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* EatTheDog: One troubling incident from Yi-kyung's childhood involve an older man kidnapping and eating a younger man's dog. (Dog eating being a thing that does happen in Korea.) After Yi-kyung became aware of this, she tried to set fire to the old man's apartment.
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* DramaticGunCock: Yi-kyung does this in the last episode as she points the gun at Santa.
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* ThankingTheViewer:
** Done as a gag in episode 9 when Mr. Kim puts Kyung-yi in a barrel and rolls her down a hill into a ravine. The show cuts to video game graphics of the barrel, and then a graphic saying "Game Over. Thank You For Watching Inspector Koo."
** Done for real, but again in video game style, at the end of the series, with a graphic that says "Thank You For Playing."
* VideoCredits: The series ends with video credits of all the main players, ending with Lee Young-ae's as she winks at the camera.
** Done as a gag in episode 9 when Mr. Kim puts Kyung-yi in a barrel and rolls her down a hill into a ravine. The show cuts to video game graphics of the barrel, and then a graphic saying "Game Over. Thank You For Watching Inspector Koo."
** Done for real, but again in video game style, at the end of the series, with a graphic that says "Thank You For Playing."
* VideoCredits: The series ends with video credits of all the main players, ending with Lee Young-ae's as she winks at the camera.
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It is a loose remake of ''Series/KillingEve''. Koo Kyung-yi is, as the series begins, a gamer who lives in a filthy apartment and plays shooting games online. She is approached by Na Je-hee, an insurance fraud investigator, because as it turns out, the unkempt, seemingly barely functional Kyung-yi is a highly skilled detective.
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It is a loose remake of ''Series/KillingEve''. Koo Kyung-yi (Lee Young-ae) is, as the series begins, a gamer who lives in a filthy apartment and plays shooting games online. She is approached by Na Je-hee, an insurance fraud investigator, because as it turns out, the unkempt, seemingly barely functional Kyung-yi is a highly skilled detective.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The last episode ends with the gang putting together their own private detective agency.
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* CreditsGag: The last scene of the series has the first client of the Koo Detective Agency come to the door. The client is played by Lee Young-ae, the same actress who starred in the series as Kyung-yi...but all glammed up with makeup and a flattering hairstyle as opposed to the dirty, disheveled look she sported as Kyung-yi throughout the series. Her appearance as the new client at the end is accompanied by a credit saying "Guest Appearance By Lee Young-ae."
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** When Kyung-yi and Yi-kyung meet (again) for the first time, Yi-kyung pulls Kyung-yi into a particular spot in the auditorium where the sun shines in the afternoon. She turns her face up and bathes in the warmth. In her last scene in the last episode, Yi-kyung cuts a meeting with her lawyer short so she can rush back to her prison cell and enjoy the brief moment where the sun shines through the bars and onto her face.
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* RiddleForTheAges: In the last episode, Yi-kyung says that Santa was the secret girlfriend of the drowned girl back in school, and that he was the one with her that day and kept silent, and if he'd told the truth then Kyung-yi's husband would never have come under suspicion and would never have killed himself. Near the end, Kyung-soo tells Kyung-yi that he scoured through yearbook phots and school records and can't find any evidence that it's true...but that it doesn't matter because they know Santa ''now'' and trust him as a good person and friend.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Once it's revealed that Kyung-yi sprung an elaborate trap on Yi-kyung, scenes that led up to that moment are replayed to show what was really going on. For example, the chemical attack on Director Sook was faked by Kyung-yi and the gang, with Director Sook's cooperation, so that Sook could get her head wrapped up in bandages which in turn allowed Kyung-yi to wrap ''her'' head up in bandages so she could impersonate Sook.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Once it's revealed that Kyung-yi sprung an elaborate trap on Yi-kyung, scenes that led up to that moment are replayed to show what was really going on. For example, the chemical attack on Director Sook was faked by Kyung-yi and the gang, with Director Sook's cooperation, so that Sook could get her head wrapped up in bandages which in turn allowed Kyung-yi to wrap ''her'' head up in bandages so she could impersonate Sook. Similarly, the scene where Kyung-soo angrily stalks out of the pizza place, looking like he was defecting from the team, was staged for Yi-kyung, whom Kyung-Soo and Kyung-yi knew were watching.
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** At the end of the series, when Kyung-soo shows up at the apartment to set up the private detective agency, it is again covered in garbage. A little bit later, when Kyung-yi comes over to Santa's place to give him a business card, she has to pull out a bunch of snack wrappers before she finds the card buried deep in her pocket.
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* TakingTheBullet: In episode 12 the ever-loyal Geon-wook dives in front of Yi-kyung and takes a bullet meant for her.
