Sir!

We cracked the coded message!

This is our finding.

That Classical Chinese Prose Anthology is the code book.

At 3 p.m. on 26th.

The Central Bank lobby.

Hold the Shen Bao Newspaper that published on 25th.

What date is it today?

25th.

It means they'll meet up tomorrow.

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