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Big Mouth: Episodes 9-10

Reveals galore! Crimes divulged, deaths negated, and acts so epic true heroes are unveiled. Plus, did they just show us who Big Mouse is? I can’t tell if it’s an anticlimactic admission or just another ruse to keep the speculations coming. I’ve lost my trust in the storytelling, but this one seems legit folks.

 
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Let’s start with the important news. Jerry is alive. Mayor Choi is the fourth murder accomplice. And Chang-ho looks damn good in a three-piece suit. How do we arrive at these facts and can we trust the “Big” reveal near the end of Episode 9? Since the show is bent on providing twists (more so than providing logic), I’m slow to announce it over the loudspeaker that we know who Big Mouse is. For now, we’ll have to stick to what we observed. First on the list, the three-piece suit.

The VIP trial is underway and Chang-ho meets with an online newscaster to livestream commentary as the court case unfolds. Chang-ho, under the guise of Big Mouse, reveals each of the prosecutor’s moves before it happens, from arguments to evidence. He knows each step because the trial is rigged and Chang-ho was handed the script back when he was hired to be the defendants’ attorney. At the end, he accurately predicts that the VIPs will be acquitted based on insufficient evidence. The livestream comments go wild and everyone watching thinks he’s a fortune teller.

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As it’s being publicly revealed that the trial is a sham, Hye-jin meets with Ji-hoon to exchange Dr. Seo’s research paper for her divorce papers. When Ji-hoon scrolls through the research article, he says it’s the wrong one. He threatens Hye-jin, emphasizing the importance of the document. What he doesn’t know is that their conversation is also being livestreamed. A truck pulls up in front of the courthouse where the VIPs are leaving scot-free and the livestream is broadcast on the side of the truck. All the reporters standing around hear Hye-jin say that her husband, along with the other two defendants, killed Dr. Seo.

As the reporters question the prosecutor about an appeal, the side of the truck rolls up and inside is Chang-ho, decked out in formal wear, looking all types of fine. With the public watching, he forces the prosecutor to say he will appeal the case. He then declares he was abducted and that Ji-hoon and the prosecutor are behind it. In this single scheme that Mi-ho and Chang-ho cooked up together, they manage to expose four things: the VIPs staged their trial, Ji-hoon is involved in criminal activity, the prosecutor is crooked, and Dr. Seo was killed due to a missing research paper (that still needs to be found). In the process, Chang-ho also willingly turns himself in — meaning he’s on his way back to fall colors.

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In other news, Jerry survived! And the only thing that would make me happier is if they gave him more than one line. Here’s what we get: he’s alive, coherent, and sending some mixed signals. Mi-ho visits him in the hospital to ask about Big Mouse and he says he has no information. Mi-ho shrugs it off. Maybe Chang-ho misunderstood when Jerry said Big Mouse paid him. (No, Mi-ho, something dastardly is going on.) To ignite our distrust, we see the hospital worker by Jerry’s side is part of the Big Mouse Tattoo Army.

Speaking of which, the prison has some Big Mouse cronies too. Warden Park, for one. He shows Chang-ho his tattoo, claiming that he himself is Big Mouse, but Chang-ho knows better. Chang-ho records the confessional conversation anyway and gives it to the prosecutor and mayor, tipping them off about the warden’s habit of extorting the inmates. With that information, the warden is arrested and the creepy guard that’s been by the warden’s side takes over his position. Chang-ho still believes that Big Mouse is inside the prison and looks around for a startled face as Warden Park is escorted away.

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Luckily for Chang-ho, Mi-ho is there to help him look for Big Mouse. The two are united again, not because Chang-ho finally gets released from prison (meaning we would finally be released from this prison setting!), but because Mi-ho joins him inside. She’s working as a prison nurse after being asked to resign from the hospital. Without consent, she took blood from the corpse of a former inmate who had gotten sick while in prison — and it’s finally revealed that Dr. Seo’s paper has something to do with the blood of sick inmates.

