(All characters, organizations, places, entities, and events...)
(in this drama are fictional.)
It's been a while.
You got a nicer table.
Mr. Kim Pil Sung.
Do you see the person who abducted you...
in here?
Yes.
Let's see.
Yes.
This man.
Him as well.
And him.
Mr. Kim Pil Sung.
How sure are you that it was them?
Are you very sure?
Or it looks like them?
I'm 100 percent sure.
You can think it over before you answer.
Look at these faces. Are these faces...
something you could be confused with?
Plus,
I have a killer memory.
I used to be a detective too, people.
Sure, I'm a PI now...
and follow around cheating spouses, but...
Look.
I consider myself...
a private eye who abides by my philosophy.
Big City Private Eye.
A PI who abides by his philosophy...
ratted out Im Jin Hee's name very quickly.
That was because...
Who was it?
She's a reporter at Joongjin Daily. Im Jin Hee.
She hired me.
Joongjin Daily?
Im Jin Hee at Joongjin Daily.
Yes. Happy now?
I told you, so untie me. Let me go home.
I already told you, so untie me.
Joongjin Daily. Im Jin Hee.
Yes.
Should we kill him now?
Kill him? Again?
Killing people isn't a game.
It'll be better to kill him.
I don't know how you did things with Ms. Jin Kyung.
Hold it. I'm still talking to you.
If you kill everyone like that,
we're all dead. All of us.
It's better to kill him now than to have problems later.
Are you a murderer?
Are you a psychopath?
Will you kill everyone?
I'm sorry.
I... I thought it was nothing serious.
It was just a lighter. A lighter. That's nothing.
I didn't know. I just did as I was told.
Okay, okay.
I'll let you go home as promised. But in return,
you can't go around blabbing, okay?
Keep your mouth shut and forget everything that happened, okay?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir.
I'm sorry, sir.
- You promised. - Let's just kill him.
Quiet! Quiet...
I didn't come here to listen to this.
Gosh.
I almost left him out.
Forest's Lee Hwan. Him.
He's the head.
He ordered them to do it.
He said so himself.
Thank you for having the courage to come forward.
But we need something more solid...
if we want to lock them up.
Something solid?
Like a convincing motive.
Things like that.
A convincing motive.
That's a bit hard.
This is what happened.
At first Im Jin Hee...
from Joongjin Daily hired me...
to get her Chairman Jin Jong Hyun's personal item.
Call me as soon as you hear from that driver.
It's a bit urgent.
I paid Jin Jong Hyun's driver...
to get his lighter.
You're not scamming me, are you?
That's all. And I brought it to her.
You spent way too much money for a 40-cent lighter.
But...
These jerks took me, and...
Who made you hire Myung Joon?
Isn't it odd?
I was abducted just because I stole a lighter.
So, I thought a lot about this before coming here.
What if by coming here,
I end up getting them angry at me? Furthermore,
what if I trust the cops and report them,
and they... You know. I'm not saying...
I don't trust the cops, so don't get the wrong idea.
If I'm going to give a statement, I need to do it right.
That's why we're being very cautious as well.
That's right. You have to be cautious,
my junior detectives. You want something solid.
I'll show you something solid.
Ta da.
What is this?
When I was abducted,
I was passed out, so I couldn't check.
But I was alert when I was released.
So from the moment I left the strange warehouse,
got into their car,
and back to my own car, I noted...
everything I could. Then I wrote it all down.
Take a look. There are some key points to note.
(Bar street? Sound, 40km per hour, right turn 30km per hour 15 seconds)
(Speed bump 2 in a row, left turn 30km per hour 20 seconds)
Accelerated. 25km per hour.
Feels like asphalt.
We went straight for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. 13, 14, 15.
Speed bump. Something about a bar. Twice.
Speed bump. A second one after five seconds.
Talk about cell phones.
Punks...
Accelerated at 50km per hour.
Speed bump. Talk about cell phones.
Speed bump. A second one after five seconds.
Something about a bar.
