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Tunnel: Episode 3

Kwang-ho is convinced that a case from the past holds the key to his return to Yeon-sook’s side. As he works to solve a case in the present timeline, Kwang-ho’s investigative methods somehow complement those of his taciturn partner and the rest of the quirky team. While Kwang-ho learns more about the modern world, sometimes with amusing results, one thing is certain — murder is serious business, no matter the decade.

 
EPISODE 3 RECAP

In 1986, a hooded figure crouches beside a young woman’s body and blows cigarette smoke into her face. After he walks away, she opens her eyes and sits up, her heel marked with five dots. In 2016, that woman exits a taxi and says, “Everything has changed so much.”

At the scene where the dismembered body parts were found, Kwang-ho sits nearby and considers that the Park Kwang-ho born in 1988 might know something useful, but he hasn’t appeared. Maknae Min-ha asks if it’s Kwang-ho’s first time seeing a case like this, but he scoffs in reply.

Detective Tae-hee breathes in deeply and announces that the victim has been dead for at least a month. Min-ha utters, “He really is the undertaker’s son,” and Tae-hee recognizes that running errands for his father turned out to be helpful.

Kwang-ho catches sight of five dots on the victim’s heel and remembers Dr. Kim’s insistence that there was a missing victim. Kwang-ho double checks that the body has been there for a month, not thirty years, and he thinks that his jump to the future could be tied to this case. He can’t help but hope that solving it will allow him to return home.

Our resident criminal profiler Jae-yi walks to class with a roll of duct tape. During class, she tosses it to a student and orders her to tie the wrists of the girl next to her. Once she obliges, Jae-yi asks what a murderer would do with the leftover tape.

The class offers various suggestions, but Jae-yi asks the murderer/student directly. Her answer, that she would keep the tape to use again, makes her sound like a real murderer. She laughs that she wasn’t serious, but Jae-yi leans close to add that the tape can be a way for the killer to remember the murder before announcing that this semester, they will focus on a murderer’s memories.

Kwang-ho tries to explain the 1986 case to Sun-jae, because he thinks that their victim is a survivor from that time. Sun-jae counters that they will use the database of missing persons and DNA to identify the victim, but Kwang-ho has no idea what he’s talking about.

Dr. Mok confirms that the victim is a woman who has been dead for 25-30 days. Sun-jae thinks that the tool used to cut the leg could be linked to the murderer’s occupation, possibly in landscaping, carpentry or construction.

Kwang-ho is amazed to learn from the doctor that DNA can actually be tested. He asks if the dots are thirty years old, and Dr. Mok explains that they can be analyzed, curious about his interest. But Sun-jae stops Kwang-ho before he can explain further.

Jae-yi walks out to the busy crime scene and takes a call from the dean. Jae-yi explains that she decided to follow this case from the beginning, but the dean cautions her, “Don’t get too close.” Jae-yi forgets about the call when she arrives at the crime scene and realizes that the shallow burial means that the killer didn’t care if the body parts were found.

Back at the police station, Sun-jae ignores all of Kwang-ho’s suggestions and insists that he address him properly. Tae-hee and Min-ha report that they found CCTV footage at a restaurant across from the motel.

Tae-hee is convinced that the victim was killed in Seoul and disposed of in the remote area where she was found. Kwang-ho proposes that the victim is from the area, in her late 40’s to mid-50’s and recently returned after a long time away. Tae-hee declares that watching dramas turns everyone into a crime scene investigator, and even though Kwang-ho pushes his theory, the team ignores him.

As the search party works into the night, Sun-jae presents the team with a short list of potential victims. Tae-hee and Min-ha are impressed, but Kwang-ho calls it a waste of time and takes it upon himself to eliminate women who don’t meet his criteria. Sung-shik cautions Sun-jae to teach Kwang-ho properly before sending everyone home.

Jae-yi calls Sun-jae to explain that the killer treated the victim like garbage because he wanted to disrespect her, even in death. She hangs up before he can ask any questions.

The next day, Sun-jae rushes into Dr. Mok’s office, surprised that the victim didn’t match anyone on his list. The doctor suggests that perhaps she lived alone and wasn’t reported missing.

Sung-shik sends Tae-hee and Min-ha back to the crime scene to wait for the discovery of the rest of the body. He wants Sun-jae and Kwang-ho to check employment offices for missing employees and pass out leaflets. Desperate to solve the case, Kwang-ho proposes checking on people who moved to Hwayang recently, but Sun-jae just walks away.

