Agent Kim Reactivated Episode 6 Recap

Three agents on Jeju Island

Years earlier, at the Taeun Hotel on Jeju Island, Manager Kim is briefed on a threat. The US president's youngest daughter arrives in three days for a week's holiday, and intelligence says a group linked to al-Qaeda plans to kidnap her. She has turned down Korean security, so he is to guard her unofficially from a room one floor below hers. At the front desk, both rooms he asks for turn out to be taken. Elsewhere in the hotel, someone reports a wiretap in place and location tracking ready.

At the Samgeori Traditional Soup and Rice restaurant, Kim, then known as 66, sits down over blood sausage soup with Sung Han-soo and Park Jin-cheol. He warns them not to draw attention until the mission is done and tells them both to go and change. Han-soo and Jin-cheol fall into a contest of comebacks that falls apart over what comes after triple. Kim tells them to keep out of his way. The taunts turn to Kim's northern accent and Han-soo's board-breaking taekwondo, and the quarrel ends with a challenge to settle it outside.

Min-ji in Ju Gang-chan's study

In the present, Kim Min-ji thanks the driver who stops for her on the highway. In his convoy, Ju Gang-chan repeats that his daughter, Ju Hye-ri, is blessed with good fortune, because the girl has delivered herself to them. Meanwhile, a text reaches Kim: the car with Min-ji in it has passed National Highway 87, and it belongs to Juhak Construction, Gang-chan's company. Kim remembers the thug who said they only moved Min-ji after Gang-chan's daughter called. He tells Han-soo that Min-ji is alive, and the two speed off together, Han-soo complaining that their ride cannot go faster with two middle-aged men aboard. A location comes through: 274, Musu Mountain.

At Gang-chan's villa, Chief Nam joins them, and Mr. Cho is to follow once the bodies are dealt with. Staff catch Min-ji trying to phone home and take her, in dry clothes, to the study. There, she apologizes for fighting with Hye-ri and thanks Gang-chan for helping her. She claims she remembers nothing after leaving the principal's office until she woke in the warehouse, where a thug she had never seen came at her with a knife. She asks to borrow a phone to call her dad.

Gang-chan refuses. He knows Hye-ri tried to kill her, he says, and he saw through Min-ji from the moment she pretended to fall asleep in his car. Min-ji insists she knows nothing as his men seize her. Gang-chan explains that he will cover up any mistake Hye-ri makes. In his version of events, a thug kidnapped a schoolgirl and both disappeared, and since the thug is already gone, only Min-ji is left to vanish. She screams for her father and begs for her life.

The SMD raids the villa

Special Missions Directorate (SMD) vehicles ram through the villa gate. The SMD's director, Kang Guk-cheol, codenamed Mole Cricket, tells Gang-chan's guards he is on official business and has come for the girl inside. Gang-chan has Min-ji hidden in the basement. He phones Vice Minister of National Security Im Do-hyeon.

In the study, Guk-cheol notices a chair set facing Gang-chan and guesses he had company. Gang-chan runs through the police, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the SMD, and Guk-cheol drops the pretence and demands Min-ji. Gang-chan objects only to his cigarette. Agents report that the second floor and the basement are empty, and a guard blocks one of them, daring him to shoot.

Outside, Kim and Han-soo see that the SMD has beaten them there. One of them wants to go straight through, but the other warns that a rash move could put Min-ji in danger while both the SMD and Gang-chan want her. One of them spots Jung Sang-a and the dry cleaner, the agents who helped them before, and Kim tells Han-soo they should split up. Inside, the vice minister calls Guk-cheol and orders him out of the villa. Guk-cheol apologizes, wonders aloud how much the official has been paid and pulls his people out.

In the basement, the SMD's dry cleaner gets past a guard with a quip about collecting laundry. He finds Min-ji, tells her he has shut the dry cleaners for now and promises to explain later. Outside, he hands her to his colleagues, and she calls after him as she is put in a car. In the back seat, she demands to call her father. An agent tells her they work out of sight and cannot say who they are.

