(Capital punishment and the condition of corrections...)
(in the story is fiction and is not related to Korea's policy.)
(Episode 12)
We've received an order from the Justice Department.
In the past 10 years,
bizarre and brutal crimes that the police can't expect...
have increased significantly.
The decision on resuming capital punishment...
was determined...
after a long consideration to prevent this.
I believe that...
there will be a lot of domestic and international opposition.
Capital punishment is starting again after 20 years,
and it's been decided before clarifying the additional...
crimes of the criminals.
It seems they want you to settle this as fast as you can.
Since it's a serious matter,
they think involving the NCI is necessary...
to prevent any possible opposition...
from the public.
Rather than searching for additional crimes,
the government is looking for a justification to show its citizens.
After brutally murdering a total of 12 women in their 20s,
Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin were given the death penalty.
It's been three days since the capital punishment...
on the two murderers has been finalized.
It's the first execution since December 31, 1997,
when 23 convicted felons were executed.
As it's been 20 years since the last execution,
there has been a lot of interest by the citizens...
and debates over the support of the death penalty.
There's less than 48 hours left until the execution,
and the NCI team has been assigned the case.
As a result, the media is focusing on whether or not they will find...
additional crimes committed by Jo Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin.
It's the serial killer couple, Jo Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin.
15 years ago, in 2002,
12 unidentified dead bodies have been discovered in the yard...
of a house in Seoul, Youngsan-gu, 870 Ohsan-dong.
When it was revealed that that these remains belonged...
to women in their 20s who have been missing since the early 2000s,
the whole nation was shocked.
What do they mean by additional crimes?
Are there any more victims aside from the 12 women...
they already confessed to murdering?
Two days ago, the remains of a body were found in a construction site.
Yoon Joo Hee. After being seen on the surveillance camera...
in the university area, she's been missing for 15 years.
The construction site where her body was found...
was where the houses that Jo Young Hoon, an architect, built.
According to the forensics, their unique murder pattern,
eight times of cutting...
and the way the body is buried are very similar.
Above all, the period Yoon Joo Hee went missing...
matches the other victims.
As their execution has already been determined...
when this woman's remains were found,
the government wants us to resolve this case as soon as possible.
I want you...
to go with Min Young to the house they lived in.
Then meet us at the prison.
Yes, sir.
Ahn Yeo Jin confessed that she murdered her son, Jo Si On,
but she didn't admit...
to the other 12 murders.
At first, she kept her silence,
but later she confessed to engaging in the murders with Jo Young Hoon.
Then she took an ambiguous attitude by changing her testimony.
Is she trying to hide the additional victims?
Do you think...
Yoon Joo Hee is the last victim the couple murdered?
Unlike Jo Young Hoon who likes to show off his crime,
Ahn Yeo Jin was uncooperative with the media in the prison,
so she got a nickname "Cold Witch".
The media probably exaggerated...
after observing her in the court.
Ahn Yeo Jin even murdered her two-year-old son.
Not only that, but she buried...
12 innocent women in their 20s.
There's something more important than the number of women she killed.
In 38 hours,
the victims who have not been found yet...
will be buried with those two people for good.
(Gentle words are more powerful than threatening words.)
(Yield and be consider to others to create a better personality.)
In the remaining 36 hours,
two guards will constantly stand by.
Until the execution,
you'll be staying in a special solitary confinement.
We will give you your personal belongings as soon as they arrive.
(Gentle words are more powerful than threatening words.)
(Restricted Area)
We will give you...
the food you want for your last meal.
Is there anything in particular that you would like to eat?
Director.
Isn't there going to be a full moon tomorrow?
I want to see the last full moon instead of getting my last meal.
That is against the rules.
Do you think Yoon Joo Hee...
really is the last victim that the couple has killed?
Our job is to find out the truth by profiling the culprits...
within the given time.
Yoon Joo Hee might not be the last victim...
that Jo Young Hoon has killed.
(Seohyun Prison Control Room, Tuesday, 10:35 am)
In 2001, in the northeast area of Seoul,
female students in their 20's began to go missing.
