Although Kang Cheol, whose entire family was mysteriously murdered,
was framed as the suspect for murdering his family, he was ultimately found innocent.
Ten years later, he had become super rich and his personal assets reached ₩ 800 billion ($800M USD).
He forms 'W' broadcasting station to find the true murderer of his family.
But, he mysteriously was attacked.
His life is saved by a woman who suddenly appeared.
Oh Yeon Joo, where are you?
She merely left her business card with Oh Yeon Joo printed on it and disappeared.
Move! Move out of the way!
Whenever Kang Cheol's life was in danger, Oh Yeon Joo appeared to save him.
Are you okay?
The world that you live in is...
You're inside a cartoon.
You are that cartoon's main character.
Kang Cheol realizes he is the main character of a cartoon.
In that moment,
Kang Cheol's world stops.
Huh? What's wrong with this? Why is it doing this?
Kang Cheol comes out into reality.
- W -
Watch out! Be careful!
Are you trying to get yourself killed or something?
Aren't you going to do it right?!
Jerk! If you want to die, you can die on your own!
- W -
What do you think you are doing?!
Episode 5
Sold 10,000 copies! The last episode - July - W -
Is it me?
Kang Cheol - Main Character: Born in 1987 in Seoul/i>
Yoon So Hui - Female Lead: Kang Cheol's High School Friend<
Seo Do Yoon - Kang Cheol's Bodyguard/Right Hand Man
Son Hyeon Seok - Producer of the Crime Investigation Program and Kang Cheol's father's friend
There's a 75 second limit, but it seems like he's very nervous.
He has to empty his mind.
- He has to shoot! - 3, 2, 1...
10.9! It's 10.9! Athlete Kang Cheol has achieved 10.9!
I'm home.
Mom... Mom!
Dad!
Now, we have all the evidence. Until when are you going to keep your mouth shut?
It's always the one who succeeds at an early age who are the problem, right?
Why? Did you learn how to shoot so you could kill your family?
What are you looking at, you psychopath!
You crazy bastard!
How can that be the conclusion?!
Han Cheol Ho, former prosecutor, joined the Changmin Party today and declared his intention to enter politics.
Rebuilding the social justice that has crumbled away
is the desire of our citizens.
I will look only at you, our citizens,
and keep that promise.
What?
- What are you talking about? - Take a look.
They said the Co-CEO was that kid, Kang Cheol.
I wondered if he drank alcohol and died in an alley or something.
Apparently he still collaborated with his colleagues after he withdrew from his school.
In order to avoid the media, he kept his name hidden.
His real name was confirmed yesterday
This must be the end of the world.
A murderer who should rot in prison for life,
became a company's CEO?
Do Yoon!
Why are you trying to learn from me?
Well... You said you were the best. I like to be first.
But why? You have a lot of money. You could just have a lot of guards.
There are moments that can't be solved with money.
Also, I feel like I'm going to get a lot of enemies soon.
Shall we go?
Do I need to wear this?
One, two!
That's right. Again!
Dodge, dodge!
Come! That's right! That's right!
You can do it.
Last night, a wanted criminal, the big boss of White Sand gang,
Park Eun Hyeok, was arrested by the police force.
Mr. Park who escaped the hands of the police
was found to have yet again been caught by J&Global's CEO Kang Cheol.
Take a look at the videos that citizens filmed themselves.
This kid is putting on a show! All of it is a show!
Whether it is a show or not, public sentiment is no joke right now.
Kang Cheol is resolving all of the cases that even the police took their hands off of.
On top of that,
On top of that he is financing it in its entirety.
Assemblyman, this jerk is buying public sentiment with money.
Kang Cheol is the culprit without a doubt, which is why I prosecuted him!
Assemblyman Han, this is not something you should get angry over. You need to keep your cool.
As Kang Cheol's popularity increases, your support is going down.
It's in precisely an inverse proportion!
During the past two years, due to your incompetent investigation,
more than 80% of people are saying that you wrongfully man-hunted Kang Cheol.
This is not the time to get angry. It's time to make a plan.
You're our Party's face.
But,
if Kang Cheol finds the real murderer,
what will become of us?
How would he ever find the real culprit,
when Kang Cheol is the real culprit?
Excuse me, Customer. Are you okay?
Our business is dfor today.
We have to close.
Does this book
sell well?
Is it popular?
Yes, of course. It's been a bestseller for over 5 years.
I see.
That's interesting.
We'll put it in a bag for you! Just wait a moment.
I don't need it. It's a story I'm familiar with.
I think I'm going to falter if I hear that one more time.
Hello? How did it go?
