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(suspenseful music)

EPISODE 4

(door closes)

(tense music)

Sir. A minute ago, the director asked me to tell you to report on the progress.

Get all the CCTV footage from the subway station.

Is it even traceable?

We can't do anything as a recon unit if the target is not traceable.

What are you?

A soldier, sir.

You're a soldier who makes the impossible possible.

Don't think about whether it's possible.

(radio clicking)

(line ringing)

Hello, sir.

I'm sorry, sir. He got away.

Alpha didn't even show up. There was no sign of the accomplice.

I think we should check the validity of the police report again.

AGENT 1 (over radio): Agent down.

The Secretariat may have selected intel not very reliable

and given it to us without verifying it.

AGENT 1 (over radio): Agent down in the Beta surveillance area.

Major, one of our agents is down.

Report the details.

AGENT 1 (over radio): We lost communication,

so we went to check Coast C and found him down.

What was the weapon? How's the agent?

AGENT 1 (over radio): He's unconscious. And we're figuring it out,

but it's neither a knife nor a gun.

The agent is unconscious.

Forgive me for interrupting, sir.

But one of our agents has been injured.

I apologize.

We don't know yet.

STRONG TEETH DENTIST RUSTIC HANDMADE KALGUKSU

(tires screech)

RUSTIC HANDMADE KALGUKSU

(indistinct chatter)

Darn it.

Let me go.

(sighs) It's the restaurant owner, right?

Leave.

(sobs)

I'm her daughter.

-What? -What?

Daughter?

I came after getting a call from her.

(whimpers)

Let go of me. Who are you to stop me from seeing my mom?

Her daughter happens to be a police officer?

You should've removed the police mark from your car first.

(scoffs)

Yes, I am a police officer.

I came after getting a call from the victim. Anything wrong with that?

Let go.

Let go of me!

Jeez, why are the cops fighting among themselves?

They don't cooperate with each other.

That's why they failed

to protect one old lady with all these officers.

Goodness.

(car door closes)

(siren blaring)

(grunting)

AGENT 2: Get out.

-Just tell me one thing. -(door closes)

What happened to the restaurant owner?

Is she hurt badly?

I'm not trying to meddle.

It's just that I saw the lady right before this happened.

I even had a meal there.

I also had a meal there today.

You must understand me then.

What happened to her?

Kim Manok.

He came here, right?

-(door opens) -(approaching footsteps)

How did you know?

I got a call.

-From whom? -The owner.

About what?

Ask her yourself, dude.

MAJOR: How dare you call me "dude"?

How dare I?

You talked down to me when we first met, so I thought we were the same age.

Well, you do look too old for a guy my age.

I'm sure you heard the police are off this case.

I did.

But...

now that I've seen how you failed to protect an old lady with all those agents,

I don't think we should stay out of it.

You think you'll make any difference?

The suspect must be a big fish seeing how the government is involved.

-What's his deal? -(scoffs)

Did you just scoff?

There must be something else.

-Major. -(approaching footsteps)

Who is she?

MAJOR: She's a police officer.

From Songje Station?

Investigator Jung Saebyeok?

Then you should've told us in advance

to keep the guns at point whether or not Beta gets away.

You're the one who said if we kept an eye on Beta, Alpha would show up.

That's why our agents chased Beta. Is that our fault?

Where's the murderer?

(sighs)

As you've heard, we're searching for him.

Why are you still searching?

You trusted my intel so much that you chased him

without noticing your agent was attacked.

Then shouldn't you have caught the suspect already?

What about that detective then?

You must've done a terrible job taking over,

seeing how she interfered as she pleased.

-Didn't you bring her here? -Why would I...

Why would I do such a thing?

I heard you told the director to check the validity of the police report again.

That the Secretariat gave you unreliable intel in the first place.

Didn't you bring her here to confirm that?

Our special agent was fully armed, and someone caught him off guard.

No one could do it except Alpha. The intel you gave us wasn't wrong.

The intel we gave you was accurate.

Even before your agent was attacked.

Hand the detective over to us.

Yes, ma'am.

(tense music)

(beeping)

(exhales deeply)

(suspenseful music)

(door lock clanks)

(approaching footsteps)

(door closes)

Investigator Jung Saebyeok.

