I have a question: if Ba Reum pre-brain surgery had no empathy, and was also the rabbit/dog/family killing terror child, why as a child did he want to not be a monster, and want to be like nice, caring child who doctored his arm? Was it just so he could do his monstering without people knowing? Because surely he should not have cared what people thought of him.

I’m still along for the ride, but are the next 2 episodes both going to be about our murderous Ba Reum? Seems like overkill based on how many flashbacks we’ve already gotten. It will kill the pacing and make the wait till the plot resumes even more of a strain.

Also poor Bong Yi...just when her life seems to be taking a bit of an upturn. She’s like a black hole of suffering at this point.

The cat teeth was SUPER creepy, and I didn’t catch on that Ba Reum had made Bong Yi’s necklace with them as well. Oof.

Wait...what happened to his parents? Did I miss a scene? and now the list of psychotic kids are getting very confusing. So, is the show now saying that the spooky Jae-hoon = Ba Reum (= Headhunter's son)? If so, who are the "parent" that Ba Reum keeps talking about and who is his "aunt" (because clearly that was not even his uncle...more gov't spies watching him?) And who is Yo Han and I am still confused about the relationship between Yo Han and Ba Reum. They seem to know who the other person is.....and please don't even get me started on the whole Moo-chi/Hong Ju confrontation that never happened! Really - he heard a kid cry and then NOTHING? They show us nothing? Did he confront her, or just realize that's Yo Han's baby and not say anything????? How are they going to wrap all of these loose ends in just one episode now?

This twist should have happened earlier.

I don't think i caught anything about his parents? I'm honestly still loving the show so far just because it keeps the tension high but I would not honestly have preferred this way to tell a story because it's getting very one-sided where we only know what the show wants us to know just for the convenience amd then has to fill is in in unnatural ways like bareum narrating stuff instead of kt happening as we see it. But i still love this show.... But what happened to the parents?

So no more recaps, I guess.

The reveal should have happened sooner IMO, but this week's episodes did renew my interest in the show. We finally got some answers, but I have even more questions lol. I still don't see how BR had time to kill the priest and talk to Moochi when we saw him at both the subway station and television station, but oh well.

So it seems we have a probable government funded experiment going on here. I have some guesses on who is involved but we'll see.

@CS, @bluedoe, @sumi, I think I'm even more confused than anyone. If Jae Hoon was the kid who supposedly killed his stepfather and sibling/s, his mother was the Headhunter's wife, wasn't she? But she was clearly Yo Han's mother, and she didn't have twins. What about the lady (from England?) that was in the gynecologist's office at the same time as the Headhunter's wife. I'd always thought Ba Reum was her son and kind because of his father; but if so, from whom did Ba Reum inherit the gene? Had that woman had an affair with the Headhunter? Or were she and/or the father carriers of the psychopath gene and Ba Reum inherited it but did not inherit the predator aspect of the mutation, so he was psychopath but not a predator (isn't this what the genius mutation is?)? But if that's the case, why didn't his genius analytical skills appear earlier in his life, before his surgery?

So who was young Ba Reum? Why was his name changed? Who is his "aunt"? Could he possibly have DID (dissociative identity disorder) so the Ba Reum personality did not even know about the killer personality?

And what about the killer's youthful helper--the one who tied the not-totally correctly tied knot, etc.? Wasn't that supposed to be Hung Joo (sp?)--the Sherlock Girl?

Am I just losing my ability to follow these from week to week so I can only "get it" if I binge?
HELP!!!

If I recall correctly Ji Eun (Yo Han’s mother) reacted with shock and fear when she say Ba Reum at the hospital, but he appeared not to recognise her.

Is that because she knows who he is and has been keeping tabs on him? Did he actually recognise her and pretend not to? I can’t trust anything about him any more.

Does anyone know if the Predator specials episodes will be on Viu/Viki, or just for regular tv?

Did anyone noticed the blood on his head in ep 15? It just appeared and suddenly gone when he saw the dead boy's mom distributing flyers and wanted to confess to her. I'm so puzzled. Is it a continuity error?

Thanks,@stroopwafel, for this and for giving those of us who are still trying to stick with MOUSE a place to discuss it.

When it's over, any chance you might give a reaction to the end and an overall brief recap of the main points?

A brief recap of the main points may be impossible with such a twisty-turny drama, but I for one need help figuring out who is who! Maybe the last few episodes will clarify . . .

I watched Mouse: The Predator part 1, and for a murdery psychopath Ba Reum puts a lot of faith into Moo Won not telling on him - if you’re about to murdered on live tv and you know who the murderer is, you’re going to tell everyone, right? It seems a pretty major flaw in an otherwise slick set up.

I just watched episode 16 and well, there’s definitely a conspiracy.

I feel like I shouldn’t, because he’s a murdery murderer, but I feel bad for Ba Reum. It’s not like he can even tell people he’s really the killer (not Yo Han) because no one will believe him after two bodies but no bodies, they’ll just think it’s his brain surgery making him crazy.

Can someone tell me, because I’m confused - does little raincoat boy with the mouse grow up to be Jae Hoon?

