All language subtitles for The.Whirlwind.S01E02.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DUAL.DDP5.1.H.264-XEBEC

[man] Attention!

SEOUL AIR BASE / 3 MONTHS AGO

[man] Present arms!

[fanfare playing]

[fanfare continues in background]

[gasping]

I know he won't try to escape
or destroy any evidence, Mr. President.

Please stop the investigation
of Seo Gi-tae.

The public opinion would be
highly unfavorable, Mr. President.

This is just political retaliation.
He's being framed here.

He was accused of accepting a bribe.
We should let the prosecution do its job.

Separation of powers
are in place for a reason.

Mr. President.

He just arrived
after giving a speech at the UN summit

and was on a plane for the last ten hours.

He should really get some rest for now,
Prime Minister. [chuckles]

Let's go. [chuckles softly]

If you want to save your friend,
perhaps you should join us.

Just put your pride aside,

as hard as it might be to do so.

How far are you going to take this?

One step further

than you, Prime Minister.

[Dong-ho] Call Seo Gi-tae.

Tell him to gather everything he has
and bring it to my official residence.

[shuddering]

S… so, my brother…

[mysterious music playing]

I can't call Seo Gi-tae…

[clicks]

[music intensifies]

He passed away, Prime Minister.

[crying] They think it was…

it was a suicide, sir. [crying]

[music stops]

ASSEMBLYMAN SEO'S FUNERAL

[indistinct chatter]

THE LATE SEO GI-TAE

[mysterious music playing]

[exhales deeply]

[whimpers]

[Il-jun] You had told me
that by the time I got back

from the United States summit,

and after my attendance over at the UN,
you'd have found a way

to finally silence Seo Gi-tae
before he dug up any more dirt.

You didn't mention you would kill him off!

With all due respect, Mr. President,

do you really believe
that you have any right to scold me?

You were the one
who invited me to eat at this table.

Where are your manners?

[phone vibrating]

I cleaned up your mess.
Now you should return the favor.

[phone continues vibrating]

PRIME MINISTER PARK DONG-HO

[Il-jun sighs]

[suspenseful music playing]

Dong-ho, listen.

I have no idea how any of this happened.

I'm sorry.

[Dong-ho] The one person

you should apologize to is no longer here.

Come to the Blue House.

How about we talk this over and--

[Dong-ho] You've done things
a president should never do.

Now, I'll do what I have to do
as the prime minister.

[Dong-ho] Enjoy it while you can.

Your days at the Blue House… are numbered.

[opening theme music playing]

THE WHIRLWIND

EPISODE 2

[horn honks]

[horn blares]

[horns honking]

Deputy Prime Minister,

you are dismissed
from your position as a cabinet member.

[murmuring]

[mysterious music playing]

[gasps]

Uh, Prime Minister--

Effective immediately. This is
my first order as acting president.

You are no longer allowed here.
This is for cabinet members.

I am ordering you to leave now
so our meeting can proceed.

Ms. Seo, escort her out.

Show her the door.

[gasps]

[breathing heavily]

[sighs]

[mysterious music fades]

[suspenseful music playing]

[door opens]

[phone vibrating]

[breathes shakily]

Yes?

[Man-jil] Deputy Prime Minister,
the president's heart attack was actually

an assassination attempt.

The doctors detected
krokodil and methamphetamine

in the president's body.

Those substances can dramatically
increase the blood flow to the heart.

Someone from the outside
gave them to him somehow.

But nothing ever gets past
the Security Service.

They check every medication and meal
before it ever gets to the president.

That means whoever it was
had to come from the inside.

[car approaching]

[mysterious music playing]

[Man-gil] I got this data
from the hospital's intranet.

I've cross-checked it
with an internal source as well.

There's only one person who could've
gotten so close to the president

and would've been desperate
enough to try to assassinate him.

Park Dong-ho.

[tires squealing]

[soldier] Sir!

KANG BYEONG-OH / BRIGADIER GENERAL
AT ARMED FORCES CAPITAL HOSPITAL

Who are you?

Huh?

[mysterious music playing]

[Su-jin] On the night
of October 26th, 1979,

the sitting president was assassinated
inside his safe house in Gungjeongdong.

Six people were sentenced
to death because of that.

Tell me,

when a soldier is executed,
where does the firing squad shoot first?

Is it the forehead?

Perhaps the heart?

[sighs]

I'd like to know,

when this is all over,

if history will remember
the death of one president…

or two of them.

[gulps]

[Dong-ho] First, I want to appoint
a new prosecutor general.

