A clock! Drugs! Truth or Dare! Spin the bottle! Drinking! Ohm! Awkward dancing! Everything I hate!
And that’s before everyone passes out and someone dies!
Jay wakes up to see Cherreen panicking because the cute actress from My Love Mix-Up and Leap Day, playing Fai here, is dead.
Now that we’ve got our creepy death, let’s meet our lead, Jade. He uses his gun to force someone to confess that their drugs came from a club called Drink Me. That done, he’s called to the scene of a dead student.
On his way, he pulls over someone driving erratically in a nice car. This is, of course, our other lead and the new inspector from abroad. We recognize Dunk, even if he’s not looking fabulous in crop tops, but cold and untouchable and neatly dressed. Here, he’s Kamin.
Jade doesn’t realize who he is and gives him a ticket.
At the crime scene, Jade meets him again
They banter about whether either is a good cop, and Jade being out of uniform somehow invalidates the ticket he gave. Kamin, your driving WAS scary.
I guess this is to give Jade a reason give Kamin a “Dare”/competition for who can solve the case first. Kamin feels they shouldn’t turn suffering into a game. Agreed. But Jade is persuasive, so the competition is on. Neither of them has ever lost. At what? I dunno.
At the station, they discover Jade’s brother Jay was one of the students there when it happened. This is a conflict of interest, but Jade promises it won’t be.
We’ve got 7 suspects to interview, it’s A Lot
Suspect #1 is Jay. He explains what we already saw. Also, Champ wanted to leave, but didn’t. Fai got a Dare but we don’t know what it was.
Suspect #2 is Time. He brought the drinks, but Tonkla mixed them. He saw Cherreen and Champ arguing, possibly because of Fai.
Suspect #3 is Bell. She called an ambulance instead of the police because she thought her friend could be saved. She says Tar was afraid to call the police because he was on drugs.
Suspect #4 is Tar. He points out that Time, Champ, and Jay all have families who can protect them. Also, he says he’s no longer on drugs, as he acts like he’s on drugs.
Suspect #5 is Tokla. He mixed the drinks, but stepped away from them to pee. According to him, Fai and Champ arrived last, and Fai started the game.
Suspect #6 is Champ. He doesn’t seem to care that his girlfriend is dead. According to him, Fai took sleeping pills and has stomach ulcers, so she could barely drink.
He asks for a lawyer, but Kamin doesn’t let him leave. Can you do that in Thailand?
Suspect #7 is Cherren. Jade talks to her outside the interview room. She confirms Fai’s medical issues. Both she and Champ told her not to drink so much during the party. According to her, Tonkla called the ambulance.
Champ’s important Dad shows up and glares, so he gets to leave
Over lunch, our guys continue to interrogate Jay. He didn’t mention that Tar and Bell stopped him from calling the police because he didn’t want to get them in trouble. They’re all friends.
Well, there was a fight between Champ, Fai, and Tar earlier in the semester. Tar tried to make a move on Fai. They let it go for the sake of the group.
Later, Kamin moves into his office. All the other officers watch, and Jade explains how horrible everyone is. Kamin also thinks that his office might be bugged. By who?
Kamin wants to find Tar’s supplier, so Jade takes him for street food
Fastidious Kamin isn’t into it. But they’re right outside of Drink Me, and the vendor is an informant with pictures of the drug dealing.
Suddenly it’s night, and they’re back at Drink Me. Inside, Jade kisses Kamin’s cheek to help him fit in. Kamin wipes his cheek and then the table. Lol. Jade’s hip movement here is … fun.
Eventually, they raid the place. Kamin gets into a gun fight, and Jade tries to help with skinship, but Kamin doesn’t need it.
Kamin doesn’t like that Jade has been drinking
So he takes him to drink some more. The relationship has progressed to the starring stage. Post episode ending, a drunk, skinship-creating Jade declares the only boss he’ll ever have will also be his lover.
Tar has received a black envelope with his name and “Truth or Dare” on it. It gets fancy camera work. He thinks Champ sent it, but Champ ignores his texts.