(The Cursed)
(Episode 10: Big City Private Eye)
So that's why...
your mom tried to kill me...
and then stopped.
That's why...
What are you talking about?
She must have hated herself...
and that evil spirit so much...
after she sent it into her own child's body.
But...
But you're getting revenge...
for that very mom.
Take a good look...
at the important points.
(After 30 seconds at 60km per hour, they talk about cell phones.)
Is there...
a killer cell phone nowadays? Any of the new ones?
Kill who again?
No, no. Not kill people.
Are any of the new cell phones good?
You used to work at a cell phone store like that.
- Don't you know things like that? - I did?
Wasn't it you?
Who was it?
He died. Did we kill him?
Let me say that again.
I recorded everything there...
from the location where they interrogated me.
If you use that to find it...
Their car should've been caught on surveillance cameras.
That's right. If you backtrack using that...
We can find the place where you were taken to.
- That's right. - Then those cameras...
Then those cameras would have caught...
this guy Lee Hwan's face.
What's more solid than this?
That's only possible...
if these notes...
No, if your memory was 100 percent correct.
100 percent. It's correct.
If we find something meaningful,
I'll acknowledge that.
Hey, freeze. Hey.
How long have they been cops...
Hey.
Let's grab dinner sometime.
Let's go for a get-together with that guy.
No thanks. I'll copy this and bring it back.
Darn it. Oh my gosh.
(Recording)
Mr. Kim Pil Sung?
Yes.
He gave his statement, so we sent him home.
He asked me to apologize to you.
His attitude makes him hard to trust.
Yes, but I think he's thorough with his work,
so confirm what he said.
I plan to check tomorrow myself.
But even if we do find the place where they took him,
we need Lee Hwan on camera.
Jin Hee.
Why did you ask him...
to get you Jin Jong Hyun's personal item?
I already told you.
It was to do a procedure on him.
Do you actually believe in that?
Believe it or not,
but I told you the truth.
And this case can't be solved through normal means.
Jin Hee.
You and So Jin...
should stay out of this going forward.
Trust us and leave it to us.
Please.
I'll keep calling.
Is something wrong?
No, nothing.
Do you feel better?
Did Mr. Jung say to stay out of it now?
He's just...
worried about you, that's why.
Me too.
I wish you'd stay out of it too.
What do you mean by that?
It's just...
when you went missing,
when I thought something may have happened to you,
I felt like it was all my fault.
So Jin.
Do you remember me telling you when we first met,
that I used to know another person by the name...
of So Jin?
Yes.
She was my friend in high school.
So Jin and I...
were outcasts in school.
The bullies kept harassing us.
Do it now.
Jin Hee.
Hello?
Say it now...
if you don't want to die.
I wish...
you'd just die.
Later that day,
So Jin killed herself.
That's when they finally stopped harassing me.
I betrayed So Jin,
but she saved me.
So Jin died...
because of me.
So Jin.
I'm not...
an honorable reporter or a good person as you think.
Even now,
I may be using you.
I don't think that.
No. You're still a kid.
No matter what anyone says,
you need to be protected by adults at your age.
But I put you in danger.
Jin Hee.
This is my matter.
It started because of me and my mom.
But I don't even know...
exactly what happened between her and Jin Jong Hyun.
Do you think I can live my life ignoring that?
But you want me to stay out of it?
I need to finish this myself.
So please help me a little more.
Please?
Okay.
Let's rest for today.
There are no cameras on this street.
If we can't find it according to Mr. Kim Pil Sung's notes,
we won't be able to gather the evidence.
We came all this way anyway.
(After 30 seconds at 60km per hour, they talk about cell phones)
Let's follow his notes.
Okay.
Let's go.
(After 30 seconds at 60km per hour, they talk about cell phones)
30km per hour.
That's amazing.
He looks like a total flake, but he has a great memory.
Right? I guess he really was a cop.
Right?
50km per hour for 30 seconds.
The cell phone store should be coming up.
There it is. Over there.
Where?
