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| Themesong by Miriam Yeung Sentiment, sentiment…Strange how it is full like movie scenes It has changes and it has boundaries Today I awake, determine to straighten it out Turns out lovers don’t really see clearly If you dance, then learn the steps well Have to watch your steps sometimes When you don’t one step more, how can you move forward If you don’t take that next step, how can you repair the damage When you discover one day that life hands you a difficult dance You know I can’t fully lead you anymore Then how, then how Ask whom, Who can Lead you blindly into this dance and measure the distance But you keep looking for another chance to replace your partner When you only said half of the passion I chase after little bits of news on love Only to realize that I already have it |
| Synopsis A detective series starring Amy Kwok, Roger Kwok, Paul Chun, Karen Tong, Michael Tong, Patricia Lau and Joe Cheng. This series is a refreshing change from all those ancient series and gives the viewers some faces we haven’t seen in a long time. Amy hasn’t been seen in a TVB series since Justice Sung II and I could only remember Karen from the old series with Wong Hei. And I haven’t seen Joe since Burning Flame. People say there are 3 main cases with a couple of sub-cases, but I counted 4 as the last case involves Amy’s dad. Amy and her uncle Paul owns K.T. Investigation. Paul brought up Amy all by himself when her mom died and her father left so they have a close relationship. Joe works for Amy as a tech specialist. Roger is a cop and Karen is his girlfriend. Karen and Amy are friends. Like most traditional TVB series, Amy and Roger did not get along in the beginning. She is too independent and headstrong for him and Amy considers him to be a male chauvinist pig. Roger doesn’t really like what Amy do because he thinks all investigators really do is follow people around to catch adulterers and don’t solve any real crimes. The 1st case involves Eileen Yeow and Akina Hong. Akina reports her husband missing to the police and Roger is in charge of the case. But he doesn’t really believe the husband is missing and thinks that he simply left his wife because she’s a controlling freak. Akina decides to hire Amy to track down her husband. Amy discovers that Eileen is the girl that Akina’s husband accidentally hit and has grown close to. Shortly after meeting Eileen, Akina’s husband disappears so they think that he ran away with her. But Eileen shows up at the husband’s office and claims that he left her the company. After doing some tests on the handwriting, it turns out that the husband really left the company to Eileen and so she proceeds to take over. The husband’s partner turns up dead and Eileen is a suspect. Roger gets involved and both him and Amy tracked down the real killer. Needless to say, Eileen is really the husband. He had a sex change so he can leave his wife to be with the girl he hit. When the partner discovered his little secret, Eileen hit him in the head with a trophy. She/He panicked thinking she/he killed the partner and quickly left the apartment. Akina soon arrives to see the partner mumbling that Eileen hit him and to frame Eileen for murder, Akina grabs another trophy and bashed him on the head a few more times, killing him. Akina finds Eileen and in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her with a knife only to find out that she killed her own husband. The 2nd case involves Karen and her boss. Karen works as a secretary for a law firm and begins to secretly have an affair with a lawyer. She is unhappy with her relationship with Roger. He never has time for her. When they do have dates, he doesn’t show up due to the influence of his work and co-workers. One time Roger cancels on their date because he didn’t want to look like a wuss in front of his co-workers. His father taught him that women belong only in the kitchen and should be submissive. Roger’s “Big Man” mentality causes him to lose Karen, although the poor thing won’t know until his wedding day. Karen becomes pregnant and demands that the lawyer divorce his wife to marry her. The lawyer doesn’t really want to divorce his wife because she put him through law school so Karen tells Roger that it is his baby. Roger, doing the honorable thing, agrees to marry Karen (he was planning to anyways but wanted to wait till they had more money). Amy finds out that Karen has been cheating on Roger and urges Karen to tell Roger the truth. Pulling the usual trick to push the lawyer into marrying her, Karen goes to Shenzen to have an abortion on the day of her wedding with Roger. The lawyer changes his mind and tells Karen that he will divorce his wife and marry her. Karen calls Amy to have her tell Roger that she will not show up for their wedding. Roger is devastated