Our Nour, Ken, gives the “who wants to live forever” spiel as we see various, at times amusing, ways he’s tried to end his life. Starting in 1821 with his 4th death (attempted via fire) and ending with his 235th death (attempted via washing machine).
Since then, he’s discovered someone can kill Nour, so now that’s his only goal
And that’s it for that for now.
Let’s switch to crime. It’s 2026, and there has been a series of arson deaths.
The latest victim is a young woman, and her husband is the suspect. He’s holding a cop hostage to prove his innocence. Newly transferred Inspector James shows how cool he is, driving up on his motorcycle and easily taking the guy down.
Which is apparently very James of him.
He’s there to work on the arson case, which everyone blames on Nour. He’s shown to a cramped room that he’ll be sharing with Inspector Ken, who is investigating the same case.
Ken is also a Forensic Pathologist, so James goes to find him at the hospital. He sneaks in and takes pictures of the burnt-up corpse. A rescue worker named Chita catches him, and James pushes him, so Chita stumbles into Dr. Ji’s arms.
Ji wants James, who has yet to introduce himself, to leave.
James isn’t going to, but Ken shows up to elegantly wrist-grab him away
Ken knows who James is, but still wants him gone. James tries to start over with a friendly introduction. Instead of shaking hands, Ken checks his pulse.
We get some VERY fast flashes of … kissing? James? And some staaaaaaaaaaaring.
Then Ken diagnoses James as having a weak pulse and tells him to get a check-up.
James, undaunted, wants to get Ken’s files. But Ken is old-fashioned, and they are all physical files he keeps… somewhere. So James goes back to the hospital, and now that Ji knows who he is, he tells him that the body is charred inside and out.
Ken is annoyed, but he gives James some files, but not the full records. James is now also annoyed.
The mother-in-law of the victim is at the hospital, upset because she knows her son is innocent and the cops just want to blame Nour. James comforts her and drags Ken into a three-person hug.
Chita gets punched by his coworkers for missing work
He was out sick, which may be related to a bad leg injury. Ji sees Chita struggling and checks his leg, telling him he should apply for an open forensic assistant job.
James tries to get the files by harassing Ken over the phone, then gives up and goes through the ones sitting on his desk. The next day, Ken knows what he did, and runs a red line of tape down the center of the office. This show is surprisingly funny.
James flirts with going over to Ken’s side, just to mess with him, but he already got what he needed.
While being interrogated, the husband admits he argued with his wife because she had an affair. But he left to drink, and when he got back, his whole house was on fire, and a Nour was choking his wife. James wants to know what the Nour looked like. The husband says its eyes were blue.
Ji helps Chita prepare for his interview for the job, but it turns out it IS the interview, and Chita’s hired.
James thinks the husband is innocent, Ken thinks James has no evidence
James shoves Ken into the wall. He thinks Ken knows something about Nour that he’s not sharing. Ken says even if Nour exist, the husband is still going to be arrested for murdering his wife.
Ken is strong enough to push James back. James shares a secret: he knows the husband is innocent because he can literally see when people are lying. But. He can’t read Ken.
Later, James breaks into Ken’s car to get to his files. He finds a picture of his Dad in one, and flashbacks to yelling for his dad in a burning house. He’s knocked to the ground and unable to reach his father and save him.
He has to stand outside, watching the house burn, and screaming.
Ken finds James in his car and pushes into his personal space in an “I’ll kiss you” or “I’ll suck your blood” kind of way. But he just whispers against James’ throat, asking if he found what he’s looking for.
A flashback to Ken’s 235th attempted death-by-washing-machine shows us that James was the one to find him and let him out. He gave Ken a towel to wipe off, and told him not to die, but Ken walked away.
In the present, we’ve got staaaaaaaaaaaring
Then Ken opens the car door to dump James on the ground. He wants to know how Ken has this info, but Ken just drives away.
New murder! A college student, unburned, but with some fang-type marks on her neck. The boyfriend is the immediate suspect, but he blames Nour.
James interrogates the boyfriend by threatening him with… KEN. After learning about this monster cop, the boyfriend wants to show James something on his phone. Ken brings it in, but can’t unlock it, so James does.
The boyfriend has a sex video of his girlfriend that he was using to blackmail her. That’s it. Everything else was the truth.
Since James and Ken don’t trust each other, they work the case separately. Ken watches one of the victim’s friends get interviewed, then goes to Ji. Chita found some evidence, but Ken kicks him out.
Ken says the killer was either starving or new at this, and accidentally killed our victim. Ji seems to understand this makes the killer a Nour, and know that Ken is a Nour.
Ken is sure Ji knows what he can and can’t share with Chita.
James has been more focused on modern technology
Ken tracks him down to get the boyfriend’s phone back. Things get childish as James holds the phone above Ken’s head to keep it away. After some touchy-tussling, James gets a knee to the groin, and Ken gets the phone. And there’s staaaaaaaaaaaring.
James suggests that since neither of them is getting anywhere alone, they call a truce and work together for the day. Ken agrees.
James suspects a friend of the pair may have been one of the boyfriends’ exes. Our guys concoct a silly plan that involves borrowing uniforms from some students and changing in close quarters. Then they work together so Ken can get her phone. But. He can’t work it.
They quickly change tactics so James gets a strand of her hair for DNA.
An adorable (sort of) result of all of this is that James gives Ken a smartphone so he can learn how to use it. This involves sitting close and letting their faces get real close together. Yes. More please.
The DNA report comes back: The friend isn’t the killer.
James also uses Ken’s new phone to track Ken
When Ken learns this, he wants to toss it. James stops him and shows him how to use social media. But as they do that, James realizes they have someone else they need to look into.
There’s a friend they haven’t spoken with yet, Tee. When they track him down, we see him in James vision, but I can’t read James vision yet. More importantly, the guy runs.
We know he’s a Nour because he can run super fast. But so can Ken, leaving James behind. Ken shoots at Tee, but loses him. James catches up in time to protect Ken and gets slashed in the back by Tee. Ken stays with James, and Tee gets away.
Back at the office, Ken stitches James up. James wants to know why he didn’t leave him to go after Tee. Ken says it’s because he saved him.
Both sorta kinda admit they’re working together well. James admits he’s hunting his father’s killer, whoever is burning all these corpses, for revenge. And he knows the killer wasn’t human, like Tee.
After he’s stitched up, James says there’s something on Ken’s lip. When he runs his thumb across it, he smears blood. Ken… gets… hungry? And nibbles on James’ finger. We get James’ vision and… I don’t think he sees anything?
But we get MORE staaaaaring, and Ken goes in for a kiss. James looks startled and then… good for more.
I’m really hooked on this one
The early kiss doesn’t hurt. But also, the chemistry is chemistry-ing, and their conflicts and interactions are well written. So not only are the actors good together, but the characters have that back-and-forth that builds tension between them. It’s like relationship foreplay.
Maybe my favorite part was James winning Ken over with the smartphone, even if he later used it against him.
James has a very sweet, charming, eager energy while also being confident and skilled. A nice contrast to Ken’s tired, cold, shut-off personality and somewhat… dead… energy.
While the production has some rough patches, like mediocre AI, overall, it’s strong. With a mystery/thriller, it really, really, really helps to have a crew that can use camera, lighting, editing, set-decorating, everything to build tension so it’s not all resting on the actors/characters’ interactions.
My favorite example from these episodes would be the scene in the interrogation room, with Ken and James divided by the wall between them.
So. Yes. I want to know more. About Ken and his desire to die. James, his father’s death, and his truth-reading ability. About what Nour are and how they work.
And I’m ready to see more kissing too.
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