Mario Alcalde stars as Lt. Harry Fraser, who is stationed in Hong Kong, and is about to depart soon on his ship, and wants to marry his Chinese girlfriend Mai Ling(played by Laya Raki) but she is concerned that her ethnicity will cause problems for them in his country. He assures her things will be fine, but it would seem not, as Mai Ling later disappears, and Harry undertakes a desperate search for her, which leads to a blind seer telling him she is in the house of the dead, and there are many of them in the city... Nicely recreates its time and place, establishing a believable look and feel to the city in reasonably engrossing episode.
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Dead on his feet
sol-kay13 May 2011
***SPOILERS*** It's when the lovely Eurasian Hong Kong's Sisters of Mercy's hospital morgue attendant Mai Ling, Laya Raki, took off leaving her lover British Army Let. Harry Fraser, Mario Alcalde, out in the cold that he in desperation tried to track her down through supernatural means.
Mai Ling who was madly in love with Harry didn't see any future in her marrying him in that the two come from entirely different background. This may well have prevented Let. Harry Fraser in getting a promotion to captain or even major in the British Army. For his part Harry couldn't care less about his future in the British Military all he wanted was to be married to Mai Ling no matter what the consequences were!
On a tip Harry went to see the blind Old Man, Beal Wong, on the Street of the Cat in downtown Hong Kong for guidance in where to find Mai Ling and was told, after deep meditation, by him that she's in the house of the dead! This can mean that Mai Ling can be in any of the hundreds of morgue's mausoleums or funeral homes in the city! And with Harry Fraser having less then 30 minutes to return to his ship it will be next to impossible for him to find Mai Ling, dead or alive, before his time runs out!
****SPOILERS*** A heart broken Harry in flagging down a local rickshaw driver, Allen Jung, to take him to his ship the driver instead takes Harry to a hospital morgue where to his great surprise he finds the missing Mai Ling working there attending the dead! What's even far more shocking is that the rickshaw driver, with his head looking like it was split open with a samurai sword, was one of the stiffs that Mai Ling was attending too! Both Harry Fraser and Mai Ling soon realize that the rickshaw driver's spirit guided Harry to Mai Ling so they,forgetting about the differences in their racial backgrounds, can finally be together. But the big question is how could the rickshaw driver be at two places at the same time, a dead body in the hospital morgue and alive and driving his rickshaw, to be able to accomplish all this?
Mai Ling who was madly in love with Harry didn't see any future in her marrying him in that the two come from entirely different background. This may well have prevented Let. Harry Fraser in getting a promotion to captain or even major in the British Army. For his part Harry couldn't care less about his future in the British Military all he wanted was to be married to Mai Ling no matter what the consequences were!
On a tip Harry went to see the blind Old Man, Beal Wong, on the Street of the Cat in downtown Hong Kong for guidance in where to find Mai Ling and was told, after deep meditation, by him that she's in the house of the dead! This can mean that Mai Ling can be in any of the hundreds of morgue's mausoleums or funeral homes in the city! And with Harry Fraser having less then 30 minutes to return to his ship it will be next to impossible for him to find Mai Ling, dead or alive, before his time runs out!
****SPOILERS*** A heart broken Harry in flagging down a local rickshaw driver, Allen Jung, to take him to his ship the driver instead takes Harry to a hospital morgue where to his great surprise he finds the missing Mai Ling working there attending the dead! What's even far more shocking is that the rickshaw driver, with his head looking like it was split open with a samurai sword, was one of the stiffs that Mai Ling was attending too! Both Harry Fraser and Mai Ling soon realize that the rickshaw driver's spirit guided Harry to Mai Ling so they,forgetting about the differences in their racial backgrounds, can finally be together. But the big question is how could the rickshaw driver be at two places at the same time, a dead body in the hospital morgue and alive and driving his rickshaw, to be able to accomplish all this?
Who was the person in charge of casting this episode???!!!
planktonrules22 May 2018
This episode of "One Step Beyond" is about a Chinese lady and her boyfriend, a Lieutenant in the British army. So why then did they cast a German lady as the Chinese woman and an American as the British soldier?! The looks and accents were all wrong...especially for Lt. Fraser (Mario Alcalde). This took me out of the story as I couldn't help noticing the dumb choices of actors.
The story involves Lt. Fraser being sent home to London, as his term is evidently ending. However, he's fallen in love with a local lady...and asks her to accompany him home as his wife. She seems a bit ambivalent about this but agrees. But when she doesn't show up, he's at his wits end.
Overall, this is an okay story told with the wrong actors. As a result, it's one of the poorer episodes in the series. You could do a lot better.
The story involves Lt. Fraser being sent home to London, as his term is evidently ending. However, he's fallen in love with a local lady...and asks her to accompany him home as his wife. She seems a bit ambivalent about this but agrees. But when she doesn't show up, he's at his wits end.
Overall, this is an okay story told with the wrong actors. As a result, it's one of the poorer episodes in the series. You could do a lot better.
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