Beyond Evil

Misery, Thriller

Lee Dong-Sik works at the Manyang Police Substation in a small city. One day, Detective Han Joo-Won is transferred to the same police substation. He is assigned to work as Lee Dong-Sik’s boss and also his partner. Han Joo-Won is an elite detective and comes from a distinguished background. His father, Han Ki-Hwan is going to become the next chief at the National Police Agency.

Lee Dong-Sik, Oh Ji-Hwa and Park Jung-Je are childhood friends. They used to hangout together with other police officer at Manyang restaurant too.

There are a serial murder case takes place in Munju. Han Joo-Won transferred to Manyang Police Substation to investigate the case. He did a background check on Lee Dong-Sik and believed that he was the murder of his sister, Lee Yu-Yeon. However, there was no evidence showed that he was the murderer. Lee Yu-Yeon believed has been murdered 20 years ago but they could not be able to find her body. The murderer only left her ten fingers’ tips in front of the house.

Han Joo-Won arranged a woman, Lee Geum-Hwa to be his spy to help him to investigate the case. Lee Geum-Hwa was a foreigner without any identity. Han Joo-Won gave her a burner phone, so that she can contact him when necessary. However, soon after, Han Joo-Won no longer received any message from her. One day, while Lee Dong-Sik, Han Joo-Won and Oh Ji-Hoon looked for a mental illness uncle, they accidentally found a skeleton. The corpse was belonged to Lee Geum-Hwa. Han Joo-Won recognised the corpse right away when he saw the finger.

Han Joo-Won disliked to use shared item. He also likes everything in clean. He has difficult to get along with his new colleagues. He hates Lee Dong-Sik a lot. One day, his colleagues invited him to have a meal at Manyang restaurant. Besides the restaurant, there is a Butcher's Shop which ran by Yoo Jae-Yi. She used to help out at the restaurant. She faced the similar misery as Lee Dong-Sik whereby her mother has been missing for years.

Han Joo-Won checked on the past records of victims’ murder case. He realised that many of the records were went missing. He asked Park Jung-Je about it, who in charged of taking care of the files and records. Park Jung-Je just simply gave him some reason. At night, Park Jung-Je came to see Lee Dong-Sik and asked him about the file. Lee Dong-Sik refused to tell him anything. Lee Dong-Sik actually kept the file at his basement. He secretly returned the file and put them back in their original position. Han Joo-Won checked the file again and saw all the document back in place. He started to suspect Lee Dong-Sik’s intention for keeping the file.

The similar case also takes place after 20 years later. Kang Min-Jung also believed has been murdered and only found her fingers’ tips in front of the house. Lee Dong-Sik treated Kang Min-Jung as his daughter. He always cared for her and also worried about her not coming home. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won was shocked to see that.

Han Joo-Won was curious about Lee Dong-Sik. He tried his best to look for all the evidences against him. at last, he found a CCTV footage that showed Lee Dong-Sik was around that area. Lee Dong-Sik has been caught at once. He was also being suspect as the killer who murdered Kang Min-Jung. The police also found a drop of blood belonged to Kang Min-Jung at the basement.

A few days later, Park Jung-Je confessed he was together with him when the incident took place. Oh Ji-Hwa scolded Park Jung-Je why did he repeat the same mistakes in the past 20 years ago. Park Jung-Je did not believe that Lee Dong-Sik was behind. He trusted him that he will not hurt Kang Min-Jung. Kang Jin-Mook (Kang Min-Jung’s father) was Lee Dong-Sik’s close friend. He was raised by Lee Dong-Sik’s mother since he was young. He also believed that Lee Dong-Sik will not do such a thing towards his daughter. Soon, Lee Dong-Sik released from the prison.

Han Ki-Hwan tried to stop his son from investigating the murder case, however, his son refused to listen to him. he insisted to find the real killer for the sake of the victims. Han Joo-Won has been scolded by his father for providing a false statement about the serial murder case. Han Joo-Won has been banned from entering his house and also went back to his original workplace. One day, when the reporter came over to interview him, others colleagues including Lee Dong-Sik helped him out. They prohibited that reporter to came to the police station ever again. Han Joo-Won wandered why they did that for him. Lee Dong-Sik explained that they stayed together when anyone of them faced difficult issue.

Lee Chang-Jin is Oh Ji-Hwa’s ex-husband. He is also a director of JL Construction. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won is Park Jung-Je’s mother. Both of them worried that the serial murder case might affect their plan for redevelopment. They discussed the issue with Han Ki-Hwan. However, Han Ki-Hwan did not want to involve in this politic issue.

