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In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
Four years after his crackdown in Garibong-dong, detective Ma Seok-do heads to Ho Chi Minh City with Captain Jeon Il-man to bring back a Korean suspect. There they stumble onto the trail of Kang Hae-sang, a vicious criminal who kidnaps and murders Korean tourists and then extorts their families.
Newly promoted, Detective Ma Seok-do and his team move up to the Metropolitan Investigation Unit. Their first big case is the suspicious death of a woman, Go Sun-hee, whose autopsy shows a powerful new drug called Hiper in her body. The trail leads to a nightclub and a yakuza member bringing the drug in through Incheon.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
Lee Na-mi works as a marketer at a start-up and helps out at her father's cafe. One night she leaves her smartphone on a bus, and the stranger who finds it, Oh Jun-yeong, arranges to return it through a repair shop. While fixing its cracked screen, he secretly installs spyware, opening a window into every part of her life.
Min Soo-ah, once a promising police cadet, lost her sight in a car accident that ended her career. When she comes forward as a witness in a hit-and-run that seems tied to a missing university student, Detective Jo doubts her at first, until her sharp senses convince him to work with her.
Byeong-soo, a small-town veterinarian, hides a violent past as a killer and now lives with Alzheimer's after a head injury. He records his days in a memoir while looking after his daughter Eun-hee. When two young women are murdered nearby, he cannot tell whether he did it, and a chance car crash puts a stranger under his suspicion.
Homicide detective Han Do-kyung takes money to handle dirty work behind the scenes for corrupt mayor Park Sung-bae, needing cash for his wife's hospital bills. When prosecutors Kim Cha-in and Do Chang-hak find his weak spot, they force him to help them build a case against the mayor, leaving him trapped between both sides.
In Joseon, detective Ahn and his protégé Namsoon are tracking a gang of counterfeiters flooding the land with fake coins. During a street show, a masked swordsman kills a government official and escapes, and Namsoon, a skilled fighter with twin long knives, duels him and catches a glimpse of his sad eyes.
Jung-hoon is the top student at his school, and his rival Tae-gyu constantly attacks him with words and fists. After someone sees Jung-hoon pull a knife on Tae-gyu, he comes back during fourth period to find Tae-gyu stabbed to death, and classmate Da-jung catches him holding the knife. She believes him, and they have 40 minutes to find the real killer.
Kim, a widowed narcotics detective, is meeting a would-be informant named Kang when Kang is arrested for killing his girlfriend. Months later, Kang calls Kim from prison claiming he has murdered six more people, and Kim sets out to find the truth, never sure whether he can trust a word the killer says.
Choi Chang-sik is a decorated homicide detective days away from a promotion when a taxi driver takes him to a remote mountain trail and attacks him with a knife. Choi kills the man in self-defense but covers it up to protect his career, only to find the body hung from a crane outside the police station and himself assigned to the case.
After the main suspect in a string of horrific child murders is shot dead by police without his guilt ever being proven, the authorities face public outrage. Police captain Choi is ordered to find a stand-in to blame in exchange for a promotion, while corrupt prosecutor Joo works his own angles.
