Kdrama 2020
Tell Me What You Saw (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Global Granary Drama Recommendation ✴️✴️✴️✴️
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- Genre: Forensic, Policing, Serial Killer, Investigation, Crime, Thriller
- Release Date: 1 February 2020
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama; 16 Episodes
Cast:
- Jang Hyuk as Oh Hyun Jae
- Choi Soo Young as Cha Su Yang
- Jin Seo Yun as Hwang Hwa-Young
- Jang Hyung Sun as Choi Hyung Pil (Superintendent)
- Ryu Seung Soo as Yang Man Soo
- Ha Sung Kwang as Cha Man Suk (Su Yang’s father)
- Eum Moon Suk as Kang Dong Shik
- Shin Soo Ho as Jang Tae Sung
- Yoo Hee Je as Lee Ji Min
- Lee Jung Yul (Hongwoon Police Chief)
- Choi Jae Sub (Medical Examiner)
- Kim Ba da as Lee Bong Gwang
- Lee hung Kyun as Doctor Ahn
- Lee Gyu Bok as Detective from Investigation 2 Team
Episode 1
This first episode is already a taut viewing and it has that Jang Hyuk special! His trademark, guttural, maniacal and rather demonic laugh which is dramatic on its own.
The story started in the year 2000.
Su Yang was just a young girl, in elementary school. It was one rainy day and she was the only one without an umbrella.
She was left standing by the gate of the school and a kindly classmate invited her to share an umbrella.
They were walking towards the high street by the traffic light when a woman started signalling to Su Yang that she had a yellow umbrella for her.
Su Yang got really embarrassed of the woman. She did not like her classmate knowing that her mother was a deaf and mute and a street vendor.
So Su Yang ignored the woman and ran away.
Her poor mother ran after but got ran over by a car.
Su Yang saw what happened and also witnessed the car, containing a boy and a man who left the scene without stopping to check on her mother.
Her mother was brought to the hospital. It was where her father found her later.
Her father was also deaf and mute and had almost a breakdown when they eventually found out from the surgeons that despite doing everything they can, the mother passed away.
Su Yang’s father was finding it hard to get into what happened and begging the doctors to bring his wife back. The police officer was a really nasty piece of work.
He did not have any empathy to the recently bereaved, much less to a person with disabilities.
He told Su Yang that he will be in touch about the funeral, etc.
Su Yang told the policeman that she was a witness. She saw the car involved with the hit and run. She then gave the number plate of the car.
Though the policeman took the number, he told her that he was going to punish her it what she gave him was misinformation.
2020
Su Yang was now a policewoman in a remote village, where her duties include catching stray animals like a kid (goat). But one rainy day, someone very agitated called about a strange suitcase.
When she got there she also got a shock when she saw a hand sticking out from an abandoned suitcase.
She knew she must not touch anything until reinforcement arrived but as it was raining so hard she needed to take a closer good and take photographs.
Unfortunately, it did not go as she had planned. She slipped in the mud and kicked the suitcase further throwing what was inside, body parts, everywhere.
When more police came, she got told off.
The investigating police found something interesting, a peppermint candy by the body.
Suddenly RIU (Regional Investigation Unit) also sent their own investigator.
They reckoned that the Peppermint Candy killer had resurfaced.
Hwang Hwa-Young from RIU spoke to Su Yang about what she saw when she first went to see the murder site. She drew what she saw and at that same moment, a policeman came in with the restored photos from her mobile phone.
Her drawing and photos were so similar which was noticed by Hwa Young.
Next time, she was called to report at RIU office. She was excited as well as worried about it.
She had tried to apply to RIU but had already failed three times.
When she got to RIU she once again apologised to Hwa Young and said that she does not want to lose her job.
Hwa Young said to follow her and they drove a building. She then told Su Yang to do well which might allow her to join RIU.
Su Yang asked who she was going to meet.
Hwa Young just mysteriously said that she will meet a man she can never speak about.
Su Yang was still full of curiousity when she saw the man in a wheelchair, the man with the most contagious evil laugh.