The police received a tip from an anonymous informant...
who told them that she had seen Jo Young Hoon...
with the students.
The identity of the female informant has not been revealed yet.
The police interrogated him,
and Ahn Yeo Jin and their son were also present at the interrogation.
The police sensed his abnormal mentality through interrogation,
and when they went to his house three hours later with a warrant,
but his son had already disappeared.
Instead, below his workroom,
they found 12 dismembered bodies of the missing students.
Jo Young Hoon decided to run away to escape from the police,
and ordered Ahn Yeo Jin to kill their son...
and to get rid of the dead body.
Jo Young Hoon testified that he had found 12 victims...
with Ahn Yeo Jin and killed them after abducting them.
Now, the number of victims have been increased to 13.
And numerous pictures have been found at his house.
The report says that Jo Young Hoon has pedophilic characteristics.
If you look at the pictures he took before he killed the victims,
the victims are wearing clothes that are usually worn by children.
If you look at crimes committed by people with Lolita Complex,
they have unique characteristics...
in which the victims' arms and legs are cut off.
Unlike Jo Young Hoon who was reported to have a sexual disorder,
the police couldn't conclude the state of Ahn Yeo Jin.
It's highly likely that Ahn Yeo Jin was a hybristophilia.
(Hybristophiliac refers to women who are attracted to criminals.)
It's something like what happened in "Bonnie and Clyde".
Jo Young Hoon is under the delusion...
that he has full control over his victims.
He doesn't seem to be regretting or blaming himself for the crime.
He would think of Ahn Yeo Jin as something that he owns.
That's why he thinks he can rule over her and be obeyed.
Talk to him.
Yes, sir.
You probably won't get much out of him.
Ahn Yeo Jin looked for the victims from a nearby college.
And the victims came here...
after they saw the advertisement that she posted.
It was an advertisement looking for an assistant of Jo Young Hoon,
who was an architect.
This must have been his workroom.
The worktable would have been here somewhere.
And over the arched door,
there would have been a room for torture.
The wounds from the victims' bodies...
match the tools that were in his workroom.
He dismembered the dead bodies here with his tools.
And he would have buried them...
under the floor over there.
If you look at his records,
there is evidence that indicate he was abused by his parents.
In that case,
how do you think Ahn Yeo Jin's childhood was like?
Her mother has never agreed to do an interview...
during the last 15 years.
It would be different now.
Now, Ahn Yeo Jin was ordered to be executed.
Let's go meet her mother.
All right.
The hall in front of the condemned cells...
are referred to the prison officers as the way to the underworld.
Has Ahn Yeo Jin...
met Jo Young Hoon after she came here?
No, after she was sentenced to death,
she said that she won't meet anyone.
We have separated her from other prisoners...
for her safety as well.
These are great works of art.
I had a lot of time here.
The Director allowed me to do it.
I heard you wanted to ask me something.
I think it's time...
the victims' families found out why they had to die.
Who are you?
Are you Ahn Yeo Jin's mother?
We're from NCI.
We have a few things to ask you regarding your daughter.
It's true that I gave birth to her.
And it's true that she met a scumbag as a husband...
and buried those women under her house.
What more do you want to know?
She told us...
that she will tell us why she killed...
these women.
I know it's hard for you,
but please talk to us for your daughter's sake.
Ma'am.
May I ask you how she was during her childhood?
She had a normal life like you.
She grew up well.
If only she never met that scumbag.
She was very gentle.
She did pretty well at school.
She was also good at drawing.
How was her relationship with her father?
Was she...
abused by her father?
I admit her father was pretty strict.
They used to argue a lot...
because they never agreed with each other.
What's the point of all this?
My husband is dead, and my daughter is about to die.
If we get to know her childhood and her relationships,
we could find out how she was involved in such matter.
Jo Young Hoon probably kept Ahn Yeo Jin alive...
because they have something in common.
It looks like...
your daughter tried to share Jo Young Hoon's pain until the end.
Did your husband often physically abuse her?
Still...
