Catch Me Now Episode 5

We see more of Damian's past in this episode and litte scenes here and there. Just another episode.
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We see that Joe's parents were killed in a factory fire caused by Evergreen's father in the past. He overhears the conversation and vows revenge.

Just a random thought. I felt that the actor that played the younger Damian in this series looked a lot like Raymond Lam. Do you guys feel the same? Hehe.
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Anyway, to continue, the younger Damian captures Evergreen and his father and tells him to do more good instead of evil if not he would come back after him again. From then onwards, Damian vows to be a person who would help poor victims.
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Fala finds out that Joe has been demoted by his boss and is angry that he did not tell her about it. Hmm. I'm not all that interested in their relationship actually. Nothing really exciting or funny. Just plain sweet love.
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Johnson invites Sharon to an exhibition but she is no mood to go after hearing that Joe had been demoted. Their scenes are what I look forward to next after the police & thief scenes. I think Sharon looks quite old in this series. Probably her heavy eye liner and mascara.
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Joe and his team have a buffet to bid him farewell after his demotion. They corner Damian and starts to make things difficult for him. Kinda pity Damian though. Dickson arrives and tells the team that he has managed to make Joe returned to the team. Yay for them but boo for Damian. His plan eventually flops.

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Catch Me Now Episode 4

Another very exciting episode of Catch Me Now.. Damian and his team sets a plan to trap Joe & the police.. Very smart plan I must say..

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Joe and Damian have a race where Joe tells Damian of his mentor's death 5 years ago. This lead to a short recollection of Damian which shows him pointing a gun at Joe's mentor. Hmm. I wonder what's their relationship because Damian doesn't look like the type who would kill.
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Sharon is mad at Johnson for not replacing her Mimi toy in time and sends him another email explaining that she would ruin his reputation in the forum. Johnson sets off to look for Sharon to ask her to give him another chance.

Johnson then fakes that he had cancer due to over exertion from finding her toy. At first, Sharon believes him and is apologetic for causing him to be like this. However, she soons see through his disguise and pulls it off him.

Shaorn is trying to break through a firewall virus and has problems doing it. Johnson steps into to help and they finally make it up. She treats him to a fine dining meal along a fountain. I wonder why she took that trouble to buy plates and glasses and ingredients. Wouldn't going to a restaurant be faster? Haha. But it was kinda cute to see them finally become friends.
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Koni boards Eric's taxi and they pretend not to know each other. He mentions a magazine name and a handphone number for her to call if she ever needed a taxi. The police finds their conversation suspicious and tries to decipher it. The phone number was "93941920". 93 referred to the page number on the magazine which is the location (Bowling Alley) of the plan later on. 94 referred to the date while 1920 referred to the time.

At first I was wondering how Koni & Eric could be so careless as to let the police know about their plan but the answer was at the back. Anyway, I didn't know Joe Ma was left handed. Haha.. I'm left handed too.. Wonder which other artistes are also left handed.
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The plan starts! It's gonna get very confusing. Read on to understand. Damian pretends to teach Idy to make a souffle but he was on the phone the whole time. The wonders of handsfree & bluetooth. Johnson is at the bowling alley waiting for Al Wai to come. The latter places a packet inside a locker. Johnson tells Damian that "the ingredients are in". He was actually telling Damian that the package had been deposited.
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Eric arrives next, he passes Johnson but they pretend not to know each other. Eric tells Damian over the phone that the "egg white has been added into the egg yolk. Stir for another 4 mins". Well, it actually means that he (egg white) has already reached the destination (egg yolk) and he will reach the bowling alley in another 4 mins.
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Koni arrives at the scene next. Joe orders the bowling alley staff to open the locker up and tells Dickson & Aimee to delay Koni from going up. They pretend to have a lover's tiff to irritate Koni but she takes the escalator instead. Joe opens the package and sees some photos in them. He takes some pictures of them just before Koni proceeds to look at them as well. She phones Damian "the souffle is done". She actually meant that Joe had taken the bait. Wonder what I mean? Read on to find out.
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The police follows Koni & Eric to Royal Court Hotel (the hotel used in Revolving Doors of Vengeance). Again, I was wondering why did Koni & Eric take the risk of being seen together. The photos taken at the locker were sent to the police headquarters for verification but the commissioner has a shock after he looks at them. Wonder why?
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Koni & Eric proceed on to the hotel's restaurant where the guys in the pictures were dining. They change into waiter's uniforms and Koni takes aim at the chandelier and shoots it down causing the whole room to go into total darkness and confusion. During the confusion, Joe and his team dashes in and points guns at the guys in the pictures while Eric and Koni make their departure. Aimee attacks one of the guys and Joe's superior comes in and scolds them for attacking the police officers from China.
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Damian & his team celebrate their success in trapping Joe and the police. If you don't understand the plan, it was actually to cause Joe to mistake that Damian's team was on to another transaction and their partners were the guys in the pictures. However, Damian had actually tracked down that the China Police Officers would be in Hong Kong and trapped Joe into attacking them so he would demoted by his boss and would stop following them.

