"[MEN SPEAKING MANDARIN]" "[FIREWORKS EXPLODING]" "[SPEAKING MANDARIN]" "[WOMEN SCREAMING]" "[LILY GRUNTS]" "Alice, you gotta get over here." "Please call me back." "I'm in trouble here." "[CAR ALARM WAILING]" "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Huh." "Looks all right." "Looks open is what it looks, man, and I'm starving." "Ah, Year of the Ox." "Chinese New Years make ours look boring." "How you doing?" "We're just gonna do takeout." "Same menu." "What do you think?" "I'd say it's a toss up between the cha sui bao, kung pao san yan, and the ma po curd with lychee." "What kind of menu is this?" "I'm looking for an egg roll." "At least they got pictures." "That way, you can point at whatever you want." "Yeah, flaming pig intestines." "Ha, ha." "Like I needed a picture of that." "[MEN SPEAKING MANDARIN]" "[GRUNTS]" "So, what exactly were the shooters saying?" "I don't really speak much Chinese, but it seemed like the leader guy was yelling," ""Where's my girls?" "I want my girls back."" "DAVID:" "We got six wounded and four dead." "One of the guys was carrying an FN P90 machine pistol." "All right?" "They were ready for a massacre." "It's funny, my dad used to take me and Charlie here when we were kids." "This place is famous." "Now it's gonna be a stop on the death-and-scandal tour." "Guys, this is Walter Yoon." "It's his brother's restaurant." "WALTER:" "That's my brother." "Harvey." "Harvey Yoon." "I'm sorry, Walter." "Can you tell me if you have any idea how this might've happened?" "It's already all over Chinatown that the Jade Boys did this." "Maybe he didn't pay his protection money." "Well, he's not gonna pay it now." "Alice Chen, Immigration Control." "I've got an emergency on my hands." "I think one of my agents was grabbed on this street." "She was undercover when she and two other women disappeared tonight, and, uh, that's my chief suspect." "It's too quiet with my dad away." "Drop a spoon or something." " So which reunion is this?" " His 50th." "But you didn't hear that from me." "Imagine Alan in high school." "You know, hanging out by the bike racks, snapping towels in the shower." "Thanks for the shower image." "That's good." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Hello, Professor Eppes." "Remember me?" "Yeah, I do." " What do you want?" " I need to talk to your brother." " Professional reasons." " My brother doesn't live here." "I'm not gonna give you his phone number." "Professional reasons." "When you do see him, please tell him to call me." "You bet." "And, um..." "Your mail." "Night now." " Who was it?" " Simon Kraft." " The police psychic guy?" " Wannabe psychic." "What the hell's this nutcase doing on my front porch?" "Maybe he's not such a wannabe." "I mean, how'd he know where you live?" "I don't know." "He's a former CIA spook, so maybe he got my address from one of his old contacts." "I'm not sure." "Think I should call Don or am I overreacting?" "You took too long." "[CELL PHONE RINGS]" "Excuse me." "This is Eppes." "Hey, Charlie, I gotta get back to you." "I'm at a crime scene at..." "You remember that restaurant that Dad used to take us to in Chinatown?" "Yeah, I know." "I'll make this fast." "Wait a second, what restaurant?" "The Silk Dragon." "CHEN:" "The agent we're looking for is named Kim Hsiao." "She transferred to us from DOJ because she's Chinese fluent and because I requested her." "Last night's shooters." "That's Jimmy Lim on the left." "He ran the Jade Boys gang with muscle from his cousin." "Kim was working undercover in Jimmy's sweatshop on Bernard Street." "That is, until last night, anyway." "COLBY:" "The waiter said that Lim was demanding his girls back from Harvey Yoon." "He could've been talking about your agent." "Yeah, that's possible." "The Department of Transportation cameras caught Kim all the way to Central Plaza." "That's the restaurant's location and that's where DOT stops." "NIKKI:" "The security cameras should've kicked in, but on that corner of the plaza, the cameras are all disabled." " Well, what about backup?" " She didn't have any." "We, uh, clocked her off at 9:15." "Uh, next thing, I got this