We're off to a brisk Start with Healer , I am above all for the author (song Ji-nah of Hourglass, Legend, story of a man ) and secondarily for the occupation (if a Search occupation is never enough on its own to lure me). I was very curious to see what the sound would actually, because there are plenty of disparate elements in the descriptions were to keep me guess-it would be an intergenerational melodrama? A conspiracy-driven thriller? cavort A fun action? And while we often get dramas throw us a surplus of genre modifiers that feel too scattered to work well (spy-action medical-political thriller novel, for example, or comedy paranormal-historical-court intrigue) , I actually think Healer lives up to its promo descriptions and keeps things moving smoothly while to imply much more depth below the surface.
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EPISODE 1 RECAP
A large, abandoned building. Looks abandoned headquarters, but deep inside the industrial areas is a spiffy cave hi-tech, with expensive computers and state-of-the-art lined gadgets. Someone a dusty concrete box in a real bachelor pad is rotated.
inside it, a young, fit man playing a . game of virtual tennis (and is kicked his ass from his computer opponent) we have not yet given a formal introduction, but for simplicity we call him by name: SEO JUNG-HOO ( Ji Chang-wook ).
Jung-hoo ignored his phone, and moments later his tennis game is hacked and a cartoon squiggle burst in. a voice cuts woman, cackling and not to ignore chiding "Oppa" their calls while not hack he recalls in his things.
Jung-hoo to grabs the attention when "Ajumma" mentioned a new job, even though it be she's description of skeptical "really simple" -nothing Ajumma said simple has ever easy. She says to make contact and take a package is easy, and takes him to go to the gig.
Jung-hoo to see breaks in the wall-sized screen sporting the image of a beautiful island, his story tells us that he is a deserted island to buy off Panama dreams. But now work.
The hand-off point is in a subway station, and Jung-hoo keeps a low profile when he scopes the scene from. Adorned with an in-ear line to his hacker partner they JO MIN YES (played by Kim Mi-Kyung ) - he takes the security cameras in its line of sight and Min-ja hacks sent to the system, to direct the material.
Jung-hoo stains easily stationed several-suit wearing goons around the platform they are likely to be complications. too much effort this job is the decision to lean payday, he turns to leave, only to Min-ja remind them that they need the money and that their market pushing with competition. Jung-hoo turns back with a sigh.
First, they have to find out who these people are, and Jung-hoo creeps around a goon and directs it with pictures of bikini women on his phone. While the goon dribbles, steals Jung-hoo furtive cell phone of guy and calls Min-ja with him, then slipped the phone.
With this information Min-ja is able to find out who are working for these suits, and it is one of their competitors, Double S, which they have lost some customers: "They think they are a Gangnam department store, and we are the neighborhood market. "
When the subway car arrives its new customer carries, Jung-hoo ensures prior to get him rivals do, and is likely to calm the arm of the contact and asks, "came the healer to take?" He pulls the man back on the train, but not fast enough; the rivals they jump on the spot and on the car, and soon Jung-hoo found trapped Racquet detail on both sides.
In an apartment building, gets a young woman in the elevator with a deliveryman and commented that the top package it is. She takes it out of the deliveryman and then whiz in a stairwell delivery attracting vest itself to knock the package as an excuse to another apartment. Sneaky.
makes a few lies about requiring signatures Post to deliver, and the residents opened the door reluctantly signed. That's when our fake-delivery couplings to reach her heart and makes a great dramatic gesture for pills to ask for water.
When the woman met our faker grabs to snap a few photos of the entrance hurry her phone, then makes a lame excuse to the woman why the Delivery is the wrong person for. The woman did not buy it because they have a celebrity ( "Do not you know who I on ?") Is and our faker beats a hasty retreat, unmasked them.
But she's got what she came, as it turns out, it is actually a reporter, Chae Young-shin ( Park Min-young ). She puts in a call to its editor; she works her editor attempts can speculate a juicy headline from her photo of men's shoes in the entryway for a celebrity tabloid operating low-rent, as we make out of the way. He complains that he is too weak to be used as evidence of connection, and not worthy of a shovel.
Young-shin looking heads to the parking garage for more to the story, which is where it is of a convertible as parks nearly plowed down. She heads over indignantly to give the driver a piece of her mind, but he does sit up at the mouth of a subway snafu foams and Young-shin, as he that debt to the "healer".
Spidey senses tingling, she listens when the driver takes a photograph and ask you to confirm the appearance of the healer. He throws the picture on the back seat, and in a fraction of a second of pure courage (or stupidity), Young-shin snatches the picture before the driver yells out.
