I may crash the party. I have never watched Signal!

I haven’t seen it either and would love to join if I can make it.

Think it may be:
3pm London
5pm Athens

@GoodTwin, the more crashers the better!

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@pkml3 Oooh okay… no wonder you missed 2 of my posts on the schedule link. Did you see the one on @Bosuji asking if her posts got eaten up or into spam? If you have the time to check, pl see if her posts are in the email hyperspace. 🙂

Hi Everyone, I’m lurking! See you in 9 minutes!!

Hi @SD! Did you watch the episode yet?

or do you mean now? I am starting now!

Hello everyone, started!

Hi @FF! Yes I’ve started. Again pathetic fallacy – we get rain on the fateful day… we see the hero as a child with the victim as a child.

One of the unexpected trope twists where the childhood meeting does not end with the two of them growing up to be romantically involved, but the boy gets involved in her case.

Hi SD.

I posted this before to @WE, and am repeating it here:
I was thinking that the distorted look of the scenes of the past might be a reflection of the distortion among the crime-solving forces who let so many cases become cold cases. The attitude of the police bosses who let perpetrators get away with crime in order to save their own skins, to suck up to bosses, because they were bribed, etc, plus the useless statute of limitations that benefitted criminals, warped what should be considered just and fair investigations for the victims and their families.

Hence we get a warped and distorted view of 2000 scenes.

The way time is used to let criminals get away with murder is warped… because just one second after midnight at the end of the statute of limitations, the criminal cannot be indicted.

Hi @MM! I have to slow down some scenes to try and figure out what I’m seeing/reading or hearing too.

@FF, I like Kim Hye Soo but I don’t seem to be watching the shows that she acts in. I’ve not seen her again in any of the newer dramas.

@GB, Kim Hye Soo was the Queen in Under the Queen’s Umbrella and Moon Sang Min too as the prince.

Hi @MM, Hello @Hana. I liked the beginning sequences (in sepia); it reminds me for some reason of the beginning of a Japanese film, I am not sure why; some combination of the music and the placement of the photos. A sort of nostalgia.

hi!

kim hye soo did a fab job hosting the blue dragon awards. she dances so well!

I am wondering who this statue is of in the beginning few minutes. Is it the general from faithWho is real life person. Can’t remember his name- Something young or young something?? Is there meaning or is that more a location symbol?

@Hana, really?! I must go look up that video to watch her dance!

Did anyone get the date on which the little girl was kidnapped?

I believe it was the 29th. She was killed almost immediately, according to the news flashes at the time her death was announced in the classroom, but the power point at the police office (just after the note) was approximately 5 days later.

Something interesting about that time… do we know why it is at that time that the walkie talkie starts to work? It’s possibly the time that the corpse was found at the back of the Mental Hospital by Jae Han in 2000.

The time on 3 clocks aligned… I guess they were the clocks of Jae Han, Hae Young and Soo Hyun.

This FIRST transmission is actually the last one from Jae Han. At first I thought we’d go backwards in time with each case, but I think we will restart earlier and then go forwards from the 1980s. A bit confusing. Jae Han’s time seems to end in 2000.

@FF, yes, it’s so spooky but because it’s impossible, Hae Young had to go and investigate to see if what the voice in the walkie-talkie said was true or not.

I LOLed at the way he reacted to finding the corpse.

Hae Young hesitates to look into yet another manhole but since he’s there, he might as well. And so the case re-opens just before the statute of limitations is reached. I never did understand why they should have such a statute.

@GB, Hae Young is quite unfit, struggle to climb over the fence, stuck in the fence, fell hard on the ground.

He was so shocked (fell again) to fine the rope and a skeleton in the manhole which also proves that the walkie talkie is spooky for real.

He questions his own sanity to be doing what he is doing based on Something he supposedly heard from And An ancient Irtelephone with no battery.

I remember being freaked out the first time.I watched this episode.

@B, isn’t Hae Young a profiler or something like that not those typical plain clothes policemen?

This is a long episode.And I already know I need to rewatch it. I may leave it here for now and come back to Read others Comments.

My daughter is back home.
And I am Wanting to spend as much time with her as possible

I enjoyed watching how disgusted Hae Young was at touching the door and the air and floor inside the mental institution. Yet he had been digging in trash cans? He seems too fastidious. LOL

@FF, Among the police bosses, the top guy is forcing the subordinate to take the case away from Soo Hyun. There’s corruption involved.

Okay @MM, see you later!

Thanks @Hana!! Will watch this after the episode. See you later!

Hae Young gets that look on his face and throws a bombshell at the reporters and shows that the big police boss had been lying just a few minutes earlier. Heh!

Soo Hyun has been investigating the case too.

@FF, yes it seems that SH has got a lot of data on the Kim Yoon Jung case. I guess she investigated on her own because Jae Han had been investigating it too.

