Snowdrop [Jung Hae In X Jisoo]

Secret

Skipping forward six months to November, secret South–North talks are held in Beijing. Tae-il and Chang-su meet with two North Korean officials: Im Ji-rok, head of the United Front Department, and Choi Soo-ryeon, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of State Security (MSS). They sign a contract outlining a large sum of money to be wired to the North within 24 hours.

Gang-mu gathers his team and explains that Soo-ho, who has been hanging around Professor Han, is the suspect most likely to be Taedong River 1. Ha-na has also found no student records for Soo-ho at Berlin University.

That night, Soo-ho sits in a car with two other men watching Professor Han enter the Hanguk University parking lot. Professor Han’s tire is flat, and Soo-ho offers him a ride.

Ha-na, who has been watching covertly, signals the ANSP agents in place. At the next intersection, another car rams into Soo-ho’s ride. His driver and the professor are left unresponsive. He instructs the man in the passenger seat, Comrade Joo, to run as Gang-mu pulls up.

Soo-ho flees in a different direction, pursed by Gang-mu, Ha-na, and the other agents. He passes through a crowd of student protestors, including Jeong-min, calling for fair elections. Riot police begin firing tear gas at the students and closing in on them, forcing them to scatter.

Gang-mu tracks Soo-ho to the Hosu dorm. Soo-ho scales the building much like Yeong-ro did, climbing into room 207 before collapsing.

Yeong-ro gets back to 207 as the ANSP agents burst into the dorm. The matron refuses to cooperate with their search without first seeing a warrant.

Jeong-min uses the commotion to sneak back into the dorm and head to 207. Hye-ryeong notices and follows. Gang-mu spots them both and does the same.

In 207, Yeong-ro realises that the unconscious person bleeding out on the floor is Soo-ho.