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They also seem to keep their age difference in the drama FL is 28 and ML is supposed to be in his mid-30s around 35/36 so they are their ages. Also on that note Mr Ju's actor is only a little older than ML in his early 40s but has a natural regular look so looks ambiguously middle-aged in general but definitely not old to eb the father of two 28 years olds😅

The way I took the scene seemed to imply the best friend is another one caught up in a string of misunderstandings. When she called Mi-jin asked were you calling to order food so I took that to mean she was trying to set them up again by calling her to talk things out under her supervision(in her flashback she did try to reason with Mi-jin about the missed calls, the headbutt reason and trying direct communication by asking him if he liked her or telling him she liked him but got brushed off). Maybe. Anyway she didn't know Mi-jin was out and interprets her call as talking about spending the night with another man and she even comments how she is going hard at it now thats shes started a dating life after not having had one. Best friend has no context about Mi-jin's situation at that moment nor that FL is with her celeb crush. She is also wondering if the ML is a stoic who interpreted the kiss as harassment and teases him about being worried about the guy Mi-jin is with. I doubt she had planned out what to say to him and so she ends up with that story to make it seem like Mi-jin is innocent like a puppy when she kissed him when drunk as in maybe, like, she'd kiss anything even her or the cactus and also maybe to create some room for a save(in case the new guy is Mi-jin's new date proper?) about why Mi-jin is spending the night with some guy after the failed kiss(we might hear the friend's real reason later going forward) but created even more misunderstanding in that direction.

On the one hand this kdrama has been reminding me a lot of BYT too, but on the other hand this ML so far is thankfully not like that ml but the other half of that sml Seon-woo with his backstory, FL crushing on him and is mostly a green flag with mom issues while having only a bit of ml Mun Jang-yeol's tsunderity, 1% of the rogue law enforcement vibe and action mode. Jang-yeol was Lassiter incarnate(with a poorly fleshed out blank storyline considering he was ML) and had Lassiter and Shawn's enmity/tsundere chemistry(from the show Psych) going with the FL which here the ML has with his investigator. From the interviews and talks I have read about BYT, the initial ambiguity and tease of their relation made sense since everyone from writer to the actors said while they were meant to have a strong partner chemistry from the start, but the actual FL-ML romance was added in at the last minute. But here the first few episodes established how FL wound up with a crush on ML and showed the ML warming up to her and establishing trust slowly saying tell me when you want to and th SML met her through her transformed self instead like Min-hyuk. I don't care that much about romances and taking strict sides in a love triangle and here both the guys are okay. The only commonality with Seon-woo as typical SML is being the perfect konminam who represents a seeming pure love as a foil(so ending in martyrdom to complete that pure love is a big fear and possibility indeed) to incite the tsundere ML's jealousy. Also, comments in most places have the same love/hate polarity like they had for Jang-yeol for narrative choices that the show didn't intend as morally wrong perspective(I still don't get what the writers were thinking with certain things in BYT though. That KDrama gave me some PTSD especially from the last 3 epsiodes). Overall I feel there are more similarities here to Strong Woman Do Bong Soon like the shifts in perspective and all the misunderstandings and missed moments.

I like the parents, inspector Ju, Lim Soon the great, the mountain man, half the interns...this being from the director of Strong Woman Do Bong Soon explained a lot about the parents. Lim Soon persona has grown on me too much and I don't want her presence to end. But thats where I can't wrap my head around what or how they'll do it. Mi-jin is essentially committing identity fraud of someone missing, of all things while working in the prosecution. If say the aunt really was the victim of a crime then fake Lim Soon has to go and the crime should ideally get a resolution, which...the prosecution she works at would deal with and since the case is assigned, the very unit she is assigned to will deal with the case and cover up for her also because the missing person's case is the prosecutor's mission.

Since the real law has not been too strict from the start theres leeways and KDramas usually have a way of resolving themselves in mysterious ways anyway. I like the cat theory or maybe aunty really did run away from the killer? Maybe even the prosecutor's mom isn't dead. What we have learned so far is that the mom was possibly a witness to something that happened near the bank, someone went missing or ran away and the aunt worked in the bank. Their cases on the surface have no similarity to the case of serial disappearance of women. Mi-jin's dad and her friend's dad(who is the agent for that haunted building) talked of some past incident of theirs at the Kwak coffehouse dabang which might be connected with the ML's mom since it was Kwak madam who told the policeman to talk to her about what she witnessed. Her case explained a lot about the ML's initial irregularity with law enforcement regarding his "witness". I wouldn't be surprised if intern Na Ok-hui was connected to the coffehouse and all the interns were related to the missing persons case. And maybe the prosecutor's unknown father is relevant instead of irrelevant.

Also how the woman we saw running from the killer and the missing intern died is a mystery. The doctors whole thing I'm not too sure about- he seems to wield far too much power. Like the prison seemed shadily under his command, the implication that the acid attack was planned like chess, and how he called someone in the NFS before the report on the missing intern's alleged body was declared. But then how will they get any results if it gets manipulated? The hospital basement is weird and maybe its not serial killing related? Are there really more bodies in the reservoir and the well?