We confirm a lot of suspicions about Mayor Choi this week and gain even more. Peppered in flashbacks throughout the episodes, we get a laundry list of dirty deeds that the mayor is involved in. To start, he is the fourth accomplice in Dr. Seo’s murder. He orchestrated the VIPs killing the doctor, and then caused their car accident (which is how the dead body was found). As we learned in the beginning, he wanted the VIPs jailed. Now we know he was also the one who destroyed the dashcam footage, which showed his involvement. (It’s still not clear why Hye-jin named Ji-hoon as the other accomplice back in week 1, and I hope we get a more compelling reason than the show wanting to throw us off the scent of the mayor when he was the obvious choice.)

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Adding to his list of crimes, we see the mayor is also the one who drugged Chang-ho before his car accident, which is weird since the VIPs already fessed up to that one (I guess the four of them were still working together?). When the mayor’s wife is drugged and crashes in the same manner this week, it seems we already know who to side-eye. If that wasn’t bad enough, the mayor obtains Dr. Seo’s research paper from Hye-jin and hands it over to the town’s head honcho (known as The Elder), who burns it because its content somehow incriminates him.

Now for the huge news. Remember the opening scene of this drama? The one with all the bars of gold being dumped in a pit and covered with concrete? Well, we see that scene again, but this time Mayor Choi is there. It appears he’s the one standing in the rain overseeing the work. He’s also shown in a vault, with even more gold bars, preparing the research paper he’s about to deliver to the Elder. (This is the smoking gun, right?)

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While we’re getting all this info about the mayor, Chang-ho and Mi-ho also wake up to the fact that he’s the fourth accomplice — but not his connection to Big Mouse. They are setting him up so that Big Mouse will try to attack the mayor, wagering that the mayor will fight back — and that’s how they’ll trap the Mouse at last.

Okay, so, the mayor is a bad guy. But we pretty much knew that from Episode 1. Is he Big Mouse though? We get a pretty damning shot of him sitting atop bars of gold with Dr. Seo’s paper. We also have a motive relating to his working class background and his grandfather’s death. Above all, Mayor Choi doesn’t seem like the type to be a pawn in someone else’s game. At the same time, every week this drama is filled with red herrings to turn our heads in the wrong direction. What’s the verdict, Beanies? Do we have sufficient evidence? Can we call it quits on the guessing?

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I had to drop. There was just no energy left in me after Minamdang to click play on this, JUST for Kwak Dong Yeon to like MAYBE be given something interesting to do, but from the sounds of the recap, he was not, and this was a wise decision on my part lmao.

I will follow along with recaps only from here on out instead, to see what delightful, awful nonsense these writer's pull out of thin air for the rest of this show, as is their MO. ("Since the show is bent on providing twists (more so than providing logic") - sounds about right lmao)

What do you reckon, the secret mcguffin research paper and the blood of the inmates is for an illegal organ trafficking ring, or cloning? Cloning would be objectively better (and funnier) from a shitposting perspective.
And yes, I still want Person-Who-Has-A-Nickname-Named-After-A-Famous-Cartoon-Mouse, Jerry, to actually be Big Mouse and no, that will not change 😆

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Glad to have you for the recaps atleast, your comments always crack me up!
Is it weird I really enjoy this? Some drama for the sake of drama fun with, many times, acting that is too good for the txt tbh haha

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Lol! Thanks! Don't worry, I'll be here every week to turn this into a zombie drama any way I can :P

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I'd say we can't call it quits yet. After all if Do-ha is Big Mouse, why is Big Mouse (via his tool man Warden Park) eager to make deals with Chang-ho for information on Dr. Seo's paper?

Wouldn't Do-ha already know everything about the paper? If it's to find out how much Chang-ho/Mi-ho know, wouldn't it be cleaner to just kill them off?

Conversely the gold bars are the sticking point for Do-ha being Big Mouse because the gold bars represent the money stolen from Ji-hoon. So I'd say we can still keep guessing! This show does obtuseness well lol.

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Ofc, that's all under the assumption that the writers would care enough to make the Big Mouse reveal make sense... :P

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Hi, if you can spare some time please do read my comment. It's the 8th one. Few points were missed in this weecap. I found them very crucial to the plot development. :)

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My assumption is that Do Ha is not BM (because the reasons you mentioned) and he wants to catch BM and uses Changho and co to do that.
Also, unlikely: Do Ha stole the money and blamed BM...?

