Killer And Healer Episode 17 Recap
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Zhao Moqing accompanied Sun Yongren to Daxing Firm, intending to pick out a gift for Jiang Yuelou. While there, Sun Yongren noticed that the packaging of some western soaps looked identical to that of the opium they had previously discovered. Just then, Zhao Jingming appeared.
After Sun Yongren explained that he was there because Jiang Yuelou had sent him to help Zhao Moqing with her broken-down car, Zhao Jingming revealed he was also heading to the police bureau to discuss refugee resettlement with Jiang Yuelou and offered to go together. Zhao Moqing tried to join them, but she was sent home by her brother. Meanwhile, Chen Yuzhi brought Chu Ran home to discuss Gao Yun's financial struggles.
Chen Yuzhi proposed organizing a fundraiser, specifically targeting wealthy merchants and gentry. He suggested that Chu Ran could write a charitable report featuring their businesses for free advertising, while he would offer his services as a family doctor for a year without charge. Chu Ran found this to be a good idea and suggested that refugee settlement and school fundraising could proceed simultaneously.
Upon arriving at the police bureau, Sun Yongren urgently tried to inform Jiang Yuelou about his discovery at Daxing Firm, but Song Rong quickly pulled him away. Jiang Yuelou then met with Zhao Jingming to discuss the refugee settlement plan. Zhao Jingming presented a roster of 370,000 refugees, explaining that the Financial Department had allocated a special fund of 740,000 yuan, which had already been transferred, for their assistance.
He proposed two options: setting up soup kitchens in the east and west of the city where refugees could get food, or directly distributing a two-yuan subsidy to each refugee based on the registration roster. Jiang Yuelou strongly preferred the soup kitchen plan, calculating that the funds would sustain the refugees for three months. However, Zhao Jingming argued that the direct payment method was simpler, quicker, and would satisfy both superiors and the refugees.
Jiang Yuelou disagreed, but Zhao Jingming asserted that the committee, influenced by Mayor Cai, prioritized stability above all else, and establishing soup kitchens would divert valuable labor from essential police duties like handling opium cases. Under pressure, Jiang Yuelou reluctantly agreed to distribute the subsidies at the police bureau gate at 8 AM the following morning, with Zhao Jingming excusing himself from attending due to pressing matters at the tax bureau.
Later, Jiang Yuelou also noticed significant errors in the refugee list, with nearly forty percent of names duplicated, suggesting potential fraud. Later, Song Rong and Sun Yongren returned to Jiang Yuelou. Sun Yongren explained how the soap he saw at Daxing Firm matched the opium packaging, but he hadn't secured solid proof to avoid suspicion.
Jiang Yuelou instructed them to continue their investigation, also expressing his suspicion that Zhao Jingming might be the mastermind or a core member of the criminal operation. Subsequently, Jiang Yuelou visited Chen Yuzhi, who explained his and Chu Ran's efforts in preparing the charity fundraiser, particularly emphasizing Gao Yun's school's desperate financial situation. Despite Jiang Yuelou mentioning the Financial Department's recent allocation for refugees, Chen Yuzhi stressed that individual efforts were insufficient and a broad public fundraiser was still necessary.
Jiang Yuelou agreed to discuss the fundraising with Executive Zhan once the refugee settlement was complete. The next day, during the subsidy distribution, an opium addict collapsed, convulsing and foaming at the mouth. Jiang Yuelou noticed him and instructed Song Rong to follow him. The addict, identified as Shi Lei, was brought to Chen Yuzhi, who quickly determined that Shi Lei was dying from internal bleeding due to ingesting a corrosive substance.
Jiang Yuelou intensely interrogated the dying man, demanding to know his superior and who was behind the opium sales in Jing City, specifically asking if it was Zhao Jingming. Shi Lei tried to die without revealing anything, but Jiang Yuelou pressed Chen Yuzhi to keep him alive to extract information. Shi Lei, in extreme pain, finally succumbed without confessing. Jiang Yuelou recognized Shi Lei as someone Chen Yuzhi had previously saved.
Jiang Yuelou concluded that the relief payments intended for refugees were being immediately diverted into the pockets of opium dealers, with Shi Lei being a key figure in dragging the refugees into addiction. He became even more convinced that Zhao Jingming's insistence on direct cash payments instead of soup kitchens was a deliberate scheme to facilitate money laundering, implying Zhao Jingming was at least a core member of the criminal operation, if not its mastermind.
Soon after, Zhao Moqing arrived at the police bureau to personally thank Jiang Yuelou for sending her home the previous day. Jiang Yuelou introduced her to Chen Yuzhi, subtly pointing out her cough from the day before. Zhao Moqing denied coughing and politely refused Chen Yuzhi's offer to take her pulse. She then presented Jiang Yuelou with a tie from Daxing Firm.
While he tried it on, Jiang Yuelou casually asked her if she had given Sun Yongren a Western soap, which she confirmed. Suddenly, a large crowd of factory workers, protesting factory closures and unpaid wages, gathered outside the police bureau, clashing with refugees. Reporters quickly converged on the scene. Jiang Yuelou emerged, attempting to calm the agitated crowd. The workers demanded their rights and money, questioning why the government only cared for refugees and not their plight.
Jiang Yuelou spotted a man inciting the crowd and, observing the calluses on his finger from firing a gun, exposed him as an agitator, not a genuine worker. The man retorted that he was an accountant, therefore also a worker, and continued to provoke the crowd. Amidst the deafening noise, the man whispered vile insults to Jiang Yuelou, personally attacking his deceased mother. Enraged, Jiang Yuelou's underlying emotional condition flared, and he shot the man dead.
The crowd scattered in terror, while reporters frantically snapped photos. Chen Yuzhi rushed to Jiang Yuelou's side. News of the shooting quickly reached Mayor Cai, who reprimanded Commissioner Bai, questioning Jiang Yuelou's actions despite his usual clear distinction between good and evil, especially given the public nature of the incident. Commissioner Bai assured the Mayor he would launch a thorough investigation and provide a public explanation.
Mayor Cai then instructed Commissioner Bai to prepare a list of candidates for the Inspection Chief position. Jiang Yuelou was subsequently confined. Chen Yuzhi visited him, giving him medicine to help calm his agitated state. Jiang Yuelou believed he had fallen into a trap, convinced that the dead man had deliberately provoked him to shoot, intending for Jiang Yuelou to be imprisoned, thereby allowing their criminal organization to proceed with their plans, possibly involving a ship bound for Nanyang.
Despite the consequences, Jiang Yuelou expressed no regret for killing the man, believing he deserved it, even though he lacked direct proof. He instructed Chen Yuzhi to investigate the dead man's true identity, suggesting that finding this information, along with gathering intel from Wang Meng, would be crucial to clear his name.
Chen Yuzhi later conveyed to Sun Yongren that they had found the key to absolving Jiang Yuelou, emphasizing the importance of uncovering the dead man's identity rather than directly confronting the mysterious mastermind at that moment.
