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  • Two Cops: Episodes 9-10TwoCops09-10-00076.jpg

 

Realizing that his time is limited and angered by some recent discoveries, Su-chang is tempted to strike out on his own. But can a person go through the things he’s gone through and remain unchanged? Su-chang has a lot to learn while on this journey, and he’s about to get a very hard lesson in loyalty.

 

EPISODE 9 RECAP

Dong-tak and Su-chang realize, at the exact same time, that they met as children when Su-chang and his father were in a car accident. Su-chang had asked Dong-tak for his help catching the person who’d framed his father. But something must have gone wrong in the past, because now Su-chang looks at Dong-tak with utter disgust and calls him a con man.

They’re distracted when Ji-an runs towards Dong-tak and into the path of a car, and they both rush to her. Dong-tak pulls her to safety and asks if she’s okay, and it becomes clear by his voice and grin that it’s Su-chang, back in Dong-tak’s body.

 

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He’s thrilled to be able to talk to Ji-an again, though he says obliquely that he wishes she could see inside him. They discover that they’re both at the hospital about Soo-young, the missing girl who was just found, so they go to her room together.

Soo-young is unconscious, badly dehydrated, and severely injured. Ji-an tells Su-chang that she met Soo-young once before, feeling guilty that if she’d given her a better talk then, Soo-young might not be in this situation now.

 

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She promises the girl’s sleeping form that she’ll catch whoever did this. Nurse Da-jung notices Soo-young’s pretty nail art and mourns the fact that she’ll have to remove it, but Ji-an asks her not to take it all off, because “her nails are her swag,†recalling the words Soo-young had used.

Su-chang talks Ji-an into visiting his comatose body next, and when she asks “Dong-tak†if this is the con man he mentioned, Su-chang stammers that he might not be a con man anymore. He tries to get her to agree that he’s more handsome than Dong-tak, but he just confuses himself.

 

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He leaves, muttering that he’ll just see her again once he’s awake. He turns back when Ji-an addresses his sleeping body, though he can’t quite hear what she says as she tells him to come back soon because Dong-tak is worried about him. As they leave, Su-chang remembers again that Dong-tak is “that son of a bitch†who conned him as a child. He thinks how interesting it is that he’s in Dong-tak’s body now, then wonders how he got in this time.

He thinks about the first time, when they jumped into the river, then this time when they leaped in front of a car, but decides that figuring out how to get back into his own body is more important. When Ji-an calls out to him, he wonders if she’s seeing him or Dong-tak.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-9-10/

 

 

COMMENTS

AUGH, Su-chang, how could you! Now I see why he didn’t want Ji-an involved, and why he said she was going to mess up his plan. I think he intended to con Manager Park out of his money and steal it, then use it to start a new life once he got his body back. On the one hand, I’m mad at him for backsliding into his old ways, but on the other hand, I can’t really blame him for doing what comes naturally to him, because conning is all he knows. I suppose it’s something that he arranged for Ji-an and the other girls to be rescued and Manager Park to be arrested, but he’s been conning people for years, and he has to know that cons don’t always go as planned.

I did feel like it was very realistic for Su-chang to behave the way he did when he again found himself in the body of the very man he’s been wanting to get revenge on for most of his life. I don’t know what happened between them, or why Su-chang feels so betrayed (honestly, the way he acts about whatever Dong-tak did feels more like disappointment and hurt than true anger), but I can’t even blame him for wanting to just get his own life back, and not caring how it affects Dong-tak.

 

It feels very genuine for Su-chang to behave the way he did in this episode, because it makes sense for him to feel depressed and scared. And if there’s one thing life has taught him, it’s that he has to take care of himself, because nobody else is going to do it.

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And I think that Dong-tak has the same outlook on life, though for different reasons. He also grew up under difficult conditions and seems to be affected by whatever happened when he and Su-chang were kids, though he got lucky enough to meet someone who helped him find a way out of it. Then his mentor is killed and nobody will help him find out why or make the killer pay, so he’s also having to do everything on his own. He and Su-chang need to find a way to heal from their shared past and help each other, which is exactly why they’re in this situation in the first place.

I was a bit frustrated when Su-chang didn’t pursue his thoughts on how he got into Dong-tak’s body again, because I’m dying to know! Thinking about both times it’s happened, I’m wondering if it’s because they were both near-death experiences—once when they almost drowned, and once when they were almost hit by a car. But then why did Miss Bong say that Dong-tak had to give Su-chang permission? Either there’s more than one way to accomplish the soul-switch, or Miss Bong isn’t telling the truth. Regardless, the only way they’re going to get out of this is to solve this mystery together, so I’m ready for them to stop going off on their own.

I really hope the show doesn’t make us wait much longer to learn about what happened when Su-chang and Dong-tak were kids, because it’s definitely the key to why they’re sharing a body now, and how to make things right and get their lives back. I think it’s very interesting that they came out of those events feeling very differently about them—Su-chang blames Dong-tak for ruining his life, while Dong-tak was wishing good things for him and expecting him to be living well. I’m very anxious to know what exactly happened, and why both men have such wildly different recollections of the events that shaped their lives.

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  • Two Cops: Episodes 11-12TwoCops11-12-00263.jpg

 

It’s time for our charming con man to make a decision—does he continue to live his life as he always has, or has the time come to step up and be a better man? He’s always taken the easy road before, but it’s becoming clear that just getting by isn’t enough anymore. He’s going to need to face the truth of the past and deal with it if he has any hope of getting his life back, and to do that, he’ll need the help of the one person he hates most in the world.

