The Gentle Crackdown
The Gentle Crackdown
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The Gentle Crackdown

7.0 / 10
2006
1 season
20 episodes
Comedy

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    13-09-200645m

    All the officials and constables in Leung Choi County are corrupt except female constable SHAP YEE MUI, who is very good at Kung Fu. SIR WONG’s house has been broken into. MUI has...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    14-09-200645m

    CHOW is vexed that he has offended WAI. WONG suggests him taking an early retirement and returning to his hometown with sickness as his excuse. The constables find MUI and LAU obst...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    15-09-200645m

    A neighbor of MUI’s asks her to look after his child for a while. It annoys her to the core that the child just cannot stop crying. She can do nothing about it but to play a nurser...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    18-09-200645m

    When he has come round, he makes it clear to WONG that he is not going to repay the money. What is more, he is reporting the case to Chancellor HO. Fearing that he will lost his jo...

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    19-09-200645m

    YING lies to LAU that it was in fact her late husband who was the Hero Thief the Eagle. LAU does not quite believe her. A masked burglar has come for the levies. With the furtive h...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    20-09-200645m

    The letter was written by Mr LEE, the educational commissioner, of Man Chung College. LAU orders WONG and others to resume work. WONG does not have a clue what is going on. LAU acc...

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    21-09-200645m

    MUI asks CHEE about the incident. CHEE is every excited emotionally. MUI swears to bring her justice. KWONG denies having raped CHEE. He insists that he has only slept with a prost...

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    22-09-200645m

    MUI receives an anonymous letter, stating that CHEE has been poisoned by the venom of the Tiger Head Bee, and that the Lion Head grass is the only antidote. Suspecting that PING, w...

  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    25-09-200645m

    KWONG’s father, MA YUNG, comes for the hearing. As soon as PING sees YUNG, he gives a different story. He lies that he has admitted his guilt just because he is under the tortures...

  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    26-09-200645m

    LAI KWAN, FONG’s daughter, admires LAU. Rather reluctantly, LAU makes an engagement to her. LAU uses the horse given by the emperor as a Mounted Horse for the use of the mounted co...

  • Ep 11

    11.Episode 11

    27-09-200645m

    PING collaborates with the bandits of the Flying Tiger Citadel. Believing that MUI will not use ten thousand public funds to save LAU, PING plans to kill LAU and MUI and at the sam...

  • Ep 12

    12.Episode 12

    28-09-200645m

    On one hand, MUI takes care of YING without sleep or rest. On the other, she refuses to talk to her. YING is heartbroken. LAU sighs that MUI sees things very much in black and whit...

  • Ep 13

    13.Episode 13

    29-09-200645m

    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...

  • Ep 14

    14.Episode 14

    02-10-200645m

    Seeing that LAU and MUI have cracked up cases one after one, the Criminal Department summons them to go to the capital in homely clothes for the investigation of a serial killing o...

  • Ep 15

    15.Episode 15

    03-10-200645m

    LAI KWAN finds it suspicious that MUI and LAU are making sheep’s eyes to each other. LAU therefore lies to her that MUI’s fiance has just passed away. He also tells her not to ment...

  • Ep 16

    16.Episode 16

    04-10-200645m

    The Book on a Healthy Life, which was a gift given by India, has been missing for thirty years. The emperor appoints LAU and MUI to look into the case. LAU confesses to FONG that h...

  • Ep 17

    17.Episode 17

    05-10-200645m

    Seeing that LAU and MUI are so deeply in love with each other, FONG agrees to let LAU annul his engagement with KWAN. PAK has been killed, and the weapon that led to his death was...

  • Ep 18

    18.Episode 18

    06-10-200645m

    FONG tortures YING, forcing her to hand over The Book on a Healthy Life. LAU scolds him for carrying out a secret trial; he retorts that LAU shows favoritism to MUI. MUI plans to b...

  • Ep 19

    19.Episode 19

    09-10-200645m

    LAU infers from all the evidence that FONG is the missing small eunuch SIU CHEUN CHI. PO TAI Abbot has not finished the translation of the book yet. WONG suggests going to where th...

  • Ep 20

    20.Episode 20

    10-10-200645m

    KWAN hates LAU and MUI to the core. She asks FONG to kill them. However, she discloses accidentally that the two have visited PO TAI. The translation has been finished at last. Loo...

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