What? What is it? What are you keeping in here?
Maggots?
Why are there maggots in your office?
Goodness.
(Episode 10)
You can guess how old a kid, a dog, or a cat is at a glance.
Yes. So what?
Just saying.
Have you been feeling lonely recently?
Goodness. This is so frustrating.
You didn't even knock.
Wow, are these your new pets?
So cute.
They're perfect for you.
It was hard to bring them up, so be nice to them.
- And do what? - Find out its species.
Are you asking me to do a DNA test to find out their species?
It's urgent.
I'll have to kill you to run a test on you.
I'm so sorry, but I love you, these are all lies
This is a press conference...
regarding the college student murder at Cheonghong Officetel.
We have found out that A, who was apprehended as a suspect,
was the detective in charge of the victim's lawsuit against a stalker.
We have found out an active-duty cop was involved in the incident.
We're trying our best to obtain evidence to prove his involvement.
And a thorough investigation is being carried out.
- What? - Come out here.
You can't go into a woman's house even if it was empty.
You're human garbage.
Hello. Don't worry about it.
I'll give you a call.
What are you looking at? Walk.
I thought you hated working outside the office.
You surprised me.
He was so obsessed with her.
Do you think he immediately stopped caring about her?
That's what I mean.
Oh, there's a record of him on the security footage...
logging in and out on the 27th.
The hours of the game he played on that day has been confirmed.
He has a solid alibi.
- What about Kim Joon Tae? - He's always in the public library.
He goes there in the morning and comes home at night.
And on the 27th, he was caught on the security camera.
They both have solid alibis.
Yes.
Let's go.
- There he is. - How do you feel?
How did you kill her?
A police officer should not do something like this, should he?
- Anything to say? - Why did you kill her?
Do you have any accomplices?
- Why did you kill her? - Excuse me.
- Please say something. - Do you not regret this?
- Say something. - Move aside.
Share something.
You know how things are, right?
The media is trampling all over you,
and don't get me started on the public sentiment.
You can't get out of this.
Let's plead guilty and ask them to consider that you were impaired.
Did you ever suffer from panic disorder or depression?
What?
I didn't even do this.
The evidence is pointing toward you.
It's a bad idea to keep denying this.
I thought you were here to defend me.
So why won't you believe me?
If I trusted everything that my clients said,
I'd be their wife, not their lawyer.
I'm sure you'd want to deny this.
But that won't last very long.
I've seen many guys like you...
while I worked as a public defender for police officers.
Your life is over.
(A case report for the murder of a university student...)
Yes. Okay.
Yes?
Yes, we will report on the investigation tomorrow morning.
We inspected all the evidence that we obtained thus far.
The result will be announced tomorrow.
He's not there to protect and serve, but rather to attack.
The murder suspect is an incumbent police officer.
- You're a jerk. - He's such human garbage.
These people are scary.
It's like a witch-hunt.
Deputy Kang, this is bad.
- Everyone's after Lieutenant Cha. - Prosecutor Eun.
Seok Do Hoon had been fired from his delivery company...
because of Yeon's lawsuit.
And it seems like he was humiliated by Lieutenant Cha...
when he was arrested.
That sounds like a legitimate motive.
What if there are dozens of evidence against Soo Ho?
There are hundreds of suspicious circumstances against him!
Prosecutor Eun. Will you just sit around like this?
This is so wrong.
Soo Ho would never do something like this.
He pretends like he's a big shot,
but he's just bluffing. Honestly speaking, he is a guy...
who can't even kill an ant.
Prosecutor Eun, please!
Send them a note asking for a cooperation, or give them a call.
We have no time.
Excuse me. Why are you coming?
You always need the front seat to watch a fire or a fight.
I can't miss it. Hurry up.
Hwang, put that arm back in.
What? Why?
Your arm will get ripped off if we get into an accident.
Oh, my.
- Legs down. - Why?
Your legs will break in an accident. And your spine.
