A Matter of Customs...

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I don't think that TVB make sequel of this serie. The serie was great, but not enough for a sequel. Obviously Wong He died at the end, I think...

I was wonderin did he really get shot? they didnt actually show it but by the way he fell into the water makes it look like he got shot...I think the ending really sux...leavin the viewers hangin with question marks around their heads

yea, i thought he didn't die, and thought it ended that way just so that there would be a sequel. guess not though, its been so many years.

yeah i agree...eventho i really wished there will be a sequel...guess the ratings just werent high enough

Cast:
Wong Hei as Lam Chi Kwong
Jessica Hester Hsuan as Vung Moon Fun
Liza Wong as Lui Fok Ming/Ah Ming
Danny Lee as Tao Ling Shan
Mak Cheung Ching as Lee Zhi Sek
Jade Leung as Bao Gei Heurng
Fiona Leung as Queenie/Siu Yuk Gwai
William Cho as Lam Chi Kit
Joyce Tang as Wan Pui Ling
Melissa Ng as Bao Gei Kwun
Shirley Cheung as Gung Siu Yao

Summary: (Warning! Spoilers!)

At the beginning, there are two customs teams. One was led by Liza and her co-workers were Jade, Fiona, Mak, and some other cast. They are working together to check a ship out because they believed it contained illegal gasoline. They were correct and one of the outlaws threatened to light his cigarette lighter, which would cause everyone on the ship to die if it exploded with the gas. However, Liza kicked up a plastic cloth in the air, making the outlaw fall and he was caught. After returning to their workplace, she congratulated the team for their great performance and told them she had to go to Macau for a conference. When she was on the verge of returning to Hong Kong, she saw Jessica's ability of working with a suspect well, so she decides to transfer Jessica to her team. (Sidenote, Liza is Jessica's aunt and Liza is Jessica's role model.)

Jessica is now transferred into Liza's custom department. She also planned to move back to Hong Kong, and surprisingly enough, her family's neighbor is Wong Hei and his dad. His dad is also the president of the apartment building and when Wong Hei's dad and Jessica's mom met, they didn't get along. Wong Hei kind of gave Jessica the cold shoulder when she saw that his dad got a cut on his finger and gave him a bandaid. When Jessica arrived at her new workplace, she finds out that Wong Hei is also transferred there as the captain. He used to be a CID, but he shot and killed a man and couldn't take the guilt, so he quits. This is also the reason why he's pretty much a loner.

After the first case, Liza talked to Wong Hei that he should be more of a team player than a loner, comparing him to coffee, because he only drinks black. During the next case, he was nicer. Jessica and Fiona were chasing a suspect who jabbed Jessica with a needle. The suspect has AIDS. So she took a break from work and stayed at the hospital to test if she was infected. Everyone, including her family and Liza's family, was trying to make her feel better telling her she won't get AIDS. She made herself look strong and confident in front of them, until they leave. She ran outside the hospital and cried, Wong Hei saw this and tried to comfort her. He took her swimming, saying it will reduce stress--it worked. When they got the test results, Jessica and Wong Hei hugged because the results of her getting AIDS was negative. So Liza had a barbecue party to celebrate and there, Liza found out that Wong Hei has changed because he was adding sugar and cream to his coffee. Jessica though, thought her aunt didn't like her because she didn't let Jessica do anything serious when they took action except putting the caution labels up so no civilians can enter.

When Jessica saw a motorcycle model in a store, she wanted to buy one for Wong Hei. She saw William Cho, (Wong Hei's brother who is with their mom after their parents separated) with the one she wants, which was the last one and he gave it to her. William seems to like Jessica very much for her personality because of this. They saw each other very soon because Wong Hei invited her to a race, which includes his bother, his mom and dad was also there. Jessica saw that Wong Hei was getting annoyed because his mom wanted to introduced him to this girl, so he and Jessica pretends to be a couple. It didn't fool William though. Well that night, Jessica and Wong Hei became an item .

