I watched the first episode of a 2016 Chinese police procedural called "Medical Examiner Dr. Qin" last night, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Spoilers ahead, but as you'll see it doesn't really matter.
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The clock is still ticking before the people of Longfan grow impatient and stop buying lunch at the fried-human-hand market. 28 hours to go! The cops find the run-down shack where the plumber lives, and pick the lock. The inside is full of women's underwear and pin-up posters.
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What's more, there's a key-making machine! Now all the pieces fall together. The plumber was attracted to the lady, took an impression of her housekey while she wasn't looking, then made his own and tried to sneak in when she was out shopping with her husband, to steal her undies
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Alas! He guessed wrong and the couple were home. Luckily he had brought his sledgehammer, so he sledgehammered them and then deep-fried the bodies and threw them in the sewer to get rid of the evidence, leaving only their skins hanging in the closet and an apartment full of blood
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Naturally, the evil plumber confesses to all of this instantly. Even Medical Examiner Qin has to admit that the rookie did a good job. If not for her scrappy work, they might never have traced the hand to two missing people and their charnel-house apartment full of evidence.
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The next episode of this series is called THE ELEVENTH FINGER and I can't wait to watch it.
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This is basically The Wire set in modern China and I ask
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A fun part of watching a Chinese police procedural is just the little totalitarian details. No search warrant? No problem! Need to detain the food vendor for a while without charges? He'll be in cell block 2. Found a fingerprint? Run it through the national population registry!
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