i also have the same feeling just because it's too early to reveal the kidnapper but i wouldn't mind if he was one, it will be something new as in the kidnapper is revealed early but the hero and heroine couldn't stop him until the last moment because he is very smart, if i think with a logical mind he could be the kidnapper because it wasn't proven that the real kidnapper actually killed Saet Byul, he just kidnapped her but she escaped and accidentally drowned herself isn't it?, the store owner has a high probability of being the kidnapper Soo Hyun and Dong Chan are looking for, he was seen in the broadcasting office by Soo Hyun the day Saet Byul was kidnapped and the photos he has collected of Saet Byul tells a lot too, why would you collect some child's photo and paste it all over the room? it indeed tells me that he was planning to do something with the child, plus he has legit motive, revenge against Ji Hoon who helped to prove his father guilty of the crime, the store owner believed his father was innocent, now that i think of it, the watch of Saet Byul that Soo Hyun found in the store owner's room clock might have been used by him as bait to lure Saet Byul, he might have said, 'Oh, Saet Byul, I want to return your watch which you dropped in the store a few days ago or something like that...well that's my theory, anyway loving the drama and falling hard for our lovable Ki Dong Chan...

the accomplice didn't want cha bong-seob to ever "out" him, so he hired the motorcyclist to kill him, likely promising him a lot of money in exchange.

but he also messed with the motorcycle so that it would malfunction and kill its rider, so then cha's death would look like it was done out of revenge.

To cover his tracks maybe?

But think this from her position: She's trying to hide inside the room and suddenly a call comes which when she tries' to cut, glows towards a WHOLE FUCKING WALL OF HER DAUGHTER'S PICS! Creepyyy... Won't you stare at it? Won't you get scared and look around forgetting everything else?

Well, if you give chance to our heroin now,I'll bet my everything that she'll take this opportunity with both hands and try to kill the kidnapper on the spot...That's mother for you!

if you're talking about the tattoo's only some people as in minority do it because it's fun or they like the design, almost all the people i'v met with tattoo on them have reasons and most of the tattoo's tells stories about that person, i also do watch a lot of crime documentaries and prison documentaries and all of the murderers and criminals they show there give solid reasons for every tattoo they have on their bodies, some of them did have tattoo's signifying revenge or death or murder, this tattoo in the drama signifies revenge and death which the said person might have tattooed himself with that in mind...it doesn't hurt to investigate the person just in case, if it were the police they would have done the same thing...i do agree with you on your second comment, it was stupid of her to do something like that, it's common sense...

Also Woo-jin is even more on my radar now taht we've seen what happened because I really don't know how he knew when he did about the killer getting killed last episode. Who would've told him? Ho-Gook was in shock basically and definitely didn't call him. I still suspect there's someone inside the force who's collaborating, that's the only reason the accomplice would know that they were on the way to Soo-hyun right?

Unless that was just an editing mistake/ subbing error and I'm over-analyzing. Because I really can't think of a reason he would be the insider. No one is safe from suspicion but if I can't come up with a motive I'm reluctant to pin someone as a major suspect. Even if it isn't him I think someone is on the inside and this is all linking to some kind of larger conspiracy as some other people have been suspecting.

You're right about the pictures, unless he just planted a camera facing them in the bushes and put some kind of timer lol. There are even pics from when the girls were with the puppy and we saw that the first time at least, he was at the store and had no time to cross the street and take pictures of them.

Yea it's not him, but I got a strong hunch it was his fault. And he's just as psychotic as the other killer(s).

I also don't think it's him but he's definitely shady and may be inadvertently involved based on some past action.

I was glad that Dong Chan didn't remember him from adultery photos. The writer I'm sure, figured we would be suspecting that but instead of going that route, it was through his hyung's case. The threads are weaved so well into this story's fabric.

I actually suspected the security guy since episode 2, he seems to be popping in and out too conveniently in the story to share his opinions. lol. Also there was that one scene in episode 3 where he found Saet Byul's clothes in the dumpster and gave Ji-hoo that long lecture about how a human-right lawyer should know better when he returned it. Now that we have narrowed down the motive of the kidnapping, that scene just came back to me.
I feel that gramps is probably connected to the case 10 years ago or one of the Ji-hoo's cases, maybe one of the relatives of the victim.