Soon, Liza transferred Jessica to a new team and she again thinks that her aunt don't want to let her do a good job. Wong Hei knows that Liza is just trying to train Jessica, but he promised not to tell. The place where Jessica was transferred, required her to work with dogs (I believed one of the dogs was her own) and one her teammates was Joyce. Mak was soon transferred there too, and he thought that Joyce like him, so he made a move to woo her. Apparently, he was mistaken. Jade (Jade Leung) was also depressed because her brother-in-law, who she has a crush on, gave her a sign that she should find someone else, so she met Mak and drank a lot of beers. The next morning they were in bed together after being drunk, and apparently they did it because she was pregnant. He agreed to married her, and at first, she didn't agree because she didn't want him to do this for the baby, but eventually she agreed and because of the marriage, they did love each other for real.

About the same time, Jessica and Wong Hei broke up because they both thought that they were too similar, they were both high-tempered for example. He later went with Shirley. She is the daughter of a dad who is gay and was killed by Wong Hei when he was a CID. She's very insecure but Wong Hei broke this part of her and loved her very much. William Cho also made a move on Jessica and they were dating too, but during their dating, his mom didn't like Jessica that much because of a misunderstanding. So she broke up with him later on and he went out with Joyce after a time. Shirley left when her mom was killed but Wong Hei still loves her, until he saw her one day using drugs. He and Jessica tried to help her, but she says she can't, she says that she has AIDS, she can't live much longer. Wong Hei stayed by her side until she died (very sad).

Later on, Jade's sister, Melissa, came back wanting to have her relationship back with Danny after she left him 8 years ago because she had a miscarriage and she can't have babies anymore. But, Liza was also in the running after all. Danny was there to help her writing Chinese calligraphy, and when both her parents passed away, he was also there. He ended up choosing Liza (married her). Melissa wasn't angry at the decision, she stayed in HK and befriends them and stays with Jade, helping her since Jade was pregnant.

The next case deals with a lot of cocaine being ship to Hong Kong. When they were investigating, Queenie was taken hostage and Wong Hei told her to trust him. She did, so she pulled away from the suspect and Wong Hei took a gun shot, and it hits Queenie. She died and the suspect died too because Jackie shot him. The whole team was really sad, especially Jade because they were best friends, but she didn't have a bad impression of Wong Hei because of this. However, Wong Hei felt the same thing when he shot Shirley's dad, so he told the chief of customs he wanted to be an underdog to investigate the case. This was private, so only that captain knows. He acted like a jerk and everything, and everyone hated him. He was with the gang, and there he finds that Danny is there too. Danny was forced because one of the people had evidence of him accidentally killed his mom when he was young (she was a whore). On the mission, Wong Hei had to hit Jessica and his dad to proved this, which was really hard for him to do this. The killer Jackie liked Wong Hei, and he knows he have to get to her, so he slept with her (Jessica saw this too, he saw Jessica at a corner and he kissed Jackie). After they slept with each other, the next morning Jackie saw that her stuff wasn't in the right place and became suspicious of Wong Hei.

As time grew, the case was almost done, and his identity was revealed. Melissa was caught because she knows their secret and Jackie tries to make Danny kill her. He couldn't do this and Wong Hei saw that she was suffering, so he killed her. Danny was caught and he went to jail. Everyone else was dead except Jackie and she told Wong Hei she's going to come and kill him and everyone around him. Everyone thinks he's just over thinking, but Jackie planted a gas that would've killed them, but luckily Wong Hei saves them in time. Wong Hei and William decides to make their parents and Liza's parent go on a vacation to get away from danger, but before they went on an airplane, Wong Hei's dad went to the bathroom for a long time. They had a feeling that he might be in danger so Wong Hei and William chased Jackie and she put their dad on a rope and dropped him, so he suffocated and died, Jackie left the scene.

