01x11 - Episode 11

[bunniefuu]

- [tense music playing]
- [exhales sharply]

Really?

My gut tells me

they're trying to end it all
during the debate,

declaring that Guk Ji-yeon
has committed suicide.

My God, those b*stards are nuts.
All this is just insane.

[Hwang] Oh Kyung-sook.

I will save Guk Ji-yeon.

You can trust me on that one.

Wait, Hwang.

I mean, what is...

Consider what could...

So where are you now?

I'll get her over there.

You gotta stall the runtime
of today's debate in any way possible.

Should we fail here,
this is the end for us.

[dramatic music playing]

[tires squeal, horns honk]

[Dong-joo] What are they doing?

- Uh, sh*t!
- [horns honking]

[line ringing]

- [Hwang] Yes, Dong-joo.
- [Dong-joo] Ms. Hwang, I'm sorry.

I just lost those b*stards.

sh*t!

[theme music playing]

CANDIDATE DEBATE

[host] We will now begin
the final candidate debate

of the 39th Seoul Mayoral By-election.

This debate is being broadcast live
on five TV channels,

as well as through online media outlets.

Now, please, would you both start off
by making a short welcome statement.

Dearest citizens, Seoul's women and men.

Today I'm standing here before you
with my deepest feelings.

There are slanderous and heinous rumors
you hear out there

created to destroy me.

Yet, I will only focus on

sharing all my goals with you
as Seoul's new leader

and as a mayor for all.

Thanks so much, everyone.

The thing is,
truth doesn't bend or break at all.

It doesn't matter the amount
of pressure we may be applying to it.

The Rhino is here today

to dig in and do everything so people
out there will see the truth prevail.

That's all. You know me as Oh Kyung-sook.

Together they cannot beat us.

[host] Thank you.

Today's debate will not have
any rules or time limits.

It will be a free-form debate.

I look forward to a fair, respectful,
and insightful debate between you two.

Let's begin.

- [cell phone vibrating]
- Yes, Ms. Hwang.

Those b*stards took
the Chuncheon IC earlier,

so they should be in Hwacheon by now.

Hwacheon?

Yeah. There are a lot of reservoirs there
and not that much foot traffic.

I'll keep you updated with their location.

Yeah, sounds good.

Okay, I will begin.

Yes. Go on, Ms. Oh.
You can begin this round.

Thanks very much.

Mr. Baek, I'd like to

talk about the Eunsung Group, a topic
which shouldn't be surprising for you.

I hear the big tower you worked on
is done. I'm happy to hear that's so.

That's correct. We're completely finished.

And we already held a temporary opening.

As it appears you've had, uh,

an incredible success rate
during this construction.

I was told that there were zero casualties

while building the tower,

the highest skyscraper in Asia.
Is that correct?

Yes.

Thanks very much.

The safety of all our construction workers
has the highest priority.

See, I don't know...
I don't think that's really the truth.

I think that your highest priority is
not that at all.

Your priority is
to maintain important connections.

Isn't that actually what you meant?

[tense music playing]

[Baek] Could this be...

the slightest reason for your suspicion?

EUNSUNG DUTY-FREE SHOP PERMIT LOBBY LIST
DISINFORMATION

- Sir, I don't understand this.
- [Baek] My opponent looks surprised.

What happened that these jerks
got our silver b*llet?

There was a rat. That's all.

Somebody leaked it.

This here is a baseless article
we discovered.

And we are conducting an investigation
to find the creators.

I can't believe what I just heard.
You are calling that list baseless?

So please tell me,
how do you make sense of this, Miss?

Look over here, please.

This list here includes
current employees within the Blue House

and also the prosecution.

Civil servants of our great city
and our nationwide assembly.

That's not all.

The bribes are exactly written down here,
to the very last won.

And those people are on there...

Could it be

the Oh Kyung-sook campaign made up
this... list right here

to drag down their rival?

Are you serious? You think
we would just conjure that up?

Should it turn out that you decided
to show up here tonight

with a list that was faked,

then you just completely broke the law.

[dramatic music playing]

[Hwang] You can trust me on that one.

I'll get her over there.

You gotta stall the runtime
of today's debate in any way possible.

[scoffs quietly]

Well, Mr. Baek.

Yeah?

You claim that our list is not real.

Let's say you're correct.
Pretend it wasn't real.

The fact alone that such rumors are
circulating in Seoul

causes great anxiety to Seoul's citizens.

So when you are making
huge promises to our citizens,

wouldn't it help, you think,
to first attempt to resolve those issues

so that they aren't worried?

We agree on that.

