CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SIGNING OF THE MOU
Dr. Park is busier with interviews than seeing patients these days.
He should be done soon. Would you like a cup of tea, ma'am?
No, I'm good.
Don't worry about me, and get back to work.
FROM ALUMNI OF MYEONGJIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Dr. Park, your wife is in your office.
All right.
What brings you here, honey?
I came out to run some errands and thought I would go home with you.
But I'll go home first if you're busy.
No, I don't have any more patients to see.
I'll do the rest at home.
Can you do that?
Why not?
Will you give me time to wrap up? About ten minutes?
Okay. Take your time.
From now on,
I will be your guardian.
I have something to ask you.
What is it?
Why...
Why did you marry me?
What kind of question is that?
I just...
Out of the blue, I thought of the time you proposed to me.
Tell me.
Well...
I thought you wouldn't betray me while we were together.
Betray you?
We are family...
so the three of us...
should stick together to the end.
To the end...
Together...
That's nice.
Here's a cake for you.
I wanted to thank you for helping Seung-jae.
Perfect timing. I was just about to pour water into the tea.
Would you like to come in?
I went to your house to give you this tea as a present
and I met your husband.
His charisma...
I was completely intimidated,
but using my own old method,
I pretended not to be.
You have a method for that?
How do you do it?
It's very simple.
Just act crazy.
Then people ether regret trying to mess with me
or end up feeling like they've lost.
Why did you come back here?
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked you that.
I didn't kill him.
He died on his own.
He collapsed out of the blue before going to work.
I heard that it was a myocardial infarction.
While he was buttoning his shirt.
It must've been tough for you.
I wish I'd had a hard time.
But I didn't believe it.
What do you mean?
I wasn't able to accept the fact that he was dead
and stayed with him in this house for over a month.
I didn't smell any stench,
but everyone in the neighborhood smelled it.
And that's when he and I were finally found.
What?
To tell the truth,
while I was living with my husband,
I never once left this house.
How is that possible?
At first, I couldn't understand it and it was inconvenient and strange.
But interestingly enough,
after time,
I felt differently.
Like I was being protected.
Protected?
After a long period of time,
I realized that he'd been confining me, not protecting me.
And it was hard for me to bear the fact.
But maybe...
it wasn't him.
Maybe I kept myself locked up.
The door was always open.
Why didn't you go out?
Because I was afraid I wouldn't be protected anymore.
What if I leave
and end up being left alone
as a nobody?
I think I was afraid of that.
Excuse me.
Hello?
I'm getting off work now.
Do you need anything? I'll buy it on the way home.
Honey?
When did he fall asleep?
About an hour ago.
I'll take Dr. Park's car and get to the Reservoir first.
And you...
take this route there in the rental car.
Then you'll be able to avoid surveillance cameras.
What about the charcoal briquette?
The charcoal briquette.
Where is it?
You let that woman into our house?
She sent this to me.
This text.
She told me that you received the same one from Kim Yun-beom.
I think she's found out what Seung-jae did.
What did she say?
Didn't she demand money?
Would paying her off keep her quiet?
Yes, for a while.
But things won't get better for her with time.
So she'll definitely come back for more.
I know.
She's not an easy person.
What were you going to do?
Were you planning to give 500 million won to Kim Yun-beom?
You would know from meeting him.
He wouldn't have been satisfied with just 500 million won.
And I couldn't live as those low-lives' wallet forever.
So?
After taking care of the body in the garden,
I was going to think about what to do with Kim Yun-beom,
but he died.
It was great news for me.
You still believe that Chu Sang-eun killed him, right?
I don't care who killed him.
What matters is that the secret is now safely buried.
But that secret...
Chu Sang-eun now knows.
What do we do?
Should we pay her off?
Honey.
You must not be naive.
I'm sure she'll continue to dig into it. She isn't the type to stop here.
All of us, including Seung-jae,
may be harassed by her for the rest of our lives.
What about you?
What do you think we should do?
Secrets...
should be buried.
