Chapter Summaries

During a joint operation targeting Fenghua International, Lin Yixiang caught Yeung Chun preparing to misuse surveillance evidence for money and struggled between duty and loyalty to his mentor. Lin altered the record to conceal the incriminating material, and Yeung deleted the matching footage, leaving their colleagues unaware of what had happened.

• Yeung Chun admitted to Lin Yixiang that he urgently needed money and was prepared to tamper with evidence from the Fenghua International investigation.
• Lin Yixiang weighed his duty and career opportunity against his debt to Yeung Chun, then removed the crucial passage from the electronic record.
• Chan Wai-cho and Ma Lai returned to check the record and found only pointless chatter, while Lin pretended the missing content was unimportant.
• Yeung Chun understood Lin’s choice and discreetly erased the crucial surveillance footage.
• Leung Chun-yee returned to the surveillance room and suspected that Lin and Yeung had acted for a reason.

Leung Chun-yee discovered that Yeung Chun and Lin Yixiang had tampered with surveillance footage and followed them after his shift. Lin Yixiang urged Yeung Chun to restore the evidence, but Yeung revealed his terminal illness and desperate need to provide for his family before Leung confronted them in the car.

• Leung Chun-yee spotted static on the CCTV footage and suspected Yeung Chun and Lin Yixiang had secretly interfered with the surveillance.
• Lin Yixiang told Yeung Chun that they should restore the audio and footage and refuse to risk their careers by obstructing justice.
• Yeung Chun revealed that he had late-stage liver cancer and needed money to provide for his wife and son.
• Leung Chun-yee followed his sworn brothers to Lin Yixiang's BMW and confronted them after overhearing Yeung Chun say he could not repay a loan.

Leung Chun-yee confronted Yeung Chun and Lin Yixiang after learning they had tampered with CCTV footage, then discovered Yeung Chun had terminal liver cancer and was acting on inside information about Fenghua International. He warned that the scheme would draw investigators and ruin them all, leaving the brothers regretful and the group facing the consequences of their actions.

• Leung Chun-yee demanded to know why Yeung Chun and Lin Yixiang had altered the CCTV footage.
• Lin Yixiang told Leung Chun-yee that Yeung Chun had late-stage liver cancer and had received a critical condition notice, with at most a year and a half to live.
• Yeung Chun admitted that Law Yiu-ming planned to drive Fenghua International's stock price from twenty cents to a dollar twenty, which he hoped to profit from for his family.
• Leung Chun-yee warned that the stock surge would attract the Securities and Futures Commission, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and internal police investigators.
• Leung Chun-yee berated both men over the damage their actions could cause, and Yeung Chun regretted risking his family and partners' futures.

Leung Chun-yee tried to persuade Yeung Chun to abandon the plan to alter the CCTV footage, offering him his savings and reminding him that his family could receive support if he died on duty. Yeung Chun realized Fenghua International was already making its move that morning, leaving Leung Chun-yee to seek help from someone higher up and offer to take the blame.

• Leung Chun-yee warned Lin Yixiang against risking his future and offered Yeung Chun all three hundred thousand in his account.
• Leung Chun-yee reminded Yeung Chun that his pension and benefits, the Police Force's Welfare Division, and the Zhou Foundation could support his family.
• Yeung Chun began to reconsider after Leung Chun-yee's advice, but noticed Lin Yixiang's Rolex and realized it was almost eight in the morning.
• Yeung Chun told Leung Chun-yee that Fenghua International was making its move that day, so it was already too late to change the CCTV footage.
• Leung Chun-yee cursed both men, decided they needed someone higher up involved, and offered to take all the responsibility if the situation could not be salvaged.

Leung Chun-yee, Yeung Chun, and Lin Yixiang struggled to contain the damage from their mistake before Fenghua International’s planned stock-market move. They decided to seek help from He Wenzhan and the National Security Department, hoping to halt trading in Fenghua International shares.

• Leung Chun-yee refused to let Yeung Chun take the blame alone and weighed how to cover up the CCTV evidence before the market opened.
• Leung Chun-yee concluded they could not clean up the aftermath in time or rely on their joint task force, so he proposed asking his academy friend He Wenzhan for help.
• Lin Yixiang backed the plan and offered to use his future father-in-law’s connections to reach senior officers and the National Security Department.
• Leung Chun-yee and Lin Yixiang agreed to alert the National Security Department and stop Fenghua International’s operation, accepting that they would face consequences for their mistake.

