Agent Kim Reactivated Episode 10 Recap (Finale)

A gun on the stairwell

In the resort's Laundry Hub, a voice warns that one wrong move will get everyone killed, and someone is told to get into a laundry cart. On a stairwell, Ri Eung Ryeong, the North Korean intelligence chief Manager Kim has been guarding, comes face to face with Park Gang Seong and assumes the agent is there to rescue him. Ri tells him that Number 66, Kim's old codename, is on their side now, and orders him to lower his gun.

Gang Seong has heard that Ri is the one who got his brother, Park Yeong Gwang, killed. Ri insists he told him the South Koreans killed Park Yeong Gwang on a mission, but Gang Seong reminds him that he once named 66 as the killer. Pressed to deny it, Kim answers, "I… couldn't save your brother." Ri warns Gang Seong that he has defied the Party too and suggests they defect together, until Gang Seong tells him to shut up.

Gang Seong asks why Kim is protecting an enemy. When Jung Sang-a, the agent from the Special Missions Directorate (SMD), arrives, Kim tells her it is all right. He is doing it for his daughter, he explains, because keeping the people he loves safe matters more than killing an enemy. He promises Gang Seong another chance and asks him to trust him and walk away.

A laundry truck picks them up. At the security check, a guard tells the driver the gunshots were an internal matter and sends him on his way before he can collect more laundry. Once they are through, Kim asks for the injured man, apparently Ri, to be taken to a hospital. Warned that a gunshot wound is hard to hide, he says to call General Jang.

Kim then hears that his old friends, Sung Han-soo and Park Jin-cheol, were seen getting into the car of Ju Gang-chan, the Juhak Construction chairman. He calls Han-soo, who apologizes and then begs him to come, or the children will die. Kim says he is on his way.

Gang-chan's choice for the agent dads

A few hours earlier, men walk into a Taekwondo studio and grab Han-soo's son, Sung Tae-hun, who has just mopped the floor. Elsewhere, men check the name of Jin-cheol's daughter, Da-bin, and take her as well. Tied up, the two children beg to be let go.

When Kim arrives, Gang-chan says he is surprised Kim would risk his life for his friends' children, though the two fathers did the same for him. Now they must choose: kill their friend or lose their children. If 66 dies, he promises, the children live. Someone apologizes for dragging the others into this, and Kim tells his friends they have to take him down.

The friends hold back until Gang-chan calls the fight a letdown and gives them five minutes, after which he will shoot the children himself. As the children scream for their fathers, the blows get harder. Beaten to the floor, Kim asks his friends to save Tae-hun and Da-bin and to look after his daughter, Kim Min-ji. He remembers her telling him to come back because he is her dad.

A count begins, and Kim tells his friends that three seconds will be enough. Moments later the children are free. Da-bin is sure her father was shot, but Jin-cheol insists he dodged the bullet. A bullet grazed Kim, and the friends point out that the move took four seconds, not three. Kim tells Gang-chan they have unfinished business: a parent meeting.

While Kim heads off, the other two take the children to someone scarier than themselves: Jin-cheol's wife, Kang Ji-yeong, a security commander with the 17th Amphibious Mobile Brigade's Red Dragon Unit. Jin-cheol admits that helping Kim was his own choice, so his friend could finish one last mission and see his daughter again, and Han-soo says the same. Ji-yeong scolds them for putting the children in danger, keeps the pair and throws the men out.

Ri Eung Ryeong's last bargain

At the inter-Korean government talks, the two sides agree on a free-trade zone. The South calls the previous night's incident out of line but agrees to take no official retaliation, as long as it bears no responsibility for the North's casualties. At the resort, a North Korean official tells his men the Party will hear that Ri and 66 were summarily executed, because admitting the two were lost would cost them all.

Men spot a person and call for an ambulance. At Myeongjin Central Hospital, an official greets Ri, who is logged as an unidentified VIP patient, and starts recording. Ri sets one condition, asylum in Macau. Then he describes the North's missile bases, at least 12 mobile launchers and a range that reaches Guam, Alaska and the US West Coast. That is why he is needed, he says: all the information is right here with him.

Ri ends up with Gang Seong in a patient transport vehicle. Gang Seong tells Kim he kept his promise and says that finishing off an enemy so quickly would be a waste. Kim makes one last request: that Gang Seong survive, whatever happens. Gang Seong wishes Kim and his daughter a good life and promises to stay alive.

