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[Perfect Family]

[This is a fictional drama.]

[Characters, locations, institutions, case associations, and settings have no relation to real life.]

[Child actors were filmed under safe conditions with parental consent.]

[Episode 10]

[Prosecution Service - Prosecutor Choi Hyeon Min]

Prosecutor, your name is...

[Prosecutor Choi Hyeon Min]

That's right.

We have the same name.

- Cheers. - Great work.

- Great work. - Great work.

Sir, you called for a driving service, right?

Oh, yes. You got here fast.

[Prosecutor Choi Hyeon Min]

Prosecutor Choi Hyeon Min.

How cool.

[Perfect Family]

Daddy.

Me.

Grandma.

- Daddy! - How have you been?

- Where's Grandma? - She went to work.

- Really? - Yeah.

- Sun Hui, should we go somewhere fun? - Yes!

Let's go!

Thank goodness, they said your head is fine.

- I know, right? - Why don't you quit drinking while at it?

Due to my job, that's...

I don't want to become a widow.

Sang Ho needs to focus on his studies.

I can't raise him alone.

I know.

What fearless bastard would do this to a prosecutor, huh?

Sang Ho, if you want to become a prosecutor, start learning how to box.

Dad, you better change the subject right now.

You two...

Sang Ho, you always take your dad's side.

No, Mom. I'm always on your side.

You'll never make it. You'll get beaten up.

Gosh, there are so many people here.

We'll be waiting a while. Let me go to the restroom.

- Go ahead. - Sure, go ahead.

Dad, you're so bad at reading the room.

- I got nervous there, too. - Sorry.

Choi Hyeon Min.

Choi Hyeon Min, are you here?

They're calling your name.

Choi Hyeon Min.

- Yes. - Here!

[Examination Room]

Sun Hui, say hello.

Hello.

Hi.

Wow...

I had no idea I'd run into you here, Prosecutor.

Right, what brings you here?

Oh, because of my allergies.

I have a severe peanut allergy, so I come here from time to time.

I heard consuming peanuts could kill me.

Aigoo...

Anyway, how did you get injured, Prosecutor?

I had a few drinks and fell down.

Aigoo...

I'm glad it's not worse.

It must be tough to raise a kid and care for your elderly mother by yourself.

Yes, well, I'm trying to work an insurance job lately,

but there's limit to asking people I know.

It's tough to sell even a single policy in a month.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to vent with you, Prosecutor.

No, no. It's okay.

Prosecutor...

I have a favor to ask you.

Yes?

I need to go get checked up now.

Could you watch my kid for a moment?

I need to go and get more tests done now, too.

It'll be brief.

I brought her because her grandma's at work and no one to watch her.

- Ten. - Ten.

What did he eat the most?

- Apple. - Good job.

Looks like the kids are getting along well.

Please, just 30 minutes.

Should we try it again?

- Seven. - Seven.

Let's count the melons.

Sure, go ahead.

Thank you.

[Nutritional Information]

[Peanuts or processed nut products]

Sun Hui, a little more to the left.

Okay. Like this.

Ta-da.

Ta-da!

Sun Hui, twist it a little to the left.

Sun Hui.

Daddy!

Thank you so much for playing with Sun Hui.

Ahjussi, didn't you get checked up yet?

I kept thinking about Sun Hui.

Did the Prosecutor go to get checked up?

Yes. Don't worry, and go get checked up yourself.

I'll be here with Sun Hui.

Thank you. Eat this while you play.

Thank you.

Thank you for taking care of her.

Sure.

Sun Hui, snacks.

Want to eat snacks? Want to eat this?

Or there's more.

Want some of this?

- This. - This?

- This, not this? - Yes.

For people to grow close,

it's more impactful

to start from a place of pity

than gratitude.

Sun Hui. Sun Hui, are you okay?

Sun Hui, wake up. Sun Hui.

Sun Hui, are you okay? Sun Hui!

