All language subtitles for Wong & Winchester S01E03 The Curse 1080p AMZN WEB-DL DDP5 1 H 264-BTN_track3_[eng]

[Sound effect]
Announcer: reads words on screen

[Birds chirping]

[Doorbell ringing]

[Door unlocking]

- Marissa?

It's Sarah.

Marissa?

Marissa?

Hello?

[Cat meowing]

[Door creaking, thudding]

Marissa!

[Screaming]

[Sighing]

- Wha--what are you doing here?

- I--I was worried about you.

- So you broke in?

- Someone ransacked your house.

- Not ransacked,
just my house.

- Oh.

Oh.

- Cleaning lady
quit unexpectedly.

- How many years ago?

- Remember what I said
about overstepping?

- I texted.
- I was asleep.

- I--I called a bunch.

- Still asleep.

- Gary wanted me to come get you
since you were running late.

Apparently, there's a VIP client
waiting in the office.

- We don't have any VIP clients.

Some of our clients
are barely even Ps.

- [Phone ringtone]:
It's Mom. Don't answer.

- Too early for that.

[Toilet flushing]

- Everything's OK,
though, right?

- Not particularly.

Garbage pick-up
was at 6:00 a.m.

I was up late.
It woke me up.

[Sighing]

That beeping, the noise.

- I sort of meant the,
um, empty bottle.

Overstepping.
Gotcha.

I'll wait in the car.

- Marissa, Sarah,
there you are finally.

- Where's the VIP?
- Uh, waiting in your office.

Uh, before you go in,
just keep an open mind.

- Ah, dammit!

- Their case is time sensitive,

so they've offered
to pay time and a half.

Both know we need the money.

Just keep an open mind
is all I ask.

[Door opening]

- Hi, I'm Marissa Wong.
What can I do for you?

And you...

Ah, dammit!

- You are late.

- Apologies, Mother.

- I called.

- Was indisposed.

- You know my good friend
and client, Mrs. Li Ying Gei.

We've been waiting
nearly an hour.

Her case is time sensitive!

- Unfortunately,
my docket is pretty full.

- Not according to Gary.
- Dammit, Gary.

- A terrible and unnatural thing
has been happening

at my tea shop.

- Gonna need
some more specificity.

- Two days ago,
part of my shop flooded.

Then today when I got to work,

everything was upturned like
a tornado had blown through.

- Someone trashed the place?

- Not someone, something.

A curse has been placed
upon my tea shop.

[Sighing]

♪

- Curse case?
You brought me a curse case?

- And the issue is?

- I'm not taking a curse case!

- And the reason is?

- We are a detective agency.
- Perfect!

A private detective is exactly
what Mrs. Gei needs.

- She needs more than that.

- She already went to the temple
to get her shop cleansed.

It didn't work!
- Shocking.

- Now she needs someone to look
into her curse for her.

- Maybe I can recommend
a different agency,

Mystery Inc.

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are

top-tier supernatural
investigators.

They always get their ghost.

- Actually, in, uh, Scooby-Doo,

it's never really
supernatural in the end.

It's always a human behind it.
- Not helping, Gary.

- I already promised Mrs. Gei
you'd take her case.

Don't embarrass me!

- Uh, also, Marissa,
just throwing it out there,

your mother has kindly offered
to pay us time and a half, so...

[Giggling]

- Li Ying,
can you come out here a moment?

- Can you clear my schedule
for 4:00 so I can kill you?

- Tell Marissa
who cursed your shop.

[Marissa sighing]

- Alfred Chen,
my business rival.

He's had it out
for me for years.

The curse is his way
of trying to ruin me,

destroy my life's work.

- Double time.

Pay me double time,
and I'll do it.

- Fine!

[Sighing]

- I'm excited.
I'm very into the supernatural.

- Of course you are.

My new driver, Sarah.

- Well, I like to think

that I'm a bit more
than just a driver.

- Well, we're all entitled
to our thoughts.

- OK.

- What is with the bag?

- Oh, just a bit of a personal
paranormal survivor kit.

- Rational.

- Got my, uh,
sage, my crystals,

wool throw that's been blessed
to catch bad spirits.

Oh, and just in case,

I have 4 litres of holy water
in the back.

- Logical.

- So, how exactly does one
go about investigating a curse?

- One doesn't.

This investigation is
about the flood and break-in.

- But couldn't the flood,
break-in and curse

be one in the same?