Also, there must be a major hint from the scenes a year ago that I missed. Aside from showing us the lady from that cafe and giving the background to how everyone started to know each other. Why started from a year ago? My guess is that the family of the victim from the incident a year ago is also involved. And also, what did Dong-ha see when Soo hyun crossed/uncrossed her legs?

That last scene totally creeped me out. I think I would handle it better if he came with loud thud from behind her, but it was the silence and the accompanying secrecy of his movements that sent chills down my spine.

DITTO on everything you said about Dong Chan!

I noticed that too! I guess I should go back and look again but with the glimpses we got it looked like the little girl with the puppy was in every picture with Saet Byul. Coupling that with it only being episode six ... it seems unlikely that Saet Byul was this guy's target.

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8)... It's just further proof, as if it were needed, at how good the plot is at laying little clues way in advance. Anyway, paedophile cum serial killer it is. And goodness only knows what happened to the poor dog.

9) Soo-hyun spotted what she thought was Saet-byul's clock hidden in Man-soo's cuckoo clock. It's not too distinctive a model, any little girl might own it. So it may very well have been a trophy from one of his victims - perhaps the one we saw in the first episode? Alternatively, in the case file, Man-soo insisted that his father was wrongfully convicted. Maybe it was because he was the one who committed the crimes: the account of the murder does tally with the equipment he owns.

10) Ji-hoon's threatening email was sent from someone calling himself 'davinci'. A boast about his intelligence, perhaps? Oh, and I don't blame Ji-hoon of not taking much heed of them - it does seem that it would be one of the drawbacks of the job, and most of the time nothing would come of them. However, this could be the exception that proves the rule.

11) The disappearing jewellery. I had not thought of Saet-byul as a possible culprit (thanks, mk). If it is Ji-hoon - as the show is leading us to believe, what with him staring at them in the previous episode - it might be that he recognised them. So it may very well have been his initials on that ring. Hmm.

12) Grandpa knows something. My guesses are birth secret shenanigans, or he's Woo-jin's father - trying to atone for his son's actions. Because Woo-jin completely threw Dong-chan to the wolves in that investigation.

13) Oh, Dong-chan. He's clearly feeling a lot of guilt for Young-gyu's brain damage. But I'm not sure how he did cause it - perhaps the drama was just squeamish of showing a bullet in a child's head. Nevertheless, Young-gyu has no scar indicative of such an injury. Admittedly, I could be reading too much into it.

14) Dong-chan's impression of Ho-kook was some much needed levity. (But I still mistrust Ho-kook. Call me paranoid if you want.)

4) That is so unsettling...Young-gyu with his green shoes, yellow jacket and red jumper is the brightest of them all...in terms of colors at least. That's such an irony if we think about his mental state.

5) Oh yes, after having second...and third and fourth thoughts about that, in the end I was right that I was wrong LOL.

6) Same here. Don't trust anyone.

7) I think either the truck driver was someone from the police or someone from that van was involved in all that.

8) STILL wouldn't bet my money on it. Thanks show, you taught me to distrust everything I see LOL. I explained below in my awful-long post why I wouldn't jump to conclusions with him. Those pics are beyond creepy, but as someone else already mentioned, the perspective from which they were taken is off. We also have the pics with the puppy there and we know that Man-soo was on the girls's side when that happened. Could be a setup, but if it was, how would anyone know they are suspecting him, in order to plant the evidence in advance? There are some just with Saet-byul, but indeed, in most of them, she is alongside the other girl, who might have been the actual target - if he actually planed to do something to them or if it just was a morbid fetish. Oh God no, not the dog!! So adorable! I HATE it when they harm dogs on TV shows.

12) Isn’t he a bit old to be Woo-jin’s father lol? Could be, but since DC’s mother even brought him food and he seems to know all the family history, it’s likely that Gramps is related to DC. Yeah, it was cruel for Woo-jin to act like that, although just like Ji-Hoon, he did what he thought was right and they both put the job above the personal matters (Ji-Hoon helping Bong-sup, Woo-jin confirming that DC disregarded his orders). While Ji-Hoon damaged his relationship with Soo-hyun, Woo-jin made his colleague turn against him. Even though what they did was wrong, I kind of understand the reasoning behind both of them. Kind of. Curious that both men from Soo-hyun’s life are/were equally invested in their jobs and distanced themselves from other people close to them – could that mean that Soo-hyun will end up with DC, who is different from these two?