 

 

 

EPISODE 11 RECAP

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Su-chang, still in Dong-tak’s body, prepares to take the money he conned from shady human trafficker Manager Park and leave everything behind. He thinks he’s arranged for Ji-an to be left somewhere safe, and for the other girls that Manager Park kidnapped to be found in his car by the police.

But Manager Park calls him and says that he knows Su-chang was conning him, so he conned Su-chang right back. Su-chang realizes that Manager Park must have done something to endanger Ji-an, and he breaks into a run.

Manager Park is stuck behind what looks like a car accident, but is actually the detectives searching for him on Su-chang’s tip. Sung-hyuk walks down the line of cars, surreptitiously looking inside each one, and Manager Park grows nervous as he recognizes Sung-hyuk from when the cops were watching him.

 

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EPISODE 12 RECAP

Su-chang tries to force his soul out of Dong-tak’s body by repeatedly flinging himself at a wall, but nothing happens. He decides to try a head-butt, but he chickens out at the last second and nearly makes himself cry.

When Detective Lee wanders by, Su-chang tries to get him to punch him. Detective Lee is confused as to why Su-chang wants to get hit, so Su-chang rattles off that Dong-tak can probably figure out how to save Ji-an and arrest Manager Park, so he needs to get out of him.

Confused, Detective Lee has no idea what’s happening, but he agrees to hit Su-chang on the count of three. Su-chang counts one… two… and Detective Lee knocks him hard in the jaw. It doesn’t work, except to make Su-chang upset that Detective Lee hit him on the wrong count, HA.

 

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He gets a call from Manager Park, who’s decided that he wants his boat by 7 P.M. That only gives Su-chang an hour to save Ji-an, so he jumps in a car to take the money to Manager Park. On the way, he answers another call and threatens to play jumprope with Manager Park’s innards if he hurts Ji-an.

But it’s actually Jae-hee on the other line, and he asks if Su-chang knows where Ji-an is right now. Su-chang begs Jae-hee to help him, yelling that Ji-an in in danger and he needs a gun. Distracted and frantic, he swerves to avoid hitting a car and jumps the curb.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-11-12/

 

 

COMMENTS

Yes, finally! I’m so glad that Dong-tak and Su-chang have figured out that they need to work together to solve the mystery from their past. Putting the clues together, I’m guessing that it was probably Ji-an’s father who took the recorded confession from Dong-tak, that he was killed when the truth threatened to come out, then was framed for taking bribes and his death ruled a suicide. And this is just speculation, but I’m also guessing that the boy in the white sweater who dropped the “J†pendant could be Jae-hee, and that his father, Chief Prosecutor Tak, arranged the whole coverup to protect his involvement in the accident, whatever that may be. That would explain everything, including why Dong-tak has thought all these years that he helped Su-chang, while Su-chang has assumed Dong-tak broke his promise. But who is the guy on the motorcycle, the one who killed Hang-joon? And what is his connection to the case from sixteen years ago?

 

I never made the connection between blood and their body-sharing, but now that Su-chang has figured it out, it should make it a lot easier for them to switch back and forth. Not to mention, they’ll have some control of when and how it happens. And I think it’s brilliant to link the blood back to their first meeting as children—I’m not exactly sure how it ties in, but the flashback to Su-chang’s accident right as he was thinking about the blood can’t be a coincidence. Generally I find stories where the protagonists have a childhood history together to feel contrived—not that I dislike the general idea, I just don’t usually like the way it’s executed. But sometimes a show manages to use the past to explain and enhance the present events really well, and I think that Two Cops is pulling this off nicely (another great example of this is Heart to Heart).

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I think that Su-chang learned a very valuable lesson when he tried to con everyone and had it backfire in his face. Even though he’s been telling himself for years that he only cons those who deserve it, he’d probably never thought about the collateral damage he was causing to people who didn’t deserve to be cheated. When Ji-an nearly got killed because his plan went sideways, Su-chang realized for the first time that there’s no such thing as only conning the guilty, because someone innocent will always get hurt in the aftermath. It took almost killing someone to make him (hopefully) understand that there’s no justification for what he’s been doing to people for years.

It was a step in the right direction for Su-chang to be willing to step aside so that Dong-tak could come back and help find Ji-an. With the massive amount of resentment and anger Su-chang is carrying around for Dong-tak, it was huge for him to admit that he needed Dong-tak’s help, not to mention that Dong-tak is the one with the knowledge and training to actually do some good. Conning will only get you so far, and at some point you need good old-fashioned detective work to solve such a huge problem.

I continue to be amazed at how well Jo Jung-seok portrays Su-chang in Dong-tak’s body. He mimics Su-chang’s body language, facial expressions, even his vocal inflections so well that I actually have a harder time remembering who he is when Dong-tak is back in control. It actually feels a bit dissonant when Su-chang is in spirit form, because I find it so easy to accept the situation when he’s in control of Dong-tak’s body that it feels strange when he’s not. But I also love seeing the two working together, especially now that Dong-tak can actually see Su-chang, and I’m ready for some good strong bromance to start forming between them. It’s going to be really fun watching them heal from the past and learn to trust and rely on each other.

