(All names, organizations, locations, and incidents in this drama are fictional)
Oh, my goodness!
Hello, officers!
- You can't come in here! - Okay.
How did he get in here?
My goodness, that scared me.
I'm going to take a photo.
Yes.
Pardon?
- Welcome. - Hello.
There's no security camera monitoring this area.
There are two security cameras here and over there.
But they're old,
so they said they're probably not working.
- What are you talking about? - Security cameras.
We don't even have enough of them in Manyang neighborhoods.
So there wouldn't be any in a field of reeds.
But we added 200 more in Munju.
They were installed mostly in the city's entertainment district.
They wouldn't install them in towns.
It's going to be redeveloped.
They probably didn't want to install new ones
in a town that's going to be demolished.
Why are they taking photos when they can't be published?
Erase the photos you took!
Come on.
- I should get going. - Okay.
- Bye. - Goodbye.
Goodbye.
We need to see all the cars that came in this way.
Contact the situation room again.
Get all security camera footage for the roads.
Yes, ma'am.
Please look after my Seon-nyeo.
The mud is very slippery.
Okay. Don't worry and go back to work.
Thank you!
This damn mud!
Where should we set up the tent?
This neighborhood is so moist.
How big should the perimeter be?
The road's narrow, so it may be hard to obtain the right space.
Let's get started first.
Let's hurry and start before the dew drops.
Should we just set up here?
- Senior Police Officer Im. - Yes?
You've been working for the KCSI for years now.
You need to come up with a plan first.
If we rush, we may miss a piece of evidence and the culprit may get away.
Will you take responsibility?
My goodness, sir!
You can't ask her to take responsibility!
She's carrying Hee-mang right now.
Congratulations, Seon-nyeo.
It's fine.
The sound of Lieutenant Ha's scolding is Hee-mang's lullaby.
I heard the body is a skeleton now.
So do you need a plan to get evidence from the surroundings?
It is a skeleton.
But the lower half of the body was buried in mud like this.
The culprit wrapped up the feet?
He wrapped them up like this.
Is the culprit a pervert with a foot fetish?
(October 15, 2000)
Dong-sik!
Dong-sik! It's not my Dong-sik!
I'm telling you that my Dong-sik isn't the murderer!
- There must be a mistake! - We got evidence from the crime scene!
No, Father.
I'm telling you it's not me!
It wasn't me!
I didn't do it!
Beyond Evil
(Episode 2)
(Disappeared)
Recorded interrogation room?
A recorded interrogation room instead of an interview room?
That's ridiculous!
He's the one who found the body and he's a witness!
How could you put him in there?
I didn't do that!
That crazy fool went in there on his own!
What?
Sang-bae.
Are you hiring nut jobs these days?
Why did the new lieutenant go in there too?
Why are you going to this extent?
Because it seems like a police officer is suspicious of me.
So I want to be properly investigated,
Do you like me that much?
You even did a background check on me.
"Background check"? Yeah, right.
Everybody knows that you were a suspect.
"Everybody"?
Who?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
You say you don't remember a lot of things.
What do you remember?
The identity of the body...
I still haven't heard the answer to my question.
Isn't it your younger sister, Ms. Lee Yu-yeon?
Goodness!
You crazy fools!
Do you feel at home here?
I can't believe the head of Violent Crimes Team 1 is interviewing witnesses.
It's an honor.
You already gave your witness statements.
But you insisted on coming in the recorded interrogation room and staying here.
So I'm doing my best to accommodate the people who first discovered the body.
Do you really want to do this?
We both discovered the body so I should be in here to be fair.
Start the interrogation.
Damn computer.
Is it still acting up? They're not replacing it?
What's the point of getting a new one?
The interrogating officer still has to write a report at the same time.
That's what's annoying. We have to change that.
In order to do that, we need to persuade those stubborn judges in courts.
Okay.
I'll review your written statements first.
Police Sergeant Lee Dong-sik received a call from the guardian.
He went into the field of reeds in search of the dementia patient.
Yes!
Lieutenant Han went to help the search.
That's when you both heard Probationary Police Officer Oh Ji-hoon scream...
