Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Heartless City Episode 9

Worried about Shi Hyun, Director Min sends in the troops to Safari's location. Part of this task force is Ji Hyung Min who now gets his own one-against-many in a narrow hallway scene. Eun Soo is walking too slow and so she doesn't get to slit Shi Hyun's throat before Safari gets word about the police and orders everyone to scram.

Shi Hyun carries the wounded Kim Hyun Soo out to his car with Ji hot on their heels. A running Ji wisely takes a shortcut and leaps in front of the car. Shi Hyun flips the lights on bright so the cop can't see his face, then he guns it. Is Ji going to be hit by a car again? Oh thank goodness, at least this time he jumps out of the way as Shi Hyun speeds away.

Safely back at Shi Hyun's basement hideaway, he has a flashback to his time in prison when he helped Hyun Soo beat up a rival gang. Two action scenes already and we're not even ten minutes into the episode. That's how it's done, people.

Back at headquarters, Min Hong Gi can see how Fat Cop (Yang) just isn't holding the special forces together like Ji did. Min plans to speak with the police commissioner about getting Hyung Min reinstated.

Ji meets with Soo Min at her old apartment. He asks her to slap the handcuffs on him. No, we're not entering Fifty Shades of Grey territory. He's going to teach her how to escape if she's ever caught by other cops because Ji won't be able to officially help her. (Of course this will only help if she's handcuffed with her hands in front of her. If her hands are cuffed behind her back, she's screwed.)

Doctor's Son and his cohorts are still desperately looking for a reliable source of drugs. Meanwhile Safari is having his own troubles in the form of that nerdy bossman's son. Does he have a name? Do I care? I'm gonna call him The Nerd. The Nerd reminds Safari he's only got that fifteen days to get rid of Doctor's Son or else Pusan's gonna get rid of Safari. 

[Ah, DramaFever. Must your video playback get all squirrelly on me?]

Safari meets secretly with Lee Jin Sook under the guise of working out a deal. Safari has the source for the drugs while Jin Sook has the distribution connections. However, Jin Sook won't agree to anything until she gets to meet the big man, Chairman Jo.

Jin Sook returns to her club/whorehouse - heck, I'm just going to call it Club Whorehouse. Shi Hyun is waiting in the wings for her and looks like he wants to ask where she's been but in the end he decides to leave her alone for now. As he's leaving the building he runs into Soo Min. They have a brief and uninteresting encounter before he leaves.

(I hate to say this considering they've not really had much screen time together, but Jung Kyung Ho and Nam Gyu Ri simply have no chemistry between them.)

Ji goes back to the prison to speak with Scale about the source of all the drugs. Scale warns that if Ji continues to dig deep, his life as well as the lives of everyone around him will be in danger. Ji reveals that he knows Scale's source was Pusan and he's going to get them all. After the visit Scale calls The Nerd but Four-eyes is too busy playing games on his phone to answer.

Min is in his office digging through a drawer when he finds an old book of poems he had stashed away. Hidden within the pages of the book is a picture of Jin Sook. This inspires him to go visit her with a basket of fruit. Jin Sook's bodyguard attempts to oppose Min. Without even breaking a sweat and using only one hand, Min brings the big guy down to his knees. Gasp and swoon, I do love a man who knows how to use his hands.

Min also begs Jin Sook to stop seeing Safari and to get out of the business. Jin Sook refuses and takes her frustrations out by stabbing an apple with a blurry knife. 

Ji finally changes his shirt and pays a visit to the crooked Prosecutor Ahn. Ji figures Doctor's Son must have given Ahn a bribe to let Jin Sook out of prison. Ahn gets all antsy in the pantsy. After this little pow-wow, Ji has a coffee break with Jung Yeon, a woman he knows from the prosecution department. She's been looking into Scale's construction company, the front for his money laundering. Very awkwardly Jung Yeon changes the subject to Cha Hyo Joo and how the reporter seems to be very into Ji. Since Cha is the daughter of Congressman Cha Myung Suk, Ji would be very smart to get with her.

Did Cha set you up to this, Jung Yeon? Because speak of the devil here's that annoying woman now. Cha takes a drink of Ji's coffee (without his permission!) and starts going on about how it will make him piss all night long. What the hell is wrong with you, woman? Ji tries to escape (can you blame him?) but Cha dangles the fact she's got some inside dirt on the construction company. Only she won't tell him anything unless they go out for a drink.

Soo Min is out at the bar having a drink with her friend Joo Young, the prostitute Shi Hyun is using to keep Prosecutor Ahn in line. (Of course Soo Min doesn't know about this but you just know somewhere down the line this will all collide.) Joo Young gets a text from Ahn so she has to make her excuses and leave quickly. Such is the life of a prostitute. 

Soo Min is alone at the bar when Ji and Reporter Cha come in. Ji has to act like he doesn't know Soo Min. She looks upset like he's cheating on his dead girlfriend. I'm upset simply because he's with that annoying woman. Soo Min stomps out angrily. The only information Cha has is that the construction company may be bought by a man with black hair. Well doesn't that just narrow down the suspects.

Cha gets sloppy drunk again. In fact she looks like she's drooling as Ji has to drive her home. After dumping her in her bed, Cha make a half-serious offer for him to stay. Once again Ji makes tracks for the door. Back at the apartment Soo Min grills him on what he was doing with that woman. Ji answers that there's nothing between them, not that he needs to explain himself to Soo Min.

Jin Sook mulls over what to do about Safari. She decides to drop in on Soo Min so they can have a drink and girl talk. Jin Sook asks if Soo Min is seeing anyone and Soo Min responds with how there's someone she's interested in but he doesn't see her as a woman. Hmm, are we talking about Ji or Shi Hyun? 

Ji's dad, Prosecutor Ji, seems to be working with Ahn to get some kind of control of the special forces unit.

The next day Soo Min can't find anyone to hang out with her so she calls Shi Hyun. At first he doesn't answer her call but after a moment of thinking about it he calls her back. Girlfriend, fix your hair if you're going to go out with him. You look a mess. Anyway he agrees to meet her for some Frank beer. She's dressed like a milk maid. I'm still not feeling anything between these two.

Soo Min keeps pestering him to tell her his name. When he makes a lame joke of it, she decides to list him as Mr. Gangster on her phone since he was always hurt when he came to her store. Soo Min acts like a total goof ball. The kind you're embarrassed to be seen in public with. Shi Hyun pulls her in for a kiss. I think he does it simply to shut her up.

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