"Did you hear what happened at the salt house?" "This girl was passing by it at night last week." "It must be the rain!" "It sure feels spooky." "What's the big deal about skipping a class?" "I can't believe he kept us this late." "Perverts and flashers are night owls." "If anything happens, it's his fault!" "What if one jumps on us?" "Don't jinx it!" "We'd be better off with a ghost." "The thought disgusts me." "Look at her." "What are you doing here?" "Where's your mommy?" "Jackstones?" "You're missing one." "She saw a ghost and passed out." "You Have New Mail" "You're invited to Salt Village 10 years back in time." "Welcome to Minjung's Salt Village." "Arang" "Song Yoonah" "Lee Dongwook" "Hello?" "What?" "Excuse me." "You came here." "Hi." " Hey there." " Hi." " Happy to be back on the job?" " Sooner than I expected." "Come on!" "I'm sorry." "Sorry!" "Who's that kid?" "A new addition to our team." "He volunteered from Forensics." "He's as green as a leaf." "From Forensics?" "Why?" "Ask him." "He's your new partner." "What?" " Kid, is it loaded?" " Huh?" "The cause of death?" "Not sure yet." "My guess is suffocation." "We won't be certain until the autopsy." "Okay." "Look, don't miss any spots." "Sure." "What's that?" "A dog was found dead." "They're burying it." "Song Jungho, 29." "Firemen found him after they doused the fire." "Thank God it rained." " You made it!" " Thank you for coming." "Say hi to my parents." " Hi!" " Hello!" " Thank you." " Congratulations!" "He's manly, confident, and trustworthy, Cute, too!" "How do I look?" "Subin, I'm so lucky to marry you." "We'll be happy together until our last moments." "I love you!" "Okay." "That was pretty good." "There you are." "Kim Dongmin!" "Hey, buddy." "You're finally doing her!" "Crazy ass!" "You look tired, dude." "I didn't sleep a wink, shooting a music video." "Not wild sex?" " Come on." " Not everybody is like you." "It's time." " Don't mess up, okay?" " Don't worry." "A new jacket?" "It's not your wedding!" "The bride will walk down the aisle." "Bride, please." "It'd been empty for years." "And he moved in last year." "Any visitors recently?" "Some every now and then." "Their visit often led to a huge fight." "Screaming and all that." "Oh, I heard he'd been seeing a shrink." "Look here." "One, two, three!" "Here we go again." "Look here!" "One, two, three!" "One more time." "One, two, three!" "There's something fishy about the victim." "It doesn't feel right." " He did 8 years for murder" " He did 8 years for murder and never had a job." " Nothing whatever has been heard of him." " His mother has small snack bar." " How could he afford such a big house?" " How did he bought a house?" " We are tracing his bank account." "Tell me about the murder." "He went to this village with his buddies on holiday and got into a fight with local punks." " Murder by accident?" " Right." " So we are going through it." " Murder by accident?" " So it's a personal revenge?" " I should meet the headshrinker first." " We should dig into it." " Investgate about the moment when he died." "How's your new partner?" " He has a big mouth." " Does he?" "Don't give him a hard time." "He's a nice kid." "We'll see about that." "Okay." "Wait up!" "He suffered from nightmares." "Seeing things even after he woke up." "He said someone was torturing him." "Who was?" "A woman dressed in black with long, disheveled hair." "Sounds like a ghost to me." "Or maybe not?" "I don't know about that." "But if it's that simple, people like us won't be needed." "We treat people, not ghost." "This is what he drew under hypnosis." " What's this?" " A woman and a child." "It resembles Schiele's work, 'Dead Mother'." "He had guilt about letting his mother die alone." "Dead Mother..." " You were in Forensics?" " Yes." "Isn't it better than Homicide?" "No way." "Spending a year in the lab..." "I was bombarded with dead bodies." "That's far from GOOD." "Looking at dead people, I felt sorry." "Then I got pissed off." "Why do they kill?" "For what purpose?" "I wanted to nail