Death Investigation Extension Episode 25 Alternate Ending

Hello! DIE ended its run in HK on Friday night with an alternate ending that was filmed specially. The audience got to vote for an ending with they preferred which is for Roger to die or live in the series. And the result was... He got to live! But it was kinda expected actually. Haha. Nobody wanted him to die. Okie, so here are some screencaps for the alternate ending. =)
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The main cast of DIE gather after the scene where Roger dies in the hospital. They announce the results of the voting and Roger gets to live and everybody cheers! Although it is really expected as people would normally prefer a happy ending since this series is a comedy.

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There were some other series that also had alternate endings like La Femme Desperado & To Catch The Uncatcable. One ending for LFD was for Raymond Lam & Melissa Ng to be together & the other was for them to be seperated. As for TCTU, I think Dayo Wong died in one version but he didn't in the other. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I didn't watch the latter. =p

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Nancy then asks Kenneth to volunteer him to sacrifice his life so that Sonija & Roger can be together and that he would meet Queenie when he's down there. Haha. Kitty soons appears and tells them that she can help "transport" Kenneth & the D.I.E team back in time to stop the car from knocking Roger down.

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Kenneth & the DIE team are transported back to stop the driver who was heading off to Shenzhen to pirate some videos from the TV Station. They spot the car outside the station. Hmm. I haven't been to TVB City before but is that it in the background of Yiu Sze Pin Cheung? Haha.. Anyway, the scene shows special guest star Power Chan as a stuttering staff of the station carrying some film reels. Power looks so funny in here with his thick frame specs and 3 toothpicks in his mouth.

While they were getting Power to admit he is stealing the reels, another surprise guest star sits in the car and drives away!

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Yup! It's Bobby Au Yeung! I so didn't expect him to be in this alternate ending. Haha. And he plays his Dicey Business character, Chai Foon Cheung! I liked that series very much so I was very excited that they got one of the main characters back to guest star! Bobby with his large tummy and sandals brings back so much memories. =)
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So the team follows Bobby to a restaurant where they finally realised he was the driver who knocked Roger down after "Man- Wah Jie" sends them the photo. I forgot who the actress is- dumb me. Can anyone tell me who is she please?

Anyway, "Siu Feng Jie" sees ketchup on Bobby's lips and mistakes it for blood and faints on the floor.

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The team then deploys other tactic to stop Bobby from heading to the accident area.

"Siu Feng Jie" tells Bobby that his son got admitted in the hospital?? Hmm.. Is that some connection with Dicey Business where some people were spectaculating that the little child shown at the end of the final episode was Bobby's & Jessica's child? Hmm.. Just a little guess of mine..

Derek reprises his role as CC Wong from War of In- Laws II but with a "Feng Shui" master feel. He tells Bobby that his family is in trouble and he could help him ward of the evilness. Bobby walks off saying that his family is fine and asks if Derek is gay. His actions and looks so remind me of CC!

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The team tries to stop Bobby's car from going to the accident scene and Derek tries to stop the car by using his body but Kitty saves his life in time. Suddenly, Bobby stops the car and walks back to give himself up to the police.

You realise that Kenneth actually disappears from this scene. Dunno where he went too though. It was so weird that Bobby just walks back suddenly and gives him up saying he admires them for giving up their lives to save their buddy. It was just too random?? Anyway, they end off the scene with another very random Victory sign. -.-'

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The scene shifts back to Roger & Sonija in the hospital and by now, Sonija had already given birth to her baby and Roger is helping her to burp the baby. Sonija teaches the baby how to salute when Kitty arrives. She tells the couple that their curse had been removed with the birth of the baby. Sonija then asks why the baby was so huge and already had so much hair on his head and Kitty admits to feeding the baby a bowl of rice before it was born?? What's up with all the random answers in this ending? -.-'

Anyway, just wanted to say that the baby is really so cute! Could he be Roger's son, Brad by any chance?

Anyway, was just wondering whether it was a blunder or they purposely changed the gender of the baby for this alternate ending? In the ending where Roger dies, the baby was a girl and in this ending, it was a boy. I think the boy's cuter anyway! =p

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The scene then shifts back to the DIE office where Margie tells Roger that it is no wonder after his son is born that he is even more fortunate than Ah Wang. Haha. It's Roger's character in both Life Made Simple & Square Pegs.
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The casts then thank the audience for their support for giving this series such high ratings and sings a song to celebrate before ending the scene.
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Okie, now for my thoughts on this alternate ending. I thought it was quite funny yet quite dumb as the series doesn't flow like a series anymore but like a variety program. The use of Power Chan & Bobby Au Yeung as guests stars was quite surprising and entertaining. However, I was just a little disappointed with the script and the lines of the casts. It was very rushed work and the story just don't flow well especially the part why Bobby decided to give himself up and the part about feeding Roger's son a bowl of rice before he was born. Overall, it was just a very fun to watch ending but don't take it too seriously.

