On The First Beat

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On The First Beat
(學警出更)
Genre Modern Drama
Starring Ron Ng
Sammul Chan
Michael Tao
Sonija Kwok
Joey Yung
Kate Tsui
Kenny Kwan
Yan Ng
Tavia Yeung
Fiona Sit
Opening theme "邁向夢想的天空" by
Ron Ng, Deep Ng, Kenny Kwan
Country of origin Hong Kong
Language(s) Cantonese
No. of episodes 30
Production
Running time approx. 45 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel Television Broadcasts Limited
Original run June 4, 2007 – July 13, 2007
Chronology
Preceded by The Academy
Followed by Academy Full Throttle
External links
Official website

On The First Beat is a 30-episode TVB drama being aired on 4 June 2007. It is the sequel of the 2005's third highest rating series, The Academy (TVB) in 2005. The leading stars features Ron Ng, Sammul Chan and Chin Kar Lok from the original series and some new actors including Michael Tao, Sonija Kwok, Joey Yung, Kenny Kwan and Kate Tsui. The story is mainly about the life of a group of Hong Kong police officers and cadets inside and outside of work.

On the First Beat is a direct sequel to The Academy. The story continues on with the two male leads in this story with their growth as young police officers with personal conflicts in their bonds as friends and romantic relationships.

TVB has a third instalment planned[citation needed]. Production and filming is likely to begin in March 2008, confirmed by main lead Sammul Chan's manager Ivy.

Contents

[edit] Cast

[edit] Guest Roles

[edit] Synopsis

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[edit] Early plot

The series begins with Chung Lap Man (Ron Ng) and Lee Pak Kiu (Sammul Chan) patrolling the streets of Hong Kong with fellow senior constables. During one patrolling shift, Pak Kiu messes with the wrong group of gangs, Chang Zi Keung and Cheung King Fung (Michael Tao). After Pak Kiu, Lap Man, and fellow constables' interrogation with Zi Keung and his henchmen, Zi Keung then files a police complaint on Pak Kiu for abusing his authoritative powers.

After realizing that Pak Kiu got screwed over by Zi Keung, Fiona (Fiona Sit) tries to clear Pak Kiu's name from the complaint, by spying on Zi Keung. Lap Man tries to deter Fiona from spying on Zi Keung because it was a dangerous task. She was also off duty. Fiona finds Zi Keung and King Fung dealing drugs in a parking lot and tries to photograph their drugs-transaction. Fiona accidentally sets off a car alarm and is discovered by Zi Keung and King Fung. Lap Man tries to stop King Fung, but they engage into a fight. Fiona is held hostage by Zi Keung. Pak Kiu tries to rescue Fiona, instead he gets shot in the abdomen by Zi Keung and subsequently Zi Keung shoots Fiona dead. Pak Kiu then wakes up in the hospital and finds out that Fiona is dead and blames her death on Lap Man. Throughout the whole series, conflict and extreme hatred for each other is constantly shown between them.

[edit] Middle plot

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Half a year later, Lap Man and Pak Kiu are introduced to their new sergeant, King Fung. Turns out King Fung was an undercover police officer responsible for the arrest of Zi Keung earlier and the death of Fiona. Lap Man and Pak Kiu both develop a sense of hatred towards King Fung and vice versa. The story then focus on how King Fung tries to screw over both Lap Man and Pak Kiu's promotional opportunities. Lap Man gets angry and files a fake complaint letter on King Fung. King Fung's sister, Cheung Nim Yun (Joey Yung), who is an investigation constable, discover the fake letter prank.

Lap Man and Pak Kiu then meets Kuk Ming Cheung (Chin Kar Lok), who tells him about Pak Kiu's father (Lee Man Shing, Michael Miu). Apparently Pak Kiu's father and King Fung had a bitter past. During this time, Pak Kiu tries to take some psychology classes to try to build up a better resume when he applies for an inspector position within the police department. Yuen Wai Nei (Sonija Kwok) joins Pak Kiu's classes as she thinks its beneficial to police officers.

One day, King Fung goes to visit the wife of this guy Man Shing supposedly screwed over. The wife tells King Fung that Man Shing did not cause her husband to commit suicide and that he did it on his own free will. He soon realized he made a big mistake by holding a grudge against Man Shing and subsequently taking his anger out on Lap Man and Pak Kiu. King Fung then promise to Man Shing that he will train Lap Man and Pak Kiu to be the best police officers.

