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* ThankingTheViewer: "Thank you for watching ''Flower of Evil''" appears onscreen at the end of the series.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Hyun-soo brings one with a hundred million won ($100K) to the meeting with the human traffickers. He has also hidden a listening device in it.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
** Hyun-soo brings one with a hundred million won ($100K) to the meeting with the human traffickers. He has also hidden a listening device init.it.
** Real Hee-sung brings one with five hundred million won ($500K) to pay off Sang-chul's blackmail command. What Sang-chul, who has a weird MoneyFetish, doesn't know is that the cash has been dusted with rat poison. Sang-chul smells the money, as is his wont, and dies.
** Hyun-soo brings one with a hundred million won ($100K) to the meeting with the human traffickers. He has also hidden a listening device in
** Real Hee-sung brings one with five hundred million won ($500K) to pay off Sang-chul's blackmail command. What Sang-chul, who has a weird MoneyFetish, doesn't know is that the cash has been dusted with rat poison. Sang-chul smells the money, as is his wont, and dies.
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* SinisterSwitchblade: In an episode 14 flashback, Real Hee-sung suggests to Do Min-seok that they ask Hyun-soo to dispose of an inconvenient victim. A pissed-off Min-seok then jabs a knife into Real Hee-sung's gut...but the switchblade is still retracted. Min-seok then holds the switchblade in front of Real Hee-sung's face and ''then'' flicks it out, to make the point that Real Hee-sung will be dead if he doesn't follow orders.
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** Eventually it's revealed that the real second psychopath, and Min-seok's murder partner back in the day, was Real Hee-sung. Min-seok recognized him a fellow spirit who also enjoyed killing, and took him in as a murder partner.
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* EasyAmnesia: Jung Mi-suk's fate, as revealed when she turns up alive in episode 13. She doesn't remember anything of her life before she was attacked by Do Min-seok's apprentice.
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* PlotTwist: Episode 13 drops a a big bomb: Jung Mi-suk, the last victim of the Yeonju serial killer whose body was never found, the one taken by the accomplice--isn't dead. She's locked un in a mental asylum.
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* ConvenientComa: Real Hee-sung wakes up from 15 years in a coma. After just a couple of days, not only is he up and around he is back to murdering people.
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* ProductPlacement: In episode 12 Ji-won's supervisor says that everyone needs to keep up their health, so he gives out packets of some Korean health drink. The labels on the packets and the box are clearly shown, and another detective complains because he wants two.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: Jae-sub, after making it clear that he knows everything, decides not to arrest "Hee-sung" or expose his true identity as fugitive Do Hyun-soo. He doesn't think Hyun-soo is a murderer, and anyway, the village foreman deserved to get killed.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: Jae-sub (Ji-sun's partner) considers how the Do house was burned in order to erase fingerprints, photos, evidence--but how the knife that killed the village foreman was found in Do Hyun-soo's backpack, with his textbooks, ''and'' with a button from his school uniform. Jae-sub says that excessive amount of evidence makes him think that Hyun-soo didn't actually do it.
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* BlackmailBackfire: The Baek family's maid quits, and gets the bright idea to demand a large cash payment in return for not telling the secrets she knows about them. This is immediately followed by Real Hee-sung strangling her to death.
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* HumanTraffickers: Hee-sung's hunt for the accomplice leads him to get mixed up with some scary human traffickers in episodes 9 and 10. They have three victims BoundAndGagged in a cell and are offering $10,000 for a person to buy one and do--anything, presumably.
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* HumanTraffickers: Hee-sung's hunt for the accomplice leads him to get mixed up with some scary human traffickers in episodes 9 and 10. They have three victims BoundAndGagged in a cell and are offering $10,000 for a person to buy one and do--anything, presumably. As it turns out, one of the things they were doing was providing victims to the Yeonjin serial killers.
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* DramaticThunder: Some over-the-top thunder and lightning used for the big dramatic confrontation in episode 12. Mi-ja finds her son's {{Creepy Souvenir}}s and realizes that he's a SerialKiller. Then, as the thunder rumbles and the rain pours, she goes outside to find Real Hee-sung digging a hole in the yard to bury Hyun-soo (who isn't even dead!). She stabs Real Hee-sung with his own murder knife, which as it turns out is the reason why Real Hee-sung spent 15 years in a coma.
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* CreepySouvenir: The Yeonjin City serial killer took the thumbnails of his victims. Then the killer of Jung Mi-sook, who was apparently Do Min-seok's accomplice, took her distinctive keychain with the drawing of the fish.
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* CreepySouvenir: CreepySouvenir:
** The Yeonjin City serial killer took the thumbnails of his victims. Then the killer of Jung Mi-sook, who was apparently Do Min-seok's accomplice, took her distinctive keychain with the drawing of thefish.fish.
** Episode 12 reveals that the real Hee-sung kept the other set of thumbnails (only half were found in Min-seok's basement), as well as a bloody knife and Polaroids of a bound-and-gagged victim.
