Helpless, she tries to jump into the sea below to swim to the boat for help but in her haste, she miscalculates her jump and lands hard on the rock below, killing her. She chases her mother-in-law to side of the cliff and the old woman tries to defend herself with her sickle but the blade of her sickle falls off the handle. Even after Yeon-Hee's death, Bok-nam is still being treated like trash, which causes her to finally snaps and vengefully kills anyone she can get her hands on, armed with a sickle but she spares a senile and mental disable old man. A mainland investigation is blocked and lied by the locals and Hae-won does not support Bok-nam's case. Meanwhile, Hae-won as a friend does not do anything rather than be a bystander. Bok-nam hysterically cries for the death of her mother and her husband unsympathetically suggests giving bean sprout to revive her daughter only for her to reveal that Yeon-Hee is not his daughter as Bok-nam was raped by many men before. The attempt is foiled by Man-jong and the villagers, and her daughter is accidentally killed in the struggle after she tries to defend her mother when Man-Jong throws her headfirst into the rock. It is also revealed that Man-jong is secretly making Yeon-hee into sexual object for his own sick pleasure much to Bok-man's rage. All of Bok-nam's love is reserved for her young daughter Yeon-hee, with whom she tries to escape for a better life. Life on the undeveloped, socially regressive island is hard, and Bok-nam is treated as little more than a slave by her abusive husband Man-jong, his lustful brother, and the local mean old women.
This incident and the incident with the old lady customer causes her boss to fire her as she tarnishes the public image of the bank and she takes an offer of a long-forgotten friend to take a vacation in Mudo, a desolate and socially backward Southern island where she spent her childhood.Īrriving at the island, she is warmly welcomed by Bok-nam, with whom she had a close friendship when both were in their teens, but whose constant letters she's since ignored. After climbing out of the toilet, she slaps the co-worker in the public but only to realize that she is wrong after noticing the sandals worn by the janitor. Back in the office, she is accidentally locked in the toilet by the janitor and assumes one of her co-worker locks her as prank.
Even after offender tries to sexually harass her, she still apathetically refuses to notify the police. After witnessing a violence against a woman in the street, she apathetically refuses to identify the culprit because it is not her problem. In one occasion, she yells and vehemently refuses a loan to an utterly desperate old lady who cries to beg her to give her the loan for her very survival. A stern, tense, single woman, she is brought down by work-related status and her hypercompetitive mentality to the point of being completely apathetic to the plight of other people. Could Ishak be next on the list, or is he the man responsible? Tracking down his more ‘unsavoury’ allies, Serena is shocked to encounter a familiar face: that of her grieving ex-partner, former Malaysian ICD officer Megat Jamil (Bront Palarae).Hae-won is a middle-rank officer working in a Seoul bank. As Serena and Heri work together to catch the killer, their inquiries lead them to industrialist/kingpin Datuk Ishak Hassan (Wan Hanafi Su), whose prominent family and known associates all have some connection to the victims.
Seeking answers, Heri finds a way to insert himself into the Malaysian investigation. Meanwhile, in Jakarta, for ICD Lieutenant Heriyanto Salim (Ario Bayu), the case turns personal when his brother is found murdered in similar circumstances. Called in to investigate, Singaporean International Crimes Division (ICD) officer Serena Teo (Rebecca Lim) takes charge of a case across the border where a family has been slaughtered aboard a luxury yacht in Johor. A series of brutal murders, each sharing a signature MO, takes place across Malaysia and Indonesia.