Episode 3

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0:00:02 > 0:00:08This programme contains some strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting

0:00:08 > 0:00:11It is another boy who killed the African. It is not me.

0:00:11 > 0:00:14This is Xiaopeng, the real killer. And this is his father, Guang Peng.

0:00:14 > 0:00:17These are the two men who have framed your brother.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20You will need to change the evidence of all the witnesses.

0:00:20 > 0:00:25All the Africans and everyone working in the club now support you.

0:00:25 > 0:00:29The judges will have no choice but to accept the new statements.

0:00:32 > 0:00:33This is making me happy.

0:00:33 > 0:00:35It's making me at peace with my god.

0:00:35 > 0:00:37The boy deserves the truth.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39Everyone deserves the truth.

0:00:39 > 0:00:42She's discovering something huge in her life,

0:00:42 > 0:00:44something that will sweep her away from us.

0:00:44 > 0:00:47The moment she came home and mentioned her birth mother,

0:00:47 > 0:00:50I just saw this whole scenario.

0:00:54 > 0:00:55It looks very positive.

0:00:55 > 0:00:57I will be free?

0:00:57 > 0:00:59Is it really true?

0:01:52 > 0:01:55Members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

0:01:55 > 0:01:59are coming from Beijing to open the government's anti-corruption

0:01:59 > 0:02:01campaign here on the 31st.

0:02:01 > 0:02:05This is a request for the newspaper I work for to publicise the event.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08It says that we, all citizens, all officials,

0:02:08 > 0:02:11will be given the opportunity to report anyone

0:02:11 > 0:02:14attempting to engage in unlawful activities,

0:02:14 > 0:02:17harming the correct administration of justice,

0:02:17 > 0:02:19or the image of the People's Courts.

0:02:19 > 0:02:22- This is good timing. - It is perfect timing.

0:02:22 > 0:02:26Their campaign is due to start after Li Jun's case,

0:02:26 > 0:02:29but what I can do is run their campaign before his case

0:02:29 > 0:02:31and that will paralyse any attempt by Guan Peng

0:02:31 > 0:02:33to subvert our evidence.

0:02:34 > 0:02:36We're doing OK.

0:02:39 > 0:02:43Mei, I believe we can free your brother

0:02:43 > 0:02:46but there may be consequences for me and my colleagues,

0:02:46 > 0:02:49so could you do something for us?

0:02:50 > 0:02:52I have a contact at the New York Times

0:02:52 > 0:02:54who is ready to tell our story.

0:02:54 > 0:02:56As a British and American citizen,

0:02:56 > 0:02:59your unique situation can give her the angle she needs.

0:02:59 > 0:03:02If she calls you, would you help her?

0:03:02 > 0:03:05It will bring us support and put our movement on the map

0:03:05 > 0:03:07in Europe and America.

0:03:07 > 0:03:09Would you do that for us?

0:03:09 > 0:03:11- Yes.- Thank you.

0:03:15 > 0:03:16'In the case of Li Jun,

0:03:16 > 0:03:20'the nightclub waiter sentenced to death for killing a Nigerian trader,

0:03:20 > 0:03:23'11 witnesses have changed their evidence,

0:03:23 > 0:03:27'claiming that they were coerced into giving the original statements

0:03:27 > 0:03:30'under the orders of a senior provincial official.

0:03:30 > 0:03:33'In response, the Party Central Committee in Beijing

0:03:33 > 0:03:35'has sent out a stern warning to the citizens

0:03:35 > 0:03:37'and officials of Guangdong Province.

0:03:40 > 0:03:44'Any citizen or officer of the law attempting to corrupt the courts

0:03:44 > 0:03:48'will be arrested and will face a sentence of life imprisonment.'

0:03:51 > 0:03:53Guan Xin is only a provincial boss.

0:03:53 > 0:03:56With Beijing breathing down his neck, he is nothing!

0:03:56 > 0:03:58We have him beat!

0:04:00 > 0:04:05Look, the kiosk is almost finished. When will she hear?

0:04:05 > 0:04:07SHE SPEAKS IN MANDARIN

0:04:25 > 0:04:27She just wants Ajun to come home.

0:08:45 > 0:08:48SHE SCREAMS

0:09:01 > 0:09:03Did you know this wouldn't work?

