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Look, trust me. I'll sort it.

'Cause that's what you pay me for.

Look, Jonah Mulray's a fucking lecturer.

We've got nothing to worry about.

Okay.

Lau, there's something I have to tell you.

Your dad and I, we-we found out what happened to your mum,

why she was killed.

Xiadong Xo.

I know.

I know he's my...

No, he doesn't get to call himself my dad.

(sniffles)

He's a murderer.

Nothing more.

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(elevator doors open)

JONAH: We're here to see Arthur Bach.

Xiadong Xo was a powerful man even before he ran for office.

If... no, when he wins the election,

he is not the kind of person you would wish to cross.

If the police are involved...

They're involved.

These kinds of accusations,

you have to be very careful who you say them to.

He had my wife killed.

He had her father killed.

I believe you.

JONAH: Oh, I should imagine you do.

I know what you did.

You and Sally.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You've got my wife's blood on your hands,

so do not sit here and fucking lie to me!

Believe me, it makes me sick to my stomach

to have to come here and ask you, of all people, for help.

But we need somewhere safe.

And there's nowhere else.

You'll be protected here.

Both of you.

Oh, it's the least you can do.

What about the man who killed my dad?

Ah, well, um, did you see him?

Thanks.

Hey.

Thanks for coming. I appreciate it.

(door closes)

You're staying here?

For now, yeah.

Please.

So what's all this about?

JONAH: We need you to get a story out there.

I don't care how you do it. The Web, international press,

somewhere that it won't be hidden.

What-what story?

Xiadong Xo is responsible

for the deaths of Megan Harris,

Ben Torres and David Chen.

David's...?

I'm sorry.

I know your dad and I had our differences.

Don't need your pity.

I need you to help us.

Tell me how I can.

20 years ago, Xiadong Xo raped my mother.

Piece of shit's my dad.

Three weeks ago, Arthur Bach

and Sally Porter persuaded Megan to blackmail Xo.

Uh, she went over there and she threatened to reveal

what he'd done to her.

He paid her off, hush money.

And then something went wrong.

He changed his mind.

He hired a guy called Kai Huang to kill her.

Oh, Jesus.

And that's not all. There's another guy involved.

H-He kidnapped Lau, and he's the guy that killed David.

Okay, w-wait, wait, wait. J-Just slow down.

I want to help.

I do.

These are really serious allegations.

Do you have any proof?

Me. Do a DNA test.

Y-Yeah, combined with a paper trail

that leads all the way back to Xo.

Look, if you talk to Sally,

she'll confirm everything I just said.

Now, I don't think we're safe until this gets out there.

I need to find the right people who will print this,

verify this paper trail you're talking about.

It's got to check out.

That's gonna take time.

Yeah, we'll... we'll stay here.

Tell me about this paper trail.

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(keyboard clacking)

(sniffles)

(phone ringing)

(exhales)

Hello?

Yeah, I just wanted to speak to her, before she went to bed.

She went to sleep an hour ago.

Oh, sorry, I must have, um, lost track of the time.

Working late?

Yeah, working on a story, as always.

I know you don't believe this,

but I really am sorry it had to be like this.

(chuckles): You're not sorry.

If you were sorry, you wouldn't have screwed me over.

You think I want my daughter growing up without a father?

You left me no choice.

Yeah, well, we all get what's coming to us.

I'm pretty sure you're gonna get what's coming to you

in the next 24 hours.

What are you talking about?

Just keep an eye on the news.

Your boss is heading into a shit storm.

And that boat you've been sailing?

It's about to have its sails ripped clean off.

(phone clatters)

(dial tone beeping)

(exhales)

(barge horn blows)

Everyone will know who I am.

If you don't want people to know, just say the word,

and we can stop the story coming out.

We don't have a choice, do we?

I want Xo to go to prison.

I'm sorry.

(sighs)

(birds chirping)

(breathing unsteadily)

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(grunts)

(phones ringing)

(indistinct chatter)

This situation has never happened before,

but the guidelines suggest nothing changes.