- They could not.

Li Ying's rival
is sabotaging her.

This isn't a curse!

Now we just need
the evidence to prove it.

[Bell chiming]

[Door closing, bell chiming]

Looking for a Li Ying.

- You're the investigators?

- Investigator, driver.

- Figured. We haven't had
a customer since the curse.

- Wow, that's amazing!

Not the customer thing,
the drawing.

It's super dark, but amazing.

You're so talented.

- Oh, you're here.

And you've met my daughter,
Candice.

- So, no sign of forced entry.

Does anyone else have a key?

- Uh, it's just Candice and I.

- And, uh, any footage
of the, uh, tornado?

- Oh, it doesn't
actually record.

It's just to scare away
shoplifters.

- Hmm, just keeps
getting better.

- Uh, Li Ying, do you know
if there's any reason

why Alfred would place
a curse on your shop?

- The man's crazy.
- Aren't they all?

- We got in a big fight

in the middle
of the complex last week.

Next thing you know,
he's placing a curse.

"Death and misfortune
will fall upon my place."

Everyone watch.
People film.

It was so embarrassing!

- Forgetting the curse
for a second,

what exactly was
the fight about?

- Alfred started selling
pirated movies out of his store.

- Classy.
- I contacted the authorities.

- Hmm, brought in the feds?

- But only after
he got aggressive over

our shared recycling bins!

- So, a hefty fine later
and he's willing to do

whatever it takes
to get rid of you.

The filming of the freak-out,
do you have any sort of--

- Oh, got it, I just searched,
"Tea shop curse meltdown."

- This is for you, Li Ying!

Misfortune will fall upon you!

I curse you!
I curse you!

- It's a little on the nose.

- The curse is now following

the five Lingfu Talisman
placed on my shop:

flooding, destruction,
mortal peril,

death and finally, fire!

- It's a little anti-climatic,
you know, after death.

- Alfred curses people
all the time.

But for whatever reason,
this one's actually working.

- We can only last
so much longer

before I'll be forced
to close and sell.

He's trying
to kill my business,

maybe even me!

- Right...

Well, I think I've got
all I'm gonna get here.

Time to visit
that rival of yours.

[Bell chiming]

- Welcome to
Alfred Chen Electronics.

I'm the Alfred Chen.

- The curse guy.
- Oh, big time!

Years of dealing
with that woman,

and finally, the spirits
are shining down on me.

But you know what's not cursed?
These sale prices.

I recognize you. You're--

- Yeah, I'm gonna
stop you there.

I was hired by Li Ying.

- Exorcist?

- Private investigator.

- Wow, sucks to be you.

- It does, but not for
the reasons you're thinking.

Look, all signs point to you
physically acting out the curse,

you trashed the shop,

you tried to make her think
it's a curse to scare her.

Apologize,
offer Li Ying restitution,

remove the curse,
and I won't make your life hell.

- I'm married.
My life is already hell.

And I didn't touch her shop!

Figured someone would
come sniffing around.

Not my first curse rodeo.

When her shop,

home of the worst cup
of tea in the city,

flooded,
I was right here.

Check the time stamp.

- And, uh, last night,
the break-in?

- 200 witnesses can attest

to me being
at a charity event.

[Clicking tongue]

- We'll be seeing
each other again.

- Remind Li Ying,

if she wants the curse lifted,
she knows what to do.

[Bell chiming]

- What did,
"She knows what to do," mean?

- What I intend to find out.

- Li Ying?

Candice?

[Candice groaning]

[Gasping]

- Candice!

Candice!

[Radio chatter]

- [Li Ying]: Candice?

- Candice had a fall.

She--she hurt herself
pretty bad.

- I didn't fall!

[Li Ying sobbing]

I was on the ladder,
I felt a force.

- Wait, somebody pushed you?

- The curse, the next talisman
is mortal peril.

The curse is ruining my shop.

And now--now
it's come for my daughter!

- Mom, just do
what Alfred wants!

Please, just make
the curse stop!

- What exactly does Alfred want?

- I--I wish I knew.

What matters right now

is you finding
a way to stop this

before the curse
destroys everything!

[Siren wailing]

- OK, now you have to admit--

- No.

- So, what then?
You think that she--

- Don't think that either.
Candice is just a klutz.

- We are sort of Alfred's alibi
this time, aren't we?

- Something stinks
about that guy.

- Yeah, very much.

- And Li Ying knows more
than she's letting on.

