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My Roommate is a Detective

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Hold this.

OK.

Salim.

That's a bit interesting.

Salim.

Go get another twenty people to

find something in the nearby dump yards.

What are they supposed to look for?

Something similar to this shape.

Go in there!

Why are you pushing me?

Hurry up.

I can walk on my own!

Why did you arrest us?

You are suspected of ganging up in the murder of Zhou Yunliang.

Of course we'll arrest you guys.

You are slandering!

My father was struck by lightning.

What does it have to do with us?

That was not a real lightning from the nature,

but an artificial lightning.

Nonsense! How can humans create lightning?

To be more specific,

this lightning came from a Tesla Coil.

Continue.

You are all murderers.

So how did it work exactly?

Mr. Lu will explain to you the details.

Coward.

Didn't you sound smart just now?

Shut up!

After seeing that umbrella Mr. Zhou was holding

in the cemetery on the day of the incident,

I was sure

this was not an ordinary lightning strike accident.

Someone with a heart attack going out without his medication

deepened my suspicion.

Then I found traces of gunpowder

on that tree.

But that amount of gunpowder didn't have much strong power.

I guess it was from

some fireworks.

Next, let us get Mr. Zhang the butler to the court as a witness.

You…

Mr. Zhang.

You told me before that when Mr. Zhou was sick,

his son set off fireworks in front of his company.

Didn't you?

Yes.

At that time, Master was very angry about it.

I was trying to bring good luck to him.

What's wrong with that?

You set off fireworks to test the power of gunpowder.

Policemen found a lot of

gunpowder residue in your garage.

I just wanted to make more powerful fire crackers

which can make louder noises.

Is this related to this case?

The murderers tried to create a scene where the lightning struck the tree.

First of all, the super firecrackers you made

became the sound of thunder the witnesses heard.

This is actually not much of any evidence.

You can regard it as an appetizer.

Next, let's talk about

how this lightning was created.

If my memory serves me right,

Young Master Zhou, you graduated

from Imperial College of London as a physics major, right?

So what if I did?

There are many people studying physics.

Bu you're the only one in Shanghai who

have a profound knowledge of physics

and also ordered related equipment from the UK.

Adou.

Fortunately, I asked them to check the goods based on English names.

You ordered these six months ago

but they arrived last month.

Secondary coil.

Yes, secondary coil.

These…

I bought them just for my personal hobbies.

I understand.

If I had so much spare money to spend,

of course I would order

such cool and fun gadgets to play with, too.

This

is the famous Tesla Coil.

The principle is very simple actually.

With the high-frequency resonance through a transformer,

ordinary voltage can quickly increase to

up to half a million volts.

Then it can be discharged from the discharger terminal

through the secondary coil

and therefore quickly create an artificial lightning.

You just needed to put this device on the top of your car,

then you could make the effect of lightning striking the tree

through the wall of the cemetery.

There are burn marks by electricity shock on that wall.

I think they were caused by the error you made during the first aiming.

And the burn marks on the ground

were caused by electric shock to the body

before they moved Mr. Zhou 's body.

After all, it was not easy to aim

the body accurately across the high wall.

Body?

Do you think a living person will stand there

and let you shock him in the daytime without seeing it?

But the two tomb watchers

saw my dad

go into the cemetery that day.

The man who went there that day

was not your father.

If I am right,

it should be your brother.

Mr. Zhang said your brother and your father looked alike.

So he changed his clothes and put on old-age makeup

and passed as your father.

Besides, he held the umbrella very low

when he entered the cemetery.

The tomb watchers didn't get a clear look

of that person's face.

These are just your guesses!

You have no evidence.

Lady,

sophistry won't work.

It's quite easy to deduct how you did it.

What confused me the most is

how you could

do such a thing to damage

your father's body?

And you.

Mr. Zhou loved and took care of you.

How did you make up your mind to let them do that?

They did it together?

I don't believe it.