If a candidate withdraws at the very last minute...

You're up. Good.

Voting continues without disruption.

-What's going on? -Xo was found dead this morning.

It has been a roller coaster election.

Bastard hanged himself.

Jesus.

There was a suicide note at the scene.

A confession of some sort.

We've heard through the grapevine here

that it's bad.

Putting two and two together,

it has to be what you told me about.

Full confession, why? Why now?

Christ knows.

I assume he knew the game was up.

That this would all come out.

So everyone's gonna know what he did.

Well, no.

The chances of that confession becoming public are pretty slim.

But look at it this way.

The man who took your wife from you is dead.

You're safe.

You and that girl.

Where is she? Where is Lau?

Gone home, early this morning, my staff said.

It's over, Mr. Mulray.

And it's time for you to go home, too.

Just here, thanks.

Thank you.

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(phone ringing)

Mr. Mulray.

Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long.

No problem. I really appreciate you seeing me.

Um, I didn't really know who else to go to.

Yeah, I heard about David. Is it true?

Yeah, I'm afraid it is. I'm sorry.

My wife had a flat at Po Toi O Bay.

I was keeping a few things there.

I just went round to pick them up,

and the place had been burned down.

Po Toi O Bay?

Yeah. It would have been in the last couple of days.

Here it is.

Fire report...

What is it?

Well, this report says it was arson.

Someone set light to the building deliberately.

You have any idea who that might be?

(knocking on door)

(knocking rapidly)

(knocking continues)

(shouts in Cantonese)

Hey. Can I come in?

Sorry to miss you this morning. You left so early.

Did you hear about Xo?

Don't know how anyone could miss it.

What a coward.

Yeah, he was.

I went to Megan's flat in Po Toi O Bay

to pick up my stuff, and, uh...

it had burned to the ground, someone torched it.

Why would anyone do that?

The man who killed my dad's still out there.

(sighs)

Megan's message sent me to that flat. Sent us.

She wanted us to find it.

-Why? -(scoffs)

I don't know.

I've missed something.

Why pay her off and then have her killed?

(exhales sharply)

Could I, um...

Could I see the passports? Do you-- do you have them?

(closes drawer)

Thanks.

You've seen these already.

Yeah.

The names.

She wanted us to find the names.

A UK immigration stamp.

Three weeks before she died.

So, the last time I saw her,

she traveled back, using this passport.

Trying it out, maybe?

Yeah. Probably, yeah.

Do you mind if I keep these?

-Do what you want with them. -Thanks.

I'm really sorry to bother you with all this.

(stammers)

Are you gonna be okay?

Yeah. Fine.

(children yelling playfully)

(phone ringing and buzzing)

-JONAH (on phone): Emma. -Jonah, where the hell have you been?

I've been worried about you.

Yeah, I'm okay. Listen,

I want you to do me a favor.

I want you to go to my place

and take a look in Megan's office.

-(kids shouting) -You two be quiet.

Okay. What am I looking for?

Paperwork in the name of Megan Walker.

Jonah, what's going on?

I promise you I will explain everything when I get back.

But can you just do that for me, please?

Yeah. Let me just get the kids off.

-Yeah, of course. -Great. Thank you, thank you.

Conrad Davis.

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(phone ringing)

Yeah, Em, are you there?

Hi. I'm there. Just walking up to unit 2110 now.

Okay, tell me what you see.

-Okay. Hang on. -(keys jingle)

There's a box here.

Okay, what's in it?

Um...

There's lots of photos.

Pictures of a girl.

Can you take a picture of one of them? Send me a text.

Yeah, I think that's Lau.

That's Megan's daughter.

Christ.

There's all kinds of things in here.

-Schoolbooks, first drawings. -Is that all?

Yeah.

I'm sorry, were you expecting something else?

No, it's okay. Thank you, Emma.

I promise you I'll explain everything

as soon as I get back.

Hang on.

(car horn honks)

What is it?

There's a USB here.

It says "Po Toi O" on it.

