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* NoEnding: Unlike most Korean dramas. The story ends in "Kiria", with Edward and Acting President Hong trying to get a drilling contract, Hae-ri trying to stop them, and Dal-gun a mercenary who apparently hopes to use that position to somehow take down Edward Park. There's no resolution to the plot.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Hae-ri's drivers in episode 16 make a bunch of crass, sexist comments about her in Arabic, thinking she can't understand, only for her to answer in Arabic and embarrass them.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: A goofy montage at the end of the last episode has Dal-gun getting ready for war, loading magazines and chambering rounds and sheathing knives and such, while Hae-ri is, just as dramatically, putting on makeup and lipstick and perfume.
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* UnflinchingWalk: Dal-gun simply chucks a grenade backwards over his shoulder, and then walks unflinchingly away as the grenade goes off, killing Jerome in the last episode.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Apparently, American citizens in Korean jails can be "recalled" to the United States, as happens with Jessica in episode 16.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Does Edward just shoot Dal-gun in episode 15? Of course not! No, his people tie Dal-gun up in an elaborate booby trap and then walk away before triggering it. Dal-gun is promptly rescued by Lily, who had followed them to the scene.
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* PuppetKing: How much of a puppet is Acting President Hong in the last episode? So much, that Edward Park is giving him lists of people to staff even junior positions at ministries, as well as a disc detailing his trade and policy positions. And he's specifically instructed to stop all investigations into the B357 crash.
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* TheChessmaster: Edward Park, who orchestrated events from the beginning not just to get a defense contract, but to destroy his competitor John & Mark, take down President Jeong, and get his own puppet Prime Minister Hong elevated to the presidency of South Korea.
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* DutchAngle: Used heavily in episode 15 as Dal-gun is having his {{Eureka Moment}}s about how Edward Park is Samael and his secretary Micki is the FemmeFatale who got Michael and Kim Woo-gi together.
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** The logo is ''finally'' shown in episode 13, complete with a big "Subway" storefront sign, as the bereaved families of Flight B357 eat together.
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** The logo is ''finally'' shown in episode 13, complete with a big "Subway" storefront sign, as the bereaved families of Flight B357 eat together. There are several more instances of Subway being prominently featured in the remaining episodes, as if to make up for lost time.
** Episode 15 reveals that if you're driving a Hyundai SUV, you can choose special settings for different terrain! Dal-gun chooses "Muddy, Unpaved, Uneven Road" while driving to his rendezvous with President Jeong.
** Episode 15 reveals that if you're driving a Hyundai SUV, you can choose special settings for different terrain! Dal-gun chooses "Muddy, Unpaved, Uneven Road" while driving to his rendezvous with President Jeong.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Oh Sang-mi scrawls something in her own blood as she's dying in episode 15. Dal-gun eventually figures out that she was trying to draw the tattoo that he saw on Jerome's chest way back in episode 1.
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* SceneryCensor: Dal-gun gets so excited about figuring out Oh Sang-mi's dying message that he charges out of the shower, naked. Hae-ri's head hides his private area.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: In episode 15 Oh Sang-mi, bleeding out after a mook slashed her throat, has just enough time to gasp "Sa-ma-el" to Dal-gun (Samael being the code name of the BigBad) before she croaks.
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* KubrickStare: "Jerome", aka the guy who blew up the plane along with Woo-gi, does this when confronting Dal-gun at the end of episode 14.
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* PiggybackCute: In episode 14 Dal-gun uses Hae-ri's sore legs (she's slowly recovering from a gunshot wound) as an excuse to give her a piggyback ride.
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* YourMom: When Chief Min catches Kang in a restroom in episode 9, Kang having overpowered his captors, he sees Kang with his phone. He asks "Who were you calling?", and Kang answers "Your mother. I told her you were being a bad boy." (Kang was actually calling a newspaper reporter and telling him that Woo-gi the copilot is alive in Tangier, but a goon squad has been sent there to murder him.)
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* YourMom: When Chief Min catches Kang in a restroom in episode 9, Kang having overpowered his captors, he sees Kang with his phone. He asks "Who were you calling?", and Kang answers "Your mother. I told her you were being a bad boy." (Kang was actually calling a newspaper reporter and telling him that Woo-gi the copilot is alive in Tangier, but a goon squad has been sent there to murder him.))
