Recaps

Zhou Quan met with his fellow alumni Oswald and Lai Wing-lim, two influential figures in Hong Kong’s legal and political circles, after arranging promotions for his subordinates in the Security Department. The gathering ended with Oswald asking Zhou Quan what business had prompted the invitation.

• Zhou Quan helped arrange promotions for trusted subordinates, seeking to strengthen his influence in the Police Force ahead of Hong Kong Island’s return.
• Zhou Quan invited Oswald and Lai Wing-lim to Oswald’s villa for a meeting, drawing on their shared education, teacher, and longstanding ties.
• Au Wing-yan served tea to the three men while Lai Wing-lim teased Zhou Quan and Au Wing-yan about her special attention to him.
• Oswald observed that Zhou Quan rarely invited them without a reason and asked what he wanted to discuss.

Zhou Quan told Oswald and Lai Wing-lim he planned to propose a national security law for Hong Kong Island directly to the Motherland, bypassing the Legislative Bureau and Provisional Legislative Council. Oswald questioned whether this would violate legislative principles, while Lai Wing-lim urged him to hear Zhou Quan's reasons.

• Lai Wing-lim promised Zhou Quan that he and Oswald would help with anything they could.
• Zhou Quan explained that he wanted to establish national security legislation before separatists and unrest could exploit gaps in Hong Kong Island's laws.
• Oswald and Lai Wing-lim exchanged grave looks when Zhou Quan proposed bypassing the existing and provisional legislative bodies.
• Oswald challenged Zhou Quan over the legality and principles of going around the legislative bodies.
• Lai Wing-lim defended Zhou Quan and asked Oswald to listen to his reasons before judging the proposal.

Zhou Quan persuaded Oswald and Lai Wing-lim that Hong Kong Island needed national security legislation, proposing that the Police Force submit a bill directly to the Motherland during the handover transition. Oswald agreed to study the bill in secret and Lai Wing-lim pledged to help draft it, leaving the three to discuss its provisions.

• Zhou Quan argued that national security legislation was essential to protect the Motherland's interests and warned that he would not tolerate anyone crossing the reunification red line.
• Zhou Quan explained that the Legislative Council and Provisional Legislative Council were unlikely to pass the bill through normal channels because of their membership and foreign influence.
• Zhou Quan proposed that, after the handover, he or another senior officer use the Police Force's Security Department to submit the bill directly to the Motherland for support during the government transition.
• Oswald accepted Zhou Quan's position despite reservations about his methods and agreed to study the bill in secret.
• Lai Wing-lim promised to help Oswald prepare comprehensive legal provisions, and the three alumni began debating the bill while Au Wing-yan served them tea.

As the National Security Law took shape, Zhou Quan was asked to investigate an armed robbery at TNS, where criminals stole its anti-theft system, client records, and surveillance blueprints. He learned that Wan Chai police had already handled the initial response, but the robbers had escaped.

• Zhou Quan and his two senior fellow students continued drafting the National Security Law with help from Oswald’s legal team.
• TNS Asia-Pacific Head Chan Lap Ming told Zhou Quan that armed criminals had stolen TNS’s anti-theft system, client information, and CCTV installation blueprints.
• Chan Lap Ming said the stolen records covered 380 banks, 560 jewelry stores, and about 400 other businesses in Hong Kong.
• Zhou Quan summoned Chow Sing Sing, Luo Danian, and Lok Kai-cheung to investigate the case.
• Luo Danian reported that Tung Biu and Wan Chai officers had exchanged fire with the robbers, but the criminals had escaped.

Zhou Quan organized surveillance and intelligence gathering to identify the robbers who stole TNS security systems. Tung Biu brought Mainland officer Yang Jianhua and case officer Li Guangming to brief him, revealing that the TNS robbery might be the first in a planned series.