Yeo Jin...
didn't get beaten as much as I did.
You could've ran away with her.
I had no place to go with her.
I wasn't confident enough to live on my own.
I was worried about getting caught.
Did you report...
Jo Young Hoon's crimes...
yourself 15 years ago?
It wasn't me,
but...
I know who it is.
The mailman...
gave it to me this morning.
How did you get a doctorate at such a young age?
You must've studied a lot.
Your mother must be proud of you.
Thank you.
Yeo Jin.
Ahn Yeo Jin.
Do you still remember what I said?
We'll be recorded in history.
This is our fate.
Our names will be remembered for eternity.
Get out.
People will always remember us.
We can kill for real if we want.
Do you know how happy that is?
Right, Yeo Jin?
Say it.
Did you make us encounter on purpose?
And did you find something?
Yes?
38 out of 40 on the PCLI test.
You've been diagnosed with severe antisocial personality disorder.
It's not antisocial personality disorder,
but sexual disorder.
I think you have a beautiful smile,
but you're not smiling at all.
When I see an anxious face,
I flutter.
Are there any more victims besides the bodies discovered?
If I tell you,
what will you give me?
I'll give you a chance to ease the pain of the victims' families.
Justice apostle?
Uncuff her.
Thank you.
I need to flex to grab a brush.
What's the best thing...
about drawing?
Freedom?
Min Young. What can I help you with?
I need to talk to Team Manager Kang. Is he available?
Of course.
I think it's fine. Hold on.
Team Manager Kang, it's Min Young. I think it's emergency.
Really?
Team Manager Kang.
I'm at Ahn Yeo Jin's parents' house.
Her mother gave me a letter.
I thought you need to know this immediately.
Read the letter.
- Mom. - Mom.
I know how much you're suffering from this.
When we come to think of it,
we were far from...
normal mom and daughter relationships.
I'm aware that...
you didn't have any other choice.
That's my personal story.
Now that I'm a mother,
I understand how you felt in the past.
Understanding you...
is the second gift I received in this world.
I have something to tell you.
It's about the first gift I received.
- The biggest gift I received... - The biggest gift I received...
is that people like you and me...
are somewhere that is unimaginably far.
As a mother and as a woman,
I didn't fulfill my duty,
so many children died.
Every time I think about it,
I can't sleep at all.
Stop. Please stop.
Stop it. Stop.
It's fine. It's fine.
Did you say you didn't fulfill your duty?
You didn't kill the victims, did you?
Why didn't you testify at court?
I brought...
female university students to my husband's workplace.
Isn't that because he said he needed helpers?
No.
If I had paid attention,
I probably could've noticed.
That's...
completely different from getting involved in a murder.
Considering the letter,
you're trying to receive the death sentence...
for the crime you didn't commit.
I don't think this will be enough to receive a suspension.
To understand Jo Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin,
we must approach them as mentally ill patients.
Jo Young Hoon's desire developed from emotional, mental,
and sexual abuse his mother had done to him.
Through repeated abuse,
he not only suffered from a psychological trauma...
but he also created virtual reality on twisted love.
He captured the victims,
and by looking at his signatures on their bodies,
he fulfilled his fantasy.
He was probably alone every time his mother abused him.
To activate the virtual reality he created,
he must be alone with a victim.
That means, when he commits murder, it's his own world...
where no one can interrupt.
If Ahn Yeo Jin was there with him,
she would be dead by now.
But she confessed that she killed her son.
She implied that she murdered the women as well.
Team Manager Kang.
Ahn Yeo Jin is the anonymous reporter who reported Jo's murders.
She suffered from endless guilt.
She regretted and blamed herself for a long time.
When you read this letter,
you can't see the profile of a woman who killed...
13 women and her own son.
Does that mean she chose to die...
by making a false confession?
For what reason?
She might be in a failed cognition state.
It's a mental state that forces her to choose death...
when she's in danger of under stress.
I once saw a study that said...
30 percent of culprits of the violent crimes cases that were...
found innocent on the second trial after being found guilty at first...
have made false confessions.
