[Insider]
(All people, places, organizations, and incidents appearing in this series are entirely fictional.)
I was chasing the culprit who killed my grandmother.
I learned that Mok Jin Hyung...
Northern District Prosecutors' Office Division 2 Chief
discovered my grandmother's body before the police
yet he covered it up.
So, I needed the recorder to get his confession...
Based on his response, I was going to judge him on the spot.
That's why I hid the knife.
Shall we play some cards together for the first time in a long time?
If you win, this place is yours.
If I win...
What? Scared?
I mean, you've got nothing more to lose.
Fine...
I'm scared.
[Massage: A one-on-one game] Instead of a one-on-one gamble, let's play two-on-two. A four-round Hold'em.
Let's say in a month.
One month later...
I'm busy, right?
I am a chairman. A chairman.
It might be tough for me if I play you alone.
But if it's two-on-two, you're dead.
I'm getting jealous.
It seems like you found yourself a boyfriend.
Each starts with 100 million won, and you're done if you go all-in.
And the winner is the one left at the end.
- Hey, Mr. Jang. - Deal.
Oh, your hands.
Aigoo.
I heard you were at the top of the Judicial Training Institute.
Why did you want to become a prosecutor instead of a judge?
I heard your father died as a prosecutor on the job.
He had an accident.
You sure?
I looked into it a bit.
Your father was involved in some illegal election funds or something like that.
He was looking into the higher-ups at the time.
And you still wanted to become a prosecutor?
A scam is...
How do you spot a scam?
Why all of a sudden?
Listen, when a hand goes around,
a natural flow emerges.
And in an instant...
Oh, my gosh!
That flow is broken in an instant.
Or despite my correct calculation, I'd lose money.
Or my calculation was off, and I still won the money.
When a person gets into the scamming mode,
his body reacts first.
You get goosebumps in your arms and neck.
Lips dry up.
And suddenly eyes become extremely clear
and you see everything so sharply like crazy.
But the important thing is
it's too late by the time you realize this.
But what about it all of a sudden?
Right now...
do I look like I'm lying?
Wow!
Clearly, that video was created, so Kim Yo Han would see it.
In other words, the bastard who showed it to him
[Oh Jong Hoon] is the same bastard who made the video.
[Confidential]
[Trend Report - Case relating to special consideration for a job at a private enterprise]
[Trend Report - Case relating to biased hiring at the Ministry of Justice training center]
[Trend Report - Suspicion of illicit gains on stocks]
That godd*** Sajik-dong.
They always say they'll get rid of it, and it'll be gone.
It won't disappear.
That's why...
[Seongju Prison Visitor Log] you shouldn't have done so many bad things.
Why are you picking on me?
[Visitor Log]
[Mok Jin Hyung] Look at these bastards...
I'm the only one in the visitor's log.
How could that be?
The prison definitely manipulated it.
So, instead of me, go bother them from now on.
Please!
I think I'll do that.
Wow, look at this...
I want to win this one.
[51 Ha 3996]
In playing cards or in life,
the winner is the one who waits until he gets the nuts.* (The best possible hand for any arrangement of cards )
In studies, being number one may be important
but it's about getting to the finish line when it comes to revenge.
If you want to stand behind someone's back quietly, it takes time.
Hyung, if I save you this time,
you'll do me a favor, too, right?
Like you, Hyung...
I want to kill the bastard who put me away here.
But I can't do it alone.
Hyung, I'll show you how to scam.
In return, team up with me and play a game.
Do you think the other players in the 1st league will sit back and watch?
We still need to check him out in many ways.
No, the investigation is over.
I understand everything now.
Step aside.
Geez, you bastards...
What are you doing?
Can you stand by yourself?
- Security Manager. - What?
Please don't do anything.
What are you looking at?
How dare you...
Here in this place,
who's your boss?
I won't ask you to cough up the money you received from Nam Dae Moon.
But this bastard...
He'll be a convict if I say so,
and a 1st leaguer if I say he is. You guys...
no food, water, or bathroom trips until I release him.
- Understood? - Yes...
- Lost your voices? - Yes!
Wrap this up well.
Yes, sir!
Clean this up, and you're dismissed.
Dean...
How did I do?
I'm sorry.
- Only if I had found that ledger... - S***...
