Recaps

Zhou Quan coordinated a cross-border operation that captured key traffickers, used Wei Mianna’s staged escape to secure Fang Xinwu as an undercover asset, and killed Eight-Faced Buddha and his sons. The team returned to Hong Kong Island with the operation publicly presented as a complete success, while Wei Mianna’s escape remained concealed.

• Zhou Quan and Fang Xinwu agreed to use Bobby and Chai Kwok-yung’s deal to target Eight-Faced Buddha, and Fang Xinwu accepted a mission to infiltrate Wei Mianna’s circle.
• Chow Sing Sing’s teams attacked the exchange at the unfinished building, capturing Wei Mianna, Wei Shali, Bobby, and Chai Kwok-yung while Su Kin-chiu’s undercover identity stayed hidden.
• Zhou Quan arranged for Su Kin-chiu to help Wei Mianna escape and for Fang Xinwu to rescue her, while Wei Shali was left to die from his wounds.
• Su Kin-chiu staged the escape in the Red-Earth Forest, and Ling Jing’s live round wounded Wei Mianna before Fang Xinwu carried her to a Safe House.
• Zhou Quan led Hong Kong teams by helicopter to Eight-Faced Buddha’s stronghold, where he and Fang Xinwu shot Eight-Faced Buddha and other teams killed Wei Shaman and Wei Shama.
• Zhou Quan ordered rocket strikes that set the village ablaze, then withdrew with Eight-Faced Buddha’s body and his force.
• Zhou Quan handed the captured traffickers and bodies to Thai authorities, while Phongsaphat used the operation to gain public recognition and suppress questions about Wei Mianna’s escape.
• Wong Bing Yiu and other officials welcomed Zhou Quan back to Hong Kong Island, where Wong saluted him and the returning operatives.

Zhou Quan returned from the operation to become National Security Deputy Commissioner and began preparing the Police Force for future changes. When Lin Yixiang, Yeung Chun, and Leung Chun-yee tampered with evidence in a stock-manipulation investigation, Zhou Quan moved to stop Fenghua International and sent the officers for investigation and discipline.

• Zhou Quan welcomed the returning team, arranged rewards and leave, and brought Su Kin-chiu into the Police Force before promoting him toward the Political Investigation Division.
• Number One announced Zhou Quan’s appointment as National Security Deputy Commissioner, Wong Bing Yiu’s move to Acting Commissioner, and promotions for Chow Sing Sing and Luo Danian.
• Wong Bing Yiu reorganized senior leadership, while Zhou Quan secretly tasked Guan Youbo with establishing an offshore company to invest in high-tech communications hardware.
• Zhou Quan met CIB constable Lin Yixiang and praised his work on a joint operation, but Lin later removed crucial surveillance evidence about Fenghua International’s planned stock-price manipulation.
• Leung Chun-yee confronted Lin Yixiang and Yeung Chun, learned Yeung had late-stage cancer, and persuaded them to seek help and alert senior officers before Fenghua International acted.
• Zhou Quan took over the investigation, contacted Ha Ying-kwan to coordinate a stock suspension, and ordered Guan Zu to lead the operation against Fenghua International.
• Zhou Quan sent Leung Chun-yee and Lin Yixiang to five years of border duty, urged Yeung Chun to seek family support, and ordered the Political Department to investigate the evidence tampering.
• Guan Zu took over the joint Action Group, reassured Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong that their work would receive credit, and brought them to Tai Kwun for questioning after declaring the operation over.

Guan Zu’s team exposed Ma Zhihua’s crimes, and Zhou Quan ordered a force-wide drug crackdown and advanced a new secure communications system. As the Political Investigation Department investigated officials with foreign connections, Zhou Quan went to Fanling Base to assess Ling Jing’s fatal shooting of a bank heir.

• Guan Zu got Law Yiu-ming to identify Ma Zhihua as Fenghua International’s mastermind and reveal evidence stored in Room 902.
• Lau Bo-keung’s team arrested Ma Zhihua and began building a case using Law’s statement and evidence gathered against Ma’s trusted henchman.
• Zhou Quan ordered a priority drug crackdown targeting traffickers linked to Ma’s anonymous American bank accounts.
• Wong Bing Yiu approved a Third Generation Communications Command System, appointed Choi Yuen-kei to lead its special working group, and assigned Zhou Quan to review its development.
• Zhou Quan ordered the Political Investigation Department to investigate Lydia, Ma Cheuk-yin, and Gilbert Lee, while Lai Wing-lim said he had declined their approaches.
• Chow Sing Sing told Zhou Quan that Ling Jing had shot and killed a BNC Bank heir during a mission, and Zhou Quan went to Fanling Base to hear Ling’s account.
• Ling Jing said he had shot Ye Tao as the robber appeared ready to pull a grenade’s pin, but the hostage moved into the bullet’s path, and Zhou Quan asked whether anyone could confirm his account.

Zhou Quan cleared Ling Jing in the BNC Bank robbery hearing, then turned his attention to Hung Jipang’s return and the threat posed by his explosives and armed followers. After police stopped a bombing attempt at a reception, Zhou Quan launched Operation Sharp Sword and raised the Police Force’s alert level.

• Zhou Quan oversaw Ling Jing’s hearing, where Fang Keming disputed Ling Jing’s account, but Ye Tao’s confession confirmed he had lifted the grenade pin and cleared Ling Jing of wrongdoing beyond one demerit.
• Zhou Quan attended the Police Academy graduation ceremony, presented awards to Yuen Ka-bo and Lee Family Ka-chun, and considered future changes to the cadets’ marching drill.
• Lam Wai Lok alerted Zhou Quan that wanted bomber Hung Jipang had entered Hong Kong Island, and Zhou Quan began gathering intelligence from informants and his department.
• Chow Sing Sing briefed Zhou Quan that Hung Jipang had returned with mercenaries and likely had a Hong Kong Island financier, while officers searched Kowloon City and Wong Tai Sin for him.
• At Cheung Choi Shan’s reception, police shot Hung Jipang’s confidant as he prepared to plant suspected C4 beside Zhou Yat Wah’s car, and Zhou Quan reassured the guests as officers secured the scene.
• Zhou Quan convened a Special National Security Meeting and told senior officers that Hung Jipang had entered Hong Kong Island with thirty-six combat-experienced criminals and more than one thousand kilograms of C4.
• Zhou Quan established the Emergency Response Team and Operation Sharp Sword, raised the Police Force’s alert level, assigned the National Security Department to lead the operation, and ordered the Commercial Crime Bureau and Criminal Intelligence Bureau to track Yan Guorong.