5 Times Lee Kyu Han Was One Step Ahead In Episodes 5-6 Of "Longing For You"

“Longing for You” is shaping up to be one of the best murder mysteries of the year if it keeps up its stellar pacing. The show doles out information in tight bursts, allowing characters to plan organically. The special investigations team has been reunited, and not a moment too soon. There’s a dangerous enemy who has just chosen to rear their head, and the reasons why may be more than what the team can handle. Here are five times Park Ki Young (Lee Kyu Han) outwitted the team this week!

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 below.

1. When he sent the videos of Jin Woo’s murder and the real culprit behind the serial ankle killings

Oh Jin Sung (Na In Woo) is horrified to receive a video from a mysterious sender, showing that his brother Oh Jin Woo (Ren) was murdered. To credit Jin Sung here, he doesn’t go on a bender, but immediately shows it to Go Young Joo (Kim Ji Eun), who is equally shocked. They verify the video’s authenticity, but there’s no way of tracing the sender. Whoever it was went through a ton of hoops and servers to send this without leaving a digital trace.

Jin Sung’s colleagues in Seoul and in his hometown of Woojin are prepared to help him reinvestigate, but something equally huge surfaces before then. Cha Young Woon (Kwon Yool), fresh off a stint in the U.S., indicates to Ki Young that he and Young Joo will be presenting a paper on their capture of the killer in the serial ankle murders. Ki Young looks suspiciously happy at that.

The next thing we know, right at the start of the conference, the same mysterious sender texts Young Joo a video of one of the ankle murders, showing that their supposed culprit couldn’t have been the person involved. Young Joo and Young Woon immediately halt the press conference, and both decide that they have no choice but to reinvestigate the murders.

It means that they’re putting their careers on the line, and this is harder for Young Joo because she doesn’t come from a wealthy background like Young Woon. It also means that they have to admit that they were wrong a year ago when they announced that they’d caught the killer (who had mysteriously taken his life). But to both Young Joo’s and Young Woon’s credit, they don’t back down when their superiors try to force them to pretend the video doesn’t exist. Young Joo literally blackmails their chief into letting them reinvestigate, and Young Woon supports her. And, just like that, the team is back in business with two goals and two murders: find the sender of the video and find the culprit behind the ankle murders and Jin Woo’s murder. But he might be closer than they think.

2. When he raised suspicion over the donations being made to Jinjin Hospital

Yoo Jung Sook (Bae Jong Ok) continues to be seriously shady. She holds a press conference announcing millions of dollars being donated to Jinjin Hospital from one of the wealthiest men in the world. What she’s omitting is that she’s about to give said wealthy man’s son a new pancreas. She assures him that the organ will take fine. After all, her secretary Jung Woo No (Kim Chul Ki) “sourced” the organ himself. As to where the organ came from, well, no one knows.

Ki Young is at the conference and seems to suspect that something is foul here because he writes a series of articles about how shady it is for a hospital to be receiving this much money for, apparently, nothing. The public agrees with him, which is why Woo No calls Ki Young’s boss and has the articles deleted. Ki Young looks furious. And for a moment there, he seems like one of the good guys, someone suspicious of Jung Sook’s machinations. But is he really?

3. When he leaked information on Bae Min Kyu’s arrest warrant

The special investigations team has an annoying new member. Yang Hee Joo (Jung Ga Hee), the daughter of the chief prosecutor, resented being excluded from the initial investigation a year ago and forces herself in this time. She proceeds to make a nuisance of herself by being completely tone-deaf on how the real world operates. Young Woon, Young Joo, and Jin Sung narrow down their list of suspects pretty quickly. Jin Sung found a cufflink at the scene of Jin Woo’s murder a year ago and discovers that there were only five made in Korea. And the only person who fits the bill on who purchased the cufflink is Bae Min Kyu (Jung Sang Hoon). Even better, the watch that the killer in the ankle murders is wearing in the video is the same as Min Kyu’s diamond-encrusted watch.

Young Woon wants to tread carefully because they tried to arrest Min Kyu thrice last year and failed. So he orders everyone to keep the fact that they’re requesting a warrant a secret. Of course, Hee Joo blabs to Ki Young, and Ki Young releases it everywhere. The next thing we know, the warrant is denied because Min Kyu’s father flexes his control over the judiciary (which he earned by bribing them). Min Kyu happily beats up a waitress because he feels like it, Jin Sung beats him up in turn and breaks his nose, and the special investigations team is disbanded by Young Joo and Young Woon’s superiors.

