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Them making it seem like everything was resolved, and that we know everything only to reveal more, and doing the same thing again and again was the best part for me, it was like being in a roller coaster, and I enjoyed the ride.

A killer who is a psychopath or a killer who hates socitey are too general to be considered cliches, but a killer who is a wealthy man in power, who can control the police, doesn't value anyone but himself, and has a good son who happened to be one of the main leads is a quite specific description, and if you have seen many KDramas, this is the go-to type of killers most writers think of when they want to wrap up the drama. I like this drama and I enjoyed it so far, but I can't say it's perfect, there are many plot holes and few overdone scenarios, so saying it's a perfect masterpiece would be an overstatement. Criticizing some parts of the drama doesn't mean it's bad or that it has bad writers.

True, that's why I'm only a little disappointed.

I'm a bit disappointed that the reveal was quite cliched.
A fake limp? Villains with power? Villains with money? Villains played by actors who usually play villains? A villain with a relationship to a main lead? A mentally ill scapegoat with an overprotective mother? A CEO of a construction company hiding a body during construction? An inside-man in the police office?
I was rooting for a shocking twist, but the writers went with the obvious.

They don't have to, I skip a lot of dramas I was excited about their plot just because I don't like the main lead, but I don't start a hate campaign and ruin it for everyone else. It isn't like she committed murder or sexual assault or even physical assault, and she was pretty young and immature when this happened, so her attitude towards her work and band-mates back then shouldn't be held against her.

Oh, that's why I got confused. I thought that he left by turning left, I didn't know the exit was straight ahead. Thank you for the explanation. Now all I could think of is that he missed the timing, if he left when JuWon was listening to the recording, he could've gotten further away before JuWon could follow him. XD

But didn't JuWon arrive after the killer's car has already left? JuWon didn't even notice the killer's car and stopped to search for Nam Sang Bae, but after he finished, the killer's car ended up behind JuWon's car for some reason.

When JuWon arrived at the place where Nam SangBae was killed in, the criminal has already left, but why when JuWon finished listening to the recording and went to his car, the criminal's car was there passing by his car? This was confusing to me.

My problem with him is that he is not doing it on purpose. He is just going around like an idiot who thinks that he's smart, accusing and arresting innocent people. Yes, he ends up unintentionally making guilty people on edge with his unpredictable stupid actions, but at what cost? Innocent people lives gets destroyed in the process, and he didn't even end up arresting or even getting close to figuring out who was the real killer, that was all DongShik's work.

But he would've had a lesser punishment since he did not have the intent to kill her. Mistakingly assuming she was dead after someone else attacked her and burying her alive isn't the same as intentionally killing her, at least in court. Judging by how South Korean courts work, he wouldn't have spent more than 5 years in prison if he claimed he killed her by mistake.

Yes, it's starring So Ji Sub.

Do they cremate people before finishing the investigation in real life? It seems odd to me since they could figure out something they've missed during autopsy and use it in court or something. If I were JinMuk, I would claim that I found my daughter dead after I came back then I buried her in my yard. It would seem plausible since I'm known to be somewhat mentally disabled.

The woman with the Han last name is actually JaeYi's mother. I'm not sure if there is a twist to his character, I think he is just a replacement for typical KDrama female lead that acts tough but ends up getting in the way.

The drama Defendant is my favorite of this genre, but there are plenty of other good ones, God's Gift: 14 Days is just brilliant but with an element of fantasy, Life on Mars, Ghost (2012) are all great dramas, and Flower of Evil if you want a more recent one.

JuWon telling DongShik that he is smart and capable and that's why everyone hated him must've seemed so ridiculous to DongShik, especially since JuWon hasn't proven his capabilities yet. All he did was suspecting the same person the police suspected 20 years ago. He didn't come up with anything on his own. Everyone knows there's been a murder, just because he didn't ignore it doesn't mean he is smart, it just means he is doing the most basic thing expected from a cop. Even saying that "he followed his instinct and it lead him to the killer" is giving him more credit than he deserves.

I think he told them one of the burial places to show that he is serious, otherwise the police would ignore his request, thinking he isn't going to reveal the burial places and is just playing them to get what he wanted.

I thought this would be usefull, but he only used it to harass everyone but the actual killer.

The timeline of the night of the murder is unrealistic in my opinion. Is it possible for one man to kill his daughter, cut her fingers, bury the body, clean up and wash up, have a customer, and still arrive early to a dinner party considering that his daughter arrived at his house when it was dark outside? The time he had between his daughter's arrival and the arrival of the police officer who was picking up drinks at 8:37PM is no more than 2 and a half hours, considering the sun sets at about 6 o'clock in October of that year in Korea. I'm not a murder expert but is that a plenty of time to do all these things?

He didn't only become smart all of a sudden, considering how he figured out the killer's exact move and his timing, he is apparently a psychic.

Let me just say that Han Joo Won is completely useless. His character had so much potential, but ended up being just a nosy kid with a powerful father.