Signal: Episode 14
by gummimochi
With this amount of corruption afoot, it’s amazing how any cop in this dramaverse can come out with a win. Brace yourselves for another intense, heart-pounding episode because this is one where allll the truths will come spilling out. Just in time too, because we’ve reached the year where the days are numbered for our favorite detective. And if you think he’s the type to take that lying down, you’d be dead wrong—he’s going to face everything head-on.
As expected, Signal keeps knocking it out of the park with every episode. I don’t want to set my expectations too high for this series when we still have finale week before us, but this show has proved to me time and time again that I haven’t been setting my expectations high enough. So you do you, Signal.
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EPISODE 14 RECAP
We learn that the one responsible in framing Sun-woo is JANG TAE-JIN, son of the president of Inju Cement and Senator Jang’s nephew. Gah, that name alone already explains why Senator Jang was involved. He had once paid a visit to Dong-jin’s home where Hye-seung was told to go home because Sun-woo couldn’t make it to their tutoring session today.
Hye-seung had refused to take Tae-jin’s haughty remarks regarding people like her and Sun-woo, telling him that at least Sun-woo actually worked for his excellent grades instead of relying on tutors provided by a rich and influential father.
Needless to say Tae-jin had made sure she’d pay for her words, and Hye-seung’s terrified screams from Tae-jin’s attacks are, simply put, harrowing. Dong-jin trembles on the other side of the screen.
Fresh indignation surges up in Hae-young even though Soo-hyun keeps him in check—his brother died at a young age because Tae-jin’s name wasn’t brought up. Sun-woo’s death comes as news to Hye-seung, who’s both shocked and confused to hear that he killed himself years ago.
It doesn’t make any sense to her because she visited him when he was still in juvenile detention. He had meant it when he told her that it wasn’t her fault and encouraged her to start fresh. With a smile, he’d promised to do the same with his own future. Crying, she had apologized over and over again.
She believes someone like that would never take their own life, especially when she was able to brave life again thanks to his words. Hae-young bitterly returns that she may have been able to move on but his brother cut his own wrist soon after his release.
He says it isn’t too late—she can still testify against Tae-jin and clear his brother’s name. Hye-seung shakes her head, afraid to lose the family she’s worked so hard to build. “But it wasn’t your fault,” Hae-young fires back, his voice rising. “You’re the victim!”
But as the victim, she was the target of abuse and blame in the public’s eye. That hasn’t changed in the past fifteen years, and Hye-seung can’t bear to put herself or her family through that kind of judgment again.
“What about my brother then?!” Hae-young hollers. She apologizes and leaves, and Soo-hyun stops Hae-young from going after her. Soo-hyun says Hye-seung’s testimony is no longer valid since the statute of limitations on her case has passed, but Hae-young roars that his innocent brother died while the true culprit still lives.
He runs out of the cafe and hails a cab before Soo-hyun can stop him.
February 15, 2000. An irate Director Kim nearly runs over Jae-han with his fancy new car. True to his word, Jae-han has been investigating Director Kim for the past year, even though Director Kim has moved on with a nice promotion.
He says he hasn’t given up, swearing to bring his influential backers down too. He knows Tae-jin is the actual principal offender in the Inju case even though everyone was led to believe that Sun-woo was guilty.
Because everyone else involved remains tight-lipped, Director Kim is the only one who can come out with the truth. Jae-han will make sure that Director Kim reveals all of his dirty dealings himself as well as get to the bottom of the Inju case. In a bit of foreshadowing, Director Kim tells him to give it a go, and they’ll see who will die (in career and life) first.
Jae-han gets pulled into a stakeout with Soo-hyun, who’s been worried for the past year. The sentiment is to keep Jae-han busy, since everyone has noticed that he hasn’t acted like his old self ever since the Inju case.
In the van, Soo-hyun adjusts his head while he’s sleeping so that he’s more comfortable. The proximity allows her to get a good look at his face, and she watches him sleep.
In the present, Soo-hyun arrives at Hae-young’s rooftop home. She recalls how distraught Hae-young was at the cafe, screaming at the injustice of this situation. When she’d told him that there was nothing that they could do, he’d said they still had a chance—if they change the past and catch the culprit, both his brother and Jae-han could be saved.
Hae-young agitatedly waits inside for the clock to turn 11:23 PM. Right on cue, the walkie-talkie lights up, but this time it’s Soo-hyun in the past who hears the staticky noise and hears Hae-young’s voice transmitting from the other end.
At the same time just outside the door, Soo-hyun in the present also hears the same scratchy noise. Her eyes widen when Hae-young desperately calls out to Jae-han.
In the year 2000, Jae-han stirs awake, then bolts when he sees the criminal make a run for it. So both he and Soo-hyun are forced to leave the radio behind, and the call goes unanswered.
Jae-han berates her for losing their man, and when Soo-hyun says she heard a voice coming from his walkie-talkie, he dismisses the idea. Back in the present, Soo-hyun emerges from the shadows after Hae-young runs out. She lets herself in and is shocked to discover Jae-han’s walkie-talkie.
Hae-young, meanwhile, drives down to Inju and confronts Burn Hand for playing a role in covering for the true culprit. Hae-young learns that Section Chief Ahn had approached Burn Hand, telling him to testify that he’d given Sun-woo the key evidence in the case: Hye-seung’s red scarf.
Section Chief Ahn had set his sights on something higher than the Inju case, and that’s all we learn from Burn Hand—for now, it seems.
Hae-young doesn’t answer his phone when it rings, then follows up on the case files Section Chief Ahn asked for before his death. While a puzzled Hae-young receives the case report on his brother’s death, Director Kim is briefed on the same information.
As Present Soo-hyun holds onto Jae-han’s walkie-talkie in the precinct, Past Soo-hyun also double-checks on the same radio. Jae-han snatches it out of her hands, insisting that it’s broken, and he doesn’t have an answer as to why he carries around a broken walkie-talkie as a keepsake.
While following up on their latest case, Soo-hyun learns that the detective used to work with Jae-han. That creates an opportunity for her to casually ask about his treasured, broken radio, and her face falls when she’s told that Jae-han always carried that thing around after his first love died.
The detective supposes that Jae-han still doesn’t go to the movies anymore, since the girl left behind a pair of movie tickets. Now she realizes that’s why he didn’t accept the tickets she offered him. She’s completely out of it for the rest of the day, from spilling food and walking into the men’s bathroom.
Jae-han intervenes when Soo-hyun injures her ankle from changing the water cooler. She insists that she’s fine, which prompts him to ask what’s gotten into her lately. She asks him if he hasn’t forgotten about his first love who passed away. Jae-han sidesteps the question and replaces the water before he leaves.
Hae-young seeks out the detective in charge of his brother’s suicide investigation. He respectfully asks if there was anything odd the detective found about the case, but is told that everything written here is true. In fact, Hae-young would have a better memory since he was there.
After Sun-woo had been discovered in their home, he’d been wheeled into the emergency room. Hae-young had watched the medical staff try to revive his brother, but to no avail. By the time their mother had arrived, Sun-woo was already dead.
Hyung’s death had been ruled a suicide, and Hae-young’s mother had refused to get an autopsy done. Moments later, his father had arrived to collect him.
While Hae-young tries to figure out what Section Chief Ahn was trying to expose, we return to February 17, 2000. Sun-woo is released from detention and returns to a much quieter home—one without his little brother. He later opens a drawer that houses a razor blade, then quietly closes it again.
He waits up for Dong-jin, who is surprised to see him on his way home from school. He doesn’t hold a grudge against Dong-jin and simply asks where Hye-seung’s red scarf is. Jae-han has an unexpected visitor of his own—Director Kim, who acts like it’s some sort of serendipitous surprise that the shop belongs to Jae-han’s father.
The two men talk outside, where Jae-han tells him to cut to the chase. Director Kim has pinpointed Jae-han’s weakness: his father and his struggling business. But Jae-han refuses to be exploited, asking if the great Senator Jang isn’t on Director Kim’s side in his latest case.
Director Kim spits back that there’s no use in trying to protect a sense of duty or justice in this world. He advises that Jae-han take the opportunity when it’s still available to him. But taking that first step is the start of the slippery slope of corruption, Jae-han returns: “I’d become like you, an expendable hunting dog.” Ooooh, burn.
No matter how tough life gets for him, Jae-han would rather choose to follow the moral path over the immoral one any day. It certainly seems like Director Kim has fallen out of favor with Senator Jang as of late, and that visual of the senator dining on practically raw beef is chilling.
He barges in during the politician’s meal, and Senator Jang remarks on how wonderful this prime Japanese beef is. He describes how the cows’ caretakers take special care of them from birth, and all for what? “To make them delicious when they’re slaughtered.”
The same applies for a hunting dog, Senator Jang breathes. What should he do if there’s no use for the now rabid dog? “Should I throw it away, or…” and the senator turns his heads towards him. “…should I beat it to death?”
How Director Kim behaves will affect the outcome, as Senator Jang growls at him not to cross the line again. Holy shit, he’s frightening.
Jae-han is about to head down to Inju after getting a call from Sun-woo about the red scarf when the rest of the precinct is called out. He tells the others to look after Soo-hyun hobbling on her sprained ankle, but ends up joining everyone anyway.
Soo-hyun gets a visual on the burglar and heads up to the roof, gun in hand. When the burglar jumps from above, she gets out of the way just in time and the burglar throws her down in a pile of furniture and kicks her down before grabbing his knife.
That’s when Jae-han shows up and takes the criminal down with a judo throw. Unfortunately, the burglar still manages to stab him in the gut. Even though it isn’t a fatal wound, Soo-hyun rides along in the ambulance, her eyes filled with tears.