Han Joo-Won finally realised that Lee Dong-Sik was not the killer. He kept thinking who was the people behind it. He monitored and suspected Park Jung-Je. He did some background check on him. He also overheard the conversation between Oh Ji-Hoon and Lee Dong-Sik. Oh Ji-Hoon told him that that night he saw Park Jung-Je and Kang Min-Jung together. Therefore, he was 100% sure that Lee Dong-Sik was not the murderer.  Han Joo-Won was eager to find out who was the murderer. He kept asking Lee Dong-Sik and also hope that he can trust him. He wanted to join hand with Lee Dong-Sik.

During the day Kang Min-Jung went missing, Lee Dong-Sik realised that she has left the police station. However, she dropped her house key at there. Lee Dong-Sik called her up and checked on her. Kang Min-Jung was on her way home. She coincidently met up with Park Jung-Je. Oh Ji-Hoon bought some drinks for Kang Min-Jung, he witnessed Park Jung-Je sent her home. He just left right away. Kang Jin-Mook saw her daughter walked with Park Jung-Je. He heard his daughter talking about him. He quickly went back home to wait for her. Kang Min-Jung straight away went back to her room. Kang Jin-Mook killed his own daughter and cleaned up the mess before Oh Ji-Hoon showed up at his home. Oh Ji-Hoon invited him to come to Yoo Jae-Yi’s restaurant. He also packed up some drinks and brought them there. Lee Dong-Sik was worried about Kang Min-Jung. He went to her house to look for her. He entered the house using her keys. He found the murder scene of Kang Min-Jung. He saw the 10 fingers of hers there. He tried to look for her body but could find anywhere. He cannot even convict Kang Jin-Mook as a murderer since there was no body has been found. In order to trap him, Lee Dong-Sik kept her handphones and a green scarf that believed to be the weapon to kill her.

Kang Jin-Mook brought some kimchi for all the police that help to investigate the case. However, police are not allowed to accept anything from people. Kang Jin-Mook insisted to give them the Kimchi.

Kang Jin-Mook called Lee Dong-Sik and asked him for Han Joo-Won’s handphone number. He requested Han Joo-Won to investigate his daughter’s case. Han Joo-Won accepted his request even though Lee Dong-Sik tried to stop him. Han Joo-Won took his statement and did some analysis. He wondered why Lee Dong-Sik did not mention about Kang Jin-Mook who could be his alibi for not killing Kang Min-Jung.

Park Jung-Je decided to take a vacation break for a moment. He told his mother that he always heard woman crying. Park Jung-Je used to stay at the mental hospital for a moment. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won worried about her son. She asked Lee Chang-Jin to give her the CCTV footage during the incident. She wanted to remove his son from the CCTV footage and released it to the press. When the CCTV footage surfaced on social media, the police saw that Oh Ji-Hoon has been captured in the video. He has been brought to the police station for investigation. Oh Ji-Hoon told them the whole story in order to clear his name.

Lee Dong-Sik and Kang Jin-Mook were at Yoo Jae-Yi’s restaurant. Kang Jin-Mook expressed that he missed his daughter. Lee Dong-Sik went to the outside at the moment. Han Joo-Won and the other partner went for patrol. They received a call from another colleague saying that Kang Min-Jung turned on her handphone. They tried to trace her location but she suddenly turned off her phone. Han Joo-Won found something not right. He came to Yoo Jae-Yi’s restaurant and asked what was going on. Kang Jin-Mook received a message from Kang Min-Jung. She asked him to let her out. This message was actually sent by Lee Dong-Sik. He kept the handphone at a secret drawer behind the alley. Yoo Jae-Yi found out about it and asked him is it that he suspect Kang Jin-Mook as the murderer of Kang Min-Jung and also Lee Yu-Yeon. Lee Dong-Sik admitted it. Yoo Jae-Yi wondered as if her mother went missing also related to him. The chances are probably high too. Yoo Jae-Yi purposely sent another message on Kang Min-Jung’s handphone to Kang Jin-Mook.

At night, Kang Jin-Mook stopped by at Yoo Jae-Yi’s shop. Kang Jin-Mook left a note and a hairpin on the table. Yoo Jae-Yi recognised the hairpin right away. It was belonged to her mother. She came to the stream of Munju to look for her mother. She told Lee Dong-Sik about it. Lee Dong-Sik sent Park Jung-Je to look for her.

