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(theme music)

EPISODE 3

(door opens)

(door closes)

Show me the footage of my office.

(suspenseful music)

From five minutes ago.

(device beeps)

Did I miss something?

The corridor too, right?

(tense music)

I guess your subordinates wash that for you too.

SAEHA: I was emptying your trash can and thought I could wash this too.

I apologize. I won't touch anything in this room again.

Now we know the school Kim Manok attended and the last place he lived...

-And his orphanage. -Can you go there? The orphanage?

Yes.

(car alarm beeps)

(tires screeching in distance)

(car door closes)

(engine starts)

(sighs)

(car engine revving in distance)

JUNG SAEBYEOK

(closes wallet)

CALLS

(ominous music)

(phone buzzing)

Hello? Jung Saebyeok speaking.

Pardon?

(siren blaring)

(line ringing)

IT'S ME, SONG

(tires screeching)

(siren blaring in distance)

You're the only person who can make this for me. You specialize in biopsy evidence.

My phone number that I never gave you, and even my work experience.

What else do you know?

If you help me, I'll share every piece of information I get with this.

(clicks tongue)

It's illegal.

No, it's not.

It's just one of my company's bylaws.

We're not allowed to enter the 13th floor,

but that's just a line drawn by my higher-ups to monopolize information.

You're not obliged to follow that.

To lift the fingerprints, I need to use the equipment in here.

And that's illegal. Using it for personal reasons.

But it's to catch the accomplice.

What if you find the murderer,

but she shows up, helps him flee, and disappears again?

What are you going to do then?

All the information about her is on the 13th floor of my office building.

You just need to help me get in there.

-You told me to stay out of it. -That didn't stop you yesterday.

(suspenseful music)

What's your name?

I'm sorry.

I'm Kim Saeha.

Mr. Kim Saeha.

It doesn't seem you're doing this out of curiosity.

Seeing how you're desperate to enter the 13th floor,

I don't think it's because you're pissed off by the line they drew.

You won't help me unless you're convinced why I'm doing this?

Who said I'd help you?

You promised me to let me in on it.

If you betray me,

I'll go talk to your boss.

Sure.

How long will it take?

(suspenseful music)

(brushing)

I checked the culprit's phone records.

CALL HISTORY

CLIENT: KIM MANOK

MESSAGE: BATHROOM, UNDER THE TRUCK

Bathroom?

SAEHA: It was the messages, right? You realized she tore out the vent cover.

She informed the culprit of the escape route.

(dog barking in distance)

BATHROOM

KIM MANOK

Did you get the fingerprint results? The one you collected yesterday.

SAEBYEOK: No matches on them.

I went through the national database.

I even checked the entry logs in Korea in case she was a foreigner.

Still no matches.

MESSAGE: BATHROOM, UNDER THE TRUCK

UNKNOWN: UNDER THE TRUCK

(heavy footsteps)

SAEHA: Why did she do that for him?

What's their relationship?

(pensive music)

How are these so clear?

First, I scan it and create a 2D image.

(scanner clacks)

(mouse clicking)

(scanner whirring)

(clacks)

(keyboard clacking)

SENDING IMAGE

How did you get the value of the thickness?

That's always the hardest part.

If it's thick, it's stable, but it's unrecognizable

because electrical currents can't pass through it.

To make it stick to the skin, and for electrical current to pass through it…

Wait. You know about the thickness setting?

You've tried it yourself, haven't you?

You've tried forging a fingerprint before.

Detective.

(scoffs)

I must've been out of my mind.

Let go of me.

SAEHA: You can kill me later.

-Kill you for what? -Please help me.

Please complete it.

Yes.

I have tried to make it myself.

But I failed every time, so I couldn't try it at work.

If you make it for me and I use it for some other purpose,

you can shoot me. I don't care.

What would you say if I asked why you're doing this?

You don't care why I'm doing this.

You want to know who she is too. That's why you decided to work with me.

(computer whirring)

SENDING IMAGE

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRINT?

(phone buzzing)

1 UNREAD MESSAGE

(suspenseful music)

1 UNREAD MESSAGE

SECRETARIAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHOI SEONUL

-The owner of the fingerprints? -Yes.

So I'm to snitch on you to her if something goes wrong?

