Vagabond

September 20, 2019

Cha Dal-gun's nephew dies in a plane crash along with over 200 other passengers. Dal-gun's immediate suspicion — shared by no one in authority — that the crash was not an accident. Incheon International Airport establishes the drama's scale.

September 21, 2019

Dal-gun follows the investigation to Morocco, where he encounters NIS agent Go Hae-ri (Bae Suzy). Their explosive first meeting sets the tone for everything that follows.

September 27, 2019

The first evidence that the plane crash was deliberate — and that it connects to the highest levels of the Korean government.

September 28, 2019

Hae-ri's own investigation and her reasons for being in Morocco are revealed. Her professional competence establishes her as more than a reactive partner.

October 4, 2019

Dal-gun and Hae-ri reluctantly join forces. The drama's action sequences in Lisbon at their most spectacular.

October 11, 2019

The investigation moves back to Seoul. The domestic thriller dimension of the drama — Korean institutional corruption — replaces the international action.

October 12, 2019

Dal-gun and Hae-ri in the most danger they have faced. The conspiracy's reach within the Korean government is revealed.

October 18, 2019

The NIS's internal corruption and its relationship to the plane crash conspiracy.

October 19, 2019

Ki Tae-woong (Shin Sung-rok) — the drama's most ambiguous figure — shows his hand.

October 25, 2019

The identity of who contracted the plane crash is revealed.

October 26, 2019

Dal-gun's stuntman skills deployed against the conspiracy's hired muscle. The drama's most purely action-driven episode.

November 1, 2019

Hae-ri must choose between institutional loyalty and doing what is right. The drama's central moral question.

November 2, 2019

The evidence needed to bring down the conspiracy is obtained — and immediately threatened.

November 8, 2019

Dal-gun and Hae-ri's final operation against the people responsible for the plane crash.

November 9, 2019

The finale. An action thriller that delivered on spectacle while taking its political conspiracy seriously. The sequel remains unrealised but the first season stands alone.