Help! Over here!

Help us here! Please!

Sun Hui, wake up.

Help! Over here!

Please help us here.

They said it's not life-threatening.

She'll be okay.

I'm an idiot.

I had no idea that allergies are likely genetic.

More than that,

your son seems to be in shock.

It's because he witnessed Sun Hui pass out.

He'll be okay soon.

Will Sun Hui stay at the hospital?

Yes.

Sun Hui doesn't even have health insurance.

Hospitalization will cost a bit.

I'm so worried.

What kind of a dad am I...

to worry about money when his kid is sick?

I'm ashamed.

[Choi Hyeon Min]

- Done? - Yes.

Here you go.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, everyone.

I told my friends, too.

Thank you so much.

Come on now.

No one has ever helped me like this in my life.

I don't know what to say...

Hyeon Min, cheer up.

Think of your kid and your mom.

I'll help you if I can.

- Thank you... - Let's go.

I'll be right back.

Goodbye.

Why do we need to sign up for insurance policies?

Prosecutor Choi is too nice. That's a problem.

Choi Hyeon Min.

[Ha Eun Joo Therapy Center]

Choi Hyeon Min.

I'm sorry.

It jolts me every time I say your name.

It must've been tough to go through therapy.

But you must treat your depression.

Come back often.

Thank you for helping me from the bottom of my heart...

Eun Joo.

Well...

Here you go.

It's so pretty.

- Thank you. - Sure...

It's been so long since I received something like this.

Doesn't your husband buy it for you?

He has no idea whatsoever in this department.

How's your daughter?

Sun Hui, right?

Thanks to you, she's much better.

As her parent, you must pay attention to what she eats as a child.

The hospital told me to pay attention, too.

It could really lead to death.

Should we have dinner together with the kids sometime?

If you're free, how about tonight?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm busy tonight.

Then, next time. Let's eat at our house.

Yes.

Take care, Eun Joo.

Doctor.

Yes?

Aren't you getting too friendly with him?

Right, he scares me a bit.

He has a criminal record-

Never impose bias on a patient.

He's trying his best to care for his sick, elderly mother and child.

I feel sorry for him.

[Prosecutor Choi Hyeon Min]

We're in your care, Prosecutor.

I'm a good person.

Don't be too scared of me.

We'll leave it in your care.

Of course, just trust me.

The mayor and I go way back.

Go ahead, drink.

Welcome.

Thank you for inviting me.

This...

Gosh, so pretty. Thank you.

Come in.

- Sun Hui. - Oppa!

- Come on in. - Yes.

Here.

Thank you.

How does the food taste?

It's delicious.

I'm so envious.

Mom, you put so much more effort than usual.

Sang Ho, come on...

What's wrong?

No meal is delicious enough to cry over.

I'm sorry.

Sun Hui...

doesn't know what mom's home-cooked meal tastes like.

My wife...

was sick and bedridden after giving birth.

She wasn't able to cook a proper meal.

She regretted that so much

until she passed away.

I'm sorry.

Sun Hui, consider this place your house from now on and come play any time.

Thank you.

No, no. Let's eat.

[Samjin Life Insurance]

[Ha Eun Joo - Automatic Renewal]

[5,480,000 Won]

[Choi Hyeon Min]

[Signature]

[Signature]

Thank you so much!

Aigoo, don't do this. Get up.

Let's drink.

You're like a real brother to me.

Okay.

I said okay.

Sun Hui's dad, he's so affectionate.

Okay, okay. Stop it now.

Sunbae.

Yes.

Aren't you getting too friendly with your name buddy Choi Hyeon Min?

You did meet him as a perpetrator.

The past isn't important.

I'm helping out someone who's trying to straighten out his life.

I feel a little iffy about it.

A lot of people approach prosecutors with an ulterior motive.

He keeps saying he cares for his elderly mother and child,

as if to manipulate you, a softie.

