| Native Name: | 陀槍師姐 |
| Genre: | Crime thriller, Modern drama |
| Creator: | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Open Theme: | Amazing Women 女人本色 by Sammi Cheng |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Num Episodes: | 20 |
| Producer: | Kwong Jip Sang |
| Location: | Hong Kong |
| Camera: | Multi camera |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes |
| Company: | TVB |
| Network: | Jade |
| Armed Reaction | |
| T: | 陀槍師姐 |
| S: | 陀枪师姐 |
| L: | "Gun Carrying Police Women" |
| J: | to4 coeng1 si1 ze2 |
| Y: | tor cheung si tze |
| P: | tuó qiāng shī jiě |
Armed Reaction is a 1998 Hong Kong modern cop drama produced by TVB. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung and Esther Kwan as the main leads with Joyce Tang, Marco Ngai, Mimi Chu and Joe Ma in main supporting roles. Original broadcast of the series began on TVB Jade channel from July 6 till July 31, 1998 at 9:30-10:30 p.m. timeslot with 20 episodes total.
The popularity of the drama spawned 4 sequels (Armed Reaction II, Armed Reaction III, Armed Reaction IV, and Armed Reaction 2021).
In mainland China, the drama title is "女警本色", which means "The True Colour of Policewomen". While in Taiwan, the first season was under the title "麻辣女刑警" which means "Spicy Female Cops", but has followed the original Hong Kong title for the sequels. The reason for the change in title in each region release is to accommodate the local slang.[1]
The drama takes place before 1997 Handover of Hong Kong and Royal Hong Kong Police revolves around the lives of two police woman, one who works leisurely behind desk duty but has to take her job more seriously once her husband leaves her and new rookie cop who is deemed too ambitious and rash by her superior.
Chu So-Ngo (Esther Kwan) never took her job seriously. She works leisurely behind the desk at the police station waiting for the day to end so she can go home to her loving husband and obedient young son. Her job at the police station is just for her to kill time and make spare money for her to spend. However, things took an unexpected turn when her boss's wife thought So-Ngo was having an affair with her husband and had her transferred to the Patrol Unit. Soon she also learns her happy marriage is not as perfect as it seems when she finds out her husband has a kept mistress up in mainland China and plans to divorce her so he can marry his pregnant mistress. No longer living carefree, So-Ngo has to worry about paying the bills and taking care of her son by herself. She decides to switch for desk duty to on the beat duties because of the better pay. As a beat officer she gets to know Inspector Chan Siu-Sang (Bobby Au-Yeung) better. The two have an close friendship and soon starts developing feelings for each other, but their relationship is put on hold when her ex-husband wants her back.
Chan Siu-Sang niece Chan Sam-Yuen, is a tomboy who has always dreamt of becoming a cop like her uncle. Since she is so active in her job her superior Ching Fung writes her up for being to ambitious and unruly. Chan Siu-Sang being more senior than Ching Fung decides to stand up for his niece and tells Fung to be a better superior instead. While always bickering with each other Sam-Yuen and Fung soon find out they also have a lot of the same interest. When Fung's girlfriend leaves him for her ex-boyfriend whom she starts seeing after moving to France for school, Fung soon starts to fall for Sam-Yuen.
Later when Siu-Sang is framed for a crime he didn't commit will Sam-Yuen arrest him or let him go so he can find evidence to bring the real culprit to justice.[2] [3]
The show has come under attack for reusing story lines, recycling characters and actors as well as having illogical sequencing in storylines.