The Knockout (2023) s01e26 Episode Script

Be quiet.
Be quiet.
I know.
I told you not to call this number.
Brother, don't be so nervous.
I have something to tell you.
I've come back to Jinghai.
Are you crazy?
You can't come back!
I have
something very important
to tell you.
And I must tell you face to face.
Where are you?
I'm at Diaolou Square now.
Come and meet me now.
Don't go anywhere. Wait for me.
Where are you?
I'm already here.
What's the name?
Xiangyuan Restaurant.
Wait for me. Stay put.
I'm coming.
I saw it.
You can't be here!
Hey, Brother.
Why wouldn't you listen to me?
Leave now.
I'll send you out of Jinghai.
I came back to see you.
Let's go. Move.
Leave Jinghai now.
Don't overreact.
-Move. -It's my birthday today.
My birthday.
Happy birthday.
On my birthday last year,
we went to sing karaoke at Platinum Palace.
Sheng.
Sorry that we can't celebrate your birthday this year.
After I
settle this matter for you,
I'll hold a big party
to celebrate your birthday.
You gotta leave now.
Then buy me a bowl of noodles.
I'll leave after eating.
Madam, two bowls of pig hock noodles.
Leave after you finish eating.
Okay.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Sending a message to Lan.
My phone died.
Don't tell Lan about this.
Got it?
How are you doing in Jinghai?
I'm doing fine.
The police can't do anything to me.
No evidence against me.
But you're in big trouble.
You didn't listen to me
when I told you to stay away from that thing called Magu.
You know what?
The police have officially
categorized it as a kind of drug.
I know.
The penalty for drug dealing can be death.
Listen.
After finishing the noodles,
leave Jinghai
and don't come back until I tell you to.
Do you hear me?
When can I come back?
Someone introduced me
to an official in the municipal government.
He may be able to help us.
Is he of high rank?
Very high.
He's more powerful
than any of the officials we've known before.
What's his asking price?
He wants me to make a pledge
to kill two guys for him.
Then he will help me.
Who are they?
One is Tan Siyan
from the Municipal Government Research Office.
I've taken him captive.
The other is
Li Xiang, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Unit.
Gao Qiqiang, I warn you
not to harm Li Xiang.
If you kill Li Xiang,
An Xin will spend his whole life
hunting you down.
You won't get away with it.
I know.
I refused him.
I'll figure another way out.
He wouldn't help us
unless we kill these two guys for him?
It seems so for now.
Thank you.
Enjoy.
Eat now.
Then you leave.
We came here before.
Did we?
When I was five,
Mom brought us here.
I saw them selling pig hock noodles here
and felt starving.
I begged Mom to buy us pig hock noodles.
But…
Mom only bought one bowl of pig hock noodles.
What did Lan eat?
Pig hock.
Me?
Noodles.
You only took the soup.
I asked you
why you only drank the soup
and not ate the pig hock or the noodles.
You said you didn't like them.
After I grew up,
I found that pig hock noodles
were your favorite.
You lied to me.
Eat more.
Why was everything I did wrong
since I was young?
It seems that the more I do, the more mistakes I make.
Why?
You silly boy.
We all make mistakes, Sheng.
Let me
settle this matter for you
before you come back to Jinghai.
Keep my words in mind.
Be a good boy.
Don't take the wrong path.
Keep eating.
So, Brother,
you must keep in touch
with this official you mentioned.
Stop talking and eat.
He will help you.
He will definitely help you.
Are you done?
Come.
Let's go.
Hurry.
Brother, I want another bowl of noodles.
You're not full yet?
One more bowl of pig hock noodles.
Okay.
Anchor the boat at the dock and wait for me.
I'll be right there.
Brother.
I'm full.
Let's go.
Wait.
One last thing.
Since I was a boy,
I've caused you a lot of trouble.
Let me help you this time.
You help me?
How?
I called the police with your phone just now.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Sending a message to Lan.
My phone died.
Sheng.
Gao Qiqiang, you betrayed me!
Come out!
Don't move!
Gao Qiqiang, you called the police
to arrest your own brother?
Stay away!
I'll shoot him if you come any closer.
Okay.
Put the gun down.
Listen to me.
Listen to your brother.
Put the gun down.
Don't come over.
Sheng, put the gun down.
Put down your gun now
and you still stand a chance.
I'll get you a lawyer.
Brother.
It's no use.
Let me make the decision this time.
Say something.
