[Detective L]
[Episode 1]
[Fresh off the boat : A]
[Ma Bo Yuan]
Where are you going?
To the office
[Yuan Meng Zhu]
To Paramount?
None of your business
Get out of the way!
Drive over my body
Don't challenge me
[Shanghai]
Finally, I'm in Shanghai
[Sullivan Apartment]
Thank you
Who is that?
My name is Qin Xiao Man
We had a tele-conversation before
I want to rent a room
You want to rent a room?
Come in
The room is ready for you
Okay
Sullivan is my husband's surname
He bought the apartment for me
Do you know the Chairman of the China-Western Chamber of Commerce,
Dou Ma Li?
He likes it here very much
There are not many tenants in this floor
It's quite big distance between rooms
and you have a good privacy here
This is your room
How?
Spacious?
The sofa set
was imported from England
Don't move
Your foot
You're wearing shoes
Don't step on it
What's this?
Nothing
Is there a murder happened before?
No
Keep quiet
Let me make a speculation
The head was facing to the door, the legs were facing to the windows
Windows
It's a hole on the window
The victim was shot by the murder
from the opposite building, right?
No
That's great
I want this room
Dear Aunt,
I'm arriving Shanghai
I'll report for duty tomorrow
I'm staying in Sullivan Apartment
which I told you before
The room is good
and the rental is cheap
But, there are not many tenants here
It's quite strange
Hello
I'm the new tenant next to your house
I heard
gunshots
from your house
You got it wrong
Off you go
You'll be in trouble when I get
the search warrant tomorrow
Hi, I'm here to report for duty
Graduate of the 3rd batch of Hua Dong Police Academy
My name is Qin Xiao Man
You're Qin Xiao Man?
Yes
I heard you're the top scorer of all the subjects
Distinction in criminal investigation skill,
shooting,
and wrestling
[Det Sup Savoy]
Not bad
What are you looking at?
Let me see
[Police Detective Ye Chang Qing]
The reporters were making craps
They claimed the municipality preferences males more than females
Now you see
They sent a lady cop here
Study and practical are two different things
We will not pay to an idler
Understood
I'll try hard to improve my tactical experience
Off you go!
You have nothing to do, huh?
I'd like to apply a search warrant from you
You need the search warrant?
Yes
The man who's staying opposite my apartment
was suspicious
I heard gunshot from his room last night
You heard gunshots?
That's right
It sounded like a modified Colt M1911
There're 3 gunshots
The suspect is your neighbour?
Yes
A Chinese man
About 1.8m height
Around 30 year old and medium body size
He's like..
Be careful
Get off me!
Don't move
Get off me
Sir
It's him
It's alright
Alright
Qin Xiao Man, it's alright
He is our special advisor,
Luo Fei
Are you okay?
Special advisor?
Why did you aim Superintendent Savoy?
Please observe thoroughly
I didn't aim him,
but the wood behind
He used to do that and we get used to it
Luo Fei
Why did you shoot the wood?
Hey, rookie
Go and
look for the bullet
It's strange
No warhead
You made the warhead with sawdust?
To make the bullet disappeared,
you only need to make the warhead
with similar material with the target
To hit on wood,
you need to make a sawdust warhead
To hit the wall,
you need a brickdust warhead
If you want to hit a man,
you need a bone dust warhead
Exactly
I have cracked the secret
of the ghost bullet
If that's the case,
you're doing
an experiment last night
Nonsense
Such a strong woman
Oh, my wine!
I don't understand
What it means by special advisor?
Are you a police detective too?
No, I'm a detective
The police station lacks of the case-solving ability,
so, they always need my help
on the technical assistance
Luo Fei, mind your words
She is Qin Xiao Man, a rookie
Graduated from Hua Dong Police Academy
Today is her first day here
She has a distant relationships with her parents
and grew up with her aunt
Her aunt loves her very much
She is
cheerful
and eager to show herself
How did he know?
Sir
What is the next case?
Nothing
-All minor cases -It's okay
Leave it to me
I'll find it out myself
A wife ran away from home
Her husband made a police report to find her
It has no news yet and she could be dead
She went missing for many days
Interesting
What makes it interesting?
The man said, when the last time
he saw his wife,
she's wearing a cheongsam
with yellow flowers and crepe-sewing,
a pair of golden heels,
and wearing a pair of pearl earings
She's wearing a green jade bracelet on her right wrist
and put on red colour nail polish
Anything's wrong?
You moved to the apartment yesterday
Do you remember
what did the landlord wear?
A purple off-shoulder cheongsam
and scarlet stencil-designed heels
She's wearing a pearly ring
Did she put on any nail polish?
