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The NSS is a secret National Security Service.

Before President Jo Myung Ho was elected, its true identity was kept in complete secret.

All the NSS agents have signed the agreement to carry out their mission in the shadows.

Although they may succeed in their mission, their country will never know their names.

Should they fail, they won't receive protection or recognition from the country.

IRIS. IRIS is a secret organization that incites and controls

assassination, coup d'etat, terrorism and the destruction of social orders hiding in the shadows.

Korea, the last and only divided country.

IRIS moved North Korean hard-liners to plan nuclear terrorism in Seoul, South Korea.

The nuclear terrorism in Seoul would lead to a full-scale war between North and South Korea.

Using the war as an opportunity

IRIS plotted to establish a new pro-IRIS government in North Korea.

This is how the conflict between IRIS and the NSS began in the shadows.

Many nameless NSS agents were sacrificed during this process.

Baek San had been working for IRIS long before he became the Director of NSS.

However he believed he'd made the best choice for the protection of his country.

The nuclear terrorism attempt failed and Baek San was arrested for being a spy for IRIS.

North Korean moderates, Park Chul Young and Kim Sun Hwa

helped to stop the nuclear war and returned to North Korea.

And the man, who saved his country on the verge of nuclear crisis

decided to live a normal life with the woman he loves.

He resigned from the NSS. With a ring, he was on his way to Jeju island to propose.

The lion is fast asleep.

We are heading back to the base.

[Three years later]

Is it so difficult to get live ammunition?

What about the North Koreans?

There are plenty of guns to smuggle out.

But live ammunition is difficult to find even in North Korea.

Alpha. Bravo. Close in about 30 meters from the target.

- Alpha copy. - Bravo copy.

In order to sell these guns, I must have 7.62 ammunitions.

These are completely useless as they are.

Just wait a while. We'll be receiving some goods from the Philippines.

Wait and don't move.

I heard there is a supply coming in from Africa.

Let me know as soon as you get some ammunition.

Don't worry. I've been doing this business for a long time.

[Episode 1]

182. A vehicle heading toward the target has been detected.

What kind of vehicle?

It's a construction dump truck.

The truck is about 50 meters away from the target.

Section Chief!

Who are you? Don't move!

Speak Korean, you bastard.

I know you are here for ammunition.

Man, it's cold.

Did you come alone?

Hey, take care of this.

That bastard.

What are you doing you bastards? Get in there!

Who are those kids?

They say the are from the Seoul Regional Investigation Unit.

Well, well...

We are from the NSS. This area is under our jurisdiction, what do you think you are doing?

I don't know what you guys are up to but...

Anyway where the hell is this bastard?

He's coming.

Oh, over there.

What's this?

Did you get him knowing who this is?

Yeah.

Take him away.

How about you bring him back?

I don't know who you are but...

if you point a gun at me one more time, you are dead meat.

Hey, you think I'm easy?

[15 years ago]

[Jung Yoo Gun]

Man...

Are you going to stay like that all day?

You scoundrels.

Do you know how long I have left until I retire?

Why do I need to know that?

That means I have only a few years left to bail you out from the police.

I never asked you to bail me out.

Do you like to fight?

By any chance, some of the bullies are... because you don't have father...

Nobody fights because he likes to.

Sometimes I'm put in the situation and I can't help it.

And the kids nowadays aren't so childish like that.

You've grown up quite a bit.

The school I went to only had two paths.

Either you become a gangster or a cop.

You should become a cop like me.

Then you get to beat up bad guys every single day.

- Let's eat. - Yes.

Yoo Gun!

I heard you fought again.

Who are they?

I'll take care of them.

Whoever is bothering Yoo Gun, I'm not going to leave them alone.

You don't need to worry about that, Soo Yun.

Because Yoo Gun has fists made of steel, all the neighborhood gangs have disbanded.

It's no doubt Yoo Gun.

But mister, isn't too lonely for you to live here alone?

I've lived alone my whole life.

Moving from a city to the countryside doesn't make much difference.

You don't know what you're talking about.

In the city, you at least had a chance of meeting a pretty lady.

But here, it's zero, none.

Yes, I guess you are right.

By the way, mister...

Do you know anything about the NSS?

It's called the National Security Service but...

I think it feels different than the National Intelligent Service.

There is not much known about them at all.

What about NSS? Did get tangled up with them?

Ah... well... they approached me and asked me to join them.

Since I'm so capable...

[Jung Yoo Gun] [He is scouted by the NSS. Is it fate?]

Four. Now, it's just two of us.