0:09:03 > 0:09:06Your friend asked me about publicising your group

0:09:06 > 0:09:08to the New York Times if things didn't work out.

0:09:08 > 0:09:10Have you been using me?

0:09:10 > 0:09:14Did you get me here to help your cause or to help my brother?!

0:09:51 > 0:09:55THUNDER RUMBLES

0:10:46 > 0:10:47Mr Lin!

0:11:22 > 0:11:24I thought we can't visit now.

0:11:34 > 0:11:36I don't understand.

0:11:51 > 0:11:54I don't understand why she's looking so worried.

0:11:54 > 0:11:58Because the opportunity to visit is only given before the execution.

0:11:58 > 0:12:00That is why she is so upset.

0:12:03 > 0:12:05So, when is this visit?

0:12:05 > 0:12:08SHE SPEAKS MANDARIN

0:12:14 > 0:12:16Tuesday. This Tuesday.

0:12:26 > 0:12:31SOBBING

0:14:56 > 0:14:58SHE SPEAKS MANDARIN

0:15:31 > 0:15:33Good morning.

0:15:41 > 0:15:44The maid told me a girl is waiting for me.

0:15:45 > 0:15:46From England.

0:15:48 > 0:15:50- London?- Yes.

0:15:52 > 0:15:53Tea or coffee?

0:15:53 > 0:15:55No, thank you.

0:15:55 > 0:15:57Juice?

0:15:57 > 0:15:59I'm OK, thank you.

0:16:01 > 0:16:03Please sit down.

0:16:14 > 0:16:15Do I know you?

0:16:16 > 0:16:18I am Li Jun's sister.

0:16:18 > 0:16:22The boy accused of killing the African at Space Nightclub.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24I was adopted as a baby.

0:16:24 > 0:16:27Li Jun's mother...our mother,

0:16:27 > 0:16:30called me in England to say that he was in prison here.

0:16:32 > 0:16:38The court has rejected his appeal and now he is going to be executed.

0:16:38 > 0:16:40And that's why I'm here.

0:16:42 > 0:16:43Why here?

0:16:43 > 0:16:45To see what you can do.

0:16:45 > 0:16:47What I can do?

0:16:48 > 0:16:53I've been told that you'd got into an argument with the man who died

0:16:53 > 0:16:56and that your father and your uncle fixed it

0:16:56 > 0:16:58so that my brother was to be blamed for...

0:17:08 > 0:17:12He can't be executed for something he didn't commit.

0:17:12 > 0:17:15It can't happen. It can't be allowed.

0:17:15 > 0:17:17The case against him has to be dropped.

0:17:18 > 0:17:20What do you do in London?

0:17:22 > 0:17:23I'm a student.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25Where do you live? Chelsea?

0:17:25 > 0:17:28Park Lane? Kensington?

0:17:28 > 0:17:30Finsbury.

0:17:30 > 0:17:31It's, um...

0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's just a district.

0:17:35 > 0:17:37Are you married?

0:17:37 > 0:17:38No.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42About my brother...

0:17:42 > 0:17:46Well, it is usual to pay the family to stop the case going to court.

0:17:46 > 0:17:50But the Nigerian government wanted someone convicted.

0:17:50 > 0:17:53I know, but if you were in my brother's situation,

0:17:53 > 0:17:56or my situation, what would you want to happen?

0:17:56 > 0:17:57I will ask my father.

0:17:57 > 0:18:00- Ask your father? - Yeah, I will talk to him.

0:18:00 > 0:18:02You'll ask him about my brother?

0:18:02 > 0:18:04Sure.

0:18:06 > 0:18:07Come and have some breakfast.

0:18:07 > 0:18:09What will your father say?

0:18:09 > 0:18:11Come inside. Keep me company.

0:18:17 > 0:18:20HE SPEAKS MANDARIN

0:18:21 > 0:18:25Would you mind? I always swim before breakfast.

0:18:25 > 0:18:27No, you carry on.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32So, you'll ask your father to arrange my brother's freedom?

0:18:32 > 0:18:33Sure.

0:18:33 > 0:18:37How, if his appeal has already been rejected?

0:18:38 > 0:18:43Well, there is always something to be done, even at the last minute.

0:19:51 > 0:19:53Did she bring the right tea?

0:19:53 > 0:19:55Yes, it's lovely. Thank you.

0:19:56 > 0:19:58The water's perfect.

