Park Hae-soo seeks the hidden Scarecrow with Lee Hee-joon
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Perched up over sprawling country fields, The Scarecrow has his creepy eye on his next unsuspecting victim in the crime-suspense’s newest video teaser and poster on ENA. And it’s a long and taunting game of hide-and-seek for his alarmed pursuers: Park Hae-soo (The Price of Confession), Lee Hee-joon (Nine Puzzles), as well as Kwak Sun-young (Mary Kills People).
The trailer begins at the last leg of our story’s timeline, when the now criminal profiler Kang Tae-joo (Park Hae-soo) finally faces the true culprit in 2019. We then rewind back to 1988, when the then detective Tae-joo was first assigned to his hometown’s puzzling serial killer case. Here enters prosecutor Cha Shi-young (Lee Hee-joon) who calls them old friends, though it’s quite clear that these two schoolmates have a combative history.
Despite the bad blood between them, however, Tae-joo soon recognizes that this case is more important. He thus approaches Shi-young with a chastened and sincere belief that they can catch the criminal together. And while that has merit, it’s probably not the best idea for his friend and reporter Seo Ji-won (Kwak Sun-young) to offer herself as bait. Also, Tae-joo, perhaps tell your younger sister Seo Ji-hye (Family by Choice) to not wander at night alone.
Alas, the longer the investigations go on, the pressure builds for a speedy wrap up from external groups. Tae-joo remains determined still, to catch the killer with his own hands. But the ambitious Shi-young has different priorities and is not above using violence or tampering with the truth. And though our story is fiction, it is tragically a mirror of the real-life Hwaseong murders from 1980-90s when one innocent suspect gave a false confession under duress, and the case notoriously wasn’t officially resolved until 2020.
Premiering this month on April 20, ENA’s The Scarecrow also stars bookstore owners and brothers, Song Geon-hee (Karma) and Jung Moon-sung (Resident Playbook), as well as police chief Baek Hyun-jin (Mary Kills People), and politician Yoo Seung-mok (Taxi Driver 3).
Production for the mystery-thriller has PD Park Joon-woo (Mary Kills People, Crash) at the helm and scripts by Lee Ji-hyun after (Taxi Driver 1).
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