When Mr. Zhou was still alive,

the whole family was in violent quarrel

because he wanted to marry her as a concubine.

Miss Zhou even threatened to cut her wrist.

But after he died,

while his two legit children were also present,

a concubine who wasn't officially married to him

stood at the central position for the hostess at Mr. Zhou's funeral.

Don't you think this is weird?

How is it possible for the three of them to reach such a consensus

if they didn't have a common secret?

You did this

for the insurance, right?

That's right. Dazhou Department has long been on the verge of bankruptcy.

Only when dad died of an accident

can we get the compensation.

But we didn't kill him.

No.

When we got home

from the board meeting that day,

dad had passed away.

What is the cause of death?

Relapse of heart attack.

Actually we…

We didn't want to do it at the beginning.

But the amount of the insurance compensation payout was too tempting.

We just wanted the money.

But we didn't kill our father.

Mr. Lu, you have to clear our name!

I'm afraid I cannot satisfy your requirement.

Both electric shock and lightning strike can cause heart failure

and will both destroy the heart tissue.

You claimed that Mr. Zhou died of a heart attack.

But you shocked his body

and destroyed his heart.

Now even the most professional forensic in the world

cannot find out what his real cause of death is.

We can only prove what you did.

But we can't prove what you didn't do.

So the charge against the three of you

is still attempted murder.

You promised!

You promised nothing would go wrong!

You promised me!

It was your fault!

If it weren't for you guys

who gave him a heart attack,

things wouldn't have ended like this!

How dare you blame me?

If it were not for you,

our previously harmonious family

wouldn't have ended like this!

This bitch!

Bitch!

You two have the nerve to blame me?

If it were not for you two

who irritated Master every day,

he wouldn't have died!

Are you doing fighting?

If you are,

it's my turn to talk now.

Actually, I believe you did not kill him.

But I need you to tell me

what happened that day.

We were having an internal shareholder meeting that day.

The meeting went fierce.

My sister and her almost had a fight.

Then we received a call from Mr. Zhang

saying something serious happened

and we needed to hurry home.

-Dad! -Daddy!

-Dad! -Daddy!

Daddy?

What's going on?

Dad!

How did this happen?

We were all on the verge of crashing.

Master!

We didn't know it until Mr. Zhang the butler told us that

when dad was still alive

he bought an insurance with huge amount of payout.

This is the insurance policy

Master bought for you guys.

Even if you don't want to do it for Master,

for the sake of the insurance,

you should team up to pull it off.

Zhou family's future depends on your guys.

So

for the insurance compensation,

we decided to

work together to stage the accidental death of my father.

You all know

what happened after that.

But we haven't known things before that.

Before that?

Don't you want to know

how your father died?

Didn't he die from a heart attack?

It looked like he died of a heart attack.

But after we did some tests,

in your father's body

we found excess amount of nitroglycerin.

What does this mean?

Nitroglycerin is commonly used

for treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease and angina pectoris.

It can also be used to lower blood pressure

or treatment of congestive heart failure.

But if overdosed,

it will cause a severe drop in blood pressure,

tachycardia, bradycardia,

palpitations, conduction block, and circulatory failure

which cause the death of the patient.

Inspector Qiao and I

found a prescription given last week

in your father's room.

According to the prescription

there should be fifty pills left in the pill bottle.

But there were only 27 pills left when we found it.

It means he took a serious overdose.

Of course it is possible that

he carried part of the pills with him

and then accidentally lost them.

So I let the coroner

test the gastric juice and blood in his stomach.

Generally speaking,

nitroglycerin is a sublingual medicine

which means it is dissolved and absorbed under the tongue.

So there should be medicine residue in the blood

while barely none in his stomach content.

But the results of Mr. Zhou's autopsy show

that there was a lot of nitroglycerin in his stomach.

So it means he took the pills by swallowing them.

Of course, if he wanted to commit suicide,

he could choose to swallow them.