** The Yeonjin City serial killer took the thumbnails of his victims. Then the killer of Jung Mi-sook, who was apparently Do Min-seok's accomplice, took her distinctive keychain with the drawing of the
** Episode 12 reveals that the real Hee-sung kept the other set of thumbnails (only half were found in Min-seok's basement), as well as a bloody knife and Polaroids of a bound-and-gagged victim.
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* ClickHello: Sang-chul the human trafficker has Hyun-soo tied up in the office, and has doused the whole office with gasoline. While standing in the doorway, he holds out a lighter and flicks it on, and then a hand sticks a gun behind his ear and clicks back the hammer. It's Ji-won, riding to the rescue.
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* HandyCuffs: Ji-won makes the TV and movie cop mistake of handcuffing a suspect in the front in episode 9. This allows that suspect to climb out a window in an attempt to escape (which means the suspect takes a long fall off the balcony).
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* HandyCuffs: HandyCuffs:
** Ji-won makes the TV and movie cop mistake of handcuffing a suspect in the front in episode 9. This allows that suspect to climb out a window in an attempt to escape (which means the suspect takes a long fall off thebalcony).balcony).
** In episode 11 a random cop does this with Sang-chul at the hospital. This allows Sang-chul to strangle the cop and make his escape.
** Ji-won makes the TV and movie cop mistake of handcuffing a suspect in the front in episode 9. This allows that suspect to climb out a window in an attempt to escape (which means the suspect takes a long fall off the
** In episode 11 a random cop does this with Sang-chul at the hospital. This allows Sang-chul to strangle the cop and make his escape.
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** Then there's Hee-sung himself, who has to mimic human emotions. In episode 4 a ruefu Moo-jin says that all the ignorant villagers thought that Do Hyun-soo was "possessed", when Moo-jin now understands that he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy).
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** Then there's Hee-sung Hyun-soo himself, who has to mimic human emotions. In episode 4 a ruefu Moo-jin says that all the ignorant villagers thought that Do Hyun-soo was "possessed", when Moo-jin now understands that he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy). Ultimately, this is subverted when the show makes plain that Hyun-soo is not a sociopath at all, but is suffering from a mixture of childhood trauma, abuse and harassment from everyone who knew him, and a misdiagnosis from an incompetent psychiatrist.
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* TheReveal: Episode 3 ends with Hee-sung's father going through a fake closet into a hidden room, and revealing the ''real'' Hee-sung, presumably his real son, who is in a coma.
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* TheReveal: TheReveal:
** Episode 3 ends with Hee-sung's father going through a fake closet into a hidden room, and revealing the ''real'' Hee-sung, presumably his real son, who is in acoma.coma.
** And the big reveal, in episode 11, is that the real Hee-sung, in a coma some 15 years, was Min-seok's accomplice in serial murder.
** Episode 3 ends with Hee-sung's father going through a fake closet into a hidden room, and revealing the ''real'' Hee-sung, presumably his real son, who is in a
** And the big reveal, in episode 11, is that the real Hee-sung, in a coma some 15 years, was Min-seok's accomplice in serial murder.
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* ParkingGarage: Moo-jin the reporter is chased into a parking garage by a homicidal human trafficking goon in episode 11. He crawls under a car to hide, and the goon finds him, but Moo-jin is rescued by the cops just in time.
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Cha Ji-won and Baek Hee-sung have what seems, at first, to be the perfect marriage. Theirs is a loving relationship that also boasts a healthy sex life. They have a little daughter, Eun-ha, who is cute as cute can be. Ji-won has a thriving career as a police detective, where she runs her own three-cop squad. Hee-sung is a smith who crafts custom-made steel items; the family lives over his workshop.
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Cha Ji-won and Baek Hee-sung have what seems, at first, to be the perfect marriage. Theirs is a loving relationship that also boasts a healthy sex life. They have a little daughter, Eun-ha, who is cute as cute can be. Ji-won has a thriving career as a police detective, where she runs her own three-cop squad.squad at the Violent Crimes Unit. Hee-sung is a smith who crafts custom-made steel items; the family lives over his workshop.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Hyun-soo brings one with a hundred million won ($100K) to the meeting with the human traffickers. He has also hidden a listening device in it.
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* RooftopConfrontation: For the big showdown in episode 11, when Detective Jae-seop, who has figured out that Ji-won knows the truth about her husband, confronts her with this fact. The rooftop is a private place but it also allows the movie to show the lights of Seoul at night.
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* OldFlame: Moo-jin and Hae-soo. He was crazy about her back in the day when they were teenagers, but he ditched her after her father was exposed as a serial killer. In 2020 Moo-jin meets drop-dead gorgeous Hae-soo again and is once more head over heels for her, so eager to please that he does stuff like change out her lightbulbs. She is more standoffish, remembering how he dumped her 18 years ago at her moment of crisis.
