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Lee Je-hoon, counterattack Shin Jae-ha's plan! Up to 20.4%
In the 15th episode of the SBS Friday-Saturday drama 'Model Taxi 2' (written by Oh Sang-ho, directed by Ethan Jang Young-seok), which aired at 10 p.m. on the 14th, Kim Do-gi (Lee Je-hoon) is deceived by a fake client, the parish priest (Park Ho-san), and finds himself in a huge trap set by the gold society. The struggle to rescue the victim from the prison was portrayed spectacularly.
It continued to dominate the box office by recording the highest viewer rating of 20.4%, 16.0% in the metropolitan area, 15.7% nationwide, and 5.4% in 2049, ranking first in the average weekly program average and 2049 viewership rating (based on Nielsen Korea).
The day's broadcast started interestingly by highlighting the past of the parish president and his right-hand man On Ha-jun (played by Shin Jae-ha). The head of the parish was the director of a welfare center that committed all kinds of human rights violations, including illegally confining children and causing their deaths through forced labor in the name of leading vagabonds, and On Ha-jun was an unidentified child living at the welfare center. At the time, when an unidentified child caused the death of a child named 'On Ha-jun', the parish director covered up the incident and took the victim's name and gave it to the perpetrator. Afterwards, the child who grew up with the name On Ha-jun grew up to be the vicar's hunting dog and became an executive of the 'Golden Society'.
Meanwhile, the parish president set a trap by posing as the crime victim's father and requesting a revenge agency service. The victim, Lee Si-wan (played by Kim Chang-hwan), a banker in charge of foreign exchange transactions, was arrested after being falsely accused of attempted murder after capturing the suspicious foreign exchange transactions of companies related to the Korea Gold Medal Association and reporting them to the prosecution. In addition, the parish president requested help for Lee Si-wan, who is about to appear in trial as a witness in an illegal foreign exchange transaction case, saying that he was receiving all kinds of threats to his life. They deliberately requested actual stories of damage connected to the Gold Society, created a motivation that could not be rejected, and then lured Do-gi to prison.
Do-gi, along with Joo-im Choi (played by Hyuk-jin Jang) and Joo-im Park (played by Yoo-ram Bae), infiltrated the prison with the goal of protecting Si-wan Lee. Inside the prison, a bounty is placed on Lee Si-wan, and all the prisoners are seeking his life. Do-gi designed it so that the prisoners would voluntarily avoid Lee Si-wan. Do-gi, who became the most avoided person in the prison due to the concept of 'the crazy person in this district', deliberately pretended to be Lee Si-wan's best friend, making it impossible for him to even come near Lee Si-wan. In the end, Do-gi was successful in protecting Lee Si-wan's life until the trial, but he felt suspicious that the situation was going so well.
Soon the reality was revealed. Representative Jang (played by Kim Eui-seong), who was investigating the existence of the welfare center after receiving a tip from the dead Park Hyeon-jo (played by Park Jong-hwan), was attacked at the Geumhoe Residence residence immediately after learning the true identity of the parish president, and escaped the prison with Lee Si-wan and the chief priests on a bus. Do-gi, who was trying to escape, was left alone in the prison under the orders of the prison warden (played by Yoon Sang-ho), who was a member of the Golden Society organization.
Soon after, the ‘Kim Do-gi hunt’ began in the prison. On Ha-jun placed a huge bounty on Do-gi's life, causing the prisoners to attack Do-gi all at once. He also appeared in front of Dogi and threatened to take the team members hostage, saying, "If you want to know what happened to those people, come to me. But at 12 o'clock, the bounty doubles. If you survive, those people will survive, too." As if in a game, On Ha-jun opened the iron doors one after another and released the trapped prisoners, and Do-gi endured a mass lynching with his bare body in a prison with no escape, making his hands sweat.
Do-gi barely survived and arrived at the prison warden's office where On Ha-jun was. However, Do-gi, covered in blood, was tied up all over, and what Do-gi faced was CCTV footage of Go-eun (played by Pyo Ye-jin) and Joo Im-su, who were being held hostage on an unknown rooftop. Ha-Jun On suggested that they play a game and threatened to throw whoever Do-gi chooses off the roof. Dogi, who was indignant at this, said, "Keep in mind, even if I, or we, stop here, someone else will appear and go after you. I will remember you until the end. There is something you can get back only by remembering. Because I remembered, I will come in front of you. “I could have done it,” he said.
The moment On Ha-jun, who was offended by Do-gi's words, started counting, a twist occurred. Do-gi and CEO Jang, who knew about Geumhoe's plan in advance, deliberately walked into a dangerous situation and attracted the attention of Ha-jun On and the parish president. Meanwhile, Go-eun and the chief priests subdued the assailants and escorted Si-wan Lee to the court so that he could safely complete his testimony. The plan was set. On Ha-jun, who was hit in the back again, pointed the gun at Do-gi, and the play ended with a gunshot like a single-shot horse and a flashback to the past of the Rainbow family wishing for each other's well-being. As a result, curiosity rose in the final episode of 'Model Taxi 2' as to what kind of endgame the Rainbow Team, which is in danger of losing a team member, and the Golden Society, which runs away after suffering a fatal blow, will end up in.
Choi Ji-ye, Ten Asia Reporter wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr
