I only want joy for Ha Young. He seems to feel everything so deeply. So alas we have to wait, but I hope when it comes back the drama is still awesome.

I just want to hug Ha-young. The amount of pain he must need to process while dealing with the criminals makes me sad. I'll miss him for the next 3 weeks 😔.

P.S. I was very happy about the bitch-slap. The moment that man starts talking I feel an itch to slap him so I'm glad Tae-goo obliged.

Last week's episodes had me VERY distracted from the plot with Kim Namgil. His hair, how does he look good with THAT hair? Anyway, I like how the sledgehammer murder cases weren't solved between the two episodes. I think it's realistic how some cases stretches throughout a longer time period. I'm also still enjoying all the minute details that make our characters human, be it from past episodes or last week's. I can't list much, but of the top of my head, I love seeing Ha-young's obsession with sweets, Tae-gu with her cat, and the Observational Analysis (is that right?) team's conversations. So far, this drama is an excellent debut for the director and screenwriter (both women!) and if it ends in constant quality, I'll definitely be looking forward to their next works.

The way they used some historic moments to show the time passing made me feel so old. It's weird to think they were at the beginning of profiling when the tours fell down.

The new characters is a "tête à claques" so it was totally deserved (and satisfying).

It's difficult for the Police, they needs more crime scenes to get more clues and investigate but they need to protect their population. So by protecting the population, they lost their chance to progress.

I like when Ha Young's team works with the investigation one and not just in parallel. They took the decision to make feel the murderer threaten together. But I really like Ha Young's team, I like to see the 3 of them working together.

'Bitch slap' was epic :) It is such strong drama with great story telling-directing and cast! Hard to wait 2 more weeks .

Let me just say that I'm sooooo done with Kim Bong-shik! He's lazy, misogynistic, not a team player, the list goes on. He's just awful and nothing but trouble.

Kudos to Ha-young and his team for continuing to work together in spite of all the years of doubt and negativity directed at them. The colleagues' attitudes towards the Behavioral Analysis Team are unfortunate but I understand that at this point in time, the law enforcement community did not fully understand how behavioral analysis works, how it fits into law enforcement and how it helps to solve and/or prevent crime.

The wait for the next episodes is going to be difficult!

The bitch slap is one of the best thing this week. Bongshik is a pain in the a$$, how could he got promoted, guess there was always a(nother) dumbass out there.
I watched the documentary about Raincoat Killer on Netflix, which inspired the case, it was so sickening.
3 weeks without the charming trio is going to be hard, I hope it continues to be good.

I can stand annoying characters, but Kim Bongshik is... something else.
When he just messed up the crime scene, that pissed me off. What was he doing? Did he try to steal things or something?
Wow, i don't think i've never been so angry with a character before.
Actor Seo Donggab did great job.

But thankfully our leads, especially Taegoo, aren't intimidated by him, also obviously way smarter than him.

If anyone thought the lines before the slap was a bit disconnected, it's because the literal word they used was 'prettily', not nicely, and it's used to mean to look at someone favorably (there's usually a clear hierarchy in who gets to do the looking). So "I don't want you to look at me prettily" flows with the theme of the jerk viewing her as a woman, though his intent was to express that he treated her favorably, overlooking flaws, etc.

Ha-young and his sweets 🥺

It was gross how Kim Bong-shik sent Tae-gu to that politician and immediately she was engulfed with the office talking about her. But it is interesting to see the foil to Ha-young is this shady rude jerk. Especially as we get another instant where Ha-yung helped out, took no credit, and was happy to see his peers get promoted.

Also wish the bosses would grow firmer spines, they seem to content to ignore things that will make them uncomfortable.

I almost want a CSI-like breakdown of how the blood splatter doesn't get on the ceiling because the drama is showing them being hit multiple times.

Tae-gu slapping the shit out of that idiot Bong-shik is my favourite moment of 2022. So satisfying. I wanted to punch the guy in the nose from the first time he opened his mouth and I’m so glad the drama indulged me, especially at the hands of the main female character - who is just as compelling and fascinating a character as her male counterparts. Women in this genre often tend to be sidelined and underdeveloped in favour of men. Tae-gu is rather unique in not just being a one-note “tough female character” or the “bright and honest” female character archetype common in the crime genre.

Ha-young my beloved. I swear to god, I get so freaking distracted whenever Kim Nam-gil appears on my screen, it’s becoming an issue. How does his hair look like that? I love his love of sweets. My heart swells every time he smiles. The Ha-young and Young-soo friendship must be protected at all costs.

It’s frustrating as hell to watch the police’s negative attitude towards the Behavioural Analysis Team, but I appreciate that the show doesn’t pull its punches in showing the prejudicial point-of-view an institution has about change. These were not methods used or accessible to most officers during that time, so it’s not far-fetched that many distrust it, even after seeing its success. After all, maybe the team just got lucky.

Unfortunately, that mistrust can be used against the team and the timing for it couldn’t have come at a worse time. I watched the Netflix documentary on the Raincoat Killer and that piece of shit will not be easy to catch. This is going to take a while. I hope that the team and Tae-gu comes out alright from that tough ordeal.

Speaking of ordeals, the 3-week pre-emption will be hell. I was watching the show counting down the days each week and now I’ll have to go such a long time without it.

The theory of the pattern in the district names is for real. The police actually considered it. It reminded me of the theories around the zodiac killer. Bongshik's character shows us what the serial killer's lawyer says in Raincoat Killer, the police were not very good at their job back in the day. They certainly did not have many resources at their disposal. All they could do was ask people in the area if they'd seen anything suspicious. It's quite shocking that this all happened early 2000s.

I'm so incredibly confused what the point of Kim Bong-Sik is. I dont understand how he wasn't immediately fired. This show is so good but it annoys me that the higher ups just put up with him. HE WAS JUST WALKING AROUND TOUCHING EVERYTHING AT A CRIME SCENE. But somehow competent Criminal Profiles were causing issues by investigating the same exact crime scene? How did he even get promoted? I feel like I missed something