So then,

Mr. Baek, would you kindly consider
a suggestion of mine?

[intriguing music playing]

Form a citizens' alliance
which will solely exist

to independently look into Eunsung's
practices when that huge tower was built.

All the permits that were issued,
the safety inspections, etc.

Do it honestly and openly transparent.

Your thoughts about that?

[suspenseful music playing]

Mr. Baek,

are you refusing to give an answer?

What, no trust in people?

Why are you disregarding
our good citizens?

The truth is this.
I would love for the citizens of Seoul...

[host] Just a moment.

Uh...

We have breaking news
for our two candidates here

and the voters watching at home.

There is, um...

Mr. Baek's past aide,
Guk Ji-yeon, was just posting this, uh,

suicide note on social media.

[dramatic music]

It's being shown on screen as we speak.

This is Guk Ji-yeon.

The rumor regarding the alleged affair

between me and Candidate Baek is
absolutely false.

It was fabricated by
Campaign Manager Hwang Do-hee,

a former boss of mine.

I no longer have the courage to live on
in this hell I am trapped in.

Candidate Baek,

my wish is that you create a world
where truth always prevails.

Ms. Oh Kyung-sook, let me ask.

Yes.

Is it really as she claimed?

Did your campaign manager,

Hwang Do-hee, isn't it, I believe,

drive that poor woman to

end her life unexpectedly,

by fabricating a rumor
about an affair between us?

Do you expect us to believe
that blatant lie

was something you weren't aware of?

Yes.

What happened here,

in this case,

I couldn't have known.

And the reason is simply it didn't occur.
And there's nobody in my campaign...

Please don't try and spin this, Ms. Oh!

Covering up the sins
of people who work for you.

Is that your truth, Ms. Oh?

Is that your justice that you see?

There's a little child inside Ji-yeon
that you k*lled, just to win an...

Stop!

What makes you spout this nonsense, huh?

Drove her to suicide? k*lled a child?

Pushing your bold-faced lies.

Tell me how you explain this then.

You made her do this.

You made my personal aide commit suicide.

[scoffs]

Nothing is known about this yet.

Is it even her who decided this,

or was someone else behind it?

[crackling]

[Ms. Oh] Let's take
a different perspective.

My opponent, Mr. Baek,

would be the one who would gain the most
from all of this.

Guk Ji-yeon wouldn't continue
to be a danger,

in case the affair is more than gossip.

[dramatic music playing]

A huge problem disappears.

Is that why

you're certain your aide is dead,
even though there's no evidence so far?

Who knows if she isn't still alive?

Answer me.

Even at this moment,

Ms. Guk could be struggling to survive

with every ounce of her strength.

[engine revving]

In the impossible case, my dear citizens,

Candidate Baek's scandal

is revealed to have been constructed
by our campaign.

I swear...

to immediately stop this run
but also bear the full legal burden

for all that's happened.

If the opposite's true, however...

[suspenseful music playing]

Well, I guarantee you, candidate,

you'll pay the price.

You know, it surprises me...

that with everything happening,

you're worried about your election,
not what's important.

Not true.

It's not the election I care about.

It's the truth, Mr. Baek.

Yeah.

Yeah. [sniffles]

I am willing to give it all up.

What else could be more important
than Ms. Guk's well-being right now?

[scoffs]

So, Ms. Guk, please.

Won't you please give me a moment.

Everything will eventually turn out okay.
[sobbing] Just wait.

Just promise you won't do this now.

[sniffles]

[sighs]

Starting now,

I'm gonna

cease to participate
in what we're doing here,

and instead put all attention
on trying to help Ji-yeon.

To all of you watching,

I need your assistance

to do what you can do

to return Ms. Guk.

Guk Ji-yeon!

You gotta listen!

[Hwang yells, groans]

[dramatic music playing]

[groans]

[screams]

[man] Sir, we have a problem.

25 HOURS UNTIL THE 39TH
SEOUL MAYORAL BY-ELECTION

[sighs]

[mysterious music playing]

[reporter 1] The traces of Ms. Guk,
who had disappeared leaving behind a will,

has been found in a reservoir
in the Chuncheon area.

It is believed that Ms. Guk Ji-yeon
allegedly attempted suicide

by lighting a coal briquette
in a rented vehicle,

and that she was nowhere to be found
when her vehicle was discovered.

[reporter 2] The police reported
they found two men in their late 20s

at the reservoir
where Ms. Guk's vehicle was found.

They both were unconscious
and are being transported to a hospital,

and one of the men was identified
as Candidate Oh's campaign staff.

[Oh Kyung-sook] Oh my God!

Dong-joo! Dong-joo! Can you hear me?