Episode 17 explained some things and raised more questions. So the nice classmate who treated Jae-hoon's hand was Yo-han and both boys were being watched by OZ. I can see why OZ might start out watching the boys for research purposes but killing innocent people for them and watching as Ba-reum killed innocent people? What is that supposed to accomplish? Daniel Lee is hiding from them now, but I would guess he once worked with them? It explains why Yo-han attempted to kill Ba-reum instead of going to the police as he knew about OZ from Daniel Lee and must have known they would protect Ba-reum.

I feel sad for both Yo-han and Ba-reum. They were lab rats even before they were born. I feel like Daniel Lee was wrong about Jae-hoon not caring about his family. If he had received help instead of being studied like a specimen maybe things would have turned out differently.

Loved this week's set of episodes. Really digging the government conspiracy angle.

I'm surprised at how much Ba-reum grieved over Chi-gook since pre-surgery, Chi-gook was prey to him and he didn't get to know him post-surgery. Then again: post-surgery, he blocked out his murdery memories and probably only remembered the happy times he had forced himself to act out.

Lee Seung-gi's heartwrenching portrayal of post-surgery Ba-reum's pain makes me want the headhunter to give all serial killers the "graft-a-conscience" special and make them face the victims' families.

The is one weird drama - makes me feel sympathy for a person who doesn't deserve any. Not only did he torture and kill so many people who don't deserve it, but there were people killing to protect him. And what was the point in killing Bareum's little brother?

One more episode to go before it finishes, and the biggest psychopath of them all is truly cold-bloodiedly terrifying, and when you think about it, hard to miss. I wonder who will be standing at the end.

Really enjoyed episode 19. I think they’ve done a great job of pulling together all of the threads and everything is making sense now. I’m a little concerned there isn’t enough time left to wrap everything up the way I would like though - don’t give me another open ending!

Can Song Yohan's life just gets more and more tragic. The baby switch was infuriating. I can buy a brain graft surgery, but two mothers swapping their kids so that it would be easier to kill them when they display psychopath tendencies? Nurse mom let her bio-baby be raised as a psychopath's son. What mom does that? I wonder if she ever knew how Yohan turned out? And Han Seo-jun getting the satisfaction that his son was alive and a serial killer. *RAGE STROKE!*

Pretty messed up of OZ to purposely activate Bareum's psychopath side by letting him kill one of their former employees - and they recruited Sooho because he was the family of a psychopath's murder victim.

Thought the drama made a good case as to why Yohan didn't just leave this to the police or the press. He tried. These OZ guys are just everywhere and they do not hesitate to kill.

And why does this drama make the female characters so unlikable and irrational? I feel like the female characters in Choi Ran's last 2 works weren't like this.

I can't believe I was right! I started questioning the Yo Han / Ba Reum situation waaaay early into the show, when they showed the photos of Ba Reum in Yo Han's basement, and then showed the photos of the victims in another basement and it was clearly not the same one. I thought maybe Yo Han was actually trying to catch Ba Reum (in a similar way to how Ba Reum is trying to catch other psychopaths now), and had discovered the basement with the victim photos.

Also, Chi Gug being attacked in such strange circumstances made me think that it was Ba Reum as well... I'm not even gonna pretend to remember how this was my conclusion, it's been too long, but I remember thinking it didn't look like it's Head Hunter, and no one else seemed to fit the bill, so ignore has to be Ba Reum.

The whole brain transplant thing didn't make much sense to me. I believe people can't have brain transplants at the moment anyways, but when people have heart transplants, I know they experience change in personality and things like that, based on memories. But Ba Reum sees very specific details, which made me think he had to actually be there to know these.

The cat thing was so incredibly creepy, but, something similar actually happened in my town in 2015, where cats were disappearing and being burned alive (they never caught the killer, which still freaks me out)... I think because of this, the fact that they didn't catch the cat killer at the beginning stuck with me, and I was wondering when they were gonna deal with it. When Ba Reum killed the Mamma cat, I started thinking he might've been it, and when he mentioned the cat teeth in the key ring, I was wondering how he would've known what it was straight away... and then, I saw Bong Yi putting the necklace on, and the two things came together!

This is a very long comment lol but I usually don't get the twists until the very end so, I'm happy to know I was right from the beginning with this one! 😂 Of course, I haven't watched the next expos odes so, they might backtrack and say this was all a ruse but, for the moment, I am happy to know I'm right for once 😁

The whole government experiment angle was wasted and ended up being dumb AF. It had little bearing on how public viewed the bill to abort fetuses who test for the psychopath gene. There was little uproar about how Evil Government Lady had basically made the citizens part of the experiment and made them bait for a serial killer. And no one addressed the fact that Yohan had the gene and was NOT a killer.

So the first half of the finale was pretty blah. I hated how this drama made Bareum Han Seo-joon's son. There is enough of that "son inherit the sins of the father" crap in Korea. I'm glad Bareum did fulfill Moochi's wish.

The last part was pretty satisfying, especially that moment when Bareum bowed his head in front of Moochi and thanked him all the way and how Bareum hugged his inner child and reassured him that God finally hearing his prayer about not being a monster. It just was just really really late. We ended on the question as to whether Bareum gaining a sense of humanity and empathy was a gift from God or a punishment.

One more thing - it was haunting when Dr.Daniel did those experiments on the mouse - basically giving it torturous death over a period of weeks- and then discarded the dead rat. Just like what they ended up doing to Yohan and Bareum. Both died in pain.