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* CallBack: Several in the last episode.
** Earlier in the series Je-hee tells the others she hid a sensitive memory stick in her refrigerator, because she says that's the safest place in the house. In the last episode Kyung-soo saves himself and Sung-tae from the bomb by diving into a freezer. When an astonished Je-hee opens the lid he reminds her that she said refrigerators were the safest place.
** Earlier in the series Je-hee tells the others she hid a sensitive memory stick in her refrigerator, because she says that's the safest place in the house. In the last episode Kyung-soo saves himself and Sung-tae from the bomb by diving into a freezer. When an astonished Je-hee opens the lid he reminds her that she said refrigerators were the safest place.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Once it's revealed that Kyung-yi sprung an elaborate trap on Yi-kyung, scenes that led up to that moment are replayed to show what was really going on. For example, the chemical attack on Director Sook was faked by Kyung-yi and the gang, with Director Sook's cooperation, so that Sook could get her head wrapped up in bandages which in turn allowed Kyung-yi to wrap ''her'' head up in bandages so she could impersonate Sook.
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* MoodDissonance: Yi-kyung is a sociopath who murders out of a deep-seated need to kill--but she is ''also'' a cheerful, high-energy GenkiGirl who is all about big smiles and a positive attitude. This just serves to make her villainy all the more chilling. In one scene she's strung up a reporter with wire, leaving the man standing straight up and just barely able to not strangle to death. Yi-kyung then plays a karaoke K-pop tune and insists that the man sing, which he does.
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* OffstageVillainy: The gardener at Director Sook's mansion is apparently running some sort of horrifying torture/murder chamber in the basement. When Yi-kyung is briefly held there, the words "Just kill me" and "Help" are written in blood on the wall, and when Yi-kyung regains consciousness on the floor (she was drugged) she finds a human tooth stuck to her cheek. The gardener is in the middle of setting up an ElectricTorture rig when Yi-kyung bashes him with a brick and makes her escape.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Kyung-yi is cooperative enough to get in the trunk of Mr. Kim's car herself in episode 9. But she's irritated at the KnockoutGas that apparently fills the trunk after it's closed.
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** Kyung-yi is cooperative enough to get in the trunk of Mr. Kim's car herself in episode 9. But she's irritated at the KnockoutGas that apparently fills the trunk after it's closed.
** Kyung-yi is cooperative enough to get in the trunk of Mr. Kim's car herself in episode 9. But she's irritated at the KnockoutGas that apparently fills the trunk after it's closed.
** In episode 11 this is how Kyung-yi and Je-hee deliver Hyun-tae, the wastrel and sociopath, to his mother Director Sook. Sook is so infuriated with him that she briefly shuts him back in the trunk.
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* SleepingDummy: Yi-kyung escapes from the dungeon in episode 10 by bundling up clothes and blankets to make it look like she's in bed. When the gardener/jailer opens the cell door, she bashes him on the head with a rock.
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* SleepingDummy: Yi-kyung escapes from the dungeon in episode 10 by bundling up clothes and blankets to make it look like she's in bed. When the gardener/jailer opens the cell door, she bashes him on the head with a rock.brick.
* SpitTake: In episode 11, Director Sook does that Korean kneel-and-beg thing where she promises to let Kyung-yi do anything she wants as long as Kyung-yi protects her son from being murdered. Mr. Kim, Director Sook's main enforcer, does an epic spit take with his drink when he sees his hardass boss do this.
* SpitTake: In episode 11, Director Sook does that Korean kneel-and-beg thing where she promises to let Kyung-yi do anything she wants as long as Kyung-yi protects her son from being murdered. Mr. Kim, Director Sook's main enforcer, does an epic spit take with his drink when he sees his hardass boss do this.
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Every episode opens with a cartoon in anime-style where one woman chases another woman around. Episodes also end with a spin on the cartoon that usually has something to do with the episode just completed.
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* KubrickStare: Yi-kyung does this at the end of episode 11 when she unwraps the bandages on the person in the wheelchair and realizes that it is Inspector Koo, not Director Sook as she had thought. This expression of rage is particularly effective since for almost the entire series Yi-kyung projects an air of peppy, smiling cheerfulness, despite being a sociopathic serial killer.
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* MurderByInaction: How Joon-hyun met his death in the backstory, as revealed by an Episode 10 flashback. An intoxicated Joon-hyun fell off Hyun-tae's yacht, and Hyun-tae watched him drown instead of throwing a life preserver.
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* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-yi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.
