At the beginning of the year, a "Crazy Race" let everyone see the strength of the "middle-aged top" actors, and Zhang Yi's impression of "police professional" was also more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
And recently, he once again interpreted the role of the "anti-bone" criminal police in a new drama -
In front of the leader, he can slap the table and stare at colleagues who disagree;
When confronting local gangsters, he can lift the table without saying a word;
At the case meeting, in the face of professors who are good at criminal investigation theory, he also expressed his views recklessly;
He even has a unique interpretation of what "police duty" is.
In fact, it is no wonder that this criminal police officer is so "anti-bone", because in the past 8 years, he has encountered a serial murder case that is still unsolved, watched his comrades die, and since then plunged headlong into complex mysteries.
This is the suspense crime drama that has recently risen in popularity - "Who Is He".
The story begins with a serial murder case.
In 1988, a series of murders of a heinous nature occurred in Ningjiang City, the deceased were young women, whose throats were cut to death, and all were sexually assaulted before death.
According to the characteristics of the knife, the police judged that the murderer was left-handed, but because most of the crime time was selected on rainy days, there was not much evidence that could quickly locate the murderer.
The male protagonist Wei Guoping just joined the police force and encountered this big case.
Considering that the murderer was very likely to commit murder on a rainy day, one rainy night, Wei Guoping and his comrades decided to go on patrol, but they did not expect to encounter a gangster attacking a woman.
The two hurriedly chased the murderer, and Wei Guoping accidentally ran away with his comrades.
When he found the two, his comrades were brutally cut by gangsters, and Wei Guoping watched his comrades die...
In the following four years, several murders occurred in Ningjiang City, and the characteristics and modus operandi of the deceased were similar to the 88 cases, so one was called the "88 case".
But strangely, the murderer has not committed a crime since 1992, the police investigation has reached a stalemate, and Wei Guoping has also fallen into deep self-blame because of the sacrifice of his comrades, and has since begun to have a nervous breakdown.
Fast forward to 1996, Wei Guoping has become a senior criminal police officer, serving as the captain of the three major teams of the criminal investigation detachment of the Ningjiang Public Security Bureau.
In addition to his daily work, he spends all his spare time in the file room of the police station, flipping through the files word by word, hoping to find clues about serial murderers from past cases.
It can be said that Wei Guoping regarded the "88 case" as a hurdle in his career, vowing to catch the serial murderer and avenge his dead comrades.
However, the evil did not end in Ningjiang City.
Recently, another vicious case occurred, some citizens reported to the police that human corpses were found, and a considerable part of the muscle tissue was cooked at high temperature, making it difficult to quickly identify the identity of the deceased and the clues of the murderer.
The Ningjiang Municipal Criminal Police Team immediately launched work arrangements for the "226 case".
Professor Wu, a criminal investigation expert at the provincial police academy who is teaching in Ningjiang City, is also among them, and he suggested that the focus of the police should be to carry out the investigation "from the outside in", casting a net and setting up cards throughout the city to quickly identify the murderer.
This proposal was basically approved by everyone, but Wei Guoping resolutely opposed it.
He believes that the characteristics of the murderer are not clear now, and the focus should be on finding clues from those broken bodies.
But his argument was not adopted, and only a few dozen men were assigned to search for possible corpses in the mountains of garbage.
The final result of this deployment was that there was no gain from casting a wide net, but Wei Guoping made a major discovery.
A police report reported that a suspicious man was witnessed riding a moped late at night with a bucket, and returned the same way after a while.
This clue seemed unrelated, but it caught Wei Guoping's attention, and he calculated the time, rode his motorcycle and began to simulate the suspicious man's driving route.
He imagined that he was a murderer who planned to throw the corpse, and according to the characteristics of the environment along the way, he ruled out places with police stations and watchdogs, and finally found a package of boiled skulls in an inaccessible place, which can determine that the deceased is a woman.
At the same time, the police also found some women's clothes in new color in the garbage mountain, one of which was embroidered with the word "Ai Qing" inside the coat, which is most likely evidence that the murderer was in a hurry to get rid of after shredding the body.
Comparing the list of missing women, the police locked up a medical student named Yu Aiqin.
Her roommate confirmed that the clothes found in the trash dump belonged to Yu.
At the same time, Wei Guoping and his colleagues found human bones in the laboratory of the medical school, and the person who often went in and out of this laboratory was Xue Jiajian, who taught anatomy at the school.
