Recaps

Zhou Quan got Cheung Chi-keung to agree to cooperate against MI5 operative George and arranged protection for him. He then sent Chan Kwok-wah to find Wo Hing Shing’s elders, seeking the Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register for his plans.

• Cheung Chi-keung revealed George’s role in helping him rise within Wo Hing Shing and agreed to cooperate with Zhou Quan, while asking for protection from George.
• Zhou Quan said Cheung Chi-keung only needed to appear before opposing sides at the right time, and explained that he needed Wo Hing Shing’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register to carry out his larger plan against the Political Department.
• Zhou Quan ordered Gei Siu-kwan to return Cheung Chi-keung to the Detention Room and post at least five officers there around the clock to guard him.
• After Gei Siu-kwan left, Zhou Quan ordered Chan Kwok-wah to find Chan Fung-cheung and arrange a meeting with Wo Hing Shing’s elders at Be Proud Restaurant that evening.
• Zhou Quan told Chan Kwok-wah to bring Ah Sing, Chun, and Zhi-jie, and said he would try courtesy before force to obtain the Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register.

Zhou Quan met Wo Hing Shing’s elders at the Be Proud Restaurant and demanded the society’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register. He accused Zhuo Yunbiao of knowing the secret hidden in the staff and warned that Wo Hing Shing could not protect it.

• Zhou Quan arrived at the Be Proud Restaurant with Chow Sing Sing, Chan Kwok-wah, and the other officers, where he greeted Zhuo Yunbiao and Wo Hing Shing’s elders.
• Zhou Quan led his men into the private room, assigned Lau Bo-keung and the others to a second table, and sat opposite Zhuo Yunbiao.
• Zhou Quan told Zhuo Yunbiao that he wanted Wo Hing Shing’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register.
• Zhuo Yunbiao objected that the items represented Wo Hing Shing’s loyalty and righteousness, but Zhou Quan interrupted him.
• Zhou Quan said Zhuo Yunbiao knew the secret inside the Dragon Head Staff and accused him of using the Police Force to handle the foreign threat while protecting his family.

Zhou Quan pressured Zhuo Yunbiao to hand over Wo Hing Shing’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register, revealing that foreign agencies were also pursuing them. Zhuo Yunbiao relented to protect Whitehead’s family, and Zhou Quan sent Chow Sing Sing to escort Whitehead and secure the items.

• Zhou Quan made clear that he knew a document hidden in the Dragon Head Staff implicated Zhuo Yunbiao’s ancestors in a national scandal.
• Zhou Quan revealed that Cheung Chi-keung was staying with him and that the Political Department and MI5 wanted to take him, leading Zhuo Yunbiao to realize powerful outsiders were after Wo Hing Shing’s regalia.
• Zhou Quan asked Xu Jinquan, or Whitehead, to consider the danger to his family if he refused to cooperate.
• Whitehead appealed to Zhuo Yunbiao, who ordered him to hand the Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register to Sergeant Zhou.
• Zhou Quan ordered Chow Sing Sing to accompany Whitehead and ensure both items reached him safely.

Zhou Quan secured Wo Hing Shing’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register, then had Zhuo Yunbiao open the staff and hand over its hidden document. After the gathering, Zhou opened the wooden tube and confirmed the parchment’s authenticity from a foreign noble family’s seal.

• Chow Sing Sing escorted Whitehead and four officers as they retrieved Wo Hing Shing’s Dragon Head Staff and Haidi Register.
• Zhou Quan examined the Haidi Register, then asked Zhuo Yunbiao to open the Dragon Head Staff.
• Zhuo Yunbiao sawed through the staff’s outer casing and gave Zhou Quan the wooden tube containing the document.
• Zhou Quan promised Wo Hing Shing room to operate in his jurisdiction if it survived the document’s revelations and followed his rules.
• Zhou Quan paid for the hot pot and left the gathering with the document.
• Zhou Quan opened the wooden tube in his car and confirmed the parchment was authentic by its foreign noble family seal.

Zhou Quan brought a document exposing the Foreigners’ seizure of Kowloon Island to Lee Shu-tong and Wong Bing Yiu, explaining that the Political Department and MI5 wanted it. After the family weighed the risks of keeping or surrendering it, Zhou Quan proposed sending it to the Xinhua News Agency.

• Zhou Quan called Lee Man-bun and arranged to go to Lee Garden, then picked up Wong Bing Yiu.
• Wong Bing Yiu read the document and agreed with Zhou Quan that it must not fall into the Foreigners’ hands.
• Zhou Quan and Wong Bing Yiu presented the document to Lee Shu-tong and Lee Man-bun in the study.
• Lee Shu-tong asked Zhou Quan what he planned to do with the document.
• Zhou Quan proposed sending the document to the Xinhua News Agency on Queen's Road East.

