Sword Rose Episode 11 Recap
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The Anti-abduction Office's raid on Skinner's hideout forced him to relocate the girls to an upscale villa. With clients too scared to visit, his men became idle, often gathering to play cards and drink, which greatly displeased Skinner. Chen A'mo suggested contacting some VIP clients to boost business, but Skinner, wary of a police trap, warned him not to act rashly.
Deng Yan devised a plan to use a previously arrested client, Luo Yi, as bait to apprehend Skinner and his associates. Luo Yi called Chen A'mo, who agreed to pick him up at 7 PM that evening at their usual spot. Chen A'mo arrived punctually, blindfolding Luo Yi as was their custom.
To avoid suspicion, Chang Rui and Yan Lei took turns following their vehicle, while Yang Jiajia and Deng Yan kept a close watch on Chen A'mo's movements using a tracking device. A car accident caused a traffic jam, trapping both Chen A'mo's and Yan Lei's vehicles. When the target's car made a sudden right turn, Yan Lei found himself stuck and unable to follow. He immediately called Chang Rui, who took over the pursuit.
Yang Jiajia soon identified the destination as Mangshan Villa, an upscale residential area. Deng Yan then notified the Anti-abduction Office officers to rendezvous there. Chen A'mo led Luo Yi to Villa Number 12, confiscated his phone, and escorted him to one of the girls' rooms. Deng Yan and Chang Rui swiftly arrived with their team and stormed the villa. Deng Yan and Yang Jiajia rescued the confined girls, while other officers apprehended several traffickers.
Amidst the chaos, Skinner escaped, instructing Chen A'mo to impersonate him. Chang Rui captured Chen A'mo and began an interrogation. When Yang Jiajia confirmed he was an imposter by checking fingerprints from a previously found salted duck egg, Chang Rui pressed him to reveal Skinner's whereabouts, but Chen A'mo refused to cooperate. Deng Yan had Yang Jiajia review surveillance footage of vehicles leaving the villa area around the time of the operation.
She quickly identified Skinner's vehicle and, by tracing its route, deduced his destination was the foot of Baiwushan. Deng Yan, Chang Rui, and Yang Jiajia immediately set off, contacting local police to assist. Upon arrival, they found only the abandoned car, which contained Skinner's favorite salted duck eggs, confirming his escape. Chang Rui then had Yang Jiajia issue a cooperation notice to nearby police stations.
Skinner hitched a ride to a village and used a public phone to alert his associate, Brother Fei. Fei immediately reported to his boss, Gang, who instructed Fei to handle Skinner's situation and then go into hiding. Meanwhile, Yang Jiajia uncovered Skinner's true identity: Wang Guangqing. Chang Rui was stunned by the name, recalling that his father, police chief Chang Yongjun, had drowned years ago while saving a young boy named Wang Guangqing.
Overwhelmed by the irony that his father, a dedicated officer, had died saving a future human trafficker, he called his father a "big fool." Following this revelation, an arrest warrant was issued for Wang Guangqing. Facing a dead end, Skinner called Brother Fei for help. Fei picked him up, hid him in the trunk, and headed back to the city. Before reaching a police checkpoint, Fei had Skinner get out of the car and meet him later.
The police searched the car, which was filled with storage boxes, but found nothing and let Fei proceed. Fei later picked Skinner up and took him to a secluded house deep in the woods. Fei provided Skinner with new identification and cash, arranging for him to leave by boat the following Wednesday. Skinner complained the money was insufficient to "buy his life" and demanded 100,000 yuan. When Fei refused, Skinner threatened to expose their entire operation.
Enraged, Fei severely beat Skinner and left, warning him to take the escape route provided and never return. Having arranged Skinner's escape, Fei booked a flight to flee the country himself. At the hospital, Zheng Weiwei regained consciousness but was overwhelmed by despair. She feigned thirst to send her mother away and attempted to commit suicide by cutting her wrist. Deng Yan and Yang Jiajia arrived just in time to stop her.
As Deng Yan comforted her, her mother returned, tearfully apologizing for not protecting her and promising to never pressure her again. Shortly after, Deng Yan and Yang Jiajia received a call from a shelter about a rescued girl, Pingjiao, whose parents had refused to pick her up. At the shelter, Pingjiao tearfully recounted her painful upbringing. Her parents, desperate for a son, had nicknamed her "Zhaodi" ("beckoning a brother"), forbade her from attending school, and beat her frequently.
She had run away from their abuse, only to be captured by traffickers. Deng Yan promised not to send her back and decided to investigate her family. Deng Yan and Chang Rui accompanied Pingjiao to her home, but her parents rejected her, calling her an "embarrassment." Her younger brother called her a "stray." Confronted by the police, the father, Lv Guoping, confessed that Pingjiao was adopted.
Pingjiao then accused them of buying her, and her parents admitted they had purchased her from a man known as "the cripple." The adoptive parents were taken to the station for questioning. A DNA test confirmed Pingjiao was not their biological child. Yang Jiajia cross-referenced her DNA in a database and found a match: a child named Bai Xiujing, reported missing in 1998 from a village on Mangshan's north slope.
Deng Yan escorted Pingjiao, now knowing her real name, to meet her birth family. Her father, Bai Shengquan, was overcome with joy and wept as he embraced her. However, Pingjiao was heartbroken to see that her mother, driven mad with grief since her daughter's abduction, was now mentally unstable and did not recognize her.
