May Ying was a Thai woman who met Martin "Marty" Castillo while he was undercover for the DEA in Thailand and the "Golden Triangle" area in Southeast Asia. They fell in love and married, but during a DEA operation Castillo was involved in, the team was ambushed by forces of General Lao Li, arranged by CIA operative Dale Menton, when Castillo was not found, they shelled his home and he assumed May Ying was killed. In fact, she survived, married another man, Ma Sek, and had a son. In 1985, Ma Sek got a job with the Consolidated Textiles Corporation (which in reality was a Lao Li corporate front), and moved the family to Miami. The reason Ma Sek got the job offer was to use the family as hostages to prevent Castillo from moving against Lao Li, who moved his "commodities" operation to Miami. W