Don't cross your legs. Your thighbones will get smashed.
How do you tolerate him?
- Yes. - Let's get going already.
- I'm not convinced. - What?
With what?
Lieutenant Cha does not seem like the murderer.
- Why not? - He has no motives for murder.
- Let's interview more testifiers... - I don't want your suspicion.
I need evidence.
Is it based only on your gut feelings?
Yes.
For now, that's all.
Sol.
We're prosecutors.
We make decisions and discern cases...
based on evidence.
I know you have a sharp eye for people.
But that doesn't work here.
Lieutenant Cha has been working with Violent Crimes for over five years.
Even if he did kill someone,
he did such a poor job to cover up for what he's done.
It could happen if he was completely drunk.
Would you still do this if I were the suspect?
Even if I was the suspect, we must discern the case...
based on the evidence that we can see.
No, I wouldn't do that if it were you.
Even if all the evidence pointed at you,
I wouldn't believe them.
Because I know you.
Don't.
That's the more reason for you to never judge me.
I wouldn't take a case where you're the suspect.
I don't want my judgment to be shaken. That's a prosecutor.
Hyun.
You haven't seen her autopsy, have you?
It looked like it was done by a demon.
Lieutenant Cha may have been completely drunk,
but he's not a demon.
(Prosecutor Kang Hyun)
What brings you here?
You cannot go in there without an appointment.
You need to release Cha Soo Ho.
- What do you mean? - He's innocent.
What are you doing?
These are maggots.
They need over 50 hours to become this big.
- Maggots? - The same ones found in her neck.
Take a look.
Okay?
- Release him. - I can't do that.
There are enough evidence that says he killed her.
And you bring some maggots to say what? He's innocent?
Bodies lie when they get decomposed, and people lie too.
But maggots can't lie.
Fingerprints found at the scene. The DNA found in the blood.
You found these clear evidence yourself.
What are you saying at this point?
You're still good at writing novels.
You caused the accident on purpose.
It was deliberate!
You're sorely mistaken.
Your job is to dig through corpses to figure out why they died.
We're the investigators.
I didn't investigate. I tested the maggots.
This isn't about cause of death. It's about Cha Soo Ho's alibi.
- That's why he's not guilty. - And who are you to judge?
I'm the lead prosecutor!
Don't you make decisions based on our reports?
Prosecutor Eun.
Prosecutor Eun, there's a huge commotion.
- What? - The psycho doctor...
is fighting with the deputy chief.
It's bad.
What now?
The testing was done without prior agreement.
I can exclude it.
Every specimen extracted from the body during an autopsy...
falls under my jurisdiction!
- What are you up to now? - I'm here to inform you!
In case a half-wit prosecutor like you makes another mistake!
You're still...
just a criminal.
Your novel's still boring after all this time.
Let me explain.
The maggots found in Yeon Mi Rae.
Black blowfly larvae in the third larval stage.
This is the growth curve.
It takes over 70 hours to reach the 3rd larval stage.
But the show starts here.
At 25°C, it's 60 hours.
At 28°C, it's 50 hours.
It takes 50 hours.
What?
The room temperature was 28°C.
If you compare it to the growth curve,
she'd been dead for at least 50 hours.
But the night before she was found,
a witness said that she saw a bloody suspect.
Nonsense.
To figure that out,
Dr. Baek grew the maggots in different temperatures,
feeding it rotten meat.
Mission impossible.
Then Yeon Mi Rae didn't die on May 27.
She died on the 25th. Soo Ho has an alibi now.
He does.
- The maggots were the witness. - Maggots can't lie.
What? One more time, please.
Maggots can't tell a lie.
These squirmy things got us when we least suspected it.
What happened?
I'll start over, sir.
Did the maggots really beat you?
The victim died on May 25, not May 27.
Cha Soo Ho took the night shift for a colleague.
He has an alibi. The killer is someone else.
A trap was made to frame Cha Soo Ho.