• Zhou Quan ordered Luo Danian's Intelligence Group to analyze TNS client records and Lok Kai-cheung's C Group to watch the most critical targets.
• Zhou Quan tasked Chow Sing Sing with asking Big Circle Leopard whether the Big Circle Gang was involved, and Big Circle Leopard reported that the gang had not committed the TNS robbery.
• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to mobilize Ah Lok and Little Chiang to investigate Hong Kong Island's underworld forces and find the robbers.
• Tung Biu arrived with Yang Jianhua and Senior Inspector Li Guangming, the officer in charge of the TNS robbery case.
• Tung Biu told Zhou Quan he suspected the TNS robbery was the beginning of a series planned by the Big Circle Gang and had requested intelligence support from the Mainland.

Zhou Quan took over the TNS case and directed the investigation toward South Asians and Vietnamese suspects rather than the Big Circle Gang. At the Security Department, Luo Danian’s Intelligence Group identified Zhang Hanjun, alias Big Army, as a suspect with a Vietnamese military background who had been working for the Vietnamese Gang.

• Tung Biu introduced Li Guangming as the officer responsible for the TNS case, and Li reported that CCTV had captured a clear image of a masked gunman.
• Zhou Quan rejected the Big Circle Gang theory and ordered the investigators to focus on South Asians and Vietnamese suspects.
• Zhou Quan formally assigned the Security Department to take over the case, with Wan Chai Police Station assisting.
• Luo Danian told Zhou Quan that the Intelligence Group had found a breakthrough, and Inspector Zhuang Ziwei identified Zhang Hanjun, alias Big Army, from the CCTV footage.
• Zhuang Ziwei reported that Zhang Hanjun was a former Vietnamese Marine Corps special operations soldier who had escaped military custody and later provided armed protection for the Vietnamese Gang’s smuggling operations.

Zhou Quan’s Intelligence Group identified the likely robbers as Vietnamese military veterans linked to Snakehead Bing and the Zhang brothers, and he organized a cautious operation to find them and uncover any mastermind. He left the investigation in the hands of the Security Department while ordering Wan Chai Police Station to assist and keeping communications secure.

• Zhuang Ziwei reported that Zhang Hanquan and Zhang Hanjun had escorted the Vietnamese Gang’s smuggling shipments and both brothers disappeared after the robbery.
• Lau Bo-keung reported that six robbers used military-grade weapons and operated like a special operations team, leading Zhou Quan to suspect Vietnamese special forces veterans and possible specialists behind them.
• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing’s T Squad to locate Snakehead Bing and the Zhang brothers without confronting them rashly, while Luo Danian’s Paparazzi tracked their movements.
• Zhou Quan instructed the teams to arrest the suspects immediately if they prepared another crime and ordered Wan Chai Police Station to withdraw from the investigation and assist Lok Kai-cheung’s group.
• Zhou Quan ordered the operation to use the Security Department’s internal communications system, and Luo Danian promised his Intelligence Group would manage communications.

Zhou Quan coordinated a Security Department operation to track Snakehead Bing and uncover his criminal network. Surveillance led officers to a suspected hideout in Happy Valley, where they waited for evidence of a planned violent burglary.

• Chow Sing Sing reported that Snakehead Bing had gone to sea and was expected to come ashore in Sai Kung around noon.
• Zhou Quan ordered Luo Danian's Intelligence Group to keep Snakehead Bing under surveillance and seek a lead to the other criminals.
• Zhuang Ziwei's Team One spotted Snakehead Bing landing with a man carrying a golf bag suspected of containing weapons.
• Team One followed the suspicious man to a vacant property at 6 Wong Nai Chung Road in Happy Valley.
• Zhou Quan deployed the CIB Paparazzi to watch the property and ordered Action C Group to stand by, directing officers to intervene if the suspects prepared a violent burglary.

The Security Department identified Cheng Feng, He Ju, and Rog Davis as suspects in the TNS robbery and planned to catch them preparing to rob Sumitomo Bank. Yang Jianhua asked to arrest Cheng Feng herself, but Zhou Quan denied her request because she had no law enforcement authority on Hong Kong Island.