-Contact Lee Jang-seok
-[Jeong-yeon] Yes, sir.

-[door closes]
-[Yeon-sook] You'll face backlash.

Prosecutors care about rank and hierarchy,

so if you appoint Lee Jang-seok,
it might cause--

[Dong-ho] Then I will cut down their ranks
and ignore the hierarchy.

What else do they care about?

I'll destroy everything
the current prosecutors wish to protect.

I won't hold back.

We're in this position

because the man
who should've fallen didn't.

And now we have corruption everywhere.

Don't you agree?

[birds chirping]

Despite everything,

Gi-tae already had
his burial place secured.

I took care of the landscaping.

So you should

write the epitaph, Jang-seok.

Gi-tae left this case for us.

So no stone

should be left unturned.

No authority should be immune
to impartial investigation.

"No stone should be left unturned."

Often enough, people who say that
are unturned stones.

When Gi-tae first started investigating,

you were the one who brought it to a halt.

The administration
would've collapsed if I hadn't.

So what's changed?

Now the country will collapse
if we don't do this.

[mysterious music playing]

[footsteps approaching]

They're expecting you
at the National Cemetery, sir.

Cancel it.

But it's your first event
as the acting president.

The government officials
are waiting for you there.

This is my national cemetery.

If you must draw my blood

in order to punish Jeong Su-jin
and Vice-Chairman Kang Sang-un,

then do it.

Do what must be done.

[phone vibrates]

CHOI YEON-SOOK

Park Dong-ho speaking.

[Yeon-sook] The hospital's been hacked.

[suspenseful music playing]

It's been confirmed by both
the national and defense intelligence.

The president's records have been leaked.

We're checking if North Korea's behind it.

Even if they wanted to, they couldn't.
It was probably a domestic act.

Don't let the press talk
to the president's family.

They've been taken to the safe house
accompanied by the Secret Service.

The vape, where is it?

[suspenseful music intensifies]

Contact all major newspapers
and broadcasting stations.

We'll hold an emergency press conference
in an hour.

[Man-gil] That's not enough time.

We need time to prepare.

[Su-jin] Just get it done.

Time is not on our side.
We need to move quickly.

[door opens]

CEO OF NAMSAN C&C / HAN MIN-HO

You're here.

Honey, they caught this lobster
yesterday evening in Siberia.

Can you believe it?

Come to think of it,
it makes me think of V.I. Lenin.

As a matter of fact,
did you know he quit smoking at age 32

in a Siberian labor camp? Why's that?

What brings you here, honey?

Ah. [chuckles]

Um, the vice-chairman
made a big investment in our PE fund.

It's funny, Deputy Prime Minister.

Anytime I meet with you like this,

I end up investing in your husband.

Anyway, the reason Lenin quit smoking is,
you see, his mother--

So-yeon is seeing the dentist today.

You should take her.

-[phone beeps]
-[Sang-un] Yes, get Mr. Han's car ready.

[phone beeps]

[clears throat]

Anyway, thank you
for your investment and your trust.

-I appreciate it.
-No, I should be thanking you.

It's because of you, I get to a share
a table with a very distinguished guest.

[Min-ho] I'm going.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[Su-jin] The first time my husband
got involved in business with you,

you asked me for a meeting
with President Jang.

The second time, you asked…

Article 84 of the Constitution.

"The president shall not be charged
with a criminal offense

during his tenure of office,

except in the case
of either insurrection or treason."

With that said…

I've come to learn Park Dong-ho
tried to assassinate the president.

That is treason.

He will be arrested by the end of today.

What then?

There'll be an early election, and

we'll make sure
the next president is ours.

[Sang-un] And then?

The succession of Daejin Group

will be yours.

And?

I'll get your father a special pardon.

Or I'll try, at least.

[suspenseful music playing]

You'll try?

People don't like it when chaebols get
special pardons. You know that already.

We'll try to win over the public.

[Sang-un] If trying is the best
you can manage right now,

with the dirt I've got on your husband,

I wonder if the guy
who tried to kill the president

has more guts to do what I need.

Sang-un, listen.

[Jeong-yeon] They have
the hospital director's support.

It seems they have evidence against you.

They are holding a press conference
in an hour. That doesn't give us--

[Yeon-sook] There's not going to be
a press conference.

I know the way he works.

Kang Sang-Un is calculated.
He will control you.

[Sang-un] This could do some real damage.

I can control him.

The investigation into your family
and your father's arrest…

It was Park Dong-ho
who pushed for chaebol reform

and got you into this mess.

I know that.

But maybe I can persuade him
to be on my side with this.

