Recaps

Zhou Quan and Chow Sing Sing watched T Group question suspects linked to Xinglong’s drug network as Yim Sai Kau prepared to use coercive methods. After Guan Zu ordered the interrogation-room CCTV and audio switched off, He Wenzhan beat Chan Chi-kit while Ke Nan Zhi refused to speak without a lawyer.

• Zhou Quan and Chow Sing Sing went to the Observation Room to watch He Wenzhan interrogate Yim Sai Kau, the central figure in Xinglong’s drug crimes.
• Yim Sai Kau and the officers prepared to pressure Ke Nan Zhi, while Ke Nan Zhi insisted that he would say nothing until his lawyer arrived.
• Yim Sai Kau ordered He Wenzhan to turn off the CCTV, and Guan Zu directed the officers to cut the surveillance footage and audio.
• He Wenzhan punched the handcuffed Chan Chi-kit in the abdomen, prompting Chan Chi-kit to accuse the officers of torture and threaten to sue.

Yim Sai Kau’s interrogation of Wei Xingguang exposed a Golden Triangle drug network backed by He Wenzhan, while He Wenzhan intimidated Yim Sai Kau in another room. After enduring several torture methods, Wei Xingguang finally broke down and revealed the people behind his drug operation.

• He Wenzhan dismissed Yim Sai Kau’s threat and offered him a choice of interrogation methods, while Yim Sai Kau remained calm and waited for the results.
• Yim Sai Kau’s team tortured Wei Xingguang, who resisted Water Torture and Judicial Coffee before eventually confessing.
• Wei Xingguang admitted that he had joined forces with He Wenzhan to open Hong Kong Island’s drug market and take control of the Xinglong Group.
• Wei Xingguang identified Bobby Gor, a Golden Triangle drug broker, as his contact and said Bobby’s connections had introduced Liao Xiabiao to He Wenzhan’s godson, Wei Shali.
• Yim Sai Kau reported to Zhou Quan that He Wenzhan was the major drug lord behind Wei Xingguang.

Zhou Quan directed the Security Department to monitor Hong Kong Island’s triads and prepare for Golden Triangle drug traffickers, while acknowledging that his authority could not reach beyond the territory. With the Xinglong Group case concluded, he turned back to his wedding preparations with Au Wing-yan.

• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to have Lam Wai Lok, Chiang Tin-yeung, and others watch Golden Triangle drug-trafficking forces and warned them to break any traffickers’ foothold on Hong Kong Island.
• Chow Sing Sing, He Wenzhan, and Luo Danian saluted and left to carry out Zhou Quan’s instructions.
• The Security Department prepared to transfer Yim Sai-sei, Yim Kwok-keui, and other Xinglong Group suspects to the Mainland for trial.
• Zhou Quan and Au Wing-yan continued preparing their new home and upcoming wedding.

Zhou Quan and Au Wing-yan celebrated their wedding on October 1, after watching the Hong Kong Garrison’s first military parade since Hong Kong’s return to the Motherland. The next morning, they visited the Security Department to share wedding sweets with Zhou Quan’s men and received congratulations and gifts from their colleagues and guests.

• Zhou Quan attended the Hong Kong Garrison’s military parade before marrying Au Wing-yan in an evening ceremony at Lee Garden.
• Prominent guests and representatives attended the wedding, while Zhou Quan and Au Wing-yan toasted them and celebrated until nearly midnight.
• Deputy Director Ju brought Zhou Quan two wedding gifts, one from the Motherland and another entrusted by his grandfather.
• The next morning, Zhou Quan and Au Wing-yan served tea to their elders and went to Police Headquarters together.
• Guo Huanqing and the Action Group welcomed the newlyweds with party poppers and confetti, then received wedding sweets.

Chow Sing Sing and He Wenzhan each asked Zhou Quan for money, prompting him to question their urgent requests. He learned they needed funds for a former Flying Tigers subordinate’s surgery and gave them checks for seven million Hong Kong dollars each.

• Chow Sing Sing prepared for his wedding, and Zhou Quan gave him time off to focus on it.
• He Wenzhan rushed to Zhou Quan’s office to ask for a loan, but Chow Sing Sing arrived with the same request.
• Zhou Quan asked the two men why they needed money and learned that He Wenzhan’s former subordinate had suffered a spinal nerve injury and needed treatment abroad.
• He Wenzhan and Chow Sing Sing asked for seven million Hong Kong dollars each to cover the surgery.
• Zhou Quan wrote both checks, then angrily asked why they had to raise money themselves to treat a wounded subordinate.

