The transcript below is from the video “Rush Hour (1 – 3) Cast: Then and Now 2022 How They Changed” by Celeb Time.

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The Rush Hour franchise is a series of American action comedy films created by Ross LaManna and directed by Brett Ratner. All three films center around a pair of police detectives, Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker), who go on their series of misadventures involving corrupt crime figures in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The films incorporate elements of martial arts, humor, and the buddy cop subgenre. The films were released theatrically from 1998 to 2007, attaining worldwide commercial success.

Rush Hour – September 18, 1998 – $244,386,864 Worldwide

Rush Hour 2 – August 3, 2001 – $347,425,832 Worldwide

Rush Hour 3 – August 10, 2007 – $258,022,233 Worldwide

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Detective Inspector Lee – Jackie Chan

1998: Age – 44 | 2022: Age – 68

Jackie Chan as Detective Inspector Lee, a top Hong Kong cop who comes to Los Angeles to help his friend find his kidnapped daughter. Chief Inspector Lee suspects that crime is linked to the Triad crime Lord Ricky Tan. Inspector Lee tracks an assassin to Paris to unravel a mystery about the Chinese triads.

Detective Inspector Yan Naing Lee is one of two main protagonists of the Rush Hour series. He is a Detective Inspector for the Hong Kong Police Force Yan Naing Lee appears in all three of the films. He is partnered with Detective James Carter, who at first shunned him, but later admires him.

Not much is known about Lee before the series but it is known that his father was a legendary cop in Hong Kong who Lee claimed once caught a bullet with his bare hands. His father later investigated an international smuggling case with his partner Ricky Tan (whom Lee met and befriended during his teen years). But when he discovered Tan worked for the Triads he attempted to tell his superior but Tan confronted Lee’s father at gun point. When his father begged Tan to promise not to kill his son, Tan was upset by this so he shot Lee’s father dead. The evidence disappeared the case was never solved and Tan resigned from the force. Lee also mention growing up in an orphanage with a foster brother named Kenji. They protected each other and were close as brothers as Lee likes to call him “Xiong Di”.

Lee is revealed to have been in the H.K.P.D for some time and is a personal friend of Chinese Consul Solon Han and is Kung-Fu instructor to Han’s daughter Soo-Yung.

When we first see Lee he is leading a police raid at a boating yard to recapture antiques on China’s history which have been stolen and collected by the mysterious crime lord Juntao. Lee successfully recovers numerous Chinese cultural treasures stolen by Juntao, which he presents as a farewell victory to his departing superiors: Chinese consul Han and British Commander Thomas Griffin. When Soo Yung gets abducted while on her way to her first day of school, Consul Solon Han invites Lee to come over to the US to help recover his daughter. With the FBI not wanting Lee’s help, he gets partnered with James Carter.

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Four days after Rush Hour, Lee is promoted from Detective Inspector to Chief Inspector at the police station as he gets a visit from Carter who wants a vacation in Hong Kong. However soon after he arrives a bomb explodes in the American embassy killing two U.S custom agents in the process. Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan, his late police officer father’s former partner on the Hong Kong Police Department . Tan, who was suspected, but never proven, of having a role in Lee’s father’s death, is now a leader of the Triads. Who are according to Lee “the most deadly gang in China”.

Some time after the events in Las Vegas, Lee began a relationship with US Secret Service agent Isabella Molina, who was also involved on the case. However, in 2004, when Lee, Carter and Molina were in New York, Carter accidentally (but not fatally) shot Molina in the neck while aiming for a criminal. After that, she broke up with Lee, which slightly strained the friendship between Lee and Carter (more so on Lee’s end), as in the beginning of the third movie, Lee is irritated with Carter and mentions the incident.

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At the beginning of the film Lee is no longer a Chief Inspector but has been demoted back to a Detective Inspector and was hired to become the bodyguard for Chinese Ambassador Solon Han who addresses the importance of fighting the Triads at the World Criminal Court, announcing that he may know the whereabouts of Shy Shen, a semi-mythical individual of great importance to the Triads. Before announcing, an assassin shoots and Han takes a bullet in the shoulder, disrupting the conference. Lee pursues the shooter and corners him, discovering that the assassin is his Japanese foster brother Kenji. When Lee hesitates to shoot Kenji, he makes his escape when Carter (having learned about the shooting over the police radio) arrives and tries to intervene.

After Lee’s childhood orphanage story involved with Kenji revealed shocking as a foster brother ended, Carter brags about how his younger little brother named Perry involved with cockfighting money gambling tournaments in his own family garage that he mentioned backgroundly. Perry’s own brother informed the police reportedly, & putting up with it. Before Lee scolds Carter to stop talking nonsense annoyingly, Perry thinks his own brother is a tattletale, only because Carter’s chicken lost in the semifinals animal fighting tournament gambling challenge, but Carter is so truly seriously apathy about it any longer.

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Detective James Carter – Chris Tucker

1998: Age – 27 | 2022: Age – 51

Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter, a fast-talking street-smart LAPD Detective originally assigned by the FBI to babysit Lee and keep him out of their investigation. Detective James Carter goes to Hong Kong on vacation only to be thwarted by a murder case involving two U.S. customs agents after a bombing at the American embassy. Officer Carter tracks an assassin to Paris to unravel a mystery about the Chinese triads.

Detective James Carter is one of the main protagonists of the Rush Hour films. He is also a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department in Los Angeles and is Chief Inspector Lee’s partner and friend. James Carter appears in all three Rush Hour films. He is portrayed by Chris Tucker.

Carter first appears in the first film, where he’s undercover investigating the selling of explosive C4 from bomb maker Clive Cobb. After two cops appear, not realizing he’s under cover, the operation went wrong for Carter with him accidentally blowing up Clive’s car containing the C4. The papers obviously ran a story on the explosion Carter caused which annoyed his boss and made him want to get rid of Carter for a while. When the FBI phoned the L.A.P.D. for an officer to be used for the G14 Classified case (A fake title for the “case” of “baby sitting” Detective Inspector Lee), Carter was immediately assigned to which is where he meet Lee for the first time. Carter proceed to take Lee on a sightseeing tour of Los Angeles simultaneously keeping Lee away from the Consulate and contacting several of his underworld informants about the kidnapping.

Lee finally gets away from Carter and makes his way to the Chinese Consulate, where an anxious Han and a group of FBI agents are awaiting news about his daughter. Carter first notices that Lee is gone when the steering wheel to his car (which he handcuffed Lee to) goes missing. He later arrives at the Consulate with a tow truck to his car and argues with FBI agent in charge Warren Russ. Carter is also introduced to the Consul Solon Han. Lee explains to Han that Carter is very passionate about finding his daughter. Han then shakes Carter’s hand saying that he has his gratitude. Carter then picks up the phone while trying to call his boss but finds himself talking to Sang the right hand man of Juntao, leader of a group of triads who kidnapped the daughter of the Consul. Carter takes up Sang’s ransom demand of $50 million and poorly arranges a drop at 620 South Broadway downtown.

When the FBI arrive at the agreed drop point, several agents go up to the top floor to arrest Sang, only to find a ringing phone. When they pick it up to answer, a bomb is detonated, killing the agents. Sang then came out of a hiding place and Lee chases him to an alley with Carter following them, where Sang manages to climb up to a building. He then attacked Lee with an axe, but fled as soon as he heard Carter calling for Lee. Sang continued to flee and even threw the axe which narrowly misses Lee and hits the wall next to Carter. Sang then nearly fell through a gap in the bridge of the building, dropping a remote detonator in the process. When Lee tried to follow he gets his foot stuck while picking up the detonator. Carter catches up to Lee only for them to fall through the bridge and on to the ground. A car nearly hits them but they move out of the way. Carter gets up and shoots at the back window of the car, which Sang escapes in. Lee and Carter soon learn from Carter’s colleague, Detective Tania Johnson, that the detonator was a remote that can blow up explosives, like C4, which was the explosive Carter had not recovered while arresting Clive earlier in the film. This brings them to Clive where it is revealed that Juntao was behind the kidnapping. Following a lead to a restaurant in Chinatown, Carter and Lee begin to bond with Carter teaching Lee how to dance and Lee teaching Carter how to use martial arts moves. Lee even teaches Carter how to take a gun from a suspect.

