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(OCN Drama) "DUEL" Jung Jae-Young, Kim Jung-Eun & Yang Se-Jong. *The End*


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girlfriday: Eep, more clones?! I definitely like where this is going, namely that I don’t know how many versions of this guy there are walking around, or who the original one was. All I know is, when our clone started to have memories from a past he couldn’t have been alive for, I went from casually watching to going, Gimme more episodes!

 

 

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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Duel" Episode 7

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You spin me right round, "Duel" and not in a good way. The drama manages to explain things while raising more questions and while that is good with some parts of the plot, it is starting to get tiring when it comes to our villains and their plans. At least Deuk-cheon finally has proof of Soo-yeon's well-being, even if the joy is short-lived.

 

As much as I love Deuk-cheon's (Jeong Jae-yeong) reunion with Soo-yeon (Lee Na-yoon), I do regret that he and his relationship with her and Seong-joon (Yang Se-jong) are so underdeveloped. It is sad to see the character treated as a tool by the writing and while his little fallout with Seong-joon and the latter's puppy dog eyes are the stuff of a good bromance, the series never commits to its emotional potential.

 

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As far as the cloning business goes, Mi-rae (Seo Eun-su) is on the right track. While transplanting the originals is impossible, there could be a cure made from their cells or they could simply be cloned to slowly replace the original ones. Both outcomes explain why our clones need them, but only partially. You cannot transplant everything so would the rest of their bodies not still deteriorate and die? A magical serum is the only thing which could keep the entirety of their current biology going.

 

Aside from cloning, the 1993 "surgery" makes no sense. For one, it was handled by two amateurs and one doctor. If they had the backing to carry the doctor out safely, did they not have it for a proper procedure? Did they even carry Lee Yong-seob (Yang Se-jong) to a safe location first or did they forget about Ryoo Jeong-sook (Kim Bo-jeong) and just do it there? Also, did Jeon Byeong-joon (Jo Jae-ryong) have donors all lined up? His escape plan hardly looks expensive, so I assume the money was for building new lives.

 

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More importantly, why do our mysterious scientist and rich woman need Yong-seob's entire body? If it is his memories they need, they can just keep making his clones until one gives them what they are looking for. Are his cells not enough for this? There has to be a reason why his organs are necessary to them. Perhaps the secret to a full life span for clones relies on tissue from the entirety of the originator.

 

I am happy to see that the 1993 incident is presented so clearly, but the series does need to start establishing some rules for its pseudo-science. Mystery is good to a degree, but until "Duel" can explain the reasoning behind seemingly unreasonable procedures and goals, there is little enjoyment in following what the villains do, since it is now just repetitive headhunting.

 

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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Duel" Episode 8


 


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It is a rare, slightly creepy, but also satisfying feeling when a show seems to be right behind you and your complaints and wishes. I asked for the villains' motivation and scientific explanation and "Duel" delivers. Deuk-cheon starts creating his own plans while Seong-joon and Mi-rae find some important answers. Things become tense as the past comes back to haunt several characters.


 


The clone mystery is solved just as I was losing my investment. I had been wondering why Seong-hoon and Seong-joon (Yang Se-jong) grew up so differently and Seong-joon's recovery of his previous self explains it. One was left behind by the other, intentionally or not. This also explains Seong-hoon's resentment for Seong-joon. I do wonder how Seong-joon kept healthy without the medicine all this time, but perhaps Seong-hoon's body deteriorates faster due to his continued abuse.


 


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Thankfully my theory that Lee Yong-seob was special stands and this explains everyone's motivation on the villain side. It seems his way is only one method, but perhaps the most stable or profitable one. It is also good to know that Soo-yeon (Lee Na-yoon) is being cured. While I do not hold the series capable of killing a child the rescuing of who is right in the premise, this leaves medical drama over her condition out for now.


 


Aside from Seong-hoon's goal, we find out what our mysterious chaebol heiress type wants. She is clearly in a hospital for herself or someone and survival is a strong motivator. My question is, who started this research before her? Is the "elder" Seong-hoon's handler refers to her possibly ill father? I just hope that the series is not about to jump the shark and give us an ageless villainess after immortality. "Duel" has been pretty down to Earth within its own scope so far.


 


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Seong-hoon's reasons for choosing Deuk-cheon (Jeong Jae-yeong) have been bothering me and the series delivers once more. His personal dislike and the possibility of his choice not being random have been established and I had suspected that Deuk-cheon or his wife may have had a transplant. Hearing the rejection of a young Seong-hoon's pleas, however, let us know that the child was either not taken seriously or betrayed by Deuk-cheon for his first bribe.