I agree with you.
That is the only way, right?
For Seung-jae, that is the only way.
Are we really thinking the same thing?
We don't have any other choice.
You have...
You've changed.
Because this is about Seung-jae.
Not yet. Don't open your eyes.
How does she look?
I think she's still unconscious.
Don't feel any guilt because of her.
By the way, honey...
Did you really have to kill Lee Soo-min?
She was alive.
What are you talking about?
You...
killed her.
I know you're quite out of your senses,
but you can't blame me for what Seung-jae did.
Fine. Let's say that's true.
Would that make you feel better?
If so,
you believe whatever you want to believe.
I don't care.
You killed her.
In this house.
You had her on the floor and strangled her with your hands...
until she took her last breath.
What is wrong with you?
Seung-jae...
He saw everything.
Saw what?
That girl, Lee Soo-min...
She was alive.
- You saw it. - No, not that. What did Seung-jae see?
Seung-jae told me himself.
Seung-jae told you...
Seung-jae...
So,
the two of you
made a fool out of me, huh?
Apologize.
For putting the blame on Seung-jae.
Fine.
I killed that bitch.
Why?
Because she dared to threaten my family.
If I'd let her go,
then what would've happened next?
Nothing? You think she would've done nothing?
What Seung-jae did
is attempted murder.
Like you said,
a mere 15-year-old boy did it.
Why did you do it?
I just told you.
That's not...
what I'm asking.
Then what? What are you asking me?
Why did you do that to Seung-jae?
You...
You're his father.
Seung-jae was ready to own up to what he did.
But you stopped him.
Because of that, he's been in a lot of pain.
Did you know that?
Own up to it?
No.
He just didn't have the courage to kill her himself.
He implicitly left it to me.
God...
Even a mere 15-year-old boy knows what he did.
So how...
How could you not know it?
If I told you that I did it, would you have stayed with me?
What?
You would've left me.
Every time you looked at me,
you would've remembered the dead girl
and looked at me the way you'd look at your sister's killer.
But if it was Seung-jae who did it,
you wouldn't have looked at him that way
because he is our son.
In order to protect our son and our family,
what we can do is
make it seem as if it never happened.
That's what all parents do. And we are parents too.
No.
The lie you told didn't protect anybody.
Neither Seung-jae, nor me.
Not even you.
Do you still not get it?
You keep talking nonsense.
This is why you're hopeless.
Damn it.
Move.
I don't have time to do this with you. She might wake up.
Stop!
Stop it.
What are you doing?
This is your last chance.
Turn yourself in.
This is your last chance to live as Seung-jae's dad.
I really can't get through to you.
Leave.
Leave Seung-jae and me.
What?
Leave you?
You think you can live without me?
You've lived under someone's protection all your life.
You're nothing, and what?
Because you're this way,
your sister died that way.
In the end,
your sister died because of you.
Honey.
You should have
just lived quietly as you did.
Does the lady of this house
and Seung-jae's mom
have to be you?
In the end, this is all because of you.
Please begin when you're ready.
It all began...
with a terrible stench.
STATEMENT
A stench?
It was the stench that I had smelled once a long time ago.
I could smell it from different parts of the house for several days.
I tried to bear it hoping it'd go away soon,
but it just got worse day by day.
Yes. I met Chu Sang-eun for the first time at Kim Yun-beom's funeral.
She said that my husband killed her husband.
Then I learned about a girl named Lee Soo-min.
And Seung-jae...
My son witnessed Soo-min being killed.
My husband tried to put the blame on our son for Soo-min's death,
but when he got tired of Chu Sang-eun's continued questioning,
he decided to kill her on the pretext of protecting our son.
Hold on.
Ms. Chu Sang-eun is a victim?
Yes.
My husband and I planned to kill her.
Why?
Because my husband...
Because my husband
killed Ms. Chu's husband.
Because my husband killed Ms. Chu's husband.
What made you be so certain that your husband was murdered?
Murdered?
