Take Out (episode)

Information
"Take Out" is the 8th episode of Martial Law. It first aired on November 7, 1998.

Summary
"Sammo helps a friend and his daughter when an extortionist targets their restaurant.

--DVD description

Synopsis
The episode begins with Sammo cooking in a Chinese restaurant called The Silver Pond. His friend, an old Chinese man named Wu, is the owner. Sammo offers some pork intestines to Grace, who is in the dining area, but she pretends that the police station has called her and leaves.

Wu's daughter, Vanessa, arrives for a brief visit, and is happy to see Sammo--her godfather and martial arts instructor. Suddenly, they see some unfamiliar men trying to covertly poison the food with arsenic. Sammo and Vanessa leap into action and defeat them. In the excitement, Wu has a heart attack.

In the hospital, Wu tells Sammo and Vanessa of the man who might want to cause him trouble: Nathan Babbott. He is the owner of a chain of fried chicken restaurants called Tex's Lone State Chicken. Babbott tried to buy The Silver Pond earlier, but Wu refused to sell. Now, Babbott is resorting to increasingly evil measures to make Wu change his mind.

In disguise as Tex the chicken--the mascot of Lone State Chicken--Sammo infiltrates the Lone State Chicken headquarters. He steals a poster that shows an overpass soon to be built in the city, near The Silver Pond's location. Sammo realizes that Babbott wants one of his restaurants in this spot because it will attract many hungry customers. After a scuffle with some security guards, Sammo gets away with the poster and takes it back to the station to show the others.

Eventually, Babbott has some of his henchmen abduct Wu's daughter, Vanessa, from her home at gunpoint. Babbott calls Wu, offering his services to find her. Wu agrees to give Babbott the Silver Pond in return.

With Grace's help, Sammo sneaks into Babbott's barn. Here, he finds Vanessa chained in a stable, and frees her by picking the locks. She and Sammo defeat her captors, including Babbott, who was alerted by the commotion. A patrol unit arrives to arrest him.

Sammo, Vanessa and the team celebrate their victory with a meal at The Silver Pond. Grace, once again, tries to get out of eating Sammo's cooking.