1.Why did Yan beat up Sam's henchman in the beginning?
He beat up the people in the massage parlour bcause he was showing signs of stress. Him & Keung were handcuffed and being pushed by the cop; they may have scuffled a bit in the elevator as friends do, but nothing serious. Wong arranged for him to go to the psychiatrist as a result of this incident, so it was crucial to the plot as it brought Dr Lee into his life.
2.The elevator conversation(After he got stitches at the hospital) between himself and Keung was confusing, could someone explain?
I think its purpose is just to show that Sam had put Keung in charge of Yan, and that neither of them are leaders of the organisation. They're just bodyguards/gophers. [What never seems to be explored is that they are half brothers, arent they? Yan knows this, but do we ever find out if Keung knows? They never seem to talk about it]
3.Ming was telling a story of the events as they unfolded through his point of view, and we saw that Billy was holding Yan at gun point. So I suppose when Billy shot Yan, Lau shot him. And the reason Billy shot Yan was because he wanted to be a snitch. I just want to check if I was correct.
That guy wanted to protect Lau, and to impress Lau. He'd signed up with Sam years earlier, but had never really been of much interest to Sam.
4. Andy Lau went back to work for AI, but what was his job before that? Or was he just layed off until AI finished the investigation of Yan's death?
He was temporarily in Admin.
5. The mail box thing was really confusing. Leon put a tape inside, and after he left we see smoke coming out of it. We assume Andy Lau shot it, but Shen showed up. And who got the tapes? Or were the tapes an explosive device to worn Chen?
Lau burnt it, so nobody got the tapes. Shen was just there to see if Lau would turn up after Yeung had posted the envelope. Shen wasnt there to collect anything. The fact that Lau wanted to destroy the envelope was further evidence that he was the voice on the tapes.
6. Apparently Yan sent Dr. Lee a tape, which Andy Lau got a hold of. He played a tape in the end, which was switched by Shen, but that tape came from Leon's office. So do we ever find out what was on the other tape?
I think it was Yeung & Shen who sent the tape to Dr Lee. (Why would it only arrive in Oct 2003 otherwise?)
I don't think it was switched by Shen. I think Lau (thinking he was Yan) deliberately picked a tape which incriminated Lau (& he thought Yeung was Lau).
What isnt clear is the conversation Lau hears down the phone with Yan telling Wong that he'd seen Yeung with Sam. Was that just Lau's imagination making a lucky guess? Or was it a tape? If a tape, then who made it originally, and who played it down the phone?
7. The cocaine. Yan finds it in the music system before Andy Lau comes in to the store. He hid it possibly in his cast. And in part one when Sam broke his cast over the metal table we see a white substance. Can we assume that it was the cocaine? Or did Leon plant in on Yan or give to him for some unknown reason? We saw in the beginning that Leon tried to plant the cocaine on one of the thugs.
The nightclub scene took place in October 2003, so we can assume it is a different bag of coke. I think Yan taking the bag out of the speaker was just to complete the circle right back to start of IA1. As you say, Yan had some powder in his cast, and this scene explained how it got there.
8. We know that Leon was not Sam's mole, but they helped one another. What exactly did Leon do for Sam, since we assume that Sam gave Leon information about drug deals.. etc
From the library scene, it seemed that Yeung never gave info to Sam, he just took it. On this occasion, Sam told him that a mainland gangster was going to do an arms deal down at the docks. This was because Sam knew Shen was a mainland cop, and wanted to cause trouble between the HK police & the mainland police.
9. The test at the docks. Still confusing even after I read the answer. Leon wanted to catch them himself right? Or is there another reason why he didn't allow Inspector Wong to lead the operation. Or did Sam set this whole thing up with Leon to test Yan, and after Yan got there he used the Morse code to inform inspector Wong. So that’s how Inspector Wong found out about he operation, and he wasn’t supposed to. But mainlanders seemed a bit to serious for this to be a test.
Yeung was probably suspicious of Sam's tip off. But it was only when he got there that he knew for sure that Shen was an undercover mainland cop. Yeung didnt want Wong there because he knew Wong had a mole, and that it would be a waste of that mole's intelligence to go on a raid to catch Sam when Sam wasnt going to be there. He was probably fairly sure the mole was Yan (which is why he tested Wong by showing Yan being beaten up in the station), but only found out for sure that night. [Unless he was bugging Wong - see point 6]
10. How did Yan get the cast? Was it because Chen shot him at the docks?
Yes.
11. The session was true, could some post Dr. Lee's exact reply from part one? I seen the movie so many times I should have remembered the answer.
He imagined it.
12. Something else makes absolutely no sense. Why did Sam suddenly start to test Yan in 2001 or 2002. Yan began to work for Sam in 1997(After Hau was killed and Keung told him there might be a position for him). The only logical explanation I see is that before 01 or 02 Sam never allowed him to handle large operations or even meet big people. I remember in AI he tells Michael Wong that he doesn't know the location of Sam's warehouse since he only worked for him for 6 or so years.
It seems Sam never trusted Yan. He didnt mind if Shen killed him, or if he got shot/arrested in the raid at the docks. This makes it strange that Yan was not a bigger suspect in IA1.
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