Zhou Quan persuaded the Lee family to give a dangerous document to the Motherland, and Old Master Lee Shu-tong arranged a late-night meeting with a senior Xinhua News Agency official. As Zhou Quan drove the family to the official’s residence, he recognized the two people waiting outside and trembled at the wheel.

• Zhou Quan suggested handing the document to the Motherland, and Old Master Lee Shu-tong approved the plan.
• Old Master Lee Shu-tong called Comrade Zhou, explained the document’s importance, and arranged to meet him at his residence.
• Old Master Lee Shu-tong told Lee Man-bun to ready the car and invited Wong Bing Yiu and Zhou Quan to accompany him.
• Zhou Quan drove the family to the Xinhua News Agency’s residential building after they passed several security checks.
• Zhou Quan recognized two figures waiting outside and trembled as the car approached.

Zhou Quan and Lee Shu-tong brought a document exposing the Foreigners’ secret collusion with Hong Kong Island’s Triads to Old Mr. Zhou. After reading it, Old Mr. Zhou revealed that Zhou Quan’s father, Zhou Hua, had been his nephew, leaving Zhou Quan stunned by his family’s hidden ties.

• Lee Shu-tong hurried out to greet Old Mr. Zhou, who welcomed him and brought the group upstairs.
• At Old Mr. Zhou’s request, Zhou Quan explained how he had found a document about the Foreigners’ collusion with Wo Hing Shing and presented it alongside the Haidi Register.
• Lee Shu-tong explained that Zhou Quan had urged him to bring the documents to the Xinhua News Agency, and Old Mr. Zhou approved of Zhou Quan’s actions.
• Old Mr. Zhou read the documents, then told Zhou Quan to call him Eldest Grandfather and revealed that Zhou Hua had been his nephew.
• Zhou Quan was shaken to learn that his late father had belonged to Old Mr. Zhou’s family.

Zhou Quan learned that his late father had served the Motherland within the Hong Kong Island Police Force, then impressed Old Master Zhou by declaring his commitment to serve the people. After Cheung Chi-keung was sentenced to fifteen years, Zhou arranged for Pang Yik-hang and Chan Chi-kit to protect him in Stanley Prison.

• Zhou Quan learned that his late father had been one of the Motherland’s people planted within the Hong Kong Island Police Force.
• Zhou Quan saluted Old Master Zhou and declared, “Serve the people!”, earning the old man’s praise.
• Zhou Quan and Wong Bing Yiu stayed at Lee Garden, then returned to West Kowloon Police Headquarters the next morning.
• Cheung Chi-keung received a fifteen-year prison sentence, and Zhou Quan followed his prison van to Stanley Prison with two Anti-Triad Unit teams.
• Zhou Quan told Pang Yik-hang and Chan Chi-kit to protect Cheung Chi-keung inside Stanley and promised to recommend them for promotion.

Zhou Quan arranged for Chan Chi-kit and Pang Yik-hang to prepare for their transfer into Stanley Prison, then visited the prison to coordinate with Prison Governor Law. He met Chung Chor-hung, who tried to ingratiate himself, while Law arrived and sent him away.

• Zhou Quan assigned Chan Chi-kit and Pang Yik-hang to return to West Kowloon Headquarters and prepare to enter Stanley Prison.
• Zhou Quan entered Stanley Prison, where Chung Chor-hung welcomed him and escorted him to the Prison Governor's office.
• Chung Chor-hung brought out tea and cigars while Zhou Quan waited for Prison Governor Law.
• Prison Governor Law arrived, greeted Zhou Quan, and glared at Chung Chor-hung for using his prized supplies.
• Chung Chor-hung left after Law ordered him to inspect the cells, having made sure Zhou Quan would recognize him.

Zhou Quan met Prison Governor Law to arrange close protection for Cheung Chi-keung at Stanley Prison. Law agreed to provide two armed officers and secured Zhou’s promise to recommend Chung Chor-hung for a commendation after the assignment.

• Prison Governor Law hinted that he wanted Zhou Quan to help transfer Chung Chor-hung out of Stanley Prison, and Zhou said there would be an opportunity if Chung proved himself.
• Law told Zhou that Chung managed Law Ting-fat and would be placed in charge of Cheung Chi-keung.
• Zhou asked Law to arrange for two officers to watch Cheung Chi-keung because his remaining crimes still needed investigation and someone might try to silence him.
• Law agreed to approve the officers’ assignment and find a way for them to carry firearms around the clock.
• Law offered to have Chung cooperate with the two officers, and Zhou promised to submit a commendation recommendation for Chung after the assignment.