• Lau Bo-keung briefed the officers on the suspected roles of Zhang Hanquan, He Ju, and Cheng Feng in the TNS robbery.
• Yang Jianhua learned that Cheng Feng was suspected of involvement and asked to join the operation, but Zhou Quan refused.
• Lau Bo-keung identified Rog Davis as the suspected mastermind and designer of Sumitomo Bank's vault.
• Zhou Quan ordered Ah Nin's team to keep the suspects under surveillance and directed Ah Sing and Ah Cheung to prepare their Action Groups to arrest Cheng Feng and Rog when they made their move.

The Security Department monitored Cheng Feng, Roger, and their accomplices as they began their robbery of Sumitomo Bank, while Chow Sing Sing’s forces prepared to trap them in the underground cash-in-transit transfer center. The criminals’ plan remained underway as the operation’s teams stood ready to respond to any unexpected move.

• Cheng Feng and former Vietnamese special forces soldiers disguised themselves as security-company employees and drove a cloned-plate cash-in-transit truck to Sumitomo Bank, while Roger and He Ju posed as telecommunications repairmen to cut the bank’s external communications.
• Zhou Quan, Luo Danian, Tung Biu, Yang Jianhua, and other officers watched the operation from the Security Department command room, keeping Yang Jianhua under supervision until Cheng Feng and the others were arrested.
• Zhuang Ziwei reported that Turtle No. 1 had entered the site and warned that additional foreign criminals had joined Turtle No. 2.
• Chow Sing Sing ordered Turtle No. 1 into the trap and commanded Hunter to watch Turtle No. 2 and eliminate him if anything unusual happened.
• Chow Sing Sing’s T Squad sealed the underground car-elevator exits, while Lok Kai-cheung and Hunter checked their weapons and prepared to move.

Cheng Feng and his crew were trapped in the vehicle elevator by Chow Sing Sing’s armed police team. Cheng Feng chose to surrender rather than risk his men’s lives, leaving Yang Jianhua relieved that he would survive to face trial.

• Pang Yik-hang fired a warning shot through the cash van’s windshield, and Chow Sing Sing ordered the criminals to surrender.
• Cheng Feng recognized that the men were trapped and outnumbered, and decided they should give up their weapons.
• Cheng Feng refused to alert He Ju, reasoning that the police were already watching him and a warning might put him in danger.
• Cheng Feng and his crew threw their weapons out of the van and agreed to surrender.
• Chow Sing Sing accepted their cooperation, while Yang Jianhua watched from the command room and felt relieved that Cheng Feng would live.

After Operation Catching Turtles in a Jar ended with the robbers surrendering, Zhou Quan arranged leave rotations before the Security Department’s upcoming handover security duties. A terrorist attack at the Japanese consulate then killed the consul and a police Chief Inspector, prompting the Security Department to respond to threats against Hong Kong Island.

• Cheng Feng and the robbers in Turtle No. 1 surrendered, while officers surrounded the remaining armored truck.
• Zhou Quan assigned Luo Danian to wrap up the operation and arrange leave rotations ahead of the handover security work.
• Terrorists attacked the Japanese consulate during a meeting about Yoshinaga Hideaki’s possible extradition to Japan.
• The terrorists killed the Japanese consul, took a West Kowloon Chief Inspector hostage, then shot him as they retreated in an elevator.
• The terrorists demanded Yoshinaga Hideaki’s release within twenty-four hours and threatened attacks that would endanger Hong Kong Island’s six million residents.

Zhou Quan convened the Security Department Action Group to respond to terrorists who had killed a Japanese consul and threatened Hong Kong Island. As Lau Bo-keung described the killing of Chief Inspector Lin and suspected Japanese complicity, he revealed a possible link between the terrorists’ aluminum chloride and a dangerous-driving case he handled that morning.

• Zhou Quan ordered the terrorists responsible for the Japanese consul’s killing to be dealt with within twenty-four hours.
• Lau Bo-keung recounted how four terrorists took Chief Inspector Lin hostage at the Japanese Consulate and shot him dead after a female Inspector failed to act.
• Lau Bo-keung suspected someone among the Japanese had helped the terrorists bring suppressed rifles into the consulate.
• Luo Danian identified Yoshinaga Hideaki as the leader of the Path of the Holy Multitudes, a Japanese terrorist organization that used stolen aluminum chloride to make sarin gas.
• Lau Bo-keung reported that a truck involved in a dangerous-driving incident he handled that morning had been carrying aluminum chloride.

