While investigating in
Taiwan's gambling arcade scene, Captain Fong Kwok-fai (
Andy Lau) of the
Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau's Tactical Squad discovers the mastermind to be Chow Chiu-sin (
Tony Leung Ka-fai), a businessman and leader of the Chung-lam
Triad who has decided to run as a member of the
Legislative Yuan and has bribed his way into office. Fong infiltrate one his arcades and prosecutes him for operating an underground casino, but Chow had paid the presiding judge and gets dismissed. Fong then convinces Chairman Lam Ching-piu of the Tak-cheong Construction Company to report Chow for blackmailing him, and record evidence of Chow in
bid rigging for the construction of Coastal Highway. Chow catches Lam and drags him on a fishing hook through a plantation as Fong and his squad give chase while evading Chow's attack dogs and manage to rescue Lam. Fong exposes Chow to the public, so the
Kuomintang decides to nominate his rival, Ting Chung-shu, to run for the Legislative Yuan instead. Angered, Chow matches into Ting's press conference to announce that he is running for the Legislative Yuan without a political party. During this time, Fong is also suspended from his duties as his superior officer, Suen Ching-lim, is also corrupt. As Chow and Ting rally, rival taxi driving company leaders Country and White Cloud, who respectively supports Chow and Ting, fight each other for customers. With support of Country Taxi director Kwan, Chow turns the disputes into a riot. Chow instructs his wife Miu-heung (
Pauline Suen) to attend a ball, where
National Police Agency Commissioner Tung's wife is present so Tung would plead Chow to stop the riot and Chow would be touted as a hero to the public. Fong's father, who is a taxi driver, gets caught in the riot but Fong manages to save him, as both manage to escape an explosion. With the help of his journalist girlfriend Ling Fei (
Annie Wu), Fong convinces the
Justice Minister Fung King-chung to reinstate his position and fully supports him in combating corruption. However, Ting sends killers after Fong, who manage to take them down but one of his subordinates, Nicotine, who is killed. Ting attempts to frame Chow for the murder of Nicotine, but Miu-heung manages to help her husband win public support. Afterwards, Chow hires a prostitute to seduce and murder Ting, as Chow gets elected into the Legislative Yuan with 125,000 votes, and Fong returns to work after his superiors give him the order to take down Chow. Fong later captures Sung Miu-tin, a fraudant cult leader and drug trafficker in cahoots with Chow, using him to enter Chow's mansion as Fong and his squad go undercover. Chow meets other twelve members of the Legislative Yuan who are also triad leaders and suggests starting their own political party, during which Fong and squad takes down Chow's guards and gain evidence of his crimes from his computer. Chow then kills Deputy Minister Hau of the Kuomintang, who has been taking advantage of him. Outnumbered and lost, Chow attempts to flee Taiwan in a thirteen-vehicle entourage, while Fong intercepts him in a helicopter and fires missiles which blows up several entourage vehicles. Chow retaliates by firing a rocket launcher at Fong, who escapes narrowly and engages in a scuffle with Chow. They are interrupted by an explosion which kills Miu-heung, as Chow breaks down before being arrested. Chow is subsequently sentenced to prison for
disfranchisement and
death row, while Fong resigns from the Investigation Bureau due to public pressure and involvement of manipulating high officials. He announces his bid to run for Mayor of
Taipei in 1997 and marries Fei. ==Cast==