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[Episode 11]

Look for an old woman in a black dress and a white hat.

Yeah?

Reservation for James Dean.

- You mind? - Nope.

You saw a lady in a black dress and a white hat?

Couldn't say.

One o'clock departure.

Where is he?

Well, well. You got cash, pay up, huh?

Relax. I told you I'm in the money now.

Not bad. Pretty fancy pimp you got here.

- Let's go. - Hold up. Mija.

- Mija? - You're not going anywhere.

- Not till you pay your drug money. - Deal with it.

Sir.

- This way. - You kidding?

Pay up or we're going with, got that?

What the...

Come on.

Get in.

Jihun! There. That one.

Where are you taking me?

It's me.

Isn't this the way to the airport?

Chungki, it's me.

Run a check on a Kang Mija and block her passport.

Already done. Drugs, vice, 4 or 5 other things.

But how did you...

She's heading to the airport.

- Hey, red, red! - Jihun, stop, stop!

That way, go, go!

Well?

She's gone.

Jihun didn't see her?

She didn't take his call, just like she said.

Okay, good. Thanks.

How do you know her?

She related to the Johnny case? How'd you know she's leaving?

- I don't know either. - What does that mean?

- Kang Mija called me first. - How does she know you?

- Exactly. - What did she say?

Mary Kim. That's all she said.

Mary? She said, Mary Kim?

We asked the Shanghai Airport to track her fake passport, Lee Oksun.

They say she just left the terminal.

- The Shanghai police... - Done. They want an official request.

She'll be gone by that time.

This country, that country, what is it with all these documents?

Mr. Han, how are you involved in this?

You want to tell her?

Sir?

What's the deal? Mr. Om forges passports?

I got a hunch. Mr. Om? Someone's pulling his strings.

Someone at JK, I'm telling ya.

Don't tell Chungki you saw Mr. Om there.

Huh? What now?

I'm not sure myself. But I've got to find out first.

Well?

She'll switch passports in Shanghai and go on to Macau.

And Jihun?

Yes.

What? Han Jihun?

Okay. They may know her alias. Get a new passport.

What? What about Jihun?

He was at the casino. He may have seen me.

If he did...

Don't worry. If he doesn't meet Mija, he can't connect us to her.

You know Jihun. He never lets go.

Jihun.

Still looking for this Mary Kim?

Yeah.

You have a minute?

Why turn down the Blue House?

Ms. Gong wants to drive me away from Ms. Kim.

Tell her not to bother.

- No ambition, just blind loyalty? - Listen rich chick.

I don't want much. You don't know what it's like not having a family.

For me, there's nothing more important than looking after the only family I got.

Family?

You mean Insuk?

You're hopeless. Completely hopeless.

Be that as it may. I'm interested in Mr. Om's profile.

I've noticed since coming here that getting him on my side is half the battle.

Not because of Insuk?

Not because you're jealous of how he's always with her?

Oh, could be. So will you help me or not?

It's not easy to get along in this house if you mess with Mr. Om.

The only one scarier than him is my mom.

I thought you were the scariest. Clawing your way past your brothers.

You are spending a lot of time there lately?

Mr. Om.

Please get to the point. I've got a lot of work to do.

I have a lot to say myself.

Come with me.

I didn't win so now I'm old news, is that it?

Any way I look at it, it's not you.

You're not one to change sides easily.

If this is about the bugging incident, you know why I did it.

No. I don't know.

No one but you knew I bugged K, right?

I bribed the intelligence staff and learned something quite unexpected.

The one who ordered my rooms bugged wasn't K.

It was you. I want to know why.

I only serve Ms. Gong.

Indeed? No other reason?

Believe what you want, I don't care.

What I want?

Shall I tell you what I want?

K. What does she mean to you?

Are you questioning my relations with her?

Yes. Why do you help her?

You ask why?

Let's call it a pity.

Pity?

Yes. I'm a man after all.

Looking after her, watching her, certain feelings developed.

I'm weak, but to suppose...

I got it. Stop.

You should go straight to Ms. Gong.

Mr. Om, I swear.

You know that there's nothing Ms. Gong doesn't know in the estate.

