Chapter Summaries

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.

Yeung Kam Wing and Guan Zu interrogated Antelope and learned where Situ Guang and the Lion Killer Organization were operating. Chow Sing Sing proposed luring Situ Guang to Hong Kong Island by faking Wong Mui-gwai’s death, and Zhou Quan approved the plan so he could capture Situ Guang and use him to pursue Chan Fong.

• Yeung Kam Wing and Guan Zu brought Antelope’s confession to the Observation Room, where Yeung Kam Wing reported Situ Guang’s location, the organization’s safe houses, and the arrival of Lynx and Black Panther.
• Chow Sing Sing proposed monitoring Lynx and Black Panther, having Wong Mui-gwai stage her death, and feeding Situ Guang ambiguous information to draw him to Hong Kong Island.
• Chow Sing Sing said the plan would leave contacting the Malaysia Police as an alternative if Situ Guang refused to pursue the bounty.
• Zhou Quan approved the plan because he wanted Situ Guang captured alive and intended to use him to expose Chan Fong.
• Zhou Quan left the Observation Room, and Chow Sing Sing and the others saluted him.

Situ Guang learned that his Lion Killer Organization’s assassins had vanished and suspected Sir Kwan’s Hong Kong Island Police Force was responsible. He ordered Frog to investigate the missing assassins and target Wong Mui-gwai, while postponing an attempt on He Wenzhan until he was safely away from Hong Kong Island.

• Frog told Situ Guang that Lynx and Black Panther had not appeared at any Safe Houses, and Situ Guang suspected the Hong Kong Island Police Force had intervened.
• Situ Guang recalled taking the assassination contracts on Wong Mui-gwai and He Wenzhan despite the risks, because the bounty was too valuable to refuse.
• Situ Guang decided Wong Mui-gwai had to be killed to secure any payment, while an attack on He Wenzhan could wait until Situ Guang had left Hong Kong Island.
• Situ Guang ordered Frog to take them to Safe House No. 1, investigate what happened to Antelope, Black Panther, and Lynx, and send someone to kill Wong Mui-gwai.

Situ Guang attempted to enter Hong Kong Island aboard a freighter disguised as an Xinglong Group liquor shipment, but the Security Department and Flying Tigers intercepted the vessel. The operation ended with Situ Guang captured and the freighter’s other occupants secured.

• Situ Guang spotted approaching vessels and told Frog to prepare normally, believing Xinglong’s shipping cover would help them reach Hong Kong Island.
• Situ Guang realized the approaching craft were Flying Tigers boats and heard police helicopters closing in from the other side.
• Chow Sing Sing ordered the air units to circle the freighter, the Small Boat Team to advance, and Ling Jing to fire a warning shot near Situ Guang.
• The freighter stopped after the Security Department ordered it to submit to inspection, and its occupants did not resist.
• Chow Sing Sing ordered tear gas deployed before the T Group and Flying Tigers boarded the freighter.
• Guan Zu pinned Situ Guang on the deck as the action groups secured the other people aboard.

After Chow Sing Sing arrested Situ Guang and Frog, Zhou Quan confronted Situ Guang in a Security Department safe house to learn about his partner, Chan Fong. Situ Guang tried to bargain, but Zhou Quan beat him and revealed that he already knew Chan Fong was involved.

• Chow Sing Sing took Situ Guang and Frog to a secret Security Department safe house while the other people from the freighter were detained at Hong Kong Island Tsai Police Station.
• Zhou Quan arrived with Chow Sing Sing and He Wenzhan and told Situ Guang that he was a prominent drug broker and criminal leader.
• Situ Guang realized Zhou Quan was targeting his partner, Chan Fong, and said he would cooperate only after hearing the offer.
• Zhou Quan punched Situ Guang in the abdomen and rejected his attempt to bargain.
• Zhou Quan told Situ Guang that he knew Director Chan at Interpol was his partner, while explaining that Chan was already under surveillance and would eventually expose himself.

Zhou Quan pressured Situ Guang with the threat of execution on the Mainland until Situ Guang agreed to cooperate. Situ Guang revealed that a Malaysian bank safe deposit box held records linking Chan Fong to Chen Guang and documenting Chen Guang’s faked death and escape.

• Luo Danian and the Intelligence Group uncovered links between Chan Fong and the vanished drug broker Chen Guang, including quarterly payments from a company tied to Situ Guang’s organization.
• The Police Force intercepted Situ Guang and his men aboard an Xinglong freighter as they approached the West Lamma Channel.
• Zhou Quan confronted Situ Guang with the possibility that he would be sent to the Mainland and executed.
• Fearing execution and determined not to let Chan Fong remain free, Situ Guang offered information in exchange for the chance to stand trial on Hong Kong Island.
• Situ Guang revealed that his Malaysia Bank safe deposit box contained transaction records with Chen Guang and evidence that he had helped Chen Guang fake his death and escape.