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  • Two Cops: Episodes 13-14

 

 

Being partners with someone isn’t easy under the best of circumstances, never mind when your ideals conflict… and oh yeah, when they also happen to be a spirit. A cop and a con man are a shaky pairing no matter how you look at it, and it doesn’t help that these two agree on their goal, but refuse to acknowledge that they’re on the same team.

 

 

EPISODE 13 RECAP

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Dong-tak dances around the station break room, happy to finally have his gun back. He poses in front of the mirror… then screams to see Su-chang’s reflection instead of his own. He starts awake, thankful that it was only a dream. He starts to say how horrible it was, only to see Su-chang grinning at him. HA.

Meanwhile, Ji-an gets a dressing-down from her boss for willingly putting herself in danger. Then he smiles and gives her a bonus for the inside story she got on the kidnappers. Her co-workers Mi-nam and Na-mi wheedle for Ji-an to buy them a treat, but she says there’s something she has to buy.

 

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She takes a whole bag of nail art materials to the hospital for Soo-young, the girl who escaped the kidnappers, only to find out that she’s been discharged already. Her roommate, nurse Da-jung, gives Ji-an a note from Soo-young thanking her for catching the bad guy (of course Ji-an latches onto the part where Soo-young calls her “pretty unni,†lol).

Da-jung wants to talk about how Dong-tak saved Ji-an, but Ji-an is annoyed at how often he changes his mind, almost like he has a dual personality. Da-jung sighs over a man who would risk his life to save hers, which gets the attention of a young woman sitting at the next table. She scurries away when Ji-an notices her, and Da-jung says she comes to the hospital frequently with injuries, with her handsome boyfriend always with her.

 

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Su-chang talks things out to himself, trying to figure out how he can get his own body and life back. He agrees with Dong-tak’s theory that catching the original criminal who framed his father is the key, but the time limit of 49 days worries him, since it’s already been two weeks.

Having seen how busy detectives are, Su-chang doubts that Dong-tak has time to catch the real killer on his own. He decides to possess Dong-tak again and catch the killer himself.

Dong-tak and Detective Yoo are brought in front of Superintendent Ma, who’s furious that Dong-tak ignored all the rules with the kidnapping case. He informs Dong-tak that he could be suspended or imprisoned, then turns on Detective Yoo for not controlling his team.

 

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Unable to tell anyone that it wasn’t him in charge of his body during that case, Dong-tak simply says he’ll take responsibility. But he also asks Superintendent Ma why he didn’t step in after Hang-joon was murdered, and says that Hang-joon’s case isn’t over for him.

Superintendent Ma asks if Dong-tak intends to keep overstepping, which reminds Dong-tak that after being arrested, Han-joon’s faux murderer Doo-shik told him that Hang-joon was killed because he overstepped. Detective Yoo promises to be responsible and yanks Dong-tak out before he can make it worse. He tries to cheer him up, but when Su-chang chimes in, Dong-tak tells him to butt out and accidentally hurts Detective Yoo’s feelings.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-13-14/

 

 

COMMENTS

Oof, poor Su-chang. His crush on Ji-an is starting to get painful, for him obviously, but for me as a viewer, too. He genuinely likes her, but the only times he gets to show her his interest are when he’s in Dong-tak’s body, so all he ends up doing is pushing her feelings for Dong-tak even further along. And now he has to watch Dong-tak kissing the girl he likes, knowing that at least half the time she thinks she’s with Dong-tak, she’s really with him. I actually think that Ji-an is more attracted to the real Dong-tak, because Su-chang seems to annoy her a lot when he’s in control. But Su-chang’s charm can’t be denied, and the more he tries to get her to see him, the more she sees Dong-tak. I can tell that his advice to little Joon-soo on the playground is going to come back to bite him: When a girl chooses another guy, all you can do is thank her for making you happy for a while, and wish her well.

 

These boys, I swear! Both of them so stubborn—the more I learn of their personalities, the more I see why Hang-joon wanted them to meet. Dong-tak is taciturn while Su-chang is bubbly, but underneath they’re both mule-headed, distrustful, and convinced that their way is the only way. I was so hopeful last week when they agreed that catching the person who framed Su-chang’s father was the way to put things right, because I thought that they would start working together. But instead, Dong-tak is adamant that he’s going to do it all himself, while Su-chang doesn’t trust him to be able to do what needs to be done within the confines of his detective job. Neither of them is wrong, it’s just that they need to figure out how to do this together, and I want to smack them for not figuring it out yet.

Finally, we know what triggers Dong-tak and Su-chang’s soul exchange—their biggest fears. For Dong-tak it’s water, and for Su-chang, it’s blood. Obviously they don’t have to be afraid in that moment—just the presence of the water or blood is enough—because they’ve successfully switched when one or both of them was unaware that the catalyst was even present. But their fear makes total sense as an agent, and I love that the show gives us a vehicle for the switch, if not an explanation for how they got this way. I still want to know where Dong-tak goes when he’s not in control, because surely with such a detailed explanation of the mechanics of the switch, there has to also be an explanation of what happens to Dong-tak when Su-chang is using his body, and why he can’t remember those times like Su-chang remembers his out-of-body time.