call." "KIM [ON RECORDING]:" "Alice, you gotta get over here." "This thing's going bad." "[KIM SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING]" "[CAR ALARM WAILING ON RECORDING]" "[KIM SCREAMS ON RECORDING]" "Maybe you can do something with it." "A covert ops like this, uh, wouldn't your agents be wearing a beacon?" "She had a beacon, she didn't turn it in, so we're hopeful that she still has it." "Problem is that it only works for about a mile or so." "A mile?" "What kind of beacon is that?" "Look, we bust sweatshops every day and never had to fire a shot." "Then again, in retrospect, we should've been more careful." " We had a warning flag." " What do you mean?" "Well, L.A.P.D. Says they have five open cases involving Chinatown women who have disappeared and whose families have come forward." "Add to that missing illegals, sweatshop labour, and it's anyone's guess how many more there have been." "Our surveillance truck says the Jade Boys' sweatshop has gone quiet." "All the guards have disappeared." " Grab David and check that out." "CHEN:" "Thank you." "So why'd Jimmy Lim hit the restaurant himself?" "Asian gangs don't have foot soldiers or what?" "Yeah, they call them sai lo." "Maybe Jimmy didn't trust his own troops." "That's a good question." "DON:" "Oh, hey, guys." "Thanks." " So listen." "Simon Kraft..." "Oh, Charlie, I can't deal with Simon or think about him right now." "All right, then think about this because this is what he drew on our mail." "[DON SIGHS]" "That's amazing." "You said it was right after the shooting, right?" "I mean, I don't get it." "He's got his background, you know, so probably got a police scanner and he overheard the words "Silk Dragon."" "Well, maybe." "All right, so we're looking for a missing ICE agent who was grabbed somewhere near this shooting." "Huh." "Coincidence or connection?" "We don't know, but she did try calling in for help." "Tommy, just boost this up for me." "[KIM SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING]" "[CAR ALARM WAILING ON RECORDING]" "[KIM SCREAMS ON RECORDING]" "She's in there somewhere." "We could apply, uh, frequency-domain processors." "And Larry can help because he worked with the NSA on noise analysis." " Yeah, I'll give it a whirl." " Great, have at it." "Why don't you come with me?" "KIM [ON RECORDING]:" "Alice, you gotta get over here." "DON:" "So this is the hard drive from the restaurant." "AMITA:" "Multilayer encryption." " What am I looking for?" " I wish I could tell you." "If you find anything interesting, let me know, all right?" "Two floors of sewing machines and nobody's here?" "This is a sweatshop." "Where's all the labour?" "COLBY:" "FN P90 casings." "Same as the restaurant." "That one's Cheekay." "Low-level Jade Boy." "COLBY:" "Looks like we found our missing foot soldiers." "Why would Jimmy Lim exterminate his own men?" "[CLANGING NEARBY]" "Come here." "What the hell are you trying to do, huh?" "Easy, easy." "Colby, cuff him." "I got it." "I got it." "Colby." "[BANGING ON DOOR]" "[SPEAKS MANDARIN]" "Kim?" "COLBY:" "You see her?" " No." "DON:" "You know anything about a girl named Kim Hsiao?" "Ha, ha." "You get right to it, Don, don't you?" " Why don't you have a seat for me." " Okay." "Now, you gave this to my brother the night of a shooting at a restaurant called the Silk Dragon." "Okay, I can be businesslike too." "SIMON:" "The last time I helped the FBI, you and I scratched each other's backs, right?" "DON:" "So to speak." "SIMON:" "Well, I've got another itch." "DON:" "Let's just stick to this, okay?" "Let's settle on the terms first, all right?" "Here's the deal, Don." "I've been pitching, um, an Internet reality show all about a forensic psychic." " Simon Says." "You like that?" " Yeah, it's very catchy." "I've been pitching it around and, knock on wood, I got some interest." " So, ahem..." " Did you come to see the freak show?" "You've all got more patience than me." " Let me tag along on this one case, shoot some footage for my show, and, uh, I'll help you solve your crime." "Maybe even solve it for you." " That's it, forget it, let's go." " You wanna think about it, Don?" "No, no, no, and