Vanishing Son

- Season 1

(1995)

On the run after being falsely accused of killing 2 Asian Crimes Task Force agents, Jian-Wa takes a job in a garment sweat shop. One of the workers is trying to unionize the shop - Jian-Wa fights against the union busters.

Jian-Wa takes a job as a waiter in an illegal gambling den. There, he befriends the son of a Vietnam M.I.A.; a scam artist claims to know what happened to his father. The ghost of Wago Chang pays Jian-Wa a visit and tries to help him.

In Texas, Jian-Wa gets a job on an ostrich ranch, and quickly demonstrates his skills. He soon learns the ranch owner beats his wife.

Jian-Wa reconnects with Lan Chi (Tamlyn Tomita) and Hung (Dustin Nguyen), and finds himself involved in a racially motivated gang war.

After Jian-Wa gets hired as a musician for a party, he protects the attendees from armed kidnappers; he then gets hired as a bodyguard for the sixteen year old daughter of the host.

In St. Louis, Jian-Wa is shot and wounded by the Feds. While being nursed back to health by a homeless person, he visits the Spirit World with Wago.

In D.C., working as a Chinese art historian, Jian-Wa meets a woman trying to sell some pieces smuggled out of China.

Jian-Wa thwarts a car-jacking, but the couple he saves have other plans for him.

While hitchhiking to Boston, Jian-Wa gets picked up by two brothers in a pickup truck, who then rob a convenience store and kidnap a girl.

Jian-Wa is working as a stable boy; horses are being killed. Agent Phillips begins to doubt Jian-Wa's guilt.

In New Jersey, Jian-Wa is working as a door man in a night club. The club owner is being pressured to release his best performers contract.

In Portland Oregon, after a laundry Jian-Wa just left explodes, he gets a job at the restaurant next door. Nearby businesses are being pressured to sell out.

In San Francisco, Jian-Wa helps a friend escape a triad.