Name: Artist Masters Drawing Fake $100 Bills and Becomes a Criminal Mastermind
Uploaded: 2026-02-12T06:16:32.000Z
Duration: 15 min 17 s
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In a prison in Thailand, Lee is making a drawing by using paint from the wall mixed with water and feather tips that he keeps hidden in a book.

He also makes a fake stamp that Lee puts on an envelope.

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Meanwhile, a guard is asking prisoners if they have any mail to send home, although he only takes letters from those who can bribe him.

When he reaches Lee's cell, he's distracted by another prisoner throwing a fit and Lee throws his envelope in the guard's bag.

After the guard is gone, Lee thanks the other prisoner, revealing that he misbehaved as a distraction.

At that moment, a guard comes to take Lee out of his cell, saying that he's been extradited to Hong Kong.

Lee travels with Detective Ho in a convoy and watches everyone carefully.

At the police station, detectives go over the details of an old case.

Two years ago, seven armored truck guards were killed on a Canadian highway.

Four months later, the Golden Triangle Merlin guerrilla was attacked, resulting in 82 dead and 157 injured.

Last year, there was a murder arson at a printing mill.

Later, at a hotel, a cop and an art dealer were found dead.

All these murders are connected to an international counterfeit syndicate and most of its members were killed.

Only two survivors, Lee and his boss, known as Paynter.

His identity and location are a total mystery, so the police only have one blurry photo of him.

In Canada, Ho asks Lee for information about Painter, but

Lee is afraid that he'll get killed if he talks and starts crying.

Suddenly, an explosion blows up the office, bringing the ceiling down on Lee and the cops.

However, this is just Lee explaining what Painter is capable of.

Poe isn't scared, so Lee starts freaking out, asking to be sent back to jail.

A detective takes him to a cell and punches him.

Moments later, Lee is given some food, which has a sedative that knocks him out.

The cops use the chance to get hair, skin, saliva and blood samples.

When Lee wakes up, he's taken back to Ho's office.

A detective explains that the samples match the shooting at the hotel, so Lee will be charged with murder.

Lee freaks out as he claims that the evidence is fake and says they can't scare him into talking.

Ho tries to threaten Lee, but she's interrupted by the officer, who informs her of an important meeting.

In another office, Ho discovers that famous Artist Yuen and her lawyers want to bail Lee out.

The lawyers point out that the evidence isn't very good and they can tell Lee is being set up.

But the police still refuse to let him go.

Instead, they offer a if Ewan convinces Lee to talk about Paynter.

In the interrogation room, Ewan tells Lee about the deal.

He reminds her that talking would put them in danger.

But Ewan wants the cops to catch Paynor because he killed her fiance.

So he sits in front of the camera and starts sharing his story.

They're both talented painters trying to have a career, but nobody wants to buy their art.

A decade later, they barely have any money to survive, and

their home loses power because of unpaid bills.

Desperate for real income, Lee goes to an art gallery and makes a deal to create counterfeit paintings.

When he goes home, he overhears Yuen talking to her manager.

The man admires Yuen's creative art, but insults Lee's, saying he only copies other artists.

However, Yuen doesn't want him to represent her if he doesn't take Lee as well.

That night, Lee turns on the lights, revealing he paid the bill because a gallery has bought all his paintings as part of the deal, he's gotten a solo show for Yuen next month.

Sometime later, Yuen goes to the gallery workshop to visit Lee and discovers that his new job is forging art, not creating it.

She thinks he doesn't give his skills enough credit, but

Lee has given up on regular art and explains that doing these forgeries is actually thrilling.

Yuan says she loves him, but she's very disappointed in him.

Yuen's art show lasts many days, but Lee doesn't show up until the last one.

He's annoyed because she's hung up one of his paintings along with hers without his permission.

Yuen claims some collectors are interested in it, but Lee knows that she's sold everything except that one.

At that moment, Painter starts mocking Lee's painting for imitating the classic art masters.

Guests laugh, but Ewan throws a drink in his face and kicks him out.

Lee follows him to apologize, only for Painter to reveal he bought one of Lee's copies.

He made a scene on purpose to talk to him in private.

They go to a bar and Lee talks about his forging techniques that help his art look old.

Painter explains he's in the forging business and wants Lee to work with him, so he leaves him his card.

In the gallery, Ewan is arguing with her manager.

He's angry that she ruined her show by making a scene and that they can't declare a total soldout because Lee's painting is the only one left.

Suddenly, Lee enters the gallery and proceeds to burn his painting.

The next day, Lee contacts Painter, who welcomes him to the team before giving him his first job to recreate a $100 bill.

Lee Freaks out, refusing to do something so dangerous.

Painter promises that the job won't be linked to him and shares some secrets to gain his trust.

His name is Fuck Sang and he comes from three generations of counterfeiters from Hong Kong.

Nobody in his family has ever gone to jail and they always play by the rules.

His team only does distribution and his buyers are powerful people who keep him protected.

However, Lee still refuses to participate.

When Lee gets home, he discovers that Yuen is moving to the usa.

This makes him change his mind, so moments later, he's on a plane to Thailand with Fuck Sang, who promises to help Lee get Yuen back.

Then he shares some details about the job.

The US government released a new dollar bill design with more details that even include microprinted words which has made it difficult to forge.

Lee says they'll need a more meticulous printing plate, so Fuck Sang introduces him to plate maker Yam.

The team also has administrator Hwa and brothers Shum and Bobby for logistics and security.

Hwa mentions that they'll need color shifting ink and Yam wants starch free paper to trick the counterfeit detector pens.

Its ink turns purple on normal paper, but yellow on starch free paper from bills.

Meanwhile, he wants Lee to concentrate on the watermark, which is made from the fibers between the paper.

In Thailand, the team settles in an abandoned workshop.

Lee spends several days practicing the details from the dollar bills, from the letters to the strands of hair.

Eventually, he achieves a perfect result.

One night during dinner, the team looks at a Chinese painting and bets money on its authenticity.

Lee thinks it's real and even tells them about the technique behind it.

Chinese artists can cut up their paintings into layers, and

yet the paint will be identical in all of them.

Lee wins the bet and Fuk Sang explains that they'll use that method for their bills.

They'll push the pattern with an iron drum before the pulp hardens.

Once it's hard, the pattern will become the watermark and they'll sandwich it between two other layers.

Yam points out that they can put the security thread in the middle layer too.

For the next few weeks, the team works on the precision of the details.

They mix colors to find the right shade of paint, and

Yam uses all his knowledge to make a plate that paints with A thousandth of a millimeter precision.

It takes them two months and 17 prototypes to reach the perfect one.

Lee enjoys working with Yam and uses the chance to ask questions about Fuk Sang.

Yam confirms that nobody in the family was ever arrested, although Fuk Sang's father argued with some Russians over money and was killed.

Yam shows Lee a picture of his daughters, explaining that they think he sells antiques.

They still are missing the paper, but Wah couldn't find anything that passes the pen test.

Fuk Sang announces they'll solve this by traveling to Eastern Europe.