You're so young, yet you're like such an old fogey.

- Try trusting people more. - You're going overboard.

Making everyone around you buy life insurance.

Having him get therapy from your wife.

And why buy Sang Ho's life insurance? Feels ominous.

It means nothing. I bought insurance because I can. Why do you...

You and your nagging.

You should aim to go higher.

Sunbae, you have so much love that it's holding you back in life.

Sunbae, I don't think you're cut out to be a prosecutor.

What if you become a human rights lawyer or a corporate counsel?

Are you looking down at me right now, Hoobae?

No, I'm just saying you're charming.

Pushover charm.

Pushover...

Yes, I am a pushover.

I hear...

you're a fake prosecutor.

You thought we were idiots.

What did you do with the rest of the money?

Spill it.

Get started.

Why do you have so many insurance papers?

What?

Planning insurance fraud?

[Choi Hyeon Min]

All the beneficiaries are Choi Hyeon Min.

[Name: Choi Sun Hui]

What a piece of trash you are.

You signed your mom and daughter up.

Plus, your daughter is signed up for an overseas policy.

Hey, do you only think evil thoughts?

Answer me. Shit...

Leave it, leave it.

It's none of our business.

Looks like you blew through all the money you took

from us in horse racing.

But I don't think your fate is to die here today.

Considering you've prepared all the ways to pay us back.

Spare me!

Please spare me!

Let me live...

If you want to live, bring the money, you asshole!

Hey...

How many pounds for you today?

Men play with 15 pounds.

Hey, your head is about to bust open today.

Hold his head in place, man!

No!

Damn it!

[Name: Choi Sun Hui]

Your dad will be back soon.

Sun Hui!

Why are you crying, Sun Hui?

Daddy, Grandma is sick.

Gosh, Hyeon Min.

I hear you're sick.

What have you been up to that your face is like this?

Don't worry about me, and go to the hospital if you're sick.

Don't just lie at home.

Sun Hui, want to go play with daddy?

Grandma...

She'll be okay. Don't worry.

Where are you taking Sun Hui?

What are you really up to?

Last time, you took a healthy kid and got her hospitalized.

It has nothing to do with you, Mom.

What do you mean it has nothing to do with me?

Don't pretend you care about your son.

You turned a blind eye when Dad beat me up.

What did you make me sign that last time?

Did you sign Sun Hui up for life insurance, too?

How could you sign up a little kid for life insurance?

The news said there are new laws because

all kinds of unspeakable things happen to children.

I said everything was fine.

Everything's not fine!

I signed her up before the new laws, so everything's fine.

What?

Sun Hui, want to go with Daddy?

Where do you want to go?

Should we go see the ocean?

Yes.

I'll take Sun Hui with me, so don't wait up.

Don't do anything weird, like calling the police.

Unless you want to make your son a criminal.

Sun Hui, Sun Hui...

Daddy, the ocean!

Daddy...

- What? - I love it.

You bought me ice cream.

Daddy, won't we get on a boat?

Sun Hui.

Let's go.

To get on a boat?

No. Home.

Let's stop.

No more.

Where are you going?

Aren't you here to keep your promise?

It would've been cleaner to take out life insurance on yourself.

Why make it difficult by signing up family members?

What about your mom? You only brought your kid.

Well, t-that's...

I see.

A kid is easier to cover up as an accident since she's clueless.

Hey. Don't we need a witness?

Insurance companies are no pushovers these days.

You'll get caught unless you prepare thoroughly.

Hyeon Min.

Sun Hui.

- Sun Hui! - Oppa!

I barely managed to get the day off today.

Let's have some fun.

Thank you, Hyungnim.

What happened to your face?

Hyungnim.

No, Prosecutor.

How have you been?

Prosecutor? Is he scamming us right now?

No. He is a prosecutor.

When we ran the background check,

we found out he shared a name with a prosecutor.

That's him.