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Honestly thought Mayor Choi just had the hots for Mi-ho

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Anyway interesting reveal, don’t know if we are 100% going to get confirmation on Big Mouse until the last two episodes or so

I’m mostly following along with the weecaps for now. Thank you Dramaddictally for making it so entertaining to read!

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Yeah, right? They had a lot of scenes together, some heart-to-hearts and he saved her, when she got attacked. Usually that's k-drama language for a romantic connection (even if it's one-sided).

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I still think he does, and that he is actually behind his wife incident- its the very same trick he pulled on Chang Ho!!!

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*me entering the comments pretending I understand anything of what happened in this ep*

If this reveal stands, my gut instinct about Mayor Choi will be right but honestly it'll be one of the more basic plots they could've chosen. I don't hate it but I'm a tad disappointed.

I absolutely loved Changho's extra behavior this week. When he showed up at the courtroom with the slowmo reveal behind the screen I was absolutely cackling! Even if he's not secretly Big Mouse, the man has FLAIR. 😂

I'm so happy Jerry is alive but I want more from his storyline. Fingers crossed he plays a bigger role as we go forward!

After last week's violence I was questioning my sanity to keep watching but I must admit the plot is pulling me in still. I'll tune in for another ep and see how it goes...

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I feel like I'm going to have to write my immediate thoughts down after watching because I'd definitely forget what happened in the episodes. All I remember thinking was "I was seemingly right about the mayor and the guard who was sitting in the warden's seat". (Still, the room leader & jerry are still in the big mouse running). I'm starting to think multiple people are Big Mouse and that's how the myth is building.
After that, all I could think was "how long is this series?!"
I'm just so bleh with it haha

I genuinely watch it for Lee Jong Seok because I don't even understand or remember what's happening *right* after watching. How did Chang Ho learn about the blood? Did he see the infamous paper at some point? When did Mi ho have a chance to tell him about the patients? Was Chang Ho talking about Jihoon being a witness to the conversation with the prosecutor since by that point apparently he already suspected the mayor? How would he know he would show up? How did he come to the conclusion the fourth, phone, guy was the mayor just because Jihoon said it wasn't him? And I get that the prisoners are being used as experiments but why is only the death row prisoner the one who might turn into a zombie or whatever? What's the deal with the gold? Is it still buried or is the gold in the warehouse that gold? I thought the mayor made copies of the paper and usb but was that not the case?
Aside from the show needing to happen, what is even the point of Chang ho being dragged into this stuff with the mayor and the other priviledged people? This was probably mentioned but I honestly don't remember.

I saw something that said people like Mi ho and/or the actress so I guess it's just me who isn't entralled.

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all totally valid questions! lol

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I had the same questions. I hope they explain it otherwise I will not recommend this drama to others.

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The possessive, violent doctor makes me so uncomfortable. Kinda just want them to commit him or kill him. Anything so I don't have to see him trying to find his ex wife or being a wishy washy lackey.

I'm confused about the drugging of the mayor's wife. She was drugged in the same exact way as Chang Ho but his drugging was the mayor and hers was Big Mouse? And she's supposedly the favorite of the elder so how are the NF guys even threatening her or bugging her office so brazenly. I'm just so confused about so much haha

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I think I'm at the point that I'll drop this show. It doesn't seem like there's anything left to the story but the final BM reveal, and what's up with the paper. But, there's 6 episodes to go and I'm not really looking forward to watching Lee Jong-suk and Yoona go around in circles until then.
Also, I've been low key afraid that BM is not a person but an organization, which, to me, would be the worst possible outcome, and the random tattoos are kind of spooking me out on that front.

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It does look like some sort of organisation or gang at this point, but Big Mouse could still be the leader of it no?

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I guess it's just personal preference, but finding out there is at least an organization of people who are secretly infiltrating various levels of authority bound by trademark tattoos is just outright disappointing, even if there is a Big Mouse at the top.

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Worst possible ending is they pull a Vagabond on us and don't actually answer it XD

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*cries* don’t jinx it!
Also, don’t you want to be awarded an honorary bean if your theory is proven correct?