Later, Carter enters the restaurant, posing as a lawyer, and pretends to look for Juntao. Sang sees him on the security camera and orders his henchmen to get Carter. Juntao tells him to hold it and he is revealed as Thomas Griffin, Consul Han’s friend and the former British ruler of Hong Kong. He sees Lee on a security monitor and orders them to get Soo-Yung out of the building. He then tells Sang to make sure that Lee and Carter don’t leave the restaurant alive.

Carter is brought up to meet with Sang and his men. Carter suddenly sees Griffin on the security monitor outside the restaurant but does not know that he’s Juntao. Sang closes the monitor and he and his men menacingly stare down Carter. When asked why there are so quiet, he is pushed forward and a man kicks him. Carter tells the guy that it was childish. He pretend to claims that he’s looking for Juntao but Sang pulls his gun on him. Carter says if he’s going to kill him to put the gun down and fight him like a man. Before Carter would fight him another man kick’s him in the chin. Carter does his famous line “which one of ya’ll kick me?” The henchman in front of him replies “me”. Carter briefly fights the men before he is kicked over a couch by the same man. While the henchman are checking him Sang approaches Carter and sees the FBI badge on his belt buckle revealing to him that Carter was the man he was on the phone with earlier. He then throws him a handkerchief and tells him to wipe himself off because he’s bleeding (from his nose). Before Sang leaves he does the cut throat gesture as if he’s ordering them to kill Carter. Lee arrives and enters the room disguised as a waiter from the restaurant. At Carter suggestion earlier he pretends to be with the L.A.P.D. before he drops the badge in embarrassment. Lee then rescues Carter by fighting the men before they are able to escape.

Sang later phoned the consul, angrily telling him that the ransom has been increased from $50 million to $70 million, and threatened to kill Soo-Yung if anything else goes wrong. Disgraced and guilt-ridden, Lee and Carter are ordered off the investigation and Han informs Lee that he will be sent back to Hong Kong, Lee sadly reveals to him that Juntao was behind Soo-Yung’s kidnapping. Carter enters the room and apologizes for everything claiming that it was all his fault. Han tells him its a little too late for apologies. Finally realizing Soo-Yung safety is more important that his career a desperate Carter however refuses to drop the case and confronts Lee on his plane to enlist his help, and the two men decide to save Soo-Yung together, doing it for Han.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center which Han and Griffin are overseeing. Carter Lee and Johnson enter posed as guests for the evening. During Consul Han’s speech to present the art work for five thousand years of china’s history. He stops when he says that we can passed them on to our children feeling distraught over the disappearance of his own daughter. Griffin decides to take over from where Han left off. Carter suddenly recognizes Griffin as the man he saw on the security monitor at the Chinese restaurant from Chinatown and creates a scene where he warns the spectators about a threat of a bomb in the building and tells them to evacuate. In the confusion, Lee sees Sang handing Griffin a detonator identical to the one he and Carter had previously recovered, deducing that Griffin and Juntao are one and the same.

Juntao then threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung if the delivery is interrupted. He also reveals that the priceless pieces that are apart of the exhibition were once part of his collection and he intends to get them back. During the stand-off, however, Carter manages to sneak out and locate Soo Yung. Carter proceeds to take the vest off her, but Soo Yung tells him that she heard them say that the vest will go off if anyone tries to take it off incorrectly. Carter then drives the van into the building and brings the bomb vest within range to kill Griffin and his men inside the exhibition.He challenges Griffin to push the detonator, but Griffin hesitates to do so. As Carter continues to demand that he push the button, Griffin decides he had enough and orders Sang to deal with Carter. Sang shoots at Carter, starting a gunfight between the FBI and Juntao’s thugs.

During the fight, Lee and Johnson climb into the back of the van and Johnson manages to defuse the bomb and rescue Soo-Yung, but tells Lee that the vest still can be set off with the remote. Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin. Meanwhile, Griffin goes up to the upstairs control room and shoots the agents up there, including Russ. He then takes the briefcase with the money and leaves. When Sang came to get the rest of the money, he noticed Russ was still alive and tries to shoot him, but was stopped by Carter, who humorously came to the surviving officer’s rescue and in a brief stand off, kills Sang. Lee later kills Griffin by causing him to fall to his death in a water fountain. He is rescued by Carter shortly afterwards.

Han and Soo-Yung are reunited and Han sends Carter and Lee on vacation together to Hong Kong. Before leaving, Russ commends Carter for his efforts at the airport. He and Whitney offer him a place on the FBI, but Carter “politely” refuses, saying that he will always be loyal to the LAPD. On the plane, Carter shows off a couple of lines of Chinese to Lee (who is very impressed, as he had no idea Carter spoke Chinese). When Carter asks about the flight, Lee tells him that it may take fifteen hours, causing Carter to become surprised, and then he immediately requests a new seat as soon as Lee starts singing War.

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Four days after Rush Hour, Carter takes a vacation to Hong Kong with Lee however soon after they arrive a bomb explodes in the American Embassy killing two U.S. Custom agents in the process. Lee is assign to the case which becomes personal when it is discovered that it somehow involves Ricky Tan his late father’s former partner of the Hong Kong Police Force. Tan who was never proven of having a role in Lee’s father’s death is now the leader of a group of triads who are the most deadly gang in China.

While doing the investigation into the case of the embassy explosion, Carter almost had a near death experience but luckily he left the police station just in time. When Lee went back to his office, he saw an explosion from his office which he thought that Carter was killed in it. When Lee was mourning Carter, his boss asked him if he’s okay and he said that “all he wanted was some mu shu”. When Lee was looking for Ricky Tan, he asked a henchman of Ricky Tan where he is, he replied, “I don’t know”. Lee suddenly heard Carter’s voice, and found out that Carter could’ve survived the explosion. But Carter asks “who died?” Lee then answers that it was him who died. Hu Li the henchwoman of Ricky Tan is revealed later to have planted the bomb in Lee’s office.

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At the beginning of the film, Carter is no longer a detective but has been demoted to a patrolman and is placed on traffic duty. He arrests two women for denting a car, when one of them asks if he can give them a warning, Carter tells him that it depends and asks if they like Chinese. He calls Lee and tells him that he’s picked up dates for them but Lee reveals that he’s going to the world criminal court with Ambassador Solon Han and he immediately declines. Carter points out that he’s still mad at him over accidentally shooting Isabella in the neck but Lee tells him that he doesn’t want to talk about it. Carter claims that the incident was three years ago when they were in New York and that he should let it go. Lee claims Isabella was his girlfriend. Carter continues to persuade him but Lee hangs up on Carter.

When Carter hears on the police radio of Han’s assassination attempt he uses the women’s car to assist in Lee’s pursuit of the assassin. As he arrives in an alley where the assassin reveals himself as Lee’s Japanese foster brother Kenji, he ducks his head as Kenji shoots at the car. Carter nearly runs over Lee but he jumps on the car’s hood while Kenji manages to escape. At the hospital it is revealed that Han survived but is out of surgery and that he will make a full recovery. Soo-Yung arrives at the hospital and asks Lee and Carter to make a promise to her that they will catch Kenji for her as he will stop at nothing until her father’s dead.