I'll take this, actually." " Let's go." " I'm gonna want that back." "It'll be waiting for you at reception without the tape." "It's Charlie." "He's been giving you a rough time these days, right?" "Science versus, uh, the synagog." "You following me, Simon?" "That's not a good idea." "Don, people are watching." "Hey, I catch you within a block of my family or my house, you're gonna be in for it." "[SIGHS]" "I didn't know about the restaurant shooting till I heard it on the news." "At first, I thought that these were kewpie dolls." "Then I saw that they were little dead girls." "I don't know what to say." "I mean, it's not evidence." "You've got a lot of bodies out there, Don." "And a lot more to come." "[KIM SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING]" "[CAR ALARM WAILING ON RECORDING]" "[KIM SCREAMS ON RECORDING]" "All right, there are some useable fragments in there." "Four hours work for that?" "Hey, it took multiple noise filters to get even that." "We are stretching forensic audiology to the limit here." "Yeah, we can't use simple notch filters because of the overlaps." "Now, have you, uh, ever seen a computer-graphics programme?" "Yeah, yeah." "Weekends." "I take this computer painting course." "Click by Numbers?" "Yeah, right now I am colouring in Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows." "You know, they say the sound of the crows caused his final madness." "CHARLIE:" "Thank you, Lawrence." "You're sitting at your computer and you've already coloured in the field but now you've moved on to painting your birds and your clouds." "What happens if you make those birds and clouds larger" " and more densely packed?" " Well, I can't see my wheat field." "But you know the field's still there." "It's just covered up by a bunch of birds and clouds." "So in a sense, your scene's become visually noisy." "How would you go about pushing those foreground images into the background?" "I would select the crows that were bigger, make them smaller and blurrier, so to the eye, they seem farther away." "Then select the clouds and do the same thing." "The result being that you can better see the field." "It's the same in audiology." "We just shrink the sounds we don't wanna hear so that the sounds we do wanna hear become foreground." "We use filters to diminish or blur noise, identifying each unwanted sound by its frequency, and then discriminating against it." "Yeah, so you find the fireworks." "I got car horn." " What?" " Fireworks and car alarms." "They emit different sound waves depending on their manufacturer." "So in order to filter them, we need their single frequencies." " I will get my coat." " All right." "Is that the dead restaurant owner's computer programme?" "I haven't gotten past the screen saver." "There's something odd here." "With the screen saver?" "Yeah, he chose a mahjongg board, but it's passive." "And for a game you can't even play, it's eating up a huge amount of memory." "I can't even open it." "It's like a house without any doors or windows." " How do you enter?" " And who's inside?" "DAVID:" "We have a missing ICE agent who was working at the sweatshop, Colin." "What do you know about that?" "Nothing, man." "Nothing." "What about the sai lo?" "The foot soldiers?" "Why is it that you're walking around and they're not?" "I didn't kill those guys." "They were my friends." "Jimmy did that." "Well, why would the boss kill his own gang, huh?" "He was mad because his girls kept disappearing." "CHEN:" "His girls?" "COLIN:" "Jimmy's a snakehead." "He smuggles the girls from China for 30 grand, then they pay him back at 50 cents a shirt." "It's good business." "You know something, Colin, you're the last of the Jade Boys." "Everybody else is dead." "Except for you." "The night Jimmy went crazy, three more girls had escaped." "Jimmy said that was the last three, then he tortured us." "Some of the gang broke down and admitted what they'd done." "They were selling Jimmy's girls to Harvey Yoon." "What's a restaurant owner doing buying up girls?" "Harvey Yoon was selling call girls." "Jimmy's girls would catch a van at the Silk Dragon and head to