Ghost dragon of cold mountain (Hon Saan Chim Lung / Han Shan Qian Long / 寒山潛龍 / 寒山潜龙)

How's the Ha Lin case going?

Ha Lin never went to Sau-kuk's house.

There are only two possibilities.

Either she has fled or something has happened to her.

Ha Lin, Sau-kuk and Kwai-lan must somehow be related.

Kwai-cheung shouldn't have died.

He was injured and he made it to the derelict temple.

A kindhearted man dressed his wound for him and so a medicinal bottle was left behind.

Come out...

Come on...

Run...

Wake up...

Get him...

I am not going, unless we go together...

You are a pest...

Let's fight our way out.

Freeze!

Phecda Bureau here!

You are being surrounded. Stop resisting!

Come on...

Go...

Watch out!

Let go!

You baldie! You call this hair?

Why can't I call you baldie?

Baldie!

Want to hit back?

Baldie...

Come on, stop it!

Don't upset yourself.

Come on, why tire yourself out?

Take them all back. Yes!

Come on... Get up...

Come on, baldie!

Lucky you. The Trilling Beauty you took came out with your vomit.

Ho Sau-kuk's not that lucky.

She took Trilling Beauty before she died.

You know it very well.

I have nothing to do with it.

You are the only one in Fa Yim Lau that has Trilling Beauty.

Don't you deny it!

Yes, the Trilling Beauty was mine.

But I didn't kill her.

Who else but you?

I had no feud with Sau-kuk, why would I have killed her?

Trilling Beauty is expensive.

I myself use it sparingly.

I got it! She stole it from me. She stole it!

It's not bird's nest!

You must have fallen out with her,

so you fed her Trilling Beauty to make her lose her mind.

And others would think she's possessed.

Then no one would suspect you.

Am I right?

I am a good person. Why should I kill?

Why do you all insist on framing me?

Who framed you?

Ha Lin.

Sau-kuk, you should have asked me for it.

I'd teach you how to use it.

Then it wouldn't have happened.

Save it! You killed her with your aphrodisiac.

She stole it from me and met this end.

Maybe you killed her and framed it on me.

Sweet soup treat? How nice of you.

You fed her laced sweet soup.

Yes, it's my treat.

But you handled the soup too.

Maybe you laced it to kill her.

Report me if you dare.

Believe me, Ha Lin is suspicious too.

But she is missing. It's your one-sided story.

Cheung-sing, Ha Lin's body was found by the slope.

Chuen-kung is examining her.

Ha Lin's dead too?

You silenced her?

No! Don't frame me!

I have to receive patrons every day in Fa Yim Lau,

I haven't set foot outside.

Whatever, you are the prime suspect.

You are put under custody until the truth is known.

Take her back. Yes.

Come on.

I'm innocent...I didn't do it... Go...

Chuen-kung, what killed her?

A two inch knife wound on her stomach.

It's a fatal stab.

You find Li Kwai-lan suspicious?

There has to be a reason for that first.

But she has no motivation

I turned the screw on her and she went berserk.

I don't think she could kill and dispose the body.

And she never left Fa Yim Lau.

She used the Trilling Beauty to keep her patrons only.

Cheung-sing, we've checked.

Where the body was disposed of is en route to Sau-kuk's house.

Ha Lin must have been ambushed on her way to relate Sau-kuk's death.

So it's done by an acquaintance.

What made you think so?

Her purse and hairpins were not taken away, so it's not robbery.

There's no sign of struggling because she never expected it.

It never crossed her mind that killer would harm her.

That's why she had this bewildered look.

The killer had a guilty conscience,

and so pulled her skirt over her eyes before burying her.

One killer or more than one?

One only. You can tell from Ha Lin's worn out shoes.

Kwong. Yes.

You play the deceased.

Yuen, you the killer.

You are a woman. Now you have to put the body into the hole.

What will you do?

Dead.

If I were a woman, I wouldn't be strong enough.

I'd have to drag it with two hands.

See? That's why the two soles were worn out.

An acquaintance?

Li Kwai-lan and Ha Lin were bosom friends,

Chun-mui, Chau-yuet and Tung-yee all knew about Ha Lin's disappearance.

The loop is tightened.

The Trilling Beauty case's cracked.

Then came this brothel serial killing.

Tai-lik and Yeung Mau have to stay in Fa Yim Lau longer still.

Let me add, the murder weapon was probably a dagger.

Tell them to keep an eye for it.

Choi...

Go inform Tai-lik.

Get to work. Yes.

There' still one mystery. What's the motivation?

For men, money and/or girls; for women, money and/or lovers.

There's nothing else.

You are right.

It's said Chau-yuet was your old flame.

How did you know?

The grapevine is always buzzing.

Fa Yim Lau

Nothing on the bed.

Try the closet. Alright.

Tung-yee, Chun-mui, come over here.

This hairpin is Ha Lin's mother's legacy

She cherishes it very much.

If she had meant to flee, she would have taken it with her.

Maybe she didn't want to raise suspicion.

Maybe...someone killed her and took it away.

You suspect me?

You are the smiling backstabber.

I'd say you killed her.

You called her a fool and you wanted to have it to yourself.

If I had already got it, I would have left long ago.

You both shut up. What if people hear us?

What's it they were talking about?

What could make the girls kill?

What is that thing they were talking about?

Tai-lik...

What?

What's wrong with you?

You have been this absent-minded since you came back from the warehouse.

Are you not feeling well?

I'm fine...maybe it's too stuffy in the closet and it made me dizzy...

What is this?

From a patron.

They usually give jewellery, not portraits.

Who's he?

It's irrelevant. Let's go back to the case.

No, we have to make it clear first.

How come I didn't know about this patron?

When did you meet?

I was by your side all the time. I know about all your patrons.

When did he give it to you? How come I didn't know him?

Is this an interrogation? How does that concern you?

It's risky. Of course it concerns me.

What risk?

We are working on a case,

some misstep and it'll put us at risk.

That's why we have to be very careful, or we'll be in danger.

That's it? But you have me. Don't worry.

Still, tell me every detail, or I'll report it?

Is that necessary?

It'll bore you. Just tell me.

That day you went to debrief Cheung-sing.

It was full house that night.

The house is full. Help out with the patrons.

Miss, what's your name?

Yin-yu.

As misty rain?

The Moon shies away from the misty rain. High up by the cloud the jade tower reigns.

You are so talented.

Bravo... Great couplet...

My toast to you.

That's it. Just another patron. Nothing special.

A scholar visiting a brothel? He can't be a good person.

No, he's made to come.

See? You are taking his side. Nothing special?

I said "no" and it's "no".

Oh yes, Cheung-sing wants a meeting.

He does?

Come on...

So it means,Ha Lin took that thing with her,

and the killer made use of the chance to get it from her.

Chau-yuet and Chun-mei blame each other, Tung-yee is a fence-sitter.