Out on the street, Kwang-ho is surprised that the leaflets don’t mention the five dots, but Sun-jae just hands him a list of missing employees and tells him to verify their whereabouts. Kwang-ho points to Sun-jae’s phone and admits that he doesn’t have one, so Sun-jae takes the list back and drives off. Left behind, Kwang-ho vows to investigate on his own.

Sung-shik checks on the crime scene, but even with the addition of drones, the search has been unsuccessful. Kwang-ho follows his hunch and searches a year’s worth of resident registrations for a woman who lived alone, in her late 40’s to mid-50’s.

Kwang-ho has summoned Driver Oh to help him with his list of potential victims. When he refuses to help, Kwang-ho reveals that he saw a police science book in the glove compartment and wonders how Driver Oh can hope to become a policeman with his attitude.

Kwang-ho promises to help Driver Oh pass his interview in exchange for his assistance. When Driver Oh insists on getting the promise in writing, Kwang-ho tells him that he should learn to trust people a little more.

Kwang-ho conducts a door-to-door search to find the missing fifth victim. Meanwhile, Driver Oh proves to be useful when he rescues Kwang-ho, who ends up on the run from a jealous husband wielding a baseball bat.

The dean looks for Jae-yi in her office, startled to discover her standing silently right behind her. They discuss her class, and Jae-yi worries that she’s too intimidating for her students. She glances at the crime scene photos and comments, “They’re taking longer than expected.”

Tae-hee and Min-ha try to look busy while they sleep at their desks. When Sun-jae returns alone, Sung-shik asks about Kwang-ho, but Sun-jae answers that he’s too busy to worry about him.

Driver Oh sleeps in his car while Kwang-ho checks a motel for the last woman on his list. The manager is annoyed by his questions, busy because the cleaning lady didn’t show up for work. She tries to recall her name before dismissing Kwang-ho.

Driver Oh suggests that the victim may have changed her appearance with plastic surgery, which is much harder than changing her name. Kwang-ho never considered that the missing victim changed her name. A check the next day discloses one woman who changed her name — KIM JUNG-HYE, originally named KIM YOUNG-JA.

Kwang-ho inspects her room and discovers from the motel manager that Kim Jung-hye disappeared a month earlier. Her personal effects include a photo of her from 1985, taken near Hwayang Women’s University.

After Kwang-ho removes a jar of face cream from her room for analysis, Dr. Mok calls Sung-shik to report that he successfully retrieved some DNA. Sung-shik stares at Kwang-ho as he informs the team that the DNA matched the victim.

After Kwang-ho delivers a well deserved “I told you so,” Min-ha checks on Kim Jung-hye’s background and realizes that she matches Kwang-ho’s criteria: she was forty-nine years old, a graduate of a local high school, and she returned from Seoul a year ago. Tae-hee admits that Kwang-ho’s dots theory could be true as well, and he uses a crime scene photo to show Sung-shik the victim’s heel tattoo.

Sung-shik asks how Kwang-ho knew about the tattoos. He rejects Kwang-ho’s explanation that he only heard about it, because after the case files were destroyed by a fire, only the people who worked the cases had any knowledge of them.

Sun-jae calls Kwang-ho’s theory about the victim a lucky guess. Before he can join Sun-jae to continue their investigation, Sung-shik grabs Kwang-ho’s arm to ask, “Who are you?”

In Sun-jae’s car, Kwang-ho thinks to himself that Sung-shik may have figured out that he’s not the Park Kwang-ho born in 1988. Then he wonders how Sung-shik knew about the old murder cases.

Kwang-ho urges Sun-jae to believe in him and wonders how he can be a detective if he doesn’t trust people. The car’s navigation system speaks up then, and Kwang-ho looks around for the source of the voice. He yells when it speaks again and startles Sun-jae, who looks at Kwang-ho as if he’s crazy.

Sun-jae reviews the motel’s CCTV footage of Kim Jung-hye on the day that she disappeared and sees that she spoke with an unseen person. Kwang-ho interviews the owner of a nearby restaurant and learns that a man from the local factory asked to meet the divorcee.

Sun-jae shows Kwang-ho a photo of Kim Jung-hye taken from the CCTV footage. Poor Kwang-ho tries to figure out how his phone can contain a picture and ends up dropping it. He apologizes to an annoyed Sun-jae and begins to speak formally in answer to his suffering sigh.

Sun-jae and Kwang-ho interview the man who was interested in Kim Jung-hye, and he admits that she rejected him because she was involved with someone else.

Sun-jae asks if he saw her with anyone. The factory worker only claims that she met a man in front of the motel and that he overheard him call her Kim Young-ja.