13) They also didn’t explicitly show Saet-byul in that field – only her hand and a bit of her face. Either they are hiding something or they don’t want to show violent scenes involving kids, but I guess it’s the latter.

I feel it's ironic that she is behaving like the mysterious lady from that cafe now who tells the victims that they are going to die. She also dismissed the mysterious lady as weird/crazy when she said that to her.

The dumb mistakes are because they are human, scared, dealing with an absurd world and putting together the pieces as they go. I am loving this show. God's Gift is the best K crime drama I have watched, and it holds high compared to US and British as well. It does have some pretty nervous parts which is what it is all about.
The van accident is straight out of We Are All Surrounded, almost every bit of the truck hitting the van, the cctv, the toll booth, the waiting to hit the van, exactly the same as when Chief Kang was hit in ...All Surrounded. Same writers?
Still a great drama. Very cinematic and engaging.

I'm also wondering whether it might not actually have been Saet Byul in the lake..but on the other hand, I think the parents would have been able to make the identification that it is in fact their daughter before they proceeded with the funeral. Maybe the murderer's original target was saet byul's friend but changed to saet byul instead?

7. What is important here is DC's mom would be baby-sitting SB for a while! That's great...because I am able to trust his mom – she seems like a harmless old lady who can't believe her son murdered someone and forgives her other son for giving his statement. We can't trust anyone, but I want to trust a lady who picks up a mentally disabled kid from the streets and raises him with such affection. At least more than SB's current nanny.
8. The fact that Dong Ho is mentally disabled also raises question on whether he was actually the criminal or not. He doesn't seem to be in a position to defend himself or even give police a clue as to how his innocence can be proved. But keeping in mind how violently he reacted when SH showed him the victim's photographs makes me think – maybe he was a witness to the crime and was threatened to dispose the bodies? We haven't seen him actually killing people – we have only seen him carrying the body. This could provide a satisfactory conclusion. Also, maybe that's why he is on the list of people to be executed first. Because if the same people were responsible for that crime as well, they wouldn't want to take chances and silence him at the earliest? And that maybe the reason of the murders that occurred recently. The person responsible for those murders wants to silence the only witness and is using more murders to build pressure on the government.
Or is this too farfetched?
9. And...the accomplice. That room was creepy – and the last shot of him peeking into the room where SH is standing in clear view sent chills down my spine. Sheesh. Was he the guy JH had tracked before SH went back in time? Or maybe it was DC as a red herring? Who is that guy exactly? Because at first glance he seems to be acting as an independent psycho serial killer. What's the link between him and the government? Because I know there has to be. The plot is thickening and now everyone involved with the case is in clear danger.
10. Young Gyu's ultimate ddakji seems to hold many clues, out of all of which, I'm suspecting it is a document related to Dong Ho. It just makes perfect sense because coincidence is the best plot device to uphold the theory of all-powerful fate.
11. Dong Chan was freaking awesome when he acted as Hoo Guk. And you would think a suspense drama wouldn't be good at executing comic scenes! Loved it! He's hot blooded...and when he called himself a murderer – *stops breathing * if I think about it, maybe he calls himself because of the bullet he shot and his history with Woo Jin. I refuse to believe otherwise. Hmph.

Dear admins, can you delete the comment I posted twice? It occupies a lot of space and I think it'll annoy everyone. Pretty please? Thank you.

Continuing my theories...

12. Snake also seems to be involved with all this, and also the motorcyclist club. Snake is a creepy name as it is, but there is a high chance this is a red herring, because we know that the person with CBS had researched about SB. So maybe CBS wanted to tell SH that there is a group that's going to use her daughter to create a political storm. Her father is a human right's lawyer and the amount of blackmails he receives means he has loads of people against him. Plus if SH continues involving herself and uncovering the murderers, she's simply giving them all the more reason to target her daughter. Not that she's doing the wrong thing. She's brave and one of the best, if not the best, female characters I've ever seen! You rock, Ajhumma! Is this sufficient explanation for the three-finger salute or is there more to the story?

