My favourite quotes from this episode (orig. subs):
Lin Jing: Science is a necessary passage in the evolution of mankind, but if you know there's a wall in front of you, why throw yourself at it?
ZYL re the popcorn maker: It and I, we're fated to be. Even if we're thousands of miles apart, it's as if we're right beside each other.
I think you're right that Chu Shuzhi is softening. I think he's enjoying working well with Zhao Yunlan, who is competent and decisive and treats him as competent and kind of like a partner/2IC. Love his teasing ZYL and ZYL noticing that he's changed, the bit where Chu Shuzhi is about to apprehend Wu Tian'en on his own and ZYL stops him because they need evidence (19:45), and also the two of them working together to train Xiao Guo. In the scene in Li Jiaqi's bathroom, CSZ walks right up to ZYL and they converse in undertones.
Other random things I noticed:
The Huangs have a TV in their bathroom.
During the stakeout outside the Li's place, Guo Changcheng is in the driver's seat. I wonder if he drove them there, or if Zhao Yunlan left them there and... walked back? Caught a taxi?
Wu Tian'en knows where to go to try to talk to his son. (This might be TV convenience, though.)
Last episode, CSZ could tell on sight that Lin Yufen was ordinary, but he can't tell that Wu Tian'en isn't.
During the phonecall, Shen Wei kicks the "unofficial consultant" ball into motion, by saying, "Then, to prove my innocence, if Chief Zhao needs anything, I will do everything in my power to cooperate."
Mr Huang is a total villain.
I'd like to have been shown why CSZ couldn't stop Wu Xiaojun from drowning the kidnapped couple, but I did really like that Xiaojun chose not to.
I feel like the ring should be more significant. Maybe it's a Dixing ring? Or it's just to make us aware (again) of the importance of jewelry?
Zhu Jiu talking about the second step in his plan: could that be tracking down Ding Dun and starting to find the Awl?
Investigating Ji Xiaobai's bathroom -- did Lin Jing make a forensics robot bug so he wouldn't have to go to crime scenes and get left behind anymore? Ha!
You can see from Shen Wei's expression that he's not impressed. And I think his smile when the chancellor urges him to uphold the university's reputation is one step away from rolling his eyes.
I didn't read it like that. I thought Shen Wei was sincere when he said he understood and offered to take responsibility. (I may be influenced by currently watching a Kdrama about education and what things parents are inclined to consider a "scandal".)
On the other hand, unlike the last episode, he doesn't involve himself in the case at all save for briefly talking to Wu Tian'en, so perhaps he is to some degree keeping his distance from the SID ...
Yeah, I think this is very deliberate. IIRC, he doesn't get involved in the Mirror Girl case, either, except for acting as consultant.
Zhao Yunlan hones in on Wu Tian'en pretty quickly. He's got great instincts about who's involved, even if the people he seems to focus on aren't the culprits, but other people important to the case.
Ooh, good point. Yes.
Wu Tian'en and Wu Xiaojun: It really struck me this time how much their relationship is a parallel to Shen Wei and Ye Zun!
I noticed that too. So cool, especially that it foreshadows the reconciliation! <3
the captain who got away, became a criminal and was shot. (By Zhao Xinci? Very likely.)
I was trying to figure out if we ever see him. Maybe it's the Dixingren who blows up Shen Xi? Or Bao Laosan's wife?
Zhao Yunlan comments on Papa Huang's taste, but idk what I'm supposed to take from it. Just that it's out of place in their home?
I'd guess that he expected to find classical art (or at least representational art) in a rich person's house, like the stuff at the university. Or traditional Chinese paintings. The abstract piece doesn't really fit with the overall display of wealth? (I got distracted by the ceramic chickens in the shelves at the end of the kitchen counter.)
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My favourite quotes from this episode (orig. subs):
I think you're right that Chu Shuzhi is softening. I think he's enjoying working well with Zhao Yunlan, who is competent and decisive and treats him as competent and kind of like a partner/2IC. Love his teasing ZYL and ZYL noticing that he's changed, the bit where Chu Shuzhi is about to apprehend Wu Tian'en on his own and ZYL stops him because they need evidence (19:45), and also the two of them working together to train Xiao Guo. In the scene in Li Jiaqi's bathroom, CSZ walks right up to ZYL and they converse in undertones.
Other random things I noticed:
You can see from Shen Wei's expression that he's not impressed. And I think his smile when the chancellor urges him to uphold the university's reputation is one step away from rolling his eyes.
I didn't read it like that. I thought Shen Wei was sincere when he said he understood and offered to take responsibility. (I may be influenced by currently watching a Kdrama about education and what things parents are inclined to consider a "scandal".)
On the other hand, unlike the last episode, he doesn't involve himself in the case at all save for briefly talking to Wu Tian'en, so perhaps he is to some degree keeping his distance from the SID ...
Yeah, I think this is very deliberate. IIRC, he doesn't get involved in the Mirror Girl case, either, except for acting as consultant.
Zhao Yunlan hones in on Wu Tian'en pretty quickly. He's got great instincts about who's involved, even if the people he seems to focus on aren't the culprits, but other people important to the case.
Ooh, good point. Yes.
Wu Tian'en and Wu Xiaojun: It really struck me this time how much their relationship is a parallel to Shen Wei and Ye Zun!
I noticed that too. So cool, especially that it foreshadows the reconciliation! <3
the captain who got away, became a criminal and was shot. (By Zhao Xinci? Very likely.)
I was trying to figure out if we ever see him. Maybe it's the Dixingren who blows up Shen Xi? Or Bao Laosan's wife?
Zhao Yunlan comments on Papa Huang's taste, but idk what I'm supposed to take from it. Just that it's out of place in their home?
I'd guess that he expected to find classical art (or at least representational art) in a rich person's house, like the stuff at the university. Or traditional Chinese paintings. The abstract piece doesn't really fit with the overall display of wealth? (I got distracted by the ceramic chickens in the shelves at the end of the kitchen counter.)