Hey! Do you recognize me?

Do-hee, huh? Where is she?

Dong-joo! [moans]

You as*h*le!

[grunts]

Are you all right?

[groans] Ji-yeon.

[hammers on window]

[man] Jackass!

[men grunting]

[man] Get back here!

[Dong-joo] Get the door!

Hurry! Hurry!

- [man] Stop!
- [Dong-joo] Get inside!

[man] Stop right there!

[man] Hey! [groans]

Hey! Open the door!

- Come here, you b*stard!
- [yells]

[Dong-joo] Go on without me. Hurry!

[man] Hey, I told you to stop!

- Hey! Hey!
- [screams]

[man grunts]

[yells]

[man yells, grunts]

[Dong-joo yells]

[on TV] Ms. Guk's whereabouts are
still unknown to us at this point...

So what happened?

Hwang Do-hee, I believe she followed us.

Still, it's only a day until the election.
Should Guk Ji-yeon survive today,

we just have to deceive all the voters
till the election's past us.

As soon as I win this,

everything will be forgotten.

They say the winner takes all,
and that's true.

Absolutely.

Soldiers!

T minus one day.

Legacy media goes full out.
Oh Kyung-sook's about to get attacked.

I need to see a full-blown witch hunt.

sh**t to k*ll.

Oh Kyung-sook is gonna get fired upon
till the very end. You got that?

[staff] Yes, sir.

- [Yoon] Mr. Kim?
- [Kim] Yes, sir.

[reporter] The release of the footage of
Candidate Oh's General Campaign Manager,

Hwang Do-hee, visiting Ms. Guk's home
has shocked many.

The footage lends further credibility
to Ms. Guk's suicide note,

which claims that Hwang blackmailed her.

The public is incensed,

saying it is impossible that Candidate Oh
was unaware of such goings-on

within her campaign
and demand her stepping down.

[yelling] The m*rder*r Oh Kyung-sook
must resign!

[all] Resign! Resign!

The witch Hwang Do-hee should go to jail!

[all] Arrest her! Arrest her!

Everyone! We'll bring
Oh Kyung-sook down with our bare hands!

[all yelling and shouting]

[grunts]

[on TV] A great number of citizens are
gathered in front of Candidate Oh's

campaign headquarters,
demanding she resign.

Rumors about Mr. Baek's affair were
revealed to have been fabricated

in those very headquarters...

Ms. Oh, please. Don't let them get to you.

You need to push through this part.

[sighs]

[protestors yelling]

[woman screams]

What do you think you're doing?

You think you can just do this,
you assholes? Get out of here!

[yelling continues]

[woman screaming]

[women singing in Korean]

♪ Divided, we die ♪

♪ To waver is to die ♪

♪ We go forth as one ♪

♪ Until the day of victory ♪

♪ I will keep the promises
I made to my comrades ♪

♪ Even if my skull is split in half ♪

♪ United under the union's flag ♪

♪ We overcame the violence of the th*gs... ♪

[melancholy music playing]

[singing in Korean continues]

♪ We will go forth
Under the flag of liberation ♪

[Oh Kyung-sook] My friend!

You're here.

Kyung-sook. We got you, you hear?

Let's fight until the end.

Thank you.

[singing in Korean continues]

This is Oh Kyung-sook's Woman Power.

Some know me as Rhino.

It's been a little while
since I used my channel.

I intend to resume

Woman Power alongside my comrades.

I mentioned live on TV
what my thoughts are.

And I still think Guk Ji-yeon was
forced into k*lling herself.

Sadly, it makes sense.

Nonetheless,

I hope strongly
that she has not gone through with it

but is still among us.

And my hope is that by doing this,

you all get to hear what really happened,

that you hear the truth
about this incident

and to prove our campaign's innocence.

[unsteady breathing]

[gasps]

[panting]

Are you okay?

Why did you save me?

Tell me. I need to know.

[Hwang sighs]

[Ji-yeon] Is it so that you could make me

stand before the press

and tell them the whole truth?

You saved me to make Oh Kyung-sook mayor.

Baek Jae-min, the saint, is evil.

You'd get the sympathy
and the votes, showing...

the helpless girl he tried to k*ll.

[exhales]

[melancholy piano music playing]

The truth is, Ji-yeon,

I didn't save you at all.

I was saving only myself. That's it.

I couldn't let someone else die
at the hands of Baek Jae-min.

I failed I-seul.

Let me just say if it's true that
Guk Ji-yeon will not return to us

and truly was k*lled,

and it's proven that this somehow was
all my personal fault,

which includes the campaign,

I'll go to the authorities
to be punished as they see fit.