A very smart plan. I was thinking through out the plan why was Damian so stupid as to let the police be so close on their tails. Guess I was wrong. His character is damn smart.

Catch Me Now Episode 3

Hehe.. I liked this episode as there were many Sharon & Johnson's scenes. Anyway, it's getting more exciting as Joe finally narrows down the suspects to Damian's team.
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Continuing from the previous episode, Koni shoots some pellets at Johnson to alert him that it was a trap. She also shot Joe's cameras and voice analysis systems and created a strong echo, giving Johnson & Damian a chance to escape. The team changes outfits and meets Keyman at an emergency exit where he blows up for them to exit in time. Joe asks the boy who Koni held and he tells him that it was a "sister" that held him.
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The team pretends to be angry at Johnson for nearly exposing their identity and Damian tells them to prepare the punishment. They catch Johnson and he promises to go to the countryside to teach the young children there. The team then surprises him by telling him it was just a hoax. Haha.. I like the teamwork shown in Damian's team. It's very natural and fun to watch. They're like one big family.
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Joe and his team start to test different type of perfumes to narrow down the type of perfume Koni was wearing. A perfume expert then tells them it is a perfume called Chance and its a limited edition version.

Hmm.. I thought it was rather cliche that in almost every police series, every clue is a limited edition and they have a specific namelist of people who bought them. So easy to locate then. Maybe I was having more expectations of this series.

Anyway, I think Fala & Joe looks compatible as a couple because they're both very tall.
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A simple dinner by the family where Joe starts to suspect Koni as the shooter as she also wore Chance perfume.
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Johnson is forced to leave for the countryside and sings a very mushy song to Damian before he leaves. Damian claims that he is not gay and he wants Johnson to leave immediately. I like to see their cousin relationship. Very funny at times. =)
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Sharon is representing her security company to check on a supermarket's security device. Johnson is suspected of stealing something when the alarms sounds. While checking Johnson's bag, Sharon sees a couple of "Mini" collection toys that she collects too and Johnson's identification card. The manager of the supermarket then realises Johnson was stepping on a barcode tag which triggered the alarm.

This reminded me of the scene in Healing Hands III when Lawrence Ng was also suspected of stealing something from a supermarket but Gigi Lai found out it was because he was stepping on a barcode tag. No screencaps though. =p
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Johnson is about to throw away his "Mini" collection toys when he is stopped by Sharon who tells him to give them to her as she collects them too. He grabs her toy and accidentally crush them under his feet. Oops!

She takes a photo of him and tells him that she has got all his personal particulars from viewing his ID and will post it on the "Mini" collection forum so that the other members would blackmail him. Haha.. I like Sharon in this series. She carries off a fun loving but serious at the same time girl. Furthermore, her chemistry with Johnson is awesome as well. They do not have the couple face but they are fun couple to watch.
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On the other hand, Joe & his team start to follow Koni around. Celine Ma didn't have enough money on hand and sees Koni on the street by chance. She asks her to lend her money but Koni pretends not to know her. Celine then realises she has forgotten that Eric had told her not to acknowledge any of their team members as the police were on their tails.
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The police gets suspicious of Celine & Koni's chance meeting and digs deeper. They find out that Celine & Eric were married and they all belonged to a same team. Their target now was the mastermind.
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Another Sharon & Johnson scene! Johnson gives her a duplicate "Mini" toy but Sharon realises it is a fake. She grabs him by the shirt and threatens to blackmail him on the forum again. Haha.. They're so funny tgt!
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Johnson sneaks into Sharon's house to try to steal her other "Mini" toy as a duplicate and ends up realising that Joe was her brother. He also finds out that Joe suspects Eric & Koni and reports it to Damian.
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Joe & his team rummages through some rubbish found at Eric's garage and finds a "Pirates of the Caribbean" matchbox. Damian purposely left his PDA on the table and Joe heads over to check it out. Damian sneaks up from behind and asks if Joe found what he was looking for. Joe admits that he is finding evidence of Damian's crimes.

