Bale is one of the main antagonists in the action drama series, A Shop for Killers. Jo Han-Sun plays the character in the show.
Bale is a notorious killer in Babylon who is feared even among the elite killers because of his unhinged psyche and lack of emotions.
A former colleague of Jeong Jin-Man, he worked as a mercenary for a company called Babylon.
He is affiliated with them even now, as he and other assassins target Jin-Man’s niece, Jeong Ji-An.
He is also the one who killed her parents when she was a young kid.
Soulless assassin
Bale has a completely blank gaze that can send chills down the spine of an unsuspecting person meeting him for the first time.
Two parents begging him to save their son are met by gunshots to their heads, as Kim Seong-Hwan, another of their fellow mercenaries, bears witness to this incident.
With big, bulging eyes, the mercenary looks at people with a certain inhuman fervor. He is similarly dispassionate and hollow with the tone of his voice as well.
Not a stickler for rules
Bale’s policy is that of “No witness” while on missions, and he itches to wipe out all civilians he can find. He also likes to play with some of his captives before killing them.
He has no mercy for the civilians and kills them all during their missions, with an eerie apathy and a slight enjoyment that only becomes visible during such moments.
When the leader of their group, Jeong Jin-Man, clearly orders him to not go on his own and protect the civilians, he doubles down on his psychopathic tendencies.
After killing unarmed civilians, and his own colleague who witnesses it, he shoots a kid with an unloaded gun in his hand, without so much as blinking.
Psychopaths don’t die
A big mission arrives and Lee Yong-Han asks Jeong Jin-Man to tolerate Bale one last time, even when he asks not to assign the mercenary to his team.
Jeong Jin-Man makes himself clear to Bale regarding the no-civilian-killing rules. However, the psychopath does just that.
He also blows up a room where several terrified sex workers are caged, even as one of them asks him to save them.
Jin-Man finds another sex worker elsewhere and plans to rescue her from his killer colleague. However, Bale confronts him, and the two fight.
Jin-Man is cornered and injured severely, but before he can be killed, the sex worker, who is So Min-Hye in the present day, shoots Bale in one of his eyes.
Jin-Man further stabs him multiple times, before escaping the place that his team has rigged with explosives.
As the whole building blows up, the psychopathic mercenary is presumed dead.
However, he lives to see another day, and after Jin-Man quits Babylon, he reunites with his closest associate, the sniper, Lee Seong-Jo.
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