King Fung tries to help Lap Man, by teaching him things that are not only beneficial to him, but to the public. King Fung also assign Lap Man to an undercover drug-bust mission in a night club. Upon seeing Lap Man get all the fame after the successful mission, Pak Kiu got jealous.

Man Ching (Kate Tsui) comes to Hong Kong from the United States in hopes of finding her mother, who turned out to be Lap Man's aunt. Man Ching then develop feelings for Lap Man, even though she is aware of his girlfriend. Trying to get Man Ching off of his back, Lap Man challenges her to be a police officer at the Police Training School(PTS). Man Ching accepts the challenge. Yuen Ka Fu (Kenny Kwan) coincidentally just came to Hong Kong from Canada. He was expelled from a Canadian university, and applies to be a police officer. He meets Man Ching in the training.

King Fung, Ming Cheung, and a few other sergeants receive a letter that tells them they will be training for the Police Tactical Unit(PTU). During the time at the training camp, Ming Cheung tries to screw King Fung over. Soon after their training is complete; Pak Kiu, Lap Man, and some other constables get to train for the PTU. During the training Pak Kiu and Lap Man always get into arguments, their behaviour then noticed by King Fung, Ming Cheung, the other sergeants, and inspectors. One day Lap Man tells Ming Cheung that King Fung no longer holds a grudge against Man Shing and that everything is back to normal, Ming Cheung then becomes all friendly to King Fung.

At this time, Wai Nei is still angry over the fact that her ex-husband, King Fung had "slept" with another woman and that she doesn't forgive him. Wei Nei's mother hates King Fung with a passion. Kwok Sir (Ellesmere Choi) tries to start a relationship with Wai Nei, but they eventually separate. One day King Fung goes to make this glass vase as it has sentimental value to both him and Wai Nei, he gives it to her and they are back together.

During the PTU training, one day Lap Man and Nim Yun go for lunch and he tells her why Lap Man and Pak Kiu are in a fight. Its because Pak Kiu thinks that Lap Man is a suck up and that he stills blames Lap Man for Fiona's death. Lap Man tells Nim Yung that the reason why he took the blame for Fiona's death is because he didn't want to tell Pak Kiu the truth, because the truth would hurt him. Knowing that his father, Man Shing had died not too long ago and with the addition of Fiona's death, Pak Kiu would be really devastated so instead Lap Man takes the blame for Fiona's death. Nim Yun and King Fung then tells Pak Kiu the truth about what happened to Fiona and how she died. After realizing what he has done to Lap Man, Pak Kiu feels really bad and tries to become friends again with Lap Man but Lap Man refuses. Until one day, they are called to respond to a riot. One of the rioters tries to blow up a gas tank in front of Lap Man, but Pak Kiu pushes Lap Man away. Eventually Pak Kiu gets hurt, but they become friends again.

At this time Man Ching and Ka Fu graduate from PTS. As Man Ching's goal was to graduate from PTS so she can pursue Lap Man, she tries hard to get his attention. But at the end, Lap Man refuses to go out with her.

Occasionally during his sleep, Pak Kiu is haunted by the final minutes of Fiona's life as she is killed by Zi Keung. Pak Kiu is then brought to see a psychologist so he can be helped.

Lap Man and Nim Yun slowly starts to get closer and develop feelings for each other. But knowing that Lap Man has a girlfriend, Ho Fa (Tavia Yeung) and Man Ching has a crush on him, Nim Yun backs off. Wai Nei and King Fung's relationship grows and plans to get married. At this time, King Fung encounters Ip Ling Fung (Selena Li) who was Zi Keung's ex-girlfriend. Ling Fung runs into some financial problems and King Fung helps her. On the day of Wai Nei and King Fung's wedding, Ling Fung tries to draw King Fung's attention by attempting to commit suicide. King Fung tries to get Ling Fung to cooperate, but she ignores him, eventually King Fung has to her to the hospital and becomes extremely late for his wedding. As soon as he gets to his wedding, Wai Nei calls off the wedding and vows that she will no longer be friends or anything with King Fung. Subsequently Wai Nei breaks the precious glass vase made by King Fung.

Ho Ming (Deep Ng) is released from prison and Lap Man tries to help him get back on his feet. Ho Fa comes back to Hong Kong and wants to stay in Hong Kong to be with Lap Man. But Lap Man breaks up with her and she heads back to Japan.