0:19:58 > 0:20:00A swim in the morning - everyone should do it.

0:20:02 > 0:20:05At the moment I am in international business in Hong Kong,

0:20:05 > 0:20:07but I want to do this in London now.

0:20:07 > 0:20:09Hong Kong's so boring.

0:20:09 > 0:20:11I've never been there.

0:20:11 > 0:20:12It's so, so boring.

0:20:12 > 0:20:16My father is buying a house in Knightsbridge.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18Maybe I shall live there.

0:20:19 > 0:20:21We can be good friends.

0:20:23 > 0:20:25We can go to the clubs together.

0:20:28 > 0:20:31- What will you ask him?- What?

0:20:32 > 0:20:34What will you say to your father?

0:20:35 > 0:20:39I'll tell him that I have met this beautiful girl from London

0:20:39 > 0:20:41and she is the sister of Li Jun.

0:20:41 > 0:20:45And this girl is going to be my friend so,

0:20:45 > 0:20:47you know, we have to do something.

0:20:47 > 0:20:49That's it.

0:20:49 > 0:20:50And he will?

0:20:50 > 0:20:53Of course. What I tell him, he does.

0:20:55 > 0:20:58Ah, swimming costumes. In case you want to swim later.

0:21:01 > 0:21:04How cool that you come to my door!

0:21:59 > 0:22:00Does she live here?

0:22:02 > 0:22:03Who?

0:22:03 > 0:22:05The girl in your pool.

0:22:07 > 0:22:10Ah, no. She lives in New York.

0:22:10 > 0:22:12She's just staying for a few days.

0:22:14 > 0:22:16Is she your girlfriend?

0:22:16 > 0:22:18No, I don't have a girlfriend.

0:22:19 > 0:22:20She's my sister.

0:22:22 > 0:22:23Oh.

0:22:25 > 0:22:26Older, or...

0:22:27 > 0:22:28One year older.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33Was that allowed? With the one child policy?

0:22:33 > 0:22:35I don't know. Who cares?

0:22:46 > 0:22:49Do you know the Midnight Cat?

0:22:50 > 0:22:52Midnight Cat?

0:22:52 > 0:22:56- Yeah. The best club in Guangzhou. You don't know it?- No.

0:22:57 > 0:22:59Well, come tonight. Be my guest.

0:23:01 > 0:23:04I will show you how you can really have a good time here.

0:24:05 > 0:24:07Do you want to come home with me?

0:24:07 > 0:24:08I would love to,

0:24:08 > 0:24:11but it won't feel right until my brother's free.

0:24:13 > 0:24:15Then we can do whatever we want together.

0:24:23 > 0:24:24OK.

0:24:42 > 0:24:44PHONE BEEPS

0:25:35 > 0:25:40My name's Li Mei. I have an appointment with Mr Guan Peng.

0:25:40 > 0:25:42Just a moment.

0:25:43 > 0:25:46KNOCK ON DOOR

0:25:50 > 0:25:52Come right through.

0:26:24 > 0:26:28I am very touched and moved by your concern for your brother.

0:26:29 > 0:26:33And I have great respect for your honouring of your family.

0:26:34 > 0:26:36For my brother I would do the same.

0:26:37 > 0:26:41That's very kind of you. And I'm very grateful to you.

0:26:41 > 0:26:43So I am offering you a solution.

0:26:45 > 0:26:48It is possible that there has been a mix-up

0:26:48 > 0:26:51in the identity of the man who killed the African.

0:26:51 > 0:26:52Yes.

0:26:52 > 0:26:56The Chief of Police has also agreed it is possible.

0:26:56 > 0:27:01We must ensure that we send only the guilty into the execution chamber.

0:27:01 > 0:27:03Yes, sir.

0:27:03 > 0:27:09The witnesses, in particular the Africans, are not reliable.

0:27:09 > 0:27:12It is easy for them to mistake one Chinese boy for another.

0:27:14 > 0:27:17The waiter, Huang Tao.

0:27:17 > 0:27:20He looks very much like your brother.

0:27:21 > 0:27:22Huang Tao from the club?

0:27:22 > 0:27:25It is easy for the Africans to make this mistake -

0:27:25 > 0:27:27to mix them up.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29My brother's friend?

0:27:29 > 0:27:32I have suggested this to the Chief of Police.

