If You Don't See Blood, You Didn't Come to Play

**If You Don't See Blood, You Didn't Come to Play** is the fourth episode of the second season of the original martial arts crime drama *Warrior* and the fourteenth episode overall. It premiered on October 23, 2020. The series has since been acquired by Max.

## Synopsis

As the police prepare for retribution, Chao comes to Bill with a mutually beneficial proposal. A sympathetic Sophie offers Leary a new plan. Ah Sahm and Penny have a moment when he confides his plans for the future. Buckley urges Blake to take a stand against the Chinese, Lee seeks to ease his pain, Mai Ling invests in a legitimate business, and Nellie urges Ah Toy to imagine a different kind of life for her sex workers.

## Plot

Lee stands guard outside of Bill's house until Stone arrives with a carriage to see Lucy and the kids off to safety. Lucy demands to know why the Fung Hai came to their home, but Bill doesn't answer. She gets in the carriage and says that she needs to get as far away from Bill as possible. She killed a man to save him. He's made her a murderer. Before sending him off, Bill tells his oldest, Ethan, to take care of his mom and siblings. Once they're gone, Lee asks Bill why the Fung Hai came after him. Bill reluctantly reveals he was working as muscle for the Fung Hai for a couple of months. Lee then realizes that he was attacked because they were sending Bill a message. For this, Lee punches Bill and stumbles away.

Spencer Thornhill takes Sophie out on a date, but she takes him to the Banshee, where he is clearly out of his comfort zone. Spencer reveals that he played Rugby at Yale. It was a very violet and bloody sport, leading Sophie to question if Spencer stills likes the sight of blood before taking him out back to watch one of the fights. Leary joins them, and for him, a fight without rules is more honest, like nature intended. There, one will find out what kind of man they are. Spencer is clearly intimidated by Leary and suggests that it's time to go, but Sophie wishes to stay, allowing Spencer to show himself home. After the fight, Sophie and Leary have sex.

Mai Ling hears out a proposal of a $300 loan to a local merchant for a laundry business. However, she is so impressed that she's willing to give him $1,000. She isn't interested in a one-time interest payment on an insignificant loan. Her money is an investment, and in exchange for 40% of their monthly revenue, they'll receive protection, a guarantee that no harm will come to their business, as well as an opportunity to expand operations, which Liu Wei wasn't after but has no choice but to accept. Li Yong isn't pleased and confronts Mai Ling, as he offered Li Wei a loan, not a buyout. However, Mai Ling argues that the more legitimate businesses they own, the less they expose themselves to. One day, the government may decide to take out the tongs, and when that happens, Mai Ling wants to have a back-up plan, as she refuses to go back to nothing.

Stone rallies the department against the Fung Hai after the attack at Bill's home. Bill then gets word of Chao's arrival. He warns Bill that he can't attack Fung Hai right now, as they're expecting an attack and Zing won't be there. Chao then alludes to Zing being the swordsman and asks for two days to set everything up. In return, he'll want everything back that was taken into police custody.

Sophie awakens in bed alone. She heads into the bar and looks out the window, where she sees Leary feeding the weak and hungry. When Leary finally returns, she asks why he hasn't targeted her sister's factory, to which Leary replies that Penny has the Hop Wei guarding Mercer Steel.

Ah Sahm and Young Jun overhear Hong exchange words with another new recruit named Shan. He's apparently aware that Hong is gay and mocks him. Young Jun approaches and repeatedly slams Shan's face into the table, warning Shan against messing with Hong.

Chief Flannagan informs Mayor Blake and Buckley on the attack at Bill's home. They're planning a counterattack to wipe out the Fung Hai, but Bill arrives and reveals that he gave his men the word to stand down after getting word that Fung Hai were expecting retaliation and have set a trap. Bill refuses to send his men into a trap, as they all have families to return home to. Bill suggests that they wait a couple of days for the Fung Hai to lower their guard and then go in and take them out. After Bill and Flannagan leave, Buckley advises Blake to address this with his constituents. How he reacts will determine his tenure as mayor. And with election just a few months away, Blake needs to pick a side, hopefully the one that aligns with Senator Crestwood.

Ah Toy crosses paths with Mai Ling at a street performance. She tries to avoid a confrontation, but Mai Ling calls out to her. Considering that Ah Toy didn't extend a greeting, Mai Ling wonders if she's offended her somehow. Ah Toy claims she was distracted by the exhibition and extends her apology.

Mayor Blake follows Buckley's advice and takes an official stance against the Chinese following the attack at Sergeant O'Hara's home. While he has championed the economic advances of immigration, the citizens of San Francisco must come first. Which is why he's reviewing San Francisco's labor laws to insists of proper and comprehensive enforcement to ensure they put good American men back to work.

Penny pays Ah Sahm for the Hop Wei's security, as her factory has remained well protected. She asks Ah Sahm how he's been, as she wasn't sure he'd ever recover after his fight with Li Yong. She asks if this is what Ah Sahm wants to be doing. He reveals that he has bigger plans to build something for himself. Just as they're closing in on one another, they are interrupted and Ah Sahm exits.

Ah Sahm spots Leary just outside of the gates of Mercer Steel. One day, Ah Sahm's a coolie, the next, he's a hatchet man. Leary explains that it doesn't matter what fancy suits they wear or even if they can speak English, they don't belong in America and never will. Leary blames Ah Sahm for taking their jobs, to which Ah Sahm retorts that maybe Leary should ask his own people why they keep screwing him over. Maybe it's Leary who doesn't belong, Ah Sahm suggests. Their business remains unfinished, as Leary decides against a bout with Ah Sahm in the street.

