'Law School' Episode 4: Kim Beom as Joon-hwi hints that he is the real murderer, but it could be a set up
'Law School' Episode 3 will see Jong-hoon (Kim Myung-min) realize that the reason why he would be let off the case is that Joon-hwi (Kim Beom) set up an alternate possibility by dropping a piece of the spectacle that his uncle Byeong-ju (Ahn Nae-sang) was wearing. This leads the police away from the truth as they begin to believe that there was someone other than Jong-hoon who must have had a scuffle with the dead man.
While this leads Jong-hoon to believe that the murderer may be Joon-hwi, what we believe is that the nephew of the dead man is helping Jong-hoon out. When he visits Jong-hoon in the prison along with Sol-a (Ryoo Hye-young), he asks Jong-hoon again, if his professor did kill his uncle. There is enough blood between the two to warrant suspicion but personally having got to know the suspect, Joon-hwi feels otherwise.
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The show also flits between the past, when the crime took place, and the present, where Jong-hoon has been held as the suspect in the case of Byeong-ju's death. The students are numb from having to prepare for multiple exams considering the university is a competitive opportunity that knocks down anyone who shows even the tiniest bit of weakness. It leaves students with no space to empathize, and most of them are desensitized to the horrors of crimes after having looked up hundreds of cases to prepare for their lessons.
Spoilers ahead for episode 3:
In the teaser of episode 3, we see Byeong-ju's wife, who had approached him to write off the inheritance that was assigned to him by his uncle, accuse him of murder. She believes that he murdered Byeong-ju for the said inheritance. He looks entirely hurt, and this tells us that there is more to him planting the evidence than meets the eye. There are rumors that Joon-hwi destroyed the evidence to frame Jong-hoon, then his aunt also ends up asking for an autopsy to be conducted.
When he is questioned by the prosecutor, asked if he was the one who pushed his uncle down, he is frustrated and tells the prosecutor to think whatever he wanted. On the other hand, there is also the case of a pedophile who is released and ends up staying very close to the child that he had abused sexually.
This case is also the one that had left one of the professors at the university upset with the law that she was perusing, and resulted in her retiring as a judge.
'Law School' airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays every week on JTBC and can be streamed on Netflix.
