KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday drama 'Brain Collaboration' heated up home theaters with a 'heartbreaking romantic hug ending' in which Jung Yong-hwa and Cha Tae-hyun held each other tightly as they struggled to survive.
In episode 3 of KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday drama 'Brain Collaboration' (written by Park Kyeong-seon, directed by Jin-seo Lee, produced by Seong-jun Ko, produced by Samhwa Networks) aired on the 9th (Monday), Shin Haru (Jung Yong-hwa) and Geum Myeong-se (Cha Tae-hyun) meet a Vietnamese woman who married in Korea. It shows the struggle to track down the suspect involved in the 'burnt body'.
First, Shin Haru was very embarrassed when he saw an article titled 'A Detective's Special Good Deed' instead of the article about Geum Myeong-se's corruption that he had reported. Contrary to Shin Haru's guess, Geum Myung-se took out a loan on behalf of the owner of a food stall who had difficulty borrowing money due to his status as an ex-convict, and did a good deed by making him repay the money. Shin Haru, who wanted to give Geum Myeong-se a blow, was offended when his plan failed and Geum Myeong-se praised him as an informant who had done good deeds in front of others.
Accordingly, Shin Haru even messed up the Chinese food that Geum Myeong-se had served to commemorate the news and left, but when Geum Myeong-se chased after him and mentioned a new incident, saying, “The suspect does not know my wife’s face,” his eyes lit up. The two soon began an investigation. However, while Shin Haru was very excited while examining the charred body for the investigation, Geum Myeong-se showed his 'polar opposite' side by looking at the body and becoming upset.
While the identity of the burned body was confirmed to be that of a Vietnamese woman, Thuong (Hong Ah-reum), through DNA and identification, Thuong's older sister, who came to the morgue, saw the Vietnamese lettering tattoo on Thuong's shoulder and wailed, saying it was her sister. Shin Haru and Geum Myeong-se then summoned the prime suspect, Truong's husband Lee Jong-gu (Yoo Byung-hoon), but Lee Jong-gu said, "Honestly, even if you want to beat me to death, you have to know his face to kill him, right? “How do you kill someone when you don’t even know their face?” he said, feeling aggrieved that he couldn’t recognize people’s faces. During the investigation, Shin Haru came in wearing Geum Myeong-se's jumper, but Lee Jong-gu did not notice, so Shin Haru became convinced that Lee Jong-gu had severe prosopagnosia (a disease that causes severe difficulty in recognizing faces). As a result, Lee Jong-gu was released, and Geum Myung-se and Shin Haru headed to a furniture factory with Vietnamese people to find clues about the other suspects, Tuong's friend Huai (Tammy) and Huayi's boyfriend Loc (Lian Ton).
Geum Myeong-se went alone to meet the Vietnamese workers, and was scolded by the workers because Shin Haru deliberately spoke incorrectly in Vietnamese to annoy Geum Myeong-se. Enraged, Geum Myeong-se pulled Shin Haru out of the car and grabbed him by the collar, but as blood flowed from his nose, he burst into laughter by blocking the blood with both hands. Afterwards, while Geum Myeong-se was chasing the fleeing Rock, Shin Haru used a Taser to help Rock's arrest, and Rock added to the suspicion by revealing that Truong and Huay had fought, and that he thought Huay killed Truong.
Seol So-jeong (Kwak Seon-young), who went to investigate the furniture factory after discovering something suspicious about the incident, was unable to tell the truth when she suffered an accident in which the wood collapsed and a nail hit her forehead. Shin Haru proposed a way to express opinions even if he was unconscious, and conducted an FMRI test on Seol So-jeong, who was lying down, and found that the burned body was Hua, not Thuong. Shin Haru and Geum Myeong-se visited Lee Jong-gu's house to secure Truong's DNA, and when they discovered a suspicious frozen warehouse, they went inside and began investigating. However, someone closed the freezer door and the two became trapped in the warehouse.
At this time, when Geum Myeong-se knocked on the door and shouted loudly for help, Shin Haru recalled the trauma and when Geum Myeong-se did not stop his actions despite his efforts to dissuade him, he eventually exploded and started a violent fight. After stopping the hand-to-hand combat when Geum Myeong-se called out “Time,” Geum Myeong-se asked, “Why on earth does your head hurt?” and Shin Haru responded, “When I was in kindergarten. After a car accident. “It’s a kind of trauma,” he said, confessing his wounds. In the end, the two people tried to maintain their body temperature by sitting cross-legged and shadow boxing to raise their body temperature inside the freezer, where the door could not be opened.
Moreover, in the ending of the day, the two people bickered but ended up facing each other and hugging each other in order to survive, causing laughter. In particular, Shin Haru and Geum Myeong-se said, “Don’t mix, if you cross the line, I’ll kill you,” and “Is it wrong because your snout is frozen?” “Are you short on words?”, “Is your head frozen?” They exchanged comments such as “That’s hard to say,” and showed off the fantastic Tiki Taka, making everyone laugh and laugh. Here, the sad BGM was played over the images of the two people, making them laugh.
After the broadcast, viewers said, “The last ending scene is so funny,” “Jung Yong-hwa, must have been traumatized...”, “Jung Yong-hwa and Cha Tae-hyun’s chemistry is really crazy!”, “Ye Ji-won’s sister’s bong dance was this episode. As expected, again.”, “As expected, Cha Tae-hyun’s unrivaled comedy acting! There were enthusiastic reactions such as, “There is no such thing as a joke about form,” and “Monday-Tuesday dramas are always about ‘brain coordination.’”
Meanwhile, episode 4 of KBS 2TV's Monday-Tuesday drama 'Brain Collaboration' will be broadcast at 9:50 pm on January 10th (today).
Ryu Ye-ji, Ten Asia Reporter ryuperstar@tenasia.co.kr