Jae-han tells her to stop crying, and she chooses this moment to confess her feelings for him. “I like you,” she blubbers. “I like you a lot.” Heh, even the paramedic does a small double-take.
She even tells him it’s fine with her if he likes other women, and it’s okay if he never forgets his first long just so long as he never gets hurt and dies. She lets out a great wail, and oh man, why is this scene so funny? Hahaha.
In the present, Soo-hyun keeps trying to get a hold of Hae-young. She’s pulled into a meeting with her other squad members, and Detective Kim reports that while the evidence found at the crime scene was unusable, the victim Hye-seung reported that she wore a red scarf when she was assaulted.
That scarf was left behind at the crime scene, but no one looked into that crucial piece of evidence. Detective Kim thinks that Hae-young might be onto something, and Soo-hyun remembers that Section Chief Ahn called Hae-young down to Inju Hospital.
That’s exactly where Hae-young is now, and he waits until the cops leave before he heads inside. He believes there’s a chance the secret Section Chief Ahn wanted to tell him is hidden inside, and he needs to find out why the section chief came here.
Hae-young retraces Section Chief Ahn’s steps by recalling the background noises during the call on the night he died. He walks through the halls and turns the corner to narrowly escape the cops still in the building.
He starts to panic, trying to remember where Section Chief Ahn might’ve gone next, then heads into the stairwell. But that’s where the call ended, and Hae-young reads the sign to deduce where to go next.
Recalling that the nurse took a blood sample when his brother was in the ER, he realizes that the section chief must’ve headed down to the laboratory. There’s no way a blood sample could survive fifteen years, but there’s a chance the hospital records still exist.
He enters the admissions office, and the employee there says she just told the cops who stopped by earlier that a detective came by a few days ago to ask about the blood sample of a Park Sun-woo. Damn it, the other guys beat him to it.
He asks about the blood test results and learns that there was a tranquilizer found in the patient’s blood. The effects would differ depending on whether the patient had a history of taking that drug, but it’s possible that a normal person would lose consciousness from the dose. Oh shit, was Sun-woo drugged and then did someone make it look like suicide?
Soo-hyun arrives just then, but Hae-young is too shaken up: “It… it wasn’t suicide. My brother… it wasn’t suicide.”
He tells her about the sedative found in Hyung’s blood, and how his brother was drugged and his death was made to look like he killed himself. Hae-young stresses that Section Chief Ahn was trying to expose was the fact that his brother was murdered.
Over in 2000, Sun-woo tries calling Jae-han again, but his calls go unanswered because Jae-han is asleep at the hospital. He looks back at the red scarf next to him, which was brought to him by Burn Hand per Dong-jin’s request.
“It was because of the scarf,” Hae-young says in the present. He explains that Section Chief Ahn wanted to reveal that his brother had the scarf in his possession. Even if the rest of the world had given up on him, his hyung didn’t lose hope and tried whatever he could to clear his name.
Emotions well up in Hae-young as he shakes from the guilt that he thought his brother had killed himself. He resolves that he cannot let his hyung die again; he must stop it from happening.
Before Hae-young can leave, Soo-hyun pulls him back and looks him in the eye. “Is this what you were talking about? About how you weren’t sure about the present, but that you can save [them] in the past?”
She takes out Jae-han’s walkie-talkie from her backpack and asks why he has this. The current time is just after 11 PM.
Jae-han finally wakes and finds Soo-hyun asleep next to him. He tries telling her to get up, then notices the cracked face on her watch. His stomach starts to churn, but he’s unable to move with Soo-hyun sleeping on his arm.
He carefully moves her head and painfully moves his IV around her without her stirring awake. He feels much better after he relieves himself in the bathroom.
“Answer me,” Soo-hyun asks, holding the radio in the present. “Why do you have this?” Hae-young reminds her of the question he once posed to her about what she would do if she received a transmission from the past. She’d told him that she’d try to protect her loved ones.
“I feel the same way,” Hae-young replies. Even if everything becomes a mess, he wants to save his brother. None of this makes any sense to Soo-hyun, so he reminds her of the time he asked her how he found Suspect Seo’s body in the Kim Yoon-jung case.
“Jae-han told me where it was. That the body was in a manhole behind Seonil Psychiatric,” Hae-young continues—the Jae-han in 2000 told him over the walkie-talkie.
Everything about this sounds beyond ridiculous to Soo-hyun, but he tells her that on all the cases that they’ve worked on, when the past changed, so did the present. “Through these transmissions, those who should’ve died survived, and those who had nothing to do with [the cases] ended up dead. And one person’s life… would be ruined.”
“If we changed something because of this walkie-talkie, there were consequences.” Hae-young cries. “Everything can get mucked up, so I couldn’t tell Jae-han… that he’d die on August 3rd at Seonil Psychiatric.”
Soo-hyun doesn’t understand, and Hae-young says he spoke with Jae-han before he died. Now Soo-hyun starts to shake, stunned by these words. But she barely has a moment to dwell on it before the walkie-talkie lights up on schedule.
Even though she sees it happening before her own eyes, Soo-hyun can hardly believe it. At the same time, Jae-han returns to his room in time to hear the familiar static and carefully climbs over to pluck the radio out of his jacket.
He moves to the stairwell and makes sure he’s alone before picking up. In the present, Soo-hyun freezes at the sound of Jae-han’s voice. Jae-han says he found out who’s responsible for the Inju case and promises to take care of it.
Hae-young takes the walkie-talkie out of her hands to ask Jae-han to save his brother before he kills himself on February 18, 2000. “He’ll be murdered! It wasn’t suicide! Someone made it look like that and killed him!”
Soo-hyun looks on in silence as Jae-han confirms the date. Hae-young hollers into the walkie-talkie when Jae-han no longer responds, and then the connections fritzes out again. Grabbing him, Soo-hyun demands to know what’s going on. “Who… was that? Answer me!”
Jae-han is already on the move and bursts through the hospital doors. A part of me just wants him to call Sun-woo back before doing anything else.
Soo-hyun asks whose voice that was transmitting through the walkie-talkie. “You know who it was,” Hae-young replies. She whimpers, “That’s not possible. He’s… dead.”
“He’s still alive… through this radio,” Hae-young says, as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
COMMENTS
Wow, those final few seconds really make Jae-han look like a superhero flying into action, doesn’t it? And in many ways, Jae-han is a hero with his stubbornness in doing what’s right, his dogged determination to expose corruption, and make a stand against injustice. Which is why it pains me to think that someone as morally upright like himself would meet such an untimely end in the hands of unscrupulous men like Kim Sung-bum, Director Kim, and Senator Jang.
And as cruel as the world can be, I’m so glad we learned that Section Chief Ahn spent his final days trying to find out the truth behind Sun-woo’s death. While the twist that Sun-woo was murdered doesn’t come as a huge surprise, it doesn’t erase the fact that someone was twisted enough to stage his death. My first thought is that it’s Director Kim’s doing, but he isn’t the only one who could’ve marked Sun-woo as a target. I also wonder if his murderer knew that Sun-woo had the scarf in his possession, though I’m inclined to think that they would’ve planned to kill Sun-woo, regardless.
Seeing that blade in his drawer leaves open the tiny possibility that Sun-woo killed himself, but as of now, his determination to solve the Inju case appears to outweigh the idea of suicide. And oh god, I just hope Jae-han makes it before Sun-woo does die.
It’s a constant struggle for me as a viewer, because I want everyone to live happily ever after even though that’s not how life—or the timeline in this series—works. Signal has done such a superb job in making us care about our characters that out of my selfish heart, I want Hae-young to be happily reunited with his brother and Soo-hyun reunited with Jae-han. I understand that would end up screwing up the time paradox somehow and that there would be consequences in saving their lives, but damn it—we’re heading into finale week, and I don’t know if I can take watching Jae-han die before my eyes again.
Hae-young’s reaction to the revelation surrounding Sun-woo’s death is especially poignant. From his outburst with Hye-seung to his frantic call to Jae-han, he’s running on emotions throughout this entire episode. And as Soo-hyun would tell us, emotions are what clouds a detective’s perspective in their line of work. I can’t blame Hae-young when he has a personal investment in this case, where each revelation rocks his world and shifts his long-held beliefs on what happened to his brother. Although there were times where I felt that actor Lee Je-hoon overextended his acting for most of this series, that kind of acting was appropriate in this episode to express the rawest of emotional moments Hae-young is going through.
The best kinds of dramas are the ones that make you think and question the things you think you know. Such is the case for Signal, as it seeks to shed some light on the kind of corruption and harrowing experiences that I can easily see brewing under society’s eye today. Not only is this series an exceptional one on a technical and acting front, it’s one that I hope will be spoken about for years to come, as one with the huevos rancheros that demands the world to wake up and at least be aware of what’s going on, even if there’s little that can be done about it. Because taking that first step is the most important one.
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1 cupkate
March 7, 2016 at 8:14 PM
Omg omg is it Friday yet? Can't believe it's ending next week. Looks like I'll be watching while peering through my fingers. I want a happy ending but I know it won't be. Ugh I'll just have to prepare myself for the heartbreak.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 7, 2016 at 9:13 PM
If JH stays dead, we'll need to come here to commiserate with each other!
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Lilly
March 7, 2016 at 9:51 PM
I will be a total mess if they do that.
I so want a happy ending.
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cupkate
March 8, 2016 at 12:13 AM
*whimpers" I don't even wanna think about it. What shall we do once Signal ends?