That's right.
Jeez.
Oh Ji-hoon, that coward....
As soon as you discovered the body, you preserved the crime scene and called it in.
Good job.
So why are you two in here like this?
Was the body...
transferred to National Forensic Service?
When will we know the identity?
This is strange.
Why do I feel like I'm the one being questioned?
Sergeant Lee Dong-sik.
Lieutenant Han Ju-won.
You know the substation's duty ends once the crime scene is preserved, right?
You did your duty.
So please leave!
That's it?
You need to write a report.
Yes.
That's it.
The report is...
here.
Here.
Since the almighty head of Violent Crimes Team 1 says it's over...
What?
So I'm done being investigated.
I'm not a kid.
You didn't have to come all the way here.
What about Mr. Bang?
We found him.
We escorted him home.
What about Ji-hoon?
He seemed very shocked.
I gave him some medicine to calm him down and took him home.
Happy now?
You shouldn't be worrying about them right now!
Lieutenant Han, why did you let him trick you and do this?
I was tricked?
Can't you tell that he did this on purpose?
He didn't want them to summon him for questioning later.
That's why he went into that recorded room to be interrogated!
He's going to say, "I was already questioned."
"I'm not coming to the station unless you have a warrant."
Why would they question me?
That's because the body...
Well, everybody becomes that way when they die.
I'm hungry.
I wonder if that grandma still runs the seolleongtang restaurant.
Goodness.
Come along!
Why?
You don't like it?
I don't really like ox bone soup.
Their soup tastes even better now.
Yes.
Hurry up and bring a tray to clean this up.
Ma'am, where were you?
My goodness! Look who it is!
It's Chief Nam!
You've gotten even prettier, ma'am!
I heard you were living in Manyang. What brings you here?
Did you come because of the body they found?
Yes.
I heard it was found in the same place from 20 years ago.
Is it the young lady who went missing that time?
I heard her older brother killed her.
The Manyang Garden Restaurant's son.
What was his name?
Oh, right!
Dong-sik!
No, ma'am! It wasn't him!
He didn't kill her.
Why not?
The person who caught him was...
I'm telling you it wasn't him.
Please refill this to the top!
Refill?
I'm hurt, ma'am.
You gave me extra meat, saying that I was wrongly accused.
And you even refilled my soup.
Don't you remember, ma'am?
You haven't aged at all.
You look great!
Of course, I should give you more.
Wait a minute.
Jeez.
I'm full. Let's go.
I asked for more soup. We can't leave yet.
You don't like it that much, right?
You never listen.
Whatever.
Are you having fun?
You said you don't like this soup.
But you're still sitting here.
I wonder if you're having fun watching me.
I heard partners are supposed to stick together 365 days, 24/7.
Goodness.
I feel so secure.
Dong-sik, again.
This is what you did.
Then you did what you did to Bang Ju-seon. You cut off her fingers.
That's not Yu-yeon...
What?
Yu-yeon...
She colors her nails using balsam.
Hey, Lee Dong-sik.
Get a hold of yourself.
Dong-sik!
Dong-sik! Dong-sik!
Dong-sik!
- Dong-sik! - Mom!
- You can't do this! - Dong-sik!
You didn't do it, right? You didn't do it, right?
The tangerine tastes sweet.
It's sweet.
Would you like to try one?
N...Not like that...
If you grab her that hard,
it will hurt her.
Dong-sik!
I'll do it.
Are you okay?
L...Last night...
At the field of reeds...
That's enough.
Eat this.
You bought tangerines.
Y...Your mother liked tangerines.
I bought them for you.
I'll feed them to her once she wakes up.
Why are you here?
Even I don't do this and I'm her son.
I'm here volunteering, so I thought I'd check on her.
Volunteering?
Sister said you seemed to be coming here for my mother.
You run a business. You can't close once per week just to come here.
I couldn't have even opened up my business if it wasn't for your parents.
I should repay back the favor.
It's not thanks to them.
You worked hard!
Don't come here on your resting day.
Go out with Min-jeong and eat some good food.
Why?
Min-jeong didn't come home again?