(Cell Phones)
It's true.
Everything in Mr. Kim Pil Sung's notes has been on the money.
Yes. 100 percent.
It's exactly as he said.
- If this... - Fine. Let's go.
Yes, sir.
Do I keep driving straight?
Yes, it is.
There should be a chicken place soon.
Chicken.
(Said he was hungry and said let's get chicken)
Chicken...
I don't see a chicken place.
- Pull over. - Okay.
It isn't here.
Did we make a wrong turn?
Let me see that.
This is it.
Yes.
But there's nothing even close to a chicken place.
There should be at least a bar...
that we can assume sells fried chicken.
Forget it. That's enough. Let's get back to Seoul.
- What? - We were almost there.
It's a waste of time.
We need something more solid than this...
That...
Hey. Give me that. Give me that.
What if I find it first?
What?
(After 30 seconds at 60km per hour, they talk about cell phones)
The Vodou is a traditional Haitian religion...
made famous because of zombies and voodoo dolls.
Yes well... People who like movies think...
if you put the hair of a person you hate into the doll...
and curse it, that person will be cursed.
Black magic such as voodoo dolls or raising the dead.
Zombies and things like that may be what you expect,
but in reality, Vodou...
is a religion with many similarities to Catholicism.
Yes? Do you have a question?
No, no. You may stay seated and ask your question.
Isn't Vodou based on faith in the spirits of nature...
and black magic using their powers?
Okay.
I was expecting that question, so I prepared this.
Vodou is based on faith in spirits called "loa".
Loa. That's what they're called.
These loa sometimes dwell within people,
but they also dwell in nature, such as rivers, mountains,
wind, and things like that.
These loa are just one of many faiths that people have.
Just as in Korea,
we believe sacred energy dwells in trees, totem poles, and such,
most shamanisms have similar traits.
Then are curses and voodoo dolls...
all a hoax?
A hoax? I wouldn't call it a hoax.
I'm just saying most indigenous religions...
have similar unique characteristics like this.
That's lame.
Okay. Sure.
Most things are lame once you know everything.
Are you sure we can trust him?
Does anyone have any other questions?
Okay. Then let's move on.
So, the Vodou religion...
We came too far.
We should've turned into that alley. What are you doing?
There's no chicken place around here either.
How is there not a single chicken place?
- Exactly. - There isn't.
I told you it was that alley earlier.
(Chicken skewers, Fish cakes)
He said let's get chicken on the way back.
That means there's a chicken place nearby.
Guys.
Around what time do food trucks usually set up?
What? A food truck?
They should be out around this time.
What truck?
We didn't even get to eat. I'm hungry.
(Old School Sweet and Sour Chicken)
Should we pick up a chicken from there on our way back?
- Yes. - I'm hungry.
"Let's pick up a chicken. I'm hungry."
(Chicken skewers, Fish cakes)
A chicken food truck.
Nice.
Good boy.
Oh my gosh. They really do have chicken.
Nice, Captain.
- It's right. A food truck. - Look.
That's incredible.
Seriously.
A PI needs more than a good memory.
He needs good deduction skills too.
Where to now?
We can go the way we came.
Wait.
(After 30 seconds at 60km per hour, they talk about cell phones)
(Bar street? Sound, 40km per hour, right turn 30km per hour 15 seconds)
If we make a right here, there should be bars.
He's right. It's a bar street.
And if we go straight here...
That's right. That's it.
(Bar street? Sound, 40km per hour, right turn 30km per hour 15 seconds)
Okay.
- Detective Kang, bring me that. - Okay.
He heard a forklift.
That sounds right. Isn't that a forklift?
I think so.
100 percent.
This is it, Captain Jung Sung Joon.
Check all the cameras between here and the point of abduction.
- Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.
I found it.
No, no. You found it. Give it here.
That little...
You really came to my lecture.
But what happened to your face?
Well...
I picked up a sport recently.
Boxing.
You must have boxed hard.
Anyway.
Here, have this.
This is my niece. She's very interested in this field.