Vegas, wherever." "So why were you trying to burn down the sweatshop with the girls inside?" " Ha, ha." " Hey, wise guy, listen." "We already have you for attempted murder and trying to torch evidence." "Now, how much you wanna bet that your gun links up with the bullets that are in your buddies?" "Jimmy made me shoot the boys to prove that I wasn't stealing his girls or working with Yoon." "You were working with Harvey Yoon, weren't you?" "That's why you had to kill the women." "Because they knew it all." "Double dipping with Harvey Yoon and Jimmy Lim." "That's some dangerous business, man." "Anybody in this town you're not working with?" "Just you, man." "But I'm available." "Black." "Red." "Black." "All right, come on, what are the chances he gets 25 wrong?" "Less than one in a million." "I told you, he was reading the reflections." " He knows I was going to temple." " I was in the observation room." "I heard." " He knew you were in there." " He guessed." "He knew I was in the room when you did this card trick." "He's a fraud." "And he sorted through our mail." "He could be following us." "CIA thought he had something." "His drawings definitely helped last time." "I will not be convinced that he wasn't complicit in every single crime he helped solve." "I don't know, man." "It's funny, the other day, the rabbi was saying something interesting about doubt." "Uh, it's part of life, you know." "The darkness is for a reason." "A reason to invent the light bulb?" "[PHONE RINGS]" "Yeah, Eppes." "Yeah, all right, I'm sending Colby." "[DISPATCHER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO]" "DISPATCHER [ON RADIO]:" "Male victim is awaiting coroner." "Seems like L.A.P.D. Was trying to pull him over for running a red." " Turned into a high-speed pursuit." " The driver lost control in the turn?" "Snapped his neck." "Come see what the dragon ate." "The other two sweatshop girls." " Any sign of your agent?" " No Hsiao." "The dragon float, two little dead girls, it's just like Kraft's drawing." "[CHEN SPEAKS MANDARIN]" "What'd I miss?" "They didn't wanna talk until I told them that two of the women were murdered and one was still missing." "[SPEAKING MANDARIN]" "The night that Kim was taken it was Colin that brought them Harvey's deal." "She didn't go because it was too dangerous." "CHEN:" "If a woman accepted Harvey's offer, she went to his restaurant, got in a red van and joined the sex trade." "The restaurant delivery van is red." "One night, I go for van, see my picture on a wall." "I have no family here look for me, so who put there?" "DON:" "We start here and we just gotta spiral out." "Do you think that Kim's beacon is still working?" "I hope so." "I'll meet up with you guys later." "I'm gonna talk to Walter Yoon about his brother." " I'll let you know if I hear anything." " Thanks." "Hey, um, Don, I, um..." "I wanna say that I'm sensitive to your job position, but it's my agent who's out there missing." "And I want all the help I can get, no matter how, uh, unorthodox." "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "You gotta be kidding." "Your boss already okayed it." "I call shotgun." "Good guys to the rescue." "Where's my camera when I need it?" "Simon, you can't be chattering away the whole time, all right?" "[FIRECRACKERS EXPLODING]" "Oh, hey, uh..." " Sorry about that." " What are you guys doing?" "We're creating a filter for firecrackers." "Probably should've said, "Fire in the hole," huh?" "CHARLIE:" "We're sorry." " Did you get that?" " Got it." "[CHARLIE LAUGHS]" "All right." "In Chinese tradition, we burn symbolic objects to accompany the soul into the spirit world." " You drive in the spirit world, huh?" " Come." "This is Mr. Yoon, the spiritual director here." "My brother and I, we were not close." "Hard to honour someone so complicated." "Actually, Mr. Yoon, that's, uh, what we wanna talk to you about." "Were you aware of his involvement in criminal activities, specifically the sex trade?" "I certainly suspected." "But good or ill, he was my brother." "Harvey is just one face of Chinatown." "Please, let me show you another." "While the modern world wages its