Episodes 1 & 2 of “Blood Free” (authentic title: Jibaejong) introduce us to the present’s main participant, Ja Yoon, the CEO of Blood Free firm. Ja Yoon is bold about stopping animal killing and environmental destruction and needs to make extra cultured meat and lab-grown items for people. Chae Woon is a former soldier who witnessed a terrorist assault and is aware of the individual behind bars is harmless. Former President Mingyu helps Chae Woon’s trigger by discovering the true terrorist. Chae Woon joins Blood Free as Ja Yoo’s bodyguard on this try.

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Blood Free Episode 1 Recap:

The episode begins with Ja Yoo launching a brand new product from her firm, Blood Free. The folks current for the occasion are taken via a 3D type of expertise to indicate how animals are murdered to fulfill their wants, like meals and garments. Ja Yoo expresses that folks have beloved their cultured meat and that Blood Free intends to broaden and make greater than cultured beef. She plans on constructing an organization the place no animals or surroundings are harmed for human wants. Woo Chae Woon attends the occasion as properly and observes everybody current. She presents her new product, which is cultured sea animals. Furthermore, Woo Chae Woon guarantees that their cultured meat has nothing like microplastics that may trigger hurt to people. She introduces the person behind the aesthetic meat at Blood Free, Kim Shin Gu.

Why are folks protesting towards Ja Yoo and Blood Free?

Ja Yoo finishes the occasion and heads out to search out many protestors. Individuals declare that the liquid used to make cultured meat has germs. A gaggle of individuals are additionally protesting as a result of they’ve gone bankrupt due to Blood Free. Actually, many newspapers are carrying articles that had been despatched anonymously to all newspaper businesses about Blood Free utilizing a liquid with germs or micro organism in it. The folks have imagine the information reviews and are protesting.

Ja Yoo is caught in visitors, and her driver informs her that that is the one strategy to the freeway. A person falls on her automobile, aiming to hurt Ja Yoo. He’s a protester and a stockbreeder who has been ready for greater than an hour to get his revenge. Chae Woon is caught within the visitors as properly, and as quickly as he hears the person fall, he comes to assist Ja Yoo and the person. The Prime Minister sends her flowers.

What occurred to Blood Free’s laptop system?

Ja Yoo is making an attempt to see her accident footage and wonders who the person is. She additionally wonders who Chae Woo is and is alerted when Jung Hae Deun mentions that she has seen him someplace. In the meantime, Shin Gu will get to work and is met with an issue together with his system. Somebody has hacked their system and is demanding 80 billion received in Bitcoin inside the subsequent 48 hours. The system is hacked from router 4 of their system. The staff tells Ja Yoo that it’s ransomware and that these folks have attacked many huge corporations, together with the federal government. Nonetheless, no person is aware of if the ransom was paid.

Suspicions are rising because the labs in Headquarters or Seoul haven’t been hacked. It’s simply their lab. Shin Gu doesn’t perceive a pc virus and needs them to trace these folks down as folks pointing fingers on the liquid for the aesthetic meat disrespect his life’s work. Jung Hae Deun realizes that the identical one that hacked their system despatched the article to all newspaper businesses.

Ja Yoo is knowledgeable that the corporate’s market share is dropping due to the article. She asks her assistant to do assessments from different labs to place an finish to the rumors. The staff is uncertain if the hackers have entry to the confidential information, which can reveal the components to make the aesthetic meat. Based on earlier circumstances, they haven’t been in a position to entry any information, however they will’t be too positive.

Who’s Chae Woon?

Chae Woon is a former soldier who acquired an invite from an unknown individual to attend Blood Free’s product launch. In a lot of his flashbacks, we see a war-like scenario throughout his soldier days. He’s seen saving somebody who seems to be like Ja Yoo. Ja Yoo learns he has give up working for Chairman Park Daeseong from Sanghwa and is a former Marine. She contemplates if she ought to rent him as a result of the same case had occurred within the army throughout his time as a soldier.

Former President Lee Mungyu invitations Chae Woon to satisfy. He reveals he despatched him the invitation and asks Chae Woon if he has caught the terrorist. When Lee Mungyu was President and Chae Woon was a soldier, they invited influential folks to go to the troops. Amongst them had been Ja Yoo and Park Daeseong. Chae Woon leaving work at Sanghwa can solely imply he wasn’t the one who attacked the troops and the others. Lee Mungyu thinks Ja Yoo attacked them and asks Chae Woon to work for her. He additionally tells Chae Woon that when he was President, Ja Yoo had coaxed him into altering legal guidelines about cultured meat. Chae Woon agrees to assist Mingyu and work for Ja Yoo.

What’s Mingyu’s true intention?

The present Prime Minister, Seon-u, visits Mingyu and asks if Chae Woon believes him. Mingyu says he’s a soldier and is born to obey the orders of his superiors. Seon-u tells Mingyu that Ja Yoo doesn’t speak to her household and is constructing a state-of-the-art place to dwell in for her safety. Till then, she might be transferring from one resort to a different. He additionally mentions her staff member On San as his relationship together with his girlfriend ended due to Ja Yoo. Seon-u hopes Chae Woon might be a soldier till the top. Mingyu additionally makes his case to Chae Woon by saying Ja Yoo solely cares about cash, and when he tries to cease her, she removes him.