The other side has only one.

Let's split up.

Tell me right away if anything moves.

- Location secure. - Okay, I'm going in now.

You're sure there's nothing in the surrounding area?

Seo Hyun Woo. Can you hear me?

Seo Hyun Woo.

I think I've made it clear it's suicidal to come out in the open.

The situation is over.

It's so cold that I'm going to die.

You were not dead for that long. I was lying here for over three hours.

Good work! Good work!

Okay, now you guys! Are you ready to drink all night long?

- Yes, we are! - Fighting!

Everyone worked so hard today.

Happy birthday.

What makes you think you did so well?

I died today because of him.

Unlike me, someone died just walking around.

- What? - I thought you had narcolepsy.

Hey, he died as soon as we began the mission.

That's a real misunderstanding.

Well... this is kind of unfair.

I can't fight with all my might.

You might be sorry acting up like that.

Stop.

Come forward.

Trainee.

How do you feel if your opponent takes it easy on you because you're a woman?

It doesn't feel good.

Seo Hyun Woo.

In real situation, do you think Ji Soo Yun will be taken easy because she's a woman?

No, she won't be.

Face her as you would in a real situation.

If not, both of you will be disqualified.

Yes.

Stop.

Wow, the food is real good here.

It has a good ambiance, too.

Why aren't you eating?

You have no appetite?

Yes... since I have to eat with this cold-blooded instructor...

it's rather difficult.

Why?

- Yoo Gun. - What?

Ah, because of the judo test?

I thought women were given a handicap?

So you expected something like that?

Fine. I'm cool so...

I should acknowledge things.

But...

if I drop out because of the judo score...

you're going to hear an earful from me and I'm going to try again next year.

Like a cool person would.

If you don't make it this time, you're going to try out again next year?

Of course.

Don't you know that the phrase 'giving up' is not in Ji Soo Yun's dictionary?

Never mind next year, I'm going to try out until I make it in.

Until I become a decrepit old woman.

Challenge.

She says she's going to try again.

I think she will, too.

Once she sets her mind to something, she never gives up.

Yes.

Anyway how did she do? Did she score above the cut-off line?

She's scored more than enough to make it in.

But as parents we're not just happy about it.

What good is it working for the country if she gets hurt during the process?

Don't worry. I'll watch over her so that she doesn't get hurt.

I'm counting on you.

Yes.

Are you in or not?

- Are you in or not? - Be quiet, you bastard.

Hurry up and make up your mind.

Flush... Straight...

Are you going to stay up all night?

In or out? In or out? In or out?

I'm in. Okay.

All in.

You aren't getting fooled. I'm out.

Ha! I got you bastard.

Hey!

Ace. Three of a kind. Okay?

Wait!

What? Show me. What?

Straight.

Did you escape North Korea risking your life... so you can live like this?

Talking to me?

Who are you?

Did you escape so you could live like this?

Are you...

Are you Yun Hwa?

How did you know I was in Cambodia?

At what point did you start following me?

Rather than North Korean escapee Yoo Joong Won from the Room 35...

you are better known as an information broker.

Ah, man... seriously.

I'm going to have to move again.

But... why did you come to see me?

I need some information and...

I want you to come with me.

To where?

Budapest.

Where?

Let's say we didn't see each other today.

Thanks for the drinks.

If I could do it alone, I wouldn't have come to see you in the first place.

Hey... you completely ignored me when I chased after you.

Now you show up with a completely different face.

Where'd you get it done? I want to get it too, so you can't ever find me again.

Do you know how I lived until now? How I....

Am I curious how you escaped the North? The answer is no.

I'm not curious at all.

When I crossed Amrok River risking my life, I left my entire past behind. Understand?

I'm no longer the Yoo Joong Won you knew.

Don't delude yourself.

You still like me, don't you?

They say 10 years is enough time to change mountains and rivers.

But why is it so hard to change my heart?

I got caught again. Let me hold you once. Let me hold you.

I know. I know. I was just joking around.

You still have no sense of humor.

If we finish this job safely, you'll be able to get a hold of quite a big sum of money.

Money?

You've learned such trashy things somewhere.

You think life is about money? Don't live your life like that.

You are not even worthy of these drinks.

The new deputy director is coming.

Here name is... Choi Min and...

she's from the Pentagon.

This is called the Task Force A-Team, which gets the most field work assignments.

Including North Korea, they're assigned matters concerning four countries in the Far East Asia.

In short, we call them TF-A.

Okay.

Team Leader Jung.

I'm the new NSS deputy director, Choi Min.

