Crash: Episodes 3-4
by solstices
Adjusting to the brand new recruit whereas he acclimatizes to their dynamics, our trusty workforce settles into a gentle synergy. An apparition fades into the mundane, and an previous case rears its unwelcome head. Our hero’s unresolved previous has caught up with him, baring the buried scars inside.
EPISODES 3-4
Investigating the sequence of tunnel accidents, the workforce uncovers a three-way ruse behind the supposed ghost sightings. After a crash, a tow firm will swarm the flustered driver, ushering them in direction of a restore store. Then, whereas their broken automotive is being fastened, a rental firm will supply them a brief automotive — solely to covertly smash it up and demand compensation. All three enterprise homeowners are in cahoots to fleece unsuspecting drivers, dominated by the iron fist of the automotive rental thug.
All that’s left is to determine how precisely the crashes had been engineered. KAIST graduate Yeon-ho explains the topography of that exact junction makes it vulnerable to accidents, which factors to why most incidents occurred on wet days. As for the few clear days, Yeon-ho realizes that solely the particular stretch of street the place the accidents occurred had been moist.
Miraculously, the workforce’s prayers certainly name forth rain, prompting Yeon-ho to crack a uncommon smile. That night time, So-hee dons a disguise and drives a beat-up automotive — courtesy of the used vehicles supplier from final week — to intentionally crash it and lure the scammers out.
In the meantime, Yeon-ho’s investigation as soon as once more leads him straight into the lion’s den, the place he discovers sacks of calcium chloride within the storage of the automotive rental. The gangster boss notices him, however So-hee — who’s there as a part of her undercover plan — covers for Yeon-ho simply in time, calling out for her “husband.” HA.
With Yeon-ho’s deduction that the scammers scattered calcium chloride on the street to retain moisture from the sprinkler truck on sunny days, the scammers’ jig is up, and our trusty TCI workforce arrests them in one other slick sequence. Chae-man tries to struggle however will get kicked within the nuts for his hassle, LOL, and I really like that the squad merely delivers the sniveling baddies to Yeon-ho for him to cuff.
This week, we be taught concerning the pasts that formed our protagonists into who they’re immediately. When So-hee’s taxi driver dad provides Yeon-ho a trip dwelling, he learns that So-hee had primarily grown up within the backseat after her mom’s passing, and he or she now drives the automotive that was her father’s first taxi. Having heard about Yeon-ho’s solitary nature from So-hee, Dad invitations him to eat with them typically when he doesn’t need to be alone. Aww.
As for Yeon-ho, we discover out why he solely rides his bicycle irrespective of the place he goes. Again when he’d been a contemporary graduate, he’d taken his eyes off the street briefly whereas driving again to Seoul from his mother and father’ dwelling. That second of inattention led to him crashing right into a newlywed couple, killing the bride Hyun-soo and carving an indelible trauma into Yeon-ho. Notably, Chae-man had obtained disciplinary motion within the case, although we aren’t aware about the rationale why.
Three high-schoolers had given witness statements in that case, and considered one of them has grown as much as grow to be the misogynistic womanizer YANG JAE-YOUNG (Heo Ji-won), who’s on the heart of our subsequent case. His worker KIM MIN-JOO jumped out of his dashing automotive alongside a freeway, struggling extreme accidents, however the TCI workforce can’t pursue the case as a result of Jae-young has threatened her into silence.
As an alternative, good cookie Yeon-ho thinks out of the field and initiates a tax investigation to grab Jae-young’s automotive, because it’s really the property of his father’s firm. Speak about nepotism backfiring, ha. Alas, Jae-young received’t be a simple opponent, as a result of he additionally has connections within the type of PYO JUNG-WOOK (Kang Ki-doong). Not solely is Jung-wook one other of the three scholar witnesses, however his father can be the present Deputy Commissioner Normal of the police power.
Not a lot progress will be made on Jae-young’s case for now, so the highlight turns to a unique case of the week. There’s been a hit-and-run, and the unlucky sufferer was run over by two completely different vehicles. Witness accounts describe him as a belligerent drunk, and it’s as much as our workforce to retrace his footsteps that night time.
It’s nice to see our TCI squad discover their groove with their new recruit, as a result of their synergy is probably the most effective a part of this present. Now that Chief Gu has realized his case of mistaken id — the son whose boots he should be licking is Cha Hyun-ho, not Cha Yeon-ho, LOL — our workforce goes to have an uphill battle forward of them.
I like that the present stunned me by placing Yeon-ho within the perpetrator’s seat relatively than assigning him the everyday sufferer sob story, as a result of it offers his character trajectory — and redemption arc — an curiously compelling slant. He’s made his errors, and now he’s atoning for them by means of each avenue that he can.
Yeon-ho isn’t the one one nonetheless mired previously, as a result of there’s an nameless sender mailing out the information article of the accident — not simply to Yeon-ho, but additionally to Jae-young, Jung-wook, and Hyun-soo’s father. Jae-young suspects the third witness, however the a number of lingering pictures we bought of Chae-man this week make me marvel if it’s him. Maybe our papa bear additionally has errors he needs to make amends for? With So-hee dragging the frail Yeon-ho into judo coaching — and Shim So-young’s hilarious particular appearances as a unique position in each case — I’m wanting ahead to much more coronary heart, humor, and honorable crime-fighting subsequent week.
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