Next we jump on a charged protest site outside the company Samhan Group, where ex-workers and their families illegally protesting layoffs. Reporter swarm the site, including a grave-looking Ernst journalist, KIM MOON-HO ( Yoo Ji-tae ). He is recognized and respected, and maybe even a bit of a loner; the other reporters standing around waiting for the official press conference, but Moon-ho talking heads to the right in the thick of things with the demonstrators.
He interviewed a desperate old woman who begs him to save her son, the self-immolating to protest is placed in the hospital. Moon hoo leaves a colleague at the press conference to handle and immediately forwarded to the hospital, where he finds his son in a dreadful state, burned from head to toe.
The man wrote his story, if should a reporter come, and Moon-ho is:. "Our history Please tell no one will listen to what we have to say. "There is something in Moon-ho demeanor, which assures us that he will handle this with dignity and fairness, and he apologized to come so late.
But back to the underground. For now Healer Jung-hoo is safe enough to wait with bats for their moment. Min-ja hacks in safety at the next metro stop and see the fresh influx of gangster types arrive and to deploy directly to the doors. Meanwhile, the customer is to pee in his shoes quaking about himself, and Jung-hoo tells him to trust him quiet.
When the train approaches the station, Jung-hoo Instructs its clients in the count of three to jump. "One ... two ..." And screeeeeech! The train jerks to stop in the middle of the tracks, and Jung-hoo counts "Three!"
The doors can not be opened. "Three!" He repeats. This time the doors open ... behind him, on the wrong side of the tracks. Pwahaha.
" Seriously , Ajumma!" Healer gripes. Min-ja is whoopsie and corrected their errors, and then Jung-hoo and his clients jump the correct set of doors on the tracks below, while the bats are blocked by closing doors.
When they jog the tunnel down, Jung-hoo asks for "the goods" to confirm that they really, but the customer asks anxiously Jung-hoo, to save him first. That goes against his policies and the time is ticking, with the Double S goons now in the tunnel, the hunt continues. The client clutches his briefcase whimpering that they will kill him, and the gang mighty fast with them comes ...
Jung-hoo asks Min-ja for a hand, and it sends the subway train along, their losing light source. The tunnel is dark and from there it is easy enough for Jung-hoo its super-fly hand-to-hand moves to deal, they pick at a time a. All the while, Min-ja backwards down the seconds count to the next train goes by ...
With less than a minute to spare, Jung- hoo is trying to tell his opponents to pause his friends to vacate before the fight continues, the sounds as stupid as you, if not to think of the very real train heading their way. By the time the lights appear around the curve, he was only second to a way out of this figure.
Jung-hoo breaks free of his grip, knocking his opponent out, only the burly guy country to have him at the head, pinning him to the tracks. Oh Shit Oh Shit! Mooooooove.
The train zooms by, and then stretched a long pause, as we look down into the tunnel. Are these bodies dead, or just out for the count? And then, Jung-hoo stirred out of the stack, have even pushed, and the goon from the rails in the last second. He gasps that this job is so not worth the price tag.
now rich for some people. In his palatial estate, a media mogul takes honchos a conference call with other media. He is KIM MOON-shik ( Park Sang-won ), the chairman of Jeil newspaper, and discuss how to deal with the history of the mass redundancies in Samhan group. Or spinning it, more like, landing on a business-friendly angle, taking the blame for the corporation. Oh, something tells me that we are in some family quarrel about how Moon Shik is the older brother in our fair Star reporter ho Moon.
Then listen Moon Shik by his secretary that "the point" has been transferred, survived an attempt to intercept it. He guesses correctly who was behind this attempt-Moon-ho. Omo. Things got even more interesting.
Double S is alleged to be top-of-the-line, but even so, they were not able to trick the solo Healer. He has never been identified, and one of his trademarks is discretion that he never asks the identity of its customers.
Jung-hoo takes his nervous client in safety to complete the transaction, but the man is so scared that he for a further consideration-she asks send
him to America he not be caught on its own without. He adds that Jeil messages should be able to manage it, and an email is sent to the Chairman Moon Shik.However, this means that the customer knows that Jeil is involved, and Jeil may not be so exposed. Moon Shik files Healer name away and decides that this must be discussed directly with the old man; they can not go wrong to take risks.
In the broadcasting station, Moon-ho bad news from his boss News Desk Chief KANG MIN JAE on ( Woo Hee-jin ), with whom he is very friendly and speaks gets in banmal. You will the interview be cut with the burnt demonstrators, and he begs him the man to help his promise to honor.
