You will get an addicting TV experience in the opening salvo of A Shop For Killers!
The series’ ever-present thrill switches from faint to emotional to blatant thrill making it impossible not to be invested in the story.
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A Shop For Killers Opening Week Story
Jung Ji-an (Kim Hye Jun) is a normal university student but after her uncle’s death, life takes an unexpected and deadly turn.
10 years ago, when her parents were murdered in the wake of her grandmother, he started living with his recluse uncle, Jung Jin-man (Lee Dong Wook).
His uncle who was not in contact with his family shows up after eight years. Unfortunately, her grandmother who was the happiest to see her maknae, passed away.
At the wake, Jin-man asks his brother if they can do an autopsy but Ji-an’s father refuses citing that their mother is not in a healthy condition. Mediating between the brothers, Ji-an’s mother asks Jin-man to bring his niece home.
Unfortunately, a mysterious visitor came looking for Jin-man. Just as they got home, Jin-man received a phone call from someone revealing the murder of his brother and sister-in-law. He tells Ji-an not to open the door and gives a riddle if someone claims his friend will come knocking on the door. He promises her he will be back.
When a man fails to answer the riddle she gave, young Ji-an senses trouble. Fortunately, Jin-man’s friend arrived just in time. However, two men came to kill her uncle’s friend.
Quick-witted, Ji-an goes to the window and hangs on a metal railing before letting herself go. Cushioned by a sofa outside, she runs for her life but is hit by a vehicle. Waking up at the hospital, the mysterious men wanting to kill her, move to complete their task.
Fending for herself, she goes to the morgue and hides in one of the compartments that heartbreakingly houses her mother. On the brink, of being found by the pursuer, her uncle arrives and brings her to his new home.
“I live with him for 10 years but I know nothing about him.”
The traumatic events led young Ji-an to refuse to speak. At school, she is often bullied and she communicates with her uncle by post-it notes on the fridge.
Jin-man spoke with her teacher and asserted that he wants young Ji-an to overcome the trauma alone.
In one mean prank from the school bullies, Ji-an was pushed inside a small room on the school grounds. Getting a vision of a cheetah holding a bloodied arm, she rushes to the door and cries for help. She desperately calls for her uncle’s name.
Jin-man arrives and comforts his niece who finally finds her voice again. She agonizingly pours out her unexpressed emotions.
Back at present time, after her uncle’s funeral. Ji-an’s friend Jung-min (Park Ji Bin) gives her uncle’s phone and it leads to their discovery that her uncle runs a shop for killers. Her uncle apparently has a certain immunity and she is also listed as one having the same kind of immunity.
But, suspicious people keep showing up at her uncle’s house trying to kill her.
A Shop For Killers Opening Week Musings
True to its press conference promise, A Shop For Killers is up to impress viewers with its stylish action and unique story. The first two episodes relay the story with ample engrossment.
Specifically, the child actress who played young Ji-an sealed the solid foundation with her excellent portrayal. The scene where she finally opens up with her uncle Jin-man after a series of traumatic events was such an emotional frame that she captured with a maturity beyond her age.
We can anticipate trips to past life interactions between young adult Ji-an and Jin-man in the next six episodes. There’s quite an anomaly to what Jung-min said that Ji-an as Code Green should be protected. There could be a breach or betrayal somewhere in the organization that Jin-man belonged to which also resulted in him being killed.
As hinted by the premise, the world of contract killers will be explored in the series and the contrast of having quite a strong yet vulnerable female lead adds anticipation to how Ji-an will turn the tables for her to protect herself.
Will she have allies to endure this ordeal?
Follow Ji-an survived a deathly predicament while remembering the training she received from her uncle Jin-man in A Shop For Killers!
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