We'll begin the disciplinary hearing for Prosecutor Kwon So Ra...
of Violent Crimes Unit One, Incheon Prosecutors' Office.
Prosecutor Kwon So Ra,
we'll give you a chance to vindicate your actions. You may begin.
I...
admit my wrongdoings.
However, I'd make the same decision...
if I find myself in the same situation once again.
I don't know...
since when...
did the prosecutorial right became a weapon that hurts its citizens...
and why betraying the weak...
has become the norm.
Don't you agree,
Prosecutor Im Ji Tae?
Prosecutor Im, make your statement.
You're involved in this incident just as much.
All right.
This happened under my watch.
I have no excuses.
However, the prosecution lost all its trust from the public.
Not aiding a suspect because of a personal grudge against him.
She may be innocent in the eyes of the law,
but I believe she must be guilty...
in the eyes of our citizens.
Sir.
Don't you think we should never make a mistake of hiring...
someone as unethical as she is, ever again?
Do you have evidence?
- What are you talking about? - The evidence that...
I'm unethical.
You're saying you haven't heard the recording the whole country heard?
The recording file Splash Team and you buried together.
Sir, I think the subject of this disciplinary hearing...
seems to have forgotten her wrongdoings.
May I play the recording?
Yes, you may.
Please.
Let's wait 10 minutes before we go.
That man is still smiling after committing that many crimes.
What can we do to ease their pain?
10 minutes.
I don't think that's such a long time.
You heard it, right? Did everyone hear the recording?
You. Answer me.
What is this if not the evidence of your lack of morality?
Lieutenant Jeon, how does it feel to kill a person?
I bet you feel the world is ending and you don't want to live anymore.
Hold on. What is this?
This isn't the file.
Let's hear what this is. Keep playing.
Well, should I make it disappear? What do you think?
But why don't we do this?
I'll be the alligator, and you'll be the plover bird.
I can't bring back a dead person. Whoever is left ought to live...
Wait. This is all a lie.
This recording is fabricated.
I'd like to ask for your cooperation.
I'll carry out the arrest warrant for Chief Prosecutor Im Ji Tae.
Chief Prosecutor Cha.
What are you doing?
On what grounds?
This is the memory card I found from late Lieutenant Jeon's desk.
In addition to this recording,
there are 3 videos and the call history for the past 2 years...
are saved on this card.
Mr. Im Ji Tae,
you're under arrest for dereliction of duty and abuse of your authority.
What did you just say?
You have the right to an attorney. Anything you say can and will be...
Inspector Park!
Why did you do it,
sir?
Let's go.
Don't touch me.
The detective who reported regarding Lieutenant Jeon's murder.
Is this the detective?
In the recording file,
his name came up quite frequently.
You're making a mistake.
Let's go.
Why are you doing this to me?
I need to brief you about something.
Nam Kang Myung, who was believed to be dead six years ago,
had been alive.
He was alive up until last night.
This is the article that will printed in Aeguk Newspaper tomorrow.
("Exclusive, Nam Kang Myung Was Certainly Alive")
What nonsense...
Since it was such an important matter,
I came to a decision of forming a joint investigation team...
to go against the factions who protected Nam Kang Myung.
And it is our opinion that we need Prosecutor Kwon So Ra...
who played a major role in catching Nam Kang Myung.
(Director Gu Tae Won)
- Yes. - Let's talk.
Is there anything left for us to discuss?
Check the surveillance camera in front of your office.
That will answer your question.
I asked to meet with you to ask a few questions.
You dragged me here for negotiations with your illegally taped recording.
But you only have a few questions to ask me?
I have a scoop.
Nam Kang Myung had been alive all along.
Right before he died around 10:40pm last night.
I must ask,
were you really unaware of this?
I didn't know.
Attorney Cho Young Ki with whom you had a private conversation...
said something else.
I didn't know.
Your story isn't consistent with the recording of a stowaway you gave us.
Every tip can't be true.
Did you not trust the informant?
Then did you trust Han Chul Ho?
Six years ago,
it was Chul Ho who made everyone believe Nam Kang Myung was dead.
The article persuaded the public.
Since you didn't trust the informant, but you trusted Chul Ho,
I bet you thought Nam Kang Myung was dead, am I right?
The team leader ought to trust the team's members.
You're incompetent.
I can't believe you trusted a journalist like Chul Ho.
- What? - We've confirmed that...
Chul Ho wrote at least two fabricated articles.
The article that framed Yoon Seon Woo as the murderer.
The article that made Nam Kang Myung a dead man.
Did you already know...
that Chul Ho wrote fabricated articles?
No.
Had I known, I would have taken care of it then.
If you didn't know, that makes you an even more incompetent leader.
Are you going to choose that road?
There's nothing I can do about it.
I didn't know before the scandal regarding Yoon Seon Woo.
Admitting it was fabricated wouldn't have done any good.
I kept my silence for the sake of the company.
That's odd.
I had to pay...
for a false report for five years because it happened under my watch.
But you, sir,
are not taking responsibility for this.
It was a mistake only one journalist made.
