Defendant

January 23, 2017

Park Jung-woo (Ji Sung), a prosecutor, wakes up on death row with no memory. He has been convicted of murdering his own family. The execution date is approaching. The Uiwang detention centre establishes the prison world.

January 23, 2017

Fragments of Jung-woo's memory beginning to surface — enough to know something is catastrophically wrong, not enough to know what.

January 30, 2017

Cha Min-ho (Uhm Ki-joon), the man who framed Jung-woo, is revealed — a charismatic sociopath who took over Jung-woo's identity while sending him to death row.

January 30, 2017

The prosecutors' office where Jung-woo used to work and where Min-ho now operates — the institution that convicted the innocent man.

February 6, 2017

Jung-woo's life inside the detention centre — finding allies, gathering information, surviving.

February 6, 2017

The evidence of the frame-up that Jung-woo must find and convey from inside prison.

February 13, 2017

Cha Min-ho's life outside — the life he has stolen, the performance he maintains, the sociopathy that makes both possible.

February 13, 2017

Jung-woo's investigation from death row at its midpoint — the race between his memory and his execution date.

February 20, 2017

An unexpected alliance inside the detention centre that gives Jung-woo access he couldn't reach alone.

February 20, 2017

The full truth of what Min-ho did — the night he killed Jung-woo's family and framed the man himself.

February 27, 2017

Someone outside the prison beginning to investigate Jung-woo's case.

February 27, 2017

The first crack in Min-ho's performance — the sociopath's mask beginning to slip.

March 6, 2017

Jung-woo's execution date drawing close. The evidence still incomplete.

March 6, 2017

The breakthrough that makes the case reversible — the drama's turning point.

March 13, 2017

Min-ho's final unravelling — Uhm Ki-joon's finest episode.

March 13, 2017

Jung-woo's release from death row — the drama's most cathartic sequence.

March 20, 2017

The legal and moral reckoning for everything Min-ho did.

March 20, 2017

The finale. 25.6% nationwide — the highest-rated Korean drama of 2017. Ji Sung's performance as a man reconstructing both his memory and his identity from inside a prison cell is one of the decade's finest acting achievements.