Composition
Yi-rang is confused about what just happened. She can’t believe that her friend Dong-soo killed Sun-hee and then pushed her off a roof. She’s also not sure why the song that Dong-soo played when he killed her made his transplanted eye itch.
Ji-young is having a panic attack because she saw Myung-hoon fall off the terrace. She is worried about Sun-hee and rushes to the rooftop only to find her dead. Jin-seop has taken the stairs to the bottom but he is shocked when he overhears footsteps from the bottom coming upwards.
Dong-soo makes it to the 21st floor which was Jin-seop and his colleagues’ office. Once he is certain that the footsteps he was hearing have stopped, Jin-seop goes back to the 21st floor. Dong-soo is still unable to see his face but remembers the jacket Jin-seop put over Sun-hee’s face before killing her.
Dong-soo rushes to the men’s room where Jin-seop went and confronts the first guy he sees by the sink. He calls the man out and asks him about his coat. Jin-seop hears the conversation from one of the stalls. The man leaves and Dong-soo realizes it was the wrong person. He gives the murderer an open challenge and tries to break the door down.
Dong-soo is pinned down by security while Jin-seop tries to stab him with a pen. Dong-soo begs for help, but the man who accused him doesn’t listen and leaves the stall. Dong-soo is then able to free himself and stab Jin-seop in the stomach.
Jin-seop notices Dong-soo’s hand healing from where he had poked a hole with his pen. The security takes Dong-soo away and Jin-seop exits the stall following that. As the security takes Don-soo away, they spot Ji-young who was coming down from the rooftop. She is sure it was Dong-soo who killed Sun-hee and Myung-hoon. ..
Jin-seop pulls down his eye patch and everyone is scared looking at his eye. Dong-soo is back at the office and he wonders who Myung-hoon was. He puts an act up in front of his colleagues about being shocked over Myung-hoon’s death. One of the security guards puts Dong-soo’s eye patch back on before calling his eye gross.
Dong-soo manages to sneak into the office building and tase the guards before helping Yi-rang yet again. The cops see the footage of Dong-soo sneaking inside and grow more certain that he is connected to all the murders that took place including Sun-hee and Myung-hoon.
The police have ruled out Myung-hoon as a suspect in the death of Dong-soo, and are now investigating Yi-rang for possible involvement. It has been revealed that Yi-rang had threatened an employee into stripping off her clothes and had stolen the identity card that gave her access to the office. ..
Jin-seop goes back to thinking about Dong-soo and puts some drops in his eyes. He recalls how Ji-young had removed Dong-soo’s eye mask but concludes that something like this was implausible but it still made sense. The cops arrive at the office to question Jin-seop who was the team leader. They ask him about Dong-soo and he recalls how he had made a ruckus on the day of the incident. ..
Detective Choi asks where Jin-seop was during the incident and he claims that he was in the hallway. Choi asks Jin-seop about Dong-soo’s comment when he called someone an “eyeball thief” but Jin-seop directs the questioning to Ji-young. They ask Jin-seop about his coat and Ji-young intervenes asking the cops to look for Dong-soo instead of questioning the innocent employees. ..
Jin-seop noticed that Ji-young showed tendencies of OCD when she stepped inside a boundary in his cubicle. Dong-soo and Ji-rang are at his house and he is concerned about how she is looking around. Ji-rang spots the makeshift family photograph of Dong-soo taped over that of a couple.
He hands her a cup of beverage and asks who she was. Ji-rang claims that she will soon be a novelist who wants to write about Connect. She shares that a kid helped her when she was young and about to be hit by a car. Ji-rang claims that the kid that jumped towards the car and saved her was a Connect.
Ji-rang tells the story of how the truck driver had fled from the scene and how she had watched the child heal despite being crushed completely. She says that she always wanted to thank him but wasn’t able to do so. Yi-rang says that she learned about Dong-soo from the gangsters who were organ traffickers. ..
She tells Dong-soo that there was something bigger going on with him than just organ trafficking because the gangsters are after their victims after harvesting organs from them. Yi-rang tells Dong-soo about how she tried to get in touch with someone online but she wasn’t able to get any valuable information from the gangsters. ..