The man with just one look at her gave her a complete psycho-analysis and physiological issues such as a right foot is shorter than her left and that she had scoliosis.
And then he asked what she saw at the scene.
She related what she saw and the man that seemed to be out of place at the scene of investigation, but he was not impressed
Goaded herself, she told him what she thought of him and it only made him laugh.
Meanwhile, a man went to RIU to hand himself in as the Peppermint Candy killer.
The police superintendent had decided to close the case as they’ve got their man.
However, Su Yang got more intrigued of the case and began to research it.
She then realised that the man she met through RIU was the foremost forensic investigator, Oh Hyun Jae, who disappeared four years ago after an explosion killing the Peppermint Candy Killer and his victim, Hyun Jae’s fiancee.
Su Yang suddenly remembered something else during the first time she answered the call about the suitcase. There was a taxi nearby but no passenger ever came out.
Episode 2
Five years ago, Oh Hyun Jae’s girlfriend had just finished a recital and was on her way home via a taxi.
The driver was rather familiar, wanting to know if she had a boyfriend, or meeting, someone.
There was a pile up in the motorway where that taxi had collided with a van.
The police were on to the taxi driver because of hew as the suspected peppermint candy killer.
Oh Hyun Jae found his girlfriend still trapped in the upside-down taxi which was starting to flame up.
He had two choices, run after the killer or rescue his girlfriend.
He ran after the killer and got him to cup himself into a bar.
Oh Hyun Jae then went back to his girlfriend who was still trapped but conscious. He would not leave to the end despite knowing that everything would blow up any minute and it dead.
5 years later, Oh Hun Jae is blind and confined to a wheelchair. But deep down he did not believe that the Peppermint Candy Killer was killed with the explosion which killed his girlfriend.
Su Yung has been temporarily commissioned to join RIU to solve the Peppermint Candy Killer copycat.
At first, the member of the RIU team was dismissive towards her because she was from an unknown precinct from the countryside.
But during their first meeting, she was able to contribute a major input. She noticed that one of the suspected victims of Kang Seung Hwan (Peppermint Candy Killer copycat) was in a leaflet of a missing girl.
Hwang Hwa Yiung immediately interviewed Kang Seung Hwan where Su Yang was allowed in the room.
When Hwa Young spread a number of photos in front of the suspect, Su Yang noticed him to have momentarily focused on one particular photo,
During the debriefing, Su Yung started to speak about the photo but she was told by her senior to pipe it down. She continued anyway. They were rather intrigued at what she said and they poured over the photos once again and she pointed to the one she noticed the suspect had looked at more than the others.
They were an elite team and were able to put two and two together and ended up in an unused building.
The building was locked except for a little entrance.
Suyung, being the most slender volunteered to go in,
Hwa Young gave her an earbud that might be of use to her later.
Anyway, it was such a trek inside, with dirt, smell, cobwebs, and rodents. She ended up falling among the debris of bricks and woods which made her feeling faint.
Then she started hearing the voice of Oh Hyun Jae telling her to only listen to him and follow his instructions to the letter.
She ended up in a room where bodies were hanging from the ceiling. She was so shocked she was vomiting.
Then the ceiling was about to collapse and Oh Hyun Jae told her to get out but then she heard a voice from inside a washing machine?
She let the girl out and helped her to safety.
She now became a welcome temporary member of the team.
She was trying to get a coffee from a machine when a man went into a locker and put on the police uniform of Shin Dong Hwan.
The police on duty thought he was there to take over him so he left without question.
As soon as he was gone, the bogus Shing Dong-Hwan went inside the interview room where Kang Seung Hwan was being held, He garroted him and stabbed him.
Episode 3
The man who garroted Kang Seung Hwan was his partner in crime, Chan Ku, who was a veterinarian.
He was an accomplished maniac who worked in tandem with Kang Seung Hwan who likes to photogragh their victims, while Chan Ku likes to watch their victims bleeding to death.
Anyway, Oh Hyun Jae helped Su Yang remembered the things she saw on the day that Kang Seung Hwan was brutally murdered inside the secure area of the interrogation room inside the police station.
