Mahogany shoots a poisonous dart at Daytona, but Maggie defends him with the ping-pong paddle. While this goes on, they escape together. However, Daytona uses his ping-pong expertise to hit Maggie with the ball. Maggie tries to lose on purpose to sacrifice herself. Daytona plays one-handed and tries to stall for time. When Wolfschtagg protests, Feng kills him. Feng discovers Rodriguez's attempts to contact the FBI and forces Daytona to face Wolfschtagg, then substitutes Maggie. Rodriguez breaks Daytona's arm before Daytona can tell him that he has changed his mind. Rodriguez comes up with a plan to brutally injure Daytona so that he has to quit. Upon learning that Wolfschtagg is his last opponent, Daytona requests extraction. While Rodriguez investigates the hidden facilities, Daytona defeats numerous opponents for his life. Daytona informs Rodriguez of a hidden cache of illegal guns that are sufficient to put Feng in jail. It is wired to special vests that give increasingly powerful and fatal electrical shocks for failure. Feng also shows Daytona his specially modified ping-pong table. He says it would be the ultimate satisfaction to win Daytona away from Wong. After Daytona attempts unsuccessfully to escape, Feng invites him to join his side and reveals that he only finished half of Wong's training. After Daytona beats the Dragon and gets punched, Feng's men take notice of his win and bring Daytona, Rodriguez, and Wong to Feng's facility.ĭaytona handily beats his first opponent, Freddy "Fingers" Wilson, though he is unnerved to learn that the tournament is literally sudden death-the loser is killed by a poisoned dart delivered by Feng's majordomo, Mahogany. When locals vandalize Master Wong's house for violating their edict against teaching white people ping pong, Daytona is forced to play against "The Dragon", a young girl, in exchange for Wong's right to stay. After losing a local tournament, Daytona is apprenticed to a blind man in Chinatown named Wong, who was Feng's former mentor. When Daytona agrees, Rodriguez tells him to win enough championships that Feng's scouts notice him. Feng's hidden jungle hideout hosts a black-market Ping-Pong tournament, and Daytona's invitation is a way for the FBI to infiltrate Feng's organization. Nineteen years later, Daytona is dismissed from the Peppermill casino and meets FBI agent Ernie Rodriguez, who requests his assistance in arresting Feng for running guns. Loan sharks, in the employ of criminal mastermind Feng, murder his father, and Daytona leaves competitive ping-pong. During his semi-final game against Karl Wolfschtagg of the German Democratic Republic, Daytona has an accident and suffers an injury. Eleven-year-old Randy Daytona becomes anxious when he learns that his father Peter has bet on his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics table tennis tournament finals.
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