Ji Sung becomes mired in a broken friendship Connection

by tccolb

More posters and a new teaser have dropped for SBS’s upcoming Connection, tossing us a pile of the mystery’s puzzle pieces to ponder as Ji Sung (Adamas) is sunk further into the muck.

Opening on detective Jang Jae-kyung’s (Ji Sung) promotion, his superior boasts how proud they are to have Jae-kyung on their squad. But despite the accolades, we hear someone suspect that Jae-kyung is an addict and our hero scoffs that it’s not possible, when he himself is responsible for investigating drug related crimes.

We then watch as Jae-kyung is kidnapped and drugged, only to be threatened afterwards with the incriminating footage. Elsewhere, journalist Jeon Mi-do (Thirty-Nine) discusses the drug in question, a new variety called “lemon meth” that even the police don’t have a file for. As such, the race is on for Jae-kyung to find the information himself. But as we read in the intermittent text screens, the culprit who made him addicted has since disappeared.

Alas, things only get worse as Jae-kyung – and the rest of our main players – are faced with their high school classmate’s death. Kwon Yul (Longing for You) and Kim Kyung-nam (The One and Only) are already dressed to assist with the funeral, remarking that it’s been 20 years since they last saw Jae-kyung. Although our hero is enraged that they’re rushing the burial without an autopsy, the deceased’s wife – Jung Yoo-min (Perfect Marriage Revenge) – is more upset by their behavior as so-called friends.

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If the shifty-eyed Park Tae-jin (Kwon Yul) wasn’t a giveaway, chaebol Won Jong-soo (Kim Kyung-nam) makes it crystal clear that it’s Tae-jin’s responsibility as prosecutor to block any evidence that’s discovered. The shrewd Oh Yoon-jin (Jeon Mi-do) can tell that someone’s trying to cover up the case and yells at Jae-kyung for falling prey to drugs. But there’s something else that’s wracking up our hero’s guilt and he admits that, “If it wasn’t for me, he wouldn’t have died.”

As we head into the final sequence, the captions ominously point to the fall of friendship as a starting point to our mystery story’s connection. Yoon-jin resolves to protect her scoop, arguing that it’s a cheap move to pull the whole article just because of a few words. In the meantime, Jae-kyung presses forward with his investigations and finally manages to find a witness.

Although we don’t see if they were directly involved, the teaser reveals that Tae-jin and Jong-soo were both present at the scene of their classmate’s death. In voiceover, we then close on the witnesses’s cryptic confession: “I saw it. But… at the time, no one saw that…”

Premiering later this month on May 24, production for SBS’s crime-thriller Connection has PD Kim Moon-kyo (Trolley) at the helm with scripts by Lee Hyun (Diary of a Prosecutor).