You said you got a call from the restaurant owner.

But why did she call you?

When did you give her your contact number?

Have you ever interfered in the case other than this time?

Since you were ordered to stay out of it.

Answer the question.

What happened to the old lady?

Investigator Jung Saebyeok.

She said she thought the murderer was back.

And it took 15 minutes at most for me to get there.

When I arrived,

there were already a swarm of the so-called police officers.

And an ambulance carrying a person left as soon as I arrived.

It wouldn't have been possible if they hadn't been staking out the place.

With so many agents staking out,

what did they do until a civilian was attacked?

Was there a second murder?

You used her as bait, didn't you?

They weren't there to catch the murderer. It was to catch the woman, right?

(sighs)

You people said you'd catch him.

What kind of investigation is this?

-(Saebyeok exhales deeply) -Investigator.

Tell us everything you and the restaurant owner said over the phone.

(door lock clanks)

I'll take your place now.

(foreboding music)

-Investigator. -SAEHA: It may be difficult for you

to accept, but we're not obliged to give you a convincing explanation.

I'm not obliged to report to you either.

All we can say is that,

if you keep acting independently like this,

you'll be removed from your duties.

Make sure to warn her that she'll be jobless if she runs wild again.

From all your duties, I mean.

(tense music)

MS. CHOI: Why didn't you tell me?

That Investigator Jung Saebyeok is your ex-wife. Why?

Is that a problem?

What do you think, Mr. Song Eojin?

A detective who was brought in for spying

is a family member of one of our employees.

What do you think?

Will that be a problem or not?

She was. Not anymore.

And we split up many years ago.

-Have you been in touch with her? -No.

Why didn't you say anything when you went to the NFS to get her?

Because it was just a personal matter.

I had no other intentions, ma'am.

(exhales deeply)

Stay out of this from now on.

Though we won't be dealing with it anymore anyway.

What do you mean?

I'm telling you to get back to work.

Or do you not want to do any work that's not about your ex-wife?

(suspenseful music)

(door closes)

Make a right turn.

(phone buzzing)

SAEHA: She just left.

Saebyeok!

Jung Saebyeok.

(car door closes)

CONVENIENCE STORE, SECOND MURDER

(sighs)

Darn it.

MS. CHOI: Stay out of this from now on.

Though we won't be dealing with it anymore anyway.

"Two people have been injured..."

"How long do you think the press will keep quiet..."

Gosh, my neck is so sore.

Can you still see her?

Yes.

When was that?

7:28 p.m.? What station?

Okay.

Got it.

(exhales deeply)

(foreboding music)

JONGYI: So?

Did the Ghost appear again?

How did you know that, Ms. Chae?

-That I... -JONGYI: Does it matter? Just tell me.

It seems so.

I wish she'd shown up in front of me.

I desperately want to see her at least once.

Ms. Chae. This isn't some kind of a game or virtual reality.

You'll get hurt if you think that way. You know how dangerous she is?

How dangerous is she? Do you know?

Ms. Choi just said people got hurt.

Two people.

Don't you get it?

-With the murderer, she... -(door opens)

Where's Mr. Song?

Oh, he said he missed breakfast coming in early today.

(door closes)

Did you eat?

I'm sorry. My blood sugar level drops if I skip a meal.

(exhales deeply)

Kim Manok, the murder suspect,

got on a northbound train that left Songje Station at 7:28 p.m.

The tracking devices attached to his stuff were found on the floor of that train.

We don't know where he got off or where he went.

Check the CCTV footage of every metropolitan subway station.

And have the control center and run a face-recognition program at every gate.

The special team will check the CCTV footage too, so let's find him first.

-Yes, ma'am. -Yes, ma'am.

(suspenseful music)

(phone buzzing)

SAEHA: It seems that the old lady is only injured.

What time did you see the ambulance at the scene?

SAEBYEOK: Please stop here.

RUSTIC HANDMADE KALGUKSU

Jeez. How could something like this happen?

MAN: Wait a minute. I've seen you somewhere.

Oh, you're the one who lied about being the old lady's daughter.

I guess you can still see with those tiny eyes.

If I can't see them, they're not eyes but just holes.

Two people were stretchered off from this narrow street.

And this young lady was dragged away.

