Shin's Project Episode 3

How Mr. Shin works

The episode begins with a scene from 15 years ago. Shin is banging on the glass asking a man with vacant eyes why he did what he did. He is then at home in fetal position on the floor and Judge Kim is with him trying to rouse him from this state. It then skips to present where Philip is questioning the Judge about Shin. His observations aren’t helping him because he is completely lost and flustered trying to figure it out. Philip is very linear in thinking. Good is good, bad is bad and anything outside the box is alien to him. His brain hurts trying to comprehend how Shin does what he does. The judge makes a very astute observation for him. It is not how Shin moves, but how he makes the opponents move. He is a master of spinning his observations to both understand the situation and how to get the parties to a place of understanding. Judge Kim chuckles as his top aide leaves in total confusion when he told Philip to ask directly to learn. Both actors do an excellent job portraying the mentor/student scene. He talks himself in with Lee and the hostage and evaluates the situation. He knows the mayor is hungry and that Lee would respond better with comfort food so he orders ox tail soup. His reaction to plastic containers leaves you grinning because it is such an unexpected complaint. He chides his former student for not following his training better. He walks back annoyed with their lack of courtesy and next time soup arrives in clay pots like it’s supposed to. Shin has added Philip to the group by having him be the phone link for him. They know they are working with an ammonium nitrate bomb and that there is a separate detonator that works aside from the timer. Hacker Kim is very like Judge Kim. 😂 He brought the complaints to Shin to negotiate knowing the circumstances. Lee had tried every legal way possible to get justice for his brother and money and power kept it hidden. The location was approved illegally because it endangered water supply. All the environmental tests were also falsified. The law worked in their favor making the environmental things past their statute of limitations. However, Kim the hacker found evidence of the payoffs which still could be prosecuted. Shin called in his team to get Lee and mom safely to new location with new names. His student smiled when he saw them knowing there was no way Shin would give up on saving everybody. Shin used the remote to distract first responders in area and get Lee out. It was an impressive plan created in half a day. Philip saying Kim could be a good hacker🤣 He has no clue who he is working with. I am wondering how much he will know by the end of drama. We learn of the incident that changed everyone 15 years ago. Two children were held hostage and Shin only knew of the one. He received calls of the other but ignored because he was saving a child and keeping everybody alive. The most sorrowful irony is that the other hostage was his son. The great negotiator renowned for saving everybody in hostage situations failed his family. This broke them all. The woman who saved Lee mother and son was the woman he helped then. Shin kicks Philip out and sees he forgot some textbooks. As he goes out to give them to Philip, his former student enters. At heart he agreed with his mentor, but as an officer of the law he had to be against it. I can’t blame Shin for his choice. There was no reason to assume the law would take care of them now after failing so consistently prior. Shin made sure no parent on his watch would share his pain. His student couldn’t argue with this. They will have to agree to disagree at how things ended. There is a man in the shadows disguised and looking for Shin as the episode ends. This drama did an excellent job making you understand his pain and sorrow. It gives it in spoonfuls so it is bearable. We are now seeing how this child’s death destroyed a family and broke the spirit of a legal team. One victory at a time they are healing and learning to face the day with more hope. It is now more clear why he is both annoyed and pleased with the two young people around him. They are becoming his family as well as his team.

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