Awaken (2020) s01e02 Episode Script
The Smiles
1
(Awaken)
(All locations, characters, companies, and incidents)
(in this drama are fictional.)
Get off the track!
Today. Today was the most fun!
Thank you.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
Perfect.
This is what I like!
Hey. Move.
- Hey! - Get out.
Now, everything will be gone!
Get out of the way!
- No! - Captain Do!
There are times
when you become nervous
although nothing happened, and you know nothing.
(Awaken)
(Episode 2)
(Goseong University)
I considered something like a fantasy.
Bad people felt guilty and committed suicide.
Including Choi Yong Suk this time.
That's more like a fairy tale than a fantasy.
- Right? - Yes.
It may apply to the others,
but how could Choi Yong Suk,
who was sexually assaulting a woman in broad daylight, have felt guilty?
I meant the suicide, not the feeling guilty part, was like a fairy tale.
Oh, my dear. My gosh.
You okay?
You don't seem hurt. What a shame.
Why you little
We're working. This is an obstruction of justice.
Gosh. Come now.
Please say "obstruction of justice" after doing some real work.
Superintendent Do Jung Woo?
That little
Don't waste your energy.
That weasel bumped into you on purpose.
Why is it a waste?
Lee Ji Wook is bent on going after cops,
and I'm a cop.
He does the same to prosecutors.
If I smack a stranger's head while walking down the street
or smacked your head, wouldn't you get angry?
If someone hates me for no reason, I'll give him a reason.
I'm going to give him a reason to hate me real good.
There's something that bugged me with Baek Seung Jae,
and I became certain of it with Choi Yong Suk.
It's strange.
I can't pinpoint it, but
Something is out of place.
Yes. They lacked something that any human being should have.
Something they should have?
Yes.
Hold this for a second.
- Sir! - My hair!
My hair! Hey! My hair!
Are you trying to die?
I hung on because I didn't!
I thought you were going to pull out all of my hair!
That hurts. This.
Our victims lacked these reflexes.
They must've been suicides. They must've wanted to die.
I reached out automatically.
My body moved before I could think.
That's what you call instincts and natural reflexes.
Darn it. My scalp hurts.
A human being cannot control their body completely.
Even if you drown yourself,
once you start suffocating, the body will flail around.
However,
a man who jumped into a pool he could stand in committed suicide?
That means you can drown yourself
in a plate of water.
- Can't you? - No. Try it.
What about running toward a train coming at you?
I'm not more dangerous than a train.
But even you closed your eyes. Why didn't Choi Yong Suk?
You're You're right.
Hey. You just checked that.
I was checking again. To be thorough.
(Sleep inducer)
Do you think he was high?
(Sleep inducer)
No, he wasn't.
He'd need a ton of mescaline to run in front of a train.
But there was none.
This isn't even a sleeping pill, but a sleep inducer.
It's a weak one too. You can get it without a prescription.
Regular people's cell phone cameras are better than police databases.
Gosh. Look at that.
If I hadn't done an autopsy, I'd swear he was hallucinating.
Are you sure he wasn't high?
Yes. Look at him. He's lucid.
I thought you were there.
People having hallucinations are blatantly having hallucinations.
Especially with addicts.
Their pupils look completely different.
They're overly emotional,
depressed, nervous, distracted, irritable
You can't miss it.
(I'll remember you forever.)
That will be a dollar.
What's his problem? Is he high or something?
A professor from a national university
tried to sexually assault a woman in broad daylight.
He was chased by the police and run over by a train.
But this is murder?
The killer is the police.
Lee Ji Wook is the only person who claims it is a murder.
People are dying as forewarned,
so they're not suicides or accidents.
Are you sure they were forewarnings?
Why is that psycho sending coded messages?
It wasn't that difficult a code.
He told us the date by Celestial Stems,
time by Earthly Branches, and the location by area codes.
My head's spinning already.
- Quiet. - Okay.
(Forewarnings Decoded)
(Celestial Stems, Earthly Branches)
Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches are used in China
mainly when telling fortune.
There are 10 Celestial Stems.
The five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water
as well as blue, red, yellow, white, and black.
The Earthly Branches consist of
the 12 animals listed here.
These Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches
are used to express the year, month, and day.
(Celestial Stems, Earthly Branches)
For example, a child born on September 4, 2020
would be metal rat year, blue chicken month, metal dog day.
More simply put, the year of a white rat,
the month of a blue chicken,
and the day of a white dog.
Then if the blue chicken rises above the red sheep
The blue chicken is September. The red sheep is the first.
(September 1, 2020)
(When the blue chicken rises above the red sheep)
The next part is even easier.
If you translate the gems into zeros and ones
They all look the same.
What is there to split into zeros and ones?
They're different.
Wow, he's amazing. How did he solve this?
He isn't normal either.
Awesome. You're a complete psycho.
How did you
It's the binary system.
Since nothing starts with 0, the first image is 1.
If it's all zeros and ones, it has to be a binary system.
Yes.
It's easy to find once you apply the binary system.
If you search it
It's 1530.
As in, 3:30pm.
(The nymphomaniac)
Finally, we must focus on the fact
that all the messages begin with the number zero.
It was also odd
that they cut and pasted each letter in this digital era.
Plus, the spacing was off.
However, if you examine the letter counts between spaces
0. 2.
4. 5.
Eight.
02 is Seoul's area code.
And 458 is Jangi-dong.
So,
we broke the code.
I broke it.
Exactly.
If you broke it, the police broke it.
Nice. We've got skills.
Call Publicity.
The police broke the code, and we can prevent the next case.
How did the tipster who called in Baek Seung Jae's death
know that it would be a hotel?
All you can figure out from the message is the town.
We can't catch the killer just because we broke the code.
So why don't we handle this internally within the department?
Why can't we catch the killer? We have it all here.
Whoever the killer is, I don't think they come to the scene.
Since all eyes are on the drama called "the forewarned murders",
let's make sure the similarities between the victims don't get out.
If the public starts to self-victimize themselves,
saying we're being favorable toward the wealthy
Excuse me.
Hey.
What?
Turn on the TV. Now.
- What channel? - How would I know?
Turn to channel xvN.
(Source, TV)
The fourth victim of the forewarned murders
was Professor Choi Yong Suk who taught at a university.
Who's behind these deaths, and why is that person doing this?
That's what we started to wonder.
And we found out something very surprising.
No one should have the right to murder anyone.
However, what if the targets weren't humans?
What if the people who died were pretty much animals?
He suddenly started to come at me.
It was as if he couldn't think straight.
What did he say again?
He told me he couldn't control himself
and that he was really aroused.
Gosh, it was terrible.
It turns out Choi Yong Suk was numerously accused
of sexual harassment and assault.
And last year,
one of his students who filed a suit against him
got framed as a gold digger and ended up committing suicide.
And pretty recently,
another woman fell from his office and died for an unknown reason.
In other words, Choi Yong Suk was considered
even worse than an animal to his students.
Then what about the other victims?
Could they have more in common
than the fact that they were all forewarned murders?
We'll come back with more detailed information.
A closer look at current events.
With "Zoom In", I am Lee Ji Wook.
Mr. Lee Ji Wook gave several warnings,
but the police didn't do anything about it.
Is that why the number of victims keeps increasing?
I heard the victims were criminals that weren't indicted by the police.
Do you have anything to explain about that?
We'll do our best to cooperate with the investigation
so that we can thoroughly solve the case as fast as possible.
And I ask you not to cause anxiety
among our citizens by spreading false rumors.
Do you agree that they're not ordinary victims?
- Can you please tell us more? - What's your opinion?
- Wait. - Who's behind this?
What more do you know?
- Please tell us what you know. - What caused their deaths?
- Wait. - Ma'am.
Gosh, this is unbelievable.
- My gosh. - She practically told us nothing.
This is useless.
- My goodness. - Seriously.
- She's unbelievable. - What was that?
I came all the way here for nothing.
- What a waste of time. - She could've told us more.
- My gosh. - Is she looking down on us?
It won't go that far.
Will you take responsibility?
What if people start questioning our foundation?
I'll take responsibility. Will that do?
As long as you don't connect this
with the foundation like you did just now,
no one will think of it that way.
Why can't you just
get rid of the searched words online and ban them?
If we do that, even our foolish citizens will get suspicious.
If we get rid of the information that's already there,
they'll only become more obsessed about it.
We have control over the most popular online communities.
We need to make people believe that what they see is everything.
We'll slowly get rid of the searched words online.
And once it disappears from their sight,
we'll make it impossible for them to search it online.
("Famous BJ Deletes Problematic Video")
We don't need
to get rid of everything all of a sudden.
We can easily turn their attention to something else.
(Episode 6: Variety Show Director)
You can leave it to us.
I'm going to hang up now.
Look at him all scared now that it's all over the news.
(Influencer Management)
People will easily forget about it.
Just show them something exciting.
(Drug abuse, Love scandal, Stock manipulation)
What people see becomes the truth.
So we just need to decide what to show them.
So was it suicide?
I'm just curious.
My husband would never commit suicide
and give up on sleeping with other women.
What's wrong? Do I not sound like a widow?
I'm doing my best
to show my condolences.
He may have been a piece of trash,
but he knew how to hide it.
I heard he tried to rape a woman out on the street that day.
And on top of that, he threw himself under a train?
He always made sure to check twice every time he crossed the road.
So that's quite absurd.
We couldn't detect any signs of drug abuse.
My goodness.
When did I ever tell you that he was on drugs?
Everything else about him was fine
other than the fact that he was horny all the time.
He once received counseling, but he was considered fine.
He received counseling?
- There weren't any records of that. - Of course not.
He didn't want it to affect his career.
I'm guessing the counselor was pretty
because he was always very excited to go.
Hello.
Ji Wook, are you sure about this?
I saw the stuff you sent me.
And it's really crazy.
Talking about Park Kyu Tae's death is one thing,
but you know who Kim Young Joon's father is, right?
He's the CEO of DS Law.
Gosh, I'm not
I'm not sure if it's okay to mess with this.
Choi Yong Suk's brother-in-law
is also a strong candidate for the Seoul mayor position.
He's dead already. Who cares about his brother-in-law?
How are the ratings?
I wrote a will.
If this hits over 20 percent,
I swear I'll die of a heart attack.
We already got advertisements for the reruns.
What about the online searched words?
We had the ball in our court,
but it looks like someone purposely took it away.
Then we'll just take it back.
Let's do this.
I don't feel the need to find the culprit
and have him or her punished.
But I do wish to know what really happened.
Does it really matter whether or not it was an act of suicide?
Even if we find out what happened,
it's not like your husband will come back to life.
Let's say I can't stand being curious.
Well, I guess any normal wife would want to know
whether her husband committed suicide
or was murdered instead of mourning over his death.
- What's up? - Where are you?
We have a situation.
- The FBI is coming? - Yes, the FBI is coming.
To be more exact, it's someone who used to be in the FBI.
Right now, she's the head of a criminal psychology lab
who gives professional counseling to many different countries.
That's it?
I thought Lee Ji Wook said something on TV again.
- Professional Choi Yong Suk - That also happened.
Other than his previous sexual harassment cases,
we've also confirmed the criminal acts of other victims.
Gosh, this is all because of him.
He keeps raising an issue, which is why the higher ups
hired a former FBI agent.
Who cares? I just hope that person quickly solves this case.
Do you have no pride?
This is our case. We're going to solve it.
Listen. What he means is
it doesn't matter if that person is a former FBI or CIA agent
because we're going to be the ones who solve the case.
No, that's not what I meant.
My gosh, I can't work for an American.
- I refuse to do so. - You're right.
That person will be a foreigner.
My gosh. I can't speak English.
- I don't like foreigners. - Why not?
You need to get along with
Don't just stand here. Get going.
Don't Don't touch me.
Wait.
Are you okay?
How dare you touch a lady?
No, wait. I was the one who touched him.
And he was the one who yelled not to touch him.
But to be exact, I didn't exactly touch him.
I'm standing on an empty road all by myself.
The sun is shining brightly. And the clock that's never wrong
Says it's 12.
Then I wonder to myself.
"Is it noon or midnight?"
Hey! Wait!
Excuse me. Can I take a look at your ID?
I'm sorry. I don't speak Korean. I'm American.
English?
I think you understood me. Can I see your passport?
Okay.
Please let me speak to the US embassy.
I'm a US citizen.
So you arrived in Korea on August 20.
What do you do? What business do you have here?
Could you please call the US embassy now?
You were involved in a crime in Korea.
So you need to go through our investigation
before you talk to anyone else.
Well, as I said,
I'm not saying a word until I talk to someone from the embassy.
You can talk to me now, or I can have you arrested,
and we can go down to the station.
Then you would be wrongfully detaining a US citizen,
which is in fact, illegal, is it not?
Are you in charge here?
Seriously?
In Korea, this is what a real cop looks like.
This is how we dress in Korea.
She used to work here as a part-timer.
(Go Ji Young, raped and confined by Kim Young Joon)
She's dead.
Anyway, I was just trying to stop him from stealing this picture.
I didn't mean to touch him, okay?
You sexually harassed him.
You think I sexually harassed
You touched him,
and he was offended by it, so it's sexual harassment.
We need the victim to make a statement,
so we'll summon you once the victim files a report.
I guess I'll see you then.
You can bring someone from the US embassy.
Your Korean is great.
Hey!
Wait!
Where did he go?
(Soonjung LP)
Hello.
Hi.
I was wondering when you'd get beaten up.
I guess it happened today.
But it looks like they weren't that scary.
You have no idea how scared I was.
They didn't pluck out your eyes,
and they didn't take out any of your organs either.
I guess they were too soft.
They already warned me that they'll pluck out my eyes next time.
Give me the drugs.
Punks who warn you beforehand aren't that scary.
Those who actually do it never warn you.
You darn little punk.
Why is there 50 dollars missing?
Oh, right. I used it to buy myself an antiseptic.
Give it back.
Gosh, don't be such a scrooge.
You're old enough to be generous to the younger generation.
Stop talking nonsense.
I've already raised a kid before.
And I learned not to be kind to other humans.
You have a point.
I'm a cold-hearted man living in the city
who's willing to use anyone for my own benefit.
Cut the nonsense.
Then is it true that you have a kid?
I heard you have a son. Is it true?
What does he do? What is he doing right now?
If he's a decent man, he'd be working right now.
My gosh.
Why do you walk around with a toothbrush in your mouth?
It's dangerous.
I didn't know anyone could be so deadly to me.
Do you want to know how dead scary I can be?
Why do you keep sleeping in the holding cell?
How did you know?
Every police officer in Seoul knows you sleep there.
Your colleagues keep complaining that you make them feel uneasy.
And it's even worse for the inmates.
Are you okay?
Why do you have such a good sense of balance? It's annoying.
My gosh, look at yourself. You look like a beggar.
You're humiliating the entire police force.
Why do you go around looking like this?
My gosh, what's that?
My goodness, where in the world did you get a band-aid like this?
You know things are a mess outside, right?
I don't surf the web or watch TV, so I don't know much.
Well, you should know. Things are a complete mess.
Will you please help me out here?
I have two kids who still haven't gone to college yet.
I'm scared to even turn on my cell phone.
I heard that a former FBI agent is going to join us.
I'm okay. I'll cooperate.
You're okay?
Do you not get what's going on?
The higher ups hired someone from outside the police force
because they can't trust the police.
I don't care that you're okay.
I think it's really weird.
We've had so many unusual incidents,
but this never happened once.
You're taking drugs without water? What is it anyway?
You need to stop taking medicine. It'll make your immunity go down.
Take the next one.
By any chance, are they doing this so that they can
cover this case up in order to hide something?
That's what Lee Ji Wook seems to be thinking.
We're the police,
so we can't let those in power have control over us.
Your eyes are shaking.
What's with that face?
It's as if you agree with me.
My gosh.
The person who's coming is a competent professional.
And your job is to hurry up
and take care of the case.
Cheer up.
She has a certificate to practice law.
She was the team leader
of the criminal psychologist department in the FBI.
She also has a PhD in psychology.
I'll show no mercy if he doesn't speak Korean.
How old is he,
that he has a law license, a PhD in psychology,
and was a Special Agent-in-Charge at the FBI?
Hey! What if he's like, over 50?
What if he sits at the desk profiling the culprits
and makes us run around and do all the leg work?
I'll show no mercy if he can't run 100m within 13 seconds.
What if he doesn't have a concept of hierarchy?
What if he talks smack
and acts like he's above Captain?
I'll show no mercy if he doesn't bow at 90 degrees
- whenever he sees Captain. - Exactly.
Come in.
What brings you here?
From yesterday
No complaint was filed regarding the incident yesterday,
so you didn't need to come in.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
I was the one who touched him.
And he was the one who yelled not to touch him.
But to be exact, I didn't exactly touch him.
Hello.
I'm Jamie Leighton. I'll be starting here today.
I came from Criminal Psychology Lab.
I used to be with the FBI.
I speak Korean fluently.
I can run 100m in 13 seconds.
Darn it.
Sorry. The breeze felt nice
You're so cautious.
I'll wrap myself up and won't even breathe
the next time I meet up with you.
Anyway, how did you know?
- What? - Choi Yong Suk.
It's weird that you knew he'd go crazy like that.
If you didn't know, you wouldn't have told me to tail him.
You talk too much.
Did you know he'd die?
Probably.
You're scary.
Lightning may strike you.
Is that funny?
Hopefully I'll strike it rich.
- What is this? - That building I mentioned.
I checked the surveillance videos,
and a lot of famous people go in and out.
There may be something more.
Park Kyu Tae.
Baek Seung Jae.
- Choi Yong Suk. - Choi Yong Suk.
None of Kim Young Joon?
It was probably deleted because it was old.
That was a while ago.
April 19.
Lee Ji Wook, xvN's reporter,
receives a video of the incident.
And that was of Kim Young Joon incident,
which occurred on February 27.
We all thought it was a suicide at the time.
There was a substantial lapse since the original case,
so it didn't get any attention.
Then we received a warning.
Park Kyu Tae. June 30.
He received a video the day after it occurred,
so he tried to blow it up and gain attention,
but people said he was an attention seeker.
They were clearly suicides.
What warnings? Videos of the incidents?
They're making up all sorts of stuff.
Was that the police department's official position?
You must not know, but Lee Ji Wook really is an attention seeker.
In other words, the police thought the reporter raising an issue
was just a ploy to gain attention.
The police became involved on August 18.
When they received a tip that the third victim will die
at Baek Seung Jae's hotel.
Someone decoded the message and tipped the police.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
The police watched it happen before their eyes,
but failed to prevent it.
The police officially joins the investigation thereafter.
Upon decoding the warning,
the police deduced the location of the fourth incident, and went.
There, the police met Choi Yong Suk.
I have a question.
Why were you in Jangi-dong that day?
The convenience store wasn't the first time!
The train track!
While we're on the subject, let's hear your answer.
Did you really enter Korea on August 20?
Why?
You should have faith in your nation's customs agency.
Naturally, I entered Korea on August 20 as requested
by the Korean National Police Agency to assist with this case.
I went to Jangi-dong,
naturally, because I had decoded the message.
It's not like it was very difficult.
True, it was simple.
- Exactly. - You're smart.
And you have pretty hands.
When you're getting to know each other,
you compliment each other and read their reactions and such.
That's correct.
This. The pigs on the band-aid.
They're cute.
Those are rabbits.
They are rabbits, but I'll take it.
Okay, then. We seem to have a good understanding of the case.
You should go with me today.
You guys look into Park Kyu Tae's and Baek Seung Jae's victims.
Just the two of you?
Yes. She's like a foreigner
Well You're American. So I should attend to her.
You'll attend to her? Alone?
Is that a problem?
I was worrying about you.
Me? Well
Why?
I'll team up with Ji Wan then.
- Let's go. - Okay.
She said she'd show me no mercy if I don't bow at 90 degrees.
But she doesn't even say bye.
I heard Koreans are super strict about seniority,
but I guess not.
It's just our team.
I'm pretty lax about that.
Wow. You really are lax.
You make me, pretty much a foreigner, do the driving?
I told you earlier. I'm lax like that.
Fine, our free-spirited Superintendent Do.
Where are we going right now?
Let's see. Why don't you guess?
Fine.
Based on the address, it's Kim Young Joon's victim.
However, I believe these cases
are unrelated to the crimes the deceased had committed.
Whatever the case may be,
Korean police officers are destined to follow certain processes.
Plus, Kim Young Joon's case seems off.
How is it off?
- It makes no sense. - What makes no sense?
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
What?
It makes no sense like what I just said.
I said it makes no sense because it makes no sense.
What am I supposed to say if you ask why it makes no sense?
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
A habit of judging things as being worthless.
Moreover, making something worthless by doing so.
That's what it means.
Saying it makes no sense means you discovered a rule,
but it diverges from it.
That is why I'm asking you what rule you found,
and how it diverges
- Right turn. Right. - Now? Turn right?
You have deviated from your route.
Recalculating.
I guess not.
Shall I, who's pretty much a foreigner, look myself?
That's odd. I'm sure this is the place.
You said it was faster this way.
Can't we just follow the GPS?
What? What is it?
This isn't it. We have to go that way.
- What? - No wonder it didn't look familiar.
Let's follow the GPS.
Where should we go?
Let's go where we planned.
Hello, doctor.
How did you know it was me?
I figured you would've figured out your misfortune by now.
I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
Given the time, Kim Young Joon's victim is the most we can get to.
I'm very sorry.
Get in.
No, this isn't it.
Why are you being such a nuisance? They must have had plans too.
What do you mean?
I'm sure Lieutenant Gong planned to see even Choi Yong Suk's victims.
Not Lieutenant Jang?
No. Only Lieutenant Gong.
How do you always know this will happen?
Why do you still think Captain will do all the work?
Special hire.
I am not!
He called me out to say he wanted to discuss my grade.
