(Episode 20)
Why did he have to make this?
I suppose everyone is living diligently.
So that's how you lost...
the prosecutor?
I'm sorry. I had no other options.
This might turn into a big deal. Stay under the radar for a while.
And can you do something about that first?
It stands out and isn't pleasant to look at.
Do you think this is a favor I'm asking you now?
I guess you keep forgetting...
the purpose of your existence.
Hello.
- Hi. - Hello.
- Long time no see. - Goodness.
Oh, my. Lately, Seoul Post is doing all the work.
- Is it not? - Come on.
You were almost making deals with the Blue House.
Well, Daehan Newspaper paved the way first.
So we just got lucky.
At a time like this, you ought to move forward.
You have to start with a bang.
That's how people know where the power lies.
Look at you.
Mr. Kim, it's been a while.
Excuse me for a moment.
Hello, Mr. Cho.
Goodness, hi there. I haven't seen you around for a while.
Come on. We should stay in touch.
- I'm sorry. - Okay.
- I'll see you later. - Sure. I'll see you later.
Okay.
Hello.
What do you mean that you could be exposed?
You saw Chief Editor Jung Hae Dong joined us tonight?
He said something strange.
He said the Splash Team is digging into the Nam Kang Myung case.
What?
This is only a rumor, right?
Goodness, I covered up so many cases at that time.
If they find out that I help in covering up that case,
I won't be able to show my face in this profession ever again.
Sir.
I get what you're saying,
but that's not something some journalists can dig up.
You're right, sir. But this is...
But by the way, why are you here showing your face in this meeting?
Pardon?
Do you think you have a spot in this meeting...
just because you can mold the public opinions or what?
No, sir. I just...
You should know your place.
If you are a pawn, act like one...
and make yourself useful.
I'm sorry, sir. I just...
If you understand, leave.
Yes, sir.
Gu Tae Won.
This is how you're going to play.
(Tea and Beverage)
Welcome.
A little birdie tells me that you've made your decision.
But before that,
I would like you to guarantee...
what I can get out from this.
If they find out that I leaked this to you...
You want a guarantee?
Dr. Kim.
It's not hard to wake up from a dream now, is it?
A dream?
You're a piece of garbage who was bribed to fabricate someone's death.
And yet, you want to negotiate with me.
You're putting yourself in a bind...
if you want to make a deal with me.
If you tell me everything,
I'll be the one who gets to decide how I'm going to reward you.
All right. Should we get started?
Tell me why Nam Kang Myung is trying to come back to Korea.
Start with that first.
(Han Chul Ho, Local News Department)
The fabricated Yoon Seon Woo case.
An incident where a civilian killed a police officer has occurred.
The deceased, Officer Seo, is known...
to be a coast guard of Incheon Coast Guard.
The suspect, Mr. Yoon in his 20s, was arrested at his home.
The changed name of female high school student.
(Kim Hee Jung)
(Gook Young Hyun)
Including the notebook that came into my possession.
Goodness, you packed up your things so quickly.
You've already forgotten about us now that you're in the Splash Team.
There are too many traces Chul Ho had left behind.
If he were to hide them,
he could have done a better job concealing them.
Why did he leave behind these clues?
And why...
do we keep getting...
ourselves involved with the fabricated case?
If it wasn't a mistake,
it's either one of these reasons.
He either had an unavoidable reason,
or he was actually trying to tell us something.
Is he really the one...
pulling us into this case?
But for what though?
Because he wanted to make things right again.
Perhaps this is what he meant...
when he said those things to me.
Hey, you jerk. Where are you right now?
I'm sorry, Suk Min.
(5 years ago)
You're sorry? Did you say you're sorry?
Hey, have you lost your mind?
How can you live with yourself?
You should've stopped when I told you.
How could you have dragged it this far?
Hey, come back. Come back to the office.
Come back, and let's expose who was behind the false report.
You will explain yourself that Chairman Min didn't have dementia.
Will there be a difference when I explain that?
What?
I wanted to make things right.
No, I thought I could make things right again.
But...
That's right.
He definitely said...
What are you talking about?
You have the fingerprint, but you can't identify whose it is.
This is a rare occasion.
I don't know how to tell you this.
But first off, it wasn't hard to obtain the fingerprint.
A lot of fingerprints were damaged, but luckily from her jacket,
we were able to secure a fingerprint which 80 percent of it remained.
However, based on the database of the National Police Agency,
it says there isn't an individual with the fingerprint.
We have to analyze in depth to find out more.
It's because this happened in Korea.
If this happened in the US, the CSI...
For your information, our country's fingerprint identification system...
is one of the world's best.
Good job.
Could it be because some part of the fingerprint was damaged?
Is there a way we can restore the fingerprint to its whole?
I'm sorry. I'm not a magician, but a police officer.
Besides, I can't say that the fingerprint is in bad condition.
Don't worry, Prosecutor.
I'm going to get this guy by all means.
This jerk...
used a drug that can't be traced in the autopsy.