Nice to meet you, Team Leader Jung Yoo Gun.

Nice to meet you.

If it's Far East Asia, it's a potential battlefield.

I'll looking forward to the TF-A.

I accepted it because of the direct communication from the presidential office.

But you came at a bad time.

Was there ever a good time at the NSS?

Korea is very different than your former field such as the Middle East or the Pentagon.

Palestinians would resort to suicide bombing for their survival.

But this country is crawling with people who wouldn't hesitate

to sell the country's intelligence for some money.

Survival and money...

If you look at it from a different angle, aren't they the same thing?

Their level of desperation is clearly different.

I'm so not sure.

Anyway, it doesn't matter.

I have no intention of risking my life for the country.

I only chose the NSS as my weapon in order to fight IRIS.

The moment I find out that the weapon I chose to fight is actually hopeless...

I'm going to leave the NSS immediately.

I'll be watching.

We've prepared everything in a hurry so you may not feel settled here, yet.

If you need anything else, please let me know.

I think I'm all set.

Bring me all the past and present NSS secret mission files.

Bring me profiles for agents from all the teams as well.

You mean right now?

Yes.

And also include all the files related to Baek San.

The NSS was first established in 1976.

It was discovered there were double agents

working for the Central Intelligence Service, Presidential House, and the CIA.

President Park Jung Hee needed an intelligence agency that could evade their surveillance.

But most of all, the nuclear development program was the major reason.

- The nuclear development program? - Yes.

I think the program had made quite a head way at the time.

And the newly established NSS managed the nuclear development program.

Even with change of government, I believe they continued to manage the program in secret.

That means rather than an intelligence agency...

the NSS was an agency established to hide the nuclear development?

Not exactly.

While the National Intelligence Service strove to produce 'white agents'...

the NSS produced real 'black agents'.

They carried out secret missions called, 'dirty jobs'.

It was an NSS agent who eliminated the North Korean agent

responsible for assassinating South Korean consular officials in Vladivostok in 1996.

In 1997, it was also NSS agents who went all the way to China to eliminate

the assassin who killed North Korean defector Lee Young Han.

Is it your opinion that the former NSS director Baek San has the key to all the secrets?

Yes, I'm sure he's hiding something.

As soon as the former president Jo Myung Ho came into the office...

I heard he was briefed by Director Baek San about the NSS.

No one knows what was exchanged between them and there is absolutely no record of it.

Would you like for me to go meet the former president?

I think that'll be easier than making Baek San talk.

I heard you managed nuclear development under President Park Jung Hee.

How far did the nuclear technology advance?

Based on what I heard, they almost completed making a nuclear arm.

Is that true?

Yes, I believe so.

Where is it? The nuclear arms technology that was almost at its completion?

Just because you gave up on producing nuclear arms, its technology doesn't simply disappear.

So under the Park administration, the nuclear arms technology was almost at its completion?

Well, there is no way to confirm it.

Director Baek San didn't provide any verbal or written information confirming that claim.

Are you aware that all the nuclear scientists involved in the program...

were murdered by the order of Director Baek San?

I read it in the report.

I understand even some of the scientists who escaped aboard, have gone missing.

Baek San was the head of the secret agency that managed nuclear development.

When he eliminated all the scientists who worked on the program...

and claimed that there was no relevant information left anywhere...

I'm pretty certain that he's hiding something.

This is NSS-H0304.

Operation number 00589.

Calling for confirmation on landing.

1,430 feet. Flight course C-247.

Radar on 4728.

Operation 00589 has requested confirmation for landing.

Check with the headquarters.

The code?

B-house 1395.

What is the purpose of this contact?

Operation 00589 has requested landing on the B-house.

We ask for a confirmation.

00589. NSS-H0304.

It's good for landing.

This is B-house. H0304.

Helicopter number two is confirmed for landing.

Get ready.

You are ahead of schedule.

It's matter of urgency.

Follow me.

What are you doing?

Excuse me.

We've come...

to escort you out, sir.

It's Rey.

Yes, the mission was a success.

We're on the move to the next point.

Yes, sir.

Check the N-6 point.

Secure the S-5 area.

Move.

Investigating the S-5 area.

Nothing unusual detected so far.

They've gotten through by faking the communication with the headquarters.

Yes, all other prisoners are safe.

Baek San is the only one who escaped.

Code nine.

Copy.

I want to speak to Section Chief Park Joon Han.

Is that possible?

Situation code nine.

I'll apply an emergency code.

Three.

Two.

- One. - Don't shoot.

