I feel the old banyan tree ahead surrounded by some strong energy.
Bolt.
You don't believe in supernatural power as you studied abroad.
What if the feng shui formation is ruined when you fell the old tree?
What happened? Were you attacked by someone?
The banyan spirit did it.
Now the evil spirits from all over the place have gathered here.
The beneficiary could twist the magnetic field here...
...in the shortest possible time...
...so as to grab good luck and make his wishes come true.
So amazing? I want to try that, too.
Don't ever try that.
Such an unorthodox feng shui formation for getting rich fast...
...is actually betting on one's life.
You need to make repayment.
Of course you need to make repayment when you borrow money.
It's like paying an agent. It's like borrowing from Guanyin.
You need to make repayment.
You don't make repayment with money. You pay with your life.
The worst case scenario...
...is the dying of male members of the beneficiary's family.
His family members will have their lives shortened. None will survive.
Poon Tak-lei.
Don't ever try to fool people here. You don't believe in those things yourself.
I have done the research.
Such an unorthodox feng shui formation is actually detrimental to the descendants.
My grandpa has a son only.
He died in a car accident when in his thirties.
Now I'm the only male member in the family.
Hey, is there a solution to that?
When you've won in a card game, can you leave immediately?
Move the tree and the feng shui formation will be destroyed.
Lau Tai-yue got injured as a result.
So the curse of the feng shui formation fell on him?
Not really. He isn't a family member. Usually it won't happen to him.
Do feng shui formations really take people's life?
I repeated what's said in the books only.
You believe in cause and effect though you don't believe in evil spirits?
Pal, who did this to you? Who is so cold-blooded?
All the villagers said so, too.
They said Yue tried to fell the tree earlier.
The tree bled. Now the banyan spirit has taken revenge against him.
How will there be any banyan spirit?
But the villagers think otherwise.
That guy Chow Wah-tik keeps inciting the villagers to oppose us...
...on the excuse of conservation.
Is he really so bold?
We've beaten many adversaries for securing this development project.
Those New Territories guys get nothing. They've been so jealous of us all along.
How surprising is it they hire someone to play tricks?
Never mind who's playing tricks behind. They're picking on us.
Today Yue got attacked. Tomorrow I may become the target.
You may become a target, too, Miss Yik.
Fine. I'll see who's behind this.
Master Yik, I'm the village head's assistant Lau Tai-yue.
I was discharged from hospital. I need your help.
What about?
About the banyan spirit.
Master Yik?
Village head.
You want to see me?
No, I'm here to see Tai-yue.
He's upstairs. I'll open the door for you.
Thank you.
There you go.
Thank you.
Master Yik, it's you? Come in quickly. Come on in.
Master Yik, have a seat please.
Okay.
Please sit.
How are you, Brother Tai-yue? How's your injury?
The cuts aren't that terrible. The thing that cut me is.
You really saw the banyan spirit attack you?
Yes. I was walking.
Suddenly a huge shadow threw itself at me.
Then I got injured all over.
Are you sure it wasn't a man posing as a spirit?
It wasn't human for sure. It's a spirit.
Okay. You say you need my help.
Can you be more specific? How do you want me to help you?
Last time I touched the banyan spirit a bit with the electrical saw.
It then took revenge against me.
Master Yik, I don't want to die.
Please ask your aunt and the village head to have mercy on me.
Ask them not to fell the banyan tree, okay?
Oh...
I'm begging you please, Master Yik.
Okay. I'll talk to my aunt.
Great. Thank you so much.
I'm sorry. I've forgotten to get you water. Have a seat.
Okay. Thank you.
Master Yik.
Weren't you in the bathroom?
I've been in the kitchen all along.
I didn't go to the bathroom at all.
Yik Sir, you're a cop. You moonlight as a chemist, too?
I took several lessons in forensic science.
Yik Sir, why did you ask us to come here?
You care so much about the banyan tree. You must want to know why it would bleed.
Of course.
This is ferric chloride.
This is potassium thiocyanate.
Neither is harmful to human beings or animals.
But if I mix the two, they turn into this. Does it look a lot like blood?
If the two solutions were mixed in advance...
...they would have turned red long ago.
How come we didn't see that till the tree was cut?