I tried calling someone to fix it, but there's nothing wrong with it.
There's no cause for it. There is no problem with the server,either.
-Noona, nothing's going on, right? -I'm at the hospital.
I just came out of the workroom. It's so scary staying there alone like the house is possessed.
I'm going to go back in after Teacher gets back.
Okay, do that.
Professor Oh, room #3 is ready for you.
Hey Oh Yeon Joo, you!
Did you perhaps get engaged?
Engaged?
Well, someone came looking for you, saying that you were his fiancee.
Fiancee? Who?
I don't know. He didn't say his name, just said that you'd know if I tell you he is your fiance.
What? I guess they confused me with someone else.
It's not, right?
Whom would I get engaged to? There needs to be someone in order for me to get engaged.
Yeah, right. Right. There needs to be someone.
What's with that guy? Was he drunk? Do well, anyway.
I think you were mistaken. You came for the wrong person.
Seok Beom.
Do you really know each other?
Are you doing well?
I was curious about the aftermath of the jailbreaker. You look good.
How... Did I get dragged in again?
No I didn't, it can't be. This is our hospital.
Seok Beom is here too!
I came.
I came here. To your world.
How? H-How?
The world that I lived in stopped.
What did you say?
It all stopped. Except for me.
So I came out, leaving everything.
I don't know why I'm the only one living,
but according to you, I'm the main character.
Maybe it's the main character's special privilege.
I'm here after reading all 33 parts of the W series with all the cash that I had on me.
and I understand now.
How Oh Yeon Joo knew so well how I lived.
You were probably a die-hard fan, while watching over me for seven years.
Do you know
how much I am regretting now?
I should've listened to your warning back there, Oh Yeon Joo.
- Answer me. - I can't.
I told you. You'll become unhappy.
The truth
was something unimaginable.
I should have listened to you then.
Your silence back there, Oh Yeon Joo.
I now understand how much consideration you had for me in doing so.
That's why I came. Because I wanted to say my last farewell to you.
Thank you so much for doing your your best to show as much consideration for me as possible.
You are a really good person,
and you have a right to become a good doctor.
- Doctor Oh, Professor Park is here now. - Okay, I'll be right there.
I guess it's busy. Go back in.
Are you going somewhere?
Where are you going? Just wait here.
It's not a big surgery, so it will be over quickly. Alright?
Don't do anything, and just stay here. Wait for me, and think of me as your guardian.
Are you imitating me right now?
No, you don't have anything right now. You don't have money, or a house, or an ID.
I know how hopeless you feel right now.
But in this world, I'm a real doctor,
and even though it can't be compared to you, I have money and a house.
So, just trust me and wait. Until I come back out.
Stay right here. And don't go anywhere.
Okay?
Listen to me, please.
It won't take long. It'll be over in about 40 minutes.
Why are you like this?
If I were to tell you how I feel after reading all the comic books,
my misery multiplied about 99 times,
but there's one good thing about that.
It felt as if I was always the only one at a disadvantage, but
I also saw your feelings too.
So, it's best you don't say what you mean.
Wait here.
Meanwhile, if something happens, look for Kang Seok Beom of the Thoracic Surgery Department.
He will help you if you say you are my friend. Okay?
That friend from earlier?
He acted a bit tough when I told him I was your fiancee.
He's not your boyfriend, is he?
I told you I didn't have a boyfriend.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
The name Oh Yeon Joo is the problem.
Whenever Oh Yeon Joo butts in everything turns out wrong.
Look at W.
Because of that shitty character, Oh Yeon Joo, the plot is going downhill.
It's not just a normal hill, but it's climbing up something as big as the Himalayas,
while the other Oh Yeon Joo is about to burn the Great Myeong Sei University Hospital into ashes...
You're dead. See me after we're done.
Pardon...?
Yes.
Oh Seong Moo
[Minimalism, simplicity, modern]
Seo Do Yoon
Yoon Soo Hui
Kang Cheol
Excuse me! Excuse me, get ahold of yourself! Can you hear me?
Excuse me!
Get out of the way.
Are you okay?
I wish that you have a happy ending.
I'm your fan, honestly.
- W -
[Surgery in progress]
- Good job. - Good job.
- Where are you going? - Pardon?
Didn't you hear me say that you're dead after surgery ends?
Ah... I didn't forget...
But where are you going? Come here.
Right now? Professor, there's someone outside who's waiting for me...
Oh Yeon Joo, change your position. 1. 2.
Hey, you naturally had no manners before, but
I thought about when you officially started acting up more and
it was after I said I was a fan of W.
Since then you kept pushing my buttons acting out a deathwish.