Do you remember around when that was?
It was late at night after classes had ended.
Excuse us.
Get out of here!
How dare you come here? You jerks!
My husband was beaten up badly
by that man Park Kyu Tae and was hospitalized
until he passed.
How could How could a person be this bad with directions?
Excuse me. Are you doing this intentionally to torment me?
What?
Did you check the videos of Park Kyu Tae's
and Baek Seung Jae's incidents?
Yes I did
Lieutenant Yoon is checking it a second time.
There were no surveillance cameras where Kim Young Joon was.
(Attachments)
I saw them too.
And I found "floccinaucinihilipilification".
Yes. What is that?
All of the deceased had committed crimes against society.
They lacked morals and felt no guilt.
And immediately before dying, they all
They were sleeping.
There was no video of Kim Young Joon but there were witnesses.
They said he was sleeping, suddenly woke up, and jumped.
There's a good chance Park Kyu Tae was asleep too.
Baek Seung Jae When I saw him briefly,
he was very sleepy from drugs, alcohol, or something.
Choi Yong Suk had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
I'm asking out of curiosity.
What's your real reason for coming to Korea?
You're a hotshot in the US.
You were a Special Agent-in-Charge at the FBI.
They say more than 10 is standard when someone starts killing people.
Why did you come to this tiny country for a minor case?
We've met before, you and I.
I have a tendency to jump to conclusions.
You're not asking me out, are you?
You feel like you've seen me before and feel drawn to me?
That's not it, right?
Yes, we have met before. At the convenience store.
- I thought you were a sexual - No.
Not the train track either.
Didn't you say you've been in the US until now?
So how could we have met before?
Then why do you talk to me as if you know me?
What are you doing?
When
and where have we met?
If you need time to think about it,
why don't you take a step back and do it?
This is very dangerous and intimidating.
You have a big vocabulary.
We found it.
The house.
This is all I have.
That's fine.
Didn't you know that the dead convenience store worker
was Kim Young Joon's victim?
If you're nitpicking that I didn't check the documents thoroughly,
you're right. I didn't check the victims' files.
I knew from the start that it wasn't revenge.
There is definitely a clear purpose for these cases.
What purpose?
Well
I'm not sure yet.
How lame.
What? Hey.
I'm not telepathic. I can't tell everything just by looking.
I need time and information
If you have more time and information,
will you figure out where you've met me?
See?
You're really lame.
I found something in the videos of Park Kyu Tae's
and Baek Seung Jae's deaths.
I didn't see it at first,
but I noticed a similarity when I watched them again.
What?
Wait.
I saw Choi Yong Suk personally, so that goes without saying.
What is this?
All three of them
were smiling.
Looking very happy.
That building I mentioned.
I checked the surveillance videos,
and a lot of famous people go in and out.
There may be something more.
At the end of the hall on the third floor.
The door is locked.
Third floor, end of the hall.
What is that?
(Attachments)
(Outline)
(Attachments, Victim statement regarding Park Kyu Tae)
(Attachments, Victim statement regarding Park Kyu Tae)
(Captain Do Jung Woo)
I'm almost done with the report.
It's unrelated to our case, right?
Yes. I don't think it's revenge.
But after looking into these cases,
I want to reward the person who killed them.
Watch it.
I'll report that they're unrelated.
But
What, as long as they're unrelated to our case, that's it?
This psychopath.
Oh, my gosh. Hey.
I said to clean.
I'm a production director, I'm not your maid.
I did clean. I did.
I know you're obsessive, so I cleaned up.
Come sit down.
Put that away. I need to find something.
No, no. We found out that an assemblyman's son did drugs
Play it.
What are you looking for?
- I don't know. - If you don't know, who does?
Mr. No.
On top of the jerk forewarning of the murders,
there's another jerk decoding them and tipping me on them.
He wanted me to tell the cops,
and told me who the next victim will be.
That victim was Choi Yong Suk.
Choi Yong Suk?
Know what I did?
Rather than tell the cops, I put a tail on him.
Then You could've saved him.
Why should I save that piece of trash?
Check the video.
It's a week's worth.
If we find anything here, it'll be breaking news.
Darn it.
Dad. How are you home at this hour?
I got lucky.
I know. I get to see him maybe once every 10 days.
What a husband.
It's good.
Hye Won, why are you coming home now?
Just quit your job already.
Pick one of the nice men at your dad's lab,
have a few kids, and enjoy your life.
What will you do about her?
Will you let her lead such a dangerous life?
Seriously. Why do I bother?
I just don't get you two.
You're really strange. Both of you.
Oh, my goodness.
Hey. Do that with your boyfriend instead of with my husband.
That's right.
Didn't you say that your captain was smart,
handsome, and that you respected him?
Did you say he had a nice voice?
Mom. What are you talking about?
He's so not a good catch.
Not a chance. He's weird.
- I'm going to bed. - Oh, my.
You said you liked the look in his eyes and whatnot.
Hey. If that's not a good catch
You haven't been a good catch ever in my life.
You've always been the best in my life.
You're all talk.
How are the dad and daughter both such workaholics?
You need there to be problems at the home
to realize the value of the family.
But my goodness, that's my own family.
I love you.
Both of you are all just talk.
You're impossible.
How lame.
If you have more time and information,
will you figure out where you've met me?
In other words, we've met before.
But I'm sure I had never seen him before.
I'm standing on an empty road all by myself.
The sun is shining brightly.
And the clock that's never wrong says it's 12.
Then I wonder to myself. "Is it noon"
"or midnight?"
Choi Yong Suk
had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
They were sleeping.
There were witnesses.
They said he was sleeping, suddenly woke up, and jumped.
There's a good chance Park Kyu Tae was asleep too.
Baek Seung Jae When I saw him briefly,
he was very sleepy from drugs, alcohol, or something.
Choi Yong Suk
had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
(Kim Yoon Ji, jumped to her death)
(Case Report)
(Attachment)
(Forewarned murders)
("Fourth Forewarned Murder! Struck by a Train in Jangi-dong")
("4th Forewarned Murder: Professor With History of Sexual Harassment")
How did he know?
(Case Report)
(Victim attempted to sexually assault a woman)
(Wife states he received therapy, but it has not been confirmed.)
That hurts.
Stay still.
My arm hurts.
A therapist's office would not be here.
Then how did he
Choi Yong Suk had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
What made him conclude that he had just left
from a hypnotherapy session?
Wait! Hold up.
There. Someone passed by the window just now.
Where? Which window?
Third floor.
Third floor?
- Did your eyesight get bad? - Just look.
What do you mean someone passed by?
- Someone really did pass by. - There.
Someone did pass by. Here.
Can you make it clearer?
Hold on.
(Baek Seung Jae, Choi Yong Suk)
The only person who can be sure that Choi Yong Suk had just left
from a hypnotherapy session
Given the current situation,
only the killer would know.
Got it.
Wait. Is this what you were looking for?
No.
Much more.
We've caught the killer.
And
premonitions are never wrong.
(Thank you, Ju Seok Tae, for the special appearance.)
(Awaken)
How reliable is this information?
Lee Ji Wook really did catch him.
He did find it.
Using the police to catch the police.
Do you suspect Captain Do?
I don't think Superintendent Do seems to be in danger.
He seems dangerous.
Come to me quickly.
The children who survived not only hid from the foundation,
but now, they're attacking us.
What are you hiding?
You knew something, didn't you?
That must mean I'm the killer.
.