culture wars, we elders try to pass ours along." "What's left of it." "Our cultural centre offers language class." "Ah, mahjongg." "Some say the game goes all the way back to Confucius." "Tai chi." "Most ancient of disciplines." "[WALTER SPEAKS MANDARIN]" "They found her." "Why don't these parents go to the police?" "And be arrested?" "Most are undocumented." "CHEN:" "As a practical matter, there are 2 million illegal Chinese immigrants living in California." "It's hard to track the missing ones when the police don't even know they exist." "As a moral matter, many of these girls paid $30,000 to a smuggler just to get here." "They would rather be chained to a pimp or a sewing machine than be deported." "My own mother was a slave to a sweatshop." "Welcome to Chinatown." "Outward-spiral search?" "Why are we wasting our time?" "We..." "It's the standard FBI search procedure, Simon." "You'd think a psychic would know that." "Well, I'd think the FBI would've moved on since J. Edgar Hoover." "[CHUCKLES]" "All right, so, I mean, if we get within a mile, we should be getting a ping." "Yeah, unless we get a ping from our psychic first." "DON:" "Yeah." "In fact, Simon, when do you actually clock in?" "I'm in." "Like I told Chen, the first body I find you guys is a freebie." " After that, I want a signed contract." " Oh, okay." "KIM [ON RECORDING]:" "I'm in trouble here." "The suspect is driving a silver Toyota Sienna van." "Licence plate..." "Okay, we're getting there." "What is the sound after "licence"?" "Well, it's like two distinct sounds." "[KIM SCREAMS ON RECORDING]" "Metallic followed by some kind of rustling noise." "Okay, metal." "You know what it is?" "It's the van door." "So now we know we need another filter." " Not to mention the rustling noise." " Her blouse maybe?" "Why not?" "You know, she was grabbed." "Maybe she was trying to hide her phone." " Okay, that's two more filters." " Okay, wait." "I help you, you help me." "I discovered Harvey Yoon was passing his accounting to somebody." " Some kind of an ad-hoc network?" "AMITA:" "The problem is whatever he was sending was going through a ghost IP." "CHARLIE:" "You can't run it down?" " It's bounced me to China with stop-offs along the way." "I mean, it'll take forever to trace." "The mystery of the secret pen pal." "It's supposed to be the golden days, right?" "High school?" "A cafeteria manager raped a student worker in that building last night, poor thing." " The police know about this?" " I just saw it a second ago." "The CIA tells me you were discharged from the service for sexual assault." "What can I tell you, Don?" "I'm a hugger." "[GASPS]" "Left turn." "Now." " What's that?" " I said, make the left." "All right, all right." "Why don't you call Chen?" "All right, Chen, Simon seems to think he's onto something, so hold on for a location." "Right turn." "[TYRE SCREECHES]" "SIMON:" "Right turn again." "Left turn." "[TRACKER BEEPING]" "Wait a minute, we're in range of the beacon." "All right, Chen, we're in Monterey Park," "Hill of Peace Cemetery." "[TRACKER BEEPING]" "[TRACKER BEEPING FASTER]" "DON:" "Uh-oh." "Here we go." "We gotta get some shovels." "COLBY:" "All right, I'll find someone from the cemetery." "All right, hey, be careful." "We got something down here." "[COLBY GRUNTS]" "COLBY:" "Oh." " She's alive." " Let's get her out of there." " She must've caught an air pocket." "DON:" "Nice and easy, let's go." "Unh." "Let's get her to a hospital, guys." "Move." " See the way she was dressed?" " Like the others." "Yeah, exactly." "There's a fully intact coffin in here." "I don't know if they just laid her out on top of it or what." " What's going on around here?" " I don't know how this happened." " Whose grave is this?" " This man was buried Tuesday." "We're in the Chinese section, so obviously he's Chinese, or was." "You didn't notice anything out of the ordinary?" " Somebody hanging around?" " Not at this grave but, uh..." " Maybe the police told you." " Told us what?" "My security chased some people away from another grave a few weeks ago." " Which grave?" " They couldn't see who they were." "Yeah, she's been dead a