"Rebel X Detective 2" Episode 2 Ratings 5.8%... Serial Bombing Terror and Joint Investigation Unfold

The SBS Friday-Saturday drama ″Rebel X Detective 2″ recorded a nationwide household rating of 5.8% in its second episode. This is a 0.3 percentage point decrease from the first episode. On the other hand, the metropolitan area household rating rose by 0.8 percentage points to 6.8%, setting a new personal best. ″Rebel X Detective 2″ is a collaborative investigation drama featuring the chaebol detective Jin Yi-soo (Ahn Bo-hyun), who overturns investigations with his wealth, and the new team leader Joo Hye-ra (Jung Eun-chae). It has returned for its second season after two years. In episode 2, Jin Yi-soo and Joo Hye-ra, the ace of the National Police Agency’s anti-terrorism team, uncover the truth behind a series of bomb attacks targeting them. In the drama, the terrorist used a deepfake composite photo of Chairman Choi (Kim Myung-soo) to lure Jin Yi-soo to his father Jin Myung-chul’s old house and then attempted another bomb attack. After overcoming the crisis, Jin Yi-soo discovered that the culprits were documentary ″Specialist″ assistant director Jang Hyun-woo (Eom Joon-gi) and his brother Jang Hyun-seok (Yoo Hyun-jong). The investigation revealed that Jin Myung-chul’s house was the birthplace of the brothers’ ancestors, and they planned the terror attack because they failed to retrieve a box containing gold bars worth 100 billion won during the sale of the house. However, the box contained evidence that the terrorists’ great-grandfather was a pro-Japanese police officer who tortured independence activists during the Japanese colonial period, which was a twist. Jin Yi-soo exposed the true nature of the descendants of pro-Japanese collaborators in the documentary ″Specialist.″ Joo Hye-ra was transferred from the anti-terrorism team to become the team leader of Gangha-seo Violent Crimes Unit 1, marking the official start of her cooperation with Jin Yi-soo. Meanwhile, ″Rebel X Detective 2″ is competing in viewership ratings in the same time slot with KBS2’s ″Completion of Marriage,″ starring Namgoong Min, and MBC’s ″Married Woman Killer,″ starring Gong Hyo-jin. On the same day, ″Completion of Marriage″ recorded a nationwide household rating of 7.5%, while ″Married Woman Killer″ achieved a personal best rating of 9.4%.