Detective Chinatown Page #4

Synopsis: After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
Director(s): Sicheng Chen
Production: mm2 Entertainment
  3 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Year:
2015
136 min
$435,718
411 Views


Let's go to Klong Toey first.

It's in the south.

We had a white van like this,

but it was scrapped a month ago.

Scrapped? So where is it now?

- The junk yard.

What? Do you register

your own garbage at home?

You have to find it yourselves.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

The airflow scatters in all

directions and doesn't come back.

It's a haunted house.

Do what you have to do.

We can't stay here for too long.

What are you doing?

- This is called professional.

There is really

no other entrance here.

So?

- So you are the murderer.

He sat right here when I left.

But nobody else came here

after you left.

So?

- So you are the murderer.

You got anything?

- Nothing.

Can you say something else

other than that?

The room is neither messy

nor smelly.

He must be a sissy or a gay.

I have searched here

and found nothing at all.

There are two more rooms.

Keep searching.

You can't hide so much gold

without being noticed.

Tang Ren must have moved it.

Hello.

We haven't found it.

It must have been moved

by Tang Ren.

Okay. I will be right there.

Let's go!

He poked my eyes and

grabbed my private part.

My behind is still burning now.

- I'll kill him when I get him.

That scum.

- Kill him.

What are you looking at?

Nothing

Who was he calling?

The man who called you

and told you to run away.

The man who saw us but let us go.

Huang Landeng's assistant?

Why would he do that?

Give it a guess.

- He thought I had the gold.

So he doesn't want me

to be arrested.

You are not that dumb after all.

- Is he one of the robbers?

Plus the victim.

That's all five of them.

So who asked me to moved the gold?

If we find him,

we can solve the case.

And I will be proven innocent.

But who is he?

I don't know.

- You don't know?

You tell me you don't know

after such a long night?

I have to watch

the surveillance footages first.

They are in the police office.

- Yes.

Yes.

- So?

So you have no access to them.

- I have to watch them.

You think you own

the police office or what?

You can't do whatever you want.

It's nearly dawn.

We can ask Tai for help.

Don't you want to have some sleep?

We haven't slept for two days.

When you are put into jail,

you can sleep for 40 years.

Hello.

- Tai, it's me.

Tang Ren, are you calling from

Malaysia or South Korea?

I'm at your doorstep.

Why are you still here?

- I have to prove my innocence.

We have to solve the case.

- You think you are in a movie?

The Return of the King?

- You've got to help me.

I helped you leave Thailand.

You've got to help me again.

- I will be fired.

If they know you accepted bribes

and owned a mini casino...

How dare you threaten me?

- If your wife finds out that...

...you have a mistress...

- How can I help you?

We want the details on Sompat.

And his expense lists

for the last six months.

Okay.

- We have to enter the station.

To watch the video footages.

- Are you crazy?

You and the chief's wife...

- Let's draw up a plan.

Huang Landeng keeps all

the computer data in his office.

To get to his office,

you have to go through...

...the office areas

of a dozen of cops.

It's impossible.

- We can go in at night.

The computer system is turned off

automatically at night.

And I don't have the password.

We go there during daytime.

It won't take too long.

You are both wanted.

Do you think all the cops

are blind?

Why are you looking at me?

- You draw them away.

Draw them away?

What are you talking about?

Send more people to the airport,

railway station and ports...

...to find Tang Ren.

If Tang Ren leaves Bangkok,

you will be fired. Out!

Get out!

A short guy with curly hair...

...small eyes and a gold tooth.

Weird. We can't find him

anywhere in Bangkok.

Hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Hello!

Tang Ren? Get him!

Get him! Hurry!

Get down!

Throw!

Don't step on me! I'm the chief.

Seven days of video footages

before the murder...

...on the four cameras

are all here.

Play them for me,

starting from day 1 .

It's impossible for you to

watch them all.

Just play them.

Fast forward.

Faster.

What can you see

at such a high speed?

Faster.

Faster.

Faster.

Time and resync by, Chaoshary20 @Subscene

Don't delete any credit.

Sir, let me help you.

Stop it! Get him!

What did you get?

- Where is the stuff I want?

All in here. They are in Thai.

What are you doing here?

- My computer crashed.

So I use yours to play games.

Play game?

Busted

I was just watching some porns

Sompat got divorced with his wife

nine years ago.

It doesn't mention

the reason here.

He moved to Bangkok from Lamkan

and ran the statue workshop.

He has a son called Dan,

who went missing a year ago.

Can you read Thai?

Where is this?

- A Chinese market.

It's in Chinatown.

And where is this?

Lucky Coffee Shop.

It points to the east. This way.

Where are we going?

- The coffee shop.

What does the coffee shop

have to do with it? Answer me.

I watched all the footages.

Before you were there,

everybody went in and out.

And after you left,

nobody went in.

Besides,

there is only one entrance.

So you think I'm the murderer?

- Or...

Who?

- A ghost.

What does the ghost have to do

with the coffee shop?

According to the placement

of the camera...

...the victim

used it all the time.

But there's no SD card in it.

Unless...

It was taken out.

I still don't know what it has

to do with the coffee shop.

For the past three months,

the usual haunts of the victim...

...are the supermarket

and the coffee shop.

Why did he go all the way there

to have coffee?

Because the coffee there is good.

This is the last clue.

Are you coming or not?

The murderer is so arrogant that

he provoked in the police office!

And you actually

let him slip away!

I will order all the cops

of Bangkok to get Tang Ren.

Three days.

I'll give you three days.

If you can't get him by then,

you can sell yourselves at Nana!

Have you seen this guy?

This guy used to come here

all the time.

He sat there every time. But he

hasn't shown up for a while.

Anything special about him?

- Nothing special.

He often aimed his camera at

the outside and took pictures.

Hello. Sirs, coffee or tea?

- Do we have to drink something?

Come on, this is a coffee shop.

- Fine, a coffee for me.

100 baht.

- Thank you.

Why would anyone want to take

pictures of a lousy building?

The building was his target.

I want to check

the household register here.

No, you can't.

Sirs, coffee or tea?

- I thought we ordered coffee.

But you left.

- But we come back now.

You have to order again

when you come back.

We just went to the bathroom.

Firstly, you went to the bathroom

at the same time.

Secondly,

you didn't use our bathroom.

Thirdly, it took you too long

in the bathroom.

A coffee for me.

-100 baht.

I'll give a negative comment!

- Thank you.

What does this mean?

Gongpa Shading...

Gong Tai Pu Sa Ti Sa San.

The name of a middle school.

Sompat's son studied there.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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