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: By episode 13 it seems like the bulk of the story has been resolved. Kim Woo-gi has testified, John & Mark has been publicly exposed, Jessica is in prison, Chief Min has been arrested, Secretary Yoon is taking the fall. Hae-ri even calls the case "solved". But there are loose ends, like who sent the video that got Jessica arrested, and who was the mystery sniper taking shots at Lily, and just what was up with Dal-gun thinking that he saw supposedly dead Reporter Jo alive on the streets of Seoul. And of course there are [[invoked]][[SpoiledByTheFormat three episodes left]]. Sure enough, at the end of the episode Jessica sends Dal-gun his nephew's video from the fatal plane, and the mystery deepens.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: By episode 13 it seems like the bulk of the story has been resolved. Kim Woo-gi has testified, John & Mark has been publicly exposed, Jessica is in prison, Chief Min has been arrested, Secretary Yoon is taking the fall. Hae-ri even calls the case "solved". But there are loose ends, like who sent the video that got Jessica arrested, and who was the mystery sniper taking shots at Lily, and just what was up with Dal-gun thinking that he saw supposedly dead Reporter Jo alive on the streets of Seoul. And of course there are [[invoked]][[SpoiledByTheFormat three episodes left]]. Sure enough, at the end of the episode Jessica sends Dal-gun his nephew's video from the fatal plane, and the mystery deepens.
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* AnswerCut: Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, Chief Kang asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, laying flowers.
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** Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, Chief Kang asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, layingflowers.flowers.
** In episode 14 Hae-ri, told that Kim Woo-gi is in a hospital for drug addicts, asks "What hospital is it?". Cut to a hospital, where an alarm klaxon is going off while the loudspeaker announces that "Patient 114" has escaped.
** Upon being told in episode 3 that one Gi Tae-ung has ordered a security sweep of the NIS offices, Chief Kang asks "Where is that prick?". Cut to the man the audience has previously seen at a memorial, laying
** In episode 14 Hae-ri, told that Kim Woo-gi is in a hospital for drug addicts, asks "What hospital is it?". Cut to a hospital, where an alarm klaxon is going off while the loudspeaker announces that "Patient 114" has escaped.
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* CorruptPolitician: President Jeong, who took a five hundred million dollar bribe (!!) in return for giving the fighter plane contract to John & Mark.
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* DramaticDrop: President Jeong does this in episode 13, dropping the glass of bourbon in his hand when Dal-gun is shown on live TV, looking straight into a camera and accusing him of complicity in the B357 crash.
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** "Kiria" is not mentioned again until episode 12, when Jessica asks President Jeong about an oil-drilling operation in that country.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lily is an ice-cold assassin. But when Jessica orders her to shoot the innocent people surrounding Kim Woo-gi in episode 12, so that she can then shoot Kim Woo-gi herself, Lily refuses.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The big shootout in episode 8 has Lily's hit squad, pre-positioned on rooftops with automatic weapons, seemingly unable to hit any of the good guys, while the good guys (Tae-ung's team) are able to pick them off one at a time with pistols. Only Lily herself, wielding a rifle with a scope, can hit a target. (She shoots Woo-gi in the knee.)
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** The big shootout in episode 8 has Lily's hit squad, pre-positioned on rooftops with automatic weapons, seemingly unable to hit any of the good guys, while the good guys (Tae-ung's team) are able to pick them off one at a time with pistols. Only Lily herself, wielding a rifle with a scope, can hit a target. (She shoots Woo-gi in the knee.))
** Some more egregous examples in episode 12. An entire North Korean hit squad on the docks can't manage to shoot Dal-gun and the good guys once, despite pouring a hail of automatic weapon fire, even though the good guys with their pistols (and Chief Kang with a sniper rifle) nail the enemy with pinpoint precision. Then later in that same episode, the Seoul cops and the NIS goons unloose another storm of gunfire on the good guys and ''again'' hit no one. Once again Lily the assassin has a sniper rifle, and once again she only manages to wing Kim Woo-gi, this time in the arm.
** The big shootout in episode 8 has Lily's hit squad, pre-positioned on rooftops with automatic weapons, seemingly unable to hit any of the good guys, while the good guys (Tae-ung's team) are able to pick them off one at a time with pistols. Only Lily herself, wielding a rifle with a scope, can hit a target. (She shoots Woo-gi in the knee.
** Some more egregous examples in episode 12. An entire North Korean hit squad on the docks can't manage to shoot Dal-gun and the good guys once, despite pouring a hail of automatic weapon fire, even though the good guys with their pistols (and Chief Kang with a sniper rifle) nail the enemy with pinpoint precision. Then later in that same episode, the Seoul cops and the NIS goons unloose another storm of gunfire on the good guys and ''again'' hit no one. Once again Lily the assassin has a sniper rifle, and once again she only manages to wing Kim Woo-gi, this time in the arm.
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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: How Chief Kim eventually figures out that Michael was murdered: the gun was in his right hand but Kim knows Michael was a lefty.
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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: How Chief Kim Kang eventually figures out that Michael was murdered: the gun was in his right hand but Kim knows Michael was a lefty.
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* HisNameIs: Chief Min realizes there is a sniper taking aim at him and his fellow bad guys, and he asks his own sniper who the other sniper is, but Min's sniper has only time to say "It's--" before the bullet goes through his brain. It's Min's rival, Chief Kang.
