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I'm here.
Whats going on?
Why do you both look like that?
Huh?
Sit down.
What is it?
- Do you want something to drink? - Sure, anything cold.
Here. I just poured this.
What is it?
Did I do something wrong?
Jae Yeol is very sick.
What?
What do you mean?
From what we've been able to see...
we think he's schizophrenic.
What are his active symptoms?
Do you know about Kang Woo? Has Jae Yeol ever mentioned him to you?
Yes, he talks about him often.
Kang Woo is Jae Yeol's hallucination.
Kang Woo doesn't exist.
I've really looked into it.
His school, home, or anything else... Kang Woo just doesn't exist.
I asked Jae Yeol earlier today
where he kept the novels that Kang Woo wrote.
He told me they were in the drawer of his desk at Dong Min's house
so I went and searched through his whole desk...
but nothing was there.
- Hello? - Did the phone ring?
You didn't hear it? Hey, Kang Woo.
When my brother stabbed me with a fork three years ago
I saw him crying over me with the rest of my fans in the room.
Kang Woo... He's been in an accident.
[I'm fifty one percent there.]
That alone doesn't tell us anything.
Look at the computer on the desk.
[Jang Jae Yeol]
Hey, its me.
Hey, Ji Hye Soo. What does this text even mean?
What text?
If you're only fifty-one percent there, then isn't that being back to square one?
Being back to square one would mean zero percent.
Okay, I lose.
Fine, then lets start over.
Where are you now?
I'm in a meeting.
I was wondering why you sounded so reserved.
Be careful heading home, and don't call me later.
I don't want you to get sick of hearing me say I love you, so I'll hang up.
What kind of an episode is this?
A couple months ago...
Jae Yeol told me that he got into a fight with Kang Woo's dad.
That footage was captured by a CCTV camera nearby.
Some kid I know got beat up by his father.
His name is Kang Woo, and I really care about this kid.
I couldn't stop myself when I saw him getting beat up by his father.
Why did you get yourself involved in another family's issues?
That's what everyone said when I or my mom was beat up by my stepfather.
Since it wasn't their own problem, no one ever got involved.
So in the end, my family made a big fuss for all the world to see.
I think his mother was the real culprit of the crime that happened 14 years ago.
Their house caught on fire after his stepfather was stabbed with the knife.
The mother was suffering from dissociation when she started the fire
and even to this day...
she still can't remember exactly what happened.
Jae Yeol accused his brother of being the culprit in order to protect his mom.
I think his current condition is the result of his inability to handle the guilt he felt.
I think Kang Woo is an incarnation of Jae Yeol's own younger self.
But...
more than his hallucination of Kang Woo, we have a bigger problem at hand.
The thing that we're most worried about
is the fact that he's not even aware of the harm he's doing to himself
because of the guilt he feels for what he did to his brother.
I think this needs some further examination.
We need to get him an MRI, a complete physical scan
and we also need to examine his functioning levels...
You think this is a brain abnormality rather than a psychiatric illness?
We can't rule out that possibility.
Then how do you explain the fact that this has been going on for three years?
I think that we should get him admitted immediately.
What are your thoughts on that?
I'll tell you that once I do some further testing.
Have you noticed him showing any other self-harming behavior?
Hold on tight. Let's go!
If he's showing aggressive signs, then we can't delay it any longer.
I haven't noticed anything.
I'll go talk to Jae Yeol, and get him to seek further examination.
She's lying.
She's being too sympathetic.
We can't include Hye Soo in his treatments, and we can't allow her to be near him either.
It's for both their sakes.
Dong Min.
What if I told Jae Yeol that Kang Woo doesn't exist
and that he needs to snap out of it?
Being too rash about your approach can be more dangerous.
You should go and stay with Jae Yeol.
Suicide is the ultimate result for most self-harming cases like Jae Yeol's.
Tae Yong asked you as a favor for him?
Yes, he says he needs it, so I'll just find it for him.
Ugh, that scoundrel.
Where exactly did you put Kang Woo's novels?
To explain to you where they are...
You actually came to my room when I last had them.
- Listen... I need to talk to you. - Come in.
What is your intention for writing this book?
Is this the reason why you've been following me around all these years?
There's not even a shred of imagination
and you just rewrote all the past articles that have been written on me.
The only thing that's different is that you changed the culprit from my brother to me?
Don't ever call me again. You completely took advantage of my kindness!
Then you left my room, and I picked up his book off the floor...
and that's right! I put it in the top drawer in the file cabinet to the right of my desk.
Hye Soo, is his book in there?
No, it's not in there.
- Maybe you forgot where you put it. - That can't be.