Ah Hao learned that undercover officer Zhou Quan had been injured, dismissed, and left without adequate medical support, and he grew furious at the Police Force’s Welfare Division and the officers responsible. He went to investigate the case at the hospital, determined to protect his men and demand accountability.

• Chow Sing Sing told Ah Hao that Zhou Quan had been injured during an undercover operation and transferred from Central to Saint Mary Church Hospital after leaving danger.
• Chow Sing Sing explained that Zhou Quan’s superior was questioning Qiu Zhong’s integrity because Zhou had lost contact and later taken part in criminal activity.
• Ah Hao condemned the Welfare Division for failing to support an injured frontline officer and declared that such neglect endangered the Police Force’s men.
• Ah Hao handed checks to He Wenzhan and Chow Sing Sing, then ordered Ah Sing to bring Ah Kwan and two men to the hospital to investigate.

Ah Dong and the Security Department officers went to Saint Mary Church Hospital, angry that the Police Force had abandoned their injured brother and determined to help him. They chose the stairs to reach his ward, where they heard another brother declaring his support.

• Ah Dong led four Security Department officers into the hospital to visit Zhou Quan, who was in a wheelchair and might walk again with the best treatment.
• Ah Hao said he would resign from the Major Crimes Unit and find a way to raise treatment funds, while deciding not to tell Ah Kam because Ah Kam had already mortgaged his marital home to help.
• Sergeant Ah Hui, Sergeant Ah Kei, and Dai Hong pledged to stand by their brother, and Ah Dong ordered the group to take the stairs rather than wait for the crowded elevators.
• Dai Hong led the officers up to the seventh-floor stairwell, where a voice declaring unwavering support caught his attention.

Ching Tung and Kwan Man Chin stopped Zhou Quan and the other seven former Flying Tigers from resigning and turning to crime to pay for Ah Hao’s medical expenses. They ordered the brothers transferred into the Security Department and sent them to Ah Hao’s ward, promising to help.

• Ching Tung and the other two former Flying Tigers agreed that Zhou Quan and the seven brothers should not be left to face their financial crisis alone.
• Ching Tung confronted Zhou Quan and the others, angrily asking why they had not gone to their superiors for help.
• Ching Tung told the eight men to wait downstairs while he and his companions went to discuss the matter elsewhere.
• Kwan Man Chin arrived with Security Department officers and ordered Zhou Quan and the others to report their current postings.
• Kwan Man Chin ordered the seven brothers transferred into the Security Department and told them to go to Ah Hao’s ward before returning to their posts.

Ching Tung brought Sir Kwan and other Security Department officers to visit Zhou Quan, whose dismissal and injury had left him despairing. They provided two checks totaling ten million Hong Kong dollars for his treatment and promised to investigate his case, leaving Zhou Quan overwhelmed with hope and emotion.

• Ching Tung led Zhou Quan and the officers to Ah Hao’s ward, where Zhou Quan and Ah Kam recognized their former commanding officers.
• Ching Tung told Zhou Quan that he and the others knew about his situation, and Ah Hao and Ah Kam comforted him as he broke down crying.
• He Wenzhan and Min Yanshu gave Zhou Quan two checks totaling ten million Hong Kong dollars for his treatment.
• Ching Tung stopped Min Yan from speaking for Zhou Quan and asked him to explain his dismissal from Central Police Station himself.
• Min Yan began recounting how his superior had avoided responsibility and the station had dismissed Zhou Quan, while Ching Tung promised to address the matter.

Chong Ka-ho recounted his undercover assignment, the ambush that left him gravely wounded, and his dismissal by Central Police Station. Zhou Quan identified two possible explanations for his superior’s failure to respond and ordered an investigation to determine which was true.

• Chong Ka-ho formally reported how he infiltrated an underground money house, discovered a counterfeit-banknote trade, and tried to contact his superior, Chow Sing Sing.
• Chong Ka-ho said criminals suspected his identity, shot him, and that he was dismissed after waking from his injuries.
• Ching Tung added that Chief Inspector Xiong Ying claimed her phone had been reachable, while Chief Inspector Qiu Baicheng said his phone had been damaged in a car accident.
• Zhou Quan considered whether Chong Ka-ho’s superior had abandoned him or was compromised by the money houses.
• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to call the Intelligence Group so they could investigate.