Lau Bo-keung connected a fatal traffic collision and the disappearance of aluminum chloride to the Path of the Holy Multitudes’ terrorist activities. After confirming that Takizawa Ryūichi had killed Chief Inspector Lin, Zhou Quan ordered a high-level counterterrorism response and promised Lau a chance to avenge him.

• Lau Bo-keung forced a speeding container truck to stop, then discovered its aluminum chloride cargo had vanished and demanded a thorough investigation.
• Luo Danian reported that the Path of the Holy Multitudes stole aluminum chloride to make sarin and identified Takizawa Ryūichi as the likely leader of the consulate attackers.
• Lau Bo-keung recognized Takizawa in the photograph and confirmed that he had shot Chief Inspector Lin during the escape.
• Zhou Quan told Lau to stay calm and promised him the chance to avenge Chief Inspector Lin.
• Zhou Quan planned to classify the incident as terrorism requiring a high-level response and declared that the operation would pursue counterterrorism.

Zhou Quan organized a counterterrorism response, assigning T Group and police units to investigate the terrorists and scrutinize chemical factories. After rejecting Agent Takami, he ordered surveillance of the Japanese Consulate and made Vice Consul Narita the primary suspect in the attack.

• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to assemble T Group for the counterterrorism operation.
• Zhou Quan tasked Luo Danian with establishing the command center, investigating chemical factories, and arranging a reassessment of the female inspector from Hung Hom Police Station.
• Zhou Quan assigned Lok Kai-cheung to lead district investigations, take over Ah Sing's T Squad, and search for the Japanese suspects with Lam Wai Lok and Chiang Tin-yeung.
• Pang Yik-hang told Zhou Quan that Agent Takami wanted to see him, but Zhou Quan refused to meet the Japanese agent.
• Zhou Quan concluded that someone inside the Japanese Consulate had helped the terrorists and ordered Luo Danian to have the Paparazzi investigate everyone there, prioritizing Vice Consul Narita.

Zhou Quan’s team traced the Path of the Holy Multitudes’ sarin plot to chemical engineer Morimoto Ichirō and uncovered evidence linking acting Japanese consul Narita to the terrorists. With proof of Narita’s involvement in their entry and the consulate security changes, Zhou ordered his arrest and planned to seek diplomatic support.

• Jing Jinxian reported that Morimoto Ichirō had the expertise and resources to manufacture sarin, making him the terrorists’ likely choice.
• Luo Danian revealed that Narita had altered the Japanese Consulate’s security arrangements, allowing four terrorists to enter with concealed weapons.
• Luo Danian reported that records showed the terrorists had entered legally as consulate staff, with their permits signed by Narita.
• Zhou Quan asked whether the evidence against Narita was conclusive, and Luo Danian confirmed that records, staff statements, and video footage supported the case.
• Zhou Quan ordered Narita’s arrest and said he would seek help from Sergeant Lok, the Motherland, and the foreigners.

Zhou Quan rushed to Kowloon Bay after terrorists attacked a chemical industrial area, where he led an airborne counterterrorism response. He learned that the terrorists might have taken a Japanese chemical engineer and his young son hostage, leaving their rescue to the unfolding assault.

• Zhou Quan ordered Luo Danian to arrest Narita and told Jing Jinxian to check on the Japanese chemical engineer, Morimoto.
• Yeung Chi-lung reported that officers covering the Wang Hoi Road chemical industrial area were exchanging fire with suspected Path of the Holy Multitudes terrorists.
• Zhou Quan ordered Ah Nin to inform Lok Ming-wah, then took Chow Sing Sing and the Flying Tigers to the firefight.
• Zhou Quan arrived to find terrorists pinned down by police officers, but they remained protected by heavy weapons and vehicle cover.
• Jing Jinxian reported that Morimoto and his ten-year-old son were missing and might have been taken by the terrorists.
• Zhou Quan ordered T Group and the SDU assault team to rappel down and the snipers to provide aerial fire support, warning them that the enemy might have hostages.