I'm tired, Jae Yeol.
Okay, get some sleep, Hye Soo.
Hye Soo, you need to back off from his case.
If guilt really is the underlying problem
then the happier he is with you, the higher the risk of causing self-harm.
I'm aware of that myself. You're the one who trained me.
- What you need to do... - You think you two are the only doctors?
I've never once thought that he lacked any basic functioning skills
when I think back to his behavior in a purely diagnostic perspective.
Why are you excluding the possibility of it just being a minor neurological issue?
Why are you determining that he's schizophrenic?
Schizophrenic?
You should go home.
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness, right?
When I went through my treatment awhile back...
Sorry.
The words just pop out of my mouth before I can even think about what I'm saying.
Do you hate me?
No, I don't hate you. Go home.
Okay.
Hey.
Don't say anything to your mom yet.
You haven't won anything yet, so let's not risk disappointing her.
Dong Min, we need to talk.
Just like having diabetes, and high blood pressure
Schizophrenia can be controlled with the correct dosage of proper medication.
With the proper medication, over 70 percent of patients can lead a normal life.
That's the same thing you told countless other patients.
Do you remember saying that?
I'm staying out tonight.
Tae Yong, I'm heading over to Jang Jae Yeol's house right now.
What are you doing here?
I suddenly didn't want to be home, and I missed seeing you.
What?
Why do you look so surprised? It's not like I just said I loved Hye Soo.
By the way...
So Nyeo's been acting kind of clingy lately. Isn't that annoying?
Stop bragging.
What are you doing!
This is my way of repaying the coolest man I know for the kindness he's shown me.
This is the first time I've ever hugged another man like this.
- Sit down and join me for a drink. - Are you seriously sleeping over tonight?
There's no use in kicking me out because I'll just let myself back in.
If you're going to stay here, then don't even make a breathing sound.
If his underlying guilt is the issue
then the happier he is with you, the greater the risk of self-harm.
My stomach... it's bleeding.
Sorry for having slept in when I'm in charge of the cooking today.
Give me a minute, and I'll make you some fried eggs.
We also have some hard boiled eggs that Soo Kwang made yesterday.
Hey, Hye Soo! Take some with you for breakfast!
Hye Soo!
That scoundrel... he told me that these were hard boiled.
Patient's name is Oh Sang Min, and he's a 33-year-old schizophrenic.
He started showing active symptoms three days ago
and we're going to get him started on drug treatment today.
10ml of Haloperidol, 300ml of Chlorpromazine, and lispromazine...
Increase the dosage of his medication.
The patient was really struggling with it, so Doctor Ji told me to...
That patient has had three relapses in the past five years.
What do you think is more important? His physical safety or his emotional moods?
Yes, I understand.
Please, Doctor Ji.
How many times do I have to tell you? I already told you, no!
Please prescribe me the medication. My child is really out of control!
The testing results shows that your child is perfectly normal!
Why are you raising your voice at me, lady?
I just told you that your child is normal, and you're angry at that statement?
Did you just talk down to me?
Who told you that taking ADHD medication will help improve your child's concentration?
My next door neighbor told me.
Even though ADHD medication is helpful for someone with the actual condition
if a normal child takes it, do you know how much harm that could cause?
You don't even know what you're saying, so stop talking such nonsense.
If you won't give it to me, then I'll just go to another hospital.
- How ridiculous. - Ma'am.
Where's the hospital that would prescribe medication to a perfectly normal child?
Tell me, so that I can sue them.
- Okay? - What the heck is this now?
All children are rowdy when they're young. Just be patient and give him some time.
Okay?
Then I'll see you there. Yes, thank you.
Yes.
- Leave your patients to Doctor Kim... - I already did that.
- Then let's go out and get some coffee. - I'm going out to meet with Jae Yeol's mom.
Take Jo Dong Min with you. You're not rational right now.
- What are you basing that comment on? - You haven't asked Dong Min or me for help.
When you turn to us for help...
that's when I'll know that you're being rational.
Hey, Dong Min. Where are you right now?
Come on, let's eat.
Stop acting like you don't hear me.
Hey...
Hey!
- What do you think you're doing? - I'm such an asshole, aren't I?
You didn't even sleep an hour last night.
I checked what time you went into the bathroom.
Do you have a death wish or something?
Come and eat.
Want me to teach you a trick on how to handle a rascal like me?
- What else is there besides beating you up? - Just give in.
You're not looking at me like I'm the neighborhood's stray mutt
rather than Ji Hye Soo's trained house dog, are you?
Here.
What the hell are you doing?
You need a good beating!
You're laughing at me?