She knows what he wants.

Though I'm still
very much on team,

"The curse is real,"

Alfred may have alibis
for himself.

But, what if, possibly,

he got these two to get
their hands dirty for him?

I looked up
the curse video again

and found a longer version.

- Look, hey, hey, Dad,

curse it up, baby!

- Whoo!

- This is for you, Li Ying!

Misfortune will fall upon you!

- Curse it up!
Curse it up!

- I curse you!

I curse you!

- Oh God, man,
I love our dad so much!

- What do you think?

[Smacking lips]

- I think we pay Tweedledee
and Tweedledum-dumb a visit.

Assault, assault,
aggravated assault,

theft, assault...

[Door closing]

- Is it just me,
or do these two sound like--

- Like overachievers?

- I was gonna say dangerous.

Like, maybe we shouldn't just go
and knock on their door

type of dangerous.

- You'll be fine.

If things get hairy,
just remember two things:

everyone's got
a neck and a groin.

- Hello? Who's there?
- It's the police.

We need access
to the building.

[Door buzzing]

[Sighing]

Kevin and Jason Chen?

- The hell you want?

- Where were you on the sixth?
- And you are?

- Getting paid to look into
a flood and break-in

at Li Ying's tea shop.

- What?
We didn't do that.

- Yeah, we were home
on the sixth.

- Playing video games.

- And the night
of the seventh

when you were smashing up
the tea shop?

- Home.
- Playing video games.

- And what about earlier today?

- Oh, it's funny,
'cause we were home all day.

- Let me guess,
playing video games.

- Watching TV.

- Mmm, variety,
spice of life!

- Do you have anyone
that can corroborate this?

- Yeah, other than each other?

- We, uh,
we livestream our games.

- Oh, yeah!
- Yeah, yeah!

Got almost 200 subs.

We archive all our livestreams
on our channel, Super Gun Bros.

Pow! Pow!

So, anyone who watched
our livestream can vouch

that we were right here.

- Besides, why are you
investigating this anyways?

I mean, we all know
all that stuff happened

'cause of
our dad's curse, right?

- Right...

- OK, so, I combed
through their livestreams,

and dates and times line up.

They were definitely
home both days.

- Figured.

I checked with the neighbours
and all I got was:

"Those Neanderthals were home,
blasting video games,

arguing about
who clogged the toilet."

Et cetera, et cetera.

- OK, so, I emailed
one of my old professors,

and, apparently,

something quite similar
to this happened

in Africa
nearly half a century ago.

I think we should--

- I'll tell you what now,

we go back to the strip mall,
because A, it's not a curse,

and B, we need to do
more digging around.

We're missing something.

So, I would have been
better off asking your dog.

My call making
turned up nothing.

No new leads,
no new suspects.

- Does that mean we're
investigating the curse?

- It does not.

- Well, in that case,

I spoke to some
of the shop owners

and I uncovered
a bit of a revelation.

- You were supposed
to get lunch.

- Actually, Lucky Dim Sum
wouldn't take our order

because they recognized

your very particular
lunch choice,

which is so intriguing,
but I try not to pry.

- Your revelation?

- All the shop owners have
Platinum Star Developments swag,

just like a hat I saw
in the tea shop's garbage,

just like Alfred's Montblanc,
the Rolls-Royce of pens.

I sort of collect pens.

- That's not at all surprising.

- A real-estate developer
has been trying

to buy up the strip mall.

- Interest finally piqued.

- Been tossing around
big numbers.

The only hiccup is--

- It's an all or nothing deal.
- Exactly.

- There's one holdout, Li Ying.

- The reason Alfred cursed her.

- Ruining his potential payday.

- Yeah, Alfred places the curse,
the developer sees it--

- Acts on it,

tries to scare Li Ying
into selling!

- If it's really not the curse,
it is definitely this guy.

- Ryan Powers,
what a stupid name.

- And, apparently,
Ryan went to visit Li Ying.

And last time,
it got a little heated.

[Truck beeping]

- Know how many times
I've called waste management?

- I'm guessing it's--
- Rhetorical question.

- Of course.
- City won't budge.

Refuses to alter anybody's
garbage collection schedule.

6:00 a.m. on the dot
every week.

Tried to force
a route trade, nope!

Fancy neighbourhood keeps
their humane pickup hour.

- I had no idea
you were so passionate

about waste management.

- I'm passionate about being
not loudly awoken at 6:00 a.m.