I'm going to ask you again from the beginning.

Name?

What kind of work did you do prior to your imprisonment?

What was your objective in escaping from the prison?

You are not going to say anything?

Section Chief.

After what happen to agent Ji Soo Yun...

it won't be easy for Chief Jung to interrogate him.

Okay, then... why don't you open the door?

I'm going to take over from here. So go outside and wait for me.

It's a shame that I see you again under such circumstances.

Director Baek.

It's been a while.

Seems like nothing much has changed around here.

What's the reason for surrendering to the NSS?

Isn't it your job to find out the reason?

Since today is the first day, I'm going to stop here.

I hope you abandon any expectation for manners the next time.

Director Baek.

Let me ask you a favor.

New York Post, Washington Daily...

The Moscow Times... Can you get them for me everyday?

You know better than anyone that's not possible.

I thought you wanted to know the reason why I surrendered myself, don't you?

Where is the nearest safety house?

It's the Camp KC.

We can keep him there.

Move him there and the A-team should take charge of the security and the interrogation.

Yes.

It's me. How is Soo Yun?

I heard the surgery went well.

But she hasn't woken up yet.

We should've stopped her from going to the NSS until the end.

Her mother has been nagging me saying that all day long.

I'm sorry.

This was something we had to experience sooner or later.

I'll let you go now. Call me when she wakes up.

Yes.

That's okay. You were just following the manual.

I would... I would have done the same thing.

Is Soo Yun doing better now?

Yes.

Can you stop by at hospital and see Soo Yun after we leave?

Sure, I'll call you if anything changes.

So don't worry.

Yes.

Oh, you are here.

Baek San.

From the mid 70's, he's was in the security team in the Central Intelligence Services.

It's not too much to say all the dangerous missions in Korea were formed by Baek San.

Can I have access to Baek San's profile?

Why? You have something you need?

No, it's just... I think it'll be good to know him better.

What to do?

From the orders above, the information related to him is completely tied up.

The security team is on basement level one. The swat team is on basement level two.

Okay, then let's just watch him for now.

- Continue checking. - Okay.

What are you doing now?

You scared me.

I thought it was the Director!

It's rumored that you made a fortune watching the market.

No, this is not about making money.

This is about the table of randomly occurring numbers...

I guess not.

So what brought you here?

Ah, yeah, yeah... you know...

I came to get the results of the code-breaking analysis on the newspaper I gave you.

- What? - There is nothing. It's totally clean.

That can't be right.

He wasn't just reading the paper.

I've put it through the decoder many times and I didn't get anything.

Perhaps my capability has reached its limit.

- These are yesterday's papers. - Thank you.

And this is what you asked for.

I can see well now.

As I grow older, it's getting more difficult to read newspapers.

- I'll take away the old papers. - Ah, that's right.

How is the agent who got hurt?

[IRIS hideout]

It's for you.

Who is it?

Mr. Black.

Yes.

Alright. I got it.

Operation's a go.

Commence Separation X.

Get ready.

Did you find anything from the translation yesterday?

As expected, there is nothing in the text itself.

We're hoping to find something from the code-breaking analysis.

- Hi. - Hi there.

- Did you get the result? - Yeah.

According to the code-breaking team, they found nothing out of the ordinary.

Then why the papers...

Well, I guess he could be doing that just to confuse us.

But his behavior is too consistent and regular to see it as a tactic for confusion.

But I guess the decoder couldn't find anything.

In my opinion, there is something more complicated...

Oh, according to one of your team members Byung Jin...

he thought Baek San was trying to find a connection between the titles and the pictures.

Ah, that's right.

Hyun Woo, you should go to back to HQ. A new ID card has been issued for you.

You can get disciplined for losing your ID card. You know that?

I'm going to head over.

See you later.

The 21st hour security status check. F1?

- F1, all clear. - F2?

- F2, all clear. - B1?

B1, all clear.

- D2? - D2, all clear.

All clear.

Let's move.

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What does IRIS want from you and...

what are they trying to find by making such a fuss?

That's the problem you need to solve.

I'm going to make him confess why he surrendered to the NSS.

It's the plot I received from IRIS.

You've gone completely insane.

There could have been nuclear terrorism in Seoul in 2009.

IRIS has never shown itself since that incident.

But it's showing itself again now.

Do not come and see me again unless you leave IRIS.

There's still IRIS's showdown left behind at the NSS.

In addition to the former Director Baek San's warning...

and based on the current circumstances, I believe there is some kind of conspiracy.

The safety house is under attack.