But the test results of gastric juice showed that

the medicine was heated

before it entered the human body.

Why would a gourmet who loved delicious soup

make the soup bitter and hard to swallow

if he knew it would be the last meal he ever had?

Am I right?

Mr. Zhang?

Are you suspecting me?

I bought the casserole

when I saw it in the kitchen that day.

Guess what I found in it?

Nothing at all.

Clever.

Because after you slipped the medicine in it,

you definitely washed the dishes and the casserole vey hard.

Then what's the point of your speech?

Although you washed the casserole,

you forgot the lid.

The transpiration by the soup steam would

leave the residue on the lid.

The results show

a small trace of nitroglycerin remained on the lid.

But who can prove that I was the one who put the pills in it?

There were four people at home that day

who all had the opportunity to slip the medicine into the soup.

But three of them have alibis.

Do you have any alibi?

I…

No wonder!

You were alone with father that day.

It was Azhen's day off.

The other two servants were also sent away with an excuse by you.

When we got home,

father had already passed away.

When we were the most panic

and saddest,

it was also you!

You didn't let us call the police.

You…

You also took an insurance policy to seduce us.

You are so coldblooded, Mr. Zhang!

Actually, if you didn't try to set them up,

there was the possibility that they would give false testimony to help you get away.

When did I try to set them up?

Youning made a special trip to the insurance company .

You handled the insurance paperwork from start to finish.

Mr. Zhou never showed up.

His signature was also

imitated by you.

And that policy.

You put it in a very obvious place

just to let us find it, right?

So the butler did it

to frame them for the murder?

Yes.

And not only this insurance policy.

The leads including the son graduating from Imperial College of London,

him ordering fireworks and gadgets from abroad,

and Dazhou Department being on the verge of bankruptcy

were all given to me by him on purpose.

His purpose was to lead us

to investigate the three insurance beneficiaries.

This piece of insurance policy

instantly made

the three of them the biggest suspects.

If they were convicted of murder,

the rest of the Zhou family's property

would be as good as in your hands.

The saying is true that we get wiser as we get older.

Mr. Zhang.

My father had always been kind to you when he was alive.

Why would you do this?

Kind to me?

I have been faithful and devoted all my life

to work for your Zhou family.

When he reached the end of his life, he left me nothing.

I wanted to borrow some money from your father

to buy a house in my hometown and spend the rest of my life.

Not only did he refuse my request,

but he also scolded me,

saying I tried to take advantage of him while he was in difficulty.

After what I had done for him for the past thirty years,

how could he treat me even worse than treating a dog?

What I regret the most now is

why I didn't kill him earlier.

And you guys.

You are extravagant and obscene with evil intentions.

None of you is a nice person!

If I had known I would be caught anyway,

I would have killed all of you!

No one could survive!

You will rot in hell!

Guys, since this is a murder,

this accident insurance…

The murderer is the butler like I said.

You are going to pay for the rent this month.

No! The evidences are not conclusive enough!

I need more time!

Are you nervous?

I am Okay.

But your hands are shaking.

When you see my sister,

you will be nervous, too.

Don't panic.

We'll cross the bridge when we come to it.

She can't take you away because I am here.

Or should I go with you to show some support?

OK.

No, it's alright.

You two will get into a fight.

Ok. Take care.

Go for it!

Are you really going with me?

Wait for me to put on some makeup!

Bravo.

Awesome!

Now I need a person to cooperate with me

to finish my next magic show.

No. 43.

The person who drew No. 43, please stand up.

It's him. This kid.

So lucky.

Grandpa?

Go on. It's okay.

Grandpa will be watching you perform under the stage.

Go.

Go.

It won't be dangerous for the person inside, right?

Don't worry. There is a safe space in the middle of the box.

The same old trick

with every magician.

Look, there is blood coming out!

What's going on?

Is the kid okay?

Wait, wait, what's going on?

Open the box!

Chen, don't be afraid!

You'll be out right away.

