Fugitive: Plan B 도망자 is the twentieth on the list. This also became the third drama I watched with Rain as the main male lead, having seen his previous two dramas Full House and A Love to Kill. I was pretty hyped when I found out Rain was doing another action drama, acting as a freelance private detective with a playboy personality and a powerful sense of justice. It was also a great surprise when I found out Lee Jung Jin would also be in the drama. I had seen him in Love Story in Harvard and was looking forward to seeing a change in role for Fugitive: Plan B.
A large sum of money had disappeared during the Korean War that has suddenly reappeared sixty years later. With that, a big chase ensues all around the Asia continent for this money. Jiwoo (Rain) is a Korean private investigator. Jini (Lee Na Young) is a woman who looks for Jiwoo and asks him to find someone, Melchidec. Melchidec is allegedly involved with the killing of Jini's family. However, Jini has another motive for seeking Jiwoo. Jiwoo was the private investigator handling a case involving an Asian couple found dead in a Las Vegas casino. Jiwoo had solved the case in one day, concluding it with suicide. That Asian couple was Jini's parents. Jini wanted revenge on Jiwoo for incorrectly concluding the case as suicide when it was murder. Jini gives Jiwoo further motivation when she tells him that Melchidec was involved with the murder of his best friend Kevin, who died shortly after solving the Las Vegas case. Jiwoo was framed for Kevin's murder, leading to Squad Leader Officer Do Soo (Lee Jung Jin) to chase after Jiwoo for his arrest. Jiwoo and Jini are now on the chase to find Melchidec, with many different pursuers after the both of them as well. Tensions build up as Jiwoo learns that the money lost during the Korean War is linked to the death of Jini's family members.
Fugitive: Plan B was full of surprises from start to finish. The best surprise came during the scene where Jiwoo is fighting on the concert stage. It wasn't just that I thought it was the coolest stage to have a fight in which every fan watching the concert thought it was choreographed for the concert. It was that the background song was also one of the ending themes for the anime One Piece. A quick search online revealed that the actress that played Kieko was indeed Uehara Takako who sung "Glory". Another surprise was the number of cameo appearances from actors and actresses from Chuno. The production team for Fugitive: Plan B was also the same team that worked on Chuno. The actor who played Kevin, Jiwoo's best friend, was Oh Ji Ho. My favorite is one of Lee Da Hae during the first episode. Although she played a minor role as a girl Jiwoo has been seeing and wanted a loan, as a fan, I hope Rain and Lee Da Hae could star in a drama together in the future. For an action drama, this drama was very funny throughout the series. Rain's character Jiwoo provides an immense amount of comic relief in a drama that could have easily been a serious action movie. I really liked Lee Na Young's character Jini, who contrasted Jiwoo's fun and playful personality. There's always something pretty sexy about a girl who can defend for herself. Even all the actors who played the gangsters were pretty funny too. In this aspect, Fugitive: Plan B is quite similar to a Jackie Chan film.
Fugitive: Plan B has a pretty good soundtrack. Aside from Uehara Takako's "Glory", there are other songs that should be checked out. "Running & Running" is a song by MBLAQ, a popular boy group created by Rain himself under his own company, J. Tune Entertainment. This song plays quite frequently during fight and chase scenes. Without a doubt, it increases the intensity of the action scene and makes it very enjoyable. "Mayday 메이데이" is another good song to look out for. Of course, no drama is without it's ballads. For the drama ballad there is Shin Seung Hun's "Although I Don't Believe In Love 사랑같은건 믿지 않지만".
I liked how Fugitive: Plan B was filmed throughout so many different locations in Asia. The total locations include: Macau, Tokyo, Osaka, Manila, Las Vegas, Beijing, Shanghai and of course, Seoul and Busan. I'm sure the filming cost a lot because of this, but I felt it was worth it. With the way the story was written, it seemed foolish not to film all those different locations. These different regions also links with the number of foreign languages spoken throughout the drama. It was extremely enjoyable to discover how multilingual everyone was. I found it to be extremely hilarious how in a single scene, three different languages are spoken but everyone understands each other regardless. It's as if language barriers were inexistant. Props should be given to the casting agent because the actors and actresses chosen were fairly fluent, especially Daniel Henney. Daniel Henney is actually American and hence, his perfect American accent can be heard when he spoke English. I'm not a fan of hearing broken English in movies and dramas so I was quite pleased at the director's decision to cast Daniel Henney. I'm also sure there are no cries of protest from female fans either. Altogether, I completely recommend Fugitive: Plan B. An action drama with comedy and romance combined with good looking veteran actors and actresses is simply too good to pass up.