That cliffhanger is keeping me on the edge(get it? Cliff, edge? No? Okay..) Brilliant acting by both the leads. Seems like I've joined everyone in ranting about the drama – hehe. XD Sorry for the double comment and the long rant.

Really interesting. Let's see what happens next week!

5) Ji-Hoon is definitely shady and more so the fact that he seemed to know who the killer was, when he gets those pictures. We know now that he receives harassing mails all the time (not surprising, taking into account what he does), so that mail from davinci could have something to do with Saet-byul’s death.

6) This show is all about characters trying to cope with guilt. Soo-hyun with the guilt of not take enough care of her daughter, Dong-Chan with the guilt of disabling his own nephew, Ji-Hoon MAYBE with the guilt of being responsible for the conviction of an innocent person, Woo-jin MAYBE with the guilt of lacking any sensibility and letting down his partner. While what Woo-jin did was cruel, he probably believed he was right to do it, since he couldn’t allow something like that to happen again and his personal resentment for DC having disobeyed his orders might have come into play. Heck, maybe there was even some envy involved, since he always knew DC was better than him. Still, we see him trying to get along with DC and help him – maybe this is his way of fixing things up.

7) God’s Gift revolves around fate not just for the main characters, but also for the killers – that vehicle hitting Bong-sup – KARMA, bitch LOL.

8) Speaking of Bong-sup, it smells to me more than ever that there are still more people involved than the characters believe. I feel Jang Man Soo is a total red herring and here’s why. First of, the guy who was driving the truck looks different from Jang Man Soo – different ears, different skin. Sure, it might be a body-double, but at least with Bong-sup, it wasn’t the case.

Screencap: http://s15.postimg.org/5ofqac296/vlcsnap_2014_03_20_07h41m21s191.jpg

As for the tattoo, it seems strange that Jang Man Soo would be so freaked out about hiding it, if he doesn’t even know they are looking for that clue. Besides, Saet-byul draws it on the wall – I highly doubt she would draw something which causes her fear. We see her draw a house, her family…I guess that symbol might bring some pleasant memories for her to draw it. Maybe it’s Snake’s tattoo?? That must be a total red herring for Jang Man Soo – he might hide a scar he is embarrassed of or something entirely different. He also doesn’t seem to be the kind of guy who would own a truck – where would he place it? How could he afford one, since he seems to run a small shop? Sure, appearances might be deceiving, but I doubt he is the guy who was involved in the setup. My money is on an inside job – maybe one of the officers transporting him was involved. I rule Ho Guk out of this, because of that gunshot. I don’t rule him out though from the entire scheme, because although he seems like a nice chap, he does look like a guy who can easily be manipulated, since he’s such a chicken. Also remember that the killer wasn’t supposed to die until later – he was meant to escape to Philippines without even getting caught and this reinforces my belief that someone from the police knew what was going on. First of – the lack of DNA and blood from the house. What if the forensics guy or whoever arrived first at the crime scene fabricated all the evidence, so that they can release Bong-sup? With Bong-sup in jail, he couldn’t have possibly taken his identity. The person who calls during the show used the knife wounds argument just because he was certain that they would never catch Bong-sup – otherwise, his threats wouldn’t have been taken seriously. Since Bong-sup was already dead at that time, being hit by that bus, if the caller was someone from the police, he surely recognized the dead body and was able to assume the killer’s identity. The fact that the call from the scene comes from the police and that Woo-jin finds out what happened only seconds after, seem to support this. More than dead or alive, he needed Bong-sup NOT GUILTY and since there was already enough evidence against him, he had to be eliminated, without getting his hands all dirty. Woo-jin, babe, please tell me you are not in this LOL.
Maybe the guy from the backseat is involved? Anyone of them could have made the call and we only see Ho Guk afterwards.
Screencap:

http://s4.postimg.org/5011q80rg/vlcsnap_2014_03_20_08h44m31s221.jpg

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We never see the guy sitting back clearly and I doubt it was the driver, because if he knew what was coming, he would have probably stopped the van in the nick of time, avoiding the crash. Or maybe the truck driver himself was in disguise and is in fact someone from the police. Gah, there are so many of them.