Don't tell Hye Soo.
My stomach is just sensitive right now from the stress of working.
I just got a text from So Nyeo.
Hye Soo.
Jang Jae Yeol got less than an hour of sleep last night
and he's not even able to eat because he's throwing up.
Okay, that's 40 points!
Score.
33 points!
Game.
I won.
Can you please just get lost now?
Not sleeping and not eating is going to make you sick, you know that?
I let you win at basketball.
You should ask Hye Soo to help you.
I can take care of myself.
Have you always lived this way?
Always taking care of everything on your own?
Yeah.
What's this for?
I had it made to give to Hye Soo when I heard that you two slept together.
But since you two are practically the same person now...
let me make this very clear.
We are individuals who like being together, but we are not always as one.
What are you doing?
This is what ignorant people think of my mental condition.
Also... Hye Jin's schizophrenic mental condition.
A tangled up, giant mess of a brain.
They think that we can't even recognize who our own parents or siblings are...
nor are we able to recognize the person we love.
Even after cursing someone out...
there's no sense of guilt afterward.
But that's not what we're really like.
We're mostly normal... and only a small part of us is ill.
- Do you agree? - Yeah, I do.
This is what I'm like.
I'm only pulled apart for a few seconds, or a few minutes out of the whole year.
And in a schizophrenic's case like Hye Jin's...
it's about this much.
Either from an abnormality in the neurotransmitter or a deep emotional scar.
Little pieces of their own world is torn away from them like this.
- Into reality and fantasy? - Something like that.
Can you ever completely put the pieces back together like this?
As long as the patient has the will...
and receives help from their doctor.
That's fascinating.
I'm going.
Don't ever come back again.
I'll probably be back.
Why are you making those flowers?
I'm giving them to my mom.
She'll be sad once Jae Yeol is gone.
So I'm giving her some flowers to help make her feel better.
Don't move, Jae Bum.
If you go back to jail this time, you'll never get to leave again.
We'll pay for everything, so please don't call the police.
No, I can't think about that.
His mother was suffering from a case of dissociation when she started the fire.
She still can't remember exactly what happened that day.
But Jae Yeol knew that at the time
and he accused his brother of the crime in order to protect his mom.
So his current condition is the result of the immense guilt he feels over his brother.
You have such a lovely home.
Jae Yeol has never once invited me into his home.
Ms. Hye Soo...
I finally get to see his home, all thanks to you, Hye Soo.
I even bought some new clothes because Jae Bum's getting out soon.
I feel so happy.
But what did you want to see me about?
Mrs. Jang, the thing is...
- Mrs. Jang, you're here. - Oh my, Doctor Jo!
Tae Yong... Tae Yong?
Tae Yong, what's wrong? Tae Yong?
- Hye Soo. - What's wrong with you?
Give us some space.
Mrs. Jang.
This is hard for me to say...
but Jae Yeol is ill.
What?
- You're going to be a doctor? - That's right.
If Hye Soo can manage to fix Jang Jae Yeol
then I'm going to become a psychiatrist just like Hye Soo.
Aren't you proud of me for having thought this?
What a joke. Do you think just anyone can be a doctor?
Get back to work.
You're just like everyone else, aren't you?
You think that I'm just a dumb delinquent without any dreams of my own.
- That's enough. - Hey!
You really need to learn some tact!
Can't you see how worried both Hye Soo and I are over Jang Jae Yeol?
I, the man you like...
am really struggling right now.
I was just trying to make you feel better because I can see that you're struggling.
That's why I'm just trying to engage you in a conversation.
Would you rather have me go around looking like someone just died
like you and Hye Soo are doing right now?
Is that the right thing to do?
She's finally maturing.
Oh So Nyeo.
I love you.
- Welcome. - A frappe, please.
Okay, an order of one frappe.
Then... I'll take it as you giving us the permission to have Jae Yeol admitted.
I didn't tell her all the details and I just told her that it was stress related.
She's only aware of his physical symptoms.
Mrs. Jang.
Jae Yeol's illness isn't terminal.
It can be cured.
Doctor Jo...
already explained it to me.
It must've been quite a shock to you.
If he's sick...
then we'll just get him treated.
We can get him treated.
I'll get going.
You don't need to see me out.
Mrs. Jang, are you okay?
What can I even do about it... if I'm not okay?
I have to be okay.
After my husband died
I had to witness my own son spend the last 14 years in prison.
I've already had to go through all that.
Doctor Jo told me that it's not a terminal illness.
He told me that he'll be okay after some treatment and medication.
I see that there are two candles.
Is one for Jae Yeol?
- I'm going to go see Jang Jae Yeol. - Talk to me.