At the station, the team reviews CCTV footage from the night that Kim Jung-hye disappeared. At 7:02 p.m., she spoke to someone in front of the motel. At 7:37 p.m., she walked next to a man wearing a hat. She was last recorded alone at 7:45 p.m.

Kwang-ho comments that he heard that Kim Jung-hye led a lonely life. Sung-shik looks at him curiously when he asks, “Why didn’t she report it back then?” Sun-jae thinks that she was either close to the man next to her or that he knew her by her original name.

Kwang-ho and Sun-jae realize that Kim Jung-hye’s ex-husband might know the mystery man. As they leave the station, Sung-shik orders Min-ha to send the CCTV footage to Jae-yi.

Sun-jae and Kwang-ho look for JANG YOUNG-CHUL at his workplace, only to discover that he quit a month ago. Kwang-ho pauses when he realizes that the date is January 3rd.

In 1986, Yeon-sook clutches Kwang-ho’s whistle and buys two tickets for the ferry. She sits on a bench to wait, surrounded by happy couples. Kwang-ho remembers that Yeon-sook promised to wait for him and announces that the case must be solved before the day’s end.

Jang Young-chul’s apartment is empty, so Sun-jae calls Min-ha and asks him to track the man’s phone. While Kwang-ho is surprised that it’s possible to use a phone to locate a suspect, the landlady tells the detectives that Jang Young-chul was dressed in a suit when he stopped by earlier to say goodbye.

Min-ha calls with Jang Young-chul’s location: the Jang family grave site where his parents are buried. Jang Young-chul leans on a headstone, a couple of empty soju bottles behind him. He pours himself some seemingly poisonous juice, but before he can drink it, Kwang-ho kicks it away. Jang Young-chul asks, “Can’t I die if I want to?”

At the station, Jang Young-chul is shocked to learn that Kim Jung-hye is dead. He claims that he never heard the name “Kim Young-ja,” but Kwang-ho thinks it’s an act. Sun-jae knows that Jang Young-chul quit his job the day after Kim Jung-hye disappeared.

Jang Young-chul shows the detectives his hands. His left hand is missing some fingers, and he explains that they both hurt too much for work.

Investigations at Jang Young-chul’s workplace and apartment yield no evidence of foul play. Min-ha reports that there is no additional real estate that could serve as a hideout either, so Sung-shik calls Sun-jae to ask if he’s managed to get a confession.

Sun-jae sits behind the interrogation room’s mirror to study the CCTV footage from the motel. Jang Young-chul insists to Kwang-ho that he didn’t kill his ex-wife. Meanwhile, Jae-yi reviews the footage of Kim Jung-hye walking with the man in the hat and notices that he keeps his left hand in his pocket.

Jae-yi calls Sun-jae to report her observation and suggests that the man has a complex, perhaps a disfigurement or a prosthetic hand that he would want to keep hidden from a woman. Again, she hangs up before Sun-jae can ask any questions.

Sun-jae realizes that Jang Young-chul can’t be the murderer because both of his hands are damaged, not just his left hand. After a review of the CCTV footage, Sun-jae remembers that the factory worker kept his left hand in his pocket. His knowledge that Kim Jung-hye was once known as Kim Young-ja makes Sun-jae wonder aloud if their only witness lied, just as Kwang-ho walks in.

Kwang-ho catches on that the factory worker may have known Kim Jung-hye when she was Kim Young-ja (which is what we’ll call her from now on). Sun-jae reviews something on his laptop and walks out. Kwang-ho sees that he researched the background for a Kim Kim Tae-soo and realizes that the man from the factory came from the same town as Kim Young-ja.

The factory worker lights a cigarette, and it’s apparent that his left hand is a prosthetic one. Sun-jae runs to the factory and finds the man standing in a nearby creek, looking suspicious. Sun-jae suspects that he threw something away, but the man acts innocent. But then Kwang-ho runs up and knocks the man down before proceeding to beat him up.

Kwang-ho’s entire team is present as the creek is searched. Sung-shik is alarmed to learn that Kwang-ho beat up the suspect and calls it unacceptable. When Sun-jae and Kwang-ho avoid his look, he takes his anger out on Tae-hee, who asks, “Why are you scolding me?” Suddenly, the search team yells out that they discovered something.

The factory worker, KIM TAE-SOO, sits in an interrogation room with Sun-jae and Kwang-ho. He’s twice divorced, lives alone, and is from the same town as Kim Young-ja, which explains how he knew her real name. Sun-jae accuses Kim Tae-soo of lying to them and confesses, “This is why I don’t trust people.”