Nellie returns to Ah Toy's brothel, but this time she was called. One of Ah Toy's girls, Pai Lin, would like to leave with Nellie for a better life. Nellie asks why Ah Toy had a change of heart, but Ah Toy reminds Nellie that she doesn't force any one of her girls to work for her and that they all can leave when they please. Nellie will take her to some land she has in Sonoma, it's a vineyard. The girls work the land they live on, so they build something of their own. Nellie even offers Ah Toy a tour tomorrow morning. She says in Cantonese that she wants to show Ah Toy that the girls can live a happy life.

Penny confronts Mayor Blake after his statement at city hall. He now expects that Senator Crestwood and the labor movement will announce their support for his reelection. Meanwhile, he's alienated the industrialist who backed his first campaign. Penny believes that he's broken his promise to them and warns Blake that Merriweather has been talking about fielding a new candidate Who can navigate these issues in their favor. Blake then reveals that he's pulling the cable car contract. As of this moment, Mercer Steel will conduct no business in San Francisco. However, Penny informs him that he can't do that. Any cancellation of signed purchase orders will not only leave Blake responsible for payment in full, it will incur penalties as well. It would cost him more to pull the contract than see it through. She sought counsel and suggests that Blake do the same to protect his interests, as there's no telling what might come to light in a public lawsuit.

Penny confronts Sophie for taking Spencer to the Banshee, as it's no place for either of them. Sophie questions why that is. Maybe because Penny thinks she's better than the Irish, but Penny insists that is not the reason; they're simply too expensive. All they have is the factory, but Sophie never asked for Penny to run their father's business, the same way she never asked her to marry Blake. Furthermore, she accuses Penny of being just like him. She makes sympathetic noises about the poor but doesn't truly care about them, only what they can do for her. Penny accuses Sophie of being entitled, never having to work a day in her life or finish a single thing she's started.

Mai Ling pays for Mr. Nicholas to be released from jail after he failed to show up for their meeting. Mai Ling reminds Nichols that she hired him to do a job and if he can't deliver, she'll happily make other arrangements, pointing to her gun. Nicholas is working an angle, but he needs a bit more time and money to make a trip. Apparently, there's a photograph of Buckley, and if it's what they say it is, it will be money well spent.

Sophie arrives at the Banshee to help Leary, revealing to him that there's a back entrance to her father's factory. It's a small supply tunnel that no one know about. Sophie wants to make their move now, but Leary is both reluctant and hesitant, telling Sophie that turning against her own people isn't a small thing. However, he relents and inquires further about the tunnel.

Ah Toy approaches Lee, who's come neither for woman nor official police business. He's in pain and hopes that Ah Toy can help, which she can. Ah Toy leads him into the back to relieve his chronic pain in her opium den.

Chao reveals to Ah Toy that he needs her help in framing Zing as the swordsman that's been killing people. Ah Toy warns him that it's a bad plan that could get him hurt, but she gives him her sword and if all goes as planned, they'll be back to business as usual. And in return for getting the cops off of Ah Toy, Chao is asking a favor of her.

Bill returns to his ruined home, where not much and no one remains.

Despite claiming that she was no longer entertaining, Chao catches Claire on a date with an older man.

As planned, Sophie takes Leary through the tunnels. She used to play in the tunnels as a girl, but her father hated it. There's a staircase that leads up to the storeroom just off the factory floor. Leary and a couple of the workingmen begin to set up the dynamite but are discovered by a couple Hop Wei hatchet men. Sophie is struck and Leary is sliced in the neck during the exchange, but he and Sophie manage to escape otherwise unharmed, but not before setting the dynamite and blowing up Mercer Steel.

Sophie returns home, where she finds Penny sleeping on the couch. She appears somewhat remorseful for her actions and lays a blanket over Penny while weeping at her side.

## 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
* Christian McKay as Samuel Blake
* Perry Yung as Father Jun
* Dustin Nguyen as Zing
* Céline Buckens as Sophie Mercer
* Miranda Raison as Nellie Davenport
* Chen Tang as Hong
* Maria-Elena Laas as Rosalita Vega
* Joe Taslim as Li Yong
* Russell Crous as Spencer Thornhill
* David Butler as Russell Flannagan
* Robert Hobbs as Stone
* Jacques Bessenger as McLeod
* Jenny Umbhau as Lai
* Emmanuel Castis as Clyde Nichols
* Michelle Allen as Claire
* Jonathan Chan-Pensley as Liu Wei
* Craig Gardner as Mr. Simmons
* Steve Park as Tu
* Nathalie Chung Kim Yuen as Liu Wei's Wife
* Caleb Payne as Ethan O'Hara
* Tayah Ronen Abels as Molly O'Hara
* Luan Walden as Michael O'Hara
* Lourens Walden as Davey O'Hara
* Jefferson Lan as Shan
* Cameron Froud as Dax
* Lili Ming as Pai Lin
* Kenneth Fok as Jacob
* Alfred van Reenen as Cop
* Freddie Kruger as Greenly
* Martin Munro as Leonard Raice
* Rebecca Makin-Taylor as Mrs. Carlson

## Trivia

* The episode title was spoken by Spencer Thornhill to Sophie in reference to rugby.

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