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Thomas – Tom Wilkinson

1998: Age – 50 | 2022: Age – 74

Tom Wilkinson as Thomas “Juntao” Griffin, a British diplomat and colleague of Han’s who is secretly the top crime lord in Hong Kong and head of the Juntao Criminal Organization. Thomas Griffin, more commonly known as Juntao, is the main antagonist of the first Rush Hour film. He was a Triad’s leader that smuggled priceless pieces of Chinese culture out of the country. When Lee foiled his operation, he threatened Chinese Consul Solon Han by abducting his daughter and forcing him to give him millions of dollars as ransom. Juntao is portrayed by Tom Wilkinson.

When Detective Inspector Lee and his partner were investigating Juntao, they were presumably involved in an ambush and his partner was killed by Juntao in the process. During the British ruler ship of Hong Kong, Griffin who was a Police Commander and Chinese Consul Solon Han were close friends and were Lee’s superiors of the Hong Kong Police Force as they were investigating Juntao’s recent activities. Before the events detailed below, Griffin under his Juntao name sent his right-hand man, Sang, down to the harbor to acquire and catalog priceless pieces of Chinese culture to smuggle them out of the country.

While Sang and his henchman were down at the harbor for the smuggling, Lee, who is leading a raid at the docks to find and arrest Juntao, confronts Sang and demands the whereabouts of Juntao, though Sang jokingly declares that Juntao is everywhere. Sang escapes from the harbor, but Lee managed to foil Juntao’s plan. At a dinner party to celebrate Consul Han’s departure to the states, Lee whispers to Han about foiling Juntao’s plot and Han announces that Lee defeated Juntao by eliminating his criminal organization and reclaimed artifacts from five thousands years of China’s history.

Juntao later goes to Los Angeles and to get revenge against Han and Lee orders Sang to kidnap Han’s daughter, Soo-Yung. Sang attempts to after he kills Soo-Yung’s bodyguard and driver, but she fought back long enough to escape. However, as Soo-Yung attempted to run away, she was picked up by a motorcycle henchman of Sang and was dragged into a white van.

Under Juntao’s orders, Sang phones the consul later that night, only to find himself talking to L.A.P.D Detective James Carter, who he mistakes for an FBI agent with Carter playing along. Carter takes up Sang’s ransom demand of $50 million and poorly arranges a drop.

When Sang kills some FBI agents that were tricked into going to a drop point in a building that was rigged to explode, Lee sees him coming out of a hiding place and chases him inside a building with Carter following them. Sang drops one of the detonators that Juntao had given him, but Lee and Carter recovered it after Sang escaped again. Lee and Carter soon learn from Carter’s colleague, Detective Tania Johnson, that the detonator was a remote that can blow up explosives like C4, which was the explosive Carter had not recovered while arresting bomb maker Clive Cobb earlier in the film. This brings them to Clive, where they learn from him that Juntao was the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Soo-Yung.

Later, Juntao and Sang are hiding out at the Foo Chow Restaurant in Chinatown. Sang orders the consul by phone to take the ransom money he demanded behind the restaurant, reminding him that he has twenty nine minutes left. Carter later enters the restaurant, posing as a lawyer and pretends to look for Juntao. He orders the waitress to tell Juntao to come see him. Upstairs, the waitress walks up to Sang telling him that someone was looking for a man named Juntao. Sang sees Carter on the security camera and orders his henchman to bring him to them. Juntao tells him to hold it and with a scowl on his face he sees Lee on the security monitor sitting at a table. He orders them to get Soo-Yung out of the building and tells Sang to make sure that Lee and Carter do not leave the restaurant alive.

Carter is brought up to meet with Sang and his men. Carter suddenly sees Griffin on the security monitor outside the restaurant, but does not know that he is Juntao. Sang closes the monitor and he and his men menacingly stare down Carter. This leads to Carter being captured, but Lee rescues him after disguising himself as one of the waiters from the restaurant. They fight off Juntao’s men long enough to escape.

Sang later phoned the consul, angrily telling him that the ransom has been increased from $50 million to $70 million, and threatened to kill Soo-Yung if anything else goes wrong. Disgraced and guilt-ridden, Lee and Carter are ordered off the investigation, and Lee is informed that he will be sent back to Hong Kong. Carter refuses to drop the case and confronts Lee on his plane to enlist his help, and the two men decide to save Soo-Yung together.

Griffin later visits Han at his consulate home, embracing him in a hug and apologizing for leaving him an emotional wreck. Griffin and Han then explained to FBI agents Warren Russ and Dan Whitney about the HKPF’s history with Juntao. Griffin explains for fifteen years until China was in control of Hong Kong, Juntao was the most powerful crime lord in South East Asia. The British tried to close down his operation, but they had failed. Russ asks why Juntao would kidnapped Soo-Yung and Han explained about how he and Lee had foiled every aspect of Juntao’s criminal operation, confiscating millions in weapons and cash and a collection of Chinese arts that was surpassed to the world. Griffin then said that Juntao disappeared with no witnesses. When Whitney asked if he really thinks he will kill the girl, Griffin suggests to Han that he should “pay the money”.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center, which Han and Griffin are overseeing, and where the ransom is being delivered in the upstairs control room, Sang appears at the event dressed as a waiter and he and Griffin exchange looks. During Consul Han’s speech to present the art work, he stops when he says that it can passed on to the children, feeling distraught over the disappearance of his only daughter. Griffin decides to take over from where Han left off. Carter suddenly recognizes Griffin as the man he saw on the security monitor at the restaurant from and creates a scene, where he warns the spectators about a threat of a bomb in the building and tells them to evacuate. In the confusion, Lee sees Sang handing Griffin a detonator identical to the one he and Carter had previously recovered, deducing that Griffin and Juntao are one and the same.

He goes to confront him but Juntao then threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung if the delivery is interrupted. He also reveals that the priceless pieces that are a part of the exhibition were once part of his collection and he intends to get them back. During the stand-off, Carter manages to sneak out and locate Soo Yung. Carter proceeds to take the vest off her, but Soo Yung tells him that she heard them say that the vest will go off if anyone tries to take it off incorrectly. Carter then drives the van into the building and brings the bomb vest within range to kill Griffin and his men inside the exhibition. He challenges Griffin to push the detonator, but Griffin hesitates to do so. As Carter demands that he push the button, Griffin orders Sang to deal with Carter. Sang shoots at Carter causing a gunfight to break out between the FBI and Juntao’s thugs.

During the gunfight, Lee and Johnson climb into the back of the van and Johnson manages to defuse the bomb and rescue Soo-Yung, but tells him that the vest still can be set off with the remote. Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin. Meanwhile, Griffin goes up to the upstairs control room and shoots the agents up there, including Russ. He then takes the briefcase with the money and leaves.

pursue him calling him “Juntao!” as he does so. As he makes his way to the roof, Lee pursues him up several sets of maintenance ladders. He shoots at Lee but misses and throws his gun away in frustration after running out of bullets. Lee catches him before he could go to the roof, but accidentally looks down. Griffin hits Lee with the briefcase three times, but on the fourth try he misses, and both men fall over the railing, with Lee holding onto a rafter and Griffin holding onto the bomb vest, which Lee is wearing. The money falls out of the case that Griffin was holding. Carter then looks up at the money falling and jokingly asks “Thank you, God?” Suddenly, the bomb vest starts falling apart as Griffin is holding onto Lee. Griffin holds on until it finally rips, sending Griffin falling to his death into a fountain below. The bomb then detonates inside the fountain causing Carter to proclaim “Whoo! You know he dead”.

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Consol Solon Han – Tzi Ma

1998: Age – 36 | 2022: Age – 60

Tzi Ma as Consul Solon Han, Soo Yung’s father and a Hong Kong diplomat who has just moved to Los Angeles. Solon Han is a major character in the Rush Hour franchise. He the Chinese consul in Rush Hour and later Ambassador in Rush Hour 3. He has a daughter named Soo-Yung. He was portrayed in both movies by Tzi Ma.

