初尝

来自西域的舞姬阿离三年前惨死客乡，身首异处，她的妹妹阿月来到事发的客栈，联合戏法师李久成和县令张承合谋演了一出大戏，将三年前涉及此事的相关人等都聚于一堂，巧设妙计让当年害死姐姐的凶手互相指证现形，最终查明了姐姐死去的真相，洗去了污名并昭雪报仇。

　　媒体从业人员帕特里克·卡特（肯塔克尔·德利 Kentucker Audley 饰）意外联系到了失踪许久的姐姐卡罗琳（艾米·西米茨 Amy Seimetz 饰）。卡罗琳当初曾在戒毒所治疗，如今住进了一个名为“圣伊甸园”的地方，并自称过上了乌托邦般的生活。为了弄清姐姐的下落，帕特里克和同事兼好友山姆·特纳（AJ·鲍恩 AJ Bowen 饰）、杰克·威廉姆斯（乔·斯万博格 Joe Swanberg 饰）启程前往圣伊甸园的所在地调查。这座乐园位于一个鲜为人知的隐秘所在，许许多多生活中经历痛苦和坎坷的人们，在“父亲”（吉恩·琼斯 Gene Jones 饰）的感召和抚慰下重获新生。　　出于媒体人的敏感，山姆取得了和“父亲”对谈的机会，但他却从对方幽默机智的谈吐中嗅到了一丝杀气……

　　陈文俊（洪金宝 饰）和张定其（张学友 饰）只是警队中的无名小卒，却在机缘巧合之下被指派到神探（姜大卫 饰）手下助其侦破“千面人”之案。没想到，一场意外中神探不幸丧生，可是，心愿未了的他显然不愿就此归去，而是化为冤魂，缠上了陈文俊和张定其两人，要他们破案为自己报仇。　　神探威胁陈文俊，若不帮他报仇，就要破坏他和女友乔娜（王祖贤 饰）之间的姻缘。经不住神探的死缠烂打和卑鄙威胁，个性胆小怕事的陈文俊只能答应下来。就这样，陈文俊和张定其开始了对案件的追查，在神探的暗中帮助下，他们最终将罪犯捉拿归案，陈文俊和乔娜亦有情人终成眷属。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.