Pour the potassium thiocyanate into the tree first.
Then wet the electrical saw with the solution of ferric chloride.
When Lau Tai-yue saws the tree with it, the blood red solution will spurt out...
...creating the false impression that the banyan tree's bleeding.
If so much solution was poured into the tree, it would get wet all over.
Recently it's foggy and humid in the morning.
It had rained too that morning.
It's normal that the banyan tree was wet as it had rained earlier.
So no one noticed any problem.
Thanks to my pal for reminding me of that.
You really know animal communication?
My pal died all of a sudden. I felt suspicious. So I examined his body.
I found some suspicious pieces of bark in his mouth.
It's the bark of the banyan tree.
My pal bit the banyan tree. Then it got poisoned and died.
Didn't you say it's harmless to human beings and animals?
How come your pal died then?
At first it was harmless.
But once the potassium thiocyanate comes into contact with something acidic...
...it will generate the toxic thiocyanic acid.
My pal used to drink organic apple cider vinegar.
It drank that on the day it died.
Apple cider vinegar is an acidic solution.
The dog bit the banyan tree after drinking it. So he got poisoned and died.
The deduction is correct.
That's it?
How about the appearance of the banyan spirit?
That's simple. I know a little about magic, too.
Don't blink. Here comes the banyan spirit.
With the light source the shadow will cast on the background.
The so-called banyan spirit everyone saw was actually a shadow only.
How did the banyan spirit pass through the truck then?
This position closest to the truck is actually a projection blind zone.
I just move the banyan spirit to this position.
The banyan spirit has disappeared.
This experiment shows that...
...someone made use of the shadows oblique incidence...
...to get close to the truck's blind zone.
There isn't any banyan spirit at all.
So, it isn't the banyan spirit. It's David Copperfield.
Thanks to Lau Tai-yue for reminding me that.
I figured out that someone made use of this principle...
...to create the false impression of passing through the truck.
This person is... you, Chow Wah-tik.
Yik Sir, don't make such an allegation.
Though the complex ion of ferric thiocyanate was found in the tree...
...it's got nothing to do with me.
Ferric thiocyanate...
Complex ion...
I can't name it though I am smart. You say you're innocent?
Before the banyan tree spurted blood, you and Lau Tai-yue pushed each other.
You spilled the bottle of tea onto the electrical saw.
Besides, you told people to put the white-fabric screen around the banyan tree.
In other words, you did all those things.
Chow Wah-tik, are the chemicals still in your home?
I feel curious.
Somehow all my recent applications for a search warrant are approved immediately.
Can you lend me that banyan spirit costume?
I'm going to my friend's Halloween party later.
Yes, I did that. So? I did so for protecting the banyan tree only.
You dressed as the banyan spirit to attack Lau Tai-yue.
That's an offence.
Look, Yik Sir. I didn't do that.
Have you any evidence to prove that I did so?
Couldn't he have angered others so that they took revenge against him?
Even if I had killed someone...
...you still have to let me walk if you don't have any evidence for that.
If there's nothing further, I'll leave.
Hey, the banyan spirit killed the village head.
I told him. He mustn't anger the old banyan tree.
Sir, how come they're gathering here?
Aren't they afraid of becoming the banyan spirit's next target?
Hey, we'd better get out of here.
Let's go.
Hey, the village head's dead. People panic. You scared them on purpose?
I didn't want them to impede the work here.
I often used this trick when I worked breaking news before.
This trick's okay.
Hey, jot it down. We will use it next time.
Yik Sir, we just found out Chow Wah-tik posed as the banyan spirit.
Then there's the killing by the banyan spirit.
Did he kill people for protecting this old banyan tree?
Fu Chi-pok, you've read Professor Fu's notes...
...about the banyan spirit killing people, right?
The hanging case that took place in Banyan Village 35 years ago...
...wasn't classified as suicide but homicide committed by the banyan spirit...
...all because there wasn't a bench underneath the deceased.
Right. There wasn't a bench or a ladder. How did he hang himself on the tree?
So it could be deemed a homicide case.
How come people thought it's the banyan spirit that killed him?
It's because of the footprints.
There were the same footprints 35 years ago.
If my conjecture is correct, they're the village head's footprints.
The size of the village head's shoes matches the footprints on the ground.
