Down in the Dumps
Kyung-Yi confronts K about Je-Hui’s whereabouts. However, K has other plans. She makes a power play with Yong Sook, deciding they should team up and work together. Specifically, she presents herself as Yong Sook’s personal assassin.
Kyung-Yi throws a spoon at K’s head before skipping out, hurrying away to try and find Je-Hui. However, Kim and his subordinates appear and chase her down. Kyung-Yi is eventually thrown into the trunk of his car and knocked out with knockout gas. “Hey, that’s a bit cliché!” She says, before falling unconscious.
Kyung-Yi is found hiding in a barrel by the gang after they threw her in. They try to find her whereabouts but are unsuccessful.
Kyung-Yi wakes up to find herself hanging over a large disposal unit. She slips down and plummets to her doom, but miraculously survives. Santa is still determined to try and find her before it’s too late. ..
Kassandra Alonso is on her way back to Seoul after a day of relaxation. However, she’s forced to stay in a house that feels like a prison. The windows barely open, the perimeter is covered with cameras and there are high, electrified wires atop the walls.
K is resourceful and manages to find a way out…or almost does anything. The high walls covering the exterior of the house are also electrified on top. As she touches them, she comes crashing down to the ground with a hard thud. ..
K is in a difficult situation. He’s been blackmailed by a man who wants to get him to do something bad for him. K is also close to snapping, so he needs someone to help him out. The cold businesswoman at the children’s home seems like the perfect person to help K out, but she’s close to snapping herself. She has to dispose of her son Hyeong-Tae so that he doesn’t get hurt, but she can’t do it without getting close to K.
Yong-Wok has to gain intel from a “very bad man” in order to complete her first assignment. She uses balloons and a gas mask to get crucial information over the identity of the guy called Rabbit.
Meanwhile, Kyung-Yi uses some ingenuity to escape her predicament, climbing back out the waste unit. It takes her a long time and just as she’s about to reach the top, Je-Hui and the gang arrive to help her up the final steps. Je-Hui is alive after all. Turns out K let her live. ..
K held Je-Hui hostage, tying her up and knocking her out. When she regains consciousness following a fainting episode, Je-Hui broke the news that Yong-Sook is after her. Je-Hui even threatens Je-Hui’s daughter and uses her as collateral. The thing is, she has a rule not to hurt children but Kyung-Yi immediately takes action. ..
Kyung-Yi and her team of reporters are determined to find out what K is after and why he’s living in such a deplorable state. They eventually find him living in his apartment, living in squalor because he’s been looking for Geon-Wook, the missing person.
Kyung-Yi is adamant that K is involved in the security footage from the ship. The gang eventually let him go after questioning him over his ties to Jun-Hyeon. Kyung-Yi is convinced that K is behind the deletion of the footage.
Je-Hui continues to act like she’s the only one who knows what’s going on, while Yong-Sook and the others try to figure out what’s going on. Finally, they receive a package that contains what they were looking for - all gift-wrapped and ready to go! But inside is a person they don’t expect… Seong-Tae!
The Episode Review
Inspector Koo has been a strange case. The show has tried to emulate the best parts of Killing Eve, but then it gets bogged down in its political side-gig, which is dominating proceedings here. The mish-mash of ideas sometimes works well, but (like this chapter) stumbles when it should be flying. ..
Kyung-Yi is in the dumpster, seeing a spirit of Je-Hui hanging about before revealing that she’s actually alive. The quirky tone doesn’t quite match the atmosphere either, which feels like it should be gearing up toward the end-game but instead appears to be meandering around without much rhyme or reason.
The fight between K-pop star Kyung-Yi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been hyped up for months, but it seems to have fizzled out. Instead, we’re left with political gamesmanship as Yong Sook uses K-pop star Kyung-Yi for her own diabolical means. There may be an endgame to all of this, but with three episodes left in the series, there’s a lot at stake. ..
We’ll have to wait and see what the next episode has in store for us.
