Dongjae the Good or the Bastard: Episodes 5-6
by solstices
What initially appeared to be two separate circumstances grow to be much more deeply intertwined than they seem, with new proof surfacing and yet one more homicide on the roster. And because the one to attach the dots, our ignored prosecutor might lastly be welcoming his massive break.
EPISODES 5-6
Choosing up the place we left off final week, we be taught that an pressing rest room journey had Chan-hyuk forgetting about his bag of Purple tablets. Gyeo-re swiped the bag upon discovering it within the rest room stall, sneaking away with Yuri amidst Chan-hyuk’s panicked ruckus. That will get drug trafficking added to Gyeo-re’s expenses, inciting Wan-sung’s fury.
Suspecting that Chan-hyuk is likely to be Yuri’s assassin, Dong-jae requests a warrant. However Byung-gun protests, as a result of he simply acquired intel {that a} main drug deal is happening that evening. Along with his sights set on a promotion to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Workplace, Byung-gun desires to grab the chance to catch the drug cartel red-handed. Finally, Chief Jeon decides to have them examine each circumstances concurrently. (Cue the pair racing one another to unravel the case like a pair of faculty kids, ha.)
On the transaction web site, the police and prosecutors’ ambush seems profitable for probably the most half. The 2 gangs are rounded up and the Purple tablets confiscated, however cartel boss Geum-ho manages to flee regardless of getting shot within the stomach.
On high of that, Chan-hyuk is conspicuously absent. Having slipped away from the detective on his tail, Chan-hyuk’s wound up in Wan-sung’s clutches as a substitute. Wan-sung can’t have him blabbing about Gyeo-re’s involvement within the drug offers, in any case. Fearing for his life, Chan-hyuk gives to pin all of it on Yuri, then sweetens the take care of Geum-ho’s location.
With that, Jung-ki and a workforce of goons snatch Geum-ho off the highway, just for Geum-ho to breathe his final within the automotive. He’s tossed again out unceremoniously, whereas Wan-sung traps Chan-hyuk beneath the jaws of a crane excavator for daring to cut price with him.
In the meantime, Detective Kim calls Dong-jae to a residential district with a brand new case. A person has died by gunshot — Wan-sung’s searching shotgun lies by his toes — with Purple in his mouth. They’ve discovered the illicit lab the place the Purple tablets are manufactured. The sufferer is KANG SOO-MIN (Park Seung-wan), a.okay.a. the mysterious Purple provider, and Dong-jae realizes the lab operator and the drug producer are separate folks. The previous could also be useless, however the latter continues to be at massive. If Dong-jae cracks this case, he’ll be the one on the highway to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Workplace.
Alas, a radical dusting of the crime scene — which Dong-jae does himself on account of a manpower scarcity, ha — turns up no fingerprints. Not a single strand of hair, both. (Dong-jae: “Is he bald?”) Then a forensics officer mentions that the perpetrator won’t have any fingerprints on account of extended publicity to the drug chemical compounds, alongside deteriorated lungs. It’s a lightbulb second for Dong-jae — the bowling alley proprietor had been hacking his lungs out once they met.
Sadly for Dong-jae, the bowling alley is registered beneath a false id, and he can’t precisely request a warrant for extreme coughing. Having hit a useless finish, Dong-jae switches tack, approaching Wan-sung to resell the land again to him now that Gyeo-re has been cleared of homicide expenses. They stamp the contracts on the spot, and the switch is full. (Dong-jae: “Please let the redevelopment be canceled.” LOL.)
That’s one headache (seemingly) resolved, after which Dong-jae lastly manages to enter the bowling alley due to a part-timer. A forensics take a look at turns up traces of ecstasy, and by a stroke of luck, the part-timer occurs to have taken a selfie with the bowling alley proprietor within the background. Ecstatic at his discovery, Dong-jae sprints exterior, prepared for the Supreme Prosecutors’ Workplace.
It’s hilariously in-character for our weasel to be zeroing in on self-benefit amidst a case, and I like how this ties in along with his preliminary predicament. Whereas Dong-jae is genuinely competent, he’s additionally very a lot targeted on himself above all else. It makes the distinction between his investigative prowess and his useless egotism much more amusing, as a result of one second he’s showcasing his sensible thoughts and the subsequent he’s undercutting his personal coolness.
Mix that with a haughty pettiness and an intuition for justice, and also you get an exasperating but endearing hero who’s downright enjoyable to root for. The drama does such a very good job of highlighting it too, with its enthusiastic use of sound cues and spot-on comedic timing. It strikes an apt steadiness between the character-driven comedy and the plot-driven depth, making it a riveting watch throughout.
My coronary heart aches for Gyeo-re, as a result of it’s painfully clear all of the adults in his life have failed him in a technique or one other. Wan-sung is simply too self-absorbed to note Gyeo-re’s ache, after which you’ve got Jung-ki who blabbed to Wan-sung proper after Gyeo-re confided in him. They’re all looking for their very own necks and nobody else’s. Dong-jae is true — Gyeo-re didn’t meet the incorrect buddy, he met the incorrect father.
Worse but, Wan-sung even holds a press convention to accuse the police of a coercive investigation, insinuating Yuri led his harmless son astray and the police coated it up since she’s a detective’s daughter. Then he forces Gyeo-re — hair freshly dyed again to black like a very good scholar — to face the cameras and recite the lies his lawyer workforce fed him. It’s horrible throughout, particularly since Wan-sung doesn’t understand he’s digging Gyeo-re into an excellent deeper gap. I actually do hope somebody extends a hand to Gyeo-re quickly, earlier than he spirals too far.
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