But it kept raining this morning. So many people walked past the place.
How surprising is it that there are footprints on the ground?
Let's search along the footprints.
There are the village head's footprints only.
It's exactly like what happened 35 years ago.
Will you speak English please?
The footprints suggest that the village head climbed out from this window.
Then he walked on his own to the banyan tree and hanged himself there.
How could this be done if he's killed by someone else?
Did the killer ask to meet him under the tree?
Have the police found any trace of struggling?
Did the banyan spirit hypnotize the village head...
...so that he went to the tree without being conscious of it?
Then it hanged him.
Don't make so many wild guesses.
Neither the police nor the folklorists should jump to any conclusion so soon.
Let's check it out in the house.
Yik Sir.
Do you need to remove the lock? There's a spare key in the village office.
We've tried using the key, but it's locked from inside.
Done.
Thank you.
It's really a locked-room murder.
In other words, there's really a banyan spirit.
The village head died outside. How can this be a locked-room murder?
Locked-room murder isn't confined to a sealed and enclosed room.
So long as it's impossible to get close to or kill the deceased person...
...it can be called a locked-room murder then.
Got it. The door's locked from the inside. The window is the only exit.
From the window to the banyan tree, there are the village head's footprints only.
In other words, no one could get near him.
It's so neat and tidy here. It looks calm.
It doesn't appear that something bad has happened.
It's exactly like the incident 35 years ago.
We must seek Dali Swami's help now.
How come you're so forgetful?
Have you forgotten that Madam La lectured you earlier?
Everyone can say there's a ghost. But you're a cop. You can't say so.
Just do your job as a cop.
Yik Sir has done his job all along.
Thank you.
How are we going to deal with the banyan spirit?
I can't handle a real banyan spirit.
But if someone poses as a banyan spirit, I, Poon Doh-lai, will clear its name then.
From 11 p.m. to midnight last night, where were you? What did you do?
I was talking to someone outside.
Talking? You killed someone, right?
You couldn't charge me for assault last time.
Now this is a murder case.
Don't set me up as you have no evidence at all.
Okay. Mr. Chow, where did you talk to someone then?
No. 77 Sha Mun Road.
What?
Yik Sir, you should know that place well.
My grandpa has a villa there.
Exactly. I was talking to your grandpa back then.
How would he chat with you?
You can ask him. I'm but a humble citizen. You don't believe me.
But Mr. Yik Yuen-kwong is a gentry in the New Territories. You can trust him.
I'm sorry for asking you to come in person, Mr. Yik senior.
Fire away. I'll try my best to answer your questions.
Were you with Mr. Chow Wah-tik between 11 pm. and midnight last night?
Yes, I met him in the villa.
Why did you meet him there?
Recently there's so much trouble because of the old banyan tree.
Actually, harmony should come first.
He and I don't want to fell the tree. So I wanted to talk to him.
I wanted to listen to the opinions of young people.
What else do you want to know, Yik Sir?
The Banyan Spirit Murder.
Dr. Poon, someone was killed just now. And we're still working on the thesis?
Answer this question.
What's the most important thing in folklore studies?
Find the origin of the folklore.
Right. We've neglected the origin 35 years ago.
The village head's death isn't only mysterious.
It's also an exact replica of the suicide case...
...that happened in Banyan Village 35 years ago.
If it happened in exactly the same manner, could it be done by the same person?
It's been over thirty years. Did someone copy the killer's M.O.?
Whatever it is, the origins of all the mysterious happenings...
...are related to the incident that took place 35 years ago.
We've neglected this point.
Otherwise we could have solved this puzzle sooner.
Perhaps the village head wouldn't have gotten killed then.
Lu spat.
What did you say?
It's German. It means 'too late'.
My dad often said this before. We come too late.
Folklorists often make the complaint.
But in the end they still carry on with the research.
Now someone's killed. It won't help regretting it.
We must find out who committed the murder.
Okay. No matter if it's for the study of folkloristics...
...or for the investigation of the village head's murder...
...the key is what happened 35 years ago.
Back then Professor Fu couldn't solve the mystery.
Now our team will work together to solve it.
Yes... Hmm...
So 35 years ago the land where the old banyan is situated...
...didn't belong to Yik Yuen-kwong.
