(All characters, organizations, places, entities, and events...)
(in this drama are fictional.)
We've aged the beef for five days.
(10 years ago)
Which part would you like?
Ma'am?
I don't know these things. Why don't you decide, madam?
I like my meat evenly marbled and tender.
Then we'll prepare the sirloin.
- Just a minute. - Yes?
Actually,
I'll take the one on the left.
I don't know much about meat,
but I think this part would be better...
for our chief physician today.
- Okay. - Yes, ma'am.
You're so thoughtful of him in every way.
Of course. He was my client.
When he was promoted...
to chief of his department, we wanted to treat you to dinner.
Things finally settled down, which is why we invited you out.
All of this is thanks to you.
He was promoted because he is so good at his job.
I didn't do anything.
He kept resisting,
but I gave him the talisman that you wrote for him,
and wouldn't let him eat four-legged animals...
until the announcement as you instructed.
I had to do everything for him.
I felt like I was raising a toddler.
Right?
Yes, that's right.
Looking carefully at your face,
you're fated to become the hospital director.
Really?
Anyway, thank you.
Please keep giving us your good advice.
Darn it.
- Who keeps texting? - Nobody.
We got a strange patient.
The symptoms are weird and we can't identify the cause.
Who is the patient?
Seeing you bothered by it is making me curious.
Sir?
Okay.
How is it?
It's good. Perfect.
He's the owner of a small business.
He suddenly had a seizure and fainted during a meeting,
and he's screaming and freaking out even now.
But we don't even know the cause.
We've never seen these symptoms before either.
Darn it. What a headache.
Maybe he's possessed.
Excuse me? Possessed?
There are things that can't be explained scientifically.
Why don't you examine him?
- Pardon? - He's your client.
You should take care of him well until the very end.
Well...
Let go!
He won't even sleep.
He has been like that for two days. He should be dehydrated by now.
What if he dies like that?
- What if they sue the hospital... - The hospital...
can't cure him.
What?
He's possessed by an unusual evil spirit.
Chief.
I'll perform a ritual.
Here?
I'll duke it out tonight.
Please give me until morning.
If he can't handle it because of the evil spirit,
it'll be a headache for you.
You should become the hospital director.
Well...
What would the ritual cost?
I'll collect it from him.
Just look the other way.
Chae Bong?
Please prepare a ritual.
(The Cursed)
(Episode 11: Inugami)
You idiot! You'll ruin everything!
Ma'am! Are you all right?
First...
untie him.
Yes, ma'am.
Who are you?
Let us bow to you first.
I must have been working hard...
all my life just to meet you, sir.
I never expected to serve such a great spirit.
What...
happened to me?
Someone tried to perform a procedure on you, sir.
A procedure?
A procedure...
So, the person was cursing you,
but something went wrong.
That's why the spirit inside of you became very angry.
But...
I've calmed it down.
Who did that do me?
Why?
Do you...
know any shamans?
Shaman?
I don't know what that shaman stopped the procedure,
but they may try...
to perform a procedure again if they change their mind.
Then?
What must I do?
Please write down your name in Chinese characters...
and the date and time of your birth.
(Jin Jong Hyun August 2, 1965, 7-9pm)
I was right.
You came to change the world.
But...
someone is an obstacle in your path.
If we don't get rid of that person now,
your grand plan may fail.
If we get rid of that person now,
your final moment in life...
Yes?
Countless people will gather...
and celebrate your life at your funeral.
We must...
eliminate that shaman right now.
I shall...
escort you on your spiritual journey.
You don't have to go with me.
No. I want to see it for myself.
It's fun.
You should wait here.
Clean that up quickly.
Let's go, So Jin.
We need to get his personal item.
Okay.
We'll begin the briefing.
This is where Kim Pil Sung states he was abducted.
He jotted down the details of his release...
in this notepad.
We backtracked based on his notes,
and concluded that his notes were very credible.
This is the van that we suspect they used to abduct him.
It is the same van that was used in the abduction of Chun Joo Bong...
and Im Jin Hee recently.
Thus, we speculate the same person ordered the abduction...
of both Im Jin Hee and Kim Pil Sung.
We checked the surveillance videos at the place...
where Kim Pil Sung stated he was threatened,
and it had caught Lee Hwan entering that very building.
(Mr. Lee Hwan of Forest Entering the Building)
That is all.
We've got that jerk.
That's irrefutable evidence.
What's the problem?
It's the motive.
The reason why they abducted Im Jin Hee and Kim Pil Sung.
