Tell Me What You Saw is a Korean Drama which aired in 2020.
Tell Me What You Saw contains examples of:
- Boyish Short Hair: Team leader Hwang Ha-Young.
- Conspicuously Public Assassination: A famous profiler is killed in front of his live TV show audience.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Most of the deaths in the show.
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Daydream Surprise: Oh Hyun-Jae is shown to be strangled by The Guy, but in reality it was all in his imagination.
- Destroy the Evidence: The chief of the Regional Investigations Unit is shown to have tampered with evidence.
- High on Homicide
- Internal Reveal: The Guy's identity has already been revealed to the audience before it's revealed to the characters.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: In the final episode, The Guy tells Oh Hyun-Jae that they are similar, since they apparently both enjoy the "thrill of murder", when Oh Hyun-Jae is about to kill him. In the end, he doesn't.
- Mask of Sanity: Dong-Shik is revealed to be totally insane, during his last phone call with Soo-Young.
- Murder-Suicide: Hwang Ha-Young believes that Oh Hyun-Jae will follow with this plan, if he isn't stopped.
- No Animals Were Harmed: At the end of every episode which includes animals.
- Not Quite Dead: The Guy is revealed to not be dead, after 5 years during which he was officially believed to be.
- Parental Abandonment: The Guy was abandoned by his father.
- Photographic Memory: One of the main tropes concerning Soo-Young. After a traumatic event in her past, she realizes she has photographic memory.
- Reveal Shot: a camera shot from a throwback makes the shocking reveal of who The Guy actually is.
- Replacement Goldfish: a mother tries to fill in the void of her deceased son by pretending that another child is her son.
- Rewind, Replay, Repeat: Happens during each episode, with the help of Soo-Young's photographic memory.
- Serial Killer
- Sherlock Scan
- Stalker Shot: A killer is shown to be stalking Cha Soo-Young, from his point of view.
- "Stop the Hero" Twist: Cha Soo-Yong demands from her fellow team members to assist her in stopping Hyun-Jae's seemingly harmful intentions.
- * The Bad Guys Are Cops
- Trauma Button: Ha-Young loses herself after opening a mail which triggered her past trauma