Zhou Quan heard Leung Chun-yee, Lin Yixiang, and Yeung Chun admit their roles in altering CCTV records and exploiting inside information, but postponed deciding their punishment. He ordered Guan Zu to take over the operation against Fenghua International while ensuring the investigating officers received all the credit.

• Leung Chun-yee admitted altering CCTV records out of greed and said Lin Yixiang and Yeung Chun had followed his orders.
• Lin Yixiang confessed that he planned to use inside information for quick money and apologized for dragging his colleagues into the wrongdoing.
• Yeung Chun took full responsibility, explaining that he had wanted to leave money for his family because he had cancer.
• Zhou Quan decided to handle the three officers strictly by the rules but postponed judgment until the Fenghua International case was over.
• He Wenzhan urged immediate action against Fenghua International before investors were lured in after the market opened.
• Zhou Quan ordered Guan Zu to take over the Joint Action Group and arrest the suspects, while crediting the Criminal Intelligence Bureau and Commercial Crime Bureau for the investigation.

Zhou Quan arranged for the Securities and Futures Commission to suspend Fenghua International’s stocks once suspicious purchases began, then turned to decide the CIB trio’s punishment. He ordered the Political Department to assess Leung Chun-yee’s case, leaving its final finding unresolved.

• Zhou Quan called Securities and Futures Commission deputy chairman Ha Ying-kwan and said the National Security Department had taken over the Fenghua International investigation.
• Zhou Quan told Ha Ying-kwan that Fenghua International planned to drive a stock’s price from twenty cents to a dollar twenty and asked the commission to suspend its stocks after substantial purchases began.
• Ha Ying-kwan agreed to cooperate, and he and Zhou Quan ended the call after discussing the suspected market manipulation.
• Zhou Quan faced Leung Chun-yee, Yeung Chun, and Lin Yixiang and said the Political Department would investigate Leung Chun-yee’s case.
• Zhou Quan said Leung Chun-yee would either lose promotion and pay-raise opportunities for three years if found negligent, or spend five years guarding reservoirs if found guilty of dereliction of duty.

Zhou Quan punished Leung Chun-yee and Lin Yixiang for their role in altering surveillance files, while showing leniency to the gravely ill Yeung Chun and arranging support for his family. After the trio left, Guan Zu began an operation to arrest suspects at Fenghua Building and take over the joint action group.

• Zhou Quan ordered an investigation into Leung Chun-yee and sentenced him to five years of border duty.
• Zhou Quan assigned Lin Yixiang five years of border duty instead of dismissing him from the Police Force.
• Zhou Quan urged Yeung Chun to apply to the Zhou Foundation for financial aid and assured him the Police Force would support his family.
• Zhou Quan sent He Wenzhan to take the three men away and told him to have Ah Keung begin work.
• Guan Zu split his team, sending A Team to arrest Law Yiu-ming and the other suspects at Fenghua Building and leading B Team to take over the joint CIB and CCB Action Group.

Guan Zu arrived at the joint operation centre and announced that, on Sir Kwan’s orders, the National Security Department was taking over the operation. He briefed the Criminal Intelligence Bureau’s Lee Kwong and waited on the rooftop for Commercial Crime Bureau chief Wong Fuk-wing.

• Guan Zu showed his Appointment Certificate to gain entry to the joint operation centre.
• Guan Zu introduced himself to Lee Kwong and said he was taking over the joint Action Group on Sir Kwan’s orders.
• Lee Kwong instructed his team to prepare the equipment and documents and told Ah Tak to contact Sir Wong.
• Guan Zu invited Lee Kwong to talk on the rooftop while they waited for Wong Fuk-wing.
• Wong Fuk-wing arrived and introduced himself to Guan Zu.

Guan Zu took charge of the joint Action Group, explaining that the National Security Department would handle unforeseen circumstances while the existing officers retained credit for the operation. He ordered last night’s duty personnel to cooperate with a Political Department investigation and revealed that the operation was already over.

• Guan Zu greeted Wong Fuk-wing and assured him and Lee Kwong that the joint Action Group’s officers would receive credit for their work.
• Guan Zu said he would take charge of the group and bring its files and records to the National Security Department.
• Guan Zu relayed the order for everyone on duty the previous night to take temporary leave and cooperate with the Political Department’s investigation.
• Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong agreed to cooperate, realizing that an internal problem had already been addressed by their superiors.
• Lee Kwong asked how the operation would proceed, and Guan Zu said it was already over and invited them to Tai Kwun for interrogations.