Ooh.. The plot thickens!

Catch Me Now Episode 2

Episode 2 of Catch Me Now wasn't that exciting. It was mainly focus on Idy's divorce and the further introduction of a few other characters in this series. Joe's hunt for his mentor's murderer and for Damian's team starts in this episode as well. Overall, I was not pleased the way they introduced Sharon's character as I expected an explosive entrance by her but it was just a shared scene of her eating with her family members. Fala's character is so similar to her character in AJCL. It's like watching Vicky act in Catch Me Now. Not much difference. Oh gosh.
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Idy rushes off to her husband's house to demand to see her son and ends up climbing the gate.

Her husband tells her that she doesn't stand a chance of beating him in the case. Damian arrives and tells her that although she can't beat the case, she can beat something else. Idy then gives her husband a tight slap across his face. I think Idy has a weird voice like she has lost it or something and sometimes her scenes are dubbed. Hmmm..
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Damian visits his lawyer friend onboard his Casino Ship and gives him a list of charity organisations to donate the money from the previous mission too. They watch a piece of news that shows Evergreen and his father donating some money to a charity as well. Damian recaps how he had turned Evergreen's dad from a bad person to the charitable person he is today.

However, Evergreen turns out to be a evil fella. He plays a card game with the drug dealer from the previous mission. If you guys remember, the money was actually banked into the dealer's account but was taken out by Damian unknowingly. Therefore, Evergreen had to pay him again.

Evergreen is furious over this issue and goes into the restroom and starts smashing things. He receives a glass of brandy from somebody who wrote a message under the coaster, "The good will be rewarded". It's quite obvious for us that it was Damian that wrote it.
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This scene introduces Fala. She works in a bank and was on her way off work when Joe appears to take her to dinner.
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This scene introduces Sharon as Joe's younger sister. The family is dining at a restaurant and it sorts of describes the family's justice league. Joe's dad used to be in the army, Joe's a policeman while Sharon works in a security company. Sharon's lamb chop is served with only mostly the bones and she demands compensation from the manager. Kinda shows her character is very upright and principled.
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The family realises that Joe has been transfered to another department and are excited that they can finally buy their dream house!
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The family then visits this big house that has settles all the qualities they were looking for only to realise that Joe was only transfered to a new department but not promoted thus there wasn't a raise in his salary to their disappointment. Awwww..

They start complaining in the cafe that it was such a pity to lose the house and realise they had already paid a deposit for the house! The agent refused to return the deposit and Joe turns up to pay the other instalments as he realised that his family really love the house. Aww.. What a great guy! I like the chemistry between their family. Very close knitted and comfortable.
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Fala tells Joe that she will try to save on buying her handbags and accessories in future. Kinda sounds like a repeat from her character in AJCL. Joe & Damian meet officially for the first time when Damian almost knocks Joe down with his bike.
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Dickson Lee plays Yau Dai Hoi, a CID part of Joe's team.

Aimee Chan plays Nana also a CID on Joe's team. She's pretty green in the acting industry so we'll just see.

Joe re-opens his mentor's murder case and his subordinate how he had witness the 5 robbers shoot his mentor, killing him on the spot. Hmm.. 5 robbers? Could it be Damian's team? Hoepfully it isn't them. Quite unexpected that they would murder and kill people. Joe looks at the evidence and realises there is something he has seen before- the toy.

A few days ago, he had found another similar toy in the evidence of the first mission. In actual fact, both toys are suspected to be Johnson's. Hmm.. It's quite questionable that he would drop such similar items during two missions.
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The family has dinner at Damian's restaurant. Sharon turns up late as she has gone to meet a buyer to get a collection toy. She explains that any collector would only feel at ease after they have collected the full set. Joe then sets a trap to lure Damian's team out.
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Damian overhears the conversation and tries to figure out what Joe's plan is. He then realises that Johnson had fallen for Joe's trap. He calls Koni to help him to stop Johnson.

The plan: Joe and his team had found a tape recording of the one of the robbers's voice. He plans to lure the robber out with a tongue twister competition to be able to record and match people's voices and offers the collector's toy as a reward hoping to lure him out.

Hmm.. I find that this plan was not that perfect. There were 5 robbers that day however, one of them dropped a toy while one of them had his voice accidentally recorded. How sure was Joe that the robber who dropped the toy was the one who spoke? Food for thought.

Damian realises it was too late to save Johnson and ask Koni to "Destroy the body". Koni then grabs a child and fires. We see Johnson in a painful expression in the last screencap. Wonder what she shot? Stay tune. =)
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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!