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* SerialKiller: Do Min-seok in the back story, who committed seven murders in Yeonjin before killing himself.
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* SerialKiller: Do Min-seok in the back story, who committed seven murders in Yeonjin before killing himself. The present day investigation reveals that he must have had an accomplice, and Hee-sung/Hyun-soo is determined to prove that it wasn't him.
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* PensieveFlashback: In episode 10 Hae-soo goes under hypnosis in an effort to remember the mystery man at her father's funeral, the one who was almost certainly an accomplice. The hypnosis session is presented as a Pensieve flashback, with Hae-soo in her own memory looking at her younger self.
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* TheSpeechless: Man-woo and Mi-ja hired as their maid a deaf-mute woman, and specifically one that can't even read lips. They did so to make it harder for a servant to rat them out, although the maid ''does'' know that they were keeping a comatose person in a hidden room.
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No connection to manga ''Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil''.
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No connection to manga ''Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil''.
''Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil'', or Korean manhwa ''Manhwa/FlowersOfEvil''.
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Meanwhile, a reporter, Moo-jin, walks into Hee-sung's shop. Moo-jin recognizes him and knows that his name is actually Do Hyun-soo. Moo-jin also knows that Hyun-soo is the son of Do Min-seok, a notorious SerialKiller from Yeonju City who committed suicide before he was caught--and that Hyun-Soo himself is wanted for the murder of Yeonju City's foreman, which happened after the serial killings. In fact, "Hee-sung" has been a fugitive living under a fake identity for 18 years. Hee-sung/Hyun-soo reacts to this by strangling Moo-jin into unconciousness, and locking him in the basement....
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Meanwhile, a reporter, Moo-jin, walks into Hee-sung's shop. Moo-jin recognizes him and knows that his name is actually Do Hyun-soo. Moo-jin also knows that Hyun-soo is the son of Do Min-seok, a notorious SerialKiller from Yeonju City who committed suicide before he was caught--and that Hyun-Soo himself is wanted for the murder of Yeonju City's foreman, which happened after the serial killings. In fact, "Hee-sung" has been a fugitive living under a fake identity for 18 15 years. Hee-sung/Hyun-soo reacts to this by strangling Moo-jin into unconciousness, and locking him in the basement....
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: The first good look at SerialKiller Do Min-seok comes in a flashback at the end of episode 3, when he suddenly appears in an ImagineSpot, urging his son to kill Nam Soon-kil. Min-seok is shown to have all-black eyes. Min-seok continues to appear as a hallucination in his son's flashback, always with completely blacked-out eyes.
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: The first good look at SerialKiller Do Min-seok comes in a flashback at the end of episode 3, when he suddenly appears in an ImagineSpot, urging his son to kill Nam Soon-kil. Min-seok is shown to have all-black eyes. Min-seok continues to appear as a hallucination in his son's flashback, flashbacks, always with completely blacked-out eyes.
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* WeddingRingRemoval: Ji-won takes off her wedding ring in episode 8, as she resolves to follow the Yeonjin murder investigation where it goes, even if it leads to her husband.
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* WeddingRingRemoval: Ji-won takes off her wedding ring in episode 8, as she resolves has decided to follow the Yeonjin murder investigation where it goes, even if it leads break up with her husband for lying to her husband.for their whole marriage. She soon changes her mind and by episode 10 Hee-sung notices that she has the ring back on.
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Meanwhile, a reporter, Moo-jin, walks into Hee-sung's shop. Moo-jin recognizes him and knows that his name is actually Do Hyun-soo. Moo-jin also knows that Hyun-soo is the son of Do Min-seok, a notorious SerialKiller from Yeonju City who committed suicide before he was caught--and that Hyun-Soo himself is wanted for the murder of Yeonju City's foreman, which happened after the serial killings. Hee-sung/Hyun-soo reacts to this by strangling Moo-jin into unconciousness, and locking him in the basement....
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Meanwhile, a reporter, Moo-jin, walks into Hee-sung's shop. Moo-jin recognizes him and knows that his name is actually Do Hyun-soo. Moo-jin also knows that Hyun-soo is the son of Do Min-seok, a notorious SerialKiller from Yeonju City who committed suicide before he was caught--and that Hyun-Soo himself is wanted for the murder of Yeonju City's foreman, which happened after the serial killings. In fact, "Hee-sung" has been a fugitive living under a fake identity for 18 years. Hee-sung/Hyun-soo reacts to this by strangling Moo-jin into unconciousness, and locking him in the basement....
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* HumanTraffickers: Hee-sung's hunt for the accomplice leads him to get mixed up with some scary human traffickers in episodes 9 and 10. They have three victims BoundAndGagged in a cell and are offering $10,000 for a person to buy one and do--anything, presumably.
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* HandyCuffs: Ji-won makes the TV and movie cop mistake of handcuffing a suspect in the front in episode 9. This allows that suspect to climb out a window in an attempt to escape (which means the suspect takes a long fall off the balcony).
