Help me answer upcoming questions?

[dorinda]

Hi all!

I've been showing H3T to a friend, who is loving it--we finished episode 3 on the weekend.

Sometimes she asks me questions, to clarify the plot etc., and I've been able to answer them so far. But there are a couple of things I expect she's going to ask me about after we're done that I could use some help on...

1) Who kidnapped them in the van?
I re-read joatamon's (priceless!) timeline, and it doesn't seem like we ever get to hear exactly who was behind the initial van-kidnapping of TY and MSF. I think I generally assumed it was Chen Wen Hao, because of one of the henchmen in the van saying something like "the Boss" wants to see them. (Though I suppose if it was the remnant of Wang Kun Chen's people, they could have been instructed to take Tang Yi to that gang's new "boss".)

2) What kind of prison sentence do we think Tang Yi is looking at?
Given that Tang Yi ends up out on bail/under house arrest and gets to take himself to prison, I assume it's not a crime like murder (the murder of Wang Kun Chen, which is implied to have been done by Jack at Tang Yi's order, to draw Chen Wen Hao back from Cambodia).

So I assume it would have to be something like assault and kidnapping? (the beating/menacing of Zhou Guan Zhi? The offscreen captivity of He Hang?) I doubt Meng Shao Fei prosecuted Tang Yi for the accidental shooting. :D And Jack's info he handed over to Interpol about Hsin-Tien Group I assume would involve the defiant members who were still moving drugs, whereas Tang Yi has gone legit.

Anyway, I've never seen the novelization or similar things myself, but I remember someone mentioning the length of Tang Yi's sentence being in one of those quasi-canon projects somewhere. What was it?

Thanks for any thoughts you may have! I think she'll especially ask me about Interpol, Jack's role in the whole thing, and Tang Yi's prison sentence, so any ideas on those topics in particular will help me get ready! XD

Comments

[no_detective]

hello hello! alas, i never managed to wrap my head around the plot so i can't help with the first question, but re: the second... the novelization epilogue does this vague thing of "N years later" so the comm has come up with something like a 3-year consensus (thanks to assumed cooperation with the DA equivalent and with good behavior, heh) - but i'm afraid there is nothing definitive in the canon as is.

[dorinda]

Thank you!

And also, so others will know, I wanted to mention that no_detective asked on Twitter, and bonibaru said that the van kidnappers are from Chen Wen Hao--she noticed that one of the van guys is also in the big warehouse confrontation later.

So I went and looked, and she is completely correct! The big stocky guy with the mostly-buzzed head, who wears the hair from the top of his head pulled back in a small queue, he's both in the van kidnapping and in the Chen Wen Hao warehouse confrontation.

This is extremely helpful!