ALL CHARACTERS, NAMES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND EVENTS ARE FICTITIOUS
ANY RESEMBLANCE IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL
EPISODE 12
Coming through. No photos.
Step aside.
Move aside. No photos.
Please let them through.
Step aside. No photos, please.
-Sir. -Excuse us. Please, step aside.
No photos, please. Stop.
Please come in, sir.
Are you done giving your condolences?
That I liked her...
and that I still like her.
Later on, I may regret telling her.
...before there comes a day
when I can't tell her.
Did you give it to the mother?
I did.
Are you out of your mind?
What do you think will happen if we publish this now?
We'll be stoned to death.
It's not like we exposed the informant from the beginning.
Your article is basically claiming
that we intentionally exposed the informant just to prove
that we are not lying.
We knew the informant could be put in danger,
but we didn't do anything about it.
We should admit that we are responsible as well and apologize.
Then we should explain why we, who are responsible for her death,
are insisting on an autopsy.
It's late, but that's what we must do.
Being rational and going by theories won't help right now.
Lee Jeong-seon isn't the only person we've done wrong.
We claim that we're progressive media, but we instigated distrust.
"Look at them. They're garbage, too."
We have disappointed those who expected something different from us.
If we start putting the safety of our sources above anything else,
we will end up creating a climate of self-censorship.
Did you forget how much we loathed censorship?
Do you consider yourself a talented reporter?
Are you trying to say
that I'd better not consider myself one?
No. I believe you are talented.
I believe you can properly discern between prioritizing what's important
and censoring what we report.
We can't publish this.
What's our job?
Is making the public become disillusioned with politics our only job?
Is that our objective?
I said, we can't.
AUTOPSY PENDING IN THE QUESTIONABLE DEATH
Please answer me this time.
Remember when I asked you about the Cancer Center incident before?
I asked you if you exposed it to use it against us later on
or if it just ended up that way when you only did it
for the deceased's family.
Why do you...
want to know that again?
Did you try to expel Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
to make us go on strike over it
so that we couldn't fight back about something else?
Is that why you suddenly canceled it?
Nothing just ends up happening.
I don't do business based on coincidences.
Then you really planned...
Don't you ever do that during surgery?
Aren't there times when things are different
from your expectation, and you have to think of an alternative?
We can't do that.
We can't do that with surgeries.
How nice.
Running a business is all about dealing with unexpected variables.
We have to constantly respond to changes,
take action quickly,
have plan B in place at all times,
and foresee what's coming next and get ready for it.
Someone who says, "It just ended up that way,"
can't survive.
So, it was a variable.
The anonymous financial statement posting.
It was.
In other words,
you're not that kind of person.
What about now?
What about Lee Jeong-seon's death?
Was it you who gave the order?
Let's go, Dr. Lee.
Let's go.
What did they do?
What time will they leave for the crematorium?
Does Mr. Gu know?
Okay. Keep monitoring.
YE JIN-WOO EMERGENCY MEDICINE
I'm sitting here with a pen and paper,
contemplating what to write for quite a while.
I'm trying hard to think of what I should say
in order to convince the two of you.
Should I say I can relate to your pain
because I, too, have lost a family member?
However, how could I possibly know
how it feels to lose a child?
Sir and ma'am,
this is all I can say.
You need to request an autopsy.
Please.
I'm sorry that I couldn't be more considerate.
I know there are countless voices
asking you to do this or that.
I sincerely apologize
for adding to it.
I'm sorry.
Please request an autopsy.
All the hostages held at the Strait of Malacca
were released as a result of the recent negotiation.
Next on the news.
The family of the late Lee Jeong-seon, the informant who exposed
Speaker Jung Chae-yong's misuse of government funds,
made an official request for an autopsy early this morning.
As the family made the request
-to find out the exact cause of her death, -Jin-woo!
-the previous... -Jin-woo!
Ma'am.
The bus is here already.
The relatives are waiting.
I can't believe you people!
They want an autopsy for their child. What is wrong with you people?
The crematorium is all booked up,
so if you get there late, you can't get it done today.
What do you plan to do in this heat?
Look. We'll take care of it,
so just leave us alone! Okay?
NFS said it'd be difficult to obtain precise results in the current state.
What do you mean?
They froze the corpse because it was so hot out.
They said it would be difficult to conduct an autopsy on a defrosted body.
Did you just say
you froze and defrosted my daughter's body?
If you had said you'd do an autopsy from the start,
they wouldn't have done that.
That's an utter lie.
She was not a miscarried fetus.
We do not let a body become damaged, especially not an adult's.
Never.
Forget you all.
It isn't because of you, either.
I don't want to hear any of it.
We'll get...
an autopsy.
Ma'am.
MR. LEE
I didn't unlock the door. Who is...
I'm sorry, Mr. Cho.
