i never heard of this series until i randomly saw this on ryanroar's instagram stories. still waiting for mr.queen or true beauty to be completely finished so i have nothing to watch. so i decided to just watch this series. i heard this has a combination of CSI and police crime story, which is my favorite, so i watched it without thinking twice.
title: partner for justice
cast: jeong yu mi, jung jae young, lee yi kyung, stephanie lee, park eun seok
genre: police crime story
eun sol (jeong yu mi) is a rookie prosecutor that came from a wealthy family and has a photographic memory. determined not to let her family dictates her life, she decided to be a prosecutor instead of pursuing to become a judge and even decided to get out of her house without her family's financial support. unfortunately, on her first day, her boss, no han shin (ahn suk hwan) decided to let her to be the scapegoat. he assigned her to a murder case. a wife of notorious chaebol died and her husband became suspect as he had history of abusing his wife. that case made her face to face with baek beom (jung jae young), an eccentric forensic examiner from NFS.
gathering all the evidence, eun sol was sure that oh man sang (kim do hyun), the chaebol, killed his wife. unfortunately, baek beom together with the team from NFS found out that it was a set up for oh man sang. his wife was being abused indeed, thus she decided to set a plan and killed herself so her husband would be caught as the culprit. but the truth was revealed so eun sol decided to drop the charges. eun sol then met her senior from back the college days, kang hyun (park eun seok), who warned her about baek beom.
the series went on on several cases, where baek beom, though being eccentric, also being super thorough in his job. together with stella (stephanie lee) who did the chemical analysis and detective cha soo ho (lee yi kyung), they managed to close cases one by one. also, not forgetting those from eun sol's team, investigator kang dong sik (park jun gyu) and cheon mi ho (park hee jin) who apparently is an expert in camouflage.
some cases might hit home, like the case of doctor ma do nam (song young kyu)'s son death. since dr. ma is a colleague at NFS, it was heartbreaking for all the staff when they had to do the autopsy on that boy. they suspected of foul play at first, but baek beom investigated the evidence slowly and meticulously, and he gathered that it was a suicide. but eun sol managed to find the real reason, that the boy was hallucinated from an illegal drug, thus leading them to catch a drug ring that sold that illegal drug to dr. ma's wife in the first place. they also managed to clear several inheritance cases. then they stumbled upon a case that led them to detective cha. all the evidence from the murder case pointed to detective cha as suspect. but all the team member from prosecutor office and NFS couldn't believe it, so they worked hard following all the evidence until they found out the truth and caught the real killer.
then baek beom had to face his past when they found another murder case which the killer used two drugs combination. apparently, those two drugs were used by kang hyun's older brother to do suicide. kang hyun then went on full speed to prove that baek beom was the culprit while eun sol begged kang hyun to separate his personal feelings from the case. eun sol then learned about baek beom's past. he was about to get married to an OR nurse, when she told him that she was pregnant with kang yong, baek beom's best friend as well as kang hyun's older brother. then both baek beom and her girlfriend got into an accident and baek beom was saved, but the girlfriend died. that accident left baek beom heartbroken. kang yong, who was fallen in love with the nurse as well, decided to end his life. kang hyun then promised to prove that his brother wasn't die because of suicide, but being killed. the case went on quite hard, since baek beom kept quiet, no comment at all, making the whole team desperate. fortunately, detective cha found another lead that was dismissed by kang hyun at first, but later proven that the lead was genuine. they managed to find the real killer and cleared baek beom's name at the same time.
however, through that case, baek beom learnt that his girlfriend wasn't died at the accident and she wasn't pregnant with his bestfriend's baby. apparently, baek beom's dad begged the nurse to leave baek beom since baek beom was going to give his study to the US. then baek baeom continued ruining his career by taking the charges of malpractice done by his junior, dr. lee hye sung (yoon ji min). before the accident, the nurse's plan to give up her love was caught by kang yong. he then told the nurse to told baek baeom that her baby was his, and not baek beom. after the accident, the nurse was in vegetative state for more than 12 years and being hospitalized by baek beom's dad, who felt guilty of the whole incident. kang hyun found out about it and told baek beom the whole story. baek beom then came just in time when his girlfriend woke up from coma and then died.
at the end, the group was facing another murder mystery, this time the victim is a woman from oh man sang's lawyer team. once again they had to chase oh man sang, but at the end, they saw oh man sang's car burnt in a car accident and there was no survivor, only bones. the statement from sungjin's corp was oh man sang was driving the car himself, which then leave the big question, did he or did he not die?
what i like:
- similar method to solve murder mystery like CSI. they collect the sample and stuff and processing it in the lab just like CSI.
- amusing characters. most actor and actresses here i haven't seen aside from detective cha, stella hwang and baek beom's assistant. but all of them had good acting skill. especially cheon mi ho. it was amusing to see her being transformed into someone else. she should be an actress and not a clerk in prosecutor office.
- the cases portrays real problems in real life. like oh man sang's case, they talk about abuse in marriage. that leaves the victim desperate and tried to framed the abuser. while from dr. ma's son suicide, once again we saw the pressure for those young kids to become number one so they could enter college easily. they had to study hard and even took lots of supplements and drugs to keep them awake. while at the MERS case, we saw the struggle of a single mom, trying to balance her work and her personal life. i also like how they make eun sol as a tough woman. though being born rich, she decided to lead her own life and leave his parent's house.
- they tried to infuse a love story between detective cha and stella to cheer up gloomy story with all that blood and dead bodies.
what i don't like:
- gee.. eun sol should tie her hair up and put it in a hair net whenever on scene. ain't her hair might fall in the crime scene thus screwing the investigation? and stella. she works in a lab, processing evidence. at least she should tie her hair.
- talking about stella, i don't like how they tried to make stella looks like the analist from NCIS, the quirky one. but this time they make her sexy and not just quirky. and the mixed language. oh please.. let's her just talk in english. she's fluent in it, so why should she mix the language? it's more confusing that way.
- detective cha. i've seen him twice this time, and there's no difference between him here and him in waikiki. they're both silly but hardworking. they just have different career. back then he was an actor, and here he was a detective. can't he do another character that is less silly? or something else for variety?
- oh man sang case is another proof of being in power can get you out of trouble. with his dad being super rich and powerful, and has connection to mr. no, oh man sang was confident that he wouldn't face jail time. and talking about mr. no means another corruption in the justice department again. i guess corruption is a thing in every justice department anywhere, not just korea. but at least here mr. no is laying low. he didn't order this and that to cover the case. though he did give the case to a newbie, hoping that she would screw up, but at least until the end, he didn't interfere much.
rating: 8/10
binge worthy: yes
recommended for: people who love CSI and don't mind a lower standard in processing the crime scene story, police crime story lover, bloody scene and heartbreaking story in several cases.
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