Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Catch Me Now Episode 1

My initial thoughts after watching the first episode? I'M TOTALLY HOOKED! Catch Me Now didn't dissappoint me with its first episode with the exciting storyline and cliffhangers. It's quite a different type of storyline than what TVB usually fims (The classic Police & Thief story).

Joe Ma is the police solving cases. Damian Lau appears to be the thief but he is in fact a "Robin Hood" type of character. He robs the rich and gives to the poor. How does he do that? Read on to find out. =)
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Stephen Hyunh guests stars momentarily as a drug dealer who gets cornered by Joe and his team in a church while undergoing a transaction. I think he's really charming so a little credit for his tiny role in this series. This transaction also starts off the first case of this series.
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Ok. This series introduces the main characters in this special tiny intro telling us their names and roles. I like it as it's so cool and you know the casts's roles better. Read on to see more intros of the casts. By the way, Joe Ma plays Senior Inspector Keung Yeung.
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Damian is guessing where Stephen has kept the drugs in the church and he names the candles just as Joe had suspected.

Damian's lawyer friend then tels him that he has the mind of a cop & a thief that's why he hasn't been caught all this time. Anyway, Damian's new mission is to now find out the location of the money used in this transaction. (Stephen and the other drug dealer fooled the police by using magazines in the briefcases.)
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Damian Lau plays Jack Ko- The Mastermind. I like how the producers gave him this role name. Fits his character very well.
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Eric Lee plays Hao Lo- The Mad Racer. He's part of Damian's team and is in charge of transportation. Has excellent driving skills.

Al Wai plays Keyman- The Demolition Man. He is also on Damian's team and excels in bomb making.

Damian owns a cafe called Pirates of the Caribbean as he sells Caribbean Cuisine. His team usually meets up at the cafe to discuss their missions. Sherming Yiu plays the manager of this cafe. I think it's a rather pretty cafe with its delicate designs and elegant landscapes.
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Koni Lui plays Long Leg Crab, a shooter on Damian's team. She uses a lot of her beauty in getting information from people. Reminds me of Bernice Liu's character in Into Thin Air.
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Koni tries to explain why she is late and suddenly strips to her swimsuit to explain that she rushed over from her swimsuit modelling assignment. So far, I think her acting is so-so only. Not that outstanding.

Johnson Lee plays BT- The Hacker, the final member of Damian's team.
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Evergreen Mak meets the dealer of the drug money to claim the money?? Sorry. I didn't understand what they were talking about in here. All I know they were splitting something in 60%. Can anybody explain?

Technology is so advanced now. Pin hole cameras can be installed in cigarette boxes and pens and lip reading services are available as and when. Both the police and Damian's team finds out the location of Evergreen's transaction.
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This picture is actually to showcase the importance of teamwork in Damian's team. Eric ensures they drive fast and safe enought to avoid anybody, Johnson is in charge of computer devices, Koni places a device to change the traffic lights into all green lights so they can drive past easily and Damian is the leader of everything. Haven't really seen Al Wai's role yet though. Guess there's nothing for him to blow up yet. Haha.

Eric accidentally swerves and almost hits Idy Chan and her son. I guess Damian is carrying a secret torch for her as he gets shy and worried whenever she is around. He even went to rebuy her groceries as a way to apologise for almost knocking her down.
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Damian's undeground hideout. We see abit of the member's duties here too. It's so cool. If I get to choose, I'll choose to be BT- The Hacker (Johnson) cos I think it's an interesting role!
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The police and Damian's team arrive at the transaction location to seize the money. The police tries to ward off the dealers but they are unable to approach the money as Koni is up in the hills being the sniper and shooting bullets to prevent them from approaching the money giving the dealers a way to escape with it. The excitment starts here as we start to see how Damian plans for the money to reach his hands.
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Koni's the sniper in green by the way. Joe guesses that the transaction would be done by a helicopter and a boat and he was right. Evergreen calls the dealer who enters a pin number into his mobile phone. The money had been transacted into his Dubai Bank Account.
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Johnson installs a fake tiny explosion in Evergreen's helicopter to give off the impression that the helicopter is losing fuel causing it to land in a destination that they were heading off too.
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Eric blocks the road with the lorry and the team walks on to the helicopter pad only to realise that Joe has already reached befor them by riding a bike. By the way, I think Joe looks hot in his outfit. =) He asks his men to search Evergreen's helicopter for the money but to no avail.

Unknown to Joe, Evergreen had already dumped the money into the sea before landing and told his pilot to remember the location so that they could come back for it later.

Surprisingly, unknown to Evergreen as well, Damian had asked Johnson to check the location where the helicopter got lighter after Evergreen throws down the money. He and Koni then drives to the location and dives down to get the money. Koni thought they had only gotten the $50 Million that Evergreen had tossed out but Damian tells her that they had $80 Million as he had set a bug in the dealer's mobile phone and he accessed the dealer's Dubai Bank Account using the pin code he had tapped.
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The team celebrates their success in getting the money. If you guys still don't get how Damian is a "Robin Hood" kind of fella, he actually steals this kind of money (drug transactions etc) and gives it to charity. The team members usually get to keep 50% of it while they donate the rest to charity as well. To me, I think it's quite controversial as people may say that they are doing it for good while others may think the money should be returned to the government instead of them deciding where to use it or pocket it.
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Damian has a very nice & technologically advanced house in this series. He is able to preprogram from his mobile phone for the shades to be raised and for his bath to be run. The lights in his house turn on when he is in the room and fades off when he leaves. Cool.. But it's such a big house and he's the only one in it. =(
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Idy Chan realises her husband (Cheng Tse Shing) has been cheating on her all the while and Damian goes over to console her.
So far, I'm loving this series a lot and I hope it'll continue to be as action-packed as its first episode. Do stay tune!

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