The Fixer (2015 Hong Kong TV series)


The Fixer is a 2015 Hong Kong modern action crime-thriller television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Chin Ka-lok, Mandy Wong, Benjamin Yuen, Rebecca Zhu, Timmy Hung, Tracy Chu, :zh:黃淑儀|Gigi Wong, :zh:魯振順|Henry Lo, :zh:李國麟 |Joseph Lee and :zh:呂珊|Rosanne Lui as the main cast. Filming took place from January to March 2015. The drama is broadcast on Hong Kong's Jade and HD Jade channels from August 10 till August 29, 2015 airing every Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot with a total of 21 episodes.
This is the third drama Gigi Wong and Chin Ka-lok have played mother and son. The two previously played mother and son in 2009 A Bride for a Ride and 2012 Divas in Distress.

Synopsis

The Fixers is a secret underground organization that for the right price will solve any problems for their clients no matter if it is legal or not.
The group is led by ex-con Szeto Sam-ping who is an expert of escaping from authorities. Also included is certified lawyer and Sam-ping's lover Lui Lui, expert thief and fighter Wyman Chan Tai-man, talented hacker Mak Ping-on and former government official Bak Suen, who also handles all the accounting for the group.

Cases

;Case #1 - Celebrity Newcomer Drug Case
Up and coming promising celebrity Chan Hiu-ming has an all out drug party at a hotel room. Hiu-ming's manager hires The Fixers to remove him from the scene before authorities reach the hotel room. The next day when Hiu-ming arrives with his manager to pay The Fixers, Lui Lui gives a word of advice to Hiu-ming about his lifestyle. Not only does he not take Lui Lui's advice well but he also throws a temper tantrum while leaving The Fixers office. A few days later Hiu-ming is found dead at home from an apparent drug overdose. A rookie cop at the investigation scene comments that he saw Hiu-ming leaving the drug party scene few days earlier but was too busy writing out parking tickets to stop him, but if Hiu-ming had been arrested that night he might still be alive.
;Case #2 - Commercial Fraud Fugitive
Mainland reporter Luk Tin-ching has been accused by a big corporation of defrauding them out of a huge amount of money, but he was really framed by government officials he uncovered was involve in illegal activities. He escapes to Hong Kong and hides out at an embassy, knowing he will be handed over to authorities soon he seeks the services of The Fixers to help him escape out of the country. After fleeing the embassy with the help of The Fixers, the authorities put out an $5,000,000 HKD wanted amount on him. With a huge figure on his head, triads get involve in finding him also in order to receive the reward money. The Fixers help Tin-ching see his mother one last time and then helps him escape to Thailand. Before leaving he hands over the evidence he has against the government officials to Szeto Sam-ping.
;Case #3 - Fake Milk Powder / Kidnapped Triad Boss Wife
Smuggling baby milk formula powder to mainland has become so profitable that triads have resorted to collecting empty powder cans and packing it with fake formula to resell to mainlanders. Triad boss Big Tau is highly against his younger birth brother Small Tau, producing and smuggling fake formula because it could harm someone. Small Tau doesn't care and defies Big Tau's orders in front of their underlings. A few days later Big Tau's wife is kidnapped, he hires The Fixers to find his wife. Big Tau suspects Small Tau is the culprit due to their earlier clash over the baby formula issue and demands Small Tau hand over his wife. Small Tau insist he took no part in Big Tau's wife kidnapping, but Big Tau does not believe him and kills him. Sam-ping seeing how Small Tau persistently deny any part in Big Tau's wife kidnapping suspects Big Tau might have staged his wife's kidnapping in order to find an excuse to kill Small Tau because of his defiance, but that is not the case and The Fixers becomes Big Tau's next target in his wife's kidnapping. Big Tau's believes The Fixers are also involve with his wife's kidnapping, as revenge Big Tau sends his henchmen to kill Sam-ping's mother. While viewing Big Tau's wife ransom film, Lui Lui notices a pin that links to her mother. She pays a visit and bugs her mother's office, finding out that her mother's feng-shui adviser Law Kang is in cohorts with Big Tau's wife to fake the kidnapping. Big Tau's wife planned her entire kidnapping as a way to escape from her philandering and abusive husband. After Lui Lui persuades Big Tau's wife to settle their marriage reasonably, Big Tau then calls off the killing on Sam-ping's mother. When Big Tau's wife demands a divorce and is willing to walk away from their marriage with nothing he becomes enraged and tries to strangle her to death. However, in the process of strangling her, he gets a heart attack and dies when she throws away his medication.
