Not to be without fight choreography in an episode, Warrior Season 3 Episode 4 uses a sparring match between Li Yong ( Joe Taslim) and Kong Pak ( Mark Dacascos) to launch a deeper emotional connection between Mai Ling and Li Yong. While Ah Toy is attempting to hold strong while her world has crumbled, Mai Ling ( Dianne Doan) is finally using the skills she’s built up working with the men of the Tongs in the walls of a Duck home. After all, “In Chinatown, No One Thinks About Forever.” Cheng is a force as Ah Toy, heartbreaking and strong in one go. Still, when you remember that in Westens, revenge after tragedy is almost always the motive, the concerns settle themselves. There are elements to Ah Toy’s progression in Warrior Season 3’s story that may seem undue. A thick coat of foundation hiding the pain. Working is the only way to push through grief cladding herself in the armor of beauty she had left behind is the only way to move forward. She can’t allow herself to break, so she rebuilds in the only way she knows how. She becomes the Ah Toy she tried to abandon after burying the girls she wanted to save. She puts on a new face, hiding the bruises on her face and neck. They have to survive and, in doing so, aren’t allowed to thrive.Īh Toy is dealing with a specific type of grief that comes hand in hand with guilt for seeking a life away from her make-up and brothel. It’s heartbreaking to see Ah Toy cut off a part of herself, cut off the love she feels for Nellie, but in it, we circle back to the core of the series as we see what each of our main characters sacrifices for survival. She dons her extravagant gowns like armor, taking her place back as a madame but more secure than ever that she can not trust others to protect herself or the women in her community. Olivia Cheng’s performance as Ah Toy is a firey kind of anger that only comes from pain. This episode triggers a snowball of events, and it’s thrilling but terrifying to see how the characters’ fates will unfold. In Warrior Season 3 Episode 4, “In Chinatown, No One Thinks About Forever,” our main cast is thrown into hopelessness over what little power they’ve cultivated in Chinatown being ripped from them by Captain Atwood and his police force or other dangerous businessmen or their petty wives. After three episodes of setup, the dominoes have begun to fall in Warrior Season 3. The Secret Service has closed in on the Hop Wei, Ah Toy is reeling from losing her life with Nellie, and Mai Ling is pursuing business in the Pond with the increasing threat of loss.
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