[Truck beeping]

Where's my rich prick ensemble?

- Under my bag
of curse supplies,

next to the holy water.

Not to overstep,

but how do you afford
all that Chanel?

- Knockoffs.

Careful not to expose them
to your bare skin.

Mr. Powers.

- Melissa,
thank you for joining me.

[Sighing]

Dined here before?

- No.
- Fantastic.

[Laughing]

Speaking of,

as I mentioned
when you called,

I do have a fantastic
investment opportunity for you.

- A man that cuts
right to the chase!

- We are tearing down
this dumpy, old strip mall,

building the ultimate
shopping experience.

Technically, the deal
hasn't finalized yet.

But soon!

And the good news is,
because of the delay,

one of my investors
had to drop out.

So you are lucking
into the deal of a lifetime!

- No!

- Uh, now, don't worry.

The deal will close,
I will see to it.

[Laughing]

- I think I've heard enough.

I know what you're up to.

- What am I up to?

- I'm a PI.
Li Ying's my client.

- Ah, f-f...

[Chuckling]

I apologize for
how I spoke to Li Ying.

I'm assuming that's
why you're here.

But what I won't
apologize for

is trying to make
your client rich.

Turning that dump into
a multimillion dollar complex

is great for her
and her community.

- And you're willing to do
whatever it takes

to get it done...

[Scoffing]

...including terrorizing

poor Li Ying into selling.

You're furious.

So you decided
to scare her into selling

to avoid the curse.

- The curse?

- So, are you working
with Alfred?

Or are you taking advantage
all on your own?

- Do you know who I am?

I didn't think so.

So, you want to interfere

with my business?

I can do

so much more than this.

Stay away.

[Fork clinking,
exhaling sharply]

- How'd it go?

- Let's just call it a day.

[Siren wailing]

♪

[Elevator chiming]

- Well, I see you've been out
making friends again.

- I think the curse may have
attached itself to us.

In my research,
I've read that that can happen.

- Not the curse.

This is not even real blood.

Ugh! Ugh!
- Ah!

- Oh my God!
Is it real?

- Not real blood,
just tastes real awful.

Look, this is food colouring
and corn syrup.

This is not a spirit,
this was Powers!

- Uh, who's Powers?

- Ryan "Stay away" Powers,

real-estate developer
who's trying to buy up

all the businesses
in the strip mall.

- Li Ying is
his one holdout.

- Yeah, he's staging this curse

to try and scare Li Ying
into selling.

- Yeah, or possibly, it's real!

- Possibly, nope.

- And why would Powers
target our office?

- I had a little bit
of an exchange yesterday.

- So, you gave him a dose
of Marissa charm, huh?

- He wasn't happy with me
interfering in his business.

- A feeling
I now understand well.

- He doesn't crumble the way
some of those other dudes do.

- This is gonna be
quite the clean-up.

- Well, good news is,

is that thanks
to our stubborn city,

our building's garbage pickup
isn't until tomorrow PM,

so plenty of time
to fill those bins!

- Still on about that, huh?

Marissa has memorized
the waste collection cycle

of the entire city.

- Well, we need more info.

[Sirens chirping]

- What do you want, Marissa?

- What? I can't come say hi
to my former partner?

- As if.

- Look, I need a favour.

[Sighing]

- I had fun the other night.

- I'm not here to reminisce, OK?

I need information.
Ryan Powers?

- Ryan Powers,
known alias of Ryan Santorino.

- The accountant?
- Mm-hmm.

Dead guy back there
used to be his boss.

- Used to 'cause he's dead,

or used to 'cause
Powers got out?

- No longer affiliated.

- Ugh, any known associates?

- No, he's a lone wolf.
But he's dangerous, all right?

So don't go messing
with this guy.

- Yeah, noted.

- Hey, why you want
to know all this anyway?

What are you investigating?

- Why you're not using
that mouthwash I gave you.

That should be
the real investigation.

- Ugh!

- Same suit as yesterday.

- I know you don't
want me overstepping...

[Marissa sighing]

...just to play it safe,
I did some digging

and I found out
some pretty sketchy stuff

about Powers' company.

Here, check it out.

All the photos
of the buildings they did,

I did a reverse image search,
and they're all stock photos.

I also found out
that Powers founded

two other companies this year,
both dissolved,

both large settlements
with creditors.

- So, Powers is broke?
- Flat broke.

