I thought Yoyo was going to die, when I watched this, but she finds the strength to whack him with her shopping bag. Still, he manages to push her against the wall. He grabs her head and keeps on hitting it against the wall. Luckily, a man walks past and the ‘murderer’ runs off. At the crime scene and from Yoyo, they found a purple material and pieces of hair that didn’t belong to Yoyo or the victim, Lee Mei Kei. The victim was actually both deaf and mute, which is why she didn’t scream for help.
Yoyo was frustrated that she couldn’t remember anything form that night. Charmaine said that it was OK as she’s a human, not a video recorder. They decided to go back to the crime scene and reenact what had happened. She remembered grabbing onto the murderer’s hand and that on his right hand, between his thumb and index finger, there was a lump. Charmaine also found out that ‘you people’ meant people who are disabled.
After examining the scars caused by the belt on both Wong Miu Shang and Yoyo’s body, Frankie discovered that it was the same belt that was used to injure both of them. Serial killer!
When Charmaine and Kevin were helping an old lady across the road, they found out that one of their favourite bands form England are playing in Hong Kong and decided to go together.
Macy gave Matthew a black bead necklace that is good for relieving stress. Seeing that she has one too, Matthew thinks that she likes him, but she gives them to everyone!
Raymond remembered that Lee Mei Kei had been wearing a watch that was the same as her hairdresser, Ricky’s. Also, Ricky has a lump between his thumb and index finger as well. However, he had an alibi.
As they were going home in Frankie’s car, Frankie and Charmaine were discussing who had put the tables, chairs and plant on the balcony. Turns out Charmaine had put the chairs there, and Frankie had put the plant.
Knowing that Charmaine really liked a type of incense called Vetiver, Kevin especially ordered it for her from England! As Charmaine walked out of a shop selling incense, a man grabbed her handbag. Haha, he doesn’t know who he’s messing with, stealing a policewoman’s handbag!
Charmaine rummaged through her bag and found that her pen was missing. Frankie found her on the balcony and told her that if she told him everything, she might feel better. In England, she had met the love of her life, Jason. He had given her the pen hoping she would sign her name on the day of their wedding using that pen and record all their happy stories down using that pen.
However, on her wedding day, just as Jason was about to sign his name, a man that was obsessively in love with Charmaine shot him. He then killed himself after Charmaine said she didn’t like him. I feel so sorry for her... that was how she got the name ‘掃把星’.
When Frankie had cheered her up and comforted her, she smiled.
Frankie: That’s good, when you smile; your whole person is beautiful again.
Frankie, when picking up something of his own, found Charmaine’s pen in his car.
When he gave it to Charmaine, he saw Kevin coming and said: Oh, before when you were asking me which café was good, you meant you are taking Belle?’
30/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 15
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 14
Yes, I haven’t totally stopped doing FHII summaries as I hate to leave things half done, but I’ll probably do it in my spare time because SOS is now my first preference.
When Kevin and Charmaine met in a bookstore and started talking about Bath, the city of romance, she told him that she was once going to have a very happy wedding there. Kevin looked at her and you could tell he was starting to have feelings for her.
*New Case
A girl’s body was found in a falling apart house in the forest. She was bruised all over and there was blood smeared on the walls. Frankie said that she had probably been brutally tortured to death. Now that’s what I’m looking for. A psycho murderer. Who kills a crippled girl. This better be good.
They concluded that there had been only one murderer as she had been dragged in. If there were two, there wouldn’t have been skid marks on her shoes and the floor. Also, she had been unconscious because the drag marks were very straight, showing no signs of movement or struggle. After examining her body some more, Frankie found that her body had lots of bruises caused by whipping with a belt. This was how she was killed...she had been whipped to death. Talk about slow and painful death.
On her clothes and wheelchair, there was powder that is used for praying in temples. This couldn’t have been left behind by the girl Wong Miu Shang because she was a Christian and went to church.
Bobby asked Yoyo if she would go on his London bus, as in proposing to her!!!
Bobby: ‘You’d better say yes soon, my legs are feeling numb.’ Just then the dads burst in and Bobby’s dad says he had to put more feeling into it and demonstrates. Yoyo finally nods and Bobby shoos the dads out for private alone time.
At a temple nearby to where they had discovered the girl’s body, Vivien and Matthew saw the man that had been arguing with her the day she died. He said that he had only kicked her wheelchair and then gone home. He had tried to cover up the truth because they didn’t want the police going up to his flat as there were lots of bottles of cough medicine there. His son had been consuming large doses of the medicine and was selling it.