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No! I'll be happy with my Fish Cult Award for calling it if so instead! hahahaha

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Honestly, Vagabond was this-is-so-ridiculous-that-it's-entertaining territory, whereas this show has more restraint to its detriment personally. Somehow, I feel like the writers are trying to make the events all within the realm of possibility, which leads the show into taking itself way too seriously.

I don't think this show can ever get away with not answering who BM is. I thought Vagabond was a special case of shows vying for multi-season formats, and the ending didn't bother me too much since I was still recovering from Arthdal

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Vagabond was that^ for me for the first half. And then it got too nonsensical for me to keep being entertained by it in the second half lmao.
But like this Vagabond did actually take itself 100% seriously, (even if we didn't), it was just way funnier that it did than this is.

I wasn't that burnt by the Vagabond ending because I was too busy being burnt out by dramas in general in 2019 to care about it specifically- I just think really chaotically bad endings are funny right now if they hit the right notes of chaotically bad, (and aren't just boring ahem Minamdang, you could've been so much better at being bad, and also so much better at being not bad.) and that if they never explained it it would be so ironically on brand even if Vagabond's happened because they punted for multi-seas.

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Once I trained myself to think of Vagabond as a "how we got here" story, I'm not as mad at the ending. I don't mean I can rewatch the ending but just when I think of the show overall.
I am still a fan of Vagabond. I can still rewatch scenes from that drama.

With Big Mouth, even the journey isn't particularly interesting to me while in Vagabond it was. With Vagabond, I wanted to see the next episode (luckily I watched it after it was completed so I could binge the entire series) and with this, I keep thinking "how much more is there?! 😩🙄"
It's tolerable enough for me that I haven't stopped watching but it's more out of habit and Lee Jong Seok than anything.
But apparently lots of people are watching and enjoying it so to each their own.

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Nooo I hadn't thought of that!!! Lol now I live in fear for this

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You missed a few crucial points so I'll just mention it here—

1. During a verbal back and forth between the Warden and Chang-ho, where they were playing "21 Questions" & asking each other questions, Chang-ho questioned the motive behind Big Mouse wanting to get his hands on the infamous paper. The Warden had mentioned that someone Big Mouse "cared about the most lost their life because of the paper".

2. The Mayor comes to the underground vault AFTER giving the Paper & the USB to the 'Elder'— around Night. In the shot, alongside the Gold bars, we can see the infamous paper (which he obtained by meeting Hyejin PRIOR to her meeting Mi-ho) & the USB as the Mayor smirks the *evil* smirk (typical wolf in sheep's skin).

Now, what I have deduced from this are—

(a) The Mayor continues to have a Back-up even after giving it to the elder. Why? Remember, he did not like the Elder dude genuinely (almost choked him in the previous episode!) (Plus watching the video in the private theatre gives off that the Elder is probably responsible for Mayor's grandfather's death) & the elder too had implied that the contents of Dr Seo's paper could harm his reputation. You understand where it is headed, right?

(b) I have a doubt that the Mayor deliberately complicated the situation (by causing the VIPs' car to wreck and the murder being brought to spotlight) all to bring himself in the good books of the Elder who is looking for a successor. You know, like blowing things out of proportion & then smoothly handling it like a Saviour.

3. How does Chang-ho & Mi-ho know that Mayor has been backstabbing them? Well, I will put them in points for the ease of understanding —

• Mayor told Chang-ho that he doesn’t fully trust him until he brings Big Mouse to him.
• Chang-ho sneaks out to meet Mi-ho & points that Dr Hyun’s accident was no ordinary one. He hushes her when she tries to speak aloud (the prison is bugged AF!)

• Chang-ho thinks they have hit 2 birds with one stone- this flashbacks to Jihoon emphasising that he is NOT the 4th accomplice when confronted by Chang-ho. He however doesn’t reveal it’s the Mayor and instead smirks that Chang-ho should find out for himself!
• In a flashback, Chang-ho avoids the surveillance by smashing a CCTV and calls Mi-ho to ask if Mayor Choi was with her when she gave the blood to the NFS. Mi-ho confirms that he was but asks why Chang-ho wants to know. He asks her if the results are out yet and she replies she is on her way to the NFS to collect the results. Chang-ho then says the 4th accomplice is not Gong Ji-hoon!

