The spy war film "Before Dawn" was released in June 2010.
Although 14 years have passed, you can still feel the charm of it when you revisit it again.
The beginning of the play was very tense and exciting, and Tan Zhongshu, the director of the Eighth Bureau, found several clues through a mutilated confession.
The organization of sailors was devastated, and the phone numbers of the contact points were exposed.
According to the usual practice, all the people who went to the dentist's clinic that day were arrested and checked one by one, and the guarantor took them home, and continued to follow them for several days afterwards.
When investigating these people, Qi Peilin found that Miao Dingwei, the cousin of Deputy Chief Ouyang, was very suspicious, because he had anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and he also got rid of the people who were spying on him.
What's even more suspicious is that he disappeared again, and the news of being kidnapped also came, this series of events made Tan Zhongshu and Qi Peilin suspicious.
Therefore, in the end, Tan Zhongshu made a decision to arrest Dingwei, and he confessed, admitting that he was an underground party.
As a result, several people in the eight rounds had completely different reactions.
Qi Peilin was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that he had made a great achievement.
Liu Xinjie, an underground party, was worried.
In fact, although this incident turned out to be an oolong afterwards, it vividly showed the inner world of several people in the eighth game, and this incident also laid the groundwork for Tan Zhongshu's tragic life in the future.
01, Liu Xinjie's anxiety is urgent
Liu Xinjie is already an underground party lurking in the CIA Eighth Bureau, and has been in the silent stage before.
Some silent days were undoubtedly a torment for him, as if he had been abandoned, and his heart was terrified and helpless.
At this moment, the organization summoned him and prepared to activate him, and he couldn't suppress his excitement in his heart.
The person who connected him was the principal Duan Haiping, who was routinely followed because he had appeared in the dentist's office before, resulting in the failure of both joints, and Miao Dingwei happened to be arrested at this time.
So Liu Xinjie suspected that Miao Dingwei was the comrade he wanted to connect.
He wanted to verify the person's identity as soon as possible, so that he could take countermeasures as soon as possible to minimize the damage.
What he was even more worried about was that if this person was not a sailor, but only a member of the sailors' organization, then once he confessed, then Tan Zhongshu would definitely go along the lines and uproot the sailors' organization.
He first sent Ah Jiu to inquire about the true identity of this person, but to no avail.
In desperation, he used a dangerous move and brought two poisons, ready to let Miao relieve the pain caused by torture as soon as possible, but when he was hesitating, he saw Li Bohan enter the interrogation room.
This completely disrupted Liu Xinjie's plan, but everyone didn't know that it was Li Bohan's arrival that saved Liu Xinjie.
If Liu Xinjie took out two poisons and gave them to Miao Dingwei, he would be known by the people of the Eighth Bureau in the future, and his identity would undoubtedly be exposed.
The consequences would be dire.
Then, he did not hesitate to take a risk and asked Ah Jiu's wife to send a report to the organization to inquire about the person's identity again.
At that time, Ah Jiu's wife, Song Minyi, repeatedly confirmed: "Every time we use our radio station, there is a risk, so we only send a report to the central government at a critical moment. ”
Sure enough, although Song Minyi only sent a telegram for 51 seconds, she was immediately detected by Sun Dapu, the director of the telecommunications department, and judged that the telegraph operator who sent the telegram was a woman.
He also concluded that this telegraph operator had worked as a telegraph operator in the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and that the telegram had been silent for two years since 029 left Shanghai.
So this time this telegram appeared, Sun Dapu was very excited, and he quickly determined the location of the station within a radius of seven kilometers.
Song Minyi had to open the telegram the next day to receive a call back from the central government, but fortunately, Ah Jiu found a monitoring point set up near her home.
In order to ensure safety, Liu Xinjie and Ah Jiu completely cut off this monitoring point, and completely disposed of this radio station, never to be used again.
Although this avoids temporary dangers, it is bound to leave some aftermath.
In the end, Liu Xinjie received a call back from the central government and learned that Miao Dingwei was not a member of the Communist Party of China.
While the results are good, the price to pay for them is too great.
These also made Liu Xinjie reflect deeply and paved the way for the future plot.
02, Li Bohan is thoughtful
From the beginning of the play, what is eye-catching is Li Bohan's super insight and meticulous logical thinking ability.
After the important traitor caught in the Eighth Bureau was exterminated, he went to the scene to observe as soon as he returned to Shanghai, and soon came to an important information, the undercover agent who went to assassinate the traitor at that time was injured!
I have to say that his judgment is very accurate, and it really put Liu Xinjie into a crisis.
After Miao Dingwei was arrested this time, Li Bohan personally went to the interrogation room to talk to him for a few words, and then made a judgment that Miao could not be an underground party.
As soon as Li Bohan entered the interrogation room, he unplugged the bugging device.
"I'm your lawyer, I was sent by Vice Minister Ouyang, if you have anything to say to me. You can rest assured, what you say now, you can't hear it outside. Eat something first, so that you can regain your strength and fight the enemy. ”
"Fight, what fight?"