0:27:32 > 0:27:33He is in agreement

0:27:33 > 0:27:37about how the witnesses may realise an error in their identification.

0:27:44 > 0:27:46Is there some other way, some...

0:27:46 > 0:27:48It is all in the hands of the Chief of Police.

0:27:48 > 0:27:51Let us give him the opportunity to do his work.

0:27:54 > 0:27:56Do I call him?

0:28:05 > 0:28:07Can I... Can I think about it?

0:28:13 > 0:28:15I will give you 30 minutes.

0:28:15 > 0:28:18If you do not come back to me by 11 o'clock,

0:28:18 > 0:28:20I will not be here for you.

0:29:08 > 0:29:12ESCALATOR MOVEMENT BECOMES A LOUD, RHYTHMIC PULSE

0:30:02 > 0:30:03- Hey!- Hey.

0:30:26 > 0:30:30BEEPING NOISE, THEN DOOR OPENS

0:31:10 > 0:31:12GUARD SHOUTS

0:31:19 > 0:31:21Can you petition the judge?

0:31:26 > 0:31:28- Which judge? - The judge who talked to me.

0:31:31 > 0:31:34I don't understand. Which judge talked to you, Ajun?

0:31:34 > 0:31:38The judge from the Supreme Court. It is Beijing.

0:31:38 > 0:31:40He talked to me.

0:31:40 > 0:31:43Yes, we can do that.

0:31:43 > 0:31:44We'll do that.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48He asked me if I have a lawyer.

0:31:48 > 0:31:50I said yes, she is...

0:31:50 > 0:31:52- She is...- Chang Hua.

0:31:52 > 0:31:58Yes, but he said she was in prison for corruption.

0:31:58 > 0:32:00He said they are bad people.

0:32:01 > 0:32:05- Who are bad people? Chang Hua?- Yes.

0:32:05 > 0:32:08He said there is too much corruption in the provinces

0:32:08 > 0:32:11- and it has to be stopped. - But didn't you tell him

0:32:11 > 0:32:14it's Guan Peng and his family who are corrupt, not Chang Hua?

0:32:14 > 0:32:16He didn't believe me.

0:32:17 > 0:32:22He said he saw the evidence at the first trial and my confession...

0:32:23 > 0:32:27But the Chief of Police, he forced me to confess.

0:32:31 > 0:32:33Please don't let them kill me.

0:32:35 > 0:32:37I don't want to say goodbye.

0:32:59 > 0:33:01GUARD SHOUTS

0:33:08 > 0:33:10We'll petition the judge!

0:33:44 > 0:33:45Mei!

0:33:47 > 0:33:50I can't see you right now. I told you not to come here.

0:33:50 > 0:33:51I have to go.

0:33:51 > 0:33:53You stay here and talk to us.

0:33:53 > 0:33:55I have a taxi waiting.

0:33:55 > 0:33:57It's just to stay and talk, OK?

0:33:57 > 0:33:59- I have to go to Beijing. - You can't!

0:33:59 > 0:34:01You don't understand the trouble you're in.

0:34:01 > 0:34:04Trouble I'm in? I couldn't give a fuck!

0:34:06 > 0:34:09Mr Anderson has said your friends have been arrested,

0:34:09 > 0:34:10all of them.

0:34:10 > 0:34:13And he said the Chinese authorities will come for you

0:34:13 > 0:34:15if you do not leave the country!

0:34:15 > 0:34:17I don't care what Anderson says. I'll miss my train!

0:34:17 > 0:34:20I want to know why you're going to Beijing.

0:34:20 > 0:34:22I'm trying to save my brother's life!

0:34:22 > 0:34:24Mei! Mei!

0:35:19 > 0:35:22DOOR OPENS

0:35:47 > 0:35:51QUEUING PEOPLE SHOUT IN ANGER

0:37:34 > 0:37:36I speak a little English.

0:37:36 > 0:37:37Thank you.

0:38:02 > 0:38:05SHE SHOUTS AND HER CALMS HER

0:38:05 > 0:38:09Your mother is asking my father to save her son,

0:38:09 > 0:38:11but my father just writes petitions

0:38:11 > 0:38:13for these people to hand in at the gate.

0:38:13 > 0:38:16He is telling her that it is a waste of time for her

0:38:16 > 0:38:19because the petition will not be seen for months.

