seventeen years later, moo-yeom is a police detective who spends his career chasing dead ends and helping juvenile delinquents. after the statute of limitations on the case expires, moo-yeom becomes resigned to the belief that gap-dong is dead. but then a series of incidents occur in the town that bear an eerie resemblance to gap-dong's crimes. cheol-gon, now a well-decorated officer, has recently transferred back to iltan, and to his dismay, moo-yeom joins his investigation team to catch gap-dong once and for all.