The Worst of Evil Episodes 10-12 Recap and Review: In the latest episodes, Gi-cheul showed everyone why he is the boss after striking a deal with Oyama and removing Kanemoto’s influence permanently from the drug deal. With Oyama and Hae-ryun now on their side, the gang boss prepares to be the boss of the drug trading business. However, will it be as easy as it sounds?
Meanwhile, the emotional aspects among the four people start to get more complicated as Eui-jeong and Jun-mo struggle with guilt as they try to control their respective targets using emotional and physical manipulation. As things get more and more heated, their growing closeness with Gi-cheul and Hae-ryun also brings them closer to scrutiny, and they constantly try to hide their truths in order not to wind up dead.
Starring Ji Chang-wook, Wi Ha-joon and Im Se-mi in lead roles, this Disney+ series (최악의 악) is directed by Han Dong-wook and written by Jang Min-suk. The series is expected to have 12 episodes, and this week’s episodes have a runtime of around 50 minutes.
Ji Chang-wook was last seen in the 2022 drama If You Wish Upon Me as Yoon Gyeo-rye; Wi Ha-joon was last seen in 2022’s Little Women as Choi Do-il (alongside Kim Go-eun, Nam Ji-hyun, Park Ji-hu) and Im Se-mi starred in 2022’s The Empire as SBC Reporter Yoon Eun-Mi.
– The Worst of Evil Episodes 10-12 Recap Contains Major Spoilers –
The Worst of Evil Episodes 10-12 Recap
The Worst of Evil Episodes 10 Recap
The Worst of Evil episode 10 starts with Gi-cheul and Jun-mo having a drink after the incidents of episode 9. Gi-cheul drops the bomb on him that he wants to walk away from the business after the current job wraps up and leave everything to him. Jun-mo is taken aback, but Gi-cheul explains that he wants to be a normal man with a safe life and doesn’t want to continue doing all this anymore, especially now that he has Eui-jeong.
The two of them then head over to the Free International City and airport construction seminar – it’s Gi-cheul’s idea to show Eui-jeong that he has changed. In the midst of this, they get a visit from Min-goo, who continues to badger Gi-cheul about Yankees’s whereabouts and then threatens to expose him to everyone if he doesn’t give in. After Min-goo leaves, an exasperated Jun-mo tells Do-hyung to control the police officer before he destroys all the work that they have done until then.
That night, Gi-cheul and Jun-mo go out on a very awkward double date with Eui-jeong and Hae-ryun, and the two women butt heads right from the start. The overflowing confessions of love, however, leave both Eui-jeong and Jun-mo in very uncomfortable (and jealous) positions. However, in the end, Hae-ryun chooses to get out of the dinner with Jun-mo while Gi-cheul drives Eui-jeong back home and promises never to make her meet bad people. That night, Jun-mo makes a smart pitch so as not to sleep with Hae-ryun but, in the end, gets to know that she will be staying in Korea from now on, leaving him tensed about the future.
Meanwhile, Min-goo reaches out to Baby and Smith in order to get to know everything about the drug network and ends up learning about a person called Meth Park from Dodgers. Meanwhile, at Gangnam Union, Hee-sung discusses the plan for the drop with the others and what each of them will get. Plus, Gi-cheul tells the others that they might need to get rid of Min-goo. Elsewhere, Min-goo meets Meth Park, who turns out to be Jun-mo’s father. Min-goo takes him to the station and asks to catch Gi-cheul, but he isn’t in the mood to cooperate. In the end, Min-goo asks him to be “close friends” in a mutually beneficial relationship.
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Learning of this, Do-hyung meets Jae-man to know about his brush with the police and implores him not to contact Min-goo after this and then goes on to find out where Yankees is. Min-goo, meanwhile, finds Yankees’s girlfriend and brings her to the station, and she spills some very important beans about Gangnam Union’s involvement in Manager Cho and Yankees’s deaths. She further gives him some drugs that Yankees had and asks for protection in return. In the end, he arrests Jong-ryeol for murdering Manager Cho and promises to get everyone else as well.
After taking a major hit, Gi-cheul asks Hee-sung to find out what Jung-bae is up to and whether he ratted anything out to the police. Hee-sung, on the other hand, tells Jun-mo to ask Hae-ryun to give them more than the pre-approved 16kg amount so that they can earn big this time and not wait for the uncertain future. With things moving at a break-neck pace, Jun-mo tells Do-hyung the latest developments, who asks him to take it easy and not forget that he has to come back to being a cop. A stressed Jun-mo promises that he can do so without any issues.
