I expected high-quality bromance when the stars of Beyond Evil were announced, but I never thought it would turn out to be red-hot tortured romance, twisted by mutual suspicion and past trauma. Ok, ok, I’m kidding, but the homoeroticism goes through the roof in episode 10, with Joo-won giving Dong-shik a taste (ahem) of his own medicine: teasing him with planted evidence; luring him to his fancy boudoir; even offering him wine and a sizzling, juicy piece of meat. As usual, there’s a lot of mutual space-invading. And it culminates in what we’ve all been waiting for: one of them collapses in the other’s arms!

Seriously, though, I really wonder how much more DS can take. The speech in the interrogation room with Chief Nam wasn’t particularly original, but Shin Ha-kyun’s delivery, his incredulous laughter through the tears, made it intensely moving. Over the past 10 episodes we’ve seen Chief Nam defending him, openly or in less obvious ways, as if to make up for what he and his family have suffered at the hands of the police. But it is this episode in particular that demonstrates DS’s emotional reliance on Chief Nam. I wonder: has JW’s use of Chief Nam as bait led to the latter’s death? In effect, has he repeated DS’s mistake with Min-jung and her fingertips?

At yet another RaFiDoC (Raw Fish Dinner of Corruption), Councilwoman Do asks Lee Chang-jin for hard drugs. Not for herself, of course, but for her dear deer-sketching son. Frankly I don’t see why Jung-je shouldn’t sketch a deer or two at the office. It’s not as if he’s watching Netflix or drinking on the job. But he IS being set up as the next suspect, possibly having run over Yoo-yeon with his car or at least witnessing it (hence all his talk of killing deer), with the crime concealed by Kang Jin-mook on Councilwoman Do’s orders. Now all I have to do is sit back and watch the next episode demolish my theory.