The Silent War

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Miss, your telegram

Hong Kong 1949

San Francisco meeting ended.

Shipper violated contract

Return with cargo ASAP

Intelligence from Devil

701 has intercepted

an American ciphered message

They wanted Guo Xing-zhong

to sell out Sparrow

Didn't Guo promised...

to send Sparrow to Peking tomorrow?

Sparrow is in missile engineering

The American government

drove him back to Hong Kong

Now they regret as

he's returning to China

So they want to bring

him back to the States?

They want him to disappear

Hong Kong is a British colony.

The Brits don't care?

Americans are in charge of London now.

The Brits can only follow

So does Guo Xing-zhong

All here?

You are here too?

Professor Xue-ning

Take a seat... take a seat

Tomorrow you are leaving me

Tonight you may not stay away

from me for a second

The great authoress wants to

give Professor a parting souvenir

How lucky! Professor must

have done good in former live

Oh, woe are our young heirs

of the 13 Trading Companies

she fancies none of them

And not to mention us

Master Guo deserves the most pity,

doesn't he?

After wooing her for so long,

he's become a matchmaker for Professor

Xing-zhong throws this party to

bid Professor farewell

Shouldn't we...

ask Professor to join us?

Here... Yes, Professor...

He doesn't drink. I will do it

Xue-ning, Xing-zhong and I...

are classmates, good friends

I must thank him for

introducing all of you to me

I am leaving tomorrow,

let me toast you

Good...

I will drink first. Bottoms up

You are all Xing-zhong's friends

You have to drink up

all his wine tonight

otherwise you don't

show due respect for him

OK... OK

OK... one more

For that one more,

I have to drink it with Master Guo

I am with Devil, follow me

Miss Xue-ning, I haven't seen you

for some days. Where were you?

Shouldn't you... drink as a penalty?

The brothers of 13 Trading Companies

are jealous of you

who should drink?

I Will drink it up

Leave the jealousy with them.

We will go drink

Why is Miss Xue-ning in

such a poetic mood today

bestowing this big favour on me?

Now my 5-year courtship

is not in vain

Chang...

fetch Miss Xue-ning's

gift over here

No need

Helping me send Professor

to Peking is the best gift

That's beyond my power

If you do that...

I will be yours

What did you say?

I mean it

No

It doesn't matter

Go

Mountain area in Southern China

Devil is waiting for you

Director, 200 is reporting

Come and take a seat

5 years ago, I had met Devil

Are you the stand-in?

Or was he the stand-in?

He left the country a year ago

Since then I have been

the Director of 701 Bureau

Devil

The identity of Guo Xing-zhong

isn't faked, right?

It's real, I am the son

of the shipping tycoon

The Guo family's fleet has always

been our underground channel

Your father also belongs

to the Bureau?

You don't need to know

Take your seat, 200

Has your knife wound healed?

Nothing serious,

Chang's stroke was deft and neat

If he was messy...

I would really have died

Understand?

Yes

If so, let's talk about work

A month ago, the Intercept Unit

had a problem

For years

701 has been monitoring the

enemy's some 100 military channels

We have their

every move well in hand

However, at zero hour on 8 October

these channels ...suddenly disappeared

at the same time

After a good 30 hours

on the morning of 10 October

these channels reappeared

Monitor no. 18 detects something

93 as well...

But we no longer

hear secret intelligence

just the enemy's routine announcements

and weather reports

Did they change the cipher code?

Decipher Unit has read

all the messages

the codes have not been changed

That means there is

only one possibility

They changed the radio frequencies

We spent a whole month

and could merely find 9 channels

Just last week

3 of our overseas intelligence

points were destroyed

causing many casualties

While Chiang is making a new move

with the addition of this episode

would you regard it...

as a mere coincidence?

Definitely not!

So now I need...

a brilliant interceptor to

retrieve these channels

This man, Luo San-er, is in Shanghai

He is a piano tuner

He can tell which piano

is flawed from 100 meters away

I will go bring him back

Yes

Director, goodbye

Higher...

Even higher...

Higher...

I have worked here for 5 years

In the past, the piano was tuned...

once every half-a-year

After Mr. Luo came,

it became once every month

I heard that he also tuned

for Madam Sun

so no one said anything

I can tell you...

Madam says she likes music

Actually... she just likes to listen to

Mr. Luo tuning the piano

In tune with her?

Relax, I won't tell anyone

Good

Who is that man?

Bing, Mr. Luo's

lackey He's blind

Brother San! Run!

You toy boy,

how dare you touch my wife!

Run, run Waste him, kill him

Run

Hurry up, don't let them escape

Hurry, chase... chase...

Grab him Go That way, run

Here, up the stairs... quick

Here, come on

Quick, go down

Brother San, watch out

Chop him to death

And him too!

Stop

Where can you go?

You have no escape

Stop

Thank you You are welcome

What is your name?

Didn't that woman

in the theatre tell you?

You saw it?

You pretender You

are the pretender

I haven't seen a woman

so adept in fighting

and on high heels too

Sis, which gang do you belong to?

I am looking for Luo San-er

Oh...

another of Brother San's women

Looks like you are really blind

I am blind So what?

Have eyes but see not

I have to go. Where is the door?

On your left

Turn right

Sorry...

What exactly do you want?

We are from the military

We know that people like you

would meet at a place

after dispersal

Where is your meeting place

with Luo San-er

We don't have one Fatso

take him away

We've arranged to

meet tomorrow morning

Where?

Can I tell you tomorrow morning?

Why can't you tell me now?

Will I survive if I tell you now?

I will tell you tomorrow morning

Are you afraid I will flee?

OK:

Pinwheel... drop by

and buy a pinwheel

Authentic Lanzhou noodle

Popcorn... popcorn

Watch out...

Watch out...

Can't you just leave me alone?

Did you come here by

tracing the sound?

Alas!

Why do you bring me back here?

Aren't you looking for Brother San?

We agreed that we'd meet

at Zhu Jia Jiao

He'll be gone if

I don't get there soon

I heard that when

you were 13, on a tree...

you and your elder brother watched the

Japanese soldiers enter your village

They discovered and

shot you with guns

You both fell from the tree,

your brother died

and you fainted

The Japanese thought your were dead,

they didn't shoot again

When your mother found you,

a night had passed

Since then your eyes

couldn't see anything

but your ears became more

and more sensitive

At 16, even a mosquito flying by...

would give you the jitters

Luo San-er was your townsman,

he discovered your talent

and took you to Shanghai

to make a living

Is this your story?

Who told you that?

You blind idiot,

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