The next day Wong Hei and Jessica were marrying, but Jackie caught Jessica and tied her to a pole in the sea. Wong Hei came, and he and Jackie ate all the pills in a bottle that help them shoot more accurately. They both took some shots at each other on different boats. Wong Hei saw that Jessica was almost drowning so he shot the rope off, but at the same time, Jackie shot him and he fell in the water. Jessica screamed and untied herself. Jackie was about to shoot her too, but Wong Hei popped up taking one shot and it killed Jackie. At the end, Wong Hei fell in the water too, and Jessica went searching for him as the customs are coming. (This ending wasn't necessary saying that Wong Hei died, it's just a cliffhanger, so if the series gets high ratings it will have a sequel).


Much credit to Jennie at http://www.spcnet.tv/tvb_amatterofcustoms.shtml for the summary!

I thought this series was great, cast was great too... wong he looks so hot haha =) but the ending was soooo sad...

this is the good series that i like people should really watch...and i think of it i want to see it again because it very good.

I thought that this serie is really good; however, the ending is so sad. I didn't enjoyed the love triangle between Wong hei, Jessica and the other girl. The relation gets set up in such a strange way.

no sequel?!?
i liked that show
but yeah i don't like the ending >_< don't like left with cliffhangers
that was sad show
wish there was a sequel though

I don't think there's a sequel cos heard the ratings wasn't that good for the show. Also they ended the story in Wong Hei's music video for the sub-theme song, whereby we find out he's really dead and Jessica finds the note he buried on the hill.

ya i agree... wong he's character most probably died.. unless they replace him with someone else

i soo loved this series.. it was soo sad.. the ending was really sad. it was like such a cliff hanger.. i wish there would make a sequal to this series.

I think that TVB can make a sequel if they want. I like that series and I personly think I wong he didn't die. I was an very confusing ending. That is what I like about it.....

i really thought that this series would have a sequel because of they way the ended the movie but its been so long.

i cant believe this series didnt get high ratings and a sequel...i tohught it was on of the best series ive ever seen....everything was good rite to the ending...i kno lotsa ppl complain bout Liza Wong and the other guy...but still Wong Hei and Jessica were amzing

i loved this series and the theme song
the Danny-Liza relationship got really boring....no offence to anyone who liked it....
i reckon this series needs a sequel...there are a couple of issues they need to resolve....
one of the saddes parts in this series would have to be when wong hei hits jessica with the metal pole and when he kisses jackie and jessica's standing on the other side of the street....

by the way, who, do you guys think, wong hei loves more? Shirley or Jessica?

I love this drama. I like Liza n Danny's parts. But the end is sad. I hope for a sequel, but don't think there will be, 4 or 5 years passed already

I saw this series some years ago. I couldn't really remember the scenes. Wong Hei plays the cool and cold guy who has no feelings for Jessica. The scenes with Liza and Danny were boring. They talk a lot about general things. The ending wasn't a good one. I have no idea whether Jessica is alived or not. They should provide more details and end this series with a good one. I hate endings with a cliffhanger.

Jessica is alive for sure. But we don't know if Wong Hei is alive or not.

I cried like a baby, I watched it many yearees ago but I don't remember so I watched it again, and I skipped to the last episode! I can't believe it's not a happy ending, after everything that he had to go through, I was so sad. And I reallie Wong Hei to live, i'll pretend that he washes up on some shore somewhere and he lives..LOL although it's pretty obvious that he's head, when they're looking for him, you see his body going downwards...sigh so sad. I thought he just got shot int eh arm? And that he had a gunproof jacket on sO I don't reallie get why he fell into the water when he could've pulled himself back onto the boat.

man..thought they was going to make a sequel with the finding of Wong He in the waters...it seems though he died now...