Kim Tae-soo meekly denies the allegation. Sun-jae notes that the restaurant where Kim Tae-soo claimed to witness Kim Young-ja’s exchange with another man was too far for him to have overheard her real name. Sun-jae points to Kim Tae-soo’s left pocket and asks if he has something to hide.

Looking down, Sun-jae asks, “What kind of woman would like a guy with a hand like that?” When Kim Tae-soo angrily demands to know what gives Sun-jae so much authority, Sun-jae recalls that Jae-yi suggested that the murder could have been triggered by a breakup.

A flashback to the night that Kim Young-ja disappeared reveals that Kim Tae-soo tried to talk her into dating him and ignored her refusal. Frustrated, she glanced at his prosthetic hand and told him, “You’re just a crippled idiot.”

Kim Tae-soo reveals his prosthetic left hand in front of Sun-jae and Kwang-ho, seething with anger. Sun-jae proposes that Kim Tae-soo convinced Kim Young-ja to join him just once for tea. That’s exactly what he did, but he coerced her with a promise to look for her every night if she refused.

Kim Young-ja walked with Kim Tae-soo, who went ahead to a supposed teahouse around the corner. After a while, she turned to leave, but Kim Tae-soo pulled her into an alley.

Sun-jae stands next to Kim Tae-soo and suggests that he strangled Kim Young-ja with a rope, but he answers, “You’re wrong.” When Kwang-ho reminds him that he cut Kim Young-ja into pieces, Kim Tae-soo turns to him and denies the use of a rope. Laughing, he admits that he used his prosthetic hand.

As Kim Young-ja begged for her life, Kim Tae-soo told her, “Let me kill you with this crippled hand of mine.” Kim Tae-soo laughs maniacally and recalls taking off his hand to beat her. He then pressed it against Kim Young-ja’s throat until she choked and died.

Back at the station, Kwang-ho prepares to return home. He reads Sung-shik’s nameplate and realizes that he has the same name as his hoobae, just as Sung-shik promises to meet the team for a celebratory dinner. Kwang-ho asks Min-ha if the chief started out at Hwayang station and learns that he did.

Kwang-ho is amused that the kid who was always queasy is now a police chief. He tells himself, “I’m really coming home now, Yeon-sook,” but Tae-hee handcuffs himself to Kwang-ho to prevent him from leaving so that he can go out drinking with them.

As he leaves for the day, Sun-jae calls Jae-yi and shares that her guess about a breakup was only partially correct. Before she can question him, Sun-jae hangs up. He saves her number to his phone and continues on his way.

Tae-hee prepares soju and beer shots and promises to release Kwang-ho if he can drink more than him. The team members grimace as they down their shots, but Kwang-ho seems to enjoy the mixture. Once everyone else is drunk, Kwang-ho finds the key and unlocks the handcuffs.

Kwang-ho stands to say goodbye and admits that he’d like to punch Sun-jae before he leaves. He tells Sung-shik goodbye and adds, “I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you. I can’t believe you really became the chief.”

Kwang-ho walks out of the pojangmacha and runs off, gone by the time Sung-shik staggers out. Kwang-ho smiles as he approaches the tunnel and shouts, “Let’s go ride that ferry, Yeon-sook.” As Kwang-ho runs through the tunnel, he remembers his happy life with Yeon-sook.

Only, Kwang-ho emerges from the tunnel, eyes closed, and is completely crestfallen when he sees the lights of the modern city. He looks up and screams, “Tell me! What do you want?”

Kwang-ho walks to the darkened ferry. Back in 1986, night has fallen on Yeon-sook, who sits alone. She succumbs to tears as she clutches Kwang-ho’s whistle and two unused tickets.

As Yeon-sook’s sobs echo, Kwang-ho walks to the same bench and sits down. With tears in his eyes, he realizes that he couldn’t keep his promise, unaware that they both kept their date, separated by thirty years. Kwang-ho admits to himself, “I don’t understand what’s going on.”

The young man who almost hit Kwang-ho when he first emerged from the tunnel stumbles and falls as he runs through a wooded area. He covers his mouth and hides as someone walks calmly past him. Badly injured and bloody, he limps to another spot to hide, only to turn in alarm at the sound of someone behind him.

 
COMMENTS

We certainly learned quite a bit about the people that surround Kwang-ho in 2016. As expected, Sun-jae is a prickly partner, which explains why he has gone through so many. If he’s planning to force Kwang-ho to move on, he’s in for a surprise, because his new partner is only concerned with a prompt return to his past — he expects every day with Sun-jae to be his last. While Kwang-ho can certainly learn about modern investigative techniques from Sun-jae, the Park Kwang-ho from 1986 can teach his partner a thing or two about old fashioned footwork. Interestingly, Kwang-ho has discovered a willing student in Driver Oh, who is lucky to have an opportunity to learn from the best. However, in spite of Sun-jae’s drawbacks, he proves that he is a very capable detective as the murder case unfolds. With their vastly different styles, it turns out that Sun-jae and Kwang-ho have the potential to become a very good team.