- Literally has everything
riding on this retail complex.

- Makes him desperate.

- Makes him dangerous.

- No!

Aaah!

- I'm guessing he lost
another investor.

- Well, he's definitely not
the high roller

he wants people
to think he is.

[Engine revving, backfiring]

- OK, let's go.

[Grunting]

Hmm.

Ahoy.

Zip ties, more zip ties,

duct tape, rope, tarp...

a saw, a hammer

and a shovel.

- OK, maybe I'm jumping
to conclusions...

- Jump.

- ...everything he bought
kind of seems like stuff

you'd need to kidnap, torture,
murder or bury someone.

- Or all four.

Keep your distance.

Looks like he's heading
towards the strip mall.

- Do you think Powers
is going after Li Ying?

Why are you banned
from Lucky Dim Sum?

Just in case Powers catches us,

and we get murdered
and sawed up,

I prefer not to have

any burning,
unanswered questions.

[Smacking lips]

- My sister's birthday lunch
last year,

it was at Lucky Dim Sum.

And my sister overstepped.

And instead of getting
into it with her,

I got into my car to leave.

Technically,
I was still on duty.

And I went to back up

and I accidentally had
my car in drive

and I smashed
into the restaurant.

- Jeez, were you OK?

- Yeah, everyone physically
was fine.

I just had a couple
of beers at lunch.

- Wait, was that why you were
fired from the police force?

- I was strongly encouraged
to spend more time with family.

My mom was so embarrassed

she didn't speak to me
for a month so, you know,

there was an upside.

- Wait, why is he
turning off here?

- OK, keep it slow.

[Door closing]

Cool down and let's stay
out of sight.

[Engine stops]

- What's he doing?

- Fixing a leaky roof,
it would seem.

- Wait, is he...

is he living in there?

- Though tragic,

not the tragic outcome
I was expecting.

- Oh, God, now I feel bad.

Here I'm thinking he was
about to murder Li Ying.

This is somehow almost worse.

[Sighing]

[Hammer pounding, grunting]

- Powers isn't
the criminal mastermind

that we thought.

Powers didn't trash our office.

He ain't our guy.

[Elevator chiming]

- Thanks so much, Jerry.

And, uh,
say hi to your sister.

- Who was that?

- We had a flood,
sink in the kitchen.

[Gasping]

- No!

- It's not Powers,
it's not Alfred,

it's a curse.

- It's not a curse!

There's always
a reasonable explanation, OK?

The pipe under the sink
has been leaking for weeks.

- That would have been great
to know earlier.

- OK, why are you so dead set
against this being a curse?

All the clues are literally--

- OK, enough! OK?

I don't need this, OK?

This case should have
been solved long ago.

Look, you're never
gonna be a real detective

if you don't get
a grip on reality.

May not even be
my driver soon.

- Hey, let's not say
anything we don't mean.

Let's call it a night,
reconvene tomorrow, OK?

[Phone ringing]

- Yeah?

Sarah!

- I left Candice
alone for a minute.

When I came back,
she was gone!

The death omen!

The curse has
taken my daughter!

[Crying]

- Right, um...

Have you tried her phone?

- No answer.

She checked everywhere,
nothing!

- And the police?

- They sent an officer.

She wouldn't take
Mrs. Gei seriously!

- Did she tell them
about the curse?

Well, there you go!

[Marissa sighing]

- Excuse us.

- Ow! Stop!

[Clears throat]

- I hired you to put
Mrs. Gei's mind at ease!

Her daughter is missing,
potentially dead!

Mrs. Gei's now
gotten it in her head

that sleeping in the shop
with a weapon

is somehow the answer!

That's how we
"defeat" this thing.

- OK, I'm guessing
this is somehow my fault?

- No, when is it
ever your fault?

Not your fault at school

or your marriage
or your drinking

or your sister's--

- OK! That is enough
for examples.

Thank you.

- Enough!

This was supposed
to be an easy case,

a redemption!

A way to stop being
an embarrassment to our family!

It's like you enjoy
being a pariah!

Not allowed near
Lucky Dim Sum!

- OK, you know what?

I am going to find
your friend's daughter.

And I am going to make sure
she doesn't lose her tea shop.

Just let me do my job.

Hypothetically,

if the curse
hadn't taken Candice,

where might she be?

- Uh, I--I don't know.

- Think, OK?

Is she with a friend?

- No, Candice doesn't do
that kind of stuff anymore.