She recognised Chan Ku or someone who was in his 40s and with a habit of creaking his neck.
Chan Ku at that moment had set his eyes on another victim. A young lady who was going her dog. Chan Ku said that her dog looked ill and if she wanted him to have a look at the dog.
Anyway, Chan Ku took the dog and the lady to his clinic and said that her dog was really ill. He then say for her to come back during the night to visit her dog.
When she did come back, he was ready for her and took her to the basement and started beating her up and then locked her in a dog cage.
Oh Hyun Jae instructed Su Yang to go to the flat of Kang Seung Hwan to see if there was anything unusual.
When she got there, she really doesn’t know what to look.
Oh Hyun Jae told her to keep quiet, there was someone else in the flat because he heard the creaking neck.
He told her to get out but it was too late, Chan Ku attacked and pushed the bookshelves to fall on her.
Anyway, she was okay, she was bruised but alright, she then tried to look for something that was taken from the room.
She realised that it was a photograph of Kang Seung Hwan with the face of the photographer visible in the wing view mirror of a car. The man was Chan Ku.
They looked for the vet clinic and found it and rescued the girl, who was alive but horrendously tortured.
Ji Min was able to track Chan Ku’s car and it went to the harbour.
At the harbour and its many warehouses, the team decided to look individually. As expected Su Yang was the one to find Chan Ku. He surprised her again by pushing shelves at her. This time she fell unconscious.
Oh Hyun Jae, who could hear everything warned Ha-young that Su Yang was in grave danger.
Episode 4
Chan Ku got Su Yang. He dragged jer to the refrigerated area of the warehouse where they manufacture ice blocks.
He was about to strike her to watch her drained of blood when he noticed that there was someone else in the room. He searched the area and found the real Peppermint Candy Killer (PCK).
Before Chen Kun can do much he was falling into a vat of water.
Meanwhile, Ha Young and team finally found the unconscious Su Yang inside the freezer warehouse.
While the warehouse was being searched and investigated, the workers who were loading ice blocks to delivery trucks found some colored ices until they noticed human bits on them, and once contained the severed head of Chen Ku.
As Chen Ku, the copycat killer was dead, the Superintendent had decided to close the case. But during a debriefing of Ha Young with the higher-ups including the commander, Ha Young requested that the case was not to be closed as she had a gut feeling that there was still someone out there and that Chen Ku did not die accidentally, he did not slip and got automatically chopped off by the machine, someone killed him.
The commander said the case can remain open but Ha Young must take responsibility for it. Ha Young also requested that Su Yang was to be transferred permanently to RIU.
Ha Young was right of course the PCK was still alive and kicking and his next victim was to be Na Jun Seok , the nemesis of Oh Hyun Jae.
Na Jun Seok was killed by the PCK on live television while he was talking about profiling.
Episode 5
The PCK serial killer is revealed as Lee Bong Gwang, who worked as one of the journalists that can go in and out of the police station.
He killed the personal doctor of Oh Hyun Jae and took one of the doctor’s fingers to use the finger print to get into Oh Hyun Jae’s loft apartment.
Episode 6
They found out that the real Lee Bong Gwang was dead though still sitting upright in the living room of the house he shared with the killer just like Norman Bates and his mother in Psycho.
The psycho killer was about to kill Oh Hyun Jae, with his signature killer wire.
Oh Hyun Jae asked the psycho who killed his girlfriend.
Thinking that Oh Hyun Jae was going to die, the psycho was prepared to tell him who the mastermind was but Hwang Hwa Young, who came to the rescue of Oh Hyun Jae, shoots the killer.
It was revealed that Oh Hyun Jae has fully recovered. He can walk and not blind at all.
The next case is a convicted pervert who kidnapped a mute child, who Su Yang spoke to previously when she got back to her hometown. I must say, they have many of deaf and mute people in Su Yang’s village. Both her parents were deaf and mute.
Oh Hyun Jae came to see Su Yang to ask her to work with him but she did not give him a reply immediately.
Episode 7
Su Yang contacted Oh Hyun Jae for help.
