The Bad Bone

Yes, that scene was in the 2nd episode, I think. CEO yoon’s man said that "Didn’t doctor promise us to work directly if we kidnapped and drugged JJK? Why is this guy still in the middle?" So that was the deal. Then he added "Why does doctor hate JJK that much to do smt like this to the guy?" This one of the most direct things that is said about the doctor. That is why I clearly remember it.
It might be because hinder and slow down JJK and basically torture him. But I also think doctor wants him to continue the investigation otherwise he would send JJK’s video to police and end his career. So doctor might also want him to chase TJ and the gang to get rid of them too.

Sang hui is definitely deeply involved in this. He produces the drugs and was very close to Junseo. But to me, the missing link is: what would his issue be with JJK? Because whoever the doctor is, he HAS an issue with JJK. Remember JJK is kidnapped around the same time with JS death and doctor promise ceo yoon to do business directly with her if she kidnapped JJK and make him an addict. So doctor had a plan about JJK, why? Let’s say the Tj gang killed SJ, it means doctor had another plan which involves JJK. I think answer is in the past, we still didn’t see completely what happed in the past, we don’t know what happened to Kyung Tae and kyu min. Sang hui might be involved in a way we haven’t seen yet.

I am very doubtful about Jong Soo tbh because he is very dependent on Taejin and Chihyeon (also Junseo too until his death) Since childhood, TJ thinks for him, CH and JS acts for him. So I don’t think he can do smt like this on his own. About his father, he is very capable of doing any evil, he might do more than they show us so that option is more possible imo. Though I still think doctor’s involvement in all of these is more personal than drug trafficking and money.

New stills are up and the trio is in deep conversation. They better tell him the truth why Yunjin is wearing a neck brace because TJ will not let this go easily. Some JJK scolding is miles better than death😅
https://x.com/sbsnow/status/1806493208874254699?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig

Some insight from Ji Sung about his character:
https://x.com/yohannoir/status/1805478225981980971?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig
Oh, he will be MAD MAD MAD after he learns what she did🙃

With dramas like these, some viewers might wait the end to give a rating. And some waits to end to watch it as a whole. The rating will definitely rise if the series end on a high note with a strong finish, imo. Word of mouth can make more people to watch it, I already have seen on social media that many people have started it ;)

The portrayal of parents in this series is interesting. JJK seems to be the only child. His mother is dead, we don’t know when she died. Had a stepfather (?) who was a teacher in the same school, their relationship seemed bad, probably got worse after he was expelled from school. I don’t remember the details but I think YJ’s family has also problems? TJ’s family were poor and struggled with debts. JS’s daughter died. YJ’s daughter is away. The only parent we see in the series is Jongsoo’s father who is literally the worst. And except YJ, the only mother figure is the carrier kid’s grandma…😅😅

In that scene I was curious if JJK knew that they broke up when he left? It seemed like he didn’t know… That long look between them was very loaded.

Imo, the best way to make Yujin cares about him to get her daughter back and Joo Song doesn’t seem to do anything about it. So far, Yujin is doing everything dangerous to get the money, he is trying to stop her. And why make JJK an addict instead of get rid of him completely? If anything, Yujin has started to care more about JJK now, they are getting closer because of his addiction.

