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* BuriedAlive: If Min-jeong's death weren't terrifying enough, the autopsy reveals that she was ''still alive'' when her father buried her in the backyard. Dong-sik is particularly upset, since he was on the scene very soon after the murder, and he realizes that Min-jeong was probably drawing her last breaths underground while he was frantically searching the courtyard no more than a foot above her.
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* GratuitousEnglish: Jung-je starts throwing English phrases at Dong-sik when Dong-sik comes to see him in episode 7. After Dong-sik lampshades this, Jung-je sighs and admits that pretending to know how to speak English was a strain.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Jin-muk affects a slow, shuffling walk as part of his supposed disability. Episode 6 reveals that he actually is perfectly mobile and in fact can run fast.
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* {{Egging}}: Jae-yi pelts Ju-won with eggs in episode 4. She blames him for both persecuting an innocent man, Dong-sik, and bringing shame to her by ordering a search of the butcher shop.
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* ComfortingComforter: Dong-sik, who regards Min-jeong as a surrogate daughter, puts a blanket over her in episode 2 when she's sleeping off a night of drinking at the police station.
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* StringTheory: Ju-won, investigating the serial murder case, has the typical wall display, with pictures of various people and notes and strings connecting them.
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* OldCopYoungCop: Dong-sik, a veteran of the police force, and Ju-won, a young cop who is looking to prove himself as something other than his father's son, investigate a serial murder case.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The dynamic shown in the flashback to 2000 between Dong-sik and his sister Yu-yeon. Yu-yeon is a devout Catholic, hard worker, makes good grades, plays the piano at her grandfather's memorial service. Dong-sik is a goof-off who plays guitar and does not even bother to go to the memorial service.
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* HandshakeRefusal: Part of Ju-won's HatesBeingTouched deal. Several times in the first episode he refuses handshakes, annoying the people he is meeting.
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* HowWeGotHere: The first episode opens with the cops finding a body in the marsh. This is followed by a flashback to 20 years ago filling in the backstory of the characters, then a jump to the present day that shows Dong-sik as a policeman, then a scene showing the cops trying to retrieve an old man with dementia who wandered off...which is when they went into the marsh and found a body.
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* NightmareFace: Lee Dong-sik gives a ''terrifying'' one to end the first episode, staring straight at the camera and smiling gruesomely.
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* AdultFear: Yu-yeon's mother goes out to the garden and finds what she thinks are her daughter's fingers placed on the wall.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Yu-yeon, Min-jeong, and several other women are dead]], but their killers have been brought to justice.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The epilogue shows Ju-won visiting Yu-yeon's grave and reveals he now works in a juvenile centre.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Jeong-je accidentally knocked down and killed Yu-yeon.]]
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Jeong-je ''thinks'' he's guilty of this because he accidentally knocked down and Yu-yeon. But although he injured her, she was actually killed Yu-yeon.by Gi-hwan.]]
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** Jeong-je got drunk and [[spoiler: accidentally ran over Yu-yeon]].
** Gi-hwan's terrible driving [[spoiler: killed Yu-yeon]].
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* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler: Jin-muk killed many women... but not Yu-yeon. It was actually ''Gi-hwan'' who killed Yu-yeon.]]
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* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: Jin-muk]] abducts and murders at least seven women, including [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter]].
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* AdultFear: Yu-yeon's mother goes out to the garden and finds what she thinks are her daughter's fingers placed on the wall.
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* WhamShot: The end of episode nine reveals [[spoiler: Ju-won planted evidence in Inspector Nam's safe]].
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* DirtyCop: DirtyCop:
** Ju-won's father is willing to close a murder case quickly, which would ensure the victim is never identified and the murderer never caught, to prevent the possibility of Ju-won becoming asuspect.suspect.
** Sang-yeob suggests planting evidence, to Dong-sik's disgust.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring:Jin-muk Dong-sik and Yu-yeon's mother outlives his daughter Min-jeong.Yu-yeon.
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* DisappearedDad: Dong-sik's dad died before the series starts.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: A police officer is about to say that people around Ju-won ask him for favours because his father is expected to be the next commissioner. Then he realises that's tactless to say in front of Ju-won, so he ends his sentence with "His father is still alive" instead.
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Twenty years ago Lee Dong-shik Dong-sik failed to catch a serial killer, and because of his failure he ended up doing menial jobs in a backwater police station. Then another serial killer appears, one whose behaviour is similar to the one from twenty years ago, and Dong-shik Dong-sik and his co-worker Han Joo-won Ju-won work together to catch them.
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''Beyond Evil'' (괴물, ''Goemul'', literally "Monster") is a 2021 South Korean thriller series starring Shin Ha-kyung and Yeo Jin-goo.
Twenty years ago Lee Dong-shik failed to catch a serial killer, and because of his failure he ended up doing menial jobs in a backwater police station. Then another serial killer appears, one whose behaviour is similar to the one from twenty years ago, and Dong-shik and his co-worker Han Joo-won work together to catch them.
The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/37765c-beyond-evil on Viki]] with English subtitles.
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''Beyond Evil'' (괴물, ''Goemul'', literally "Monster") is a 2021 South Korean thriller series starring Shin Ha-kyung and Yeo Jin-goo.
Twenty years ago Lee Dong-shik failed to catch a serial killer, and because of his failure he ended up doing menial jobs in a backwater police station. Then another serial killer appears, one whose behaviour is similar to the one from twenty years ago, and Dong-shik and his co-worker Han Joo-won work together to catch them.
The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/37765c-beyond-evil on Viki]] with English subtitles.
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