One Country: Two Cops (TV Idea)
Set in Hong Kong with international locations as well…
Cop 1: Young, handsome, Chinese Hong Konger. Famous for taking down mobsters. Investigating a mysterious local mob leader. Flashy and tech-savvy
Cop 2: Anglo Englishman, with Chinese wife and daughter. Retired spy living in China. Investigating an international terrorist/spy, based in China. Old school detective type
2 and his daughter are in Hong Kong, have intel that Bad Guy is having a meeting there.
1 and his boss, and older woman, have intel that the mob boss is having a meeting – they want to discover who he is.
They cross paths at the hotel where the suspect is meant to be. They realise they are after the same person. They realise he is a big deal, with mysterious motive and plans. 1 and 2 don’t get on at all (Lethal Weapon etc). 2’s daughter is a fan of 1. And 2 takes a shining to 1’s boss.
Example of their different ways. There is a shoot out, and a bad guy stops shooting for a moment. 2 says he is reloading. 1 says he is on his phone.
Tone is serious. It is about the old and the new. Old romance versus Tinder. Old China versus Hong Kong. Old police interview methods versus tech spy equipment
What’s the bad guy up to? Contaminating export products, made to look like Japan did it, as revenge for China’s failing economy?
Funding Russian extremists with a common anti-West goal?
Regime change in China through destabilising terrorist acts?
All 3?