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As Do-hyung keeps an eye on Jong-ryeol and Min-goo, Jun-mo meets Hae-ryun to discuss increasing imports. As the gangsters get ready for a business of epic proportions, Do-hyung and his team get ready to nab the culprits and end this reign of terror.
That night, as Gi-cheul, Jun-mo and Hee-sung go to the harbour and venture out to the sea, Jung-bae walks into the Gangnam Union office and sits himself down in Gi-cheul’s chair.
The Worst of Evil Episodes 11 Recap
The Worst of Evil episode 11 starts with Gi-cheul and Jun-mo going off to sea while Hee-sung keeps an eye on them. We jump back 2 days, and Min-goo continues to look into Eui-jeong and ask everyone around about her identity. Meanwhile, Gi-cheul tells Eui-jeong about his dream. She is left tensed about the future as she, after having a change of heart, tries to stop both men from going on the dangerous mission and destroying each other. Unfortunately for her, they both refuse to stop until they have achieved their goals.
Back that night, Jun-mo leaves clues for his colleagues in a bathroom after completing the pickup. On their way back, Gi-cheul opens up to Jun-mo about his motivations and asks Yong-dae to check on Jong-ryeol. On their way to the handover place, unfortunately, they are knocked over by Kyung-jin with a truck, rendering them unconscious. He steals the drugs from them and leaves them on the road as the police wait for the exchange to happen.
With the exchange now having gone awry, Gi-cheul and Jun-mo get out of the burning car while Do-hyung is left shocked at the Japanese guy driving away from the site. Now picked up by Hee-sung, the three men make their way to Seoul to get their stuff back and declare another war while the police also pull back from a failed mission. As everyone thinks about contingency plans, Gi-cheul calls for his men to find Jung-bae and Kyung-jin at all costs.
Meanwhile, Min-goo goes out to find Jun-mo and learns that he’s on sick leave. Elsewhere, Jun-mo meets Hae-ryun to apologise for their failed mission and learns an explosive piece of information – she used to live in Changchun, beside the river. Unfortunately, her father isn’t happy with her “weakness”. After she leaves, he immediately tells Do-hyung where the Chinese are based, and the police there get ready to arrest everyone at the factory.
In the meantime, Do-hyung, as Jun-mo, meets Min-goo so that he can stop investigating the truth, and Jong-ryeol and Yong-dae keep an eye on them. Do-hyung asks Min-goo to stay out of his family business, and when he comes out of the building, Yong-dae exclaims where he had previously seen him, leaving Jong-ryeol surprised. At Gangnam Union, Jun-mo learns that Jung-bae took everything from their safe the night they got attacked, leaving the former irate. As he threatens to go after Jung-bae’s family, Gi-cheul asks him to calm down.
Soon after he leaves Gi-cheul’s office, he receives a call to meet Eui-jeong face-to-face. When they do meet, Eui-jeong and Do-hyung express concern over his changed attitude. This accusation pushes him over the edge as he unloads his pent-up frustration on them both and asks them to stay out of his way if they really want to help. Meanwhile, Jong-ryeol threatens the clerk at the Retired Police Association for Do-hyung’s identity and asks her to call him there.
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As Do-hyung makes his way to a trap, Jun-mo’s stalks Jung-bae’s father and gets Jong-ryeol’s call about catching a rat at the Association. He immediately rushes to save his colleague’s life while Eui-jeong tries to appeal to Gi-cheul to stop doing what he is doing. He gets a call about Jung-bae getting caught and rushes off mid-conversation to the office. At Gangnum Union, Gi-cheul comes across Jung-bae reading out his future plans while a tense Jun-mo asks Yong-dae to hide as he goes in to see how Do-hyung is.
Jong-ryeol asks Jun-mo what he knows about Do-hyung’s involvement and why he was impersonating Jun-mo. He refuses to answer him and then implores him not to murder him because he’s a cop. However, Jong-ryeol refuses to believe him and asks him to stab Do-hyung to prove his innocence.
The Worst of Evil Episodes 12 Recap
The Worst of Evil episode 12 starts with Jong-ryeol shooting Do-hyung. It results in them fighting with each other, and as the police arrest Jong-ryeol, Jun-mo desperately carries Do-hyung to a hospital. At Gangnam Union, Jung-bae brings out Gi-cheul’s plan in front of everyone, leaving everyone in a bind. He brings to light that Gi-cheul never really knew who worked for him for all these years and that, without Jung-bae, all of their hopes and dreams would remain unfulfilled.