Don't be sorry...
You saw that, right?
Hyung, just trust and follow me.
When I heard you were coming, I fixed up a few things.
What's all that?
M-mirror.
You realize we only have three weeks left, right?
Yes.
For you to master the art of scamming within three weeks,
this is essential.
That?
Broadly speaking, for a show, there are shuffling cards,
cutting the deck,
and taking from the bottom.
Swapping.
As though I'm the one setting up the game, you shuffle the cards the way you want.
The highlight of shuffling is stacking.
Passing out the cards to the person I want.
That's the real swindle.
In order to do stacking, you need to master three basic moves.
One, you need to know how to stick a card inside your palm.
Another, you have to know how to shuffle the deck one card at a time.
One card.
Next.
you have to visually memorize the order of cards that comes up at a glance.
What's the answer?
Hyung, don't forget this.
The offense is the best defense.
I can't injure my hands, no?
You are right.
Guard! Guard!
Geez! You!
Come back here! We had our guard down!
Come back here! Come!
Let's have another lesson soon.
Muay Thai!
Totally awesome!
- Hot! - It's hot.
Hot...
S***...
Three of spades.
Ace of hearts.
King of diamonds.
Seven of spades.
Geez!
Geez, for someone who passed the bar exam,
your concentration level is...
Is it because of the TV? Should I turn it off?
So, how long did it take you to master this, Dean?
About two hours?
And Chairman Yang is better than you?
He's very lucky.
I was taking money from the wallets of older players at these illegal storefronts in Gueseo-dong.
And they recruited me, so I was playing as the very first star player for the Skin-nation.
Wow, I thought you'd be still playing Seotda* in Korea. (Type of game played with Hwatu)
I didn't know I'd get to play Hold'em here.
Don't say that elsewhere.
They'll call you LA country bumpkin.
It's hot.
Did you play your trick?
They say it'll go up to 38 degrees Celsius tonight.
Yes.
Check.
10 million won.
- I'll die. - I'm going to die of this heat.
- Call. - It's an ominous night.
Call.
All right, all right.
- 20 million won. - Call.
Call.
10 million won.
- Call. - Raise you 50 mil. more.
Call.
Geez, whatever!
All in.
All in. Call.
Call.
I'm the best!
There.
What the f*** is this situation?
That's how I declared my independence and challenged him.
One who loses here today can't play in Seoul for a year.
How about it?
You're so excited since you came close to stabbing me in the back.
Raise.
- 10 million won more. - Nah...
You said gambling is all about momentum.
- Raise 25 mil. - That's right. It's momentum.
Call.
You have a cosmetics company and much more.
Why don't you let me take over the gambling scene?
35 million won.
Take that whiny trash talk to your mommy.
Oh, you don't have a mommy.
No, I don't.
What a crazy psycho.
Call.
- Check. - Don't play around.
Check.
5 million won.
You raised 35 mil. earlier, right?
Me, too. 35 million won.
All in.
What's that look in your eyes?
You can't be...
scared, are you?
Scared?
You must be scared.
You don't even have anything in your hand.
Why are you betting so hard?
Nah...
Must I have something to win?
Call.
How did you notice?
I noticed your pattern.
So, why bite the hand that feeds you?
I'll go without the anesthesia.
Let me go!
I learned gambling from him.
So he knows all of my tricks.
But I don't know any of his tricks.
That's why he's lucky.
The fact that he was born before me.
I'm telling you this because you might be curious.
I reattached it.
Guard!
Eight of hearts.
Four of clovers.
Jack of hearts.
Jack of diamonds.
Nine of clover.
Whoa, you look pretty.
Thank you.
Not because you were coming here, right?
No, I have a blind date.
It's still springtime for you.
Do you drink wine?
There are over 30 Woo Min Ho's around his age in Seoul.
I haven't found him yet.
Is it because you're only an inspector?
Should I recruit a superintendent or a sergeant?
That's not the problem.
I'm checking one by one by visiting them in person.
But he really can't be found.
When Inspector Kwon took a leave to pursue the investigation,
he went through the alleys behind the Northern Prosecutors' Office a lot.
I already went there.
[YB Bank Transaction History: Kwon Dae Il] You are referring to the convenience shop, right?