 


Soo-yeon is eleven, so Seong-hoon would have been thirteen when her mother was attacked for it. However, the time of the incident buried could still be when Seong-hoon was a child. If this is the case, who was killed and who was the framed man? Most importantly, does this mean that Jo-hye (Kim Jung-eun) could still be working with and be willing to cause harm for the institute?


 


 


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  • Duel: Episode 7

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The mystery of what happened in 1993 begins to unfold as we learn what “the incident†was and who was involved. Deuk-chun is given a chance to save his daughter, but first he has to decide which is more important: his family, or his integrity. Meanwhile, Mi-rae starts to discover who Sung-joon really is, which is no small task.

 

 

EPISODE 7 RECAP

 

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Flash-forward intro: A man closes up his furniture store while chatting on the phone, promising that he’ll be home soon to celebrate his child’s birthday. As he starts to get into his car, a voice from the shadows says that he looks like he’s doing well. The man asks who’s there, and stepping out from the shadows is none other than Sung-hoon.

The man staggers back in shock, recognizing Sung-hoon as the doctor that had been killed years ago. With a smirk, Sung-hoon muses that he seems to get that reaction a lot — like someone has seen a ghost. He asks the man if he’s enjoying the kidney that he stole. As he raises a hammer, Sung-hoon tells him that he thinks it’s time for him to give it back. The man pleads for his life as Sung-hoon hits him in the head.

 

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Flash back to 1993, where the original doctor, LEE YONG-SEOB, completes a surgery on Joo-shik. Nurse Ryu oversees Joo-shik’s return to his hospital room, where he’s not only kept under lock and key, but tied to the bed. In the room next to him is the man from the intro, PARK DONG-SEUL, also tied to his bed.

Dong-seul begs to talk to Doctor Lee and resists when Nurse Ryu tries to give him an injection. Dong-seul fervently believes that the injections are what gave Joo-shik the tumor that was just removed, but Nurse Ryu insists that Dong-seul needs the injection to survive and that he just has to wait a few days more before they can treat him.

Despite his screaming protests, he’s helpless in his bound state to resist, and Nurse Ryu gives him the injection. After she and the guards leave, making sure the door is locked, Byung-joon peers around a corner and hurries to the room, but he can’t open the door. Byung-joon seems genuinely stunned that the “clinical trial†he signed them up for hasn’t ended yet — they should have been released six months ago.

 

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Joo-shik yells at him, telling him that they’re being treated as nothing more than lab rats in an experiment. Dong-seul pleads with Byung-joon to find a way to get them out, or else, they’ll die for sure. Doctor Lee finds Byung-joon by their door and suspiciously asks why he’s in a restricted area. Byung-joon quickly covers up his so-called confusion about what floor he’s on by showing Doctor Lee information he has on a potential new egg donor.

On a pre-planned day of escape, Byung-joon drugs the guards and steals the key to Joo-shik and Dong-seul’s hospital room. He unties them from their beds, and they quietly sneak into the stairway to begin the second part of their plan, only to come face to face with Nurse Ryu. She starts to run to warn someone that they’ve escaped, but Joo-shik grabs her while the other two guys hurry to find Doctor Lee. In self-defense, she pulls out a scalpel from her pocket and slashes Joo-shik’s ear. He lets go of her as he clutches his bloody ear, and she flees for safety.

Joo-shik catches up with Dong-seul and Byung-joon, who are patiently waiting for Doctor Lee to leave his office. As soon as he does, the three men attack the doctor and chloroform him, causing him to pass out.

 

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Doctor Lee then wakes up in an operating room, but this time, he’s the one bound to the table. The three men stare down at him, and Dong-seul reminds the doctor that he never listened to their cries for help — Doctor Lee would just tell them to deal with it since what they were doing was going to save lives.

Dong-seul says that the doctor will now get a chance to save lives too — by having his organs removed to give to other people who need them. After injecting Doctor Lee with a dose of something that knocks him out, Byung-joon proceeds to surgically remove his organs and place them carefully in the transfer containers. Dong-seul tells him to be extra careful with one of the kidneys — he’s already claimed that one for himself.

 

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Jump forward to the present day, and the Chaebol Tennis Lady is shown the container that’s been left in the abandoned lab for twenty-four years. The scientist opens it up to reveal a cryogenically frozen Doctor Lee.

 

 

Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/06/duel-episode-7/

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How many conspiracy theories would be considered too many when it comes to Duel? Then again, the dizziness that comes from keeping up with who wants what and why (and in what decade) can be easily forgotten when your mind has already exploded. At least Sung-joon is finally figuring out who he is and what his memories mean, even if it’s not what he — or we — might’ve expected.