(Awaken)
(All locations, characters, companies, and incidents)
(in this drama are fictional.)
Get off the track!
Today. Today was the most fun!
Thank you.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
Perfect.
This is what I like!
Hey. Move.
- Hey! - Get out.
Now, everything will be gone!
Get out of the way!
- No! - Captain Do!
There are times
when you become nervous
although nothing happened, and you know nothing.
(Awaken)
(Episode 2)
(Goseong University)
I considered something like a fantasy.
Bad people felt guilty and committed suicide.
Including Choi Yong Suk this time.
That's more like a fairy tale than a fantasy.
- Right? - Yes.
It may apply to the others,
but how could Choi Yong Suk,
who was sexually assaulting a woman in broad daylight, have felt guilty?
I meant the suicide, not the feeling guilty part, was like a fairy tale.
Oh, my dear. My gosh.
You okay?
You don't seem hurt. What a shame.
Why you little
We're working. This is an obstruction of justice.
Gosh. Come now.
Please say "obstruction of justice" after doing some real work.
Superintendent Do Jung Woo?
That little
Don't waste your energy.
That weasel bumped into you on purpose.
Why is it a waste?
Lee Ji Wook is bent on going after cops,
and I'm a cop.
He does the same to prosecutors.
If I smack a stranger's head while walking down the street
or smacked your head, wouldn't you get angry?
If someone hates me for no reason, I'll give him a reason.
I'm going to give him a reason to hate me real good.
There's something that bugged me with Baek Seung Jae,
and I became certain of it with Choi Yong Suk.
It's strange.
I can't pinpoint it, but
Something is out of place.
Yes. They lacked something that any human being should have.
Something they should have?
Yes.
Hold this for a second.
- Sir! - My hair!
My hair! Hey! My hair!
Are you trying to die?
I hung on because I didn't!
I thought you were going to pull out all of my hair!
That hurts. This.
Our victims lacked these reflexes.
They must've been suicides. They must've wanted to die.
I reached out automatically.
My body moved before I could think.
That's what you call instincts and natural reflexes.
Darn it. My scalp hurts.
A human being cannot control their body completely.
Even if you drown yourself,
once you start suffocating, the body will flail around.
However,
a man who jumped into a pool he could stand in committed suicide?
That means you can drown yourself
in a plate of water.
- Can't you? - No. Try it.
What about running toward a train coming at you?
I'm not more dangerous than a train.
But even you closed your eyes. Why didn't Choi Yong Suk?
You're You're right.
Hey. You just checked that.
I was checking again. To be thorough.
(Sleep inducer)
Do you think he was high?
(Sleep inducer)
No, he wasn't.
He'd need a ton of mescaline to run in front of a train.
But there was none.
This isn't even a sleeping pill, but a sleep inducer.
It's a weak one too. You can get it without a prescription.
Regular people's cell phone cameras are better than police databases.
Gosh. Look at that.
If I hadn't done an autopsy, I'd swear he was hallucinating.
Are you sure he wasn't high?
Yes. Look at him. He's lucid.
I thought you were there.
People having hallucinations are blatantly having hallucinations.
Especially with addicts.
Their pupils look completely different.
They're overly emotional,
depressed, nervous, distracted, irritable
You can't miss it.
(I'll remember you forever.)
That will be a dollar.
What's his problem? Is he high or something?
A professor from a national university
tried to sexually assault a woman in broad daylight.
He was chased by the police and run over by a train.
But this is murder?
The killer is the police.
Lee Ji Wook is the only person who claims it is a murder.
People are dying as forewarned,
so they're not suicides or accidents.
Are you sure they were forewarnings?
Why is that psycho sending coded messages?
It wasn't that difficult a code.
He told us the date by Celestial Stems,
time by Earthly Branches, and the location by area codes.
My head's spinning already.
- Quiet. - Okay.
(Forewarnings Decoded)
(Celestial Stems, Earthly Branches)
Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches are used in China
mainly when telling fortune.
There are 10 Celestial Stems.
The five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water
as well as blue, red, yellow, white, and black.
The Earthly Branches consist of
the 12 animals listed here.
These Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches
are used to express the year, month, and day.
(Celestial Stems, Earthly Branches)
For example, a child born on September 4, 2020
would be metal rat year, blue chicken month, metal dog day.
More simply put, the year of a white rat,
the month of a blue chicken,
and the day of a white dog.
Then if the blue chicken rises above the red sheep
The blue chicken is September. The red sheep is the first.
(September 1, 2020)
(When the blue chicken rises above the red sheep)
The next part is even easier.
If you translate the gems into zeros and ones
They all look the same.
What is there to split into zeros and ones?
They're different.
Wow, he's amazing. How did he solve this?
He isn't normal either.
Awesome. You're a complete psycho.
How did you
It's the binary system.
Since nothing starts with 0, the first image is 1.
If it's all zeros and ones, it has to be a binary system.
Yes.
It's easy to find once you apply the binary system.
If you search it
It's 1530.
As in, 3:30pm.
(The nymphomaniac)
Finally, we must focus on the fact
that all the messages begin with the number zero.
It was also odd
that they cut and pasted each letter in this digital era.
Plus, the spacing was off.
However, if you examine the letter counts between spaces
0. 2.
4. 5.
Eight.
02 is Seoul's area code.
And 458 is Jangi-dong.
So,
we broke the code.
I broke it.
Exactly.
If you broke it, the police broke it.
Nice. We've got skills.
Call Publicity.
The police broke the code, and we can prevent the next case.
How did the tipster who called in Baek Seung Jae's death
know that it would be a hotel?
All you can figure out from the message is the town.
We can't catch the killer just because we broke the code.
So why don't we handle this internally within the department?
Why can't we catch the killer? We have it all here.
Whoever the killer is, I don't think they come to the scene.
Since all eyes are on the drama called "the forewarned murders",
let's make sure the similarities between the victims don't get out.
If the public starts to self-victimize themselves,
saying we're being favorable toward the wealthy
Excuse me.
Hey.
What?
Turn on the TV. Now.
- What channel? - How would I know?
Turn to channel xvN.
(Source, TV)
The fourth victim of the forewarned murders
was Professor Choi Yong Suk who taught at a university.
Who's behind these deaths, and why is that person doing this?
That's what we started to wonder.
And we found out something very surprising.
No one should have the right to murder anyone.
However, what if the targets weren't humans?
What if the people who died were pretty much animals?
He suddenly started to come at me.
It was as if he couldn't think straight.
What did he say again?
He told me he couldn't control himself
and that he was really aroused.
Gosh, it was terrible.
It turns out Choi Yong Suk was numerously accused
of sexual harassment and assault.
And last year,
one of his students who filed a suit against him
got framed as a gold digger and ended up committing suicide.
And pretty recently,
another woman fell from his office and died for an unknown reason.
In other words, Choi Yong Suk was considered
even worse than an animal to his students.
Then what about the other victims?
Could they have more in common
than the fact that they were all forewarned murders?
We'll come back with more detailed information.
A closer look at current events.
With "Zoom In", I am Lee Ji Wook.
Mr. Lee Ji Wook gave several warnings,
but the police didn't do anything about it.
Is that why the number of victims keeps increasing?
I heard the victims were criminals that weren't indicted by the police.
Do you have anything to explain about that?
We'll do our best to cooperate with the investigation
so that we can thoroughly solve the case as fast as possible.
And I ask you not to cause anxiety
among our citizens by spreading false rumors.
