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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Jack was murdered by his own brother Ling because he found out that Ling was allowing the Dragon Boys to use their business for smuggling drugs.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Jack was murdered by his own brother Ling because he found out that Ling was allowing the Dragon Boys to use their family tea business for smuggling drugs.
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* KidDetective: Jack is a 17-year-old boy who wants to solve or avenge the murder of his girlfriend by gang members and makes diligent but realistically amateurish efforts to do so. First he threatens a gangbanger at knifepoint. Then he helps cops who don’t speak Mandarin translate wiretaps. Then he wears a (poorly concealed) wire to a random drop and steals some evidence his police employer (who, while seeming to view Jack as a genuine MoralityPet, has been hiding evidence against TheDon due to being TheCorruptible and feeling the next boss would be worse anyway) suppressed.
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* KidDetective: Deconstructed. Jack is a 17-year-old boy who wants to solve or avenge the murder of his girlfriend by gang members and makes diligent but realistically amateurish efforts to do so. First First, he threatens a gangbanger at knifepoint. Then he helps cops who don’t speak Mandarin translate wiretaps. Then he wears a (poorly concealed) wire to a random ransom drop to rescue his cousin and steals some evidence his police employer (who, while seeming to view Jack as a genuine MoralityPet, has been hiding evidence against TheDon due to being TheCorruptible and feeling the next boss would be worse anyway) suppressed.suppressed. While this leads to Jack's death, it does get the don and DirtyCop arrested 30 years later.
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* OnePhoneCall: When Bianchi asks to use his phone call to call his lawyer after his past corruption is exposed, his former friend Stillman grants this request but allows him a second phone call and urges him to break the bad news to his wife right away.
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* OnePhoneCall: When Bianchi asks to use his phone call to call contact his lawyer after his past corruption is exposed, his former friend Stillman grants this request but also allows him a second phone call and urges him Bianchi to break the bad news to his wife right away.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood to get justice for his girlfriend's death. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood to get justice for his girlfriend's death. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping aiding in drug smuggling.
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* KidDetective: Jack is a 17-year-old boy who wants to solve or avenge the murder of his girlfriend by gang members and makes diligent but realistically amateurish efforts to do so. First he threatens a gangbanger at knifepoint. Then he helps cops who don’t speak Mandarin translate wiretaps. Then he wears a (poorly concealed) wire to a random drop and steals some evidence his police employer (who, while seeming to view Jack as a genuine MoralityPet, has been hiding evidence against TheDon due to being TheCorruptible and feeling the next boss would be worse anyway) suppressed.
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* OnePhoneCall: When Bianchi asks to use his phone call to call his lawyer after his past corruption is exposed, his former friend Stillman grants this request but allows him a second phone call and urges him to break the bad news to his wife right away.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Bo-Lin acts like a jolly neighborhood benefactor while being involved in the most rotten rackets in Chinatown and using loopholes. He retains that attitude even while rubbing in how the cops can't build a case against him.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her extended family and friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs. The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her extended family and friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs. The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Jack was murdered by his own brother Ling because he found out that Ling was allowing the Dragon Boys to use their business for smuggling drugs.
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Stillman tried to investigate the 1983 murder of Jack Chao Lu but his family did not cooperate. Years later, he is finally asked by Jack's mother to close the case.
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Stillman tried to investigate the 1983 murder of Jack Chao Lu in Chinatown but his family did not cooperate. Years later, he is finally asked by Jack's mother to close the case.
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* CainAndAbel: Jack turns out to have been killed by his brother.
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* CainAndAbel: Jack turns out to have been killed by his older brother.
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* HonorBeforeReason: The original case in 1983 because none of Jack’s friends or family in Chinatown would cooperate with the police. It was the unwritten rule of Chinatown to not talk to any cops.
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* HonorBeforeReason: The original case in 1983 went cold because none of Jack’s friends or family in Chinatown would cooperate with the police. It was the unwritten rule of Chinatown to not talk to any cops.
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* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.
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* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs. The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her extended family and friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs. The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring:: Da Chun and Joe Sung are last seen having tea and reminiscing over their late children.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring:: OutlivingOnesOffspring: Da Chun and Joe Sung are last seen having tea together and reminiscing over about their late children.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Warren blames himself for the death of his cousin Jack. He was supposed to be watching his little sister Stacey but she was kidnapped by the Dragon Boys. Jack paid the ransom and got her back but he ended up dead the next day. Poor Warren grew a nervous wreck as a result. It turned out that the kidnapping had nothing to do with Jack's death.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Warren blames himself for the death of his cousin Jack. He was supposed to be watching his little sister Stacey but she was kidnapped by the Dragon Boys. Jack paid the ransom and got her back but he ended up dead the next day. Poor Warren grew up a nervous wreck NervousWreck as a result. It turned out that the kidnapping had nothing to do with Jack's death.result.
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* RedHerring: It turns out that Stacey's kidnapping had nothing to do with Jack's death.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Warren blames himself for the death of his cousin Jack. He was supposed to be watching his little sister Stacey but she was kidnapped by the Dragon Boys. Jack paid the ransom and got her back but he ended up dead the next day. Poor Warren grew a nervous wreck as a result. It turned out that the kidnapping had nothing to do with Jack's death.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Bo-Lin Chen is a respected businessman and representative of the Philadelphia Tongs which run Chinatown. He lets the Dragon Boys do what they want as long as they give him their cut.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring:: Da Chun and Joe Sung are last seen having tea and reminiscing over their late children.
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* BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs. The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Ling seemed to be harmless enough, until he pulls a gun (there is no indication that he was experienced in firearms) and shoots Jack dead.
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* BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs.
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* BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now pretty much alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting involved with gangs.
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* MadnessMantra: Ling weeps and repeatedly says "He didn't understand" after being revealed as Jack's killer.
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* MadnessMantra: Ling weeps and repeatedly says says, "He didn't understand" after being revealed as Jack's killer.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood.neighborhood to get justice for his girlfriend's death. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting it involved with gangs.
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* BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting it involved with gangs.
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*BittersweetEnding: The sweet; Bo-Lin, Ray and Ling are arrested. Warren and Stacey are reunited. Jack and Tam's deaths are solved and they can rest in peace. The bitter; Da Chun is now alone (barring her friendship with Tam's father Joe) and must live the rest of her life knowing that it was her son Ling who murdered his brother and tarnished his father's legacy by getting it involved with gangs.
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* MotiveMisidentification: Da Chun thought that her son Jack was killed over his relationship with Tam Sung. It turned out to be a lot deeper than that.
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Stillman is asked by a Chinese woman to re-investigate the murder of her son.
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Stillman is asked by a Chinese woman tried to re-investigate investigate the 1983 murder of her son.
Jack Chao Lu but his family did not cooperate. Years later, he is finally asked by Jack's mother to close the case.
* TheDutifulSon: Ling's attempts to honor his family leads him to becoming a drug smuggler and murderer.
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* IHaveNoSon: Da Chun sends her son Ling a letter saying he has brought shame to his father and their family name by killing his brother and hiding it for over twenty years.
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* IHaveNoSon: Da Chun sends her son Ling a letter saying he has brought shame to his father and their family name by killing his brother and hiding it for over twenty years. Twenty years before, Ling was disowned by Jack after finding out his involvement with the gangs.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Hong Lu had forbidden his family from talking to the police about Jack's death in fear of reprisal. His own death finally allowed his widow Da Chun to reopen the case.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Tam was shot and died in her father Joe's arms.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Tam was shot and died in her father Joe's arms.
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Stillman is asked by a Chinese woman to re-investigate the murder of her son.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Tam was shot and died in her father Joe's arms.
* MadnessMantra: Ling weeps and repeatedly says "He didn't understand" after being revealed as Jack's killer.
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* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.
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* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.GhostReunionEnding.
* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
* TragicHero: Jack was a kid trying to take on the criminal element in his neighborhood. He is instead killed by his own brother who was helping in drug smuggling.
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* CainAndAbel: The victim turns out to have been killed by his brother.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: The victim, a Chinese American teenager, was in a relationship with a Vietnamese girl that was met with disdain.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: The victim, a Chinese American teenager, was in a relationship with a Vietnamese girl that was met with disdain.
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* CainAndAbel: The victim Jack turns out to have been killed by his brother.
* HonorBeforeReason: The original case in 1983 because none of Jack’s friends or family in Chinatown would cooperate with the police. It was the unwritten rule of Chinatown to not talk to any cops.
* IHaveNoSon: Da Chun sends her son Ling a letter saying he has brought shame to his father and their family name by killing his brother and hiding it for over twenty years.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: The victim, a Chinese American teenager, was in a relationship with a Vietnamese girl that was met withdisdain.disdain.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Da Chun wanted Jack’s murder to be solved, but her husband refused to talk to the police to help. After he passes away, the first thing Da Chun does is find the detective who was working on the case in '83 and asks him to reopen the case.
* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.
* HonorBeforeReason: The original case in 1983 because none of Jack’s friends or family in Chinatown would cooperate with the police. It was the unwritten rule of Chinatown to not talk to any cops.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Da Chun wanted Jack’s murder to be solved, but her husband refused to talk to the police to help. After he passes away, the first thing Da Chun does is find the detective who was working on the case in '83 and asks him to reopen the case.
* TogetherInDeath: Both Jack and Tam are seen reunited in the GhostReunionEnding.
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* CainAndAbel: The victim turns out to have been killed by his brother.
* CainAndAbel: The victim turns out to have been killed by his brother.
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Written by Creator/AliciaKirk
Written by Creator/AliciaKirk
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