GG Precinct – Season 1 Episode 2 Recap & Review

Episode 2

Episode 2 of GG Precinct begins with a flashback to 2001. Shui-yan is chopped his student’s thigh in line with the pound-of-flesh idiom while outside Chang and the to-be commissioner surround his house. He is about to feed the flesh to the student when the cops burst in and arrest him. However, it is too late and the student is dead. As he is taken to the precinct, reporters question him and he looks smug.

At present, Shui-yan watches the news from his cell which reveals that the second copycat victim is PE teacher Liao Shan-tai. Meanwhile, the GG Precinct interrogates Hsiao-wu, the security guard who found the first copycat victim. Wu Ming-han is hellbent on arresting him as he had the keys, the CCTVs don’t work and he was the one who reported the crime.

However, Hsiao-wu points out that among the 3 properties he owns, one of them is the one where the victim was found. He would never do anything to hurt the property rates and the cops wonder why he works as a security guard if he is rich. He cheekily comments that it pays more than being a cop which irks everyone present but they acknowledge that Hsiao-wu is a dead-end.

Next, Shao-nien questions the Mr. Kuo, the school groundskeeper. He shares that the second victim, Liao Shan-tai would work out after hours and go home late. But yesterday, Kuo found him tied up in front of the Confucius memorial. He has nothing else to add except he had heard a motorcycle pass by at the same time.

The third victim is finally discovered. An underground idol, Mogi Yumi is found with her hair tied up and a knife through her bone. The idiom of her death is – Tie up your hair and jab your thigh to stay awake – which is also found in Shui-yan’s cell. The cops also notice that many attempts were made to pull her hair up.

The coroner is seen crying and they learn that he was a fan. Annoyed with his crying, Ming-han pulls him in a hug to stop him but this somehow cures the coroner’s stutter. 

At the precinct, the cops update Chang – Yumi’s assistant found her and was so shocked that she was hospitalized. The commissioner storms in and claims that as an expert, she can lend a hand in the case. She praises Lin Tzu-ching’s strategy of consulting Shui-yan but shuts down Chang’s approach of interrogating him. She claims that if Shui-yan is involved, they should just put him on high surveillance.

But she comes up with an even better idea as she has Lin Tzu-ching and Ming-han bring Shui-yan to the precinct. The security dresses him up in a Maltese graphic tee and Ming-han mocks him. It seems that Shui-yan is about to explode when Tzu-ching stops Ming-han.

The rest of the cops are asleep at the precinct when a delivery girl arrives with Chubby’s order. Her eye catches their investigation board and she goes through it till Shu-fen catches her. The delivery girl scolds Chubby for making her come up to their floor and runs off after dropping the orders.

Meanwhile, Tzu-ching, Ming-han and Shui-yan arrive at the precinct. When they ask why he did what he did, he repeats what he had said when he was arrested – idioms hold the history and wisdom of one’s nation and language.

The students dishonoured the country by being blatant in their mistakes so Shui-yan took it upon himself to protect the students’ soul and his country. In a flashback, we see that as he is being led inside, a woman shouts that she is Shui-yan’s disciple and believes in his teachings.

At that moment, Yumi’s manager, Lin Pai-sheng reports that an obsessive fan called Hsieh Cheng-ta had been stalking her before she was killed. But at the end of GG Precinct Episode 2, the manager looks suspicious and it cuts to Yumi’s last concert with the focus on the coroner and another man.

The Episode Review

GG Precinct Episode 2 confirms the theory that Shui-yan has something to do with the copycat murders since he wrote the third idiom in his jail cell. But there is no one clear suspect. It can be the disciple woman from 2001, Yumi’s manager or even the coroner. Even the delivery woman looks strange so we cannot rule her out.

But the Netflix show does well in keeping our attention hooked with several clues and red herrings alike. The pacing is crisp yet easy to follow with enough exposition, action and mystery. Despite the dark premise, it also keeps the tone absurd and comedic with the cops doing their job well despite acting like buffoons. Wu Ming-han in particular is the type of character who keeps it lighthearted till it calls for him to kick ass and take names.