From the way he gets his information...
and he kills his victims, he's not an ordinary guy.
He's very complicated.
What about this? Can he possibly...
belong to an organization where their identities can't be revealed?
Excuse me. I think you may have watched too many films.
I wouldn't say that. I don't think it's completely infeasible.
In the early 2000, a man in his 40s died in a hit-and-run accident.
There weren't any official documents regarding his identity.
There was suspicion that if he was a spy.
It was discovered he was an agent of an intelligence organization later.
The variables exist everywhere.
It's a matter of your will...
whether you want to find out or not.
Chief Prosecutor Cha.
How did you know...
We meet again.
Fate just keeps bringing us together.
I read the recent Splash Team article.
I thought you guys were done for,
but I guess not.
You've managed to hold your own too.
It's because I have principles and a firm foundation.
Then let me ask you something.
Do you still have your hands on that case?
The Nam Kang Myung case.
I guess you do know something.
You must write your articles with psychic power.
We haven't even talked that much yet.
I still have my wits with me. I didn't come back for no reason.
Then should we be honest with each other?
We both seem to have something in our hands.
Did you forget everything we went through?
I don't cooperate with the media anymore.
If Nam Kang Myung is alive...
he can be the key to solving the Chairman Min case.
As you know,
Nam Kang Myung was the one who moved all the sponsor funds.
Yes, we might be able to reopen the investigation.
But if you have any sense of shame,
Daehan Newspaper shouldn't participate in this.
- What are you talking about? - Daehan Newspaper...
is the expert on writing false articles.
But you know what?
One false line in your article...
takes a hundred words to rectify.
Statute of limitations doesn't even apply to the media's crimes.
I wouldn't mind it coming from someone else,
but I don't think I deserve to hear that from an accomplice.
Do you think the prosecution office has the right to criticize us?
- Are you criticizing me? - I can't call it a compliment.
You ruined Chairman Min's case with that false report,
and you want back in on this case?
My goodness.
I thought you at least had a sense of shame.
But I guess I was wrong.
No, I am ashamed.
I feel like going crazy at all the cases we crushed.
But what else can I do?
I have to make it right.
That's the extent of our job.
Well, the way I see it, you're just being stubborn.
No.
People with less of a twisted mind...
would call this repenting.
Prosecutor, I'll go get the car.
Will you really be okay?
I think I've answered that question a thousand times today.
Let's just say I am.
And...
thank you.
I was sorry.
Of course you're sorry.
But you can stop being sorry.
Why?
Because you wouldn't have even started if this scared you?
Because you're the great Kwon So Ra?
Because I'm embarrassed.
To be honest, I was so scared.
I hate the fact that I...
was scared in front of him.
Then I'll get going.
Chief, let's go.
Who's he?
Just a reporter I know.
"Just a reporter I know?" What's with that?
Well, I am a just a reporter she knows.
But why does that annoy me?
What's up with him?
Is he all right in the head?
He can do so much better than that.
He's just an idiot. He can't just let the woman go like that.
He can't do that.
He doesn't have any dating cells in his DNA.
Han Mu Young player, is he turning around?
Is he turning around? He did turn around!
If he sends her away like that...
He's dumb.
This is making me angry, so let's just go!
Let them both be idiots together and figure that out.
Both?
Why ask when it's so obvious?
Their brains only work in one way.
They always take the hard path in life.
- I see. - I see.
Let's just go.
Where did they go after ditching me?
What's wrong with you?
Why can't you ever be careful and cause something like this?
If Prosecutor Kwon hadn't stopped me,
I would have beaten you up.
If you want to hit me that bad, hit me now.
Never mind.
A punch in that dumb head won't change anything.
Stop talking and just follow me.
Why's he being so friendly all of a sudden?
What are you doing? Just get in the car.
You won't?
He's such a weird man.
(Director Gu)
Yes.
What's this I hear about the Splash Team going after Nam Kang Myung?
Do you want to die with us?
If you mess with us, you'll bleed out too.
Bleed?
I have no idea what you mean.
I remember being a complete outsider...
in that case back then. No?
I don't have any intentions to make this easy.
No problem. Make this hard and try stopping it...
until everything crumbles.
Director Gu!
Mr. Cho, you must be very busy.
What are you doing here?
Well, you wanted solidarity.
I thought maybe I could be of a little help,
and got a couple things for you.
The Central Prosecution Office...
is working on that case you're deeply involved in.
What did they say again? Nam Kang Myung or something?
I'm not really sure what...
you're talking about.
Really?
They said this would be quite important to you. Isn't it?
Goodness.
You're inches away from...
getting beaten by prosecutors and getting bombed by the media,
but you're very resolute.
Is this...
the work of Director Gu Tae Won?
So this is how you return my offer.
You must have made up your mind...
to becoming Director Gu's pawn.
Mr. Cho.
If this world was run on laws, we'd rule over that world.
But what can we do?
The people of this country don't know the law,
but they read Daehan Newspaper.
I can't give you long to think.