Are you done?
How should I end this?
Do you think they will be able to have an autopsy done?
Mr. Gu's people are trying to convince them not to do it,
but I doubt the family, especially the mom, will back down.
Even if a conglomerate is involved,
if the parents insist on having an autopsy done on their child,
wouldn't they get what they want?
Hey. I said not to use words like that.
Delete "denounce." We're not denouncing.
You shouldn't say stuff like "right" or "wrong."
We're not discerning right from wrong.
Revise it to, "As doctors,
we have a duty to uncover the truth behind a person's death."
"Feel deep remorse."
That sounds good.
WE FEEL DEEP REMORSE ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION...
No.
The autopsy is not confirmed. Please take down the article.
Yes. Everything, including personal data.
Send them to me right away.
I told you to sit.
What do you think will happen
if we do an autopsy?
Through the inspection, I discovered--
Hey.
I know that already.
I'm asking you if the ruling on the cause of death can be overturned or not.
You can't answer that?
Aren't you the director?
There's a fifty-fifty chance.
I can't guarantee how the result will turn out.
Shit.
If the death was caused by a disease or cardiovascular problems,
-an inspection-- -Forget it.
I understand.
Send in the Director of the Restructure Team.
Yes, sir.
Sit.
The family initially consented to the cremation
and showed no signs of changing their minds.
I think those two doctors I reported about said something to them.
What did they say?
I don't know what,
but based on how he acted toward the mother at the funeral parlor,
he definitely played a part in their decision.
Who was it?
Ye Jin-woo of Emergency Medicine.
His father passed away. His mother remarried and lives separately.
There's nothing special in his career.
His younger brother works at the HIRA, and is a paraplegic.
There is a rumor that he is dating a colleague.
I guess having a paraplegic brother is not a big deal for him.
Should I make sure both brothers are confined to bed for life?
Who's the other one?
Chief Joo Kyung-moon of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
He ran for director
and lost to Director Oh.
There is nothing else special about him.
Any family?
He has a stay-at-home wife and a daughter in high school.
Don't touch the kid.
There's nothing to do to a housewife.
If he's a chief, he must've done quite a few surgeries.
We'll check if he had made any medical errors.
The one who went to the funeral parlor is dating someone here?
Yes. A female doctor in Pediatrics.
That poor woman. Just because of her poor choice in men...
Understood, sir.
It'll pass.
I guess having a paraplegic brother is not a big deal for him.
Should I make sure both brothers are confined to bed for life?
Let them do the autopsy.
If we stop them now,
we'll only be giving them proof that we're hiding something.
She said it could be overturned.
I won't let that happen.
I'll make sure the cause of death ruling doesn't get overturned.
Even the director can't guarantee it.
I guarantee it.
I'll take care of it.
Mr. Lee.
Yes, sir.
Hire a medical examiner from outside.
Ban all Sangkook employees from the autopsy room entirely.
Including the ones demanding an autopsy and Director Oh, who did the inspection,
no one is allowed to participate in or observe the autopsy.
Mr. Gu, what should I do?
Don't outsource it. Do it all inside this hospital.
Have the medical examiner give the briefing.
We'll do the autopsy as the family requests,
but the conclusion will be the same.
Death resulting from blunt force trauma.
That is all.
The deputy director is circulating a petition demanding an autopsy.
This is the petition he wants you to sign.
He said to get your...
Mr. Bang!
Yes?
PETITION DEMANDING AN AUTOPSY
CHIEF OF PLASTIC SURGERY
Chief.
Goodness. It's really late.
He's doing that because he has nowhere left to fall.
Why did he go there? What did he say?
Forget you all.
It isn't because of you, either.
"It isn't because of you, either."
I'll chase you around for the rest of your life.
I may not be able to save you, but I can kill you.
I'll kill you.
You reported me, right?
No, I didn't.
It is you.
It is not.
I was right. It was you.
MR. GU SEUNG-HYO
It's the hospital president.
Hello?
DEATH CERTIFICATE
That's correct.
NAME: LEE JEONG-SEON
It's right here.
CARDIAC ARREST FROM ACUTE CEREBRAL EDEMA CAUSED BY BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA
Sir, this way, please.
Mr. Gu wouldn't have ordered the autopsy to find out the real cause.
So?
Can we go in?
No, we can't.
He blocked off the autopsy room, using impartiality as an excuse.
Chief.
Dr. Ye, I'm...
My apologies. I'll hang up now.
I don't know either. Okay.
It's not that you don't know. There's just no way.
I don't know.
It's not like you can plant a camera like in spy movies.
Is this my limit?
You at least made them do the autopsy.
Two inspectors,
a medical examiner, a prosecutor,
and a professional photographer.
Only outsiders are permitted to take part in the autopsy.
Why?