Shin Dal Soo's case was not assigned to the Northern District Prosecutors' Office,
but he kept spending money at the convenience store there.
[Restaurant, convenience store, children's clothing, telecommunications] And if you look at the items he purchased,
they were porridge, bentos, cup ramen,
underwear, and toothbrush.
And Woo Min Ho.
But Woo Min Ho...
That grandmother...
Do you know she passed away?
Oh, my!
I didn't even say who the grandmother was.
But he reacted that way when I mentioned her.
He was deeply frightened.
Why?
Because he was an eyewitness?
Perhaps Woo Min Ho saw the killing of Shin Dal Soo?
And Inspector Kwon found that out.
Do you understand the reason for my impatience?
Dean...
I heard you woke up.
How disappointing.
Why?
By chance...
because of the two-on-two with Chairman Yang?
As expected of a corporate financial criminal.
Is he...
your successor?
Did you decide...
on Kim Yo Han as the next-in-line?
Do you know why I call you Nam Dae Moon*? (A slang for men's pants zipper fly)
Because I wanted you to open and close
whenever I needed you to.
But something keeps getting caught in the zipper.
Geez...
I'll be done with you.
If you want even the scraps,
just stay in bed.
I'm off!
Stacking isn't an easy skill to master.
He and I both, I'm sure we'll be stacking each other all night long.
But he'll never guess that you'll be doing the stacking.
I just have to succeed once?
Yes, just once...
If we succeed just once,
we can beat them tonight.
Are they a cheering squad?
My legal team. Looking good, right?
When I take over this place later,
documents need signatures and such.
Aigoo...
How many people are here for a signature you'll never get?
Come on. You need at least six hunters to catch one wild hog.
Much less, we get to catch you tonight, Sun Oh.
We should have at least this many...
Oh, he's the one with the knife from the other night.
Boy, your face has healed nicely.
But I see a shadow of death on your face.
You don't look like you belong here tonight.
You'll get hurt.
Cut it out.
Those lawyers must charge a lot per hour.
Let the class begin.
Let's go ahead and start.
This is a four-round Hold'em.
Each starts with 100 million won in chips.
After an all-in, you are removed.
Blind is 20/50.
Betting is no limit.
The last man standing is the winner.
If I win, this place is mine.
If you win, I'll say sayonara.
But do you really want to do this?
Start.
Let's go then.
Call.
You need to watch him from the start.
Raise.
1 million won.
Raise 3 million.
Call.
Hey, bring me some beer.
Check if he's stacking.
Betting 3 million.
Call.
It looks like he's stacking.
Betting 5 million.
Call.
Full house.
I think Chairman Yang is stacking.
I'm going to fold.
No.
Keep going.
We could lose it all in this hand.
We could lose 100 million in an instant.
Keep going!
Raise 10 million won!
Betting 10 mil.
Raise.
20 million more.
It's a first round!
What if we get an all-in here?
Avoid the all-in, but make it look like you're a rookie.
Call.
You must be disappointed.
Nicely done. We've laid the groundwork.
Look all you want. See if you can see anything.
Call.
Fold.
Raise.
2 million.
Raise 4 million.
10 million won.
20 million won.
Call.
All right...
Flop.
Check.
Bite! Bite!
20 million won.
Call.
Turn.
Ta-da!
Here's a 9 to make your hand a straight.
It's an invitation.
I gave you 7, 8, 9, 10 for a straight. What more is there to think?
Bite the bait.
Fine then. Why not have a memorial service for Lee Tae Gwang?
Check.
I told you it was an accident.
50 million won.
The food for the memorial service table is getting cold. Hurry on up.
Lee Tae Gwang used to do business in Macau.
But he couldn't eat cilantro.
Unlike his appearance, he had a sensitive taste bud.
But a guy like that ate food that was laced with Clorox
and his IQ became a single digit.
No...
that means...
someone had forcibly fed the Clorox into his mouth.
Is it stacking or bluffing?
If you lose, too, how will you guys survive the night?
Why would I lose?
The river is a heart.
I have a flush. You have a straight.
Come on in already. Hurry.
My back is uncomfortable.
Spit out 50 mil. and get lost.
Die.
This guy's different.
Show your cards!
Your staff is watching. Let's maintain some manners in this game.
