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Plot Rating: 9/10

Artist Rating: 9.5/10

This series is really good. It's a play off of FOJ. I'll have to admit though, it's not as funny as FOJ. Lawrence and Bowie just don't have the chemistry that Michael and Bobby did. Lawrence seems too serious (but it is appropriate since, they are doctors). However, I am pleased with Steven Ma and Cheung Ka Fai's roles in the series. Steven Ma has improved dramatically since FOJ 4 and 5. So far, his character as Joe is my favorite in the series. William's character lacks originality, as he seems to have taken on the role of "Raymond" again.

Their "Roles" in HH and a little background
1) Lawrence is a brain surgeon. He's married to Iwanbano("Rebecca") but they got a divorce pretty early on. He actually caught his wife sleeping with another guy.
2) Bowie is a supervisor of the emergency room. He has a mysterious past and a dead girlfriend that he can't put aside.
3) Ada has divorced parents and a boyfriend who's in jail. She works in the ER under Bowie.
4) Flora is a lawyer. She and Bowie had a "thing" (he was her date 10 years ago in college but he never showed up) in the past only Bowie has no idea what he did to her.
5) Cheung Ka Fai's a cop (sergeant). He meets Steven on the basketball court and they become really good friends.
6) Steven works in the ER under Bowie. He was really bad when he was younger, hanging out with the mafia, and caused the death of his older brother, something he regrets deeply. He lives with his mom.
7) William is Flora's younger brother. He has recently selected his field of specialization, the brain. He works under Lawrence. He was gay but now he's straight again.
8) Astrid is the head nurse at the hospital. She's a widow.

Lawrence, Bowie, and William are living together. Ada and Flora are roommates also.

General Summaries of Episodes 1-22 To make the summaries easier for me (because I can't remember the exact chronological order of events), I'll summarize the main events that happened to each character

Lawrence=Paul

The series opens in an operation room where Paul is performing brain surgery on a patient. Gilbert is watching the operation. He's thinking of specializing in the brain. After a successful operation, Paul is on his way to get his car and he runs into Henry at the parking lot.

Henry works in the ER. Right when he gets to the ER, the first patient sent in is Rebecca, Paul's wife. She apparently had an overdose of sleeping pills. Rebecca's lover and Annie brought her to the hospital. Henry suspects that Rebecca's having an affair but doesn't say anything. He calls Paul and tells him to get to the hospital. Meanwhile, Jackie has a talk with Rebecca and she wrongly assumes that Paul is a bad husband. When Paul arrives at the hospital, Rebecca tells him that he has never really cared for her. He only cared about his job.

When Rebecca recovers, Paul tries to make up for things but she's unwilling to accept him. She's constantly complaining about him and saying how what he's doing now doesn't really matter.

Paul gets into some legal trouble when a patient from 8 years ago sues him for negligence in explaining other options to her surgery. She had cancer in her uterous and it had to be removed (I think?). Later, she sought other medical advice and doctors told her that she had other alternatives. As a result, she was suing Paul because she couldn't have children. Annie was her lawyer. Things worked out fine though because Paul had a talk with the woman and she changed her mind and decided not to sue him.

At this point, Paul felt like he was getting no support from his wife. In fact, Rebecca was siding with the woman who was suing Paul. Later, Paul caught her in bed with another guy in their own house and they decided on a divorce.

Even during the divorce, Rebecca still has a really big attitude problem. She tries to sell their house without his approval and she keeps on walking into the house after she sold it back to Paul.