To confirm that it was a cardioembolic stroke, Dr. Joo should check it,
but he can't even go near the room, let alone see the body.
Outsiders...
Outsiders.
That's too cruel. Don't do it.
Jin-woo!
When you go in, you'll see a prosecutor, who will oversee the procedure,
two legal inspectors,
a medical examiner,
and a photographer specializing in autopsy photographs.
They will examine the exterior, and then the internal examination will follow.
From the back, the abdomen, then the head.
When they cut the abdomen open, you need to be prepared for something worse.
They don't simply look inside.
They remove the organs.
Family members are permitted to observe autopsies.
It'll be hard, but you must go in.
Go in, and...
-We'll begin the autopsy. -Just a minute.
I'm sorry, Jeong-seon.
My baby girl, I'm so sorry.
Do you even...
consider our daughter human?
PATIENT NAME: LEE JEONG-SEON
Cardiac arrest due to acute cerebral edema.
This was caused by...
blunt force trauma to the head.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE AT SAEGEUL21
Is the woman you're seeing a reporter at Saegeul21?
What do you mean, the woman I'm seeing?
Sorry. I saw you.
Is it a secret?
Dr. Lee. The seizure patient is stable now.
Then get a CT scan.
Okay.
I saw you two together. So, she's a reporter there.
How did you see us?
In the parking lot. Seon-woo was with me, too.
Seon-woo saw us?
We weren't trying to. You were right there.
Why? Is there a problem?
The parking lot?
-Was that two days ago? -Yes.
Did you go to the funeral parlor because of that reporter?
Did you go to the funeral parlor
because of someone?
-Well... -I'm partly responsible
for Lee Jeong-seon's death.
You are? How?
I helped them with the receipts
that are on the news.
I didn't know where they came from or from whom.
But that person was brought to me.
She died while I was holding her.
I saw her eyes losing life.
It happens all the time.
Yes, it does.
-Good night. -Bye.
-Bye.
KR BANK PERSONAL LOAN WITH SPECIAL INTEREST RATE
What are you up to, Mom?
Nothing's up.
I'm just wondering if you're free later.
Do you want to get dinner then?
Are you done?
We're almost done, but I need to write up the report.
It takes some time.
I need at least ten days--
Make the announcement first. Everyone is waiting.
Okay.
The photographer made them promise not to say where they got the photographs.
We can't put the person who helped us in a tough spot.
If we announce the result without evidence,
who would believe us?
This is the only way to prove the actual cause of death.
Did you forget why this tragedy began in the first place?
It was because the informant's identity was disclosed.
We can make the announcement and stay out of it.
Everyone will demand evidence anyway,
and the only ones who can provide it
are the people who were in the autopsy room.
They'll have to provide
what they have, be it photos or the autopsy record.
You can voice your concerns to me.
If we make the announcement,
what will happen to the director?
If we overturn her ruling on the cause of death...
There's no time.
She'll become someone who hid the cause of death, latched onto authority,
and used a person's death for her personal gain.
She did. She got involved from the start.
Exactly. Let's give her a chance to correct it herself.
How do you know if that's what she wants?
If she refuses to do it,
I will.
Go to the auditorium. I'll be right there.
I'll be right back. Hold my seat.
When did you come? You must have waited a while.
Waiting is part of our job.
Is the result out?
They'll announce it soon.
I probably won't have a chance to talk to you afterward.
Aren't you busy?
Chief told me to attend.
-You too? -What?
He's here, too.
They're just photographs,
but since you specialize in neurology,
you should be able to tell.
What should I do?
Why are you asking me?
Didn't you bring that here
because you've already made a decision?
The decision is for you to make.
I'm simply here to report the result of the autopsy.
Why don't you announce it yourself?
If I do it, I'd be refuting your statement,
but if you do it, you'd be correcting your own statement.
Since an inspection and an autopsy are like night and day,
your previous statement would not be considered a lie.
You are saying you will give me a chance.
Should I be moved to tears?
Should I report the result to you, Director?
There isn't much time until the medical examiner's briefing.
We have a car ready for you, so you may leave immediately afterward.
-Okay. -This way.
GLUTTON
Hey.
Seung-hyo.
I repeat.
I hereby refute the conclusion of the initial inspection.
During the autopsy,
a blood clot in the left atrium
and a clogged basilar artery were discovered.
This indicates that she had
an ischemic stroke induced by atrial fibrillation. Hence,
I'd like to correct my previous statement
and conclude that Lee Jeong-seon's cause of death
was an ischemic stroke. Thus, an illness.
You may direct your questions to the medical examiner.
-Where's the medical examiner? -Why did the result change?
-Was the inspection done incorrectly? -Did you conduct the autopsy?
Why are you correcting it now?
Are you saying that blunt force trauma was not the cause?
Who? He left already.