I’m still very much enjoying Two Cops, which isn’t perfect but is remaining consistently entertaining as we near the halfway point. At times the editing can be confusing, but for the most part it’s a fun ride with an interesting mystery at the heart of it. My one major complaint is Chief Prosecutor Tak and his bizarre speeches, which make absolutely zero sense. Metaphors have their place, but this guy only talks in metaphors. I have no clue whatsoever what he, Commissioner Noh, and Superintendent Ma are even doing in the story at this point, or why they keep meeting to talk about nothing. I get that they’re the bad guys, but at this point they have shown no motivation for their actions—in fact, I don’t even know what they’ve done other than promise Doo-shik to save him if he confesses to Hang-joon’s murder, then back out on the deal. The show needs to clarify their purpose soon and tell me why I should even care, because right now, they’re just making the show feel bloated with pointless information, and taking us away from the scenes with the characters we want to see.

 

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Aaaargh, our star-crossed detective and con man know they have to work together to solve their mystery and get their lives back, but they just can’t stop being angry with each other long enough to get some focus! It’s like one step forward, ten steps back for those two. At least Su-chang gets his big chance to be swoony for Ji-an, although that does include what looks like the most painful piggyback ever.

 

 

 

 

 

EPISODE 15 RECAP 

 

Dong-tak pulls over on his drive home, overwhelmed with memories of kissing Ji-an (he’s so cute, he even has the hiccups). As for Ji-an, she stays up late berating herself for closing her eyes and giving in to the kiss. Having witnessed the whole thing, Su-chang visits his comatose body, calling himself an idiot and yelling at himself to just lie there forever.

 

During a work meeting, Ji-an is too giddy to pay attention, and when her boss calls on her, she murmurs, “His lips were sweet…†She wonders what to do about Dong-tak, then pulls herself together, deciding to find some evidence to help out his investigation.

 

Dong-tak takes the entire pile of discarded gifts he found on assault victim Min-ah’s rooftop back to the station. He confirms that Sung-hyuk got pictures of both Min-ah and her boyfriend, whose name is Kyung-chul.

 

 

 

 

 

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Still at the hospital, Su-chang tries to push the memories of seeing Dong-tak kissing Ji-an out of his mind. He shoulder-checks a doctor in frustration and belatedly realizes that he was able to touch the man, and it cheers him up.

 

Further down the hall, Su-chang sidesteps to avoid a woman, and she sidesteps to avoid him at the same time. It dawns on Su-chang that she can see him, and he looks up to see Min-ah’s spirit, who’s equally shocked that he can see her. Su-chang screams at the top of his lungs and flees like a big ol’ ninny.

 

Ji-an shows up at the station looking for Dong-tak, and she looks through the pile of Min-ah’s discarded things while she waits. She finds shreds of what looks like a ripped up note, so she pieces them together like a puzzle. When she’s finished, she’s shocked at what she reads.

 

 

 

 

 

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Having been told by forensics that they don’t have time to examine his evidence right away, Dong-tak takes it to Yong-pal and Doc. He tells them that Min-ah was assaulted and is still unconscious, and asks them to look at the evidence pictures to see if they pick up any clues. Doc immediately notices the photo of the slash on boyfriend Kyung-chul’s arm, which he doesn’t think looks like a defensive wound, as Kyung-chul claimed.

 

Dong-tak and Yong-pal re-enact the supposed confrontation between Kyung-chul and the robber (ha, Dong-tak tricks Yong-pal into playing the robber). Doc confirms that the wound looks as if whoever held the knife hesitated, like you would if you were stabbing yourself.

 

When he gets back to the hospital and sees Min-ah’s boyfriend, Dong-tak openly says that he’s onto him. Kyung-chul just stares at him, no reaction in his expression.

 

 

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-15-16/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So wait, did Ji-an know she wasn’t kissing Dong-tak? She was drunk as a skunk, but she did hear him tell her who he is and repeated his real name back to him, so who knows what she understood. I know she thinks it’s Dong-tak she’s with when Su-chang tells her how he feels about her, but the truth is that Dong-tak, other than kissing her, hasn’t ever led Ji-an to believe that he has feelings for her. In fact, he refused to confess to her, even after kissing her. I know I said before that I think it’s Dong-tak that Ji-an really likes, but now I wonder if I’ve been wrong and it’s actually Su-chang she’s falling for. But it’s not that simple, and things are going to get really complicated when Ji-an learns that the man she’s falling for is actually two different men.

 

 

 

In addition, I’m torn on this whole “don’t go near her†attitude that Dong-tak is adopting in regards to Ji-an. It’s true that he kissed her first, but if it weren’t for Su-chang advancing the relationship whenever he’s in control of Dong-tak’s body, there might not even be a growing romance between them at all. And like Ji-an said, Dong-tak kissed her but he didn’t confess to having any feelings for her. But Su-chang isn’t really in a position to woo her considering that he’s using someone else’s body to do it, and Dong-tak is correct to warn him away from starting anything using someone else’s body. But I don’t think Dong-tak has the right to act like Ji-an is his, because as things stand at this moment, she’s not. If Su-chang were awake and in his own body, he’d have just as much right to pursue her as Dong-tak (provided that Ji-an allowed it, of course).

 

 

 

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Both Dong-tak and Su-chang annoyed me in this episode, because I get that this case was important and they did finally start working together in the end, but I’m so frustrated that Su-chang’s time is running out and they’re letting petty personal squabbles get in the way of solving the mystery of who framed his father. They realized two episodes ago that solving that case was the key to getting Su-chang his life back and Dong-tak his body back, but they’ve done nothing about it since. They should both be feeling some urgency to start looking into that, because not only is Su-chang’s actual life on the line, but Dong-tak feels guilty that his efforts were thwarted back then and you’d think he’d be interested in making good on his promise. But no, they’d rather argue over a girl than focus on what’s really important. They have a month left to get everything wrapped up—the girl issue can wait!