0:38:21 > 0:38:24This woman has been living in the alley across the road

0:38:24 > 0:38:26for 18 years with her petition.

0:38:30 > 0:38:33You need a lawyer expert in death penalty reviews.

0:38:33 > 0:38:35They are in the smart part of the city.

0:38:35 > 0:38:37He is only a lawyer for the poor people.

0:38:37 > 0:38:40Does he know the name of any of these lawyers?

0:38:40 > 0:38:43He's giving your mother an address of someone that can help you.

0:38:43 > 0:38:46Ask him for the number and I'll call the lawyer now.

0:38:52 > 0:38:56DOOR OPENS

0:42:16 > 0:42:19HIS BREATH QUICKENS

0:44:06 > 0:44:10HEART MONITOR BEEPS STEADILY

0:45:12 > 0:45:15MONITOR RATE SLOWS

0:45:26 > 0:45:29HEART RATE STOPS

0:46:31 > 0:46:34SHE SPEAKS MANDARIN

0:46:36 > 0:46:38This looks promising.

0:46:44 > 0:46:46Hello.

0:46:46 > 0:46:47- Hello.- Nice to meet you.

0:46:47 > 0:46:49Liu Ying.

0:46:49 > 0:46:51Mei.

0:46:51 > 0:46:53Sit down, please.

0:47:01 > 0:47:04These are all the documents for Ajun's case.

0:47:08 > 0:47:11I have called the court in Guangzhou.

0:47:12 > 0:47:15They executed your brother this morning.

0:47:20 > 0:47:22I will tell your mother now.

0:47:42 > 0:47:47SHE SCREAMS AND WAILS

0:48:50 > 0:48:53PHONE BEEPS

0:49:44 > 0:49:46Who else has been released?

0:49:46 > 0:49:48Only me.

0:49:48 > 0:49:50I didn't mean to accuse you.

0:49:50 > 0:49:53No, it's OK. It's complicated here.

0:49:53 > 0:49:55When your mother first told me about you,

0:49:55 > 0:49:58I thought yes, something is possible!

0:49:58 > 0:50:01I was hoping that you would have connections

0:50:01 > 0:50:05that would help and save Ajun, I was prepared to try anything.

0:50:07 > 0:50:09But you're right.

0:50:09 > 0:50:12We had other reasons as well to try and save him.

0:50:12 > 0:50:16We were wanting to use his case as an example.

0:50:16 > 0:50:20Not use him, but we thought, if we could win this one...

0:50:21 > 0:50:24..two of the most powerful men in the city

0:50:24 > 0:50:26would be exposed and brought down.

0:50:26 > 0:50:29The effect of that would have gone all the way through the system.

0:50:32 > 0:50:34We got our calculation wrong.

0:50:35 > 0:50:37We had too much hope.

0:50:41 > 0:50:43I'm so sorry.

0:51:28 > 0:51:31HE SPEAKS MANDARIN

0:53:34 > 0:53:37I can't go home and leave you here.

0:53:51 > 0:53:53I promised him.

0:55:23 > 0:55:26All I wanted to know is that she loved me.

0:55:26 > 0:55:29And she does love you. She always has.

0:55:29 > 0:55:31Yes.

0:55:31 > 0:55:33Thank you. Thank you.

0:56:18 > 0:56:21- They have finally released Chang Hua.- They have?

0:56:21 > 0:56:24- Yes, but they have taken away her lawyer's licence.- For how long?

0:56:24 > 0:56:26I don't think she'll get it back.

0:56:26 > 0:56:28Do I tell the New York Times?

0:56:28 > 0:56:31Yes, she wants that, she has nothing to lose now.

0:56:31 > 0:56:34So, what will she do?

0:56:34 > 0:56:38We'll campaign for her and an international campaign will help.

0:56:38 > 0:56:39I'll do what I can.

0:56:39 > 0:56:41I saw your mother last week.

0:56:41 > 0:56:42How is she?

0:56:42 > 0:56:46I'm wanting to send her a few things but I'm worried she won't get them.

0:56:46 > 0:56:48Just little things, you know?

0:56:48 > 0:56:50- Well, send them to me.- Can I?

0:56:50 > 0:56:53Sure! You can always send things to her through me.

0:56:53 > 0:56:55That'd be great, thank you.

0:56:55 > 0:56:57Thank you.