to hear the news. Amy comforts Roger and the two begin to be friends. Roger tries to get Karen back but she refuses. She tells him that all she wanted was to be cared for and loved and Roger never seemed to have time for her. She is now in love with the lawyer and is carrying his baby. The lawyer’s wife refuses to give him a divorce. Next thing you know, the wife is found dead. Karen becomes a suspect, and then the husband becomes a suspect. Karen knows she didn’t do it so she started to suspect the lawyer. They had a fight and Karen hits her head and went into a coma. Roger loses his job because he hit the lawyer not once but twice. The truth? The wife committed suicide and wanted to frame the husband for her murder. The twist to this case is that the wife wrote him a letter and all he needed to do is read it to clear his name but he never did. The lawyer ends up hanging himself for what he did to his wife. Roger now works as a manager for the security department of a large company. Case 3 begins as Amy and her gang goes there to work undercover. Patricia and Michael are the owner’s children and run the company for their father. Emails containing sexual messages have been sent to all the female employees of the company followed by strange phone calls. Joe’s wife works under Patricia and she convinced Patricia to hire Amy to find out who the culprit is. They think it might be Michael as his behavior is very strange. The father sent Michael away as a young boy because he is bad luck. A fortune-teller told the father that he needs to send Michael away, otherwise, the father will die but keep the daughter because she will bring him wealth. At first, the father didn’t believe it but every time he gets close to Michael, he will get sick so the father eventually sent him away. The father finally decides to bring Michael home as he thought the curse is over. But right when Michael returns, these strange things begin to happen to the company. Amy befriends Michael and she finds out that he suffers a personality disorder (I don’t know if that is the correct term to describe Michael’s medical condition). To protect himself from getting hurt, he has cut off all emotional ties with the world and loses himself to his art. In the meantime, Roger declares his feelings for Amy and the two secretly begins to date. To protect Amy, Roger gives her a necklace with a tracking device so he can find her when she is in danger. Just when things are going so well for these two, Karen wakes up from her coma and Roger has to be there for her. Karen wants to get back with Roger because she doesn’t want to be alone and wants a father for her baby. Roger wants to tell Karen that he is with Amy now but Amy doesn’t want him to tell her because she is still emotionally unstable. Instead, Amy wants to break things off with Roger so he can take care of Karen and the baby but Roger convinced her that he could never get back with Karen because he loves Amy now. They will work something out where he will take care of the baby and still be with Amy. To complicate the matter, Karen lets Roger to discover that he is in fact the baby’s father. Back to the case, they are still trying to find out who is the sexual harasser when Patricia and Michael’s father dies in car crash. The father’s will states that most of the assets is going to Michael leaving Patricia with nothing. Soon, ghostly things start to happen and everyone thinks that the father’s ghost is back to haunt them. A bitter Patricia plots to sell the company to a competitor by deeming her brother crazy, thus incapable of running the company. But before she can sell the company, Joe’s wife discovers that Patricia is adopted and Patricia is forced out from the company. The company is now being run by a committee, which includes Joe’s wife. The gang finds out that Patricia is really the daughter of Michael’s dad’s former partner and the father adopted her out of guilt. Patricia didn’t even know she was adopted until recently. She wanted to sell the company because she knew that Michael would only ruined it and not because of revenge for her real father’s death. She has always treated this family like her real family and she just wanted to savage the company (her father’s legacy) the best way she knew how. Amy finally gets through to Michael and arranges a meeting between the two siblings. Michael forgives his sister and the two tries to get the company back from the committee. Turns out that the father is not really dead and that Joe’s wife is behind the whole thing. Joe’s wife helped the father stage his death because she was promised a piece of the company. With the help from the father, Joe’s wife is the is the one behind the emails, the strange phone calls, the ghostly events, and the discovery of the Patricia’s real paternity. The father thought he could