Detective Chinatown Page #7

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Not so much a coincidence, huh?

- How do you know that?

I asked the Chinese guy

at the junk yard.

But what about the gold?

We have two days left.

I don't want to go to prison

or be fed to the crocodiles.

This is all elaborately

planned by him.

We will find the gold

when the murderer is found.

So where are we going now?

To find out the motive for murder.

Snow.

Sleeping pills. Suicide.

What are you doing?

- Give her mouth-to-mouth.

Cut it out.

It's not like she is drowned.

Right, let's take her to hospital.

What's in there?

- The motive.

What motive?

What's really in there?

How is she?

We have pumped her stomach.

She is out of danger now.

She is fine.

We are haunted.

Tang, I get it now.

What?

- Let's find a car.

What for?

- Go to Sompat's Workshop.

Now?

- This is our last chance.

For what?

- To find the gold.

Sir, it's Tang Ren.

Over there.

- Get him, go, go, go!

Block them at

the next intersection.

Look there! It's the Grand Palace.

Don't shoot. I want him alive.

Tang Ren, give up resistance

and surrender now.

What do we do now?

- You have nowhere to go now.

Run them over!

Run!

Get him alive!

Here!

Get in the car and go after them!

Excuse me! Excuse me!

We can't get to Chinatown

this way.

Call Mr. Yan.

Thank you for giving Tony to me.

But you only have

less than two days.

We don't need two days.

We can get your gold back today.

But you have to help us!

Go, go!

Get out of the way!

Go around them!

Help from heaven.

Let's go!

Digging your own grave.

Besiege here!

What are you looking for?

- The gold.

I moved it, right?

- It should still be here.

It weighs over 100kg.

Shouldn't be so hard to find it.

The police searched several times,

but couldn't find anything.

Find it!

What if we can't find it?

- We will be dead meat.

The megaphone!

The men in there,

listen carefully.

Don't kick against the pricks.

You are besieged.

Tang Ren, I only have so much

patience. I'll count to three.

If you don't come out by then,

we will go in.

We will go in.

One.

Two.

Three.

Tang Ren, what's wrong with you?

Are you holding

the Buddha statue hostage?

Huang Landeng, the gold

you are looking for is in here.

What the heck?

The gold is in here

the whole time.

It never left the place.

Sompat made it into

a Buddha statue...

...but he got killed before

he could tell his partners.

The five suspects

of the robbery gang...

...are Sompat,

your assistant Tony...

...and the three guys

at the hospital yesterday.

The owner of the stolen gold,

Mr. Yan, can prove that.

But you are still the murderer.

- No, I'm not.

It's someone else.

- We have found him.

And we can take you to him now.

- To testify against him.

Huang Landeng,

I know you are the Hot Fuzz.

Don't you want to know the truth?

- It's thrilling.

I'll believe you one more time.

Don't play tricks with me.

The gold robbery case is yours.

- What?

And the homicide case is mine.

- I...

And I will be

the deputy chief, too.

Here, it's brain-boosting.

Do you have any questions?

You confront the murderer.

Why me again?

What do you think?

You shouldn't have done this.

Nice to meet you.

- What are you talking about?

We met on the night Sompat was

killed. Don't you remember that?

I don't know

what you are talking about.

It sounds like a line of

the villain in a lame film.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to point out that...

...the murder of Sompat and the

robbery are two different cases.

But coincidentally,

Sompat was one of the robbers.

So it brought so much trouble

to Detective Huang and me.

Get to the point!

- The story began from April 7th...

...which is seven days

before the murder.

On that day, I got a phone call

from a stranger.

Hello.

Now I know that

the caller is Mr. Lee here.

It's a part of his plan.

Find a fall guy first.

I went to Sompat's Workshop

as asked.

I thought the guy I met

was Sompat.

But the man I really saw

was Mr. Lee.

It's impossible.

How did he get into the workshop?

He didn't even show up

in the footages.

Mr. Lee knew that

the video footages...

...would be automatically

overwritten every seven days.

So he hid in Sompat's workshop

a week in advance.

The footprint he had left

under the bed gave him away.

On the night of April 14th,

with careful timing...

...Mr. Lee killed Sompat with

the vajra before I showed up.

Mr. Lee didn't turn on

the light that night.

He lit a candle instead because

it could not only dazzle me...

...but also burn out itself.

And he dressed like Sompat,

and put on wig and glasses...

...to make me believe that

he was Sompat.

Soon, I arrived in time.

I'm here for a pick up.

Now is the highlight of the story.

What we couldn't figure out was...

...how the killer

left the crime scene.

Just a while ago, when I knocked

over a trolley in the hospital...

...I figured it out.

This is so perfect.

What he asked me to pick up

was himself.

He got into the box and turned on

the speaker in the studio...

...to make me believe that

the working man was Sompat.

But in fact,

what I saw was a dead body.

He locked the box from inside.

I thought I left

with a Buddha statue.

And you thought

I left with the gold.

But no one ever thought that

I left with him, the murderer.

In Jacques Futrelle's "The Problem

of the Lost Radium"...

...the murderer snuck into

the lab lying in a suitcase.

In Yugo Aosaki's

"Murder in the Gym"...

...the murderer left the scene

in a trolley.

It's not something new

in our detective world.

The murderer took advantage of

the surveillance footages...

...to set me up,

and took advantage of me...

...to bring the real murderer out.

I have to say,

he did such a good job.

If he didn't miss a step and

took the Number One detective...

...of Chinatown

as his fall guy...

...the crime he committed

would have been perfect.

It sounds interesting.

But what's his motive?

You must know that Sompat's son,

Dan went missing a year ago.

Yes.

- But what you don't know is...

...that Dan is Snow's schoolmate.

It led us to another sad story.

You must have read this journal.

- Whose journal is it?

Hers. She tried to burn it...

...before she attempted suicide,

but we stopped her in time.

What's in the journal?

- The motive for murder.

Snow's journal keeps track of...

...Sompat's psychological changes

after his son had gone missing.

He started to stalk

his son's schoolmates.

It's so creepy.

- What's creepier is that...

...he brought Snow home

and raped her.

Shut up!

The girl felt ashamed to

tell anybody...

...so she kept the painful

experience in her journal.

But unfortunately, her stepfather

read the journal one day.

Even if what's

in the journal is true...

...you can't testify against me.

I have never gone to that workshop

or met Sompat.

That van comes from the junk yard.

And you work there, don't you?

- It's just a coincidence.

Where is the evidence?

We fought against

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