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Good Boy: Episodes 5-6

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Our good boys peel back yet another layer of our resident villain’s operation. But they are nowhere close to capturing him, no thanks to his friends in high places. To worsen matters, new bad guys have popped up in Insung city, and the people closest to our good boys might be the first ones to feel the heat.

 
EPISODES 5-6

After Joo-young’s arrest, he remains as cool as a cucumber while denying his involvement in all the crimes he’s accused of. When Hanna asks about his wristwatch, he says he got it from a Russian friend, and he claims it’s a coincidence that his alleged partners-in-crime have the same watch. Joo-young’s case is handed over to the prosecution — or more accurately, pried out of our good boys’ hands — and Seok-hyeon comes to take him away. As usual, Dong-joo threatens fire and brimstone as Joo-young is whisked out of the station, but his hotblooded outbursts are getting old. And annoying.

The prosecution also confiscates the hit-and-run car as well as other evidence related to Joo-young’s case. But just to be clear, Seok-hyeon is acting under the chief prosecutor’s instructions — and he’s quite miffed about being forced to escort a “petty criminal” from the police station. Seok-hyeon is also pressured to release Joo-young, and he wonders who the hell Joo-young is, and why the higher-ups are covering for him. But our supreme leader of the wristwatch cult insists on masquerading as an ordinary civil servant, and his innocent demeanor makes it almost impossible to think otherwise.

Jong-hyeon shares his suspicion that Joo-young’s people have been watching Hanna, and he suggests she takes a break from working on the case because it might be dangerous for her. But Hanna refuses to back out — and she intentionally pushes herself further into Joo-young’s radar by informing him about a bankrupt shipping company she saw in Lee Jin-su’s documents. There’s no concrete evidence tying Joo-young to Cheong-il shipping yet, so our good boys are forced to collaborate with their rival team in order to nail Joo-young.

The captain of the rival team, AHN DAE-YOUNG (Han Kyu-won), briefs our good boys about a synthetic drug (Candy) that recently hit the Korean market, and the plan is to trace its import route and link it to Joo-young. By the way, Candy is the hallucinogenic candy that Man-shik accidentally got high on in our premiere week.

From Golden Bunny to Monkey, this show is hilariously intentional when it comes to naming its low-level baddies, so it’s no surprise that Candy’s inventor is called Drug Demon a.k.a Drugmon. But Drugmon is not your average low-level baddie. No one knows his identity — and to keep it that way, he personally gives anyone who sees his face an express ticket to hell. *shudder*

Plot twist: the mysterious Drug Demon is actually a woman! Drugmon (Lee Ho-jung) might not be a tall and huge man like the rumors say, but she’s definitely a psychopath. She returns to Korea from the Philippines with a vendetta against a group of drug dealers making Candy knockoffs, and she reports their lab to the cops. Our good boys and Dae-young’s team swoop in for the arrest, and Drugmon times their arrival to an impending explosion via a microwaving phone. Oh she’s so evil! This reminds me of the explosion in week 1 that was reported before it went off. Was Drugmon involved in that as well?

The drug dealing underlings return to their lab before Drugmon escapes, so she’s caught up in a fight with them when the police arrive. The explosion goes off as scheduled, but our guys make it out before then. Phew! The good news for Drugmon is that the police believe she’s an amnesiac victim of human trafficking. The bad news is, they place her under protective custody, and she cannot leave the safe house. Pfft.

By the way, said safe house is actually Jong-hyeon’s big house that is currently lying empty because he’s a rich kid who can afford a smaller studio apartment near the police station. Must be nice. Hanna volunteers to be part of Drugmon’s protective detail, and Dong-joo also volunteers his services because he wants to make a date out of it. Lol. He’s so whipped.

Via a quick flashback to their athlete days, we learn that the other air rifle athletes weren’t pleased with their status as NPCs while Hanna lives the main character life. Dong-joo stood up for Hanna and encouraged her when her colleagues bad-mouthed her — and while she acted like she didn’t care, she secretly liked it. I guess that’s why she puts up with his “coming on too strong” approach to wooing her. She’s used to it, and it doesn’t make her feel uncomfortable. Back then, Hanna also gave Dong-joo one of her promotional stickers for luck — and to cheer him up — when he was on a losing streak, and it’s still stuck to his phone till date.

In the present, Drugmon observes that Dong-joo’s feelings for Hanna aren’t one-sided, but Hanna denies having reciprocal feelings. But after a particularly stressful day of standing in the sun for the police commissioner’s speech, Dong-joo not only shades Hanna from the sun, he also brings her drinks afterwards. Cue: Hanna kissing Dong-joo, and Dong-joo fainting from happiness. LMAO! Next thing you know, my man is walking on clouds and being an overjoyed nuisance because his long-time crush kissed him. Lol. Hanna is so embarrassed and she wants to take it back, but a kiss that has been kissed cannot be un-kissed.