(Manyang Supermarket)
(Dong-sik's love forever, Min-jeong)
This brat messed with my phone again.
(Dong-sik's love forever, Min-jeong)
The person you are calling is currently unavailable.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Kang Min-jeong.
How long are you going to keep lying that you're doing your assignments?
Hurry up and come home before Jin-mook finds out.
Unless you want me to search for you at every club and bar from Hongdae to Gangnam.
And you...!
I told you not to touch my phone!
If you ever do this again, your fingers will be...
Come home before I lose it.
Lee Dong-sik?
Why are you bringing up that lunatic's name right now?
The officer who went to the scene was Officer Lee.
And a body was found on the scene.
I already know that.
I worked my butt off to make our city into a city without crimes!
Why did this happen after 20 years?
Why now of all times again?
Why is his name mentioned with the body in the news?
Well, he could be just be very unlucky.
I'm sorry.
Get out.
(City without crimes, Munju)
(Do Hae-won)
Do we know the identity?
How would a general manager know what's going on with a violent crimes case?
I'm sure forensics did an autopsy right away, but without fingerprints...
So it will probably take a long time.
You said the fingers were cut off, right?
Even if it had fingers, it's still a skeleton.
Skeleton? So it's been a long time since the person was killed?
So...
it could be about 20 years?
A body that's 20 years old...
The body of Lee Yu-yeon who went missing 20 years ago?
It fits perfectly.
Park Jeong-je.
I am right.
And there hasn't been a murder for 20 years.
And you'll be able to keep that title of a city without crimes.
Right?
Hooray.
Park Jeong-je.
Now is not the time for you to be playing like this.
You told me to live, playing around and acting like nothing ever happened.
That's what you told me, Mother.
I think this happened within eight months.
We have the forensics result?
No, not yet.
You know that I love shoes, right?
The luxury brand shoes that the victim was wearing...
Those are a product of this year's F/W.
It was sold out as soon as it was released this year.
The victim may not own the shoes though.
Yes, that could be the case.
But the foot imprints left on the shoes match her physique.
But it's too clean when you consider how long she's been buried.
You heard her feet were wrapped in a black plastic bag, right?
I thought maybe it was because of that.
But look at this.
The plastic bag is very clean inside too.
Not even a speck of dust.
Before the murderer put her feet in the bag,
he wiped down the shoes?
He wiped them down so that they were immaculately clean.
Then he wrapped them up so tightly that dirt can't get in them.
Then he finished with a nice ribbon.
As if wrapping up a precious gift.
He's completely insane.
I don't even expect you to obey the 50 minute patrol and 10 minute break rule.
But we should at least go home at some point.
Are you listening to me?
Officer Lee!
We'll be there soon.
You shouldn't say things you can't guarantee.
Then are you going to patrol forever without going back?
If there's a need to patrol, then we should patrol.
If a person needs to be caught, then we should catch him.
If a person needs to be found,
then we should search the whole world to find him.
You're right.
We should find him, no matter what.
And arrest him.
You'll get sick if you keep staying in the rain like this.
Please get up.
Don't touch me! Don't touch me!
Where did you walk from?
It must've been difficult.
Goodness, look at your shoes...
My feet...my feet...
My feet...
My feet...My feet...
My feet! My feet!
My feet...hurts!
I've been walking since early morning from my house.
I see.
Where's hour house?
Hello! I live in Munak-dong 3 in the basement.
I'm 21 years old. My name is Shin Seok-gu.
Hello!
I'm 40 years old.
Lee Dong-sik.
"Lee Dong-sik"?
Lee Dong-sik!
Is he intellectually disabled?
He's sitting in this rain without an umbrella.
He doesn't smell like alcohol.
And his shoes are a mess.
And so he doesn't lose it, his...
Cellphone.
Let's get him in the car.
Sir.
The floor's wet.
Come on.
Let's go in the police car.
Police car! Police car!
- I don't want to! - Seok-gu! Seok-gu!
We won't get in the police car. Try getting up.
You don't have to get in it.
But would you let me borrow this for a minute?
I'll tell your mom to come.
Mom!
Thank you!
