The Long Season 1.12

Episode 12

Hualin, 1997. Family and friends come over to Wang Xiang and Luo Meisu's apartment after Wang's body has been found. Xiang fusses over where to hang the picture of Wang. Meisu doesn't want to talk to him.

Ma Desheng stops by during the meal. He talks briefly to Xiang in private. He explains that all evidence seems to indicate that Wang committed suicide. Xiang refuses to accept that.

Ma Desheng returns to the office, dressed in a uniform. He wants to take a look at the case again but his boss has the file and refuses to give it to him. His boss tells him that he needs to get back to work. Ma Desheng takes off his uniform and quits.

The Long Season 1.11

Episode 11

106 minutes

Hualin, 1997. Wang Xiang breaks into the space where Wu Feijun lived. He finds something and takes it with him. He takes it to police HQ but Ma Desheng isn't there.

Wang Yang convinces his mother to untie him. She feeds him. He then tricks her, locks her in his room, and takes off. Xiang comes home and berates Luo Meisu for letting their son get away.

Ma Desheng goes to see Shen Dongliang. He asks him questions about Shen Mo. Shen Dongiang catches on to the fact that Ma Desheng is fishing for answers and laughs at him. Ma Desheng beats him up.

The Long Season 1.10

Episode 10

40 minutes

Hualin, 1997. Lu Wenzhong is drinking with Yin Hong and one of the other women at Victoria when he gets a call from Shen Mo. He goes to see her. He wants to take her back to his place. She says that she needs a book that one of her classmates have so they go there first.

It's a trap. Shen Mo drugs Lu Wenzhong with some help from Fu Weijun and Wang Yang. Lu Wenzhong promises to give them what they want after he wakes up. He tells them about a bank draft he has in his car for 800,000 yuan.

The Long Season 1.09

Episode 9

Hualin, 2016. Wang Xiang makes a mess of his relationship with Li Qiaoyun. He brings up the fact that she used to work at Victoria. He wants to ask her if she knew Shen Mo but she reads something else into his questions and thinks he is looking down on her.

Ma Desheng goes to see one of his former coworkers he spots Shen Dongliang. He talks to Li Qun another former coworker who has risen in the ranks of the police department. Ma Desheng wants to look at the police files for the murder case of Shen Mo. Li Qun flatly refuses to let him look at the file.

The Long Season 1.08

Episode 8

Hualin, 1998. Wang Xiang finds Wang Yang with some help from another young man who was looking for him. Xiang convinces his son to come home. He confronts him with the evidence he found, the bloodstained hazmat suit. Xiang demands to know what's going on. Wang won't tell him. He asks his father for a couple days to sort some things out before he will tell him.

Xiang gets his hands on a note that Fu Weijun left for him. He reads it and responds by calling for Luo Meisu. Together they tackle hold their son down and tie him up. They tell him that it will be better for him if he turns himself in to the police. Luo Meisu goes to bed. Xiang goes to the kitchen, reads the note again, and then destroys it.

The message on the note read: Take the birch transportation line on the evening of the 17th.

The Long Season 1.07

Episode 7

Hualin, 2016. Gong Biao encounters a man while he is buying a lottery ticket. He follows the guy back to his car. It looks like cab that had the same license plate as his car. Biao grabs the guy and holds him while he calls Wang Xiang and Ma Desheng. They turn the guy over to the police and Gong Biao gets his taxi cab back.

Xiang, Biao, and Ma Desheng go out to celebrate but an argument breaks out. Xiang thinks that the person who was hit by the cab was also the one who killed Yang. He thinks that person is Fu Weijun, Shen Mo's brother. Xiang refuses to accept the official story that Yang committed suicide. Ma Desheng disagrees. They both wind up walking out of the restaurant in different directions. Biao is left sitting alone.

The Long Season 1.06

Episode 6

Hualin, 2016. Bei notices that Xiang's sweater has holes in it. He suggests that he could buy him a new one. 

Hualin, 1997. Xiang tries on the sweater for the first time. Yang bought it for him. It is made of wool. He finds it itchy and takes it off. 

Shen Dongliang, Shen Mo's uncle, goes to her boss at the hotel and explains that he doesn't want her working there anymore. Yang sees the exchange and asks his boss what that was about. His boss explains who he was just talking to. Yang runs after Dongliang and asks him about her.

The Long Season 1.05

Episode 5

Hualin, 1997. Section chief Xing Juanchan offers Xiang a bribe to look the other way while goods are stolen from Hualin Steel Works. Xiang can't do that. He returns the bribe to Xing. Xiang also tells a couple of thugs who come to visit him to back off.

Xiang gives Yang a hard time for not focusing on school. Yang doesn't want to stay in school. He wants to be a poet. Luo Meisu tries to keep the peace between her husband and their son.

Yang gets to spend a little bit of time with Shen Mo, after work. The day after that he takes her for a walk along the railroad tracks. He tells her about his poetry and his father. She likes his poetry very much.

The Long Season 1.04

Episode 4

Hualin, 1998. Luo Meisu, Xiang's wife, calls in a psychic to help her figure out what why Yang spends so much time lying in bed. The psychic says that it has something to do with a woman. Luo tells Xiang later about what the psychic said. He discounts it as nonsense and then they goes to talk to his son. Yang says some cryptic things about leaving Hualin and never returning.

Xiang and Ma Desheng talk some more. Captain Ma realizes that he is going to have to count on Xiang because the police department won't give him the resources he needs. He takes Xiang out to eat at night and they talk about the case. Xiang has a theory that Captain Ma didn't consider, for why the body parts were found in three different places.

The Long Season 1.03

Episode 3

Hualin, 2016. Xiang goes looking for Biao. He tries Biao's apartment but doesn't find him there. Xiang runs into Liru and asks how things are between her and Biao. She asks him to stay out of their marriage.

Xiang asks around some more and finds out that Biao is gambling at an arcade. Xiang finds Biao but just as he gets to him the arcade gets robbed. The police show up minutes later and everyone is taken into police custody. Biao gets fined but Xiang is let go without further incident.

Xiang decides that they need some help. He turns to the former police captain, Ma Desheng for help. They find him at a dance hall trying to get into a local competition.

The Long Season 1.02

Episode 2

60 minutes

Hualin, 1998. Wang Xiang is in the hospital. Luo Meisu is there visiting him when Song Yukun, the factory manager, comes to see him. Song leared from Ma Desheng that Xiang was helping the police. Song came to the hospital, with a camera crew, to try and put put a good face on what is currently a bad situation. Hualin Steel is going through a bad period between the protests by factory workers and the dismemberment case.

Wang Yang talks to a friend about Shen Mo who seems to have disappeared. No one in her dorm knows what happened to her.

The Long Season 1.01

Episode 1

Chapter 1 - A Train Lost in Autumn

Hualin, 2016. Gong Biao who up until now has shared a taxi with Wang Xiang, a distant relative to whom he is related by marriage, buys a cab which turns out to be in bad state of repair despite how it looks. It turns out that recently someone driving the cab hit a pedestrian but everything doesn't make sense. The video footage of the accident shows that the cab had a sticker on the back but the car that Biao bought does not.

Xiang and Biao go to the hospital to see the victim but there is no one there. The name on the patient's records seems to be an alias. They start looking for the cab in the video. They ask all the other taxi drivers to let them know if they see it. Eventually someone sees it lets them know where.