Tae Min Young, come out.
Let go.
I've missed you.
Get over here!
Come here!
Get over here!
Are you really retaining me as your attorney?
Yes, I am.
Please speak comfortably, Ja Hye.
Na Ra.
Are you here for pleasure?
No.
Then we are now attorney and client, Ms. Geum.
Where do you wish to start?
Okay, so...
First...
Na Ra.
It'll be hard, and you'll be hurt a lot going forward.
If you don't think you can be strong, quit now.
Act like an attorney. Be confident.
I want to know the truth.
Let me ask you first.
What is "the truth"?
Truth?
If you believe something, it becomes the truth.
Fine.
Then tell me the facts.
Choi Ja Hye.
Did you commit murder?
No.
I did not commit murder.
(Lee Jin Young, Choi Ja Hye, Kim Yoo Jung...)
(Fingerprint Analysis)
(Fingerprints can't be confirmed due to burns.)
According to the police report,
Detective Kim is in critical condition...
after having a physical fight...
with In Ho in your apartment. Is this correct?
I was told that's what had happened.
There's a record that shows...
he called you right before the fight.
Do you still deny that you know who Detective Kim is?
I never said I didn't know who he was.
I merely claimed that I did not know why there was...
a stabbing between those two people at my apartment.
Fine.
Then how do you know Detective Kim?
I met him and his mother at the place I used to volunteer.
Detective Kim and his mother also...
were volunteers there.
You can check it if you want.
It's Saint Maria Hospital. It's a hospice care center.
You told me the other day.
You said you would only tell the truth to your attorney.
Yes, I did.
Please tell me only the truth. Please do that for me.
Let's begin now.
Do you deny all the charges the police have brought upon you?
Yes, I do.
I don't have a motive for killing those people.
I found these burner phones in the secret room...
behind the bookshelf at your place.
When I read the messages in the chat room under, "My Conversation",
I found the messages you had with your accomplices.
(Choi Ja Hye's burner phone conversations)
This means that Kim Jung Soo, Tae Min Young, Kim Dong Bae,
and you used the same burner phone...
and sorted out your schedule.
I can presume that you and your accomplices...
stayed in contact through the chat room.
Isn't this true, Kim Jung Soo?
I don't know.
But...
how could you be certain of your assumption?
It's simple.
Kim Dong Bae doesn't put spacings when he texts.
(Dong Bae)
(Whereareyou?)
Please be compassionate towards my son.
We are comforted by your presence.
Please may he bring good fortunes.
Virgin Mary,
when my son leaves this world,
please forgive my son's sins.
Virgin Mary...
There's one more accomplice, Tae Min Young.
When Tae Min Young texts,
there's a word he misspells out of a habit.
He uses the wrong letters for the final consonants.
(He didn't... didm't...)
Am I right, Tae Min Young?
I don't know anything.
That's the source you emailed to the reporter, Joo Chan Young.
For your information,
I highlighted the parts you misspelled.
I don't think my misspelling...
proves that I murdered a man.
That's the court to decide.
Because of a personal vendetta,
you got your younger brother involved?
This is what your mother told me.
She felt so sorry for you that she didn't know her body was rotting.
She can't take care of herself due to complications from diabetes,
so she can't even face Dong Bae.
(November, 1999)
- Honey, don't go. - Get off me.
Darn it.
No, no. Honey.
Get off me.
This stupid house.
Honey!
What am I going to do?
Honey.
What will I do?
She felt guilty that only you had to serve time...
because of the money your dad accepted.
That's why she never once went to the clinic when she was sick...
and didn't spend money on buying good food or clothes for herself.
She said she had to make it up to you.
She said Dong Bae probably felt the same way.
I...
I'm not following what you're saying at all.
But my brother and I...
No.
What did my brother and I do wrong?
Why are you doing this to us?
Why?
You conspired together to murder people...
to take your personal revenge.
You guys became each other's alibi.
The police's claim that these four individuals are...
responsible for the Roman Numeral Case is...
based on nonexistent evidence.
Defendant Kim Jung Soo and Choi Ja Hye...
met 10 years ago as an associate judge...
and a victim's brother...
in Kim So Hyun's rape case.
They encountered again only recently...
as a defense attorney and a witness...
in the Paju Expressway murder trial.
During the trial,
Defendant Choi proved her case and provided a reasonable doubt...
that Defendant Kim could be another possible suspect.
Logically thinking,
do you think it makes sense...
that she would make her accomplice...
bear witness and use him to find...
decisive evidence for her case?
How will you explain this phone found...
in your apartment?
I use the phone for private matters.
You will see once you check the call history.
They are all politicians and businesspersons.
You can check if you want.
What kind of calls were they?
It's for you to handle...
the disappointment from me.
I consulted them regarding tax evasion...
and illegal inheritance processes.
