(Prosecutor's Office)
(Episode 55)
Hye Soo. Save Mr. Ko.
Ji Ho and Se Young must've set a trap.
If Mr. Ko comes back alive, let's ask him.
We can both ask him why he did what he did.
You care for him a whole lot.
If it hadn't been for him, I'd have lost you forever.
Whether you hate or resent me.
at least you're alive and before me now.
That alone is enough of a reason to forgive him.
I should go.
When I was arrested,
you said...
What did she do?
What did my mom do?
I liked that.
"Mom" is a common noun.
Don't read into it.
(Prosecutor's Office)
You're sure that Yu Gyeong's innocent?
Yes, I am.
There must be a reason you're so sure.
But I still suspect her.
After Min Sung died...
Yu Gyeong benefited the most.
I heard it was her idea...
to blame Min Sung for Cheonha Group's slush fund.
It was Grandma and I...
who accepted the offer.
Ms. Seol...
had suggested a way we could all survive.
Either way,
I don't think Yu Gyeong's blameless.
Please wait. You'll find out soon, Mother.
Mr. Ko must know something about the real culprit.
That's why Ji Ho and Se Young took him somewhere.
And behind them...
- is the chairwoman. - Grandma?
Mr. Ko works for her, after all.
Ji Ho and Se Young couldn't have...
taken him without the chairwoman's clearance.
Grandma has decided to take Ms. Seol down?
We must stop it.
Mr. Ko's the culprit?
It could be a double-edged sword.
What are you saying?
We must tell the chairwoman and get rid of him for good!
And then we must make Ms. Seol look guilty.
Have you forgotten who Mr. Ko is?
He's the chairwoman's shadow.
He was her bodyguard and troubleshooter.
Yes. He knows the chairwoman's dark side better than anyone.
He's a card we shouldn't get rid of?
That's it. We can't get rid of him just like that.
She may trust him, but he killed her son.
She won't be able to forgive him.
If it wasn't Yu Gyeong, it'd be the chairwoman.
Ma Hyun Duk.
To clear yourself of the dishonor that you killed your own son,
you'll put the blame on Seol Yu Gyeong?
Do you think I'll fall for that trick?
Mr. Ko.
Mr. Ko?
It's long past my bedtime, so where is he?
Sung Jae!
Hey.
Mr. Ko's missing.
He's missing? What do you mean by that?
What are you talking about?
Send out the boys and find him. You must find him.
- I will. - He's missing?
He's...
Ma Hyun Duk. We need to talk.
How dare you show up here drunk?
Ma Hyun Duk.
You need to change.
You're out of your mind.
Would you be able to stay sane if you were me?
Your son and I...
were driving along when we were in a car crash.
I survived and Min Sung didn't.
If we'd both died,
I wouldn't have to be in this much pain.
I wouldn't have to hate you this much!
Why couldn't you have been a little nicer to Min Sung?
He never felt loved...
and he died a lonely son.
Even if you weren't the one who tampered with the brakes,
you were responsible for Min Sung's death!
Yes, you're right.
Do you think a mother who buried a son is left unscathed?
Do you think...
I led a happy life, trying so hard not to crumble?
I'm not in the mood for your drunken rambling. Go home.
Mother. I hate you so much.
I resent you.
Fine. If you hate and resent me that much,
let's not meet again.
Don't come here again.
No, I'll come over whenever my hatred riles up.
I'll come each time I get angry...
and I'll scream at you.
Goodbye. Sleep well.
Mr. Ko.
Are you awake?
Take a sip.
Hey.
I quenched your thirst.
How about we get talking?
Why did you bring me here?
Yoo Ji Ho. Are you actually a chief prosecutor?
What are you playing at?
Come on, we're experts in our own right.
On the outside, you're the chairwoman's loyal right-hand man,
but in reality, you serve Seol Yu Gyeong.
That's what I think you really are.
When I heard...
you had passed Hye Soo the actual DNA test results,
I was puzzled at first.
You knew the truth about something Ms. Seol doesn't,
and you did something the chairwoman would never have ordered?
I wondered what you really were.
Let's go to your office.
Don't try to waste your time here.
Do things by the law.
Yes, I will, but before that,
I need you to do something for me.
Do you?
What is it?
Once you come to the Prosecutor's Office, ask for me, as planned.
And then...
say Seol Yu Gyeong was behind Yoo Min Sung's accident.
Say she gave the order.
Darn you.
Who knows?
