[Xiao] Checkmate.
Checkmate.
[man scoffs] Told you Xiao Sa won't lose.
Come on, everyone pay up.
Bro, sorry...
Checkmate.
Sir, something on your mind?
No fun playing with you if you're distracted.
How about rock, paper, scissors?
Sorry, Xiao Sa. I've been busy lately.
With what?
This charming place is covered with at least 50 cameras.
Feels like they can even see through to my pancreas
or my past life.
What could you be busy with?
Sweeping the hall.
A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[chattering]
PRAY
HURTFUL CHILDISH REMARKS
A MEMOIR FOR MY 50-YEAR-OLD SELF
[man] Five, six, seven, eight...
CHAPTER 3: TEN YEARS
[Fu Xing & prisoners] ♪ Yesterday is ♪
♪ A photo hung on the wall ♪
♪ Today is ♪
♪ The view behind the car, retreating ♪
♪ Tomorrow is the alarm clock yet to go off ♪
♪ The day after tomorrow is a fading name ♪
♪ On a tombstone ♪
♪ [soundtrack] Yesterday is a photo ♪
♪ Hung on the wall ♪
♪ Today is ♪
♪ The view behind the car, retreating ♪
♪ Tomorrow is ♪
♪ The alarm clock ♪
♪ Yet to go off... ♪
[all shouting]
♪ The day ♪
♪ After tomorrow is a fading name ♪
♪ On a tombstone ♪
[banging continues]
[shouting]
[whistle blowing]
[whistle continues blowing]
♪ No matter how things change ♪
♪ Don't become ♪
♪ The grown-ups you hate... ♪
[man] Five, six, seven, squad.
Three, two, three, four...
- Fuck. We're dancing like girls. - [man]...five, six, seven, eight.
Four, two, three, four.
The fuck you looking at?
[man] Stand up. From the top.
♪ How do you feel about today... ♪
Five, six, seven, eight.
♪ Are you angry ♪
♪ Or lost... ♪
[speaking indistinctly]
♪ Don't be envious about everything others have ♪
♪ Because you have something they don't ♪
♪ Happiness only ♪
♪ Depends on how much do you want ♪
♪ Don't care about what you lost ♪
♪ Life will find its way ♪
♪ No matter how things change ♪
♪ Don't become ♪
♪ The grown-ups you hate ♪
♪ No matter how things change ♪
♪ Don't become ♪
♪ The grown-ups you hate... ♪
You see, I'm really enjoying life now. I even learnt this... this...
How to dance like this...
I'm just not good at differentiating left and right.
I'm healthy.
Just not good with left and right directions.
I'm good and healthy.
Don't worry about me.
[mouthing]
CELL 22. 111 DING CHANG-QUAN
♪ Cry if you want to ♪
♪ Ignore what others think ♪
♪ Pride isn't worth anything ♪
♪ Waste your life if you want to ♪
♪ Ignore the future ♪
♪ Your life is your life ♪
♪ [prisoners] Yesterday is a photo ♪
♪ Hung on the wall ♪
♪ Today is the view ♪
♪ Behind the car, retreating ♪
♪ Tomorrow is the alarm clock ♪
♪ Yet to go off ♪
♪ The day after tomorrow is a fading name on a tombstone ♪
[man 1] 168!
- Here you go. - [man 2] The fuck is this?
[indistinct voices]
Fu Xing, candy for you.
[man 3] Gao, help me distribute the biscuits.
[Gao] There's more?
- 159! - Here!
- 111! - Here!
[indistinct chatter]
I owe you this from yesterday. All five sticks.
[man 1] I have some more left. Let me know if you need it.
OCTOBER 5
JUNE 6
JUNE 4
[man] He turns around and then walks off here.
Someone's calling him from that direction.
Don't be nervous.
We can make a police report first, but it looks like someone he knows.
He doesn't know anyone.
Jiang Tian-you is never late, and I dropped him off today at 7:30 a.m.
Why didn't you call me earlier?
I'm sorry.
Fuck!
There is a way to sort this. I have a way, don't worry.
What way?
What ways can people like you have?
Cui Cheng-gui...
There are only a few adults Tian-you even knows.
You suspect me?
The first person you suspect is me?
Sorry.
But these past ten years, I haven't trusted you again.
[glass breaks]
[folk music playing]
[footsteps approaching]
The stepdad is here.
Or do you call him husband?
Picked an old man so you can't get pregnant?
There will be clues.
Who's Tian-you been talking to? Playing with?
There are cameras all around this school.
I'll pull up footage from dashboard cameras on every car.
Did you receive any weird calls recently?
[cell phone buzzing]
Hello?
Two weeks.
They don't want money.
They want Ding Chang-quan.
Don't do anything stupid!
I won't tell you anything at all.
You will, and you will thank me for it.
Ding Chang-quan.
I never believed you killed anyone...
but you've also never once given me hope.
Now my child is missing.
They want you for the trade.
I can't stop thinking...
it's because you did kill someone.
I've notified the police.
Please cooperate.
I need to save my son.
Please cooperate.
Thank you.
[mouths] I hate you.
[classical music playing]
Tian-you's dirty from playing outside.
Go wash your hands and help me with dinner.
You're back?
Where's the child?
[all speaking indistinctly]
Now is spring...
So summer is coming.
It's summer in a few days...
Ah Quan.
Sun Tzu said
it's the most common time for fires to start.
The most common time for fires to start.
Where are my glasses?
[speaking indistinctly]
IN THIS WORLD'S GRAINS OF DUST IS THERE ROOM FOR THE PASSIONS OF MEN?
[pop music playing]
JUNE 8
[door buzzing]
Hi, Mrs. Zhao. Gas company scheduled maintenance.