Wei Guoping was just about to follow the vine to find out this person, but he didn't expect that Xue Jiajian saw the police turn around and ran away, hiding in a hidden sewer pipe, and Wei Guoping relied on years of accumulated criminal investigation experience to arrest him.
Although the suspect of the "226 case" was discovered, the evidence currently available to the police could not directly prove that Xue Jiajian was the murderer, and a breakthrough could only be found through interrogation.
The superior leaders decided that Gu Kaiyan, the head of the pre-trial section of the bureau, would lead this interrogation...
Speaking of the plot, the little partner who may often pay attention to the real case has long been hit by the keywords "eight eight cases", "broken corpse", "Ai Qing" and so on in the play-
The serial murder case and shredded corpse case that occurred in the play allude to the horrific 1988 silver case in reality, and the still unfinished Nanda corpse case (also known as the Diao Aiqing case).
The murderer of the silver case once confessed that the original crime was to rob money, and the murder was to silence the mouth. But after more times, he tasted the "sweetness of killing" and began to kill for fun.
The first episode of "Who Is He" tries to portray the twisted psychology of the murderer of the "Eight Eight Cases".
The victim is like prey to him, shivering in the open, while he is like a predator, slowly approaching and teasing his "prey", and one of the jump scare shots scared netizens into a cold sweat.
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It is worth noting that "Who Is He" not only alludes to real cases in reality, but also restores the characteristics of criminal investigation work in the last century through plot trends and character portrayals.
In Ningjiang City, where the male protagonist is located in 1996, the criminal investigation methods were not perfect, and the medical testing that is now taken for granted was not popular at that time.
In the event of a vicious case such as the "88 Case", the first thing the police can use is the "human sea tactic".
Although this method looks "stupid", for an old criminal police officer like Wei Guoping, it is enough for him to find the key to solving the case in the details - experience is his brightest aura in criminal investigation work.
However, in 1996, China had entered a stage of rapid transformation, and both ordinary people and criminal police officers who eliminated evil and promoted good had to face the changes around them.
In the process of handling cases, it is necessary to strictly implement rules and regulations, enhance the importance of pre-trial, and improve the ability to write case-handling materials... Every change is gradually disintegrating the former aura of Wei Guoping.
From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand why Wei Guoping has become a typical "backbone" in the police force.
On the one hand, the unsolved "88 case" brought him great psychological pressure, he blamed himself for failing to protect his comrades-in-arms, failed to catch the murderer with his own hands, and has been holding this "big stone" in his heart for 8 years.
His resolute attitude of refusing to transfer the "88 case" to others even if he offends the leaders is precisely proof that he is clinging to the past and is unwilling to look forward.
On the other hand, Wei Guoping's "anti-bone" comes from the "practical" theory of front-line criminal police.
He was extremely confident in his practical experience, and did not look at the "academic school" who dropped his book bag, and at every turn of his meeting with Professor Wu, a criminal investigation expert of the provincial police academy, he was to the left.
He always went straight to the point when investigating, often urging the forensic doctor to come to a clear conclusion on the spot, ignoring the time cost of medical identification.
This conceit was even more obvious when he partnered with Gu Kaiyan, the head of the pre-trial section, during his interrogation.
Wei Guoping thought that he had seen through the suspect's path, and advocated that the interrogation go straight to the subject, and let the suspect take the initiative to explain.
Team leader Gu insisted on scientific interrogation routines, mainly surprised, and planned to relax the suspect's vigilance and press on step by step.
There is no clear right or wrong difference between the two views, the key lies in how to apply them in practice.
It's a pity that the two people who have made their own achievements in the field of practice and theory almost broke the work in the first cooperation.
From this point of view, the character portrayal of "Who Is He" has been relatively successful, and it has not reduced the protagonist Wei Guoping to a tool for uncovering suspense, nor has he been portrayed as an omnipotent male protagonist.
But through his "anti-bone", let the audience substitute into the era full of many changes, ideas and methodologies collide.
It is foreseeable that how Wei Guoping grew from a conceited practical school to an all-round criminal police officer who accepts changes and absorbs new theories is an important story line in addition to the "Who Is He" case, and may also become the key to solving the "88 case" and "226 case".
Judging from the current updated dramas, "Who is He" has opened a good jackpot for domestic suspense criminal investigation dramas, as for whether the anatomy teacher Xue Jiajian caught by Wei Guoping is the real murderer of the "226 case", you may wish to go to the play to find out for yourself.