But he's the one
who tried to assassinate the president.

That's a conspiracy against the state.

Don't you understand?

It's critical we expose the truth.

[Sang-un] We'll do that only if you

expose the truth about yourself as well.

[breathes shakily]

[mysterious music playing]

[line ringing]

This is Kang Sang-un.

It seems you are in need of my help.

Should I come to you?

Or will you come to me?

SAFE HOUSE IN SAMCHEONGDONG

[Sang-un] When the president collapsed
the day before your arrest,

I thought you were just lucky
to be honest.

But it turns out
that you're just a very smart guy.

I've always wondered
how you've managed to live

with the burden of crimes
on your shoulders.

You're not as smart as I believed.

An attempted assassination?

I haven't seen the president
since the Cabinet meeting last month.

-He canceled my Blue House briefing--
-[Il-jun] You should go now.

Park Dong-ho will be here soon.

[mysterious music playing]

[grunts]

[Sang-un] Prime Minister Park
will be arrested by tomorrow morning.

Why meet with him?

1 HOUR BEFORE ASSASSINATION

[Il-jun] If he wants to come,
why stop him?

It wouldn't hurt

to give him a nice little pat on
the shoulder before he's arrested.

[Sang-un] I picked up this habit because
half the people I deal with are scumbags,

and the other half are untrustworthy.

I'm sure you had your bases covered
with all the security cameras.

But what about this?

[sighs]

[sighs]

I had already planted a tree
at the Blue House,

but some idiot cut it down
before it bore any fruit.

So how about you help me
plant a new tree instead?

Just give me half of what bears fruit.

And keep the rest if you want.

How pathetic.

You really believed
a petty threat like that would work.

[chuckles]

If your assassination attempt gets out,

you'll spend the rest of your life
in prison on death row.

And your suffering won't end there.

You will forever be remembered

as the traitor
who assassinated our president.

You think your wife, Kim Do-hui,

and child, Park Han-gyeol…

can still live in this country?

How's that for a petty threat, huh?

So just take my offer.

I'll forget what you did that night,

and nobody will know about it.

Only our friendship will remain.

I'll wait on your response for now.

[footsteps receding]

[door closes]

[sighs]

[Jeong-yeon] Don't beat yourself up.

You gave it all you had, your very best.

Many people
kept their silence out of fear,

but you fought for justice
till the very end.

[mysterious music playing]

If they win,

then even more people
will come to fear Daejin.

That's what I fear.

Jeong-yeon,

it's not over yet.

That night, when I visited the president,

I crossed the line.

And once you cross it,

there are no more limits.

[mysterious music intensifies]

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

I just learned Chairman Park
went to the Blue House.

I think he made lunch plans
with Park Dong-ho.

[music fades]

Park Dong-ho called
for an emergency meeting.

This can't be good for us.
Are you listening?

[panting]

Sh.

Ah.

It's not easy, you know?
Finding moray eel soup in Seoul.

I only get to have it
twice a year in my hometown.

No flight required for this one.
[chuckles]

Once you're the first elected president
from Gangwon-do,

please invite me to your hometown.
Show me around. Treat me to a meal.

[chuckles]

[slurps]

Ah.

[sighs] I'm not even done eating,
and you're already giving me dessert?

Is it really that urgent?

Chairman, do you remember
what I promised you?

[Dong-ho] Chairman Park,

with your permission,
I know I can be of great service to you.

That right there
is your ticket to the Blue House.

That document concerns the PE fund
linked to the president's son,

Jang Hyeon-su.

A number of anonymous individuals
pooled their money

in order to invest in national projects,

but… it turns out
they had privileged information.

A lot of money was embezzled.
This was an abuse of political power.

[dramatic music playing]

Uh-huh.

Is that why you called
for that emergency Assembly meeting?

Do you want an investigation
to be launched?

I'm proposing you become
a trailblazer for change

instead of the proclaimed
nine-tailed fox of Yeouido.

[laughing]

[line ringing]

The Assembly meeting, cancel it.

Tell everyone to just go back
to their own provinces for now.

No need to attend today.
Forget about Yeouido.

Chairman Park.

[gun cocks]

[gunshot]

[dog pants]

[barking]

Chairman Park can mobilize more
than half of the Korean Liberal Party.

If he makes a move--

The Nine-Tailed Fox of Yeouido,
Chairman Park.

Politicians are known to

cut off their own tails
when trouble arises.

But not Chairman Park.

He doesn't do that.
He's steadfast until the end.

That's why all nine tails of his
are still intact.

He's kept them for thirty years.