Consul Han was the Chinese consul in the Diplomatic area of Hong Kong. He was also friends with Hong Kong Police Force Detective Inspector Lee and was an ally to the police. During the British rule of Hong Kong, Han also became friends with Police Commander Thomas Griffin, but he was unaware that Griffin was also a mysterious crime lord named Juntao whom he and Lee had been investigating.

After Lee had stopped Juntao from smuggling priceless pieces of artifacts out of the country, Han was hosting a dinner party to celebrate his departure to the United States on the last day of British ruler ship. When Lee came in and told Han about how he had stopped Juntao, Han announces that Lee defeated Juntao’s criminal organization and reclaimed artifacts from five thousand years of Chinese history, to the applause of the party guests. After Lee leaves, Han rejoices that this is the kind of legacy he dreamed about. Griffin then toasts to Hong Kong.

Two months later, Consul Han had finally set up his new diplomatic post in Los Angeles. As he was walking his daughter Soo-Yung to the car so she can be on her way to school, a consulate worker informed him that there was a phone call for him from China. Before Soo-Yung left, she asked her father if he will be home after school. He says no and that he will be picking her up himself, and she smiles. He turns her around with a finger-like move called the lago and she leaves after saying goodbye to him. Han goes back inside to answer the phone call, but no one was on the other line.

Han appeared again with his assistant at the Los Angeles Convention Center where he is preparing to host a Chinese art exposition. Han was then approached by two FBI agents named Warren Russ and Dan Whitney, claiming that they need to speak with him in private. Han went with them, where he learned that his daughter had been abducted while she was on her way to school. Han returned to his office at the consulate where Russ assures him that they would get his daughter back. Han tells Russ that he would like one of his people to help, but Russ assures him that the FBI considers it a top priority and have plenty of people on the case. Han, unwilling to trust the FBI agents so easily, reveals that he has called Lee to assist in the case partly because he and his family are not U.S. citizens.

The FBI are able to throw Lee off (albeit temporarily) by teaming him with brash L.A.P.D. Detective James Carter. Lee is unable to get Carter to take him to the consulate. He manages to get away from Carter (While he is inside of a convenient store) and makes his way to the Chinese consulate, where the FBI, along with an anxious Han are awaiting news about his daughter. When two FBI agents who are guarding the front gate think that Lee is an intruder, he subdues them, causing the remaining agents to surround the house, with Whitney ordering Han to hide on the second floor. Lee comes in through the window and subdues the agents until Han gets up and sees that Lee was the supposed intruder. Russ and his agents hear the noise and draw at the door with their guns ready. Han opens it and assures Russ that there has been a misunderstanding. Han then introduces Russ to Lee, who immediately apologizes and gives Whitney back his gun.

Han is later introduced to Detective Carter who Lee explains is very passionate about finding his daughter. Han then shakes Carter’s hand saying that he has his gratitude. Sang, Juntao’s right-hand man, calls the consulate as Carter accidentally picks up the phone while trying to call his captain. Carter suddenly takes up Sang’s ransom demand of $50 million and poorly arranges a drop.

Han would later follow Sang’s ransom demand and with the FBI’s help they make the drop stuffing the money into suitcases. Han later receives a call from Sang telling him to take the money to the alley behind the Foo Chow restaurant in Chinatown reminding him that he has twenty nine minutes left. The FBI follow through with this but after Lee rescues Carter from the restaurant they are met outside by the FBI led by Russ who blames them for ruining the ransom exchange.

Sang later phoned the consul, angrily telling him that the ransom has been increased from $50 million to $70 million, and threatened to kill Soo-Yung if anything else goes wrong. Disgraced and guilt-ridden, Lee and Carter are ordered off the investigation and Han informs Lee that he will be sent back to Hong Kong, Lee sadly reveals to him that Juntao was behind Soo-Yung’s kidnapping. Carter enters the room and apologizes for everything claiming that it was all his fault. Han tells him its a little too late for apologies. Finally realizing Soo-Yung safety is more important that his career a desperate Carter however refuses to drop the case and confronts Lee on his plane to enlist his help, and the two men decide to save Soo-Yung together, doing it for Han.

Griffin later visits Han at his consulate home embracing him in a hug and apologizing for leaving him an emotional wreck. Sang phones Han again telling him to go prepare for his Chinese exposition has he planned and to have the money in the upstairs control room. Han understands but he wants to speak with his daughter only to have Sang hang up on him.

Griffin and Han then explained to Russ and Whitney about the HKPF’s history with Juntao. Griffin explains for fifteen years until China was in control of Hong Kong, Juntao was the most powerful crime lord in South East Asia. The British tried to close down his operation but they had failed. Russ asks why Juntao would kidnapped Soo-Yung and Han explained about how he and Lee had foiled every aspect of Juntao’s criminal operation confiscating millions in weapons and cash and a collection of Chinese arts that was surpassed to the world. Griffin then said that Juntao disappeared with no witnesses. When Whitney asked if he really thinks he’ll kill the girl. Griffin suggests to Han that he should “pay the money”.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center which Han and Griffin are overseeing and where the ransom is being delivered in the upstairs control room, Sang suddenly appears at the event dressed as a waiter and he and Griffin exchange looks. While Consul Han is making a speech to present the art work for five thousand years of china’s history. He stops when says that we can passed them on to our children feeling distraught over the disappearance of his own daughter. Griffin decides to take over from where Han left off. Carter suddenly recognizes Griffin as the man he saw on the security monitor at the Chinese restaurant from Chinatown and creates a scene where he warns the spectators about a threat of a bomb in the building and tells them to evacuate. In the confusion, Lee sees Sang handing Griffin a detonator identical to the one he and Carter had previously recovered, deducing that Griffin and Juntao are one and the same.

Han immediately becomes horrified when learns his friend turns out to have been Juntao the whole time. Lee goes to confront him but Juntao then threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung if the delivery is interrupted. He also reveals that the priceless pieces that are apart of the exhibition were once part of his collection and he intends to get them back. During the stand-off, however, Carter manages to sneak out and locate Soo Yung. Carter proceeds to take the vest off her, but Soo Yung tells him that she heard them say that the vest will go off if anyone tries to take it off incorrectly. Carter then drives the van into the building and brings the bomb vest within range to kill Griffin and his men inside the exhibition. Han attempts to embrace his daughter but Agent Whitney holds him back. Carter challenges Griffin to push the detonator but Griffin hesitates to do so. As Carter demands that he push the button Griffin orders Sang to deal with Carter. Sang shoots at Carter causing a gunfight to break out between the FBI and Juntao’s thugs. Whitney protects the Consul by forcing him to hide next him in the middle of the firefight.

During the gunfight, Lee and Johnson climb into the back of the van and Johnson manages to defused the bomb and rescue Soo-Yung, but tells Lee that the vest still can be set off with the remote. Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin. Meanwhile, Griffin goes up to the upstairs control room and shoots the agents up there, including Russ. He then takes the briefcase with the money and leaves. Lee and Carter are able to stop Griffin and Sang from escaping simultaneously. Carter shoots Sang dead in a stand off after Sang was distracted by a wounded Russ and Lee kills Griffin by causing him to fall to his death in a water fountain. He is rescued by Carter shortly afterwards.

After Soo-Yung was finally rescued she is reunited safely with her father. Then, after she punches Lee and asks “What took you so long?”, he smiles and gives back her necklace. She smiles as well, and then thanks him in Cantonese. As a reward for saving his daughter Han sends Lee and Carter on vacation together in Hong Kong. This leads to the events of Rush Hour 2.

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Ten years later Han has now been promoted to Chinese Ambassador at his consulate and he and Lee were now working on a new case which was to investigate a Chinese triad organization called Shy Shen. They decide to discuss the meeting at the World Criminal Court in downtown Los Angeles with help from Han’s friend, Chairman of the world criminal court and french ambassador Varden Reynard.

