Taxi Driver 3: When will episodes 3-4 release and what to expect

South Korean television series Taxi Driver 3 has premiered with its first 2 episodes on November 21 and 22. The series continues to air every Friday and Saturday with the episodes 3 and 4 set to broadcast on November 28 and 29.

The series stars Lee Je-hoon, Pyo Ye-jin, Kim Eui-sung, Jang Hyuk-jin, Bae Yoo-ram, Esom, and Shin Jae-ha in lead roles. Based on the webtoon The Deluxe Taxi (Red Cage) by Carlos and Lee Jae-jin, the show draws inspiration from real-life heinous crimes.

Taxi Driver 3 follows Kim Do-gi, once an elite special forces officer whose life collapses after personal tragedy. At his lowest point, he crosses paths with Jang Seong-cheol, the leader of Rainbow Taxi.

It is a taxi company that doubles as a secret vigilante organization. Operating behind the cover of luxury rides, the team takes on cases the law overlooks. When someone reaches out with a plea for help or revenge, Rainbow Taxi steps in to hunt down criminals and deliver justice.

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What to expect in the upcoming episodes of Taxi Driver 3

The preview of the upcoming episodes of Taxi Driver 3 shows the Rainbow Taxi team stepping into another troubling case. Jang Seong-cheol encounters a taxi driver attempting to take his own life.

The driver reveals that the taxi he now owns has once been tied to a DUI accident, leading to the revocation of its license plate. Despite being uninvolved in the incident, he has been left to bear the consequences, and no legal office is willing to handle his case.

The Rainbow Taxi team begins to investigate. Their search uncovers a trail that leads to a lawyer who has been debarred for killing someone, as well as several influential figures who appear to be pulling strings behind the scenes.

The upcoming episodes of Taxi Driver 3 is expected to delve deeper into this hidden network of corruption. It may show how Rainbow Taxi exposes the people responsible and fights to clear the name of the wronged. With new threats emerging and the stakes gradually rising, the team prepares to deliver justice once again.

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Taxi Driver 3 episodes 1–2 recap: Kim Do-gi infiltrates a human trafficking syndicate to rescue Iso

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Taxi Driver 3 opens with a tense new case set in Japan. The Rainbow Taxi team receives a desperate call from a young student named Iso, who asks Jang Seong-cheol for help. Before she can reveal her location, she is suddenly dragged away by the people she has been running from.

The team begins investigating immediately. Jang Seong-cheol visits the phone booth Iso has used and discovers that she is a student who has been saving money for her grandmother’s eye surgery. To gather more information, Kim Do-gi goes to Iso’s school disguised as her homeroom teacher. There, he meets Iso’s classmate Ye-ji.

Ye-ji reveals the that she and Iso are trapped in a loan-sharking scheme tied to an online gambling game. The game tricks players into taking massive loans and through it both girls fall into debt.

Iso, who has no parents and lives with her grandmother has not been able to pay her debt. To “repay” the debt the loan sharks then have offered her a way out, by going to Japan and work for them. Iso accepts this offer after which she has disappeared.

Learning how the scam operates, Rainbow Taxi's Go-eun enters the game herself. She is soon manipulated into taking a loan and, just like Iso, is abducted and taken to Japan. The Rainbow Taxi team follows immediately.

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In Japan, Go-eun is taken to a suspicious location. Do-gi follows and they fight off the men who have brought her there. Inside, they find a room filled with women’s photos, passports and luggages revealing that the team have stepped into a full-scale human trafficking network run by a man name Matsuda Keita.

The Rainbow Taxi team soon discovers an underground fighting club connected to Matsuda. Winners of the matches are chosen to serve as his personal security guards. To attract Matsuda’s attention Do-gi picks a fight with the club’s strongest member and wins but in the process he runs into the police and Interpol.

Local police and an Interpol agent reveal that the man Do-gi has defeated is an undercover officer trying to infiltrate Matsuda’s circle. They ask Do-gi to work with them, but he refuses. Later, Matsuda summons Do-gi to tests him. Do-gi takes down all of Matsuda’s men, leading Matsuda to offer him to work for him, which Do-gi refuses as well.

Meanwhile, Go-eun hacks through Matsuda’s servers but cannot find the girls’ locations. They realize Do-gi must get closer to Matsuda to learn more. He meets Matsuda again staging a coincidence.

Matsuda tries to recruit him again this time tempting him with women. This confirms to the team that the kidnapped girls are nearby. Do-gi soon receives a freelance job from Matsuda’s group as a security guard during an illegal auction of trafficked women.

Still from Taxi Driver 3 (Image via X/@SBSNOW)

On the night of the auction, Do-gi infiltrates the venue disguised as one of Matsuda’s men. As the auction begins, the Rainbow Taxi team ambushes the event, fighting off Matsuda’s buyers and henchmen. They rescue the women being sold, but Iso is not among them.

To increase the trust more, Jang Seong-cheol steps forward as the man behind the previous night’s ambush and confronts Matsuda. To win Matsuda’s confidence, Do-gi stages a fake stabbing of Seong-cheol using a retractable knife.

This act convinces Matsuda completely. He asks Do-gi to take a brotherhood pledge with him by a ceremonial bond sealed with a drink at an altar. Meanwhile, the Rainbow Taxi team secretly recruits former gang members who once to ambush the ceremony. They storms in large numbers and overtake Matsuda’s men.

During the chaos, Do-gi help Matsuda escape to his base. This is where Iso and the remaining women are held. At the hideout, Do-gi finally attacks Matsuda.

Matsuda retaliates, but Do-gi quickly overpowers him. Desperate, Matsuda grabs a gun and aims it at Do-gi. Before he can pull the trigger however, the police and the Interpol officer arrives and shoots Matsuda dead.

Still from Taxi Driver 3 (Image via X/@SBSNOW)

As Interpol and Japanese police take over, Go-eun and the team rescue Iso and the remaining victims. The Rainbow Taxi team then returns to South Korea with part of the money recovered from Matsuda’s illegal operations.

Back home, Do-gi tracks down the two men who run the Korean side of the trafficking scheme and beats them, delivering justice on both fronts. Iso returns to school and reunites with Ye-ji.

The two friends embrace in relief, grateful that Iso has safely returned. With their emotional reunion, episodes 1 and 2 of Taxi Driver 3 come to a close.

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Taxi Driver 3 is available for streaming on Viki.

Edited by Adrija Chakraborty