The First Responders (The Police Station Next to the Fire Station / Sobangseo Yeob Kyungchalseo / 소방서 옆 경찰서)

THE FIRST RESPONDERS

ALL CHARACTERS, LOCATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, INCIDENTS, GROUPS,

AND BACKGROUNDS DEPICTED IN THIS DRAMA ARE ENTIRELY FICTITIOUS

Who parked in front of my house?

KONGMYEONG PIL

GIRL (in English): Come here, Alex.

It's time to go to the private math lesson.

Can't we play a little more?

That's why you always get a bad grade.

-Bye! -Bye!

WOMAN 1 (in Korean): Seunga!

What was that?

What is that?

Is that a person?

Is this 119? We need urgent help!

Call the police, too! They need to catch that bastard!

EMERGENCY CODE ISSUED RELATED TO OBSTETRICS OR CHILDREN

Can you get to the rooftop?

-Is it the 9th floor? -Yes. It's Unit 909.

She must be alone since no one's coming for the doorbell.

See if you can get there.

Yes, ma'am. Let's go.

I'll go with you!

-Take care of the kids. -Okay.

I'm coming, too.

-What? Where's Detective Jin? -Get ready

-and set up the cushion... -He's never been off duty.

But he's not picking up despite the joint response.

Hey, why did you even bother to ask?

-Can you reach the owner? -Not yet.

-Hold on. -(beeps)

There.

Let's go inside.

Dojin, let me go in by myself.

She could be unstable.

Seol, take this.

CSAT QUESTIONS SONG HAEUN

Okay.

Seol.

Buy me some time. I'll come down from the tenth floor.

Okay. Please do that, Dojin.

Please come with us to the tenth floor.

-Let's get ready. -Yes, sir.

Wait.

Am I invisible today?

Haeun.

You are Haeun, right?

I'm a firefighter.

My name is Song Seol.

Put it as close as possible to the wall, so there won't be any gaps.

-Yes, ma'am! -Yes, ma'am!

Dokgo Soon speaking.

-Hello, is everything under control? -Where is it?

I should've been there.

No, that's fine.

I was on my way out when we received another dispatch.

There's some space. Move it closer to the wall!

Did you go home safely after the dinner gathering?

I'm sorry, but I'm currently on the scene. We can talk next time.

-What was that? -Mr. Baek, it's that way.

Okay.

Jeez, it reeks here.

What's all this?

What? It's a newborn baby.

This is a violent crime case. Tape off the area.

I'll go straight to the NFS.

I think we should request an urgent autopsy.

There was also a time when I contemplated falling to my death, too.

I couldn't handle this damn world anymore.

Hey.

Can I ask you for a favor?

Will you send a message to my mom?

That just like how parents can't choose their child,

a child can't choose their parents.

And that...

we're failures.

Dojin, approach her carefully, so she doesn't notice you.

No.

You should tell her yourself.

My mom isn't interested in anything except for my grades.

Are you okay? -Aah!

She's injured. We need a stretcher.

-Situation cleared! Aah!

Remove the cushion and get a stretcher.

Unidentified female infant corpse.

Weight, 0.7 kg.

Presumed fetal maceration over the body.

FETUS SKIN REDDENING BY THE AMNIOTIC FLUID IN FETAL DEATH

From head to toe, 17.5 cm.

From head to bottom, 13.1 cm.

The baby is very small.

She's probably premature.

Fortunately, the decomposition is in its early stages.

Loupe, please.

The umbilical cord wasn't clipped off when it was cut.

The severed section looks very rough.

I don't think medical scissors were used.

That means she was born outside of a hospital.

The infant is incredibly tiny and has a strange posture.

It means she was hiding and growing in her mother's womb.

What? Is that even possible?

If the mother denies pregnancy

or didn't want to get pregnant in the first place,

the fetus does this to survive.

It hides and makes minimal movements.

It's very rare,

but some mothers don't show even when they're almost due.

Then no one around the mother must have known she was pregnant.

Scalpel. Let's make an incision.

We need to know what criminal activities were done at the death of the baby.

If the baby was stillborn, it would be abandoning a body.

If the baby was alive,

it would be murder and then abandoning the body.

They're two very different situations.

Let's prepare a lung float test.

A TEST TO DISTINGUISH INFANT DEATH FROM A STILLBIRTH

If she was alive and breathed at the time of her birth,

there should be air inside her lungs.

Her lungs should float since air is lighter than water.

Haeun, when your mom comes later,

don't say things like you don't want to see her anymore--

She won't come.

What?

Ms. Song Haeun, we're going to change your dressing.

Sir.

Please contact a pediatric psychiatrist.

Patient Song Haeun needs to see one.

It's highly likely she will do it again.

All right.

-Let's go now. -Okay. Let's go.

The lung float test is negative.

The baby never breathed in air.

Judging by her small body size,

there's a chance that she had a growth delay in the uterus

or that it was a stillbirth.

-Then it's not a murder of an infant. -(sighs)

And the umbilical cord and placenta? They normally throw them away together.

Hey, did you check the handbag?

Did you find anything else inside?

Not at all.

Apparently, it's a luxurious handbag that's also rare.

It costs 80 million won.

Eighty million?

That's the yearly wage of a section chief.

It's also a limited edition that requires three batches of crocodile skin.

So it's available only for high-spending VIPs.

"VIPs"?

That's great.

The crazy dog has left.

And the crazy bear has arrived.

Darn it.

They always make me do this kind of work.

What the heck?

It's the placenta.

The placenta?

Myeongpil, you hit the jackpot.

Make sure you examine every piece of trash in there.

After all, it's our VIP's. Okay?

I'll have this back.

Since you manage your clients with the utmost care,

you must know who bought this, right?

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't help you.

This isn't our product.

It's not your product? What do you mean?

Do you see the uneven sewing line on the inside?

Our genuine products are all handmade and even the inner sewing lines are done

stitch by stitch by artisans from Verona and Nice.

So there will be exactly 18 stitches with a length of 0.4 cm each.

I'm sorry I can't help you with this fake bag.

Jeez. Not only did she abandon her baby, but she put it in a fake bag?

Unbelievable. I haven't felt this upset with a criminal in a while.

-Mr. Baek. -What?

-Take a look at this. -What is it?

DEAD NEWBORN INFANT FOUND ABANDONED IN A LUXURY HANDBAG IN TAEWON-GU, SEOUL!

What is going on? Do they want the criminal to flee

after reading the article?

I can't believe they wrote an article about it already.

You should've blocked the reporters from coming to the crime scene.

Maengpil, are you going through puberty?

-Why are you provoking me? -Anyway...

Did you find the owner of the luxury bag?

We failed.

Seungkyu, let's go.