Thank god, we have a smart hero who has been walking us through the labyrinthine narrative of OCN’s Train!
Following the main hero’s unexpected stumbling of a new world similar and different at the same time to his world, Train leaps to revelations and deductions that are useful in converging details to help Lieutenant Han Seo Kyung (Kyung Soo Jin) with her investigation on Inspector Seo Do Won (Yoon Shi Yoon) in B World.
Train Episode Recaps: Premiere| 03 |
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“It’s not a dream nor a hallucination.”
Unable to comprehend the baffling situation, Seo Do Won (Yoon Shi Yoon) was apprehended after locking eyes with a woman who looks exactly like Seo Kyung.
Comprehending his encounter to two different worlds, he analyzed the similar feel but different situation of his world to the new world he entered.
Lieutenant Han Seo Kyung (Kyung Soo Jin) brings Do Won for questioning. He asks if she recognizes him, and she responds that everyone in the country knows him – Inspector Seo Do Won.
Narrating the murder allegation committed by Inspector Do Won, Seo Kyung further presents the evil deeds related to drugs that the inspector committed.
“It wasn’t me.”
Do Won gets the picture of what the man who looks like him has done in that world. Seo Kyung pushes to the idea that Lee Jin Sung, the drug dealer he killed, might complicate his situation before his internal affairs investigation.
Captured in CCTV, Do Won sees his doppelganger in panic in front of the murdered victim.
Arguing Lieutenant Han’s path of investigation, Do Won proposes to be tested for the drug allegation she presented. He also asked her to check the bullets she’s insisting to have been found in Lee Jin Sung’s body.
True to what Do Won said, the drug test came negative and the bullet is not a match. Lieutenant Han visits Do Won who just got from a dream about Seo Kyung.
She warns that she will get to the bottom of the case as she believes that he belongs to the jail. Reminding him that he is still the prime suspect, Do Won replies how he has a bewildering reality at that moment. Hence, he will not run away.
“Wherever this may be. Whether it’s a dream or I’ve lost my mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Braving the unknown, Do Won decides to find out who his doppelganger is in that world.
Back at the station, Lieutenant Han bosses her underlings to check on Inspector Seo.
Finding his way to Inspector Seo’s home, Do Won finds his house in a mess. He finds a box confirming his doppelganger’s possible drug usage.
Drawing their similarities and differences, he decides to investigate his surroundings more. That’s why the next morning, he goes to work nonchalant of the stares he has been getting.
“We don’t get to choose our parents. But what kind of people we are now is our choice.”
Do Won listens to the gossips of the police officers about him and learns about Inspector Seo’s father’s murder case. Deducing the same case that killed his father also happened in the new world he entered, he checks on the result of the case.
Detective Im interrupts his probing by handing a resignation letter. When Do Won questions him of believing he is also a murderer just like his murderer father, the detective refutes it.
Stating how parents do not influence a man’s good or bad choices, Detective Im sees Do Won tearing his resignation letter and asks him to allow him time. If he has indeed crossed the line, he will personally leave.
“Do Won and I are friends. We grew up in the same neighborhood.”
Lieutenant Han lays on the floor of the victim’s house. Just then, Lee Jung Min (Shin So Yul) who works for KCSI arrives to gather evidence.
Jung Min evades Seo Kyung’s line of inquiry about her relationship to Do Won. Muttering her knowledge of them being ex-lovers, she questions how they had not any contact for a while, but talked on the phone, the night Lee Jin Sung died.
Displaying a hair clip, Jung Min chides Seo Kyung on investing her effort to proper probing. The latter argues how the victim is clean with family members overseas and not having any financial or love problems.
But Jung Min argues the angle of the victim being a cheater through the hair clip she found which explained the hair they collected in his room.
“Please tell me, we’re still friends.”
Jung Min finds Inspector Seo in front of her working place. She demands him to tell what happened, and he can only reply that he really does not know.
Putting his crazy thoughts off, Jung Min debunks his idea that he could have probably done it because of drugs. She reminds him of how difficult his life has been after his father was convicted as murderer that he vowed not going to kill anyone except himself.
