Black Out: Episode 9
by mistyisles
Within the wake of a brand new tragedy, everybody scrambles to seek out somebody guilty. The excellent news is that decade-old lies are being uncovered one after the other; the dangerous information is that every fact unearthed reveals yet one more individual complicit within the horrible occasions that have been as soon as blamed on our poor protagonist. However the very best information? He’s not alone anymore, and his new ally isn’t one to let any legal, regardless of how well-defended, off the hook.
EPISODE 9
Because of Chief Hyun’s selfishness, Geon-oh is useless, and his suicide be aware (plus a partial confession that Chief Hyun throttles out of Byung-mu) reveals just a few extra essential keys to the puzzle. Geon-oh had returned to the warehouse simply after Byung-mu and Min-soo assaulted Bo-young. In his panic over realizing what his “associates” had simply achieved, he’d startled her. She fled down the steps, tripped, and hit her head. When Geon-oh tried to name for assist, the opposite two stopped him. They have been all interrupted by a fourth individual, however we don’t get to see that half simply but — although we do get just a few extra clues sprinkled all through the episode. Not least of which is that Chief Hyun made an look on the warehouse someday throughout that evening’s occasions, and that Geon-oh’s be aware urges him to inform the reality for as soon as.
Whereas Chief Hyun stews on the tragic penalties of his decisions, Na-kyeom tells Bo-young’s dad and mom about Byung-mu and Min-soo. Curiously, she tells them that proof was discovered to convict each males of assault and homicide. Much more apparently, as soon as Dong-min and Jae-hee rush off in tears to verify her phrases, Na-kyeom’s personal tears give option to a happy smirk.
The police are speeding to the warehouse when Bo-young’s dad and mom arrive on the station, however Chief Hyun’s right-hand man KIM HEE-DO (Jang Received-young) stays behind to “set the report straight.” I’ve gone forwards and backwards on what to consider this man, however now I’m absolutely satisfied he is aware of what actually occurred and is actively protecting for Chief Hyun. Not solely does he bend over backwards to pin the homicide on Jung-woo and demand there’s no must reopen the case, however he additionally has the gall to assert the sexual assault was one way or the other consensual. Bo-young’s dad and mom deal with that about in addition to they deal with listening to an identical argument from Byung-mu and Min-soo’s fathers (learn: not nicely in any respect), and for as soon as I don’t blame them one bit.
Talking of these two fathers, they proceed to spend so much of time groveling. Even at Geon-oh’s funeral, they beg Chief Hyun to go simple on their sons and plead with Dong-min to just accept financial compensation in lieu of additional investigation (Dong-min finally accepts, and takes out his rage on Jae-hee when she accuses him of profiting off their daughter’s dying).
Chief Hyun is disgusted by their audacity, however he has Assemblywoman Ye respiratory down his neck, warning him to not let the case garner widespread consideration another time. Seems, this isn’t the primary time they’ve had this dialog — she was the one who ordered Chief Hyun to shut Jung-woo’s case as shortly and quietly as potential. So, after Byung-mu and Min-soo are launched from custody, Chief Hyun drives Min-soo out to the center of nowhere and threatens him into throwing Byung-mu underneath the bus.
So the place is Jung-woo whereas all this is occurring? Properly, he spends an excellent a part of the episode unconscious within the hospital, having been hit by a automobile whereas chasing Geon-oh down for solutions. In consequence, Sang-cheol has to interrupt the information to him about Geon-oh’s dying just a few days after the actual fact. He tries to do it gently (although he’s not excellent at gentleness), and it’s an excellent factor he does it in individual, as a result of he then has to cease Jung-woo from working off and doing one thing rash. And oof, Byun Yo-han’s portrayal of being hit by a wave of shock turning to grief turning to rage is simply masterfully achieved.
Sang-cheol additionally lets Jung-woo stick with him in the meanwhile, pays his hospital invoice, and lends him a change of garments, and the 2 (lastly!) put their heads collectively to re-examine the rushed investigation of 11 years in the past. Immediately, they establish three vital scraps of data. The primary is that not one of the three boys current on the warehouse that evening may drive, which implies another person will need to have helped them transfer Bo-young’s physique to the deserted faculty. The second is that whoever the driving force was, they crashed Jung-woo’s automobile into a lightweight pole within the course of, and no pictures of the injury have been included within the investigation recordsdata. And eventually, two shovels have been included among the many crime scene pictures — however they weren’t within the automobile earlier that day, they usually have been eliminated not lengthy after.
Jung-woo is in the course of confronting Byung-mu in regards to the matter of the driving force when the police arrive to arrest Byung-mu because of Min-soo’s “confession.” As they drag him away, Byung-mu yells that Na-kyeom was the true mastermind. And there may simply be some fact to that declare, as a result of when Jung-woo questions her about it, she activates the waterworks and tells him Byung-mu has been blackmailing her all this time… however a flashback reveals us that she’s mendacity about going straight house that evening. She was proper there within the warehouse when Bo-young died.
I’m all for Byung-mu being punished — not like Jung-woo, he deserves the betrayal and vilification — nevertheless it’s fairly horrifying how fast these persons are to establish a scapegoat and run with it slightly than root out all of the events concerned. Jung-woo was a simple goal eleven years in the past due to his reminiscence blackout, and Byung-mu is a simple goal now as a result of he’s proven himself to be an undeniably terrible individual; in the meantime, all the opposite less-obviously-awful individuals stick with it looking for themselves and pretending to care about justice.
So far as Hyung-shik and the second homicide are involved, there nonetheless hasn’t been a lot motion. Somebody frightens Hyung-shik much more by sending him a hoop within the mail. And a flashback reveals that Jung-woo’s associates — Na-kyeom included — felt uncared for after he began relationship Da-eun and resented that she was all he may take into consideration that fateful day.
Whereas it appears clear the 2 women have been murdered by totally different individuals, I’m not satisfied it was fully coincidental they occurred on the identical evening. I do, nevertheless, suppose Jung-woo is correct that Su-oh holds the important thing. The issue, after all, is that he’s locked up within the hospital (he wasn’t allowed to attend Geon-oh’s funeral, and it’s potential nobody even informed him his brother is useless!) and Chief Hyun already burned his portray of the crime scene. However he’s been eyeing these artwork provides Seol satisfied Hyung-shik to offer him, and I’ve a sense it gained’t be for much longer earlier than he takes issues into his personal palms.
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