(siren wailing)

MICHAEL: Did your sister e-mail over the file?

Well, everything was on the stick, yeah.

Your friend Sally Porter-- she's nowhere to be found.

What about her and the paper trail?

Third Empire?

No, everyone's just waiting to see what happens

with this suicide.

Here we go.

That's the flat in Po Toi O Bay.

She recorded the meeting.

Turn up.

(Xo sighs)

JONAH: This doesn't really make any sense.

Sally told me she wouldn't even wear a wire.

She was so scared of being caught.

Maybe that's just what she told the consulate.

You all right there?

Maybe she had her own agenda.

I take it, uh,

you didn't ask me here just to sit in silence.

MEGAN: You know who I am.

I got your message.

MEGAN: 20 years ago, there was a party at Kowloon Tower.

You'd just bought the building.

(Xo grunts)

Do you remember what you did to me that night?

Do you remember raping me?

You okay?

Been so worried.

I'm sorry. I needed to be on my own.

It's been...

My dad's gone. He's dead.

God.

-(crying) -What?

I should have told you earlier.

What do you mean?

They told me to take something of yours.

They had my arrest records. They...

They gave me no choice, and...

they wanted something with your DNA on.

What did I do, Lau? Is-is it my fault?

No.

The people who took me...

...they already knew who I was.

It had nothing to do with you.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

No more lies, okay?

I've had enough of those.

This brings an end to matters?

MEGAN: Well, when I've got your money, that'll be that.

(chuckles)

(phone ringing on video)

What? (speaking Cantonese)

I think I understand what he's saying.

What?

What is it?

(birds chirping)

What's so important?

I haven't seen you this early

in a long time.

-I have to talk to you about Xo. -He's dead.

So your story, whatever it is you were gonna write,

doesn't matter anymore, does it?

There's a recording.

Meeting between Xo and Megan Harris.

There's this moment when he's about to leave,

and he gets a call.

He's pretty upset, starts shouting and screaming.

That call was from you.

The recording doesn't have your end of the call, of course,

but it's easy enough to work out what's being said.

You knew about the meeting with Megan, and you were angry.

And Xo starts yelling at you, saying,

"You work for me and not the other way around."

-Any of that sound familiar? -Yeah.

Xo was acting strangely, so I had him followed

to some run-down flat in Po Toi O Bay.

See, I think you found out about a payment Xo made,

via a shell company, Third Empire.

A payout to Megan to buy her silence.

Where's this going?

Why would Xo pay Megan and then have her killed?

The money's sitting in her account,

waiting to be traced right back to him.

Just doesn't make sense,

not if he was acting alone.

He wasn't, was he?

Ten years,

Xo didn't do anything that you didn't suggest.

Why would this be any different?

He raped Megan, but everything else was you,

wasn't it?

Publish any of this shit and I will sue you.

This isn't about a bloody story.

I want Mae.

-Full custody. -(scoffs)

You get this. Jonah Mulray found it.

It's got all the conversations

between Xo and Megan Harris.

And I just want my daughter.

You can have this and you can...

do whatever you want with it.

Full custody.

All those people-- Megan, Ben Torres--

all to protect a rapist?

We just... wanted it to be taken care of,

so we made a call. It's all we did.

If Conrad hadn't passed it to some Triad...

I didn't ask him to kill anyone.

Did you change, Rach?

Or were you always like this and I just didn't see it?

Look after our daughter.

(USB clatters on ground)

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-Did you...? -It's on there.

Thank you.

I know how difficult that must've been.

I'll get this to someone we can trust.

You think you know someone, huh?

All those years married to her.

Yeah.

Believe me, I know.

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Rachel Hargreaves, you're under arrest.

(phone ringing)

Hello.

SALLY (over phone): Jonah, don't hang up.

Where are you?

-Does it matter? -I suppose not.

Did you hear about David Chen?

-No. -He died.

None of this was supposed to have happened.

I thought everyone would get what they wanted,

including Megan.

You didn't want justice for her, you wanted Xo in your pocket.