After she moves out, Henry decides to buy the other half of the house and Gilbert decides to rent the last room. Hence, the three bachelors are living together. (There was a really funny scene where Rebecca walks in just as Gilbert tells Henry to look at the cut on his back. ---remember that Gilbert is gay so Rebecca thinks something's up with them =)

The second significant case with Paul is about his friend's younger sister. She has leukemia but they were finally able to find someone who would donate his bone marrow to her. However, he backed out on his decision at the last minute. Paul, though, is able to encourage him to see things from the girl's perspective and he finally gives in. The operation was really successful, but the girl is later kidnapped, raped and killed. The killer is let loose due to lack of evidence against him. However, he ends up in the hospital as Paul's patient. Paul's friend wants him to mess up the surgery but after much thought Paul realizes that he's a doctor after all, and he performs the surgery which is successful. However, Paul is really pissed off at the guy and when he reveals to Paul that he killed the girl, Paul runs after him and punches him. The guys promises trouble but Paul's professor and Gilbert, who witnessed the incident, said that they saw nothing. Later, the guy ends up in the emergency room because a crazy man stabbed him numerous times and he dies becuase of the wounds.

There was another case about a little boy who needed a liver transplant from one of his parents. However, his mom had liver problems before and wasn't a suitable donor. Therefore, they had to find the father of the kid. He turned out to be one of Annie's clients who was in trouble with the law. The father, unfortunately, has drinking problems and his liver wasn't suitable either. Therefore, the little boy dies. (really sad)

The case about the little boy brought Annie and Paul together. Paul started falling for Annie after their one night stand. Paul and Annie went to the bar one night and she complained that he was always so serious. Therefore, she dared him to walk up and talk to a girl, which he did, and it was really funny because the girl rejected him. After their fling, Paul wanted to pursue his relationship further with Annie but she said that they had gotten as far as she wanted to get and their relationship pretty much ended there.

Later on, Paul and Jackie's misunderstandings are cleared up when she realizes that Rebecca was the one who was having an affair all along. They become pretty good friends when Jackie finds out that Paul might have a tumor in his nose (?). She becomes very concerned and Paul is a nervous wreck because the report wasn't out yet about whether he actually did have a tumor. Jackie was really supportive of him during the days when they were waiting for the report to come out. Some of their scenes were really cute. In one scene, they went to watch the sunrise in his car. Jackie starts to like him soon after that. She gives him a box full of snacks when she realizes that he doesn't have time to eat. She sneaks into his house and restocks the boxes for him too.

Bowie=Henry

Henry's the playboy of the bunch. He's always hanging out with different women at the bar. In reality, he is haunted by his past girlfriend who's now dead.

He and Annie get off to a really poor start because Annie doesn't like him for some reason. However, he doesn't know why and one time he just asks her if he's slept with her before and that was why she didn't like him but she responded saying that she'd let him think about it.

The only really interesting part about Henry is the part where Lum Kei Yun comes out with her (and Henry's) son. Lum Kei Yun was one of Henry's numerous chain of girlfriends. Her company was having some legal problems so they hired Annie. Therefore, she ran into Henry again. Later, her son, Billy, was injured and she took him to the ER and Henry treated the little boy. Billy has a slight disease where he can't sit still. Lum Kei Yun and Henry become better acquainted and she asked him if he would take Billy to the beach and teach him how to swim because her divorced husband never got around to doing it. Henry later finds out that Billy wasn't that husband's son and he starts suspecting that Billy is actually his son. Henry tries to introduce a doctor friend to Lum Kei Yun because he knows that he can't give her what she wants--marriage. Lum Kei Yun asks Henry if he ever thought of a woman having a baby for him but he responds by saying that women these days are smart and know how to deal with unwanted pregnancies. Lum Kei Yun begins to sense what Henry truly feels and she leaves. However, Henry searches furiously for her becuase he still wants to find out if Billy is his son. He runs into her one day and starts chasing her. Paul and Annie are with him and Annie promises to ask for him because Lum Kei Yun is reluctant to talk to him. She reveals to Annie that Billy is indeed Henry's son. Annie doesn't know how to tell Henry the truth but Lum Kei Yun tells her to tell him what she thinks will make him feel better. Annie lies to Henry and says that Billy isn't his son becuase she knows that he doesn't want the responsibility. Later, Lum Kei Yun leaves Hong Kong with Billy and Henry says good bye to both of them. (I don't think Henry is bad in any way. He just doesn't know how to deal with relationships. Even though he's always sleeping with different women in the series, I think he's still feeling guilty about his dead girlfriend)

Annie has a reconciliation with him after she hears about his old girlfriend's story.