You should tell her everything before I do.

Including about me.

You think I won't? I can do what I want now.

I have nothing to fear, not with the divorce card.

Oh?

And what about the indignity of being an alcoholic and a scandal with a butler?

Do you want that out?

I've been here for 20 years.

I'm fed up with washing this family's dirty laundry.

End it, I don't mind.

If you want to keep me quiet you'll check that attitude.

I'm not the Yunso I was 10 years ago.

I'm not the weak Yunso begging you to fix her prenup.

You know what Mother's been thinking lately?

I know.

Then you know she's named my husband as her successor?

Congratulations.

So now I'm testing you.

A test to see just how loyal you really are.

Then you'd better run and tell.

Beat a dog quick when it doesn't obey.

Sure, I'm telling Mother.

It's one-sided.

My pity for her, my compassion.

If that's any comfort to you.

Thanks. I'm overwhelmed.

I'll tell you something even more surprising.

I still pity you, even now.

Mary.

Kido.

Wow, you look so cool.

They said you're doing well. It's true.

Not really.

What? If you're on the Eighth Army staff even the president can't scare you.

I knew you'd do well.

Where are you going?

Ah, delivering teddy bears.

Bears?

Sunae's making a little extra money.

Jack, David, Mark.

A guy named Wilshire ordered this one.

Can I help?

- Let me deal with these documents... - No, I'm fine.

It's easier than delivering milk.

Not that that was hard, either, thanks to you.

You still at Mija's?

- If you want out, I can... - Just till I graduate.

I can get a job after that.

Maybe make enough to go to nursing school.

Get me a snazzy uniform like yours.

Ah. I've got to hurry. Wilshire's waiting.

Bye bye.

Ah! If you have time, can you get some lollipops at the PX?

For Jihun.

Oh, sure.

Mom! Mommy, mommy, mommy!

Is something wrong?

Did Grandma say something else? Why are you so pale?

Mommy, you'll never guess.

I saw Dad coming out of a hotel, and you know who he was with?

I don't care. Hush.

Johnny.

Teddy bear.

Kang Mija.

Mr. Om.

Does it end there? If not, who's behind Mr. Om?

Ms. Gong.

Yunso.

Kijung.

Hyunjin.

[Insuk...]

Where's Ms. Kim?

In the chapel.

With Mr. Om.

I'll deal with Yunso. Just go on as usual.

I covered it by saying I pitied you.

I've put you in danger, too.

I'm sorry.

Enough of that. Your pain has always been mine.

Yes, I'll see to it. I'll inform you when the meeting is set.

Kang Mija, Yunso, and Jihun.

Just when we think it's over, something else starts it all up again.

It's getting closer to Jihun.

You can trust Jihun completely. He'll try to understand.

He can't.

He's only seen the half of me that I've shown him.

That's the me he should remember. How could he understand?

But I'm not running away this time.

Not from JK, Ms. Gong or Jihun.

I'm going to give Mother...

Every bit of the humiliation and hate she gave to Dongho.

After I've done everything I can do at JK, that's when I'll tell Jihun the truth.

This is the final battle, I can feel it.

And I intend to win.

Wild animals don't attack people.

Drive them long enough and hard enough, they'll attack their hunters.

Mother treated me like an animal. It's time she paid.

I've got to see the fortune teller.

- Mr. Om was KATUSA. - KATUSA?

On the command staff of the Korean Augmentation Troops to the US Army.

At the time all the politicians sucked up to the States.

He must have been connected.

He started as my father's clerk. Mother put him over the household.

His family emigrated to the States in 1988.

To New York?

No, his parents are in Chicago.

Make the department store the holding company and put Hyunjin in charge.

Wait for now.

Nothing from the fortune teller?

He'll have an answer when he returns from the Temple of Enlightenment.

The temple?

He doesn't take this lightly.

He went there before Dongho's wedding.

At the time this is what he said.

If we can stand to accept her, fine. If not, drive her away.

I foolishly tried another way.

- Is everything ready? - Yes.

Jo Dongho forfeits all rights to inheritance upon the death of Gong Sunho.

Sign here.