Lee was later hired as the bodyguard for Han and together they rode a limo to the world criminal court. While Han is making his speech about the importance of fighting the triads he announces that he may have finally located Shy-Shen. When he is asked what Shy Shen is. The Ambassador was about to answer when someone dressed in black from the top of a building behind the court aim’s his sniper rifle at Lee but instead he aims at Han and shoots him in the shoulder. It is later revealed that the person behind the assassination attempt on Han was Lee’s former Japanese foster brother, Kenji. At the hospital Carter’s boss Captain Diel informed Lee and Carter that Han survived his bullet wound while out of surgery and that he will recover. Soo-Yung would later arrive at the hospital to see her father and makes Lee and Carter promise to capture Kenji for her. When Kenji sends members of The Triad to storm the hospital in an attempt to assassinate Ambassador Han, Soo-Yung, Lee and Carter defeat them. After the hospital raid, Lee and Carter decide that Soo-Yung needed to be safe so she was moved to live with, Reynard and his family at the French Embassy. It is later revealed that Reynard worked for the triads all along. When Soo-Yung was kidnapped by Kenji and is taken to Paris France, she is armed tied with a rope connected to a rotating crank outside the Eiffel Tower. While Lee and Kenji were sword fighting, Carter single handedly defeated the rest of Kenji’s triad henchman. He then goes to rescue Soo-Yung. One final triad master, the dragon lady Jasmine appears out of the restaurant and tries to kill Soo-Yung.

She pulls the rope and Soo-Yung starts to fall from the Eiffel Tower. Carter leaps from the Tower and catches the rope, pulling Soo-Yung back up, where she then kicks Jasmine in the rotating crank, causing her to be crushed in half, off screen. After Lee defeats Kenji he walks back up to the main deck of the Eiffel Tower to join Soo-Yung and Carter. Lee embraces her as she tells him that she’s okay. When more Triads arrive, Lee sends Soo-Yung down the elevator and tells her to call the police.

In an Alternate ending on the DVD, Han sends Lee and Carter a plane at the airfield in Paris as a way of thanking them for once again rescuing Soo-Yung. Lee mentions to Carter that Han left the hospital with Soo-Yung the previous night.

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Sang – Kenneth Leung

1998: Age – 28 | 2022: Age – 52

Ken Leung as Sang, Juntao’s second in command. Sang was the right-hand man of Juntao and the secondary antagonist in Rush Hour. He is portrayed by Ken Leung.Sang first appears in the opening sequence of the film. He is at the shipping bar-warf near Hong Kong harbor, where the rest of Juntao’s men are gathering up some stolen artifacts representing years of China’s heritage. Hong Kong Police Force Detective Inspector Lee, who is leading a raid in an attempt to find and arrest Juntao, confronts Sang and another henchman. At gunpoint, he demands to know where Juntao is, but Sang replied that Juntao is everywhere. He challenges Lee to a fight, but Lee ordered him to surrender. He then challenges him to shoot him, with Lee hesitating. As he again tells Lee to shoot him, he pushes a henchman towards Lee and escapes. Lee subdues the man and chases after Sang, who manages to escape on a boat.

Later, while Consul Han’s daughter, Soo-Yung was on her way to her first day of being at an American school, the car was stopped by Sang, who was a police officer in disguise. When Soo-Yung’s driver asked if there was a problem, Sang casually replied that there was no problem, “just rush hour”, and then shot both the driver and her bodyguard.

Sang disguising as a cop and shoots the driver and the passenger before kidnapping Soo-Yung

While Soo-Yung Han is screaming from shock and fear for her life, Sang then calmly walked to where she was sitting in the backseat of the car, opened the car door and tried to grab her, but they kicked him back, hit him in the face with her backpack, and then whacked him in the face with her necklace, cutting the corner of his eye. While Sang was distracted from the pain, Soo-Yung Han managed to escape from the car by opening the car door on the right side and then fleeing. Sang then stood by the car, angrily watching them run away.

However, Soo-Yung’s attempt to escape was then cut short as she is picked up by Sang’s fellow henchman after he chased her on a motorcycle; after kicking him in the head while being picked up by another man, she was shoved into a van and the door closed behind her.

Sang phones the consulate later that night, only to find himself talking to L.A.P.D Detective James Carter, whom he mistakes for an FBI agent, with Carter playing along. Carter takes up Sang’s ransom demand and poorly arranges a drop.

When the FBI arrive at the agreed drop point, several agents go up to the top floor to arrest Sang, only to find a ringing phone. When they pick it up to answer, a bomb is detonated, killing the agents. Sang then came out of a hiding place and Lee chases him to an alley, where Sang manages to climb up to a building. He then attacked Lee with an axe, but fled as soon as he heard Carter calling for Lee. Sang continued to flee and even threw the axe which narrowly misses Lee and hits the wall next to Carter. Sang then nearly fell through a gap in the bridge of the building, dropping a remote detonator in the process. When Lee tried to follow he gets his foot stuck while picking up the detonator. Carter catches up to Lee only for them to fall through the bridge and on to the ground. A car nearly hits them but they move out of the way. Carter gets up and shoots at the back window of the car, which Sang escapes in. Lee and Carter soon learn from Carter’s colleague, Detective Tania Johnson, that the detonator was a remote that can blow up explosives, like C4, which was the explosive Carter had not recovered while arresting bomb maker Clive Cobb earlier in the film. This brings them to Clive, where they learn from him that Juntao was behind the kidnapping of Soo-Yung.

Later, Sang hides out at the Foo Chow resturaunt in Chinatown, telling the Consul by phone to take the ransom money to the alley behind the resturaunt. Later, Carter enters the resturaunt, posing as a lawyer, and pretends to look for Juntao. Sang sees him on the security camera and orders his henchmen to get Carter. Juntao tells him to hold it and he is revealed as Thomas Griffin, Consul Han’s friend and the former British ruler of Hong Kong. He sees Lee on a security monitor and orders them to get Soo-Yung out of the building. He then tells Sang to make sure that Lee and Carter don’t leave the resturaunt alive.

Carter is brought up to meet with Sang and his men. Carter suddenly sees Griffin on the security monitor outside the resturaunt but does not know that he’s Juntao. Sang closes the monitor and he and his men menacingly stare down Carter. When asked why there are so quiet, he is pushed forward and a man kicks him. Carter tells the guy that it was childish. He pretend to claims that he’s looking for Juntao but Sang pulls his gun on him. Carter says if he’s going to kill him to put the gun down and fight him like a man. Before Carter would fight him another man kick’s him in the chin. Carter does his famous line “which one of ya’ll kick me?” The henchman in front of him repiles “me”. Carter briefly fights the men before he is kicked over a couch by the same man. While the henchman are checking him Sang aproaches Carter and sees the FBI badge on his belt buckle revealing to him that Carter was the man he was on the phone with earlier. He then throws him a hankerchief and tells him to wipe himself off because he’s bleeding (from his nose). Before Sang leaves he does the cut throat gesture as if he’s ordering them to kill Carter. Lee arrives and enters the room disguised as a waiter from the resturaunt. At Carter sugguestion earlier he pretends to be with the L.A.P.D. before he drops the badge in embarssment. Lee then rescues Carter by fighting the men before they are able to escape.

Sang later phoned the Consul, angrily telling him that the ransom has been increased from $50 million to $70 million, and threatened to kill Soo-Yung if anything else goes wrong. Disgraced and guilt-ridden, Lee and Carter are ordered off the investigation, and Lee is informed that he will be sent back to Hong Kong. Carter refuses to drop the case and confronts Lee on his plane to enlist his help, and the two men decide to save Soo-Yung together.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center where the ransom is being delivered in the upstairs control room, Sang appears at the event dressed as a waiter and he and Griffin exchange looks. Soon Carter recognizes Griffin from Chinatown and creates a scene where he warns the spectators about a threat of a bomb in the building and tells them to evacuate. In the confusion, Lee sees Sang handing Griffin a detonator identical to the one he and Carter had previously recovered, deducing that Griffin and Juntao are one and the same.