On the road, the rear guard loses track of someone, and Kim overpowers the agents and asks one of them where they have taken his daughter. Told it is headquarters, he gets on their radio to tell Min-ji he is coming for her, but Guk-cheol answers instead. Kim threatens to kill them all if anyone touches her and repeats that he will turn himself in once he has her back. Guk-cheol says he does not trust the word of a spy and suggests Kim bring liquor as a housewarming gift. Kim promises a gift will be waiting. The dry cleaner, alone, questions using the man's child and reminds himself that he is an agent first.

Jin-cheol gathers his weapons

Under a Korean Marine Veterans Federation banner, Jin-cheol is grumbling about Han-soo when his wife appears with a knife. He has been gone for days, and she wondered whether he had a second family. He reports that Kim's daughter was kidnapped, that he spent time in lockup after some men insulted their daughter, Da-bin, and that Han-soo ended up in the water. He offers her a germanium bracelet. She tells him to go, because the men are his brothers. She orders tteokbokki, spicy rice cakes, at spice level two with cheese, and says she is worried for the men he is up against.

Once she leaves, Jin-cheol wakes his weapons. He picks out a Claymore mine, an M3 and an M249. Then he decides to bring the lot.

Han-soo inside SMD headquarters

At SMD headquarters, Min-ji is taken to the top-level security building and the interrogation room. Guk-cheol declares an emergency alert and calls in the tactical team. Han-soo has ridden in clinging to the underside of a car. Agents mutter that Kim promised to surrender and that the director fears him too much to believe it. In a supply room, Han-soo runs into a cleaning woman, restrains her and promises to make it up to her. He then hunts down the mechanical room and works on its pumps.

In the interrogation room, Guk-cheol tells Min-ji her father was a notorious spy. Kim lived like a ghost for more than ten years, he says, then lost control searching for her and drew an operative from the North. Min-ji tells him about her fight with Hye-ri, the blow to her head, the cold storage, her escape and Gang-chan taking her. Guk-cheol marvels that all of it began with a fight between kids. Min-ji repeats the word spy in disbelief. Then the vice minister arrives, and an agent suspects Gang-chan called him. Guk-cheol has her hidden in Isolation Room A.

The vice minister rages at Guk-cheol for raiding a private home and demands the girl. Above Isolation Room A, Han-soo opens the ceiling and introduces himself as Uncle Han-soo. He lifts Min-ji up beside him. Guk-cheol accuses the vice minister of doing Gang-chan's bidding for bribes and refuses to hand her over until he has Kim. In the ducts, Min-ji asks whether her dad is a spy, and Han-soo says he was, but is not anymore. Moments later, an intruder alert sounds and the top-level security building loses power.

A standoff at the Zone C bunker

Han-soo and Min-ji climb down near the Zone C bunker, but the door denies them access. Han-soo asks how good her acting is. Once the door is held open, agents surround them. Guk-cheol asks whether Han-soo is the gift Kim promised, and Han-soo says they brought a gift of their own. He tells Min-ji to run for the emergency exit on the count of three. Guk-cheol orders his agents to shoot Han-soo and call it an accident, but to spare the girl.

A flashbang and a smoke grenade go off as Jin-cheol drives in. The car doors will not open, and the agents soon realize his rounds are blanks and open fire on his car. Jin-cheol says he brought live ammunition too but will not kill his juniors, and he offers Han-soo a choice of guns. With the tactical team closing in, Han-soo, Jin-cheol and Min-ji wave a white flag and walk out. Han-soo reminds Guk-cheol that he pulled him out of the water and calls him a mole rat for shooting at a child. Guk-cheol orders Min-ji taken.

Then the vice minister appears and orders every agent to drop their guns, and when they hesitate, he orders it again. Min-ji sees her father. Kim walks to her and says, "I'm here. Let's go home now." Min-ji breaks down calling for her dad.

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