And the ex post facto clause. Sign here.

- Is that it? - Yes.

[JK Medical Stock Transfer Agreement]

How could you?

I gave up my inheritance from you, not the shares I inherited from my father.

How can you steal from your own child?

Don't you know your own mother?

- You knew there'd be consequences? - Of course.

That's why I want to marry her. She's not like you.

You'll survive. You're a doctor, after all.

Just wait.

I will make sure you see how happy I am.

You'll see how miserable I make you.

I won't have any more senseless trouble.

I won't go against his predictions again.

Which way shall I go? Tell me which way the wind is blowing.

You making light of me?

Mind a little advice?

Go ahead.

Think the Auschwitz concentration camp inmates were completely miserable?

I've read a survivor's tale. A bit of bread or sunshine gave them pleasure.

Just as there's no total happiness, there's no total misery.

Total happiness, total misery.

Why not stop now?

I don't think you chose me over Yunso because of money or threats.

It's my fate, and JK's and Mother's. That's what interests you.

You're intrigued by how your earlier predictions will pan out.

You've read my work.

Yes. Your books, your lectures, people around you, everything.

The reigns of JK. What would you have me do?

Predict that JK Medical should be the new holding company.

If you want to see how all this pans out.

You told him what to say?

Yes.

The shares will transfer when he does.

We've got to act fast.

This suit will stymie the JK Group holding company.

If we win, Mother will transfer all her JK Medical shares to Byungjun.

She'll fight it.

Let me meet Dongho's friends that were going to testify.

The ones that can give JK to me.

This is a fight with JK. I'm worried they'll falter.

We should be ready for that.

JK is a dinosaur. Who wouldn't be scared?

We have to be ready in case they bolt.

How so?

I'm thinking. Who's our best bet.

You're thinking of Ms. Jin?

Mother is trying to drive a wedge between us.

We have to assume Ms. Jin isn't on my side anymore.

Then who are you thinking of?

It has to be someone inside. That's our best bet.

It's been a long time since we had a date.

So it has.

Have you missed me?

After my father died you took me under your wing.

Now with Mr. Han serving as my counsel, you must miss me.

I saw Mr. Baek here earlier. Has Mother changed her mind?

About what?

Doesn't Insuk owning shares bother her?

Setting her free is one thing. Shares are another.

She won't like it one bit.

You know most of us think you're the best choice.

Of course.

As someone who counseled you after you father passed,

here's the last bit of advice.

If you can't set things in order with Han, you'll get hit worse than you think.

What, you mean avoid each other?

I need a better hint than that.

A cicada leaves its shell and flies away.

A tactical retreat, you mean?

Exactly. The shell is JK Club. You'll have to decide where to fly.

That's all I'll say.

Has Mr. Om been bothering you?

He said something odd when you were inaugurated.

What?

Ah, never mind.

You're Director now, but he keeps sticking his nose in.

No. He's always been good to me.

Again, again. Who isn't a good person in your eyes?

Then again, if I met him outside, we might have been friends.

Just be careful.

- Of what? - I'll tell you when I know more.

Let me know if you see anyone suspicious.

Don't go at it alone, all right?

All right.

But Mr. Om, the whole family, they have a knack for reading people.

- What do you mean? - Take Ms. Gong.

She asked me about you before setting you free.

About love.

Who loves who?

If I love you.

And?

I said I'm nuts about you. Irreversible, earth-shattering.

You're my lady.

Jihun.

Well, I should have.

I'd have been out on my ear.

But I wanted to see you get some payback after all JK has done to you.

I wanted to see you stand on your own. So I made a promise I can't break.

Can't break?

When you're not the lady I think you are, when you change...

I'll take you out myself.

You really said that?

You surprised?

What, you think I'm going to assassinate you?

Eighteen years you've been cowering under them.

Everyone knows you're an angel. Why would I take you out?

Jihun, I'm no angel.

I know, you're a person.

If you're inhuman, you're a devil. If you're no angel, you're just a person.

You're nervous I'll take you out if you're not an angel, is that it?

Round the world tickets.

Round the world?

Anywhere in the world.

You were serious when you said you wanted to escape.