-But Megan knew that. -What do you mean?

Oh, she was smart.

She recorded the meeting with Xo.

That's why she had the passports made up.

In case she needed a way out.

I wanted the same for her, Jonah, I honestly did.

But Arthur, he had his own agenda with Xo.

Right. Arthur Bach.

And where's he right now?

Just another day in the office for him, I suppose?

I don't think so.

What do you mean?

I kept a record, Jonah.

Everything we did.

Covered. We can move onto the commercial construction...

SALLY: And you know what?

Blackmail is frowned on no matter what country you're in.

Uh, there seems to be some kind of discrepancy

between their figures...

SALLY: There is no happy ending for him.

JONAH: Meanwhile,

you're still walking around.

I wanted it to be over.

You think I'd have carried on if I'd known that Ben would...

He thought that I was having an affair.

He must have followed me and seen Megan,

and that's what the meeting was about.

(sirens wailing in distance)

If only I'd talked to him, that...

If you're looking for forgiveness,

I'm afraid I'm all out.

No, I don't. I...

School isn't finished.

We're gonna take a bit of a holiday.

Where's Mum?

(grunts) Thank you.

Are you okay?

I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be asking you that question.

-(laughs) -I'm fine.

(grunts)

Let's go and get some ice cream.

MAE: I don't think I like ice cream anymore.

MICHAEL: What about... poo on a stick? (laughs)

-MAE: No! -You don't want poo on a stick?

-MAE: No! -It's delicious.

(chuckles)

(indistinct chatter)

What do you want?

I just want to know why.

For Xo.

For a man I believed in.

A man I loved.

Megan was supposed to be your friend.

You say that like I don't know.

Yes, we were friends.

But Xo was a father to me.

I had no choice.

Nothing ever works out how you plan, does it?

My ex shows me a photograph of Megan and Ben Torres, and...

...I panicked.

You had people killed.

Abducted a 19-year-old girl.

That man you hired-- Conrad.

He was taken into police custody a few hours ago.

He's a practical man, apparently.

He's talking about all the things you hired him to do.

About all the people he paid.

And it all leads back to Xo and you.

I kept wondering why you stayed.

You're not a detective.

(sniffles)

You're nothing.

But then I realized,

it wasn't about what happened to Megan.

You wanted to find out who she loved.

You or David.

Even after all this,

you still don't know.

And you will never know.

You're as clueless as when you first set foot in this country.

(lock buzzes)

♪ ♪

How was it?

Pretty much as I expected.

LAU: Felix called.

That man Conrad.

He's told them where he buried my dad.

JONAH: Christ.

That's something.

When's your flight?

Not until later on tonight.

Good. There's something I'd like to do.

If, I mean, if you don't mind.

Of course.

JONAH: Um, I suppose we should say s-something?

LAU: If you like.

(speaks Cantonese)

Namo Amituofo, Namo Amituofo.

What does that mean?

"Turn around and rely on infinite awakening."

It's from the Buddhist funeral chant.

Mum never... she never went to temple.

But my dad, he went all the time.

I'm saying it for him.

She was lucky to have you, Lau.

You, too.

I wish I understood why.

How Mum could do that to Dad... to you.

Have you ever wanted to be somebody else?

All the time.

Well, maybe that's what I was to her.

She'd kept that secret about who your real father was

from your dad for so long,

maybe it was all just too much.

She came to England, and she saw me as a chance

to start again.

So why didn't she do that?

She married you, but she stayed with us.

All the arguments they'd have...

the separate rooms... but she stayed.

You must have wondered.

(laughs softly): Yeah.

No, I think about it all the time.

I'd never change the time we had.

Speaking of which, I should go.

I want to stay here a while.

Okay.

Um, here's my contact details.

E-mail, phone number, address.

Any time, anything, please don't hesitate.

I'd really, well, I'd love it if we could stay in touch.

Thank you.

Maybe come visit?

S-See the house she lived in and...

I'd like that.

Okay.

You take care.

(bell ringing)

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