Everyone comes for Ji Sung’s neck in Connection

by Jenzy

Wow. If there’s anything to say after watching the latest teaser for SBS’s crime thriller Connection, it’s just that I’m glad I’m not Ji Sung (Adamas). That was one of the more chaotic, stressful trailers I think I’ve ever seen.

The teaser opens on our detective Jang Jae-kyung (Ji Sung), an ace investigator until one day he became kidnapped and forcibly addicted to drugs. He’s now stuck in a catch-22 situation where his body craves drugs while he’s literally a drug-buster, but he hasn’t let that affect his sense of justice in solving crimes.

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However, things take a turn for the messy when he learns of the death of an old friend, ruled as suicide. At the funeral doubling as a pseudo high school reunion, it’s announced that the friend had a 50 million won life insurance policy willed to one of his old classmates, and now it looks like it’ll be a flurry of suspects and murder accusations between him and other former friends to see who will get their hands on that pot of money.

One of Jae-kyung’s acquaintances, the dogged-reporter Oh Yoon-jin, played by Jeon Mi-do (Thirty-Nine), immediately catches on to the suspicious circumstances at play, asking Jae-kyung if it’s possible that their deceased friend has set up the situation so Jae-kyung can catch the killer. Jae-kyung and Yoon-jin waste no time diving into a full-fledged investigation, but things take a turn for the violent as people get killed, kidnapped, and chased as they starts to dig. Jae-kyung’s integrity also gets questioned by his fellow police colleagues, who assume he is blinded by a sense of greed for that insurance payout.

But Jae-kyung and Yoon-jin aren’t the only duo working overtime here. We also have Jae-kyung’s more shifty former friends, the manipulative chaebol Kim Kyung-nam (The One and Only) and prosecutor Kwon Yul (Longing for You), who immediately share a very suspicious conversation where Won Jong-soo (Kim Kyung-nam) angrily tells Park Tae-jin (Kwon Yul), “You should’ve told me if there’d be a will involved.” Combined with the following clips of them screaming their heads off and hunting down CCTV’s… I think we might already know who the killer is.

There’s some kind of twisted string of fate, a connection if you will (lol), keeping these four stuck in a cat and mouse chase with each other. So it’s fitting to end the teaser on Yoon-jin, giving a determined grin as she tells someone, “There’s no way I’m going way I’m letting this case slide.”

Written by Lee Hyun (Diary of a Prosecutor) and directed by Kim Moon-kyo (Trolley), Connection will premiere on May 24 at SBS.