It belonged to a man named Leung To from Banyan Village.
Okay. Thank you. I owe you a meal.
Hey, I just asked a veteran reporter who specializes in the New Territories.
Yik Yuen-kwong spent a huge sum to acquire land...
...in order to set a feng shui formation there.
Back then the village head helped him acquire the land. Now he's dead.
So there's such a relation...
...between Yik Yuen-kwong and the village head back then.
But you can't simply buy land in the New Territories...
...though you're ready and willing to pay for it.
Correct. The piece of land in Banyan Village...
...was for Leung To's ancestral tomb.
Of course, he refused to sell it.
Shortly after, Leung To suddenly suffered huge losses in his business.
He even hanged himself on the banyan tree.
That's the original story about the banyan spirit 35 years ago.
Leung To is dead. The man of the family is gone.
The widow and orphans couldn't make a living.
They had no choice but to sell the land.
Those wealthy guys are really so avaricious.
They had already made so much money. Why set a feng shui formation then?
Did Leung To's ghost come back for revenge?
Both Leung To's death 35 years ago and the village head's death now...
...are related to the acquisition of land by the Yiks.
The answer is simple.
Only one key person remains after the village head died.
Use the sweet potato sweet soup please.
Thank you, Sis To. You may rest now.
Okay.
Grandpa, use the sweet soup.
I don't have the appetite. You guys go ahead.
Grandpa, we can talk like family though you don't want sweet soup.
It was inconvenient in the police station last time.
I really want to know...
...when you became so well acquainted with that guy Chow Wah-tik.
I told you. We talked about conservation and exchanged our views only.
You don't want to fell the tree not for the reason of conservation.
What's there to talk about?
You don't believe me?
I...
Ming-yin cares about you only.
The village head died terribly. Someone must be behind this.
You know who did this?
Those who don't want us to get back the piece of land now are of course...
...the New Territories guys who are defeated by us.
They play dirty tricks for making money. Now they're even beaten by a woman.
They've lost money and face. What else wouldn't they do?
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
I can manage by myself.
I must succeed in the development project this time.
No one may stop me from doing so.
Why can't you stop the project?
Why do you insist on my stopping it? I'm not afraid of brutal guys. Bring it on.
Too bad the troublemaker may not be human beings.
You're talking about your feng shui formation again?
Older brother died so long ago. What are we still afraid of now?
Nothing to lose.
You...!
Grandpa, don't get mad.
Never mind you don't believe this as you studied abroad. But there's karma.
Back then I acquired someone else's ancestral land...
...for setting the feng shui formation.
In the end someone did die because of it.
35 years ago, I wanted to get the contract...
...for the development of the golf course in the New Territories.
Then my wealth would increase by folds.
I was desperate back then.
I listened to a wise man and set a feng shui formation for getting rich fast.
In the end I regret it all my life.
Dad, why are you talking about that again now?
Anyway the banyan tree is part of the feng shui formation.
I asked the village head to acquire the land for me.
I didn't ask how he got it done. In the end someone died.
This isn't your fault. It's said that the landowner killed himself.
The ghosts of those who committed suicide are the most terrible. I'm frightened.
I worry that they will come for revenge.
I worry something bad may happen to Ming-yin.
Ming-yin, you arrange a ritual for me at the site of the banyan tree.
I don't care how much it will cost.
What ritual?
To pacify the ghost 35 years ago and the village head.
Better believe it's true.
Okay.
I'm home.
Okay.
Namaste.
Hey, you scared me, Poon Tak-lei.
Image is really important for a police officer.
I can tell...
Yik Sir?
Hi.
You're home? Good. Dinner's ready.
Hey! My fan?
Hello, Swami.
Hello.
My hands are dirty. I need to wash them.
Okay.
Never mind him. Let's eat. Come on. Dig in. Be my guest.
Let's eat.
Hey, it's tough for Ming-yin working as a cop. Help him get the food, okay?
Ming-yin?
Right. You should introduce him yourself.
Him?
Yes.
Senior Inspector Yik Sir.
Yik Sir?
That's fun. Sometimes Yik Sir, sometimes Master Yik.
Senior inspector as well as a young master. He's nice.
Sis Lai.
When did you two start?