while." "SIMON:" "All dressed up, nowhere to go." "This is one smart psycho." "Bury your victims in a cemetery." "How many women were found like this?" "Four so far." "What are you thinking?" "Those two were injected with some form of paralyzing agent." "I'm good with poisons, but I had to send this one out to the lab." " It resembles a shellfish toxin." " Death by shellfish?" "It's a good guess." "Look at this." "Mascara was applied thick and fast." "See where some got in her eye?" "Normally, that would cause tearing, the mascara would run." " There's no smudge here." " What does that tell you?" "The victims were paralysed or dead when they were made up." "That's pretty sick." "Doll them all up like call girls and dump them in graves?" "Right." "Four victims, four identical dress..." "It's, uh, a weaver's label from the bottom of a cloth bolt." "Yeah, made locally." "I'll check it out." "You know, I think I have a picture of my mother in a dress like this." "She's no call girl." "Hey, so we ran another filter on Hsiao's tape." "She said the suspects were in a silver Toyota Sienna van." "It's not like there's a lot of those, right?" "One more pass, I may be able to get a plate number so I'm gonna go record a van door shutting." " Okay, good." " Hey, guys." "So we're finding more of the double-occupancy graves." "The victims are female, Asian, all dressed up for a party." "Coffins belong to Chinese males between the ages of 14 and 78." "What about Hsiao?" "They traced the toxin to a type of sea snail." "The syringe struck bone and broke off before all the poison could get into her." " She just might wake up." "DON:" "That's good, but I doubt it's gonna be in time to help us." "More about the data?" "No, there's nothing like this in the FBI database." "No similar deaths, no matching M.O.'s, nothing." "All right, well, try Interpol." "And the Chinese, right?" "Yeah, the Ministry of Public Security." "I can help out with that." "Hey, finally, I got my camera back." "Why so glum, professor?" "The failure of higher math to find Agent Hsiao?" "Did it fail?" "My brother filled me in on your search pattern." "Yeah?" "How...?" "Um, how do you mean, professor?" "Left turn, two right turns, another left." "Maybe you went into the Dead Zone for your directions." "More likely, you followed a classic Lévy flight path." "Lucky for Agent Hsiao that I thought to follow a Lévy flight path, whatever the hell that is." "SIMON:" "Oh." "This is yours." "Thanks." "AMITA:" "You're looking at the restaurant's accounting programme." "You see what I see?" "Not being a C.P.A., I have to let my eyes adjust here." "Take a closer look at the column for Takeout Food." "All right, okay." "Let's see, "134, 440, 521."" "Each of these sets sums to eight, and that's too many eights for coincidence." "Now take a closer look at the column for Wedding Catering." "All right, "1314, 3231, 1800."" "Each set now sums to nine." "Harvey Yoon, what were you up to?" "You think it's some sort of hidden accounting system, a pricing system?" "The mystery of the motionless mahjongg board." "There is something to this graphic, but I don't know what." "Maybe a hidden pattern in the squares?" "Yeah, or under the squares." "Harvey Yoon had a thing for the numbers eight and nine." "Have you tried just hitting those?" "Larry, I've tried every number and every combination of number." " Even Control 8?" " Command 8, Option 8." "Okay." "Okay, call me low-tech." "Just hit the 8 eight times." "Harvey Yoon's sex stable." "Complete with what looks like a price list." "What do you say we take a look at the wedding catering?" "By all means." "I am guessing we enter by the 9 key." "Okay, time to talk to Don." "You know something?" "I wanna phone a friend." " Who?" " The librarian at the monastery." "Not only is he Chinese, he knows numbers." "Better than Charlie?" "Oh, I don't think this involves math, but magic." "Have you seen Don?" "Thanks." " Thanks a lot." " What have you got?" "So Nikki was right about the tag inside the red dress." "It's from a local loom and that particular weave has been discontinued." "Now, all the remainders were purchased by one single