Say something to convince them
that it's you who called the police.
Otherwise, everything I did
will be in vain.
-Put the gun down. -Say something.
Do you hear me?
Calm down. Calm down.
We can talk.
Say it, Brother.
Brother, say something.
Brother!
Say something.
Now!
Gao Qisheng.
You shouldn't have sold drugs.
Surrender now.
You can't escape.
Gao Qisheng.
Drop your gun. You still have a chance.
Gao Qiqiang.
Where is he?
The room with lanterns. Up there.
Gao Qiqiang sent me a message
saying that Gao Qisheng
asked to meet him here.
As soon as I arrived,
Gao Qisheng held
Gao Qiqiang hostage.
Did he ask for anything?
Gao Qisheng
only asked to meet you
and talk with you alone.
He wants to meet me alone?
It confuses me too.
Are the snipers in place?
Up there. One on either side.
But that punk
chose a very tricky angle.
Our snipers find
it hard to take aim.
Okay, I'll talk to him.
Tell the snipers to shoot at any time.
Yes.
It's probably a trap the brothers set up.
Watch out.
Never mind. I don't need it.
Qisheng.
I'm Li Xiang.
He's coming, Brother.
You asked to see me?
I'm coming up.
Walk up slowly.
Hands up.
Don't worry. I don't have a gun.
What
are you two doing here?
Cut the crap.
Drop any weapons you carry.
I'm here to help you.
Do what I said!
Relax.
It's just a walkie-talkie.
I'll throw it away.
Throw it there.
Lift your jacket.
Lift it!
Turn around.
Relax. There are no weapons.
Stop!
I'll shoot you to death!
No, Sheng!
If you kill him,
we will be screwed!
Listen to me. Don't shoot.
Brother, if I don't kill him,
that official won't help you.
I'll find another way.
Zhao Lidong
sent you here, right?
What did you do to Tan Siyan?
Li Xiang.
Zhao Lidong
asked me to kill you two.
Li Xiang.
I'll give you Tan Siyan.
In return, you save my brother.
OK?
Please help him, will you?
Please help my brother.
Okay.
Qisheng.
You were involved in drug trafficking.
You can be sentenced to death.
Only I can help you now.
Give me the gun.
Can I trust you?
I've done many things for Zhao Lidong.
Ask him if you don't believe me.
Trust me.
Only I can save your brother.
Let Tan Siyan go.
I can help your brother out.
He'll be dead without my help.
Brother.
Don't trust him.
Go to hell!
Shoot!
Point A, fire!
-Don't shoot! -Fire!
Shoot!
Where is Tan Silyan?
Sheng.
Gao Qiqiang.
Where did you hide Tan Siyan?
Sheng.
Tell me. Where is Tan Silyan?
Tell me!
Gao Qiqiang.
Is that Li Xiang?
He…
Li.
Stretchers! Stretchers!
All SWAT soldiers.
Give me a hand.
Get up.
Careful.
Chief Li.
Hang in there. Don't sleep.
Death confirmed
at 2: 35 p.m.
Let's go.
Xiang.
Xiang.
It's…
It's not Gao Qiqiang who called the police.
What?
Go.
Go save Tan Siyan.
Sir, move away.
It's okay.
I called the police just now.
I called the police.
He shouldn't have sold drugs.
Well,
I'll go back first.
I'm afraid you need to come with us.
-Okay. -This way.
This way.
-Which way? -Sorry, this way.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
I didn't expect
him to do it
in public.
He also put himself
above suspicion.
Now everyone in Jinghai knows him
as a righteous man who informed on his own brother.
Those intending to mess with him
can't
do anything to him now.
Gao Qiqiang
is quite a character.
An Xin, you always ask me
when I will take action.
Now is the time.
I've contained
all the evidence I collected
against Zhao Lidong
in an accusation letter
and sent it to the province.
But a whole month
has passed
and there is no reply at all.
I wrote the letter
with Tan Siyan
from the Municipal Government Research Office.
He has been out of touch since yesterday.
His phone is off
and he didn't go to work.
I may be the next one.
I've recorded
all the details in a notebook
kept in locker 304
at the train station.
I'll send you the key with this letter.
If you receive this letter,
it means
you have to
keep going on all by yourself.
In order to gain Zhao Lidong's trust,
I have to be his pawn.
In the name of courting investors and developing the city,
Zhao Lidong has raked in fortunes.
I had to clean up
all the messes he left.