After Zhou Quan crushed rival triads’ attempts to enter West Kowloon, the district settled into an orderly balance that benefited the obedient leaders. His quiet routine ended when Lam Wai Lok called with news that the Asian Ice Queen had appeared.

• With Lian Ho-lung, Lee Kin-kun, and Cheung Chi-keung arrested, West Kowloon’s crime rate fell and its triads followed Zhou Quan’s rules.
• Zhou Quan divided the Mong Kok and Shek Kip Mei territories among the surviving leaders, rewarding Lam Wai Lok, Kam Tsz Tai, and Fa Fut most heavily.
• Zhou Quan blocked outside triads from entering West Kowloon, and the Anti-Triad Unit detained groups of more than five established outsiders for forty-eight hours.
• As public order improved, Zhou Quan spent his free time training his First Disciple and growing closer to Au Wing-yan while waiting for news about the document.
• Lam Wai Lok called Zhou Quan to report that the Asian Ice Queen had appeared, and Zhou Quan thanked him for the information.

After learning that the Asian Ice Queen had hidden herself on Guanghua Street in Mong Kok, Zhou Quan organized an urgent arrest operation and armed his Anti-Triad officers for a possible firefight. He left headquarters as Gei Siu-kwan’s B Group prepared to deploy, with several other police units mobilized as backup.

• Lok Chiu informed Zhou Quan that the Asian Ice Queen was active in West Kowloon, and Zhou Quan called officers to mobilize against her on Guanghua Street.
• Zhou Quan ordered the Mong Kok Anti-Triad Unit to assemble near Rui Fu Building and called Chow Sing Sing’s Yau Tsim unit for backup.
• Zhou Quan requested support from the Mobile Unit and Flying Tigers, whose assault and sniper teams set out from Fanling.
• Gei Siu-kwan reported that B Group was fully assembled, while Chan Kwok-wah and Miu Chi-shun’s groups were short of personnel.
• Zhou Quan ordered Gei Siu-kwan’s officers to draw shotguns, submachine guns, and Glocks from the Gun Room, then left his office.

Zhou Quan coordinated a police operation to capture the Asian Ice Queen, but a plainclothes team—apparently from Customs—interfered and triggered a shootout. He launched a full assault on Rui Fu Building and headed downstairs to assess the chaos.

• Zhou Quan used a finance company office as his command post and ordered multiple police units to surround the flat where the Asian Ice Queen was hiding.
• Ling Jing reported that an unfamiliar plainclothes team had detained a man and entered Rui Fu Building.
• Zhou Quan ordered his officers to hold position while he tried to determine whether the plainclothes team was targeting the Asian Ice Queen.
• After learning the team was preparing to breach the flat, Zhou Quan changed plans, sounded the sirens, and ordered a frontal assault and a full-building cordon.
• The plainclothes officers were pinned down by AK-47 fire after breaching the flat, and Zhou Quan called Kwan Man Chin to request backup before heading to the scene.

Zhou Quan’s raid on the Furui Building ended with the Asian Ice Queen captured, though the officers had not yet found the drugs. When Customs Inspector Kwan Ka-wai demanded custody of the prisoner, Zhou ordered He Wenzhan to slap her.

• The Flying Tigers stormed the Furui Building, killing or capturing the armed traffickers, while Ling Jing shot a fleeing suspect in the thigh.
• Chow Sing Sing and Gei Siu-kwan escorted the unharmed Asian Ice Queen toward Zhou Quan as Kwan Ka-wai insisted Customs should take the prisoner.
• He Wenzhan stepped between Kwan Ka-wai and Zhou Quan when she approached them, and she identified herself as the Customs inspector handling the case.
• Zhou Quan told He Wenzhan to calm Kwan Ka-wai down and knock sense into her, so He slapped her twice before returning to his place behind Zhou.

Zhou Quan reprimanded Kwan Ka-wai for recklessly leading Customs officers into a gunfight, then ordered his team to treat the wounded, interrogate the suspects, and finish the operation. The botched raid drew the attention of senior police and Customs officials as well as the media.

• Zhou Quan slapped Kwan Ka-wai and rebuked her for risking her team’s lives, then ordered her to leave.
• Chow Sing Sing told Zhou Quan that PTU officers were giving emergency treatment to the three Customs plainclothes officers, one dead and two seriously wounded.
• Zhou Quan ordered Gei Siu-kwan to take Kwan Ka-wai to Headquarters for interrogation with Inspector Chan and directed Chow Sing Sing to question the captured drug traffickers.
• The officers divided up the remaining work, while Kwan Man Chin joined Zhou Quan and accompanied him upstairs to the firefight scene.
• The delay and casualties drew reporters to the scene, and senior Police Force and Customs officials sent people to assess the operation.