;Case #4 - Flower Ranch Nature School's Land
Lui Lui's friend Kei Kei becomes the victim of slander and harassment when the land that occupies her school becomes sought after by developers. Wanting to shut down Kei Kei's school, someone anonymously post on the internet that she abuses her students. The Fixers get involve to help Kei Kei when protesters outside her school gets physical to cause trouble and harass her. Lui Lui's mother Wah-bik is one of the developers after the school's land because of future government development in the area. The case gets more complicated when Wah-bik's opponent for the school's land Chan Siu-bo, hires a group of hackers to divulge Wah-bik's past illegal payoffs to government officials. Catching the hackers who could ruin Lui Lui's mother won't be easy when Sam-ping's finds out one of them is his half-sister Duck Duck Mak Ping-on, who has secretly returned to Hong Kong. Wah-bik assumes she is safe from the hackers since she never backed up her illegal payoff records digitally, but the hackers are one step ahead of her when Duck Duck sneaks into her company to steal the hard copy documents of her illegal government payoffs. However Duck Duck decides to hold onto the documents to use as collateral for Sam-ping to hand over her one night stand Vegas marriage husband Wyman, who is one of The Fixers. Soon Law Kang also wants to get a hold of those documents to take over Wah-bik's company. Using Sam-ping and Lui Lui's past, he blackmails Duck Duck into working for him to ruin Wah-bik. Once the documents are exposed to the public, Wah-bik is forced to resign from her company. To hide as the real culprit who brought down Wah-bik, Law Kang has Duck Duck's fellow hackers killed, framing Chan Siu-bo. In fact Wah-bik was not interested in future development around the school, she only wanted to protect Lui Lui since she believed the guy Lui Lui killed years ago is buried on the school grounds. Enraged since the day Wah-bik rejected his sexual advance and then telling him he is just a regular employee to her, Law Kang who knows about this secret had been patiently waiting for the chance to take everything away from her. Afraid she will have to serve prison time for illegally paying-off government officials, Sam-ping helps Wah-bik fake her suicide. With everyone thinking she killed herself, Wah-bik leaves Hong Kong with a new identity.
;Case #5 - Mysterious Man The Fixers Must Help / The Mastermind Behind Case 3 & 4
With Lui's Development Corp. in his hands, Law Kang wants to erase his triad past and starts killing off all those that knows of his past. Sam-ping and Lui Lui finds a young man named Hung Ciu-yeung, who killed Hang-sik's supervisor Fong Wai-kuen, who is a corrupted senior police officer and Law Kang's triad brother, at The Fixers office demanding their services. When Sam-ping and Lui Lui refuse because of the crime Ciu-yeung committed he shows Sam-ping an image of his mother. After looking at the pictures Sam-ping cannot refuse because Ciu-yeung is his son by his ex-girlfriend. Sam-ping plans to escape Hong Kong with Ciu-yeung, but is betrayed by Ciu-yeung who was hired by Law Kang to frame Sam-ping for the murder of Wai-kuen. Not wanting his son to be in further trouble Sam-ping admits to everything Ciu-yeung tells the police. The police are aware that Law Kang is the real mastermind behind Wai-kuen's murder but must find hard evidence against him in order to charge him. The police find recordings of Law Kan and Wai-kuen's business meetings. With evidence against Law Kang, Sam-ping is cleared of Wai-kuen's murder. However Sam-ping still faces sentencing for aiding and abetting Ciu-yeung. Lui Lui assures Sam-ping that she can fight off the charges. but Sam-ping wants to be sentenced to prison in order to be by Ciu-yeung's side and start a father son relationship with him. Sam-ping is sentenced to 2 years in prison, while Ciu-yeung 7 years since he only took on Law Kang's job to raise money for his mother's medical fees. All the other Fixer members are also sentenced for their past crimes. At the end after being released from prison Sam-ping finally has a healthy relationship with his son and a stable family life with his entire family gathered around the table for dinner.

Cast

The Fixers

International broadcast

This program will broadcast on weekdays from 9pm to 10pm with the show was dubbed into Mandarin.
It repeated its run from Monday to Friday from 8am to 9 am.

Awards and nominations