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pigbit
March 9, 2016 at 12:55 AM
@cupkate
maybe we'll spend a weekend without sobbing endlessly? ;)
I'm really going to miss this show.
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phan
March 10, 2016 at 6:43 AM
i just hope this drama doesnt end in a loop .In the first episode lee jae han says it was park hye sung who asked him to go to seonil hospital,that is where he dies.During his last transmission he asks hye sung to convince him during the next transmissions.he says its going to happen again(*the transmissions).this is like a loop lee jae han already knew d transmissions will start again,what if the finale ends with the start of another set of transmissions?
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2 Karen
March 7, 2016 at 8:17 PM
This show :000
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3 apluszee
March 7, 2016 at 8:17 PM
Please let Jaehan got to Hyung in time and saved his life!!!! And they can take Kim Bum Joo's instead.
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Shountz
March 8, 2016 at 3:47 PM
Yes please, I want this
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4 Smile413
March 7, 2016 at 8:21 PM
Jae-han and Sun-woo have hearts of gold. We knew about Jae-han before, so for me Sun-woo character shines in this episode. He's still considered a kid, or a minor but his understanding and courage are so admirable. I was blown away whe he told Hye-seung that she did nothing wrong and just needed to start over after so much he had suffered to try to help her.
I have a feeling that Sun-woo may get a chance to live but not Jae-han.
Thank gummi for recapping Signal! I'm ready for the final week (with boxes of Kleenex right here, of course).
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Pat Munzer
March 7, 2016 at 10:51 PM
The actor who plays Sun-Woo is terrific. He plays with such emotion, at times without even speaking. This kid will go far!
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m3lon4
March 7, 2016 at 11:43 PM
The actor who plays Sun Woo is 16 year old Kang Chan Hee, a former child actor with heaps of credits playing younger version of drama male leads and I think the experience shows.
I'm also very impressed with the child actor who plays young Hae Young. He made me cry during the scene where he sheds a tear while eating omurice, wipes his tear and then continues eating. That scene was delivered perfectly, both in the technical and emotional sense.
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Karst
March 8, 2016 at 2:57 AM
The actor who played Sun Woo has a face of Im Si Wan. The similarity is uncanny. And he's good too. I hope he will improve and getting recognition from now on.
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Selenette
March 8, 2016 at 8:34 AM
Not sure anyone wants to know but the actor of Dong-jin (the former best friend of Sun-woo's) was in Gaksital as young Lee Kang-to, among other things.
emnemone
March 8, 2016 at 10:39 AM
The actor who played Sun Woo is going to debut as an idol under FNC. He's in the Neoz School thing that they're doing and he's also going to be in a FNC web drama with AOA's Mina. I honestly think he should've just been an actor instead but who am I to say what ppl do with their lives XD
changhyun
March 8, 2016 at 10:37 AM
Even the actress who plays young Hae Seung is so good! This drama has no flaws in terms of acting I'm so impressed!
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cupkate
March 8, 2016 at 12:15 AM
Sunwoo just breaks my heart. Urgh. Thinking about how forgiving he is and how kind and just killed off is making me tear up. That actor playing him is so good!
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Smile413
March 8, 2016 at 8:23 AM
IKR! And he did not give up on the case like everybody else (except Jae-han, of course). It's too unfair for him to die this time around.
I googled the actor playing Sun-woo, and OMG, he was one of the kid in The Queen's Classroom (2013). Kids are growing up so fast.
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5 earthna
March 7, 2016 at 8:21 PM
I'm torn between wanting to watch Signal again and wishing for it not to end. Seriously though, if Jaehan ends up dead, I think it will be so unfair. That one detective who represents justice and fights the evil people must not die in this drama. I would lose so much hope if that happens. I know that reality is so much more brutal than this but at least in drama, can we have the good guys win?
The senator creeps me out big time. Awesome acting. I can't look at beef the same way again.
Soohyun's confession is so cute. Omg. I laughed and cried at the same time. Jaehan's embarrassment was the cherry on top.
I've never wished for a character to survive a drama this bad before. Please, Signal, no more deaths.
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miroufleur
March 7, 2016 at 10:53 PM
I had a good laugh at lee Jae Han’s embarrassment when CSH confessed. Love this show <3
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6 doobidoo
March 7, 2016 at 8:22 PM
Can't wait to see how this show ends, although I'm going to miss it. This drama sets the bar way up there and I think it'll be difficult for other to surpass it. Sometimes I even have to pause because I've been holding my breath for too long. A fantastic show, indeed.
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 8:53 PM
I absolutely love the way they revealed the radio to Soo Hyun. She found it herself, she put together most of the pieces, and then even the proof is done in a way that isn't done to convince her - Hae Young's total panic isn't for her benefit, he's barely aware she's there. She's just witnessing what the two of them have been dealing with for months (or decades, for JH).
I'm okay with LJH's acting throughout. He's been a little hyper the whole time, which fits nicely with his cocky-but-not-mean image, and frequently made me think he's been bottling up frustration for so long that it comes out in intense high-energy bursts. Also it makes him seem young-ish in a way that took the edge off the Hae Young/Soo Hyun relationship - it's never felt romantic, partly because he feels like a little brother to her.
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m3lon4
March 7, 2016 at 11:53 PM
I'm also okay with LJH's acting from the beginning. I've watched most of his projects so I know he's capable of being subtle and restrained (although my favourite performance of his remains Ki Tae in Bleak Night).
From watching his interviews, he comes across as an actor who's thoughtful and spends a lot of time studying each character he's going to play, so I can't help but think if the unusual intensity he displays as Park Hae Young is a deliberate choice, and is how he wants to portray the character. It's like an effort to make his Hae Young distinct from all the other characters he plays before; and because most of the time Hae Young in the drama is very desperate, I'd say the intensity is not uncalled for.
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Kaylie
April 13, 2016 at 6:53 AM
I really agree with you, because Hae-young is so frustrated by the injustice of the world they live in, Lee Je-hoon's intensity in acting expresses his desperation to make things right, so I don't find it overboard at all.
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Selenette
March 8, 2016 at 8:36 AM
I've never watched anything with Lee Jee-hoon (yes I know I must be a caveman not to notice him) before Signal, but I think his performance here is great.
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R
March 8, 2016 at 11:48 AM
I love Lee Je-hoon's performance too !
and of course all the cast is awesome :)
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7 Sam
March 7, 2016 at 8:26 PM
I’m still breathless after seeing the last part of the episode and the preview. It was like I’m out there somewhere chasing for something that’s so thrilling but I couldn’t grasp it until everything stops and I’m left hanging. NO DRAMA HAS EVER BEEN THIS CONSISTENTLY GOOD!
Signal is LIFE. I have never cared for the character’s lives as much as I do here. They all feel so real that I’m horrified and at the same time frustrated of all the injustice and corruption surrounding the cases. I love that it makes your brain tickle with all the thoughts of how they will be able to wrap everything up while playing with your emotions at the same time. Everything in this drama is crazy good. I like the fact that I don’t even remember the exact moment I fell in love with it and now, I’m completely captured. I’m lost in its own world, to the awe that seizes the soul and I’m afraid that I’ll get stuck in it for a long time.
I just want to repeat what PHY said in Episode 11 (that might foreshadow the ending) and hope for the best for all of them.
“ In exchange for all the lives that were reclaimed…
I don’t know what misfortune has fallen on another.
As long as they are alive…
As long as they are living somehow…
At least there is a small chance for hope.”
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Lunatic4KD
March 7, 2016 at 8:38 PM
@SAM - You nailed it with "NO DRAMA HAS BEEN THIS CONSISTENTLY GOOD!" Exactly - it's miraculous and astonishing, isn't it?
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4drama
March 7, 2016 at 9:00 PM
Signal is really awesome, and I love it!! however I had the same regard and love for the wonderful larger than life drama MISAENG!!?
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 9:10 PM
Both excellent - but I think Misaebg had the freedom to be looser without showing any plot holes. Signal has had to be watertight, across multiple timelines. And it's pulled it off, which is astonishing.
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ItsEndingSoon
March 8, 2016 at 12:15 AM
Like what someone have said before, Signal is the Holy Grail of Korean Dramas.
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Sam
March 7, 2016 at 8:49 PM
@Lunatic4KD
I'm always amazed as to how they were able to do it..But hey! They're the perfect team!
The director said that after they've finished talking about the production for Signal last May 2015, He, the writer and the assistant writer(a real-time female profiler that assists them) studied for the whole drama and script for three months before starting the shoot last October. That's the reason why we have our quality drama in this caliber.
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Jeaniee
March 7, 2016 at 8:57 PM
Thanks for sharing background info on the production! Wow! This is how one should prepare for a drama. Know your material and follow through with it. Quality product!! I love this show, the cast and the genius minds behind it. Everything came together for this one! :)
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anotheraddict
March 7, 2016 at 11:26 PM
Yes, thanks for sharing that info. I had figured that a lot of time and care had gone into crafting the script-- interesting to know that they hired a profiler to assist them. I wish more dramas would prioritize creating high-caliber scripts-- it makes all the difference. Kudos to the team for doing such a phenomenal job.
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 9:13 PM
THAT explains a LOT. Ironic that out of all the hype about pre-produced dramas this year, Signal identified the exact bits that absolutely must be locked down and took care of them ahead of time.
Everyone got too excited about avoiding live-shoot without remembering that the entire point is to avoid chaos. The Signal team should teach a class.
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crazyahjummafan
March 7, 2016 at 9:48 PM
I feel that for a really good drama, it is not so much about whether the drama was pre-produced but whether the script was already completed and edited and evaluated, over and over again, to make it air-tight. Once the script is completed, the production can start. Even if not filming is not completed when the drama starts, they can still keep on filming and not have to wait for the writer to complete the next episode. So often in some dramas, one can tell that the writer is simply waiting for the viewers' response, to continue the next episode.
