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Today I'll show you a horror film: "Rule Number One: There're No Ghosts"
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care
The film begins with rookie police sergeant, Lee, on night duty at a building's parking lot
While checking the grounds, Lee stops a car and gives the driver, Chan,
a ticket for over-speeding and not wearing a seatbelt
Chan explains that he's in a rush, because he's late for his son's birthday,
since his boss made him work even though it's Sunday
After reluctantly receiving the ticket, Chan drives away;
but he's not even that far, when Lee tops the hood of his car
Chan goes out; and Lee points out the broken tail lights
Chan informs Lee that he will get the lights repaired tomorrow, since he's in a rush
However, Lee insists on fixing them,
because it is dangerous to drive without them, especially at night
So Lee asks him to get a screwdriver, and the driver has no choice but to oblige
While Chan returns inside to get the screwdriver, Lee knocks on the lights to test if they'll blink
However, he feels something on his knuckles; and as he looks at what it is, he finds blood
Lee looks at the trunk, and sees blood coming from inside
He remains calm and distracts Chan by talking to him, while silently opening the trunk
Lee gasps while his eyes widen, as he finds a bloody corpse of a teenage school girl
His shock gets interrupted, when Chan rebukes him for being too strict as an officer
Lee pulls out his gun;
but before he can pull the trigger, Chan shoots him, with the bullet hitting his shoulder
Lee drops to the cold floor along with his gun; and Chan uses this opportunity to apprehend him
While castigating Lee's uptight behavior toward him, Chan shoots his limbs and even taunts him
He laughs maniacally as he takes out Lee's wallet, reads his ID, and looks at Lee's wife's picture
Just as Chan continues taunting him, the car trunk suddenly opens by itself;
and the two of them witness the corpse of the schoolgirl move
Although shocked, Lee uses this diversion, grabs his gun beside him, and kills Chan
After shooting him in the head, Lee looks back at the schoolgirl;
but she has vanished, and the trunk is closed again
Before he can question things, Lee loses consciousness
Forty-nine days later, Lee wakes up in a hospital with head and body injuries
After his recovery, Lee returns to work, only to receive a piece of bad news
It turns out, Chan is a serial killer they have been for the past three years
Of course, his superiors are happy that Chan was caught and shot by Lee for self-defense
however, they are unhappy with the involvement of the schoolgirl's ghost in his statement
As he refuses to change his statement,
his superior transfers him to handle light duties at the Miscellaneous Affairs Department,
or "MAD" for short
After that, Lee goes home; but his wife's not there yet; so he instead cleans up their house
After a while, Lee's wife comes home with a colleague,
who leaves after helping her carry tons of test papers
The wife hugs her husband tightly, not caring about her colleague
The following day, Lee arrives at the MAD headquarters, an empty warehouse
He meets a bespectacled co-worker, who refuses to talk to him, and focuses on working on his puzzle
Lee asks for the boss's whereabouts; but the colleague ignores him
Lee dismisses his behavior, and patiently waits for something to happen at his new workplace
After a while of waiting, their department receives a call, reporting about an unusual case
The colleague gives him the address; and Lee checks it right away
It's an establishment for swimming classes,
where Lee immediately experiences unexplainable things,
like finding a pair of slippers even though the grounds are empty
The guard finds him and is spooked a little bit,
when Lee explains that he entered because the door was left unlocked, although he locked it
The guard dismisses it,
and shares with Lee that they have been hearing the wheezing sound for over a week
The guard himself is not a very superstitious person
but a month before that, he witnessed an 8-year girl drowning in the swimming pool
Right then, as Lee also hears the wheezing sound,
he goes to check out the back, especially the pipes
There he unexpectedly meets his eccentric and beer-guzzling superior, Inspector Wong
Wong lets him get back to work, and even helps him by pointing out the water pump
Lee checks it out, and discovers the cause of the wheezing sound,
scaring people every night for the past week
It's from a clump of hair
Wong explains that women drop a lot of hair every day,
