Connection

May 24, 2024

Elite detective Jang Jae-kyung (Ji Sung) is forcibly injected with drugs while investigating a homicide in the Incheon port area. He wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the incident and a craving that will not leave.

May 25, 2024

Jae-kyung hides his addiction from his colleagues and family. The drama's careful, non-sensationalised depiction of addiction begins here.

May 31, 2024

The homicide investigation reveals a sophisticated drug trafficking network with connections inside the police. Jae-kyung cannot report what he knows without exposing what was done to him.

June 7, 2024

A return to the Incheon port for a surveillance operation. Jae-kyung's physical state deteriorates under the double strain of investigation and withdrawal.

June 8, 2024

His wife Jeon Mi-na (Jeon Mi-do) begins to notice something is wrong. Her love for him and his inability to tell her the truth are the drama's emotional core.

June 14, 2024

Jae-kyung maintains his professional persona while fighting his addiction. Ji Sung's performance — the cost of the performance within the performance — is outstanding.

June 15, 2024

The conspiracy's full dimensions are visible. Jae-kyung is implicated in it whether he acts or not.

June 29, 2024

The drug network begins to collapse under Jae-kyung's investigation. The rot goes higher than he originally suspected.

July 13, 2024

The finale. A resolution of the crime plot that does not pretend the addiction storyline has a clean ending — because it does not. One of 2024's most praised crime dramas.