Good Boy- Episodes 7-8
Martyr Moves, Mafia Charts, and a Long-Awaited Kiss
We’re officially at the halfway point of Good Boy, and if there was ever any doubt about Ju-yeong being pure villain material, this episode erases it. He’s done pretending. Now he’s openly taunting the SCIT, daring them to take him down—confident that no one can touch him while half the city's elite are in his pocket.
Let’s start with some relief: Gyeong-il’s mom survives the shooting. She’s still unconscious, but it’s the closest thing we get to a win this week.
The bad news? Dong-joo walks right into Ju-yeong’s trap and beats him senseless. Ju-yeong, of course, records the whole thing and uses the footage to blackmail the police commissioner: fire Dong-joo and disband the Special Criminal Investigation Team (SCIT), or the video goes public. Predictable? Yes. Devastating? Also yes.
Man-sik tries to smooth things over and buy time with the commissioner, but it’s just a ticking clock. Dong-joo offers to resign to save the team, but the squad refuses to let him go down alone. Loyalty is great—reckless loyalty, even better.
Naturally, Dong-joo falls for another one of Ju-yeong’s provocations. The man actually shows up at the ICU to gloat. Dong-joo seethes. Ju-yeong smirks. Han-na throws a fruit basket at his face. Justice, briefly served.
Though the team can’t go after Ju-yeong officially, Man-sik's criminal informant delivers some intel: a full breakdown of “Team Evil.” Ju-yeong sits at the center. Yeon-ha, Leo (Russian mafia), and Baek (Northeastern gang boss) operate as business partners, while Coach Oh is the low-ranking lackey. Fun fact: Baek is the guy who took over Golden Bunny’s turf after offing his brother. And yes, there’s already tension bubbling among the partners. Ju-yeong tries to calm things down with a Bible quote and a business pitch. Cult vibes? Absolutely.
Ju-yeong also suspects that Yeon-ha’s grown a soft spot for Dong-joo. He’s right. Not only did she swipe Dong-joo’s poetry book from the safehouse, she secretly treated Gyeong-il’s mom after Ju-yeong shot her. Turns out, the only reason Ms. Mom survived was because Drug Demon quietly saved her. Could this be her way of paying Dong-joo back for saving her life at the lab?
Back at the station, Dong-joo’s disciplinary hearing begins... and he walks out. Just disappears. Two days later, he resurfaces—bruised, bloody, and silent. The team is furious. Again. They’re exhausted by his self-destructive hero complex. But as it turns out, Dong-joo didn’t just vanish for drama—he made a secret deal. He offered himself up to Ju-yeong and agreed to take a beating from Coach Oh (since Ju-yeong doesn’t get his hands dirty) in exchange for sparing the SCIT.
It works. The commissioner puts the disbanding on hold. The team is stunned—and feeling a bit guilty for jumping to conclusions. But can you blame them? Dong-joo is allergic to communication.
After lying low, Dong-joo finally shows up in Han-na’s neighborhood. His face is healing, but the martyr complex? Fully intact. He tells her he took the hits because he knows how to fall and get back up—just like boxing. He couldn’t think of another way to protect the team. Han-na softens. She asks if he’s giving up on Ju-yeong.
His answer? “No way. It doesn’t matter how many times you fall. As long as you get back up, the fight isn’t over.”
Cue the kiss.
Finally, after seven episodes of unresolved tension and near-misses, Han-na and Dong-joo share a proper kiss. It’s a rare moment of calm in a storm that’s nowhere near over. Ju-yeong is still out there, more dangerous than ever. But for now, at least, our good boys (and girl) are still standing—and they’re not backing down.
Ants, Ambushes, and One Seriously Smug Villain
Episode 8 of Good Boy opens with Han-na musing that some days hit you like a stray bullet—and for her, that bullet lands straight in the heart. We pick up right where we left off: post-kiss, hearts racing, and Dong-ju spending the night at her place (don’t worry, he’s still sleeping on the safe side of chivalry).