What are you going to say to him when you see him?
What is it that you're going to say... when you see Jae Yeol?
I don't know either.
What am I going to do?
I feel like such an idiot.
For goodness sake, I'm a doctor.
A sixteen year old boy went through such a traumatic event like that...
and I foolishly believed that he was fine and unaffected by what happened.
What else?
I say that I love him...
but I was never truly empathetic, nor showed any sympathy
towards the deep emotional scars that Jang Jae Yeol was suffering from.
Whenever Jae Yeol opened himself up to me...
and talked to me about his brother and his painful past...
did I ever really show him any sympathy without judgment?
Even though I've told him that I understood how difficult it must've been...
on the inside...
I told myself that I could understand his brother since I'm a doctor myself.
What do you think? I think I just thought too highly of myself.
Even when I witnessed Jae Yeol having those nightmares when he slept with me...
I still told him that he'll get over it since he's strong and free spirited.
Maybe a part of me just ignored it since it wasn't my own personal issue.
Don't blame yourself.
That wasn't feigning ignorance...
but rather, it was your faith in him.
As a doctor...
and as his girlfriend, I score a big fat zero.
All my life, I've always been such a selfish bitch.
I'd like to avoid forcing him to be admitted into the hospital.
Do you think that's even possible.
I'll be back.
Fighting, Ji Hye Soo.
How's Jae Yeol's functioning?
You feel lonely?
I'm sorry that you feel lonely, but I have more writing to get done.
Stop writing for now, and come spend the night with your mom at home.
I can't.
Hi.
I came by because I really missed you.
Is it bad since it's not Friday? Should I leave?
I said, I can't.
It's my mom.
I'll leave you to talk to her.
Mom, what's gotten into you?
You make plenty of money, so why don't you start taking it easy?
You don't have to continue to take care of me!
I won't even be able to spend all the money you've given me.
Don't keep writing because of me, and just come home to me.
Mom.
Is something wrong? You've never talked like this before.
Kang Woo keeps coughing, and he has a tremor in his hand.
What illness could he be suffering from?
No, I'm fine. My throat is just a little dry.
Mom.
Hye Soo just got here.
Okay.
Mom, eat some of this. You haven't even had dinner.
Just go check on Jae Yeol.
I'll go once I see you eat this.
You need to stay strong right now. Jae Bum will be here on Saturday, too!
Please eat something.
That way, I can stop worrying about you, and go check on Jae Yeol!
[I'm fifty-one percent there.]
I want your hands and your feet, too.
Okay, fine. In exchange... you have to shave.
I don't like to shave when I'm writing.
I guess you don't want any pictures of my hands or my feet.
When I see him, he reminds me of my younger self.
Something about him makes me want to protect him.
I think Kang Woo is a hallucination he created of his younger self.
The thing I'm most worried about...
is that in his attempt to protect Kang Woo
he'll just end up harming himself out of the guilt he feels over his brother
and the fact that he's not even aware of that.
Do you know Lou Gehrig, the number four hitter for the Yankees?
Yes, I know who he is.
Lou Gehrig's Disease, was named after him.
How do you know who he is? Do you like baseball?
I learned about who he was when I was in medical school.
- How do you know who he is? - Maybe from a book.
I'm not really sure.
Hye Soo's hands, the hands that I'd like to feel caressing my forehead at all times.
Hye Soo's feet, the feet that I'd never want to get in the way of its walking path.
What a good boy to hold so still.
That's because you already hold possession of everything I am.
What a sweet boyfriend, you are.
But...
If you were to get sick and had to be admitted into a hospital
what do you think you'll be worried about the most?
Why are you asking me a question like that?
Because... everyone gets sick at least once in their lifetime.
Not being able to write?
Even if you stopped writing...
I'd still like you.
Just when are you ever going to tell me that you love me?
Anyways, Jang Jae Yeol is no longer Jang Jae Yeol, if he can't write.
- What about Kang Woo? - I haven't heard from him.
He's not answering his calls either.
You sound really worried about him.
I feel like he's going to end up dead or something.
He failed the novel writing competition, and he's not physically well either.
I thought you told me that he was feeling better.
He was lying to me.
I think he has Lou Gehrig's disease.
Kang Woo was in front of the pharmacy when he called me
and he didn't have a good look on his face.
Did you go with him to the hospital?
No, I didn't.
Because I was with you at the time.
Then... how do you know that Kang Woo had a bad expression on his face
while standing in front of the pharmacy?
You're describing it like a scene out of a book or a movie.
That's a good point. How did I know... that Kang Woo was alone?
Look at how handsome you are again. So handsome.