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* TheVoiceless: "Santa", Kyung-yi's video game friend who becomes her sidekick and driver when she starts investigating again. Although able to talk he almost never does; when he needs to say something he uses a voice app on his phone.phone. (In one episode, when he's alone, he's cheerfully singing. In another, he speaks when he has to impersonate a security guard.)
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* SleepingDummy: Yi-kyung escapes from the dungeon in episode 10 by bundling up clothes and blankets to make it look like she's in bed. When the gardener/jailer opens the cell door, she bashes him on the head with a rock.
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* ParkingGarage: Santa's radar pings when Yi-kyung walks past him in a parking garage in episode 4--she is dressed like a garbagewoman but she smells of perfume. A long foot chase ensues but eventually Yi-kyung gets away.
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** Santa's radar pings when Yi-kyung walks past him in a parking garage in episode 4--she is dressed like a garbagewoman but she smells of perfume. A long foot chase ensues but eventually Yi-kyung getsaway.away.
** Mr. Kim, Sook's enforcer, confronts Je-hee in episode 10 in a parking garage, cutting her off and demanding to know why she didn't reveal that Kyung-yi is alive. Je-hee plays it off, telling Mr. Kim that he's the one in trouble for bungling the murder.
** Santa's radar pings when Yi-kyung walks past him in a parking garage in episode 4--she is dressed like a garbagewoman but she smells of perfume. A long foot chase ensues but eventually Yi-kyung gets
** Mr. Kim, Sook's enforcer, confronts Je-hee in episode 10 in a parking garage, cutting her off and demanding to know why she didn't reveal that Kyung-yi is alive. Je-hee plays it off, telling Mr. Kim that he's the one in trouble for bungling the murder.
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* PowerHair: Je-hee the hard-charging career woman has the short bob with hard edges that hard-charging career women are supposed to have.
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* ShoutOut: In episode 10 the journalist is sheltered in a tiny room belonging to one of Kyung-yi's computer buddies, and given a plate of dumplings. He sarcastically asks if he'll have to stay there fifteen years and eat a live octopus when he leaves. That is the plot of classic Korean thriller ''Film/{{Oldboy|2003}}''.
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** This rule gets shakier in later episodes when Yi-kyung gets more unhinged after her aunt's death. In one episode she kills a woman for being drunk and disorderly at a cafe (and throwing a shoe into Yi-kyung's soup).
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* BodyInABreadbox: Subverted in episode 10. A body in a moving box is delivered to Geon-wook's apartment. All the men freak out, but Kyung-yi doesn't, because she can tell the person inside the box isn't dead. It's the reporter, who Yi-kyung drugged before stuffing him in the box.
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* MatchCut: Episode 3 has Je-hee's father picking up and cuddling his granddaughter, Je-hee's daughter--cut to Director Sook the charity director cuddling a small child for press photos.
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** Episode 3 has Je-hee's father picking up and cuddling his granddaughter, Je-hee's daughter--cut to Director Sook the charity director cuddling a small child for pressphotos.photos.
** Episode 9 has Yi-kyung flat on her back after having fallen from an electrified fence--cut to Kyung-yi flat on her back, having fallen into a net near the bottom of the dumpster cylinder.
** Episode 3 has Je-hee's father picking up and cuddling his granddaughter, Je-hee's daughter--cut to Director Sook the charity director cuddling a small child for press
** Episode 9 has Yi-kyung flat on her back after having fallen from an electrified fence--cut to Kyung-yi flat on her back, having fallen into a net near the bottom of the dumpster cylinder.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Kyung-yi is cooperative enough to get in the trunk of Mr. Kim's car herself in episode 9. But she's irritated at the KnockoutGas that apparently fills the trunk after it's closed.
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* ModelPlanning: In episode 7 the gang uses a model of the upcoming robotics showcase to ponder how Yi-kyung plans to kill Ko Dam at the robotics showcase, and how they can stop her. They even have a little toy robot with Ko Dam's picture on it.
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* ThePigPen: Kyung-yi. When Je-hee comes to fetch her in episode 1, Kyung-yi's apartment is covered in filth and garbage, her computer is full of roaches, and Kyung-yi herself is so dirty that flies are buzzing around her. In episode 2, she thinks nothing of diving into a dumpster and then ambling home.
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* ThePigPen: Kyung-yi. When Je-hee comes to fetch her in episode 1, Kyung-yi's apartment is covered in filth and garbage, her computer is full of roaches, and Kyung-yi herself is so dirty that flies are buzzing around her. In episode 2, she thinks nothing of diving into a dumpster and then ambling home. Of course, the show eventually reveals that Kyung-yi's lack of personal hygiene is part of a sort of collapse of personality that took place after her husband's suicide.
