As the episode begins, we see how Jacob (Kenneth Fok) attacked Mayor Samuel Blake when he was choking his wife. Penelope (Joanna Vanderham) says Samuel tried to kill her before checking on Sophie (Celine Buckens). When Sophie spots Samuel laying in a pool of blood nearby, Jacob drops the fire poke and makes a run for it. He goes to Penny and contemplates what he should do. Penny suggests he should tell the truth and she offers to testify that her life was in danger. Jacob doesn’t like his chances since he killed the mayor and that convinces Penny that they need to get him out of there. She gives him money and recommends taking the train to San Jose. Jacob flees the house moments later. We follow Jacob as he visits his mother to give her medicine.

He tells her that he’ll need to leave for a few days and Chun Hua will come check on her. Jacob takes some of his money and sticks it under his mother’s pillow. When he leaves in the morning, he finds police officers outside looking for him and handing out posters with his face on them. He is nearly caught but manages to escape and find a place to hide. He continues hiding while the police search for him continues outside. At one point, Jacob is forced to flee from his hiding spot. When Wang Chao (Hoon Lee) returns, he realizes that someone has been in his building. He enters with his gun drawn until he finds Jacob who pleads for his help. Wang isn’t eager to help so Jacob offers to pay him. When Chao sees how much money he has, he agrees to help. He takes some of the money and returns some to Jacob while saying he’ll be needing it.

Wang believes it is best for Jacob to cross the salt because they won’t stop until he is caught or dead. Jacob doesn’t want to return to China but he doesn’t have much of a choice. Wang has a plan to send Jacob to China in a coffin and someone will let him out once they reach international waters. Next, Jacob rides along in a coffin until his driver is stopped. Authorities break into the coffin and Jacob is captured. After the intro, Jacob is handcuffed while Richard (Tom Weston-Jones) asks Bill (Kieran Bew) if he got his man but Bill doesn’t want to do this now. Richard is curious as to how Bill knew exactly where Jacob would be and he isn’t satisfied with Bill’s lame excuse. Bill claims Walter Buckley (Langley Kirkwood) got a tip and Lee doesn’t believe they’re getting the full picture.

He admits he doesn’t trust Buckley or Bill but Bill warns him that he shouldn’t dig up more snakes than he can kill. Mai Ling (Dianne Doan) and Chao watch as the carriage with Jacob is led away. Mai tells Chao to relax since it is over now. Mai is concerned that everyone in Chinatown will pay for Jacob’s crime and she believes Chao did the right thing. Before long, Bill and the other officers find themselves sounded by angry men who want a chance at the man who killed the mayor. The horses are taken while Tully tries to convince Bill to give them five minutes with Jacob. Bill tries to talk Tully and his men out of it but they attack the police anyway. Jacob watches from inside as the police fight with Tully and his men. The police are overwhelmed and Tully’s men turn their attention to Jacob. The door is open and the men take their turn with Jacob.

Meanwhile, Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger) watches over Sophie. She finally wakes up and suggests she should go but Dylan convinces her to stay. Meanwhile, a rope is wrapped around Jacob’s neck as the men prepare to hang him in the streets. Dylan hears the chaos and rushes outside. He helps Bill and finds out what is going on with Tully and Jacob. Tully and his men lift Jacob from the ground while Sophie arrives and tries to convince them to stop. She makes her way through the crowd but gets knocked down by one of the men. Tully and his men watch as Jacob stops breathing. Dylan grabs Sophie from the ground and takes her back into the pub. She tells Dylan about Jacob saving Penny’s life and wonders why he didn’t stop them. Dylan isn’t sure he would’ve been able to stop it anyway. Dylan is sure there will be more dead men before the day is through and it is a reckoning.

He gets mad and tells Sophie to go back to her castle and pretty things because she was only a tourist here. Tully tells his men that the Chinese have gone too far and they’ll need to do the cops’ job for them. Tully and his men decide to head to Chinatown. Lee rushes toward them while the others decide to wait for the cavalry. Bill tries to tell Lee that they don’t have the numbers but he goes with Lee anyway and the others follow. Mai tells Chao that she won’t forget his help today but he says he didn’t have a choice. She says he should be grateful that she gave him the opportunity to redeem himself after he pulled that whole thing with Zing. Wang isn’t happy that he gave Jacob his word and took his money. Mai believes they did what they had to do to keep the bulls and ducks out of Chinatown.

