GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 4

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Beginning of episode: Shen Wei is caught at a crime scene in the alleys of Dragon City.

Ending of episode: The Envoy and Chu Shuzhi's second meeting in the park.

Important scenes/developments:

• The interrogation scene.
• Shen Wei accompanies Zhao Yunlan and Lin Yusen to a crime scene, gets attacked, and heals the cut on his arm.
• Zhao Yunlan starts to form a theory about Shen Wei's power.
• Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei's first night-time stroll, during which they talk about names and friendship.
• Shen Wei pricks his finger and laughs when Zhao Yunlan freaks out.
• The SID (minus Zhao Yunlan) run a sting, and Da Qing and Zhu Hong are kidnapped.
• Zhu Jiu works out Shen Wei is the Envoy.
• We see a flashback to Zhang Danni's life on the streets as a Dixingren in Haixing.
• Zhu Jiu incites Lin Yusen to blow up the culprits, and the Envoy is wounded? His robes are damaged, anyway.
• Zhao Yunlan is pissed at the Envoy arriving late and taking away Lin Yusen's body with the others.
• The Envoy meets Chu Shuzhi in the park, warns him to be on his guard, and foreshadows the danger of mixing dark and light energy.

Thoughts
I got carried away again. Feel free to comment without reading all this! (I also made 162 screencaps while I was watching; guess I'll post a picspam later. ;-) ( Lots of thoughts! )

Discussion starters:

1. What's your favourite part of the interrogation scene? Anything that you particularly noticed this time through?
2. What's your favourite other moment in this episode?
3. What do you make of Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi suddenly working so well together?
4. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei's relationship jumps in this episode from cursory interrogation to "I think you're innocent, and you can tag along" to "intimate night-time chat-strolls." What is Zhao Yunlan thinking? Is he still suspicious?
5. Would the case have proceeded differently if Zhang Danni had tried to give evidence against Shen Wei?
6. How do you think Shen Wei feels about being brought back to the SID for questioning? It clearly isn't part of his plan.
7. How did Zhu Jiu convince Zhang Danni and Jia Hui to play along? Do you think they're true believers or did he promise them something?
8. Zhu Jiu glues Shen Wei's feet to the ground twice -- at the initial crime scene and again in the park. Does he do it again after this episode? If not, why? (Actually, I think it's likely Shen Wei found a way to negate it.)
9. Does Zhao Yunlan actually take Shen Wei to the hospital for a tetanus shot?
10. When Zhao Yunlan tells Guo Changcheng not to look at the real Zhang Danni's body, is he protecting him, or is it just that he doesn't want to deal with him fainting again? (It seems much kinder than last episode's "don't make me skin you alive" exasperation, to me.)
11. Zhang Danni recognises Chu Shuzhi the same way the hospital attacker did in episode 2. Did she already know, or did Zhu Jiu tell her?

Let's talk about episode 4!
Come and talk about this episode -- anything from favourite scenes or lines of dialogue to notes/questions about continuity or translation, most gorgeous (or angsty) smile, or anything else that strikes your fancy! And share links to your own and/or others' episode-related meta, picspams, and fanworks, new or old!

ChuGuo fluff ficlet (flufflet?)

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mergatrude gave me the Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng prompt "Sometimes I don't know what to do with my hands", and I wrote a little first kiss ficlet: like lovers do (786 words, no warnings).