May I see your hands?
When did you hurt it?
It was like this ever since I was a child.
It looks like a stigmata.
A stigmata?
It's also called a sign of divine favor.
It's a term used in Christianity.
Look at this.
They're sacred wounds appearing on the human body...
corresponding to Jesus' crucifixion wounds.
In Asia,
they call them wounds from receiving a spirit.
I saw a similar stigmata on a shaman...
who received a spirit via a spirit-receiving ritual.
Sorry. My apologies.
It's just that I haven't seen such clear stigmata in a while.
It's okay.
Did what I tell you about Mount Cheonbo help at all?
It did.
That's why I came. To ask you something in person.
Sure, go ahead.
Can you get rid of the spirit possessing the Buddha statue?
It's possessed by an evil spirit,
so you'll have to defeat it.
In more detail please.
What can you do to defeat the evil spirit?
Well... You need to take the lead.
Excuse me?
Well...
This is the possessed Buddha statue, the evil spirit.
This evil spirit...
curses a target.
So I go to that target and curse it first.
Then this evil spirit...
will feel embarrassed...
since someone else cursed what I wanted to curse.
Then you would have taken the lead.
Well...
it may sound easy,
but how do you find out what its target is?
That's hard. That's hard to figure out.
When it comes to people, you can understand what they want,
but how could a person understand what an evil spirit wants?
Maybe it's a desire.
When it comes to people, they have convictions...
regarding what they must do.
But if you question what a desire is after...
(Desire)
Maybe desire is the goal itself.
Desire is the goal itself.
What if you were an evil spirit?
If I were an evil spirit?
Yes. If you were an evil spirit and had to switch hosts,
to whom would you go?
I'm not sure.
I don't think I'd go into a human being.
What?
Wouldn't most evil spirits...
want to move into a host that doesn't die?
Not a finite being like humans.
That's the case with possessed Buddha statues.
More spirits of shamanisms across the globe...
dwell in trees, valleys, and objects,
things that last forever, rather than in people.
If I were an evil spirit, in order to satisfy my desire,
I'd transfer myself over to an item that will last forever.
But it isn't easy to change hosts.
There must be criteria that the host must meet.
Yes. In order to move over, it needs...
(Link)
a link with the target.
- A link? - For example.
There's a tree.
I want to move into this tree.
Then I'd pluck out my hair and bury it under the tree,
sprinkle my blood on it,
or burn something precious to me and sprinkle its ashes on it.
I have to make sure this new host...
will feel familiar to the spirit within my body.
In other words,
something similar to the current body...
was probably planted into the new host.
That's right.
Okay. You were of great help, professor.
Thank you.
May I ask you one more thing?
Do you really believe in this supernatural power?
People ask that all the time.
I believe.
Let me show you something.
This is a talisman my mother bought for me...
from a shaman...
to wish me success when I became a professor.
Does it work?
You saw my lecture, didn't you?
I don't have many students.
In small colleges like this, your class gets canceled...
if you don't have enough students.
I don't know if it's the power of this talisman,
but my class always barely makes the cut.
I think my mother's will...
dwells in this talisman.
I see.
Tomorrow, during the company's IPO,
Jin Jong Hyun will switch hosts using the talismans he bought.
Where do you think it's trying to move?
To a host in which the evil spirit can act out its desire.
It may really move into an object as that professor said.
But we don't know what that evil spirit is...
or what it wants,
so it's too hard to figure out.
How do we find out...
what that evil spirit wants?
Jin Jong Hyun had been using the coding team...
to make Forest of Curses popular.
And he used that popularity...
to go public tomorrow.
That scar...
He called it a stigmata, right?
They're sacred wounds appearing on the human body...
corresponding to Jesus' crucifixion wounds.
In Asia,
they call them wounds from receiving a spirit.
I didn't know that's what this was.
Jin Hee.
Jin Jong Hyun had this on his arm too.
Jin Jong Hyun had a similar scar?
No, not much.
They just introduced the new logo...
they plan to use after they go public.