dress shop." " Can you guess where that shop was?" " Gotta go with Chinatown." "Ministry of Public Security sent us this output from their database." "COLBY:" "It's Chinese." "I'll let Chen know." "DAVID:" "Yeah, mugshots in any language." "I sell a lot of red dresses." " Sold any to a man like him?" " Yeah, I remember him." "Kind of stands out, a young guy buying 12 red dresses." "All cash." " Cash." " Thank you." "Thanks." " What does he know that we don't?" " And how does he know it?" "Ladies." "What are you doing down here, Kraft?" "Looking for these places that are in my sketches, huh?" "Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Chinatown Plaza." "On every tourist map." "Well, you won't find this on any map, huh?" "All right, and don't try to follow me, ladies." "I'm really rather shy..." "Is that what you call it?" "In his accounting, Harvey Yoon kept his escort service under "Takeout."" " A little gallows humour, I suppose." " So, what are these numbers?" "Uh, prices maybe." "Higher values for younger, more attractive ones." "Question." "Why do all the numbers, uh, add up to eight?" "LARRY:" "This is not about numerics, this is about numerology." "Consider when the Beijing Olympics began." "Yeah, August." "More precisely, eight seconds past 8:08 on August 8, 2008." "See, the Chinese organisers wanted to bring good fortune to their games, and eight is their luckiest, most auspicious number." "Larry discovered that Chinese couples routinely marry on August 8th." "One airline paid a fortune to get an all-eight phone number." "So Yoon wasn't just pricing his girls, he was wishing them luck." "LARRY:" "And he was protecting his investment." "See, by the power of the eight, he was attempting to bring good karma to a very bad business." "That's not all the restaurant was hiding." "Under the line item "Wedding Expenses," we found these." "If eight is their luckiest number, nine is their most magical." "It stretches beyond this life." "It reaches up to the very heavens." "So I don't believe that Harvey Yoon was simply renting these women out." "I think they represent final sales." "And except for Hsiao, all were homicides." "CHEN:" "They're called ghost brides." "I remembered a picture of my mother wearing a long red dress like the victims." "When I called her, she knew right away it was her wedding picture." "We traced one of the victim's gowns to a shop in Chinatown." "The store owner sold 12 red dresses just like it to Colin Pang." "Wedding dresses." "CHEN:" "I translated these." "It's an arrest sheet." "Two years ago in Shaanxi Province, a gang of criminals was arrested for killing girls and selling their corpses to grieving parents." "Parents whose sons died bachelors." "And just like here, all the graves contained unmarried Chinese males with unmarried Chinese females placed next to them." "So Harvey Yoon just picked up the California franchise." "Providing ghost brides to ghost grooms." "Not to mention he was sharing his accounts with a ghost IP." "That's right, the wedding planner may be dead, but his partner's still out there." "All right, now Jimmy Lim is dead and Colin Pang's in jail." "So who's left?" "It's Charlie." "Tape's clean." "We have our licence plate." "[WOMAN SCREAMING]" "KIM [ON RECORDING]:" "I'm in trouble here." "The suspect is driving a silver Toyota Sienna van." "Licence plate BA8." "DON:" "You got it?" " Getting it." "B.A. Somebody's initials." "Ba is the Chinese word for number eight." " Lucky eight." "DAVID:" "It's a company car." "Five Emperors Cultural Centre, Bernard Street." "CHEN:" "That's Walter Yoon." " Why don't you guys get over there?" "We'll check the back." "Hey, where's Walter Yoon?" "All right, call it in." "Looks like Walter's been fishing where there ain't no fish." "Yeah, but a whole lot of sea snails." "What you wanna bet that's our toxin?" "Yeah, now where the hell is he?" "I'm gonna get a warrant for this computer." "Any sign of Walter?" "Simon Kraft is dead in the alleyway." "What?" " How?" " I think he was run over." "Take a look at this." "That's the silver van." "Hey, wait a second." "I know her." "An older couple took her