So, he pretended to be that prosecutor?

They are actually friends, huh?

What do we do, Hyungnim?

Dealing with a real prosecutor might be dangerous.

No.

- He's just being smart. - What?

Who's a better witness than him?

An actual prosecutor will prove it was an accident.

Look! Seagulls!

Hi, seagulls!

Wow!

At this rate,

I'll die.

We're almost there. That's it.

- Honey, get ready to get off. - Okay.

Sang Ho, prep the fishing line when we get off. It's perfect timing.

Okay.

He acts like a boy.

Sun Hui, let's get ready to get off.

Fishing's going to be fun.

I'm so excited.

Let's catch fish and grill them.

Honey, aren't you hungry?

I brought a lot of delicious food.

No...

Really? What about you, Sang Ho?

I'm good.

Fine, sounds good.

Get ready to starve if you don't catch fish today.

Sun Hui.

Be careful.

All set.

Look over there.

You see the beautiful ocean?

I'm scared...

It's okay. Daddy's here.

Oh, my teddy bear.

Sun Hui, come here. Let's go eat.

Daddy?

Sun Hui, what are you doing?

Let's catch fish. Sounds fun, right?

Yes, sounds fun.

Ahjussi, what's wrong?

Sun Hui, be careful.

Walk slowly.

If you fall, it'll hurt.

Sun Hui, let me give you a lift. There.

What are you doing here?

Hyungnim.

You're acting weird.

You're not hiding anything from me, are you?

Pardon?

Feel free to share your worries with me.

I'm here today because I was worried

after you called me so many times.

Yes...

I also wanted to take in ocean air for the first time in a long time.

Oppa! Fighting.

- Fighting! - Fighting!

Fighting!

Everyone has a childhood like that.

What was your dream when you were little?

- Dream? - Yes.

I forgot.

I don't remember mine, either.

I lived each day, and time went by.

As for me,

I lived desperately.

"What am I living for?"

I thought to myself every day.

You're so similar to someone I know.

Who?

We share the same name.

Hyungnim...

But now, I have Sang Ho.

He's my dream.

Sang Ho's future is the reason I live.

And you have Sun Hui.

Right?

- Yes. - Oh, my!

I caught it!

Really?

Wow! Is this for real?

Be careful!

So amazing.

Look, look.

I got it.

Wow, what do we do now?

- Shall we fry it up? - Fry it?

Sang Ho...

You won't give up your own,

and you can't kill your daughter.

This bastard has zero integrity.

Why do you live?

I'll get the money, no matter what.

Please give me more time.

Please, I'm begging you.

- Just die. - Please let me live.

Please let me live! Please...

Let me live!

Yes.

I'm sorry.

It's time to stop getting taken advantage of.

[Choi Hyeon Min]

Phone call.

What's going on?

I started a new business.

Hyungnim, want to drop by my office?

Office?

Yes. Hearing you talk about the future the other day,

I had a revelation.

I don't even have time to sleep now.

From now on, I want to do something stable for Sun Hui's sake.

I expanded my business since I can't just subsist on help.

I see.

I understand. I'll call you back.

I'll be waiting.

Everyone, I'm sorry.

But I'd like to give him one more chance.

I'll go talk to him. Please wait.

I'm really sorry.

Darn it.

Gosh, the wiring job is horrible.

If it short circuits, it'll be disastrous.

Hurry up. I have a guest coming.

This is not something I can fix right now.

This is so worn down. We need to swap it out completely.

Plus, that and that.

It's dangerous to have flammable materials lying around.

What could I do? Selling them is my business.

That's why you should be extra careful.

This is a bad wiring job.

It might catch on fire if you aren't careful.

Don't turn on the electricity for now. It might short circuit.

Shit!

If you can't fix it, leave.

Leave now!

Okay, got it.

I won't fix it. I won't.

He just wants to rip me off...

[Dasam Paint]

Hyungnim!

You made it.

