The Man from Hong Kong

- The next stage on our tour is Ayers Rock.

The most famous rock formation in Australia,

if not the world.

1,140 feet high, six and a half miles around,

its red coloration comes from the iron oxide,

which is spread all over places in the region.

Ah gee, gimme a break!

Heroin?

Well it's not sherbet.

Welcome to Australia, Mr. Chan.

I'm Taylor, Federal Narcotics Bureau.

And you're wanted in Hong Kong for robbery,

drug peddling, and murder.

Oh yeah we've been expecting you.

So do yourself a favor and answer a few questions.

Who sent you, who do you work for?

You're no use to them now.

Yeah and I love you too.

Now what are their names?

No speakity English huh, okay.

We'll get someone down from Hong Kong who

can speak to you, I'm sure you two will really hit it off.

Shit.

Where am I?

You have landed safely?

- Yeah I'm all right, what is this place?

Army Headquarters?

Hey just a bloody minute.

Your name please?

Where are they taking that?

Your name.

Caroline Thorne.

Look the bloke who owns that thing

isn't gonna like it when he finds--

- Where are you staying in Hong Kong, Ms. Thorne?

The Hong Kong Hotel.

You can't just--

We can Ms. Thorne.

I'm Inspector Fang Sing Leng, of Hong Kong Special Branch.

How do you do, Inspector?

- You have broken airspace regulations.

There may be charges, your kite will be confiscated

until your case is heard.

I told you, it's not my kite.

- But we will let you have the charges.

- Listen, I work for a newspaper in Sydney

and I'm doing a story about kite-flying.

Are you Australian?

- Yes, does that mean you'll drop the charges?

- Haha, relations between our two countries

are not quite so good as that.

You will come with me, Ms. Thorne.

- Are you gonna give me the third degree?

You're famous for that here aren't you?

- I'm going to escort you back to your hotel.

- Well in an unmarked car I hope, I don't want people

thinking I mix with policemen.

- What do you think of Hong Kong, Ms. Thorne?

- Uh, beautiful, squalid, exhilarating and frightening.

All the traditional contradictions of the East

in one city, at least that's what I'll write in my column.

For instance you had the best wind lifts for

kite-flying I've ever come across.

And yet at the same time, the air in Kowloon is

one of the worst pollution records in the world.

- Do all Australian journalists travel by kite?

- Do all Chinese policemen drive Mercedes?

Only Special Branch.

- And what's so special about the Special Branch?

Permit me to show you.

Can I have my kite back now?

I do have to be in Sydney by the weekend.

Certainly, I will arrange it.

Wow, you're full of surprises.

So are you Caroline.

You're my first Chinese.

- Will you review me in your column?

- Ah tell me Inspector do you often take white girls to bed?

- Only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

- Do I have to make a reservation?

- We will meet again when I come to Sydney.

When's that gonna be?

- Soon, there's a man I have to find,

a dealer in narcotics.

- I see, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

- You're right Caroline, a man's gotta do,

what a man's got to do.

G'day.

Fancy seeing you here.

- You weren't planning to keep him to yourself were you?

What's his name?

- Fang Sing Leng, Inspector, Hong Kong Special Branch.

Inspector?

That's a lotta muscle for a routine extradition isn't it?

- Well what did you expect, a bloody traffic cop?

- I wouldn't want him rocking the boat man,

I mean if Wilton doesn't find out how close we are,

we could crack this anytime.

- Ah don't worry mate, extraditions are copper's perks.

It's funny because it's the holiday for him.

Inspector Taylor.

Inspector Fang Sing Leng?

Good to see you.

You too.

Bob Taylor.

Morrie Grosse.

- Sergeant Grosse is with our Narcotics Bureau.

Boom boom.

Ah, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

Fancy a cup of tea?

Well, okay.

- Good, there's a little cafe we have.

It doesn't do a bad job, considering.

While you're here we'd like you to enjoy yourself.

Do you have any vices?

- I like to gamble, now and then.

I go to Macau, it's legal there.

Well it's not here.

But there's three places you could go to downtown.

Wouldn't know the names of course.

- And you can't get in for the politicians.

- Win Chan, has he told you anything yet?

No.

He's a very important man.

The top courier, he must have the information.

He must have the information about the man I want.

- About the man we all want old mate.

- We're a new squad, working on our own.

It's gonna take a while to get him.

But we're working on it.

Our way.

Right.

Hey, visitor for you!

Stand up, up!

He said stand up.

Let me talk to him alone.

No man.

Why not, I feel like a beer.

Just a minute mate.

Would you believe two beers.

- Come on are you crazy, what's happening?

Now look, don't worry, he's in good hands.

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey!

I don't mean to be rude man, but no torture,

no thumbscrews, this is Australia,

we're not allowed to get into that sort of thing mate.

- He's a Chinese, I'm a Chinese, don't worry.

- Hey, hey you find out anything, you'll let me know huh?

- What are you trying to do man, let him get an edge?

Come on, maybe he can help us.

Our case, our case remember.

- Okay, maybe he can find us something we wanna know.

Something he wants to know.

- Ever heard of the water torture mate?

- Come off it, he's only got 10 minutes.

- Oh they've got a million subtle methods of torture

these Chinese.

- He gets evidence, he gives it to us.

- If he gets anything from Win Chan he'll use it himself,

he'll go after the man, get in my way, and screw up

the whole case, a solid year building evidence.

Look if anybody's gonna make a bust

on this case it's me, right?

- Right, so what possible harm can he do?

Wilton.

Wilton?

That was the name he gave me.

How are you doing Bob?

He'll live.

- Okay for court tomorrow?

- We'll patch him together somehow.

- Right, what did you use on him man?

I just defended myself.

- God help us if the judge finds out.

Right.

This man, Wilton, who is he?

- Forget Wilton, we'll handle it.

Where is he, here in Sydney?

Here, there, everywhere.

Extradition papers, remember?

- Tell me about this Wilton, please.

Forget Wilton, Wilton's mine.

- It's Win Chan you came here for.

- Look, just a little trip to court tomorrow morning,

and extradition can go ahead, and then you can both

be on your way back to Hong Kong.

You're a lucky man, I've always wanted to see the East myself,

could never afford it, but you, oh you get to travel

at the government's expense, you're a lucky man.