Chang-ho says if the results are manipulated, the Mayor is involved & asks Mi-ho to check that. And it is manipulated fr!! The dead man’s blood type change from B / RH- to B/RH+ in the reports. Our girl has the eye for the details!

• (In the same Flashback) After hanging up, Chang-ho grits his teeth as he realises the truth of the Mayor. In the same flashback, he calls up...

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[Continued]
• (In the same Flashback) After hanging up, Chang-ho grits his teeth as he realises the truth of the Mayor. In the same flashback, he calls up the Mayor & requests him to be is witness during his interrogation for the next day because the prosecutor cannot be trusted. Chang-ho also tips off that he will be handing in crucial information about Big Mouse the next day. (Now, mind you, this phone conversation happened the day before Chang-ho’s interrogation where he handed in the listening device where the Warden calls himself the Big Mouse. At the interrogation, the prosecutor says the Warden cannot be solely charged based on the recordings of an illegal listening device & that’s when Chang-ho tips them off about the money warden extorts from prisoners.)
• Mi-ho in the present observes that with Dr Hyun’s accident, Big Mouse is going after Mayor Choi & Chang-ho adds that Mayor Choi will fight back too. In order to get Mayor Choi, Big Mouse will have no choice but get in touch with Chang-ho (and most likely reveal himself). That’s when Chang-ho catches Big Mouse & gets rid of Choi Doha too!!
• Additional point** Mi-ho secretly draws the blood from the death-row psychopath guy who is hospitalised after he spiralled out of control (& was almost behaving like a zombie). She later meets someone in a tunnel to hand them the sample & asks it to get tested. A mysterious hand extends and collects the sample & the cars drive off in opposite directions.

(I'm sorry it's too long but I really hope you guys read till the end. Thanks🌻)

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new theory, the paper is for ZOMBIE, not CLONES, even BETTER 🤣🤣🤣

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Haha noo... The way he was behaving, he could've been casted for All Of Us Are Dead S2 🤣

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Shhhh no it's the Kingdom Cinematic Universe rule: anything that doesn't have zombies but wouldn't be worse for having zombies should have zombies. Ergo the paper is about making zombies ;) ;) ;)

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Zombies would make this drama infinitely more watchable imo

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Thanks for giving more details about what happened. I do miss the step by step recaps of individual episodes and this shows one reason why: things that are easily forgotten about and sequence of events.

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Thanks for taking the time to fill in the gaps but my understanding is weecaps intentionally miss out information so if someone wants to watch the episode they can and still find new material to keep it interesting. Some people like to know if certain genres or issues are likely to pop up before watching a drama so having got a weecap overview they can make an informed decision.

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I have a strong feeling that Big mouse is going to be no one, I'm so tired of guessing, that's the best I can do. But again, there is the tattoo, so we know even if Big mouse is not an organization, there is an organization related to him, so I kinda take that guess as the right one for now. Right now, the craziest idea I have come across was one I saw on the Instagram which suggested maybe Big mouse is all those orphan kids that Changho used to bring milk for and they are protecting him, that was far-fetched but new!

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I like this theory! But if they are the orphan kids protecting Chang-ho, shouldn’t they have milk carton tattoos instead?

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I’m being facetious btw, at this point the most absurd theory about Big Mouse takes my vote

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May be it's the dead doctor's relative

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Having finally caught up on the latest episodes, that actually makes a lot of sense! They did say the paper caused the death of someone Big Mouse deeply cared for…

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Big mouse being the doctor's relative was a good point too! (Sorry I couldn't reply under the respective comment). Personally, when Warden Park said that I took it as what was written in the paper was related to the death of someone Big mouse deeply cares about and connected that to the video Mayor was watching, with the boy and the grandfather who died in the fire, in my mind I gave another point to the mayor being the Big mouse :D

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Same. I also connected it to the death of the grandfather.