Han Joo-Won was checking the CCTV around the area. He found out that the only CCTV has been broken was in front of Kang Jin-Mook’s house. And Nam Sang-Bae was the one who controlled the CCTV at that time. Han Joo-Won suspect Nam Sang-Bae has been protecting Lee Dong-Sik. He believed that Lee Dong-Sik was the one who put those fingers in front of the house. He came to Lee Dong-Sik’s house and was going to catch him. After Lee Dong-Sik received a call from Yoo Jae-Yi, both of them went to Kang Jin-Mook’s house. Kang Jin-Mook was taking out the body of Kang Min-Jung which he has been buried under the soil. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won caught him on the spot.

After the incident, Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won are close to one another. Lee Dong-Sik promised that he will turn himself in after the they found all the bodies. Yoo Jae-Yi recognised her mother’s corpse after seeing the hairpin. She was heartbroken to see the corpse that was just nearby her shop.

Prosecutors Kwon Hyeok worked for Han Ki-Hwan. He always told Han Ki-Hwan about the case that Han Joo-Won. Han Joo-Won disliked Prosecutors Kwon Hyeok because he used to ask for favour to talk good things in front of his father. Han Joo-Won only call him when there is a necessary. Prosecutors Kwon Hyeok used to taught him while he was young.

Kang Jin-Mook refused to tell where did other bodies buried. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won tried a few ways to trick him so that he can confessed it. Kang Jin-Mook made a deal with Lee Dong-Sik    as if he can find his wife, he only told him the truth. The police found many other bodies in their garden. However, they couldn’t be able to find Lee Yu-Yeon’s. Lee Dong-Sik was desperate to find her sister. Han Joo-Won consoled him that he will help him to his sister. Suddenly, they received a call from the cell saying that Kang Jin-Mook has committed suicide. He wrote on the wall with his blood that he did not kill Lee Yu-Yeon. This case has been ended without any further investigation.

Lee Dong-Sik has been promoted and Han Joo-Won accepted his punishment for his wrong judgement. Three months later, Han Joo-Won returned to Manyang Police Substation for reinstatement. Over the three months, Lee Dong-Sik has been searching for his sister’s body in Kang Jin-Mook’s house. Kang Jin-Mook also transferred the property under Lee Dong-Sik’s name after he died. Lee Dong-Sik watched the video that Kang Jin-Mook used to film for him while he was away from home. Lee Dong-Sik found out that he worked at the construction site before. He asked around his friend which company did he work for. It was JL Construction.  Park Jung-Je told them that there was a private land has been sold to Lee Chang-Jin. Lee Dong-Sik and his colleagues dig the soil to look for the body. They were surprised that they found numerous bodies in that land. However, none of them is Lee Yu-Yeon. Lee Dong-Sik felt disappointed again.

Lee Dong-Sik went to see his mother at the hospital. He heard his mother whispering about Kang Jin-Mook who worked in the boiler. Lee Dong-Sik went back to his basement and punched the wall. He finally found his sister inside the wall. At the same time, he received a call from his colleague saying that Nam Sang-Bae has been captured by the police for murdering Kang Jin-Mook.

During the day when Kang Jin-Mook committed suicide, Yoo Jae-Yi brought a knife with her. She tried to sneak into the prison but she was unsuccessful. She has been caught by one of the car’s dashcam. Yoo Jae-Yi witnessed Nam Sang-Bae sneaked into the prison instead. Han Joo-Won heard that Yoo Jae-Yi has been missing for 3 months after Kang Jin-Mook dead. He received some rumours saying that she was working at the fishing village nearby. He also saw Nam Sang-Bae was looking for her too. Han Joo-Won purposely put the fishing line and the death certificate inside Nam Sang-Bae’s safety box. He also sent the dashcam to Yoo Jae-Yi as well.

Nam Sang-Bae was in the prison. He insisted that he did not kill Kang Jin-Mook. Because the evidence is not enough, he will be released within 72 hours. During the period, Jo Gil-Goo and Station Chief Jung Cheol-Mun have been visiting him. Nam Sang-Bae asked Jo Gil-Goo why did he done in 21 years ago. Nam Sang-Bae was referring to the guitar picks that Jo Gil-Go sent for forensic department to examine the fingerprint. That was only evidence without fingerprint. Jo Gil-Goo told him that he only did what he was told. He did not know anything about it.

Han Joo-Won followed Nam Sang-Bae after he has been released from the prison. He placed a tracker on his wallet. Nam Sang-Bae received many calls from Lee Dong-Sik, but he did not pick up the call. He went to the car junk area. Han Joo-Won followed him. He saw blood on the floor and also a voice recorder. Han Joo-Won thought something bad had happened to him. Han Joo-Won quickly informed Lee Dong-Sik about it. He followed the car since the tracker still at Nam Sang-Bae. He kept following him until he saw someone pushed him down the sea. Han Joo-Won jumped into the sea to rescue Nam Sang-Bae. However, it was too late. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won decided to join hands together to find the culprit of Nam Sang-Bae.