which clots the water pump; hence comes the wheezing sound
After solving the case, Wong explains what MAD specializes in,
and what they do as workers in the said department
Unlike his work before, MAD deals with unusual cases
but Wong reminds him to remember the very first rule:
there are no ghosts in this world
After his first case, Lee goes home,
while Wong stays at the MAD headquarters
Wong sleeps on the couch, listening to ballroom music after drinking beer bottles
His sleep gets interrupted, when the delivery teenager arrives
The girl delivers his cigarettes, wine, and food; and even gifts him an inflatable dinosaur balloon
The girl leaves after her deliveries
but she bikes around the headquarters front for a while
At that same time, Wong inflates the balloon, and uses it as his dance partner
The following day, a teenage girl is on the rooftop of a building, where there's construction
The adolescent girl wraps her neck in red rope, before hanging her feet from the ground
She claps and repeatedly laughs, saying, 'it's fun' as she does so;
and her life is gone within a minute
Later that day, the MAD headquarters receive another call;
and Lee checks it out with his drunken boss
It's a hospital where the nurse informs them about the strange thing happening in bed 4
There was an 80-year-old woman, who died three days ago from throat cancer
Before she died in bed 4, she loved watching the TV;
and after death came to her, the television began switching on and off by itself
Because of the unexplainable occurrence on the floor,
all the nurses thought of transferring all the patients to the second floor
While the nurse takes Wong to the meter room,
Lee stays there and gets a quick apparition of the old woman who died
He also witnesses the television turn on itself, frightening the nurse after returning
Wong calms down the nurse, and points out to the window
A man in an apartment presses a remote to watch;
so Wong explains that both televisions are the same
Whenever the man presses his remote, the tv in the hospital also turns on
However, Lee is not convinced by this
So after "solving" the case, Lee confronts Wong about lying to the nurse,
because it turns out that the television is unplugged
Caught in the act, Wong confesses that MAD's rule number one was implied,
because they need to conceal supernatural incidents from the community,
so as to reduce social panic
As expected, Lee does not accept this; but Wong insists it's the reality
After the duties, Lee returns to the "haunted" swimming pool,
where he hears the wheezing sound again
He goes to the water pump at the back, to take out the clump of hair again;
but instead, he encounters the ghost of the drowned girl
Lee runs away in fear; but the girl shows up again in the shower room
Her hair blocks her face; and Lee can only stare at her,
as she cries to him that she just wants her mother and be at home
After that encounter, Lee returns home like nothing has happened
He finds his wife asleep on the couch, while the dining table is full of food plates
She wakes up after Lee sits down and lies beside her
she hugs him from behind, and tells him that they are not alone in their house
Lee immediately stands up and pulls out his gun, thinking they have been invaded
but his wife quickly explains that they are no longer alone, because she's pregnant
Lee calms down and hugs his wife, who shares that she just discovered her pregnancy yesterday
The following day, Lee asks his superior if he can alter his statement, and be removed from MAD
However, his superior informs him that he cannot be re-transferred,
because Wong has been waiting for a long time, for someone to replace his position in the department
Just then, Wong comes in carrying food and a resignation letter, which he gives to the superior
Later that day, Lee and Wong check out a theater,
after a supernatural complaint has been reported to their department
The owner refuses to cooperate, since he distrusts anyone who comes in,
thinking they are all crooks and thieves
As the owner argues with Wong, the property agent converses with Lee
She informs him that she was the one who made the call
Her client bought the theater
but they saw some strange things, when the contractors came to renovate it
The agent then asks Lee who Wong is talking to;
and as he checks the mirrors, he only finds Wong's reflection, meaning that the owner is a ghost
The angry owner charges at Lee; so Wong runs after him
However, the ghost owner disrupts the ongoing construction, before possessing the agent
Wong is fortunately unharmed, even though the plywoods drop on him
but he cannot make heavy movements