The killer was careful enough...
to raise the room temperature to damage the body...
and blur time of death.
I put both of you on it because it was a big case,
and it looks like you two combined did less than the maggots.
I'm sorry, sir. It's my fault.
- Tomorrow's briefing? - Canceled, sir.
Wrap it up, and move quietly.
Yes, sir.
Do you want to be the director?
Why would I want that bothersome job?
There's a right way to deliver the facts.
We issue formal requests for cooperation to prevent such fights.
Who fought whom?
The prosecutors' office was in an uproar.
You went over there with maggots?
(Director Park Joong Ho)
What's going on?
Hello.
It's nothing.
It's not nothing. Something reeks.
You fool.
Talk to me before I use another skill on you.
Talk to me.
Director Park, you can't miss out on such an opportunity.
That's true.
It is. Let's take the credit for this.
Let the prosecutors sort out their own mess.
"Truth-telling maggots". It's a sensational case.
I'm not interested. Are we done?
We aren't done. Where are you going?
What an idiot.
Well...
I'm his superior.
I'll see what I can do with this.
The real killer is meticulous and smart.
They set a perfect trap that even the police all fell for.
- Seok Do Hoon's alibi? - Not for the 25th.
Shall we have him followed?
If Yeon Mi Rae was killed on the 25th,
what did the witness see on the 27th?
That's right. We were on this wild goose chase because of that call.
No.
She remembered Cha Soo Ho's car and license plate number.
Cha Soo Ho didn't even go near that place that day.
- Then... - That phone tip...
was fake.
- It was staged? - We fell for a fake call.
All of us.
Hello.
I'm Chief Ma Do Nam, a medical examiner at the NFS.
At the National Forensic Service,
we analyzed maggots found on the victim's corpse...
and was able to conclude that...
the victim had been dead for two days.
We provided the turnaround for the investigation...
and cleared the name of an innocent police officer.
He's practically groveling. He's taking scraps that we left.
Does he really want to do this when he did nothing?
Exactly.
Does he think becoming famous will get him promoted?
We will do our best...
to improve and elevate scientific investigation.
Sit back down.
Cleared the name of...
an innocent police officer.
This was a great example of forensic medicine...
and forensic entomology revealing the truth.
We at the National Forensic Service...
will strive to provide more precise and swift results...
This is how PR should be done.
"The prosecutors are useless, and the NFS is great."
Comparison makes them look even better.
Thanks to you, I had to see my boss in private.
Why would he call someone who'll retire in six months?
To tell me...
not to make a mess and wrap up nicely before I exit.
I apologize.
Solve the case within 24 hours.
Those are his orders.
24 hours?
Now that the press knows, the killer will plan an escape.
It's a battle of time.
The killer will try to disappear within 24 hours,
and we must find them before then.
That psycho doctor acted like he didn't care about fame.
He used us.
What's left is Seok Do Hoon who doesn't have an alibi...
and the witness who confused us with the fake tip.
Ms. Park, locate Seok Do Hoon.
- Did we analyze the call? - Yes.
Let's go.
- Yesterday at dawn. - Yesterday at dawn.
I saw a man coming from that corner wearing just one shoe.
A man in just one shoe?
- Yes, in the alley in the back. - Okay.
There are a lot of cars parked there at night.
He ran toward the parked cars.
Oh, he had blood on his hands.
They used a voice manipulator.
It's not clear.
Is there any noise other than her voice?
Do you want to hear the amplified background noise minus the voice?
Yes.
Just a moment. Can you make it louder?
It didn't rain that day.
A water tanker.
- It's a water tanker. - What?
It cleans the curb. I saw one that morning.
All tankers monitored by the government...
will have dashboard cameras.
Locate the public phone where the call was made from.
Get the camera footage from the truck in that area.
Okay.
Here you go.
All these are water tankers?
- Yes. - There are so many.
We'll have to check every one of them.
- Go ahead. - Okay.