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* ProductPlacement: Weirdly averted with Subway, a common product placement sponsor of Korean dramas. In one episode, Hae-ri's friend Hwa-sook is plainly eating at a Subway, and in another Lily the assassin and her sidekick are plainly drinking from Subway cups--the yellow and green color scheme is visible in each. Yet in both scenes the shot does not reveal the Subway logo.
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* ProductPlacement: Weirdly averted with Subway, a common product placement sponsor of Korean dramas. In one episode, Hae-ri's friend Hwa-sook is plainly eating at a Subway, and in another Lily the assassin and her sidekick are plainly drinking from Subway cups--the yellow and green color scheme is visible in each. Yet in both scenes the shot does not reveal the Subway logo. In several other shots throughout the series, characters are plainly eating and drinking Subway products, with the logo never shown.
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* SleepCute: The ship teasing gets strong in episode 3 when Hae-ri nods off on Dal-gun's shoulder during the long plane flight back to Korea from Morocco.
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** The ship teasing gets strong in episode 3 when Hae-ri nods off on Dal-gun's shoulder during the long plane flight back to Korea fromMorocco.Morocco.
** In episode 11 the two are sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a cargo ship. Hae-ri complains about Dal-gun's snoring and teeth-grinding...but when she falls asleep she wraps herself around him, to his discomfort.
** The ship teasing gets strong in episode 3 when Hae-ri nods off on Dal-gun's shoulder during the long plane flight back to Korea from
** In episode 11 the two are sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a cargo ship. Hae-ri complains about Dal-gun's snoring and teeth-grinding...but when she falls asleep she wraps herself around him, to his discomfort.
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* IdiotSavant: The delivery boy at Bullet Chicken (Kang's secret base and comms center) is mentally challenged and apparently autistic, but he's also a genius hacker. He masks Dal- gun and Hae-ri's IP location as the latter two are taking the boat back from Morocco.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Chief Min's confident assertion in episode 10 that there's no way the good guys could have escaped from Morocco, is instantly followed by Secretary Yoon entering and telling everyone that the good guys have escaped from Morocco (the crooked local cop who was working with the bad guys was killed).
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* TitleDrop: "Vagabond" is the TrustPassword that Chief Kang has set up as the secret base that only he and Tae-ung know about. Hwa-sook uses the password when calling an order to the chicken place in episode 9, so she can eventually transmit to Tae-ung in Morocco the word that the supposed replacement team sent to relieve them in Tangier, is actually a death squad sent kill Woo-gi and Dal-gun.
* TrustPassword: "Vagabond" is the password that Chief Kang uses at the chicken shop, which is his secret base and communication center.
* TrustPassword: "Vagabond" is the password that Chief Kang uses at the chicken shop, which is his secret base and communication center.
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* WithinArmsReach: In episode 3 a masked assassin is garroting Hae-ri. She pushes him backwards and they smash through her coffee table together, but he is able to maintain his grip on the garrote--until her flailing hand finds her letter opener on the floor. She stabs him in the leg with it and escapes.
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* WithinArmsReach: In episode 3 a masked assassin is garroting Hae-ri. She pushes him backwards and they smash through her coffee table together, but he is able to maintain his grip on the garrote--until her flailing hand finds her letter opener on the floor. She stabs him in the leg with it and escapes.escapes.
* YourMom: When Chief Min catches Kang in a restroom in episode 9, Kang having overpowered his captors, he sees Kang with his phone. He asks "Who were you calling?", and Kang answers "Your mother. I told her you were being a bad boy." (Kang was actually calling a newspaper reporter and telling him that Woo-gi the copilot is alive in Tangier, but a goon squad has been sent there to murder him.)
* YourMom: When Chief Min catches Kang in a restroom in episode 9, Kang having overpowered his captors, he sees Kang with his phone. He asks "Who were you calling?", and Kang answers "Your mother. I told her you were being a bad boy." (Kang was actually calling a newspaper reporter and telling him that Woo-gi the copilot is alive in Tangier, but a goon squad has been sent there to murder him.)
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The big shootout in episode 8 has Lily's hit squad, pre-positioned on rooftops with automatic weapons, seemingly unable to hit any of the good guys, while the good guys (Tae-ung's team) are able to pick them off one at a time with pistols. Only Lily herself, wielding a rifle with a scope, can hit a target. (She shoots Woo-gi in the knee.)
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* ShootTheFuelTank: In episode 8, Tae-ung manages to take out a good chunk of Lily's hit squad by shooting some fuel tanks that just happen to be there, sitting on a flatbed truck in the street.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: A big scene in episode 8 has Woo-gi the pilot going into heroin withdrawal symptoms. The good guys have a physical fight over whether to give Woo-gi a shot of morphine immediately, to avoid the chance of death, or to wait a bit until he gives up the name of who organized the bombing. The only problem with this is that opiate withdrawal, while agonizing, does not involve a chance of death.
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** Kim Woo-gi, the missing copilot, does this at the end of episode 7 when catching Dal-gun by surprise.