It was impossible for me to find out...
what Chul Ho was plotting under my watch.
"I trust Chul Ho."
"The team leader ought to trust the team's members."
This is what you told me just now.
It hasn't even been a minute...
since you said this, but you're already criticizing him.
Did you always believe in others without any basis,
and abandon them once things don't work out?
Or...
is there a reason you have to say that all you did was trust Chul Ho?
What do you want?
The Splash Team will not disappear.
I will also keep my place.
Jang Hak Su, who published a false article on me and Kwon So Ra,
will have to print a correction on the Seoul Post.
Then...
this audio file...
won't be revealed to the world.
Why do you think I'll agree to that deal?
Because you came here.
You supposedly didn't know that Nam Kang Myung was alive.
There's no way you could know what Cho Young Ki said.
There's no way...
you could know the contents of this audio file.
But with just one call,
you came all the way here.
And you're calling this table...
the negotiation table.
If you want it that bad,
I can negotiate with you.
That's the duty of a junior employee.
Goodness.
Sorry to interrupt you. We didn't know you were here.
They heard about the scoop on Nam Kang Myung.
They wanted a look around. I'm sorry.
But what were you two talking about?
I'm the same.
I came here to congratulate him on the scoop.
Do we have to break up the team?
Well,
the company will have to protect it.
You're a part of this family that produces such great results.
You'll soon pay for stabbing me in the back.
You'll get hurt before then.
You'll be stabbed...
by the blade you created.
I'll only take half the advice.
Thank you, Director. We'll repay this honor with a bigger scoop.
Okay, I'll look forward to it.
And to tell you a bit about our next story,
we plan to investigate a place called the Faith Center.
Faith Center?
Yes, it was the last place Chul Ho was investigating before he died.
We're going to continue his work.
And the story Chul Ho couldn't tell,
we're going to reveal it to the world...
in Splash Team's name.
Lee Suk Min got a scoop on Nam Kang Myung being alive.
So when you get the article, print it first page in Social Team's name.
Take out the Splash Team's name.
Make them mute for the rest of their lives.
I'm going to show them how hard it'll be to endure this.
What do you guys think?
I doubt he'll just let us publish the scoop...
without doing anything.
What can he do?
You don't think...
He can stop the Splash Team's article from getting published.
He can't risk his fate like that.
Start hacking the system, and don't leave a trace.
The serial code...
is 4, 19, 6, E, 9, A.
Hacking?
What's he scheming now?
(Chief Prosecutor Im Ji Tae)
It's been too long since he talked about searching Nam Kang Myung.
(Collection)
She's Seo Hae Young, the victim of Park Eung Mo's case.
She didn't die...
in August 2000 when the statute of limitations had expired.
She was still alive in 2001.
So who are you trying to attack with this?
The NISI employee who fabricated her time of death,
and the person who pulled the strings from behind.
(Statement)
I'd like the ultimate target of this investigation...
to be Lawyer Cho Young Ki of Noah.
Mr. Cho.
What's this?
Our Chief would like to see you.
(Arrest Warrant)
My gosh, you're handsome.
Let's go.
Nam Kang Myung's story is on the front-page headlines.
But it's not our article.
It was published in Sang Hoon's name.
There's no mention of the Splash Team in the whole newspaper.
They want to make us mute while we're alive.
Do you guys...
know which page Hae Dong never sees...
when reviewing the final draft?
There's no such page...
- No way. - That's what I thought too.
I didn't think it'd end like this.
Regardless, we have to publish the article.
But if this is how far he'll go,
it means the person who tried to stop the Faith Center article...
was Director Gu Tae Won.
Then...
It's what we know.
It's time to call Mu Young.
So Seo Hae Young...
was the whistleblower in the Faith Center?
Yes.
But I can't figure out what happened in that center.
Ultimately, this all began at the Faith Center.
Chul Ho, you,
and all of this.
What are you talking about?
Why do you think you and Park Eung Mo were tied together?
There is no why.
I just followed Chul Ho's articles.
Then why did you meet Yoon Seon Woo?
I just followed Chul Ho's articles for that too.
Why did you meet Nam Kang Myung?
That was also...
because I was following Chul Ho's articles.
It's not a coincidence that we're here.
Chul Ho led you here.
You followed the exact...
footsteps he left behind.
And if there's one more article that you haven't seen...
When he started investigating the Faith Center,
the first thing he looked into...
was Daehan Newspaper.
Chul Ho,
or someone who ordered Chul Ho to write false articles...
wrote something on the Faith Center, then that in itself...
would become a clue.
But he couldn't find anything.
Instead,
he found this article...
in the Seoul Post.
("7-year-old Boy from Faith Center Dies in Car Accident")
Faith Center?
But this...
is just an article about a car accident.
What if...
he didn't die from a car accident?
And what if there was a Daehan Newspaper reporter...
who covered that up?
In 2001,
reporters in both Daehan Newspaper and the Seoul Post...
started to have doubts about this death.
He definitely died from a car accident,
but there were contusions all over the boy's body.
But one side covered it up.
They were pressured by a certain foundation.