Where's the key?

The key!

Is he alright?

Chen, don't be afraid!

Chen, don't be afraid.

Step aside!

Yeah.

Something really went wrong?

What's wrong? What's going on?

Don't move!

Where is the boy?

Where is Chen?

Who opened fire?

I did.

Pass on my order to seal the whole theater.

Block all the exits.

No one is allowed to leave the theater!

Sis.

What took you so long?

Being late is a very bad behavior.

You forgot what I taught you before?

Sorry.

We got stuck in the traffic jam.

We didn't mean to be late.

Who is this lady?

Bai Youning, reporter of Xinyue Daily.

I am his girlfriend.

Umm…

Don't "umm".

Sis, nice to meet you.

Let me make some introductions.

This is the Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Council

Mr. Brian Anderson.

Pleased to meet you.

This is my younger brother Harry Lu.

He's another Cambridge man.

Really? What school are you from?

Trinity. How about you?

King's College.

We have the edge on you King's on rowing and fencing.

You guys are also better at skipping classes and chasing girls.

And who's this lovely young lady?

Grace Bai. Nice to meet you.

I am his girlfriend.

Really? Well, he is a lucky guy.

Please, let's sit.

Miss Bai, if I can presume to ask you.

How long have you been together?

Not long in term of time, but since we're deeply in love,

it's like we've been dating for ages.

With all due respect,

I don't think my father would agree

him to marry a gangster's daughter.

What are you talking about?

She was right.

My dad is indeed a gangster.

Only in this modern age,

parents' arrangement

can no longer

determine how a relationship goes.

What do you think can determine it?

Love, of course.

I love him and he loves me.

That's all we need.

What if our family objects?

What are you guys doing?

You are crazy!

You can choose to kill me,

or kill him.

We'll be together

until death do us apart.

So bold, Miss Bai.

You are a daughter of a gangster.

To be fair,

let's take turn to fire.

The one who survives can take Lu Yao with her.

It's your turn.

Youning, don't do stupid things!

This is a very dangerous game.

Please stop right now.

It's fine. I'm sure she doesn't dare.

Now it's your turn.

Sis?

It's all my fault!

It's all my fault!

I'll go home with you, OK?

I knew you two are here.

What are you doing here?

A new case, of course.

Qiao, help me persuade them both!

Both of them are crazy!

What are you playing?

Russian Roulette.

What's the stake?

Him.

The living person takes him home.

Let me be a part of it.

What's going on?

I knew

it's an unloaded gun from the sound of it.

You guys…

She did it.

But you knew it from the beginning right?

Of course!

if I can't tell such a simple trick,

I would be blind.

You guys ganged up to trick me!

It was a practical joke.

It's not funny!

Lu Yao!

Sis, this is Shanghai.

No one can take him away

without my permission.

Irene, what the hell are you doing?

Anderson,

given the many years of our friendship,

please help my brother get away from them.

Did you get scared?

What's the problem with Youning?

Why did she mess with my sister?

Your sister messed with her first.

She pulled out the gun first.

Only because your sister embarrassed her.

Youning grew up in the underworld.

How could she allow anyone to disrespect her?

I was terribly terrified.

I can't solve any case now.

I just need you to take a look.

My legs are weak now. I can't stand stably.

The child disappearing on the stage is Shen Changzai's grandson.

Who?

A big medicine dealer in Zhabei District.

He and Mr. Bai are friends.

He's also a famous tycoon in Shanghai.

Chusheng, we haven't met for a long time.

You were there at the time it happened?

Yes, I was sitting right here.

I watched the kid on that stage

disappear into thin air

with my own eyes!

Once it happened,

I immediately sealed the whole theater.

We checked every corner on stage.

There is no any mechanism.

We also searched

every corner of the place,

but couldn't find the child.

I personally questioned and checked

the whole audience.

Even a tiny fly can't fly out of the theater,

let alone a child.

What's going on?

The magics are just tricks.

