The Gentle Crackdown — Season 1, Episode 13: Episode 13
Comedy • 45 min • 1 season, 20 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
YING teaches MUI all her Kung Fu skills so that she can protect herself. Finding it difficult to remember the formulas, MUI turns to LAU for help. He has no choice but to jot down the formulas for her. YING sighs that MUI knows only the formulas but not the skills. LAU and MUI come across a bandit. MUI is about to lose the fight when LAU calls out the relevant formulas. MUI beats the bandit up and puts him into arrest. WONG SING’s wife accuses his younger brother, WONG KWONG, of killing SING. WONG refuses to take the case because she can produce no corpse. With a view to seeing her son, SAU promises her ex-husband, LAI YAN, to help him with his debt, which amounts 200 taels. SAU steals some abalone, seafood and jewelry from YING and sells them out. She gets only 30 taels from it nevertheless. At her wit’s end, she goes to borrow money from LIU. Both WONG and MUI refuse to give her a hand as they presume she is gambling again.… ...
About The Gentle Crackdown
Although she hopes to follow in her father's footsteps as a master constable, Luk Sap-Yee is an impulsive and idealistic constable whose skill and competence are often dismissed by her corrupt male peers. When Sui Tong-Lau, the newly appointed magistrate, arrives in Sap-Yee's city, they wind up working together to solve a number of unusual cases.