Do you agree that they're not ordinary victims?
- Can you please tell us more? - What's your opinion?
- Wait. - Who's behind this?
What more do you know?
- Please tell us what you know. - What caused their deaths?
- Wait. - Ma'am.
Gosh, this is unbelievable.
- My gosh. - She practically told us nothing.
This is useless.
- My goodness. - Seriously.
- She's unbelievable. - What was that?
I came all the way here for nothing.
- What a waste of time. - She could've told us more.
- My gosh. - Is she looking down on us?
It won't go that far.
Will you take responsibility?
What if people start questioning our foundation?
I'll take responsibility. Will that do?
As long as you don't connect this
with the foundation like you did just now,
no one will think of it that way.
Why can't you just
get rid of the searched words online and ban them?
If we do that, even our foolish citizens will get suspicious.
If we get rid of the information that's already there,
they'll only become more obsessed about it.
We have control over the most popular online communities.
We need to make people believe that what they see is everything.
We'll slowly get rid of the searched words online.
And once it disappears from their sight,
we'll make it impossible for them to search it online.
("Famous BJ Deletes Problematic Video")
We don't need
to get rid of everything all of a sudden.
We can easily turn their attention to something else.
(Episode 6: Variety Show Director)
You can leave it to us.
I'm going to hang up now.
Look at him all scared now that it's all over the news.
(Influencer Management)
People will easily forget about it.
Just show them something exciting.
(Drug abuse, Love scandal, Stock manipulation)
What people see becomes the truth.
So we just need to decide what to show them.
So was it suicide?
I'm just curious.
My husband would never commit suicide
and give up on sleeping with other women.
What's wrong? Do I not sound like a widow?
I'm doing my best
to show my condolences.
He may have been a piece of trash,
but he knew how to hide it.
I heard he tried to rape a woman out on the street that day.
And on top of that, he threw himself under a train?
He always made sure to check twice every time he crossed the road.
So that's quite absurd.
We couldn't detect any signs of drug abuse.
My goodness.
When did I ever tell you that he was on drugs?
Everything else about him was fine
other than the fact that he was horny all the time.
He once received counseling, but he was considered fine.
He received counseling?
- There weren't any records of that. - Of course not.
He didn't want it to affect his career.
I'm guessing the counselor was pretty
because he was always very excited to go.
Hello.
Ji Wook, are you sure about this?
I saw the stuff you sent me.
And it's really crazy.
Talking about Park Kyu Tae's death is one thing,
but you know who Kim Young Joon's father is, right?
He's the CEO of DS Law.
Gosh, I'm not
I'm not sure if it's okay to mess with this.
Choi Yong Suk's brother-in-law
is also a strong candidate for the Seoul mayor position.
He's dead already. Who cares about his brother-in-law?
How are the ratings?
I wrote a will.
If this hits over 20 percent,
I swear I'll die of a heart attack.
We already got advertisements for the reruns.
What about the online searched words?
We had the ball in our court,
but it looks like someone purposely took it away.
Then we'll just take it back.
Let's do this.
I don't feel the need to find the culprit
and have him or her punished.
But I do wish to know what really happened.
Does it really matter whether or not it was an act of suicide?
Even if we find out what happened,
it's not like your husband will come back to life.
Let's say I can't stand being curious.
Well, I guess any normal wife would want to know
whether her husband committed suicide
or was murdered instead of mourning over his death.
- What's up? - Where are you?
We have a situation.
- The FBI is coming? - Yes, the FBI is coming.
To be more exact, it's someone who used to be in the FBI.
Right now, she's the head of a criminal psychology lab
who gives professional counseling to many different countries.
That's it?
I thought Lee Ji Wook said something on TV again.
- Professional Choi Yong Suk - That also happened.
Other than his previous sexual harassment cases,
we've also confirmed the criminal acts of other victims.
Gosh, this is all because of him.
He keeps raising an issue, which is why the higher ups
hired a former FBI agent.
Who cares? I just hope that person quickly solves this case.
Do you have no pride?
This is our case. We're going to solve it.
Listen. What he means is
it doesn't matter if that person is a former FBI or CIA agent
because we're going to be the ones who solve the case.
No, that's not what I meant.
My gosh, I can't work for an American.
- I refuse to do so. - You're right.
That person will be a foreigner.
My gosh. I can't speak English.
- I don't like foreigners. - Why not?
You need to get along with
Don't just stand here. Get going.
Don't Don't touch me.
Wait.
Are you okay?
How dare you touch a lady?
No, wait. I was the one who touched him.
And he was the one who yelled not to touch him.
But to be exact, I didn't exactly touch him.
I'm standing on an empty road all by myself.
The sun is shining brightly. And the clock that's never wrong
Says it's 12.
Then I wonder to myself.
"Is it noon or midnight?"
Hey! Wait!
Excuse me. Can I take a look at your ID?
I'm sorry. I don't speak Korean. I'm American.
English?
I think you understood me. Can I see your passport?
Okay.
Please let me speak to the US embassy.
I'm a US citizen.
So you arrived in Korea on August 20.
What do you do? What business do you have here?
Could you please call the US embassy now?
You were involved in a crime in Korea.
So you need to go through our investigation
before you talk to anyone else.
Well, as I said,
I'm not saying a word until I talk to someone from the embassy.
You can talk to me now, or I can have you arrested,
and we can go down to the station.
Then you would be wrongfully detaining a US citizen,
which is in fact, illegal, is it not?
Are you in charge here?
Seriously?
In Korea, this is what a real cop looks like.
This is how we dress in Korea.
She used to work here as a part-timer.
(Go Ji Young, raped and confined by Kim Young Joon)
She's dead.
Anyway, I was just trying to stop him from stealing this picture.
I didn't mean to touch him, okay?
You sexually harassed him.
You think I sexually harassed
You touched him,
and he was offended by it, so it's sexual harassment.
We need the victim to make a statement,
so we'll summon you once the victim files a report.
I guess I'll see you then.
You can bring someone from the US embassy.
Your Korean is great.
Hey!
Wait!
Where did he go?
(Soonjung LP)
Hello.
Hi.
I was wondering when you'd get beaten up.
I guess it happened today.
But it looks like they weren't that scary.
You have no idea how scared I was.
They didn't pluck out your eyes,
and they didn't take out any of your organs either.
I guess they were too soft.
They already warned me that they'll pluck out my eyes next time.
Give me the drugs.
Punks who warn you beforehand aren't that scary.
Those who actually do it never warn you.
You darn little punk.
Why is there 50 dollars missing?
Oh, right. I used it to buy myself an antiseptic.
Give it back.
Gosh, don't be such a scrooge.
You're old enough to be generous to the younger generation.
Stop talking nonsense.
I've already raised a kid before.
And I learned not to be kind to other humans.
You have a point.
I'm a cold-hearted man living in the city
who's willing to use anyone for my own benefit.
Cut the nonsense.
Then is it true that you have a kid?
I heard you have a son. Is it true?
What does he do? What is he doing right now?
If he's a decent man, he'd be working right now.
My gosh.
Why do you walk around with a toothbrush in your mouth?
It's dangerous.
I didn't know anyone could be so deadly to me.
Do you want to know how dead scary I can be?
Why do you keep sleeping in the holding cell?
How did you know?
Every police officer in Seoul knows you sleep there.
Your colleagues keep complaining that you make them feel uneasy.
And it's even worse for the inmates.
Are you okay?
