Root out the bugs!
Sweep away all monsters and demons!
Yes! I am a counterrevolutionary!
I beg you
to rehabilitate me!
Strike down the counterrevolutionary!
Bring out the next one.
Rebellion is just!
Revolution is righteous!
Rebellion is just!
Revolution is righteous!
Father…
Ye Zhetai.
Aren't you a professor of physics?
You should know.
You were my student.
Behave yourself!
Ye Zhetai.
In your physics course, did you teach the theory of relativity?
Relativity is one of the fundamental theories of physics.
How can a basic survey course not teach it?
You lie!
Einstein went to the American Imperialists
and helped them build the atomic bomb!
Bring up his wife!
She is a genuine physicist! She knows the truth!
Mother!
Ye Zhetai!
With the help of the revolutionary youth,
it has become clear to me.
I want to stand on the side of the people!
Bow your head, Ye Zhetai!
Bow your head!
-Bow!
Ye Zhetai. You cannot deny
you lectured on the counterrevolutionary Big Bang theory.
It is the most plausible explanation for the origin of the universe.
Lies!
The theory claims to know when time began.
Time began?
What came before time?
It leaves open a place to be filled by God.
Are you suggesting God exists?
Science has given no evidence either way.
Down with Ye Zhetai!
Down with academic authorities!
Rebellion is just!
Revolution is righteous!
Let me go.
Let me go!
Ye Wenjie.
How old?
Between three and four hundred, I assume.
That tree saw the Ming emperors.
You must have considered the consequences of all this destruction.
These thoughts are dangerous.
I have nothing to say to the Great Production News.
I'm not asking on behalf of the paper.
I'm just Bai Mulin,
fellow comrade.
I've climbed up there. No one knows what goes on behind those gates.
Things get odder the closer you get.
The soldiers working there have lost their hair.
Clear weather turns stormy.
The animals make strange sounds.
You read English, don't you?
This book was very influential in the West.
It's about how people are poisoning the world.
It's like reading into the future if we persist with this destruction.
Keep it for now if you want to read it.
But be careful.
Don't let anyone see.
Commander Song. Forgive me.
I didn't see where I was going.
Have you lost this?
How did you get this toxic propaganda?
It isn't mine.
It's in English.
You speak English. Who else's could it be?
A truthful response is in your best interest.
I forget.
You will pay the price
if you are protecting someone.
Someone must have given it to you!
Take her to Division Headquarters.
I am Teng Lihua of the Intermediate People's Court.
How long have they made you wait?
Boy.
How long has this stove been out?
Little Wenjie will freeze to death! Fetch some coal.
I asked to see you. Do you know why?
Because not only are you the daughter of the disgraced Ye Zhetai,
but his star pupil as well.
In the eyes of many in the Party,
this makes you irredeemable.
But I don't see it that way.
I know of your own accomplishments as a scholar.
I don't want your talent to go to waste.
All you need to do is sign this paper, take a political class,
and you'll be approved to rejoin the Construction Corps.
I'd like to read it, please.
You can trust me on this.
This document has nothing to do with the Imperialist book.
My father is dead.
But there are others in his field
still spreading dangerous ideas.
We lack evidence against them.
I've never seen my father with any of these people.
The statements are all true.
Even your mother has signed.
See.
I cannot sign this.
I cannot testify.
If you fail to sign,
the Military Control Commission will prosecute you.
At that stage,
I will be powerless to help.
I cannot sign this.
I cannot testify.
Stubborn little bitch.
Ye Wenjie.
I am Lei Zhicheng, Political Commissar of Red Coast Base.
This is Yang Weining, Chief Engineer of Red Coast Base.
Ye Wenjie, you are credited as the author of this article.
Yes.
Yes. I wrote it.
We have a need for your specific talents.
The Commission has decided to give you a chance.
Rehabilitate yourself here rather than prison.
This is a military base.
The research here is of the highest security classification.
And given your status,
if you stay,
you will never leave.
I want to go in.
I will stay here for the rest of my life.
Only three months,
and you get to see your first test.
You're lucky.
Most people have to wait longer.
What are we testing?
Missiles?
Everybody has missiles.
Target Coordinates: BN20197F,
checked and confirmed.
Test transmission in ten.
Nine.
Eight.
Seven.
Six.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Begin transmission.
Transmission complete.
BN20197F.
Those were the coordinates for the target.
You have a good memory.
What is the target?
Sit.
Not everyone here agrees with what is about to be done.
Given your political status.
On Chief Engineer Yang's recommendation,
we have decided
to inform you of the true nature of the Red Coast Project.
Red Coast is not an experimental weapons program.
Go on.
The emissions from the system are modulated.
Frequency modulation is not necessary for weapons systems.
You are correct.
It is not necessary for weaponization.
But it is necessary for communication.
Communication…
with whom?
With whomever is out there.