Guan Zu took control of the Fenghua International operation and brought Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong to the National Security Department, where the three shareholders awaited interrogation. As Guan Zu began questioning Law Yiu-ming, Law feared that the National Security Department had uncovered something more serious than insider trading and market manipulation.

• Guan Zu ended the Joint Action Group's operation, and his men took its equipment and files back to the National Security Department while another team arrested Fenghua International's three shareholders.
• Guan Zu brought Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong to the Operations Security Department and arranged for Jing Jinxian to restore the tampered surveillance footage and recordings.
• Guan Zu asked Pang Yik-hang to supervise the interrogation, then entered the interrogation room with Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong.
• Guan Zu ordered Law Yiu-ming brought in and began questioning him as the shareholder with the largest stake and the strongest link to the insider trading incident.
• Law Yiu-ming realized the National Security Department's involvement might mean Fenghua International's hidden activities had been exposed, and he grew afraid.

Guan Zu pressured Law Yiu-ming with evidence of a listening device, prompting Law to bargain for witness protection and leniency. He then named Ma Zhihua, chairman of the Huaye Group, as the mastermind behind Fenghua International and revealed where he had hidden the receiver and evidence.

• Guan Zu confronted Law Yiu-ming with the lighter containing a listening device and warned that police were searching for its receiver.
• Law Yiu-ming asked for the Witness Protection Programme and a court application to reduce his culpability, warning that the mastermind might escape.
• Pang Yik-hang approved Law's demands through Guan Zu's earpiece.
• Law Yiu-ming identified Ma Zhihua, chairman of the Huaye Group, as the biggest mastermind behind Fenghua International.
• Law Yiu-ming revealed that the listening device's receiver and the evidence he had collected were in Room 902 of the Fenghua Building.

Law Yiu-ming began giving evidence against Huaye Group chairman Ma Zhihua, prompting the National Security Department to consider handing the investigation to Lau Bo-keung's Political Investigation Department. He Wenzhan instructed Pang Yik-hang to brief Lau and ensure the Commercial Crime Bureau and Criminal Intelligence Bureau received credit, leaving the next step with Lau.

• Guan Zu pressed Law Yiu-ming for details as he disclosed evidence implicating Ma Zhihua in financial crimes.
• Pang Yik-hang called He Wenzhan to report Law's cooperation and the evidence against Ma.
• He Wenzhan told Pang to brief Lau Bo-keung, since the Political Investigation Department should handle the follow-up investigation.
• He Wenzhan reminded Pang to include the Commercial Crime Bureau and Criminal Intelligence Bureau in any operation, following Sir Kwan's instructions.
• Pang called Lau and told him their team leader had something good for his team.

Pang Yik-hang told Lau Bo-keung that Law Yiu-ming had implicated Ma Zhihua in Fenghua International’s crimes, and Lau prepared to lead the arrest operation. The chapter left Ma Zhihua’s most trusted henchman unknowingly caught in Law Yiu-ming’s scheme.

• Pang Yik-hang informed Lau Bo-keung that Guan Zu had obtained a confession from Law Yiu-ming and that Brother Zhan wanted the case transferred to Lau’s group.
• Pang relayed that the breakthrough came from the joint effort of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau and the Commercial Crime Bureau, and Lau agreed to include the other officers in the operation.
• Lau issued temporary arrest documents, gathered his men, and joined Pang, Guan Zu, and the others after Law Yiu-ming’s interrogation.
• Guan Zu gave Lau a copy of Law Yiu-ming’s statement, which described Ma Zhihua’s criminal operations and the recordings Law had made of him ordering market manipulation.
• Lau learned that Law had no direct proof of Ma’s gravest crimes, but had maneuvered Ma’s trusted henchman into his scheme.

Lau Bo-keung organized a coordinated operation to arrest Ma Zhihua and his associates, seize evidence, and search key locations. The teams set out for their targets, with Lau Bo-keung taking Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong to Huaye Group.

• Lau Bo-keung explained that Law Yiu-ming had gathered evidence against Ma Zhihua’s right-hand man at Room 902 of the Fenghua Building, which could help build a case against Ma Zhihua.
• Lau Bo-keung assigned Pang Yik-hang to oversee the Fenghua Building search and Guan Zu to arrest Ma Zhihua’s men.
• Lau Bo-keung gave Yeung Kam Wing search warrants and sent him to seal Ma Zhihua’s residence while he led a team to Huaye Group.
• Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong agreed to accompany Lau Bo-keung to meet Huaye Group’s chairman.
• Lau Bo-keung ordered the operation to begin, and the teams departed for their assigned targets.