Min-jae understands how he feels, but it also has higher-ups to report, so that it sits on a compromise Moon-ho to to mention allow meeting the man, but. on pleasant in a way glossing Something tells me that he will not be walking, be the last word.
Oh, and as the news broadcast for the mission prepared, we see that the honchos who had called in with Jeil Moon Shik are executives at this station. Min-jae's Moon-ho, the additional warning that they are here to see his mission. "Do not cause problems," she says.
At home Young-shin makes Kimchi with her father, about her latest guide chatting called on the top-secret mercenary healers. You know that these types of services can be used to do by the rich and powerful do their dirty work for them, and smelling a top story, and all the riches it would rake in by writing a bestselling exposé.
Young-shin wheedles Dad in their best aegyo voice her the money, the healer services contract (near 10 Grand), and he harrumphs that he will do it when a marriage young man brings home. She takes a cabbage and "presents" to him Dad, the super cute dad plays for the way straight together, as they marry Mr. cabbage.
But then it's time for the evening news, and Young -shin to jump to catch the show with Moon-ho. From the way she moonily on their TV in grins, I'm guessing she's a big fan.
Moon-ho goes off script during the live broadcast of the man to tell history to Min-jae displeasure. Moon-ho is particularly vicious, inward turn the criticism, saying that the man sacrificed himself because no one else would hear his story. He admits that the truth he did not ask the man until he burned himself, nor the station care for the plight of workers, noting that the man's extreme act was initially driven mainly by "we the reporters."
and admiration Young-shin of Moon-ho balloons him only in response-not known, but on be him. She tells us that she was not as great in her studies, went to a mediocre university, and failed, all entrance exams for major newspapers, which explains why they toil in such a dinky tabloid. It believes in its drive and passion.
Next we an elegant woman in a wheelchair to meet, looking lovingly at old photos of her daughter and herself with four university friends (photo, that's discovered a few times). It is CHOI Myung-HEE ( Do Ji-won ), and sets them in the middle of Memorial alongside a range that contains the photos, perhaps.
She was connected by her husband, Chairman Kim Moon-Shik, in a nursery, which has been obtained. It grows with sad eyes on the picture "friends, but so that it is reasonable agreement, since their last friend of the father of the deceased daughter. Oy seem these relationships rather complicated. I mean, in a good way, ultimately, but at the moment I'm just trying to keep 'em all straight.
Moon Shik calls his brother to ask why he is not here yet, but Moon-ho in a serious mood and says that he is not in be able to make it. Moon Shik suspects that it's because he another live broadcast was still chewed incident for the production, and the brothers laugh about how it happens nothing ever without knowing Hyung.
It is particularly interesting, given what we know about them today consecutively outmaneuver the back, since they seem to be each other directly so affable. Moon Shik ended the call with a warm "You know I'm always on your side" on the Moon-ho hurls angry his headset off.
Then Moon-ho calls a friend on test results to ask again and for the third time the DNA has asked the two people with no relationship to the test. The friend asks who he is looking for and Moon-ho only responds ". Someone I must find"
When he comes to his big, empty apartment home, Moon-ho thinks strongly that another day has happened in his life, where every day feels like a homework assignment to be solved. He takes an apologetic call from the Double S guard company for the failed task, and suggested that the contract has been interrupted by the healer, "because I had intended initially to hire him." Looks like he'll go next ... if he can beat the competition, that is.
Moon-ho degrades to show his coffee table, that it is a functional chest, and inside is a briefcase with dozens of cassettes and a note that says "HEALER." The bands to 1980 go back, and he says that two in his lifetime points are connected by a hard yarn. 1980 and 1992. Each time he tries to move forward, he turns instead to those times
He takes the old photo of five friends, grow emotionally and it withdraws him to be a little boy:
November 1980 moon-ho riding shotgun in an old truck, driving his brother and heard an underground radio broadcast. A young Myung-hee broadcasts from a narrow space with her (boy?) Friend to talk about news and the media in this fearless manner criticizes idealistic students.
The program is enough of a problem that the police are busy, trying to trace its source and move with sirens. A friend on a motorcycle signals to Moon Shik, and oh! The pirate transmission from the back of the truck comes. The friends get the signal to cut and can quickly sign.