 

That said, I did like that they finally, though begrudgingly, agreed to work together to solve the domestic violence case, and it was an interesting story. Min-ah was deliberately keeping herself in her coma to avoid her abusive boyfriend, and she needed someone to talk her into facing life again so they could put the creep away. The solution was great, to use Su-chang’s ability to see her and Dong-tak’s face to earn her trust, even though it was ultimately Ji-an showing Min-ah how much she’s loved that did the trick. But then Su-chang betrayed Dong-tak again by using his body past the point where he had permission. Not only that, but he used Dong-tak’s body to take advantage of Ji-an’s emotions and spend time with her, and that makes me really, really angry with him. I don’t think he’s a bad guy at heart, but he’s lived in survival mode for so long that he doesn’t realize how his actions hurt others. He’s got a lot of growing to do before he becomes a trustworthy person.

 

And once again, I’m baffled by Chief Prosecutor Tak’s actions. Why would he call in a colleague to say he’s the abusive boyfriend’s lawyer, making it seem as though he’s going to help the abuser go free, only to instantly negate the whole thing? Why call Dong-tak to tell him all this, then encourage him not to let anything deter him from his goal? It felt like Chief Prosecutor Tak was pushing Dong-tak to continue his investigations into Hang-joon’s death, but that seems counter to what we’ve been led to believe, that he’s in on the cover-up. I’ve been assuming all this time that Chief Prosecutor Tak is corrupt and that he intends to make sure Dong-tak doesn’t discover the truth about the past, but now I wonder. Is Chief Prosecutor Tak actually one of the good guys, pretending to be one of the bad ones to earn their trust? Will he ultimately help Dong-tak? I guess time will tell—it would be an interesting twist.

 

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So, what are we all watching this week?

What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…

 

 

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  • Two Cops: This love triangle is starting to get confusing, with body and soul in direct competition for the heroine’s affections. I’m on the cop’s side all the way, but I hope it doesn’t become like Oh My Ghostess, where you actually start to question which soul the love interest truly fell for. I just want my hijinks and my happy ending, okay?
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  • Two Cops: Episodes 19-20TwoCops19-20-00221.jpg

     

Dong-tak and Su-chang are learning some painful lessons; that the most well-laid plans can go terribly wrong, and the best intentions can actually do harm. But in the process, they’re also discovering that it’s never too late to mend fences, and that you shouldn’t ever put off honesty with those you love, because you never know how long they’ll be around.

 

 

 

EPISODE 19 RECAP

 

Dong-tak goes to meet with Doo-shik, but instead he finds his angry cellmate Salja waiting for him. Salja snarls that he has some business with Dong-tak and reaches into his pocket, but before gets close enough to do anything, gentle Moss interrupts them.

 

He hands Salja a small wooden figurine, then asks what they’re doing. Salja says it’s nothing and leaves with Moss on his heels, and Dong-tak heaves a sigh of relief.

 

In the yard, Doo-shik looks conflicted as he thinks about a phone call he got from Superintendent Ma, promising him a reduced sentence if he cancels his retrial. When the men line up, Dong-tak gives Doo-shik a look full of disappointment for not showing up to their meeting.

 

 

 

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Nurse Da-jung tries to convince a hospital security officer that she saw someone in a doctor’s coat coming out of Su-chang’s room before his seizure. The security officer says she’s being too sensitive, which makes Su-chang lose his cool, yelling that he nearly died.

 

He participates in the argument even though neither of them can hear him, saying that it makes no sense that the CCTV camera outside his room is the only one that lost footage. Da-jung talks the officer into calling the police, and on her way out she worries that one more shock could kill Su-chang.

 

In another visit to Dong-tak, Yong-pal says that he’s been following Ji-an as Dong-tak asks, and that he discovered Doo-shik got his angel wings tattoo several days after Hang-joon’s murder. He says he brought a picture and asked for that exact tattoo, which means he isn’t the killer, but he knows who the killer is.

 

 

 

 

 

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EPISODE 20 RECAP

 

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Dong-tak finds Moss in the movie theater and tosses him around the room furiously until the guards pull them apart. As he’s being dragged out, Moss shoots Dong-tak a creepy, knowing grin.

 

Now that the mystery is solved, Dong-tak is released from prison. The guard who always seemed to be watching Dong-tak wishes him well from a distance, then calls Superintendent Ma to say that he considers his debt paid for keeping Dong-tak safe.

 

Sung-hyuk greets Dong-tak at the gate with a smile, but Dong-tak walks right past him to Ji-an. He takes her in his arms with a relieved sigh, and from a nearby car, Jae-hee watches them wistfully.

 

 

 

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Ji-an meets with Jae-hee later to apologize for misunderstanding him, and to thank him for helping Dong-tak. Jae-hee asks why she’s here, and she confesses that she likes Dong-tak, and that he makes her nervous (in a good way) and want to be a better person. She asks for Jae-hee’s approval, and though he looks sad, he just jokes that he’ll beat up Dong-tak if he ever hurts her.

