Another Chance
He walks up to the front of the line and takes a step forward. The gangsters start to back away, but Hui-Wu doesn’t stop. He takes another step forward and then another. Finally, he’s in front of the police and takes a step back.
Hu-Wu approaches the criminals, takes one of their wooden blocks and smacks himself upside the head with it. Sporting a thin trickle of blood down his head, he uses this as incentive to head in and attack the gangsters, making it look like this was an unprovoked attack. Hu-Wui works with the other officers, taking them down and saving the day. ..
Hui-Wu is convinced that Jo Tae-Seop is involved in a corruption scandal and he’s not the only one. Many people in the city believe that the powerful Jo is behind the situation. However, no one has been able to get close to him and he’s still very powerful.
Despite gathering a fair amount of evidence and working day and night to build a case, he’s put in his place by his superior, Kim Seok-Hoon. He tells Hui-Wu that there’s no point as he may not be able to get a conviction. ..
Seok-Hoon is also crooked though and he’s aligned with Tae-Seop. That much is apparent when he rings through and tells Tae-Seop to prepare himself. Tae-Seop is more interested in affairs with the Blue House. He calls himself the Kingmaker, paying his way to the top in order to control the country. Specifically, he wants his man, Assemblyman Jin, to take the President’s seat.
With a mistress in LA, Tae-Seop is tasked with taking pictures of a military base. In doing so, he’ll take care of the rest.
Tae-Seop is a crooked politician who has been caught with murder in the past. He is invited into the office by Seok-Hoon, who warns him about what is happening with Hui-Wu and offers to apologize. However, this sort of corruption does not phase Hui-Wu, who calls Tae-Seop trash and berates him.
Unfortunately, Tae-Seop got the jump on Hui-Wu. He takes out his key witness and systematically destroys the case. Their “secret weapon” has been kidnapped and left in a precarious position.
As Tae-Seop makes his way to the scene of the crime, he is met with resistance from the assassin on the rooftop. Unfortunately for Tae-Seop, Hui-Wu is able to inject him with a lethal cocktail of meth and alcohol, which causes him to pass out. He’s then thrown off the rooftop and plunging to the ground below.
We follow Hui-Wu as he interacts with his guardian angel, who tells him about her life and how she helps people.
In a tragic accident, Hui-Wu’s parents died. This event has had a significant impact on him and has motivated him to pursue a career in MMA. He reflects on his unsuccessful attempt to become a prosecutor and how he should have had more power before going after Tae-Seop.
A woman in red gives a man a second chance, allowing Hui-Wu to show Te-Seop a living hell. “You cannot catch the devil unless you become a bigger monster” She says, before fading out of view. ..
In doing so, we cut back through time, earlier in the timeline. Hui-Wu is working at a convenience store just after graduating high school. He’s younger and has a lot more time to play with. A lot more time to build a case against Jae-Seop too.
This timeline is right on the cusp of Hui-Wu’s parents being killed. For now though, they’re still alive. Naturally, Hui-Wu is ecstatic and incredibly happy, hugging them both. This helps to focus Hui-Wu’s mind, determined to go after Tae-Seop but take his time to build a big case and destroy any chance of him bouncing back.
Hui-Wu is determined to try and change things but he’s not quite sure how.
Hui-Wu wakes up the next morning to find that his parents have been run over by a black car. He can’t stop the inevitable and is left in shock and grief.
The Episode Review
The cast of My Life is excellent and the screenplay is strong too. If I were to be critical, some of the sound effects can be quite distracting, but that’s a minor point in an otherwise strong opener.
It seems like Tae-Seop has been at the forefront of all this drama from the beginning. He could be involved in the hit and run that killed his parents, but why would he do that? That’s still unclear, but there’s a nice dynamic between the characters so far. A simple but effective explanation for Hui-Wu being thrust back through time to change things is that he wants to help his family.
The light time travel elements are simple enough to process and hopefully we don’t have any stumbling time jumps that lack logic ala. Sisyphus: The Myth. For now though, Again My Life gets off to a great start. This looks set to be a really solid Friday/Saturday night drama!