I need to check with my son.
This is the letter of notice. Have a look.
I knew it. North District Gas Company.
NORTH GAS DISTRICT GAS COMPANY CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
[man 1] 291!
[prisoners chattering]
157!
Fu Xing.
Your score this time is a mess. The high and low notes are all over the place.
[man] So you know how to play or not?
Thank God I'm talented.
Let me show you the correct one.
♪ It's raining tonight And the wind is chilly ♪
♪ Flower petals falling ♪
♪ To the ground ♪
♪ There's nothing left to say ♪
♪ Since we've already separated ♪
♪ It'll only make me sadder if I look back ♪
♪ Thinking of you all day ♪
♪ Even in my dreams ♪
♪ The love turns out to be ♪
♪ Nothing when I wake ♪
♪ When I dream of you ♪
♪ My heart aches... ♪
DETENTION CENTER AGENCY OF CORRECTIONS
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, TAIWANESE FOLK SONGS INTERNATIONAL MIDSUMMER
♪ I'm lonely because of you ♪
Hi.
Taiwanese folk songs. There's no way young boys like you know them, right?
♪ In the summer, the wind is light ♪
♪ A boat for two is about to roam the river ♪
♪ I have something to tell you ♪
♪ But will you say no to me? ♪
[whistling]
♪ I have something to tell you ♪
♪ But will you say no to me? ♪
Don't be so annoying. Fine. I don't know the songs.
But I do.
Shall I teach you?
[guard whistling]
Later for the opening song, let's do it light.
That kind of place, better not be too emotional.
Mm.
[brakes squeal]
Have we arrived?
Sir, I'm very sorry...
[car door closes]
What's going on?
[guard] Hands up.
Turn around.
Okay.
Hands up.
Turn around.
Okay. Hands up.
Turn around.
Okay.
Hands up.
Turn around. Okay.
Hi, Mr. Zhao.
[man] Today, I'm very pleased to attend Northern Prison's
traditional folk song music concert.
I'm pleased to see
the Corrections Department's compassionate efforts
allowing the inmates
to appreciate our local culture.
Let's welcome the musicians as they perform our local folk music.
Music to help youin your remorse.
Being home is far better than being free.
Repentance is far better than vengeance.
Thank you.
[playing Taiwanese folk song]
Hello, senior.
Hello.
[alarm ringing]
[all cheering]
[speaking indistinctly]
[whistles blowing]
[inmates continue clamoring]
[whistle blowing]
[inmates go quiet]
[man speaking indistinctly on TV]
[man] Sir...
I can smell smoke!
[inmate] Where?
[guard] Quiet! Sit down!
Sit down!
[whistle blowing]
Sit down!
Where? Where do you smell smoke?
- Fuck you... - What are you doing?
What's this?!
[guard] Kneel down!
All of you, down and hands on your heads!
Down! All of you get down!
All of you get down!
[shouting continues]
Safety first. Don't joke around.
Number off from the first row!
- One. - Two.
- Three. - Four.
- Five. - Six.
- Seven. - Eight.
- Nine. - Ten.
- Eleven. - Twelve.
- Thirteen. - Fourteen.
Fifteen.
- Sixteen. - Seventeen.
Eighteen.
- Nineteen. - Twenty.
Fuck you!
[all shouting]
[whistles blowing]
TAIWANESE FOLK SONGS, INTERNATIONAL MIDSUMMER
[whistling]
[country music playing]
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
♪ The uniform he's wearing ♪
♪ Won't keep his heart from breaking ♪
♪ He's just holding the line on this crazy boulevard ♪
♪ Come behold the fruits of wrath ♪
♪ Breaking everything in its path ♪
♪ We're falling fast, we've gone too far ♪
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
LI DE-QUAN WARDEN
[Li sighs]
Good afternoon, warden.
I called just now.
The paperwork is all here.
I just need to talk to one inmate.
That's a pain.
It'll take some time. I need to get permission from the bosses.
And things are a mess here today.
- Because of the blackout? - No.
Just a fire.
Small one, not deliberate. The cells were all empty.
The weather's hot. Something probably just ignited by accident.
Warden, are all the inmates accounted for?
All here. We're on lockdown. The headcount was done.
If it's possible, I want to meet cell 22, inmate 111, Ding Chang-quan.
Fine.
Go get a queue number from the office. It'll be fast.
Have a cigarette.
- Teacher? - Okay.
Teacher?
- Teacher? - Okay.
It's going well, right?
Keep your act going.
Sir.
Please don't hurt our families.
Keep your act going.
[grunting]
Hi, warden.
If you need to smoke, do it in the designated areas.
Sorry, sir.
Teacher Zhao and I are just waiting. The three of them went to the restroom.
Quan...
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
♪ The uniform he's wearing ♪
♪ Won't keep his heart from breaking ♪
♪ He's just holding the line on this crazy boulevard ♪
♪ Come behold the fruits of wrath ♪
♪ Breaking everything in its path ♪
♪ We're falling fast, we've gone too far ♪
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
♪ After all the screaming ♪
♪ The hurting and the beating ♪
♪ Quiet till we do 'cause we've torn ourselves apart ♪
♪ Aren't we all misunderstood? ♪
♪ We all think we're doing good ♪
♪ I'll shout it out with my guitar ♪
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Mm ♪
♪ All this inner fighting ♪
♪ And meaningless dividing ♪
♪ Is gonna turn this place into a graveyard ♪
♪ We don't seem to understand ♪
♪ What we're hurting is our own end ♪
♪ Violence always leaves its scars ♪
♪ Home is where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Home is where Where you heal the heart ♪
♪ Mm ♪