Even a blind person would've seen that.

Two? Two people were stretchered off?

So how's the old lady?

Fortunately, she just got some stitches.

Were they both carried out of this building?

-Yes. -WOMAN: No, they weren't.

The one carried out of here was the lady.

The other one was carried from back there.

-Were they? -WOMAN: How could you not remember?

That barbecue place.

The cops went up and down the stairs the whole time.

They thought the staircase would crumble.

Was someone carried on a stretcher from behind the building too?

-Did you see a person on it? -No, I didn't.

Did you?

No, I didn't see a person.

Then who got hurt other than the restaurant lady?

Does that person live in this alley?

What the hell? Do you hope that it was someone from this neighborhood?

-Where did the ambulances go? -Where else?

A hospital, of course.

Which hospitals? Which way did they go?

Well, I think they both went this way.

What are you talking about?

They all went in different directions.

This way.

And that way. They split up and went in different directions.

Jeez.

(keyboard clicking)

Have you ever seen a ghost get caught on CCTV?

Jeez, this is no different from physical labor.

Company work is supposed to be repetitive and laborious.

(sighs) We'll be doing this for another 20 years.

(keyboard clicking)

(sighs)

21GIL-50 DONGSIN-RO, JUCHEON-SI, GYEONGGI-DO

RUSTIC HANDMADE KALGUKSU

DATE SETTINGS

ABOUT 7:40?

(keyboard clicking continues)

51SU 8346

51SU 8346

Hey!

(tense music)

JUCHEON MURDER

THE JUCHEON CONVENIENCE STORE MURDER

NOT ENOUGH BATTERY

Damn it.

Hey.

Is anyone there?

(suspenseful music)

(rasping)

(tense music)

TTEOKSHIN

Thank you.

Look at this.

How is it?

(grunts)

(groans)

(Manok panting)

(thrilling music)

WOMAN (over PA): The train is about to depart.

Passengers who have not boarded, please step back...

(suspenseful music)

(device beeps)

(clanking)

(tense music)

-(sighs) -(door opens)

-(door closes) -(approaching footsteps)

Are you not feeling well?

I thought I saw you here yesterday too.

Never mind.

(thudding in distance)

(thudding continues)

(foreboding music)

(thuds)

What was that?

(tense music)

Yes, around 7:40 p.m. last night.

Okay. Saint Family Hospital Emergency Medical Center?

Okay. Thank you.

(sighs)

What's going on? Did something happen again?

GROUP CHAT ROOM

-DID YOU SIGN UP FOR THIS? -IS THIS BECAUSE YOU LOST HIM LAST TIME?

HR, SONGJE POLICE STATION SECOND-HALF PERSONNEL TRANSFER

JUNG SAEBYEOK TRANSFER TO JEONAM PROVINCE

CHIEF: There is a reason for it.

Mido Maritime Police wants to expand their forensic investigation team.

All we can say is that,

if you keep acting independently like this,

you'll be removed from your duties.

From all your duties, I mean.

Criminals keep dumping evidence into the sea,

so they want to expand their underwater forensic team.

Who gave the order?

What does it matter? What can you do about it?

Those bastards.

CHIEF: Which bastards?

Don't make it worse.

I don't know what's going on,

but I've never seen anyone getting away with posting online complaints.

It'll only work against you.

(door closes)

LEAVE REQUEST FORM

Vacation?

I've always put it off.

I'll take some time off.

Sure.

You need time to pack.

I do.

Hey. Why are you taking those?

I bought these with my money. I've been buying them all this time.

You didn't know, did you?

Who's going to refill them now?

I'm not saying my team must take the lead in everything.

If you at least share and discuss with us how the special agent was injured

and what the situation was,

we wouldn't be having trouble working together like now.

The special team at the scene, us here,

and Grid Control Team. We're all fighting separately.

What we do for confidentiality makes everything inefficient.

Can't you see the special team is hardly living up to its name?

It's how it's always been.

-And you've been doing well so far... -That's because nothing big happened.

As the Director, you should be different.

The Ghost started to appear while you were in that position.

Aren't you going to catch her?

Isn't it because you want to see to the end of it

while still in your position?

We must see it end. We've been waiting for this chance for decades.

That's right. I can't criticize you for that.

We both have questions to ask her when we meet her in person.

And you'll find out

if she's caught. To do so, first...

We never know when lunatics will pop up,

so security is paramount.

Weren't you the one who said this to me when I was appointed as director?

If there's a lunatic, we'll catch him too.

I see.

(sighs)

If I meet the founder of the Grid?

Then I've got to ask this question.

"How is time travel possible?"

"What's the future of mankind?" And...

And?

"Why did she have to kill the janitor?"

What was the point?

Right.

That's exactly...

(exhales deeply)

Let's think it over.

I know you're doing this because you have as many questions as I do.

Please think it over.

Why?

A researcher could've served useful.

But why...

(Ms. Choi screaming)

(Ms. Choi whimpering)

MS. CHOI: Hello?

Is anyone there?

Hello?

Are you okay?

Are you hurt?

-(siren blaring in distance) -They must be here.

MS. CHOI: You saw it, right?

(sobs)

Can you tell me what happened to your dad?

(elevator dings)

(siren blaring in distance)

MS. CHOI: His name was...

Lee...

It was Lee something.

Gosh.

Even if you're a police officer,

I'm not allowed to talk about patients' conditions.

He's involved in the case. We need to know how he is...

I know what you mean.

But his guardian specifically told us not to tell anyone about him.

What guardian?

His family?

Or the Administration Bureau?

I guess it is.

It's the AB who told you not to tell anyone about him, right?

I told you to stop doing this.

-It's fine. I'll take care of this. -Okay.

I told you he already left the hospital. Stop bugging the doctor.

I'm sorry.

Did you hear that from the information desk downstairs?

Could it be true?

Why did you come here? I thought you'd go to another hospital.

-I already did. -Did you see the restaurant owner?

What did she say?

She was so traumatized, I'm going to ask her again later.

Wait a minute.

The one hospitalized here is one of your soldiers, right?

One of those who staked out there.

I don't know either. I'll go find out.

Even without your request, we never disclose our patient information.

I'm relieved.

Some people just tell everything even with our request.

At another hospital, though.

(clears throat)

By any chance, our soldier...

No, I mean our patient.

Do you have any idea what he was attacked with?

No. It's something you should find out.

That's right.

But this case is quite...

I've never seen such a corpse before.

His organs seemed as if they were damaged by something electrical.

Doesn't it seem...

as if he was electrocuted?

And his organs have been damaged?

How did you know?

One of my team members said he heard it from a doctor here. Aren't you the doctor?

Yes, I am.

Uh...

Well... It does seem that he was exposed to excessive heat.

But I have no idea how.

(pensive music)

(button clicks)

It's one of the special agents who was injured.

And he was already discharged.

-I guess he isn't seriously injured. -He was slightly burned.

-The back of his neck? -Yes.

Someone who can burn a special agent's neck?

It must've been her.

Then they lost her.

Why is it only a slight burn?

She burned someone to death 24 years ago.

Shouldn't the question be the other way?

She could've burned him slightly.

But why did she go all the way back then?

Maybe she's sick of the smell now.

By the way, how did you find out it was this hospital?

SAEBYEOK: I asked emergency services.

I asked them where the ambulance went from that alley.

You found that out with a single phone call?

Isn't that how you found out, too?

Well, kind of.

When did you find out that two people were attacked?

While I was at work.

But I couldn't tell outsiders about it, so...

I wasn't blaming you for not sharing the information.

You told me how the old lady was when you didn't have to.

What about you? How did you find out that there were two injured people?

I went to the scene this morning and heard about it.

You went there again?

You'll be punished if you keep on doing that. Seriously.

(car alarm beeps)

Was I supposed to leave this there? Shouldn't I have gone to get it?

You should go back. Your lunch break must've already ended.

Kim Manok

appeared at a subway station last night,

though he disappeared again somewhere between Songje Station and Gudong Station

around 7:30 p.m.

Did anyone see him disappear?

So far, you are the only one

who's witnessed that moment.

Right.

Why is that?

MS. CHOI: So your name was Lee Siwon.

Are you dead?

EMPLOYEE: He's been declared dead.

Let's see.

The person you're looking for...

he's been declared dead.

No, not the one who died in 1997. I'm looking for his son.