What? Is there a misunderstanding?
Hey, explain it.
The chicken is really good.
Okay. First of all, Dr. Poon and I haven't started.
Besides, I didn't come here for her.
You came here for a meal?
Of course not. I'm here to see your son, Dali Swami.
Me?
Yes. I hope you will perform a ritual for my grandpa.
You ask him to do that? He's a con... conscientious guy. He's okay.
His expertise is New Age. Ritual isn't his forte.
How come? He dealt with the feng shui formation last time.
Quiet please. Let me feel it.
What? So serious?
I feel that you need my help for something very important.
You feel troubled too. There's also negative energy, right?
Yes, you really are Swami.
I've prepared a check already. Please accept it.
Okay... $100,000!?
What's the matter? Not enough? I can give you more.
My grandpa wants it done nicely. Money isn't an issue.
Money means nothing to a practitioner like me.
I, Dali Swami, treat money like dust.
But...
But you care so much about your grandpa. He's so sad. I'll do whatever I can.
What ritual does your grandpa want?
He wants to pacify the two men...
...who hanged themselves on the old banyan tree.
One's the village head and the other is Leung To who died 35 years ago.
Your grandpa told you how he acquired Leung To's land?
He thinks he got Leung To killed indirectly because of the acquisition of land.
So he wants to pacify him.
Actually we've found that out already. We just didn't know how to tell you.
Did he hold anything back?
No. Actually he's so scared as the village head's dead.
So he told me everything.
Did he tell you what his conversation with Chow Wah-tik was about?
About conservation.
Brother Kau, Uncle Chuen referred you to me.
You don't need to whisper. This is my joint. All of them are my men.
You should have told me.
Brother Kau, my boss knows the government wants to repossess certain lands.
He wants to hire someone to pose as conservationists.
Pretend to ask for the preservation of collective memories...
...and a balance in ecology so as to hike the price? Easy job.
My boss says it mustn't be so high-profile. But it must be noisy.
You're really demanding.
Otherwise I wouldn't have asked Uncle Chuen to refer you to me, Brother Kau.
Good judgment. Tik's the best guy in handling this case.
Who's Tik? Is he experienced?
He's good at using the excuse of conservation to hike prices.
But he's currently working for a big boss.
He has to go to Banyan Village in the New Territories every day to work.
You say he's at work. You want to hike the price, Brother Kau?
Don't worry. My boss has a lot of money.
Will he be wealthier than the Yiks?
Tik's working for them. He can't quit midway.
Let me see if there's someone else.
No hurry. But be quick. I look forward to hearing from you.
Boss, you paid me to keep the banyan tree.
You told me to learn how to make the tree bleed. Fine.
But now there's so much trouble.
The cops suspect I attacked Lau Tai-yue. They even think I killed the village head.
Hey, what are you doing?
Relax. It's tough for you.
Now someone's dead. They won't fell the tree anymore.
Your job's done. This is your compensation.
Thank you, boss.
But I want you to go to the ritual tonight.
Seriously?
Aren't you afraid of ghosts?
I don't want to go as I'm afraid of it.
Where can you hide if the ghosts want to take your life?
It's a bit spooky you posed as the banyan spirit.
Now the village head died unnaturally. The ritual will bring peace of mind.
The ritual tonight is done partly for you. Better believe it's true.
It's time. I'm out of here. You wait a bit before you leave.
Don't allow people to see us together.
He's got the guts to come?
I warn you. Don't damage the banyan tree.
Guys, the ritual is for purging the sins a man committed when he's alive...
...so that he would be exempted from the hardship of reincarnation.
He will then go to heaven sooner.
There can't be any addition or subtraction. Don't worry.
Where are you? The ritual will begin soon.
I'm on my way. But I've found out something.
Yik Yuen-kwong is really Chow Wah-tik's boss.
Let's talk when I get there.
The ritual will begin.
Thunder in the East...Wow. Supreme ruler leaves the terrace...Wow.
Break open hell to rescue the ancestors' souls.
Get out of hell and ascend to paradise sooner.
Help!
Put out the fire!
What happened?
Put out the fire!
Come on. Get help!
Can anyone help?
Call an ambulance! Help!
Are you okay? Now what?
How is Chow Wah-tik?
