Recaps

Song Tianyao and Xu Enbo used a Brazilian freighter to draw Tan Jingwei’s men into a trap, while Nai Khun’s counterfeit-money operation provoked Hong Kong’s gangs. The freighter’s destruction left Sheng Zhaozhong dead, and Nai Khun was surrounded in Macau while searching for Song Tianyao’s family.

• Xu Enbo staged a confrontation with Xu Minjun at the pier, but Uncle Leung stopped his bodyguards from shooting Huang Liu and Ah Si, and Song Tianyao later reassured Xu Minjun that he would handle the shipping dispute.
• Xu Pingsheng saw through Xu Enbo’s staged feud with Song Tianyao and invited Song and Tan Jingwei to a banquet as tensions grew over the Two Airlines Uprising shipment.
• Tan Jingwei rejected Secretary Zhu’s order to help the Thais divide the Golden Triangle opium trade and agreed with Sheng Zhaozhong to stop the ship carrying the airline employees.
• Nai Khun’s men lent counterfeit money through an amulet shop, alarming Scribe Hua, Lai Li Bing, and Lan Kou Zha, while Zhao Wenye and Lui Lok clashed over Handkerchief Qing at the Golden Source Club.
• At Xu Pingsheng’s banquet, the tycoons weighed Xu’s offer of the South Africa route, Chu Xiaoxin denied knowing about the bounty on Song Tianyao, and Song agreed to deal with Tan Jingwei before Chu Yaozong sent him to Britain.
• Nai Khun’s men killed Singh and gave Song Chunzhong a million dollars in counterfeit bills as a deposit for opium, while Di Zhen’s men prepared to intercept Xu Enbo’s Brazilian freighter.
• Xu Enbo announced that he had sent out the ship, but Di Zhen found only wigs, foam, and stones in its crates, and Huang Liu and Zhao Wenye watched from a fishing boat as the freighter exploded.
• Sheng Zhaozhong tried to flee the harbour but was shot dead, and Zhao Wenye persuaded the British officers to report him as a criminal killed for colluding with pirates.
• Lam Kong summoned Lui Lok and the Red Poles after learning the Thais had a printing press, while Nai Khun left the casino and was surrounded by armed men in Macau as he searched for Song Tianyao’s family.