cast: joo won, kim hee sun, kwak si yang, lee da in, choi won young
genre: crime mystery, sci-fi
it started in the year of 2050, where time travelling has been started. two ALICE agents were sent back to 1992 to look for "the book of prophecy" that was said to have the prediction how time travelling could end so they could prevent it. ALICE is agency that sent people back through time to find peace and closure from their past life so the end of time travelling is bad news for them. those two agents are yoon tae yi (kim hee sun) and yoo min hyuk (kwak si yang). they arrived at the scene a bit late, since the owner of the book has been killed by an agent from "the teacher" but they managed to secure the book. however, they didn't know that the child left behind was tae yi's child version. later tae yi found out that she was pregnant with min hyuk's baby, and time travelling could endanger the baby. min hyuk suggested that tae yi got abortion and got back to 2050 as they have finished their mission. however, tae yi secretly read the book of prophecy and decided to stay in 1992 and delivered her baby.
tae yi renamed herself as park sun young and named her son park jin gyeom. growing up jin gyeom was weird and later diagnosed with alexithymia, which means he had difficulty in recognizing emotion. that's why his classmates got the wrong impression about him, except for kim do yeon (lee da in), who later had long crush on him. in 2010, jin gyeom found his mother dead on her birthday, and from that day on, jin gyeom promised that he would catch the culprit. captain go (go hyeon seok) who was in charged of his case back when he was a high school student, looked after him after his mother's death and later helped jin gyeom to get into police academy and even became detective in his team in 2020.
jin gyeom stumbled upon weird cases, like a child that was abducted but the kid said that her mother was the one who abducted her, but in fact her mother was away in europe. then a murder case where the culprit said that he was a 5 years old boy in this time. that got jin gyeom suspected about something else behind all these cases. he then met "this dimension" yoon tae yi since he was suspecting time travelling had something to do with this case. "this dimension" tae yi is a professor in physic which is interested in time travelling. the new tae yi has striking resemblance with park sun young, so jin gyeom had difficulty separating this feeling.
together they worked on cases and found out that time travelling really existed. jin gyeom got send back to 2010, just to see his mother got killed again. however, he found out about seok oh won (choi won young) that helped his mother back then but got mistaken as the suspect in his mother's case. the current seok oh won was the one that keep the book of prophecy but no one knew about it except for jin gyeom's mom. however, later agents from both agency, ALICE and the teacher's got information about it and killed the current oh won and replaced him with the future oh won, the one who changed from helping jin gyeom to helping the teacher. captain go was changed too. the future captain go's wife was died and the director from ALICE promised that he would send him back in time to see his wife as long as he killed park sun young. but the future captain go couldn't do that and he replaced the current captain go who got killed on duty and helped protected jin gyeom. later, he got killed by future oh won. that's whe the future oh won told both tae yi and jin gyeom that their fate was sealed by the book of the prophecy.
the last page of the book was ripped by current tae yi's father and gave it to child tae yi back in 1992. but after the incident, child tae yi lost her memory. jin gyeom has been travelling back to the past couple times and even brought tae yi with him the last time. there tae yi found out about the book of the prophecy and the last page that was ripped. at their last time travelling journey, both tae yi and jin gyeom met their past life, but the past jin gyeom was another person travelling from the future and he was the one that killed jin gyeom's mom in that time period. tae yi then started to get memory from jin gyeom's mom memory and she also got her old memory back. she remembered about fraction of the last page. she told jin gyeom that in that book, jin gyeom was the one that was not supposed to be born, but he was born through passage of time, thus he got special power in controlling the time. and he was the one that could end time travelling as well. jin gyeom's mom apparently found a way to close the time passage, but she also found out that if she closed it, then all time travellers were erased. at that time, tae yi didn't understand it, but later she understood that jin gyeom would be vanished if they close time passage. that's why jin gyeom's mom decided to sacrifice herself so jin gyeom would stay alive. she hoped that jin gyeom wouldn't meet current tae yi so they didn't get into danger. but her hope didn't come true as jin gyeom was working together with current tae yi. at the end, jin gyeom found out who the teacher is and then decided to go against his mother wish.
what i like:
- solid acting from all casts. no wonder since most faces are repeated faces that i keep seeing whenever i see korean drama.
- they remembered not to use touch screen phone in 2010 and use touch screen phone in 2020. however, i couldn't say anything about the clothing since i totally forgot how 2010 fashion should look like.
- the plot is something else. every episode has a twist that got me really confused. the idea about time travelling and combined it with crime story is a bit new.
what i don't like:
- the ending of course. i know it's a fantasy, but still the ending is weird. i get why jin gyeom should be killed to close the time passage, but why his mother too?
- a bit plot hole about their time travelling. they have been going back and forth to 2010, wouldn't it be weird for some people? and what about what happened in the past could affect the future? like they killed the current seok oh won and replaced him with the future. ain't that weird? if they killed the current one, the future one should be vanished. and the current tae yi is not jin gyeom's mom, so that means jin gyeom could fall in love with current tae yi? oh so confusing. i know they talked about different time and dimension as well, but it's super confusing. and who's the real killer from jin gyeom's past?
rating: 7/10
binge worthy: for the first few episodes, yes. the last ones, not so much.
recommended for: those who like crime murder mystery mixed with sci fi as well, sci fi lover and time travel's story. those who don't mind watching confusing drama without any romance and almost no comedy thrown in.
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