Episode 1

One morning in 2004, dawn began to appear in the sky, and the workshop of the Second Heating Station in Kulu County was still brightly lit, and night-shift boiler workers were busy taking out the slag.Suddenly, a corpse fell along with the slag, and the workers were extremely frightened and threw down their shovels and called the police in a hurry.

Time flies, eight years are fleeting.In a remote and impoverished mountain village, Chen Jianghe led a group of police officers to wait for many days and finally successfully captured a sheep thief.Chen Jianghe was once one of the police officers handling the scorched corpse case. He was supposed to be transferred to the Provincial Public Security Bureau for promotion, but he volunteered to go to the grassroots level to exercise. This was a long eight years.

Since the suspect in that case Ding Baoyuan was imprisoned and filed a complaint the following year, Director Wei of the Provincial Department decided to re-examine the case.So, police officer Luo Yingwei was sent to this desolate mountain village to transfer the judge Chen Jianghe, who was the case handler.Luo Yingwei first arrived here and was shocked by the desolation and wind and sand.When she finally saw Chen Jianghe, she found that the grassroots policeman was quite rough and was harboring the sheep thief to the villagers' tent for interrogation.Although Luo Yingwei was from a junior college and had a master's degree and had a complaint about Chen Jianghe's case handling style, she still politely asked him about the details of the case that year.

Chen Jianghe slowly recalled that past.Back then, he received a call from his master and rushed to the scene. The boiler workers vomiting outside the workshop, the black coal all over the ground, and the busy figures of criminal investigators were vividly remembered.Due to the harsh and severe damage on the scene, it has brought great difficulties to the investigation work.The workshop director told them that there was only one key in the hands of the leader Ding Baoyuan, while the duty staff Liu Sancheng and Wang Liang said that no abnormalities were found, and only remembered that Ding Baoyuan had gone out.

Luo Yingwei was curious about why he suspected Ding Baoyuan at that time. Chen Jianghe explained that because the on-duty staff could not throw the body into the boiler, Ding Baoyuan, as the only person with the key and his behavior was suspicious, naturally became the key target of suspicion.After forensic identification, the deceased was a female Cheng Chun, who lived alone and was a secret prostitute.After confirming the identity of the deceased, Ding Baoyuan absconded and took Cheng Chun's bank card, and was eventually arrested and pleaded guilty at the train station.However, Luo Yingwei pointed out that the evidence link in the case is incomplete and lacks direct evidence of the murder weapon and Ding Baoyuan and Cheng Chun's relationship, so it is necessary to re-invest.

Now, the superiors attach great importance to the case, and Chen Jianghe was transferred back to Kulu County to cooperate with Luo Yingwei to re-examine the case.