picture down off the Missing Persons board and handed it to Walter." "What if they were shopping for a daughter-in-law?" "You know, like at the restaurant with the pictures." "You just point at the one you want." " It's a menu." " They're gonna bury this girl." "We've got exigent circumstances." "I think we can search this computer without a warrant." "Try hitting the 9 key nine times in a row." "NIKKI:" "There she is." "[SPEAKS MANDARIN]" "DON:" "FBI, freeze." "NIKKI:" "Hands behind your back." "No!" "Stay away from here!" "Stay away." "NIKKI:" "Let's go." "DAVID:" "Get down." "WALTER:" "You stay away from here." " Take it easy." "Take it easy." "It's over." "WALTER:" "This is a question of honour." " Whose honour?" "Tell me." "This couple lost their only son." "Give them the comfort of knowing he will not spend eternity alone." "I can't take the shot as long as that needle's on her neck." "What about her family?" "They don't matter?" "WALTER:" "Ghost brides are a tradition as old as China." "As old as time itself." "We all have our place in this tradition." "This is hers, here with him." "We got a tradition too and it's saving lives, okay?" " I'm not gonna let you hurt her." " You misunderstand." "This is not a funeral." "It is a wedding." "[SPEAKING MANDARIN]" "All right, come on, come here." "I got you." "I got you." "Take her." " You all right, Col?" " Yeah." "What'd you say to him?" ""Shame on you."" "I wonder how many other women the Yoon brothers have buried." "Never found or even missed." "This is for them." ""Lead with your brain but follow your heart."" "It's fitting." ""Your dreams can't come true unless you wake up."" "That's rather profound." "An amazing creation, the fortune cookie." "It says in my book it predates the Han Dynasty." " Fortune cookies?" " No, minghun." "The marriage of the dead." "But the Yoons perverted the custom where the bride and groom are naturally deceased." ""Astrologically suitable corpses keep each other company through eternity."" " There's a certain poetry in that." " Sounds a little macabre." "No, I see what he means, in an Eastern sort of way." "Two total strangers locked in eternal embrace, joined only by their connection to the stars." "Yes, it is." "Like my department at CalSci." "[CHUCKLES]" "All right, so how do we all ultimately come down on Kraft?" "That's a life that ends in a question mark." "Yeah, the question being, why does the world require a Simon Kraft?" "You look at the news, you've got Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster." "Nothing on the great apes or the blue whales, which are real marvels." "Remote viewing, psychic warfare, these weren't some tabloid invention, but the brainchildren of respected physicists at Stanford." "CHARLIE:" "I will fall on my slide rule if anyone can prove to me that Simon Kraft had extrasensory abilities." "All right." "What inner power led Simon to the killer's van precisely at the moment of kidnap?" "Oh, you mean the same power that failed to warn him that he was going to be run over by that van?" "Help me out here." "You know, I have to say I'm in the undecided column." "I am going to read my book in peace." "And I to my bed, but I will leave you with this:" "When Magellan landed on Tierra del Fuego, this remote island at the bottom of the world, the villagers all gathered to greet him." "But mostly they kept staring at the horizon behind him." "Having no concept of a boat larger than a canoe, they somehow didn't even see these five galleons anchored in plain sight." "A flotilla of ships was invisible to their disbelieving eyes." "Yeah, well, you're illustrating my point, that the ignorant can't see the plain truth right in front of them." "Or maybe an ocean fog concealed those ships." "Yeah, well, I can say the fog has rolled in all right." " Good night, Charles, Don." "DON:" "All right." " Night, Lawrence." " I gotta pick up Dad at the airport." " Wanna come?" "CHARLIE:" "Yeah, sure." "You know, Larry looks up at the stars and asks why." "You've been going to temple." "I don't know." "Maybe it's okay living without all the answers." "If I ever get any, I'll let you know, huh?"