@SD, I wanted that big police boss to be taken down several pegs for all his corruption.

Thanks @FF! The next case the walkie talkie starts years before 2000.

The music is so suspenseful!!!

We have reached the end of the episode, but the closing song sounds rustic, so raw as if it is hinting at the rawness of the drama.

Hi all, coming in late. Out all morning so watched first episode last night. Lots happening in first episode here. Unlike some Kdramas that take a few episodes to set up narrative we are fully immersed by end of episode. Left with puzzlement…seemingly the murderer has been tracked down, yet there are 15 episodes left, so????
Good start!

Hi @LL, It’s never too late to join in!

After the first 2 episodes, we get investigations of cold cases. I found it amazing how the writer worked in the past and present, as the police of different eras investigated ‘together’.

@SD, Yes amazing wasn’t it? I would not have been surprised if most of us were watching and not commenting. It’s that riveting.

My only comment that is not so positive is that HY’s profiling seems to amount to kind of just plucking ideas from the air. He said that the criminal is such-and-such so confidently. It seemed a bit far-fetched, unless he’d been doing this for many years. He seemed relatively young. However he is already a Lieutenant.

@SD I did notice that child HY was able to notice how the criminal was dressed and that her nails were not polished etc. I guess he was naturally talented in the area of observation and analysis. n Yes it could be that his guilt got him to become a police profiler.

Yes, we never find out why he didn’t want to befriend the girl or see any of his family.

@FF, yes, he was embarrassed to lend or open his umbrella because it was broken, however, I wondered why he kept rejecting her friendly gestures. We are never given an explanation, I believe. Maybe he had his own ‘trauma’ or struggles because he was alone. He was apart from all the kids who were playing. All the more I thought he’d have been happy that the girl offered him her racket and they could have become friends. But he rejected her friendly gestures or kept away from her when he saw her. I feel that Hae Young’s regret that he might have kept Kim Yoon Jung ‘safe’ if he’d befriended her and over his failure at getting the police to listen to him, inform his actions in Episode 1 and 2.

Another thought just struck me.

Looking for the Links Between Our Trio
What links/ties Hae Young and Jae Han together (besides the walkie talkie) is their concern and regret over the kidnapping-cum-killing of Kim Yoon Jung. They are also both ‘loners’. Both of them seemed to not have a team with them in their investigations. Even Soo Hyun, being about the only female detective in the Homicide Squad and being told off by her boss to do the investigation alone, as she usually does things independently, is also a loner.

The other thing that links them is that both Hae Young and Jae Han work/worked together with Soo Hyun in their own timelines. We see that Soo Hyun has rapport and relationship with Jae Han, her sunbae. But the Kim Yoon Jung case was the last case of Jae Han, and it so happened that Soo Hyun was being transferred away from his unit during that investigation.

Soo Hyun’s possible regret is that she was not there to help Jae Han when he most needed it, and that after that, they never had a chance to work together again.

Given the chance now in 2015 to pick up the case that her sunbae had failed to solve, Soo Hyun is understandably as determined as Hae Young to find the killer. I guess solving the Kim Yoon Jung case would sort of absolve some of their feelings of regret or guilt or whatever and would be a tribute to the efforts of Jae Han who had been close to solving it, but still had failed.

While Soo Hyun and Hae Young begin at opposite ends ie as the investigating officer (SH) of a stalking case and as the perpetrator (HY) and often seem to be at loggerheads, independent, doing things their own way and alone, we look forward to how they become a team and not just the two of them, but also with Jae Han of 1980 – 2000.

@FF. I was vaguely remembering that his brother had been in trouble with the law and there is a scene suggesting that. Is the detail you mentioned in this episode?Which I need to rewatch or are you referring to a subsequent episode?

oh I missed the scene of a woman lying in a pool of blood. I guess I really do need to rewatch.

@FF @GB Now my curiosity is really aroused to re.Watch Episode one and maybe not stop there.

@GB, that walkie talkie conversation was not their first encounter? Ha, I am so tricked! So tempted to keep watching….

Sorry, my crappy connexion died once again. No internet. T T

@GB, I think I should take note of scenes in part2 of the episode.
It’s all about tension, twists and turn, and well made about that.
First, it uses a trick: Limited Time.
Yeah, something urgent it’s always more urgent where there is a deadline.
It put characters under tension, but probably more, the audience.

@GB, yes, but more, there is also a trap from the real criminal.
She has a lot of nerves when she shows the wrong closet.
Everything you say as credit is true.
But I think also about the script, here it’s worth it to make a scenes breakup.
The exact scene order and points of tension.

When rewatching, the scene gave us first an idea of who is the real criminal. But for some reason, later, I forget a bit or doubt. There is a mystery here, why I follow the wrong track when the drama say me how is the criminal first? Am I alone to have feel that?