And as the show has repeatedly stressed, convictions for murder without a body are almost impossible.Įpisode 7 plays out the events of the night that Min-jung got murdered. Should you be allowed to investigate a case where you knew the victim? How do you build sufficient evidence against a killer, especially when a failed case could lead to double jeopardy? If you get it wrong, you don’t get another attempt. The flashback raises a dozen questions about policing, conflicts of interest, responsibility, building a case, and acting outside of the law – whether for justice or retribution. Seeing how the events of 2017 unfolded gives us significant insight into Dong-shik’s character and how he has responded to the death of Min-jung. To be honest, I had forgotten about the death of Dong-shik’s partner: the one he was suspected of killing and that led to his demotion. This week’s episodes start with an intensely layered flashback to 2017 when the crazier of our protagonists was in the Regional Investigation Unit. Insane because of grief that has nowhere to go. Jae-yi who understands Dong-shik because she is the same. The sorrow you held all to yourself brimmed over at some point, so you just began to go around doing crazy stuff.” Jae-yi Jae-yi who has long seen Lee Dong-shik as the man he really is underneath the crazed shell he presents to the world. Poor Jae-yi who has run her mother’s butcher and searched for her for years in the hope that if she holds a line her mother will come back and everything will be as it was before. It’s Jae-yi who shows us what she’s made of in these two episodes. If either of these people found their loved ones, would they heal then? Or would their broken bodies simply fall apart? There is an emptiness underneath these actions. These small stories are not just ones of tragedy. And the woman places her lunch boxes on the ocean for her daughter whose body has never been found. Except the man dives every weekend to find the body of his wife who died in the 2011 tsunami. And a woman who makes special lunches for her daughter every weekend. There is a man in Japan who took up scuba diving.
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