Clive Cussler features snakeheads as minor villains. The Fringe episode "Snakehead" features a gang that smuggles immune-boosting parasites by feeding them to the Chinese immigrants that they are transporting. In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit called "Debt", the detectives fight against a snakehead gang. The TV series Hawaii Five-0 (2010) featured a snakehead in the pilot episode who is sentenced to life imprisonment – later to be revealed as a subordinate of the archvillain Wo Fat. The zombie fiction novel World War Z by Max Brooks features a Snakehead gang member as a character, revealing how they helped transport infected refugees outside mainland China to the West and Central Asia. The movie Premium Rush refers to the snakehead gang as the recipient of the envelope that is being delivered. The main antagonists in the 1998 movie Lethal Weapon 4 are members of a Snakehead gang which is found to be smuggling Chinese people into the United States and exploiting them. See also List of Chinese criminal organizations People smuggling Coyote Triad Tongs Fujian gang Snakehead References External links List of prices paid to human smugglers by immigrants from China and other countries. Asian-American gangs Chinese-American history Gangs in Asia Illegal immigration Organized crime gangs Organized crime groups in China Organized crime groups in the United States Smuggling Smugglers Transnational organized crime Chinese-American gangs