True Colours
Dong-Ha and Eun-Joo are on their way back from a night out when they fall for a scam. They were scammed by someone they knew, and now they have to figure out how to get their money back.
Dong-Ha and Hyun-Woo make it to the hospital, where Hyun-Woo is sleeping. Dong-Ha is determined to make things right and asks Eun-Joo to trust him – just this once.
Yoon-Soo is livid when he learns about the accident on the news. He orders his subordinates to find Kang-Jun while he packs up his gear and prepares to leave. He knows that the leader of Sangseon is going to come after him now to cover up this mess.
Joo-Hyun is working with Kang-Jun, and she doesn’t have much of a choice. He gives her instructions to get him out and away from danger.
The undercover officer, who goes by the name of Messenger, has been working in the Violent Crimes Department of the police station for some time. However, he is not well known to all of the higher-ups here. This is because he is very quiet and does not talk much. All of the big players in this case are aware of what is going on, but they choose to keep it under wraps for fear that it will get out and ruin their careers. If this undercover operation comes to light, then all of these people will be dead - including her superiors.
Dong-Ha returns home to find a call from Kwang-Chul. The professor tells Dong-Ha that things have gotten out of hand and they need to clean up, but Dong-Ha refuses to mobilize again. Joo-Hyun approaches him in the back garden and offers him a way out, but when Dong-Ha refuses she sneers and points out that he’s an accomplice and not working with them is going to go badly. ..
The team is briefed on the hierarchy of the Sangseon Ring, including Yong-Soo and Kwang-Chul’s stake in all this. The Messenger happens to be in attendance. He receives a call from his inside guy, telling him exactly where Yong-Soo is.
Yong-Soo wakes up in a car with a broken window. He’s alone and has enough time to see a white truck plough into the side of him. He’s in an abandoned construction site but he miraculously survives!
When we cut back to Yong-Soo, we find him battered and bruised. He’s also in a grave with Kang-Jun. The Messenger drops a gun in and tells them he only needs one. Kang-Jun gets the gun first and pumps a number of bullets into Yong-Soo, killing him outright. ..
After Kang-Jun approaches Dong-Ha one more time at the university campus, he promises to set Dong-Ha free from this nightmare but in exchange, he needs to give up Kwang-Chul’s location when they meet up again. The thing is, Kang-Jun also has instructions to be rid of everyone connected to this – including Dong-Ha – with the Messenger claiming they can be partners in the future. ..
Kang-Jun has one last card up his sleeve - his old friend, Joo-Hyun. If Kang-Jun agrees to give up the name of the person in the police force, Joo-Hyun will offer him a solution out of this mess. However, this solution comes with a catch - Kang-Jun must first betray his friend. ..
Joo-Hyun visits Eun-Joo in the hospital and urges her to keep the family together. She also points out that she doesn’t know Dong-Ha very well if she was unaware her husband was involved so deeply in all this.
As the day turns into night, Joo-Hyun messages Kang-Jun and agrees to his terms. She tells him the cops only think of him as a minor player and she can get his charges dropped to six months for assault. So Kang-Jun sends over an incriminating voice message showing exactly who the rat is. It’s Jung-Kook, Joo-Hyun’s police lieutenant! The audio is pretty irrefutable, confirming that she made the call to kill Han-Cheol.
Kang-Jun finds himself in a situation where he can’t go home, or back to his family. He’s been stabbed multiple times and is in a lot of pain. He points the finger at Dong-Ha as the one who’s responsible for everything bad that’s happened, but he also wants to make a deal with his goons. However, it doesn’t work out and he’s choked out right in front of Dong-Ha who has to watch helplessly.
The Episode Review
Dong-Ha is in a difficult position. He’s been through so much pain and suffering, and now Kang-Jun’s death has left him with even more to deal with. However, I believe that he knows that he can’t just walk away from this situation - he has to find a way out.
Dong-Ha took the money and buried the bodies in his own backyard, which raises questions about why he did it and why it happened so close to home. Eun-Joo is now a key part of this story, as Joo-Hyun tells her in the hospital. Could she be the catalyst to change things? ..
With Kwang-Chul managing to navigate this tricky minefield of death, he’s the last one standing…but will those in charge of the Sangseon Ring work to kill him too to clean everything up? We’ll have to wait and see. One thing’s for sure, the finale looks like it’s going to be one heck of a thrill ride!