Wong repeatedly instructs Lee to kill the woman; but Lee cannot pull the trigger
He just crawls back; so Wong shoots the agent's limbs,
and then puts the bullet in her head, before she can touch Lee to pass the possession
Wong finally frees himself; so he takes Lee's gun, while Lee breathes heavily from astonishment
They return to the headquarters,
where Wong explains to Lee that they need to hide the truth about ghosts' existence from society,
because it will create panic and chaos if it's revealed
If these ghosts touch a person, the person will be possessed;
and after they leave the person's body,
the person will be like an empty case, because his soul is metaphorically gone
Wong shares that it is not the first time he has encountered a ghost;
that's why he immediately killed the agent
If they do not kill the possessed human, the evil spirit will continue possessing many people
After a tiring day at work, the duo goes to a bar owned by Wong's ex-wife,
where Lee notices the tension between Wong and his ex-wife
after that, Wong dances with his ex-wife
he spends his night promising that after his last day of work,
he wants to renew their relationship; and this time, he will give his all and not fail her
At that same time, another teenage girl commits suicide, by drowning herself in the fish tank
Before she drops to the floor, the girl calls her roommate, who immediately goes to her side
As her friend panics, the girl suddenly opens her eyes and touches her friend,
passing the possession to her
Later that night, Lee gets a nightmare that his wife has gone insane;
and she makes him a soup with her blood, and their unborn child as meat
The following day, when the nurse calls Lee for his turn,
he lets the injured construction worker be taken first
However, the nurse informs him that there's no one, and Lee realizes that he is a ghost
The worker vanishes; so Lee dismisses it and goes to the doctor's office for his turn
After the nurse removes his caste, the three are shocked to find that his arm has been carved
It has the Roman numeral for two, and a series of numbers and letters underneath it
The doctor soon finds out the caste for Lee was done by a nurse
So the doctor instructs the employee to call the said nurse
but it turns out, she hasn't been at work for two weeks
So Lee takes things into his hands,
and asks his colleague to investigate the numbers, carved on his hormone-let-go arm
Meanwhile, a drunken Wong is on the building rooftop, where the first teenage girl hanged herself
She is a 16-year-old high school student;
and her body has been out in the sun for days, causing some parts of it to melt
Wong thinks that it's a suicide;
but the detective in charge disagrees with him, and insists it is a murder case
The two get into a heated argument as the detective belittles Wong;
but he leaves before it escalates
The following day, the two officers go to the nurse's family house,
where her father insists that his daughter has not been home for weeks
The father blames his wife for allowing their daughter to be a nurse;
and the wife silently takes the blame
Just as they leave, Lee shows Wong his carved arm,
and informs him that the nurse was the one who did his caste
Shortly after their conversation, the nurse's mother comes to them in frantic
She takes them to the pigpen, showing the chained and disoriented nurse
The mother informs them that they found her in their house last week,
and wanted to bring a doctor to see her
However, the father didn't allow it, because he didn't want other people to know she was possessed
The mother desperately asks for their help to save her daughter, which they gladly do
After that, they return to the headquarters,
where they discover that the girl was vaccinated by the same nurse before she hanged herself
Most of the victims possessed are females
Wong changes the subject, and informs Lee that tomorrow is his last day at work
The colleague cuts in and tells them about another case, the adolescent girl who drowned herself
They check it out,
and discover that the first girl and the second girl who committed suicide, were friends
Wong thinks it is the same bad spirit that possessed them;
but there's no evidence to support his hypothesis
Lee calls the recently registered number on the victim's phone, her roommate
It turns out, the roommate has gone to the police, and is being interviewed by a policewoman
Lee asks where they are,
and she tells him that they are at a school, particularly where his wife teaches
Lee immediately drops the call, and informs him that the evil spirit is now in his wife's school
