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12月24日平安夜，一个普世欢腾、充满希望的日子。 在挤满人潮的闹市中，女扒手Mari(真家留美子饰)亦在找寻她的“希望”。她打扮得像一个游客一样，寻找她的猎物。黑社会小头目合金铃携着手提包刚从银行出来。Mari利用自己的美色，略施小计，便将手提包骗到手！可惜当她回到自己家里，发现皮包内只是一本名册时，不禁大叹倒霉。 然而，香港第一大黑帮东兴社的坐馆O.D(蔡一智饰)却出大事了。因为名册正是属于东兴社的！O.D接到帮中长老四叔的命令：午夜四时半前务必找回名册，否则莫讲竞逐连任，甚至连性命也将会不保！O.D立即召集手下翻转整个香港，并出暗花500万，务求于限时前取回名册，可怜调酒师Peter(曾国祥饰)亦被强征入伍，只因他曾经学过三个月日语。 那边厢，热血探员Paul(洪天明饰)亦透过反黑组女友菲菲(张咏妍饰)收到了东兴社失名册的线报！Paul不禁热血沸腾，因为只要能够先取得名册，便能一举捣破东兴社，更重要的是可以向一直看不起他的前上司李督察(吴嘉龙饰)显一点颜色。 入夜，Mari独个儿在酒吧喝闷酒，却不知O.D的手下正四出寻找她！不幸地竟然被合金铃撞个正着。Mari施展浑身解数，好不容易甩掉他，但她的行踪已被Paul发现。 在挤满人群的兰桂坊，Mari被Peter擒个正着，Peter押Mari回家欲取回名册。然而在言谈间，二人竟发觉双方都喜欢海明威的小说《老人与海》，大家更有一个共同的愿望──在圣塔玛丽亚(Santa Maria)海滩开酒吧！结果在Mari的提议下，决定化敌为友，并以名册换取东兴社的500万赏金，实现自己的梦想！正当二人兴高采烈，以为真的置身在阳光与海滩之际，房间内却出现了一个不速之客Paul。 一番扰攘之下，三人最后达成协定，拿名册和O.D见面，Peter和Mari照样取得暗花，Paul则安排警方突击，一举将东兴社歼灭！ 三人齐声欢呼，毕竟，这是一个愿望成真的平安夜！三人坐言起行，照计划进行，里应外合，希望一举成功。但O.D又岂是善男信女，他早已布下天罗地网，等着三人上钓……。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。