A new logo?
(Forest)
(Forest new logo)
Did his scar look like this?
These loa sometimes dwell within people,
but they also dwell in nature, such as rivers, mountains,
wind, and things like that.
Yes. In order to move over,
it needs a link with the target.
A link.
You said there were two ways...
you perform procedures, right?
Yes.
First. To make sure you know the target,
their face, name written in Chinese characters,
and personal item.
And the other is to touch the person directly.
What if the target is an unspecified person?
The people who have a grudge against those people...
will need to consent.
The Forest of Curses...
has consents from countless people.
Jin Jong Hyun is trying to move into Forest.
If it moves into Forest...
The countless people tagged in the Forest of Curses.
He's performing a procedure on all of them.
Here. This is where it starts.
Hold on. This is it.
Here. Please zoom in on the license plate of this van.
Okay.
2770.
It's the same as the van that abducted Jin Hee.
Let's check the next street.
Okay.
They'll show up on this next street.
It's them.
Now we need to find a connection between Lee Hwan and them.
What about the security video for the inside of the warehouse?
He said he'd find it and send it over,
but it didn't come in yet.
- Still? - No.
Hi, Jin Hee.
I found out what Jin Jong Hyun plans to do.
What was that? Where are you?
On the day of the IPO,
he's going to move his spirit into Forest.
Not to another person, but to Forest itself.
What do you mean?
Evil spirits can dwell in things too, not just people.
Jin Jong Hyun will move himself into Forest...
and perform procedures on everyone...
tagged in the Forest of Curses.
Jin Hee. Listen.
Tens of thousands of people are tagged in the Forest of Curses.
There are probably even more now.
Captain. Chun Joo Bong woke up.
Chun Joo Bong woke up?
I'll head there now.
I need to ask him something.
Okay. Fine.
But stick with me.
Okay.
Jung Hoon, go with me to question Chun Joo Bong.
- Okay. - Young Soo.
Find evidence that the jerk Lee Hwan is affiliated with them...
- as quickly as possible. - Yes, sir.
So Jin, Chun Joo Bong woke up.
Jin Hee.
Look.
(Im Jin Hee)
(Forest of Curses)
(Forest of Curses, Jung Sung Joon)
(Jung Sung Joon)
(Emergency Medical Center)
Why did you bring So Jin? It's too dangerous.
Look at this.
(Jung Sung Joon)
Lee Hwan tagged you and me in the Forest of Curses.
You and I are the ones who are in danger.
If he moves his spirit into Forest tomorrow, you and I,
and the tens of thousands of people tagged in the Forest of Curses...
will die all at once.
Jin Hee. We're going to arrest Lee Hwan very soon.
We have solid evidence this time.
The IPO is tomorrow.
We're all going to die tomorrow!
Jin Hee.
What about Chun Joo Bong? Where is he?
This is the video from the warehouse on that day.
Would you open a different file?
Okay.
It must be around here.
There has to be a video of him going in.
Wait. Fast forward a little.
This is it.
Stop.
We've got you, punk.
How's he doing?
Captain, I think it'll be hard to get anything useful from him.
What? Why?
He did wake up, but he's...
He isn't in his right mind. So even if he does say something,
it'll be hard to get it admitted as evidence.
I'll talk to him myself.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
Glory
Why is that evil spirit here?
Begone!
Chun Joo Bong.
You know what Jin Jong Hyun is up to,
don't you?
I do.
I know.
Evil spirits like you could never understand.
Begone, you evil spirits!
Get it together.
Answer my questions.
Listen to me.
Jin Jong Hyun plans to move his spirit into Forest tomorrow.
I'm right, aren't I?
He plans to move into Forest,
and kill everyone tagged in the Forest of Curses.
I'm right, aren't I?
Answer me.
Mommy.
Look at her. She's yelling at me.
Child. I'm sorry.
Please don't kill me. Please?
Do you think it'll end...
after he kills them all at once?
What?
The evil spirit that goes into Forest...
will probably keep killing.