 

The detectives take Dong-tak out to celebrate his release. Still thinking that everything that happened was real, they tease him mercilessly and ask if Yong-pal should be imprisoned for false accusation. Sung-hyuk just says that none of it matters now, beaming when Dong-tak amiably pats him on the back.

 

 

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/12/two-cops-episodes-19-20/

 

 

 

 

 

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I was pretty sure before, but now I’m certain, that Jae-hee is the boy who originally stopped at the accident where young Su-chang was injured, but ran away. The pendant that was left behind, and that Dong-tak has been wearing all this time, has Jae-hee’s initials on it, and it would at least partially explain the reason for the cover-up of the truth of that night. What we still don’t know is how a teenage boy could be so involved that he’s still being protected sixteen years later, or why so many people have died in the process, because simply being a witness wouldn’t necessitate such extreme measures.

 

 

 

And I’m convinced that whatever is going on, Jae-hee himself has no knowledge of it, because he seems like a generally stand-up guy who would be horrified to learn of what’s been done to protect him. Unless, of course, Dong-tak is right and the person who dropped the pendant is also Hang-joon’s killer. But right now that seems pretty farfetched, so while I’m willing to entertain that Jae-hee might be the killer, I’m holding off on giving it serious consideration until we have something that looks like a motive.

 

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I was surprisingly broken up over Doo-shik’s death considering that we only got to know him in these last couple of episodes. He seems a lot like Su-chang in that he was a good kid who got stuck with a bad life, and just fell in with a much worse crowd than Su-chang. But holy crap, would it have killed him (no pun intended) to give Dong-tak a better clue than “find the real angel?†I mean, Dong-tak already knows that he’s looking for someone else with an angel wings tattoo! If Doo-shik had time to sit there bleeding and talking for several minutes, he had time to give Dong-tak an actual name, or at least something more to go on than something he already knows. But even though he resented Su-chang, and even framed him for murder, Doo-shik went out like a hero in the end, sacrificing himself for the only friend he ever had.

 

With Doo-shik’s death, and his own mortality looming, Su-chang is learning some very difficult and valuable lessons, and it’s about time. We’re finally beginning to see why he’s being allowed to inhabit Dong-tak’s body — to see things from the other point of view, and to hear some hard truths that it’s high time he heard. He’s always told himself that his set of “morals†absolves him of guilt for what he takes from others, but spending time with Doo-shik brought it home that no matter what he tells himself, Su-chang is still a thief, and making up fancy rules doesn’t make him better than anyone else. But mostly I think that Su-chang needed to hear how his behavior makes others feel, and learning that Doo-shik felt so much jealousy and resentment towards him that he framed him not once, but twice, was an important thing for him to accept.

 

He’s also learning a lot from Dong-tak as they spend more time together; most importantly, how to be a good person. Hang-joon was right in that they’re very similar, and if not for circumstances out of their control, their situations could easily have been reversed. Being around Dong-tak is reminding Su-chang of that part of him that has a strong moral compass, which he’s tried so hard to hang onto all these years, but which has become a twisted justification for his actions. And he’s having a positive effect on Dong-tak as well, reminding him that life can be fun even when you’ve suffered losses, and to cherish those you love while you can.

 

 

 

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So, what are we all watching this week?

What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…

 

 

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  • Two Cops: I know that the undercover operation in prison was important for the overall mystery, but I couldn’t get over how easy it was for Jo Jung-seok to just get in and out of prison without anyone batting an eyelash. It’s the kind of plot that would take up a whole other drama’s worth of time to do logically, so instead they just kind of waved a magic wand. Maybe someone watched Mysterious Il-seung and went, Look, you can just walk in and out of prison, easy peasy! Let’s do that!
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The time has come for Dong-tak and Su-chang to tell the truth, though whether they’ll be believed is a whole different issue. They begin to turn their full focus to solving the mystery, but as these things always go, every clue they discover only raises more questions. At least they’re working together now, increasing their chances of setting things right before time is up and everything is lost.

 

EPISODE 21 RECAP

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Ji-an sees Dong-tak talking to Su-chang, and his nervous glance towards Su-chang doesn’t go unnoticed, either. She asks suspiciously who he is and who he’s talking to. Su-chang begs Dong-tak not to tell the truth or Ji-an will think he’s crazy, but Dong-tak says he needs to be honest.

He tells Ji-an that there’s someone else with them, and that he wants to tell her the truth even if she doesn’t believe him. He says that the spirit is a conman who was ejected from his body, and that he sometimes even possesses Dong-tak.

Ji-an laughs incredulously, but Dong-tak’s serious expression makes her nervous. He says it’s all true, and Ji-an asks if the spirit is Gong Su-chang. Dong-tak nods and takes a step towards her, but she backs up, confused, and says they can discuss it later.

 

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She rushes off and Dong-tak chases after her, but she jumps in a taxi before he catches up. He drives to her house, calling her over and over, but she ignores his calls. He heads back to the station and picks up the folder she dropped in her flight. Su-chang is worried about Ji-an, but Dong-tak says that she’s strong and will be fine. He decides that catching their culprit is the more urgent concern.

Inside the station, Su-chang finally comes clean about the fact that he only has forty-nine days to solve the mystery and get his own body back, or he’ll die. Dong-tak is upset that he only has fifteen days left, which makes Su-chang tease that he’s like the Grim Reaper.