What a big office.

It's not organized yet.

- Take a seat here. - Okay.

What kind of work do you do here?

An acquaintance hooked me up with a paint supply business.

But I'm lacking funds...

I wanted to tell you about it, anyway.

Hyungnim, do you have something to say?

Do you have anything to say to me?

Pardon?

Just...

honestly.

Be honest with me.

No.

What do you mean?

The insurance payments you received from my acquaintances.

Are you trying to embezzle it?

No way.

You said you'd pay, so they wired the money to your account.

You know that's illegal, right?

T-That's...

because I was trying to do it properly.

I didn't know it was illegal.

I'm sorry.

Return all the money immediately.

Or I have to investigate you for fraud.

Hyungnim, that's not it...

I was...

so confident...

that you'd be able to

start over.

We drank together, we dined together,

and we had good times together.

I saw your honesty,

your down-to-earth laughter,

and your tears...

Seeing all that,

I figured you couldn't really be a bad person.

I wanted to believe that.

No, even now,

I feel the same way.

They say people don't change. But I don't think so.

I believe that...

people could start over.

For sure.

Hyungnim, that's a misunderstanding-

Hyungnim.

I made a reservation at a tasty sushi spot nearby, run by a Japanese chef.

Why don't we go and talk over drinks?

Hyeon Min.

I trust that you won't let me down.

You're home.

What's wrong?

Are you tired?

A little.

Can't sleep?

Hyeon Min...

He might not be who we think he is.

I keep suspecting.

Really?

Hyeon Min reminds me of someone.

My little brother Tae Yeon.

Tae Yeon couldn't fit in at school and often got into fights.

He was a regular at the police station.

Mom eventually stopped talking to him

until she didn't believe him, no matter what he said.

She would always say people don't change.

But actually, Tae Yeon...

was getting bullied and was fighting back desperately.

I knew that.

But I turned a blind eye.

One day, I was eating dinner with my mom

when we got a call from the police station.

There was a fight at school,

and Tae Yeon died accidentally.

It was weird.

I felt like I knew that would happen.

I felt as if I killed him.

My whole life, I kept telling myself

that I should be sorry and that

at least I should've believed him.

But look at me now, unable to believe this person.

I resented my mom so much back then.

But I was the worst one.

That's not true.

I believe you, Honey.

You can...

overcome anything.

[Massage]

Stand up, bastard. Stand!

Hold him.

No, no, no!

You took out life insurance on your mom and daughter, but...

You half-ass bastard...

But you're too cowardly to kill them?

Why do you live?

If you're too cowardly to die, I'll help you!

- Spare me! - You bastard!

Spare me!

Spare me...

I can get money from somewhere.

So, spare me...

Yeah? I'm a generous person.

You have three days left to live.

Three days?

How about five days?

[Haseung Hospital]

Gosh, where did she go?

Have you seen my Sun Hui?

No.

Where did she go? Sun Hui. Sun Hui!

Daddy, where are we going?

I'm hungry.

Grandma's bringing food soon.

Oppa!

Sang Ho oppa!

Sun Hui.

Bye. See you.

Sun Hui!

Hi!

Hello.

Sang Ho, you're going home, right?

Yes.

Are you okay?

I just fell down.

Please help me.

Pardon?

[Dasam Paint]

Come in.

Okay. We scored.

Oh, a little more to the left.

Drink this.

Thank you.

- I'm sorry. - It's okay.

Go take care of business.

Okay, thank you. Make yourself at home.

Okay.

♫ The sky died and melted down ♫

♫ I lie quietly on the street and look at the sky ♫

[Perfect Family]

♫ Or is it a mirage ♫

♫ It's getting dark, and I'm scared ♫

♫ Please let me live ♫

♫ Desperately ♫

What did you do?

I must live in order for Sang Ho to live.

Start talking now!

It might be painful to look at her face.

We won't be a perfect family from the beginning.