Ada=Jackie

As one of the doctors working in the ER, Jackie interacts with numerous patients everyday. Her biggest problem in the beginning of the series was jumping to conclusions about Paul. However, Jackie has a great sense of humor and she gets along really well with almost everyone.

Her parents are divorced. Her father apparently had an affair and her mother couldn't tolerate that so they had a divorce. Her boyfriend is in jail for committing a murder. She's waited for him all these years (she even rides a motorcycle because he liked to). However, when he's released from jail, he realizes that they're not compatible. Therefore, they break up. Although Jackie is really sad at first, she soon realized that she was putting too much pressure on him. (Her mom also had a chat with her boyfriend and told him to stay away from Jackie).

Jackie's the really nosy type. She thinks that Paul is a bad husband, so therefore, she's really rude to him at the hospital whenever she sees him. Later though, she finds out that Rebecca was the one with the problem and not Paul. They become closer friends.

Jackie and her boyfriend break up because he feels that she really doesn't need him. She planned everything for him from the day he got out of jail, and in a way, he felt that they were drifting further apart. (Jackie's boyfriend isn't a bad guy. He's actually pretty nice.)

Like I said, Jackie's really nosy. There was one part that was quite funny. Gilbert's mom (who lives in Canada) sent a girl to Hong Kong to visit her son (she wanted to play match-maker for her son). The girl's name was Ivy and Jackie told her that Gilbert was gay. Then when Gilbert confronted her about the issue, Jackie somehow twists the words and makes it sound as if he's the one who was wrong.

Jackie finds out early on that she has a constricted blood vessel in her brain which is interfering with the blood flow. I think the condition is called AMI (?). Her doctor encouraged her to undergo surgery, but as a doctor herself, Jackie knew that she could be risking her life if she did undergo surgery. At first she thought of taking an extended leave from the hospital but she decided that she'd be happier working, so therefore she stayed.

I've gotten to the part where Jackie is beginning to like Paul.

Flora=Annie

Annie is a lawyer. She gives people the impression that she's a flirt and she likes to sleep around. She likes to hang out at the bar. However, in reality, she's always been waiting for Henry.

There was one really funny scene with her where Peter is with the rest of the guys at the bar (and he's never met Annie before). She comes walking into the bar and Peter was like "That girl's a prostitute. I can tell by the way she walks and from my experience as a cop." It was hilarious because all the guys started cracking up and Gilbert was like, "That's my sister." And later, Joe tells him that Annie's a lawyer.

William=Gilbert

For a while Gilbert was gay, but then he started liking Jackie. He told her what he felt but she rejected him saying that she already had a boyfriend. Even though their relationship didn't work out, they were still good friends.

Gilbert contracts AIDS from a girl (May Kwong) he saved from a car wreckage. He was cut by the glass and he touched her blood while he was helping her. He's shocked by the news and tries his best to accept it.

Cheung Ka Fai=Peter
Steven =Joe
Astrid = Helen

These two are the funniest combination in the series thus far. Peter and Joe met on the basketball court when Joe accidentally hit Peter in the head with the ball. Then they started playing together and became really good friends.

One scene in the beginning was really exciting. Some guys had robbed the bank and Peter came across the robbers. He shot some of them but two of the robbers went back into the bank and were holding people hostage. One of the robbers was seriously injured. They wanted the hospital to send someone out and Joe was selected (probably because he's had experience dealing with these types of people in the past). When Joe arrives on the scene, Peter tells him to be careful and then he reaches down to give him his belt (for good luck). Joe thought he was gonna take his pants off or something =) Joe is successful rescuing the people and he's able to encourage the burglers to turn themselves in. He meets Amy inside the bank because she was one of the hostages.

Another funny scene is when Joe is at Lawrence's house. He helps himself to noodles (he was eating from the pot)and Henry was like, "where's mine?". Joe responds that he'll give him his share when he's finished eating from the pot. The guys were all grossed out and Gilbert came back and responded, "When you eat at home, do you eat from the rice cooker and when you're finished, give your mom the leftovers?" It was sooo hilarious.