They hurriedly drive there, only to find a teacher's corpse in a classroom,
while a possessed student repeatedly stabs herself with a protractor pencil
The student stabs herself in the neck before passing on the floor, touching a classmate
Everyone is in panic and fear, as Lee tries to find out which one of them is the possessed one
Just then, Wong comes in; and as he does so,
a student runs out of the room; so Lee chases her outside
Wong stays behind to check on the wounded student;
but his work gets interrupted when the delivery enters
She tells him that she studies there;
but as they converse, the wounded student comes back to life, still possessed
The delivery girl sees this;
so she quickly shoves Wong to the side, unintentionally touching the student,
and getting herself possessed
Wong lets out a heavy sigh, before reluctantly aiming his gun at her
However, Lee shoots her first through the window;
but the bullet doesn't hit her; so she runs away from them
The two find her on the rooftop along with other students
Their hands are intertwined; and their pigtails are tied to each other
The delivery girl looks at them, and smirks before jumping out of the building,
dragging five innocent students to death
However, the policewoman checks the grotesque scene in front of her eyes, and gets possessed
She takes out her gun, kills her colleague, and drives away;
while the two reach the ground and find the bodies
Later that night, Lee witnesses the possessed policewoman shoot a pregnant woman in the head
The policewoman vanishes; so Lee hurriedly runs to the poor victim
Lee's phone suddenly rings; and at that same time,
the policewoman reappears behind his back, pointing a gun at his head
She instructs him to answer, which he does
The caller is Lee's colleague, who informs Lee that the number carved on his arm,
is the ticket number that he gave to the dead driver, Chan
Just then, the policewoman in Chan's voice confesses everything to Lee
It reveals that Chan was the one, who possessed the nurse and the others
Instead of killing Lee in the hospital,
Chan took his time to fool around as a vengeful serial killer ghost
Chan confesses that teenage schoolgirls are his victims,
because they are deceitful and full of lies for him
Chan taunts him that he will not possess and kill him right away; he will have his fun first
Lee bravely takes his chance, and gets into a struggle with Chan
However, two police commissioners stop him, not believing his words that he's a policeman
In the policewoman's body, Chan walks away like nothing happened,
while Lee proves that he's a policeman by citing the police manual rules
The commissioners finally believe him
After that, Lee calls Wong, informing him about the truth before rushing to his house
He checks the home, ignoring his wife's question
Fed up, the wife bursts out, telling Lee that she feels alone even though he's back,
because he never had a time for her
The following day, Lee and Wong go to an abandoned establishment to meet Chan
On the way, Wong gives him Chan's file, containing all the atrocious acts he committed
Chan disguised as a tuition teacher to lure his victims, and rape them before killing them
They sit by the entrance; and Wong tells Lee that they will shoot no matter who comes in
Truth be told, someone enters the building; but it is Wong's ex-wife
Lee cocks his gun and aims it at her; so Wong immediately blocks it with his body
He repeatedly instructs Lee to put down the weapon; but Lee doesn't listen since Wong made the rule
So Wong asks for three minutes to prove that his ex-wife is not possessed
He plays ballroom music and dances with his wife, proving that she is normal
However, when she hugs Wong, he becomes possessed;
so Lee has no choice but to shoot him in the head
Lee reports what had happened to his superior, who advises him to keep things a secret for his sake
The superior reminds him of rule number 1, before congratulating him as the new head of MAD
Lee returns home after an exhausting day at work, and engages in a romantic moment with his wife
As they do so, a flashback plays,
revealing that Lee finds the policewoman's body in his bathtub after coming home
Lee's wife, possessed by Chan, suddenly appears behind his back, and passes the possession onto him
The scene reveals that Lee has been possessed,
a day before he went to the abandoned building with Wong
He kills all his colleagues;
and the scenario that played a while ago, was his story to deceive the authorities
The film ends with Lee on a cruise ship, eyeing his next victim, Wong's ex-wife
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