After Customs Superintendent Yim Hoi-tai challenged Zhou Quan over his treatment of Kwan Ka-wai, he rebuked both women for their role in the operation and the casualties. Zhou Quan then handed the scene’s aftermath to Cheng Chung-yan and brought Chief Inspector Lau Kit-fai along to assist with the Asian Ice Queen’s drug shipment.

• Cheng Chung-yan, Yim Hoi-tai, and Lau Kit-fai arrived at the operation site as reporters gathered outside.
• Yim Hoi-tai confronted Zhou Quan on Kwan Ka-wai’s behalf, but Zhou demanded that she find out what Kwan had done and warned them to answer for the casualties and face the press.
• Yim Hoi-tai took Kwan Ka-wai outside, while Zhou Quan greeted Cheng Chung-yan and asked to leave the aftermath in his hands.
• Cheng Chung-yan agreed that Zhou Quan could continue his work, and they exchanged farewells.
• Zhou Quan invited Lau Kit-fai to help with the Asian Ice Queen’s drug case, and Lau agreed.

After learning the Asian Ice Queen had brought four tonnes of meth into Hong Kong and maintained secret bases across several districts, Zhou Quan organized a joint operation with support from Headquarters. He remained at West Kowloon Headquarters to coordinate the raids and ordered all Flying Tigers' Action Groups to stand by.

• Chow Sing Sing reported that traffickers had confessed to the Ice Queen's six secret bases and the shipment of four tonnes of meth worth 250 million US dollars.
• Zhou Quan reassured Kwan Man Chin and Chief Inspector Lau that their officers would share the credit, then told Commissioner Wong about the shipment and requested Headquarters support.
• Commissioner Wong said he would inform DCP Operations and contact the commanders of South of the Border and East Kowloon.
• Zhou Quan assigned Kwan Man Chin to deploy the Mobile Unit and ordered Chief Inspector Lau to send groups to Tsuen Wan and Tseung Kwan O.
• Zhou Quan called Sir Kong and requested that all Flying Tigers' Action Groups, including the Combat Diver Team, stand by.

Zhou Quan returned to West Kowloon Headquarters and took command of a three-district operation against armed drug traffickers, brushing off an American DEA official who wanted to discuss the Asian Ice Queen. The chapter ended as he ordered the police teams to launch coordinated assaults at five locations.

• Miu Chi-shun told Zhou Quan that an American DEA assistant supervisor had arrived with Interpol to assist with the Asian Ice Queen case.
• Zhou Quan suspected the American was tracking the Ice Queen and dismissed him, ordering most of his men to assemble for another operation.
• Zhou Quan directed Lee Chong-tung and the CIB staff to establish a dedicated communications channel linking West Kowloon, South New Territories, and East Kowloon, then brought the Flying Tigers onto it.
• Zhou Quan briefed the three-district teams on five target locations and ordered SDU and PTU to lead the assaults, with other departments providing support.

Zhou Quan led a three-district raid that wiped out the drug traffickers’ forces in half an hour, then focused on recovering the Asian Ice Queen’s much larger meth shipment. After reading her confession identifying its location in G7 Waters, he questioned his officers about two America Drug Enforcement Bureau agents who had approached them.

• Under Zhou Quan’s direction, the Flying Tigers and police from three districts completed a lightning-fast operation, seizing cash and meth and drawing cheers at West Kowloon Telecommunications Headquarters.
• Zhou Quan thanked Lee Shing-cheong for CIB’s cooperation and left to address the Asian Ice Queen’s case.
• Chan Kwok-wah and Gei Siu-kwan reported that the Ice Queen had confessed and identified the meth shipment’s approximate coordinates in G7 Waters.
• Zhou Quan read the confession and asked Chan Kwok-wah and Gei Siu-kwan when the two America Drug Enforcement Bureau agents had approached them and what they wanted.

Zhou Quan suspected Rick of coveting Ice Queen’s hidden drug shipment, so he set a trap and quietly arranged a heavily armed Flying Tigers deployment as a precaution. The chapter ended with Kong Chi Lap giving Zhou Quan command of the teams under the cover of a live-fire exercise.