And if they were behind the abduction and murder...
of Detective Yang Jin Soo,
we can't figure out the motive.
With solid evidence like that,
we can lock them up even without a motive.
The prosecutors won't be able to weasel out of it.
I think it'll be critical...
to prove that Forest's chairman Jin Jong Hyun...
was directly involved in hiring these men...
for both of the abductions.
Are you saying there's no reasonable motive for Forest...
to abduct them?
That's right.
Based on what Forest's former employee said,
which Detective Yang Jin Soo had recorded,
it looks like they were trying to hide the fact...
that they were manipulating the Forest of Curses hashtag.
We at Cybercrimes should be able...
to go after Forest...
for inciting cyber defamation.
If you do,
how much would it hurt them?
Worst-case scenario, their IPO may be canceled.
Isn't that enough of a motive...
for Forest's involvement?
It's obvious that Lee Hwan was instructed from higher up...
to take the fall all by himself.
We arrested him and have him in our custody, right?
Yes, sir. We'll begin interrogating him this afternoon.
Okay. Work him nicely and get him to tell us...
the connection to Forest for a commutation.
Yes, sir.
Dismissed.
- Yes, sir! - Yes, sir!
(Jin Jong Hyun's mother Lee Gil Sook)
(Inflexible Punk)
This is where Jin Jong Hyun's mother lives...
according to his family registry.
Okay.
I've been here before.
You have?
Anyway,
she has his personal items here, right?
I hope so.
Ma'am.
Hello, ma'am.
Who are you?
Hello. I'm a reporter with Joongjin Daily.
Im Jin Hee.
Why is a reporter here?
Your son is Forest's chairman Jin Jong Hyun, correct?
I have nothing to say about him.
Please. Ma'am.
Do you know who the young people's favorite businessman is?
It's Forest's chairman Jin Jong Hyun.
I wanted to hear about the mother who raised such a great man.
Forest is going public tomorrow.
So we're planning a big story.
Ma'am. Please give me just a few minutes of your time.
Please give me an interview.
Come on.
Hey. Bring that over.
This is a picture of the van that we suspect took Kim Pil Sung.
We checked all the surveillance videos in the area,
and this is the location...
where Kim Pil Sung stated he was held and threatened.
And this is a picture of you entering that very place...
where he was held and threatened.
Look.
This is more than enough to prove...
you hired them to abduct him. Furthermore,
the suspects who abducted him...
are the very men...
that we arrested for abducting Im Jin Hee.
We think the person who hired them was you,
or perhaps Forest's chairman Jin Jong Hyun.
Mr. Lee Hwan.
I don't think you were behind all of this.
I'm sure someone above you,
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun hired them through you.
Based on this evidence,
my client does not need to answer that.
Who hired the lawyer for you?
Forest?
If you continue to remain silent,
you'll take the fall for all of these cases.
Are you that loyal to the company?
Listen. Mr. Lee Hwan.
Everything Forest has done up to this moment...
The coding department manipulated the system...
to make the Forest of Curses hashtag trending.
Who was it?
Call the head of coding right now.
Mr. Lee Hwan.
Sorry.
I realized I was mistaken.
I had thought you were completely incompetent...
and a bunch of cowards.
What? Why you little...
I hired them.
What was that?
I hired them.
Kim Pil Sung, Im Jin Hee.
I couldn't stand them acting out, not knowing their place,
so I hired them.
You don't need to take the fall by yourself!
Why are you yelling?
I did it. For real. I mean it.
I cashed out the company's secret slush fund...
and personally...
ordered it. It was all me.
Okay.
The culprit confessed to it all.
What now?
(Violent Crimes 3)
Hey.
How did it go?
- He says he did it all. - What?
He says the company wasn't involved.
He's taking the fall for everything?
The abduction and the threatening?
Was he that loyal?
It's because of the stock option.
What?
He's high up enough in the company...
to have received stock options.
If that jerk owns shares of Forest...
Once they go public tomorrow,
he'll make a huge profit.
How much could that be?
I don't know how much it is,
but once their IPO goes through,
he may make millions of dollars.
If he admits to their crime,
the IPO may be canceled.
Then his chance to make that huge profit will be gone.
So he'll take the fall alone if he must...
in order to safeguard his money.
Captain, what now?
Sung Joon, you have to listen to that psycho.
That's the only way to catch them.
- Jin Hee. - Please, listen to me!
Jin Hee!
(Asin-dong Youth Association)
Jin Hee.
Why are you holding that?
Do you need another drink?