Peter and Joe also have a lot of other funny scenes. One time, Peter caught an old lady who stole someone's necklace but the only problem was that she swallowed the necklace. Therefore, Peter took her to ER and Joe was checking the old lady. The X-rays showed that she did steal and swallow the necklace and Peter wanted Joe to operate on her to get the necklace out. Joe told Peter that he was crazy and that he'd just have to wait for the necklace to reappear in her feces. When the time came, Joe told Peter to go pick up the feces himself =)

There's a lot more funny scenes but those were just some examples.

Peter and Joe also fall for the same woman, Helen. Helen's husband, a doctor, died years ago already. Even though they both like her, they're still good friends and haven't done anything to harm their friendship. Joe tells her that he likes her but this puts a lot of pressure on Helen because she's older than him and because her sister-in-law likes Joe. She rejects him because she only feels like they're friends.

Episodes 23-32

The next few episodes were kind of slow. Gilbert confesses to his friends that he has AIDS. His friends are really great and they still treat him in the same manner (almost to the point where I think they're kind of overdoing it and Annie doesn't seem too concerned about her brother either. I think the whole AIDS thing was really poorly depicted).

Gilbert finds out that he contracted AIDS from Fannie (May Kwong) after she goes to the hospital. He's really mad at her but after Jackie tells him about Fannie's bad childhood, Gilbert becomes more forgiving. Fannie falls in love with Gilbert and Gilbert shows that he's really concerned about her. At one point, when she's really sick, he confesses that he loves her too and they are together for a little while. One day though, Fannie leaves the hospital and she's discovered dead by the beach (I was kind of confused about this part. I think she committed suicide but I'm not sure). Anyways, Gilbert was really sad because of her death.

Peter's being harassed by Judy, who's constantly following him around. She has the keys to his house and she keeps on staying there when she's bored. He's constantly avoiding her so he can't go home either. Instead, he's always at Joe's house, bothering him. Peter is really nice though. He tries to set Helen and Joe up even though he likes Helen himself. Joe and Helen become friends again. (She was initially mad at him because he kept on telling her that he liked her and it was causing a lot of problems for her at home). Joe still hasn't given up on her though.

Paul took one of Henry's old books to read and inside the book, he saw that someone had signed it "N.M." and that they had a date. Paul harasses Henry about the identity of "N.M.". After a lot of thought, Henry finally remembers that "N.M" is actually Annie and they go out to the bar for a drink. Henry and Annie start dating after this. However, one night, Henry brings a girl to Annie's house and sleeps with her (I missed the part before this so I have no idea why he did this. I assume he wanted Annie to stay away b/c he kept on having these weird flashbacks about his old girlfriend. I hope I'm not confusing you. Like I said, I missed this part but what I think happened is that Henry had a complete flashback about his old girlfriend and that she somehow committed suicide because of him. Henry remembers the pain and he doesn't want to start a new relationship and hurt Annie so he tries to push her away before they become too close….ok, I'm like making this part up but I have to go and watch this part again =) sorry for confusing you but its what I think happened). Anyways, Jackie comes home in the morning and she thought that Henry had spent the night with Annie but then the girl walks out and Jackie gets really pissed of at Henry.

Gilbert encourages Jackie to tell Paul that she likes him. One night, they go out to dinner together and afterwards, she tries to hold his hand but he puts his hand into his pocket instead. Jackie starts yelling at him and poor Paul, who had no idea that she wanted to hold his hand, was sooooo confused. Later that night, she faints and Paul's really worried about her. The next day, she tells him about her illness and he wants to help her but she tells him that she's fine. Paul tries to encourage her to undergo surgery but Jackie doesn't want to because she knows that her chances of having a successful surgery are very slim. He also tells her to tell her parents about her illness and she does. Later, Jackie quits her job and goes to live on her friend's yacht. She runs into her old boyfriend on the dock and has a long talk with him. Meanwhile, Paul and Annie are really worried about her because they don't know where she is. I think Paul realizes how much she means to him.