And I'll gladly accept
the whole entire punishment I get.

Dear viewers.

The truth will prevail.

Please put your trust in me
and support me.

I, Oh Kyung-sook,

will need you
so that the truth can be heard by all.

[reporter] With only one day to go
until the Seoul Mayoral By-election,

the final campaign of the two candidates
is playing out in full force.

First, Candidate Baek Jae-min
of the Korea Republican Party

is giving a speech in front of
his supporters outside City Hall.

My dear citizens of Seoul.

Seoul is the provider
of our truest dreams.

How could you then just hand this
wonderful place to an insidious careerist

who scapegoated
and cheated and blackmailed?

[crowd cheering]

I, Baek Jae-min...

I'll protect you, Seoul,
our cherished capital.

I'll protect our Seoul,
and nothing they can do will stop us!

It's our dream, Seoul,
and I'll do anything to protect it!

[cheering]

[reporter] Meanwhile, Candidate Oh
was avoiding the streets and has chosen

to make her last campaign push
on live stream.

There are some who say
that Guk Ji-yeon's recent disappearance

was key in citizens
turning their backs on Ms. Oh.

Dear viewers.

The truth is indestructible.

The waves of our faith in each other
and our solidarity

will make the truth surface again.

And that truth will become

the grounds on which a better future
will be able to emerge and grow.

[cheering]

[chanting] Oh Kyung-sook!

[woman 1] Excuse me. I'm sorry.
Coming through. Coming through!

Sorry, coming through!

[woman 2] Make way, please.

[chanting continues]

Excuse me, please.
Could you move aside? Thank you.

Come this way.

[people murmuring]

[unsettling music playing]

- [gasps]
- [woman] My goodness.

[exhales]

Dear viewers.

The, um, person we all have been
desperately waiting for

has just arrived in our office.

Thankfully, she's alive and well.

[all murmuring]

Everyone, say hell to Ms. Guk.

Please have a seat.

[unsettling music continues]

First off,

I'd like to thank all the people out there

who thought of me and worried about me.

The truth is...

myself and Mr. Baek...

had a secret affair going on.

[all murmuring]

And so he is

the only possible father

to the baby I'm pregnant with.

[dramatic beat]

[Ji-yeon] Candidate Baek is
behind everything.

I got kidnapped and almost k*lled.

[sniffles]

And my death would have been
framed as a suicide...

[sniffles]

...so the truth would not be exposed.

I just...

know I'm grateful to be alive.

The wrongs I committed in the past
have put me in this hell,

and I am struggling to get out.

I also know that I chose to do all that.

So, until I die, I will commit...

to working hard...

and accepting the consequences.

Are you all right?

Guk Ji-yeon, listen.

I'm really grateful you're here.

And for your confession.

And above all,

I thank you so much for...

surviving this nightmare.

[sniffles]

Maybe you feel

there's something more
you'd want to express?

You can do that now.

I want to thank someone.

It's my former boss, Ms. Hwang Do-hee.

You saw I was caught
in all my lies and all the denial,

and you came to the rescue.

[dramatic music building]

[on TV] Ms. Guk Ji-yeon's confession has
shocked the entire nation.

She confessed that she did have an affair
with Candidate Baek

and that Candidate Baek
attempted to m*rder her.

The public is appalled
by this recent information.

With Ms. Guk's reappearance,

the result of this election is
once again uncertain.

[cell phone vibrating]

SECRETARY HAN I-SEUL

[cell phone continues vibrating]

[suspenseful music playing]

[footsteps approaching]

[Hwang] You've never been here, have you?

I should have called you over here sooner.

The timing, though,
it just had to be right, you know?

Timing?

Actually,

let's use a better word. Chance.

The last chance you'll get
to apologize to I-seul and...

mean what you say.

All right. I got it.

I'll...

sincerely apologize to I-seul.

So just give me her cell, okay?

So, wait, you're still planning
to go ahead?

Are you trying to say Ji-yeon wasn't
confessing on her own accord?

Blackmail's behind it?

That's not your concern.

All things aside, the best thing for us is

if I win this election.

You said "us"?

The two of us

didn't have it easy
during our time spent at Eunsung.

When I become the mayor of Seoul,

I can guarantee
you will get compensated fairly for that.

So you see...

So you'd let I-seul suffer
in hell like this?

Exposing this now,
it won't return I-seul back to us.

[laughing raucously]

[continues laughing]

It is remarkable
how you are all the same. It really is.

You deny your crimes without inhibitions,
but then you offer to bribe me

the second you think
there's a chance you'll get caught.