them with my own hands." "So I could ask them why they did it." "How could one kill another?" "Why'd you become a cop?" "That was sudden." "Why ask such a thing?" "It isn't an easy decision for a girl to be a cop." "What?" "Why not?" "I was just curious." "I wanted to find someone." "Who?" "Your first love?" "Who becomes a cop to find a first love?" "I know one." "Who?" "Me!" "Don't be silly." "There was someone I wanted to kill." "You sure you're okay?" "I'm okay." "How about you?" "Me?" "Can't you see?" "Good!" " You drank quite a bit." " I didn't really..." "Worried about me because I'm a girl?" "That's sweet." "Don't worry." "I can put up a good fight." "Good night!" "Okay, good night." "One, two, three!" "Look here." "One, two, three!" "You Have New Mail." "I got you some coffee." "Thanks." "Had a good chat with Soyoung last night?" "Yeah." "She seems to be a tomboy, but very sharp." "You'll learn a lot." "I think so, too." "Captain?" "Let me ask you something." "Why was she suspended before I came?" "She didn't tell you last night?" "Why didn't you ask her?" "Then again, it's not something to brag about." "What happened was..." "I'm innocent." "This bitch is a gold digger." "I don't even know him!" "You heard her." "She doesn't know you." "You were wasted lying on the street waiting to be fucked." "Hey!" "Who says you can rape a girl drunk on the street?" "No, I didn't rape her." "I got her a room with my money so she could rest." "You know how it works." "Excuse me." "A scar?" "No, I already checked." "Sorry." "She could've frozen to death." "You should be thankful instead of..." "Soyoung!" " Stop it, Soyoung!" " What the hell!" "Okay, okay." "Come here!" " Come here!" " Okay, just a sec." "We had a hard time fixing the mess." " What scar?" " Yes." "She always checks the wrists of male suspects." "A little bird told me she's looking for someone." "You guys are early." " What's going on?" " Nothing." "Captain!" "He was found like that." " You two," " Yes." " Search other rooms." "See what you find." " Okay." "Tell me." "The estimated time of death is 10 last night." "Anything unusual?" "No, a heart attack got him." "Huh?" "Captain, check it out." "It was in the other room." "Jungho?" " Jungho!" " Song Jungho!" "Where the hell is he?" "We talked him into turning himself in." "Actually..." "We were told you guys often fought." "That's true." "He was so moody after getting out of jail." "About his mother's death and lost time." "He was depressed." "We tried to give him some advice." "But he took it personally." "Sometimes it got ugly, as if we were fighting." "I see." "Thanks for your time." "Let's go." "I've never seen anything like this before." "Both died from suffocation." "Poor boys." "He died before the fire." "And you know what?" "He was exposed to prussic acid gas." "What?" "So was the other one." "This one burnt so much." "It was hard." "So he died from that gas, not a heart attack?" "Right." "You must know." "An exposure to a lethal gas leads to a heart attack." "Come on." "I don't understand this mark on the neck." "He was strangled to death simultaneously?" "I don't get it." "And here's what's really odd." "Check out his mouth and nose." "No vesicant inflammation." "What's that?" "When a lethal gas is inhaled, blisters foam." "But not for these two." "It wasn't inhaled." "Then?" "It was produced inside." "Has this happened before?" "Never." "Is it possible?" "Not sure." "You Have New Mail" "It's almost the same M. O." "What's that?" "The victim's palm pilot." "Welcome to Minjung's Salt Village" "This is the website found at the two murder scenes?" "Yes." "It's a salt house." "Is it?" "I didn't know what it was." "I lived by the saltern when I was younger." " Let me have a look." " Sure." "Quite pretty." "Looks like a high school girl." "She must be popular." "It's a painting." "Mother and Daughter?" "Is that a person?" "She's alone." "Mother and Daughter?" "Hey, Hyunki." "Did you find out?" "Yes, but it's weird." "The owner of that website went missing 9 years