I heard Nam Kang Myung will be coming into Korea soon.
We have more than enough prosecutors to dispatch,
and we never let go of a case we've bitten into.
I know a lot of people will get hurt if this case comes to light.
Wouldn't it be better to just cover it up than distress the public?
Let's not shoot that comedy...
where the dead comes back alive.
(Director Gu Tae Won)
Yes.
I think it went all right.
But you know, I was pretty firm,
but Chief Cha...
isn't someone you can easily control.
So...
I heard that the ship is coming in soon.
If they arrest Nam Kang Myung first,
will you be able to handle the consequences?
I don't know.
What are the consequences we can handle?
Excuse me?
Don't worry and go home.
If this were a fight I'd lose, I wouldn't have even started.
Yes. But before we hang up...
how will you take care of Prosecutor Kwon So Ra?
I feel uncomfortable that she knows our connection,
and I don't think we can just gloss over...
that fact.
I have something to report to the elders.
It seems Gu Tae Won...
is trying to resurface the Nam Kang Myung issue.
("High School Girl Gets Hit by a Gasoline Bomb Thrown by Strikers")
("Suspect, Mr. Yoon, Arrested for Coast Guard Murder Case")
So you're saying that my brother left traces of fabrication...
in the articles he wrote?
What do you think?
Do you think everything was a simple mistake?
The article was issued 30 minutes...
before the police arrived on the murder scene.
He changed the name on purpose to leave traces of fabrication.
Was he really that careless?
What do you want me to say?
I want to go over his intentions.
It may not have been a mistake from the start.
My brother betrayed me.
He had people fooled all his life.
And he left traces of fabrication in a fabricated article. So what?
This doesn't mean anything.
Why?
What do you mean why?
You still don't get it?
Because of what your brother did,
you found out.
And I found out too.
There are things the world found out because of him.
Don't you think Chul Ho...
wanted someone...
to recognize his mistake?
If he did, he should have told someone.
Then he would have had a chance to stop.
In the beginning, he probably thought...
that he could stop.
Even if he became more and more uncomfortable with himself,
he probably thought he could stop eventually.
That's probably how it all began.
Even if I don't do it, someone else will.
So Suk Min...
can't you just let this one go?
Be honest with me.
Is this really your first time?
This is really the only time...
you purposely wrote a false article?
But when he realized that...
he'd hopped on a train with a faulty brake...
it was probably too late.
The price he had to pay to go back...
probably held him back.
But he wanted to fix everything.
So he approached something that shouldn't be revealed.
That became his last.
So he...
All right. Now, the dice is back in your hands again.
What will you do?
Can you embrace your brother's regret?
Can you forgive him?
Whether I forgive him or criticize him,
that's up to me.
No.
You need to be able to forgive him.
That's the only way you can be free.
What do you mean?
When I saw you guys...
mess up Daehan Newspaper with the Yoon Seon Woo case,
I think that I saw it as an alternative solution.
This is the only way to change the rotten swamp that's become...
of major media outlets.
Yes. In order to save my company,
I wanted to use your desire for revenge.
But...
I think I was wrong.
I shouldn't have involved you...
in Chul Ho's case.
Why are you the judge of that?
Didn't it ever occur to you...
that someone else may get hurt because of your so-called revenge?
It's like what happened today.
If you hadn't been so reckless,
Prosecutor Kwon...
wouldn't have gotten hurt like that.
- Hey, look. - And...
more people...
may lose their lives...
because of you.
Like with Park Eung Mo.
Come back first.
Tell me who ordered you to fabricate the article,
and explain that...
Chairman Min does not have Dementia.
Will anything change if I explain?
What?
I wanted to turn it back.
I thought I could turn it back.
But...
But it's too big.
There's nothing we can do right now.
What...
What in the world are you saying right now?
Where are you right now?
Are you okay?
Hey, hey. It's not too late.
Just leave it to me.
I'll take care of everything.
No, no. Never.
You can't ever get involved in this.
I'll take care of it.
I will.
I know I sound crazy.
I know I'm already done for.
But I have to be the one to end this.
But if it doesn't end with me,
just promise me this one thing.
Don't ever look for the one who's behind this.
What?
I ruined everything,
but I don't want to hurt people I love.
So run when you have the chance.
Don't ever step on this path I'm on.
Chul Ho!
Chul Ho! Chul Ho, you jerk!
My goodness.
What's up? Chul Ho called?
Yes. He's totally...
He seems like he's totally lost his mind.
What did he say?
He...
didn't make any sense.
Run?
What does he mean run away?
Chul Ho wouldn't have wanted to see you...
get hurt because of him.
So stop here...
before you ruin everything...
to get revenge.
Please let go of Chul Ho's case.
(Falsify)
You're a fool if you think a reporter can still do something...
in this time and age.
But the only way is to try.
Whoever reacts to this document is the culprit.
They got me good, so it's my turn to make a move.
Lawyer Cho Young Ki.
Who do you think I am?
It's ready.
Okay. Let's begin.