Like Sun-jae, Jae-yi seems to have an issue with interpersonal skills. Even though she’s extremely intelligent, she has no sense of personal space and gets uncomfortably close to others. As a police consultant, Jae-yi is all about giving her opinion, period. I don’t think it even occurs to her that she should answer any questions. Perhaps getting a dose of her own medicine from Sun-jae will open her eyes, but for now, she certainly comes across as an odd duck.

At least Kwang-ho finally realized that the Sung-shik of 2016 is the older version of his young sidekick in 1986. How proud was he when he knew that Sung-shik reached his goal to become chief? It remains to be seen if Sung-shik understands that the Kwang-ho in front of him is his sunbae, since he was drunk when Kwang-ho acknowledged him. Since Kwang-ho was unable to travel back to his time, how will he interact with Sung-shik going forward? His current boss may be his only link to his past, at least until the Park Kwang-ho of 1988 returns, which is looking like it will be a while, considering his dire situation at this episode’s end. Could it be that Kwang-ho followed the serial killer into the future? If so, he may need Sung-shik’s help more than he thinks.

The survivor with the five dots had the worst of luck. She survived an attack by one crazed killer only to cross paths with another thirty years later. Kwang-ho’s belief that her murder was linked to the murders of the past was only partially true, but now he knows why Victim #5 was never discovered. I have to admit that, so far, the criminals in this drama make my skin crawl, if only because they are so frighteningly unhinged. I very much appreciate the characters’ entertaining interactions and Kwang-ho’s amusing antics as he experiences the future, since they help to keep the drama from sinking too far into darkness.

As hard as Kwang-ho is working to return to the past and Yeon-sook’s side, she is working just as hard to keep hope alive that he will appear. Her promised birthday date was truly heartbreaking, especially because both Kwang-ho and Yeon-sook kept that date, albeit years apart. They are so well matched in their love and devotion for one another. Unfortunately, Yeon-sook has a baby on the way to worry about, so how long can she endure when time waits for no one? Yeon-sook’s one request of Kwang-ho was to come home, no matter how late. Will they have to overcome a thirty year delay? The longer it takes for Kwang-ho to return to 1986, the more I wonder if he’s meant to go back at all.

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The lonely shining eunuch as a cop is everything.

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Haha! He was sooooo creepy in Goblin, but it's cool to see him in a modern role here. xD

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Dang! I mistook him for the guy in Shopping King Louie. Which is what happened when I watched Goblin too.

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so many familar faces in the police station of 2017...hahah, I was initially confused too....Kim Bok Joo's uncle as well...

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yeah... both medical examiner from '86 and 2016 is from Chief Kim too..

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The guy who plays aspiring police student Reporter/Driver Oh is a cop in Strong Woman Do Bong Soon. I guess the latter drama is a bit further in the future and he's realized his dream. Is this actor filming two drams at once?

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Yes, Kim Byung-chul was also in Louie, as well as DoTS.

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He will also be in MBC's Ruler: Master of the Mask.
Love this show

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Yeah, I recognized him right off. And honestly after seeing him in Goblin, I can't react to him as a normal guy. I kept waiting for him to wet his bottom lip with his blackened/purple tongue.

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I am hooked. I like the premise of this show. It makes me wonder if the young guy traveled through time and ended up in 1986. I wouldn't be surprised as I would take it as a way for the universe to "balance" as one went to the future and the other to the past. I wonder how that guy got in the trouble he is in, if he is indeed the son then I guess he was probably investigating and trying to find the person who he thinks was his father's murderer.
I find KHs interactions with the future amusing and I look forward to them :).
Thanks for the recap TeriYaki :)

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But didn't KH encounter the 1988 KH in his car in the previous episode? He was running away from someone then. How did he get dropped into 1986 then?

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My theory is that the disturbed kid who killed animals in the 80s found that the tunnel is sometimes a time gate. When it opens, he goes back in time and kills someone, then goes back to the future. The pattern of the killings may have to do with how far he can get away from the tunnel and still make it back.

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@Alessar -

I like this theory. Especially because they focused on him for a bit and then nothing happened. But then, wouldn't it be too obvious if the show chose the kid as the killer? I don't think the killer can travel back and forth, I think Kwang Ho is the future to figure something out in the past. Could it be one of the cops?

