Witness to a Prosecution — Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5
Crime • 46 min • 2 seasons, 44 episodes • ★ 8.4/10
Episode synopsis
TIP is being kidnapped and KWAN is killed. TAO thinks that CHI is the murderer. Fortunately, CHAN and DAN prove that CHI is with them during the murder. YIK orders CHI to resume duty and carry out a forensic check with KWAN`s body. CHI finds out that KWAN has died of sword wound. He suspects that it was the woodman`s deed. A masked man extorts thirty thousand tael from TAO with TIP as hostage. He even requests the servant, KUEN, to deliver the ransom. CHI eventually finds out that the murderer is a gallant in the martial world. The masked man kills KUEN and gets the ransom. He even intends to kill TIP. Fortunately, YIK saves TIP in time. LUNG urges FUNG to return to Chengzhou. FUNG is very reluctant to leave. YIK employs FUNG and helps her to get rid of the trouble. CHAN sighs that his family does not have any scholars. He thus forces SZE to study. SZE is lazy. YIK enlightens SZE. SZE decides to study hard.
About Witness to a Prosecution
Witness to a Prosecution is a Hong Kong television series produced by TVB. The original broadcast was on the TVB Jade network with 45-minute episodes airing five days a week from 20 December 1999 to 16 January 2000. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung as the famous historical forensic medical expert Song Ci. Set during the Southern Song Dynasty of Mid-Imperial China, Witness to a Prosecution tells a fictionalised account of Chee's modest beginnings and the events leading to the creation of his book Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, the world's earliest documentation of forensic science.