"The Gentle Crackdown" is a 20 episode (43 minutes each) comedy drama which takes place in old China, maybe the Ming Dynasty. Actress Niki Chow ("12th Sister") plays an enthusiastic policewoman, while Moses Chan plays an clever and uncorrupt official. Together, they bring down corrupt officials as well as their criminally spoiled kids, while finding romance on the way. A mysterious Robin Hood like figure called "Flying Eagle" appears sometimes and saves the day. 12th Sister wants to unmask this mysterious person for the honor of her late dad who was also a constable. Another official wants Chan's character to marry his daughter. Powerful officials are also trying to locate "Flying Eagle". It's all fun to watch.
This TVBI series is out on DVD (as of November, 2005), but in the US, it seems to be available for rent only from asian video stores. One version has Cantonese with Chinese subtitles, but there also seems to be a Mandarin version.
Niki Chow looks very nice in this series. She also appears in the TVBI series "Hard Fate". She is also in a movie called "The Deadly Sting" which also seems to be available in Cantonese and Mandarin. Niki also starred in the movie "Love Battlefield", an engrossing story about what happens when criminals come in contact with a quarreling couple.
The ATandT corporate image was the "gentle giant," "the voice with a smile," a vaguely socialist-realist world of cleanshaven linemen in shiny helmets and blandly pretty phone-girls in headsets and nylons.
If word got out that a nationwide crackdown was coming, the hackers might simply vanish; destroy the evidence, hide their computers, go to earth, and wait for the campaign to blow over.
For the crackdown to work well, they would all have to be caught red-handed, swept upon suddenly, out of the blue, from every corner of the compass.
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