As Yoyo is heading back to Bobby’s house, she sees a man harassing a girl. When she finished talking to Bobby, however, the two of them are nowhere in sight, with only the girl’s shoes left behind. She wanders into the alleyway after hearing a noise. The girl is slumped against the wall, unconscious, possibly dead, as there is a long trail of blood all down the wall leading to her head. As she crouches down to look at the girl, a man appears behind her and tries to strangle her. He says: ‘You people, 唔死都無用呀!
14/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 13
傅志輝 admitted that in 1993, on the day of his birthday, he found out about what was going on between his wife and喪狗. The day after his birthday, he overheard his wife talking on the phone to喪狗. He said he had thought about killing him, but didn’t end up doing it. Then he was suddenly out of control and having a seizure. Their son, who came to the hospital, was played by Stephen Wong.
When watching a video of people wrestling on the net, Bobby and Yoyo discovered that the person fighting was喪狗 and that he had on of his teeth knocked off during the fight. This was strange as when they found the body, all 28 of his teeth were there. This means that one of the teeth doesn’t belong to喪狗. Strangely though, after comparing the DNA of喪狗’s teeth and the tooth that doesn’t belong to喪狗, Bobby found that喪狗 and the murderer were father and son.
Charmaine suspected that Stephen might actually be喪狗’s son, so went and asked 張妙雲 for permission to get Stephen’s DNA. This was further supported when they found out the tooth Stephen had lost when he was young was the same as the tooth that didn’t belong to 喪狗. Stephen admitted that he did kill 喪狗 when he was just 13! He had seen 喪狗 steal his mum’s necklace and the next day followed him to get his mum’s necklace back. 喪狗 thought that it was Stephen who had stolen his possessions and chased him into the forest.
After being hit by 喪狗, Stephen threw some dirt at him and he tripped backwards and fell, hitting his head on a tree trunk. Realising he was unconscious, Stephen got a thick branch and repeatedly bashed 喪狗 until he was dead. He then buried him right there, and spit his tooth which had been knocked off by 喪狗, into the hole.
When walking back to Frankie’s car, Frankie didn’t want to go with Bobby and Kevin to get dessert because then he would have to walk past the wedding shop with him and Linda’s photo. So sweet how he still loves her so much!
Charmaine wanted to help Stephen get a lighter punishment/sentence by proving that he had killed 喪狗 for defense, because as a person that knew martial arts, 喪狗 was easily able to kill Stephen with his bare hands.
Bobby, Frankie and Kevin invited Charmaine to have lunch with them- I foresee a friendship here... :)
11/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 12
I'm being v. lazy with my posts on FHII, coz now that I've finished watching, it doesn't seem that much fun anymore... still, can't leave something unfinished!
I’m glad that they understand now why Charmaine acts ‘cool’, because she had an unhappy past... Kevin remembers when he had said there must have been a very happy story behind the pen with 樂 engraved on the lid.
At the martial arts center owned by one of the people that went to the same martial arts club as喪狗, they ask the owner if he knows喪狗. The guy says he doesn’t know喪狗 but you can tell that he is lying. Charmaine notices that the receptionist, Winnie, looks like she’s trying to hide something and that she has burn scars on her right hand, which is how 馮添 had described喪狗’s wife. So when Winnie starts walking away, Charmaine says: ‘Where are you going, 阿鳳?’
The owner of the martial arts club had gone to Thailand for two years and when he came back, 喪狗 had already died. The wife had been in hospital during that time because喪狗 had been physically abusive towards her and caused a miscarriage. I’m hating喪狗 already, even though he’s just a made up person. It’s sad to know though, that there are people like that in real life.
At Winnie’s house, they found pictures of 喪狗 with other women, taken by 馮添, who was a private detective, and also a threatening letter, which read: 喪狗, 我們江湖中人 最重要是講道義, 你竟然淫人妻女 簡直天理不容, 人人得而誅之 如果你缳是繼續執迷不悟 後果嚴重, 小心你的狗命◦ 江湖大佬 Winnie accidentally ripped two photos stuck together so they cannot see who the woman was anymore. So obviously the murder has something to do with her... very predictable.
At the hostel in the photo, Charmaine and Raymond found an ashtray left behind by the woman in the photo. Also, the paper the letter was written on special paper used for drawing.
Charmaine’s stepmother came to the hospital to apologise hoping that they won’t sue her son (they were never planning to), but after getting a call that the restaurant had been sued, she immediately blamed it on Charmaine and her mum.