"The organization is trying to find a way to get you out. ”
"Who's trying to figure it out? Aren't you my lawyer? You're not taking me out?"
"It's a little troublesome now, Deputy Chief Ouyang didn't expect you to confess. ”
"Don't you confess? You see they beat me? These grandsons are too bold. When I get out, I'm going to settle the account with them! Do you have any cigarettes? Go get me a pack of cigarettes. ”
Li Bohan has completely figured out that this Miao Dingwei is a gentleman, and he is not a Communist Party at all.
He made this judgment based on two points:
First, if Miao is really a communist, he should not be such a soft bone, confessing in just a few hours.
Second, when he heard that Li Bohan was the lawyer who came to save him, he immediately believed it and retracted his confession.
Li Bohan thinks:
"If he is really a communist, does such a childish confession make sense?"
When Tan Zhongshu listened to Li Bohan's analysis, he had to admit that he had made a mistake in judgment before, and Miao Dingwei was not the person he was looking for.
At the beginning, the people in the Eighth Bureau thought that they had caught a big fish, but Li Bohan just went to the interrogation room, and did not punish Miao, but just used a little trick to give him a small trick, and immediately judged his true identity.
From this point of view, he is indeed higher than several other division chiefs.
He is calm and steady, his thinking is never influenced by others, he is withdrawn, he never tells others what he thinks, and his mouth is tight.
Because of this, Tan Zhongshu will give him the crucial task - the Trojan Horse Project.
At the same time, it is not difficult to see that the hidden Li Bohan will be the most terrible enemy in Liu Xinjie's future undercover career.
03, Tan Zhongshu's uprightness
When Qi Peilin found out that Miao Dingwei was suspicious, perhaps because he was eager to win, or maybe because he fell into a kind of habitual thinking, thinking that the person who appeared in the dentist's office at that time must be suspicious.
In addition, Miao Dingwei's erratic whereabouts are indeed suspicious.
It can only be said that he only knows one thing, but he doesn't know the other.
As an experienced underground party, I will definitely guess that after accepting routine interrogations, I will inevitably be followed for a period of time, so during this time, what should be done is to maintain normalcy and not get rid of the stalking agents.
And Qi Peilin wanted to catch the sailor and his men too much, and Miao Dingwei was indeed suspicious, and at the critical moment, the news of Miao Dingwei's kidnapping came.
So Qi Peilin made a wrong judgment and thought that Miao Dingwei was the person he was looking for.
And Tan Zhongshu, out of a cautious attitude, acquiesced in Qi Peilin's behavior against Miao.
However, Miao Dingwei is not an ordinary person, he is the cousin of Deputy Director Ouyang of the Ministry of Justice, and Deputy Minister Ouyang's level is much higher than Tan Zhongshu.
Vice Minister Ouyang was very annoyed by Tan Zhongshu's behavior, and scolded him:
"Miao Dingwei's affairs are not in your hands, remove your people, and immediately stop the investigation and eavesdropping on me and my family. If you continue to interfere in my family's affairs in such a barbaric way in the future, I will take the necessary action!"
At this time, Deputy Chief Ouyang was annoyed and angry, because he felt that his authority was being challenged.
Another reason is that Vice Minister Ouyang doesn't want the scandal in his family to spread, because Miao Dingwei is a playboy, and he pretended that he was kidnapped and made a sum of money from his family.
This time he followed suit again and was recognized by Vice Chief Ouyang, so he didn't want outsiders to know about it.
And Tan Zhongshu's behavior made him very angry, which also laid the groundwork for Tan Zhongshu's tragedy in the future.
But this is also what Tan Zhongshu is admirable.
Just imagine, if it was Gao Bin who was cunning and insidious in "Cliff", but was subservient to his superiors, and Wu Jingzhong, who was sleek and sophisticated in "Latent", they would definitely not take any action against Miao Dingwei.
In this Miao Dingwei incident, we have seen his style of doing things and his uprightness in dealing with the world, and he is not afraid of power.
Epilogue:
In the play, through the arrest of Miao Dingwei, the different psychology of several people in the eight bureaus is shown.
also laid the groundwork for the subsequent plot.
And Tan Zhongshu left a deep impression on people, he was neither humble nor arrogant in his reprimand for Vice Minister Ouyang, and he did not change his original intention.
No wonder the sailors said of him: "You are a military man, not a politician. ”
But at the same time, he also expressed regret for him:
"Because you've been in the service of this rotten system. If you don't look back, you'll soon be buried for it. ”
This sentence hit the nail on the head and shattered Tan Zhongshu's sad and lamentable fate.
Tan Zhongshu, just like his name "loyalty", is actually "foolish loyalty", he clearly knows that he is loyal to a corrupt political party, but he is still obsessed:
"I serve only my vows. Loyal to the party-state, if the party-state wants me to be martyred, I will not hesitate. ”
This is also the biggest difference between him and Gao Bin, Wu Jing and others.
Although he is a very dangerous enemy, his character is still worthy of admiration.