Wild Life (episode)

Information
"Wild Life" is the 14th episode of Martial Law. It first aired on February 06, 1999.

Summary
"Sammo and Terrell pursue a wildlife smuggler who imports endangered animals hunted by the rich."

--DVD description

Synopsis
Sammo and Terrell are in disguise at an airport, discussing what they are going to get Terrell's mother for a wedding gift. Winship is waiting in the van nearby, along with Louis and Grace. The smugglers they are waiting for show up. Sammo and Terrell ask to inspect one of the crates. The smugglers attack, and Winship and the others join in the fight to arrest all of the villains. When Sammo finally gets to the crate, he finds that it contains a pair of monkeys.

Back at the police station, Sammo and the team learn of the man who hired the smugglers: Vince McKnight. Louis leaves the one monkey who survived the trip in the care of an old friend named Julia, who takes care of animals.

With Julia's help, the team soon learns McKnight's address. Sammo and Terrell go to his house, but he is not home. However, there is a lion in his bedroom. After they have the lion removed, one of McKnight's friends shows up. She tells the detectives that McKnight works for a French hunter named Dieter Vanderval, who smuggles endangered animals into Los Angeles so his wealthy clients can hunt them.

Louis visits Vanderval's secretary, posing as an Australian man interested in hunting. As Grace distracts the secretary, Amy, by setting off her car alarm, Louis steals a receipt for the installation of an electric fence. From this, they learn where Vanderval's hunting grounds are, and call Sammo.

Sammo and Terrell arrive at Vanderval's hideout, but the hunter and his men are ready for them. Vanderval knocks out Sammo by shooting him with a tranquilizer dart.

Vanderval's client, a wealthy Lebanese man, arrives, eager to hunt the lion Vanderval promised him. Instead, Vanderval offers him the chance to hunt Sammo and Terrell, who are in a cage. The client is disgusted, and says that he is going to go to the police. Vanderval shoots him, and decides to hunt Sammo and Terrell himself. He gives them a head start.

Soon, his men come after the detectives, but Sammo and Terrell manage to ambush and defeat all of them. Finally, Sammo comes face to face with Vanderval in a shed. Sammo dares Vanderval to put down his gun and face him in hand-to-hand combat. Vanderval obliges. Though Vanderval is a skilled fighter, Sammo defeats him by kicking him off of a balcony.

The episode ends at Terrell's mother's wedding. Sammo, Terrell, Louis, Grace, and Winship are present. Louis wanted to bring Julia as a date, but she was too busy taking care of animals. Terrell catches the bouquet thrown by his mother, but he doesn't want it.