The bulls begin recognize mounted on the truck the antenna and to hunt while their motorcycle buddy does his part in running interference and from the police cars position. Hunting is increasingly dangerous until finally the motorcyclists the awning the loading deducts covers and throws it on the windshield of the cop, to end the persecution.
you drink it today, and to the successful escape. That's when young Moon-ho, a camera captures, and propose the friends together a photo. Moon Shik is the most affected by the five-he is quite dark, while his friends are free-running and overflowing and I feel more to the story than just a love triangle between his old friend and his present wife.
search At present, Moon Shik and Myung-hee keep the monument, and Myung-hee grows teary when she her dead husband asks for her daughter. Moon Shik lends her his literal shoulder to lean on.
Moon-ho wrote an email, while telling us, "My time is trapped in the past, and so I had no tomorrow. If I have to find the child, maybe I could tomorrow." We see him one more request to write for help, and it is addressed to the healer.
The healer, now withdraw for a dinner is committed to keeping his eye on his goal to a private island. His plan sounds both absurd and quite possible, given the way he thinks, the details of any services he would need. He grimaces to a phone call from Ajumma Min-ja, and when he ignored their call (c'mon, you do not learn it?), You hacked into his system to the latest request to check.
Jung-hoo replies that he is already tracked down three girls for the customer, but Min-ja reminds him that they were all false leads , This time, however, she thinks that it accepted 20 years for a girl in front of a good way is, fits the bill. Moreover, it is an attractive option because they are paid for the DNA sample, regardless of whether it is. A game
Jung-hoo hopping not get on the job, but he realizes that he still got to make more money before his dreams of island paradise realized.
And then we cut to Young-shin, who their birth parents explains his to locate its second dream. She loves her father naggy, but like to know who her parents were, asking why they leave, and to meet her again. Just to know.
Morning Young-shin is running on the sidewalk and thinks that both their dreams seem far away and out of reach, but it will be to keep the faith. You will work hard, and when it happens, it will be their fate.
When she drums along to the bus stop, we see through the imagination Info-glasses of the healer that Young-shin is the one for whom he seeks. His reports find that it is of social media accounts strangely absent ( "You can not be normal!"), and her face is voted in favor of the computer software, as it does on the bus.
"Bingo!" Does he think when he boards the bus to her. The bus lurches and falls, quite literally, into his arms.
COMMENTS
I was hoping for good things from Healer , but also expects cautious too much, because that's the story of my life in the past year. Every time a drama comes along I try to temper my hopes and judging even from the way I hold the feeling disappointment, I can never quite fully get rid of. But I do not, because it's worth it when a show meets your standards or exceed them, and that's all the reason to keep looking good in things.
I am not prepared to explain Healer a success story, and I have not quite decided whether the recapitulates to continue (we will the rest of the opening weekend after visiting'll decide) but now I feel optimistic about the world, the characters, and the complicated intertwining of human stories. One thing that drives me crazy in dramas is, if very important things happen by chance (as the lead pair of a rom-com only happens have five meet-cutes (or Meet-hate) in a row ) we can, but to see that the writer's pieces is carefully layering. Things happen for a reason, and I believe that relations are detailed in elaborate detail about what we can see.
I like rates are kept as long as the drama do not exaggerate the cryptic hint-dropping, as it is not annoying when a show things dangling in front of you and tears them away? I like how we imagined see these relationships, with insights into a nuanced story below the surface; There is enough for us to speculate, but it is not so obvious that it does not exist surprises down the line.
An important example of this is the relationship of the brothers, which I already together fascinating find on their one phone call. They do not see each other as in affection or interest faking, and from the flashback, we can assume that Hyung grew up basically his little brother, but clearly there are conflicts in spades between them now. They work in the same industry, are rock stars in their professions, and apparently a good life, but his man, they are a powder keg ready to blow, or what?
Yoo Ji-tae is really wonderful about his character haunted inner life embodies, and I'm so happy to see him again in Wonderland with his quiet intensity. Its gravity is getting better with age, now that he has on the action a few wrinkles, and I am tremendously relieved to see how his character in the storyline characters. I was afraid that they so throw a fantastic actor and could staff degrade him in favor of younger hotshot support (and I say taste Ji Chang-wook); the healer is a cool role, but Moon-ho, this emotional heft that I found really compelling. You can feel the oppressive weight of the past in him, and that all information in the present.
That is, I am happy to see that the healer is not some glossy empty vessel, either-I really like his longing really for the isolation, and find that it completes its character in a fascinating way , He is not only a legendary mercenary for the shots; it is only a means to an end for him, and he is so that end driven track that he is to be in his job has become incredibly well. It seems to me both a wild dreamer and a pragmatist, even though I'm not quite sure where these two edges meet in him. What I know is that I want to know more of this story, and I'm hoping that the drama consistently entertaining, thoughtful supplies in one, and (sure, why not?) Stylish smooth way.
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