I loved this show and the themesong loads. Jessica and Wong Hei were excellent as a couple or friend. On the other hand, Liza and Danny were boring to me, in fact I loved this show is only because of the chemistry of Jessica and Wong Hei. But overall, this is a good show but the ending is just plain crap. =/

great series i think with hei but he died in the end and it made us all sad

sequel hell no not enough story to back it uo

I like this series minus Lisa-Danny parts. One question.....do you think Wong Hei loves Jessica at the end or no? I can't really tell. In a way I think he does but doesn't want to express his feelings....but I'm not sure. Any opinions?

In the end, I think Wong Hei is so depressed that he just wants to die and therefore not pulling himself out of the water. This character suffers from a lot of psychological issues and never really received any professional help.

Who can tell me where can I buy the vcd with the alternate ending mv? I'm finding for it...

I really love wong hei and Jessica together...But i find that Lisa and Danny parts are boring..I skipped all of it "
And i finished this series within two days..haha

I've never seen a more boring series in my life. Okay, to be more accurate - a cop series this boring. It was exciting at first to see all the actions, but I think we were misled into this series. Then things got super boring with Liza's story and that one guy. The majority of the series is just about family and relationships. I don't mind if it were some family series, but after all it is a cop series or similar, why revolve so much around relationships, etc. I'm only halfway through 'cause my mom wants to continue, but it's super boring.

I must agree that I like Wong Hei & Jessica together, but it's so wrong to

Why so many negative comments on this? Where the tv ratings that bad? If so how come TVB released it on DVD? I have to admit Liza and Danny storyline seriously boring so I only watched it for Wong Hei and Jessica Hsuan and I hated the fact it was a such a depressing ending where you are left wondering is he dead or not?

There were sad moments were Benz Hui got killed unneccessary and the corpse left dangling over a building or was it a bridge, too long ago can't remember!! Both of Liza's parents dying was a tearjerker! And ofcourse Hei and Jessica couldn't be together and not having the happy ending was so annoying!

Overall for a cop series its not the worst if you compare it to the likes of Split Second, which the ratings were very disappointing!!

^ Actually, SS is not the worst if you look at it more carefully. The ratings were terrible, but everything was moving at a much more rapid pace than this series. There are lots of side stories and many things going on at the same time. This series just moves so slow you just wonder why you are watching it at times. But of course we all have different opinion on the takes so I wouldn't want to sound all pushy, so peace!

one of the best series .....one of the most memorable ending.....i need more wonghei and jessica. I just rewatch the series last week, the ending was just as memorable and moving as the first time i watch it. I've never seen such a sad wedding picture.

I agree the story line of danny was drag out wayyyyy too much.

Regarding Jessica relationship between 2 brothers.....eventhough it sound wrong when saying a girl date the older one, then the younger one, and then back to the older one.....but the story and the situation was right. And in reality, people doubt/misread their relationship. it takes a while to figure out who's the right one.....

one flaw of the series is that the character were way tooo rational....they don't show jealousy, discomfort, hatred.........all were like..."so what we were dating, but that's OK, I am just sooo happy and cheerful seeing you now found another person."





still...overall......the love stories in this series were just great. Jessica and Wong Hei is just...wow.

Me too.. I hope that there will be a sequel for it..

I have just re-watch it and the same question I have again..

Hopefully TVB will come out a sequel for it as an MV for ending is not enough for us right?

The MV is considered the "ending"? I feel ripped off although the MV was pretty good. The Wong He and Jessica story here was good but the Liza Wang parts were so boring. I doubt there'll ever be a sequel since it's almost been like 10 years. Having Wong He and Jessica reunite would be awesome though, I love this pair.

yup me too. it's widely known that WH doesn't have many friends in the industry, but Jessica is one of them. :) they have really good chemistry.

this series was really good. i totally enjoyed it and i would recommend it to anyone. and of course wong he's acting in here was awesome!

Like this serie very much.. love Jessica and Wong Hei in here... Really hope a sequel will be made but there is not much of the chance..

Yeah, I heard they were really good friends. They even went on vacation together? Lol, Jessica was talking about her friendship with Wong He on some interview. Don't know what it was though.