The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 218 Suspense!suspense!
The third and fourth episodes of "Signal" continued the fast-paced and intensive plot points of the first two episodes, and there were two climaxes in the two episodes.

One is that because of the "butterfly effect", Li Shian accidentally arrested an innocent "suspect" and died of a seizure during the interrogation. Li Shian was also locked up for this reason. Qin Hai at one end told him that because of the "butterfly effect", the subsequent victims of this serial murder case changed, and the fifth victim was named Shen Yue, who was the girl Li Shian had a crush on.

Although Li Shian tried to escape from the confinement room, it was still a step too late. In this episode, Deng Chao showed an actor-level performance, paired with a sad soundtrack, which created a strong appeal, making most of the audience in front of the TV The audience couldn't help but burst into tears, even those with a high crying point would be touched by it.

Another climax is also the suspense at the end of the fourth episode. The "butterfly effect" brought about not all bad changes, because of the "survival" of the fourth victim, He Xiuying and Qin Hai, the only one who was killed by Li The survivors rescued by Shi'an acted as a breakthrough, broke through layers of fog and obstacles, and locked down a relatively suspicious person—Feng Xu, the son of a retired mountain city bus driver, who was paralyzed in his lower limbs due to an accidental fall from a building 20 years ago. And the serial murder case inexplicably stopped the crime after he was paralyzed.

But after 20 years, there is no decent evidence to support the suspicion of He Xiuying and Qin Hai. Feng Xu cannot be included in the list of suspects only by a coincidence of time. People also have the impression that they are honest and kind, and they have an optimistic and positive personality. They don't seem to have any psychological problems or anti-social tendencies.

He Xiuying, the leader of the backlog team played by Sun Li, was not ready to give up, and was going to approach Feng Xu to see if she could find out something from the words, so she came to the "suspect" who was paralyzed in the lower limbs alone in the name of a community worker. At home, and with her 20 years of experience as a criminal policeman, she quietly caught the flaws in her words in the chat.

And this "suspect" who had been in a wheelchair for 20 years was also keenly aware of He Xiuying's police status, so Feng Xu burst out of the wheelchair the moment his father unlocked and opened the door, and He Xiuying's attention was distracted. He jumped up, threw He Xiuying to the ground, strangled her neck, and yelled at the father who entered the door with a sinister look: "She is a policeman!"

The father, who was over sixty years old and knew that his son had committed heinous crimes, stood at the door with his back to the sun, looking at He Xiuying who was strangled by his son on the ground and struggling hard, without saying a word.

This concludes the fourth episode.

At the same time, 20 years ago, Li Shi'an was stimulated by the brutal murder of the girl he liked, and he worked hard to investigate and investigate. Although there was no reliable evidence, he still locked in a "suspect" he thought - the driver of the bus along the route. .

Li Shi'an, who had half lost his mind, broke into the bus driver's house, grabbed the driver by the collar, and angrily questioned whether he was the murderer. At this moment, the driver's son returned home briskly, and opened the door. For a moment, Li Shian's eyes met.

The young man was facing the sun, his eyes were dazed, and there was a flash of panic. Li Shian's eyes on the driver's son gradually froze, and he slowly put down the bus driver whose collar he had picked up.

The fourth episode is over.

In the play, He Xiuying pretends to be a community worker alone to go to the home of Feng Xu, the son of the bus driver, who she identified as the "suspect". When her elderly father enters the door, Feng Xu in the wheelchair throws her down and strangles her neck. , and Li Shian broke into the home of the "suspect" bus driver he identified alone to question him angrily, but met his son's eyes after entering the door. These two plots are interactive narratives through parallel montage techniques.

The actions of He Xiuying and Li Shian were displayed in front of the audience at the same time and alternately, so in the end He Xiuying was strangled by the neck and struggled to meet the "real murderer" father who entered the door, and Li Shian let go of the "true murderer" 20 years ago. The collar of the murderous father—Li Shian thought his father was the suspect—gave the eyes of the "true murderer" who entered the door, and it became the end scene of the fourth episode at the same time.

It is equivalent to leaving two suspenses at the end of the fourth episode that are 20 years apart but echo each other. One is He Xiuying's safety, and the other is whether Li Shian can realize that the driver's son who just entered the door is the real murderer and whether he can be caught. Live the real culprit.

Zhou Hai, the deputy director of the Mango TV channel, watched the finished fourth episode of "Signal" in the backstage of the TV station. In addition to sighing at the plot, his face was full of joy, and he traded with the TV program next to him. Su Hongmei, the director of the center, said: "The ending is pretty good. I have a hunch that the ratings will reach 2 next week."

Su Hongmei, who advocated the purchase of "Signal", couldn't hide the smile on her face: "In fact, the root cause is that this drama has a fast pace and a lot of information. Now most domestic TV dramas are too slow. It can’t be broken, without dense information and fast-paced foreshadowing, it is difficult to create suspense that captures the audience’s emotions.”

Regarding the purchase of "Signal", Mango TV has no objection. Which TV station does not want to buy Sun Li's drama?However, DreamWorks’ lion’s big mouth really made Mango TV retreat. If you only look at the total price, the asking price of close to [-] million is not a sky-high price in today’s market that changes three times a year, let alone Sun Li’s drama. Yes, but the number of episodes of "Signal" is its biggest shortcoming.

The content of the 25 episodes is really not broadcast. In the final analysis, the main income of the TV station is advertising fees. Even Sun Li and Deng Chao, the king of the TV drama industry, can’t make up for this defect. Regarding the price offered by DreamWorks, the TV station’s internal opinion is very serious. There have been objections and wait-and-see opinions.

But Su Hongmei, who has watched the entire TV series, insisted on buying "Signal" from the beginning to the end, and even tried hard to persuade the director of the satellite TV channel to restore the closed weekly theater to maximize the commercial value of "Signal".

Although the first broadcast of "Signal" broke 1 in the ratings last Saturday, it was not very convincing. It is a prime time on Saturday and has the blessing of the queen of ratings. The TV station, in fact, the ratings of the first and second episodes of "Signal" were 1, which was much lower than the ratings of the prime-time "Wife's Lies" the day before.

Su Hongmei, as the director of the drama purchase department, also bears a lot of pressure because of this. There are also personnel struggles inside the TV station, but then the overwhelming word-of-mouth on the Internet helped her relieve the pressure, but no matter how good the word-of-mouth is, it cannot be eaten. , TV dramas of course depend on the ratings.

And these pressures have been released today. Although the official ratings have not yet been released, the real-time ratings shown by the meter have already exceeded 1.5%, and the estimated ratings share will exceed 5%. With the fourth episode With the two big pits left at the end, it is conceivable that the ratings of the next week will inevitably increase.

According to the summary of data from major online platforms, Su Hongmei seems to have seen a phenomenon-level hot drama rising from the horizon with its ratings, internet hits and word-of-mouth booming.

(End of this chapter)