Now, those two will have their eyes on me.
Get ready.
Excuse me.
Aigoo, it's a lot.
Can I have some coffee?
Yes.
- Coffee? - No, thank-
When a person gets into the scamming mode,
his body reacts first.
Lips dry up.
You get goosebumps in your arms and neck.
And suddenly eyes become extremely clear
and you see everything so sharply like crazy.
It's now!
Don't get distracted by others' gazes.
Just because they're looking doesn't mean they see it.
Stay calm and feel each card as you shuffle...
Just as we practiced.
We got him!
Your hand movements are too rusty. It's too noisy.
I got you!
Don't move!
What are you doing?
I caught your scam.
Unbutton your sleeve!
I said unbutton your sleeve.
I thought my eyes were going to pop out all night.
That's why you brought out this amateur bastard.* (He literally says an "unripened animal")
What are you going to do now?
Director Jin was caught cheating. Should I cut off a piece of her for you? Or...
take her eyes?
If you mess her up,
I'll call the real police.
Warden?
You recorded everything, right?
Yeah.
This is a prison.
There are CCTVs everywhere.
Director Jin getting caught while cheating is all recorded.
I'll release the video to the entire country if you report us.
Then how many gambling houses, sites, dens...
do you think will accept you?
You motherf***er...
I'll release Director Jin
if you sign a note saying you will never come here again.
Hey, cheering squad!
What are you waiting for? Prepare for the signing.
Geez...
Spray water in this area later in the morning
and sprinkle some salt.* (Superstitious act to drive out evil spirits)
Yes, sir.
It took me a little over a year.
Doing the stacking.
The best time to scam is when the opponent is scamming.
They are so busy with their own scams that they can't see anything else.
Especially that a**hole Yang Joon. Never.
That's why you used me as bait.
Yeah.
There was zero chance you might've gotten hurt, Hyung.
If you were going to stack, I knew Director Jin would put a scam on instead of him.
Because he knows that we'd be focused on him, too.
Now, if we get Director Jin, Yang Joon can't do anything.
Director Jin is Chairman Yang's gambling ledger.
A walking human ledger.
It was important to preserve this gambling den earlier,
but it was more important to make him think that you were much inferior to him.
So that you can help me with my vengeance
after you are released.
Are you pissed?
No.
Then, what are you thinking?
Going forward,
you have to keep doing it this way.
You have to do even better.
Pardon?
If you are going to bluff, make sure to do it right.
Make sure?
Aren't you going to get angry?
Shouldn't you get angry?
[One month later]
By tomorrow, you'll be outside. What are you looking at?
I want to engrave the view from this perspective in my head.
So that I won't ever forget.
I'll never return.
You really don't want us to prepare anything for tomorrow?
I'll leave quietly as though I was never here.
He's gone.
It always takes time to find a person.
Besides Inspector Park,
I'll assign higher-ranking officers to the case.
So let's stay strong.
Yes.
Thank you.
You don't have any injuries anymore.
You must be well-adjusted now.
From the Judicial Training Institute to here.
I felt like the walls of this place would collapse on me if I didn't.
You're quite a talker as well.
Okay, while I'm doing everything to find this kid outside,
what will you do here, Yo Han?
Take over.
What are you doing? Hurry up and find him!
Yes. Hurry up and find him!
Yes, sir!
2345!
Where is Kim Yo Han?
Whatever deal you have with him,
I'll give you 20% more.
Come out! Come out!
Geez...
Cheosa-nim!* (A title used when addressing Buddhist believers)
Cheosa-nim!
Kim Yo Han cheosa-nim...
Gosh, no...
Cheosa-nim!
Where did he go?
Gosh, s***...
Please tell me where Kim Yo Han is.
I'm already sold.
I'll offer you more.
But right now...
isn't Kim Yo Han the boss?
He's nothing but a card player.
Warden.
Everyone in our area decided to follow me.
And I will follow you, Warden.
I am...
different from Jang Sun Oh.
Right now, Kim Yo Han is actually...
You got here faster than I thought.
You also moved faster than I thought.
It's all over.
Now, there is no Jang Sun Oh...
the Security Manager, and Warden's office...
There are no 1st leaguers who will follow you.
I won't kill you.
Just return to the regular cell block.