Because tens of thousands of people will come to him...
and ask him to curse others every single day.
They'll provide consent on their own,
and ask to curse each other.
If those people who are believed to have sinned others...
curse and kill each other for fun,
what do you think will happen?
What do you think?
I'm sure everyone will try not to sin ever again.
Those people with power now,
who think stupid cops can't touch them!
Those people who think no one knows of their sins!
Those people who kill and sin believing that!
Eventually, all of those people...
will try not to sin for fear of being cursed.
You crazy freak.
Our chairman...
desires a world like that.
A world in which everyone monitors and curses each other,
so that no one sins anymore!
Isn't that...
a just society?
Right?
You crazy freak.
You're all crazy freaks! You crazy freak!
You evil spirits!
You'll never understand something that profound!
Jin Hee.
That psycho's statements don't help at all.
It's okay.
We got Lee Hwan.
Jin Hee. Forget what that psycho said.
We can arrest Lee Hwan right now.
Leave it to us now.
Please. Please go somewhere safe with So Jin.
Sung Joon, you have to listen to that psycho.
- That's the only way to catch them. - Jin Hee.
- Please, listen to me! - Jin Hee!
Stop it.
Fine.
I'll stay out of it.
Make sure...
you get Lee Hwan.
Let's go, So Jin.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
The sun feels good.
People's hearts should be just as pure.
Even if they arrest Lee Hwan,
they can't stop Jin Jong Hyun tomorrow.
He needs to do a ritual...
in order to switch hosts.
What?
How can they do a ritual next to that possessed Buddha statue?
In order to switch hosts,
the evil spirit must be removed and transferred to the new host.
But that possessed Buddha statue blocks all spiritual activities.
They can't do the ritual...
next to possessed Buddha statue.
No.
So it won't be there when they do the ritual.
Then...
when they do the ritual...
I'll be able to perform a procedure on Jin Jong Hyun.
Excuse me. What brings you here?
Police.
We came to arrest a suspect. Your cooperation is requested.
- Wait. - Here's the arrest warrant.
Step aside.
(Forest)
What brings you here?
We came to arrest Lee Hwan.
- What? - Mr. Lee!
- Mr. Lee! - Coming.
- My gosh. Are you back again? - Yes, I am.
Okay. I'm glad you came.
I told you, didn't I?
I said to relay a message for me,
begging you to do only what you can handle.
I guess it wasn't relayed very well to you guys.
Mr. Lee Hwan.
You are under arrest for the kidnapping of Kim Pil Sung,
and the attempted murder of Im Jin Hee.
You have the right to remain silent.
You have the right to refuse to testify against yourself.
Hey.
What do you think you're doing, you jerk?
I'm advising you of your Miranda rights, you jerk.
What, you jerk?
And you have a right to an attorney.
- Arrest him. - Yes, sir.
Fine.
I'm experiencing so many things recently.
Do you think you'll get away with this?
You're done for, jerk.
Use everything you can to weasel out of it again.
If you can.
Fine. We'll see.
If they do a ritual,
it'll be during Forest's IPO celebration.
That's when they'll do it.
Then...
I can perform a procedure on Jin Jong Hyun.
We need to get another one of his personal items.
How?
We can get it.
(Emergency Medical Center)
(10 years ago)
(Night Duty Room)
Are you dead?
Darn it.
Hello.
Thanks.
Nothing happened, right?
Yes, something did happen.
What?
They did a ritual all night long.
- All night? - Yes.
- For how long? - What time is it?
They've been at it for about 5 to 6 hours now.
It's the department head's order, so I can't say anything.
- Should I go and complain? - No.
Get some shut-eye. I'll take a look.
That punk.
(The Cursed)
Don't come outside no matter what, okay?
The same evil spirit went into the bodies of...
the shaman's daughter and Chairman Jin.
He has completely changed.
He didn't seem like my baby anymore.
I'm tagged in the Forest of Curses, So Jin.
Perform a procedure on me then.
You and I share a common fate now.