His guardian is probably on speed dial one.
(Mom)
I can't give you my shoes.
She's not answering. I'll keep trying.
- Maybe... - There was a store there.
I'll go buy raincoats and hot packs.
(Manyang Butcher's Shop)
We don't know the identity yet.
But I don't think it's Yu-yeon.
Dong-sik, did you...
already know?
I wasn't sure.
The identity of the body.
I still haven't heard the answer to my question.
Isn't it your younger sister, Ms. Lee Yu-yeon?
I just had a feeling it wasn't her.
Did he show up again?
The murderer from 20 years ago.
Well...
He could be a copycat.
He could've looked through old news articles.
You couldn't see the lower half of the body because it was buried, right?
It was just like how Bang Ju-seon was buried. That wasn't revealed to the public.
It was just like how Ju-seon was buried.
How is that possible?
He's been quiet for 20 years.
But he started killing again?
What if he hasn't been quiet for 20 years?
Are you saying he killed more people?
Then why did no one...
People may have been murdered, but their bodies haven't been found yet.
Then there could be more victims among the missing people...
We don't know yet. It could not be true.
We're investigating right now, so we'll find out more soon.
Identity of the body...
We need to find out who the dead person is first.
Did you know the body was here?
Is that why you volunteered to go there?
No.
It was a coincidence.
Coincidence?
You?
Why are you looking at me like that?
People might think I killed her and buried her there.
You think I did it?
In some way, I did.
I used her as a bait.
Han Ju-won...
Without the permission of my superiors, I tried to set up a trap.
I used her as bait.
But the bait suddenly disappeared.
You think I was worried about being exposed for entrapment.
So I killed her and cut off her fingertips.
And I wrapped her feet up nicely.
And then I buried her.
I pretended to be a copycat.
Like the case that Munju Police Station's Senior Superintendent closed 20 years ago.
But why did you close the case back then?
20 years ago...
How nice.
- Pardon? - He copied a crime from 20 years ago?
A copycat. That sounds good.
No matter how skilled National Forensic Service is,
it will be hard for them to find out who she is.
We can claim it's a copycat and then close the case as unsolved.
The end.
- Father. - If we close the case soon,
then they won't know who this woman is or who she met.
So you just need to keep your mouth shut.
- Father. - Son.
You learn faster than anyone else.
I'm sure you learned your lesson this time.
If you don't do anything,
then nothing bad will happen. And so...
Please don't do anything.
If people find out who this woman is,
then you and I are both done for.
This isn't a request. It's an order.
Lieutenant Han Ju-won.
What did you say?
Where's the case file for Ms. Lee Yu-yeon, the sister of Officer Lee?
Why are you asking?
Do I have to explain to the general manager and convince him to read the report?
What do you think about this?
It looks like you, right?
What do you think you're doing?
No?
It's not done yet.
Lieutenant Park.
Case number 2000-031486. Row 3, line 34.
It's there.
(Gyeonggi Munju Police Station)
(Case Overview)
First victim, before Lee Yu-yeon.
Bang Ju-seon.
(1. Victim Information: Bang Ju-seon)
There's...no documents?
Only the first page of the report is there.
The rest of the report is missing.
I guess it got left out then.
I shouldn't talk about this.
But the police station moved a few times.
Things get left out when we move sometimes.
Plus, we had a fire, so it may have been burned.
We try to do our best, but we can't help it sometimes.
Is that something the general manager of records should be saying?
You keep referring to me as the general manager.
It makes me feel like I'm some kind of powerful person.
It's not like the entire file is missing.
The whole report is missing except for one page.
Doesn't it seem strange?
- Aren't you going to check it out? - Lieutenant Han.
Let's assess the situation first.
Why do you think there are boxes piled up in there?
I don't like riddles.
Well...
We're supposed to digitize them and then get rid of the hard copies.
But they're still piled up there, right?
They have the right to be burned, but they can't enjoy that right.
Why?
Because we're busy inputting the recent cases first.
Dozens of new ones in a day, thousands in a month.
Tens of thousands in a year. New ones keep pouring in!
Then the old cases are pushed to the back and forgotten.