Yes
Brown colour
You're wrong
She's wearing wine colour nail polish
You are
a professional police
Even you couldn't remember the lady you met yesterday
The man's ife
went missing for many days
But he could remember it in details
So,
he might be a genius
Or
he's lying
Luo Fei, where are you going?
To investigate it
You only need to assist the police detective in the investigation,
not investigate alone, understand?
You mean,
I need a police detective?
Alright, I'll pick myself
Hey, rookie!
Come on
What you want?
You have a case now
Come with me
Wait
Anybody home?
Off you go!
I have told you many times
My master is not in
If you knock again,
I'll call the police
Uncle
We're from the police station
This way please
Luo Fei
Please come in
I'll inform my master
Alright
They are richer
than Su Su
They used to be rich before
Most of the grey sands
on the road is even-grained
But, they have recently added
some cheap grey sands
We're guest
But they didn't serve us drinks
Apparently,
they have no others servants
beside the old man
I guess they couldn't afford it and
terminated all the servants
Look at the antique shelf
An antique shelf must be well-spaced
Look at the vases
All the pattern, colour and picture are repeated
Obviously, these are
all the owner has
They took out all the vases
for the facade
And they didn't change the broken vase as well
Hello
Bo Yuan is sick
You may talk to me
I'm his mother
Is he really sick?
Yeah
Since Meng Zhu ran away from home,
he has lost all desires for food and drink
and always hid himself
He has lost all desires for food and drink
But only eats the beefsteaks of Richard Restaurant?
That's my order
Mom
Who's that?
Food delivery of Cai Zhi Zhai?
They are..
They're from the police station
Police station?
I met Detective Ye before
The case was sewed up
Don't worry
Mr. Ma
Detective Ye found your wife?
Not yet
How can you sew the case then?
Don't you want to
find out your wife?
No
I do appreciate your help
It's been a long time
we never hear from the you guys
We thought you couldn't find her
and lost all the hopes
How is the relationship between you and your wife?
Well...
They're so young
Quarrel was just
a small thing for them
Right?
Did you guys quarrel on the day
she ran away from home?
She was not sensible
Always wanted to go back to her parents
After Yuan Meng Zhu went missing,
you guys have been waiting her news at home, right?
Yes
3 days ago,
I went to worship my father
We hope he could help us
to find Meng Zhu as soon as possible
That's right
Mrs. Ma
We'd like to talk to Mr. Ma personally
Could you please
leave for a while?
Of course
Bo Yuan
They're here to help you searching for Meng Zhu
Talk to them nicely
You said your wife left a letter
Where is the letter?
It's in my room upstairs
I'll go and get it
Please wait here
I'll go and get it
It's alright
We'll go with you
Please
Mr. Wu
Hurry up come over
Let me look for it
The sweepstake of yesterday
It seems the missing of your wife
never affects your mood
My friends brought me there
They wanted to comfort me and I couldn't reject it
I just saw your dancing shoes
were polished
Are you going to dance tonight?
It's my habit
The sheepskin will easily get spoilt without polish
What about Paramount? Habit too?
I found the letter
Bo Yuan
I'm leaving
Your mother is rude and not sensible
You're irresponsible with our family
Today, she made me understood everything
I'm not willing to stand it
I'm going to look for my new life
and be a modern lady who has a meaningful life
That's all
Yuan Meng Zhu
Strange
A fake letter?
The letter is real,
but not the time
The letter was left by Mrs. Ma
when she ran away from home a year ago
She
always
wanted to run away from home
But what makes you said it's a letter a year ago?
The paper
and the change of the ink
And
The words of " modern lady"
A year ago, it's a film
named "A Modern Lady"
It's about how a lady breaks the cage of the feudal family
and has her new life
She mentioned,
"Today, she made me understood everything"
She's talking about
the heroine in the film
So,
the letter was written a year ago
But you told us it was written
by her before she went missing
What is your motive?
-I... -Mr. Ma
Providing a fake evidence to the police
could be a crime
The letter was found by my mother
You should ask her
Do you have any other things
that might be wrong?
Let me think about it
Let me think
[Lawyer - Wu Qing Feng]
Mrs. Ma
Mr. Wu
Here you are
The cops are questioning him upstairs
Hurry up take a look
Don't worry, I'll check it out
I just went to horse racing and danced
She kept saying that she wanted to go back to her parents
Women
always grumble
No point
Her parents sent her back here again
Without our reputation in Shanghai,
his family can't run their business
So she had nowhere to go
If she made noise again...
If she made noise again, I'll...
Kill her
No
I didn't kill her
Where did she go then?
I don't know
Mr. Ma
You don't have to pretend again
You should know,
since I managed to speculate about the letter,
I will find out the truth one day
Now, the police detective is here
If you tell us the truth,
you're considered surrender yourself
You will be given a light sentence
Am I right?