Blood Free Episode 2 Recap:

The episode begins with Chae Woon getting a name from Blood Free for the check earlier than getting chosen because the bodyguard for Ja Yoo. He’s taken in and put contained in the digital actuality room. As he walks, he observes his environment. As he turns the VR on, he’s met with an opponent he must combat and defeat. He efficiently defeats the opponent, and instantly, the scene modifications to him with a gun. Now, he must shoot particular transferring targets. He then must win a automobile race with many opponents.

Will Chae Woon be chosen as Ja Yoo’s bodyguard?

Chae Woon is then interviewed by On San. He doesn’t disguise that he has carried out a background examine on everybody at Blood Free. He will get again residence and is confronted together with his subsequent problem. There are intruders at his home, however Chae Woon realizes one thing is off and prepares himself with a pocket knife. He finds one intruder and fights him till the person bleeds. One other one is holding Chan Woon’s cat and tells Chae Woon to carry Ja Yoo to him. He tells him that he’ll know when Ja Yoo might be alone and that he’ll assist them meet her.

Chae Woon refuses and asks them to search out her themselves, and the person blackmails him not directly, saying that they’ll hurt his household. Additionally they attempt to bribe him with cash, however Chae Woon assaults the person. Jeong involves the person’s rescue as she escorts him to satisfy with Ja Yoo. Chae Woon is chosen and begins his work as her bodyguard instantly.

What’s Ja Yoo afraid of?

Ja Yoo will get horrible information. She is to satisfy with Prime Minister Seon-u, and there’s a South American drug gang that has put a bounty on her head. They’ve publicly put her image up and promise to reward the one that brings Ja Yoo’s head. Ja Yoo jokes with Jeong that she will be able to’t escape to South America, and Jeong is relieved that she is okay. Nonetheless, Ja Yoo expresses that she is terrified regardless of being ready for this. She mentions that she has hit a particular market, and whether or not it impacts them or not, there’s retaliation. She is discovering it tough to face her nightmares turning into a actuality.

What occurs with the ransomware and the assembly with Seon-u?

Ja Yoo asks Chae Woon in regards to the ransomware, and he suggests the one strategy to catch the perpetrator is to make a Bitcoin transaction and observe people who find themselves withdrawing cash. He additionally tells her that despite the fact that she has an enormous enterprise and cash, it will likely be inconceivable for her to trace down the culprits. He asks her to get assist from outdoors. Ja Yoo makes the transaction, and the information are again. Ja Yoo decides to carry it up throughout the assembly with Seon-u. Seon-u is sad about Blood Free’s controversy and says it taints the nation’s fame.

Ja Yoo asks him for assist to trace down the culprits. She even lures him by saying he would be the first politician to trace ransomware criminals within the historical past of the scams. Seon-u places forth two circumstances for her. He asks her to show that her lab just isn’t utilizing any germs in its meat, and Ja Yoo agrees because the assessments are in course of. He then asks her to donate 80 billion received to the affected folks as she has spent that a lot on scammers. Reluctantly, she agrees to the phrases, however in return, she asks him to maintain observe of cash withdrawals, and he agrees.

Blood Free Episode 2 Ending Defined:

Can Ja Yoon belief anybody in Blood Free?

On her manner residence, Ja Yoo will get a name from On San saying one among their lab staff met with an accident and is unconscious. They end work for the day, and Chae Woon takes a button off his shirt and copies information to his laptop computer. He opinions the footage, and he realizes one thing. He notices that Ja Yoo just isn’t altering lodges every day just like the temporary he was given. Secondly, he realizes one thing in regards to the ransomware message.

He rushes to Ja Yoo’s resort, and Jeong calls to wake her. Ja Yoo asks Yeong-shil to let Chae Woo in. Subsequently, he reveals her the message that CitizenX (a ransomware group) had despatched in 2021 to an oil pipeline firm. He tells her in regards to the symbols they used and why it was believed that it had come from Russia. They checked Blood Free’s message and realized the symbols had been solely what Koreans used. He calls to satisfy Mr. Website positioning on the workplace. As she travels there, she suspects Jeong, On San, Mr. Website positioning, and Shin Gu, as all of them have entry to the lab.

Ja Yoo needs to be cautious as there’s a probability that she is being threatened from inside the firm relatively than outdoors. We all know that Mingyu and Seon-u are rooting for Ja Yoo to fall. However somebody inside the corporate might be spreading pretend information and serving to hack methods. Mr. Website positioning appears suspicious from the get-go, however the reality might be revealed within the subsequent few episodes. As for Chae Woon, he joined the corporate on Mingyu’s orders. Chae Woon could resolve for himself after observing Ja Yoo and her firm for himself and, in actuality, could shield her till the top.

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Trailer:

Blood Free Episodes 1 & 2 Hyperlinks: IMDb, Wikipedia
The Forged of Blood Free Episodes 1 & 2: Ju Ji-hoon, Han Hyo-joo, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Moo-saeng, Park Ji-yeon
Blood Free Style: Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller | Runtime: 10 Episode