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The Judge from Hell, released on September 21, 2024, stars Park Shin-hye and Kim Jae-young. Directed by Park Jin-pyo, known for Love Forecast and Closer to Heaven, and penned by first-time screenwriter Cho I-su, the drama intertwines fantasy with suspense.
The plot of The Judge from Hell centers on Kang Bit-na, an elite judge who conceals her identity as a demon charged with sending wrongdoers to hell. Her path intersects with Han Da-on, a gifted detective who carries a deep sorrow from his past. Episodes 11 and 12 of The Judge from Hell reveal the identities of both J and Satan as Bit-na proceeds to fulfill her new mission of finding Satan.
The Judge from Hell episodes 11-12 recap: The identity of J is revealed
In episode 11 of The Judge from Hell, while Paimon aims his weapon at Han Da-on and Kang Bit-na, A-rong interrupts and disarms him, saving them both. Bit-na then kills Paimon and asks A-rong to leave and never meet her again since she went behind her back.
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Bit-na summons Bael, who punishes her for falling in love with a human and killing Paimon, by taking away all her powers. Though powerless, Bit-na decides to carry on with her plan. She visits Assemblyman Jeong and asks to marry his younger son, Seon-ho, much to everyone's surprise. While at their house, Bit-na sees Seon-ho emerging from a hidden passage.
While the detectives are interrogating the reporter, they figure out that the attack on Bit-na happened right after she broke off her engagement with Jeong Tae-gyu, the Assemblyman's second son. Do-hoon tells Da-on about this and apologizes for hitting him. Meanwhile, Tae-gyu does his best to get the Hwangcheon Dong area redevelopment project rolling.
In this episode of The Judge from Hell, Bit-na decides to help Da-on feel better and takes him out; they go shopping and take pictures together.
Bit-na goes to the Assemblyman's house when no one except Seon-ho is present and finds the secret tunnel. She finds the place where all the dismembered body parts of the victims have been frozen and Seon-ho's dead mother's room. Seon-ho then finds her and keeps her hostage in the room.
In a flashback, it is shown that Seon-ho's mother was killed by Tae-gyu, who filmed it. Since Bit-na found out about it, Tae-gyu used Seon-ho to kill her. A-rong, worried about Bit-na, sends Da-on to help her. Da-on reaches on time and saves Bit-na as Seon-ho starts beating her up, aiming to kill her. Assemblyman Jeong and Tae-gyu return to a commotion at their house with the police investigating the situation.
Bit-na reconciles with A-rong and later summons Bael. She tells him that she has found Satan and that she will send both him and Kylum back to hell. Following this, Bael restores her powers.
Bit-na, A-rong, and Man-do visit Seon-ho, who ran away and hid in a motel. In the next scene, they are seen burning a car with a body inside it.
In episode 12 of The Judge from Hell, assuming the body is of Seon-ho, the police bring in Assemblyman Jeong and Tae-gyu for questioning. However, as it turns out, the body is not of Seon-ho; he appears at the police station with a box.
Seon-ho stole the axe that J used to commit the murders and Bit-na found it in his motel room. She placed a bet with Seon-ho that if he called his family and they helped him, she would leave him alone but if they did not, he would turn himself in and submit the axe as evidence. When Seon-ho calls Tae-gyu for help, he sends a car but the men attempt to murder him.
Bit-na and her team arrived and saved him and promised to get his mother's revenge if he cooperated. They burnt the car to buy some time. Seon-ho, as per the plan, goes to the police with the evidence. Upon interrogation, he reveals that his father and brother starved his mother to death and recorded it as well.
In this episode of The Judge from Hell, Tae-gyu's lawyer tells him that Seon-ho submitted the weapon as evidence, enraging him. He goes to Assemblyman Jeong and asks him to check if the axe is still in place, but when Jeong checks, he finds it missing. He figures that Bit-na is a demon since she was the one other person who had been inside the house and could access the room where the weapon was kept. Following this, Assemblyman Jeong is revealed to be Satan.
Tae-gyu promises Satan that he will hand over Kylum, which he found near Hwangchoen Dong, if he ensures that Tae-gyu leaves the country safely. Bit-na, who uses her magical mirror, sees that Tae-gyu has the Kylum and rushes to the house.
Before handing over the Kylum, Tae-gyu tries to shoot Satan but he captures him in a dream, stabs him in the leg, and takes away the Kylum. Bit-na arrives right when Satan is about to use the Kylum to form a body with the dismembered parts and stops him from doing so. She fights him and he reveals that he met Tae-gyu right after he came to the human world.
In The Judge from Hell, Satan promised Tae-gyu, who murdered his father, everything he desired if he killed people for him. Tae-gyu proved to be just the man for the job. In the present, Satan traps Bit-na in a dream where she is marrying Da-on and then calls upon the resurrected body of Seon-ho's dead mother, who attacks Bit-na. After defeating her, Bit-na fights Satan and sends both him and Kylum to hell.
Bit-na helps Da-on get on the boat that Tae-gyu tries to escape in. Both of them fight Da-on, injuring him, but he hesitates to kill him. Bit-na had promised that she would protect him in hell if he killed Tae-gyu and if he arrested him, she would provide a fair trial. Da-on ends up arresting Tae-gyu after recalling what So-yeong taught him.
Bit-na gets ready for Tae-gyu's trial but Bael appears and asks her to let him go and then send him to hell lest she wants to be killed. In the courtroom full of the victims' families, Bit-na announces that there will be no trial, and episode 12 of The Judge from Hell comes to a close.
The next episode of The Judge from Hell will be released on the November 1, 2024.
