Angel In-the-Making (; literally "Intern Angel"; nurses are referred to as "angels in white" in Chinese) is a 2015 Hong Kong medical television drama created and produced by TVB. It stars Tony Hung and Eliza Sam as the main leads, with Pal Sinn, Alice Chan and Elaine Yiu as the major supporting cast.Angel In-the-Making AF page. Retrieved Nov 27, 2015 The drama was broadcast on Hong Kong's Jade and HD Jade channels from November 30 till December 27, 2015 every Monday through Sunday during its 9:30–10:30 pm timeslot with a total of 25 episodes.新戲角色名叫「祁樂」 香香：我識讀㗎 Retrieved Nov 27, 2015
Synopsis Intern nurses must endure the difficult task they are faced with when they are under the supervision of the male nurse from hell. Synopsis of TVB's New Series, “Angel in the Making”. Retrieved Nov 28, 2015
It has always been cheerful and caring Halley Kei's (Eliza Sam) dream to become a nurse. Ever since she was young, she has played pretend nurse, tending and caring sick patients. However, her first day as an intern nurse goes wrong in every possible way. First she is almost late and then she is put in charge of an unruly patient, who is a small-time triad boss. Her patient becomes paranoid that someone is trying to kill him, gets high on cocaine in the hospital bathroom, and then tries to escape from the hospital while almost dying all in one day. Luckily, her patient is stopped and saved by the new nurse mentor Ray Yeung (Tony Hung).
Ray Yeung lives a strange isolated life. Still traumatized by the death of his parents and older brother in front of him when he was young, he does not like to socialize with people and is nicknamed "Death Ray" by all his colleagues because he is extremely hated by his co-workers and of his stern blunt personality. Even with his unlikable personality, he is still highly respected by the hospital's chief of staff because of his excellent work ethics and is invited to work at the hospital as the new intern nurses mentor.
Ray immediately singles out Halley on their first day because of the way she handled her patient and tells her she will surely fail her internship. Feeling they did no wrong and not taking Ray's criticism kindly, all the new intern nurses band together to have Ray remove as their mentor since they feel Ray is setting them up to fail. The Chief of staff, however, sides with Ray and tell the intern nurses that Ray is just pushing them to their full potential. What the intern nurses don't know is Ray is actually a very dedicated nurse who want the new intern nurses to take their training seriously and defends them when the doctors tries to blame them for mistakes.
When Ray helps Halley with a patient that is having marital issues, she starts to see the good in him. As Halley discovers Ray's good side, others still think he has evil intent, especially senior doctor Kennedy Tong (Pal Sinn) who suspects Ray killed his younger half-brother to steal his fortune. With the help of colleague Defea Cha (Alice Chan) and Arthur's ex-girlfriend Sylvia To (Elaine Yiu), Kennedy fights Ray in court to have the will which his brother left everything to Ray voided. However, Ray is not fazed by Kennedy's actions and decide to play mind games with Kennedy. During the day of the court hearing, it is revealed that Kennedy's half-brother had a secret life style and everything Ray had done was planned by Kennedy's half-brother to get Kennedy to put his pride aside and desire to fight for his fortune since Kennedy held a grudge against their late father for leaving his mother.
Halley's good feelings for Ray continues to grow when he saves her life from one of her father's obsessively deranged student who is in love with her father and thinks Halley is the reason that her father is rejecting her advances. She tries to kill Halley, but accidentally stabs Ray who is trying to restrain her. Ray almost dies from his injuries but thinking back to the car accident that took his family brings him back to life. Feeling responsible, Halley takes care of Ray and helps him recover. During this time, Ray gives Halley the ultimate test by having her nurse the mother who abandoned her. Her mother not only needs her care but also her kidney. The relationship between mother and daughter is tense as Halley finds out why her mother was never and does not want to be a part of her life. With Ray's urging of Halley to see her mother, she finds out the reason why her mother must have her kidney and agrees to donate one to her. After the ordeal, Halley gets what she always wished for, a relationship with and knowing her mother.
Just as everything is looking up for Halley, Ray finds himself in a dark place when he finds the culprit behind the cause of his family's death, Dr. Lung, a respected senior doctor that heads the Accident and emergency unit at the same hospital Ray works at. Mad with revenge on his mind, he starts to hallucinate his deceased family talking to him and find ways to bring Dr. Lung to justice. After gaining evidence, he has Kennedy keep it safe for him when he is being pursued by Dr. Lung's henchmen but soon finds out Kennedy is not to be trusted. In order to gain in his career, Kennedy betrays Ray by sabotaging all evidence against Dr. Lung. Not knowing whom to trust anymore, Ray spirals further into paranoia. However Halley knowing the pain Ray is going through consoles him and keeps him company, but since he does not trust her either he uses her friends to blackmail her into helping him kidnap Dr. Lung's grandson. Ray wakes up in the hospital realizing all that happened during his revenge scheme was just part of his delusion. Finally admitting how severe his illness is he agrees to seek treatment abroad and Dr. Lung racked with guilt decides to turn himself in.