Oh well… Where to start with this MESS😅
-Chang Soo, wtf! how far he went down with drug dealers? JJK will definitely not let that go and pressure him about this. But can he do smt about it when he will learn that guy was the one who drugged him?
-The drug dealer guy shot ceo yoon with JJK’s gun and in police report it will come out if JJK cannot do smt about it. He should have reported he lost his gun with an excuse but well, one bullet gone, one left in the gun. This will connect somewhat to the story probably so let’s see…
-Sang Eui is a chemist no? He is involved in this, deeply. In 8th episode, JJK asked him what is his purpose? To stand by and watch other guys walk over him to do all the crimes? SE just looked at him and said JJK is the detective, it is his job to figure out. Again in 8th episode, in the elevator, he told JJK that JJK doesn’t know JS at all because of 20 years past between them. So JJK cannot know what JS was thinking. I felt like those scenes were really important but maybe I am looking to detailed idk. I think SE was JS’s current best friend and he knows him the most.
-So let’s say SE took part in producing these pills, Junseo sells it together with doctor because he needs more money for his daughter. The gang was involved to make things easier and have own gains, also Jongsoo is an addict. Then his daughter died and all of these things became meaningless for JS so he wanted to stop. He called the gang to meet so he could tell all the dirty secrets (because everyone in the gang has some which JS knows but others don’t, such as TJ’s affair with her wife, the murder of chemist guy) and done with it but someone killed him to shut him up?
-Junseo is like a closet that keeps everyone’s dirty secrets, I wouldn’t blame the guy if he jumped from the building tbh. He was not suicidal but he probably knew he would die, otherwise why prepare all the insurance and left money to your 2 friends? He kept saying he wanted to fix things, now I think he meant more than just making up with JJK.
-JJK said, the gang did the same thing in 20 years ago, they hide Kyung Tae’s death. They manipulated the situation to get out of it. We still haven’t see the whole incident in 2005 and KT dead body but let’s assume there are two deaths, KT and JS. Both their friends, both died suspiciously and the gang were in the scene… I think instead of focusing the gang, we can focus who is harmed because of them. I think Kyumin, Sangeui and Junseo might be a team to work against the gang to ruin them.
-But things get messy about JJK’s addition, why would they do it? Just to use him as a tool and make him an addict to control him? Ceo yoon made a deal with doctor that if she kidnapped JJK to drugged him, he would work with her directly. This fits with leaving JJK in the station so he can catch Jinwook but making JJK an addict is the only way to do that? And doctor still sends him the pills. An earlier episode (2?) I remember that ceo yoon’s man asked "why would doctor hate JJK that much to do that?" I still think doctor’s issue with JJK is more personal. He wants him to suffer for some reason, idk.
-there are some guess about Joo Song would be the doctor. He might be but so far his only motivation seems to be YJ? It might fit with doctor’s personal issues with JJK but is that enough to kill YJ’s short time date years ago and make the other friend an addict? And what does he have on JJK to hate him that much? It would make sense only if he knew YJ was in love with JJK or smt. So he resent the guy she dated and the guy she loved but this is highly unlikely imo. He would go after her asshole husband and get her daughter first. There should be more to get into this much trouble. And I just want him to stay as supportive friend for both YJ and JJK🥲
-so what is the password? 1882? One chance left to guess the right password. YJ used her chance, JJK haven’t…

Yeah, I think so too. Do you remember the scene when YJ told JJK about it? JJK asked her if she liked JS to date him and she thought long and hard about it and I was like… Girl, you would KNOW immediately if you really liked him romantically 😅 Maybe she wanted to see JJK’s reaction to it. I hope we can learn more about all of that because JJK left, YJ moved on but apparently JS didn’t.

Yeah, she brings out a lighter and softer side of him. Same with their phone call in ep 9. She checked on him when he took the suppressants, you can see that he likes it.

Before getting into the real mess, let’s talk about Yunjin… She has her own agenda in all of these mess and she hide things from JJK before, at first she didn’t told him that Junseo visited him personally that night. Or she initially didn’t told him JS’s wife meetings with Taejin etc. But she told him eventually. She is mostly following the news with journalist instinct. If anything, she is very indifferent about JS not JJK. She is in this mainly for the insurance money, I remember she told the wife to accept the autopsy when she learned JS left money to her and she cannot get it if he committed suicide. I mean…?
But we need to keep in mind that JS and his death mean different things for YJ and JJK. For YJ, he is a high school friend that she dated for a while then kept in touch time to time, now he is dead and left her huge money which she can use to bring her daughter back, that is it. And they broke up after JJK left who was apparently the glue that stick them together. This case is not as personal for her as JJK. She is after the money for her daughter. And JJK knows this, he asked to Joo Song at the funeral "how does she become such a materialist?" then Joo Song told him about her daughter etc. So he knows that she wants to get the money and he still trust her.
She probably thinks JJK will catch Tj and solve the case anyway so why not get the money if she can. She deeply cares about JJK imo but her daughter is priority. She played a gamble, she lost and was nearly losing her life because of it. When JJK learned that she was following TJ, he was more worried about her safety than the news and he was right, Tj was going to kill her. And he will be MAD when he learns this so she will get her scolding from him because TJ might come after her now. She knows too much.
JJK shot a criminal who surrendered just for the revenge and lied to police department about it. He drank his own blood to hide his addiction for god sake. Main leads are doing questionable things in desperate situations because they are not ideal but human which I really like. He also used her to get the suppressants from the doctor so… match made in heaven!😆😆
My red flag about her would be JJK addiction. This is the most personal thing he shares with her. She is the only one he shared in his own will, asked help and let her come closer more than anyone. If she used this information for her gain in any way, that would be a big NOPE but she hasn’t so far. She could have left when she learned he is an addict but stayed for help, keeps an eye on him and he lets her. JJK is a very closed off character who avoids opening up but he is being vulnerable with her. That is more important than the news she hides imo because she is the only one he has now. Who else he has?
What she said about dating was a dig to change the subject and distract JJK and he knows this. And it is interesting she knows or guesses that he hasn’t dated much :)

