Through the Darkness (Those Who Read Hearts of Evil / Akui Maeumeul Ilneun Jadeul / 악의 마음을 읽는 자들)

Resynced by YoungJedi

[and all people, organizations, locations, and incidents in this drama are fictitious.]

Shall we go rowing all the way there?

Okay, let's go. Heave, ho!

Hey! Look ahead!

Help, please! Help!

Some people eat

to endlessly investigate and arrest the people who committed these crimes.

However, there are others who eat to commit those very crimes.

As society changes, the people change too.

The motivation for why criminals commit crimes also changes.

Closing news. For the past 10 months since 1997, multi-family houses were broken into,

and the culprit sexually assaulted women and robbed them. While this Red Hat incident...

The police still do not have a clue

Red Hat!

That looks like someone else's house. Come here for a second.

He was copying the Red Hat?

He has five charges in sexual assault and violence, but he has alibis for every one of the Red Hat incidents.

He said he did it because the victims would get scared and wouldn't fight back if he wore the red hat.

- What is it? - What kind of mind would make him do that?

Do what?

Copycat crimes imitating the Red Hat Incident Perpetrator are widespread, adding further complications to the current investigation.

The police have even revealed the characteristics of the culprit,

but there are still not enough leads on the Red Hat.

Mom!

If you didn't have an umbrella, you should've bought one. Why did you get drenched?

When did you get here?

I bought you some green onion kimchi and winter cabbage. Don't stay out too late.

The world is a scary place, don't you know?

- Mom! - Yes?

Get home safely.

Lock the door properly.

It's tasty.

You scared me.

You didn't lock the door.

You told me that the landlord's house was broken into. You should lock the door properly.

Having ramen?

- Do you also want to eat? - I have to get going.

I should work my butt off to earn money,

so that you can live comfortably.

Can't you just close that measly shop for today and hang out with me today?

Measly?

I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that.

Did you just say "measly"?!

Honestly, that makes you look insecure!

God damn it.

- I'm sorry. - What a way to ruin my night!

This is SBC news.

It's been raining for a few days in a row now. At a residence in the Daebong neighborhood, of the Gwangjin district of Seoul,

a completely undressed woman in her 20s was found dead.

The police are calling this a sexual assault and a murder case, and have started an investigation.

There is evidence of a break-in.

The cause of death was suffocation due to neck compression and an accompanying mechanism due to oropharyngeal obstruction.

The presumed time of death is the night of the 15th, between 10:00 p.m. and midnight.

If we exclude the victim's mother,

her time of death aligns with when Bang Gi Hoon came over.

[The boyfriend Bang Gi Hoon who was with the victim at the time of death, became a suspect.]

There are no traces of sexual assault.

Wait, then what about her clothes?

Then it's a hundred percent Bang Gi Hoon.

Mr. Bang Gi Hoon.

We're here from the Dongbu Police Department. Please come with us.

Why do I have to go?

Bang Gi Hoon, you are being arrested on suspicion of murdering Choi Hwa Yeon.

Murder? What do you mean murder?

Murder?! Hwa Yeon died?

- Hyungnim. - The Red Hat criminal is making the world go crazy. Why aren't you doing your job?

I mean, we already have forensics.

On what grounds are you asking for a scientific investigation team?

Even I, as sympathetic as I am, don't understand why we need something like that.

As if the higher-ups will go, "Oh, I understand you!"

That's what I'm saying, all of this would help us catch more criminals!

Do you know how important a profiler is?

Sometime soon, merciless and cruel guys will appear here like they do in America.

They have no motive! So what are we going to do?

We have to prepare for them early!

You're talking out of line.

Are you intentionally praying for a big case?

Why don't you start praying that something bigger, even bigger,

and even bigger will happen?

That's not what I'm saying.

You know exactly what I mean.

Kook Young Soo, later on...

It wasn't me.

Yeah, that's the first step.

It really wasn't me...

A previous record of assault... Wow, so you were doing business pretending to have changed your ways.

I wasn't pretending, I really did change.

It's none of my business whether you were pretending or not.

Why in the world would I kill my girlfriend?

Right? I'm curious about that, too!

Why exactly did you kill your lover?

I didn't kill her.

Then, at that time, where did you go after leaving that house?

I went to the Han River.

Dammit, this kid.

Do you really not have a more plausible location to make up?

I'm serious.

I wasn't in the mood to do business after having a fight with her that night.

Ah, so that was it? Your motivation for killing Choi Hwa Yeon.

It was just–

It was only a little spat.

Do you kill a human being because of a quarrel with your girlfriend?

That's the difference between you, sitting there, and me, sitting here.

We're very different, despite physically being less than a meter apart. All of the circumstances are pointing to you.

- Why would I– - All of the circumstances are pointing to you.

The person in the house at the time Choi Hwa Yeon died, was you.

And the fingerprints uncovered in that house were yours.

What I'm saying is,

this is not a case where you can rely on the evidence before your eyes.

So, what are we supposed to rely on then?

How did they prepare for the crime?

How and why, did they commit the crime?

How did they dispose of the body?

We have to look into all of the overall processes.

But who is going to do that?

There's someone.

Someone that is worse at following orders than me.

You... punk ass...

What's up?

What are you doing?

Getting a confession. Close the door.

Do you think this kind of confession is valid?

Get out.

That punk can't even come up with an alibi.

You noticed the estimated time of death was correct, right?

He even has a clear motive.

Their fierce nature makes them commit crimes, but they're too stupid to handle the situation and they don't want to pay for their crimes.

Still, you want to believe his words?

Bastards like that are not people.

Beating them is the fastest and easiest for bastards like that.

Still, this is not the right way.

I know why you were chased out of the Jungbu Police Department.

But rather than trying to be a hero by harassing shooters,

go out and chase some criminals.

There are lots of work outside.

Hey, link this with the Red Hat

- and investigate. - It's not sexual assault and is a different method as well.

Any perversion is sexual assault.

There is evidence of break-in through the door.

Ah... Where are you going?

To find evidence.

A total of five cases were reported.

It occurred at two-week intervals up until three months ago.

The last one was a two-story house at 214 Daebong-dong?

Yes. This guy is smart. He doesn't rob houses with men in them.

I should move or something. Petty theft was bad enough already, and now even a murder.

My god, I'm so scared.

If I'm scared like this, who's going to buy the house?

Were there any burglaries on the lower floor before this incident?

No. I haven't heard anything like that.

- Okay. Thanks for your cooperation. - Mr. Detective.

Since you caught the culprit on the lower floor,

- please catch the thief who stole my accessories-- - Just a minute, please.

By any chance, did you write this number?

What is it? Oh...

Why would I write something like that? It's not like I'm a kid.

Perhaps my granddaughters did it when they came over?

Daebong-dong, 183-10

Number 233.

Do you know anything about this number?

This is not my house address.

What is this?

Why did you come outside?

Who are your family members?

Me and the kids, the three of us live together.

I'm sorry to ask, but what about your husband?

We don't live together.

I'm sorry.

Thank you for your time

- Let's go in. Come on. - Bye.

Every third house, I see a number written.

Daebong-dong 190-3. Number 22.

Who are your family members?