While Ah Toy and Lai (Jenny Umbhau), helps nurse Ah Sahm back to health, we’re reminded that using opium was the general practice of the time to relieve pain. She then coolly continues, “I see a great and prosperous future for the Long Zii so I ask this council, do I have your support.”ĭuring this episode, we don’t see Mai Ling attempt to reach out to Ah Sahm. She understands “what I need is a demonstration” or “some kind of proof that I won’t allow someone to disrespect me in my own house.” She uses the gun rigged to her arm to suddenly shoot Zhang in the forehead. Mai Ling slyly replies, “I understand you’re angry” and questions if the Long Zii members are having problems taking orders from a woman. Long Zii lost his senses when she climbed into his bed and yours (Yong Li).” She single handedly started a war with the Hop Wei and endangered every single person in this tong.” While Mai Ling claims that all was done with the approval of Long Zii, Zhang replies, “You manipulated him. Zhang reminds the council that “This is absurd. The badly beaten Ah Sahm is cared for by Ah Toy back in her private quarters because Father Jun (Perry Yung) says, “We have no use for him any more.” The Hop Wei will now allow the Long Zii to enter the opium trade, but Father Jun is waiting for Mai Ling and the Long Zii to make a mistake.īack at the victorious Long Zii headquarters, Mai Ling leads a meeting with the council, but finds that Zhang (Ash Lee) deeply opposes her. Penelope falls to the ground and O’Hara protects her and helps her out onto the empty streets of Chinatown. Lee rushes the ring, but O’Hara shoots his gun in the air. Yong Li looks to Mai Ling as he prepares to break Ah Sahm’s neck, but Lee and O’Hara realize what is happening. Just as it looks like Ah Sahm will win, Ah Sahm waits too long to take the sash and a wounded Yong Li gets up and hits Ah Sahm hard, leaving him woozy. Yet when the fighting starts, O’Hara tells Lee, “I don’t know what the hell kind of boxing this is but if they can all fight like this, we’re in some deep shit.” Then he notices that Penelope is in the crowd. When Ah Sahm and Yong Li enter the ring as priests give their blessings, O’Hara recognizes Ah Sahm and places a bet on him. Wang Chao assures them that this is “just some neighborhood entertainment.” It is just a “prize fight” and “everything peaceful” because “people want to have a good time” even though all the tongs are there. They see a single man scurrying through the streets and following him, they find a street fair and, in a large room, a boxing ring is set up with spectators betting.
On the night of the match, Sergeant Bill O’Hara (Kieran Bew) and Richard Lee (Tom Weston-Jones) are patrolling the empty streets of Chinatown, wondering where everyone is. In the last episode, the Hop Wei and the Long Zi tongs were convinced to settle their differences by having a death match between their chosen representatives. Mai Ling’s lover, Li Yong (Joe Taslim) will be representing the Long Zii. A broken-hearted Ah Sahm had no choice and will be representing the Hop Wei. Warrior Episode 9 Olivia Cheng as Mei Lin and Hoon Lee as Wang Chao (Credit for all: Graham Bartholomew/Cinemax).
At opposite ends of the boxing ring are raised platforms for the tong leaders of the Hop Wei and the Long Zii. Without electrical lights in that era, he’ll be using a ring of fire hung above a boxing platform. One imagines, that for each task, similar deals are being made.Īnother businessman, Wang Chao (Hoon Lee) is setting up a venue for fighting. That means six more people than Mercer actually budgeted for. Mercer wants eight men per shift for three shifts of a certain job Leary insists on 12. The episode begins with Penelope’s father, Byron Mercer (Jacques Bessenger) making a deal with the thuggish Irish labor leader Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger). Ah Sahm’s relationship with the mayor’s wife, Penelope (Joanna Vanderham), will become an open secret and Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) will begin to find purpose as hallucinatory flashbacks reveal Ah Sahm and Mai Ling’s (Dianne Doan) past. In the penultimate episode of Season 1, the Warrior will find out just who he is after a death match of Chinese Boxing. Joe Taslim as Li Yong and Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm (Credit: Graham Bartholomew/CINEMAX).
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