But somehow it

became reality!

So the secret of this magic show

is to put a person in this safe area of the box.

The sword runs through the box but won't touch the person.

Right?

Yes.

And the blood on the ground was from the blood bag.

I don't know where this was from.

Was the person coming to the stage randomly picked?

Yes.

Can I see the draw box?

Go get the draw box.

OK.

Something's not right.

I put the numbers in the draw box myself.

They were not like that at the time.

Inspector Qiao.

All the draws in this box

are No. 43.

It seems that this is a premeditated kidnapping.

I think they kidnapped this kid for money.

No.43?

That was where I was supposed to sit!

At the time, Mr. Shen wanted to sit next to his grandson.

So I changed my seat with the kid.

You are?

My name is Jiang Yuandao, Police Chief

of Zhabei Branch of Shanghai Police Department.

Zhabei?

The former police chief murdered his colleague.

We solved the case.

Yeah!

I took office after that case.

Who else had access to this box?

Everyone at the backstage.

Ok.

Bring all of them back to my department

to exact confessions by torture.

I don't think so.

Zhabei is China's territory.

This case is in the Concession's jurisdiction.

Let me try them.

Great.

Chusheng, I will hand it over to you now.

Let's go.

Let's go.

We have no evidence.

Wouldn't it cross the line to arrest so many people at once?

The person involved in the case has a very sensitive identity.

Jiang Yuandao has connections

with the British people of Manson Club.

So we have to tread carefully this time

so not to leave anything for them to use against us.

What is this?

Show list.

No. 1: Three cups.

No.2: Blank papers turn into money?

I like this one.

It's a simple trick you can do with bare hands. Do you want to learn it?

I can teach you.

You know how to do magic tricks?

When I was a busker at the dock,

I would set up a stall, do two tricks and earn my meal money for a day.

Can you suspend in the air?

It's done by some mechanism. It's not difficult.

The principle is similar to Nine Rings.

Teleport?

This needs special props.

That kid disappeared exactly on this show.

Guys.

Take all the props here back to the police station.

I'll study them thoroughly!

You haven't gone to bed yet?

I was waiting for you.

Why?

I was worried about you.

you've been drinking?

Just a little bit.

Your sister didn't harass you later, right?

I went out to handle the case.

She didn't follow me there.

I was a little impulsive tonight.

Are you angry with me?

So what if I am?

I can't beat you, right?

I just don't like

how she bossed you around.

She is your sister, not your mother.

Who gave her the right to control your life?

My mother was often away from home when I was little.

Actually my sister treated me very well.

Don't be too harsh on her.

She also bosses my brothers around,

no matter how high his ranking has become.

She would scold us if she saw something she didn't like.

She wouldn't take care of your feelings.

When you didn't talk back when you were scolded at home,

that means you have a big heart and care for your family members.

But if she dares to humiliate you when you are already out in the world,

I'll…

Who moved this box back?

People at Zhabei Police Station, why?

Someone swapped the box.

I checked the blood on the bottom of the box before.

It was different from this.

Do you mean there is a mole among the police?

Mister Geppetto?

Pinocchio.

What?

Mister Geppetto is a carpenter.

He created Pinocchio.

This should be the signature of the prop maker.

Take this to confirm one by one

to anyone who can make this prop in Shanghai!

Did you find the child?

Of course not.

Otherwise why would we still detain you?

I am a magician, not a sorcerer!

I don't have the ability to make a child really disappear.

My people checked

the wooden box as your magic prop.

You ordered it from a carpenter of Lintong Road.

This is your order.

Yes.

What's wrong with a magician ordering props?

But you ordered two identical boxes.

One for performance and one for backup.

But we only found one box.

What I saw on the stage was one box

and it was the other one who was moved to the police station.

Don't you think this is strange?

I didn't move the box.

If you have any questions,

go find the one who moved the box.

You're eloquent.

Mr. Lu, I had countless witnesses

when I was doing the magic on stage.

