Daughter


      The Count receives a phone call at the petshop from one of the customers. The man purchased what was supposed to be a tiger, and only has a picture of a bamboo grove. When he tells the Count that he was going to show his tiger at a party, the Count simply tells him that he broke the contract not to show it to anyone. Hearing a rumbling behind him the man looks back at the picture, that now has a tiger moving on it. Calmly Count D tells him that if he broke the contract the petshop can't be held responsible for what happens. Desperately the man screams for Count D to do something as the tiger comes out of the picture, but the Count hangs up the phone and leaves him alone with the tiger.
      The episode opens with people talking about the mysterious death of the man who seems to have been killed by something larger than wild dogs. Leon, an ambitious detective, suspects the petshop of trafficing drugs because it is the only connection between all the unsolved deaths that have been occuring. All of the people where customers of the petshop. He goes into the petshop and first meets the enigma, Count D.
      Leon demands to know what the Count sold to Liu Tai Wei, the man who died. The Count tells him that he sold the man a tiger, and shows him the picture of the tiger in the bamboo grove. Frustrated, Leon tells the Count that he'll return and he'll catch him next time.
      Two parents come to the Count's petshop in hopes that buying a pet will cheer them up after their daughter's tradgic death. D takes them to the back room and shows them a rabbit which looks exactly like their daughter. Enchanted by the thought of having their daughter back, D assures them that it's only a rabbit. This is of little consequence though. The parents purchase the rabbit and agree to the three terms on the contract.
1) They won't let anyone see her.
2) They will never let the incense that goes with her burn out.
3) They will never feed her anything but water and fresh vegetables.
      The parents quickly sneak the girl into the car and take her home, with Leon watching in a parked car behind them. Back at the home the parents take the new, fake Alice to her room. The rabbit starts saying "Mama" repeatedly to the great joy of her mother. They hug her and she questionably says "Daddy". Believing they're blessed, the mother says that they can start all over and be a family again.
      Leon is waiting outside the house trying to find out what's going on. He hears the mother calling for Alice, saying she bought a pretty ribbon for her. Two residents walk by talking about the daughter the family had before, and that they'd bought a pet rabbit and named it after the dead girl. Leon gets out of the car and interrupts their conversation to find out what happened to the girl.
      At the house they're sitting down to eat dinner when Alice sees some sweets sitting on the counter. She begs for them, reaching her hand out. Trying to make her happy her mother goes and gets the sweets and gives them to her. Outside Leon finishes his conversation with the women, who told him that Alice was "Like a devil with an angel's face". At the petshop Count D's small pet informs him that the contract has been broken.
      Leon goes to the station and begs his sarge to let him investigate the petshop. He thinks the parents bought drugs at the shop but has to go find proof before he can investigate, so he heads back to the house.
      At the house Alice keeps nibbling on the sweets even as her mother tells her not to. Her stomach starts to squirm, and Alice falls over with her stomach torn in the middle. Her mother bends down and puts a hand on her to try and find out what's wrong. An echoing of 'mama' starts to fill the room. Another small hand comes from Alice's stomach and rests on top of the mother's. Little newborn babies crawl out from Alice, all calling "Mama", leaving both the mother and father terrified.
      Leon arrives back at the house only to find that Count D is already waiting at the door. He roughly accuses him of selling drugs to their daughter, but the Count denies that's why he's there, stating that he's simply there to pick up his pet because their contract was broken.
      Leon charges inside the house to find the evidence only to smell a thick odor of incense and sees hundreds of small babies all over the house. Not believing his eyes, he turns on the lights and sees that they're hundreds of rabbits gathering all over. Some rabbits attack him, which he quickly shakes off and scares several others away by shooting his gun. The rabbits scatter away from the body of the father, bloody and chewed to death. Leon demands for the Count to do something since he sold them the rabbit, but D says that he can't tell which rabbit is his. Count D leads him up the stairs and to the room where the mother is slouched down on the ground, piles of rabbits encircling her.
      Asking her why she broke the contract and fed the rabbit things she shouldn't have, she says she did it because the girl begged for them. The Count kneels down in front of her and tells her that's how she killed her real daughter.
      Their first daughter was spoiled to no end. Anything she wanted her parents gave her. She became rebellious, not listening to society and becoming an outcast. Soon she became addicted to drugs. When she was in treatment, her mother was in the room with her. She begged her mother to let her have the drugs, telling her that she needed them. Her mother gave in, and let Alice have the drugs, killing her.
      The rabbits attack the mother, but soon fall off and die. Count D explains to Leon that the sweets given to the first rabbits were poisonous to them, and that it ran through the blood of the newly born rabbits so all of them were eventually poisoned. He states that what killed Alice was the love that was given to her for "Just this once". Leon still doesn't have any proof to incriminate the Count, so the Count invites him for tea.

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