How do you think a former judge...
could afford to establish a law firm in the middle of Gangnam?
Hosting a TV show?
Do you think the popularity could get me that kind of means?
I'm a bit flustered.
I'm disappointed if you're already flustered.
I made myself clear.
It will be disgusting.
Trials are like poker games.
To complete my hand,
I must put down a good card.
To get acquitted of the murder charge,
I will have to expose my illegal acts I had committed.
Choi Ja Hye, a suspect of a serial murder, disclosed...
documents of her illegal acts.
The documents earned the nickname of Chok Ja Hye's List.
The call history and the list of names were disclosed.
This recent discovery has affected the political circle gravely.
The prosecution announced...
that it's yet to be confirmed if the documents are true.
However, they announced that they will take this as an opportunity...
and expedite their investigation regarding corruption in politics.
What's the point of all that money?
Even someone like me pays taxes every year.
The vehicle crashes into the guardrail and makes a sharp turn.
There's a crash of multiple vehicles due to snow on the road.
The vehicles...
The prosecution claims that Defendant Kim Dong Bae is...
one of the accomplices...
because he doesn't...
include spacings when he writes text messages.
However, charging someone with a murder...
because he doesn't put spacings is...
logically incoherent.
There were times even Defendant Choi Ja Hye...
didn't put spacings in her text messages...
when she was in a rush.
This is a text message Defendant Choi sent to...
the office manager of her law firm regarding work.
As you can see in this text message,
she put spacings for some parts and excluded them for other parts.
The prosecution's argument seems incoherent.
Objection.
To believe that Defendant Choi Ja Hye...
wrote all those messages...
on the same day simultaneously,
her spelling and manner of spacings...
seem inconsistent.
Contrary to the prosecution's claim, there were...
some sentences Defendant Kim correctly used...
the spacings in text messages he sent to other colleagues.
In the chat room they used to conspire murders,
they couldn't identify each other.
What if Kim Dong Bae didn't put spaces between words,
and Tae Min Young intentionally misspelled certain words...
in order to distinguish one another?
What about this?
The clones of the burner phone that you claim they had...
have not been found other than the one found...
in Choi Ja Hye's home.
May I help you?
Where are you going now?
Isn't it time you stopped caring?
Please let me stop caring.
What is it now?
A detective is here.
Who's Kim Byung Gi?
Tell him I'm not here.
I already said you were.
You take care of it.
That's right. I heard Na Ra...
is defending Choi Ja Hye.
She is?
You can't judge a book by its cover.
They say she killed three people.
I wonder how it feels to kill a person.
How frightening.
Hak Bum.
You came to see me?
Yes. I'm from Suwon Precinct.
Yes? What is it?
You know Kim Byung Gi, don't you?
Let me ask you a few questions about him.
Why? Did he get in trouble again?
He didn't get in trouble.
His skeletal remains were found...
in Lake Shihwa.
Lake Shihwa...
Yes.
Skeletal...
That can't be.
Why do you say that?
He had been sending me blackmail texts until recently,
which caused trouble for me.
Are you sure the skeletal remains are of Kim Byung Gi?
About those blackmail text messages you mentioned...
There is a gap between the dates the texts were sent...
and his estimated time of death.
Would you please explain what happened in detail?
My friend was being blackmailed.
It was a personal matter.
He demanded 2 million dollars.
My friend has a hot temper, so I offered to handle it for him.
So, he kept sending me threatening texts and evidence,
like a loan shark.
I see.
But still, hearing that he died...
It's a tragedy.
Shot.
Did I make any mistakes?
You're doing well.
I keep getting nervous.
Not at all. You blocked their attacks well.
On our next trial date,
they may attack, insisting that I'm Jung In Ae.
That's ridiculous.
How could they make such an absurd assertion?
Jung In Ae and I were both in a fire.
I returned home 10 years after running away...
and received my government ID when I was 27.
That was around the time Jung In Ae disappeared.
When I received my ID,
my fingerprints were gone because of my burn scar.
Given our similarities,
it wouldn't be outrageous to say I changed my identity.
It is a bit too coincidental.
Why did you run away from home when you were 16?
I was annoyed at my mom who only cared about money.
I started to rebel and eventually left home.
When was the fire?
I had nowhere to live, so I stayed briefly at a women's shelter.
(Sunrise Women's Shelter)
I heard there was a fire here in 2001.
Yes, there was.
Is there a way to get a list of women who were here...
during that time?
There's nothing left.
It was a huge fire, enough to be in the news.
All of our records were destroyed.
Even if the records did remain, no one uses their real names here.
I'm sorry, but...
would you be able to testify in court?
You're saying the mother and daughter got along, correct?
Yes. They'd always go shopping with their arms linked.
When she passed the bar exam,
the mom put up a banner in the middle of town.
What about her mother?
She passed away last year.
Of course, they have no other family, correct?