Yes. You can check it out.

SECRETARIAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHOI SEONUL

Then my number will be left on her phone. I don't want that.

(keypad clacking)

SECRETARIAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHOI SEONUL

(tense music)

(tense music swelling)

(machine whirring)

(machine whirring)

How long will it take to complete this?

About 15 minutes.

(machine whirring)

SAEBYEOK: Lay out your hand.

I guess the AB is only interested in the woman

and not the murderer.

But we must catch the culprit to find her.

If she really is his accomplice.

You guys are the opposite of us.

We tried to get the accomplice in order to get the culprit.

You tried to catch the one who would disappear in a flash?

Your colleagues didn't believe you, right?

I should've listened to Captain and not mentioned the woman in the report.

Then I wouldn't have found out.

(phone buzzing)

SAEBYEOK: Done.

Thank you.

Don't go to Strong Teeth Dentist anymore.

Special forces will be guarding it.

Those people are uncompromising.

And the person who just called was Eojin.

Okay.

What?

If you get to talk to him, please don't mention this.

I won't talk to him.

(door closes)

(suspenseful music)

(gloves thwacks)

(keyboard clacking)

(suspenseful music continues)

(mouse clicks)

REQUESTED FINGERPRINT

SECRETARIAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHOI SEONUL

(phone clanks)

(foreboding music)

(seatbelt clanking)

(door lock beeps)

(door closes)

(suspenseful music)

(elevator dings)

(elevator closes)

(exhales deeply)

(beeps)

(exhales deeply)

(beeps)

(sighs)

(exhales deeply)

(breathing heavily)

SAEHA: Got off, then right.

(suspenseful music continues)

(exhales deeply)

(beeping)

(exhales deeply)

(tense music)

-(server trilling) -(approaching footsteps)

(suspenseful music)

(suspenseful music continues)

SENDING FILE

SENDING FILE

(beeping in distance)

(scoffs)

(tense music)

(beeping)

(breathing nervously)

(exhales deeply)

(tense music continues)

(car engine rumbles)

(trilling)

REMOTE ACCESS

(trilling)

ACCESSING INTRANET OF ADMINISTRATION BUREAU

ADMINISTRATION BUREAU INTRANET

(tense music continues)

(computer beeping)

(keyboard clacking)

(tense music fades)

(door opens, closes)

(computer trilling)

(tense music)

SECURITY VIOLATIONS: 1

D-93 FIRE SAFETY CODE VIOLATION

D-93.

(tense music continues)

(trilling)

(breathing heavily)

(exhales deeply)

(sighs)

(tense music continues)

LATEST CONNECTION: 53 MINUTES AGO SECURITY VIOLATIONS: 0

PEOPLE WHO ENTERED THE AREA TODAY

MS. CHOI: I'll be back sometime after one.

(thrilling music)

(thrilling music fades)

(door closes)

Did you find out anything?

We couldn't find any connection between the culprit and the woman.

Mm.

Saeha. You didn't expect us to find anything anyway.

Isn't that why you wanted to stay in the office?

Sure.

(sighs)

-(foreboding music) -(mouse clicking)

(breathing shakily)

(keyboard clacking)

(suspenseful music)

(sobbing)

(suspenseful music continues)

(sobs)

(static)

(sobbing)

(sobbing continues)

(inhales sharply)

1. U.S. VAN ALLEN LABORATORY

(suspenseful music continues)

EXTERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE FOLDER 2

I was at my desk the whole time.

No outsiders entered the building.

It was Sunday, so only a few people entered at all.

I don't know how it happened...

About the child...

He said there was no one else to look after the child.

He practically begged and promised to keep him only in the storage room.

So I let the kid in.

(sobs)

I'm really sorry.

I came out when my weekend shift ended,

and I saw a man on the ground and a child next to him.

Ms. Choi.

It was one of our janitors.

His body was burned black, and it also reeked.

After calling for emergency services...

The child...

I didn't know the kid, but he seemed so shocked,

so I stayed with him in the lobby until an ambulance came.

MS. CHOI: That's all I saw.

I didn't see any woman.

I didn't even know something like that had happened in the laboratory building.

I don't know… how it happened.

We came after we got a report, and…

I arrived first and went to the lobby.