The most important reasons why...
the culprits make false confessions is...
because they are being controlled and have now self-control.
It must be a result of having been controlled by Jo Young Hoon.
But we need...
more solid evidence.
If we prove that Jo Young Hoon was the one that killed his son,
Ahn Yeo Jin...
would be able to get a suspended death sentence.
She's protecting her paintings.
It's like she's protecting her child.
Drawing is one way...
people express themselves.
We need to find out what they mean.
- Execute them. - Execute them.
- Stop. - Stop.
- Execute them. - Stop the execution.
- We are against execution. - We are against execution.
We are against execution.
- We are against execution. - We are against execution.
- Execute them. - Stop the execution.
While people want to know if...
there are more victims of Jo Young Hoon and Ahn Yeo Jin,
domestic and foreign media are all interested in...
the activities of NCI who have gone inside to interrogate.
With the revival of death sentence after 20 years,
everyone is interested and there are never ending conflicts...
regarding whether there it should exist or not.
This just in, NCI will be discussing...
the suspension of the death sentence with Ministry of Justice.
And the tension is building here in front of Seohyun Prison.
YTB will be reporting...
until the last minute, the last second,
so as to broadcast the situations of the victims.
Who gives them such information?
Calm down, Min Young.
That's not what's important.
Sun Woo doesn't seem to be able to get anything from him.
Call her. I'll go inside.
You?
- Okay. - I want to go inside too.
All right.
I prefer the woman who came in before to interrogate me.
Isn't she coming?
Just kidding. It was a joke.
Who is this...
beautiful woman?
I'm the Public Information Officer of NCI, Yoo Min Young.
Your voice is really...
Jo Young Hoon.
Sit down.
Hello, Yoo Min Young.
Sit down, Jo Young Hoon.
Yes.
You too, Min Young.
I went too far.
It's good to see you smile.
Thank you.
You don't smile often, do you?
It seems like you haven't smiled in a while.
I brought these from your room.
It's just a personal hobby.
I don't know where this is,
but the river is flowing gently.
A child who is running freely.
12 roses.
You drew one rose for each victim...
that Jo Young Hoon has killed.
This painting...
is where you are wrong.
It's not 12.
It has to be 13 roses.
In fact,
the 13th victim was found yesterday.
It seems like you don't know...
about the 13th victim.
In fact,
you don't know any of the victims.
Of course, you didn't post the advertisements.
As I told you before...
It's also a lie...
that you are the one who led the victims to his workroom.
Ahn Yeo Jin.
You've been working at an art academy...
even before Jo Young Hoon started killing in 2002.
I've looked into your work records...
and found out that you've been working...
nearly all day including the personal tutoring.
But you insist that you took the students to him...
during daytime.
But why...
didn't they find out the alibi...
during the first investigation 15 years ago?
That was...
because of your confession.
You don't know anything about the 13 victims...
that he had killed.
Why did you make a false confession?
He can no longer...
hurt you.
Do you really want to know how many more women...
I buried?
I really wanted to have someone like that before I die.
How about this?
Do me a favor.
Then I will tell you everything about the women I buried.
That means...
there are more victims, doesn't it?
Don't you want that?
There's nothing to lose.
All right.
What do you want?
Let me...
smell Min Young's hair...
just once.
Jo Young Hoon.
Stop fooling around.
Why?
That's not too hard.
And it's for her to decide.
Let's do it.
Min Young.
Why did you confess that you killed your son?
Why did you lie?
I didn't.
Then where did you bury him?
Do you...
have a child?
It has nothing to do with this case.
Do you carry around a photo of your child?
Stop changing the subject, and answer me.
Where is his body?
Do you really think so?
Now...
is it my turn to reply?
How old would Si On be...
by now?
If he were alive,
he'd be about 16 or 17.
You must be very curious of how he'd have grown,
since Jo Young Hoon eliminated the chance for you to see your son.
You must be very stressed from your job.
Doesn't your wife have a hard time because of your pressure from work?
I don't have a wife.
I think that's a wedding ring.