You! How dare you rely on the support of your father to rampage around as you wish!
It's nothing like that...
Then what is it? Huh?
Also, because I'm already talking about it
Pointlessly because of it, the stress is not a joke.
Why is your dad being like this, really?
I mean why did your dad suddenly put in a ridiculous romance in the middle of searching for the culprit?
What is this! He even forgot what kind of genre his work belongs to!
Can't that happen?
What are you saying?
How can a person just be working? I think that's more unrealistic.
A hero can also fall in love!
No matter how important revenge is, there can be times where love goes beyond that.
Kang Cheol is also human!
Are you acting up right now because I just called out your father?
No.
Also, what kind of love is that? That's only some (A romantic something is going on. So abbreviated as "some").
If I were to use your guys' term, 'some' is the what's going on between Kang Cheol and the cesspool girl that has the same name as you.
It could be love, too! Why are you saying it's not love?
Look at you.
How does that look as just 'some' to you? I don't see it that way.
Hey... what's been done?
Kang Cheol, hasn't said anything.
Has he said he loved her before?
Well, must he actually say it aloud?
Then what do you know?
What do you know?
Even though I know... I won't tell you.
Oh! Spoiler! She must have heard something.
Is that it?
Huh? It can't be! Our Kang Cheol and that cesspool woman isn't getting together, right?
No way! That's going crazy! This can never happen!
Why? Why is that going crazy? This could happen.
Hey! Does that make sense? It'd be normal to marry Yoon So Hui!
Why not? Why does he have to get married to Yoon So Hee?
Hey, they've been together since high school. It makes sense for the story to end with them getting married.
No! That's not!
Does it say somewhere that you have to get married with someone that's always next to you?
Why do you think Kang Cheol likes Yoon So Hui?
Ah... That's right. It's certain that Yoon So Hui has a one-sided love, since it came out many times.
But! There had never been a scene that shows
Kang Cheol thinks of Yoon So Hui as more than a friend. I remember everything.
Must you know that with words, with words?
Even without all those sayings it's naturally supposed to work out that way, idiot. Can you just see that?
"So Hui, I haven't realized it before, but the person I truly love is you."
Then he should confess, kiss her and end it there! That's the formula!
There's no formula with love!
Why do you interpret Kang Cheol your own way, when you don't even know him that well?
Kang Cheol likes me! I'm sure of it!
Dr Oh.
You said that, Kang Cheol likes you?
No, no... you know my character in W has the same name as me...
You're the exact same level as my daughter.
My daughter is in middle school, but her symptoms are identical to yours:
8th grade disease (teenage self-centeredness), and even fangirling disease.
Should I introduce you to her? You guys want to have a patient to patient meeting or something?
No, I'm fine.
Why? I think you guys will have a fire like friendship.
Professor, I'm sorry, but I have a really urgent situation.
Can you scold me more again later?
When did I scold you? You kept sharply retorting back to me by yourself.
I'm sorry.
Hey, hey, Oh Yeon Joo...where are you going?! Oh Yeon Joo!
Where did he go? I told him to stay here.
Your silence from that time, Oh Yeon Joo, indicated to me how much consideration you had for me.
That's why I came, because I wanted to say my last farewell.
Dad
The call cannot be connected as dialed. It will be transferred to voicemail...
Dad, where are you?
Teacher, where are you?
I think Noona Yeon Joo has been sucked into the comic again.
This is Team Manager Park. I am requesting a confirmation if what you sent this morning was the edited version
because the content was a bit weird.
Since I couldn't contact you I uploaded it.
Teacher, have you seen W?
Fortunately Noona is fine, but the story line can't be fixed.
Please, please contact me.
Yeon Joo (1)
Dad, where are you?
Yeon Joo
Writer Oh Seong Moo?
Hello? Dad?
Dad, where are you?
Hello?
As expected it was you.
I thought it would be you.
We've already met a few times. You remember, right?
Come out over here because we have a lot to talk about.
How...
How did I come into this world, you ask?
You should explain that to me since they say you created me.
I said, come over here.
Have a seat.
Dad. Dad!
Get up.
You should thank your daughter.
I'm treating you nicely for Oh Yeon Joo's sake.
Because while you were so crazy about trying to kill me,
your daughter put in all her effort to save me.
Hello?
Soo Bong, where are you right now?
I'm at the neighborhood game room. I'm trying to kill some time.
Hurry and go to the workshop. I think something's going to happen.
What will?
Kang Cheol. Kang Cheol, went to Dad.
What? Wha...what does that mean?
Kang Cheol is here right now. I said he's with Dad right now.
