Fifties Professionals (오십프로)

DAEUNGJEON HALL

The Heart of the Prajna Paramita Sutra.

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.

Deep in the practice of Perfect Wisdom

clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty.

Three of our agents are dead.

We're backed into a corner.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, KWON SOON-BOK

Let's call off the operation.

TEAM LEADER, ANTI-COMMUNIST INVESTIGATION TEAM, JO SEONG-WON

We got intel

that an NIS agent worked with a North Korean on drugs.

We spent six long months chasing that single piece of intel.

This is what we have to show for it.

Our job is to work in the shadows and serve our country.

Are you just going to stand by while one mole eats away

at the country's foundations?

The mole in the National Intelligence Service.

We have to catch him and get justice for our fallen men.

Do you know who it is?

Han Gyeong-wook, Deputy Director of the Anti-Communist Investigation Team.

You know him well, don't you?

But

why would a legend at catching spies be working with North Korea?

Isn't this disinformation?

This intel cost our agents' lives.

- It's solid. - Do you have any concrete proof?

Concrete proof?

I have it.

A few days ago, a special op from North Korea's Counterintelligence Bureau.

Black Pearl, defected.

She fled, stealing a slush fund from a high-ranking North Korean official

and a USB drive with data

on their smuggling operations.

On that drive

is information about the drug deal

between Han Gyeong-wook and the North Korean officer.

If we get our hands on that USB

there's no way Han Gyeong-wook can get out of this.

But

there's one problem.

We tried contacting Black Pearl through back channels

but the negotiations fell apart.

JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU AGENT, SHIBASAKI MICHIKO

Black Pearl plans to sell

the info to the Japanese for a high price

and she's trying to get away with it.

In two days, Black Pearl's taking a ship to Japan.

She'll rendezvous with the agent on the ferry.

We must intercept it before then.

And if we fail?

Is there another way?

No.

If we don't stop them this time

they'll flood the country with a massive amount of drugs.

Then it'll only be a matter of time before South Korea is a narco-state.

This operation

needs someone who gets the job done, no matter what.

But...

Right now, there's no one I can trust.

I know just the person.

Sir, are you aware that within the National Intelligence Service

there's a unit that doesn't exist in unofficial records?

It has only one agent.

Who are you?

He's only deployed on missions where everyone else has failed.

The National Intelligence Service's top black ops agent.

Attack!

Codename...

Shadow.

Even if we deploy Shadow

there's still a chance the information could leak.

Chief Han's NIS network

is incredibly strong.

CHEONBULJEON

This operation

will be conducted in absolute secrecy.

Team Leader Jo, just you, me, and Shadow.

Only the three of us will know.

If this goes south

you could be in serious trouble, sir.

To take down the great Han Gyeong-wook...

I'm willing to put my own neck on the line.

I regret that things have turned out this way.

I never expected this from that bitch Black Pearl.

So, what's the solution?

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NIS HAN GYEONG-WOOK

I'll try to use some local thugs to clean this up.

MAJOR RI CHOL-JIN, MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMED FORCES

Shadow, the agent assigned to this operation

is a monster raised by the NIS.

A truckload of your pathetic rabble won't make a difference.

Fight a monster with a monster.

On our side

what if we deploy our top agent who's skilled in South Korean ops?

Your top agent?

Bulgae.

He's a disguise and Taekkyeon expert

so his movements are phantom-like.

Those weak little South Korean punks won't be a match for him.

I've never seen anyone who could handle Bulgae.

Trust me and leave it to him.

I need a contingency plan.

We'll go with a two-pronged operation.

How interesting.

BOSS OF THE HWASAN SECT HWANG HWA-SAN

Well, you didn't come here

just to rehash the old days.

So what is it that you want?

You're still as sharp as ever at reading the room.

How about we work together again?

Who is it?

To make the great Chief Han

this nervous.

Don't cross the line.

Find me one of your guys who can get the job done.

Not some run-of-the-mill punk.

I need someone who's the real deal.

The real deal...

I've got just the guy for you.

He took down nationwide gangsters who were armed to the teeth

with his bare fists.

He's a true fighter.

I don't know who he's up against

but one punch from my guy

will be enough to settle things.

The package has top-secret documents from our Republic.

We can't let the South Korean bastards get their hands on it, can we?

In South Korea

an agent called Shadow has already been deployed.

Rumor has it that bastard

is the best agent in South Korea, so be extremely careful.

You must get the package before he does.

Beom-ryong.

What is our Hwasan Sect?

Didn't we build this

from nothing in Gangnam with our bare hands?

We may be taking orders from Han Gyeong-wook

but he's the type of guy to find our weakness someday

and stab us in the back.

We can't trust someone like him

with the fate of our organization.

It doesn't matter.

NIS guy or North Korean.

No matter what

you have to get the package

first.

Ho-myeong.

Han Gyeong-wook

has the NIS, prosecution, and politicians in his pocket.

If this continues, the evil things he's done

could be buried forever.

This is the last chance we have to catch him.

Also, for this mission

there's talk that Bulgae is being deployed.

Be extra careful.

And you just focus on securing the package.

Got it?

This mission

is your last one as Shadow.

HAN GYEONG-WOOK, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

What's the status?

Something's gone wrong.

We failed to secure the package.

Did Jeong Ho-myeong take it?

No, sir. A North Korean agent took it.

But he disappeared with the package.

Erase every trace.

As for the missing package

we retrieve it no matter what.

Hey, Team Leader Jo.

What's the status?

Got it.

First

get to safety.

Let's meet at the safe house.

The bag's GPS...

The last signal from Bulgae was on Yeongseon Island.

Now the operation has gone south.

Han Gyeong-wook won't just stand by.

I've already erased all your records.

You go to Yeongseon Island and find Bulgae, okay?

Just find him.

No, don't come.

Don't come and just lay low until I contact you, all right?

I'll be in touch.

Seong-won.

Seong-won.

Seong-won!

FIFTIES PROFESSIONALS

10 YEARS LATER

YEONGSEON ISLAND

Excuse me?

- Can you repeat that? - I said it's male menopause.

You've heard of male menopause, right?

Menopause...

Can men get that too?

It's common in middle-aged men

with decreased male hormone levels.

Hold on...