'Taxi Driver 3' Lee Je-hoon completely toyed with the 'used-car villains' led by Yoon Si-yoon, delivering a satisfying revenge drama.
On the 29th at 9:50 p.m., episode 4 of SBS's Fri-Sat drama 'Taxi Driver 3' (writer Oh Sang-ho, director Kang Bo-seung) broadcast the story in which Kim Do-gi (Lee Je-hoon) and the "Rainbow Heroes" repaid "Noblesse," a hotbed of used-car crime, and its CEO Cha Byung-jin (Yoon Si-yoon) for the atrocities they had committed, delivering a thrilling sense of catharsis. At the same time, 'Taxi Driver 3' episode 4 recorded a peak rating of 15.4%, 12.6% in the Seoul metropolitan area, and 11.6% nationwide, ranking first in its time slot and taking first place not only among Saturday mini-series but also among weekly mini-series drama ratings. In addition, it achieved an average 2049 rating of 4.2%, soaring to a peak of 4.91%, ranking first in 2049 ratings across all channels broadcast in November for the week, and together with "punishing education dopamine" showed overwhelming dominance with unstoppable ratings.
The "Rainbow Heroes" were horrified to learn that the used car Do-gi purchased from Cha Byung-jin and his gang was a flood-damaged car scheduled for scrapping. Noblesse had been buying flood-damaged cars without comprehensive auto insurance, removing only the visible traces and reselling them as used cars to reap hundreds of times the profit. Customers who bought those cars without knowing were essentially saddled with time bombs on the road. Cha Byung-jin gave chills with his inhuman behavior, thinking only about making money even while watching news about the flood disaster. In response, Do-gi visited the scrapyard Cha Byung-jin's gang was dealing with, punished the scrapyard owner, and had all the flood-damaged cars Cha Byung-jin had contracted with erased so they could not appear on the market.
Meanwhile, Do-gi, under his alter ego "Hogu Do-gi," began full-scale revenge operations. To draw Cha Byung-jin's attention, Do-gi went around used-car lots and acquired numerous vehicles. The Cha Byung-jin gang found Do-gi suspicious for collecting used cars through 100% cash transactions and even bringing tow vehicles. They followed Do-gi, and in a secret location they witnessed Do-gi returning the keys to a used car he had purchased and receiving a thick bundle of cash, heightening their suspicions about his identity to the maximum.
Cha Byung-jin's gang kidnapped Do-gi and probed his motives. Do-gi lied that there was a big buyer behind him who bought used cars and that when the buyer purchased cars he paid a 10% fee as commission. Do-gi even showed a fake contract claiming 100 cars were contracted to make Cha Byung-jin believe him. From Cha Byung-jin's perspective, partnering with Do-gi would make it easy to sell large numbers of scrap flood-damaged cars. Cha Byung-jin then worked feverishly to secure inventory of flood-damaged cars to meet Do-gi's demand.
In fact, this was a trap set by the Rainbow Heroes. Go-eun (played by Pyo Ye-jin) deliberately leaked to Cha Byung-jin's gang that "Rainbow Transport suffered massive vehicle flood damage due to the flood," and blinded by greed Cha Byung-jin fell right into the trap and decided to take over all of Rainbow Transport's vehicles. As the crowning stroke, CEO Jang (played by Kim Eui-sung), perfectly disguised as the failed taxi company owner, deceived Cha Byung-jin and completed the flood-damaged car sales contract. As soon as the contract was finished, they flipped their stance just as Cha Byung-jin had done to his victims, delivering a thrilling shiver. CEO Jang slipped a fraudulent contract into the paperwork and demanded an additional 500 million won from Cha Byung-jin, and Kim Do-gi used his fists to force the Cha Byung-jin gang, who claimed the contract was invalid, into submission.
Finally, the "final showdown" between the Rainbow Heroes and Cha Byung-jin's gang unfolded. Cha Byung-jin gathered all the hoodlums riding his borrowed supercars to chase Do-gi, and Do-gi's hero car and the hoodlums' supercars staged an exhilarating car chase on the road, pumping up dopamine. But this too was part of Do-gi's plan to recover all the supercars. The Rainbow Heroes gathered Cha Byung-jin and the supercar hoodlums in an underground parking lot and blocked the exits, and Do-gi used bold hand-to-hand action to round up the villains, giving viewers a satisfying release. At last Do-gi said, "You should try it too. See what it feels like to be riding a time bomb on the road," put Cha Byung-jin's gang into scrap flood-damaged cars, and showed them falling into ruin by the cars they sold, delivering a thrilling catharsis.
As they delivered perfect revenge to these inhuman used-car villains and an exhilarating payoff exploded, a suspicious man appeared at the end of the episode, creating tension. The man, captured inside a watch repair shop, crumpled a Rainbow Taxi Driver sticker and, saying "I'll kill you," poured out his rage, leaving viewers wondering what would happen next to the "Rainbow Heroes."
'Taxi Driver 3' is a private revenge agency drama in which the secretive taxi company Rainbow Transport and taxi driver Kim Do-gi carry out revenge on behalf of wronged victims. It airs every Friday and Saturday at 9:50 p.m.
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