He seemed to have died on the spot.

His heart had already stopped,

and I could still smell the burnt flesh.

Sorry?

No. The female staff member was the only woman I saw.

The lady who was with the child.

We didn't think it would be right

to have the child in the same ambulance as his father's body,

so we were going to call another ambulance.

But she said it would still be the same as going with the dead body

and offered to take the child to the hospital herself.

And after that…

Well, that's about it since the child's father was dead.

No.

That's not all.

(exhales heavily)

(keyboard clicking)

(exhales deeply)

(phone buzzing)

SAEHA: And the person who just called was Eojin.

(pensive music)

CALLS

(horn honks)

INVESTIGATOR JUNG SAEBYEOK

(groans)

(exhales deeply)

I'm sorry for making you come here.

Whatever.

Let's go over there.

COMMUNITY CENTER

(keyboard clicks)

(pensive music)

GERMANY, US, HONG KONG, AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, SPAIN

Is this it?

Yes.

Wait, the time differences are…

SAEHA: They're all around the same time.

It was Sunday, May 18, 1997 in Korea.

From 8:58 p.m. to 9:05 p.m.

SAEBYEOK: Europe, Korea and even Australia?

She appeared in all those places in ten minutes on the same day?

Not even Santa Claus could travel that fast.

She probably killed someone because she isn't Santa Claus.

(pensive music)

(squeaking)

(pensive music continues)

Do you recognize her?

Sorry?

The person who disappeared right before your eyes.

Is it her?

Or is it not?

No?

Are you asking me if the person

caught on camera in 1997 is the same person I saw a few days ago?

Is it her?

She looks like her.

I could say they're the same person.

(sighs)

She travels from continent to continent in a few minutes.

And she hasn't aged at all

for over 20 years.

Her appearance…

By any chance, did she have a weapon in her hand when she attacked you too?

What kind of weapon is that?

Burning a person in only a few seconds?

We must catch her before she does something like that again.

Consider yourself lucky because she didn't do that to you.

If she did, you wouldn't be here now.

You know about the weapon, don't you? What is it made of?

I don't know either.

Though I heard he seemed to have been electrocuted.

Something like this?

She used it on you too?

But how…

How am I still alive?

I don't know.

It happened so quickly.

I didn't even know I got this wound. Maybe that's why.

Because it touched my arm only briefly?

But wasn't it hot?

Or didn't it feel weird when it touched you?

No.

She only went to labs and engineering colleges.

What did she do in those places?

She seemed to be operating some machines.

She set up the Grid.

That's when the project started. In 1997.

This woman started the Grid project?

"What did this person do here?"

That question was the beginning.

That's how they learned that it was possible

to build a magnetic field shield.

If it weren't for her…

Then we wouldn't be here now.

The earth was covered with the Grid in 2004.

The sunspots exploded right after the Grid was complete.

They say if the solar wind had come a year earlier,

two-thirds of mankind would have died.

The Grid is even in textbooks as the greatest achievement of mankind.

But…

"But that was actually done by a murderer who burned a man to death right

before his child's eyes."

(inhales deeply)

They can't put that in the textbooks.

(scoffs)

I saw her with my own eyes.

But I feel like a fool to believe it.

Wait, she came to save mankind. Why did she murder a person then?

It wasn't accidental. She definitely planned it.

And why did she show up again after 24 years

only to help the convenience store murderer?

I'm sorry, but I can't stay out for a long time.

SAEHA: You can kill me later.

If you make it for me and I use it for some other purpose,

you can shoot me. I don't care.

SAEBYEOK: Who's the man that was killed?

An employee.

A janitor of the Institute of Radio Research.

(crickets chirping)

She isn't just any woman. She's our savior.

If we were directly exposed to the solar wind,

we would have all been destroyed by radiation.

Why don't you tell the bereaved of the convenience store owner?

That she's our savior even though she helped the person who killed your dad.

Why did he bring him to his workplace?

He looked like his son.

I guess there was no one else to look after him.

Did the janitor try to stop her from building the Grid?

If that was the case, for the sake of humanity--

It's okay to kill a person?

Why are you so serious?

I was only guessing why.

Just don't say things that would make me serious.

Bye.

He must be completely whipped by his wife.