I haven’t watched the last two episodes yet so idk what happened but in general, there are so many unspoken things and emotions accumulated between them, a bit push and pull is normal imo. Until 9th episode, Yunjin was trying to help him. They have changed so much in 20 years and now they are trying to rebuild their relationship. But they need to be brutally honest to each other to do that, not sure if the story will go there though…

JJK’s soundtrack of his life atm is definitely Connection from The Rolling Stones
"Everything is going in the wrong direction
The doctor wants to give me more injection"
🥲😅

I binge watched this until the last episode and my mind is all over the place with all the characters, storylines and puzzles so I might forget some details but here are my thoughts and speculations so far.
With these kind of crime stories, generally there are 3 options for main bad guy:
1. someone who seems good turns into bad
2. someone who is suspected but their plans and motives aren’t shown to us completely
3. Someone who is totally unknown or doesn’t introduced to the audience (or at least not in the main or supporting roles.)
1. First option can be tricky because if you don’t write the motives and development of this character, then it looks easy and cheap and it ruined the whole story. For a story like Mouse, it worked because the storyline built it before the reveal. I don’t see this in Connection so far. So for example, if the bad guy will be Joosong, there should be a REALLY good build up for that, i personally haven’t see anything so far and we finished the 8th episode.
2. For second option, the biggest suspect is Tae Jin and yes, it is too obvious but He is the mastermind of the gang. Intelligent, manipulative and ambitious. If he sleeps with Junseo’s wife to get the password, he can do anything and in the crime scene, he lead everyone, decided everything so if he planned the murder, it would be very easy to handle it imo and I felt like he might have another hidden connection with Yoonho who was not in the crime scene with them that night but he seemed too involved and panicked to be completely out of it. And thinking how easily Yoonho urges to kill people, it wouldn’t be hard to lead him to kill somebody, especially for a master manipulator like TJ. I feel like there is more about them than they have told us so far.
3. Doctor would be the most obvious option here. That person is the one who draws JJK in all this mess, planned his kidnapping with CEO Yoon to make him an addict. (There should be a good motive to turn him into a junkie. It would be too cheap if they did it for fun imo) This is that character’s game and they played it like a chess so far. I don’t think any character we have seen has such a deep hatred for JJK (or has an issue with Junseo) or they hide it really well. The gang hates JJK but we have seen their actions to stop him and like I said, the only smart one in the gang to handle such a scheme is Tae Jin imo. Doctor’s ways are more sinister and more effective. Also, the gang seem not to know JJK’s addiction. I don’t remember every detail about Che Kyung Tae, their high school friend who was very problematic apparently and cause lots of problems but we don’t have that much about him yet. He is mentioned here and there but never fully revealed. So I felt like doctor might be connected with him idk.
And it doesn’t even have to be one person, there might be another group behind it as "the doctor" that will be revealed later. Whoever they are, Junseo was involved with them deeply and somehow it is connected with his problems with JJK. One thing is certain imo, Junseo wanted to fix his past mistakes, doctor doesn’t want this and prevented it somehow and made JJK an addict to make it worse. Why would he be so desperate to fix his relationship with JJK who becomes an addict around the time he died suddenly?

So far, I liked that the story seems to go with intent, that is why I hope they will not drop a Deus ex machina in the last episode to reveal the bad guy out of blue. Instead, there will be a logical storyline behind it… hopefully.

Lastly, I know there wouldn’t be much romantic content in this genre so I don’t think there will be any serious development between Yun Jin and JJK, but it seemed that both younger and older YJ seems more interested in JJK than Junseo. Tbh….Junseo also seemed more interested in JJK than YJ😅 So I am not sure what was the dating thing about? Was it just a high school fling or more connection in there? I thought he left money to both because he thought he ruined their life? Or bring them together? I don’t know if they will focus on this side more or leave it vague as an open ending.

A few days ago Rowoon and Seoham were seen at a cafe in Gunsan so fans assume the shooting has started.
https://x.com/syrlovuu/status/1789547290132451830?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig

And it is a huge production! But according to the news, this will broadcast in 2025 autumn, 1,5 half year later. I hope he takes another job that will be released sooner until then.

Here are some links;
https://x.com/loftsedfaun/status/1778103302053585169?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig
https://x.com/loftsedfaun/status/1778317247423107390?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig
https://x.com/kdramahandle/status/1778591426668040541?s=61&t=vFOxkyd65t281n-w2C1Dig
https://www.joynews24.com/view/1709587

You are welcome :) Yes! They also have an award winning director. It looks like a big production!