Zhou Quan ordered Luo Da to investigate Qiu Baicheng after Chong Ka-ho supplied Qiu’s emergency contact number. The inquiry uncovered Qiu’s drinking and an unanswered call, while Luo Da prepared to target the underground banks linked to Chong Ka-ho’s injury.

• Zhou Quan told Luo Da to investigate Qiu Baicheng’s background and establish where he had been around 1:30 in the morning five days earlier and whether his phone was on.
• Chong Ka-ho gave Zhou Quan Qiu Baicheng’s phone number, and the telecommunications company reported that the number had been operating normally.
• The Security Department found that Qiu Baicheng had been drinking at a Causeway Bay bar seven days earlier and was too drunk to answer an unregistered call; investigators otherwise described him as fairly clean.
• Luo Da ordered Qiu Baicheng’s personnel file transferred to the Security Department and directed that an operation against the two underground banks be prepared.
• Zhou Quan told Luo Da to coordinate the next operation with Chow Sing Sing, while Chow Sing Sing took Ching Tung and the others back to headquarters.

Zhou Quan mobilized the Security Department against two underground banks and sought to delay Chong Ka-ho’s dismissal while he recovered from his injuries. The chapter ended with Zhou Quan heading to Central Police Station to address both matters.

• Zhou Quan ordered the Security Department to prepare an operation against two underground banks, with Lau Kit-fai and He Wenzhan returning to Tai Kwun to organize it.
• Zhou Quan called Kwan Man Chin and asked him to hold back Chong Ka-ho’s dismissal document, and Kwan agreed it would not clear review within a week.
• Zhou Quan reassured the injured Chong Ka-ho and promised to give him an answer, while Zhen Huanshi also offered words of comfort.
• Zhou Quan asked Kwan Man Chin to summon Liu Baoruo and his men to Central Police Station, then went there with Chow Sing Sing and Chung Kam-ming.

Zhou Quan arrived at Central Police Station with Kwan Man Chin, Chung Kam-ming, and Lau Bo-keung’s Administration Group to hold the station’s senior leadership accountable. After Central District Commander Lam Yin welcomed him, Zhou learned that Tsang Heung-wing was waiting upstairs and went to meet him.

• Zhou Quan and his companions met Lam Yin and other senior officers in Central Police Station’s lobby.
• Lam Yin welcomed Zhou and the chapter described the Security Department’s broad authority and Zhou’s growing standing in the Police Force.
• Zhou asked whether Tsang Heung-wing was at the station, explaining that he wanted to pay his respects before addressing the leadership.
• Lam Yin said Tsang was waiting in the reception room, and Zhou headed upstairs with the senior officers.

Zhou Quan confronted Tsang Heung-wing over Central Police Station’s dismissal of Chong Ka-ho, an undercover officer disabled in the line of duty. After hearing the Security Department’s findings, Tsang Heung-wing vowed to investigate the station’s senior officers and send the Chief Inspector involved to Tai Kwun for disciplinary action.

• Tsang Heung-wing warmly received Zhou Quan and the Security Department delegation at Central Police Station.
• Zhou Quan dismissed both sides’ personnel so he could privately explain why he had come.
• Zhou Quan told Tsang Heung-wing that Central Police Station had dismissed Chong Ka-ho after he was disabled during an undercover assignment.
• Zhou Quan said the investigation found that Chong Ka-ho’s condition resulted from his superior’s dereliction of duty and the inaction of station leaders.
• Tsang Heung-wing condemned the treatment of Chong Ka-ho and ordered the Major Crimes Unit Chief Inspector involved to report to Tai Kwun for investigation, while launching an internal inquiry into Central Police Station.

Zhou Quan and Tsang Heung-wing agreed on disciplinary action over Chong Ka-ho’s mistreatment, with the Chief Inspector facing Security Department investigation and Central Police Station’s management handled internally. Zhou Quan left for Tai Kwun as Tsang turned to confront his subordinates.

• Zhou Quan accepted Tsang Heung-wing’s plan to investigate Central Police Station internally and limit the senior officers’ punishments to reprimands and stalled promotions or raises.
• Tsang Heung-wing said he would have Chong Ka-ho’s dismissal report reviewed and Hong Kong Island Regional Headquarters cover his medical expenses.
• Zhou Quan told Tsang Heung-wing that Chong Ka-ho’s dismissal paperwork had been put on hold and that he was recovering at Saint Mary Church Hospital.
• Zhou Quan, Kwan Man Chin, and Chung Kam-ming left Central Police Station for Tai Kwun while Lau Bo-keung and the Administration Group stayed to take the Chief Inspector for investigation.
• Tsang Heung-wing angrily ordered his subordinates upstairs as Zhou Quan departed.