9) Interesting thing – the threatening e-mail has ‘simba’ in its name and when Soo-hyun is at Jang Man Soo’s house, “The Lion King” is on TV lol.

Screencap: http://s28.postimg.org/lgdcupty4/vlcsnap_2014_03_20_07h53m07s83.jpg

What’s more, The Lion King is also a story of guilt and being wrongly accused. Simba is led by his uncle Scar to believe that he was responsible for the death of his father until the very end, when Scar, just like the typical villain, boasts about his killing, since he was about to do the same to Simba as well. Hope I didn’t spoil the movie for you LOL. I wonder if it’s coincidental, because so far in this show, nothing has been random.

10) I still don’t know how the kidnapping fits in all this, since we’ve only dealt with killings so far, without involving any hostages. Someone needs to remember that Song case from episode 1! Someone as in the characters lol. We know Jang Man Soo is a photograph enthusiast, owning a lot of cameras. We also know that his favorite models seem to be Saet-byul and the other girl with the dog. He has in the room all the tools which go hand in hand with the kidnapping. He grew up in the same orphanage as Bong-sup and Ki Tae (?) and he was also part of the same Freedom motorcycle club. It’s creepy as hell that he has all those pics on the wall, but maybe he just has a morbid interest in the girls, without actually wanting to harm them. It screams pedophilia to me, but we know that with this show, nothing is what it seems to be. Creepy – yes, but who knows?

11) So many broken things: that bracelet (Hah! I knew that zoom was for a reason), the CCTV, the camera, which oddly, was INDEED broken earlier. This has to do with the Gangnam murderer, since in the previous reality, the camera was repaired and got broken only after Soo-hyun slams him. This means that Soo-hyun’s actions led the camera to be destroyed by someone else, possibly to erase any evidences.

12) Who do those people talking with the president want to execute as a model? They were talking about Ki Tae’s case getting out of hand and suddenly, they want to execute someone. Do they talk about executing someone on death row, to divert attention? Maybe even Dong-ho ahead of time? Curious that this time around, it’s the creepy Minister of Justice who tells them things are not so simple.

13) Huh, so Dong-Chan really did injure his nephew and left him brain damaged. I couldn’t tell from that flashback – I thought the guy was the one who went down and not Young-gyu. Maybe they thought it would be too gruesome to show the child bleeding, just like it would have been to show us Saet-byul’s corpse and that’s why it wasn’t so explicit? Also, if the subtitles were correct, when granny pleads the guy to let his nephew go because they are not even blood related (Huh?? I know it’s true, but it’s an odd thing to say), he refers to that guy as TEACHER? Wait, so he was a TEACHER? Just like Bong-sup? Did he actually escape police and maybe was replaced by Bong-sup?

14) LOLOLOL with Dong-Chan’s spot-on impression of Ho Guk. That was hilarious :D :D :D .

15) What’s up with the money that Dong-Chan puts in Woo-jin’s pocket, saying that the price didn’t go up yet? Is that some kind of a debt? Or a way to tell him that he owns him?

16) Oh jeez, that ajumma actually recommends granny to be in charge of Saet-byul, right after she was blamed by that family in the street for letting strangers in the house?? Sorry, but that’s irresponsible and I have a bad feeling about it, if she will be hired by Soo-hyun.

17) Hmmm where could the jewelry be? Ji-Hoon might have hidden them, but again, this might be a red herring and Soo-hyun will eventually find them and get clues for something else.

18) Loved the ending and how they build on the creepiness. I hate it when they try to scare us employing loud noises or the dog suddenly appearing at the window. It’s the still and slow scenes which have the greater effect. And we all assume the two are going to have a fight, but she might look at his arm and see there is no tattoo ;) .

I don't care for DC cause he pretty much handed his mentally impaired brother in and is not showing remorse ? he is as shady as the father

"I wanted to ask, the guy with helmet and creepy room- MS? – Does he know SB somehow?
I seriously wish next week would come sooner. This drama is so awesome. <3"

Yup, it's the storekeeper from episode one, who is asked by Saet-byul to watch for her friend's puppy, since she wasn't allowed to bring it to school and her mother didn't allow her to keep him at home either. The general consensus at that time was that the guy looked creepy as hell LOL.

Has it been 2 years already? Ah, time flies by fast.
Passionate hearties. (: