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July 20, 2019

A special internal affairs unit is assembled. Detective Do Chi-gwang (Han Seok-kyu), prosecutor Kim Young-gun (Seo Kang-joon), and officer Han Tae-joo (Kim Hyun-joo) each carry personal wounds connected to the same institutional corruption. The SMPA headquarters.

July 21, 2019

The unit's first cases — corrupt officers whose crimes are known but whose institutional protection has made accountability impossible.

July 27, 2019

Each member's personal connection to the corruption they are investigating — making objectivity impossible and motivation absolute.

July 28, 2019

The full extent of the corrupt network within the Seoul police — how deep it goes, who benefits.

August 3, 2019

Do Chi-gwang's personal tragedy and its connection to the network the unit is dismantling.

August 4, 2019

Investigation sequences in the Incheon port and industrial areas — the unglamorous geography where serious organised crime actually operates.

August 10, 2019

Kim Young-gun's prosecutorial position — the institutional power he has and the institutional constraints that come with it.

August 11, 2019

The unit at its most effective — and the corruption network at its most threatened and therefore most dangerous.

August 17, 2019

Han Tae-joo's own connection to the network — the personal cost she has already paid.

August 18, 2019

Building the evidentiary case that will survive institutional interference.

August 24, 2019

Who is protecting the corrupt network at the highest levels of the institution.

August 25, 2019

An unexpected alliance that gives the unit access it couldn't obtain through official channels.

August 31, 2019

A major operation in the Incheon industrial area — the unit's most dangerous direct engagement.

September 1, 2019

The corrupt network's counter-attack against the unit.

September 7, 2019

The evidence assembled. The accountability mechanism within reach.

September 8, 2019

The finale. One of OCN's most acclaimed crime dramas — a procedural that took institutional corruption seriously and treated its three leads as equals.