He won't give in.

If Jang Hyeon-su, the president's son,
was found linked to that PE fund,

do you think the people involved

will be from our side or their side?

It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
So we have to get rid of--

Nobody does politics alone.
We need alliances.

If a bad apple spoils the bunch,
and we get rid of every apple,

then we'll lose our--

But transparency will earn you
the people's unwavering support.

You play poker, don't you?

Well, I just threw in

a chip for you.

But don't ask me to go all-in.

Chairman Park.

I don't feel like dessert.

Let's have more soup instead.

[Su-jin] Park Dong Ho doesn't give up.

He's relentless.

Not even President Jang
could tame such a dangerous animal.

-If that hound were to bite…
-Don't worry. He won't bite.

-Sang-un, listen!
-Damn it.

[dog whimpers]

What's wrong? He won't bite.

[gasps]

I still have some game left to hunt.

I guess you'll fetch it.

[breathes shakily]

[thunder rumbling]

[Dong-ho] If news of the attempted
assassination gets out tomorrow,

we won't respond.

We'll just have to stand our ground
until the investigation is finished.

[phone vibrating]

-Yes, Jang-seok.
-Dong-ho.

About the PE case…
The CIO requested a case transfer.

The Prosecutor General has ordered us
to abandon the case completely.

He just disbanded

the entire team till further notice.

[suspenseful music playing]

Get me the CIO Director now!

Apparently coffee is bad for diabetes.

Also beer.
It's actually bad for high cholesterol.

I guess that why I always
drink water wherever I go now.

[chuckles]

Prosecutor Lee Jang-seok has been
working on this case for a long time.

Please transfer it
back to the prosecutor's office.

The Blue House cannot interfere
with any investigations.

I'm afraid it's against the law.

The Ministry of Justice and the Blue House
hold the right to mediate

when investigative agencies collide.

[Jung-gwon] The Blue House
has the right, you say?

I'll look for precedents, Mr. President.

But truth be told, I'm a slow worker,

so it could take over a week or two.

Director Lee Jung-gwon, listen to me!

My higher-ups set the target for me.

I just make sure the trigger gets pulled.

I think you need support for what
you want to do, both public and private.

You want to start a scholarship foundation
in your hometown.

I know that's been a dream of yours
since you were an educator.

I can help

make that dream come true.

Is this your idea?

Or is it Vice-Chairman Kang's idea?

Well, huh,

come to think of it,
you two were always alike.

I'm only involved
because of my duty to President Jang.

[chuckles quietly]

[mysterious music playing]

If no one had submitted
the initial report,

Assemblyman Seo Gi-tae wouldn't have died,

Park Dong-ho
would have never pursued an investigation,

and nothing would've happened
to President Jang.

Recently, I found out who was…

responsible for making it.

[suspenseful music playing]

It's funny you didn't have the courage
to come forward on your own,

and yet you didn't have confidence
to remain silent either.

Please resign
from your position as Chief of Staff.

Back in university,

you were a really gifted student.

I'll have to teach you something new

that I couldn't teach then.

[scoffs]

[Su-jin] Some advice.

At your age, courage can be dangerous.

-Listen, Su-jin--
-[Su-jin] Enough!

[exhales]

I'm not a student of yours anymore.

My apologies.

I'm pressed for time.

I didn't mean to lose
my composure with you.

What's going to happen…

to Acting President Park?

Let's just say

he will get what he deserves in the end.

When the CIO director was nominated,

there were rumors that he was
on Park Chang-sik's payroll.

I thought they were only rumors.

Jeong-yeon…

[sighs]

…we are going with plan B.

[mysterious music playing]

[knocking on door]

[mysterious music continues]

[Yeon-sook sighs]

Jeong Su-jin just came to speak with me.

I'm sure she promised you safety

and asked you to resign.

[scoffs]

[sighs]

Despite everything, I know
both our hearts are on the same goal.

Will you see it through with me?

What do you need me to do?

Not long ago, in this room,

President Jang's heart
had stopped beating.

By midnight,

we have to make sure
one more heart stops beating.

-[whistle blows]
-[indistinct chatter]

I thought we could celebrate
your 80th birthday

on the day of Daejin Group's anniversary.

I'll invite some international guests too.

I'm sure soon you'll get a special pardon.

Sounds about right.

KANG YEONG-IK

After all, you only have one father
to inherit the company from

Don't you forget.

On the other hand, I can leave
the company to your brother.

I have two other sons to choose from.

[phone vibrating]

PRIME MINISTER PARK DONG-HO

Kang Sang-un speaking.

This is Park Dong-ho.

See you at the Blue House. Come alone.

[suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music intensifies]

Let's go.

Mr. Kim Il-hwan.

[no audible dialogue]

[door opens]

I'd like to have my father freed
before Christmas dinner this year.

[Dong-ho] I put him there.
It's only fair I get him out.

The National Tax Service has been
breathing down my neck as of late.

You'll have to protect
your management right.

Just tell me how much you're able to pay.

I'll adjust accordingly.

[mysterious music playing]

[Sang-un] "A world
in which justice flows like a river."

Hmm. Come to think of it,
rivers are impossible to control.

They are unpredictable.

They can suddenly flood or run dry.

That's why
I want to create something else.

Like a reservoir.

A reservoir that will release

the exact amount of justice
the world can live with.

And if it doesn't benefit me,
I'll close the floodgates.

I can control
whether the water flows or not.

Now I can live in that world.

[Jeong-yeon] Aconitine,

a substance extracted
from a flower called monkshood.

Just two milligrams of it is enough
to kill a person within just five minutes.

[sighs]

It's diluted with another substance.

There's a chance of survival
if it's pumped out within 30 minutes.

And what if

our plan fails?

We'll have to face off in court.

Here's to our long history as enemies,

and our new future as friends.

[suspenseful music continues]

Park Dong-ho is…

Not even President Jang
could tame such a dangerous animal.

Is a dangerous animal even
President Jang couldn't tame or control.

If that hound were to bite…

Park Dong-ho is a dog.

A dog who bites.

Su-jin was right, apparently.

Damn it.

When will you learn

you won't win here?

You can't drink from that glass.

Why are you still holding it?

[scoffs]

Park Dong-ho,

just how far did you wanna take this?

Just one step further than you.

What're you doing?

[suspenseful music intensifies]

[gasps]

[straining] Thank god.

It doesn't matter
if I make it or if I die.

No matter the outcome, I won't have to…

[grunts]

…live in a world with you in it.

[mouthing] Park Dong-ho.

[Yeon-sook] The Blue House security team
has arrested

Daejin Group's Vice Chairman Kang Sang-un

for the attempted assassination
of Acting President Park Dong-ho.

After initially investigating

that President Jang's collapse was
not caused by underlying conditions,

the Blue House Security Service team

strongly believes
that a poisonous substance

was administered to the president.

Vice-chairman Kang
is considered the prime suspect.

A search and seizure was
conducted at Daejin Group's office,

and evidence potentially linked
to the president's assassination attempt

was discovered and confiscated.

It has also been discovered
that Kang Sang-Un

visited the Blue House
on the night of the attempt.

Furthermore, it has been confirmed

his people hacked into
the Armed Forces Hospital servers,

to retrieve medical information
concerning the president's condition.

Earlier tonight, Kang Sang-un

was arrested after attempting

to assassinate
the Acting President, Park Dong-ho,

in order to guarantee his own safety.

The Acting President
is currently being transported

to the Armed Forces Capital Hospital.

I do not have any updates
on his condition at this time.

[suspenseful music continues]

But ma'am,
we still don't know his prognosis.

Call me as soon as you have an update.

[Man-gil] Park Dong-ho
is putting on a show.

The public won't fall for this.

Kang has no motive to kill the president.

It doesn't matter if he has a motive.

If they investigate him,
they'll uncover our secrets.

We can't allow it.

We must prevent Park Dong-ho's return…

and stop this investigation.

[grunting]

My phone!

Where's my phone? I need it!

[mysterious music playing]

You did good.

[Il-jun] You should go now.

Park Dong-ho will be here soon.

[Sang-un] Prime Minister Park will be
arrested by tomorrow morning.

Why meet with him?

[Il-jun] If he wants to come,
why stop him?

It wouldn't hurt

to give him a nice little pat
on the shoulder before he's arrested.

[phone vibrating]

SEO JEONG-YEON

They're pumping his stomach.

The helicopter was delayed
because of the bad weather.

[machine beeps]

He's in critical condition.

[weeps]

[machine beeps]

[suspenseful music playing]

[beeping]

Director!

-President Jang just woke up.
-[gasps]

Did Park Dong-ho pass away?

President Jang…

[suspenseful music intensifies]

…regained consciousness.

[machines beeping]

[suspenseful music playing]

THE WHIRLWIND

[closing theme music playing]

CHARACTERS, LOCATIONS, NAMES, PLOTS,
AND EVENTS IN THE SHOW ARE FICTIONAL

ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL LIFE
IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL

[music ends]