I was detained and

have been in the police station after the incident.

If you really want to convict me,

you should first figure out the means

and time of the kidnapping, right?

After all, magic show is not really magic.

I have no ability to make people really disappear.

As a suspect

you are too calm.

Is it guilty to be calm?

You had thought about all the countermeasures before you were brought here,

right?

Mr. Lu, I have long heard about you.

You have solved many big cases in just six months.

Did you rely on your mouth to solve them?

This person is a lot tougher to deal with than I thought.

Did he do it?

Of course!

But he would never speak

before we show him evidence.

And according to the rules of the Concession,

We have to let him go

in the next 24 hours at most.

Hello.

How is your interrogation going?

Did you find any leads?

This person is a bit difficult to deal with.

Did you play hardball on him?

He's a famous magician.

The media will criticize the police

if we torture him without evidence.

You Concession has too many rules.

You can't do this and can't do that.

Why not transfer the suspect to Zhabei?

But…

Ok.

Such kind a suspect should be dealt with some tough means!

Take him with you

and really teach him a lesson.

Good.

Then I will go through the paperwork

to transfer Wang Tiancheng to my precinct.

OK, I'll go through the paperwork.

Why?

Now the investigation is stuck.

We have no evidence nor a direction.

The prop box was swapped by them.

The only way to see some changes in the case

is to hand over the suspect to them for trial.

There will be a turning point if there are changes.

I don't want to eat pan fried pork buns ever again.

Do you have any other suggestion?

I have no appetite actually.

Nice car!

Rolls-Royce.

It's Jiang Yuandao's.

A deputy chief of a police station is so rich?

Zhabei's police officers have a lot of extra incomes.

Then what are you still doing in the Concession?

Apply for a transfer!

I will follow you there.

That is a footprint over there, right?

A footprint of this size?

There are traces of crayons in the car.

And bubble gum, too.

There were children in the car.

Not child, children.

Does he have children?

Let's go and find out.

You think Jiang Yuandao is fishy?

He is No. 43.

The kidnappers were targeting at him from the beginning.

I guarantee there must be a clue in his house.

He is a fellow policer officer, and his rank is not low.

I don't think it's appropriate to issue a search warrant against him.

What gift do you usually give

to your fellow policer officer?

You are?

Hello.

I am Qiao Chusheng, the Inspector of the Concession Police Station.

This is my consultant, Mr. Lu Yao.

Sorry, Yuandao is not at home at the moment.

We know he is a busy man.

We just want to come

to say thank you.

Come in.

Mrs. Jiang,

this is a wild turtle.

We specially brought it to Chief Jiang as a gift.

Where is the kitchen?

Over there.

OK.

We had a kidnapping case that we failed

so it was handed over to Yuandao.

He took the blame for us.

Chief Jiang is capable and courageous.

It is not accidental that he got where he is today.

You're flattering him.

Is this your daughter?

Yeah, she's seven years old.

Her name is Zhao.

Is she at home?

No. She's with my mom now.

When did she leave?

Just left yesterday.

Came back in two days

I don't believe you.

Both the toy container and the toys are covered in dust.

The dishes on the table haven't been put away for days.

How long has the girl been gone?

You guys…

We are Yuandao 's friends.

If anything happened,

you can tell us.

We will do whatever we can to help you.

My Zhao was kidnapped.

They said we can't tell anyone,

or they will kill her.

That's why Chief Jiang is not home today.

He's busy dealing with this matter.

Yuandao said he has everything under control and

he can save our daughter back.

I appreciate your offer to help.

But please

don't get involved in this thing.

I'm afraid you might only make things worse.

Zhao is not the only kid who was kidnapped.

Even the grandson of Mr. Shen was also kidnapped.

He disappeared on the stage

in front of so many audience members.

This kidnappers are very smart and very thoughtful.

We are worried that Chief Jiang

might be able to beat the kidnappers on his own.

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