She tells him that she planted the tracking device which she used to hear their conversation. Yi-rang claims that it was the device that helped her learn about Dong-soo. He asks her about the story of Connect and she explains how South Korea’s Number 1 Pharmaceutical company was connected to his kind.
Dong-soo, the head of the homicide division, tells Yi-rang that finding the murderer is a top priority. He explains that the corpse artist has an extra eye and that he could see out of it at times. Yi-rang is initially amused but eventually believes him. The detectives leave the office building and Choi is concerned about Jin-seop’s reactions to Ji-young intervening in the conversation. ..
Dong-soo looks at Yi-rang with concern. She removes his eyepatch and looks into his eye. He starts to grow worried, but she hands him some sunglasses to replace the eyepatch since everyone was on the lookout for a man with one.
Dong-soo and Yi-rang go to a departmental store together where he spots a ‘Wanted’ post with his photo on it. He rushes away and starts growing concerned. Outside the store, he suddenly makes a connection with Jin-seop again and this time it is Jin-seop who was purposely watching the video.
Jin-seop realises that the song is the one that sung by Dong-soo and he also realises that the connection between them is possible only when the song is played. Dong-soo stops feeling the pain in his eye when he stops playing the song. Yi-rang is sure that the murderer has found out about their connection but Dong-soo is not sure about it yet.
She thinks that he will try to kill him, but Dong-soo claims that he cannot really be killed. Yi-rang claims that Jin-seop had the power to make his life hell and kill him by revealing his identity online. She asks him to keep a low profile. ..
Dong-soo is back at work the following day when his song starts playing on the radio. The singer Z has released the song from Lonely Guitar Man aka Dong-soo. Dong-soo is shocked but emotional to hear his music play on the radio. Jin-seop meets up with Z to ask him about the song and its original singer as they were to use Dong-soo’s song for one of their advertisement campaigns upon Sung-hee’s request.
Detective Park interrogates one of the gangsters they were able to nab after the chase for Dong-soo on the previous day. Detective Choi asks Park to let the man go and asks the team to keep an eye out for Dong-soo.
Yi-rang is still listening to the conversation between the gangsters using her transmission device. She hears one side of the conversation and learns that the new owner of the eye, aka Jin-seop, was soon going to die. The gangsters know that Connect aka Dong-soo’s eye hold a lot of value so they want to take it back before Jin-seop is dead and cremated.
The gangsters discovered the tracking device and concluded that it was Yi-rang who was overhearing their conversation. Yi-rang quickly destroyed her electronic device that was transmitting the audio and fled. The gangsters discussed what they should do and concluded they should keep her alive as she may have more information on the creature. ..
Yi-rang follows the man the gangsters were talking to and discovers the place where Jin-seop lives. Yi-rang tells Dong-soo about the corpse artist’s illness. Dong-soo suddenly feels the connection again and sees that Jin-seop is sketching the face of his next target. ..
Dong-soo is alarmed as Jin-seop shows him his other targets, which are three young girls. Jin-seop had purposely played Dong-soo’s version of the song to instigate him and Yi-rang asks the humanoid to relax.
Detective Park is on the lookout for the gangster that the police released. Dong-soo is out on the street when he is connected to the gangster again. Jin-seop is watching him now and Dong-soo turns around but still can’t see his face because Jin-seop is hiding inside a car. ..
Don-soo is caught by the police and taken away. Detective Choi takes Dong-soo away. Meanwhile, the doctor is harvesting organs from another body when he finds Jin-seop in his clinic. Jin-seop attacks the doctor and asks him questions about the eye.
The Episode Review
The show is interesting but it seems like it’s moving a little too fast. The story isn’t unfolding slowly, but a lot of things are happening in quick succession. We learn that Jin-seop is dying, but I’m still not sure how Yi-rang is one step ahead of everyone in the plot. There’s a possibility that this was all part of Yi-rang’s plan and that she somehow has some ulterior motive behind helping Dong-soo. ..
Jung Hae-in’s acting here is fantastic and it is hard to see him play a weak timid character after seeing him as the spy in Snowdrop. The story is intense but I hope that the cops trust him and save the kids before Jin-seop strikes again. It could be possible that Dong-soo was the child that save Yi-rang when she was young but we could expect a plot twist there too. I can’t wait to finish the next three episodes!