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There's no question the killer can travel. He hit Our Hero in the head and then ran further down the tunnel while it was lit up and misty and glowy and there was interference with the flashlight. He came out on the future side. He was coming from the past and returning to the future.

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I think both theories are valid, what if the killer ran to the other side of the tunnel in the same year of 1987 and our hero is the only one who could travel to 2017.

And the killer also might be from the future going to the past or from the past going to the future.

Anything is possible for now, i love shows when there's so many theories.

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An '80s detective is nothing if not resourceful. I like the way Kwang-ho went around his unfamiliarness of the modern world. Apparently, his old ways is still relevant enough this time around. And I appreciated how fascinated he was with all the advanced technologies instead of feeling intimidated by it (His child-like excited expression is priceless). The other cops' reaction regarding Kwang-ho's "quirks" was also really beliavable. They only thought that he was a really odd and out-of-date guy, instead of someone stuck in the wrong era.

But whenever he has a slip and mention about his life in '86, I always pray that the chief would notice it. Because while Kwang-ho could adapt fairly well so far, he really needs someone who knows about his past self and story. Someone who would understand his desperation and anguish and willing to trust and help him go back home.

I'm also excited to see the beginning of grudging partnership between Kwang-ho, Sun-jae, and Jae-yi. Those three have a very different approach when solving a case, but it could actually make them work well together. I can't wait for the time when Sun-jae and Chief Sung-shik finally found out about Kwang-ho's story and their past connection. Bring on the bromance!!

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I'm sorry if I download it accidentally. I was trying to click the read more button.

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Sun-jae the baby is now Kwang-ho's partner. Could the Jae-yi be Kwang-ho's daughter? Her last name is the same as Yeon-Sook's.

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I think that Sun-jae is also that little boy who lost his mother to that serial killer 30 years ago. But I never consider Jae-yi as Kwang-ho's daughter. Is it possible?

Now I'm really intrigued. Please make Saturday come faster! D:

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I also don't think Jae Yi is Kwang Ho's daughter. She definitely gives me the creeps so maybe she is his daughter and is hunted by his disappearance? I also feel like she might be a bit too old to his daughter non? I do wish we could start seeing all the connections thoug. So far we have sung shiek.

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I agree with you, Beesuzie. She looks a bit older for the age she should have if is Kwang Ho’s daughter considerating that the Kwang Ho’s daughter or son is a little more younger than Sung Jae but older than 88's Park Kwang Ho (if he is not Kwang Ho’s son).

I think that the male actors look more younger than her. Maybe is just her hairstyle beause the actress who plays Jae Yi is just one year older than VIXX'S N.

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What?! She's only a year older than N? She looks way older.

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Yes. She's actually quite young. Her appearance looked way older. I thought she is in her 30s or so. Plus her cold indifferent look looked even more mature and her hairstyle too maybe.

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More than sure she is his daughter,watched too many dramas not to see it...Also there are hints everywere...just as i knew Yoon Hyun Min's char will be the baby from ep 1 when they focused on his Father story back then...

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I think Sun Jae is still out to hunt for the serial killer who killed his mum. That was one of the heartbroken cases when his dad came with him everyday to the police station to see how the investigation went.

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@KDramaWatcher2609, the other policemen were saying that Sun Jae would go crazy whenever he heard about young women being killed and would run to catch the criminal, so his mother's death was a big trauma for him. I can't wait for him to partner with Sung Shik and Kwang Ho in order to solve the case which directly affected the three of them professionally and personally.

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@ Annie, yeah I know....I also can't wait that KH would know that he is that baby boy in 1986 and they could team up to catch the serial killer !!

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I'm actually a little bit angry that no one consider Kwang-ho's suggestion about the victim. I think that he spoke the truth based on the fact, and at least one of them should have listened to him. It was good that Kwang-ho had that resolve in trying to solve the case, if not those police would have stuck for a long time before they could even find out who the victim is

Sun-jae is actually an enigma to me, how he's so inept at social skill. The same with Jae-yi. Those two would make such a horrible partner if they work together. No one would be willing to disclose any information since they kept to it themselves

Episode 3 is really thrilling, and I felt Kwang-ho's desperation when he couldn't go back to his own time. Poor Kwang-ho and Yoon-seok. Their love story is very heartbreaking. I hope Kwang-ho could go back soon, if he's meant to go back at all

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I was also really frustrated when no one listened to Kwang-ho's suggestion about the victim's identity. But then again, he couldn't really tell them how he could come up with that criteria. Of course the other cops thought that he was just sprouting nonsense (especially since he is also supposedly the maknae in that team). I think they'll need some more time before starting to trust Kwang-ho's instinct.