Why do you have such a good sense of balance? It's annoying.
My gosh, look at yourself. You look like a beggar.
You're humiliating the entire police force.
Why do you go around looking like this?
My gosh, what's that?
My goodness, where in the world did you get a band-aid like this?
You know things are a mess outside, right?
I don't surf the web or watch TV, so I don't know much.
Well, you should know. Things are a complete mess.
Will you please help me out here?
I have two kids who still haven't gone to college yet.
I'm scared to even turn on my cell phone.
I heard that a former FBI agent is going to join us.
I'm okay. I'll cooperate.
You're okay?
Do you not get what's going on?
The higher ups hired someone from outside the police force
because they can't trust the police.
I don't care that you're okay.
I think it's really weird.
We've had so many unusual incidents,
but this never happened once.
You're taking drugs without water? What is it anyway?
You need to stop taking medicine. It'll make your immunity go down.
Take the next one.
By any chance, are they doing this so that they can
cover this case up in order to hide something?
That's what Lee Ji Wook seems to be thinking.
We're the police,
so we can't let those in power have control over us.
Your eyes are shaking.
What's with that face?
It's as if you agree with me.
My gosh.
The person who's coming is a competent professional.
And your job is to hurry up
and take care of the case.
Cheer up.
She has a certificate to practice law.
She was the team leader
of the criminal psychologist department in the FBI.
She also has a PhD in psychology.
I'll show no mercy if he doesn't speak Korean.
How old is he,
that he has a law license, a PhD in psychology,
and was a Special Agent-in-Charge at the FBI?
Hey! What if he's like, over 50?
What if he sits at the desk profiling the culprits
and makes us run around and do all the leg work?
I'll show no mercy if he can't run 100m within 13 seconds.
What if he doesn't have a concept of hierarchy?
What if he talks smack
and acts like he's above Captain?
I'll show no mercy if he doesn't bow at 90 degrees
- whenever he sees Captain. - Exactly.
Come in.
What brings you here?
From yesterday
No complaint was filed regarding the incident yesterday,
so you didn't need to come in.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
I was the one who touched him.
And he was the one who yelled not to touch him.
But to be exact, I didn't exactly touch him.
Hello.
I'm Jamie Leighton. I'll be starting here today.
I came from Criminal Psychology Lab.
I used to be with the FBI.
I speak Korean fluently.
I can run 100m in 13 seconds.
Darn it.
Sorry. The breeze felt nice
You're so cautious.
I'll wrap myself up and won't even breathe
the next time I meet up with you.
Anyway, how did you know?
- What? - Choi Yong Suk.
It's weird that you knew he'd go crazy like that.
If you didn't know, you wouldn't have told me to tail him.
You talk too much.
Did you know he'd die?
Probably.
You're scary.
Lightning may strike you.
Is that funny?
Hopefully I'll strike it rich.
- What is this? - That building I mentioned.
I checked the surveillance videos,
and a lot of famous people go in and out.
There may be something more.
Park Kyu Tae.
Baek Seung Jae.
- Choi Yong Suk. - Choi Yong Suk.
None of Kim Young Joon?
It was probably deleted because it was old.
That was a while ago.
April 19.
Lee Ji Wook, xvN's reporter,
receives a video of the incident.
And that was of Kim Young Joon incident,
which occurred on February 27.
We all thought it was a suicide at the time.
There was a substantial lapse since the original case,
so it didn't get any attention.
Then we received a warning.
Park Kyu Tae. June 30.
He received a video the day after it occurred,
so he tried to blow it up and gain attention,
but people said he was an attention seeker.
They were clearly suicides.
What warnings? Videos of the incidents?
They're making up all sorts of stuff.
Was that the police department's official position?
You must not know, but Lee Ji Wook really is an attention seeker.
In other words, the police thought the reporter raising an issue
was just a ploy to gain attention.
The police became involved on August 18.
When they received a tip that the third victim will die
at Baek Seung Jae's hotel.
Someone decoded the message and tipped the police.
- Has he lost his mind? - No.
The police watched it happen before their eyes,
but failed to prevent it.
The police officially joins the investigation thereafter.
Upon decoding the warning,
the police deduced the location of the fourth incident, and went.
There, the police met Choi Yong Suk.
I have a question.
Why were you in Jangi-dong that day?
The convenience store wasn't the first time!
The train track!
While we're on the subject, let's hear your answer.
Did you really enter Korea on August 20?
Why?
You should have faith in your nation's customs agency.
Naturally, I entered Korea on August 20 as requested
by the Korean National Police Agency to assist with this case.
I went to Jangi-dong,
naturally, because I had decoded the message.
It's not like it was very difficult.
True, it was simple.
- Exactly. - You're smart.
And you have pretty hands.
When you're getting to know each other,
you compliment each other and read their reactions and such.
That's correct.
This. The pigs on the band-aid.
They're cute.
Those are rabbits.
They are rabbits, but I'll take it.
Okay, then. We seem to have a good understanding of the case.
You should go with me today.
You guys look into Park Kyu Tae's and Baek Seung Jae's victims.
Just the two of you?
Yes. She's like a foreigner
Well You're American. So I should attend to her.
You'll attend to her? Alone?
Is that a problem?
I was worrying about you.
Me? Well
Why?
I'll team up with Ji Wan then.
- Let's go. - Okay.
She said she'd show me no mercy if I don't bow at 90 degrees.
But she doesn't even say bye.
I heard Koreans are super strict about seniority,
but I guess not.
It's just our team.
I'm pretty lax about that.
Wow. You really are lax.
You make me, pretty much a foreigner, do the driving?
I told you earlier. I'm lax like that.
Fine, our free-spirited Superintendent Do.
Where are we going right now?
Let's see. Why don't you guess?
Fine.
Based on the address, it's Kim Young Joon's victim.
However, I believe these cases
are unrelated to the crimes the deceased had committed.
Whatever the case may be,
Korean police officers are destined to follow certain processes.
Plus, Kim Young Joon's case seems off.
How is it off?
- It makes no sense. - What makes no sense?
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
What?
It makes no sense like what I just said.
I said it makes no sense because it makes no sense.
What am I supposed to say if you ask why it makes no sense?
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
A habit of judging things as being worthless.
Moreover, making something worthless by doing so.
That's what it means.
Saying it makes no sense means you discovered a rule,
but it diverges from it.
That is why I'm asking you what rule you found,
and how it diverges
- Right turn. Right. - Now? Turn right?
You have deviated from your route.
Recalculating.
I guess not.
Shall I, who's pretty much a foreigner, look myself?
That's odd. I'm sure this is the place.
You said it was faster this way.
Can't we just follow the GPS?
What? What is it?
This isn't it. We have to go that way.
- What? - No wonder it didn't look familiar.
Let's follow the GPS.
Where should we go?
Let's go where we planned.
Hello, doctor.
How did you know it was me?
I figured you would've figured out your misfortune by now.
I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
Given the time, Kim Young Joon's victim is the most we can get to.
I'm very sorry.
Get in.
No, this isn't it.
Why are you being such a nuisance? They must have had plans too.
What do you mean?
I'm sure Lieutenant Gong planned to see even Choi Yong Suk's victims.
Not Lieutenant Jang?
No. Only Lieutenant Gong.
How do you always know this will happen?
Why do you still think Captain will do all the work?
Special hire.
I am not!
He called me out to say he wanted to discuss my grade.
Do you remember around when that was?
It was late at night after classes had ended.
