Speech of Silence~Episode 2

Kenneth apologises straight away, saying that he didn’t know she was deaf. He does hand actions to tell her he will pay for a new one. Kate says that it’s HK$26 000 and thinking that Kate can’t hear him, Kenneth says ‘Maybe she’s trying to make me pay more.’ Kate: ‘If you don’t want to pay, fine, but you don’t have to say those kinds of things. Even if you’re not a pervert, you’re not a good person!’



At the store Elaine works at (she only works there to meet rich guys), Queenie sees a cute, rich-looking guy and tells Elaine not to ‘fight’ with her. Elaine lets her have him because she can tell that he is 吃軟飯, meaning he gets all his money from his partner.



Elaine went out for dinner with a guy called Paul, played by Oscar, who she thought had lots of money, but even his phone was fake. He asked to borrow Elaine’s phone (which actually was Queenie’s) and then disappeared with it. Elaine ended up having to call Kate to pay off the $10 000 bill. When Kate tried to warn her that marrying a rich man doesn’t mean that you’ll be happy, Elaine got all mad at her. Tut tut tut, so ungrateful.



Unfortunately, Elaine had left her ID at the police station, so her dad found out all about it. He told Elaine off and gave Kate back her money. Elaine said: ‘I know, she’s deaf so everybody has to be nice to her, and pity her but I’m your own daughter but you love her more than me! I’m the one who should be pitied.’ Kate looked back at two dolls that her father had given her after the accident. She remembered that Elaine had looked really jealous, and when she tried to give them to her, Elaine pushed them away.



At the studio, everyone had to do a recording multiple times because the old hearing aid that Kate was wearing made it hard to hear properly. When she heard everyone talking about her, Kate went to buy stuff for them at the supermarket. As she was walking out, a woman called out to her but she kept on walking because she had taken her hearing aids out. The woman ran up to her and accused her of stealing.

Kenneth thought he was helping her by coming out and saying: ‘I think it was a mistake. She’s deaf so she couldn’t hear what you were saying.’
Woman: ‘So what if she’s deaf. A deaf person stealing is even worse. Does she think that just because she’s deaf people will pity her and let her get away with it?’
Kate: ‘What are you talking about? I really didn’t steal anything.’
At that moment, the manager came out and said that after looking at the surveillance tapes, it actually wasn’t Kate that had stolen something.
Kenneth: ‘See? I told you it was a mistake. Look, she’s deaf.’ Pulls her hair back roughly to show them her hearing aid. ‘She can’t hear properly so of course she didn’t stop when you called her. Why can’t normal people listen to others properly instead of always making the atmosphere so awkward and bad? What are you still looking at? Apologise!’
Woman: ‘Sorry miss’
‘Sorry, sorry. That doesn’t solve everything! What you just did really hurts her sensitive feelings you know. Do you know how bad it makes her feel? You don’t even have any sympathy!’



Kate stalked off, angrier at Kenneth than the people at the supermarket. When Kenneth catches up to her on the walkway, she turns around and says sarcastically:
‘If Hong Kong didn’t have such passionate people like you, I really don’t know what the disabled people are going to do.’
Kenneth: ‘Oh, well don’t say that. Doesn’t matter la, say I am just helping you out of kindness. Well, then let’s just forget about what happened last time, OK? I’ve asked people, the hearing aids really are that expensive! Here, take this. I sincerely want to pay you back for what I did last time.’
Kate: ‘Thanks for your so called sincerity, but I won’t take your money. I just can’t live up to such pity.’



Kenneth’s aunt, who totally bosses his uncle around, wants to sell the noodle factory’s land for tens of billions of dollars. When she and her ‘rich’ friends come up to see Kenneth perform the traditional way of making noodles with a bamboo stick, Kenneth plays a prank on them. They complain that it is hot, so he tells them to stand in front of the fan and then throws flour in front of it! All of the flour ends up on them!



Kenneth and Chris are playing basketball when Chris sees his grandmother collecting cardboard boxes and soft drink cans. he runs up to her, saying loudly how she is so old, and its not as if they don’t give her enough food at home, so why is she out picking up rubbish. His grandmother says that it is because she wants to earn her own living and not seem useless and dependant. Kenneth then understands why Kate got so mad at him.



Kenneth was just apologising to Kate again when she sees Oscar. As they are following him, a truck comes by and they split up to look for him. Oscar notices that Kenneth is following him and calls his friends to bash him up. Kate from across the roads reads his lips and knows what he is doing.



Kate tries to stop him but Kenneth ignores her. When she sees Kenneth getting beat up, she puts on the voice of a police officer to make them back off. Too bad Oscar found out and chased after them. He was about to hit Kate with a metal pole, but Kenneth held up his arm and took the blow.



Wow! I never thought I’d have this much to write about... though I did write about this much at the start of FHII! Hmm, will continue for now...