It disgusts me.

Just admit that you're wrong. That's it.

Then with complete and total honesty,

offer a sincere apology.

[scoffs, chuckles]

Honesty.

[Ms. Oh] Viewers.

There was another person

I want to tell you about.

A young woman that

we couldn't protect.

[I-seul] The offender...

is the only one who should have to pay.

[Baek] I'm sure you felt offended.

[I-seul scoffs] Felt...

offended?

It's totally understandable
why you feel like this.

In order for me
to make things up to you, I-seul,

you can ask for anything,
and we'll put this all behind.

If working in this branch
makes you feel anxious, you can transfer,

and I can send you anywhere you want.

If you want to see the wider world, I can...

If you need money for anything,
I can take care of your...

Okay.

All right, Mr. Baek. I'll leave.

[sighs]

[I-seul] But I need a public apology.

That's my one condition.

I need the public to know.

I want you to make a public apology.

Then I'll let this go.

Hey, Han I-seul...

Keep my name out of your mouth!

You don't get to say my name.

[tense music playing]

Don't touch me!

Do you want this to get ugly? Do you, huh?

- Let me go!
- You'll get hurt. Stop pushing this!

- You hear?
- Let go of me! Let go! [screams] Let go!

- Let go of me!
- Listen, I'll compensate you, okay?

I'll make up for it all, so, please,
keep still now, for God's sake!

Stop struggling!

[dramatic music playing]

[people screaming]

Back when Mr. Baek was CEO
of Green People Foundation,

there was a young employee, Han I-seul,

who had committed suicide because
she had too much stress at her job.

Only that isn't how it happened.

Baek Jae-min's the one
who'd been sexually assaulting her.

And he m*rder*d her when she was asking...

to get an apology.

[Baek] There was only a day left!

Do you know what you just did? Do you?

[moans, gasps]

Carl Yoon.

[groans] Your father was on track
to becoming the next president.

[inhales sharply]

But Mr. Yoon drove your father
to k*ll himself by framing him as corrupt.

- What?
- [groans]

Then Chairperson Son hired Yoon
as your campaign manager,

even though she was aware of everything
that had occurred with your father.

[groans]

I don't know what you're saying.

In all these years,
I kept my eyes on Mr. Yoon.

He isn't a man who likes losing, you know.

He's the rat that abandons the ship
at the first warning sign.

Why, then, with all your weaknesses,
would he stay with you?

To honor a contract with her? To compete?

It's both, most likely.
But there's another reason.

The huge amount of guilt he felt
over your father.

He tried getting off the hook.

He tried helping you win
because it would purge his sins.

[somber music playing]

[sighs]

This is called retribution, Mr. Baek.

It's hard to take.

You got played like a puppet
by your nemesis, your father's m*rder*r.

This is why, when you wrong someone,

you come clean and apologize sincerely,

instead of committing a worse sin

to try and cover your earlier sin.

[emotional music building]

[sobbing]

[Oh Kyung-sook] Ms. Han I-seul

was our daughter,

our sister, and our friend,

and she wanted to live.

She never once gave in to injustice

or made compromises.

- [Baek wailing]
- [dramatic music playing]

[cell phones chiming]

[Baek] In order for me
to make things up to you, I-seul,

you can ask for anything.

[I-seul] I want you to make
a public apology.

Then I'll let this go.

[Baek] Hey, Han I-seul...

[I-seul] Don't touch me!

- [Baek] Do you want this to get ugly?
- [I-seul] Let me go!

[Baek] You'll get hurt!
Stop pushing this, you hear!

[I-seul] Let go of me! Let go!

[Baek] Keep still now, for God's sake!
Stop struggling!

I, Oh Kyung-sook, will win

and create a world where truth prevails
so Ms. Han will not have died in vain.

I truly and sincerely hope Ms. Han

can finally rest in peace.

[melancholy music playing]

[sighs]

SEOUL MAYORAL BY-ELECTION GOING SMOOTHLY

[reporter] Voting for the 39th
Seoul Mayoral By-election is underway

without a hitch.

TURNOUT HIGHER THAN THE LAST ELECTION
CHANGCHEON-DONG POLLING PLACE 2

[reporter] Candidate Oh Kyung-sook
showed up early,

accompanied by her husband,
the poet Kang Moon-bok.

Perhaps the public's rage
over Candidate Baek's recording

is being transferred
to the polling booths.

It appears the turnout is much higher
than it was during prior years, as of now.

Yes, got it.

Ma'am. The public opinion
doesn't look good.

People say that you put
your son-in-law in the race

while knowing that he had k*lled
his assistant, Ms. Han.