And this is where they end up.
You couldn't check...
Because you didn't have time? Because you were busy?
Don't you know what it means when a case has been unsolved for 20 years?
It means there's no evidence to identify the culprit.
Unless the murderer shows up and confesses he did it,
there's no way to solve the case.
So what police officer in Korea would prioritize a case like that?
It's a case no one's interested in.
And why...?
This case is different from cases like that!
- Why? - This is Lee Dong-sik's...
This is Officer Lee's sister's case.
You're right.
How am I supposed to tell him about this?
(Detective in charge: Sergeant Nam Sang-bae)
Oh, right!
Dong-sik!
No, it wasn't him.
He didn't do it.
Why not?
The person who caught him was...
Goodness!
I'm telling you it wasn't him.
(Nam Sang-bae)
Lieutenant Han.
Yes?
What are you doing at the police station?
Lieutenant Han.
Yes?
What are you doing at the police station?
You came right away.
Were you surprised?
What should I be surprised about?
Well...
Weren't you surprised that I knew you were at the police station?
I'm sure Lieutenant Park contacted you.
You don't know how to read people, Lieutenant Han.
Jeong-je isn't like that. He knows how to keep a secret.
He would never spy for people.
Dong-sik didn't tell you?
There's no such thing as secrets in this neighborhood.
Someone is always watching you from somewhere.
That's right.
In neighborhoods like this,
you need to be direct with people in order to win.
Bang Ju-seon.
Near the place where Officer Oh, Officer Lee, and I discovered the body,
a woman's body was also found 20 years ago.
The victim's name was Bang Ju-seon.
Suspect was Lee Dong-sik.
The detective in charge was Nam Sang-bae.
You have the person you arrested as a suspect working for you.
Yes.
People are right when they say you never know what life has in store for you.
Right?
Why did you stop the lady at the seolleongtang restaurant from speaking?
Did you go to Munju Police Station on your resting day because you were curious?
Or did you transfer here because you've been curious for a while?
I don't know what you're obsessed about that made you come all the way here.
But just don't do anything.
Don't do anything?
Do you think I'm stopping you because I care about Dong-sik?
You think I'm trying to cover up things because I like him, right?
It's not like that.
I don't like Dong-sik.
He makes me very tired.
If I had my way, I would go throw him out somewhere.
What are you trying to do?
Dong-sik...
isn't in his right mind...
He accepts calls about missing dementia patients on his personal phone
and he goes look for them.
Plus, he stood in the streets for six hours until the guardian arrived yesterday.
He was standing in plastic shoe covers in that heavy rain.
Even after finding a body that could've belonged to his sister,
he still did all that. That's the kind of guy he is.
You think he does that because he's passionate about his job as a police officer?
No, he doesn't have any sense of duty.
He's just doing that to make himself happy.
Every morning, his father stood at the big intersection all day...
and he waited for his missing daughter to return until he froze to death.
His younger sister disappeared with just her fingers left behind.
Honey!
Oh, my goodness!
Honey!
His mother lost her mind after finding his father who froze to death.
Dong-sik didn't come home until his parents ended up like that.
Because people here didn't forget that he was a suspect.
That's why he couldn't live here.
I told you all this.
So that you would stop, Lieutenant Han.
You could kill him just by going off on your hunch.
When people like us who carry firearms legally accuse people based on our guts,
we don't hurt ourselves. We end up killing people.
That's...
what I did to Dong-sik.
Did you get anything?
People in Foreign Affairs refused to talk just like this clam!
You asked me to come here when you had nothing?
You pay for the meal!
You'll have to buy the meal.
Plus, the coffee.
I guess Foreign Affairs was working on something without telling other police units.
And out of the blue, the most elite member of Foreign Affairs who was the ace...
Your new lieutenant, Han Ju-won, put in a transfer request.
Not anywhere in Seoul, but a substation in Gyeonggi-do.
What was Foreign Affairs working on?
Illegal immigrants.
But they are already in charge of that.
Yes.
But what if it's a homicide case?
If it's homicide, then it should go to the Violent Crimes Unit.
