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 Kim Hee Soo:

I think the detective's wife's case was just a tool to show how much of a good detective he is (too good that his enemies killed his wife on his wedding day in front of him) and that his anger issues that lead him to be demoted to serving a "rural" town is sort of proof that no matter where he is, he will doggedly find the truth and be meticulous about it.

I think the ML will live (and his mother too! I hope they get to peacefully live out their lives together) and the rest of them in the village get their just deserts including Su Oh! I was actually shocked he was the one who dragged her back to his home and not Deok Mi.

As for ML and Detective and Ha Seol, I think they will still be friends but that's about it.

His brain works very differently than anyone else's (around him). He was in love with her, didn't have any idea what that big feeling was, and then he decided to believe she'll just be "alive" like the Snow White she was supposed to portray in the drama their school was preparing (in-novel) if he only kept her body safe. And then she'll wake up some day. 

He is presented as pretty highly functional, but that doesn't mean he actually is that highly functional. In-novel, he's also been treated completely wrong for at least a decade, in order to make sure he doesn't remember what he saw. Him hiding the body isn't even the worst. (He sees her as how she looked when she was alive, but that's not what the other people will see when they finally find her.)

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 Architectofnonsence:

The male lead will live at the end right ?? does his friendship continues with the detective ?

I thought the detective's wife's case would be opened and they would investigate it but that didn't happen in the drama ? did it happen in the novel ?

He lives (in-novel he's hurt again and his new friend - in-drama Ha Seol - is next to him when he wakes up in the hospital (again).  But everything is solved, including a huge inheritance thing that's a lot of the culprits' motivations in-novel but absent from the drama. His mother also wakes up. 

In-novel, there were two detectives, not one, and the male detective was about to go through a divorce. The female detective did most of the work. So unfortunately there's no NSC. But his character works way better for a kdrama anyway, and there's no unneeded romantic angle as it would be if they had used a female detective instead. It all works out.

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 ShortCircuit:

He lives (in-novel he's hurt again and his new friend - in-drama Ha Seol - is next to him when he wakes up in the hospital (again).  But everything is solved, including a huge inheritance thing that's a lot of the culprits' motivations in-novel but absent from the drama. His mother also wakes up. 

In-novel, there were two detectives, not one, and the male detective was about to go through a divorce. The female detective did most of the work. So unfortunately there's no NSC. But his character works way better for a kdrama anyway, and there's no unneeded romantic angle as it would be if they had used a female detective instead. It all works out.

I can't put together how both murderers happened at the same warehouse and on the same night and they were entirely diffirent from each other in every detail but that psycho female lead witnessed them both or may be I missed something 

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 Architectofnonsence:

I can't put together how both murderers happened at the same warehouse and on the same night and they were entirely diffirent from each other in every detail but that psycho female lead witnessed them both or may be I missed something 

So... there was supposed to be a festival that night in the village (in the drama, they're about to get plastered because they just finished highschool.) Everybody was in the village center, then (in-novel) GJW saw NaDeun leaving with someone else, told the others he was going home, got drunk and passed out. 

The barn was where they could all go and drink, because they couldn't go to someone else's houses (the other boys and the girls). (IN) SuOh was already hiding close to the barn (not inside) but could see everything, (IN) NaGyeom was also hiding there, mad that GJW was heartbroken over NaDeun. So they too got drunk, got mad at (IN) GJW for ditching them, BoYeong insulted them and rubbed their noses into how little they were compared to GJW, so they raped her while (IN) GeonOh had left to get more alcohol, then when he returned, she was trying to flee, got scared of him and fell, hit her head and they thought she was dead. Then NaGyeom told them to hide the body, THEY (not the parents) carried BY to an old oil tank, closed the trap door on her (she was awake and begging to be let out by then) and ran home. They told their parents and the parents went there and buried the trap door under dirt in order to stop the boys from returning and getting her out, in case they got remorseful.

At this time, before NaGyeom could leave, NaDeun and her lover (he's a teacher at the time, a politician later, the drama did it differently) got to the barn, since she knew it was a safe place to hide and thought the rest of the gang would be in GJW's home, drinking. She was killed pretty much as the drama has shown, then the killer fled, NaGyeom took the weapon and went to leave it at his door, and poor SuOh was left there, nobody wiser to his presence. He could only do what his shocked system could think of - he took NaDeun's body to hide until she'd come alive, or whatever he was thinking. 

And then (IN) GJW became the designated killer of two girls because it was just so convenient to cover everyone else's sins. 

So you see... a game of coincidences, for a bit.

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Architectofnonsence

I think the drama cut too many scenes from the Novel that made this sequence of events confusing 

it's like the whole village was there committing crimes and the only one in the village sleeping is the poor guy who took the blame for everything everyone else did LOL

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ShortCircuit

Not really, IMHO. The novel is written in a kind of dry style, it's the 4th or 5th in a longer series (I don't know if more of that series was ever TLed into English, I only read this one). Nele Neuhaus' style isn't really my style of preferred mysteries (I like more of Anne Perry's style, kind of), but then she's German. Maybe the tone was lost in translation, who knows. 

IMHO the drama did better to focus on the wronged victim of the whole conspiracy (the novel is a very methodical introduction and use of characters, settings, events, without much left to the imagination, and that doesn't really make a great thriller/mystery). It feels more like a police procedural WITHOUT presenting a lot of procedures, LOL. 

Obviously they couldn't keep the whole story and had to adapt it to a SK culture set, so things were definitely changed. But it does make a lot of sense as it is, and I, at least, like the drama better than I liked the book.

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Kim Hee Soo

I haven't read the novel and I think that's a good thing. I took everything at face value and both murders happening at the same time made sense to me.

The barn was very much the place the kids hung out in to be far away from everyone and be themselves. There was no mention of a festival that night, just that it was the day after their big exam. It was very much established that the place is their "safe haven", there were some flashbacks on how the barn was used (by the kids) before the murders so it is kind of natural it's the place they go to celebrate and for Da Eun to be (since she thought everyone was at Jeong Woo's place drinking).

The way the story played out and kept it with just one male detective who has anger management issues (as a result of him blaming himself for his wife's death) and a desperate guy who wants to find the truth was marvelous!

How everyone found closure at the end was also such a relief! The detective accepting who he is, his father-in-law finally allowing him to be "reckless" in his job, the young intern who found the courage and stood up for justice for the dead appendectomy victim, and that last scene with Geon Oh by the beach, while heart-wrenching was truly a masterpiece.

I have to say whoever did the casting is a genius! Each one was perfect for the role even right down to the secretary of the lady governor.

Thank you Blackout for showing me that sometimes the people closest to you are the deadliest and if you try hard enough and are earnest in your pursuit, unlikely allies will be there to help you out of the rut.

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