Bad and Crazy (2021)

Bad and Crazy: Episode 11

With all cards on the table, our hero ramps up to take down his nemesis once and for all. But he’ll need all the help he can get to keep the master manipulator from slipping out of his grasp yet again.

EPISODE 11 RECAP

With Jung-hoon’s eyewitness account of Joo-hyuk manipulating Young-joo into stabbing him, Soo-yeol at last knows that Joo-hyuk is Yoon-ho. Aw, when K asks if he’s confident he can catch Yoon-ho, he just smirks and says, “Of course. I have you.” But Jung-hoon’s testimony won’t be enough – they have to prove Joo-hyuk’s a murderer. Soo-yeol’s plan? To use himself as bait.

Boss Yong apologizes to Andrei for being late as she steals his body from the morgue. She cremates him herself, murderous revenge in her eyes.

K stares down a photo of Joo-hyuk, frustrating Soo-yeol by calling him Yoon-ho instead. Until they figure out his plan, they can’t let on that they know who he really is. K assures him he’s a good actor… and promptly falls right back into calling the man in the photo “Yoon-ho” again. (And punching at the photo for good measure.)

At Soo-yeol’s next therapy appointment, Joo-hyuk asks about the first time Soo-yeol ever saw K. Soo-yeol pointedly says it was when Yoon-ho killed his father, adding that he hadn’t technically been aware of K at the time. Joo-hyuk hesitates a moment, taking that in, then confirms that K saved Soo-yeol from both his father’s abuse and Yoon-ho.

Then Joo-hyuk asks if K is here with them, and HA – he’s sitting beside Soo-yeol with his hands balled into fists, barely restraining himself from jumping Joo-hyuk. Joo-hyuk asks to speak directly with him, and K looks more than ready.

But as soon as he’s sure he’s speaking to K, Joo-hyuk’s demeanor changes. He reveals himself as Yoon-ho with a smirk, claiming a special connection with K because they were both “protecting” Soo-yeol back then. He knows just how to push K’s buttons, too – he taunts that K had also wanted Soo-yeol’s father dead so Soo-yeol would be free. Soo-yeol has to stop K before he actually attacks Joo-hyuk, and Joo-hyuk claims he was just testing K’s reaction, because Soo-yeol has to deal with his trauma related to Yoon-ho in order for K to disappear.

Noting K’s propensity for violence, Joo-hyuk points out that Soo-yeol ran away before his father was actually dead – so how can he know if the person who killed him was Yoon-ho or K? At that, K leaps forward and grabs Joo-hyuk by the collar.

Soo-yeol gets K to leave, knowing Joo-hyuk is just trying to manipulate them again. K still wants to take Joo-hyuk down right now, and ouch, Soo-yeol throws back that violence seems to be all K can do. But he softens when K hangs his head, warning that getting so angry is just giving Joo-hyuk what he wants.

He’s right, and now K worries that Joo-hyuk will use what he caught on tape against them. But that reminds Soo-yeol that Joo-hyuk might still have recordings from previous therapy sessions…

Cut to: Soo-yeol and K sneaking into Joo-hyuk’s office after hours, clad in high school uniforms. (The uniform makes K feel like a high school superhero, here to reform delinquent students.) As they’re rifling through Joo-hyuk’s belongings, two actual high schoolers sneak in to retrieve their confiscated cigarettes, and K jumps at the chance to do some reprimanding. It doesn’t quite work, since the students think Soo-yeol is also a student, so he ends up paying them to give him the box they were making off with. And good thing, too, because inside are the tapes he needs.

Back at the police station, the team watches the tape of Joo-hyuk convincing Jung-hoon that he needs help getting rid of his father. They’re all practically shaking with anger, and Kyung-tae wonders how many other kids Joo-hyuk did this to. Reluctantly, Soo-yeol asks them to look into any people Joo-hyuk has counseled who could be connected to murder or suicide cases. But they still need more evidence that Joo-hyuk used drugs to supplement his manipulation, and that he killed Andrei. For that, they’ll need to find Boss Yong.