[exhales]

The prosecution?

Looking bad also, I'm afraid.

As soon as Oh Kyung-sook's elected,

there'll be a counsel,
which is bound to attack the Heaven.

What in the world are you even saying?

[whimpers]

Jae-min did that.

It's just because of his stupidity that

my tower is being targeted as well.

Baek Jae-min is the face
of the Eunsung Group for the public.

[line ringing]

[reporter] So far, about 50% of the votes
have been counted

in the 39th Seoul Mayoral By-election.

People's Reform Party's Candidate Oh
has been in the lead by a landslide,

taking 83% of the votes so far,
ensuring her victory.

Meanwhile, Candidate Baek has not made
any public appearances

since the scandalous recording
was released.

[cell phone vibrating]

Your father, he would be very proud,

if he could see you right now.

You never told me that you knew my father.

We could have been friends, I think,

had your father not died untimely.

I take full responsibility.

There are no excuses.

It is my doing.

I shouldn't have

elevated Jae-min to a position
he clearly couldn't handle.

Well, I learned a lesson.

- I will do the necessary cleanup...
- It's already underway.

Jae-min is gonna
carry all this on his shoulders.

What do you mean?

[slams bottle]

There is a pebble
that rolled into the garden I nurtured

which had the boldness

to try to be a rock
that strengthens our family,

but it wreaked havoc instead.

[choking]

[groaning]

[Ms. Son] Now I must remove it...

to keep my house intact,

don't you think?

It'll be as if nothing happened.

[reporter] The ballot count
of the 39th Seoul Mayoral By-election

will now come to an end
in ten, nine, eight, seven, six...

[all] Five, four, three,

two, one!

And the winner of the 39th Seoul
Mayoral By-election is

Candidate Oh Kyung-sook
of the People's Reform Party.

After such a fierce
and controversial election campaign,

Candidate Oh Kyung-sook
of the People's Reform Party

has been elected as Mayor of Seoul.

I'm so very proud of you,
Ms. Oh! Congratulations! [laughs]

You guaranteed us
another ten years for our party! [laughs]

You did so great,
honey, and you worked so hard.

[uplifting music playing]

Oh Kyung-sook!

- Oh Kyung-sook! [laughing]
- [Joong-seok] It's really over now.

I guess you're right.

I know I probably
put you through a whole lot. Thank you.

I was scared. I thought you really got
yourself k*lled, Do-hee.

You were, I know.

Thanks again for always caring.

Thank you, everyone!

[uplifting rock music continues]

[on TV] Oh Kyung-sook
of the People's Reform Party

has won the 39th
Seoul Mayoral By-election.

Candidate Oh, who won
in a dramatic landslide victory,

taking 84% of the votes,

is celebrating this happy moment
in her campaign office

accompanied by her husband
the poet Kang Moon-bok,

her campaign staff,
and her loyal supporters. Meanwhile...

[Yoon] He lost the election.

There's nothing else
for him to do on this earth.

[TV continues in background]

[on TV] The enraged citizens of Seoul are
waiting for him to make his appearance,

as he has been accused of m*rder
and sexual as*ault.

[unsettling music playing]

[reporter] Seoul Mayoral Candidate
Baek Jae-min was found dead.

Having been suspected
of m*rder and sexual as*ault,

he seems to have taken his own life
the previous night.

A handwritten suicide note was found
at the scene of his death.

The suicide note explains
that both accusations

which Candidate Oh was
bringing against him,

that is, sexual as*ault
and m*rder, are true.

He also apologizes to his wife
and her family for besmirching their name.

[sighs]

[cheering]

THE RHINO NEVER DIES
OH KYUNG-SOOK NEVER DIES

[audience chanting] Oh Kyung-sook!
Oh Kyung-sook! Oh Kyung-sook!

SEOUL, WHERE CITIZENS ARE HAPPY

[chanting continues] Oh Kyung-sook!
Oh Kyung-sook! Oh Kyung-sook!

CONGRATULATIONS ON BECOMING MAYOR OF SEOUL

[uplifting music playing]

[chanting continues]

A NEW SEOUL BUILT TOGETHER
WITH THE PEOPLE OF SEOUL

CANDIDATE OH, CONGRATULATIONS
ON BECOMING MAYOR OF SEOUL

Seoul, I smile for you.

You fill my heart.

What I did today we did together, clearly.

[camera shutters clicking]

This victory is for you,

for all of you, the people of Seoul.

From today on, I promise you,

sincerely, to be the kind of worker

that you can depend on.

A Seoul to enjoy.

A Seoul belonging to all.

A dream called Seoul.