 

EPISODE 8 RECAP

Flash-forward intro: Jo-hye runs up to her team outside of Dong-seul’s house, wondering where he could have disappeared to since they were keeping a close eye on him. When it’s revealed that Dong-seul slipped out on his own accord, Jo-hye demands to know where his daughter Min-ji is. Her team reports that Min-ji was last reported to be leaving school with someone who had a police badge, but she hasn’t come home.

Soo-ho and Hyung-shik are convinced that Deuk-chun has kidnapped Min-ji and are worried about what their boss is trying to do. A frustrated Jo-hye gets back in her car. Her phone rings — it’s Deuk-chun calling from a payphone, and he requests that the two of them meet. We rewind to the moment where Deuk-chun cashes in his favor with Chief Park, who assumes at first Deuk-chun is asking him to abduct Min-ji. Actually, what Deuk-chun wants is Min-ji’s phone to make everyone think that she’s been abducted, when in reality, Chief Park has just intercepted her police protection to watch over her himself while everyone else worries about what’s happened to her.

Chief Park slips Min-ji’s phone to Deuk-chun, having swiped it without her knowledge. He’s worried for Deuk-chun, even though he’s supportive of his friend and Deuk-chun’s attempts to get Soo-yeon back. Just because Chief Park would be willing to get his hands dirty to save his family and go on with life like nothing happened, he knows that Deuk-chun is the type of person who would regret hurting other people, even for his own gain.

 

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Deuk-chun says it’s too late — he has to save Soo-yeon. Chief Park simply tells him not to do anything that would put Soo-yeon to shame. Deuk-chun then calls Dong-seul, telling him that he has Min-ji. If Dong-seul wants to see his daughter again, then he better do as Deuk-chun says.

At Sung-hoon’s lair, Director Baek watches an old CCTV video of Doctor Lee in his office. Doctor Lee opens up a container that holds a golden syringe and injects the medication directly into his hand — just like the modern-day Sung-hoon does.

 

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Sung-hoon finds Director Baek watching the video, wondering why he’s bothering to look at it after all these years. Director Baek points out that if proper medication had been made back then, they wouldn’t be going through all this to get their hands on the organs, and Sung-hoon would have been cured long ago.

Director Baek muses that it’s odd that Doctor Lee would have injected himself with the only medication that was made after the doctor had spent so long creating it in the first place. Sung-hoon assumes the doctor just got greedy — either for money or the promise of eternal life. Director Baek pities the doctor, though, since the very day he gave himself the injection was the day he died.

 

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Changing the subject, Director Baek asks about Deuk-chun. He doesn’t trust Sung-hoon’s casual confidence in the detective and grumbles that Sung-hoon always likes to complicate things. Sung-hoon quietly reminds Director Baek that they’re in this mess now because Director Baek was caught by Deuk-chun, and Director Baek should actually be grateful that Sung-hoon saved his life.

Besides, Sung-hoon has confidence that Deuk-chun will do whatever he asks as long as he has Deuk-chun’s daughter. As he watches Soo-yeon via the security feed, he muses that it’s funny how a person can become unconditionally evil in order to save the person they love.

 

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Dong-seul is tied up at the junk yard, and when he sees Deuk-chun, he pleads for Deuk-chun to let Min-ji go since he kept his end of the bargain by coming here. But Deuk-chun just knocks him out with the butt of his gun.

As he drags Dong-seul to the car, Deuk-chun remembers the way he also begged Soo-yeon’s kidnappers to give her back to him once he delivered the money to them. He sounded almost identical to Dong-seul, who Deuk-chun makes sure is bound and gagged in the trunk of the car.

Deuk-chun drives along, presumably to deliver Dong-seul to Sung-hoon, but he can’t stop thinking about Soo-yeon and his promise to her that he would live well. Stopping the car, he goes to the trunk and splashes water on Dong-seul’s face to wake him up.

 

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Meanwhile, Mi-rae, Sung-joon, and Sunbae arrive at the psychiatric hospital to find more information about Kim Hye-jin. As Sung-joon walks through the lobby, he suddenly has a memory of being at the hospital before, but with someone we’ve never seen before.

 

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  Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching  

I blinked and it’s suddenly July, which means that there’s a whole new crop of dramas appearing on the horizon. I’m actually a little sad that the current drama cycle is starting to wind down, because it’s a good batch of shows, and I think we all have the panda eyes to prove it. â€“girlfriday

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  • Duel: I really wish this plot would move at about twice the speed it’s going, because I find each new revelation about the clones interesting, but at this pace I feel like it would take two seasons to get the story I want. I expected that the daddy-daughter relationship would be the heart of the show, but the more I watch, everything else is tangential to the three Yang Se-jongs because, well, there are three of them.

 

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  • love changed the title to (OCN Drama) "DUEL" Jung Jae-Young, Kim Jung-Eun & Yang Se-Jong. *The End*

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