While Dong-ju snoozes like a log, Han-na is up and off to work—because it’s Community Day at the Insung Metropolitan Police Agency. The whole SCIT team is on duty, wrangling kids and putting on smiles. Meanwhile, the commissioner is still simmering from the Ju-yeong mess but is somehow soothed enough by a massage from Dong-ju to only dish out a 30-day suspension. Not ideal, but survivable.
Instead of going full steam ahead at Ju-yeong and his criminal empire, the team takes a smarter route—start small. Their new target? The ephedrine supply line uncovered during the Bbong-pil debacle.
While the SCIT plans their next move, cracks are forming in Team Evil. Yeon-ha and the other partners are getting impatient with Ju-yeong. The shipments are delayed, and they’re tired of his smug little games. Ju-yeong, in peak villain mode, says he enjoys watching Dong-ju and the squad squirm. Pride comes before the fall, right?
The team gets a lead on the drugs at Insung Port, thanks to an unexpected clue: Man-sik can’t stop itching. Turns out he’s been bitten by red fire ants—the same kind found at the port last year, in cargo shipped from Russia. Bingo. They call in a quarantine team and use the opportunity to infiltrate in disguise.
Once inside, the squad makes a move—and so does Yeon-ha. She shows up mid-operation, gets handcuffed, and immediately starts playing mind games, faking a seizure to throw them off. She manages to escape in the chaos, but the team finds the ephedrine stash anyway. Victory... almost.
Backfire comes in the form of Jong-hyeon, who gets bitten and goes into an allergic panic. The man is terrified of needles and begs them not to inject him—so Dong-ju knocks him out cold and sticks him anyway. Peak teamwork.
Back at HQ, the team celebrates their win over a hard-earned meal. Dong-ju, still homeless (and suspended), crashes at Jong-hyeon’s place. While unpacking boxes, he stumbles on clippings from Jong-hyeon’s past—specifically, the fencing accident that ended his career. The injury? Same side Dong-ju once punched. Ouch.
Of course, Ju-yeong isn’t taking the drug bust lightly. He finds out and immediately moves to get the stash back, planning a heist while the drugs are being transferred to a secure location. Meanwhile, surprise twist—Lee Gwang-se, aka “Hair Transplant Guy,” isn’t dead after all. The shot missed. He’s alive, and now Ju-yeong wants him to play messenger and feed intel to the team. Why? To stir up paranoia.
And it works. SCIT is now convinced there’s a mole inside the agency. They’re right to worry—but Ju-yeong’s already way ahead. In a stroke of twisted brilliance, he gets the commissioner to pull riot police off the transport route to deal with a protest, leaving the drug transfer dangerously under-defended.
Then comes the ambush.
As the convoy moves through Jungdong Tunnel, chaos erupts. Motorcycles swarm, vehicles are attacked, and the team is split and outgunned. Jae-hong’s car is flipped. The others are under siege. Dong-ju manages to hold his ground, taking down a whole biker gang in a brutal solo fight—but for the rest of the squad, things are looking grim.
The episode ends with bodies on the road, sirens in the distance, and the fate of half the team left hanging in the air.
Good Boy just raised the stakes. Again.
DramaZen's Opinion
Episodes 7 and 8 of Good Boy were pure adrenaline, heartbreak, and just the right amount of slow-burn romance finally catching fire.
Episode 7 gave us Dong-ju in full self-sacrificing mode (again), literally offering himself up to be beaten just to save the team. It’s reckless, painful, and so very him. And that kiss with Han-na? FINALLY. It was sweet, it was earned, and it gave us a much-needed breather before all hell broke loose again.
Then came Episode 8, and wow—it did not hold back. Fake quarantine suits, fire ants, ephedrine busts, and one allergic Jong-hyeon begging not to get a shot (only to get KO’d by Dong-ju). The comedy balanced the tension perfectly. And just when it felt like the good guys were catching a break, Ju-yeong pulls a brutal ambush in a tunnel that leaves the entire team in danger.
From swoon to suspense in 60 minutes. These episodes prove Good Boy isn’t just fun—it’s fierce.