I'm saying this cos D- Day for instance, was pre-produced, but it was a quite a disaster (pun intended) cos the script was sub-standard. It kept going round in circles. It seemed as though no one had evaluated the script or edited it properly.
I'm glad that dramas like Signal and my other current favourite drama, Six Flying Dragons have set the bar higher.
A poorly written drama is like a poorly constructed building, or one that is constructed using faulty materials, and therefore can fall at any time. It is also 'cheating' the viewers who have invested their time in watching. The Korean drama industry should look into this, as their dramas have gone international, and they should at least have some criteria or standard besides pretty-face boys.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM
I'm with you 100%. The problem with so many KDs is their lousy script. Usually the actors do their job, and are the ones to pull us in. The first 2 eps are attractive as setup, then things make good sense for another 2 eps, then it lags and drags on for a few eps, and things go downhill, until it all goes to hell in a basket.
Even with live-shoot, they should at least start w a finished script, but they don't.
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Jeaniee
March 8, 2016 at 1:34 AM
Yes!! Yes to Signal and Six Flying Dragons!! Love them and am a bit sad they'll both be ending soon!
Sigh, your post reminds me of the abomination that Cheese in the Trap eventually succumbed to. It confirms what you said that it doesn't really matter if a show is pre-produced or not, if the material is not of high quality, it will show.
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Jeanie
March 8, 2016 at 2:04 AM
This drama is unbelievably amazing and we're down to the last 2 episodes already!! To think I almost passed up on it as I thought I wasn't in the mood for an intense story. Now It is one of my all time faves! I am confident that the writers/PD and the cast will deliver until the very end.
I know things would make sense in their universe, be it a happy or a sad ending. Although I am still hoping that aside from righting the wrongs done before, they would also redeem Sunwoo and Jaehan in people's eyes and that they'd get to live out their lives. Was thinking that in the new timeline, Sunwoo and Haeyoung would eventually have jobs saving people (Sunwoo a lawyer and Haeyong a cop?) and eventually get to meet and work with Jaehan and SooHyun. Just like in the episodes previously, where in the new timeline, the killer crossed paths again with his last victim, but in a different environment, hopefully better for the both of them.
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Jeanie
March 8, 2016 at 2:06 AM
ooops! Sorry, meant to post below!! :(
Selenette
March 8, 2016 at 8:40 AM
@Jeanie
My God if the writer doesn't write this kind of ending, I'll write a personal fanfic based on your ideas, just to heal my emotional scars. Thanks for posting those ideas.
Kaylie
April 13, 2016 at 6:56 AM
I really appreciate that they bother to consult a professional profiler, the effort in producing this drama really shows from its quality.
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8 gadis
March 7, 2016 at 8:28 PM
This episode completely blows my mind. The fact that SY now knows about the radio transmission makes me giddy for a new development. The fact that Sunwoo is murdered instead of committed suicide is just too cruel. Someone is desperate to permanently silence the Injoo case truth.
That being said, I love watching JH being all awkward and super adorable around SY after her big confession. I hope we get to see some more adorableness for the next 2 eps..
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 8:57 PM
I could not stop laughing during the ambulance meltdown - luckily it seems 100% intentional, direction-wise. Jae Han looks like he wants to crawl out the window and Soo Hyun is just UNHINGED. Poor medic, that was LOUD.
But nice to know however this ends, Jae Han definitely knew how much she liked him. And it also explains some of the intensity of SH running to get news of skeletal remains for 15 years straight.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 7, 2016 at 9:11 PM
Poor medic? Poor Soo Hyun! My heart goes out to her. She has been in one-sided love with JH for how long now. It got all bottled up and reached pt of explosion! ?
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crazyahjummafan
March 7, 2016 at 9:52 PM
That scene was totally awesome in its cringiness! Haha! It made SH so real cos all this time we only see an ultra-serious, often stone-face, no-nonsense detective. It showed that she was really vulnerable. That was also some great acting! The actress has managed to show so many different aspects of the character - serious, hard, frighten, vulnerable and soft. Kudos to her!!!
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m3lon4
March 8, 2016 at 12:01 AM
I love that scene too! It was so cute and hilarious how Soo Hyun was bawling her eyes out, and Jae Han kept stealing glances to the third wheel medic, being so shocked and embarrassed from the sudden confession, while ouching in pain due to the stab wound at the same time.
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Jeaniee
March 8, 2016 at 1:43 AM
Hahaha!! She was such a mess!! It was cute to watch, the both of them, really.
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Anne
March 8, 2016 at 3:33 AM
Wahahahahaha! IKR?
She's such a great actress! She can play opposing sides of human qualities and deliver them perfectly.
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9 Aria
March 7, 2016 at 8:28 PM
What makes a good finale?
Regardless of a sad or a happy ending we may have, the important thing is to ‘seal’ our satisfaction. As long as it feels right and nothing seems to be forced nor just comes out of the blue. It’s like getting that last scene and realize that some of the earlier events of the drama were not what they seemed. But with that last piece of information, it all fits together. That’s what I’m hoping we’ll be able to have and I’m positive that Signal can give us a proper closure.
I’m worried about Cha Soo Hyun though.. It might likely be that she’s doomed to die in the end.. I felt trouble when I heard her say this in the preview. “ Even if everything gets ruined, that’s what I’m gonna do. For both you and sunbaenim.. I will not give up.”
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10 TransientState
March 7, 2016 at 8:33 PM
I was so pissed when I had predicted that Sun-woo was actually murdered whilst watching Epi 13. So unfair that he was scapegoated in the first place, but that he had to die because of the scarf is just tragic. I hope that this time loop begins and ends with Sun-woo. It all hinges on his death because his is the most reprehensible. It wasn't some psychopath that had problems, it was some corrupt, power-monger that didn't want his terrible child to face consequences. It's the wrong that must be righted.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 7, 2016 at 9:09 PM
Scarf or no scarf, SW would have been a loose end for those who had something to hide, and so very much to lose. Those guys were quite used to subverting the truth and had no idea what justice meant, they needn't have thought twice about killing SW to ensure their own (sons') safety, even if there wa only a 1% chance of revelation. They had picked the 'perfect' victim with no power and no one to fight for him. So they figured there wouldn't be any danger in killing him.
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11 laurie
March 7, 2016 at 8:34 PM
This series has really been one of my favorites this year so far. Even though the finale is usually where great dramas can falter I have hope with Signal. Honestly, I've been thinking about the ending for a couple weeks now and I can see one ending being that Sun Woo stays alive, which could possibly mean that Hae Young won't become a police officer and the last scene will be Hae Young and Soo-hyun/ Jae Han walking past each other. I doubt it'll happen but it's a thought I've entertained for a while.
Thanks for recapping this amazing series! It's going to be an agonizing wait for the finale!
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loveycat
March 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM
You know there is "fate" in this world. I think even if they make it for save Sun Woo's life, Hae Young can still become a police officer for another reason, such as "knowing how important police's work to save his brother's life and prove his innocent", and he still meet Soo-Hyun as his mentor, and who knows, maybe Jae Han show up as Soo Hyun's Sunbae-nim who just back from board because he got promotion for solving Injoo case.
And then even if Hae Young not remember them, Soo Hyun and Jae Han remember him very well, and take good care of him as their younger brother.
That's just my wish.
But, what i mean is, even if some history changed, their character as who they are, still the same. When they meet again it is possible they still react in same way and same manner.
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12 Lunatic4KD
March 7, 2016 at 8:35 PM
PERFECTION. Just absolutely undoubted perfection. This drama sweeps me into bliss. It rattles and please all my senses. It challenges and raises my perception of intelligent entertainment. After more than 170 dramas watched Signal is anointing itself as the best I've ever seen. There are just no empty spots in its rich tapestry. It's just....just.......
I'm out of words.....
I don't want it to end, yet I know the ending, whatever it is, will be as magnificent as every episode has been.
PERFECT.
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13 BA
March 7, 2016 at 8:41 PM
Timelines are collapsing. Whatever the finale, it is bound not to disappoint. I have many theories but...
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14 aa
March 7, 2016 at 8:42 PM
soo.. what will happen with jae han later??? someone please tell me that he still can be saved..
i want him and soo hyun get together at the end so baad TT
hope the ending can still make us smile even it's not the happy one
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blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 9:29 PM
Well possibly if the In-joo case is solved and the real culprits are caught. If they are caught then the corruption in the case can be exposed, possibly putting all the corrupts behind bars, including the chief. Which means, no chief, no JH's murder. Unless they get off easy and try to kill him when they get out of prison. We have to also consider the friend that took the bribe to help his family, if he is sent to prison he might want revenge.
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15 teaellipsis
March 7, 2016 at 8:55 PM
I guess I never thought Lee Je-Hoon over acted, but maybe it's because I was too invested to care lol. I think he's great in this role and could not see anyone else playing Park Hae-Young.
Another great episode... I really do like the how the pieces from the puzzle are coming together and flashbacks don't seem overdone (but appropriate).
Signal really is a gem of a show... It seemed to come out of nowhere and knock it out of the park.
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 9:03 PM
I think LJH's wild-eyed moments are a feature rather than a bug. At every age his character is intense whenever he's fixated on something (kidnapper ID, pool hall fight, profiling accuracy), and we see him when he's pursing a decades-long fixation.
I also like that it makes him feel a little younger than he is, like Sun Woo's death removed the most responsible adult influence in his life and he missed out on some of the finer points of adulthood, like not stalking celebrities for fun, or how to not piss off your colleagues. He's an interesting case of arrested development.