Griffin/Juntao then threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung if the delivery is interrupted. During the stand-off, however, Carter manages to sneak out and locate Soo Yung. Carter proceeds to take the vest off her, but Soo Yung tells him that she heard them say that the vest will go off if anyone tries to take it off incorrectly. Carter then drives the van into the building and brings the bomb vest within range to kill everyone inside the exhibition.

After a gunfight breaks out, Lee and Johnson climb into the back of the van and Johnson manages to get the vest off Soo-Yung, but tells Lee that it still can be set off with the remote. Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin. Meanwhile, Griffin goes up to the upstairs control room and shoots the agents up there, including Warren Russ. He then takes the briefcase with the money and leaves.

A few moments later, Sang also goes into the control room and starts putting more of the ransom money into another briefcase to take it along with him. Then Russ, who has survived being shot by Griffin, groans in pain, and Sang turns his gun on him. Just as he is about to shoot Russ, he is interrupted by Carter, who tells him that he is alone. Sang then threatens to kill Russ, but Carter tells him to do so, saying that he never liked Russ (because of the way he suspended him from the assignment for getting in the way of getting Soo-Yung back). Unmoved by this, Sang decides to challenge Carter by ‘fighting like men’, echoing Carter’s words earlier. Carter agrees, but as both men put their guns down as the same time, they bring out their alternative guns to shoot each other. Fortunately, Carter proves to be quicker and shoots Sang in the process, killing him. Carter then lays out a final insult on the deceased Sang by throwing a handkerchief on his corpse, telling him, “Wipe yourself off, man. You dead.”

Celeb Time:

Detective Tania Johnson – Elizabeth Pena

1998: Age – 39 | Died: 2014

Elizabeth Peña as Detective Tania Johnson, Carter’s partner in the LAPD and aspiring bomb squad technician. Detective Tania Johnson was James Carter’s partner in the LAPD. She specialized in bomb diffusion and appeared as a tritagonist in Rush Hour.

Tania Johnson is the LAPD’s bomb squad expert and sometimes partner to Carter. She doesn’t like that Carter prefers to work alone, as he’s the only cop in the department without a partner. It was secretly hinted that she had romantic feelings for Carter as he teases her about it several times in the film. She could be seen later in the film trying to practice how to disable a bomb in a training room. During the climax she help defuses the C4 vest that Soo-Yung was strapped to which saved her and she gives the vest to Lee ordering him to get rid of the vest as the remote could still set it off.

Johnson has an apartment in Los Angeles and in a deleted scene when Lee and Carter arrive at her home she gives them two tuxedos for Consul Han’s Chinese Art Exhibition at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Agent Warren Russ – Mark Rolston

1998: Age – 42 | 2022: Age – 66

Mark Rolston as Special Agent Warren Russ of the FBI.

Warren Russ is a major character from Rush Hour. He is a special agent of the FBI, hired by Consul Han to help him save his daughter from the Triads. He hires James Carter for the assignment and enlists him with Lee to get the case solved. He is portrayed by Mark Rolston.

When Sang makes the first ransom for the FBI to make the drop of 50 million dollars at 620 South Broadway Downtown, Russ sends a squad of SWAT teams to secure the building. Lee, knowing because of how vacant and dark the building is, begs Russ to call off his men, but Russ thought Lee was being funny and ignored him, only for the men he sent upstairs to be blown up to death.

After that, Sang contacted Han and the FBI that the explosion and double cross on the first drop was to prove how serious he was and instructs them to bring the ransom to the allyway behind the Foo Chow Restaraunt in Chinatown. Once they got there, Juntao took off with Soo-Yung and Russ has the FBI drag Lee and Carter back to the mansion, explaining their reasons for grabbing and dragging the two officers was because they screwed up their second chance at getting Han’s daughter back safe and sound and suspends them from their assignment.

At the convention, Russ noticed Carter disobeying his orders, as the crazy cop tells everyone to get out of the building, only for a shootout to begin. Juntao ascends to the roof and kills three men and wounds Russ as he takes a bag of the ransom money with him. When Sang came to get the rest of the money, he noticed Russ was still alive and tries to shoot him, but was stopped by Carter, who humorously came to the surviving officer’s rescue and in a brief stand off, kills Sang.

With Soo-Yung rescued and Juntao dead, Russ commends Carter for his efforts at the airport. He and Whitney offer him a place on the FBI, but Carter “politely” refuses, saying that he will always be loyal to the LAPD.

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FBI Agent Dan Whitney – Rex Linn

1998: Age – 42 | 2022: Age – 66

Rex Linn as FBI agent Dan Whitney. Dan Whitney is a major character in the first Rush Hour film. He is an FBI agent that was Consul Han’s bodyguard. He is protrayed by Rex Linn. His favorite quote was “Take a hike” to Lee and Carter, telling them to get lost when they are trying to persuade the FBI not to enter the building.

Dan Whitney is a major character in the first Rush Hour film. He is an FBI agent that was Consul Han’s bodyguard. He is protrayed by Rex Linn. His favorite quote was “Take a hike” to Lee and Carter, telling them to get lost when they are trying to persuade the FBI not to enter the building.

Dan Whitney and Warren Russ first appear when they approach Chinese Consul Solon Han at the Los Angeles Convention Center. They claimed they need to speak with Han in private and Han went with them where he learned that his daughter Soo-Yung had been abducted while she was on her way to school. They returned to Han’s office at the consulate where Russ assures him that they would get his daughter back. Han tells Russ that he would like one of his people to help, but Russ assures him that the FBI considers it a top priority and have plenty of people on the case. Han, unwilling to trust the FBI agents so easily, reveals that he has called his friend Hong Kong Police Force Detective Inspector Lee to assist in the case partly because he and his family are not U.S. citizens.

Russ and Whitney walk outside the consulate to discuss the situation about Lee and are afraid that the injury or death of Lee will generate international Embarrassment for them. Russ asks Whitney to call the field office and have them send over a rookie so he will keep Lee busy and out of their way. Whitney asks Russ if he’s sure he wants to do that to one of our own men. Russ asks what do he suggests. Whitney then tells him that as long as their gonna humiliate someone it might has well be LAPD and smiles. Detective James Carter is assigned for the task. Lee later escapes Carter and makes his way to the Chinese consulate, where the FBI, along with an anxious Han are awaiting news about his daughter. When two FBI agents who are guarding the front gate think that Lee is an intruder, he subdues them, causing the remaining agents to surround the house, with Whitney ordering Han to hide on the second floor. Lee comes in through the window and subdues the agents until Han gets up and sees that Lee was the supposed intruder. Russ and his agents hear the noise and draw at the door with their guns ready. Han opens it and assures Russ that there has been a misunderstanding. Han then introduces Russ to Lee, who immediately apologizes and gives Whitney back his gun.

Han is later introduced to Detective Carter who Lee explains is very passionate about finding his daughter. Han then shakes Carter’s hand saying that he has his gratitude and Whitney tells him that they wanted Carter to be at Lee’s side at all times. Sang, Juntao’s right-hand man, calls the consulate as Carter accidentally picks up the phone while trying to call his captain. Carter suddenly takes up Sang’s ransom demand of $50 million and poorly arranges a drop.

When Sang makes the first ransom for the FBI to make the drop of 50 million dollars at 620 South Broadway Downtown, Russ sends a squad of SWAT teams to secure the building. Lee, knowing because of how vacant and dark the building is, begs Russ to call off his men, but Russ thought Lee was being funny and ignored him, only for the men he sent upstairs to be blown up to death.