They soon find Tully and his men destroying Chinatown. Wang escorts her from the streets as Tully’s men ransack the place and attack the Chinese. Young Jun (Jason Tobin) and Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) find out what is going on and Jun believes they’ll bring in the army if they kill the ducks. Ah Sahm says they’ll burn the place down if they don’t dice them. Young Jun says they spend every day living in their world but they will die in ours. Hong (Chen Tang) and the others join them before Li Yong (Joe Taslim) arrives with his men too. Richard Lee tries to stop the chaos as well. Tully notices and decides to take down Richard Lee. Richard shoots and kills him. The fight continues until Bill arrives and tries to stop Lee. Mai Ling and Chao make it to a safe place and hide from the chaos. She isn’t happy to be in a brothel but Wang is sure it is better than the street.

They rush upstairs and find Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng) beaten and abused. Mai Ling looks outside and Ah Toy learns that it is bad out there. Chao finds she is burning up and cut up but Ah Toy says she only needs rest. Mai Ling agrees to help patch up Ah Toy’s wound and Ah Toy agrees to let her do so. While she does that, Ah Sahm beats up a few people outside. Mai Ling says it is time to sew up Ah Toy’s wound while Wang fights with a man downstairs. Wang Chao gets help from another man and they soon take care of the two men after them. Young Jun nearly gets killed but his father saves him. Sophie returns to Penny and tells her about Jacob and everything that has happened. Mai Ling tells Ah Toy about being married to a warlord in China and learning to sew wounds. He was cruel and blames Mai when his men died.

Ah Toy admits she never wanted to feel weak and vulnerable again. Toy asks Mai Ling why she is helping her and Mai reminds her she is taking shelter in her house. Mai admits they might not like each other but that doesn’t matter today. They’re Chinese, they’re not, and that is all that matters right now. Ah Toy says they don’t need the Irish since the tongs will be dicing one another anyway. Toy admits she’ll go back to selling sex and they both are doing terrible things. Ah Sahm takes down a bunch of men outside until the police arrive with guns. Irish casualties are brought into Dylan’s pub. Dylan doesn’t appear to be happy with everything that has happened. Meanwhile, Ah Sahm and his men find out about Jacob’s demise. Bill emerges from the building and wonders if they’re trying to start another fight.

Ah Sahm tells Bill that they’re there for Jacob. He tells them to be quick about it. Bill and the others watch as they lower Jacob and take his body with them. Dylan steps outside and watches as they carry Jacob’s body away. Dylan and Ah Sahm make eye contact with one another before the episode ends.

 

Warrior Review

Overall, I guess the episode was decent enough but nothing spectacular or unpredictable. The fight scenes were okay but some were a bit ridiculous. I’ll admit that I tend to skip through them but that is just me because they normally don’t do anything for the story. I guess you have to expect that from a television show like this. I was really hoping they would’ve done something different with Jacob. It is really difficult to believe that the Irish would get so angry by the death of Samuel Blake considering he hadn’t done anything for them anyway.

I can’t believe that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Surely, these people were smart enough to know that Samuel didn’t have their best interest at heart. Furthermore, it was a bit odd to create the Tully character and allow him to rile up the crowd. Where did he come from? How did he suddenly have more control than Dylan Leary who has gone straight after somehow getting a pub and a woman?

I’d say the finale will be predictable as well. We’re going to have a rushed showdown better Ah Sahm and Dylan Leary that will either end with the death of Leary or someone else or something bigger getting in the way. The season has been a bit disjointed considering we started with Ah Sahm fighting for Vega and all of that. Despite these criticisms, I am still enjoying Warrior but I don’t think this season has been as good as the first.

I’d give this episode a 7.5 out of 10. A little more unpredictability would’ve made a big difference. Previous recaps of Warrior are available on Reel Mockery.