I have stopped citizens
from making a petition more than once.
What I did
disgusted even myself.
I don't deserve to wear this uniform.
I broke the vow
I made under the national emblem.
Zhao Lidong and his accomplice
have given me 24 gas cards
and 57 shopping cards.
The total worth is 181,000 yuan.
They are all here.
I didn't spend a penny they gave me.
Zhao Lidong is very cautious.
I haven't completed
the chain of evidence yet.
It's proved
that my way doesn't work.
I know.
I don't deserve to call you my comrade anymore.
Please allow me
to call you Brother one more time.
Brother,
you have no idea
what kind of abyss I've fallen into.
The darkness on the other side of the city
is beyond my expectation.
What kept me going
is the persistence
I see in Tan Siyan as well as in you.
It's like a glistening firefly
in the dark.
Now,
even the last ray of light
has gone out.
Brother Qiang.
Tan Siyan needs to disappear without a trace.
Let me make myself clear.
I don't agree.
President,
building green belts for the government
is unprofitable for now,
but I think
our image
and relationship with the government
can be greatly improved by this project.
Besides,
it can also
greatly increase
our grey income in the future.
Why don't you give it a second thought?
Such a project won't bring us even a dime.
As long as I'm still in this position,
it won't be approved.
Do you have any misunderstanding
about the shareholder meeting?
Everyone has the right
to voice his opinion here.
No one gets the final say.
Then my opinion is no.
Raise your hand if you agree to put in a bid.
I agree.
I agree.
In the fourth meeting
of Construction Engineering Group this year,
the proposal
to bid for the project of public green belts
is approved by 3 to 1.
The decision takes immediate effect.
Sorry, Uncle Tai.
Thank you, Uncle Tai.
Please let Lawyer Wu in.
On the third day of this month,
Mr. Wu Qi
sold his 8% stake
to Mr. Gao Qiqiang.
On the sixth of this month,
Mr. Jin Zhiyong
signed an equity transfer agreement
with Mr. Gao Qiqiang
and sold his 16% stake
of Construction Engineering Group
to the latter.
Up to this morning,
Mr. Gao Qiqiang
has acquired a 51.1%. stake
in total,
which makes him the largest shareholder
in Construction Engineering Group.
Aren't you too impatient?
I think I've been taking it too slow.
Jinghai has huge waves.
You may get drowned.
You think I'm afraid of big waves?
Have you forgotten that I used to sell fish?
Do you know
what fishers usually say?
With big waves
come expensive fishes.
When I first joined the company,
someone told me
that as long as it's good for the Group,
we should support any employee
regardless of his position.
Why is it that no one
supported my project?
I'm the chairman of the board now.
But
you're my godfather,
so I promise you
that I won't
buy shares from you.
I will keep
paying you dividends every year.
I'll take care of you
until the day you die.
After discussion, the Municipal Bureau Committee of the CPC
decides to appoint Zhang Biao
as Chief
of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Jinghai,
and transfer An Xin
to the First Unit of the Transport Management Bureau
of Jinghai Public Security Bureau.
When the business thrives, the economy prospers.
The government
will help promising companies.
We will make sure
that companies get real benefits from our policies.
Attention!
Salute!
As a businessman,
everything we have
comes from society.
So when there's an opportunity
to contribute to society,
Construction Engineering Group
will spare no effort
and take responsibility.
An Xin,
I don't expect you
to stick to this path.
If you don't want
to end up like me,
please leave Jinghai immediately.
Because what we are faced with
is a monster.
All it has done yet
is simply
show us its fangs.
But that's already enough
to destroy everything we have.
Our life,
dignity,
family,
friends,
lovers.
Everything you care about
is your weakness that they take advantage of.
I don't want you
to waste your life like me.
You can choose
to burn this diary
and forget me.
If after all these warnings,
you still choose to hold on
and fight alone,
I wish you good luck,
my brother.
My mom agreed to our marriage.
After she knew that you saved me,
she relented.
However,
she has four conditions
and hopes you can meet them.
First,
we must live with my parents
after we get married.
My mom is in poor health.
She needs us to take care of her.
Besides,
my parents have always treated you as their son.
We're family.
We should
stick together.
You have no problem with that, right?
Anyway.
You have no right to refuse.
Second,
be careful
when you go on a mission.
You have parents now.
Most importantly, you have me now.
Sorry. I forgot.
You don't work in the Criminal Police Unit now.
You're a traffic cop now but still, be careful.
