Does anyone else feel relieved that the show is over? The obsession created by watching live and theorizing all the day was suffocating in the end. I hope those posts were the last. I need to move on.

It was the weakest episode from all the show: there were problems in the writing and the editing which completely spoiled the quality of the ensemble, and affected the quality of the show overall since it was the conclusion. It's just a pity that the show ended on a minor note compared to what have been served to us until now.

@bedifferent was right: the format of 90 min didn’t work at all. It was too long for an episode without real tension past the first 40 min necessary to show the suicide of LCJ and the fall of LYB. The long homage to every little character felt interminable: I really didn’t feel the need to see again Ga Young or Chief police Kim, didn’t care about Yeo Jin and Detective Jang promotion, and Dong Jae’s scenes could have been cut without damage though at least he always brings some fun by his tricks.

I feel frustrated by this problem of timing: the writer chose to cut off answers about Eun Soo’s death and rushed LCJ’s storyline because she lacked time (i suppose she didn’t do it by lack of interest) but took her time to give us unnecessary send off for minor secondary characters? How disappointing.

It seemed to me that this episode was disconnected from the rest because a new storyline surfaced with LCJ and Yoon masterplan, under the classic “who did it” mystery and I felt that this story centered on LCJ, Yoon, Eun Soo and Young Il’s Jae past was screaming to be told and looked so much more intriguing than what we got. I just wanted the writer to drop what she was saying and to come back where those characters were at the beginning, 3 years ago.

Instead i had to suffer to see the writer butchered LCJ’storyline: that was a larger than life character, incredibly charismatic, fascinating because of his contradictions: always brilliant whatever he did and chose to be, in capacity to fall very hard for the dark side and at the same time still holding his values so high that he could go to the most extreme attitudes to prove that the fight is still worth, be it in legal of illegal way. A man who was passionate about everything concerning justice and truth though he didn’t serve it always, a man that couldn’t control his ambition, couldn’t control his love, couldn’t control his guilt and his desire of redemption but control his end to the last detail. Such a narcissic character, such a complex of superiority, such despair and sadness.

Who the hell told the writer it was ok to limit his arc to the first half of the last episode? It was a real blow to see his last confrontation with LYB reduced to a phone call, though he had the best dialogues of the episode in this scene. His rise and fall and redemption arc should have taken all the show.

In comparison, Shi Mok looked so small and petty: I can’t anymore see why he was made the main protagonist over the fact that LCJ needed him to execute his plan. He made such big mistakes of judgement: took Yoon in his team, refused to warn Eun Soo about the umbrella man leading her to her death, came so late to suspect LCJ despite Eun Soo’s warnings, than the man had the time to execute his plan and to took his life before being caught. However he got all the praise and fame for catching the criminals and keeping his promise to comeback on tv.

I still don’t get why he can be allowed to call LCJ a monster when he is the one with a lobotomy which protected him for most of his life from temptation and regrets, so basically from humanity. At least LCJ lived and failed, tried again differently and made a big impact after his death too. He might have taken a life with PMS, but only because everything else failed to give Justice to the children died and their family. However how knows how many lives did he save by revealing all the scandals that he revealed? How many car accidents involving children did he prevent? We’ll never know. The man couldn’t be call a monster when he cares about the victims more than Shi Mok has ever cared. The true monsters were LYB and PMS and all who follow them without a regret.

I lost all interest for Shi Mok and hated how Eun Soo’s death was used to explain his feelings after ep 13. I prefer to think like the doctor said that his new crisis was because he was under a big stress: his failures in work kept piling up like the end of the investigation team, a new murder. However I believe in the character development offered in two very important moments of this episode:

when he returned on tv and got to apologize in the name if his institution for not fulfilling its mission. His 1st time on TV was all about showing off: making himself look good by saving Eun Soo’s reputation and promising to catch the killer. This time, I could sense after the two big losses that happened, that he learnt a lesson of humility: he made his appearance all about the institution and its mission to serve people, and talked about the respect of the Constitutional Law, which made Young Il Jae very proud in very his short scene at home.
In his last scene 10 month after his new affectation: the show didn’t gave much recognition to Eun Soo and LCJ but I felt they left a legacy through the way they influenced Shi Mok’s in learning to trust people and to stay true to his ideals. The way he reminisced about the 1st time he saw LCJ in a court and the way he looked at Eun Soo’s pic after such a long time really cemented the idea that he has been transformed by those persons. It’s very little considering that they were better persons than him but it’s all that we got, so…



I dislike everything about his relationship with Yeo Jin so I’m pissed that the show gave them an happy ending in their personal and professional lives.

Yeo Jin got promoted for basically doing the job for which she was already paid for, so there was no merit here. It’s good however that she won the respect of her team after being put on the side for so long. She developed finally some flaws: her anger against Yoon showed her refusal to forgive. I felt she was so immature in the way she reacted to Bongju’s gift, basically like a teen and she was so insensitive to put the lipstick to go seduce another man. What did he do to her to be disrespected in this way? With all the luxury outfits that she constantly wears, she can’t afford a proper lipstick?

I feel that the "date" was a total failure for her: she basically threw herself at Shi Mok in a very direct way and he turned her down by missing voluntarily or involuntarily all the clues. The end of their conversation was slowly fading away as she realized that he wasn’t going to admit the attraction/that she was pretty. I don’t feel like he kept in touch during his 10 month away, but he kept the drawing on his desk. Maybe to not forget to smile. Maybe to not forgot her. It’s an open ending on this point. But personally I will never get what could be compelling in a romance so lacking in passion and sexual tension. They looked like an old couple before even trying.

I felt sorry for Yoon: the actor got to shine after his arrest in some very excellent emotional scenes, but it was cruel to make the character feel again so late in his story, after he committed all his bad deeds. He started to breathe again when he took a place in the team and got to do the legal work that he has always wanted to do to catch the corrupted. And he met Eun Soo. I’m certain that there was more than respect for a coworker in the way he reacted to her: from his help for getting the testimony who cleared her father, to their interactions in the kitchen before she saw the tattoo, to the way he cried her death and he tried to chase her killer at the airport. That was lot of feelings for a man who the heart was empty. I will forever miss what could have been between them.

I don’t believe the death of Eun Soo was an” accident”: secretary Woo wanted to kill her because he thought she was his face that night at Shi Mok’s appartment. I’m so happy we got to see LYB slapped him violently. His only good action in the all show. And I will never forgive Shi Mok for not sharing the info and not warning her about the danger. He abandoned her to death.

I’m mad too that we lost so much space and time in her useless relationship with Shi Mok and that we didn’t get to see her in more scenes with her father and LCJ. Her outburst in his office is one of my favourite scene of the show: the acting and writing/dialogues were on top level. I wish she could had a real relationship with LCJ, one that could have evolved since the actors really bring something powerful in their confrontation. Or at least, since that they both died while trying to reveal the truth, I would have liked a parallel between their fate and how they related to Young Il Jae. It was poignant and moving that Eun Soo’s death was important enough for LCJ to confront his father in Law, especially when she never trusted him. He was invested in arresting the culprit, did some research and sent Yoon to the airport, probably because he really took at heart Young Il Jae’s accusation. But I don’t think he won back the affection of his ancient mentor. Something was broken between them I think.

That's long: keeping my review for the show for later/one day..