We see Baek Hong Suk at the sight of the traffic accident, but we hear Hye Na speaking as she assures her boss, Gang Dong Yun, that the street has been repaved so the detective won't be able to find any tire marks. Hong Suk notices a surveillance camera nearby, yet when he goes to investigate he's told by a rather blase cop how their police station was hacked and the all the files deleted. The only hard evidence they have are the tire marks left on Su Jeon's school uniform.
Hong Suk, squad leader Hwang, and partner Detective Jo pay a visit to her first ex-husband. He's apparently an expert in tires while a failure at women. He is able to find a match to the tire marks. They come from a very expensive line of tires. Only around 300 have been sold domestically, so it shouldn't be hard to make a list of the buyers.
Dong Yun is having lunch with a Representative Kim, trying to get the man's support in the upcoming election. However, Kim is a Representative Yu Tae Jin man - Dong Yun's rival - and advises our villain to just give up now. Before Rep. Kim can leave, the two men are joined by a Supreme Court judge, played by That Old Man Who Is In Absolutely Everything (see: Lights And Shadows). Dong Yun reminds His Honor that he's in charge of the pending case against Rep. Kim for election violations. It would be a shame if Kim were barred from elections for ten years. That would just kill Kim's political career, wouldn't it? Tsk, tsk.
Before the media, Representative Kim makes the stuttering announcement that he and his party are backing Gang Dong Yun. Out in the hallway of some building (I don't know where they are) Dong Yun is surrounded by the press and pelted with questions when he runs into his old rival, Rep. Yu. Neither one can pass up a photo op and so with fake smiles plastered on the two men genially hug each other. Yu whispers another allegorical story (the show is big on these. Remember Godfather Seo's story about managers and tenants?) into Dong Yun's ear. Yu claims he has a puppy. They've said it was so cute for so long that the puppy grew bold enough to steal the rice bowls off of the table. How should he deal with this? Dong Yun whispers back to give the puppy to him. He'll take it to the Blue House and raise it well. <<Giggle>>
Hong Suk and the gang go to visit the prosecutor in charge of the case. Also in the room is the young female reporter from the first episode, the one who ends up warning Hong Suk, but that's for later. Hong Suk wants a search and seizure warrant but the yawning prosecutor claims he can't help. The judge in charge of issuing warrants today is a real dick. The reporter, who knows about the accident, steps up and offers Hong Suk some assistance.
Turns out this woman, Ji Won, is the youngest daughter of Godfather Seo. She comes home to find Dad is meeting with her brother-in-law, Dong Yun. There is some light chit chat and Dong Yun starts to leave when Ji Won begins telling her father how she's helping out Hong Suk to find the person who ran over his daughter. Godfather and Dong Yun exchange serious looks. (And yes, Godfather music plays.)
Our gang arrive at a building that's closed up for the night. It's an illegal gambling den. Hong Suk goes up to the front door and proceeds to pee all over it. (I am not making this up.) At least this gets the attention of the guy watching all the surveillance cameras. He comes out to demand what's going on. Now that the door is unlocked, Hong Suk head butts the man cold.
They're looking for someone named Yong Shik. He's got a long scar on his face and a lot of money on his desk. He's a minor crime lord who gets the minor crap beat out of him by a father who doesn't have time to waste. In order to get Hong Suk off his back, Yong Shik sends out all of his minions to check out the list of vehicles with the expensive tires.
PK Jun is practicing his dance moves when he gets a call from Seo Ji Su. She's trying to get him to leave the country before Baek Hong Suk can get to him, but Jun refuses to leave because he has a concert coming up. Ji Su and her husband have to settle for having Jun grabbed right after the concert ends and physically put on a plane to L.A.
Back at the gambling den, Det. Jo is disillusioned to learn her squad leader has been taking bribes from Scarface. That's how they knew about Yong Shik. Surprisingly, Hong Suk sees nothing wrong in it. The police are barely paid enough to get by, let alone make a better life for their kids, so why not take bribes and dirty money? Just then Yong Shik hears from one of his men. The car has been found.
Inside of the car is a dashboard camera. The thugs break the car window and retrieve the camera, bringing it back to the gambling den. Up in Yong Shik's office, Jo hooks the camera up to a lap top so they can review the video. At the same time down in the parking lot a fleet of cars come screeching in. Police raid! (Arranged behind the scenes by Hye Na.)
Everybody gets beat up. Money is flying everywhere. Windows are broken because who doesn't enjoy breaking windows? Hong Suk has just finished seeing the part where PK Jun ran over and ran over his daughter when some cops burst into the office. Despite proclaiming they're fellow police officers, our gang is put in cuffs and hauled away. The dashboard camera that was left behind is delivered to Dong Yun, who's been reading the Steve Jobs book.
Down at the station Hong Suk declares he's never taken a bribe in his twenty year career. (But didn't you just a scene ago say it was okay for a policeman to take a bribe?) The other cop doesn't believe him. Why were they all at an illegal gambling den if not to pick up their bribes? Squad leader Hwang takes one for the team. He confesses he was there to get his bribe money. Hong Suk and Jo knew he was dirty and they had come to the den to arrest Hwang when these cops raided. This gets Hong Suk and Jo released.
They race to the concert arena but are unable to get through the throng of screaming girls. Jun is in his dressing room with a backup dancer he's blackmailing into some luv when someone storms in. It's not the cops, though. It's Gorgeous Man come to take the singer away. They narrowly avoid Hong Suk. Back at their own police station, our pair (no longer a gang) try to track the singer's cell phone signal, but he's turned his phone off.
PK Jun missed the planned 2 a.m. flight and has to wait for the 4 a.m. flight. While everyone's waiting, Jun attempts to work out a better deal for himself. He wants to negotiate with Dong Yun personally. Against Hye Na's wishes (I keep mentally pronouncing it hyena) Dong Yun goes to the hotel room where they've got the singer stashed. Just before he enters the room, Jun turns his phone. It's just the tracking signal the police have been waiting for.
The two men get down to business. Dong Yun (very generously, IMO) offers an entire office building to Jun if the young man will never ever talk about the accident again. Is that not enough? How about a factory? Jun says he doesn't need all that and he's got a plane to catch. Curious, Dong Yun asks if Jun truly trusts his word. Jun says what he does trust is his phone. See, the reason he turned it on was so he could secretly videotape their entire conversation. As long as Dong Yun protects Jun, then Jun will protect Dong Yun. Otherwise, this video file will be made public.
Suddenly Hong Suk is at the door, banging and yelling for PK Jun. There's no way out of the room. Dong Yun tells the singer to allow himself to be caught for now. The older man will think of something. Jun reminds Dong Yun that if he goes down, the other goes down. The politician hides in a closet as Detective Jo comes running up with a master key and our pair gain access to the room. Hong Suk does what any father of a murdered daughter would do and beats the living daylights out of Jun. Jo manages to pull her partner off long enough for her to slap the handcuffs on Jun. As they're pulling the singer out, he pleads for them to bring his cell phone with them. (I can't tell if they do stop for the cell phone or not.)
Fittingly, Hong Suk doesn't take Jun to the police station at first. He takes him to the funeral home, making Jun kneel in front of the casket of his victim.
And now another wait of four weeks commences...
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