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pogo
March 7, 2016 at 9:10 PM
I do think he's refined the delivery a bit now, once he's settled into his role (I found his line deliveries a little odd in the early episodes). Like the little boy who's devastated by the loss of his hyung, always lurks really close to the surface of the snarky grownup profiler.
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Lilly
March 7, 2016 at 9:57 PM
I like him in the role also. He had to be a little off to add believably that a real person would not just ignore and toss the radio in the first place, so he made it more real to me.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 12:55 AM
I'm with those who feel that LJH has been overacting in recent eps, in the sense that it draws attention to itself and to me, it has been distracting.
It's possible that his wide-eyed moments are intentional as a sign of the pressure his char is under, but IMO, there are better ways to show it, a la Kim Hye Soo. She manages to show intensity and pressure without the knitted eyebrows. But then of course we can say that it's unfair to compare his acting to hers when she has had much more experience.
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16 azy
March 7, 2016 at 8:58 PM
Thanks for the recap.
I watched this raw without understanding anything and cringed with embarrassment with young CSH’s antics hahahaha...I even feel more embarrassed when I watch it with sub. Way to go girl!! If you don’t ask, you won’t know and you will get nothing.
I find it very farfetched that they meet with hye seung in the very public café, of course due to PPL. I am very afraid that someone from the evil axis is looking to silence hye seung and observe their meeting. To discuss such sensitive matters in very public area, with loud outburst by hae young is very unlikely to happen in real life.
Also, is it normal to take blood sample out of person who has lost lots of blood?
Regardless, this is THE best drama after a long while for me. Can’t wait to know how it is going to be wrap up, but at the same time, wish it not to end.
Out of topic;
Lately I always lagging, almost crashing my pc when opening db site. Especially since having the popout advert on the left side. It is very frustrating, doesnt happen at other sites. My pc is quite powerful, mind you, since I prepare it to run very high vol statistical software. I hope this can be rectified soon.
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pogo
March 7, 2016 at 9:06 PM
I'd say the sometimes-jarring PPL is possibly the only thing I'd register as a flaw in Signal, I mean the Subway one was hilarious enough.
The cafe though, I can accept their meeting there even if it's too public for actual safety and the two cops are probably being watched. I'm guessing Hye-seung would feel safer if she met them in a public place and not the police station (possible bad flashbacks)
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saranga
March 7, 2016 at 10:53 PM
i haven't noticed any obvious product placements in the drama, except the subway one which was SO obvious. it was just a random scene of him walking into a subway and ordering a sub—didn't fit with the flow of the story at all. they REALLY couldn't have just given us a scene of him eating a sub in its subway wrappings while poring over case files?!
there was another subway ppl in some other drama, a couple of days after that episode. i think it was descendants of the sun, and song hye-kyo ordered a honey oat sub. i remember remarking "dang, subway is everywhere."
well, both were pretty successful in making me want a subway, which i haven't eaten in at least 5 years. especially after hearing "honey oat," which was my favorite bread. ha!
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pogo
March 8, 2016 at 1:09 AM
wait, you missed the one where Soo-hyun's mom served Hae-young a Subway sandwich as a snack supposedly made in her own kitchen? WITH the Subway paper and little green tray and all?
I mean, I like Subway too but they could just have had an informant or someone involved in a case working in an outlet instead of being this clumsy about it.
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saranga
March 8, 2016 at 3:09 AM
lol i must have, i don't remember it but i'll try and go back and find it. that's hilarious. (and so blatant!).
i wonder if it's a part of the contract? that one of the actors has to be shown in a store or something? i agree, it's very clumsily done and the scriptwriter seems to be too good of a writer to have inserted this stuff herself...
Islander north
March 8, 2016 at 10:26 AM
Blood sample has to be taken so that no meds be given the patient that could adversely affect him due to any drugs, etc. in his system. Routine.
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17 KDaddict?JCW
March 7, 2016 at 8:58 PM
I got goosebumps watching the last few minutes, when Soo Hyun was right there hearing JH's voice on the walkie-talkie; Everyone knew full well that JH had been reduced to a pile of bones and was buried a day or so ago.
I love it that She will be the one to try to do sthg, and will stop at nothing, to save JH from being murdered, consequences be damned. It's only right that it be her, right?
If She hadn't been moody and absentmindedly dropped that bottled water on her foot, JH wouldn't have had to go on that operation to watch over her and cancel out on Sun Woo. It was at exactly that time window that the goons came and killed SW. Sometimes, fate works in strange, surreptitious and unexpected ways. It's like slipping, falling onto the train tracks and gets run over by a coming train?
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Miranda
March 7, 2016 at 9:07 PM
She's totally going to be the one the hospital address, isn't she? Out of the best of intentions, but I'm worried that Jae Han's impression of 2000 Soo Hyun is going to make him partially discount her warning and think she's overreacting (based on the ambulance hysterics). He has no idea that she's an iron-willed badass in 2015.
I don't think Hae Young would be precise with that information, and I also think that Hae Young's cemented his place as a flawed oracle and Jae Han knows what to do with his predictions. Soo Hyun is a wildcard, and now she knows Jae Han's date of death, and that worries me.
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Lilly
March 7, 2016 at 9:59 PM
She has to be the one if that gun shot near the end of the preview means the police killed Hae-Young when he was running away from them.
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anotheraddict
March 7, 2016 at 11:16 PM
Please do not discuss previews in the recaps (as per DB's no spoilers policy). Thank you!
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 12:41 AM
Now you are really scaring me.
Hell No, not Hae-Young too!!!
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crazyahjummafan
March 8, 2016 at 5:32 PM
But if JH had not gone on that operation, she may have died in the hands of the perp. So it's one life for another?
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toodles
March 13, 2016 at 3:01 AM
That's exactly what I thought. If JH had left right away to go to Sun Woo, Soo Hyun would have gotten knifed. So I'm thinking he will not be able to save Sun Woo.
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18 pogo
March 7, 2016 at 9:02 PM
That last scene just has me on tenterhookds screaming 'NOOOOO DON'T DIE!!!' though I don't know whether I mean it more for Jae-han or Sun-woo.
And we'd discussed the way the rape was portrayed in the last ep recaps.... I know it does make it look like Jang Tae-jin was the first attacker, but from the real-life case and the way it was revealed in the drama, it seems like it happened in stages and that Hye-seung may well have been blackmailed and was most certainly subjected to worse (Jang Tae-jin calling in his buddies to rape her too) after what we already saw.
But knowing that Sun-woo died at someone else's hand and not his own is a spin I hadn't expected. There's very little hope that both he and Jae-han will survive, but I've still got my fingers crossed. I mean, he's bleeding out from that same spot that we saw when ACS shot him.
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19 KDaddict?JCW
March 7, 2016 at 9:04 PM
Can I just say I've fallen in love with Kim Hye Soo in Signal?
I first saw her over a dozen years ago in Did we really love? appearing as the leading lady opposite Bae Yong Joon. She didn't impress me that me then, perhaps becos her role was completely melo, which always put me off, or perhaps my attn was focused on BYJ while watching. It's such a pleasure to discover her here!
There is Acting as we see in this series, and then there is acting by many of the pretty boys and girls, e.g. in Moorim School.
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Sam
March 7, 2016 at 10:47 PM
I've firstseen her in 'The Face Reader' and noticed her incredible presence. After watching her movies and Queen of Office, this femme fatale always makes her co-stars disappear on screen.
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ItsEndingSoon
March 8, 2016 at 12:13 AM
If you watch most of her films, you'll be amazed as to how she can pull off all those characters perfectly. Truly a great and phenomenal A-list actress.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 12:39 AM
Now I've to go and search her films to watch. Any ones you particularly recommend?
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pogo
March 8, 2016 at 1:06 AM
A good recent example is Coin Locker Girl, she and Kim Go-eun are the leads (and bonus, Kim Go-eun is one of the few young actors who actually holds her own in scenes with KHS).
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samantha1
March 8, 2016 at 1:40 AM
Yes..She's outstanding there! (Coinlocker Girl)
I also recommend that you watch her movie 11th Mother. She gained critics’ high praises for her acting there and If you’re into horror movies, she's crazily and creepily good in The Red Shoes. The movie Tazza: The High Rollers solidified her career as an A-list actress in the industry and gave her one of her Blue Dragon Best Actress Award. Well, as the Koreans say, She’s the master mother of the Blue Dragon Awards.
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Karst
March 8, 2016 at 3:02 AM
Mother of Dragon. Now that a nickname. I'm not suprised if she's a Targaryen.
Anne
March 8, 2016 at 3:29 AM
@Karst..hahahahaha..LOL! (SignalxGoT)
But yes, seriously though, almost everyone in Korea loves her and barely anyone hates her. She's so cool from her way of life, acting and intelligence.
KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 7:03 AM
TQ for the recommendations. She is one hell of an actress.
20 blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 9:11 PM
Thanks Gummi
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blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 9:19 PM
I love this show, I want to see the ending but at the same time I am not ready to say good-bye. Gosh, the withdrawal syndrome is going to be hard on this one, I am going to miss all the characters. I just have one petition for the writer, Please, Please, PLEASE!!! NO OPEN ENDING!!! Just because I know that this show has a minimal to non existing chance of getting a second season. Even if you kill the character (Jk, please don't kill anyone if you don't have to) I would like some proper closure, I don't want another Nine.
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Sally
March 7, 2016 at 9:37 PM
Agree...Nine's ending disappoints me so much, the beginning and the middle parts were great but the ending (???????)