Foundation?
The reporter who buried that article...
received help...
from that foundation 10 years later...
when his wife needed a heart transplant.
The surgery was completely off the books,
leaving zero trace in insurance and hospital records.
That's ridiculous.
The director of the foundation...
that provided that help...
is the father of Noah's Cho Young Ki.
Do you know what the father...
of Noah's Cho Young Ki did?
(Sahae Foundation Meeting Log)
When Nam Kang Myung supported the Faith Center,
the money came from a place called the Sahae Foundation.
Sahae Foundation?
But the head of that foundation...
is the father of Noah's Cho Young Ki.
He worked under the Vice Minister of the CIA,
and became the Assistant Minister for the National Security Agency.
Faith Center...
Wasn't it a place for homeless children?
Why are such big wheel figures involved with this place?
The Assistant Minister of the National Security Agency...
provided funds for the Faith Center?
He used Nam Kang Myung as his agent...
to completely hide himself?
Yes.
And...
a couple days before Chul Ho died,
he was tracking all the articles...
that I just told you about.
Chul Ho...
There are also traces of him...
visiting that volunteer group you went to.
Chul Ho visited that place?
Yes, I remember.
Wait a second. When was it?
Anyways, a Daehan Newspaper reporter did come.
He wanted to see photos of the Faith Center event.
(Boram Lunchbox - Volunteer Work for Faith Center in 2001)
(With Boram Lunchbox)
Sung Shik, look here.
Isn't this Director Gu?
He found out that the car accident was a cover-up for the murder...
of the boy with the bruises.
And he took down the article when the Sahae Foundation pressured him.
He received their help for his wife's heart transplant.
Only one person had private meetings with the son of Sahae Foundation,
Cho Young Ki.
It's Director Gu Tae Won of Daehan Newspaper.
There was a wreath...
at Chul Ho's funeral...
in his name.
You already knew it was him.
But why didn't you tell me?
Because I had to make sure it wasn't just suspicion.
All the evidence...
had to point towards him.
I'm so sick of reporters.
I'm sorry...
- that it took so long. - Yes.
You have to be sorry to me.
You stood in front of the man who killed my brother for five years,
but you didn't do anything.
Meanwhile, my life was ruined.
Memories of my brother were shattered.
And the Chul Ho I knew...
the Chul Ho I miss...
is now nowhere to be found.
No.
Chul Ho is in the last article...
that you have yet to see.
Chul Ho figured out...
that the articles he falsified was all for the Faith Center's sake.
I'm sure he wanted to atone.
So he tracked them down until the very end.
And that's why he was murdered.
You need to finish the article...
your brother was chasing after.
It's still not too late.
(Daehan Newspaper)
("Nam Kang Myung Was Definitely Alive")
Chief.
Where are you hurrying off to this early in the morning?
Hey!
What are you doing?
Move over now!
No, we won't move.
We can't move.
("Nam Kang Myung Was Definitely Alive There at That Moment")
(Director Gu Tae Won)
(Full page advertisement)
No.
Nam Kang Myung, the culprit behind a fraud case...
that's produced 10 billion dollars in losses and hundreds of victims,
died from a heart attack...
at a highway in Incheon...
at 10:40pm on the 21st.
Aeguk Newspaper has released a video of Nam Kang Myung...
when he was alive on their website.
They've proven that one of their reporters, Han Mu Young, was right.
Meanwhile, Daehan Newspaper's Splash Team...
has stirred up an unprecedented controversy.
This morning, the Splash Team...
used Daehan Newspaper's full page advertisement page...
Hey!
Why? Why isn't he coming up?
Tell the person in charge of advertisements to come up right now.
(Aeguk Newspaper, "Rumors of Nam Kang Myung Are True")
("Nam Kang Myung Was Definitely Alive There at That Moment")
(Daehan Newspaper)
(Daehan Newspaper Reporter Lee Suk Min)
(Do not go to Port Gung Pyung. Get out of that trap...)
(I'll keep the promise Min Young Ho couldn't five years ago.)
(It's time for me to keep my promise.)
(Daehan Newspaper tried to keep Splash Team quiet.)
(What is the truth that's buried at the Faith Center?)
(Full page advertisement)
(Daehan Newspaper tried to keep Splash Team quiet, but we won't.)
(We ask Director Gu Tae Won.)
(What is the truth that's buried at the Faith Center?)
You took out your security deposit to pay for this?
Suk Min,
have you finally gone insane?
What's insane are the rent prices in Seoul.
(Blocked Caller ID)
Hello?
Aeguk Newspaper caught Nam Kang Myung.
And now the Splash Team's after the Faith Center?
I thought the only thing reporters knew how to do was lose.
Pretty good.
When the media shows us trust,
we repay with reports.
I...
will keep the promise that Min Young Ho couldn't...
five years ago.
(Special appearance by Lee Won Jong)
(Falsify)
I'm Han Chul Ho.
The story I am about to tell is about the national crime...
that Daehan Newspaper has covered up.
He knew he was going to die.
Crazy idiot.
Please get to the bottom of this case.
Please, I beg you.