ago." "What?" "Nothing useful on the site." "Okay, I'll check it out here." "She must've run for a big city." "It happens a lot here." "And my boss took the caseback then back then." "He did?" "Can I talk to him?" "That would be me." "What's this regarding?" "She's a cop from Seoul." "Hi." "I'm looking for Kim Minjung who went missing 9 years ago." " Kim Minjung?" " Yes." "Oh, Kim Minjung." "I don't remember much about it." "I remember feeling sorry for the family." "A lot of fathers here die or go missing out in the sea." "But it was like a curse for her family." "Her mom had run away, and dad died in the sea." "So she lived alone with her grandma." "Soon after she disappeared, the grandma died." "The whole family was gone just like that." "Who are you?" "We were friends from high school." "She was such an artist." "She was dating this guy named Juno." "He was there for her when her dad died." "They were good together." "It's a shame." "If it hadn't happened..." "What happened?" "You didn't know?" "Juno got murdered." "That summer..." "He got into a fight with boys from Seoul." "One of them was from here." "Name's Song Jungho." "He killed Juno." "Song Jungho killed Minjung's boyfriend?" "Right." "She had a hard time coping with it." "No, she became weird." "She stopped smiling and stayed away from people." "Then she disappeared." "A rumor had it... she might've killed herself." "Suicide?" "Yes." "But she was Catholic." "Very pious." "It was so hard to believe she killed herself." "She painted when she had troubles." "To soothe herself." "Only if I could see her again..." "You haven't seen her all these years?" "She confessed, didn't she?" "Please." "I'm sorry." "It's against my vows." "And what I know won't be much help." "That's all I have to say." "Bye." "Hold on, girls." "Look." "Where's this salt house?" "What?" "Why?" "I'm looking for someone connected to this place." "What's the matter?" "That place is haunted." "This girl saw a ghost there and passed out." "She thought she was with this friend... who actually was home that night." "Now she's at a nuthouse." "It's true." " Bye." " Good day." "We found outthat you and your friends wired money to Jungho." "What he did was awful." "But we were there, too." "We wanted to help him out." "But it was a lot, enough to buy a house." "With all due respect, that's not a lot for us." "This is the poison that killed Mozart, right?" "The Aquatophania?" "Oh, that book." "I wrote a thesis on poison treatment in med school." "It earned me a doctorate." "And that thesis was published recently." "I see." "Did you know he'd been seeing a shrink?" "He had?" "I didn't know." "Hadn't he told you about a woman dressed in black?" "A woman dressed in black?" "I don't think so." "Your patient is here." " Send him in." " Okay." "You'll have to excuse me." "Sure." " Let's go." " Okay." "How are you?" "I feel like I'm dying." "Physician/ Kim Dong-min A chronic digestive disorder is..." "Doesn't it smell?" "All the victims got poisoned pretty much." "I don't know." "If he's our guy, what would be the motive?" "What if he was blackmailed?" "Blackmailed..." "It's possible." "Yet, it doesn't explain for the other two victims." "That's true." "That murder 10 years ago." "It holds the key to these killings." "Why asked about a woman dressed in black?" "I heard a strange rumor about Salt Village." "What rumor?" "The village is haunted." "And the ghost is in the salt house on Minjung's website." "So she became a ghost, killing people?" "What bothers me is how such a rumor started." "My gut feeling tells me..." "It must be an old grudge." "Yeah." "Wish I were a ghost." "So I could read people's minds." "And truth hidden inside." "Truth hidden inside?" "That's..." "A dog was found dead." "They're burying it." " Turn the car around." " Why?" "We're going somewhere." " Got a jackknife?" " Yeah." "Give it here." "Found something?" "What's this?" "Looks like a 6mm tape without the casing." "Good job." "Come in!" "Car Wash Course/2 Shampoo" "What we need is a girl!" "Bottom's