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THUR FEB 8 him to reveal where Xiayan
10pm Episode 7 is.
Enhui approaches Zhengyu’s
colleague, Gao Dongyun, FRI FEB 9
hoping he can provide some 10pm Episode 8
leads to the case. Zhengyu makes a request of
Minhao engages in Enhui: He wants to go home
a friendly match with a to find some clues. Enhui
champion fencer. Dongyun protests to Prosecutor Cui
is amongst the spectators. that Junhe had used a stand-
He has learnt from Zhengyu in to re-enact Zhengyu’s
that Minhao has a phobia of so-called crime. To pacify
sharp objects, and is there her, Prosecutor Cui allows
A life for a life: Minhao’s lie very nearly unravels when Zhengyu to observe “Shanhao”. Zhengyu to make a short
captures him in a stranglehold. He watches intently when visit back home.
“Shanhao” collapses after a Controlling his raw
last cell. He searches the broke down in tears and few rounds. emotions, Zhengyu looks
cell and demands to know if apologised. In contrast, Chairman Che stands in around his house. Gradually,
Tiezhi has spotted anything their father, Chairman Che, front of the altar of his son. he begins to recall what
unusual. Tiezhi spouts was unaffected by Minhao’s He seems to know that the happened.
some nonsense and earns injury. son who died is Shanhao. It is the night of the
a punch. At night, Zheng yu It suddenly strikes murder. Zhengyu is holding
Enhui is hopeful that dreams about the night Minhao that he had Zhixiu’s dead body, sobbing.
Junhe will be able to of the murder. He hears accidentally signed his He finds a video camera
postpone the second trial. the doorbell ringing in his own name on his brother’s on the floor and is shocked
He objects as he isn’t sure family’s apartment. He jolts autopsy report. He drives by its contents. Just then,
if he should believe Zhengyu. upright, wide awake, and to the National Forensic police officers storm into the
He relates how Zhengyu realises that the words “bell Ser vice and calls the house and arrest him.
unfailingly blanks out on ring” mean someone had director, but is told to return Zheng yu now
important trial dates. come to his home that night. the next day. Dongyun is understands why he had
Tiezhi tells Zhengyu to get Zhengyu tells Junhe what secretly following him. asked his mother-in-law
him out of the confinement he has recalled. Although Minhao finds out it was not to touch anything in
cell if he wants to know the there is no mention of it in Dongyun who had sent the the house. He has hidden
words on the floor. He adds the investigation records, photo and medical report to the camera’s memory card
that he has been framed. Junhe promises to look into him. somewhere. However, time
An unknown person this new information. Zhengyu exchanges a is up, and Junhe demands
places a medical report on It’s 12.30 am on the night box of cigarettes for another he leave.
Minhao’s desk in the office. of the Wolhadong murder. word from Tiezhi. The word Zhengyu learns from
It states that Minhao has Zhengyu is fast asleep. The he gets is, “16k”. Tiezhi that the third word is
a phobia of sharp objects. doorbell rings. Zhixiu opens Dongyun gets his hands “Nemo”. Nemo is the fish he
Minhao gives chase but the the door to find Junhe, who on the autopsy report before and Xiayan had. He believes
person disappears. has a Nemo doll for Xiayan’s Minhao does. He calls the memory card is hidden
Zhengyu makes a deal birthday. Junhe records his Enhui to arrange a meeting. in the fish tank at home. He
with Taixiu: He will tell Taixiu birthday wishes for Xiayan Before they can meet, he is informs Enhui, who finds the
where he buried Xiayan, if he via the voice-recording doll. involved in an accident. memory card.
and Tiezhi are released from The day after the murder, Zhengyu figures out that The second trial begins.
confinement. Zhixiu’s death is determined “16k” signifies Xiayan’s In the courtroom, Enhui
to be between 12.30 weight, which was 16kg. and Junhe engage in a
WED FEB 7 and 1.30 in the morning. It dawns on him that heated exchange. He claims
10pm Episode 6 Prosecutor Cui is certain “16k”means Xiayan. Zhengyu pretends to have
Out in the prison yard, Tiezhi the person who was at the It’s three days after amnesia, so as to escape
tells Zhengyu that one of the house during that time is the the Wolhadong murder. lawful punishmen. The judge
words carved on the floor is murderer. Junhe takes Zhengyu to upholds Zhengyu’s death
“bell ring”. He has erased all To refrain from being Zhixiu’s funeral. Zhengyu sentence.
the words, and Zhengyu has labelled a suspect, Junhe suppresses his emotions Meanwhile, Zhengyu’s
to believe him. He adds that destroys the CCTV footage and bids her farewell. He prison mate, Li Chengkui,
he will reveal the words one and the Nemo doll. secretly hands a note to his gets tips from Zhengyu
at a time. Back in the prison yard, mother-in-law to tell her not on how to handle the
Minhao recalls how he Tiezhi requests a pack of to tidy his house. prosecutor. His trial is going
had hurt his eyes in the cigarettes in exchange for Taixiu has dug up an in his favour, and he will
midst of a fencing match another word he saw in the empty suitcase. He kneels be released the next day if
with his brother. Shanhao cell. before Zhengyu, begging acquitted.
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