Man-soo yells that Deul-ho is behind on their bills and rent, and when they get back to Deul-ho’s office, they both get a shock - there’s a young woman asleep in the doorway. He trips and faceplants, cursing his head off, before he gets very far. He asks Man-soo if he has money, and when Man-soo says he doesn’t, Deul-ho grabs his wallet and makes a run for it. She puts the ring on her left hand, and when an imperfection pricks her finger and makes her bleed, she sucks the drop of blood from her hand dispassionately.ĭeul-ho, looking scruffy and down on his luck (damn, he still looks homeless), trudges to a nearby PC cafe, where he finds detective MAN-SOO screaming at the top of his lungs while he plays a game. We recognize him as our favorite neighborhood lawyer, JO DEUL-HO ( Park Shin-yang).Įlsewhere, a woman in an impeccable glitter manicure works with raw materials, melting the metal and shaping it into a lovely diamond ring.
He struggles to untie himself as the barrel fills and begins to sink, but he’s unsuccessful, and he falls unconscious. But he must be either injured or drugged, and he makes no protest as his barrel is tossed into the water.Īt first the barrel floats, but soon water starts to leak in and the man wakes fully. Inside one of the barrels, a man, his hands bound, wakes up at the sound of the crew’s music. In the dark of night, a crew of men on a ship throw barrels of waste material into the ocean. But when someone he cares about goes missing and he realizes that there’s a lot more to the situation than meets the eye, he’s going to have to pull himself back up and get to work saving the day – again. 14 JanuApNeighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho 2: Episodes 1-2 by LollyPipĪfter waiting for two long years, our favorite neighborhood lawyer is back! Life hasn’t been very kind to our hero, and in a lot of ways, he’s worse off now than when we first met him wallowing in the gutter.