Anytime, anywhere, it's okay with me.

Picture perfect, remember?

Jihun.

Not yet, I know.

Ten years, 100 years, bring these to me when you change your mind.

Alright?

Jihun, not like that. Not us.

I said you'd kill him.

I won't cry with the likes of you.

If you honor this agreement, you may come to the funeral.

If not... You're on your own.

- Just go quietly. - Please...

Not Byungjun. I can't give up Byungjun.

You thought you could be Director?

This is Han Jihun with the Seoul District Attorney's office.

Mr. Han suggests I'm trying to declare you incompetent.

No, it's nothing like that.

I don't want you to see what I do to bring JK to justice.

I don't want you to condemn me.

First, what do you mean by take her out?

Murder. Lynching. Is that what you want to hear?

Remember you said it first.

How can I explain it?

Suppose I rescued you from Auschwitz.

There would be no end to your gratitude.

Then suppose you learned you were spared for medical experiments.

Nazis did that, you know.

If Ms. Kim changes, if I learned she used me...

My anger would be 100, 1,000, 10,000 times worse, don't you think?

Yeah.

Om's on the move.

Where?

Helping Ms. Kim will help you get what you want with JK.

You're absolutely sure?

I hate what happened to Dongho.

You can see for yourself, our sales last year were up 200% with individual...

Is that man involved with JK?

Mr. Choi? Why?

I just thought I'd seen him there.

He used to be with JK Medical. Why do you ask?

Ah, right. Anyway, go on.

Thank you, now as you can see...

They're all involved with JK Medical.

But what's that got to do with Mary Kim?

Mr. Choi won't help.

I understand. I have to.

We need more proof. Or I'll have to testify.

Yunso suspects something. We can't wait too long.

No. You're my final defense.

She hasn't said anything to Ms. Gong?

I doubt it.

She's got more to worry about than I do.

More?

She's got to worry about JK and Guseong. Or else she wouldn't keep quiet.

Now I've got it...

I've found the one inside the estate that will help me.

Yunso.

She hates her husband more than we know.

She's sincere with you.

I'm going to help her get what she wants.

[Guseong Headquarters]

The holding company transfer is nearly done.

Is something bothering you?

- Ma'am. - What?

This just arrived.

Your husband is a piece of work.

What now?

That's Hyunjin's friend, the reporter.

His taste is getting better.

At least he's keeping up appearances.

She's a reporter. Amoral. Anything for a story.

Even adultery if it helps her career.

But why send it to me?

Control yourself in the office.

Why? Why do you care?

Cause of the divorce?

That's absurd.

I heard you have problems, with her alcoholism

and your daughter's problems.

JK people don't get divorced over that.

You saying not to get my hopes up?

You want to take Yunso's place? Over a few romps?

Or the second K, for that matter.

You can't expect to get everything.

Reporters are saying Hyunjin is the JK dark horse.

Think you can handle her?

That's what I'm saying. No one knows Hyunjin like I do.

Think it over.

I haven't found anyone I'd trade for Yunso.

Don't kid yourself.

Don't tell me you love her.

Listen.

What exactly are you up to?

Think you can use my husband to drive me out of JK?

That's just the beginning.

Come see me when you want to know more.

It's something that will help the both of us.

Both of us?

Yes. We JK wives are in the same boat.

Mr. Baek is quietly depleting the JK Club stock.

Hyunjin hasn't caught on?

She'll have noticed.

Did you tell her?

I think it's a shame that you're leaving her out over this Jihun business.

I dropped a hint.

I'm not leaving her out. I'm testing her.

And I have to drop K and Jihun to pass?

That's not hard. But tell me something.

You accepted her into the family. Why are you plotting to get rid of her?

Will you excuse us?

Okay.

Something keeps nagging at me.

Let me ask you, woman to woman.

Do you still wonder about her and Father?

Is that it?

And if I did?

Could you understand that?

Yes, I could.

Then let's call it that.

It's bothered me for so long. Now to think you have the same worry.

I worried about Insuk and your father.

You'll spend your life worrying about her and Jihun.

I won't have it.

I won't let my daughter hurt the way I did.

If you can't end it with Jihun then the fight for JK Group is already over.

Prove to me that you and I are different.

A flip book.

Part of my Jo Family Revival Program. You're the first.

You were serious when you said you wanted to escape.

Round the world tickets.

Not yet, I know.

Ten years, 100 years, bring these to me when you change your mind.

All right?

JK Medical?

Yes.

Of all our affiliates, why there?

What is it?

It's not big enough.

But you told me to find the right place.

But they don't develop new drugs. Just medical equipment.

Their portfolio is hardly attractive.

That's a shame. The signs are quite clear.

Well, there's nothing for it. If you don't want to succeed.

Can you explain your reasoning?

It holds the spirit of your late son.

Would K know?

About the holding company?

No.

About what Dongho gave up to marry her. What was taken from him.

The gist of it, of course.

Dongho's spirit isn't here to help me. He's here for her.

What if she sues for his shares?

She'd get everything I've worked a lifetime to achieve.

Don't worry so. It was 18 years ago.

If K is behind it, she can't possibly succeed.

But if it weighs on you...

Losing my son in my lifetime weighs on me.

I never could say no to him.

JK Medical will be the new holding company.

Call Mr. Baek.

Have him transfer the shares to JK Medical.

[JK Club]

It's just as you said. She chose JK Medical.

The shares are being transferred.

- Get ready to bring Byungjun back. - I've told him.

The testimony and the evidence?

Mr. Lee hit a snag. Can we afford the delay?

There can't be any delays.

Then?

What about Yunso?

She's still thinking. She'll have to decide before the announcement.

It's not easy, giving up the JK Estate.

- Hey, Kakji. - Hey.

- I have to keep following Om around? - Of course. What have you found out?

He's at the JK Club all the time.

He met the head of security yesterday. You should look into that.

Security?

Yeah.

Okay. Thanks.

Security?

Security...

[Chungki]

Chungki.

Think you can blow me off?

What are you up to? Are you really not handing over the CCTV tapes?

What tapes?

The day of the murder, the club tapes.

We sent a request, so where are they? Was Johnny there?

Have you found his mother?

Come on, you did the paperwork, you'll get them, why are you overreacting?

- Get them? They were scrapped. - Scrapped?

For the good of the group, they said.

Did you do it?

Do I need to get a warrant?

Scrapped? You scrapped the tapes of the Director's inauguration?

Why?

Actually, Mr. Om requested them.

When the police arrived he said he'd already scrapped them.

Mr. Om? What for?

Because of Yunso, making a fool of...

An unpleasant scene, I mean.

Just wait. I'll show what a foul, spiteful woman you really are.

I'll expose you for the vicious psycho you are.

Yes, there was a disturbance.

No other days?

Sir?

Mr. Om didn't ask for any other days?

The tapes are our responsibility.

We don't hand them over without a good reason.

What do you suggest?

If they're gone, they're gone.

The members won't be pleased to know the tapes left the building.

Deal with this discreetly.

Yes, ma'am.

Tell me.

Do you know I was a murder suspect?

Yes. You're famous for catching the real killer.

Do you know why I was a suspect?

No, I'm afraid not.

Lies.

Lies?

Hyunju broke my bear and we fought about it.

I got scared when they found the bear with the body.

So I said we didn't fight. That was damning.

One tiny lie can make an innocent boy a murder suspect.

What else happened? Tell me.

The tapes the police asked for were scrapped.

And?

Well, actually...

We took out certain sections with the movie star Yu Shina.

Yu Shina?

The one that made the stink? About not being accepted as a member.

Hyunjin asked us to excise the Yu Shina bits.

She likes being on camera. They're all over.

Any others?

This is the last.

When you're not the lady I think you are, when you change...

I'll take you out myself.

Who's that?

Right. Ms. Kim had a stalker. That's the guy.

But what's he saying?

Lip-reading in English is tricky.

Mo...

Mo...

Ree...

Maurie?

He mistook her for someone. Calling Ms. Kim, "Maurie?"

It's a lady's name.

I'd say it's "Mary."

Maurie.

Mary.

Ms. Kim... You were...

Mary?