She finds herself summoned back to Korea to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Jamie Leighton is a Korean American who is a part of the FBI's BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit), and one of the FBI's elite. Jump to the present, and we find that the experiments from 28 years ago are being conducted again with top politicians and people in the higher echelons of society are also taking part for the hope of the miracle drug that will grant immortality. Still, the very idea of scientists experimenting with children should be more than enough to stop anyone's blood cold. Thanks to a young Jung Woo Do, he destroyed the village with only a few survivors as we find that Jung Woo Do is a man with more than a few exceptional abilities. Go back 28 years to White Night Village, a locale on a remote island where horrifying medical experiments were conducted on orphan children for the sake of finding a drug that would slow/eradicate the aging process. And while, we admire his intelligence, we also find that there's a reason for it. At first, we're given a glimpse into a man who's quirkiness is merely the superficial layer of a man who's like a Jason Bourne: he's always thinking several moves ahead of everyone else. Superintendent Jung Woo Do is a brilliant detective who heads the Police Special Agency's special unit. ![]() ![]() And in some ways, the series comes up short on both. ![]() While the series works as a whole, for the most part, it teeters between being a mystery/thriller and being a "moral compass" for those who commit unspeakable atrocities against others for the sake of science. One that seems to be part James Cameron's "Dark Angel" and part horror of Nazi Germany where some of the most horrific medical experiments were conducted on Jews and other races thought to be inferior. "Awaken" is a series with an interesting premise.
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