After that, Sang contacted Han and the FBI that the explosion and double cross on the first drop was to prove how serious he was and instructs them to bring the ransom to the alleyway behind the Foo Chow Restaurant in Chinatown. Once they got there, Juntao took off with Soo-Yung and Russ has the FBI drag Lee and Carter back to the mansion, explaining their reasons for grabbing and dragging the two officers was because they screwed up their second chance at getting Han’s daughter back safe and sound and suspends them from their assignment.

Thomas Griffin a friend of Han’s later visits him at his consulate home embracing him in a hug and apologizing for leaving him an emotional wreck. Sang phones Han again telling him to go prepare for his Chinese exposition has he planned and to have the money in the upstairs control room. Han understands but he wants to speak with his daughter only to have Sang hang up on him.

Griffin and Han then explained to Russ and Whitney about their history with Juntao. Griffin explains for fifteen years until China was in control of Hong Kong, Juntao was the most powerful crime lord in South East Asia. The British tried to close down his operation but they had failed. Russ asks why Juntao would kidnapped Soo-Yung and Han explained about how he and Lee had foiled every aspect of Juntao’s criminal operation confiscating millions in weapons and cash and a collection of Chinese arts that was surpassed to the world. Griffin then said that Juntao disappeared with no witnesses. When Whitney asked if he really thinks he’ll kill the girl. Griffin suggests to Han that he should “pay the money”.

At the convention, Russ noticed Carter disobeying his orders, as the crazy cop tells everyone to get out of the building, only for a shootout to begin. Juntao ascends to the roof and kills three men and wounds Russ as he takes a bag of the ransom money with him. When Sang came to get the rest of the money, he noticed Russ was still alive and tries to shoot him, but was stopped by Carter, who humorously came to the surviving officer’s rescue and in a brief stand off, kills Sang. Whitney survives the gunfight while protecting Han and shoots and kills some of Juntao’s men.

With Soo-Yung rescued and Juntao dead, Russ commends Carter for his efforts at the airport. He and Whitney offer him a place on the FBI, but Carter “politely” refuses, saying that he will always be loyal to the LAPD. To this Whitney calls Carter a b**ch before he and Russ leave.

Celeb Time:

Clive Cod – Christopher Penn

1998: Age – 33 | Died: 2006

Clive Cobb is a minor character in the first Rush Hour film. He is a bomb maker that was selling explosive C4 to undercover Detective James Carter. When two cops interrupted the sale, Clive fled only to be chased down by Carter and have his car destroyed when Carter shot the C4 in the trunk of the car. Carter then walked up to Clive, revealed himself as a police officer and arrested him.

Clive first appears outside of a diner while waiting for Carter. When Carter drives up to front of the diner to meet with him, Clive tells him that he’s late and the two have an argument about which one is late. Carter tells him to start the sale, he then notices that he has a gun and tells him to put it away. Clive warns him not to be late and Carter tells him that he won’t be late. Clive then opens the trunk revealing explosive blocks of C4. Carter tells him that it’s tight, but soon grows nervous after he knows how dangerous C4 is. Clive asks him if there’s a problem but Carter tells him that he’s got no problem as he’d been looking everywhere for it.

When two cops on break, spot the two and grow suspicious, Carter asks him where he gotten the C4. Clive replies that it’s a “hot ticket” just as they were finishing up the sale, the cops ordered Carter to surrender. Carter tries to stall, claiming that there’s no problem and a suspicious Clive holds Carter at gunpoint thinking that he’s being set up. The cops order Clive to drop the gun but Clive threatens to kill Carter if they don’t leave. Carter suggests to the cops that they should let him talk to Clive and he punches Clive in the face, knocking him out. Carter tells the cops that everything is cool now and orders them to leave. The cops still believing Carter is a criminal, again order him to surrender.

Clive suddenly regains consciousness, pulls out his alternative gun and shoots both cops (one in the waist, the other in the hand making him lose a pinky) wounding them. Carter flees and jumps over his car as Clive tries to escape. Carter then chases after Clive while reprimanding the cops, as Clive tries to flee in his car. Carter shoots at the back tire causing Clive to nearly get into an accident (but he crashes into several cars though). Carter continues to shoot at Clive but then shoots out his back window forcing him to escape his car.

Carter then shoots at the gas of the car making the C4 explode. Carter dances in triumph and runs over to the wounded Clive holding him at gunpoint and revealing himself as a cop before arresting him.

Later Lee and Carter visit Clive at the county jail where Carter tries to interrogate him into revealing where Sang’s remote for the C4 came from. Clive tells him that he doesn’t know anything about it. Carter tries to hand him the remote but Clive refuses to touch it thinking that Carter would set him up again. Clive tries to walk away from Carter but Lee blocks his way. When Clive challenges him, Lee demands for him to give him the name of the man who gave Sang the remote but Clive refuses until Lee pulls out the picture of Soo-Yung and tells him that she’s only eleven years old and doesn’t want her to die. He then shouts at him that he doesn’t care about Carter or about him, he cares about Soo-Yung and again demands the name. Clive then reveals that the remote came from Juntao, but he’s never seen him. Lee asks him where he could find him and Clive reveals that Juntao hides out at the Foo Chow restaurant in Chinatown. Before Clive goes back to his cell he warns Lee and Carter to get rid of Juntao or he’s gonna get them killed. Lee and Carter leave with Carter jokingly telling Clive that he would bring him “some cookies” when he visits next time. After this event, Clive is not seen anymore throughout the film. Yet, this is the last time he is seen.

Celeb Time:

Captain Bill Diel – Philip Baker Hall

1998: Age – 67 | 2022: Age – 91

Captain Bill Diel is Carter’s boss and superior in Rush Hour. He makes brief cameo appearances in Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3. He is portrayed by Philip Baker Hall.

Diel makes his first appearance while talking on the phone to FBI agent Dan Whitney about having someone for the “G14 classified case” (an assignment to babysit Detective Inspector Lee). He tells him that it’s a disgrace to his department but then he see’s Carter walking to his office and tells Whitney that he’s sending someone right over. Carter walks in and tells him that he’s knows he read the paper but they are lying and that they just wanted a story. Diel reprimands Carter for causing a lot of damage and losing some evidence while he was arresting bomb maker Clive Cobb and that what he did was dangerous and not only that but he did a good job. He reveals to him that everyone is afraid of their own shadow and that it’s nice to meet an L.A. detective who’s willing to “lay it on the line”. Carter tells him that it’s the same way he feels and what he’s been trying to tell everybody. Diel tells Carter that ever so often they have to let the general public know that they can still blow everything up. Carter says that this means he’s not getting suspended, and Diel makes a joke about it laughing. He suddenly tricks Carter telling him that the FBI wants Carter on the case for the Chinese diplomat’s kidnapped daughter. Carter falls for it as he had aspirations for joining the FBI and he asks Captain if he’s telling the truth. He confirms that he is. Carter leaves excited as Diel tells him that he’s going to the show. Carter lets him know that when he does it big he’ll make him mayor.

Carter later discovered that he was ordered to baby sit Lee and he first calls his Captain demanding for him to call the FBI and tell them that he made a mistake. Diel (along with Johnson and several detectives) immediately decline and laugh about it. Carter tells him to call the FBI or he’ll drop Lee “off at panda express” Diel gives Carter a choice to either keep Lee away from the investigation or face two months suspension without pay. Carter however tells him that he can forget about being mayor then. Johnson hangs up the phone jokingly congratulating Carter on finally getting himself a partner.