Why are you still protecting Jo Young Hoon?
You're not living with your wife, right?
I think you are innocent.
All people are guilty.
But why should little children suffer...
because of the sins we've committed?
Do you have children?
How old are they?
What are their names?
He's six years old.
Kang Han Byul.
What a pretty name.
If you happen to...
have a photo, could you show it to me?
I don't carry around a photo.
Is it because of your job?
Your job might put him in risk.
You want to protect your child.
You want to leave Han Byul in a safer,
cleaner place.
Did you commit the murder to protect Si On...
from Jo Young Hoon?
As you protect Han Byul,
I am protecting my Si On too.
Then where did you bury him?
What's important is that...
my Si On is safe.
Where is he?
In a better place than this.
The women I've buried...
There's no more.
Oh, right.
Do you know that the Justice Department postponed...
Ahn Yeo Jin's execution?
What?
There's no way.
There's no evidence that Ahn Yeo Jin...
killed her own son.
You know that.
Don't play tricks on me.
Ahn Yeo Jin killed him.
I know.
Take him away.
Do you want me to tell you...
the exact place Si On is buried?
Do you want me to tell you...
the exact place Si On is buried?
I'm sure it's around here.
Jo Young Hoon undertook the construction of that balcony.
If the parents look from there,
they'd have a clear view.
There was an arched gate like this in Jo Young Hoon's workshop.
Yes, you're right.
Lolita complex.
Then what's this round door?
The mother's womb.
Jo Young Hoon despised his biological mother.
And simultaneously missed her.
He projected his childhood onto his victims.
A child's helpless and passive attitude...
that symbolizes the Lolita complex...
disproves that.
(Tuesday, 1pm, 8 hours before the execution)
We identified the dead body.
It's not Ahn Yeo Jin's son.
Choi Seol Ah.
She was 19 when she was murdered.
Why did Jo Young Hoon give the info on another victim?
It goes against his desire for...
power, control, and dominance.
Taking the secrets of his victims to his grave...
is probably what satisfies Jo Young Hoon's desires.
Why did he give that up now?
It must be because of Ahn Yeo Jin.
Ahn Yeo Jin will become Jo Young Hoon's last victim,
who satisfies his desires.
The moment Ahn Yeo Jin gets executed...
is the climax that Jo Young Hoon is yearning for.
I'm looking into Choi Seol Ah's acquaintances.
In 2003, before she entered college,
Ahn Yeo Jin tutored her.
Do you remember the girl, Choi Seol Ah?
She didn't have much talent.
But she was a nice girl.
We found her body buried...
under that house's back gate.
Did you refer Jo Young Hoon...
to remodel that house?
That victim you mentioned...
was not Si On.
Oh, it wasn't?
Then who was it again?
That girl...
She'd just barely graduated from high school.
Right. Yes, of course.
Seol Ah.
She was so pretty like her name.
I'll ask you one last time.
How many more girls have you buried?
I don't have much time left.
Don't you want to just stop asking those questions,
and pray for me instead?
Guard.
I want to be alone.
Don't kid yourself.
It's not over yet.
Isn't that something I should say?
A flowing river surrounded by bushes.
There's a basket there.
The child running on the hill...
seems to be around 10 years old.
But now that I'm looking at it more closely,
he does seem a bit older.
Did you imagine your son when painting this?
Or did you base this painting on Si On who's alive?
I don't...
have much time.
Now I'd really like to be alone.
Ahn Yeo Jin.
Where is your son right now?
Guard. Please see him out.
Replay my interview video with Ahn Yeo Jin.
Okay.
Exodus 2:3.
But when she could hide him no longer,
she got a papyrus basket coated with tar and pitch.
Then she placed the child among the reeds along the river bank.
It's Moses.
The child should have drowned in the water and died.
Moses' mother put him in a basket,
and hid him in the Nile River.
Then where did you bury him?
What's important is that...
my Si On is safe.
Where is he right now?
In a better place than this.
Jo Young Hoon didn't bury his son.
Because Ahn Yeo Jin already took care of it.