Oh Ji-Hwa gathered everyone at Yoo Jae-Yi’s restaurant. Everyone mourned for Nam Sang-Bae. Everyone also wanted to find the killer of Nam Sang-Bae. They started gathering information and also looked for possible suspicious person. Park Jung-Je checked Jo Gil-Goo’s handphone history. He found the numbers were familiar. Han Joo-Won talked to Station Chief Jung Cheol-Mun. He also checked his handphone. He called the number. It happened that the number was belonged to Councilwoman Do Hae-Won.

After being questioning by Lee Dong-Sik, Park Jung-Je suddenly having difficulty in breathing. Lee Dong-Sik thought that Park Jung-Je might have something hide from him. Park Jung-Je was then sent to the hospital. Do Hae-Won came to see Lee Chang-Jin. She talked about the report analysis that she destroyed. In the report, they found the fingerprint of Park Jung-Je. Do Hae-Won wanted to protect her son. Therefore, she fabricated the report and destroyed the evidence as well as the original report.

Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won questioned Jo Gil-Goo as they found out that Councilwoman Do Hae-Won gave him some land rather than money. Jo Gil-Goo spilled out that he did blackmail her for his son for murdering Lee Yu-Yeon. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won also sold many of her land at a cheap price in a short period of time to a few people as well. She sold most of them to Lee Chang-Jin. They wondered why did she do that.

Park Jung-Je woke up and ran away from the hospital. Coincidently, Han Joo-Won met up with him on the road. He lied to him that Lee Dong-Sik allowed him to stay at his basement. Han Joo-Won then meet up with Lee Dong-Sik at Yoo Jae-Yi’s restaurant. He told him that Park Jung-Je was at his basement. Lee Dong-Sik went to see Park Jung-Je and questioned him about what happened that night. Park Jung-Je suddenly recalled what happened and apologised to Lee Dong-Sik that he hit his sister. He told him that his hit her when she was already lying on the road. He was too afraid at that time, so he called his mother for help. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won contacted Lee Chang-Jin to help her clean up the mess.

Lee Dong-Sik recalled from what his colleague told him that his sister should be standing on the road before she got hit by a car. Lee Dong-Sik did not think that Park Jung-Je was the only person who hit her sister.

Oh Ji-Hwa and her colleague were tailing Lee Chang-Jin. They noticed that he has been waiting for Han Ki-Hwan at the police station. Oh Ji-Hwa checked his contact history and found out that he has been calling Han Ki-Hwan, but Han Ki-Hwan did not answer any of them. She also found out that Lee Chang-Jin also contacted Councilwoman Do Hae-Won a few times as well. Lee Dong-Sik asked Park Jung-Je to do him a favour. He asked him to tell his mother that Lee Chang-Jin has a secret hiding from her. He has been secretly contacted Han Ki-Hwan behind her back.

Han Joo-Won came to Lee Dong-Sik’s house. He wondered why he released Park Jung-Je. Lee Dong-Sik told him that he suspected Han Ki-Hwan was related with Lee Yu-Yeon’s case. Han Ki-Hwan, who was the police, closed the cases without any further investigation. He asked Han Joo-Won whether did he trust his father. Han Joo-Won told him that he trusted no body. Han Ki-Hwan was then being nominated for Commissioner General.

Han Ki-Hwan suddenly asked Lee Dong-Sik to see him. He assigned him to catch corrupted police officer. 3 months later, Han Ki-Hwan has been appointed to attend the meeting for the nomination for Commissioner General. Han Joo-Won attended his father’s event together with Prosecutors Kwon Hyeok. Before that, Han Joo-Won asked a reporter to report a bribery case of his father the day before the hearing began. Han Ki-Hwan refuted his statement for not reporting the bribery case of Councilwoman Do Hae-Won. He told the press that they made the deal under normal procedure as Councilwoman Do Hae-Won may in need of money, so she sold the land at a cheaper price. While the hearing was on going, Lee Dong-Sik barged in and requested to catch a corrupted officer. He then handcuffed Han Joo-Won. The hearing was then being paused and proceed in another time.

Han Joo-Won and Lee Dong-Sik have been planning all these right before the hearing. Han Joo-Won asked Lee Dong-Sik to handcuff him during the hearing. Lee Dong-Sik hesitated and asked him to re-think about the consequences of doing so as that might affect his future career. Han Joo-Won insisted to do it so that he can find out the truth. Lee Dong-Sik told him not to say anything during the investigation or else he will not be going to handcuff him. Han Joo-Won promised him.