That's right
Actually,
on that night...
Mr. Ma
Have a seat here
Come on
Who are you?
I'm Wu Qing Feng, lawyer of Ma's family
Did you bring the search warrant
when you searched Mr. Ma's room?
Mr. Wu
Mr. Ma brought us here
Mr. Ma
They insisted to follow me
We're investigating
the missing case of Yuan Meng Zhu
Please co-operate
The case of Mrs. Ma
was handled by Detective Ye
You're trespassing the mansion
It's too serious
We just had a talk with Mr. Ma
Mr. Ma is not a suspect
He doesn't have to answer your question
Please leave
Let's go
Wait
Last talk
See you
I'm sure that Ma Bo Yuan has something's wrong
He almost confessed
It's all because of the lawyer
He came
at a wrong timing
But,
what did you tell Ma Bo Yuan just now?
Secret
If you're smart,
you'll know it
Where are we going to?
Go home and have a sleep
Oh yeah
How did you know
I'm graduated from Hua Dong Police Academy?
Just a speculation
When you tried to protect Superintendent Savoy,
your movements are swift and professional
Apparently, you're trained by the professional Police Academy
Hua Dong Police Academy
is the only institute which accepts female
How did you know
I was taken care by my aunt?
When you arrived yesterday,
you wrote a letter to your family
This morning, you put the letter out of the room
to let the landlord post it for you
I took a glance
when I passed by
You didn't write to your family,
but only to your aunt and her family
I guess you are
not so close with your parents
They...
They have passed away
I'm so sorry
It's okay
Please wait a moment
There's one more person
Okay
Madam Qin
Do you want to come?
Where are we going to?
Ma's Mansion
We went there during the day
There's something that we can't see during the day
You want to trespass the mansion?
Not me,
but us
I'm not going to do that with you
Madam Qin
We're in the same boat
You are trespassing
I just came in to investigate
the suspect
Okay
Focus on the suspect
Don't miss it
Anything's wrong with the car?
They have terminated all the servants
and no one clean the furniture
which they always use
Why did they
take a good care of the car?
This...
Are you sure?
It's full with dust
3 days ago, I went to worship my father
The dust
was left after the worship 3 days ago
The car was just polished
We could say that
Ma Bo Yuan loves his car very much
He may want to cover the marks on the car
It's a scratch here
Nails of woman
Take it
A cheongsam with yellow flowers and crepe-sewing
Mrs. Ma was on the right side of the car
Her fingers in red nail polish
were on the car windows
The car was moving speedy
Mrs. Ma grabbed the car windows
The car speeded up
and she couldn't catch it
Her nails were broken
and dropped into the frame
Come with me
Here it is
When I passed by during the day,
I found something's wrong
Apparently, they replaced the sands
They have recently added some cheap sands
What are they trying to cover up?
Smell of gasoline
Must be a car accident happened before
The driver found something's wrong
He's panic
and headed to the land
The real situation on that night
Mr. Ma wanted to drive his car out
But Mrs. Ma stopped him
What are you doing?
I'll go with you
I want to see
who is the homewrecker
Are you crazy?
Get off me
What are you doing?
Hands off
To avoid the attention from the others,
Ma Bo Yuan made a fake report
and claimed Yuan Meng Zhu went missing after she ran away
Where is the corpse?
If you were him,
where would you hide the corpse?
Around the kennel
Garden
Exactly
The garden
is just convenient and safe
When I passed by during the day,
I saw some trace of bury
around the kennel
What are you doing?
Go back to the police station
and get men to dig the corpse
The corpse is not here
His wife was missing
But he didn't look for her at her parents house
He didn't ask any of her friends
or urge the police
But, he went to a grave on the outskirts
Don't you feel strange?
New soil
If I'm not mistaken,
it should be Mrs. Ma's hair
Someone is coming
Ma Bo Yuanis coming, what should we do now?
It's good
We can ride on his car
Quiet
Luo Fei, he...
Where is he going?
To meet Mrs. Ma
The graveyard is strange
Why do we come here?
You'll know it later
Let's go
This way
Don't take the same road with him
[Preview]
I didn't kill anyone
Murder
Car crash
Hide the corpse
Assaulting police
Illegal possession of firearms
What?
Ma Bo Yuan is not the murderer?
Maybe Ma Bo Yuan is not the murderer
He's a victim too
He's confessed
He only declared what's in front of our eyes
It may not be the real fact
They're here to help you searching for Meng Zhu
Mr. Wu
Hurry up come over
The case
is not as easy as it seems
Where is he going?
To meet Mrs. Ma