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Good point, but to be honest I don't think that theory is true, because warden park is much older than Changho, he doesn't fit in the category of KIDS, but still who knows!

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I hope the mayor is a fake out, just a Big-Mouse-accomplice, because watching your protagonist try to figure something out and then being given the answer while they stay in the dark makes for a dissatisfying viewing experience. Like you're just waiting for them to catch up.
I'm still counting on Jerry. He doesn't have the minion's tattoo, right? He has the mouse tattoo!

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Maybe the different tattoos are like military ranks. Jerry might be a captain while all the others are privates ... 😄

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Are the writers even trying to tell us who the Big Mouse is? Who knows if they're going to pull another Vagabond and never tell us who it is. But knowing Vagabond's ending made people rage, they won't do it...right?😶

Honestly, even Lee Jongsuk is not enough to motivate me watching this show. The recap and beanies' comments are. The show's not fun, our favorite character doesn't have enough screen time, show is trying to make us suspicious of Mayor or Jerry to be BM and we know both are not, plus most of us are not trying to understand what's what anymore, so what's there to watch?

Meanwhile between all this mess, there's our lovable, happy, and innocent Room Leader to be around

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Seriously! writer is definitely not even giving us hints .... He's just trying to confuse us by making everybody suspicious. I'm literary frustrated with the show. To the extent where I want to smash my tv on script writer's head.

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I think hints are everywhere in this show. But they are very... abstract? Unorganized? They are hard to understand too.
Because hints are everywhere, and basically writers are giving us everything they want at this point, it's just no one cares so much. The show is not fun and the hints are not wrapped up enough to make the show interesting to watch.
We're so frustrated that i think whoever BM is, no one is going to be surprised (that too, if the writers want to tell us)

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Innocent room leader not that innocent

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Was going to binge this but after reading all the weecaps and comments I think I'll just camp out in the drama thread instead of actually watching. May be better for my sanity. I already had trouble trying to keep up with the whiplash that was Vagabond back then.

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Here's my theory:
The mayor and Big Mouse are not the same person but they both hate the elder. Somehow the elder caused the car crash of mayors grandpa. Big Mouse lost someone at the hospitol.

The mayor wants revenge on the elder by all means so on the one hand he is involved with the blood samples with the 3 guys, he wants to get colser to the elder so he send the 3 guys to prison and covered his involvement with the murder but kept the paper to use it at a later moment to his advantage and on top of that I think the mayor acted like Big Mouse and that's how he got the gold. That way he can attack the elder on different aspect.

Big mouse hates the elder/hospital because the whole bloodsample thing, knowing the mayors involvement he used Chang Ho to bring the mayor down.

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THIS ^
The mayor M.O is causing issues and place himself as the solution to those issues, thereby gaining trust. He uses this trick on both the Elder AND Chang Ho. His concern and (hinted) romantic affection towards Mi Ho seem genuine, I hope this will be elaborated in the future.
I also suspect he was the one putting the drugs in his wife's drink. I think that now that he is the elder's fav, she outlived her usefulness to him.

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Gotta say I really enjoy this, in the "mindless fun" sort o' way. Maybe it's because I never watched VEGABOND so I'm still imune to ridiculousness haha
No clue about BM, but I just enjoy watching the various players trying to screw ine another, and excited for acting-warden-Gan reign.

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@dramaddictally This recap was fun! I enjoyed it.

What is the point of Mayor going through all this elaborate scheme when the Elder is alresdy old and collapses from even minor shock? He is so wrapped up in his own revenge plan that he can't see the basic flaw in his plan. He could have just used it to help Chang Ho and Mi Ho after learning Big Mouse is after the same paper because after all BM has been evading law for so long, which means he can upbend the Elder's org. This drama could have been better if they had revealed the Mayor's motive 2 episodes back and the identity of real BM. Sometimes being discreet does not make up for a good viewing.

