I love these two! It’s an absolutely delight watching these two bicker. I love the bond they are forming and Ro-Hee needs this in her life.
Even when her head says otherwise she is choosing to trust Myung-Joon. Because she sees him for what he is.

And I loved the convergence of all the characters. The OG kidnapper, bad cop, good cops. I think this should change certain things for our leads. I can’t wait for Sang-Yun to interact with Ro-Hee! I bet she is going to tell him that the cops aren’t smart enough 😅 and I want to see PSH’s face.

The show has me fully engrossed. Be it the investigation or the moments between our leads.

And how good is Park Sang-Ho! He just looks so eerily creepy without making any exaggerated expressions. he is so calm and that it’s scary.

Also, for doctors who are doing shady research couldn’t they come up with a code name for the project. ‘Genius child project’?? Really?? Thats the best they could come up with?

I love that the viewership continues to climb!

Some thoughts:

Also yeah, the HIV story is very suspicious. How the heck did she even get HIV? She must have either cheated or come in close contact with an HIV-positive person at some point. Some kind of bodily fluid HAS to get into her body at some point, like through blood, a needle etc.
yet she didn't even mention it at all!

While HIV is more or less harmless when you take the medicine for the rest of your life, the main reason why i found it weird, is that she did not think to tell her husband this at all! In the time she got HIV and then tested positive, they probably slept together at some point. You would think a person that was so stressed about her daughter getting the virus that she just went up and left her family, would tell her partner, who has a high chance of having it as well, that he should test himself!

I also think she might be the girl from the flashback in episode 1. She keeps her neck covered at all times, which could point to a scar from the attack. We also have no answer why she was in a room with caged animals (which i guess could relate to experiments?)

There are probably (at least) two killers. I can't imagine the parents being killed by the same person/group, the killings are just SO different. For the husband, it's such a showy way to get killed, the guy got impailed by his own katana. Meanwhile the wife was killed by a paper knife and it looks so much more sloopy. I think it's also worth noting that the heat was turned up. The only reason i can think of why someone would do that: they tried to conceal the time of death (or other evidence?)

I am having a blast with this show, i love the characters a lot. I expect the cop and kidnapper, kidnapping "victim" to work together at some point, the dynamic is going to be fun!

Can't wait for episode 5&6!

Okay, I felt episode 3 got much better with Kim Myeong Jun and Choi Ro Hee forming a team after he reveal of his real identity. I liked the added a twist of the protagonist having a previous murder record and the girl still choosing to trust him. Clearly, shows that the girl has been lonely, but the flashback of her mom raises my suspicion if it was solely her dad's idea to conduct research. As @marblebees points out, Ro Hee's mom could have been mudered in the heat of the argument (by Ro Hee's dad). I just don't want the little girl to be a possible suspect.

It is also good that the plot has a smart cop who does not jump to conclusions. I no longer feel bored by the detectives' work because I was thrilled by their chase, partly because I was hoping for Myeong Jun and Ro Hee to not get caught.

I dread next week's episode because I feel they might shove too much about brain nonsense, but I have decided to continue the drama and see whether Myeong Jun adopts Ro Hee as his second daughter.

Also, Myeong Jun lying unconscious for few seconds before springing back and hitting the hitman was so funny.

I started watching this out of curiosity and ended up fully invested in the MJ - RH partnership. I can understand now why MJ is the way he is. His actions may frustrate me sometimes but its just the way he is. He needs to smart up soon since the people involved in RH's parents murder are still working behind the scenes to get their hands on her.

YuNa is such a talented marvel. She makes her character endearing despite her prickly/bratty nature.

I'm just so sad I can't watch this legally. Should I cave and go to the dark side?? Yoo Kye-Sang is my absolute bias (well, one of them ;)) ...

The reveal about him having killed someone didn't change my thoughts or feelings about the character because I assumed it happened by accident. Plus having seen how he fought the Junk Man, he seemed really strong (like one of those parental power ups parents can have when their child is in danger). That was again shown when he fought with the guy who took Ro Hee. No matter how serious the hit, he just kept getting back up.

The thing I was most surprised about was the HIV diagnosis. Does the actress just have a face that makes it hard to believe her cause even after that, I still felt she was being deceitful. She hasn't seemed particularly interested in the daughter. The way it seems now is that she only showed up to give the assignment and then *immediately* was hospitalized afterwards, never once being able to visit or see the daughter. Even after getting out from the hospital and learning how the plan had gone completely off the rails, she still didn't visit the daughter like the father asked. Also if she is concerned about exposing the kid to the virus, how was she planning on raising her while he was locked up? Am I just being an airhead here?

Why the secrecy? As if the cops were going to reveal company secrets. Though I guess what they're doing is unethical and illegal. This just makes me more curious about Ro Hee's origins. Was she really that doctor's daughter? Was the mother really her mother?

And I guess I was way off when I said she may have killed the parents but that leads to the question: why were the parents killed and why in those ways?

New theory: one of the investors wanted to take Ro Hee and parents got in the way.

I don't know how long this series is but I do wonder how they can stretch the plot out when the person kidnapped has no one really caring about or trying to help her except her kidnapper. Maybe the show will just be cycles of kidnapping her.

I do like the police officer. He is the type of person you would want handling cases.

I love this drama and the dynamic between Ro-Hee and Myung-Joon. Yoon Kye Sang is really killing it in his creation and portrayal of Myung-Joon.

I do like how the police are competent in this show, but I still couldn't help but wonder why they didn't find out Myung-Joon's criminal record earlier when they already knew his identity, and also why they didn't put a tail on Hye-eun, who is still legally his wife, when they are trying to track down Myung-Joon and Ro-Hee? Seems to be the first thing the police should be doing -- keep a watch on family members and if contact has been made by a runaway suspect with them.

I'm wondering if Myung-joon's wife, Hye-eun, was actually Ro-hee's father's mistress. If so, this would certainly explain why she knows about the expirement(s) he was conducting and how she's so certain he wouldn't report Ro-hee missing/kidnapped.

Count me in as a new viewer.

Thanks you for the beanies who recommend this show. I don’t think I would have started this on my own.

More Beanies should be viewing this gem of a show. Criminally underrated.

I love the interaction between Myung-Jung and Roh-Hee. I love how Roh-Hee skillfully commands authority with each and every conversation. At first I thought that it’s not realistic for any child to have that much emotional intelligence but the genius experiment kid plot explains that. This kinda reminds me of the interaction of the kid from Mother but the tone is a bit lighter and a lot more clever.

I thought I was finally free from the all encompassing grasp of Moving but then I see Kim Shin-Rok as Hye-Eun and I’m just waiting for her to put on some glasses to transform back into an NIS agent.

I really want to see this but I have not yet found a stream that is available her! discriminated again! yet they allow it for LATVIA???? why are latvians better they got 6 toes

Episode 4 has been the best so far.
I'm bit late to the party but I'm reading the recaps now, while I watch the show.

I didn't expect a car chase scene like that in this drama, but it has been intense, well directed and edited.

This is the first drama starred by Yun Gye-sang I watch. He is doing a good job.
And the child Yu-na is amazing.