And if they didn't tell the Women's and Children's Affairs...
then the victim must be a woman.
- Yes. - What about the Regional Investigation Unit?
If the Regional Investigation Unit had to be in charge...
Then there were multiple victims.
Unidentified illegal immigrants.
Plus, they were only women.
Serial killings?
(Victim 6: Lee Geum-hwa)
(Lee Dong-sik)
Yes.
I told you to lay low and not do anything, punk.
I was laying low and not doing anything.
Then why is there someone asking around about you?
Who is it?
Someone from the Regional Investigation Unit.
Don't worry.
It's nothing.
"Don't worry"?
"It's nothing"?
You still haven't learned your lesson...
Former detective of the Regional Investigation Unit, Lieutenant Lee Dong-sik.
I guess he still has friends in that unit even after he was kicked out from there.
D...Dong-sik...
Why are you here again?
You're...here quite often these days.
I asked you why you're here again.
L...Last time,
it seemed like your mother was going to get pressure sores on her back.
So I kept thinking about it.
Is Min-jeong taking care of the market?
That brat still hasn't come home yet?
(Dong-sik)
Dong-sik...
Yes, Dong-sik.
I contacted National Forensic Service.
There's nothing that can help them find out who she is.
Yes, I know.
You know?
Who do you know?
You still have an inside man in telecommunications, right?
Let me know the location when the phone's on.
Is it related to the identity?
It's not like that.
Please just help me with this.
You know the law so well, but you're asking me to break it?
Are you insane?
010-57821-4343.
Suspect's name is Kang Min-jeong.
What? You're done eating?
I don't feel like eating.
Hey, you should still eat.
Sit.
Hurry up and eat.
I keep seeing it.
That skeleton.
I don't deserve to be a police officer.
Isn't that the same for everyone else?
Police officers are humans too.
Finish eating and go do something else.
What else?
I don't know. Go to an internet cafe.
Go play games with elementary school students.
Or go dance at a club.
Will that help me forget?
No.
But it's better than not doing anything.
Eat.
Why did Dong-sik send this?
Kang Min-jeong?
(Dong-sik)
Dong-sik.
What is this?
It's an assignment for you, of course!
Contact your old friends.
And figure out where all those places are.
Oh, here?
Ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you for dancing all night... I mean into the early morning.
I'm Officer Lee Dong-sik from Manyang Substation.
I would like to ask for your cooperation.
Kang Min-jeong!
You better come out!
Who is it? Hurry up and go!
Who is it?
I guess he's here looking for his daughter.
Gentleman in the pink shirt and torn jeans, stop right there.
Me?
See?
Nothing happened.
Why?
I didn't do anything bad to her.
What are you doing?
Isn't it bad to let...
a girl who has nothing to do with you drink until she passes out?
Isn't it bad to leave a completely drunk girl vulnerable in a room
where anybody can take her?
Why are you doing this?
You think it's not a crime because you didn't lay a finger on her?
Is that what you think?
Sir.
If I get my hands on your credit card statement
and footage from the security cameras in front of the club,
then I will know your identity and your license plate.
You better watch your back.
Okay?
Hey, Oh Ji-hoon!
Kid, get me some water!
Why did I ever help her?
Hey, Big Mouth!
You're the one who told him I went to a club, right?
Don't pretend you didn't.
Hey.
You have such a pot belly.
You should stop drinking, Min-jeong.
It's not healthy.
Jeez, it smells!
I'm not the one who stinks, brat!
I only wear the same clothes three days in a row.
You smell like an old bachelor!
Hey, go shut her up!
Yes, go ahead and try!
Hey, let go!
You better let go!
- Hey! - Hello.
Who's this handsome guy?
What brings you here?
Oh, the newbie!
Is she here because she's drunk? What about her family?
Did he just ignore me?
He ignored me!
Hey, your looks aren't everything!
It's not like that.
Officer Lee dragged her back from Seoul.
Hurry up and take care of her.
Hey, Handsome!
I was going to accept your advances.
Kang Min-jeong!
Get a hold of yourself!
Dong-sik...
I wasn't going to cheat on you.
Be quiet and go to sleep.