Drugmon is tired of the 24/7 protection, so she “recovers her memory” and gives up the location of the Candy knockoff boss. The guy is arrested with his shipment of raw materials, but he denies the Drug Demon charges. At this point, Hanna already suspects Drugmon because she’s relatively unhurt for a trafficked victim, and her selective amnesia is a little too convenient. But Knockoff’s arrest is still a win for the good boys, because that’s one drug dealer off the streets.

Knockoff’s raw materials were shipped in by a certain TAE corporation, which is owned by the mayor’s son. The team discovers that TAE corp bought Cheong-il shipping after Cheong-il deliberately declared bankruptcy, and their logistics are handled by Coach Oh’s company. Oh helps TAE smuggle in the raw materials for drugs by concealing them in frozen foods from Russia, and Joo-young clears the shipments at customs. The mayor — who is a member of the wristwatch cult — is in charge of keeping the operation on the downlow thanks to his friendship with the police commissioner. But this time, the commissioner is a little too late to stop Knockoff’s arrest.

Dae-young backs out of the press conference about Knockoff’s arrest, making Man-shik the face of the operation — and the sole victim of the police commissioner’s ire. Meanwhile, Mr. Mayor submits himself to Joo-young’s beatings as punishment for not covering his bases with Knockoff, and I will never not be amazed at the power Joo-young wields over the higher-ups in this show. These guys are supposed to be at the top of the societal food chain — and in a different show, they’d be the ultimate big bads! — yet a mere civil servant is ordering them around, and making them beg at his feet for mercy.

Whenever Joo-young is pissed, he lets off steam by doing some crazy shit. After Seok-hyeon released him, he drove recklessly with one of his unregistered luxury cars and caused a three-vehicle collision. Now that TAE corp has exposed a part of his operation, he sends goons to knock Man-shik out and steal his gun — which he then fires at random, causing unrest in the hearts of innocent citizens. A real psychopath, this guy.

Speaking of Man-shik, his daughter, KO JUNG-AH (Choi Myung-bin), snuck back to Korea from the Philippines without her parents’ knowledge. She was brought to the station after cops raided the motel she was staying at, and Man-shik placed her in custody of a rookie officer at the safehouse. Uh-oh. Jung-ah recognizes Drugmon as an unnie on her flight from the Philippines — and the good news is, now we know Drugmon’s name: KIM YEON-HA, courtesy of Jung-ah’s sighting of Yeon-ha’s boarding pass. The bad news is, death is the price to pay for beholding the face of the fearsome drug lord. But since Jung-ah doesn’t know Yeon-ha is Drugmon, there’s still hope for her, right? Wrong! Yeon-ha is not taking chances, and she tosses Jung-ah’s phone into the microwave to set off another big bang.

A tip from the NFS confirms Hanna’s suspicion about Yeon-ha, and the team races to the safehouse — which, unfortunately, is burnt by the time they arrive. I’m sure Jong-hyeon has home insurance, so I’m not as worried about the house as I am about Jung-ah — who has gone missing alongside Yeon-ha. Yeon-ha informs Joo-young that she has Man-shik’s daughter with her, and Joo-young decides to put the last bullet in Man-shik’s gun to good use. Oh no!

Thankfully, the team finds Jung-ah safe, sound — and most importantly, alone — at a street shop. Phewwwww! Yeon-ha is gone, and a courier drops off a box with Man-shik’s gun and no bullet. So, what happened to the last bullet? Well, Joo-young decided to hit Dong-joo with a counterpunch and he went after Gyeong-il’s mom instead. Shit! Let the record show that Good Boy is partly responsible for the declining population in South Korea, because people are dropping like flies in this drama! Mind you, Yeon-ha killed a few druggies at the knockoff lab, and there was LEO (Go Joon), a new entrant from Russia who was introduced with some murders of his own!

Honestly, I don’t know where we’re headed with this show, but I’m enjoying the ride. I’m particularly fascinated with Joo-young because he’s a very interesting character. He’s front and center of his operation, yet he’s “hiding” in plain sight. He doesn’t give off a menacing aura on the surface. He’s just this cruel, calm, and collected guy who casually strikes fear in the hearts of his underlings as they scramble to do his bidding. Then again, one needs his brand of charisma and fearsomeness to be the leader of The Brotherhood of the Criminal Wristwatches.

 
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