Halley passes her final exam after her third retake test and is happy to be a full-fledged nurse. However she is a bit sad as Ray is not there. With Ray gone abroad for over a year to treat his illness Halley realizes she not only misses him but also had fallen in love with him. When Ray returns he plays a trick on Halley by avoiding her and having her find him. Halley eventually finds Ray at the beach with clues of his favorite food, papaya scattered all over the sea line. Ray eventually comes out from hiding and charmingly shows his returned feelings for Halley when he attempts to kiss her. The two end with a sweet embrace in the ocean.
Cast
Main cast Tony Hung as "Death" Ray Yeung (楊志明; Yeung Chi-ming) - male age 35 Marcus Lo as child Yeung Chi-ming (童年楊志明) He survived a car accident that killed his entire family when he was a child, which left him traumatized. He has a cold and isolated demeanor which makes him unlikable with his co-workers, but because of his excellent work ethics he is invited by the hospital chief of staff Dom Cheung to mentor the new intern nurses in the Intensive Care unit. He was Arthur Tong's private nurse and being with him until he dies. He gets mad and goes ballistic whenever his family car accident that took his parents and older brother's life is mentioned. After helping Halley resolve a patient's personal life and later saving her from one of her dad's deranged students that leaves him in critical condition, Halley starts to see the good in him. Wanting to get close to him she volunteers to care for him while he recovers from his wounds. Just when she thinks a friendship is forming between the two he gives her the ultimate test by asking her to care for the mother that abandoned her. His paranoia later becomes severe, forcing him to go abroad to seek treatment. Ray returns to Hong Kong and reciprocates Halley's feelings for him when he charmingly attempts to kiss her. The two end with a sweet embrace at the beach. Eliza Sam as Halley Kei (祁樂; Kei Lok) - female age 23 A cheerful and caring person who has dreamt of becoming a nurse ever since she was young. Due to many first day mistakes as an intern nurse in the Intensive Care unit, she receives a stern lecture from Ray with half of her passing grade taken away. Patrick Ko's girlfriend, later ex-girlfriend. Unable to put up with Patrick's immaturity where he often refers to her as mom when she push him to be better, she finally breaks up with him after he has a one night stand with her friend Abby. She starts to notice Ray's good side when he helps her deal with a patient's marital issues and later saves her life from her dad's deranged student. She shows her gratitude by volunteering to care for him during his recovery but instead he gives her the ultimate test by having her be the personal nurse of her dying mother who abandoned her and now wants to buy or have Halley donate a kidney to her. Missing Ray during his time abroad to seek treatment, she realizes that she had fallen in love with him. When Ray returns from his treatment he reciprocates his love for Halley when he charmingly attempts to kiss her and the two end up together with a sweet embrace at the beach. Pal Sinn as Kennedy Tong (唐日俊; Tong Yat-chun) - male age 50 A caring doctor in the Accident and Emergency unit that thoroughly checks the patients. He and Defea are friends and often help each other out at the hospital while they were ex-lovers and joined the fight against SARS. Arthur Tong's older half-brother of same father but different mothers. He has a somewhat estrange relationship with Arthur due to their past fight to inherit their father's fortune. He becomes enemies with Ray when his late brother Arthur leaves his entire fortune to Ray. After finding out Arthur's true life he and Sylvia form a close friendship. He and Defea finally reconcile their relationship and become engaged. The two also have a daughter together. Alice Chan as Defea Cheuk (卓芷君; Cheuk Tsz-kwan) - female age 38 A senior nurse in the Accident and Emergency unit. She strictly goes by the rules and refuses to bend even if she is faced with a difficult patient. She is in an unhappy marriage because her husband feels she is more devoted to her career than family. She still has lingering feelings for Kennedy but stays in her unhappy marriage for the sake of her daughter who suffers from mental instability. Also her husband and her made a deal that the two will pretend to be a happy family for his political career until their daughter becomes a grown adult. Fed up with her husband's lies and homosexual affair with his staff, she leaves and later divorces him. She later reconciles with Kennedy and the two start a family together. Elaine Yiu as Sylvia To (杜羨花; To Sin-fa) - female age 35 A nurse in the Intensive Care unit. She was the new intern nurses mentor until Ray came along. She does not get along with Ray due to a bad work history and blaming him for Arthur breaking up with her. She is also Arthur Tong Yat-wah's ex-girlfriend. After finding out Arthur passed away she and Kennedy form a close friendship to reminisce about Arthur at first. The two later start a relationship when Kennedy moves on from Defea, but Sylvia stops it from further progressing since Kennedy has a history of commitment issues and senses that Kennedy and Defea still have feelings for each other. She moves abroad but when she returns she tells Kennedy that during their brief relationship she became pregnant with his daughter. Defea is aware of Kennedy and her having a child together.
Hang Yan Hospital staff
*Together with Halley, they call themselves the TUNS 6. TUNS (Trainee University Nurse Student) is a Hong Kong term for intern nurses. Moon Lau as Abby Tang (鄧勵幀; Tang Lai-ching) - female age 23 An intern nurse in the Accident and Emergency unit. Halley's tomboyish best friend. She is also Defea's sister-in-law. Her close friendship with Halley's boyfriend Patrick Ko leads to a drunken one nightstand which Halley finds out from Alison. Eventually, she and Halley reconcile just before Patrick's death. MoMo Wu as Eliza Wong (汪佩儀; Wang Pui-yee) - female age 23