And I don't like the lead gal too....
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Sam
March 7, 2016 at 10:49 PM
I've been disappointed in Nine ever since they made the twist of turning the female lead into his relative..hahaha..The ending didn't satisfy me either. But I have high hopes in this one.
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blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 10:54 PM
Hahaha, yeah that, I guess I wasn't too disappointed when they made her his relative, it made for a great plot twist, although it did make things awkward. I was more disappointed in the ending, I understood what happened but still I needed some kind of closure.
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blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 10:50 PM
Also somebody posted this video in Soompi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aksLhLNwh50
I can't understand Korean but from my understanding it is explaining that all the cases in the show were based on real events, even the abduction case.
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Selenette
March 8, 2016 at 8:49 AM
@Blueribbon
Yes, a Soompi member posted that the abduction was also based on a real life case. The female murderer abducted and killed a little girl after demanding for ransom. She needed the money for her expensive lifestyle (see? So similar) because her husband couldn't afford it anymore.
But she wasn't a nurse.
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21 Sally
March 7, 2016 at 9:35 PM
I'll give this awesome drama a rating of 9.99/10 , minus points off it if it gives me an open-ending this weekend.....hahaha :P
Love it too much, it is on par or even better than another crime drama Gap Dong !
tvN fighting, Signal fighting !! (Y)
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Sam
March 7, 2016 at 10:52 PM
Me too.. After watching hundreds of Korean dramas, I've never given a 9.999 or 10 to any of them coz I know that there will come a time when I'll encounter a work that is as nearly perfect as this one. This deserves the TOP.
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22 anon
March 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM
Just when you thought the cliff hanger can't get any better, the last scene of this episode beats the last scene of ep13. JH pushing his way out of the hospital doors, heading into the unknown future is so awesome.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:34 AM
You forgot to mention that he is still bleeding from his stab wound....ouch...that's the kind of hero that we need in this world....
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23 saranga
March 7, 2016 at 10:46 PM
prior to this episode i hadn't considered whether jae-han or sun-woo would possibly survive—i never thought such a thing was up for grabs, but now i wonder... i wonder if the show will go there.
i think i'd be a bit disappointed in the story if jae-han lived. the story has been so great so far, and narrative wise i feel it's better to keep him dead (sorry!!!!), for the sake of a stronger emotional impact. funnily, i would like to see sun-woo survive, given that he was so badly wronged and so young when he died. but if he lived, how would the 15 years be explained? if either of them lived? and what will be the price for the return of their lives?
i also wonder if yoon-jung's case will be changed or solved. either she will also live, or the nurse will be caught before the statute of limitations of expires, and be properly charged and imprisoned for her death, giving the little girl's mother proper closure...
cannot wait for friday/saturday!!!!
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Sam
March 7, 2016 at 10:54 PM
Given the dark tone of this drama, I'm not surprised if ever they won't give us an ending where everybody lives. But so far, I think one of the three will..
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Sam
March 8, 2016 at 12:05 AM
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24 miroufleur
March 7, 2016 at 10:51 PM
Signal is my all time favorite drama, i want a happy ending but with history changing one of the leads may end up dying so i'm going to prepare my heart for next week episode.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:36 AM
I think they might give us an open ending or somebody would (still) die.....which I certainly hope NOT....normally fantasy genre are like dat :(
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25 Diana
March 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM
Thanks so much for the recap Gummimochi,..
I lost my words for this drama,
Signal is just sooooo gggrrrreaaatttttt,
Like other viewers,
i do hope Jae Han will still alive, and Sun Woo too, because THEY DESERVE IT,
I'm proud to be able to watch such a masterpiece without judging who are the actors, the popularity of the story, or whatever...
I started to watch this drama right from the first ep without any hope, and now it makes me to hope for character that didn't exist in real life,.
Salute for Signal!!!
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blueribbon
March 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM
Hi Diana, sorry for not explaining yesterday what 11.22.63 was, I was disconnecting from the internet until the next day. I saw that somebody else explained it to you. It is an american show and while I don't watch American shows anymore this show got my attention because of the premise,
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Diana
March 7, 2016 at 11:47 PM
That's okay Blueribbon,..
Thanks for your recommendation, ^_^
i'm very selective about drama nowadays, because i have no time to watch, and i don't want to waste my internet quota heheh,.
i want to watch 11.22.63, but i think i'll watch it after pied piper,
*I'm glad that i found a friend with great taste of drama
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blueribbon
March 8, 2016 at 12:15 AM
You're Welcome :) I also tend to be very selective about the shows I watch because I also don't have the time :/. I also want to watch Pied Piper but I haven't found a link for it yet. In fact I will try to watch every drama that comes out from tvN because frankly they currently have the best shows.
I also share the same sentiments, I hope we can recommend each other shows in the future :)
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Diana
March 8, 2016 at 1:08 AM
Let's do that in the future blueribbon ^_^
I Found the link of Pied Piper, but it uploaded on illegal site without sub,
now i'm waiting it to be subbed, :)
blueribbon
March 8, 2016 at 1:54 AM
Thanks for the heads up I will look for it. Looks like I am going to also watch it on those sites given that no legal website appears to be subbing it.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:40 AM
I'm interested in Pied Piper too, I've tried Mrs Cop 2 last night, but it bores me out in epi 1 .....
Diana
March 8, 2016 at 3:27 AM
@Blueribbon let's see each other on DB Recap about Pied Piper ^.*
@Sally, Right now i'm really not sure what drama i'll watch,
there are so many drama out this month, Mrs. Cop 2, DOTS, Please Comeback Ajusshi, Pied Piper and Goodbye Mr. Black. (Not to mention another J/C/T drama, because the list will go on and on..)
Among all of these dramas, i'm very curious about Pied Piper and Goodbye Mr. Black.
I'm reading other drama veterans comments about Mrs. Cop 2, DOTS & PCA but so far, i'm not really feel interested.
26 Candy
March 7, 2016 at 11:30 PM
I love reading your recaps! Signal seems to be a top-notch drama so far.
P.s- Happy Women's Day to all you lovely beanies! :) <3
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27 Mirtika
March 7, 2016 at 11:46 PM
You know, if someone told me I was gonna die anyway in 2000, and the bad guys would live on happy and fat and rich--I'd make a list of all the evil, corrupt bad guys and take them out, one by one ,and like that other killer, just bury them in the damn mountain. Cement CEO, Congressman, Director, Lying cops, bribed witnesses. I'd take them ALL out for oppressing the poor. Hate em. Hate them so bad.
I need Sun Woo and our Brave Good Guy to LIVE!!!!!!!!!! (And save that girl from the first episode). I need a happier ending!!!!
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28 Mirtika
March 7, 2016 at 11:47 PM
Also: Your recaps are amazing. Seriously. Thank you.
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gummimochi
March 8, 2016 at 6:48 AM
♥ You guys are an amazing group of readers. I'm learning more from you guys every day. ♥
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Sam
March 8, 2016 at 7:01 AM
Thank you very much too gummimochi! :)
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29 oops
March 7, 2016 at 11:48 PM
I don't think they will be able to save Lee Jae Han imo. I think the miracle transmissions are just there to help everyone to go on with their lives. I'm not sure an happy ending will come. And if it happens, they should think how much they will pay for that.
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30 Growingbeautifully
March 7, 2016 at 11:49 PM
Thanks gummimochi!
Once again this amazing show has given us solid suspense, rising feels, strategic reveals and topped it with more funny human moments! I love how they do that every episode, I believe, and so well slotted in and balanced.
I loved how Kim Hye Soo does not mind "crying-ugly" for her role and went all out without affectation. It was so cute and quite appalling at the same time! LOL.
The only thing I felt that was a little unlikely (but I happily accept it) was Hae Young's amazing recall of Anh's call and being able to tell Anh's route through the Injoo Hospital, from remembering all the incidental sounds that came through the phone. But other than that, it was another perfect episode!
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ItsEndingSoon
March 8, 2016 at 12:10 AM
I thought the whole recall was strange too.. But given that Signal team have their real-life profiler as an assistant writer and guide, I think it's possible.. Besides, I've had an incredible colleague like that in the past.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 1:39 AM
Same here...I was like "what? he can remember the sounds he heard via the phone call and traced his route in Injoo hospital??!"....but nevermind, it's for a good cause...haha
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drawde2000
March 8, 2016 at 4:05 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing those flaws. Hae Young being a profiler is actually the main thing that's keeping me from loving this show. I just don't believe him as a profiler. I sometimes think he just spit out words to sound genius so that cases can be solved. He doesn't sound below believable to me. I don't think the actor believes that as well. ... What I believe to be true and can happen is that Hae Young does talk to someone in the past thru a walkie talkie.
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drawde2000
March 8, 2016 at 4:10 AM
I mean the drama is excellent and it deserves all the high prasies and ratings. It's just not my favorite and as excellent as Misaeng for me. I see flaws that's keeping me from truly loving this drama.
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daisy
March 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM
I don't know. For me, misaeng was repetitive. Whenever I anticipated something from the show, it would fall flat. Also, the way kang sora's character was treated was totally unacceptable. I find it ridiculous that she had to clean up after everyone and not fulfil an actual job. The show's portrayal that you should be a doormat in the face of such inequality was frankly quite appalling. Personally, I think Signal is far more engaging.
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31 anotheraddict
March 8, 2016 at 12:18 AM
When Director Kim told JH, "Let's see who dies first", I half-wished JH could've responded by saying something like "Yeah, let's see who dies first... the last time 'round." Can't you just see Director Kim's WTF face?