After resolving Chong Ka-ho’s case, Zhou Quan met with Interpol Asia-Pacific chief Chan Fong, who requested Hong Kong’s cooperation in a multinational operation against a Gulf Gang drug shipment. Zhou Quan withheld his decision and asked to review the intelligence first.

• Zhou Quan arranged for Chong Ka-ho to receive treatment and promised him a suitable Police Force role after assessing his recovery.
• Zhou Quan assigned He Wenzhan and Lau Bo-keung to handle the underground banks and the negligent Chief Inspector.
• Kung Ka-pui told Zhou Quan that Interpol Asia-Pacific chief Chan Fong was waiting to see him.
• Chan Fong asked Zhou Quan to join an operation with Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan against a Gulf Gang shipment from the Silver Triangle.
• Zhou Quan told Chan Fong he needed to review the specific intelligence before deciding.

Zhou Quan reviewed Interpol's Operation Vulture proposal and recognized that Chen Fang resembled the supposedly dead drug lord Chen Guang. He concluded that Chen Fang had faked his death and was using his Interpol position to undermine rival drug producers' plans to replace heroin with newer drugs.

• Chen Fang presented Zhou Quan with Interpol's intelligence and plans for Operation Vulture, an international campaign against the Gulf Gang's drug trafficking.
• Zhou Quan read the proposed operation and memorized its details while remaining wary of Chen Fang and Interpol's intelligence.
• Zhou Quan connected Chen Fang's appearance to police records of Chen Guang, a drug distributor believed to have died in a bombing six years earlier.
• Zhou Quan concluded that Chen Fang was Chen Guang, who had faked his death and now used Operation Vulture to disrupt the Golden Triangle and Silver Triangle's plans to develop new drugs.

Zhou Quan agreed to consider Interpol’s Hong Kong-Taiwan-Japan-South Korea anti-drug operation while planning to use it to strengthen the Hong Kong Island Police Force and expose Chan Fong. He assigned He Wenzhan to lead the operation and ordered Luo Danian to keep Chan Fong under constant surveillance.

• Zhou Quan politely sent Chan Fong away and called an immediate management meeting.
• Zhou Quan reassigned the operation against the two underground banks that had crippled Chong Ka-ho from He Wenzhan to Lok Kai-cheung.
• Zhou Quan told the officers that Chan Fong had organized a joint operation targeting the Colombian Drug Cartel’s Gulf Gang in the Silver Triangle.
• Zhou Quan put He Wenzhan in charge of forming an elite action group and authorized him to draw on the T Squad except for Chan Wing Yan and Lau Bo-keung.
• Zhou Quan ordered Luo Danian to support He Wenzhan and monitor Chan Fong’s movements, destinations, and contacts.

After the joint anti-drug operation succeeded, Zhou Quan learned that the Golden Triangle and Silver Triangle had hired the Lion Killer Organization to assassinate the operation’s leaders. With He Wenzhan among the targets, Zhou Quan arranged heightened protection for him.

• Interpol’s joint operation seized drugs and arrested traffickers, and the participating police departments received commendations.
• Luo Danian reported that the Golden Triangle and Silver Triangle had placed a bounty on the operation’s leaders and that the Lion Killer Organization had taken the contract.
• Luo Danian said the leaders from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea had already been assassinated, while He Wenzhan and Wong Mui-gwai were also targets.
• Zhou Quan authorized He Wenzhan to collect additional weapons and ordered Chan Wing Yan to assign a G4 team to guard him around the clock.
• He Wenzhan and Chan Wing Yan assured Zhou Quan that they would remain alert and arrange the protection detail.

Zhou Quan ordered the Security Department and Hong Kong Island’s societies to hunt down the Lion assassin organization, which had returned to the island to pursue a bounty. He put Chow Sing Sing in charge and insisted that Situ Guang be captured alive so he could use evidence against Chan Fong.

• Luo Danian reported that Lion was led by Situ Guang, who had four elite assassins and a group of gunmen under him.
• Zhou Quan explained that Lion had left Hong Kong Island after he brought the Triads under his control, but had returned because of a large underworld bounty.
• Zhou Quan told Chow Sing Sing to contact Ah Lok and Xiao Jiang and mobilize the societies against any assassins entering the island.
• Chow Sing Sing vowed to eliminate the assassins, while Zhou Quan ordered him to capture Situ Guang alive because of his ties to Chan Fong.
• Zhou Quan put Chow Sing Sing in command and advised him to keep an eye on Interpol specialist Wong Mui-gwai, while leaving her protection largely to Interpol.