Kevin apologises about the day when he made assumptions as to Charmaine’s past, but Charmaine said: ‘Well, you’re correct, I once was happy.’
Kevin: ‘Did you know, [once was], these two words are the world’s most deadly curse? ‘I once was rich, I once was young. When you say it, it makes it seem as though it is all past tense, and that it will never happen again.’ I agree!
On the ashtray, which was actually a calligraphy brush rest, the words 妙雲93 were engraved onto it, 93 being the year 93 when 喪狗 died. When they looked up 妙雲, they found that it was the name of the woman in the photo, who now owns a place for art lessons.
The woman said that 喪狗 had forced her to sleep with him, otherwise he would make trouble for her family. Charmaine noticed that 張妙雲’s husband was surprisingly calm when he found out that she had been arrested because of 喪狗. She guessed that he probably already knew about what happened 15 years ago. After comparing her husband’s writing to the threatening letter, they found out that it was 張妙雲’s husband [傅志輝] that had written the letter.
There isn’t much screencaps for this episode, mainly because there just wasn’t that much worth capturing... the cases, though I must admit, are getting better.
8/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 11
Kevin and Frankie had recognised that they had fought with 喪狗 15 years ago, on the same day that he had died! Of course, they then had to be questioned by the police about this. Both of them told a recount of one happened that day when they fought喪狗 at 慈雲山配水庫. Because they were probably the last people to see喪狗, they were not allowed to participate in the case.
Fred and Yvonne decided to go back to慈雲山配水庫 to look for more evidence to prove that Kevin and Frankie are innocent. The 重案組 team on the other hand were trying to find out what喪狗’s real name is.
Back at Bobby and Frankie’s flat, Frankie is sent a photo of him and Ivan fighting with 喪狗. The sender calls himself ‘witness’ and says that if Frankie doesn’t want people finding out about his fight with 喪狗 because it will ruin his reputation, then he has to give him $10 000. Blackmail...
The witness sent another email to Frankie telling him to go to 順寧道公園門囗 at 9 p.m. the next day to hand over the money, and that he would be wearing a grey jacket and hat. The 重案組 team gave him the name of ‘灰貓’.
On the night a man wearing a grey jacket and grey hat did come to take the money, but Frankie was able to test that he wasn’t the witness that had sent him the email. So then they continued to follow the man, hoping to find ‘witness.’ When people came out from the alleyway, they could tell who witness was because previously, they had put powder onto the bag containing the money, and with special binoculars, they could see who had touched the bag.
‘Witness’, whose real name is was able to prove that after Frankie and Kevin had fought with 喪狗, whose real name is 周長發, 喪狗 was still alive. Unfortunately, 馮添 left after stealing 喪狗’s watch and necklace, and didn’t see who had killed 喪狗.
Kevin helping Charmaine fix her DVD player: Kevin picked up Charmaine’s pen again and Charmaine found out that it was actually Kevin that had picked up her pen for her the other day.
Charmaine invited the whole of the forensics and 重案組 team to her house for a party. Charmaine’s mum’s stomach started hurting when they arrived and it was food poisoning from having eaten food from Charmaine’s stepbrother’s restaurant.
Charmaine’s dad rushed over to see Charmaine’s mum and her stepmother came too, and started accusing Charmaine’s mum of pretending to be sick and causing the complaints to her son’s restaurant. How much more of a b**** could she be?
She even called Charmaine the three words, 掃把星 (pronounced ‘tong-ju-dun’) which means something along the lines of bringing bad luck to her husband, perhaps even causing death!
Charmaine says, ‘Right! My mum has gotten sick from eating food from YOUR son’s restaurant. There’s no way he’s ever getting any business again, or I’m not called 馬幗英!
5/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 10
(Scroll down to view episode 8, 9 summaries)
Although it was proved that it was the son that had hit the woman, he argues that he had been beeping the horn and the woman had totally ignored him. This was because the woman had been talking on the phone and listening to her MP3 at the same time, which was why she couldn’t hear the beeping horn. She couldn’t see the van either, as from the conversation on the phone, they found out she had been looking the opposite way at a road sign. This case was utterly... pointless.
At a cake shop, Raymond and Charmaine’s step mum have an argument in which he said a word (巧) that may have sounded like a swear word (Q). She had then gone and complained about him.
Charmaine helps Raymond by talking to Madam Wong (person in charge of complaint) and telling her that he wouldn’t do anything of the sort. She finds out from Matthew that Frankie is actually the famous writer 古采尼. He also says that one of the characters in the books, Madam Mui, is actually written to be like Madam Ma, except there are quite a lot of negative things written about her!