The National Security Department raided Huaye Group’s offices to arrest Ma Zhihua, with Senior Inspector Wai King-dat leading the way. Wai King-dat reached Ma’s office just as he tried to destroy information and broke in to stop him.

• Lau Bo-keung and his officers arrived at the Financial Centre, while Wai King-dat ordered the lifts restricted to the nineteenth floor.
• Wai King-dat showed the receptionist his credentials and led officers into Huaye Group with an Emergency Search Warrant.
• Wai King-dat ordered the employees to stay at their workstations and hurried toward Ma Zhihua’s office.
• Wai King-dat spotted Ma Zhihua using his computer and suspected he was destroying incriminating information.
• Wai King-dat broke through Ma Zhihua’s locked glass door, drew his Glock, and ordered him to surrender.

Ma Zhihua tried to regain control after deleting files during a National Security Department raid, but Wai King-dat restrained him. Lau Bo-keung formally arrested him on suspicion of multiple serious crimes.

• Ma Zhihua convinced himself the deleted files would obscure his connections to criminal organizations and money laundering.
• Ma Zhihua challenged Wai King-dat for drawing his gun and threatened to file a complaint.
• Wai King-dat twisted Ma Zhihua's arm behind his back and pinned him onto the desk.
• Lau Bo-keung arrived with Wong Fuk-wing and Lee Kwong and dismissed Ma Zhihua's threat to complain.
• Lau Bo-keung arrested Ma Zhihua on suspicion of commercial fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, murder, and money laundering.

Lau Bo-keung’s men arrested Huaye Group chairman Ma Zhihua and brought him to Tai Kwun, where Lau ordered him held without visitors for forty-eight hours. Lau planned to build the case using evidence from Ma’s top henchman, whom Guan Zu’s team had gone to arrest.

• Wai King-dat slapped Ma Zhihua, and Lau Bo-keung ordered him taken back to Tai Kwun.
• Ma Zhihua refused to cooperate, so officers handcuffed him behind his back and marched him out without a hood.
• Wai King-dat stayed behind to collect Ma’s computers and documents while Lau Bo-keung escorted him to headquarters.
• Lau Bo-keung ordered Ma sent to the detention room with no visitors for forty-eight hours, including his lawyer.
• Lau Bo-keung relied on Law Yiu-ming’s information and Ma’s top henchman’s secret evidence to build the case against Ma.
• Guan Zu led T Group elites to arrest Ma’s top henchman, whom Lau expected to provide the key evidence.

Zhou Quan heard Luo Danian’s report that the Huaye Group case had been concluded and that Ma Zhihua would face trial on multiple charges. After learning that Ma’s hidden accounts linked him to South American drug traffickers, Zhou Quan considered how to strike back at them.

• Zhou Quan asked Chow Sing Sing and Luo Danian about the Huaye Group case, and Chow Sing Sing left the report to Luo Danian.
• Luo Danian said Ma Zhihua had been implicated in insider trading, market manipulation, money laundering, murder, and other offenses, with evidence gathered within twenty-four hours.
• Luo Danian reported that Ma Zhihua had disclosed anonymous American bank accounts tied mainly to South American drug traffickers.
• Luo Danian explained that Leung Chun-yee received neither reward nor punishment, while Lin Yixiang and Yeung Chun were transferred to border duty after committing misfeasance.
• Zhou Quan focused on the South American drug traffickers behind Ma Zhihua and considered how to retaliate against them.

Zhou Quan planned to use the Silver Triangle drug lords’ bank accounts to secure FBI cooperation while ordering a Hong Kong-wide crackdown on drug crimes. He then headed to a Police Force core management meeting with Chow Sing Sing and Luo Danian.

• Zhou Quan told Ah Nin to have Ah Cheung contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation and hand over the Silver Triangle drug lords’ bank accounts.
• Zhou Quan ordered a priority drug crackdown led by the National Security Department, with the Narcotics Investigation Division and district criminal investigation departments coordinating the operation.
• Zhou Quan directed officers to target drug users, dealers, couriers, and especially suppliers active in recent weeks.
• Chow Sing Sing and Luo Danian saluted Zhou Quan and prepared to carry out his orders.
• Zhou Quan drained his tea and went with Chow Sing Sing and Luo Danian to the Police Force core management meeting.