- Do what kind of stuff anymore?

- Candice used to date
this awful boy.

- Been there.
- Terrible influence, criminal.

- Also been there.

- All her sneaking around
stopped when I made Candice

break up
with her idiot boyfriend.

She hasn't run away since.

[Sobbing]

- [Sarah]:
Who was her boyfriend?

Kevin Chen.

- Kevin Chen, Alfred's son!

[Sighing]

[Knocking on door,
door unlocking]

- Man--
Aaah!

[Coughing, groaning]

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Where's Candice?

- She's not here.

- All right,
time to tell the truth, boys.

Where is Candice?

I know that
you were at the tea shop.

- A toothpick?
That's all you have?

That isn't anything!

Anybody can just
buy a toothpick!

- But not everyone
chews one incessantly

without developing a personality
like your brother does.

- Kevin, we know
you dated Candice.

- OK, we were home,
livestreaming gaming all day.

We couldn't have done anything
to her if we wanted to.

- Which we don't!

- And what's your excuse
for vandalizing our office?

Corn syrup
and red food colouring.

I found them
in the other room.

It's everything
you need to make--

- Make fake blood.

- Somebody is setting us up!

- Uh, well, w-we got video proof
that we were home.

'Cause h-how can we be
at two places at once?

Look, um...

Th--this is us, today,

all nine hours of us
livestreaming online.

How can we be elsewhere
at the same time?

Look, I know we made
mistakes in the past,

but we didn't act
on the curse.

I--I swear.

- We control both
of the markets here.

- We print monopoly money.

- Fast forward.

- Oh, everything's black!

Here, he's here!

[Truck beeping]

- What did I tell you?
- Ah, goddamn!

- Go back 10 seconds.

[Mouse clicking]

[Jason laughing,
truck beeping]

- Oh, everything's black!

- W-what?

- That, my ineloquent friend,

is the sound of your garbage
being collected,

a sound that
is permanently burned

into my sleep-addled brain.

Your recording
wasn't recorded today.

Your garbage pickup
for this neighbourhood

is Tuesday afternoons.

You prerecorded this yesterday,

which means
you faked your alibi,

which means
you vandalized my office,

which means you were there

when Candice was
at the tea shop.

So, you tell me
where Candice is

or bad things
will happen to you.

- Or bad things happen...

to you.

[Breathing heavily]

We're not going back to jail.

[Grunting]

[Grunting]

[Phone thudding]

- If things get hairy,
just remember two things:

everyone's got
a neck and a groin.

[Grunting, groaning]

[Grunting]

[Groaning]

[Exhaling sharply]

The neck and the groin,
am I right?

- Yeah, it worked!

[Groaning]

[Exhaling sharply]

- Well, you're looking
at serious jail time

if something
happens to Candice.

Just tell me where she is.

Police it is, then.

- No, no, no, wait, wait!
Stop, please!

I would never hurt Candice.
I love her.

Candice wanted me
to vandalize your office.

- And why would
Candice want that?

- To scare you off
so you'd drop her mom's case.

The rest of our alibis
were real, we swear.

- Yeah, the vandalizing

and--and the tea shop,
that was it.

That's all we did.

We pretended to be home
just those two times.

- We faked
those two livestreams

after we saw how our real alibi
worked the first time.

- Th--the whole reason we were

at the tea shop was
to help Candice...

give her a ride.

Not hurt her
or--or kidnap her.

- Candice.

- Candice is the one
acting out the curse.

But why would Candice
do this to her mom?

- Candice's mom
is super controlling.

- Whose isn't?
- Candice is an awesome artist.

She got into art school.

But her mom--
- Won't let her go.

Li Ying thinks the business
is the family future

and wants Candice
to take over and run it.

They've been arguing
about it for years.

But Li Ying won't give up.

And Candice is beaten down,
ready to give up on her dreams.

She's pushed to the edge.

She's desperate and willing
to do whatever it takes

to get away from her mom,
finally start her life.

- Wow, how did you...
- To be able to...

- It was a lucky guess.

- I-if her mom makes a deal
with the developer guy,

Candice can go to art school.

My dad's curse
was her last chance.

If her mom thinks
the shop is haunted,

she thought for sure
she would sell.

- Where is Candice now?

- At some cheap motel.

I wanted to see her tonight,
but she told me to stay away,

said I need an alibi
from 10:00 to 11:00.

- Wait, why would
you need an alibi?

