10.070 minSeason 1 • Episode 16
LatestJoong Yeop recovers from his injuries and immediately wants to go stop Hyo Kyung. Jae Hwan goes to the broadcasting station to find Hyo Kyung, but he hears that she has already resigned from her position. Jae Hwan continues to track Hyo Kyung down, but when they finally come face-to-face, she already seems to have an ending in mind.
Chimera incident, a serial murder and explosion crime that shook the year of 1984, takes place exactly the same thirty five years later in 2019. Just like the terrible explosion in the past, the murder of the crime is called Chimera, a monster in the Greek myth with the head of a lion, body as a goat, and tail as a snake that shoots fire through its throat.
Acting
Park Hae-soo simmers with wrecked determination
Writing
Dual timeline structure that actually earns its weight
Park Hae-soo
Cha Jae-hwan
Claudia Kim
Eugene Hathaway
Lee Hee-jun
Lee Joong-yub
Cha Joo-young
Kim Hyo-kyung
Jung Young-ki
Im Pil-seong
Yoon Ji-won
Jang Ha-na
Woo Hyeon
Baek Seung-gwan
Nam Kee-ae
Cha Eun-soo
Kang Shin-il
Han Ju-seok
Lee Ki-young
Seo Hyun-tae
Kwon Hyuk-hyun
Lee Gun-young
Kim Gwi-seon
Lee Min-ki
Kim Ji-hoon
Cho Han-cheol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The chimera myth here weaponizes Korean anxieties about hidden violence in institutional respectability—doctors, cops, fathers.
Park Hae-soo filmed this between 'Prison Playbook' and 'Squid Game'; Cha Jae-hwan's controlled desperation became his signature.
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