Are you saying that she really killed her son then?
No. She sent him to somewhere safe.
That must be why she named his son after...
the holy hill of Jerusalem.
That means, from the moment her son was born,
she instinctively felt that he was in danger.
We really don't have much time left.
We have to find the son...
if we want to delay her execution.
The fact that Si On is alive...
is the conclusive evidence that proves her innocence.
Search all police and hospital records...
from March of 2002.
I'm searching every single local newspaper to see...
if there were any reports on an abandoned child.
Yes, hello. Yes.
I'm saying that we basically...
found the evidence to prove Ahn Yeo Jin's innocence.
The maximum number of hours...
Ahn Yeo Jin had to hide her son is three hours...
From when the police received the report...
to when they went to his workshop.
According to our records, the police went to...
Ahn Yeo Jin's house at 6:35pm.
It was around rush hour, so she couldn't have gone far.
Whatever she did with Si On, it must have been nearby.
I'm searching for the location Si On went missing...
based on Ahn Yeo Jin and Jo Young Hoon's house.
I'm checking the address of the students she tutored too.
Team Manager Kang.
There were three children that were abandoned in March 2002.
Among them, a two-year-old boy...
isn't here.
Why won't she tell us where her son is?
Because Jo Young Hoon is alive.
Ahn Yeo Jin endured this for 15 years.
While he's alive, she'll never reveal...
where Si On is.
She'll be executed in an hour regardless.
If Si On is really alive,
he'll never get to see his mother.
We have to convince Ahn Yeo Jin until then,
and find him.
Perhaps she also...
doesn't know where her son is?
No.
Ahn Yeo Jin knows.
Finally, the grand show's about to start.
Can we?
Chief.
Please give me five minutes.
I have to see Ahn Yeo Jin's cell.
Give me five minutes and I'll find evidence...
I can't let you do that.
We've already surpassed the official limitations.
Just five minutes.
Please stop now.
You just need to give me exactly five minutes.
I can't give you more than five.
Thank you.
Looking at the full moon...
suddenly makes me want to live.
Being alive...
really feels good.
Doesn't it?
When I was little, my mother...
told me a story about the rabbit that lives on the moon.
Our generation believed that while growing up.
Did you tell your children that story, chief?
Of course I did. I'm from the old generation too.
I embellished it perfectly and told them the story.
You must have been happy.
I once told the story to Si On too.
The rabbit on the moon will always keep an eye on us.
Do you think Si On...
still remembers me?
I've only told him the rabbit story once.
But no matter where we are,
we're looking at the same moon.
That's what I told him.
Do you think he remembers?
Shall we go inside?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me...
an unforgettable final gift.
Ahn Yeo Jin,
if...
there's anything left I can help you with...
Thank you.
My goodness.
Is this really Ahn Yeo Jin's son?
I'll ask the media for cooperation to find him as fast as we can.
Do you want to find peace in the name of the lord?
Yeo Jin.
I'll wait for you there.
I achieved my own peace...
19 times.
Everyone was prettier than the lord.
Get moving.
Jo Young Hoon.
Why do you want to embrace the secret until the end?
You probably know...
why.
Let me go. Let me go.
I'll walk...
confidently on my two feet.
Yeo Jin.
Don't be so afraid.
We'll last forever...
even after we die.
He just confessed...
he killed six more people than we know.
Do you have any last words?
I...
won.
Jo Young Hoon. Do you see this?
It's your son, Si On, whom you thought dead.
No.
Your illusion is over.
You perfectly lost.
No. No.
Stop joking. He's dead.
Yeo Jin is coming with me.
Do you think this is how it ends?
Don't you want to know where the bodies are?
You'll never know.
I won.
Yeo Jin belongs to me for good.
It's my victory.
I can't let someone die...
for the crime she didn't commit.
If you have to live your life as a son of a serial killer,
what choice would you make?
It says the child's name is Richard Ahn.
Any last words?
It's all for Si On.
(Kim Hyun Jun)
You must see this.
Hyun Jun got arrested as a murder suspect.