As Gi-cheul tries to tell them that he gave them the opportunity to live like this, Hee-sung reminds him that it was a joint effort on their part and he’s not more important than them. Just then, Min-goo walks into the office and gleefully talks about arresting “someone” for aiding and abetting murder. It turns out that Hee-sung, Jung-bae and Kyung-jin all went to the officer to deliver the drugs and tell him about Gi-cheul’s plans. Of course, this is in return of paying him commision. As they take him away, Eui-jeong watches on in disbelief and eventually follows their car.
When Jun-mo learns about this, he rushes out as well so as not to derail their investigation thus far. Chang-sik later gets news of Do-hyung’s death, but doesn’t tell Jun-mo the truth. As the police decide to put more pressure on Gangnam Union, Gi-cheul and Jun-mo decide what to do with Jung-bae and the rest of the gang. The police start arresting all of the Union’s contacts so as to cut Gangnam Union off while Jun-mo tries to stop Gi-cheul from doing anything harsh.
Meanwhile, Kang-san meets the new Gangnam Union, who puts forth the idea that, with Gi-cheul and the rival group gone, they should do business together for mutual benefit. Meanwhile, Jun-mo’s secret identity comes under fire when Min-goo realises that he can’t put out an APB on him. Jung-bae proposes that they tail the two women to bring out the men from hiding. Later, Jun-mo asks Hae-ryun to pull Jung-bae and Hee-sung into a trap, which works out well.
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Unforuntatly, Min-goo finds out that Do-hyung was covering for Jun-mo and goes straight to Hae-ryun with the information. Showing her the truth, a heartbroken Hae-ryun calls and asks Jun-mo whether he meant all the kindess that he showed her. His empathetic reponse pushes her to help Jun-mo one last time and she gets rid of Min-goo for him. In an emotional turn of events, Kang-san chooses to give himself up in order to save Hae-ryun.
Elsewhere, as the deal takes place, the police get ready to pounce on all involved. Jun-mo stops Gi-cheul from getting involved and locks him in the car. He eventually walks up to Jung-bae and the others and asks him to stop before soon being surrounded by the police. As they get arrested, Gi-cheul finds the key to his handcuffs on the car seat and runs away from the scene. In Japan, the police apprehend Oyama with the drugs while the Chinese, too, rush in to stop operations.
As Hae-ryun listens to the news of his father’s arrest and a total collapse of operations, she mourns her relationship while Gi-cheul makes his getaway on a train, with his city plan now in shambles. Coming back home, Jun-mo and Eui-jeong come face-to-face with a disgruntled Gi-cheul and the two men pull out their guns. As he rants about how the two of them broke his heart and trust, Eui-jeong tries her best to calm her past friend down.
In a twist of events, Gi-cheul pulls the gun on his own self, resulting in Jun-mo shooting him down. Eui-jeong consoles her dying friend as he bleeds to death and Jun-mo emotionally calls his superiors and informs them that Gi-cheul has been caught, as he continues to wear the watch that Gi-cheul gave him.
Some time later, Do-hyung, Jun-mo and Eui-jeong receive felicitations for their involvement in the mission. After bidding his friend’s photo goodbye, Jun-mo goes to Gi-cheul’s grave and puts down his wedding ring along with a lit cigarette before walking away.
The Worst of Evil Finale Review
With three episodes dropping this week, the series delivers an impactful and very emotional ending which displays how, in spite of being wrong, sometimes some feelings cannot be stopped. The last two episodes are by far my favourite and I think it delivers a fitting ending that doesn’t get too dramatic but delivers an ending that is oh-so-common in situations like this – everyone faces some sort of trauma that none of them can come back from.
The way the series showcases the end of the drug empire is also quite realistic and done well, with neither the police nor Jun-mo going overboard while solving bringing the perpetrator to jsutice. However, even in this scenario, we see Jun-mo’s weakness and his genuine connection with Gi-cheul. After teethering between the good and the bad for so long, Jun-mo’s moral compass, in spite of being on the right track, finds itself a bit broken.
As I had mentioned in previous episodes, the series shines in these emotional moments and the mid-credit scene will bring out the feelings from fans who have been tracking this series and its characters. Gi-cheul’s emotional breakdown at being backstabbed by his closest friend and his love is realistic and humanises him so well.
Ji Chang-wook and Wi Ha-joon are excellent throughout the series. Wehether it be action or heartbreaking emotion – both of them carry the series so well that you won’t be able to look away. Although there’s a ton of blood and a lot of smoking, it’s a series that will oddly stay with you because it keeps its human connections in the forefront while making the action a secondary part of everything.
All in all, it’s definitely an enjoyable show to watch, one where bonds are made and broken thanks to the emotions behind them and not just because of greed or convinience.
The Worst of Evil is available to stream on Disney+.
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