He's still receiving treatment.
How come it's so weird? He caught fire suddenly?
Did the ghosts come to take his life? If so, was it Leung To or the village head?
Or was it a trick played by the banyan spirit?
Yik Sir, run some tests on...
...my older brother's robe and Chow Wah-tik's trousers.
We can find out who wants to kill him, human beings or ghosts.
The test results are known.
There's chemical on both Dali Swami's robe and Chow Wah-tik's trousers.
What chemical?
You won't understand it if I tell you verbally. I'll show you.
When glycerin and potassium permanganate are put together...
...spontaneous combustion will result.
We found glycerin on Chow Wah-tik's trousers...
...and traces of potassium permanganate powder on Dali Swami's robe.
The swindler swung his robe during the ritual.
The powder landed on Chow Wah-tik's trousers causing the combustion.
It's done by a man, not a ghost.
Hello. Okay. Thank you. We're on our way now.
Yik Sir, the hospital called.
Chow Wah-tik's condition is okay. We can take his statement.
It's ghost fire. The ghosts wanted to kill me.
Don't scare yourself.
It's the chemical reaction of mixing two chemicals.
That's why there's combustion.
What?
We found glycerin on your trousers.
Do you remember when you got that on your trousers?
It's time. I'm out of here.
You wait a bit before you leave. Don't allow people to see us together.
Can you recall? Who wanted to kill you?
It's him. He's the only person who wants me dead.
It's your grandpa... Yik Yuen-kwong.
Don't make unfounded accusations.
Kim.
Carry on.
Your grandpa asked me to stop your aunt from felling the banyan tree...
...on the pretext of conservation.
He told me to pose as the banyan spirit so that the villagers would oppose to...
...felling the tree.
For the feng shui formation?
Your grandpa takes the feng shui formation more seriously than his own life.
You two are working together.
Why do you think my grandpa wants to kill you?
He arranged the ritual. He told me to go there.
I got the glycerin on my trousers after I had met him.
He taught me how to mix the chemicals so as to make the banyan tree spurt blood.
Who else but him knows chemicals so well?
He didn't have to do so.
Yik Sir, he wants to shut me up.
He hired you to scare people only. Does he need to kill and shut you up?
Yes, I scared people. But Lau Tai-yue got cut.
How would there be such a coincidence?
Your grandpa told me to pose as the banyan spirit.
Then he posed as the banyan spirit himself to cut Lau Tai-yue.
I didn't expose him for the sake of money.
This is your allegation only. There's no corroborating evidence.
I don't have evidence to prove that he cut someone.
But I've got evidence to prove that he killed. He killed the village head.
What?
I said I was with your grandpa when the village head died.
Actually his alibi is fake. I wasn't with him at all.
On record, he's your alibi. But actually you're his alibi.
Smart.
Your grandpa also said...
...no one would mess with the banyan tree now that the village head was dead.
I don't believe he didn't kill the village head.
That's why he wants to kill me, too. Then no one will know what he's done.
Sir.
Sis To, where's grandpa?
He's eating breakfast.
Thank you.
Grandpa.
Have you eaten breakfast yet?
Mr. Yik, you are not obliged to say anything.
Whatever you say will be written down and may be used as evidence in court later.
Ming-yin, what's going on?
Mr. Yik Yuen-kwong, it's suspected that...
...you've committed assault against Mr. Chow Wah-tik...
...contrary to section 17 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance.
You're under arrest.
Did that guy Chow Wah-tik accuse me of doing so?
Dad, don't say anything. I will hire the best lawyers for you.
Before they're here, you must remain silent lest you say something wrong.
It will become evidence later.
I'm stating the facts. Why wait for the lawyers?
I haven't done anything to hurt Chow Wah-tik.
Whatever he's done is his mistake for sure.
I understand that, Grandpa.
I still don't understand why his trousers would catch fire.
I bet Leung To didn't accept our offer. His ghost wants revenge.
Enough dad. I told you not to talk.
Why can't I talk? You think I'm the killer?
Will the judge in court believe your ghost stories?
He will only think you're lying to get away.
I state the facts. Why would I worry?
Grandpa.
Grandpa, put on the jacket. Don't catch a cold.
I need to avoid conflict of interest.