Our Seoul.

I, Oh Kyung-sook, am going
to start building that with you all.

Let's begin.

[all cheering]

[all chanting] Oh Kyung-sook!
Oh Kyung-sook!

Oh Kyung-sook! Oh Kyung-sook!

Oh Kyung-sook!

[chanting fading]

[host] We will now be accepting
questions from the reporters.

With all due respect,
I need to get some honest answers.

No problem. Ask away. Go ahead.

Do you know that there's
a serious rumor going around about you

receiving funds for your political
campaign through a company called Eunsung?

I'm IBC's Kim Cho-rong, by the way.

Yes, IBC's Kim Cho-rong. I know. Yeah.

It's certainly not a thing
that I've heard before today.

Then perhaps there's a certain associate
within your campaign

that has prevented you
from hearing this information,

or it's... it's that you're simply lying

to the millions out there
who brought you the victory.

Of course not.

May I please get an answer from
Ms. Hwang Do-hee, your campaign manager,

who has been instrumental in your win?

[Oh Kyung-sook] Of course you can. Go on.

You can certainly hear it
from Ms. Hwang Do-hee herself.

Ms. Hwang, would you please?

[camera shutters clicking]

[Ms. Kim] Ms. Hwang Do-hee.

Did Eunsung Group give
any ill*gal funds to Ms. Oh's campaign?

Did you give approval for that?

[tense music playing]

I have, yes.

[all gasping and murmuring]

It's true that I...

received campaign funds from the company...

which were ill*gal.

[murmuring growing louder]

[Seo-jin] So let's say I inherit Eunsung

and Oh Kyung-sook wins the election.

What then, huh?

I'm curious then.

What do you get out of it?

A day is all you got.

[Seo-jin] How am I supposed to get
20 billion won in cash overnight?

That's really your strong suit, not mine.

There's an accounting firm

called the Golden Crown
in the Cayman Islands.

They manage your mother's slush fund.

Only family members
have access to that account.

You need to get 20 billion out of there,

and then wire it to an account of mine.

If all that money gets
transferred to your account,

they'll be tracking you then?

I'm doing it so that they can track it.

The whole point is to show that
the campaign manager for Oh Kyung-sook

accepted ill*gal funding
from the Eunsung family

so your mom's ill*gal accounts
get investigated. You understand?

So you're saying...

I'm going to have to betray Mother.
Is that it then?

How else will the Eunsung Group
be yours, kiddo, huh?

Not considering your sister,

your mom has to go,

in case you ever intend to run Eunsung.

I mean, after all,

love of family

isn't really the Eunsung way.

[dramatic music building]

[reporter] Manager Hwang Do-hee
of Candidate Oh's campaign

was arrested on the charge of accepting
20 billion won of ill*gal campaign funds.

Hwang said she did accept
the ill*gal funds,

that she was wired over 20 billion won,

and that Chairperson Son's
accounting firm had sent it to her,

admitting to personally using it all.

The prosecution has launched
an investigation

after finding evidence the firm has been
managing Chairperson Son's slush funds,

which amount to
hundreds of billions of won.

[knock on door]

[man chuckles] So.
It's all underway. [laughing]

[man sighs]

The Chairperson will soon be arrested.
I'll start the investigation.

And we'll also be using it

to see what kind of bribes went out
for her duty-free shop.

- That's great. Thank you.
- Oh, please, Ms. Hwang.

You were the one who was
getting it all done, not us.

You know, if it wasn't
you sacrificing yourself like that,

I would never have dreamed to go after
the head of Eunsung Corporation.

[chuckles]

I need to make sure
you will honor your word

that Oh Kyung-sook cannot
get in trouble for this, as we agreed.

The new mayor. Ah.

[laughing]

I mean,

all she really needs to be saying

is that she wasn't aware
that you were involved in such activities.

[knock on door]

[man] Hmm?

Ah. [chuckles]

[door closes]

[sighs]

[sighs]

[sniffles]

[sighs]

[Oh Kyung-sook] Why did you do that? Why?

Why did you decide
to fall on your sword? [sniffles]

Why?

Why suffer through this alone?

Oh Kyung-sook...

How am I supposed to do work as mayor,

knowing this happened to you?

What's the point, huh?

This isn't a victory at all.

You need to get it together.

I knew the winning strategy was to retreat
so that you could successfully rule Seoul.

Hwang Do-hee!

Through meeting you...

[somber music playing]

...I learned of a kind and loving world...

and met wonderful people
who are better than I deserve.

[sobs]

If you weren't there,
I just would have died, and...

I wouldn't have gotten to know what I did.

