Momentary Lapse Of Reason — Season 1, Episode 12: Episode 12
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 20 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Seeing that YING-YUET bursts into tears and leaves, LEUNG SUM goes to offer her some sympathy, instead she gets a very unpleasant earful from YING-YUET. While YING-YUET is walking alone in the heavy rain, she encounters NGO-SHAN, who immediately has someone deliver an umbrella. With a serialized fiction titled "Sai Wan Detective SHUM TSAT-KUNG Outwits Kidnappers" being published in sequential installments in the newspaper, the masses are aware that it's a story about YAT-YIN, and immediately it becomes the talk of the town. CHOI-TIP is enticed into reading the fiction, so CHARLTON, who knows perfectly well where the story of SHUM TSAT-KUNG is derived from, comes to realise that CHOI-TIP has a thing for YAT-YIN. Meanwhile, suspecting that LEUNG SUM has fallen in love with YAT-YIN, SOPHIE starts teaching LEUNG SUM to check YAT-YIN's intention……
About Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Gam Wah appears to be a cop who can easily betray his own dignity and accept bribes. While investigating a human trafficking case, he meets Leung Sam, a woman who has taken a vow of celibacy. Leung Sam and her friend, Fa Ying Yuet, had been kidnapped when they were young, thus, they hate human traffickers. They equally hate corrupt public servants, with the exception of Gam Wah's colleague, Sum Yat Yin, whose upright and honest character catches Leung Sam's eye and she even falls in love with him. Gam Wah and Sum Yat Yin are initially polar opposites, but after Gam Wah's acceptance of a bribe causes the death of a witness, it starts to touch his conscience. However, at the time, the police and the underworld each had their own unbreakable, unwritten laws. Sum Yat Yin is demoted amidst the power struggle of businessman and detective. It puts his relationship with Leung Sam to the test. Seeing all of this, Gam Wah's heart aches, but all he can do is stay silently by Leung Sam's side and secretly hope that he can make up for his past mistakes.