end the curse by staging his own death. He also wanted to test Patricia’s loyalty. The family decides to ignore the curse and get back together. Patricia will now be running the company with Michael’s help. Michael likes Amy and wanted to go out with her but Amy turns him down because she is in love with Roger. The two is happy together but there are problems as Roger is always tired by the time he is with Amy. He has to go to work, then to see Karen, and then to see Amy. Case #4 (as I like to call it), involves Paul and Amy’s dad. After all these years, Amy still doesn’t know who broke up her parents’ marriage. All she can remember is that they had a fight the day her father disappears. Her mother had told Amy’s dad that she had a lover before marrying him and the father vows to find who that man is. He never came back. One day on the street, Amy bumps into her father but he doesn’t recognize her. She finally went to confront him about that day and the dad tells her that he was tracking down her mother’s lover when he was arrested in America for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and has been in jail all these years. That is why he didn’t keep in touch with her. She believes his story and forgives him. He moves in with the family and Paul is happy to have his brother back. Amy’s dad is not content with what he has now and still wants to find out who the mysterious lover is. He also doesn’t approve of Amy dating Roger and prefers Michael (because he’s rich) so he pushes her to be with Michael. Amy’s dad finds out that the mysterious man is actually his own brother. Amy is furious to find out that the uncle so loves like a father is the man who broke up her family. She kicks him out of the house without listening to his side of the story. Paul moves in temporally with Roger’s family and tells Roger that he didn’t know the woman he fell in love with was his brother’s girlfriend. As soon as he found out, he only treated her like a sister-in-law and nothing else. Roger tries to patch things up between Paul and Amy but she is stubborn and refuses to forgive Paul. One day, Amy is out with Michael and they get kidnapped. The kidnapper demands a ransom from Michael’s father. Roger and Paul wants to call the cops but Amy’s dad refuses, stating that it would endanger their lives. The kidnapper wants Amy’s dad to be the one to go and do the exchange. Roger and Paul follows and Amy’s dad led them astray. By this point, Roger and Paul have discovers where the kidnappers are holding Amy and Michael and accidentally let Karen overhear the location. The cops and Roger and Paul arrive at the same time, only to discover that the place is empty. Roger and Paul track the kidnappers down to the beach. The kidnappers, pissed off that the deal is off, are about to shoot Amy but not before telling her that her father is the one behind the whole thing. Roger rushes in on time and uses himself as a human shield. He takes the bullet meant for Amy as the other cops arrive and subdue the kidnappers. Amy’s father is also arrested. Roger pulls through. Amy’s father is in jail. He tells Paul and Amy that he is sorry for what he did. When he was in America, he killed someone. That was why he was in jail. When he came back to Hong Kong, he got himself into debt and thought the kidnapping idea would be his ticket out of debt. He didn’t think anyone would get hurt. Paul and Amy forgive him and tell him that they’ll be a family again when he gets out. Paul and Amy repaired their relationship and the two continue working together. Roger has to take Karen to America for medical reasons and he tells her to wait for him. He will come back to her as soon as the baby is born. 6 months has past and Roger has promised to come back but Amy waited for him all day with no words. She is disappointed and thought that he decided to stay in America with Karen. Right before midnight, her tracking device starts beeping and she tracks it down to the pier. Roger is there and the two happily embraced. Karen has realized that Roger truly loves Amy and gives them her blessing. The series ends with Roger getting the DNA results to see if Karen’s baby is really his or not. He requested the report before leaving America but finds that it no longer matters. Amy and Roger will always be a part of Karen and the baby’s lives. Personal Note: A very enjoyable series. Roger and Amy have good chemistry. The cases (except the 1st one) were full of twists and turns. I liked the fact that there was more than 1 suspect for the cases. The only thing I didn’t like was how they did the flashbacks. I was getting dizzy with all that spinning. Hopefully, TVB will have more of these types of series out. I miss DIF and UE. They really need to have DIF 5 and bring Sunny back. Rating: $$$$ |
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