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Nobody knows about the case back in 1986. I can't blame them for not listening to KH when he comes up with all the clues about id-ing the victim. Besides, as you said, he is the maknae, so his words can't possibly carry much weight then.

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Disagree. All he would have to do is pull the old case files and show the connections. Whether he's new or not, you can't dispute the facts of the similarities among the cases. Simple stuff like this is why I can't watch.

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Yeah, but really bothered me is that Kwang ho acted like he couldn't do it on his own. I know he doesn't understand the technology of today (has yet to grasp the importance of a cell phone) but if he can trick that patrol officer into helping him, then he could get others to help him do the research it would take to varify the identity of the woman. But this is always my problem with the more "realistic" dramas. Too much melodrama and missing the obvious to heighten the emotion of the story. But I made it through three of these before I had to give up!!! So that's a big improvement.

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I think this is kind of the same feeling when you heard the freshmen in college talk about job market to their senior,
yeah it has the possibility but then you are a junior and you can't back up your claim,
we already know what we gonna do so you do what you think is right,

I think we are biased because we know kwang ho is true but if you see it from the other cop perspective,
he is so weird, didn't know many regular things that people know and seems so detached from the cop routine,
like cctv, dna and psychologist studies for the criminal,
is you see him this way then you can't really take him that seriously, especially when he only has "his will",

the cops actually makes sense, they work and they do their job even if it's checking something wrong,
cops is not magic, irl it's hard to find the culprit

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I just simply think that isn't it best to think of all possible scenario? Kwang-ho's suggestion is one of those scenario. And I think what he said makes more sense, even without the base of past crime (the serial murder). He only said that they should consider those people as well, but no one listened to him. I was like, "Come on! At least, listen!"

But you're right though. The cops action make sense, and I love that they didn't magically get all the clues. They did the basic police work, which make watching this drama so enjoyable

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Well I think the issue is they think he's a rookie so they have him on auto-ignore.

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It looks like all of our major characters (Kwang Ho, Sun Jae, Jae Yi) have the same flaws: a bit arrogant and unwilling to listen to others. It was driving me absolutely crazy that no one listened to each other because each thought he/she was of higher status and more experienced. Apparently they were never taught that listening well is a critical skill! You'd think that they would learn this a few episodes in.

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Lee Yoo-young's stare....

YA GOT MEH SHITTING OVER HERE!!!!!!

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She's creepy!!

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youre right! She IS creepy!!!!

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I love how genuinely creepy she is! Great casting right there!

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Also, has 1988 Kwang Ho been running since we last saw him? Or is the last scene a continuation of when he was running away and then the scene with his cell phone?

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Hahahaha ^^

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Poor thing. Sigh....

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I liked how persistent Kwang Ho in IDing the victim. He just seemed like a real good cop, trying to do whatever he can even when he was not familiar with the present time.

I thought the case in this episode was intriguing. I followed along well and didn't realize who the killer was until the show revealed him. The flashback to the murder was scary and brutal, but also heightened my emotions about the crime.

Kwang Ho's fish-out-of-water moments are nice and add a bit of fresh air. This crime show has a lot of random, funny moments that I like. More than the super serious crime thrillers, but that's okay with me. These moments aren't jarring.

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I agree. I like its vague and funny moments. Voice was too heavy hearted/serious and dark actually....

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Could N's character have exchange places with Kwang-ho? Which could be a reason Kwang-ho can't go back.

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Can he? But KH met the 1988 KH in the present time of 2016 in a previous episode? How did he drop into 1986 so quickly and without any sign?

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driver oh could be the culprit from 1986, instead of just a random person with the same face as the reporter

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They are just doppelgangers. I don't think the reporter is the same as the driver in 2016. If that's the case, wouldn't it be easy to travel through time? Why can't KH do that too?

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too young, 30 years have past.
unless you are saying the murderer also travelled 30 years into the future and is now posing as a taxi driver
but i think he is present more for comic relief

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I agree that the reporter/driver is for comic relief. He'll be older Kwang Ho's sidekick in present, total opposite from being an annoyance in the past (too nosy).

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Kwang-ho's reactions to any new technology are so funny, when he startled Sun-jae I died laughing. I knew he wouldn't be able to go back this soon but when he cried at that bench my heart broke for him. It was also very sad seeing Yeon-seok waiting for him to show up and keep his promise, which he did but she'll never know about it.

Could Jae-yi be kwang-ho's daugther? I think there is a chance that she is, but does that mean something happened to Yeon-seok? I hope not, the reason he so desperately wants to go back is her, I don't want anything bad happening to her.

