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In fact, this statement of the case is only aimed at the "audience", and has no value to the "Lawyer Goodman" in the play, because these things have already become confessions in court, which is well known.So then Goodman launched the first round of offensive against the male protagonist: she asked the male protagonist whether he knew who the murderer who killed Laura was; questioned the impossibility of the murderer entering the room and escaping from the room, etc. This offensive played an important role. The role of the transition to the second part of the film, transitioning into the fuller direction of the case.

And here's the interesting part, what does the first part of the movie do to the audience?First of all, it is natural to explain the basic facts of the case.Second, and very important: it focuses the viewer's attention on how the killer got in and out of the crime scene (the room where Laura was killed) without leaving a trace.This is a common trap in suspense films, because as long as you think about this problem, you will subconsciously assume the existence of another "murderer".So it will go in a wrong direction.Furthermore, the tear that fell after the hero's narration also played a role in fueling the audience's astray.

The essence of suspense films, or the most commonly used routines, is actually the same.

First of all, the audience must be "led astray"!
Because the audience is not the director or actors from the perspective of God, they are ignorant of the case, and the information they get is what the director showed them through the movie.

And the attitude of Lawyer Goodman here also convinced the audience, because she showed no flaws, and she was purely the image of a lawyer in people's hearts.

Let everyone know that she questioned the actor Chen De'an not to find fault, but that once in court, the prosecution will be more aggressive than her.

And the doubts she raised are also reasonable, just like Chen De'an said, it is not his responsibility to find the murderer.

But lawyer Goodman told him that this was true, but the current situation was that both the police and the prosecution regarded him as the murderer.

This made Chen De'an unable to refute.

But he still insisted that he told all the truth.

Goodman stood up and said, "You know what? In my more than 30-year career, there are two types of clients. One is the client who knows that he or she is in danger, but even if he has no choice but to tell the truth, the other is the client who knows he is in danger." You think you're smart, you don't mean what you say, but you think you can escape unscathed, which one do you think you are?"

Goodman's meaning was clear. She believed Chen De'an was not telling the truth.

"However, I'll put my ugly words first!" Her face became extremely serious, she walked in front of Chen De'an, and approached Chen De'an, feeling oppressed.

"If you keep talking nonsense, you will go to jail. Also, stop being so self-righteous!"

Her words made Chen De'an's expression turn ugly. At this time, Goodman's hand seemed to have unconsciously touched a newspaper on the table, which contained the news of a teenager's disappearance.

This made many people feel confused.

Because I have no idea, what does this news have to do with the current case?
"Have you ever thought about how much this secret witness has affected your case?" Goodman said.

At this time, what made the audience even more confused was that Chen De'an's eyes seemed to be attracted by the news.

This made the audience puzzled, and couldn't help but wonder, what does this person's disappearance have to do with Chen De'an?
"We've already wasted 10 minutes, I'll only ask the next question once!"

"Do you know who that person is in the room?"

It's just that Chen De'an's gaze still fell on the photo in the newspaper, and he shook his head.

"If you want to clarify the truth, if you want to get rid of the suspicion of murder and avoid prison, stop lying to me!" Goodman continued to say step by step.

Chen De'an seemed a little embarrassed. He glanced at the rotating pocket watch and then at the family photo of him, his wife, and their children on the table.

Finally he spoke again.

He told what happened three months ago.

He had a tryst with his lover Laura that day, and he had been lying to his wife that he was on a business trip abroad, and he seemed a little tormented.

Through the screen and the conversation between him and Laura, the audience knows that although he cheated, he actually regretted it all the time, but Laura kept saying that they were very happy together, weren't they?

He knows that you can't have both, and there is always a trade-off, which is wrong!
But Laura insisted that it would be fine to keep the status quo!
Then Laura said that's the end of it!

At this time, a car drove head-on and hit it.

In the end, he and Laura were fine, but the people in the hit car died.

He wanted to call the police immediately, but was stopped by Laura.

At this time, the audience who watched the film felt a sense of enlightenment, because that person seemed to be the missing young man in the newspaper!
This was a bit unexpected for everyone. Obviously, Lawyer Goodman did not accidentally open that newspaper!

The story continues on the big screen.

Laura took a look at the person in the car. He was not wearing a seat belt and was using his mobile phone!

But Chen De'an said that he was driving in the wrong direction, and because she told him to drive faster, he didn't notice.

At this point Laura said, "What did you just say? There's always a trade-off, isn't there?"

"What are you talking about?" Chen De'an looked a little surprised.

"Either he is dead or we are dead! If you call the police, we will be finished! Listen to me, listen to me, no one saw this matter, just pretend that nothing happened, think about your wife, think about your daughter, Your career, you don't want to lose these, do you?"

He was convinced, and they wanted to leave, but after getting into the car, they found that the car couldn't start.

At this moment, Laura heard the sound of a car coming, she got out of the car quickly, and sure enough, she saw a car driving towards this side below.

She hurriedly asked Chen De'an to get out of the car, and then she came to the car, pulled the dead young man aside, and took a notepad from the car.

The two pretended to be both parties to the crash and were discussing how to resolve the matter.

At this time, a car finally drove over, stopped and asked if they needed help, both of them said they could solve it by themselves, no!
At the same time, the young man's mobile phone rang. Laura lied that it should be someone from the insurance company, and then ran to the car to get the mobile phone.

But Chen De'an, who was distracted, was thought to be frightened by the other party. He quickly followed what the other party said and said that a wild dog suddenly jumped out.

Laura hung up and pretended to be on the phone with someone from the insurance company.

But the blood on the car kept dripping down.

Laura saw it, and quickly covered it with her body, and finally the man drove away.