Yes, the one who died in 1997 is Mr. Lee Janghyeok, the father.

And Mr. Lee Siwon, the son, also died in 2015.

NAME: LEE SIWON STATUS: DECEASED

He wasn't his biological son.

Who?

Mr. Lee Janghyeok adopted Mr. Lee Siwon in 1992 when he was one year old.

(groans)

EMPLOYEE: And Mr. Lee Janghyeok died on May 18, 1997.

But his adopted son also died in 2015?

He could have died before that.

The authority reported him dead.

It seems it's because they couldn't reach him

when he reached the age to enter the military.

They do that when the person's place of residence is not registered.

If that was the case,

you don't know whether he is dead or not. He was just reported dead.

(inhales sharply)

That's possible too.

Why don't you look for his mother?

She's his stepmother, but it says she's still alive.

He said he'd starve all day at home since there was no one to look after him.

Mr. Lee practically begged me to let him in, so...

An adopted child who had no one to look after him.

All biological parents are dead.

What could have happened to him?

-(keyboard clicking) -(door closes)

(door opens)

COP-NET ONLINE SEARCH SYSTEM

JUNG SAEBYEOK, SEARCH

HR, SONGJE POLICE STATION SECOND-HALF PERSONNEL TRANSFER

JUNG SAEBYEOK TRANSFER TO JEONAM PROVINCE

(exhales deeply)

(clicks tongue)

-(door opens) -(approaching footsteps)

(door closes)

Hello.

-(sighs) -(door closes)

SEAHA (over phone): Detective. Later tonight...

(metals clanging)

Where are you?

I am...

By the way, what's up?

Can I talk to you later tonight?

If you have time.

I have a lot of time now.

Okay.

Bye.

SAEHA: Maybe she's sick of the smell now.

What smell?

The smell of burning flesh.

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

You just need to help me get in there.

You can kill me later.

You can shoot me.

I don't care.

(foreboding music)

CALLS CAREGIVER

(line ringing)

Hi, it's me.

By any chance, can you stay longer tonight?

Oh, you can't.

Then...

Pardon?

Home nursing service?

SONGJE POLICE STATION

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO RESEARCH, VICTIM WAS A JANITOR

SAEBYEOK: "Lee Janghyeok?"

His last name isn't Kim.

(suspenseful music)

(phone buzzing)

KIM SAEHA I'M ALMOST THERE

RIGHTEOUS AND RELIABLE SONGJE POLICE

What was she like?

What?

You saw her. The woman we're looking for.

You saw her vanish.

That's what you're curious about.

I thought you might have turned this place upside down.

You must've learned to control your temper.

Are you here to tell me I used to have a nasty temper?

No, what I mean is...

(exhales deeply)

Are you going to the place you're assigned to?

What's the point of turning this place upside down?

The heart of the problem lies elsewhere.

We like working in the provinces.

They're planning to expand their underwater forensic team.

If I go become an expert, I can go abroad for training too.

(phone buzzing)

Something came up, so I can't make it. I'm sorry.

My transfer isn't so bad.

You must've already made up your mind.

If you say so, fine.

What about you?

Why are you working there?

I've always been working at the AB.

No, I mean your team.

You were glad about being assigned to the Grid Control Team.

So why...

did you move to the current team?

Well...

It just happened.

-I'm not here to... -SAEBYEOK: To talk about yourself?

Why are you here then?

You don't say anything about yourself.

And you get annoyed when I ask.

Forget it. I don't need your advice.

I'm not here to give you advice.

I'm in no position to.

-I'm the one who... -The one who what?

Forget it.

If it were the old days,

I would've asked you what

when you talked like that.

Because I'd be worried if you were okay.

Then you would frown and say,

"It's nothing, so don't worry." And you'd go into your room.

I won't ask anymore.

Why didn't you just leave things be?

Then this wouldn't have happened.

I decided to leave you be, but I can't do that with my job.

(dramatic music)

JUNG SAEBYEOK DELETE CONTACT

(door lock beeping)

Excuse me.

Are you from the nursing service?

Was everything okay?

Yes. You're home earlier than I expected.

Yes, a little.

(thrilling music)

Thank you. You may leave.

Goodbye.

(thrilling music)

(closing theme music)