EPISODE 22

This series is certainly taking a novice through various court systems, levels, arguments, quite well rounded. Today the story about Ling and Ben continues.



Ben went all out to question Ling on her identification of his friend. Ling was very certain but Ben convinced the jury that perhaps she was wrong because he dead friend, Mabel once told Ling that Fai (I didn't catch his name but I think it should be Fai) who had a big nose was secretly in love with Mabel. When Ling told this to the police, the police arrested Fai who so coincidentally had the same shoes and pocket knife (suspected murder weapon, shoes) in his house. To Ben it was all a coincidence. Anyway, Ling identified Fai successfully in the parade (but she failed the first time during the photo identication stage) largely because of his big nose. Ling remembered the nose. Ben argued perhaps Ling was prejudiced, that in her mind she sealed Fai as the culprit because she was convinced when she saw him in the police lineup having been told beforehand he was Fai, her mind prejudiced towards him. Ling was crying no way, no way, Ben stepped over the line and she began to sob uncontrollably. Ben looked guilty, Jess looked guilty and Ling was furious. She basically threw a cup of water in Ben's face and stormed off.



Ben continued to investigate and with Jess' kick boxing talent, they managed to trick that Pao Kor into the restroom (or somewhere), Jess kicked him, he fell down and fainted and Ben got his blood sample. Tested it and he identified the blood as that the same as at the crime scene (I thought the prosecution never analysed the blood 7 years ago and I doubt for 7 years it was so well preserved considering the case was closed!) but Ben called him Mr A. Ling was called again as witness and Ling was asked to identify the nose she saw, from I think 6 pictures, the faces could not be seen, just the nose. To Ling's credit, she remembered the nose and opened it and the picture was Pao Kor. Right at that moment Ling again sobbed uncontrollably when she realised she has made a mistake, a man was deprived of 7 years of his prime life and Ling was wrecked with guilt, quietly went away and Ben ran after her and she poured out her anguish. One good news though, Pao Kor was quickly arrested and Ling was again asked to identify him.



Problem now is Pao Kor was represented by Vincent. Yes, VINCENT. Ling again uttered the same words she uttered to Ben just the previous episode, "Why are you helping this scumbad? He murdered my best friend!" but Vincent said, "I am a lawyer, I have no choice". Pure B.S if you ask me.



Vincent's reasons for taking the case was simple, as he told his new best friend, an unidentified fellow lawyer; "HK has no place left for me, when my dad comes out, I will migrate with him to somewhere else". He knew very well Pao Kor was guilty as charged but Vincent, still hurt from Ling's breaking off with him and Ben's so called betrayal of their friendship wanted to earn as much of money and leave.



This time Ben gave up trying to reason with Vincent and went away, Jess worried followed him and Ben said he wasn't angry with Vincent, just terribly worried.



Jess was worried too but knew she could do nothing but support her friends. She saw Vincent in the gym and when Vincent heard Ben over the phone asking Jess to dinner, Vincent quickly suggested they go for a movie together. Naturally Jess chose Vincent over Ben. Then Vincent sent her home and was extra nice to her, a bit flirtatious too but in a very ambigous way.



You see at this point I am terribly confused. Was Vincent asking Jess out an act of vendetta against Ben (like Ben was asking Jess, Jess said Yes and Vincent wanted to deprive Ben of a friend having dinner with him)? Was Vincent actually genuine in asking Jess out? Did Vincent knew Jess liked him? I think the answer is more about Ben than about Jess.I think he realise Jess liked him but didn't know how deep. At that moment in time, Vincent was truly despicable.



Performance wise, Raymond Lam rules with his guilty feeling Ben. Myolie Wu was a bit fake in her courtroom outbursts scenes, you have to watch it to know what I mean. Bernice Liu improved a lot, and is still as lovable as ever whilst Sammul Chan, I can't describe his performance because I find his Vincent so confusing with so many mixed signals. I would term it as not very good performance.



By the way Sister Na is now in love with Marco. Can we just move away from Sister Na who from strong career woman now becomes like a caricature in here? The actress is still as horrible as ever.