Enter the Dragon

**Enter the Dragon** is the ninth episode of the second season of the original martial arts crime drama *Warrior* and the nineteenth episode overall. It premiered on November 27, 2020. The series has since been acquired by Max.

## Synopsis

After Bill and his men are confronted by an angry mob, Chinatown erupts into chaos, forcing the tongs to work together to protect their streets. As Chao and Mai Ling seek shelter, Mai Ling tends to an ailing Ah Toy. Sophie opens her eyes to Leary's world. Lee decides which side he's on.

## Plot

Jacob recalls the moments leading up to Mayor Blake's death. He had hit him over the head with a poker to stop him from strangling Penny to death. Penny then crawls over to Sophie and wakes her up. Jacob questions what they should do, as they obviously can't tell the police the truth. They won't care that he was acting in Penny's defense when they learn he killed the Mayor of San Francisco. So, Penny gives Jacob all the money she has and tells him to catch the first train to San Jose, which comes every morning.

After fleeing the mayor's estate, Jacob returns to Chinatown, where his ill mother lays in bed. He tells her that he has to leave for a while and leaves some money under her pillow. The following morning, on his way to the train station, he is cornered in by the increased police presence, trapping him in Chinatown, and forcing him to take shelter in the basement of a shop, where he remains for the day as the police continue their search. However, he flees after the police search the home and breaks into Chao's shop.

Jacob pleads with Chao for help, but he has no assistance to offer. He offers to pay Chao, which he reluctantly accepts. Chao warns Jacob that they won't let up until he's caught or dead. His best bet is across the salt. Chao intends to do this by putting Jacob in the coffin and shipping him back to China along with the rest of the dead.

Unfortunately for Jacob, on the ride to the port, he is captured by Bill and the San Francisco police department. Lee questions how Bill knew just where Jacob would be and reveals that Buckley got a tip. Lee is worried that Buckley has another agenda, which Bill admits might be true, but at least they have the right guy. Still, Lee doesn't trust Buckley, nor does he trust Bill for that matter.

Mai Ling tells Chao that he can relax now that it's all over, but Chao is worried that Jacob will be hanged. However, Mai Ling reasons that Chao did the right thing, because if he hadn't, everyone else would've paid for his crime.

Bill and Lee personally follow the paddy wagon escorting Jacob to jail. However, the road is blocked off by the workingmen, led by a man named Tully. Word has quickly spread of Jacob's arrest, but rather than allowing the officer to do their job, the workingmen would like to see street justice prevail. Tully riles up the workingmen and orders Bill and his men to step aside, but Bill warns them to stand down. They ignore Bill's warning and attack him, as well as Lee, Harrison, and Stone, before breaking into the carriage and pulling Jacob out. Tully ties a rope around Jacob's neck and hangs him just outside the Banshee. Leary exits and helps Bill to his feet, pushing away his own men. Sophie attempts to stop them, but the mob is too riled up, and she is knocked to the ground, forced to watch helplessly as Jacob breathes his last breath.

Leary pushes through the crowd, lifts Sophie from the ground and brings her back into the bar. She blames Leary for allowing them to kill Jacob, when all he did was protect Penny. Leary argues this was going to happen one way or another. He tells Sophie to go back home to her life of luxury, as she was never more than a tourist on their end to begin with.

With Jacob hanging from above, Tully continues to rally the mob and lead them in an attack on Chinatown.

Mai Ling assures Chao that she won't forget his help today, though she didn't give him much of a choice. Same way he didn't give her much of a choice when he went behind her back to take down Zing, she remarks. She tells him to be grateful of the opportunity she gave him to redeem himself. Chao gave Jacob his word and took his money. For that, he feels guilty. Mai Ling reminds Chao that what they did was for Chinatown, to keep the bulls and ducks out of their bowl. However, just as these words leave her mouth, the workingmen begin their assault on Chinatown. They hit fast and hard, knocking over and beating every man, women, and child in sight, as well as destroying shops and property.

Ah Sahm, Young Jun, and Hong join forces with Li Yong and the Long Zii to stop the Irish mob attacking Chinatown.