I thought it was pretty cool when present-day SH was listening to the same transmission that past SH had heard. So many great details in this show.
I want to see young HY get his wish of eating out with his family, preferably with JH witnessing that. I'm still feeling optimistic that JH will be alive in the final timeline (if there is a final timeline). Or if he does die, I think it'll be as a result of the larger corruption case, not just the Inju case. I just feel pretty certain that they're not going to end it with HY's feeling responsible for the death of the man who had been his hidden guardian-angel, and for SH's pining for her lost love all these years.
Fingers crossed that they can continue to amaze us for one more week!
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:25 AM
I also hope that Hae Young can have meals with his entire family .... they didn't mentioned what happened to his parents after his brother died in 2000 actually....but I dislike their father,,,,ugh,,,,
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Growingbeautifully
March 8, 2016 at 3:26 AM
I so wished that the first time Soo Hyun heard the walkie-talkie come on in the car, that she had said something to Hae Young. And that Soo Hyun of 2015 could have heard her own voice coming out of the walkie-talkie when she was listening outside the door. LOL!
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Cipher
March 8, 2016 at 3:44 AM
Then imagine what would present day CSH remember. She suddenly has memory of talking to JH's weird walkie-talkie at that moment?
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Growingbeautifully
March 8, 2016 at 4:41 AM
Yes, then things would have started to make sense for her without Hae Young having to tell her how he knew what he knew. :)
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32 kawaiidrama
March 8, 2016 at 12:34 AM
I am so in love with the character of Sun Woo. Am I the only one who's wishing he'll live? But I feel like his death has already been decided after Jae Han went with the squad to protect the injured Soo Hyun (not blaming them for his possible death but still... I've never wanted a character to be more alive than this one)
This show truly is one of the best I've ever watched.
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33 gilnis
March 8, 2016 at 1:36 AM
Don't know if it's already been mentioned above, but what do you think about the sedative? I wonder if Sun Woo got it from her mother in his food. Do you think it makes sense? She was so so so cold to him. And if that's not the case and I'm wrong, why would Sun Woo take in the sedative? There's no reason for it. When, how and by whom was it given to him? We know there were no traces from abuse on his body.
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Adal
March 8, 2016 at 2:25 AM
There's no reason for a mother to kill her child. What you interpreted as being cold to her son, I only saw as a mother who was emotionally drained and physically exhausted, who kept pushing herself to live one more day. I am sure his death has nothing to do with his mother, but I could be wrong. This show constantly surprises me.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:28 AM
I don't think his mum got to do with Sun Woo's murder...maybe somebody visited him and trick him into taking the sedative and then slited his wrists thereafter? I think his mum is very good to still stand by him and stay by his side....despite she looking very frail and tired..
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gilnis
March 8, 2016 at 3:22 AM
Who visited him? Sun Woo is smart. Why would he trust anybody under these circumstances? And he wasn't forced to take it. I don't know... I'm glad if you guys are right. I don't want her to have somehing to do with drugging Sun Woo. It would be horrible. I just don't get it and really want to know. :)
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Growingbeautifully
March 8, 2016 at 3:31 AM
I feel that there's an easy way to get Sun Woo to drink without question, and that's if a guest came and brought a spiked can of drink. The spiked one for Sun Woo and a safe one for himself. Out of politeness and according to custom, Sun Woo would have joined in drinking and talking to the guest.
If the mother were involved, it would be more likely that she did not know what she had put into his food, than that she had done anything to harm him deliberately. She was quite devastated by his death.
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 6:49 AM
Did they say the sedative was in his stomach? Wasn't it in his blood stream?
The goons could have gone in, easily overpowered him and jabbed him with a needle full of sedatives, before they proceeded to kill him, making it look like suicide, no?
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34 Lwx_23
March 8, 2016 at 1:48 AM
From the preview it seemed like something bad was going to happen to Hae-young and it was up to Jae Han and Soo-hyun to save him.
I really like this series, but it seems like a happy ending will mean that we can't have the trio together. A happy ending would mean that current Hae-young and Soo-hyun will not exist, which means only Jae Han will remember the events. Which is quite a dilema as I want them to be happy but at same time it will mean that they have to "die". Alternativly Jae Han and Hae-young's brother has to die and that isn't better.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:26 AM
Hope no heroes/heroine have to die and maybe we trade the villains' lives for theirs !! Maybe let the two villains (the corrupted police and the congressman) die in 2000 and let JH and SW live on !!
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35 Jay W
March 8, 2016 at 1:53 AM
My little theory on the ending:
Haeyoung is going to die. Pre-empted by his dialogue in the preview "even if it screws everything up, I'm still gonna do it". Soohyun is the one who relays his death to the past jaehan. We see her talking to jaehan on the radio, she is the one who told him where to look for the first body at the abandoned hospital. Hence, knowing this news, jaehan in his last transmission (haeyoung's first), he tells HY not to give up.
While haeyoung dies in the present line trying to expose the truth, this probably means sunwoo is alive. But I would think jaehan is still dead. That's the only way the radio can continue to function in the time loop of 1989-2000 for jaehan and the few months of 2015 for haeyoung.
Soohyun's dialogue "for senior and you, I will not give up" tells me that after haeyoung's death, she will be the one to put all the bad guys behind bars in the end.
So, sunwoo lives on. Soohyun keeps the radio in memory of jaehan and haeyoung but it will never again come alive. Time moves forward but in a parallel universe, jaehan and haeyoung is still encouraging each other to "never give up!"
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Xingii
March 8, 2016 at 2:54 AM
This is in line with what I think might happen tbh. As much as I hate the thought of any of our characters dying, I have a feeling that Haeyoung will die at the end. :(
Interesting theory, let's see how it pans out.
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Jay W
March 8, 2016 at 2:55 AM
Also, I was thinking if they managed to save Sunwoo, how would HY still be a detective. Most likely, in 2000, when JH saved Sunwoo, HY was there to witness his heroics. Sunwoo was probably still drugged but because JH got there in time, the killer failed to kill SW. However, the baddie did manage to take away that red scarf so they still didn't have enough evidence to convict the other boy.
Inspired by JH, HY decides to join the police and continues to work hard to expose the truth behind Director Kim, the senator and those of Inju cement.
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36 Jeanie
March 8, 2016 at 2:07 AM
This drama is unbelievably amazing and we’re down to the last 2 episodes already!! To think I almost passed up on it as I thought I wasn’t in the mood for an intense story. Now It is one of my all time faves! I am confident that the writers/PD and the cast will deliver until the very end.
I know things would make sense in their universe, be it a happy or a sad ending. Although I am still hoping that aside from righting the wrongs done before, they would also redeem Sunwoo and Jaehan in people’s eyes and that they’d get to live out their lives. Was thinking that in the new timeline, Sunwoo and Haeyoung would eventually have jobs saving people (Sunwoo a lawyer and Haeyong a cop?) and eventually get to meet and work with Jaehan and SooHyun. Just like in the episodes previously, where in the new timeline, the killer crossed paths again with his last victim, but in a different environment, hopefully better for the both of them.
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37 Adal
March 8, 2016 at 2:20 AM
Anytime I think I couldn't possibly love this drama more than I do, I get surprised and end up loving it more. I am on pins and needles waiting for the final episodes.
I must confess, I was somewhat irritated by year 2000 Cha Soo Hyun because she kept getting in Jae-han's way and interfering with his radio communication with Hae young and with his reaching Sun woo in time. Thankfully, Hae young and Jae-han were able to communicate at last. Hope he can save the day in time to prevent Sun woo's death because the previews at the end of the episode were scary.
What will I do with myself once this drama is over, ottoke?
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Anne
March 8, 2016 at 3:35 AM
I'll be feeling really empty once it sinks into me that this drama has truly ended after Saturday. T.T
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38 Snowy
March 8, 2016 at 2:20 AM
Can someone please enlighten me about the life for a life logic? Somehow I cannot accept an ending where they will say if someone who died in the past gets to live, another will be claimed to keep the numbers balanced.
They already showed in ep 11 (when the box killer was arrested by JH) that previously dead people can live without any ~known~ consequence. HY doesn't know if someone else died in their place.
So if the show ends with some of the main characters dead, I don't know how I'd feel about it. Can't they make other people die instead? The bad people, for example.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 2:43 AM
Do you noticed that convenience store serial killer was caught by Jae Han (without any hints / clues from Hae Young), maybe that's why there are no known bad consquences that may result from it, just my thinking...so if Hae Young inform Jae Han about his brother and his own death in 2000 and if they managed to survived, I can't bring myself to see another bad consquences as a result of these....
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webby
March 8, 2016 at 2:52 AM
I'm with you in this. I don't think the consequences work in the line of "a life for a life", or a balance in number - x saved = x' claimed. That case you mentioned is the proof. These were "isolated" events (ie. victims were loners with no apparent connection), in which the intricate net of interconnection with other lives/interests had been minimal.
It's a logical consequence of a string of altered events that is more to do with probabilities, butterfly effect and the unpredictable human nature. Bad guys must have got plan B if plan A doesn't work (or interrupted because of the meddling from the future). And so on.
In the bus killer case, the killer had been working on a hit list, a fixed number of those who had seen him. So when one was saved, he just continued on with the next on his list.
In the thief case, even if the real culprit was apprehended and he was cleared, he's lost a daughter and planned revenge. It would be different if the case was solved before the bridge collapsed.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 3:13 AM
From what we know (from dramas etc), normally ppl who 'play God" wont get what they want....for eg saving someone who is supposed to be dead, there's always a consequence for it,,,,but I hope that I'm wrong....
