What If My Life Was A Thriller K-Drama (Part 2)

This is a continuation of the article WHAT IF MY LIFE WAS A THRILLER K - DRAMA.

This article may contain spoilers for some dramas, so proceed with caution.

You may not be a very gullible person, but maybe there comes someone whose every word you will want to believe, like in Hellbound, and now you are stuck between your love for your family and the new found family you were led to believe in, and you end up choosing your radiant leader and his followers into a dilapidated building where the residents are a wee bit strange. 

Days go by without any progress, and the tenants start to get more suspicious of your activities. You finally have a breakthrough and discover that all the people living in the building are involved in a cult, and the members you thought had joined along with you were already part of the organization. The person who was kidnapped in front of you was also a member, but she wanted to leave, and was killed for trying to. This wasn't the first time this had happened, and according to your friend, there were instances of the same pattern in other towns before this. Locked in the building with no help, you have no means to contact anyone either, and you fear the inevitable. Passing out from fear, you awaken to find yourself on a hospital bed surrounded by your family. You have no idea how you escaped, but you're glad you did, and relieved that all the suspects have been arrested.

There is one thing that is still of concern: what were the monsters you saw that led you to join the cult? Were they simply hallucinations, or a conspiracy going deeper than you could possibly imagine?

Monsters do not exist in a physical state on this plane, and even if they did, they are probably in deep hibernation, oblivious to the human world. What would happen if we woke them up though? The world is quickly running out of natural resources, and it seems like nothing will stop the destruction of our planet. My team and I have been working tirelessly to discover a solution to all our problems, and just when all hope seems lost, we discover there is a plane right below the earth’s surface that may have a chance at producing a sustainable environment again. I need more time to study the nature of the sphere, but there is pressure from the authorities and public to conduct a physical examination as soon as possible. Despite my objections, we are sent on a mission to study the surface, but in digging so deep into the ground, we have inherently awoken the monsters.

Now along with the resource crisis, we are dealing with these creatures who we have no information on, all while my team is stuck in the ground searching for a method to make the resources viable for human consumption. There are some casualties within the team, (because it would be impossible to follow the don't touch anything you don't know about rule without casualties… sigh), all while the planet continues to struggle against the monsters and the lack of food and water.

My team finally makes a breakthrough, but unlucky for us and because this is a drama, our way out has been obstructed, and all contacts are cut off, but there will be no sacrifices here. We work together to figure out a way back, but despite all our efforts, we aren't seen as heroes, but the villains who wrecked the monsters onto the living plane. There is food and water and every available natural resource now, but there are these unidentifiable assailants too. Of course, we don't know what happens after this because that's the end of the 8 episodes, and now we have to wait a year for the sequel.

I ultimately become a recluse due to the constant rejection, only finding hope when meeting others of my kind. None of us truly understand why we are being ostracized, because it's just another normal day for us. We slowly form a colony, and years pass by, with all of staying within the boundaries in fear of the outside world.

One day though, a strange group of people appear to start capturing us, taking us to an unknown area from where our friends never return. Once again, we scatter out of the colony in fear, running in the hopes that we don't get caught. I get caught though because becoming a zombie doesn't mean I’m not clumsy anymore (what do I do, it's in my genes). I get taken somewhere, probably the same place my friends were, and I immediately pass out. When I wake up, I see that for the first time in years, people don’t seem to be scared of me, I see the look of relief after a very long time.

Turns out, the research in the outside world allowed everyone to see that we in fact were still human, and that a particular form of treatment could rid us of the toxins in our body, in turn reverting all the zombies back to their human self, able to express feelings and all. This may seem like a happy ending, but this only reprieve for those who can be seen, those who we can feel. What about our spirits?

Being a criminal profiler is not an easy job, but I make it look easy because I am suave, you know, when I’m not being scared by ghosts. I never told anyone about this because telling people I study murderers get me enough crazy looks, and telling them I can see ghosts isn’t going to make it easier. Luckily, I have my brother to help me when things get too intense, and we always work together, him being a detective and all.

He reveals that the spirit is our father, and that he had passed away before I was born, and my mother had left this single photograph in my brother’s care before leaving us. He also reveals that we have the ability to help spirits move on, and the key to that is to discover the identity of the spirits. This would have to mean that our father should have moved on already, but my brother explains that knowing their relation to another person would not help, we have to discover who they really were.

Knowing this, we work harder than ever to help our dad move on, and finally discover something. He was killed in an accident involving the house of the Chaebols, and their grandfather covered everything up. With his identity now unveiled, our dad can finally go forward, and life is good.

Then, I find a stranger on my doorstep.

We finally figure out the mystery behind his arrival, he’s here from the past. He wakes up to a thousand questions from my brother and I, and after the interrogation, we decide that we’re going to help him go back to his time. We return his phone to him, but he’s surprised to see messages from one particular person: a detective on his team he says is dead, a detective who was killed in front of his eyes. Realizing that him travelling here reset time in the past, he is resolute to change the past to ensure his team members are safe and the serial killer they were chasing is caught.

Now lies the problem of Rookie returning to his time. Remember us not telling him about his death? Turns out it was a big deal. The only reason it was a cold case in the present was because Rookie solved it in the past, but going after the criminal alone got him killed. So him returning to his timeline would mean that the case gets solved 10 years ago, but also means that Rookie gets killed.

After all that’s been said and done, you finally have your happy ending. No more cases to work on, murderers to catch, monsters to battle, zombies to de - zombiefy, ghosts to help, and Rookies to fall in love with (what is a K - Drama without at least a bit of flirting huh), and now all that’s left is to relax.

Fin.

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