Zhou Quan’s forces overwhelmed the terrorists, but Takizawa Ryūichi turned the operation into a hostage standoff by threatening a Japanese chemical engineer and his son. Zhou stayed aboard the helicopter to seek a sniper’s opening while Chow Sing Sing approached to negotiate.

• Zhou Quan ordered the helicopter snipers to open fire as Chow Sing Sing led the assault teams down to the ground.
• The Police Force’s overwhelming firepower killed terrorists and drove several survivors to surrender.
• Takizawa Ryūichi shot terrorists who tried to surrender, then used the Japanese chemical engineer and his son as hostages behind two vehicles.
• Takizawa Ryūichi demanded to see the operation’s commander, but Zhou Quan refused to give him control of the situation.
• Zhou Quan told Chow Sing Sing to handle the negotiation while he watched for a chance to shoot Takizawa Ryūichi.
• Chow Sing Sing used the riot van’s loudspeaker to identify himself as the operation’s commander and invite Takizawa Ryūichi to state his demands.

Chow Sing Sing rejected Takizawa Ryūichi’s demand for a helicopter, while Zhou Quan used Yoshinaga Hideaki to provoke him and create a chance to disarm him. The chapter left Takizawa with both arms broken as T Group and the Flying Tigers moved in to capture him alive.

• Takizawa Ryūichi demanded a helicopter and threatened to kill his two hostages, but Chow Sing Sing refused to negotiate.
• Zhou Quan told Chow Sing Sing to threaten Yoshinaga Hideaki, Takizawa’s spiritual leader and weakness.
• Chow Sing Sing threatened to break Yoshinaga’s bones, and He Wenzhan pretended to arrange for Yoshinaga to be brought to the scene.
• Takizawa Ryūichi became agitated, giving Zhou Quan an opening to shoot and break his gun arm.
• Takizawa Ryūichi lunged for his fallen handgun while holding the boy hostage, so Zhou Quan shot and broke his other arm.
• Zhou Quan ordered the assault officers to take Takizawa Ryūichi alive as T Group and the Flying Tigers rushed toward him.

Zhou Quan arrived after the firefight and took Takizawa Ryūichi alive, then handed the scene over to Lam Ke-shing’s East Kowloon Mobile Unit. Zhou Quan arranged to take Takizawa to a Police Force-affiliated hospital while his team withdrew.

• Zhou Quan confronted the wounded Takizawa Ryūichi and confirmed that he had shot through both of his arms.
• Zhou Quan mocked Takizawa, promised to deal with him and Yoshinaga Hideaki in Stanley, then knocked him unconscious.
• Lam Ke-shing arrived with East Kowloon reinforcements and exchanged greetings with Zhou Quan and the officers.
• Zhou Quan left the cleanup to Lam Ke-shing’s D Company and borrowed a riot van and an ambulance.
• Zhou Quan ordered He Wenzhan, Pang Yik-hang, and Chan Chi-kit to escort Takizawa to a Police Force-affiliated hospital, then withdrew with the rest of T Group.

Zhou Quan used scopolamine and hypnosis to interrogate the wounded Takizawa Ryūichi, learning that the Path of the Holy Multitudes planned a sarin gas attack and had help from deputy consul Narita. Takizawa Ryūichi confirmed that all the group’s other members on Hong Kong Island were dead, and Zhou Quan sent him to surgery before his eventual imprisonment at Stanley.

• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to arrange a scopolamine injection and had Luo Danian record Takizawa Ryūichi’s interrogation.
• After the drug took effect, Zhou Quan used rhythmic speech and finger-snapping to hypnotize Takizawa Ryūichi.
• Takizawa Ryūichi revealed that the Path of the Holy Multitudes planned to make five kilograms of sarin gas and threaten Hong Kong Island’s government with the lives of six million people.
• Takizawa Ryūichi identified deputy consul Narita as the man who helped the group enter Hong Kong Island and planned to flee with them afterward.
• Takizawa Ryūichi confirmed that all the other Path of the Holy Multitudes members on Hong Kong Island had been killed by the police.
• Zhou Quan broke Takizawa Ryūichi’s hypnotic state with a slap and sent Chow Sing Sing to call the doctors for surgery.