Amy writes Joe a note telling him that she likes him. Joe rejects her but they still remain good friends. Amy knows that he likes Helen and tries to get them together. She's successful, and Helen and Joe start dating (this is pretty much the end of their story. You don't see Helen anymore after this). Peter and Judy get into a fight after she's accused of murder. He thinks that she's guilty even though she's innocent. Judy wins the case in court and she's released (her lawyer was Ben ie. Bobby Au Yueng from File of Justice---they mention him as being the lawyer but you don't get to see him). Because of Peter's accusations, Judy is angry at him. Peter realizes then that he really likes Judy and she makes him suffer for a bit before she forgives him. It was really funny =) They got together at the end.

Annie finds out where Jackie is and rushes to tell Paul. He isn't quite sure what to do but Annie encourages him to tell Jackie how he really feels. Paul is actually very insecure after his divorce and he doesn't want to put too much hopes into another relationship. He does go to the dock to find her but she left already with her old boyfriend on a trip (Her ex-boyfriend had to drive his boss's yacht out of Hong Kong to another country and she was bugging him and wanted to go also. He didn't want to take her but she pretty much coerced him into it.). They left just as Paul arrived. Paul finds out from someone that Jackie left already. He stares out into the ocean for a little and then leaves. Meanwhile, Jackie's ex-boyfriend turns back because its raining too hard. Jackie gets off the yacht and sees Paul standing there in the rain. They go into his car and talk. Paul pretty much tells her that he likes her but Jackie says that she's not thrilled because she has this illness. Therefore, she doesn't want to start a relationship. They do end up going out though, despite what Jackie says here. She decides to undergo the surgery for him.

Henry and Annie are speaking to each other and he invited her out to dinner. However, Judy has gotten in trouble with the mafia and calls Henry out to help her (Henry's ex-girlfriend --the dead one- was Judy's older sister). When they're on their way to the car, they see a guy on a motorcycle with a gun. He shoots at them and Henry pushes Judy away. He gets shot twice (once in the head and once in the stomach). Before he falls, he sees his ex-girlfriend standing in front of him again. Annie calls Henry and Judy tells her that Henry was shot. She rushes to the hospital. Meanwhile, its Jackie's last day helping out at the hospital and she complains that its been too quiet. Henry is pushed in and Jackie and Joe are both shocked to see him. They try their best to stabilize his condition. Later, Henry's supervisor comes into ER and helps them. They transfer him to another dept so that he can undergo surgery to get the bullets out. Paul operates on Henry's head. The surgery is successful and his friends are all really happy. When Henry comes out of his coma, all his friends go to visit him. Annie goes also and Henry apologizes to her and tells her that he saw his ex-girlfriend right before he fell. (It was kind of his way of telling her that he felt his dead girlfriend was more important).

Paul has to perform the surgery for Jackie. He's very fearful of the operation because he only has 15 minutes to remove the dysfunctional part of her blood vessel. If this part of the operation is not completed within this timeframe, then Jackie could be in a coma for the rest of her life. During the surgery, something goes wrong and Paul goes overtime by two minutes. He's really upset and he leaves the room.

Henry realizes that he really shouldn't keep on thinking about the past. He buys a new lighter. His friends encourage him to ask Annie out again and Judy puts him on the spot and forces him to talk to her. Henry tells Annie that he really likes her. Annie forgave him and they were together at the end of the series.

Paul, meanwhile, visits Jackie everyday at the hospital. It was really sweet. He read her the story, The Little Prince because she told him once that she always cried at the end of the story. However, she still didn't wake up. One day, it started to rain outside and he saw a rainbow. He recalled that Jackie once told him that she's never seen a rainbow and that she really wanted to see one. He rushed to the hospital but she still didn't wake up. He continued reading the book to her and he fell asleep reading. He had a dream that Jackie woke up but then he woke up and realized that it was all a dream. The series ended with Paul kissing Jackie's hand. It was really sad =( =(

10/20/98

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