(door lock beeping)

(phone buzzing)

Hello?

SAEBYEOK (over phone): Why did she do that when she had such abilities?

What do you mean?

SAEBYEOK: Why did she show up in front of me?

If she has the ability to travel through time and space,

she could've just told the culprit,

"Detectives are coming, so run that way."

And then she could've left the place too.

Don't you think?

Then I wouldn't have learned of her existence in the first place.

Wouldn't that have been easier for her?

Why did she attack me?

She can just disappear whenever she wants,

so she doesn't mind being seen?

Would that be it?

(exhales deeply)

We have questions but no answers.

All right.

(line beeps)

(tense music)

(in English) A Coast, clear.

RUSTIC HANDMADE KALGUKSU

(suspenseful music)

B Coast, clear.

AGENT 1: C Coast, clear.

(suspenseful music continues)

(clattering)

(thrilling music)

(beeps)

(thrilling music continues)

(in Korean) Have a good night.

Goodness. What a lucky day.

All the customers paid in cash, and not by credit card.

(clanking in distance)

(clanking)

(foreboding music)

(button clicks)

(clicks)

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION JUNG SAEBYEOK

(foreboding music)

AGENT 2 (over radio): Beta appeared.

Beta appeared in F Coast.

(radio beeps)

What about Alpha?

AGENT 2 (over radio): We don't see Alpha. Beta's alone. Do we go in?

Do we go in?

Wait until Alpha appears.

(tense music)

(tense music continues)

(banging in distance)

(grunting)

(gasps)

-Ma'am. -Oh, no!

-Ma'am. -(grunts)

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION JUNG SAEBYEOK

(whimpers)

(gasps)

AGENT 2 (over radio): Give us a signal. Do we go in?

I told you to wait.

Any signs of Alpha?

No, sir. We don't see her.

Major, but…

(thrilling music)

Major.

Go in.

(gasps)

SHOP OWNER: I did hear some sounds.

But what if it's not him?

I don't want to cause you any inconvenience.

(action music)

(groaning)

(grunts)

(groans)

AGENT 2 (over radio): He's moving towards C Coast.

(grumbles)

AGENT 2 (over radio): He just passed through the alley behind the motels.

He's running towards the large grocery store straight ahead.

MAJOR: The subway station?

Keep a close distance.

-To the subway station. -AGENT 3: Yes, sir.

(action music)

(panting)

(horns honking)

(clamoring)

WOMAN (over PA): The train for Namyangsan is now approaching.

The train is now approaching.

Please take a step backward.

AGENT 3: He got on the northbound train. Did you find him?

Do you see Beta? Did you lose him?

They hopped on the subway

and are on their way to the car where Beta is in.

We need to get to the next station first and join them.

(tires screeching)

(gasps)

(train PA chiming)

(device trilling)

MAJOR: Beta is right in front of you guys. Do you see him?

(tense music)

Cameras.

C1. At eleven o'clock.

MAJOR (over radio): C2. At two o'clock.

C3. Walk two meters forward.

C4. Stay where you are.

(phone buzzing)

Presumably in her late 20s or 30s.

Alpha's height is between 165 and 170 centimeters.

It's highly likely that she's armed.

(door opens)

(thrilling music)

(PA dings)

WOMAN (over PA): The next station is Gudong.

The doors are on your right.

(thrilling music continues)

(breathes heavily)

(shrieks)

(action music)

(gasps)

(action music continues)

(shrieks)

(train PA chiming)

(suspenseful music)

(upbeat music)

(door opens)

Beta is right in front of you guys. Do you see him?

I don't see him yet…

MAJOR (over radio): C1.

C1. What's wrong?

WOMAN (over PA): The next station is Gudong. The doors are on your right.

MAJOR (over radio): He's still on the train.

Get him before the next stop!

(train beeping)

(foreboding music)

(foreboding music continues)

-(clanking) -(shrieks)

(thrilling music)

Open this.

Open it!

-Hey! -(gate clanking)

I'll kill you when I get you.

I swear I'll kill you!

Open it!

Open it right now!

Open it!

(Manok panting)

(thrilling music)

Open this! Open it right now!

Hey!

There's a person locked up in here!

Help!

Help!

(horns honking)

(closing theme music)