I mean...what does that...Kang Cheol is here?!
i said run to the workshop this instant! Tell Kang Cheol to wait and that I'll be there.
I have something to say, so please tell him to not do anything and just wait. Got it?
Hello, Noona. It's that...Noona?<
Kang Cheol, Kang Cheol is here? Why did he come here?
Ahjusshi! Here's the payment for cubicle number 31!
You're bleeding.
I guess you're not invincible here.
You're just a normal human being that hurts and bleeds, too.
This is normal. This way it's fair.
I was always the only one who bled, died, and was wronged.
The first person I grabbed unintentionally, wasn't Oh Yeon Joo.
It was you.
Help me please.
Please call 119.
Let's stop.
Let's stop this now!
please delete this segment.
No!
The person who injured me the most wasn't that bastard, but it was you.
And then your daughter appeared, and saved me.
No one knew...that there were two culprits who stabbed me.
I kept my mouth shut because there was no evidence, but I knew intuitively.
That the man who wanted to kill me with no logical reason was you.
Although, I had no idea what kind of existence you were back then.
I guess you created me here
while moving around those measly fingers of yours. You probably deliberated on how to kill me here,
since after finally earning your taste of money, honor, and success, you didn't need me anymore.
You created me, abused me, and made my life a living rollercoaster.
In return you succeeded and received recognition.
Now, you want to kill me by stabbing with a knife, injecting poison, and hitting me with a truck.
And because drawing them out wasn't enough, you held a knife in your own hands and stabbed me yourself.
Cold-heartedly and mercilessly, even when I pleaded for you to save me.
While I was here, I found out more about you. How famous you are
that just by typing in your name, the Internet was flooded with information about you.
Stop drinking already!
I don't want to drink either. Do you think I drink it because I like it? It's because I'm miserable!
-You're drinking because you're miserable? -Yeah.
Then I should drink as a pair should! Alongside you!
Then drink some, drink some.
This is so vexing!
I'm really, really, sick of this too!
Just stop it! Please!
Oh Seong Moo was an incompetent head of the family.
He was a no named cartoonist until after the age of 50.
A human being with no self-determination, that cannot live without alcohol.
You were drenched with inferiority, a losing mentality seeped into your bones.
On top of that you are now old.
So you created me. Someone that was young, successful, wealthy, and famous.
A person with determination like no other.
Someone who was the complete opposite of you. A strong person.
You even named me Kang Cheol (tempered steel). That's what it said in the news article.
You found vicarious happiness through me. An escape from reality.
But that didn't last long either. Your wife couldn't take it anymore and left.
You quickly hit a wall and was devastated. You were that kind of a guy from the beginning.
A wad of inferiority with low-self confidence that quickly falls even with something very small.
So you killed me off.
Different from your original plan. You didn't even have the courage to kill yourself, yet you did it to me.
Because I was the only thing you had control over in the entire world.
From that moment on, something was very strange.
I kept dreaming the same nightmare:
Drowning to death in the Han River.
I wondered why that was,
but it was that I really died at that time.
Before you capriciously saved me, once again!
I didn't save you. You were the one that persisted on.
I killed you there.
But you didn't give up. Saying that you were going to live.
So I let you live. Because my heart went soft.
Because I cared for you.
That was the problem.
That was when you turned into a monster. Like now.
Yeah, you're right! I gave everything to you!
All of the things that I've ever wanted, I gave them all to you!
But what happened? With the brain I gave you,
you came to know about this world!
Does that make sense? You're not even a person!
You kept bothering me, and eventually, you even ended up here!
Sometimes the panels just move by themselves.
Also, there are times where I wake up in the morning and there's a whole other drawing drawn.
At first, I thought I was crazy, and went to see a psychologist.
Hey, have I gone crazy?
No, it's the alcohol, you rascal!
You're not even a kid.
Even though I talked to my friends, no one believed me.
I was so scared that I even tried running away.
I couldn't.
Because of Yeon Joo.
Dad!
I wasn't able to do anything for her while she grew up.
Yeon Joo.
I'm sorry.
So I told myself to get through it a little more.
People liked it, and it made money.
If I earn just a bit more I can open her own practice for her
and I could assure she spends a lifetime without ever worrying about money.
Do you think you're the only one who had nightmares? I also had nightmares everyday!
A nightmare that you would come see me like this.
Although it was hell to drag you this far
I still persisted by telling myself that the end wasn't far.
The determination that I wouldn't have to draw you once it ended.
But, you didn't die again and dragged me and even Yeon Joo in.
So, I stabbed you because I thought there would be no end to this curse.
You are a fantasy.
You're nothing! You're just a character I created!
But, why are you here in front of me right now and pretending to be human?!