Lee intervenes when he catches one of the workingmen drowning an innocent Chinese woman. He pulls the woman to safety and fends off her attackers until he himself is attacked by Tully, who punches Lee and asks who side is he on. Lee manages to gain the upper hand and shoot Tully multiple times, killing him.

Bill, Harrison, and Stone arrive in Chinatown to find Lee in the midst of the war zone. Bill calls out to Lee, but he continues to push forward.

Chao and Mai Ling enter Ah Toy's brothel through the back door to seek refuge. They head upstairs, where they find Ah Toy beaten and bruised, lying in bed. They need a doctor, but all they have is Mai Ling, who has some experience patching up wounds.

Meanwhile, Ah Sahm finds himself defending the helpless with nothing more than his skills and a pair of nunchucks.

Chao heads downstairs, where two men have broken in. He shoots the first man dead as he enters, but doesn't fare so well against the second intruder. Fortunately, Ah Toy's bodyguard assists with taking down the intruders and Chao finishes them off.

Young Jun goes head on against multiple thugs attacking the laundromat. With nothing more than a pair of knives, he slashes his way through the mob, taking down many men, but he is outnumbered and nearly killed until Father Jun arrives and drives a hatchet in the back of a man's head.

Sophie returns home to find Penny sitting in the floor, unsure what to do next. It is then that she reveals to Penny that Jacob is dead.

With what little medical skill Mai Ling has, she manages to sew up Ah Toy's wound. She reveals that she was married to a warlord back in China. The men who fought for him often came back wounded, and Mai Ling patched them up the best she could, and when they died, he blamed her. If it wasn't for his cruelty, she wouldn't know anything about sewing up wounds. Everything Ah Toy has done since coming to America, she did it so that she would never feel weak and vulnerable ever again, which is a sentiment Mai Ling can relate to. Ah Toy questions Why Mai Ling is helping her. She replies that it's the least she can do if she's taking shelter in Ah Toy's house. To the men attacking Chinatown, they're all the same. And if they live to see tomorrow, they can go back to the luxury of their own agendas. The tongs will go back to dicing each other, and Ah Toy will go back to selling sex. They'll both do terrible things, all because neither one of them is ever going to go back to what they were.

Armed with a pair of nunchucks, Ah Sahm takes on half a dozen attacking Irishmen with little to no effect as onlookers watch from above on their balconies in amazement.

Chief Flannagan arrives with the cavalry to bring the riot in Chinatown to an end.

The injured Irishmen during the riot are brought back to the Banshee for recovery, where seeing what's left of his men enrages Leary.

Ah Sahm, Young Jun, and Hong make their way to the Banshee, where they are greeted by Bill. Ah Sahm explains that they've simply come to take Jacob's body, which still hangs until they lower him down and cut the noose from around his neck.

## Cast

* Olivia Cheng as Ah Toy
* Jason Tobin as Young Jun
* Dianne Doan as Mai Ling
* Kieran Bew as Bill O'Hara
* Dean Jagger as Dylan Leary
* Joanna Vanderham as Penelope Blake
* Tom Weston-Jones as Richard Lee
* Hoon Lee as Wang Chao
* Langley Kirkwood as Walter Buckley (credit only)
* Christian McKay as Samuel Blake
* Perry Yung as Father Jun
* Dustin Nguyen as Zing (credit only)
* Céline Buckens as Sophie Mercer
* Miranda Raison as Nellie Davenport (credit only)
* Chen Tang as Hong
* Maria-Elena Laas as Rosalita Vega
* Joe Taslim as Li Yong
* Patrick Buchanan as Tully
* David Butler as Russell Flannagan
* Robert Hobbs as Stone
* Nicholas Pauling as Harrison
* Steve Park as Tu
* Xin Sarith Wuku as Xin
* Vivian Pow Chong as Jacob's Mother
* Shane John Kruger as Roughneck
* Edward J. Pepperell as Goon
* Trevor Frost as Gunman

## Trivia

* The episode title, "Enter the Dragon," refers to a 1973 martial arts action film of the same name starring Bruce Lee.

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