Go back and spend the rest of your time here quietly
and then leave.
Understand?
From the first day I stepped into the infirmary,
what did you see in me that made you suspicious of me?
Your eyes!
Your eyes aren't those of a criminal.
Your eyes don't belong to a person with a sense of guilt.
Then it's one of the two cases.
Either you're a psychopath
or you're hiding something big.
What the hell are you hiding?
If I tell you all my secrets and truths,
will you accept me then?
Are you playing with me?
I...
I will wait here.
After you settle things in your head,
let's meet again then.
Yes, this is Mok Jin Hyung of Criminal Division.
Is this the Seongju Prison?
[Resident Registration Form] [51 Ha 3996]
[Past residences and name change in 1994]
What is...
your relationship with Kim Yo Han?
[Oh Soo Yeon's bank transaction history]
A businesswoman in a hostess bar madam disguise?
I asked what your relationship is with Kim Yo Han.
Using the names of the homeless,
she buys assemblymen, the Ministry of Justice, and the police?
If this is exposed, it'll be huge.
I'm hanging up now.
I'm Northern District Prosecutors' Office Chief Prosecutor Mok Jin Hyung.
I'm Trainee Kim Yo Han's mentor.
Kim Yo Han has a lot of work to do.
I'd like to ask that he's not bothered in any way in there.
This girl. She's got layers of charm like peeling onion.
The call you just made.
Please keep it a secret from others.
Chief prosecutor?
The chief prosecutor's got power.
So you think you can't be killed as a suicide in some night?
Forget this prison
and spend your remaining days quietly, then leave.
This is your last chance.
2345.
Why did you follow Jang Sun Oh?
Jang Sun Oh? No way...
I followed the money.
Can't you continue to do that?
What?
I won't...
take my share.
The Dean's share that Jang Sun Oh took.
The half of the house's revenue.
All of it. I'll give it to you and
other 1st leaguers.
I'll share all of it with you all.
What is it that you want?
You. Someone loyal to money to the end.
I found him.
From the immigration record.
Woo Sang Ki.
It's Woo Min Ho's father.
He went to the US on a state scholarship and worked as an investment banker.
He met a Korean-American there, got married, and had a child.
Then he got assigned to a Hong Kong branch.
Then he lost his wife.
After retirement, he worked as a coin exchange trader
and lived alone with his child.
Last year, he returned to Korea after 15 years.
So it's an expired citizen ID number.
That's why the police couldn't find him.
Yes.
In order to find out the reason for his return,
we have to look into Woo Sang Ki's former employer.
But that's going to take some time.
We are using a lot of people with power,
but it's still going slow.
That power...
how much stronger does it need to be?
Sinseon-dong in here...
Do you know of it?
Are they Beomtul*? (Literally means tiger fur, but it means felons with ample detention money in prison)
They are pythons.
They are crouched down in the mud right now,
but given a chance to have dragon balls,
they'll transform into dragons and ascend into the sky.
I wonder how powerful these pythons are.
I'll have to find out for myself.
♫ The night is becoming darker ♫
♫ Did I lose myself, I will not stoop so low ♫
♫ Who was the justice for? ♫
♫ There was no one, not anywhere ♫
♫ Nowhere like heaven ♫
♫ Nowhere, nowhere ♫
♫ Couldn't you swallow it? ♫
♫ Nowhere, nowhere ♫
♫ Look straight and watch me ♫
[Insider]
♫ I'll go head on and overcome it ♫
♫ Bring it on, bring it on ♫
♫ Another me who hid myself, no one else knows ♫
♫ When the darkness awakens ♫
♫ I'll crush it and get back up again ♫
♫ I put everything I have on the line ♫
♫ I'll keep going toward the end of life ♫
What is Sinseon-dong?
He creates a flow.
He only enjoys winning.
If there's an accident, it'll be your poison.
I'm looking for a child.
He's been missing for about 7 months.
But that child. I have to find his body if it comes to that.
Ever since I met you,
nothing's going right for me.
Did you say you found a clue about Shin Dal Soo's killer?
- Is that what you said? - Yes.
Focus only on that child for now.
It's about whether we can find an eyewitness or not.
It's all or nothing.
But he mustn't be involved.
♫ Another me who hid myself, no one else knows ♫