You can't leave here until you're sober!
Even so...
You should uncuff her.
If she runs away, will you go fetch her again?
She ran away three times during the night already.
Just think of her as a drunk lady.
And get ready for work.
It will take a long time for Min-jeong to sober up.
She only listens to Dong-sik.
You're okay being partners with me today, right?
I don't care who my partner is.
Who is she?
Is she Officer Lee's girlfriend?
Dong-sik would flip out if he heard you say that.
You saw Manyang Supermarket's Jin-mook last time, right?
She's his daughter.
He went all the way to Seoul to bring back a market's owner's daughter?
She's not just the daughter of the neighborhood market's owner.
Jin-mook was an orphan.
Dong-sik's parents raised him as their own.
Hold on.
That's Manyang Supermarket.
I heard Dong-sik's parents bought that and helped him open up a supermarket.
I see.
Oh, dear.
Hold on.
Jin-mook!
Hey, Ji-hoon.
Dong-sik is working at the station today, because he has work to do.
Oh... I...Is that so?
S...See you later.
Why didn't you tell him about his daughter?
If we were going to tell him, we wouldn't have left her at the substation.
If Jin-mook finds out that Min-jeong isn't coming home
because she's busy partying and drinking instead of doing her schoolwork,
Jin-mook will be in shock.
That's his burden to bear.
You saw that Jin-mook couldn't even meet our eyes, right?
He's kind and weak.
He cried everyday when he was raising Min-jeong alone.
Min-jeong doesn't have a mother.
I heard her mother ran away soon after she gave birth.
It's been 20 years, but Jin-mook still misses her.
He still carries around a photo of her in his wallet.
He's such a fool.
Dong-sik is like a father and a mother to her.
So even when the neighborhood is in an uproar over the discovery of a skeleton,
he is busy acting as a mother and a father?
Because he's Lee Dong-sik.
Because it's him.
Water...
Don't tell my father.
Erase your nail polish and go home.
Officer Oh, aren't you going to go home?
Why is the other team so late today?
We have trouble.
The Busan case...
Hey!
Did you guys see the breaking news?
- Turn on the TV. - Yes, sir.
The boyfriend of the missing woman who was arrested two days ago has been released.
The police interrogated him, because they suspected him of murder.
But they failed to discover if the woman is still alive or dead.
A police official said they don't have enough evidence to get an arrest warrant.
So they will summon him again after additional investigation.
Let's stop watching it now.
Goodness, I feel bad for the dead woman.
We don't know if she's dead or not yet.
Lieutenant Han, what do you mean?
They found blood at the missing woman's bathroom.
We can't assume she's dead just because they found blood.
Plus, the amount of blood wasn't great.
But I still think he killed her.
They found blood. Plus, he tried to hide their relationship.
He has a motive.
So I don't think it's right the police is just releasing him.
Will arresting him make a difference?
Come on, Dong-sik.
In Korea,
is it possible to charge someone with murder without a body?
It's not.
Yes.
Even if they request a warrant, they will be rejected.
You know the reason the judges like to give.
They cannot rule out...
...beyond reasonable doubt
But it's not right that they don't arrest a criminal. Even worse, a murderer!
What can we do when that's what the law states?
Don't you agree, Lieutenant Han?
Yes.
Wouldn't that become a cold case too if they don't find a body?
Dong-sik, wake up Min-jeong and take her home.
Hey, get ready to go home!
Yes, sir!
I think she forgot to take that.
(Dong-sik)
You miss me even though we spent the whole night under one roof?
Be quiet.
Where are you right now?
I told you head straight home.
I am home.
I had such a hard time sneaking in without my father waking up.
Brat, you're lying.
How can you sneak in without your keys?
Did you jump the fence?
You left it at the substation.
My father can't find out about this.
Hey, you're here!
What is it?
Jeez, you just love your daughter so much, don't you?
Come have a seat here.
Do you have to grill that for your daughter?
It tastes better if you grill it once first using charcoal.
You're going to grill it again?
Why do you like that kid so much?
Come on! We get to eat beef, thanks to her!
Thank you, Mr. Kang!