up!" "Look at Dongmin!" "What are you doing?" "You Have New Mail" "What's wrong?" "You sick?" "I'm worried." "You've been acting weird." "I just have a lot on my mind." "Don't worry." "I'll be fine." "You sure you told them?" "I said I did!" "Okay, fine." "No need to yell at me." "We had to cut our honeymoon short." "Think of this as our second honeymoon." "Okay." "So cool." "I'd like to see the ocean." "Should we go to the sea?" "I know you hate it." "Go where we're going." "We have to wait around for a search warrant?" "Stop being impatient." "It hasn't been long." "Hate Homicide already?" "No way!" "It's just my cup of tea." "What did you like to be before you became a cop?" "Parden?" "When you were little." "Well..." "I wanted to be a writer." " For real?" " Yes." "I was a literary type." "A literary type?" "What?" "Good thing you didn't become a writer." "You're way too wild for that." "Hobbies are a luxury in this business." "That's right." "You just can't afford them." "What about you?" "What did you like to be?" "A photographer." "I even studied for it." "I kind of became one." "Taking pictures of the dead." "Isn't it wild?" "Yeah, that's wild, forgetting to put the film in." "That's..." "I often hit the road to take pictures." "So hold onto your dream." "Don't give up." "A detective writer specializing on crime thrillers!" "Yeah?" "That sounds fun." "A cop writing crime thrillers." "This is a waste of time." "Let's go up." "We don't have the warrant, nor the key to the place." "Leave that to me." "We're breaking the law." "You hear me?" "The law doesn't help busting the bad guys." "When'd you learn to pick locks?" "I'm a homicide detective, remember?" "Soyoung!" "Yangpyung Valley" "Seen him around here?" "No." "Honey, what's wrong?" "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "Just a bad dream." "You want some water?" "Please." " Better now?" " Yeah, much better." "Sweetie?" "Behind you..." "Who are you?" "Come on!" "Show yourself!" "No!" "Kim Dongmin!" "We got so scared we went to the police." "There we met him." "Finding out our parents were wealthy... he called a meeting and offered a deal." "Eventually, Jungho decided to take the fall in return for compensation." "Thought the videotape would stop her from turning you in?" "It was Jungho's idea." "But it was his plan all along to blackmail us." "So you boys teamed up and killed him?" "And you killed the other two to cover it up?" "No!" "We did plan on getting rid of Jungho." "To retrieve the tape." "But she killed him first and set the house on fire." "She?" "Kim Minjung?" "Know her whereabouts?" "No." "That cop said he'd handle her." "Why'd you kill your wife?" "I saw her face on hers." "Her face..." "It's her." "She'll kill me, too." "Help me." " The affidavit?" " Done." "See if anything's wrong." "Book him." "And Soyoung?" "We gotta talk." "Okay." "Wait." "Can I have a cigarette?" "Go ahead." " Don't let anybody in." " Okay, sir." "Don't just stand there!" "Stop him!" "Kim Dongmin!" "Call the ambulance!" "Kim Dongmin!" "Why is this half?" "4 is too few, and 5 is too many." "Hey, Soyoung." "Suits are upset" "Better start writing a report." "Where's Hyunki?" "He's meeting someone this morning." "Where are you going?" "Just checking something." "One, two, three, four." "What are you doing?" "!" "Five..." "Soyoung speaking." "What's up with your voice?" "Got a cold?" "I have the analysis report on that pill bottle." "It's a nervine but not on the market." "It causes hallucination." "That's not the problem." "I made a huge mistake." "Those cigarette butts from the crime scenes." "The prussic acid detected on cigarette filters..." "It moved into the mouth from filters." "Not the other way around." "It reacted with carbonate inside their stomachs... and produced prussic gas." "Then it moved into the lungs." "If I analyzed the evidence and examined the dead body," "I can take a hint, but..." "Whoever it was knew the fact that the autopsy is done before analyzing items from the scene." "He knows our business