Why are you dragging my daughter in and creating the story to your own accord?!
You're just a character! You understand?!
A fantasy that I created!
You're telling me that you'd shoot me with that?
Go ahead and shoot, if you're going to.
Do you think you can pull the trigger?
No. You can never shoot.
Because you're a character that cannot murder from the get-go.
Because I've predetermined you to be a righteous guy.
A guy that lives according to the law and ethics.
You have to carry out even the revenge in accordance with the proper law.
That is how you have become a hero, and people like you.
You are a guy who cannot shoot a completely unarmed, powerless old man
just because you are angry.
That is the price of your predetermination.
Do you believe you're here on your own accord?
Your own free will?
No. That is all predetermination as well.
I made you the man of extraordinary predetermination.
The kind of will that would endure and break through every difficulty.
The issue is that I've overdone the predetermination portion.
I'm saying that the issue is that I've made you such a strong guy that would reject even death should he not comprehend it himself.
However, that will in its entirety was made by me.
You have never once side-stepped from my predetermination.
If you want to shoot me, shoot.
Dad, please don't. Just leave it alone, please.
Can you shoot?
I said TRY SHOOTING!
Sit and draw what you first planned.
So what you're saying is that you broke your plan then made me commit suicide,
and as I rejected it, everything became tangled.
Then if you draw up the story as it was first planned, I, too, would comprehend it.
Then everything will go back to the way it was.
Isn't that so?
My friends remain there.
Hyung!
Not living nor dead.
I can't allow them to remain in that plight.
I'm sure your appearance in this world caused it.
Find the method, not cause!
Draw. Revert it.
I don't know.
- What do you mean you don't know? - There's nothing I can do.
I can't even submit the ending as I wish.
What do you want me to do when the story only progresses when you have to comprehend it?
You know the kind of ending that I can comprehend.
It's simple. Find the real culprit,
and make him pay the price, and live an ordinary life.
That is all.
Real culprit is all you need to let me know. As you say, my will to find the culprit is so strong,
that I have come all this way, unable to die.
Draw the real culprit's face. In a way that I can remember.
Draw.
I don't have it.
- What? - There's no real culprit.
That was just a supposition in the beginning.
A predetermination that existed to make the protagonist strong...
Mo-mo-om.
It is a common predetermination found in hero genre.
A traumatic scar from his youth.
Oh Victory! Korea! Oh! (Crying Nut - "Oh Fighting Korea")
Oh Victory to...
I also do not know who the culprit is.
Are you... seriously feeding that line to me?
Hero is made when [the crime] isn't solved, you see?
If you catch the culprit, the story ends then.
If happy, who'd ask to suffer all that hardship?
That is why there is not a single evidence.
Since there wasn't one to begin with.
You say you don't know?
There's no culprit?
After having killed my entire family,
after framing me, putting me in jail, even then you say you don't know?
Without a doubt, they died...
in front of me, pitifully.
My mom, dad, and younger siblings... I saw all of their corpses with my won eyes, yet you say the shooter doesn't exist?
Ajussi, hurry please. Hurry!
That is why you wanted to kill me?
Since you can never give a happy ending.
If this incident hasn't happened, you'd have continued to draw this to raise your ratings until your dying day.
As for me, I would be chasing after the culprit I can't catch,
daily suffering from insomnia, getting hurt, and broken, without knowing the reason.
Suffering endlessly, repeating the same tasks.
Have you
any idea what I've suffered through?
You have been making me suffer interminably
through things you couldn't have withstood even for a day,
acting god with those measly fingers
without bearing any responsibility...
When I remember each and every suffering...
That is fiction.
That is the duty of the author.
No.
You are not a mere author.
You tried to kill me even after you saw me live and breathing.
That is your true self.
Cruel and violent.
[Those traits] didn't show because you held a pen instead of a knife.
You're fundamentally a son of a b****,
and might as well have committed the murder.
No. No. No, no, no. Please!
T-t-t-t-teacher!
Teacher!
Find a way.
Whatever it takes.
Until I return.
Consider yourself lucky.
It's not good luck.
Since you couldn't shoot me anyway.
That is the price you pay for your predetermined character.
Walk through the dreamlike times...
the fact that we're connected to each other
whether I go to you
whether you come to me
towards under the same sky
W
Why did you make him live then? You should have just let him die. Because you let him live
didn't things turn out like this, Noona?
To the protagonist who became the murder while finding the culprit,
there must be no more fitting ending then this.
When the cartoon reads "the end" what happens after?
By the way, what would this thing called "the end" really be?
Help save Gang Cheol. Save him!
I think we can revive him!