Hometown (홈타운)

Are we really allowed to come inside?

It's fine. I come here all the time.

Where are you taking us?

It's in here.

Do we have to go inside?

What was the point of coming all the way here?

You come here often?

Yes, I hang out here with my neighbourhood friends.

You hang out here?

What do you do here?

What do you think?

We do this.

Is that it? - Yes.

I think we should take a photo.

What? Right.

When did that appear?

I'm not sure.

But we saw it here for the first time.

It wasn't there when we came here last week,

so I'm guessing someone came and wrote it.

How many of these did you see?

This was the seventh.

Do you think we're the first ones to see it?

Yes, no one comes here other than my friends.

I really can't get used to it.

It's so creepy.

Yong Tak, I'm scared.

Why are you scared?

What is that?

What?

That drawing. What would you call that?

A pattern?

"Three, one, nine, zero, six."

"I haven't yet forgotten."

Mom, I'm home.

Hey, you're home.

Who is that?

Jung Hyun, you don't want to startle the baby,

so try not to raise your voice.

The thing is,

your brother is in the other room right now.

What? - He's been out of touch for years,

but he suddenly showed up out of nowhere.

What did he say?

What? - What has he been doing?

Well...

I don't know.

He won't tell me.

Who are you?

Whose baby are you?

I'm not exactly sure,

but I think...

I'm your aunt.

Your auntie.

Jae Young!

Jae Young!

I found something!

What is it? - It's a phone.

A phone?

Was there anything else?

No. Just the phone.

It was confirmed to be Jung's body.

Her daughter Lee visited a police substation the night of the murder,

and has disappeared.

The woman was murdered...

on the night of the 12th in her bathroom.

She was killed in an unusual manner.

Unlike other victims,

her stab wounds were centered around her face.

Such murders are unique,

so the police... - Turn it off and rest.

aren't ruling anything out just yet.

Meanwhile, in Saju, middle-school student Cho...

went missing three days after this murder.

The police noted the two girls attend the same school...

Mom.

Our Jae Young...

I'll bring her back, even if it means losing my life.

So don't watch this.

Please don't.

I'm sorry. Did I wake you?

What time is it? - It's 8pm.

You slept for just two hours.

Darn it. I need to go to work.

Then eat before you go.

It's the first case of its kind since you came here.

Yes.

I felt weird when I saw the news this morning.

Knowing that it's your case...

made me think the news is way too crude and violent.

The journalist punks are having fun.

They just make things worse.

The missing kid...

It's her, isn't it? Cho Kyung Ho's daughter.

You could know them.

Did you call the family?

Not yet.

What about your partner? Did he say anything?

Not much.

Cho Kyung Ho is Cho Kyung Ho and the victim is the victim.

Still, it won't be easy for him.

Just wait.

Did they ask for you too?

If it weren't for them...

What now?

What will you do about this?

So it's...

The day she went missing,

you only saw her at lunchtime?

Yes.

Did Jae Young receive a call from someone?

No, she didn't.

You can relax and tell us anything that comes to mind.

Even if it seems insignificant.

Well...

What is it? Did you remember something?

So, a few days ago,

we were in the broadcasting studio with Jae Young.

Someone suddenly knocked on the door.

We checked,

and someone had left something by the door.

Why would you tell them that?

He said to tell him anything.

It's fine, go on.

What did you find? - A tape.

A tape?

What kind of tape?

It sounded like a mental strengthening exercise.

That's sold at Lee Young Duk's Genius Academy.

A mental... What tape is that?

At first, we thought it was proof that our exams were being leaked.

It wasn't.

It was like a device that helps you concentrate.

What are you talking about?

The exam questions were leaked?

There's a rumour that...

Lee Young Duk's selling tapes with our exam questions on them.

Kyung Jin went to that academy,

so I don't think it's entirely unrelated.

My gosh...

Hey.

That tape. Where is it now?

What? It's gone?

We put it in here.

Did Jae Young take it?

Why would she do that?

How would I know?

Are you fooling around?

Pardon? - From now on,

except for the morning broadcast, you can't use this room, okay?

How dare you make things up when the detectives are here?

I didn't lie.

You didn't alert the staff when you found something like that.

That's against the school rules. Do you know that?

The school rules? Which one?

What does this have to do with rules?

Hey. That's enough. Stop it.

Why should I stop?

Why are you so quiet?

You were there that day too.

How dare you talk back at your teacher?

I think that will do, sir.

Hyung In, why don't you go outside for a smoke?

Why?

We should let them sort things out.

That security guard.

They borrowed water to make instant noodles.

I remember everything.

There was no test that day,

so the only people in the school were kids in clubs...

that met during the vacation.

I have the visitors' log right here.

What is this?

What?

That? Well...

It looks like you wrote something and erased it.

That was... It wasn't like anyone checked at the logs.

I wrote them down so that I can remember.

But...

To be honest, I was debating whether or not to tell you.

It made me uneasy. This too.

What made you uneasy?

I was so shocked when I saw the news.

I was upset too.

It was her. The girl on the news.

The one who went missing.

Do you mean Lee Kyung Jin?

That's right.

She came to the school that day.

What? Lee Kyung Jin came to the school that day?

So you're saying this was Lee Kyung Jin's name.

Yes. That's correct.

I erased...

her name from the log.

Exactly. Why?

The thing is, she seemed strange that day.

She didn't talk to me as she normally does.

She said she needed to go to the classroom for a minute,

and went in and out.

Then she asked me...