In the Cheonsan Unit commander's office, an officer reports that whoever took Ri has not been identified. The commander orders him to drop it, since they have everything they need and keeping Ri would waste taxpayer money. Ri wakes and asks whether he is in Macau. Instead, he sees slogans about the homeland's seas and a coastline that is the front line of national defense, and voices shout at him to stop.

Juhak Construction falls

Kim phones an old contact who has not heard from him in more than ten years and asks him to dissolve Juhak Construction for his daughter's sake. The man, who has known Min-ji since she was born, agrees. He boasts that he will chop the company up like a cucumber for a salad and reminds Kim that he charges full price.

Prosecutors raid Juhak Construction and its affiliates over suspicious cash flows worth tens of billions of won between its affiliates and political figures. An assemblyman accused of bribery is arrested in front of reporters. A news report says a court has issued a warrant for Gang-chan's arrest for kidnapping, murder and threatening national security. In Cambodia, someone tells Ju Hye-ri, Gang-chan's daughter, that they know what she did and asks whether she knows Kim Min-ji. Other voices jeer that the police came by the school and that Interpol is after her too.

Gang-chan, who has been in hospital in Seoul, comes out to face reporters asking about North Korea, the murders and his daughter's arrest abroad. Golden Teeth asks how it feels to be brought down by a dog. Gang-chan pulled out his teeth, Golden Teeth says, but he still has his claws, and he stabs Gang-chan.

Kim tells a superior that he stayed away after the mission to finish some business for Min-ji, and that it is over. The superior says it is time to wrap things up: "Number 66… must die." Soon a news report says an herb collector has found a man in his forties surnamed Kim, shot dead, in woods near the delegation's resort. A wanted-fugitive file is deleted, and a memorial card lists the late Kim beside his late wife, Im Yu-jin.

A new name for Min-ji

Kim finds Min-ji at her mother's memorial and tells her he is back. She will not run into his arms, which would be too cheesy; Sang-a told her he had died but would come back. Kim promises never to leave her again, and she admits how scared she was. He explains that they will start over somewhere new, with new identities and new names. Min-ji asks him to keep calling her Min-ji, because her mother chose the name, and they agree it is their secret. When she floats becoming a singer, Kim warns that if she takes after him she cannot sing, and she laughs.

Three agents hand over the identity files. Min-ji reads her new name, Kim Ji-min, and accuses them of not even trying. Kim and the agents agree they hope never to meet again, and one agent remarks on never having seen Kim smile. Their senior gives Min-ji a hairpin the three chose together, hoping she grows into someone admirable.

A neighbor, Im Ho-won, gives Kim a new suit for his fresh start, to keep bad luck away. They realize they lived in the same neighborhood without ever learning each other's names. He introduces himself, and Kim starts to give his own name as they part.

At school, a classmate tells Min-ji that people online call it a school for criminals because of Hye-ri, and apologizes for messaging her that day. Min-ji says it was not on purpose and that she cannot keep in touch after the transfer. She hands over her name tag and asks, "Will you remember my name?" The classmate says it back to her.

Moving day and a job interview

At the new house, Han-soo and Jin-cheol arrive to help with the boxes. Han-soo turns up in a sharp suit, calling it a special day, and Jin-cheol accuses him of dressing up to get out of work and hands round his coffee-flavored candies. When Kim suggests jjajangmyeon, black-bean noodles, Han-soo asks Min-ji to choose, then claims she said sushi.

In voice-over, Min-ji lists what is new: the neighborhood, the school and a name she does not like. She and her dad have barely changed, she says, except that he laughs more. Han-soo hands out flyers for Pure Taekwondo. Sang-a sometimes meets Min-ji, and over a meal she denies keeping watch on her, reminds her who saved her life and pays the bill.

At an optician's, Kim, Han-soo and Jin-cheol try on frames and decide to stay middle-aged men with glasses. In voice-over, Min-ji says all dads are ordinary men who work for their families and fear moms, and her dad is one of them.

On Haengbok-ro, Happiness Road, Kim heads to the Baekho Labor Agency. Min-ji thinks her dad is getting a new job through someone he knew back in the day, as the old contact's boast about Juhak Construction plays again. Upstairs, a man who has read Kim's résumé says he is not sure he can trust it and asks whether they should start the interview. A bonus scene then goes back to a famous Cheonsan Unit trio in 2006.

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