Zhou Quan reported the Path of the Holy Multitudes case to Lok Ming-wah, who praised his work and agreed to pass along his request to keep the two captured terrorists imprisoned on Hong Kong Island. Lok Ming-wah then called Kit-fai to join them for a meeting about a more important matter.

• Zhou Quan brought the completed case files to Lok Ming-wah and reported on the operation.
• Lok Ming-wah praised Zhou Quan and said he would submit the report to Number One for discussions with the Motherland.
• Lok Ming-wah reminded Zhou Quan to guard Narita, Yoshinaga Hideaki, and Takizawa Ryūichi securely.
• Zhou Quan asked for Yoshinaga Hideaki and Takizawa Ryūichi to serve their sentences on Hong Kong Island, and Lok Ming-wah agreed to convey the request to Number One.
• Lok Ming-wah called Kit-fai to join him and Zhou Quan for a meeting about a more important matter.

Lok Ming-wah met with Zhou Quan and Lau Kit-fai to assign the Security Department’s preparations for the September 27 handover agreement signing and a sweeping investigation of the Police Force. Zhou Quan and Lau Kit-fai pledged to carry out their duties as the chapter ended.

• Lok Ming-wah told Zhou Quan and Lau Kit-fai that security at the Hong Kong Island Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 27 had to be flawless.
• Zhou Quan reported that his Action Group was prepared to secure the signing, though the Path of the Holy Multitudes’ threats had disrupted his deployment plans.
• Lok Ming-wah warned Zhou Quan that a security failure could undermine the Motherland’s plans, and Zhou Quan pledged to guarantee the assignment with his life.
• Lok Ming-wah ordered Lau Kit-fai’s Administration Group to launch an internal investigation and root out corrupt officers and foreign operatives from the Police Force.
• Lau Kit-fai promised to contact the Internal Investigations Branch and begin the purge.

Zhou Quan guarded the Hong Kong Island handover ceremony negotiations while the Motherland and the foreigners contested the terms. After the talks concluded in the Motherland’s favor, Old Mr. Zhou invited Zhou Quan to ride with him and Old Mr. Wang in the Red Flag ceremonial car.

• The Motherland’s South Sea Fleet stood off against a foreign task force as the two sides negotiated the handover ceremony.
• Zhou Quan guarded the Convention and Exhibition Centre and oversaw security preparations across Hong Kong Island.
• The delegations concluded their talks, and Zhou Quan saw the Motherland’s delegation off as they prepared to return to the Xinhua News Agency Building.
• Zhou Quan helped Old Mr. Zhou and Old Mr. Wang into the Red Flag CA772.
• Old Mr. Zhou invited Zhou Quan to ride with them.

Zhou Quan met with Old Mr. Zhou and Old Mr. Wang after the negotiations, and they praised his contribution to the Motherland’s success. Old Mr. Zhou explained that Zhou Quan’s leverage over the foreign garrison helped secure a sweeping victory, including the Hong Kong Garrison taking over defense six hours before the handover.

• Old Mr. Zhou and Old Mr. Wang invited Zhou Quan into their ceremonial car and put him at ease.
• Old Mr. Wang praised Zhou Quan’s contributions, including his role in the Political Department’s dissolution and gaining leverage over the foreign garrison.
• Zhou Quan humbly credited the negotiations’ success to the Motherland’s strength and the delegation’s work.
• Old Mr. Wang affirmed that Hong Kong Island and its people were part of the Motherland and insisted Zhou Quan deserved credit.
• Old Mr. Zhou explained that Zhou Quan’s leverage over the foreign garrison helped the delegation win the dispute over the Hong Kong Garrison’s handover.
• Old Mr. Zhou said the Hong Kong Garrison would take over Hong Kong Island’s defense six hours before its return.