Charmaine goes back to the cake shop to try and find some more clues to prove that Raymond didn’t swear. She meets the customers from that day and the child had said that Raymond never said the letter Q.
They had arranged to go out for dinner that night to celebrate, and much to the rest of the 重案組’s surprise, Raymond asks Matthew and Charmaine to come as well!!!
(Ignore the extra shot of Charmaine and Frankie)
Charmaine sees Frankie at the canteen and says all this stuff about ‘Madam’ actually being friends with the rest of her team, because she still thinks that she is Madame Mui. Luckily, Frankie explains to her that he had invented Madam Mui’s character before he met Charmaine.
*New case
A man that was digging a hole in the woods to bury his dog had found the bones of a dead male body buried in 1993. The cause of his death had been a heavy blow to the back of his head.
His teeth and skull were taken to forensic sculptor to try and reconstruct his face as that was the only way they could find out his identity.
Frankie and Kevin recognised that they had once fought with a person wearing the same t-shirt as the one the body had been wearing. The person they had fought with was called 喪狗.
At the lab, they were shown what the reconstructed face of the dead body looked like. Guess what? This is pretty predictable, that person was喪狗!
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 9
Astrid has decided to return to the U.S now to get back to her work there. I am amazed, maybe even a little disbelieving at how fast she can recover from her husband’s death. Though it is true that as a doctor, she often faces thing like death and illness.
Macy had deliberately requested to be sent to 西九龍 police station just so she can work in the same region as Charmaine, who is her idol. On her first day, she brings in cake for the 重案組 team and invites them all to her house to try out her mum’s cooking, Coincidentally, the cake she brings in (拿破崙) is one of Charmaine’s family’s favourites, and Charmaine even buys a cake from her.
When Charmaine comes to pick up the food, she is surprised to see Kevin there and also insists on paying although Connie (Macy’s mum) says she doesn’t have to. Kevin: ‘Just let her pay, in the police force, nobody dares argue with her!’Kevin then volunteers to carry the food to Charmaine’s car for her. Charmaine: ‘You don’t have to. Besides, you said nobody on the police force dares argue with me.’ Kevin: ‘Yes, but we aren’t at the police station now’.
On the way to her car, a kid skating past accidentally causes Charmaine to knock over her stepmother’s bag. This starts up an argument and her stepmother says to Kevin: ‘You’re her boyfriend? You’re pretty brave! I wish you good luck, she has a name to call-‘
Charmaine: ‘If you’re bold enough, say it.’
Stepmother: ‘Why aren’t I bold enough, it’s just three words.’
Charmaine glares at her.
Stepmother: ‘What? I’ll really say it.’
Charmaine: ‘Say it!’
At lunch, they all let Matthew sit at their table because they want to find out what the three words are. Matthew thinks that he knows and says: 死-野-女. Haha, they all look they like are pulling a funny face!
*New case
Somehow, there doesn’t seem to be anything suspicious about it, so I don’t have much hope that this will be any better than the previous cases. A woman is dead after being hit by a van driven by a father who was doing a delivery with his son.
Basically, there are two main suspects, the father and the son. The father had said he was driving, and had sounded the horn when he saw the woman walking out on the road. However, if so, there should have been a palm print there, but there wasn’t. This is because he was wearing gloves. The gloves had two types of DNA, belonging to the father and the son.
However, the son’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found on the steering wheel. Also, the steering wheel had a dent in it, which may have been caused by an accessory from the driver when they braked and hit the steering wheel. They proved that the driver was actually the son because the brake pedal had his shoe print and he had a bruise on his chest.
Argh, quite disappointing. So far, to me, most of the cases are just to show off how forensics can be used to solve crimes and all that, but there hasn’t been anything even slightly more interesting or worth biting your nails over yet. I hope there will soon be a case like the one where Charmaine Li played Tracey in FH1!
4/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 8
I’m beginning to think that the only reason that Astrid and Savio came back was to form another case. This seems kind of pointless and I’m hoping for there to be some more intriguing cases and more twists. Right now, all the cases seem to be too easily solved and there are no twists or unpredictable events like in the prequel.
They think that this is a ‘complicated’ case as there has been evidence of struggle and maybe a fight of some sort, but strangely, Savio still had most of his valuable possessions… except for his wedding ring.
I feel so sorry for Astrid. Originally, she had come to Hong Kong for Linda’s wedding, but ended up coming to her funeral instead. Then, she finds out her husband has a brain tumour and he dies as well!