Excuse us.
Get out of here!
How dare you come here? You jerks!
My husband was beaten up badly
by that man Park Kyu Tae and was hospitalized
until he passed.
How could How could a person be this bad with directions?
Excuse me. Are you doing this intentionally to torment me?
What?
Did you check the videos of Park Kyu Tae's
and Baek Seung Jae's incidents?
Yes I did
Lieutenant Yoon is checking it a second time.
There were no surveillance cameras where Kim Young Joon was.
(Attachments)
I saw them too.
And I found "floccinaucinihilipilification".
Yes. What is that?
All of the deceased had committed crimes against society.
They lacked morals and felt no guilt.
And immediately before dying, they all
They were sleeping.
There was no video of Kim Young Joon but there were witnesses.
They said he was sleeping, suddenly woke up, and jumped.
There's a good chance Park Kyu Tae was asleep too.
Baek Seung Jae When I saw him briefly,
he was very sleepy from drugs, alcohol, or something.
Choi Yong Suk had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
I'm asking out of curiosity.
What's your real reason for coming to Korea?
You're a hotshot in the US.
You were a Special Agent-in-Charge at the FBI.
They say more than 10 is standard when someone starts killing people.
Why did you come to this tiny country for a minor case?
We've met before, you and I.
I have a tendency to jump to conclusions.
You're not asking me out, are you?
You feel like you've seen me before and feel drawn to me?
That's not it, right?
Yes, we have met before. At the convenience store.
- I thought you were a sexual - No.
Not the train track either.
Didn't you say you've been in the US until now?
So how could we have met before?
Then why do you talk to me as if you know me?
What are you doing?
When
and where have we met?
If you need time to think about it,
why don't you take a step back and do it?
This is very dangerous and intimidating.
You have a big vocabulary.
We found it.
The house.
This is all I have.
That's fine.
Didn't you know that the dead convenience store worker
was Kim Young Joon's victim?
If you're nitpicking that I didn't check the documents thoroughly,
you're right. I didn't check the victims' files.
I knew from the start that it wasn't revenge.
There is definitely a clear purpose for these cases.
What purpose?
Well
I'm not sure yet.
How lame.
What? Hey.
I'm not telepathic. I can't tell everything just by looking.
I need time and information
If you have more time and information,
will you figure out where you've met me?
See?
You're really lame.
I found something in the videos of Park Kyu Tae's
and Baek Seung Jae's deaths.
I didn't see it at first,
but I noticed a similarity when I watched them again.
What?
Wait.
I saw Choi Yong Suk personally, so that goes without saying.
What is this?
All three of them
were smiling.
Looking very happy.
That building I mentioned.
I checked the surveillance videos,
and a lot of famous people go in and out.
There may be something more.
At the end of the hall on the third floor.
The door is locked.
Third floor, end of the hall.
What is that?
(Attachments)
(Outline)
(Attachments, Victim statement regarding Park Kyu Tae)
(Attachments, Victim statement regarding Park Kyu Tae)
(Captain Do Jung Woo)
I'm almost done with the report.
It's unrelated to our case, right?
Yes. I don't think it's revenge.
But after looking into these cases,
I want to reward the person who killed them.
Watch it.
I'll report that they're unrelated.
But
What, as long as they're unrelated to our case, that's it?
This psychopath.
Oh, my gosh. Hey.
I said to clean.
I'm a production director, I'm not your maid.
I did clean. I did.
I know you're obsessive, so I cleaned up.
Come sit down.
Put that away. I need to find something.
No, no. We found out that an assemblyman's son did drugs
Play it.
What are you looking for?
- I don't know. - If you don't know, who does?
Mr. No.
On top of the jerk forewarning of the murders,
there's another jerk decoding them and tipping me on them.
He wanted me to tell the cops,
and told me who the next victim will be.
That victim was Choi Yong Suk.
Choi Yong Suk?
Know what I did?
Rather than tell the cops, I put a tail on him.
Then You could've saved him.
Why should I save that piece of trash?
Check the video.
It's a week's worth.
If we find anything here, it'll be breaking news.
Darn it.
Dad. How are you home at this hour?
I got lucky.
I know. I get to see him maybe once every 10 days.
What a husband.
It's good.
Hye Won, why are you coming home now?
Just quit your job already.
Pick one of the nice men at your dad's lab,
have a few kids, and enjoy your life.
What will you do about her?
Will you let her lead such a dangerous life?
Seriously. Why do I bother?
I just don't get you two.
You're really strange. Both of you.
Oh, my goodness.
Hey. Do that with your boyfriend instead of with my husband.
That's right.
Didn't you say that your captain was smart,
handsome, and that you respected him?
Did you say he had a nice voice?
Mom. What are you talking about?
He's so not a good catch.
Not a chance. He's weird.
- I'm going to bed. - Oh, my.
You said you liked the look in his eyes and whatnot.
Hey. If that's not a good catch
You haven't been a good catch ever in my life.
You've always been the best in my life.
You're all talk.
How are the dad and daughter both such workaholics?
You need there to be problems at the home
to realize the value of the family.
But my goodness, that's my own family.
I love you.
Both of you are all just talk.
You're impossible.
How lame.
If you have more time and information,
will you figure out where you've met me?
In other words, we've met before.
But I'm sure I had never seen him before.
I'm standing on an empty road all by myself.
The sun is shining brightly.
And the clock that's never wrong says it's 12.
Then I wonder to myself. "Is it noon"
"or midnight?"
Choi Yong Suk
had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
They were sleeping.
There were witnesses.
They said he was sleeping, suddenly woke up, and jumped.
There's a good chance Park Kyu Tae was asleep too.
Baek Seung Jae When I saw him briefly,
he was very sleepy from drugs, alcohol, or something.
Choi Yong Suk
had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
(Kim Yoon Ji, jumped to her death)
(Case Report)
(Attachment)
(Forewarned murders)
("Fourth Forewarned Murder! Struck by a Train in Jangi-dong")
("4th Forewarned Murder: Professor With History of Sexual Harassment")
How did he know?
(Case Report)
(Victim attempted to sexually assault a woman)
(Wife states he received therapy, but it has not been confirmed.)
That hurts.
Stay still.
My arm hurts.
A therapist's office would not be here.
Then how did he
Choi Yong Suk had just completed hypnotherapy,
so it's like he had just woken up.
What made him conclude that he had just left
from a hypnotherapy session?
Wait! Hold up.
There. Someone passed by the window just now.
Where? Which window?
Third floor.
Third floor?
- Did your eyesight get bad? - Just look.
What do you mean someone passed by?
- Someone really did pass by. - There.
Someone did pass by. Here.
Can you make it clearer?
Hold on.
(Baek Seung Jae, Choi Yong Suk)
The only person who can be sure that Choi Yong Suk had just left
from a hypnotherapy session
Given the current situation,
only the killer would know.
Got it.
Wait. Is this what you were looking for?
No.
Much more.
We've caught the killer.
And
premonitions are never wrong.
(Thank you, Ju Seok Tae, for the special appearance.)
(Awaken)
How reliable is this information?
Lee Ji Wook really did catch him.
He did find it.
Using the police to catch the police.
Do you suspect Captain Do?
I don't think Superintendent Do seems to be in danger.
He seems dangerous.
Come to me quickly.
The children who survived not only hid from the foundation,
but now, they're attacking us.
What are you hiding?
You knew something, didn't you?
That must mean I'm the killer.
.