No. Where did you get this?
I got that last week from the Youth Association.
I see. Okay.
Then...
You don't have many items that belonged to Chairman Jin.
Not long ago,
his company people came and took them all.
Except for this.
I hid this deep in the attic...
in my bedroom.
What is all of this?
This is all...
the awards that Jong Hyun received when he was young.
My gosh.
He must have been a genius ever since he was a child.
When my son was young,
he was handsome and did well in school.
And he was kind.
Everyone in town liked him, saying he'll become a judge or prosecutor.
He's better than a judge or prosecutor.
He's the chairman of a large corporation.
I don't like that business of his one bit.
I mean,
how nice would it have been if he became a judge...
or prosecutor as everyone said?
Look.
Do you... Do you have any idea how kind he was when he was young?
But he wanted to start a business...
and got divorced and used all the money we had.
Goodness.
I guess Chairman Jin doesn't call very often anymore.
It's okay.
That's odd. He looks like he'd be so good to you.
You've helped him so much too.
I feel bad speaking ill...
of my own son to a reporter,
but he completely changed.
He doesn't seem like my baby anymore.
Since when?
So that was...
about 10 years ago?
His business was struggling,
so he had a pile of debt, got divorced,
and he said his wife would be raising all the kids.
I...
I was just so frustrated.
I thought if a shaman did a ritual,
that bad luck would leave him.
A ritual?
Yes.
There used to be a good shaman in that town over there.
So I went to see her...
and asked her to do a ritual for my son's failing business.
And?
I paid her 4,000 dollars...
and she was supposed to bless him with good fortune.
I called him down and had the ritual done on him.
Why are we doing a spiritual ritual?
Quiet.
Nothing is going your way because of an unlucky spirit.
- Don't say a peep. - That's ridiculous.
Don't jinx it.
- Forget it. I won't do it. - Shut it.
- Seriously. - Stop whining.
I thought the ritual went well.
But?
But several months passed,
and he didn't call once.
I was afraid something happened,
so I called my ex-daughter-in-law...
and asked if things were okay with my son.
But this is what she said.
After the divorce,
he didn't even show up for his visitations...
and she couldn't even reach him.
My gosh.
Think about it.
Even if you don't see your parents,
you should at least see your kids.
But he wasn't even seeing his kids,
so I thought something terrible had happened.
So I rushed up to Seoul right away,
and went to his office.
I went around the time he goes to work,
and waited for a long time.
Then his car came.
Jong Hyun.
Jong Hyun!
Jong Hyun.
Aren't you...
my son Jong Hyun?
But...
he looked right at me...
as if he had never seen me before.
Then...
after staring at me for a while, he said...
I'm not your son.
Your son...
died.
What...
Jong Hyun...
How could he say that to his mom?
But I heard...
it's was because he was possessed by an inugami.
Sorry?
An inugami.
A dog spirit.
Jong Hyun was possessed by a dog spirit.
Sorry?
Jong Hyun was possessed by a dog spirit.
Who...
told you that?
The shaman who had performed the ritual on him...
came to see me.
He's possessed by a dog spirit.
- That shaman... - Inugami.
- brought the 4,000 dollars... - It's a spirit.
and put it at my feet.
I...
was trying to save my daughter...
and transferred...
an evil spirit into your son.
- What? - I'm so sorry.
She made a mistake during a possession ritual...
and her daughter...
was possessed by an inugami, a spirit of curses.
I'm so sorry.
When she performed the ritual for my son,
she tried...
to transfer the evil spirit possessing her daughter onto my son.
Don't come outside no matter what, okay?
You chose a great day...
- to have a good fortune ritual. - Yes.
Hey, you. You totally lucked out today.
But the evil spirit didn't get transferred over,
it was split in two.
So that evil spirit still remained in her daughter.
And that evil spirit...
went into my son too.
Then...
the shaman's daughter and Chairman Jin...
have the same evil spirit...
So I asked her...
what she was going to do about it.
I'll...
I'll do a procedure.
That's the only way he can live a normal life.
Please!
I don't need the money!
Please...
let me do a procedure on that evil spirit.
How could you?
How dare you!
I thought if we did another ritual,
my son would come back to normal.
That's why I agreed to it.
Forest's incorporation is proceeding without a hitch.
The proposed designs for the logo...
are presented here as types A, B, and C.
We've prepared these three designs.
As you can see, type A...
most resembles a real tree.
Begone.
Begone, evil spirit. Begone.
Get out of my son.
If you look...
at type B. In contrast to A...