Yeah. When Yeon-ho was telling Jung-wook and the lawyer he said DNA *and fibers matched so I screencapped the report part and put it in translator from then kept wondering, wait, when did they collect his dna sample and clothing to compare? 🤔

Theres a lot of KDrama logic here and there so things just are what they are because they are I guess... In that forensic report it mentions blood, DNA and clothing fiber from both Pyo Jung-wook and the on-the-run driver. So it seems he not just gave his DNA for analysis but his correct clothes to the NFS as well offscreen? Pyo Jung-wook is arrogant enough to think he would not be prosecuted despite evidence due to his covering up for years so he may as well have. He was a suspect in the unlicensed taxi case of the past due to which Chae-man reasoned that he must have been the driver and used a scapegoat(presumably this wasn't his first?) he must be approached as a witness first.

I think it was a deleted scene in ep 11 which they've released as a special clip

Quite liked it. For now I see it as an open ending with sense of completion but also a possibility of continuation. The new case was good and got TCI team the praise they deserved and showed them continuing to work as a team after their biggest case saw them separated for a year. Lee Tae-joo continuing the cycle of the ambitious corrupt ones who think they can get away with it all. Chief Gu going "you all are mean"😂 he is the best! Jung Chae-man's story got me really emotional and it is the shadow over him that keeps him going with his TCI. His speech also highlights the complexity this series has presented- how traffic accidents and crimes aren't always as simple and clear cut the way people are used to thinking of all such incidents. And even though they have taken a step forward Yeon-ho and Jung-sub have a sense of pathos that still said it is a deep scar in their lives even with the actual criminals getting punished.

This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwpLr68ilgo

The accident scene confuses me no end with all the variations. When the ep1 grandma accident and it's reconstruction scene were happening theres slight differences between the actual and when Yeon-ho and So-hee visualize it. Yeon-ho's memory of the pristine Hyun-soo being taken away is his guilt. His recent recall is based on all he sensed while he was fading in and out of conciousness(he had a broken leg too). In most of the scenes its his car that swerves to avoid the black car then takes a sudden right turn around the black car now on the left into the intersection with the couple in his car's way before hitting the parked vehicle after which the couple and the handbag fallen are shown. In his bedroom he has a reconstruction diagram similar to it but too blurry to be clear about- a black car coming from the opposite direction crossed the centreline. So they couldn't have hit the couple first. If they thought they hit someone was it instead Yeon-ho's car which caused it to lose control and turn or such? Or was the intial scene showing the couple crossing at the zebra crossing faulty? Its too confusing with too many versions. The cold murder part over her having seen them and heard Pyo's name is the only clear thing. But who caused the husband to lose his leg? He had photos of Yeon-ho too on his wall and to his face at least he truly believed Yeon-ho was on their side. Also for a NFS tech he made forensic errors. Some were because of the vigilante feeling of the law being futile anyway. Any evidence he has processed would normally jeopardize case related to his targets which include So-hee's dad's case the only real evidence. Also why did they discard the evidence at the beginning of the year instead of till the month it expires or I don't know the time thing in Korea. Further they knew he lost his leg but Chae-man not knowing the husband looks like nor Yeon-ho who visits the grave where theres a photo with the husband hidden behind flowers was it explained?

Oh theres only 2 episodes left now. Need more epic car chases and weird gang cases. They're a great teams- insane coordination and drving skills! I'm hoping we do finally get to see about Chae-man's wife's hit and run too. Theres something about him still mysterious. Adding in So-hee's dad that makes three police officers and family who suffered directly or indirectly due to the same lot.

I think So Hee contacted him after seeing the message on what looks like the police's open comment forum and everyone in the station have found out probably going by next week's preview

Maybe. I mean I am in two minds about a lot of things we are given hints about, more since trailers often mix unrelated scenes up to misdirect. I guess its also wishful thinking since I like the direction that he was involved in an accident but if they were involved it feels so heavy. I guess I also felt telling Yeon-ho to stop coming to her grave was harsh for a "move on with your life" speech even if its for his good and why I thought they may not have married when she died, fiance or girlfriend. But that makes me think of Nam Se-hee in a Partners for Justice scenario(which was weird) except in that both the ML and his girlfriend were in the car when they crashed. The preview's translated subtitles say a couple died in an accident and the date is the same but there is something more and possibly other connected cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorTyE1KWIU

Yeon-ho is most likely not the big boss's son Cha Yeon-ho who they think he is and I can't wait to see the reaction of the Chief when he realises. First I was thinking the person Cha Yeon-ho casued to die in an accident was his girlfriend but I have second thoughts. In the preview the translated subtitles said a newlywed couple was killed so maybe he was aquainted with the wife is why he is remembering only her? Yeon-ho is still investigating the accident on his own and maybe that newspaper cutting was not his case? From what we saw of Jae-man's reaction, maybe he caused Jae-man's wife's death? Or maybe Jae-man was her brother. Or the investigator? Jae-man's pathos and drinking imply maybe he did lose his family in another connected major plot because he started thisdepartment for some reason? Hope it doesn't get too convoluted. The two of them are connected in someway. Mysterious how they barely interacted and avoided each other.

I liked these two episodes. It has a regular old investigative drama feel and the underdog main team each have their charm and are quite funny. Pacing is quite fast but then its only 12 episodes. I was worried about Lee Min-ki ever since I saw the trailers but so far his character's quirkiness is good.

Someone say Disney+/Hulu