Thank you for the recap.

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I was thinking the whole time to maybe get Sung Shik to get him a smartphone and also some cash, since he just abruptly came from 1986 and might not have too much money on him.

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This shows just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait to find out what happens with the younger Kwang-ho? more importantly who is the killer of the past who can time travel. Loving the show. Great acting!

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Kwang Ho (borned in 1988) must have got some evidence to a certain case (maybe the the serial killer case) and thus got pursuit because someone wants to silence him off ??

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Kwang Ho and his wife emotional scenes are greatly done...I relaly love it...the same place but in different time dimension....so sad....I hope the writer will let them have a reunion plsssss....

Poor Kwang Ho again....in coming to 2017 at dunno whatsoever reason, can't figure how to go back to 1986 yet have to face two emotionless partners (Sun Jae and Jae Yi)....and the teleconversation between Sun Jae and Jae Yi actually make me :P cos the way both of them are so rude to each other and also to others are funny in a small way....*hang up phone!*

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Sun-jae and Jae-yi's interaction is funny in an unintentional way. And surprisingly, I kinda like it. Maybe because they are so similar (both are single-minded, very blunt, and tend to ignore others) that they appeared far less rude when talking to each other. After all, they both give as good as they get.

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haha, it's like tit for tat....You are rude to me so I'm rude to you too....even though they are actually already like that to other ppl as well....I actually amusingly smiled when Kwang Ho desperately thought that it is a trend in 2016/2017 to be rude to people and ignore ppl when Sun Jae ignored him for the umpteeth time.....

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Anyone wonders how the 5th gal escaped being killed in 1986? I mean maybe she faked not breathing but is the serial killer really that stupid to think that she was dead??? (not forgetting he also tattooed her heel with 5 dots).....

And anyone thinks that she deserved it (being killed after 30 years)?? She was really nasty and insulting to prosthetic hand guy who was wooing after her.....I actually think that she deserved it after all that demeaning insults being thrown at that guy....

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No one deserve to die, especially for a person who had such traumatic event happened to them (almost dead). That person should have realized that she never like him and he persist anyway. Not to say she's not at wrong for insulting him. Still, she doesn't deserve to die just because she said something rude to the man. He should ask her to apologize rather than killing her

I think that in the real Hwaseong serial murder, one of the girl actually get saved? Don't remember the fact though, but I think the drama is following that fact and make it the same but barely told us how she's saved

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Maybe the serial killer KNEW that she was going to get killed in 2017 eventually, so he purposely let her alive? There are theories suggested on Dramabeans that the serial killer could time travel.

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I was just thinking as an 'experienced' and smart / cunning serial killer in 1986 , he wouldn't have been so careless....just wondering......

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I watch real crime shows and many killers were actually ignorant to the fact that their victims were probably still alive than you think they would.

I also agree with other comments here. No one deserves to die. The thought that someone deserves to die is actually dangerous because it is the premise for killing. Do killers kill because they too think that their victims 'deserve to die', in a sense? If the man with the prosthesis were a decent guy, I'd just say that the dead woman didn't deserve him. Insulting and looking down on people is definitely bad but it doesn't justify killing.

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Love the police team. The chemistry each and every one has with another in that team is really good.

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One of the team members smelling the corpse and straightaway know how old the corpse is was kinda creepy. Ugh.

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This has no relation with the story whatsoever but I think actor Kang Ki-young who plays "former" team maknae Min-ha looks really attractive in Tunnel and I'm happy that he's not a character who offers laughs in the show - he's present as an actor rather than a "comedian".

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I really hope the Kwang Ho born in 1988 is not dead. That would be it for N's job then! But he was described as the character who holds the most crucial piece of the puzzle right? I have my fingers crossed!

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Spoilers :

Hope that he won't end up like Detective Jae Han of Signal.

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I think present Kwang Ho who born in 1988 is the Park Kwang-ho who was able to travel back to the past, because the present him knows exactly his whereabouts and was able to send the fax at the perfect time. I think it is not coincidental that he and jae yi are neighbors. it must be arranged by present Park Kwang-ho. these two must be connected to one another.

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Hmmm, interesting theory.

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Arg! What is it with the unnecessary misunderstanding about Jun Sung Shik identity! I guess it has to go with the story line and no one discovering yet Gwang Ho is from the past, but still, I find it annoying!

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The continued fish out of water gag is funny..or in this case KwangHo's bewilderment on the smartphone and online info is funny. Wonder when he will get his own phone and who will teach him how to use it. Maybe it is a question of IF?

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