• Chan Kwok-wah and Gei Siu-kwan reported that Rick had repeatedly asked about Ice Queen’s valuable drugs, confirming Zhou Quan’s suspicions.
• Zhou Quan ordered them to let Rick hear that the shipment would be recovered from G7 Waters at four that afternoon, without raising his suspicions.
• Zhou Quan sent the two foreigners away and went to the Flying Tigers Training Base to ask Kong Chi Lap for support.
• Kong Chi Lap agreed to deploy the Small Boat Team and Combat Diver Team for a live-fire exercise, giving Zhou Quan temporary command and access to heavy equipment.
• Kong Chi Lap also offered He Wenzhan’s and Ling Jing’s squads, disguising Zhou Quan’s involvement as an observer attending training.

Zhou Quan’s heavily armed team recovered the Ice Queen’s four-ton meth shipment and detected Rick’s approaching attackers. He spotted a Navy SEAL assault boat carrying an Mk19 grenade launcher and prepared to stop it before it could fire.

• Zhou Quan ordered the salvage crew to recover the meth while he monitored nearby radio signals.
• After the crates were raised, Zhou Quan ordered snipers to watch the surrounding waters as the operation neared completion.
• The monitoring equipment detected an unfamiliar signal, and Ling Jing reported unidentified vessels approaching rapidly.
• Zhou Quan activated his concealed boat and combat diver teams, then took position with a Barrett sniper rifle.
• Zhou Quan identified an Mk19 grenade launcher mounted on one of the approaching boats and resolved not to let it open fire.

Zhou Quan ambushed the American Navy SEALs trying to steal the meth, and his team killed the entire group. After identifying the dead men as SEALs, Zhou ordered his forces back to headquarters, leaving the drugs and any report of the incident to be dealt with later.

• Zhou Quan destroyed the assault boats’ MK19 grenade launcher with an armor-piercing shot, then killed Rick and the boats’ drivers.
• Zhou ordered the salvage ship to close in while his men used the hull for cover and prepared rifle grenades and sniper rifles.
• The SEALs tried to flee, then jumped into the sea and used their boats as cover, but Zhou’s team killed them as the salvage ship approached.
• The small-boat and combat-diver teams recovered the bodies and identified the dead men as American Navy SEALs.
• Zhou ordered Chow Sing Sing to contact headquarters and turn the ship back, while planning to pursue the drugs hidden by the Asian Ice Queen as the real basis for a promotion and pay raise.

Zhou Quan read a report praising his capture of the Asian Ice Queen and the destruction of a Navy SEALs group, but his promotion and the team’s commendations were postponed as the Police Force began dismantling the Political Department. His document had helped bring the dismantling forward by two years, and the department’s removal and transfer of its personnel and responsibilities continued into late 1993.

• A newspaper reported that Zhou Quan had led the operation that captured the Asian Ice Queen, seized US$250 million in crystal meth, and arrested her accomplices.
• Zhou Quan learned that commendations for him and the other officers were on hold because senior police leadership had begun dismantling the Political Department.
• Zhou Quan’s document had helped the Motherland force the dismantling forward, and the foreign Governor issued an official announcement as the department began to leave Hong Kong Island.
• Foreign Political Department officers, including Richard, began clearing out, while officials struggled to handle the department’s MI5 intelligence files and secret informants.
• The dismantling continued until late 1993, when the Political Department entered its closing stages.

After the Political Department was disbanded, Lok Ming-wah took charge of the newly established Security Department, and Zhou Quan became a leading candidate for promotion because of his record. On the last working day of 1993, Zhou received an urgent summons to Tai Kwun and met with three senior Police Force officers.

• The Police Force began a major reshuffle, placing Chinese officers in leadership roles and appointing Lok Ming-wah head of the Security Department.
• Zhou Quan entered the promotion process on the strength of his major investigations and successful operations.
• On December 31, 1993, Zhou received a telephone summons and hurried to Tai Kwun.
• Choi Yuen-kei, Tsang Heung-wing, and Lok Ming-wah welcomed Zhou into a conference room and prepared to begin their meeting.

Zhou Quan was offered promotion into the Police Force's Commissioned Rank and asked whether he wanted to remain in West Kowloon or transfer to Tai Kwun. He left the decision to his superiors as Tsang Heung-wing and Lok Ming-wah competed to recruit him.

• Choi Yuen-kei told Zhou Quan that Tai Kwun had decided to promote him into the Commissioned Rank and asked where he wanted to serve.
• Zhou Quan accepted the Police Force's assignment but avoided choosing between West Kowloon and a post at Tai Kwun.
• Choi Yuen-kei told Tsang Heung-wing and Lok Ming-wah to negotiate with Sir Wong if they wanted Zhou Quan transferred.
• Tsang Heung-wing sought Zhou Quan for the Narcotics Investigation Division, while Lok Ming-wah wanted him in the Security Department.