Butterfly

• Title: Butterfly – Busan
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With all members of David’s (Daniel Dae Kim) safe, for the time being, the third episode of Butterfly begins filling in information about the pasts of its characters. Not only do we get flashbacks to David being burned in the field, the ambush that killed his men, and his decision to become a ghost, but thanks to a little interrogation David and Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) also learn that Juno (Piper Perabo) was behind it all. We also see more of Juno’s double-dealings being looked into putting her even further on edge as she sends an assassin after both David and Rebecca to kill them and retrieve her son.

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• Title: Butterfly – Pilot
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Based on the graphic novel of the same name, our story opens with a spy (Daniel Dae Kim) hunting an assassin (Reina Hardesty) in South Korea on the night she kills an American ambassador. The twist? These characters are revealed to be a father and daughter who haven’t seen each other in nine years when Rebecca believed her father was killed. Adding more intrigue to the proceedings is Piper Perabo as Rebecca’s boss Juno, in charge of the private covert organization which David helped found. Revealing its secrets slowly, the first half of the “Pilot” follows David attempt to arrange a meeting following Rebecca’s successful hit and, when that fails, the remainder of the episode involves him setting up a new meeting that unfortunately puts his anonymity at stake.

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