Jin Sung is disappointed in Young Woon for giving up so easily when his superiors asked him to. But he finds out that Young Woon did so for him. Bae Min Kyu was about to have Jin Sung sent to jail, but Young Woon traded the team so that Jin Sung wouldn’t be punished. Jin Sung only gets shoved off to the traffic team. Even better, Young Woon isn’t about to give up now. He invites everyone to his fancy mansion and shows that he has an investigations room set up there for them to keep working on catching the real killer after-hours. The prosecution is happy to pretend that the man they caught a year ago is the right one, but Young Woon says he can’t let it go like that. He’s really altered from the inflexible, stubborn man who investigated Jin Woo a year ago. It’s almost like he had a personality transplant. Or perhaps another kind of transplant. Hmm.

4. When he had cameras set up in his apartment

Jin Sung seems like he likes to cause trouble but he isn’t an idiot. He broke Min Kyu’s nose on purpose so that he could get his hands on Min Kyu’s burner phone. It turns out that Min Kyu’s been communicating with a mysterious person on an untraceable app that deletes messages. The person warned him about the prosecution’s warrant too. When Jin Sung calls the phone, the person who picks up on the other end is none other than Ki Young!

When Hee Joo lets slip that the only person she told about the warrant was Ki Young, everything becomes clear to the team. Ki Young is the mysterious witness to the murders who has been sending Young Joo and Jin Sung videos. But is he really just a witness, or something darker? Jin Sung uncovers evidence that proves Ki Young was in Woo Jin on the night of Jin Woo’s murder, and suspicion shifts to whether Ki Young could be a killer. Young Woon is in denial that his friend could do such a thing, but Young Joo points out that Ki Young has always been jealous of Young Woon. Over the past six episodes, the show has shown that Ki Young wears the same cologne as Young Woon, and he left his post covering news from the Blue House right when Young Woon returned from the U.S. so he could write articles about the prosecution. And Ki Young doesn’t seem to just envy Young Woon, he seems to hate Jung Sook.

Whatever Ki Young’s role, his apartment seems to hold all the evidence. Jin Sung decides to secretly break in, and Hee Joo volunteers to assist him after feeling guilty for ruining the team’s investigation by spilling everything to Ki Young. She distracts him by forcing him to keep her company at a club after work. Jin Sung even enlists his superior at work (who has a thing for justice) to distract the security guard, and he breaks into the apartment. But Ki Young has cameras hidden everywhere, with a live feed to Ki Young’s phone. He tries to leave, but Hee Joo does a great job of pretending that she’s interested in him and asks if he wants to come over. Only, there’s something unsettling in his eyes.

What’s worse, Jin Sung opens a door in Ki Young’s apartment and finds a replica of Young Woon’s investigation room at his home. Ki Young’s copied everything down to the family portrait. This isn’t just envy. It’s obsession. Something is seriously wrong with Ki Young, and if he isn’t a witness but the killer, then Hee Joo is walking to her death.

“Longing for You” is doing a great job at keeping us on our toes here. At first, it seemed like Jin Woo could be the killer, then Min Kyu, then the man who took his life, and now it’s Ki Young. I’m loving the rotating suspects here as the team tries to pin it all down, especially because Ki Young’s been a step ahead for a full year! There’s a thread these episodes raised that Young Woon hasn’t had the time to address yet. All the ankle murder victims had previously been treated at Jinjin Hospital. It seems likely that Jung Sook assessed their organs then. Could she have killed them to hide the fact that she’s harvesting organs from them to sell to wealthy donors? The next episodes will tell us more!

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Shalini_A is a long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in increasingly fantastic worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and feel free to ask her anything!

Currently Watching:  “Longing for You,” “Not Others,” “My Dearest,” and “My Lovely Liar.”
Looking Forward to: “Gyeongseong Creature,” “Ask The Stars,” “The Girl Downstairs,” “The Worst Evil,” “Queen of Tears,” “Vigilante,” “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” and Ji Sung’s next drama.