该查的线索早查完了 哪儿还有什么线索呀？
“We've gone through every lead we had. There are no new leads.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
现在都已经过去18年了
“But it has been 18 years now.”
该查 的 线索早查 完了 哪儿还有 什么 线索呀？
“We've gone through every lead we had. There are no new leads.”
没有线索？ 你来 - 师父 - 你来看 来
“No new leads? Come here. - Sir. - Come here.”
“We are beating a dead horse after 18 years; please just let it go.”
Junior officers often balance the institutional pressure to move on from cold cases against a mentor's lifelong obsessive quest to find the truth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
whatever ought to be done has long been finished
A powerful sentence pattern used to emphasize that every reasonable step has already been completed.
where on earth could there still be
A rhetorical device used to forcefully negate the existence of something.
Adds an exasperated, plaintive tone to the rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I've already checked all this. I came to you because I had no leads.”
“We've alerted them. We may find nothing.”
“(Tianhai Public Safety Command Center) (Wasn't that case cleared a long time ago?) (Why won't she just let it go?)”