There's still one part
of the curse left, the fire.

- It's almost 10:00.

[Engine revving]

[Phone ringing]

Li Ying's not picking up.

- Candice has no idea

she's about to burn
her mom's shop down

with her mom still inside.

- There's no way this ends well.

[Tires squealing,
engine revving]

[Tires squealing,
brakes screeching]

- [Sarah]: Oh my God!

[Brakes screeching]

[Doors closing]

[Fire crackling]

What are you doing?

- Your paranormal survival junk!

Sarah, take this!

[Coughing]

Li Ying?

Li Ying?

Li Ying!

God, ugh!

Come on!

Li Ying!

You're OK.
You're OK!

It's time to go, OK?

[Li Ying whimpering]

Come on.
Come with me.

OK. OK.

Come on.

It's OK.

OK.

Stay.

[Metal clanging]

Ooh!

[Coughing]

Come on! Ugh!

We gotta get away.

[Coughing]

- [Sarah]: Are you OK?

Are you hurt?

- [Li Ying]: Oh!

- I--I can't believe Candice
actually went through with it!

Candice is the one
behind the curse.

She's the one
that started the fire.

- I'm sorry.
It's true.

- Mom?

[Li Ying sobbing]

[Fire crackling]

[Sirens wailing]

- I didn't know my mom
was inside, honest!

- Look, she's not
gonna tell the cops.

But you gotta talk
to her eventually.

- Why would you do this?

- Mom, you would
never listen to me.

- So you had Alfred
place a curse?

- No, Alfred's just crazy
and he did that all on his own.

But I saw how spooked you got.

I thought you would sell
after the flood.

But even throwing myself
off the ladder

wouldn't change your mind.

- I was protecting
the shop for you.

All of this is for you.

- I don't want it.
- Then what do you want?

- To go to art school!

- You're seeing that boy again!

He's making you run away.

- No, Kevin was never
a part of this!

And he was never the reason
why I ran away, OK?

This... it's all me!

[Sighing]

- OK, look, um,

unless you want to end up in
a low-rent retirement community

as payback for being
a suffocating tiger mom

who killed
all your daughter's dreams,

you might want to let Candice
start living her life.

And, uh, your mom is old school,
old world, you know?

She's got that constipated
emotional thing going on.

She can't open up, you know,

but she'll cut you
a plate of fruit.

And this tea shop
is a giant plate

of perfectly peeled
apple slices.

- I guess.

Maybe I've been holding on
a little tight.

You going back to school is not
the worst idea in the world

Maybe if you have a degree,

someone will pay you
to scribble.

Show me the buyout offer again.

Maybe I was too quick
to dismiss it.

We'll talk to Powers.

You think we can get more
than he offered to Alfred Chen?

- Yeah, so,
about that real-estate guy,

he actually--

- I love you, Mom.

- It worked!

It really all worked!

I'm sorry the spirits
favoured me so well

that it ruined your shop.

I'm--I'm glad you're OK.

- Go make sure your store
isn't damaged, moron.

[Giggling]

- And that's our cue.

[Door closing]

- You know,
it's kind of funny.

If you stand back
and you look at

this whole thing holistically...

- Oh my God.

- ...in a way,
you could actually kind of say

that this whole thing
really was a curse.

- You could,
but you shouldn't.

- So, did any of that talk
back there make you want

to rethink things
with your own mom?

- [Phone ringtone]:
It's Mom. Don't answer.

- Oh my God!
Now, if that isn't a sign!

- It's Mom. Don't answer.

[Phone beeping]

- Signs are like curses.

- You're coming around to them?

Don't believe in them.

OK...

[Marissa sighing]

[Seatbelt clicking]

Can I just say,

I think you not applying
your own words

to your own relationship
with your own mother

is kind of like
if I were to...

Overstepping?
Gotcha.

♪ ♪

- Next time on
Wong and Winchester:

- You have a new client
in your office.

- What's her story?
- Anxious bride to be.

- He's a police officer.

- So, you're here
on professional grounds?

- Hired by your secret fiancé.

- Marissa?

I'm gonna kill him

and every woman
he's ever touched.

- Who would be desperate enough
to sleep with that guy?

- We should've went to yours.

- The bottle service girl

at the club
you were at last night?

- Excuse me, do not push me!
- That's not good.

- Lisa was found dead
in her condo this morning.

- I'm not done
talking to you yet!

♪ ♪

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