Agent J7

Chapter 3B

Joong Ki takes down the bodyguards and points the gun at Representative Park.

However, he suddenly  snaps out of his fantasy. What really happened was that Joong Ki reached for the gun, only to draw back from an oncoming panic attack. His breathing labored, he crumples and clutches his chest. The JSS bodyguard helps him off the elevator, and Representative Park sighs in concern before the doors close again.

Drawing in deep breaths, Joong Ki asks who that man is.

"Park Kwan-soo is another presidential candidate whom everyone working for Yoona believes was responsible for the attack against her and you."

Joong Ki recalls how he had seen a glimpse of Representative Park making a deal back when he was a soldier.

Some time later, Joong Ki assembles  a makeshift remote-controlled motion sensored booby trap set to burst upon approach. He finds his opportunity the next time Representative Park gets his next shave and Joong Ki slips the remote into the politician’s blazer in the dressing room.

He waits for Representative Park in the lobby, rising to watch the impending spectacle. But in that moment, a child runs ahead of Park and gets caught in the revolving doors… exactly where the device is installed. Uh oh.

Joong Ki is stopped from getting any closer as the child bursts into tears. He sees the flashing light indicating that the device is seconds from explosion, which is when Representative Park is escorted through another exit, putting distance between him and the device, much to Joong Ki’s relief.

He turns to leave, but the officer who stopped him flashes his badge at him. Joong Ki hones in on the distinct burn mark on his wrist… the same one the blue-masked leader was wearing the night he’d caught Min Ho's illicit affairs. Aha, so Park Kwan-soo had sent his men after his political rival.

But the officer recognizes him from that night too and they both throw punches at one another. Joong Ki flips him over in greeting and takes off up the escalator. He runs through the kitchens and runs through the building with Representative Park’s men hot on his tail.

He kicks a men down and pushes another into the horde before running off again. As a scanner picks up the remote on Representative Park’s person, Joong Ki races to a rooftop where he had prepared a harness. But there’s a surprise waiting for him below: Chief Joo.

Joong Ki has already descended to the ground by the time Representative Park’s men reach the rooftop. He reluctantly gets into the car with Yoo-jin, and Chief Joo remarks that Joong Ki’s booby trap plan wasn’t half-bad, save for the execution.

He thanks Yoona for helping him escape, and when she asks about the email, he tells her that’s probably why she’s still safe and sound. Calling him by name, she asks him what exactly kills an enemy—the bullet or the gun used to shoot him? Or could it be the finger that pulls the trigger?

She’s aware that Joong Ki is unable to pull the trigger thanks to his PTSD and Joong Ki sends Chief Joo a piercing death glare. He declines her offer of pulling the trigger for him, saying that he’ll do it himself. But she disagrees—that day's events prove that he can’t do it alone.

Park Kwan-soo is no easy target, and while she may not know why Joong Ki is after him, but like the saying goes, an enemy’s enemy is her friend. If Joong Ki accepts JSS’s help, the organization will be his gun when the time calls for it.

“Become the bullet… and I’ll pull the trigger for you,” Yoona states. She calls him a “friend”, citing that they met under the perfect circumstances.

Up in a remote estate, Anna’s personal bodyguard—the same one who brought her back to Korea—complains to the housekeeper about how this job of protecting her charge for two years in Barcelona and then here in Korea put her entire life and career on pause. She couldn’t care less whether Anna can hear her or not, and can’t wait until the presidential election is over in a year’s time.

Anna seethes in her room as she overhears her bodyguard scoff at the idea that the assemblyman will pay a visit to see his daughter. As long as Yoona is in charge, no one will ever foot in this godforsaken house.

Anna hangs onto that last statement, convincing herself that Yoona is the reason why her father cannot come to visit her.

After a long run, Joong Ki enters the JSS headquarters and draws immediate attention. But first we meet two staff members: a doctor who removes Joong Ki’s cast and a pun-loving martial arts master who scowls when she’s sweet to the handsome young man.

He demands that Joong Ki  joins training with the other trainees starting today, and doesn’t even let him sit down before calling him to the mat. Introducing himself as master Yoo, master Yoo invites Joong Ki to come at him, and he gulps when Joong Ki strikes and stops his hand an inch to his neck. He walks Joong Ki through common martial arts decorum and assumes a fighting stance. Joong Ki simply reciprocates the stance, so Master Yoo breaks to explain a teaching point, then tries to trip Joong Ki up.

Unfortunately for him, Joong Ki anticipates the oncoming attack, leaving Master Yoo to collapse on the mat. Master Yoo then tries flipping Joong Ki over, only to praise him when he doesn’t budge.

Having had enough, Joong Ki retaliates when Master Yoo tries attacking again and puts the man in a body lock.