At this time Wai Nei finds out that she is pregnant with King Fung's baby, but she doesn't tell anybody. Pak Kiu finds out about her pregnancy and insists that he will take care of her and the baby. Lap Man, King Fung, and everyone else finds out about Pak Kiu and Wai Nei's relationship. King Fung is extremely angry, yet he wishes that Pak Kiu takes good care of Wai Nei.

Wai Nei feels bad and keeps thinking about King Fung, so she tries to make a replica of the glass vase. Seeing that Wai Nei still has feelings for King Fung, Pak Kiu starts to back off. Ling Fung runs into more financial problems and this time she tries to help Zi Keung smuggle drugs. Zi Keung's actions has been tracked by Wu Sir (Dominic Lam). One day Zi Keung tries to get Ling Fung to cooperate, but she refuses..instead Zi Keung holds her hostage. At this time Wai Nei goes to Ling Fung's apartment to look for King Fung but she accidentally gets kidnapped by Zi Keung. Realizing that Wai Nei has been kidnapped by Zi Keung, King Fung is furious that Wu Sir could have prevented it from happening but refused to.

[edit] End plot

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Wai Nei is beaten by Zi Keung and is left in a coma and dying in an abandoned apartment until Wu Sir and his crew find her. Pak Kiu tells King Fung that Wai Nei still has feelings for King Fung and that the baby belongs to him. King Fung finds out that Wai Nei left a voicemail on the his phone and listens to it. The voicemail is by Wai Nei, she tells him that he is the baby's father and she wants to be with him again. Knowing that King Fung would be at the hospital looking after Wai Nei, Zi Keung tries to go kill King Fung. Ming Cheung, Pak Kiu, and Lap Man receive a call about an officer taken down in an alley and finds out that the officer was assaulted by Zi Keung. So the trio runs to the hospital to help King Fung. Zi Keung finds King Fung and the two start shooting at each other in the hospital until they take they battle onto the rooftop. Pak Kiu, Wu Sir, and Wu Sir's assistant go help King Fung. Wu Sir's assistant is shot by Zi Keung. Pak Kiu comes face to face with Zi Keung and remembers exactly what had happened to him, Fiona, and Zi Keung, yet Pak Kiu still doesn't have the guts to overcome his fear of using his gun. Until King Fung yells at him and tells Pak Kiu to know when to use his gun to help King Fung. Wu Sir is then shot by Zi Keung and held hostage. Pak Kiu then shoots Zi Keung, Zi Keung is then able to run away.

After running from the hospital in disguise as a doctor amid the curious crowd, Zi Keung is killed by Ka Fu, an officer who is guarding the crowd. Wu Sir, Pak Kiu, King Fun receives awards for their bravery. King Fung receives news that Wai Nei is in critical condition and has to have an operation to take the baby out, otherwise both her and the baby will die. After the surgery, Wai Nei wakes up the in the middle of the night just to see King Fung for the last time and she dies.

Lap Man then confesses to Nim Yun that he likes her and hopes that they can start something rather than waiting like King Fung and Wai Nei.

The series ends with King Fung, Ming Cheung, Pak Kiu, Lap Man and the rest of their column walking the streets of HK. They receive a call for help and hop into the police van to report in for duty.

[edit] Critical response

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Fans of the show didn't like how Fiona was so easily removed from the show very early in the series just as Joey entered the story line[citation needed]. There was speculation that she couldn't commit a schedule to finish the series and so like many stars who previously worked on a continued TVB series and couldn't fully commit, they were simply "killed" or excused off to move along the plot[citation needed]. Several of the previous characters had unresolved plot lines, but the actors had different committed projects and so they were never re-visited or had brief returns. Various relationships were discontinued while other characters were re-cycled or actors repackaged as "new characters". TVB is most notorious for defying canon logic by continuing a series and reintroducing characters that had completely different rolls compared to the last series[citation needed].

One of the biggest criticisms came about Winnie's death. While badly injured she had surgery and during all this time she wasn't placed in the Intensive Care Unit or rigged to any medical electronics to monitor her poor progress. She merely woke up and died in the morning without any nurses or medical alarms. Fans joked she was placed in the worst hospital for medical care.

[edit] Ratings

  • Week 1 (EP 01 - 05): 30 points
  • Week 2 (EP 06 - 10): 28 points
  • Week 3 (EP 11 - 15): 30 points
  • Week 4 (EP 16 - 20): 32 points (Peaked at 33 points)
  • Week 5 (EP 21 - 25): 32 points (Peaked at 35 points)
  • Week 6 (EP 26 - 30): 35 points (Peaked at 39 points)
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