Then you might get out on probation...
and the chairwoman might forgive you.
That will never happen.
When Jung Hye Soo and Cha Kang Ju were 12,
the moment you switched the DNA test results,
for whatever reason, you betrayed Seol Yu Gyeong.
Now it's not about betrayal. It's a matter of survival.
So what if you save Ms. Seol?
The chairwoman will kill you anyway.
Don't you think you need to get out of this alive first?
(Seoul Family Court)
(Confirmation of Consensual Divorce)
(Wife: Seol Yu Gyeong)
(Seol Yu Gyeong)
(Korea Correctional Service)
Are you serious?
Do you want a divorce?
The malicious comments and gossip damaged your reputation enough.
And now I'm here for inciting murder.
What could be more humiliating for you?
You'll divorce me for me?
Yes.
I see you're very upset...
that I'm not doing much to help.
You know I can't spring you free just because you're my wife.
What would the public think?
You must be impartial. I get that.
If you're that understanding, why don't you see how I feel?
It was quite upsetting.
I should've been your first call the moment you got arrested.
That would've only put you on the spot.
The media would say you were involved as well.
You really are so considerate.
You know how much I love you.
And you want to leave me?
Bear with me.
Do you think...
I'd let you end up in prison?
You are righteous and full of integrity,
and you're the Minister of Justice.
There's no way I'll be found guilty with nothing but suspicion.
I'll be released soon enough...
without you having to help.
Is there any news? Still nothing from Mr. Ko?
The chairwoman sent out all her bodyguards to look,
but they couldn't find him.
Se Young must know something.
Hye Soo. I'll talk to her.
At work, you're Stella Jung. Too many eyes are on you.
What should I do?
We must find Ms. An.
She might know where Mr. Ko is.
Okay. I'll get on that.
Sure. Thanks.
The person is unable...
Darn it.
I wonder what he did to Mr. Ko.
Are they still in the warehouse?
(Staff Only, Safety First)
What happened?
Where is he if he's not here?
The person is unable...
Come on.
Why won't he answer his phone?
Is there where Mr. Ko was?
In Ha. What are you doing here?
I wanted to chat.
Why did you follow me down here?
I got suspicious.
Where's Mr. Ko?
Why would you ask me that?
Because you and Ji Ho have him somewhere.
What? Are you saying we abducted him?
"Abduct?"
That's exactly it.
I might report you for libel. Darn you.
Something definitely smells.
I found her through the secretary hotline.
Why ruin my holiday to drag me here?
Where's Mr. Ko?
I don't know.
He told me last night that he was with you.
He said he'd agreed to meet Prosecutor Yoo,
but then the line went dead.
I'd been drugged.
I woke up in Mr. Ko's car.
I was alone and Mr. Ko didn't pick up.
That's all I know.
Why did you give a false statement?
I only told the truth.
You lied to me three years ago too.
As I lay there dying, you said...
I have a message from Ms. Seol.
"Hye Soo, this is the end for us."
"In the afterlife, forget my face and my name."
You said that and made me think Ms. Seol tried to kill me.
I just do what I'm told.
Back then, you obeyed Ji Ho who had the chairwoman's blessing.
Do you know how much I suffered?
Knowing Ms. Seol was my mother...
drove me even deeper into despair.
Who was it this time? Who gave the order?
It would be the master I serve.
Your master?
Se Young?
You're a minister who must have a lot to do,
and yet you spared the time to play chess with me.
Please don't get angry with me.
I just got kicked in the side...
by my angelic wife.
Yu Gyeong kicked you?
I got the divorce papers in the mail.
That can't be her priority if she's in detention.
It's one or the other.
I'll go on my knees and escort her back home.
"Escort her home?"
Or teach her a lesson...
so she never thinks of trying to divorce me again.
You wouldn't let the love of your life...
do time in prison for that, would you?
There's a saying that good medicine is bitter to the taste.
I'm thinking she needs to be put in her place.
Ma'am, I apologize for being absent without reporting back.
I have something to take care of.
I'll return soon.
What? To testify?
Go ahead with it.
Did you...
send Ko Sung Jae to see my son-in-law?
Mr. Ko works for me.
If he went to see Ji Ho,
he must have a good enough reason.
Did he say he'd do as you want?
Yes, things are going as planned. Don't worry.
You didn't answer your phone and the warehouse was empty.
I thought something had gone wrong.
Make it look like Mom...