inside and out." "No vesicant inflammation." "When a lethal gas is inhaled, blisters foam." "I lived by the saltern when I was younger." "Who's that kid?" "A new addition to our team." "He volunteered from Forensics." "He's as green as a leaf." "From Forensics?" "Why?" "Who becomes a cop to find a first love?" "Me!" "I wanted to be a photographer." "One, two, three, four..." "And half." "Why 4 and half steps?" "4 and a half steps do both the person and landscape good." "4 is too few, and 5 is too many." " Not just the landscape?" " No." "I know all the good angles for you." "You're my first model." "Minjung?" "I've been wanting to tell you something." "What?" "Go ahead." " Minjung." " Yeah?" "I'm sorry." "Hyunki?" "I knew you'd figure it out." "Everyone makes mistakes." "And it can cause a significant impact." "One mistake..." "Neither they nor I could be forgiven." "He's not here." "What are we doing now?" "The salt house!" "That's where he's going." "Okay." "Let's go, guys." "Okay." "By the time you read this," "I'll be with her." "The painful burden that has weighted me down" "Look here!" "One, two!" "Minjung?" " Congratulations." " You, too." "Hyunki, would you mind?" " How are you?" " Hi." " Still into photography?" " Yes." "I can keep it?" "When I signal, you come in and start shooting." "It's like making a film." "A film?" "What are you doing?" "!" "Sons of bitches!" "You didn't have to kill her." "Why did you?" "Why?" "You think I wanted to?" "That bitch was pregnant!" "Let me meet them." "Or I will start talking!" "Okay, okay." "You'll meet them soon." "You wanna ruin your life?" "Hear me out." "Go back where you came." "And none of this has ever happened." "How nice." "Shut the fuck up!" "Dig her out." "It's the last warning." "Hyunki, stop it!" "Keep digging." "Put your gun down!" "I didn't expect you this soon." "Her feelings were as important as the pain I suffered." "I didn't know then." "I was a fool." "I loved her and should've protected her love." "That's what true love is." "Stop it." "That's enough." "It's time to stop." "You've gone too far." "You wanted to kill someone, right?" "I know that pain." "Shoot me as if I were him." "You should know I'm no different." "Don't hesitate." "Go ahead." "Shoot me now!" "Will this make it easier for you?" "No." "I won't shoot you." "I won't kill you." "I will watch you." "You think you'll be forgivenby death?" "Live." "I'll let you live." "So you can see your child suffer as much." "When you get old, sick, and die ugly" "Only then, I'll whisper to your ears." "That the life you've lived was worth less than a dog in heat." "I'm afraid to live like that." "I'll leave." "I'll ask her for forgiveness." "Forgive me." "For being coward and selfish" "I'm sorry." "Minjung?" "As the body decomposes, the gas expands inside." "That pushes the baby out even after the mother dies." "This is why they say babies conceived are born." "Dead or alive." "I believe it's said to share the labor pain that mothers go through even after death." "She was in pain for 10 years." "And the baby got stuck with its neck strangled." " Hello?" " Sorry to call you off duty." "It's okay." "What's going on?" "The materials Hyunki had about the website..." "I handed them in." "But none of us has actually seen that painting." " Have you?" " What?" "No?" "Now that I think of it..." "I haven't." "Female Cop Becomes Writer" "Hey, I just got here." "How's the baby?" "Sleeping?" "I'll take some time off after this project." "We'll go on a trip." "Okay." "I love you." "Arang Legend/ Four hundred years ago, there was a village where all newly appointed magistrates, were killed." "So nobody wanted to be appointed to the village." "However a new magistrate volunteered to came to the village and he heard from Arang's vindictive spirits that she had been raped and killed." "Then he seized the criminal and inflicted punishment on him." "He found Arang's dead body and buried." "It is said when the deadbody was found, it was not decayed at all because of her deep resentment."