Yes. Just now.
I'm not sure whether Mr. Gu was involved or not.
My apologies.
There's a good chance she acted alone...
HONG SEONG-CHAN OF QL
Thank you very much for what you did.
It must have been hard for you.
Thank you both.
I'm sorry.
We threw it out there, but I wonder what will happen next.
Something will be initiated.
What will you do now?
Work.
My shift is about to start.
He got injured at the construction site.
Okay.
This will sting a bit.
It isn't too serious.
Most construction workers we get as patients are severely injured,
but you don't need to worry too much.
-Thank you. -Sure.
Hi.
Hello.
-Hello. -Hey.
Dr. Park, bandage the wound and send him for an x-ray.
-Hello. -Yes, sir.
Hello.
Reporters are everywhere, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
sticking cameras in our faces.
If you keep going around and sticking your nose in everything...
Sorry, sir.
I know.
I know how you feel and why you keep getting yourself involved.
I do, but...
I'm just worried because you remind me of when I was young.
Sorry?
Can't you just
turn a blind eye and focus only on patients?
That's what I thought I was doing.
The nail that sticks out is bound to get hammered down.
Chief.
Thank you.
You idiot.
Come out. We're short-staffed.
-Over here. -Nurse!
I'm sure all of your students are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
Director Lee.
-This way, please. -Dr. Ye.
-Yes? -Could you help this patient?
Did you do this at home?
-Yes. -You did a good job.
Please lie down.
Director Oh, may I ask you a few questions?
I thought you didn't conduct the autopsy. Why did you give the briefing yourself?
Will you write up the report yourself?
When will it be made public?
Please comment on how you came to overturn the cause of death ruling.
After it was announced that the cause of death was an illness,
the investigation on Speaker Jung's suspected misuse
of government funds is likely to begin again after being put on hold.
Sangkook University Hospital, which overturned their ruling
on the cause of death, will likely be investigated.
CHAIRMAN CHO NAM-HYEONG
I'm sorry, sir.
Is it out of order?
No. I'm sorry, Mr. Gu.
Well... You're not allowed to enter...
Why? Are you against it?
Are you afraid that if I live alone, I'll get drunk all the time
and make the place a pig sty?
Did you have a fight with Jin-woo?
We're not little kids. It's just what I want.
Why, all of a sudden...
I want to live on my own, too. Why wouldn't I?
What did Jin-woo say?
All he does is sleep when he gets home.
I haven't told him yet.
Exactly.
All he does is sleep.
You don't even see each other that often.
It's almost like you live alone.
Why do you want to move out on your own?
Because I want to.
I should have...
Mom.
I should have lived with you.
What was I thinking, leaving you...
I'm glad you did.
I'm thankful that you pursued
your own happiness.
I feel bad that I couldn't let you do so...
sooner.
So...
You did nothing wrong.
How could I bear seeing you live alone?
It isn't because of you
or Jin-woo.
Mom, there's something I must tell you.
There were times I wished
Uncle Bo-hun would've told you for me,
but he can't anymore, so...
Mom.
THE TRUTH IS...
-This way! -Hurry!
NATIONAL OLYMPICS TEAM WARM-UP MATCH
Dad! Over here!
I got you a ball.
Come here.
Seon-woo, can you see Cramer?
Over there!
-Where? -Over there!
Stop it, Seon-woo.
Okay.
Shoot. Goal!
Dad, pass me the ball.
I told you not to do that in the car. It's dangerous.
Okay.
Goal!
Seon-woo!
I'm the director. That's why I did it.
It's not a big deal.
Yes. I guess you'll be late.
Okay. Pick up Su-bin on your way home.
Okay.
Nothing will happen...
Why did you do it?
He's not there. He left.
Why do you think I did that?
What consequences
do you think you will face because of what you did today?
How did you find out the cause of death?
I guess you made a promise not to say anything.
To whom?
Will something
really happen? Will they do something to me?
I know that they're a conglomerate, but still...
I've known...
that family for over ten years.
What did you do during those ten years?
Did you just turn a blind eye?
Why do you think I didn't cut a deal with the family?
I can--
Forget it. We'll do it. Don't you need to go back to the hospital?
Director Oh is taking the day off today.
What?
Has Director Oh ever called to say
she can't come to work that very day?
What is up with him?
Director Oh Se-hwa, Dr. Joo Kyung-moon,
Dr. Lee No-eul, and Dr. Ye Jin-woo.
Dismiss them all.
Effective immediately.
Dr. Ye, you can't just let this happen.
Don't take it lying down.
If I take it lying down,
that would be rude to Mr. Gu.
What do you plan to do?
He wants to fight, so I'll fight.
As we must not tolerate the management's abuse of power,
I am proposing...
the dismissal of the president, Gu Seung-hyo, here today.