That night, alone in the editing suite, Jong-kook clicked play.
Twenty minutes later, they sat in Jae-suk’s living room, watching the same file on a laptop. Again, the flicker. Again, the zero. But this time, the past version of Jae-suk turned to the past version of Jong-kook and said, audibly, “He’s inside the episode.” Running Man Episode 166 720p
“Who?” Jong-kook asked.
Jong-kook felt cold. He remembered now. The new trainee cameraman who’d slipped on the wet tiles during the opening shoot, dropping the camera into the water. The director had screamed. The footage was corrupted, but they’d saved most of it in lower resolution—720p. The young man had been fired on the spot and vanished. That night, alone in the editing suite, Jong-kook