During the investigation, Han Joo-Won admitted those charges and asked Lee Dong-Sik to punish him according. Lee Dong-Sik asked him why did he break their promise. Han Joo-Won still insisted to proceed with the punishment. Lee Dong-Sik charged him for suspension from his duty. Han Joo-Won went back home and told his father about his suspension. His father was frustrated and asked him to leave the house. Han Joo-Won put a location tracker and also spy hearing device in his father’s car. He then asked Lee Dong-Sik to cooperate with him. Lee Dong-Sik has no idea what was going on.

Park Jung-Je invited Lee Chang-Jin to meet up with him at the incident place. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won was there to question Lee Chang-Jin what did he hide from her. Lee Chang-Jin wondered why did ask about what happened to Kang Jin-Mook and Nam Sang-Bae in the prison. Lee Chang-Jin checked Park Jung-Je’s cloth and found out that he has been calling Lee Dong-Sik. Lee Dong-Sik has heard all their conversation. Councilwoman Do Hae-Won never expect that her son has betrayed her. She thought that conversation should be held privately. Right before Lee Chang-Jin has been sent for investigation, Lee Chang-Jin blackmailed Councilwoman Do Hae-Won for another secret. Park Jung-Je kept asking his mother, but she refused to tell him.

Lee Dong-Sik with other colleagues were checking his car. They did not find any evident from it. Oh Ji-Hwa and her colleague hold an illegal investigation towards Oh Ji-Hwa. They wanted to find out the relationship between Lee Chang-Jin and Han Ki-Hwan. Station Chief Jung Cheol-Mun knew about it and quickly asked them to release Lee Chang-Jin at once. Lee Chang-Jin thanked him for releasing him from the police station. However, Station Chief Jung Cheol-Mun told him that he did that for a favour. He was the one who sent the CCTV footage of him giving the death cert as well as the fishing line to Kang Jin-Mook.

Lee Chang-Jin received a message from Han Ki-Hwan to meet at the same place again. Lee Chang-Jin exchanged his car and went to the meeting place. Before that, Han Joo-Won planned Lee Dong-Sik and Oh Ji-Hwa to tail Lee Chang-Jin whereas Yoo Jae-Yi to tail Han Ki-Hwan. Han Ki-Hwan saw a car has been tailing him. He asked his colleague to check out the car number plate. Since the car was belonged to police, during the road block, Han Ki-Hwan told the police in charge to question Yoo Jae-Yi. Yoo Jae-Yi was then lost tail from Han Ki-Hwan. Lee Dong-Sik and Oh Ji-Hwa also lost sight from Lee Dong-Sik and Oh Ji-Hwa as well.

Han Joo-Won heard their conversation in the car. He was surprised that Han Ki-Hwan was the one who hit Lee Yu-Yeon. He asked Lee Chang-Jin to clean up his mess. Later, Park Jung-Je hit Lee Yu-Yeon again and Councilwoman Do Hae-Won called him for help too. When he tried to discard Lee Yu-Yeon’s body, Kang Jin-Mook took the body away and buried her in the basement. Kang Jin-Mook witnessed Han Ki-Hwan and Lee Chang-Jin when the incident happened. Lee Chang-Jin spilled out that Han Ki-Hwan ordered him to kill Nam Sang-Bae and Kang Jin-Mook. Then, Han Ki-Hwan asked him to kill Station Chief Jung Cheol-Mun too.

Han Joo-Won showed Lee Dong-Sik the recording tape for him. Lee Dong-Sik finally knew the truth. Han Joo-Won begged him that he will handle his father and asked him to trust him. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won tried to look for Park Jung-Je. He has been transferred to mental hospital for treatment. Lee Dong-Sik and Han Joo-Won rescued him from the hospital. Park Jung-Je confessed about the incident happened during the day Lee Yu-Yeon being murdered.

Lee Chang-Jin and Councilwoman Do Hae-Won later has been caught by Oh Ji-Hwa. They confessed their mistakes and also spilled out Han Ki-Hwan. Han Ki-Hwan felt ashamed and wanted to commit suicide. Han Joo-Won stopped his father and sent him to police station. At last, Lee Dong-Sik also decided to pay for what he did. He requested Han Joo-Won to arrest him. Lee Dong-Sik, Park Jung-Je, Lee Chang-Jin, Han Ki-Hwan and Councilwoman Do Hae-Won received their punishment.

A few years later, Yoo Jae-Yi gathered everyone at her restaurant. Lee Dong-Sik, Han Joo-Won and other ex-colleague also came by for gathering.

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