Under the Skin Episode 2 Recap
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The discs in Liang Yi's secret room recorded a large number of indecent videos. The women in the videos were all women who had undergone plastic surgery with Liang Yi. Some were drugged and sexually assaulted, while others were willing. Five of these video discs were missing. Bureau Chief Zhang felt that if they could find the women recorded on these five discs, perhaps one of them was the murderer.
Du Cheng asked Liang Yi's secretary to match the screenshots from the indecent videos with the photos of the women before their plastic surgery. The secretary had only handled some of the patients, but she remembered a girl named Ai Wen who had a grudge against Liang Yi because of a failed plastic surgery. Shen Yi had mentioned that the woman in the surveillance video outside the plastic surgery hospital was likely someone whose plastic surgery had failed.
Because of this, Du Cheng quickly took Jiang Feng to find Ai Wen. Ai Wen's mother gave the two a phone number. After Du Cheng found Ai Wen, he discovered that Ai Wen, whose plastic surgery had failed, had long since lost her mind. She was now living in a psychiatric hospital. The lead was broken. Du Cheng went to report the case to Bureau Chief Zhang. The priority was to confirm each person before and after plastic surgery.
Shen Yi was confident that he could do this. He would draw portraits of all the women before their plastic surgery based on the post-plastic surgery indecent video footage. Bureau Chief Zhang arranged for Du Cheng and Shen Yi to work on this together. Shen Yi stated that he had already drawn the portrait of the woman in the surveillance video outside the plastic surgery hospital. He wanted Du Cheng to approve his use of Lei Yifei's office.
Du Cheng told Shen Yi to focus on the work. Shen Yi covered the office with portraits. Du Cheng matched the portraits with the case files of the women who had undergone plastic surgery, and then summoned them one by one. The summoned women behaved differently, but all had alibis. Now, only one woman named Fan Ruoxuan had not yet arrived. Late at night, Fan Ruoxuan came to the police station.
The moment she took off her mask, everyone found that she looked almost exactly like the woman who appeared outside the plastic surgery hospital and the portrait drawn by Shen Yi. Fan Ruoxuan confessed that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Liang Yi, and later had a failed plastic surgery.
Yan Tansheng repeatedly questioned her if she had killed Liang Yi, but Fan Ruoxuan stated that the time she went to the plastic surgery hospital did not match Liang Yi's time of death. On the night Liang Yi died, she was held at the police station all night for drunk driving. Shen Yi, who observed the suspect from outside during each interrogation, felt that Fan Ruoxuan was not lying.
Du Cheng investigated and found that the facts were indeed as she stated. Du Cheng suspected that someone had swapped the surveillance video outside the plastic surgery hospital. When he took Jiang Feng to find Liu Lianming, who was on duty in the surveillance room that night, they discovered that Liu Lianming was already dead. Liu Lianming's cause of death was also cyanide poisoning.
Du Cheng determined that the deaths of Liang Yi and Liu Lianming were committed by the same murderer. However, no cyanide was found in the wine glass at the scene of Liang Yi's death, while in Liu Lianming's wine, not only was cyanide found, but also phthalates, which are commonly used in nail polish. Shen Yi remembered some details about the summoned women.
Among them, Jiang Ge's exceptionally beautiful hands and the nail polish on her fingernails aroused Shen Yi's suspicion. Du Cheng went with Shen Yi to visit Jiang Ge. Du Cheng obtained Jiang Ge's alibi during the time of Liang Yi's death from her—a twenty-four-hour surveillance video. Shen Yi discovered clues from the lighting in the surveillance video, thus determining that the video was fake. Du Cheng took Jiang Ge back to the police station with a subpoena.
The police found a fingernail piece at Jiang Ge's residence. The lab results were immediately sent to Du Cheng. Du Cheng advised Jiang Ge to tell the truth. Having no way to deny it, Jiang Ge could only confess. Jiang Ge, who worked in architectural design, faced professional discrimination because she was a woman. To change the situation, Jiang Ge sought out Liang Yi for plastic surgery. After the surgery, Jiang Ge's career soared.
She even personally designed the secret room for Liang Yi, and it was in this secret room that Liang Yi drugged and sexually assaulted Jiang Ge. After waking up, Jiang Ge was in immense pain but helpless against Liang Yi. The two maintained an abnormal relationship for a period. Jiang Ge wanted to completely break free from Liang Yi. Jiang Ge discovered that Liang Yi had a hand fetish, so she hid the poison in her fingernail.
Liu Lianming helped Jiang Ge swap the video outside the plastic surgery hospital and also helped her forge the video proving her alibi. To eliminate future troubles, Jiang Ge hid the poison in her fingernail again and secretly put it in Liu Lianming's wine glass when he was drinking.