I'll go this way.
I found it!
Okay.
This is the one, right?
- She just needs to turn. Turn. - Turn, turn.
- Turn, turn. Come on, turn. - Turn.
- Darn it. - Gosh.
Had she turned, we would've gotten her face.
- We would've seen it right away. - This is driving me crazy.
Your phone's ringing.
- This is Kang Hyun speaking. - Sir,
Seok Do Hoon just went into Cheonghong Officetel.
Mr. Seok Do Hoon.
Hey!
- Stop resisting. - Hey.
- Stop it! - Don't move!
Mr. Seok Do Hoon,
you're under arrest for the murder of Yeon Mi Rae.
You, scumbag.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
Do you admit killing Yeon Mi Rae?
What? Kill her?
My gosh, no. I really didn't kill her.
I'll tell you the truth.
The court issued a restraining order,
so I couldn't even go near her house,
but I really missed her. That's why...
That's why you installed a surveillance camera?
Yes.
All the cops had left the house.
I only went back to retrieve it.
That's absurd. I really didn't kill her.
- When did you install the camera? - Has it been two weeks?
Yes, I installed it two weeks ago.
Then the camera might have the footage for the 25th.
My gosh, this is hard.
- There she is. She's out. - She came out.
My gosh, look at that.
What?
It was... It was Kim Joon Tae?
My goodness.
- Gosh. - Oh, my.
Darn it.
- Goodness. - That dirtbag, Kim Joon Tae.
- I can't believe it. - That little scumbag.
- This is crazy. - My gosh.
Goodness, this is unbelievable.
Hey, hey. He's coming out.
There's the demon's face.
Kim Joon Tae!
Darn it. I think he already skipped town.
I'm sure he didn't go far.
Check his card statement and his browser history.
Yes, sir.
(Interviewing Experienced Police Officers for the First Half)
(Intro to Police Administration)
His important exam was the police officer exam.
There is...
There's a record that he bought a flight ticket to the Philippines.
The flight leaves at 8pm today. We must go to the airport now.
- Let's get this piece of trash. - Hold on.
- What is it? - Looking at his pattern so far,
he predicted the line of investigation and threw us off.
We may fall for it once, but we won't fall for it again.
- Dispatch backup to the airport. - Okay.
He might have drawn attention and then fled to somewhere else.
- Issue a nationwide APB. - Yes, sir.
- Let's go. - Request backup at the airport.
- Wait. We must go back. - What?
I need to check something. Go back to Kim Joon Tae's house.
Okay. I got it. Hold on a second.
This is hung upside down.
("Cha Soo Ho Graduates Top of His Class at the Police Academy")
(Hwarang 17)
(Gungpyeong Port)
(Seoul, Munsan)
(Munsan, Seoul)
Search starting from Kim Joon Tae's house.
We must uncover his trails.
- Is that it? - No, we have one more.
Yes, Prosecutor Eun.
I think he's leaving Korea by ferry, not plane.
- What? - I found a photo of a port.
- Gungpyeong Port? - Okay. I will...
Prosecutor Eun. Hello?
Hyun...
- Gosh. Let's get going now. - Okay.
I think he went to the port.
Show me all the surveillance cameras near the coast.
- Hwarang 17 is right there. - Okay.
Stay here for a second.
(Partners for Justice)
- Why did you kill Yeon Mi Rae? - Because I loved her.
Why did you come here? I'm sorry.
I'm not as bad as you think.
What have I done wrong?
It was your fault. You hit on a girl who was already taken.
That's why it's you who killed Mi Rae!
I'm Lieutenant Cha Soo Ho from Gangdong Police Station.
Do you want to sleep with me?
I don't want to. I'm not that kind of a man.
Only the driver died?
Come on, you're talking nonsense.
So what? Are you saying we should switch the assailants or what?
I have to be quarantined until then?
This could be MERS.
How did you get your cut?
If you got it from the used scalpel, you'll be in great danger!