Chen De'an was afraid that the other party saw the dead person, and Laura said that he would dispose of the corpse immediately!
The two argued for a while, and finally Laura convinced Chen De'an. They carried the body out and put it in the trunk of the car, and Chen De'an drove to dispose of the body.

He said he regretted why he was with Laura instead of his family!
If it weren't for all of this, perhaps such a thing would not have happened.

At this time, Goodman asked, "How did you handle that car?"

Chen Dean shed a tear.

"I sank it!"

"With the boy?"

Chen De'an seemed very guilty. He put his hands on his forehead and said, "I've been thinking about what Laura said. It was just an accident. We can't do anything to that boy. He has no future, but we have. We can save ourselves!"

"I treated the boy as a blot on the glass and turned a blind eye so I could go on with my normal life."

Goodman asked, "What's next?"

Chen De'an said that next, he asked Laura to pick him up, and then Laura cried and said, it's terrible!
It turned out that because their car crashed, they asked someone to pull the car to repair it. As a result, she followed them to the car repair shop, only to find out that the person they killed turned out to be from the family who repaired the car. son.

As a result, when the other party called, Daniel's mobile phone happened to be in Laura's hand, and she quickly stuffed the mobile phone into the sofa.

Although this successfully deceived the other party, Daniel's father still became a little suspicious, but he just felt something was wrong and just remembered her license plate number.

Then they dispose of the car without leaving any traces, and then part with Laura. He goes to the police station to report the car as lost, and then pretends to be back from out of town.

The same is true for wives.

He couldn't sleep for a long time because of this incident.

"I feel like I've lied to someone, a liar!"

"But it took me [-] years to have the business I have today, how can it be destroyed overnight? The next day I go to work as usual"

After that, he went home to see his wife and daughter. He saw the news of Daniel's disappearance on the news, and saw Daniel's father, the police and people nearby looking for someone on TV.

"Seeing the pained expression on his father's face, I swear I will never make such a mistake again in my life!"

It can be said that this narrative made the audience astonished and surprised again, because they never expected that there would be a case before the case.

In Chen De'an's narration, he has always been passive and remorseful, which made everyone feel a little bit of sympathy for him.

Because according to what he said, he was the first to call the police, but Laura stopped him, and he made the same mistake again and again!
At this time, Goodman's cell phone rang.

She said a few words, then hung up the phone.

"The secret witness has arrived in court! We don't know who it is yet, but the judge is on the way!" Goodman said.

"We must contact Felix!" Chen De'an said quickly.

He quickly called his lawyer Felix, who had just got off the plane.

He said he wanted to speak to Goodman.

Goodman told Felix on the phone: "There is a secret witness, and there is a good chance that he will appear in court tonight!"

Because it was very noisy at the airport, Felix asked Goodman to send him all the details she had, and he thought they had a chance!
"I still have very important information on this case. I'll call you in an hour or two!"

Chen De'an asked worriedly: "What did he say?"

Goodman smiled and said: "Everything is under control, don't worry!"

"Go on, where did you just talk?"

As Chen De'an said, he continued to work and live.

Goodman said the next moment: "Then the police came to the door?"

Chen De'an was a little puzzled: "This is not in the record, how do they know?"

"These are the details, Mr. Chen De'an!"

The police told him that they found traces of a collision between two cars five kilometers away from the home of Li Danjie, also known as Daniel in English.

But there is no report or accident record.

The strange thing is that the boy's father once drove a woman home on the day of the car accident, which was the scene where the boy disappeared.

The police gave him a sketch and asked him if he recognized him.

Just as Chen De'an was about to answer, he was stopped by his lawyer Felix.

He asked the police, what happened there had anything to do with Mr. Chen De'an who was out of town?
"The woman told the boy's father that a wild dog had been hit, but the indications at the scene were that there had been a crash."

For this reason, the police suspected that they covered up the truth of the accident!
The car that the woman was driving was registered in Chen De'an's name.

The lawyer said the car was stolen in the parking lot that weekend.

He believed that the police were insinuating that the incident was related to Mr. Chen De'an, and asked the police what evidence they had?
In the end, the police had no choice but to let Chen De'an be taken away by his lawyer because there was no conclusive evidence.

Felix also realized that his employer Chen De'an was a little nervous and asked what the truth was.
Chen De'an confessed to the lawyer that he did not actually go to Baodao, but was with someone else.

Felix said it was no wonder his secretary couldn't provide the police with proof of exit.

He asked a lawyer to help him sort out an alibi, and he didn't want to show up in the police report.

The lawyer said he could handle it.

Felix did help him create an alibi.

At this time, Goodman shook his head and said: "Felix just helped you deal with the alibi, but nothing about the police report!"

"My informant saw your name in the police report, and I think the prosecutor saw it too!" Goodman said, flipping through the documents.

Chen De'an: "I wouldn't have come to this point without Laura!"

"When you told her that the police summoned you to identify her, how did she react?" Goodman continued to ask.

"I didn't tell her!"

"I know you've contacted her!" Goodman said.

Chen Dean shook his head and said no.

Goodman continued: "In order to preserve their wealth, rich people will always find ways to protect themselves and protect everything they own! Surveillance is everywhere outside the residential areas of the rich."

After being exposed by Goodman, he had to confess that he had indeed contacted Laura.

He told Goodman that he was also shocked by Laura's unscrupulous methods.

Laura forged the fact that Daniel embezzled bank customers up to 50 Hong Kong dollars, making people think that Daniel was not in a car accident, but absconded in fear of crime!
It turned out that when Laura was moving the corpse, she got Daniel's wallet from him for emergencies, but she didn't expect to use it.