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How Mr. Shin deals with shades of gray

The episode starts with an adorable scene of a young boy negotiating with Shin for lesson on winning claw machine. 🥰 Shin has met his match as the prize is not relinquished til the slime is traded. Then the delivery of sage advice from the boy before he leaves. 😂 The scene shifts to Philip overhearing the discussion between Shin and colleague about how Shin masterfully snuck Lee and mom out while taking the hit he failed to keep everybody safe. Philip is disappointed in his boss because he sees this as cheating and illegal activity by one who should be teaching him the law. His natural judge self runs through the stats of the crimes and punishments Shin is guilty of even as he preps to see Si On. There are scenes of his imagined coolness on a motorbike interrupted by the harsh reality of Si On telling him her grandmother drives better.😂 Shin has another adorable scene with a young child. This time it is Si On’s little sister who gets the prize duck from claw machine and asks Shin to help her sister with a bully. Si On is getting stitches in her arm but has not discussed the injury with anybody and instead doing her best to keep it secret. That cute pinky swear with Shin and Ye On to help her big sis and take care of the bad guy. 🥰 There is an older gentleman in shop who is overseeing Shin’s management of the chicken shop. Philip looks up the guy and finds out he is a corporate billionaire wanting Shin to get sweet rice flour. Philip’s head is spinning trying to figure out who Shin really is. He and Shin are having lunch at Pluto’s and find out about the customer harassing Si On. He’s the politician’s son and a royal ass who manhandled Shin and caused her injuries. He is also the school bully most likely responsible for Si On dropping out of school. Philip, as usual, can list off the crimes and punishments for the assaults. Officer Choi is finally promoted to detective and gets back to old stomping grounds. He gets his file box of the case where Shin’s son was killed and a hidden notebook he had stashed trying to determine the mastermind behind it. He is still haunted by the case 15 years later. The thug has had another place a delivery call and Si On finds herself dealing with him again. This time however, Philip shows up and Si On is surprised the nerdy guy has some martial arts skills. She is impressed but won’t admit it. Philip chooses to follow her advice and he doesn’t go for the money as planned but he ends up getting hit on the head and wakes up in the trunk of a car. Shin and Si On get there just in time to keep him from being flattened as scrap metal. Shin pays the thug a visit and gets his voice recorded and plots something with hacker Kim. Philip’s smile when Si On tells him he is better suited to be a judge than delivery guy.🥰 Shin visits to thank the one who helped him get passports for Lee and mom. He shows her a pic of the odd guy in his shop and told her he had a pic of her daughter on phone. She panics as she knows it is her daughter’s father and he is still looking for her 15 years later. Philip is so close to a first date with Si On and Shin calls to trash his dinner plans. 😝🙄 They plan how to deal with thug and then decide the best way is to go through his father’s political plans. Shin goes and has a chat with the dad, while his son chooses another plan, to burn Si In’s bike. He is pleased with his destruction but is stunned to see Philip alive and well monitoring the fire. Things are heating up for Shin and company, literally. This drama keeps a good pace and has a complex storyline. The flashbacks add to the current chain of events and fills in the gaps as to who and why things are going down the way they are. I am enjoying the music as well. It is a good watch as we all wonder…who is Mr Shin the great negotiator? How does he have the connections he does? And why do they let him do the things he does when it’s gray and not particularly legal?

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interesting dynamic between Kataoka &…

interesting dynamic between Kataoka & Odajima... also how sex is regard here is kinda weird - there no rules & everything goes. guess this the world of the Yakuza, hard to wrap my head around it - as i don't know how a love/romance would come of it. well not a healthy, loving one - but given who they r & why the have been put together, i guess asking for anything healthy let alone happy is a reach ****************************************************************************************************************wondering if Asahi wasn't just Odajima's bff but lover(?) or 1st one sided love. either way hope now that he is taking Kataoka to Asahi 's home town/island we get answers & it isn't dragged until the end. ******************************************************side note: Odajima looks way better with black hair - that blonde isn't working IMO.

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well this was interesting & shockingly…

well this was interesting & shockingly good - am shocked cause this kinda dark, the SA that is treated as nothing makes me so uneasy & i don't get why anyone would want to join an organization, where when u start from the bottom basically means u r gonna get treated like a "bottom" or worse like a toy, that gets used & abused sexually. & idk why but have a feelings Odajima was abused at home & that's why he murdered his father & mother. so going from one bad situation, to a worse one is kinda depressing IMO. **********************************************************************************************************************personally i would wanna murder Kirii more then Kataoka. even though given the hierarchy i guess if he does, he wouldn't stand a chance of living after. so he gotta follow orders even if said orders will get him killed - the irony in this is mindboggling. *****************************************************************************************************************************************mentioning Kataoka, dude is such a character hard to dislike him, but that also makes him that much more terrifying, with Kirii he is mean but u can see that & he is lot of ego too, so u know that he's the type that relies more on his henchmen to do the dirty work. while that isn't the case with Kataoka he will go from joking to killing in a milliseconds & the scary part he wont lose his smile. but he more trustworthy (i know the irony - a Yakuza being trustworthy is a ridiculous notion like the honor part he mentioned - doesn't compute in my mind...) & yet he is someone i would pick, if the choice was between him & Kirii. ************still we gotta wait & see why Odajima chose to not act on the opportunity & what he wants to know from Kataoka.

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One Stars

seriously with that ending. ima be the odd one out but i really want Ramphueng to win, given how moronic Khem is. as is this dude is doing my head in with his passive attitude & if that wasn't enough he lovesssssssssssss to earsdrop, he can't help himself from snooping around. like come on & then we get that kiss/handjob scene at the end. am i supposed to care? well am sure everyone else falling over their own two feet cause of the mains. me not so much, watching Peem & Khem kiss was torturously uncomfortable, it felt like they both were on a different vibe. it's like Peem was building the rhythm & Khem was floundering, but that's what u get when u have to play this pathetic backboneless fragile creature. everything u do needs to be subdued & muted. this not fun to watch - unlike Jet & Chan, they were on the same vibe & that's why it was enjoyable watching them. & even though in this ep both were circling each other cause they had jumped in too fast - they were still fun to watch. **btw the old woman (who i am assuming is dead) is annoying me as i am 99% sure she knows why Ramphueng's soul is holding a grudge against Khem - but for whatever reason she wont say. **********************************************************************& was curious finding out that Jet, Chan even Peem were tied to Khem's fate & that's why they kept reincarnating around her, always intertwined with her life. & yet the only one Ramphueng held a grudge against is Khem (cause she ordered the murder of Ramphueng's baby?!?) will have to wait & see

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