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gilnis
March 8, 2016 at 3:43 AM
Why did they got this chance in the beginning then? They didn't ask for it, they just got it. Exactly God or whatever gave them this chance, because big injustices had occured. What was the point if we get to know for certain that injustices occured but they can't change or avoid anything and get killed for the second time as well?
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Snowy
March 8, 2016 at 8:13 AM
Thanks for the input. I like your theories. They somehow fit with what the writer has in mind. Obviously I want all of the good guys to live so I'm trying to find a loophole hehe.
But however the shore may end, I still like it.
Okay another question, what is the importance of the role of the rookie cop who always mops in the station?
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Alexis
March 8, 2016 at 7:39 PM
yeah @Snowy raised a very good point!
What's the importance of the role of the rookie cop who always mops in the station?
Maybe when there's a change in timeline, Hae Young might take over the rookie cop's position so he still gets to work in the police force but he's not a profiler since he will have his brother back!
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39 Loveaignal
March 8, 2016 at 2:44 AM
We might want our super heroes to live, but I think the point of the drama is justice has to be served. Has young might complete what JH couldnt, am almost certain SW or JH will remain dead.
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40 Anne
March 8, 2016 at 3:30 AM
You know, the past scenes especially with Soo Hyun and Jae Han are the only comedic moments that balance the drama into not falling into pure melodramatic thriller. But as we come to the end of it all, both the timelines are in a mess that I’ll just keep my hopes up that we’ll have a better future in the end.
I think only two of them (most likely Soo Hyun and Jae Han) can remember all that has happened (present Soo Hyun and past Jae Han successfully changes the past) and although Hae Young is also alive, he doesn’t remember anything. But his past self and Sun Woo are both taken care of the two and then they all end up being the best and the greatest squad in Korea.
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41 Cipher
March 8, 2016 at 3:37 AM
I can not wait for the show to explain how the timeline loop works! If there is really a loop that has been going on for many many times, I think it might be the case that JH and HY have tried many times to restore justice and each time they have approached success a little bit. The show is about the last repeat loop where they finally succeed.
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Lindy
March 8, 2016 at 9:34 AM
I agree that time has been looping for a while for these characters. Jae-han says as much when he tells Hae-young that the transmissions will start up again and that he has to convince the Jae-han he is going to speak to next that they are for real. Also the time they are living in Episode 1 is different from ours. In July 2015 Signal time Ji Sung and Lee Bo-young are secretly dating but in July 2015 our time they have been married for several years and have just had their first child. Such a great writer as the one on Signal doesn't just change real life stuff like this for a cheap laugh. It's designed to keep the audience off balance right from the start and to somehow disorient them. It's like knowing the rules so well that an expert writer can use them to her own advantage in the story. Hitchcock does this is the film Vertigo when he begins the film with his hero suspended for a building and facing certain death with the impossibility of rescue in the very first scene and then cuts ahead several months with the hero very much alive and with no explanation as to how he was rescued.
I am going to re-watch Signal from the beginning before the last two episodes air because It seems the cases they are going to work on illuminates what can or can't be done in the final Inju rape case to prevent the deaths of Sung-woo and Jae-han and make this the last repeat loop.
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samantha1
March 8, 2016 at 3:54 PM
That's what I've noticed since the first episode too. That the writer wanted us to know that they are in the 'wrong timeline'. Since the real-life Ji Sung and Le Bo Young were already married since 2013 and not 2015, maybe they'll be able to come up in the 'most-appropriate timeline' in the end although someone might die in exchange.
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42 Shadow
March 8, 2016 at 3:58 AM
I’m okay if we wouldn’t get a happy ending. As long as justice is served in the end, to me, that’s all that matters.
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“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.” ---– Jodi Picoult
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43 Sam
March 8, 2016 at 4:42 AM
****** UPDATE *****
A second season for Signal is now being considered by the director, Kim Won Seok
http://m.entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0003274872
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It's likely a big indication that all the three leads will survive :)
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webby
March 8, 2016 at 4:48 AM
or another walkie talkie lands on another set of crime fighters...
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samantha1
March 8, 2016 at 4:55 AM
@webby
You are right..Or we may have an open ending...
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Diana
March 8, 2016 at 5:43 AM
Really?
Daebak,..
I hope i can see Jae Han, Soo Hyun and Hae Young again in season 2,..
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KDaddict?JCW
March 8, 2016 at 6:56 AM
It'd be great if Season 2 comes to fruition. Let's hope they don't pull a Vampire Prosecutor 3 this time.
It'd be way too much to hope that all 3 main chars survive for these 3 actors to reprise their roles!
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anon
March 8, 2016 at 9:40 AM
We need the writer to do it too.
Hopefully this doesn't mean that the ending that was preproduced gets changed. Last minute changes have rarely been good for the storyline.
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44 Math
March 8, 2016 at 4:46 AM
Is it just me or I thought Jae-han would rip open his shirt to reveal an 'S' as he walk out of the hospital?
Anyway, this drama is just absolutely perfect and I've been waiting to see since the early episodes on Soo-hyun teaming up with Jae-han in the past now that she knows about the walkie-talkie.
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samantha1
March 8, 2016 at 4:54 AM
Lol..You are not alone..He looks so heroic during that last scene.
I'm afraid of seeing the team up of the two without tearing up..She hasn't heard from him for a very long time..I'm sure she misses him so much.
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45 jaengnas
March 8, 2016 at 5:54 AM
This is the drama i love.
As I used to give my comment here somewhere,I don´t care about the Ending anymore.
Because I don´t wanna hurt myself.
I will just enjoy the good drama as it is,like i love someone.
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46 m92
March 8, 2016 at 5:56 AM
what i love the most about signal is that, the casts and production team really look like they already gone through detail about everything (plot-wise, script, directing, etc) before going through for the drama shooting. Everything was well-thought. I think this drama gonna be best work for the writer (sign, ghost) because it has everything ,thrill, suspense, humor, human-relationship and melo. Plus, i think it was also because due to working with famous award winning director Misaeng that make this drama top-knotch. I like that we can see the difference for setting between 2015 and 1990s but still never deviate with each other too much. The music director sound cool too. I like the most when something humorous come out, the music that come out sound so funny but compliment the scene very well. But never forget when it too suspense the music can make the scene too spooky up for me to cover up my eyes and ears because it sound so creepy!!
Don't forget for the casts! Actually i have been impressed the most with Kim Hye Soo! She can act totally different,tough for the present and young,innocent during her early years as police. She is really pretty tho. Her skin is really good! Haha...lolzz
Before this , i would say that i love Nine Time Travel for my best thriller, suspense korean drama all time but as Signal arrived i cannot decide tho right know. I should wait for the final ep though. Nine time travel still win for this time for the final.
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An
March 8, 2016 at 6:36 AM
She really is a phenomenal actress. She was paid a significant amount of money (55 million won or $45,000 per episode) for her role here especially coz she's a top movie actress and every cent really did count.
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47 Alessar
March 8, 2016 at 7:00 AM
I think what creates a very powerful tension in this show is the conflict between wanting the bad guys to be brought to justice and their horrible crimes erased so the nice people live. What's actually better, that some loved ones aren't dead but their killers are out there and could kill others/spread corruption, or that the horrible, horrible people who killed them are brought to justice and made an example of?
Emotionally I think we want the brother and the senior cop to live, but if that happens I think even Section Chief Ahn's death would be negated. The only compromise would be if they catch the Police Chief red-handed in the past.
I just can't imagine how this show will end. And that is fantastic.
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48 Moko
March 8, 2016 at 12:14 PM
I think this is going to be my favourite Drama...I hope...if it ends well. I keep hoping it won't be like God's Gift - that would hurt.
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Sally
March 8, 2016 at 6:41 PM
yeah, god's gift - 14 days is another poor ending...hope that signal won't follow its footsteps.
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49 Random
March 8, 2016 at 3:34 PM
Actually, having tranquilizer in his blood is not such an anomaly for Haeyoung to conclude that someone else engineered Sun Woo's death. It's common for people committing suicide to find some way to numb the pain of the dying process. Whether through wine, sleeping pills or a tranquilizing agent.
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naomi123
March 8, 2016 at 4:59 PM
I think that's just the thing though! SunWoo shouldn't have had access to a sedative. Even if he was entertaining the idea of suicide, which the showrunner hinted at by having him open the drawer with the blade in it, the rest of his actions (calling JaeHan again) lead me to believe that someone (Kim Bum Joo, Congressman Jang??) wanted it to look as real as possible. So that even if someone came back later and started to ask questions, from all angles it would just look like SunWoo had been overwhelmed by his situation. And without the view into his mental state from HyeSeong, even SunWoo's own brother (a profiler at that) believed it to be suicide.
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50 Anon101
March 8, 2016 at 5:56 PM
Everytime I think this drama won't blow me away again, I'm thrown into another whirlwind storm of amazingness.
I completely did not expect the possibility that Sun-Woo was murdered and it just added another layer of complexity and depth to what I already thought was already exploring the dark, corrupt depths of society. Totes the writers. Seriously.
In terms of my thoughts on the ending: I honestly think that JH will stay dead. I don't want him to be but I don't see him, CSH and PHY all alive together. It'd be way too much of an idealistic ending. However, I do see JH getting his name cleared of being a corrupt cop and instead being hailed and honored for either the injoo case or just all the cases he's already done.
It'd give CSH some closure and would also help her to move on from her past love. (With a possible slow developing interest towards PHY?<--it'd be a process on her end but I find them so cute together)
Not exactly sure what'll happen to PHY tbh; I think it'll be dependent on whether his brother lives or dies. I can see him both staying as a cop but also just working somewhere in the justice/law department of society.
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