KIU learns from Magistrate LAM that the Taiping troops have been attacking Hangzhou. He gets so worried when he knows that MO and PANG KIU have lost contact with the family. KEI needs HANG and his gang to help look for MO and PANG KIU while she herself has sent a team of security guards to rescue them. KAU has disappeared for nine solid days. TONG asks HANG about KAU’s whereabouts but gets beaten up at the end. TIN and his followers who are determined to avenge KAU’s death plan to attack HANG in the middle of the night. KEI discovers their assassination plot and manages to stop them in time. KEI proves that HANG has nothing to do with the kidnap of KAU and no one is really optimistic about his chances of survival. After returning home, KEI asks CHING to keep stalking MAN. CHING follows MAN around and makes a shocking discovery. CHING tells KEI about what he has found but KEI needs him to keep it secret……