Shin's Project Episode 4

How Mr. Shin deals with shades of gray

The episode starts with an adorable scene of a young boy negotiating with Shin for lesson on winning claw machine. 🥰 Shin has met his match as the prize is not relinquished til the slime is traded. Then the delivery of sage advice from the boy before he leaves. 😂 The scene shifts to Philip overhearing the discussion between Shin and colleague about how Shin masterfully snuck Lee and mom out while taking the hit he failed to keep everybody safe. Philip is disappointed in his boss because he sees this as cheating and illegal activity by one who should be teaching him the law. His natural judge self runs through the stats of the crimes and punishments Shin is guilty of even as he preps to see Si On. There are scenes of his imagined coolness on a motorbike interrupted by the harsh reality of Si On telling him her grandmother drives better.😂 Shin has another adorable scene with a young child. This time it is Si On’s little sister who gets the prize duck from claw machine and asks Shin to help her sister with a bully. Si On is getting stitches in her arm but has not discussed the injury with anybody and instead doing her best to keep it secret. That cute pinky swear with Shin and Ye On to help her big sis and take care of the bad guy. 🥰 There is an older gentleman in shop who is overseeing Shin’s management of the chicken shop. Philip looks up the guy and finds out he is a corporate billionaire wanting Shin to get sweet rice flour. Philip’s head is spinning trying to figure out who Shin really is. He and Shin are having lunch at Pluto’s and find out about the customer harassing Si On. He’s the politician’s son and a royal ass who manhandled Shin and caused her injuries. He is also the school bully most likely responsible for Si On dropping out of school. Philip, as usual, can list off the crimes and punishments for the assaults. Officer Choi is finally promoted to detective and gets back to old stomping grounds. He gets his file box of the case where Shin’s son was killed and a hidden notebook he had stashed trying to determine the mastermind behind it. He is still haunted by the case 15 years later. The thug has had another place a delivery call and Si On finds herself dealing with him again. This time however, Philip shows up and Si On is surprised the nerdy guy has some martial arts skills. She is impressed but won’t admit it. Philip chooses to follow her advice and he doesn’t go for the money as planned but he ends up getting hit on the head and wakes up in the trunk of a car. Shin and Si On get there just in time to keep him from being flattened as scrap metal. Shin pays the thug a visit and gets his voice recorded and plots something with hacker Kim. Philip’s smile when Si On tells him he is better suited to be a judge than delivery guy.🥰 Shin visits to thank the one who helped him get passports for Lee and mom. He shows her a pic of the odd guy in his shop and told her he had a pic of her daughter on phone. She panics as she knows it is her daughter’s father and he is still looking for her 15 years later. Philip is so close to a first date with Si On and Shin calls to trash his dinner plans. 😝🙄 They plan how to deal with thug and then decide the best way is to go through his father’s political plans. Shin goes and has a chat with the dad, while his son chooses another plan, to burn Si In’s bike. He is pleased with his destruction but is stunned to see Philip alive and well monitoring the fire. Things are heating up for Shin and company, literally. This drama keeps a good pace and has a complex storyline. The flashbacks add to the current chain of events and fills in the gaps as to who and why things are going down the way they are. I am enjoying the music as well. It is a good watch as we all wonder…who is Mr Shin the great negotiator? How does he have the connections he does? And why do they let him do the things he does when it’s gray and not particularly legal?

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