Later when the lawyers are here, my colleagues will take your statement.
Don't be mad at Aunt Nam.
In law, an accused has the right to remain silent before his lawyer is there.
She's doing so to protect you only.
You think like Nam does that I did that to Chow Wah-tik?
Of course, I don't think so.
But I'm a cop.
Whether you will be arrested isn't decided by what I think.
It's about prima facie evidence.
Tell you what. Chow Wah-tik even accused you of killing the village head.
He's crazy.
Don't worry. There isn't sufficient evidence for laying charges yet.
But you gave a false statement regarding Chow Wah-tik's alibi.
This is to your great disadvantage.
My conscience is clean. I don't need lawyers.
I'll tell you the truth.
I told you I had paid the village head 35 years ago...
...for acquiring the piece of land. I didn't ask how he got it done.
I remember you told me that.
Leung To's death was really odd. But I thought he had committed suicide.
The acquisition of the land wasn't a secret.
Someone did suspect the village head.
How about you? Did you suspect him?
Back then he asked me for help. He swore that he hadn't killed anyone.
He only worried that the rumor would delay the setting of my feng shui formation...
...if the police got wind of it.
So I did something very selfish back then.
What did you do?
I told the cops that...
...the village head was with me on the day the incident happened.
You fabricated the village head's alibi?
If his alibi back then was fake, did he kill Leung To then?
Leung To's ghost came to seek revenge against the village head.
He must be the killer then.
Leung To died because of the land acquisition. I was an accessory.
His ghost now comes to seek revenge. This is karma.
I arrested grandpa as I must discharge my duty.
But I don't believe he's the killer.
Doesn't matter if he did it. The lawyers will handle it.
Now grandpa's in trouble.
How can you remain so calm? Don't you care about him?
I need to answer the phone.
Hello. I'm still at the police station. Dad won't be released soon.
Carry on. No one will stop us from carrying out the development project now.
Wine-filled dumplings, bread pudding in rum...
...brandied cherry ice-cream.
The Bailey cream cake will be served soon. Just a second.
Thank you.
Yik Sir, there's wine in all of these.
Why don't you go to a bar if you want to drink?
Some people drink when they're in a bad mood.
Some want sweet food. I want both. This place is perfect.
I've never seen anyone using dessert for wine.
Eat more if you're upset. But remember to split the bill.
Yik Sir, is the evidence very unfavorable to your grandpa?
He's charged with attempted wounding against Chow Wah-tik.
My grandpa studied chemistry before. He got rich working on chemical fertilizers.
He suggested holding the ritual.
It's really suspicious.
Kim was sloppy working under me.
Now I must avoid conflict of interests.
Then she works so hard to find the evidence...
...to prove that my grandpa killed the village head.
Do you believe your grandpa?
He said he gave a false statement back then...
...when the police investigated Leung To's death.
He gave the village head an alibi.
So he's an accessory then?
He regrets it so much now.
Perhaps someone killed for the sake of the feng shui formation back then.
Now he kills again lest the feng shui formation will be ruined.
You guys think my grandpa did that?
I wish it could be proved that it's done by the ghost.
As Dr. Poon said, how would there be so many ghosts in the world?
Someone feels guilty and puts all the blame on ghosts only.
You said before everything's possible before the truth is known.
Come on. Consolation for you.
Everything's possible. But it's impossible your grandpa did it.
Why?
He gave a false statement 35 years ago, right?
No matter he's the mastermind behind this or he's the man who killed Leung To...
...psychologically he wouldn't want this to be found out.
Right.
But now the village head died in exactly the same way it happened 35 years ago.
In other words, someone deliberately dug up Leung To's death 35 years ago.
Makes sense.
We must solve the mystery of how the village head was killed.
Then we can find the killer.
Excellent.
Yik Sir, you said you needed so much dessert...
...to help yourself forget as your mood was so down?
My grandpa isn't the killer.
Nothing wrong eating dessert when I feel happy, right?
Right. Still, split the bill.
Thank you.
Is something wrong with Yik Sir? He walks like Andy Lau?
He's full and drunk.
Hey, you're drunk using dessert. Don't throw up.
Mind your head.
Watch out. You just cheated death.
The killer has done so many things to blur our vision.
But I see clearly the origin now.