Death Investigation Extension Review

Death Investigation Extension- 古灵精探

No. of Episodes: 25

Main Cast:
Roger Kwok as Yue Chi Long
Sonija Kwok as Ying Ching Ching
Kenneth Ma as Shing Ka-Tsun
Margie Tsang as Yue Chi Ching
Leung Ka Yan asYue Da Hoi
Kitty Yuen as Xiu Yee
Derek Kwok as Cheung Ching Yee

Synopsis
The "Death Investigation Extension (D.I.E.)" in the police force was established to accommodate those who have been sent away by their supervisors. As everybody knows, members of the Extension are to investigate unsolved cold cases. YUE CHI-LONG (Roger Kwok), who has cracked a large number of difficult cases by extrasensory means, is assigned to the D.I.E. believing that he will get promoted soon. Later LONG finds out that his supervisor still has a long way to go before he reaches retirement age. Hoping to leave the Extension as soon as possible, he gets to solve a lot of intriguing cases. New appointee YING CHING-CHING (Sonija Kwok) is a good-looking girl but she means to act tough and sassy in front of others. She takes an uncompromising stand over every case she deals with, which leads her into constant quarrels with LONG. The relationship between the pair is deteriorating day after day.LONG's elder sister, YUE CHI-CHING (Margie Tsang), has been living with him. While investigating an old case, LONG gets to find his long-lost father YUE TAI-HOI (Leung Ka Yan). Through close collaboration with LONG, CHING-CHING has gradually developed affection for him. As she is still torn between LONG and her two-timing boyfriend SHING KA-TSUN (Kenneth Ma), LONG has started to try to avoid her without rhyme or reason. Feeling so confused about what is happening, CHING-CHING decides to do some probing and is shocked to discover that LONG has been dogged by a female ghost called SIU SIN (Kitty Yuen).

Credits: Astro On Demand

Reviews:
I never heard of this series before it was aired and thought that it was just another series before the more anticipated ones arrived. Oh boy. How wrong I was. This series was excellent! It got me so hooked that I was anticipating the next episode every day. However, one thing got me sighing away was "Not another Kenneth Ma series". It was Survivor's Law II followed by The Master of Tai Chi and now D.I.E. I was getting so sick of seeing Kenneth Ma. TVB should really learn how to seperate series with the same actors.

Roger Kwok:
As usual, Roger puts up a great performance as the comical and weird detective who has a special power to see clues that other people can't upon touching the evidence. He acquired it after he got struck by lightning. God knows how he got struck. Thumbs up for Roger Kwok!

Sonija Kwok:
I'm not really a Sonija Kwok fan and her role in this series did not really WOW me at all. She always had the same expression and the way she said her script was really mono. Her character in here was rather boyish and rash. And she was always on to this criminal that she chased from Episode 1 all the way to Episode 25. She gave birth to a daughter in the end but overall, not a really impressive performance by Sonija.

Kenneth Ma:
He plays a very charming and hot police inspector in here. He and Sonija started off as a couple but he cheated on her with Queenie Chu. He was even suspected of murdering Queenie in the front few episodes. Kenneth's performance was just normal in here. Nothing wow except that he was quite charming. Then again, I was quite sick of seeing him all the time.

Derek Kwok:
He plays a police officer who is very loyal and thinks simply. His idol is Bruce Lee and you can see that some of his outfits in the show resembles him. Derek is again very entertaining in here and I liked the way he liked Margie but was too shy to express it.

Margie Tsang:
She plays Roger's older sister in here. I've never seen any of Margie's series before so it was a first time for me. She just plays the regular older sister and owns a match making travel agency. Not bad a performance from her.

Couples:
Roger & Sonija:
I believe that this was their first pairing together but they did it quite well and convincing. Their first meeting was hilarious when both drew their guns and showed their police passes to each other. Quite an ok pair. Sadly, they didn't end up together.

Kenneth & Sonija:
Their pairing did not really work for me. It was quite plain and nothing big except for that Queenie Chu third party thing. And Sonija looks way older than him even though they're almost of the same age.

Derek & Margie:
This is one of the few times I've seen Derek pair up with someone closer to his age and it fitted him well too. They were fun to watch as both were nice people. Derek didn't dare to admit his feelings for Margie for fear that Roger would object to their relationship. But all's well and ends well.

Overall Rating:
4/5

This is definitely one series not to be missed if you like comical detective series. The characters wer fun to watchand there was never a dull moment in this series. A few negative aspects was just the too predictable cases as the suspects were always someone close to the characters and that the very very bad ending. It was so so rushed. They had to solve one last case in the last episode, show a wedding, show how Roger got back with Sonija, show alot of other things all in one episode. The worst thing was I expected this series to have comical ending to complement its hilarious starting however, I was so disappointed to see the director kill of Roger's character in the end. I mean what in the world? It was supposed to be a happy ending. And Sonija just gave birth to a daughter from out of the blue.

*TVB will be making an alternate ending to this series but I have not seen it yet.