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Hye-jin was clearly terrified of the Mayor in ep 1 when she came round after the dressing room attack, so when Chang-ho asked her who the fourth accomplice was (what was CH doing there anyway, arriving like a hero with a fire extinguisher when he was supposedly just a dorky lawyer?) she quickly named Ji-hoon instead. I thought back then she knows something about the Mayor, enough to keep her trap shut and deflect attention onto someone else who seems more powerful but perhaps isn't. And we've seen since how the apparent power slipped from Ji-hoon to the Mayor, starting with their encounter in the men's room when the Mayor got all scathing and macho, slamming his head on the sinks. So I feel Hye-jin knows even more than we suspect if she already understood in ep 1 who was the more dangerous of the two, back when everyone (including Ji-hoon) thought the Mayor was just a helpless pawn.

I am beginning to think the Mayor's background (his grandfather's death and the fact he isn't considered to be an equal by the group around the Elder, that he only married into influence rather than being there by right) points to a revenge theme. Whatever significance the Mayor's grandfather held for the Elder has been concealed (and here I find myself thinking about Park Seo-Joon's father in Itaewon Class, who was the basis of Jangga Group's success, but was manipulated out of his job and fired by the Chairman). If something similar had happened to the Mayor's grandfather, it would explain a desire for revenge against the Elder and associated families, why the Elder did not want Joo-hee marrying him, and perhaps why the Mayor targeted her to marry in the first place - so he could begin worming his way in. We finish with the Elder convinced the Mayor is loyal as well as clever and efficient, and now he is hinting to Joo-hee that he favours the Mayor as his successor. But how do we know he gave the real paper to the Elder? The real one might still be locked up with the gold bars.

It's all pointing to the Mayor as BM, now positioned to take down the whole rotten edifice, the Elder, NR Forum, and what looks increasingly like a dodgy related pharmaceutical company running unofficial drug trials on the cancer ward at the hospital and inmates at the prison. Yes the Mayor is a bad-ass, but I'm not convinced he's at the top of the chain. I think he's been recruited and helped by BM because of his family history and antagonism towards the Elder and everything he presides over. I think we need to look even higher, and knowing something about the background of the Elder would help.

Meanwhile, the Ho-ho couple seem to think BM is in the prison, but why? He doesn't need to be. He had the warden, he had Jerry, and maybe others in there too, as well as those placed in the hospital and emergency services, so he could be anywhere. Certainly the loss of the warden is a blow but will the tarot card messages stop now? If I was BM and in the prison, aware CH is...

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... trying to trap me I wouldn't leave more cards unless I had someone to do it for me. I think CH is yet another BM recruit, although he may not yet realise it. He is already exposing the corruption around the trial, and perhaps robbing the rich and bringing their schemes down is the only reason for BM's existence. I am starting to see him as an immoral Robin Hood figure, entrapping people and using them to help bring down the real evildoers while they think they are just fighting for their own reputations. He is uncaring towards those he uses and ruins in order to recruit them in his revenge drama for the greater good of all society. This brings me full circle to Mi-ho's dad, once a police captain but now a lowly office manager for an ineffective lawyer. How did he end up like this? Were we ever told? Perhaps BM ruined and recruited him too in the fight against political corruption. Clearly there is an inner (tattooed) and outer (unsuspecting) circle around BM. It's certainly becoming interesting but can someone kidnap CH again so we can see him in another suit?

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Thanks for writing all this! So much of your thinking is in line with mine. I also get the sense of a revenge plot (and was also reminded of Itaewon Class)--the mayor has a real motive. And for sure Hye-jin already knew something about the mayor in Ep. 1.
I also buy into this idea of BM being a kind of Robin Hood. The setup of this drama opened like a comic book and painted a picture of a city rotten with money where the wealthy get away with everything. BM could very well come in like a Batman character--Batman's motives are based on revenge but, ultimately, he's out to help people.

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BM - Big Mouse/BatMan ... 😄

I like it!

This is the first k-drama I've watched in real time, so the first one I've made any comment on. I'm usually late to the party, watching things that aired some time ago. This is fun! Thanks for responding.

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Miho takes another sample of the pyscho prisoner after his report is falsified .

She then hands it over to someone in a white car.

Hospital director juhee / mrs mayor gets into an accident in the white car

Are the women working together to find out what is happening with the prison inmates /hospital meds ??

The 3 VIP earlier hinted that the director didn't know they had switched the meds .

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