You look tired. You should take a nice bath.
You said you had to leave soon since you're on call at the hospital.
So can't I just look at you for a bit longer?
[Tae Yong]
What is it?
Tae Yong says he's outside my house.
I know that he's my friend, but I really don't like him right now.
I'll see you tomorrow. It's Friday tomorrow.
You can't just leave me like that.
I'm going to smell like shaving cream. You should take a shower.
I love you.
Even though I know it makes you feel uncomfortable to hear me say that.
But I love you like crazy.
Tae Yong, where are you right now? We need to meet.
There you are!
What a relief. I've been worried about you.
Kang Woo.
Don't ever think that you're alone.
Remember that I'm always by your side.
You know that, right?
From start to finish...
it's pretty much the same story as the novel he wrote in the past.
There are almost no signs of any new material.
He did the same thing for a couple of months with the last novel he wrote.
Now that I think about it
Jae Yeol really hasn't been the same since the night Jae Bum stabbed him with a fork.
It normally takes him about eight months to finish writing a novel
but he's been working on this one for over two years already.
Even though it's only a few parts, he even plagiarized his own work.
But I don't think he's aware of that himself.
Don't ever leave Jae Yeol's side, okay?
Hye Soo.
There is nothing left for me to verify from the psychological medical standpoint.
Not being able to sleep, or eat, and not being able to write as a writer...
They're definitely signs of his inability to function normally.
On top of that...
Even though it's just absurd that it's taken me this long to notice...
there have been several different occasions where he's posed danger to himself.
He has hidden his wounds from me, and he's put himself in dangerous situations.
I can also easily see how his current situation can turn into a suicidal one.
Suicide?
Writing is everything to Kang Woo, and he's been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's
and he even failed his attempt at winning the writing competition.
Which makes me believe that he's going to do something drastic.
It's obvious.
How did you come to the understanding that Jang Jae Yeol is going to leave
the one he loves behind to fall victim to his own mental illness and commit suicide?
I'm sure it wasn't an easy concept to accept.
Leaving me, the one he loves behind, to choose death instead...
There is no rational reasoning for it.
Because it's a mental illness.
Jang Jae Yeol is ill.
That's my conclusion as a medical doctor.
In Jae Yeol's current condition, where he can't even recognize that he's ill
it won't be feasible to get him to agree to being admitted.
- We're going to have to force him. - I know that.
Just get him admitted first.
We'll need to medicate him to alleviate some of his active symptoms.
I'll call you when I can.
I'll call for an ambulance, and I'll also call his guardian.
We'll notify Doctor Kim of what's going on.
Doctor Kim, where are you right now? I need to see you.
Tae Yong. It's me, Ji Hye Soo.
I met with the PD... and told her what's going on.
I told her...
that Author Jang is ill, and he won't be able to do the show anymore.
Instead of using metal bars on the windows, we use tempered glass windows.
Other hospitals should follow suit and do the same thing.
It doesn't open any further than that. It's for safety reasons.
Even if he were to escape out the window
his room is on the second floor, so he won't really get hurt.
No one will be able to break through glass that's more than 30 centimeters thick.
- But... where's the bathroom? - It's a shared bathroom.
Because it needs to be monitored for safety reasons.
My son can only sleep in a bathroom.
We'll give him some sedatives so that he can sleep peacefully in his own bed.
How long will he be in the hospital for?
He's not going to be in here for months or years, is he?
I only ask because that's what I always see in books or on TV.
That could be the case with some of the nursing homes in the mountains
since those facilities are geared towards patients who have frequent relapses.
But in a case like Jang Jae Yeol's, it could be anywhere
from a month to about two months that he'll be here in the hospital.
Two months sounds durable.
It is an honor to be able to work with such highly respected doctors and colleagues.
I predict that the treatment process for Jang Jae Yeol
will prove to be more difficult than anything else we've ever encountered.
The reason being...
What unbelievable timing. I just got out of the shower.
Stop!
Why?
Just stay right where you are.
Why? Do you not like having me next to you?
No, I just want to take a good look at you.
Why are you so good looking? It's unnerving.
How long do I have to keep standing here for? I want to sit down.
Hye Soo, it's me.
The ambulance is ready and waiting.
When do you want it to come?
I'll call you back later.
I love you.
Let's stay just like this for a while.
Okay.
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- We're in your bed right now. - I'm too tired to get up.
- Is it okay to come now? - I love you so much.
Jang Jae Yeol isn't crazy, he's just ill!
Can you now understand why we forced you to be admitted in the hospital?
I'm not myself in here.
- Please let me leave. - You've made me so happy.
No!