 

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Dong-tak still thinks Ji-an is strong enough to handle this situation, but Su-chang isn’t so sure. They decide to split up to investigate, Dong-tak following up on the pendant and Su-chang looking for the angel.

Meanwhile, Ji-an visits Miss Bong, who has her pick tarot cards. The first card says that there’s another man’s soul in Dong-tak’s body, and the second card shows that an ill-fated relationship has begun. Ji-an asks which is the ill-fated one, and Miss Bong just says it might be the one she likes more, but she tells Ji-an that a new chapter of her fate is unfolding.

Dong-tak learns from the jeweler that the pendant is one that used to be given to detectives when they retired from the Incheon Police Station, though the tradition stopped about fifteen years ago. So he calls for a list of detectives that worked there around the time of the accident, who had the initials “TJH.â€

 

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Trying to think of who the real angel might be, Su-chang whines to Doo-shik’s spirit that his final clue was too vague (that’s what I’m saying). But he immediately apologizes, thinking about their time together at the orphanage, which jogs his memory. Over at the orphanage, prosecutor Jae-hee shows up with gifts for the kids, which seems to be a regular occurrence. The nun in charge says that she wishes his father would also visit, but Jae-hee reminds her that he doesn’t because he doesn’t want to draw attention from reporters.

The nun tells Jae-hee that although his father seems harsh, he would do anything for his son. An odd look crosses Jae-hee’s face, but he agrees that his father has always given him anything he wanted.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2018/01/two-cops-episodes-21-22/

 

 

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I’m so glad that Dong-tak finally told Ji-an the truth about Su-chang possessing him, because once Su-chang kissed her knowing that she thought he was Dong-tak, his crush on her stopped being funny and started being inappropriate. And I’m glad that Ji-an said so, objecting to the fact that they let her date and kiss both of them without telling her what was going on. I did think it was kind of interesting though, that Su-chang didn’t want to tell Ji-an the truth about himself and Dong-tak, when Dong-tak was the one who resisted the truth for so long. I can see where he’s coming from — not only is he scared for himself, but he’s also really worried about Ji-an and doesn’t want to add to her upset. Besides, he seems to have changed since kissing her too, and he probably doesn’t want her to see him as anyone but himself anymore, so I can see why he would be unwilling to possess Dong-tak and give her another reason to be confused between the guys.

 

It’s pretty clear to me that Jae-hee is the boy who was at the scene of the crash all those years ago, and that it’s his pendant Dong-tak has been carrying around all this time. Or more likely he was wearing his father’s pendant, since they have the same initials, and has been hiding the fact that he lost it. I still don’t understand why his presence there was covered up in the first place, unless it’s because he ran away and didn’t help. But I think I also know why he’s being protected in the present… I believe that Jae-hee might be the “real angel,†the one who killed Hang-joon.

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Stay with me, here. We know two things about the Real Angel: that he just showed up recently out of nowhere, and that he has a tattoo of angel’s wings on the back of his neck. Jae-hee also came back to town recently, right about the same time as Hang-joon was killed. And I went back and checked, and every time we see Jae-hee, he’s always either wearing a suit with a collar, or a turtleneck. So it’s possible that the timing isn’t a coincidence, nor is the fact that he always keeps his neck covered. He’s also connected to the orphanage somehow, which would have given him the inspiration for the wing tattoo.

That said, what I can’t figure out is why. If I’m right about the identity of the Real Angel, it would mean that Chief Prosecutor Tak knows this about his son, and that he’s orchestrating all of these cover-ups to protect him. But we still don’t have a reason, not for the cover-up when Jae-hee witnessed Su-chang’s accident, nor why Jae-hee would be the one going after Hang-joon personally. So while my identity theory makes some sense when you look at the facts, what I still can’t figure out is any sort of motive. Obviously the orphanage is involved, and the two children who ended up there after the accident. And I wonder who the second child is — obviously Su-chang is one, but the other wouldn’t be Dong-tak or they’d have known each other longer than just their brief encounter. I have some theories about that, too, but nothing concrete enough to share yet.

And that right there is the main reason I’m getting frustrated with this show, which I find very entertaining otherwise. I’ve complained before that the show isn’t telling us enough about its villains to make us care, because when you show us someone skulking around, vaguely discussing doing bad things, but take too long in telling us what they’re doing and why, eventually we’ll stop caring. There’s an art to doling out information just slowly enough to create suspense, but not so slowly that your audience loses interest. That’s already beginning to happen, and while the more stubborn of us are still hanging in there, it won’t be long before any reveals will come too late for us to still give a damn. The show needs to tell us something soon, or risk losing its audience in its attempt to be mysterious.

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I just love the way Dong-tak and Su-chang have gone from fighting over who has control of Dong-tak’s body, to orchestrating smooth-as-silk transitions to help take down the baddies. Their teamwork is pretty impressive now that they have a system, and a growing foundation of trust between them. They’re going to need it once the full truth begins to come out, and they learn that their pasts are more entwined than they imagined.

 

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When he sees Chief Prosecutor Tak’s name on the list of former Incheon detectives, Dong-tak remembers him saying that he owes Su-chang’s father a favor. Confused, Su-chang says that his father was too poor to do anyone a favor. Dong-tak wonders how Chief Prosecutor Tak could have lost his pendant at the accident scene when he wasn’t there — unless he lost it before that day.