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In one of the movie’s deleted scenes, Diel appears when Carter calls him in Lee’s office while in Hong Kong. Diel, however, is upset after the commissioner received a call from the Secret Service asking why Carter is interfering with their operation. Diel also reminded Carter on why he was supposed to be nominated for commissioner of the L.A.P.D and over two hundred L.A.P.D. officers were there at the award ceremony. Carter tells him that he will be finishing up the case in Hong Kong but by the time he gets back he promises him they will make Captain governor of the state. Diel angrily hangs up the phone on Carter after that.

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When Lee and Carter visit Han in the hospital after his assassination attempt, Diel appears telling them that Han is out of surgery, he’ll make a full recovery and that the bullet missed his heart. Carter asks him to give him back his shield and put him on the case cause he’s made one little mistake. Diel reminded him on how he handcuffed two women and stole their car and how he puts six Iranians in jail for a week. Carter says that they were terrorists, but Diel reminded him that they were scientists at UCLA. Carter asks him to let him find the person who shot Ambassador Han. Diel tells Carter to relax, as the L.A.P.D. won’t be leading this investigation. Lee tells him that the Ambassador was his responsibility, as he was hired as his bodyguard. Diel tells him that maybe he can tell him exactly how the shooter got away. Diel leaves, telling Lee and Carter that Soo-Yung will arrive to see her father and for them to make sure nothing happens to her. As he leaves, Carter tells him not to worry as they are going to make him proud and to try not to think about his wife leaving him, as she’ll come back.

Celeb Time:

Soo-Yung Han – Julia Hsu

1998: Age – 12 | 2022: Age – 36

Julia Hsu as Soo-Yung Han, Consul Han’s daughter who is kidnapped by a criminal organization. She is also a martial arts student of Lee’s.

Soo-Yung Han is the Chinese Consul Solon Han’s daughter. She is 11 years old in the first Rush Hour film. She returns in Rush Hour 3, now all grown up at age 21. She is portrayed by Julia Hsu in Rush Hour and is portrayed as an adult by Zhang Jingchu in Rush Hour 3.

Soo-Yung first appears confronting Lee over why he would not go with them to America. Lee tells her that he was trying to find the right time. Soo-Yung angrily replies “When? After I left?” before punching Lee again. Lee stops her and tells her that he will miss her very much saying that she is his best student and her mother would’ve been proud. When Lee asks if she will practice her kicks and eye gouges, Soo-Yung tells him that she won’t have any friends in America. Lee promises her that everything will be okay. He then pulls out a necklace with a Chinese symbol and gives it to her telling her that its for her. He then puts the necklace around Soo-Yung’s neck as she thanks him, smiling. Lee tells her not to worry as America is “a very friendly place”.

Before leaving for her first day of school, she asked her father if he will be home after school. He says no and that he will be picking her up himself, and she smiles. He then turns her around with a finger-like move called the lago and she leaves in the car after saying goodbye to him.

While Soo-Yung was on her way to her first day of being at an American school, the car was stopped by Sang, who was a police officer in disguise. When Soo-Yung’s driver asked if there was a problem, Sang casually replied that there was no problem, “just rush hour”, and then shot both the driver and her bodyguard. While Soo-Yung screamed in shock, Sang then calmly walked to where she was sitting in the car, opened the car door and tried to grab her, but she kicked him back, hit him in the face with her backpack, and then whacked him in the face with her necklace, cutting the corner of his eye and leaving a scar. While Sang was distracted from the pain, Soo-Yung took that as an opportunity to escape and managed to leave the car by opening the car door on the right side and then fleeing. Sang then stood by the car, angrily watching her run away. However, Soo-Yung’s attempt to escape is then cut short as she is picked up by Sang’s fellow henchman as he chases her on a motorcycle; after kicking him in the head while being picked up by another man, she is then shoved into a van and the door closes behind her.

After a series of adventures and scrapes, Lee and Carter finally manage to rescue her and and reunite her safely with her father. Then, after she punches Lee and asks “What took you so long?”, he then smiles and gives back her necklace. She smiles as well, and then thanks him in Cantonese.

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Soo-Yung returned in Rush Hour 3, where her father (now an ambassador) was the victim of an attempted assassination by Lee’s Japanese foster brother Kenji. Carter is quite surprised at hearing her name and states that he hasn’t “seen her since she was ten years old” (not realizing that Soo-Yung was really eleven back then). Then, Soo-Yung runs up to Carter and Lee, and Carter is also shocked when he sees how much she’s grown up, but then smiles as she recognizes him and then hugs him, telling him it’s been too long since they last saw each other. (It is shown that she still wears the necklace Lee had given her, too.) After members of The Triad later storm the hospital in an attempt to assassinate Ambassador Han, Soo-Yung shows Carter and Lee how much her kung-fu skills have developed over the years from back when she was a kid. After the hospital raid, she was moved to live with the Head of the World Criminal Council, Reynard and his family at the French Embassy so that she could be safe.

She was later abducted by Kenji and other members of the triads and is taken to Paris France where she is held for ransom in exchange for Shy Shen. Kenji told Lee to meet him with Shy Shen at the Jules Verne Restaurant, which is situated atop the Eiffel Tower. Kenji warns him that if sees Carter or any other cops with Lee, he would execute Soo-Yung. Before the duel between Kenji and Lee began, Lee asked Kenji where Soo-Yung was. Kenji boldly replied by saying that Soo-Yung was ” enjoying the view “.

During the fight between Lee and Kenji, Carter was simultaneously fighting four Triad masters. He came out victorious and attempted to rescue Soo-Yung. One final triad master, the dragon lady Jasmine appears out of the restaurant and tries to kill Soo-Yung (who was connected to a pulley system from a rotating crank).

She pulls the rope and Soo-Yung starts to fall from the Eiffel Tower. Carter leaps from the Tower and catches the rope, pulling Soo-Yung back up, where she then kicks Jasmine in the Eiffel Tower mechanism, causing her to be crushed in half, off screen. After Kenji falls to his death Lee walks back up to the main deck of the Eiffel Tower to join Soo-Yung and Carter. Lee embraces her as she tells him that she’s okay. When more Triads arrive Lee sends Soo-Yung down the elevator and tells her to call the police. This is the last we see of Soo-Yung in Rush Hour 3.

In an Alternate Ending on the DVD, as Lee and Carter are approaching a plane that was presumably left for them by Ambassador Han, Lee mentions that Han left the hospital with Soo-Yung the previous night.

Celeb Time:

Stucky – John Hawkes

1998: Age – 39 | 2022: Age – 63

John Hawkes as “Stucky”, Carter’s informant.

In the street, Stucky crosses Carter when he is seeking information on the kidnapping Soo-Yung. Stucky said he has information about an anonymous man who buys weapons.

Celeb Time:

Luke – Clifton Powell

1998: Age – 42 | 2022: Age – 66

Clifton Powell as Luke, Carter’s cousin and local crime lord.

He owns a bar and runs a criminal organization that involves selling weapons. Carter and Lee come to his bar and confront him in the back room. Carter pulls out his revolver and acts aggressively towards Luke and his men and asks about the little girl (Soo-Yung). Luke says he doesn’t know anything about a little girl. Carter asks Lee to leave the room and wait outside in the bar area while he takes care of this situation.

Once Lee leaves the room, Carter puts down his gun and laughs. He hugs Luke and it is revealed that they are cousins and Carter was just acting in front of Lee. He asks Luke if he knows about someone who has recently bought lots of weapons. Carter reminds Luke that he gives a blind eye to his criminal activity because of their relationship and so he expects Luke to help him. Luke reveals that he has heard on the street about a guy from Hong Kong buying a lot of guns and explosives. But he does not know his name as the guy has not bought from him.

Meanwhile, Lee unintentionally starts a fight with the bartender and patrons. He manages to beat them all and then goes to the backroom where Carter is. Upon this Carter grabs Luke’s collar to resume his acting from before. Carter and Lee leave after this.