Just as you suspected, Dr. Park...
You didn't know?
Ms. Moon Ju-ran told us that Dr. Park Jae-ho killed your husband.
That's what she said?
Yes.
If we had investigated more thoroughly...
No. Actually...
At first, I suspected you.
So I'd like to apologize. I'm really sorry.
By the way, I am impressed.
You went over to that house to find out the truth about your husband's death.
I couldn't have done that if I were you.
Sang-eun kept claiming
that Kim Yun-beom was murdered
and was certain that my husband did it.
I think that's what got on my husband's nerves.
Wait a minute.
Ms. Moon Ju-ran.
Yes?
Is this how you're going to testify?
Everything you've said is disadvantageous to you.
You know that, right?
I am prepared for anything.
Because...
it is true...
that I killed my husband.
Hello?
Yes, this is she.
The insurance money...
All right.
Would you like to make your final statement, defendant?
I...
I lived in a house with a garden.
It was a house with a garden that looked big, well-maintained
and green from the outside,
but even before the stench began to come from the backyard,
I was living in fear that others might see my anxiety.
I just hoped that they saw me
as a woman living in a house
in the highest place and with the biggest garden.
During that time,
in our backyard,
a girl was murdered by my husband
and my young son,
even after witnessing it,
had to keep his silence
and endure his agony for his weak mother.
If I had seen who my husband really was a bit sooner...
If I had been able to convince my husband sooner...
If I had been living
my life on my own instead of relying
on someone to protect me,
maybe things could've been different.
That's what I regret.
Also, it took too long for me
to realize
what I'd protect
was not my family, but the anxiety...
I've been wanting to escape
so badly.
I deeply regret it.
VISIT REQUEST CHU SANG-EUN
RELATIONSHIP
FRIEND
From the beginning,
you were planning to deceive me, right?
I wonder what was going through your mind
as you were listening to my plan at my place.
Did you laugh at me out of pity as you watched me talking,
not knowing I was walking into my own grave?
It was your plan
to get rid
of both me and Dr. Park, right?
Then you should've gone through with it.
Why did you hand me the knife? Why?
Why did you
decide to help me?
I'm sure
500 million wasn't the only reason.
If you hadn't
approached me at the funeral,
I would still be living without smelling anything
or hearing anything.
And in the end,
I would've become someone who couldn't see anything.
Sang-eun.
I...
I can finally see myself now.
Then,
what's going to happen now?
I must live...
as myself.
Can I...
Can I really do that?
Can I...
go on living too?
Please.
Please do so.
Did you regret it?
So much that it's absurd.
What if you could go back in time?
I would make the same decision.
You're Yoon Myung-soon, right?
You got a letter.
How come there is no sender's name or address?
I'll open it for you.
How cute.
Who is this baby?
TEENAGER KEEPER
REGULAR SPONSORSHIP SPONSOR: CHU HYUN-MIN
SPONSOR
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING TEENAGER KEEPER
You're here.
How sneaky of them.
Who? Eunhye Vegetables?
They kept telling me that they were giving me a good price,
but I found out that the new place, Garak Vegetables, is much cheaper.
So you won't buy from them anymore?
I can't do that.
They helped me out when I was just starting out.
I just told them
that I know they are more expensive than Garak Vegetables.
Then she gave me a measly 5,000-won discount.
Can I have that 5,000 won?
What?
I want to buy ice cream for Hyun-min when I pick him up.
All right.
But you better tell him that it's from me.
All right.
- I'll be back. - Be safe with Hyun-min.
Sang-eun, are you living your life?
Hyun-min, did you... Hold on, sweetie.
Did you have fun with your friends? Good.
Say bye to your teacher.
Good-bye.
Good-bye, Seo-jin.
- Good-bye. - Good-bye.
Did you have fun, Hyun-min?
Oh, you had fun. What did you eat?
Bread? What?
Yes, I am living my life.
What about you, Ju-ran?
Me too.
As myself.
Ju-ran.
Mom.
Coming.