Overnight, a woman is found dead from a hit-and-run accident. The detectives notice that Detective Park is preoccupied, and since Dong-tak isn’t around, Detective Lee and Sung-hyuk team up to investigate. They learn that a man’s DNA was discovered under the woman’s fingernail, which sends us into a flashback. The woman was hit while walking across the street, by the creepy man that Detective Park met, Jo Min-seok. He’d seen that she was critically injured, and she’d reached out to grab his hand, scratching him when he pulled away.

 

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EPISODE 24 RECAP

Dong-tak gets Min-seok released, and he goes straight to Yong-pal’s club to celebrate. In on the plan, Yong-pal plies him with alcohol, reinforcing the idea that Dong-tak is a dirty cop to further convince Min-seok. When he passes out, he’s carried to a car driven by Su-chang.

Some time later, Min-seok wakes to find himself on a deserted street, alone behind the wheel of the car. On the road is a man covered in blood — heh, it’s just Yong-pal’s sidekick playing dead, and Yong-pal and Su-chang are watching from a short distance.

 

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Su-chang calls Min-seok’s phone, supposedly to discuss their deal further. Min-seok says frantically that he needs help, screaming at Su-chang to get there immediately. Su-chang helps him pull the man’s body into some tall grass, then offers to get rid of the car for him.

But Min-seok doesn’t take the bait and says he’ll do it himself. So Su-chang runs to Yong-pal and orders him to hit him, and Yong-pal is more than happy to take a few shots at Dong-tak’s face. Third time’s the charm, and the blood he draws kicks Su-chang out of Dong-tak’s body.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2018/01/two-cops-episodes-23-24/

 

 

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That was only a partially climactic cliffhanger, since we all figured out weeks ago that Ji-an’s father is the detective who was falsely accused of taking bribes and supposedly killed himself all those years ago. However, I wasn’t expecting Su-chang to know him as the cop who supposedly destroyed the evidence exonerating his father. And I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before, but I’m guessing that Ji-an is the second child who ended up at the orphanage after the accident. We know that her family photo album ends when she’s at about the age she’d have been at the time of the accident, and she never talks about any other family, so it makes sense. I’m still not exactly sure how all of this fits together, but now that Dong-tak knows that Chief Prosecutor Tak is connected to that accident, I expect the information to start coming at us pretty quickly next week.

 

I really enjoy watching Su-chang and Dong-tak finally working together. I get that it took them so long because they had a lot of baggage and distrust to overcome, but it does feel like the plot stagnated for a while in the middle just so that when they finally partnered up, the tension would be higher. I don’t disagree with it as a storytelling device, because they do have sixteen hours to fill after all, but I do feel that the pacing could have been more balanced. Maybe another case leading to a bit more evidence, since I’ve thought the cases they’ve worked on have been interesting (and appreciated that they all revolved around righting wrongs against women).

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Regardless, they’re a team now, and it’s great. It’s smart of Dong-tak and Su-chang to split up as often as possible, so that they can use their individual strengths — Dong-tak’s skills at deduction and Su-chang’s ability to go anywhere unseen — to find out as much as possible. In fact, I wish they’d do more of that, and in a way I wish they were smarter about it. For example, there’s no reason Su-chang couldn’t have been in Chief Prosecutor Tak’s office when Dong-tak met with him, to see if he got a different take on the situation the way he did when he watched Dong-tak interrogate Min-seok. If I were them, I’d have Su-chang just follow Chief Prosecutor Tak for a day and see what he finds out.

But it was also fun to see them working together to solve this case, switching in and out of Dong-tak’s body so that whoever could be more useful got a chance to do their thing. I loved seeing Su-chang do a con on a bad guy, which makes me hope that when they do solve the mystery and he gets his body back, he gets a chance to realize his dream to become a detective. He’s smart and resourceful, and the only thing that stopped him before was lack of opportunity. It would be awesome to see him and Dong-tak working together for real, using Su-chang’s con skills to trick criminals into giving themselves away.

I’ve thought for a while that Superintendent Ma is only in on Chief Prosecutor Tak and CM’s plans because he doesn’t have enough power not to, and that he’s probably going along with it because if he knows what they’re planning, he can mitigate the damage as much as possible from where he is. For example, if he couldn’t stop Hang-joon from being murdered, at least he could keep the other detectives from investigating, and hopefully keep them safe. Not that I think he’s a good guy, because he’s not —

doing nothing can be as bad or worse as doing the bad thing itself (even Chief Prosecutor Tak said that!), and he still reports everything to Chief Prosecutor Tak even when he’s helping Dong-tak. But I don’t think that Superintendent Ma be orchestrating cover-ups on his own, if the others weren’t pressuring him. He seems to be growing more and more worried about the things that his superiors are ordering, and I’m hoping that soon, he’ll decide not to put up with the illegal powermongering anymore. I’m not sure what he could do, as he doesn’t hold much power himself, but at least he’s finally doing something to help Dong-tak bring the bad guys down.

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Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching

 

 

 

 

So, what are we all watching this week?

What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote through the screen? Time to weigh in…

 

girlfriday

  • Two Cops: I wish the central mystery would move faster. It’s just so… unmysterious, and I’d really rather spend my time watching Jo Jung-seok play two characters and be confusingly swoony as both cop and con man. More hijinks, please!
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  • love changed the title to MBC Drama "TWO COPS" Jo Jung Suk & Hyeri. *~The END~*

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