In Channel A‘s Sat-Sun drama ‘The Witch’, Park Jin-young’s detective friend Lim Jae-hyuk was also followed by the same ‘Law of Death’ as Noh Jeong-ui. Attention is focused on the final episode today (16th) due to the shocking plot twist.

In episode 9 of Channel A‘s Sat-Sun drama ‘The Witch’, which aired on the 15th, the process in which detective friend Jung-hyuk (Lim Jae-hyuk) tracks down Dong-jin (Park Jin-young), who disappeared after leaving behind only a short message saying, “I’m going to her”, was portrayed with a sense of tension. The first to realize that Dong-jin‘s disappearance was unusual was Eun-sil (Jang Hee-ryeong). Jung-hyuk, who went out to find Dong-jin after Eun-sil said, “Mr. Lee Dong-jin has gone missing. He might be dead”, visited the company he used to work for. However, he confirmed that he had already resigned 5 months ago, saying that he had something he had to do. There were also traces left by Dong-jin. He asked that his personal belongings that were left at the company be sent to his new home.

Junghyuk, who went to Dongjin’s house, found several clues. First, the house manager (played by Park Bo-kyung) told him an anecdote about Dongjin insisting on room 602, which caused trouble for the convenience store worker (played by Lee Hyun-so) who lived there. The worker told him that Dongjin stayed at home every day, but worked at the mart once a week. Junghyuk followed the clue and went to the mart, where he heard a meaningful story from the owner, Mi-soon (played by Yoo Yeon): “A gentle-looking person was always getting hurt here and there.” In the past few months, it was clear that something had happened to Dongjin, and he disappeared, leaving clues for Junghyuk as if he were a mystery.

And soon, he came to a crucial clue: “Park Mi-jeong (played by Noh Jeong-ui).” Usually, looking at a person‘s bookshelf reveals their interests or tendencies, but Dongjin’s bookshelf was somewhat different. There were categories mixed together without any specific pattern, such as parenting books, romance novels, and self-help books. The Dong-jin he knew wasn’t the type to read these kinds of books. When he looked through them, they were all English-language books that needed to be translated, and he found the name of ‘Translated by Park Mi-jung’ that Dong-jin had marked with a Post-it note. Then, he found a travel documentary program that Eun-sil had been in charge of among the translator’s resume, and he intuitively felt that there was a clear connection between Dong-jin, Mi-jung, and Eun-sil.

After that, Jung-hyuk heard from Eun-sil about what Dong-jin had planned to do and went back to Dong-jin’s house with her. There, he found the words ‘Shine on you’ written on the window of Mi-jung’s house. As if something had come to mind, Jung-hyuk turned on the computer and accessed Dong-jin’s blog. There were two articles there, ‘Going to her now’ and ‘The first statistical report was not a failure’. After logging in with hints from the writing on the window and the sentences in the blog, the hidden observation journal appeared as expected. It was the moment when Dong-jin‘s struggles to throw himself and conduct an experiment next to Mi-jung were finally revealed.

Jung-hyuk, who learned about the existence of the ’witch‘ and its laws, followed Mi-jung as she went out to feed a stray cat. Then, after introducing himself and exchanging more than ten words within 10 meters, he checked what happened to him. Naturally, nothing happened to Jung-hyuk, who had no interest in Mi-jung. Dong-jin’s hypothesis that it only happens to those who love Mi-jung was also confirmed to be perfect up to the precondition. Jung-hyuk left a meaningful message to Mi-jung, saying, “I know better than anyone what it means that you‘ll die if you approach me.”

Meanwhile, while Jung-hyuk went to see Mi-jung, Eun-sil found an incident data file on Dong-jin’s computer. However, for some reason, the main character in the file was not Mi-jung, but Jung-hyuk. Surprised, Eun-sil goes to Jung-hyuk and says, “Now I know why Lee Dong-jin left clues for Kim Jung-hyuk,” and at that moment, a red circle formed with a 10m radius between them. It seemed that Jung-hyuk was also being followed by the same ‘Law of Death’ as Mi-jeong.

The shocking twist ending raised expectations for the final episode, which will air tonight (the 16th) at 9:10 p.m.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com

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