Jin-mook, come have a seat here. I'll grill it now.
It's okay.
Hurry up and eat.
I...I'll do it.
- Go have a seat. - It's okay!
Min-jeong likes what I grill.
Both of you should come sit!
You should just tell Min-jeong to come.
That's right.
Don't.
She said she stayed up the past few days doing her assignments.
I'll bring it to her.
I wonder if she'll even be able to eat it.
It seemed like she drank a lot last night.
Hey...
Hey, the meat is burning!
Lieutenant Hwang, go take that.
Jae-yi, can you take over?
The queen of meat, Jae-yi, is stepping up to the plate!
- Give it to me. - Here you go.
Okay, we're done eating now.
Get up. We should go now.
Dong-sik.
Four days ago,
a body was found within our district, at the field of reeds.
We don't know who she is or how old she is.
Nobody knows what kind of life she had.
But one thing's for sure.
The police wasn't there for her in her last moments.
In order to prevent this from ever happening again,
we will catch the culprit, no matter what.
Let's have a moment of silence for the victim.
A moment of silence.
At ease.
Raise your glasses.
Do you have money?
No, sir!
Are you healthy?
No, sir!
Is there much to life?
No, sir!
Then...
Let's catch him!
Let's catch him! Let's catch him!
Why'd you come? I thought you were heading home?
Why did you come back so late? Where were you?
You've been acting strange ever since we were eating earlier.
What do you mean?
I just went on a run.
Jogging in the middle of the night wearing dress shoes?
I was going to sleep over.
It's so cold already.
Hey, let's turn up the heat.
The boiler's broken.
Go sleep at your place.
You should fix it if it's broken.
The boiler's downstairs, right?
Trust me.
The basement's light isn't working.
And I have no flashlight.
It's too dark to see anything.
Including Yu-yeon's case file?
- What? - Her file's missing.
Even Bang Ju-seon's file is missing.
Dong-sik.
Did you take it?
Why would I?
You can be honest with me.
You and I are friends.
Why would I take those files?
That.
I'm going crazy because I can't even take those down
since my mom won't let me!
Right...
Sorry.
You know I'm in charge of records.
I went a little overboard.
It's cold. I should go.
Jeong-je.
Yes?
What is it?
Do you have something to say?
No, just get home safely.
Okay.
Hey.
I'm not the one who found out that the file is missing.
Lieutenant Han Ju-won.
He found it.
See you.
(Crime scene photo of fingers)
(Please find our missing Yu-yeon)
31K8305.
What are you doing here?
I'm getting to know my way around the neighborhood.
As you already know, it's my district.
As you already know, it's my district too.
Should I give a tour as we take a drive around?
It's fine.
I don't like to bother people.
You're very lucky, Lieutenant Han.
I have a feeling you're going to return to where you came from.
What do you mean by that?
You're working so hard so early in the morning.
You should leave your car behind.
I said it's fine.
A police officer should go on foot, not rely on his car.
Hurry up.
Let's look around the district within our jurisdiction slowly and carefully.
Okay, we just came down from my house.
If you continue along here and then make a left, our substation comes up.
If you make a right instead, the town office comes up.
If you towards the back of the town office, there's a trail up the mountain.
Is there a vacant house along this street?
I thought I'd move here.
You're going to go back soon.
Aren't you going overboard if you move here?
I want to come here.
I will.
This street.
This neighborhood.
What do you like about me so much?
I don't think it's Lee Dong-sik the police officer.
Is it Lee Dong-sik the suspect?
What do you like about me so much, Officer Lee?
You seemed very eager to find out what I did in Foreign Affairs in the past.
Why? What is it?
Did he just ignore me?
He ignored me!
Min-jeong!
The murderer showed up after 20 years.
And he committed a crime in the same fashion.
Isn't it strange that...
a suspect from 20 years ago...
recently moved back to this town?
You stay out of it this time.
Don't hear or see anything.
What's the reason why I shouldn't stay here?
Jeong-je, you don't think Dong-sik is the murderer, do you?
What are you going to do now?
What are you going to do?
I'll catch the murderer.
No matter what...