Save a life or catch the bad guy? In the latest teaser for SBS’s upcoming action drama The First Responders, we see what it looks like when local heroes need to make high-stakes decisions under pressure.
The drama does this by looking at the dynamics between three first responders in different fields. From the police force, we have the hotheaded Jin Ho-gae, played by Kim Rae-won (LUCA: The Beginning). He’ll stop at nothing to catch criminals, which puts him at odds with his equally determined colleagues at the fire department: firefighter Bong Do-jin, played by Sohn Ho-joon (Was It Love?), and paramedic Song Seol, played by Gong Seung-yeon (Bulgalsal: Immortal Souls). Since the two are in the business of saving lives over nabbing baddies, they’ll butt heads with Ho-gae as the three of them navigate the best course of action in emergency scenarios.
The teaser gives us a clear impression of this trio’s dynamic as they all respond to a Code 0 kidnapping alert. While Do-jin and Seol drive over to the location in a blaring ambulance and police escort, Ho-gae speeds alone on his motorcycle and cuts them off, yelling at them to turn off their siren as to not tip off the kidnapper.
We see more of Ho-gae’s single-track mindedness as he argues with a firefighter and says in voiceover, “Look, I don’t care. You firefighters can take care of the victims. I’m catching the perpetrator.”
We’re then given a rapid-fire montage of first responders working to get into the building and put out the fire, and we end with a scene of Ho-gae searching for the kidnapper in room, unaware that they are right behind him.
Written by Min Ji-eun (Investigation Couple) and directed by PD Shin Kyung-soo (Nokdu Flower), The First Responders will air on SBS premiering on November 12.