Yoyo is finally able to put the past behind her and is becoming more optimistic!
She visits the 重案組 team. Sadly, she can’t be one of the front-liners anymore but has decided to come back to the police force and work in the CRB department instead, which mainly deals with paperwork.
Vivien says she knows where Savio might have gone to eat the dumplings found in his stomach, and Charmaine says, ‘Being greedy has its benefits too’. Vivien asks whether that was meant as a compliment or a put down?’ and Raymond says ‘What do you think?’ Personally, I think Charmaine was trying to be funny, but it kind of back fired!
When looking back at the surveillance tapes at the dumpling shop, they found two suspects, who had both left the shop straight after Savio. One of the suspects had squeezed a pimple and wiped his blood onto the back of the tables. His blood DNA was the same as the blood found in Savio’s nails. Also, the suspect had dropped a packet of tissues which had a strand of his hair stuck to it. Kevin found that his hair was extremely oily and had a lot of dandruff.
They concluded that the suspect was a grown man with an illness which caused bad cases of acne and also hair loss, so he must have been wearing a wig. While asking at all the shops that sold wigs in that area, Charmaine spotted the suspect and chased after him. To catch him, she jumped onto the roof of a walkway, onto a truck and leapt off on top of the guy. Impressive! (Though she probably had a stuntwoman doing it for her.)
The suspect, 江有全 had wanted to rob Savio and Savio had willingly given him his wallet because he had been planning to commit suicide anyway. However, he changed his mind when he heard someone playing the song ‘You are my Angel’ on the saxophone. At that moment, 江有全 tried to grab his wedding ring off him. When he eventually got the ring and pushed Savio away, Savio had tripped on one of the stools and fallen over the edge.
Astrid goes back to the balcony that Savio had fallen down from. there, she heard the song ‘You are my Angel’ which was what Savio had heard that day before he died.
So stupid! If the robber had just taken the money and left, instead of trying to get the ring as well, Savio would still be alive. I was hoping there would be more to this case than just a robbery gone wrong.
1/7/08
Forensic Heroes II~Episode 7
They take Lor Yuk Gil to the police station where they make her pick up a call from Sek Tau Yong so that Charmaine can trace the call and find him. Charmaine tactfully manages to get it out of Lor Yuk Gil that it was Sek Tau Yong that had killed Wong Bil. Wong Bil had been wanting more money from Sek Tau Yong and that had started up a fight between them Sek Tau Yong then drowned him in the bath tub, and asked Lor Yuk Gil to clean up after it.
Sek Tau Yong on the other hand denied that he had anything to do with it. Frankie proves it by comparing a model of Wong Bil’s teeth with a bite on Sek Tau Yong, which were the same. However, I don’t know how they can prove Sek Tau Yong had killed Wong Bil even if they did have a fight. But I don’t care, really, I’m just glad he got caught because HE KILLED DING DING.
Frankie thanks Linda for helping him solve the case because if she hadn’t have booked a table at the restaurant for them, he wouldn’t have found a way of solving the case. *Sniff sniff so touching...
Oh, I feel so sorry for Matthew! They don’t let him sit at their table because he doesn’t hate Charmaine like they do. Argh, when are they going to resolve all this already? I’m getting quite sick of it. Vivien makes a big fuss out of the fact that her star sign will lose wsomething this week and that her ‘Prince Charming’ will return it to her. Overhearing this, Matthew tells Charmaine who is also a ‘Librarian’, the same as Vivien.
Charmaine loses a pen lid that is very important to her, and who finds it? Kevin! But Frankie ended up giving it back to her. I wonder who’s her Prince Charming now?
At the hospital, Bobby and Yoyo bump into Astrid who was there with Savio for his body check. Bobby pats Astrid on the arm to comfprt her, and right at that moment Savio comes out and sees them. He loses control and goes absolutely crazy. he punches Bobby, pushes Astrid and Yoyo away, and starts chasing Bobby, trying to hit him with a rubbish bin. What is his problem?! Can’t he see that Bobby already has Yoyo??? Turns out he has a brain tumor in a the part of his brain responsible for self-control.
Yoyo goes off to her room, upset about the fact that she cannot use her right arm anymore and couldn’t even stop Savio when normally; she could’ve stopped him with one hand. Even when Bobby shows her the ring in the bus and proposes to her, she still refuses, thinking that Bobby was only doing it because he felt sorry for her. For some reason, I find that Bobby doesn’t seem to suit romantic scenes, which is probably why I didn’t like him in Marriage of Convenience that much.