Third,
here I
quote my mom.
"I must have a grandchild
before I turn 60."
So,
An,
you have to work hard.
Why do you keep looking away?
Look at me.
Let's make a deal first.
If we have a daughter,
she must have my eyes.
I want her to have double-edged eyelid.
Fourth,
when is my birthday?
September 6th.
Let's hold our wedding
on September 6th, okay?
Be grateful, An Xin.
That'll save you
a lot of money in the future.
You know?
In the future,
you only need to buy me
one gift every year.
I got something to show you.
This
is the invitation card I chose.
Here.
Next,
I need to pick a wedding dress
and find a wedding host.
I got so many things to do.
Getting married is so troublesome.
We've known each other for 20 years.
Haven't you had enough of me?
Yes.
I have.
I'd had enough of you two years ago.
You know.
But what can I do?
I just bear with it.
During the six years
when we were apart,
I missed you every year,
every month,
every week,
every day.
However,
after missing you day after day,
I felt something was wrong.
I couldn't tell
what was wrong,
so I kept thinking,
reflecting, and summarizing.
In the end, I found
that
I missed you just like…
like…
a brother missed his sister.
I didn't miss you in a romantic way.
An Xin, what's wrong with you?
Are you having a fever?
I don't love you.
Well,
you're anxious about getting married, right?
Meng Yu, listen carefully.
I don't love you.
What we feel for each other is not love.
What the hell is wrong with you?
If this feeling is not love, what is it?
An Xin, tell me.
What do you call this feeling?
This is love.
OK. I got it.
Don't be so serious, An Xin.
I…
I know something happened
to you at work,
and you're in a bad mood.
But these are two different things.
They're different.
Let's stop thinking about that, okay?
Let's talk about something happy.
Our wedding will be held on September 6th.
Who do you want to invite?
You need to invite
your colleagues at work, right?
What about me?
I didn't find a job in the TV station.
If I invited all my teachers and classmates,
wouldn't that be too many people?
No. Tell me now.
Should I invite all of them?
-Meng Yu. -Should I…
I really don't love you.
I've never loved you.
Find someone who loves you
and start a family with him.
Get married and have children.
Live a happy life with him.
Stay safe.
An Xin, what the…
You…
An Xin, where are you going?
An Xin, wait!
An Xin,
tell me what's wrong with you. Wait!
You're upset
because of those four conditions, right?
If you feel upset,
you can talk to me.
We can make changes.
You don't have to meet all those conditions.
If you don't want
to live with my parents,
the two of us
can move out.
An Xin.
An Xin, wait.
We're not done here.
I told you
those are my mom's conditions.
I just wrote them down.
My parents just consider you
as a part of the family.
They want that for your good.
Why can't you understand them?
What's wrong with you?
An Xin,
tell me what's on your mind.
Wait! Don't go.
An Xin, wait.
An Xin.
An Xin, don't go!
An Xin!
You think what we have is friendship
instead of love, right?
Let me be frank with you.
I think so too.
Just like you,
I have never
loved you!
Never!
An Xin.
Shuting.
Sorry. I've been having back-to-back meetings.
It's been a busy day.
I'll arrive in Hong Kong tonight.
I'll spend a few days with you and the kid
before bringing you back.
Where's my dad?
Well
You have nothing to say?
I have something to say.
I'm not going back.
Don't wait for me.
Jinghai is your home.
Why wouldn't you come back?
Let me finish.
Six years ago,
when I decided to be with you,
I promised myself one thing.
I promised myself
that I would never let myself
live in hiding anymore.
But after all this time,
it seems that my life
hasn't changed much.
Later I realized
that I made a mistake.
Gao Qiqiang,
you have never changed.
You've always been like this.
I made a wrong choice.
Actually, you can't give me
the life I want.
I have one last request.
Don't look for me.
Don't disturb
our life.
I wish
you can make great achievements
in Jinghai.
Uncle An.
What did you call me? Uncle An?
What did you do to Meng Yu?
She cried her heart out
when she called me.
She said you lied to her.
You brat.
What's wrong with you?
Listen.
If you have really
done her wrong,
the first thing I do
after coming back from Bobei
will be break your leg.
Uncle An.
Too many people
died for no reason.
Too many grievances
were suppressed for no reason.
I can't let those people die for nothing.
There are too many things
I need to do.
What does all this
have to do with Meng Yu?
It has nothing to do with her.
But
Leave it alone.
My shift starts.