It turned out that the woman lawyer who crashed into the boy’s kidnapper’s car killed the perv and abducted the little boy to replace her dead son Hubin.
She treated Hyunsul kindly but she was prone to madness when Hyunsul wanted to leave.
The team found them in an abandon amusement park owned by the mad woman’s grandfather.
Suyang was about to rescue the boy when she saw the woman with a big wrench.
Episode 8
It took 58 hours to rescue Hyun Soo.
Oh Hyun Jae rescued Suyang and Hyun Soo from the madwoman who lost her son 5 years ago.
OhHyun Jae told the mother to let her son go.
The Commissioner-General asked Oh Hyun Jae to return back to work as the official profiler.
His first case as a profiler for RIU was the mysterious death of the members of the Sinwol Gang. Someone was injecting them with poison that made them bleed in every hole in their body.
The witness was a young photographer who was yet to be found.
Ha Tae Sik came to the station to make a confession of killing the two gang members of Sinwol Gang.
Episode 9
They finally found the real witness to the murder of the first dead member of Sinwol Gang.
When they made him look at Ha Tae Sik, he said that he was not him he saw killing someone. He said that the person who was killing was wearing a black helmet but he saw his face,
He then drew the face he saw and the detectives said that it looked like Choi Du Man, another leader of a gang.
When they went to see him, they found that he was dead.
Someone then sent an sd card to the superintendent, which was the alibi for Ha Tae Sik. He was annoyed that Ha Tae Sik was making a mockery of the police.
Ha Tae Sik tantalised Oh Hyun Jae with a secret that happened five years ago.
Hyun Jae wanted to find out what was the secret but Ha Tae Sik would not reveal it until Oh Hyun Jae had to find out what was Ha Tae Sik’s own secret that he wanted to reveal but in his own good time.
The secret was that the boy witness, Sa Gang, was actually his own son who was schizophrenic who created his own persona of being the motorbiker who was killing the member of the gangs. Apparently, the boy was doing it as revenge on his father who allowed his mother to die in a container. The boy injected his father with the lethal poison.
Oh Hyun Jae found out about the secret and Ha Tae Sik, who was dying on his arm told him that he was running out of time, He gave the numbers 4 7 8 9Junggeon Three-way Intersection blow-up of 5 years ago. He then died.
Poor Ji Min was being bullied by the Superintendent. He told him to tell him everything, be his eyes and ears after all he sent him to college and helped him to become a policeman.
Poor Ji Min.
Meanwhile, the nasty Superintendent gave all the cold cases to RIU Team one which made Ha Young so mad, she went to see the super who said she had to prove herself if she wanted to keep her job.
Episode 10
Oh Hyun Jae went looking for Chu Chil Sung to ask him about 4789.
Chu Chil Sung did not know but his lawyer looked shifty so Oh Hyun Jae went for him.
The layer said he did not know that he heard someone asking about it.
Oh Hyun Jae told him to find out.
Meanwhile, Suyung and Man Su found a body in a sack left in the forest.
Their new case involves the murder of people who live alone and don’t have relatives. They found out the commonality to the victims. They were interviewed for a job at Wonseo Group.
The latest victim was Yoo Mi who had just gone to Wonseo for an interview.
Poor Yoo Mi heard the same clicking when she was kidnapped a couple of years ago.
She was saved by Oh Hyun Jae who had given her a watch that would allow him to locate her.
Anyway, she was saved but why did she not used it sooner?
Oh Hyun Jae’s search for the 4789 clues led him to a mental hospital. He found a man who was so crazy and obsessed with the number 4789
Episode 11
The crazy man was Eom Soo Tak.
So much had happened in this episode and so many tantalising things yet to come.
Episode 12
Five years ago, Hwa Young was kidnapped by the Peppermint Candy Killer (PCM) He was about to kill her by inserting the candy to her mouth but she spat it out which annoyed
Han I Su.
Episode 13
Kang Dong Sik was revealed as the Guy.
Episode 14
Poor Mansu became the latest victim of Kang Dong Sik.
Episode 15
The team were in bits with the murder of Mansu.
Episode 16