Begone!
Type C...
Sir!
What's wrong? Call an ambulance!
Call an ambulance!
What's wrong?
You need to breathe!
Hang on!
Sir! Hang on! Hang on!
Mommy!
Hang on!
I don't know whether or not that evil spirit died.
Regardless, my son never came back.
Never.
It looks like that punk Lee Hwan is going to take the fall.
If he holds out until morning, Forest will go public.
Then...
he'll make millions of dollars from his stock option.
Young Soo.
What would you do?
Me?
I'd hold out, naturally.
I wouldn't make millions by working here.
If I had millions of dollars, I'd buy an apartment...
with a view of the Han River and have coffee at home.
I can go to prison for that.
I can't believe I'm listening to this punk.
Exactly. So he wouldn't talk. Of course, he'll hold out.
But I don't understand why they used... What was it?
Forest of Curses? Just to get popular.
You don't understand because you're not on social media.
Are you kidding me? I have so many followers.
Anyway, imagine how cruddy you'd feel if you were tagged...
on the Forest of Curses.
It's scary.
Lee Hwan tagged you and me in the Forest of Curses.
You and I are the ones who are in danger.
If he moves his spirit into Forest tomorrow, you and I,
and the tens of thousands of people tagged in the Forest of Curses...
will die all at once.
Forest of Curses.
Do you think it'll end after he kills them all at once?
It will probably keep killing.
Because tens of thousands of people will come to him...
and the tens of thousands of people tagged in the Forest of Curses...
will die all at once.
And ask him to curse others every single day.
They'll provide consent on their own,
To make Forest of Curses popular...
Popular among the people.
To make those cursing posts become popular posts.
That's the system they wanted.
How sure are you that the scumbag Jin Jong Hyun...
hired the guys to kill Jin Soo?
I'm 100 percent sure.
Everything he did until now...
Chairman Jin Jong Hyun is obsessed with superstitions.
He did it because he's obsessed...
- with superstitions. - The IPO is tomorrow.
We're all going to die tomorrow!
What intel did that big mouth detective leak?
They wanted to know Min Jung In's case was going.
That Jin Soo had the fountain pen cap.
You have to listen to that psycho.
That's the only way to catch them.
You never had your programmers maintain the Forest of Curses.
If you can't see the big picture that our company has,
you may not understand me.
Now that is what you call reasonable speculation, isn't it?
Is the graphic designer from the PR team still in?
That's right.
(Baekdudaegan Osaengnyeong Mountain Range)
Mom.
Why are you out in the cold?
So it was my mom's fault.
No, it was my fault.
The evil spirit possessing Jin Jong Hyun...
was initially in me.
And it's still in me now.
This evil spirit.
You hate me too now, don't you?
Because...
he and I have the same evil spirit?
No, So Jin.
You're different from him.
He may have easily taken Jin Jong Hyun over,
but not you.
The So Jin that I know...
will never end up like him.
I will...
perform a procedure on him tomorrow no matter what.
It would be nice if he died at the cost of my life,
but he won't die just because my body dies.
What about you?
If you perform a procedure on him,
you'll have the procedure done on you too.
I have no choice.
This is my fate.
And no one knows until we do it.
What worries me more...
is that if I can't do it before he moves into Forest,
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
When they do the ritual,
other shamans will do rituals protecting him.
Can I break through all of that...
and perform the procedure on him in time?
I'm sure...
there's another way to stop him.
Didn't that professor say we can win...
if we take the lead?
What can you do to defeat the evil spirit?
So I go to that target and curse it first.
Someone else cursed what I wanted to curse.
Then you would have taken the lead.
If we can't perform a procedure on Jin Jong Hyun in time...
I'm tagged on the Forest of Curses.
If the spirit transfers itself over from him to Forest,
I'm sure it'll try to perform a procedure on everyone tagged.
- Then? - Then perform a procedure...
on me.
What?
If you perform a procedure first on that evil spirit's target,
you will take the lead.
Then it'll lose its power to do the procedure on all those people.
What about you?
You said before...
that I'm a righteous person.
I must save the people.
Remember what you said when we first met?
That you and I...
share a common fate.
It's just like back then.
I ask you again.
Perform a procedure...
on Jin Jong Hyun.
(Soongchun High School 15th Graduating Class Jin Jong Hyun)
(The Cursed)
Are we going now?
Yes. Let's end it today.
This case can only be solved by believing...
this outrageous concept.
Die.
Die!
So Jin. Perform a procedure...
on me.