Make it look like Ms. Seol...
gave the order to kill Yoo Min Sung.
Don't mess up.
Jung Hye Soo!
You'll make him say he witnessed the instigation?
She's still your mom.
How could you turn your mom into a murderer?
She's no longer my mom. She's yours.
I'm not yet able to call her that.
I can't acknowledge her yet.
But how could you do this to her?
She believed you were her own and raised you.
She even made me do time for you, not knowing I was her daughter.
- How could you do this? - That's why it hurts worse.
It's harder on me.
It hurts me to death!
Mom pushed me away.
She told me to leave.
She told me never to call her "Mom" again.
She called me evil.
You should go on your knees and beg.
- What? - Why are you trying to bring her down...
when you still love her?
How could you of all people do that?
Don't try to lecture me.
You want to ruin anyone who gives you a hard time.
Yes.
Even if that person's the mom you love the most in the world?
Yes!
You don't deserve to be Mom's daughter.
No daughter in the world...
would drive their mom to ruin.
It's not because you're unrelated.
Your heart and soul...
are not like Mom's at all.
- In Ha. - Hey.
What's this?
I think Mr. Ko left this on purpose...
so you'd find it.
It's a recording of his conversation with Ji Ho.
I'm going to have dinner with my mom. Just the two of us for once.
Are you jealous?
Of course not. Enjoy yourself.
You knew the truth about something Ms. Seol doesn't,
and you did something the chairwoman would never have ordered?
I wondered what you really were.
Let's go to your office.
Don't try to waste your time here.
Do things by the law.
Once you come to the Prosecutor's Office, ask for me, as planned.
Does that mean Mr. Ko hurt my dad?
Say Seol Yu Gyeong was behind Yoo Min Sung's accident.
Say she gave the order.
Now it's not about betrayal. It's a matter of survival.
So what if you save Ms. Seol?
The chairwoman will kill you anyway.
Don't you think you need to get out of this alive first?
Yoo Ji Ho.
You're a chief prosecutor and you do this?
I will see that you crash and burn.
(Prosecutor's Office)
Ko Sung Jae.
Four years ago, on the day of Yoo Min Sung's inauguration,
you saw Seol Yu Gyeong...
tell someone on the phone to tamper with...
the brakes of Yoo Min Sung's car?
Is the question too hard to understand?
I'll paraphrase it.
Did Seol Yu Gyeong...
order Yoo Min Sung to be killed?
What do you think you're doing?
Do as you were told.
Oh, sure. Fine.
Okay, I'll ask you again, Mr. Ko.
Did you witness...
Seol Yu Gyeong give someone the order...
to kill Yoo Min Sung?
No.
Vice-chairwoman Seol Yu Gyeong...
was locked up for something she didn't do.
I killed Yoo Min Sung.
What nonsense is this?
He came in as a witness and he just confessed?
Whose scenario is...
Ko Sung Jae.
Are you kidding me? You dare toy with me?
How dare you?
Yoo Ji Ho. Check in case the camera's on.
What?
Do you think I swapped just Jung Hye Soo and Cha Kang Ju's DNA results?
I was given the order to turn Kang Ji Ho into Yoo Ji Ho.
I'm the troubleshooter who got that done.
Unless you want to go back to being Kang Ji Ho...
let Ms. Seol go.
I hope you got it,
Chief Prosecutor Yoo.
What's this?
Listen to it first, then decide.
Once you come to the Prosecutor's Office, ask for me, as planned.
Say Seol Yu Gyeong was behind Yoo Min Sung's accident.
Say she gave the order.
So what if you save Ms. Seol?
The chairwoman will kill you anyway.
Don't you think you need to get out of this alive first?
The person...
who killed my son...
is Sung Jae?
Ji Ho tried to cover that up...
to make Seol Yu Gyeong look guilty?
Yes.
What is it you want?
I want Ms. Seol to be released.
Why should I do that?
What do I get in return?
You can let Mr. Ko go to prison,
or you can hear why he had to do what he did...
and then decide to forgive him.
You'll let me do what I want with Sung Jae...
in return for Yu Gyeong's release?
Yes.
(Seoul Western Detention)
(Game of Witches)
I must find out...
who framed me for killing Yoo Min Sung.
The person who framed Seol Yu Gyeong is the culprit?
A man I trusted killed my son?
Ko Sung Jae knows a secret no one can know.
I never let a traitor live.
I can't let him live.
(Subtitles are provided by KOCOWA.)