That's right.
We can't prove her identity with a DNA test either.
(Roman Numeral Serial Murders, Trial Day 2)
Do you know about the fire in 2001 at Sunrise Women's Shelter?
- Yes. - Please tell us what happened.
It was an electrical fire.
A circuit shorted, and the materials in the wall caught on fire,
causing a large fire.
I submit into evidence articles from that time regarding the fire.
Choi Ja Hye lived there...
immediately after running away from home.
Objection.
There is no proof that Choi Ja Hye was indeed at the shelter.
What kind of people typically go to womens' shelters?
They're mainly runaways, pregnant women about to give birth,
and wives physically abused by their husbands.
They wouldn't be able to give their real names, then.
That's right, which is why most of the people there...
use fake names...
and never talk about their lives...
before they came.
I see.
I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,
under pains and penalties of perjury.
Witness.
Did you live in the same town as Choi Ja Hye since childhood?
Yes.
When she returned after running away,
her face looked very different due to plastic surgery...
she received after the fire, correct?
Yes. She looked like a totally different person.
Was it just her face that had changed?
Her voice seemed different,
and her personality was very different as well.
For example?
Before she ran away from home,
Ja Hye was very introverted and shy.
No more questions.
Defense counsel, your witness.
You briefly lived abroad, correct?
Yes.
When?
I was 14 at the time,
so, early 90s?
I looked into it, and you lived in Japan from 92 to 96.
- Is that correct? - Yes.
Do you know that women's voices also change during puberty?
Yes.
After going through puberty,
the voice tone drops about three keys and becomes more stable.
You weren't with Choi Ja Hye...
from puberty until adulthood, correct?
That's correct.
How was Choi Ja Hye's relationship with her mother, Kang Soon Duk?
It was good.
Sadly, Choi Ja Hye's mother, Kang Soon Duk,
who can prove Choi Ja Hye's identity, passed away last year.
Her ashes were spread in a place with clean air as per her request.
In other words, we cannot run a DNA test to prove her identity.
That means it is also impossible...
to prove that the defendant Choi Ja Hye...
is not Kang Soon Duk's daughter Choi Ja Hye.
What is for sure is,
no mother would give her daughter's name to another person...
when her daughter may be alive somewhere.
Young seems completely depleted because of that.
My gosh. He looks like a sick chicken.
I know.
Hello?
Did something happen to Dong Bae?
What?
He woke up?
Dong Bae.
I'm coming.
Hey, Dong Bae woke up?
- Yes. - I'm so happy.
Sir!
I heard you're representing Choi Ja Hye.
What does it have to do with you?
You must have read the case file.
Do you not know who Choi Ja Hye is?
Do you want to claim that she is the mother of the girl...
who died in the car accident you guys caused in 1999?
It's true.
Prove that to me.
Convince me with something else than what is on the case file.
Choi Ja Hye had been bugging our phones.
I used that knowledge in my favor.
I hinted that I found the real Choi Ja Hye.
She showed up right away.
For me to believe you,
I have to believe you too.
It's too bad...
because I cannot believe a word from you and your friends.
If you don't believe me, check it for yourself.
According to what I found out, Choi Ja Hye...
has been asking about women...
around her age at women's shelters and facilities for the disabled.
(Barber Shop)
- Hello. - Hello.
May I ask you a few questions?
(Jung So Mi)
It's you.
I'm sorry.
I'll apologize on his behalf.
(Jung So Mi)
(Fingerprint Analysis)
When I was reading the case file,
the life of Jung In Ae...
broke my heart as a mother.
I wondered what I would have done if I were in her shoes.
You asked me that at the dinner that day.
Na Ra, what is your thought on minors getting probation?
I believe in second chances.
Their morals on right and wrong haven't been fully developed.
I don't believe the same standard must be applied for minors.
I realized that I had been too hasty.
I didn't look at the case from the victim's perspective,
but from the offender's perspective.
What are you saying?
I'm saying that I understand Jung In Ae's decisions.
I probably would've made the similar decisions.
I would have used my lack of courage and selfishness...
along with other excuses and would not have put them in action,
but I would have felt the same.
I understand her.
That's what I wanted to say.
However,
I cannot represent you,
Ms. Jung In Ae.
You are...
sitting across me as my attorney.
Put your personal feelings aside,
and wrap up this case, Na Ra.
How could I possible ignore my feelings?
You approached my family with an agenda.
I can only sympathize...
with So Mi's mother, Jung In Ae.
I cannot sympathize with Choi Ja Hye...
whom I once admired, trusted, and respected.
Aren't you curious about the unadulterated truth?
Aren't you curious...
why I waited for 19 years...
to set this plan in motion?
Why I didn't...
kill Kang In Ho, Oh Tae Suk, Kim Hak Bum, and Seo Joon Hee...
with my own hands?