Blabbing how he called the night Lee Jin Sung died mumbling incoherent words that it was not him who killed someone.
Showing the hair clip and the knowledge of how the victim has probably a girlfriend in hiding, Do Won connects it to his working knowledge from his world and mentions the name of Lee Jin Sung’s woman in his world.
“I guess you were the only person he could trust here too.”
Do Won visits the woman, but Park Min Kyung in that world has never met Lee Jin Sung. She is also married to another man and does not recognize the hair pin.
From the angle hinted by Jung Min, Lieutenant Han traces the victim’s phone record and finds the CCTV that bears the last contact of Lee Jin Sung leading her to Park Min Kyung.
Trying to keep her cool, Park Min Kyung finally breaks down when Do Won catches on her lie after seeing the USB that bears the ledger of Jin Sung’s drug dealing.
“I came here because I wanted to prove that I didn’t kill Lee Jin Sung.”
Lieutenant Han arrives and Do Won tells her to investigate her involvement to Lee Jin Sung. Confirming her whereabouts on the night the victim died, Park Min Kyung breaks down worrying about her husband, who is not aware of her situation.
The shock causes her pain, and because of her pregnancy, she was rushed to the hospital. At the emergency ward, Do Won assures her that her husband does not know anything.
She confesses that her child is her husband’s, and the phone call she made is actually the breakup call she gave Lee Jin Sung. Disagreeing to her decision, Park Min Kyung begged him to understand.
Their call gets interrupted by a knock at Jin Sang’s door. Telling her to wait, he goes to check on it, as Min Kyung listens to smashing sounds and finally a gun shot.
Lieutenant Han walks out and accuses Do Won of hearing Min Kyung’s voice, thereby, threatening her. Responding he only wants to prove his innocence, he tells her how he does not like the way she looks at him.
Warning him that she is close to proving his involvement, she tells him that if anything wrong happens to the witness, he will bear it.
“Lieutenant Han, I’ll catch the culprit. With my two hands, by all means.”
Chatting about their similar fates, Do Won advises Min Kyung not to live with the guilt that she might have caused Jin Sung’s dead. She also tells him about her knowing that he met him at Il Sung station the night Seo Kyung was killed.
Deducing how Jin Sung’s knowledge about the sixth victim of the serial killer caused his death, Do Won arrives at the conclusion of how his doppelganger boards on the train to chase the mysterious killer. The same person who stopped at Mugyeong station and killed Seo Kyung.
The next day, Lieutenant Han is on a sour mood upon reaching another dead end to the blood sample she got from the crime scene.
Questioning his knowledge of Jin Sung and Min Kyung’s affair, Do Won hints on the idea of parallel worlds to Seo Kyung. Trying to ease the tension between them, she refuses when Do Won suggests for them to start anew.
However, Lieutenant Han insists that their beginning was 12 years ago when his father killed her father.
Alone in the room, Do Won is awakened by the movement inside the house. Waiting for the approaching man, he pins him down and gets the surprise of his life, finding his counterpart’s father, who of course shares the same face of his dead father.
Episode 3 Afterthoughts
So far, Seo Do Won pretty much answers questions that viewers might have regarding the rules of the parallel worlds. That makes the narrative less daunting to follow. Piquing interest further is how Do Won is given a chance to work on predicaments that he did not have the chance in his world.
Like how Lieutenant Seo Kyung harbors resentment to him because of Inspector Seo’s father’s fault – who is also alive in the world he crossed. Ultimately, there is a connection in the serial killing that happened 12 years ago in both worlds. How the two converge is one of the mysteries to be unraveled.
Do Won boarded the train to discover a new world. We don’t know yet if Inspector Seo crossed Do Won’s world when he was being chased last time. If so, that makes the plot even more meatier.
Whether Train has only one murdered crossing both worlds, or two killers with the same sins in both worlds also add excitement to how the heroes prep to solve the problems.
We also get a glimpse of Lieutenant Han’s indignation to Do Won owing to their fathers’ connection. The very same fear Do Won has in his world which inhibited him from telling Prosecutor Han of his father’s connection to her father’s death.
At the rate of how Train moves, let’s hope the intensity does not dwindle.
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