Raising The Bar / Quid Pro Quo / 四个女仔三个BAR

Your house is really big.

It's not as big as Evil King's castle.

That's because you're not Evil King. You're just Fan Che-yin.

Wow, it's really beautiful here.

This is my bedroom.

I'm definitely going to win...Hey. Look. We lost.

We won.

Is she your friend?

Yes.

Hello, Uncle. My name's Gigi.

Are you two having a feast or a masquerade?

I did the makeup. Doesn't it look good?

It does. But you need to tidy up the place.

OK.

Uncle Woody, can you not tell Dad and Mom about this?

Are you intimidating the witness?

Here we are. Get out of the car.

You can stay as long as you like. No one will bother you.

Do you need to call home?

No.

Do you know where the frying pan is?

I do.

You do know where it is.

I actually manage this household.

The two people who have gone on a holiday are the kids.

Big shot.

I'll eat the smaller piece and you eat the bigger one.

How well do you want it done?

Medium.

Why didn't you ask Gigi to stay for dinner?

She has something else to go to.

Where did you meet her? Does your mom know her?

They've met before. She's my primary school classmate.

Uncle Woody, do I look really short standing next to her?

No. Why? Have you fallen for her?

Don't make it so salty. Use table salt.

Table salt and cooking salt are equally salty.

I bought a new kind of Verbena. Try it.

OK.

There's a new toothbrush and a new towel in the bathroom.

It'll be cool tonight. I got you a summer quilt.

The water has boiled. Let me make tea.

I've already put the verbena in the cups.

Ah...

It's like that in the countryside. Insects come in and out freely.

Are you serious?

Do I need to stay here and be your security guard tonight

before you'll believe that?

How do I know if you're a good guy, Mr Security Guard?

Fine. I'll leave you here tonight so you can sleep with my friends.

No. You're not allowed to sleep tonight.

I don't care. You can't let any of your friends fly into my room.

OK, your highness. Sleep well inside tonight

I'll be your guard outside. Call me if you need anything.

Ngai: Sorry for what happened today.

Ngai: Call me when you get there.

Be careful since you're travelling alone in a foreign place.

Woody: Marcus, I spoke to Law Chun-fai about his deception ease.

He's decided to appeal.

I'll arrange a meeting with him when you're back in Hong Kong.

Hello, Woody...

Ngai: Call me when you get there. Be careful since you're travelling alone.

I've arrived already. Don't...

I'm safe. Don't worry.

What's the matter? You're not used to sleeping on the bed?

No. I came to see whether my guard was goofing off.

And I caught you reading here.

Yes. It's especially nice to sit on this bench.

Because I made it myself.

You made this?

Don't think it's just a bench. It actually took a lot of effort to make it.

I took a lot of hard work to plane the wood.

It can hold a person who weighs more than 300 pounds.

What kind of person are you? You even made a bench yourself?

It's too convenient to buy everything.

I like slowing down sometimes and making something with my own hands.

I want to enjoy the creative process of making something from nothing.

Isn't that more meaningful?

OK.

Go to sleep early.

Otherwise you won't wake up early enough tomorrow to watch the sunrise. Goodnight.

OK.

Sorry for asking you to come so late at night.

We work around the clock in this profession.

But this is strange. Why are you still in Hong Kong?

Something came up at the university. I couldn't leave.

Vivian went herself.

A honeymoon for two has become a private tour for one?

I'll leave the bundle here then.

OK. I'll read it later.

Why? It was so hard to get two weeks off to go on vacation with Vivian.

I already agreed to look after Yin for you. Why did you suddenly cancel the trip?

There's a student. I suspect that she has a mental problem.

She's been handing in her assignments late every time.

In the most recent case, I discovered that she plagiarized.

Of course I wouldn't accept that.

Then she filed a complaint with the university,

accusing me of sexually harassing her.

The university's investigating this now.

Vivian didn't mention this.

It happened really suddenly.

I only told her that something happened at the university

and that I had to stay here to deal with it.