Zhou Quan received word from Lam Wai Lok that Situ Guang had entered Hong Kong Island and Wo Sing Wo had located his subordinate Antelope. The discovery gave Chow Sing Sing a lead for the operation against the Lion assassin organization, and Zhou Quan ordered him to begin.

• Zhou Quan was interrupted as he prepared to end the Security Department meeting by a call from Lam Wai Lok.
• Lam Wai Lok told Zhou Quan that Wo Sing Wo had found traces of Situ Guang, who had slipped into Hong Kong Island, and had Antelope under surveillance.
• Zhou Quan passed the phone to Chow Sing Sing, who learned that Tan Huanxi was leading Wo Sing Wo's team watching Antelope.
• Zhou Quan thanked Lam Wai Lok, ended the call, and ordered Chow Sing Sing to begin the operation.

Chow Sing Sing led a Security Department team to arrest Antelope before he could assassinate Wong Mui-gwai near the Interpol Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau. Antelope was surrounded and ordered to raise his hands, leaving his surrender unresolved.

• Zhou Quan trusted Tan Huanxi’s report that Antelope was preparing an attack near the flower shop.
• Chow Sing Sing assembled an elite T Group team and headed to Tan Huanxi’s location while He Wenzhan handled a separate assignment.
• Tan Huanxi identified Antelope’s dark gray Mazda parked opposite Floral Language Flower Shop.
• Chow Sing Sing ordered the team to trap the Mazda and arrest Antelope alive.
• Security Department officers surrounded Antelope’s car as he assembled a single-shot rifle to target Wong Mui-gwai.
• Chow Sing Sing ordered Antelope to raise both hands immediately.

Chow Sing Sing’s team arrested Antelope, but the operation was interrupted when Wong Mui-gwai and her companions approached the convoy. A routine search uncovered a handgun on the unknown man, and Guan Zu held him at gunpoint.

• Chow Sing Sing ordered Yeung Kam Wing and the officers to pull Antelope from the Mazda and handcuff him.
• Wong Mui-gwai, Bai Lan, and an unfamiliar man approached the convoy, prompting Yeung Kam Wing to order a search.
• Female officers checked Wong Mui-gwai and Bai Lan while Guan Zu searched the man.
• Guan Zu found a Beretta M9 at the man’s waist, aimed his submachine gun at him, and ordered him to raise his hands and squat.

Guan Zu detained Zhou Hong after discovering he was carrying an unauthorized firearm, despite claiming to be an FBI agent. He also brought Yellow Rose and Bai Lan in for questioning, then reported the situation handled and prepared to return with Chow Sing Sing and Yeung Kam Wing.

• Guan Zu ordered officers to surround Zhou Hong after noticing his firearm, and Zhou Hong identified himself as an FBI agent.
• Guan Zu had Zhou Hong disarmed, his credentials examined, and him taken to Tai Kwun for identity verification and questioning.
• Guan Zu ordered Yellow Rose and Bai Lan to accompany the officers to the Security Department for questioning.
• After senior female officers took the sisters into a vehicle, Guan Zu reported to Chow Sing Sing and Yeung Kam Wing that the situation had been handled.
• Chow Sing Sing praised Guan Zu and told the group to head back.

Zhou Quan and Chow Sing Sing observed Yeung Kam Wing and Guan Zu interrogate Antelope while Superintendent Kung Ka-pui reported that Zhou Hong was an FBI agent. Zhou Quan ordered Zhou Hong prosecuted under Hong Kong law and the FBI formally asked to explain its unauthorized cross-border operation.

• Yeung Kam Wing and Guan Zu interrogated Antelope as Zhou Quan, Chow Sing Sing, and Kung Ka-pui watched from the observation room.
• Kung Ka-pui reported that Zhou Hong’s FBI credentials were genuine and that he was the bureau’s only ethnically Chinese agent.
• Zhou Quan said Zhou Hong was not a Chinese national and ordered the Department of Justice to prosecute him for illegal possession of a weapon.
• Zhou Quan ordered a formal letter sent to the FBI demanding an explanation, while allowing it to seek Zhou Hong’s extradition or leave him to serve prison time.