Kamin and Jade learn that the students were knocked out with midazolam. There were no strange fingerprints on the glasses, only those of the students.
The autopsy report is ready, and Jade uses Climate Change to get a ride with Kamin.
Fai was killed with the drugs used for lethal injections
So this is definitely a murder. Incidentally, the doctor also answered the call for the ambulance because they are short-staffed. It was a woman. Wasn’t it Bell who called? Jade and Kamin act like it wasn’t.
Cherreen talks on the phone with someone about whether they told the cops anything, and plans to meet that evening at the same place.
Later, but I don’t think in the evening, she and Champ are together. Jade and Kamin ambush them about the ambulance call. Cherreen initially claims it was Tonkla, but later admits it was her. She was just confused. I’m confused too.
Kamin threatens to prosecute them for interfering, and Jade… shows off his gun? Are you threatening to shoot them?
Turns out that Tar is a vile rapist
Not only that, he takes pictures to keep the women silent. Champ shares this with our cops, along with Tar’s texts about this letter. He doesn’t know anything about this letter.
Later, Kamin and Jade speculate that Champ didn’t care about Fai because he’s secretly dating Cherreen. That’s still cold.
Tar wants to meet with Champ at Drink Me, but gets attacked by a creepy person with a lit-up face mask. The attacker makes him pick between Truth or Dare, and when he picks Truth, the attacker asks if he raped Fai. Tar only admits it’s true when threatened with more pain.
Tar is then stabbed in the chest.
This is how Jade and Kamin find him
Tonkla is also there, and Kamin questions him. He claims he just happened to be there, as he nervously chews on his nails.
Jade gropes Kamin to get his keys, then makes Kamin move into his place. I guess because Kamin hasn’t been sleeping? Jade and Jay pretend their place is a hotel with better rates.
Thankfully, Jay didn’t know Tar well. Champ and Tar were the close ones. And the only ones who went to Drink Me. Meaning, not Tonkla.
The six remaining students are understandably worried. Jay promises he hasn’t told his brother “anything.” No one else admits to receiving a letter. A nervous Tonkla accidentally reveals he was near Drink Me.
At Tar’s place, Kamin and Jade find the blackmail photos and the Truth or Dare letter. Inside are more of Tar’s terrible pictures.
Also, one of the entire friend group, with their faces all scratched out.
Kamin declares a serial killer is targeting the entire group
Somewhere, Tonkla has a Truth or Dare envelope. The pictures inside show him… breaking in somewhere? There’s also a Truth and a Dare card. On the other side, one says “Cherren Bell,” and the other says something about being bought off.
Jade is worried about Jay, who denies knowing anything and says he doesn’t have a letter. Jade wants to handle it himself. Handle what? Kamin thinks this will… play into the killer’s hand? How? I guess because of the secrets?
Whatever, Kamin says they need to keep an eye on Jay. Jade is overwhelmed and wonders if they can really stop this.
Kamin thinks they can, if they work together. He’ll stake his badge on it.
Post ending scene, an argument about Kamin’s clothes leads to Jade offering his body, and promising to handle everything of Kamin’s with care.
But who called the ambulance? Bell or Cherreen?
Is that supposed to be a mystery? What was the point of the scene with the street vendor?
There is a clunkiness to this production. Fancy shots of the letter aside, most of the lighting, camera angles, and editing are bland when they should be heightening and driving the tension. Our actors shouldn’t be expected to do all the work.
But I get what’s going on. We start with the meet-cute and butting heads. Now they have a tentative trust, and that, along with the escalating case, has turned them into a team. Their policework is questionable, but realistic policework is not one of my requirements for a fun BL show.
I like seeing serious Dunk in his serious hairstyle and serious clothes. His calmer, colder way of talking does something nice with his voice.
So far, the focus of the show has been on the mystery plot. The BL part of the show is Joong/Jade lusting after Dunk/Kamin. I’m okay with that in general, but I’m hoping the next few episodes share more of our leads’ backgrounds beyond “has a brother” and “studied in the US.”
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