That's why I didn't get on the plane.

What evidence did the student produce?

So far I just know there's a complaint letter.

The university gave me a copy.

What does the university think of this?

The last thing a university wants is a sex scandal.

Especially between a lecturer and his student.

If this goes public, it'll make headlines.

Don't worry. They can't accuse you if you didn't do it.

Anyway let me know if anything happens.

I think very soon

the internal investigation panel will summon me for an explanation.

I'll keep you posted.

In your complaint letter,

you alleged that Marcus Fan sexually harassed you.

Could you please tell us what happened?

I started taking Mr Fan's class last year.

He often asked me to stay behind after class.

Sometimes he quizzed me and asked me questions.

Sometimes he suggested reference books to me

Did he only ask you to stay behind?

Yes.

Carry on.

Li Dan is a student in the PCLL class that I teach. I teach criminal proceedings.

Many a times, she would stay behind after class to ask me questions.

Sometimes it would just be the two of us. Sometimes there were other students.

I'd ask him about things I didn't understand. He taught me patiently.

I thought he was really nice and helpful. We got to know each other better.

There were more and more occasions when we met alone.

Was it because Li Dan wanted to ask you questions that

she stayed behind every time?

Did you ask her to stay for other reasons?

No.

When there wasn't anyone around,

he would put his hands on my shoulders or caress my back. I felt uncomfortable.

But I thought I was being over-sensitive.

Perhaps Mr Fan did it because he thought of me as his friend.

I have never put my hands on her shoulders or caressed her back.

I got sick earlier. I couldn't hand in my case study to Mr Fan on time.

He said he understood that I was alone and helpless in Hong Kong.

He said he wanted to help me as a teacher and a man.

Back then I already found his tone odd.

Li Dan failed time and again to hand in a case study assignment.

Subsequently she told me that she had gotten sick.

So I gave her an extension.

Mr Fan told me that I didn't do well on the paper. I might fail.

I was really unhappy, so I went to Wanchai by myself to drink beer.

She finally handed in the assignment. But it was completely off the subject.

I even found out that

she had simply copied something from the internet and handed it in to me.

So I failed her.

I don't remember when he came to look for me.

When I was sober again, I was already in his office.

Li Dan called me.

She sounded like she wanted to commit suicide.

So I immediately drove to Wanchai to look for her. I found her very drunk.

I wanted to take her to her dorm.

But she insisted on going to my office to talk.

When we arrived at my office, she begged me to let her pass.

I immediately turned down her request.

Once I opened my eyes,

I saw his face really close to me as if he wanted to kiss me.

Two buttons of my shirt were unbuttoned.

I was so scared back then. I really wanted to push him away from me.

I definitely did not do anything like that.

He said he couldn't help me regarding my marks.

Li Dan kept begging me.

She asked me not to inform the university that she had plagiarized.

I immediately told her that plagiarism is a serious misconduct.

I wouldn't cover it up for her.

My grades have been good all along. I had never done that before.

Mr Fan told me to do that to buy time.

So I followed his advice.

When I wouldn't let him sexually assault me.

He accused me of plagiarism.

If I can’t graduate because of this, it'll be so unfair.

I really can't accept this.

Why are you all alone for lunch?

Didn't you go to the High Court Library?

I did. I borrowed several useful books. I'll show you later.

There's banana pancake. Let's share.

No, thanks. I've packed lunch. You go ahead.

Why do you look so down today?

I'm fine.

Hey, Brian wants to buy you lunch.

He wants to thank you for taking him to such a beautiful place last time.

Nah. Mr Fan gave me a lot of work to do.

I haven't finished yet. You two go ahead.

It's not just the two of us. Holly's coming too.

Hey, are you talking about lunch on Saturday?

Yes.

Quinton, you're coming too, right?

I have a lot of urgent work to do.

You still need to eat no matter how urgent it is.

Join us. It's decided.

This place really smells like Chinatown.

Foreigners don't like it. But I do.