GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 11

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Beginning of episode: Hei Pao Shi and Zhao Yunlan empathise with Sang Zan
Ending of episode: Fourth Uncle of the Snake Tribe drugs Zhu Hong

Important scenes/developments:

• Zhu Jiu fights the Envoy and Sang Zan. He dissolves Sang Zan. Zhao Yunlan shoots Zhu Jiu in the chest, but he flees.
• The Envoy draws the Mountain-River Awl out of the pillar, and Wang Zheng begs him to use it to reconstitute Sang Zan's energy.
• Zhao Yunlan gives Sang Zan an unpaid job at the SID.
• Zhao Yunlan finds Zhu Hong asleep, and her reaction to a mention of Shen Wei arouses his suspicions (again).
• The Drinking Scene!! Shen Wei throws himself on an alcohol grenade and immediately falls unconscious.
• Zhao Yunlan puts him to bed and smells his jacket.
• Shen Wei wakes up to a note from Zhao Yunlan, also smells his jacket, and realises his cover might be blown.
• Back in Dragon City, Guo Changcheng writes in his diary that the SID is unhappy.
• Start of the Zheng Yi case.
• Guo Changcheng has an upset stomach and calls Lao Chu a giant popsicle.
• Zhao Yunlan has a LOT of flashbacks about Shen Wei and speculates about the Envoy with Da Qing.
• Zhao Yunlan takes Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing and Lin Jing to the "mass suicide" crime scene. They find a link to Shen Wei.
• Zhu Hong takes Guo Changcheng to the Snake Tribe to ask about the Hallows. Fourth Uncle drugs Zhu Hong.

Thoughts
( Notes and observations. )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite scene / moment / line of dialogue in this episode? Anything you particularly noticed this time through?


• In the Hanga flashbacks, I don't understand how the judgement box works; is it supposed to be a secret that there are two skins in there, and a conceit that the box offers up a kind of divine judgement? Or something else?


• In the caves, the Envoy says, "Also, the Hallows have bad effects on Dixingren." 况且圣器对地星人本来有反噬的效果 I'm so curious about this! Do we get any other evidence or hint of this in the show?


• Zhu Jiu and the Envoy have a great fight. When Zhu Jiu accuses the Envoy: "Hei Pao Shi who sold his own kind just to obtain merit and prestige, you have the nerve to call me the mastermind of all these crimes?" (出卖同类 获得功名的黑袍使竟然还好意思说 我是罪魁祸首) what do you think Zhao Yunlan makes of that? Does he discount it because it's spoken by an enemy, or does it set curious wheels turning? Any thoughts?

Let’s talk about episode 11!
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