[Oh Kyung-sook sighs deeply]

I want you...

to continue to nurture
that spirit you sowed.

[crying]

Oh!

[sobs]

The real fight has just started.

Take the sword you now hold
and please wield it justly, to do good.

And I'll always keep an eye on you.

[sobs]

[sobbing]

[reporter] The head of Eunsung used

ill*gal slush funds to purchase
many permits to construct the great tower,

is what the prosecution found.

Now that Chairperson Son
has been arrested,

the Eunsung Group was
subsequently seized and searched,

and the city plans
to not allow the Heaven to open

until all necessary inspections
will be done.

DUTY-FREE SHOP PERMIT EVALUATION

[Oh Kyung-sook] As you can see,
it's no exaggeration...

to state that Eunsung's duty-free tower
was built from all things ill*gal.

This duty-free shop, this hunk of steel,
is mired in total corruption.

In that sense, it seems the right thing
to do would be to demolish it right away.

But here's my offer.

It will give Eunsung Group one last chance
to correct the wrong which was done.

Really?

I'd say that 90% of the Eunsung company's
shares of your new shop

get distributed to a private enterprise

which the city will create.

[laughs]

Ninety percent?

You think I will just give you that?

The land which the shop was built on
was intended

to provide housing to the families
with low income and house the poor.

So this is what our city has planned.

And soon, the ten million people here

are going to get the benefit
of your company's shares

coming out of the enterprise

that will be established
by the city of Seoul.

[knock on door, door opens]

[Oh Kyung-sook] Oh, ma'am.

Sorry to keep you waiting.
Please take a seat.

[Ms. Son] Mm. [chuckles softly]

Mayor Oh, you seem
very angry at me somehow.

Yes?

The thing is, a mayor has only two years

in office.

Even if you use the duty-free shop
as an example,

everything will just
return back to exactly as...

Nothing is going back to how it was.

I will never let that happen.

I think you need to understand that.

It's important.

So?

You'll do what then?

Are you telling me
that you're gonna bring me down?

You're just a mayor,
nothing more than that, you hear?

You think that that's it?

It's Hwang Do-hee who's behind this.

She got me here.

[suspenseful music playing]

Hwang Do-hee knows about
what your company is made of.

Eunsung Group's corruption

and all the filth
you've been caught up in,

Hwang Do-hee knows it all.

And she made it possible
for me to be here.

Do you even comprehend...

just what that means?

You see,

Hwang Do-hee was very generous.

She passed everything on.

Your crime of exploiting your employees
by blinding them,

filling them with false hope,

as if Eunsung really considers them
as their family.

Your crimes of tax evasion,

the serial bribing and defrauding,

your market manipulation.

Your crimes

of k*lling those that are in the way

that might threaten your power
by calling you out.

Yes, that's right.

Hwang Do-hee put an arsenal in my hands,
and every b*llet there is

will be used to destroy

whatever you made.

[upbeat rock music playing]

Oh Kyung-sook.

[Oh Kyung-sook] Ah.

You said a mayor has two years
to do everything on their schedule.

You don't have to worry.

What I spoke about,

I'll be taking care of in, uh,

two months or less.

Goodbye.

♪ She's gonna change the world... ♪

[crying]

[song continues]

[reporter] Eunsung Group has brought in
professional business managers

to oversee its operations.

Acting president Eun Seo-jin,

the eldest daughter of Chairwoman Son,
who is currently under arrest,

has handed over 90%
of Eunsung's duty-free shop's shares

to a private enterprise
set up by Seoul Metropolitan Government.

She has resigned from the presidency,

leaving all rights
to the business managers

to help Eunsung's improvement and growth.

[Seo-jin] Why haven't you gone to visit
Mom even once since her arrest?

Do you have to make it so obvious?

What in the hell have you done?

[Seo-jin] I couldn't stand
Oh Kyung-sook's constant nagging.

It was such a pain.

With the company giving away the shop,
it's quite a bad time for us all.

No good is gonna come
of me playing the big boss.

And the truth is...

business should be left to the experts.

We have this logistics company
that needs a CEO.

You wanna give it a shot?

I mean, you're not an expert,

but you've got
plenty of management training.

I'm still your older sister.

I should help you a bit, right?

You were born into this awful family.

[suspenseful music playing]

So you've been through a lot.

[tuts]

Just think about it.

Jae-min.

It was Mom who k*lled him, wasn't it?

[sniffles]

[whistles blowing]

[Oh Kyung-sook on TV]
Beloved citizens of Seoul.

Here are the first-quarter results
of Seoul Metropolitan Government

and a report
of Eunsung's Duty-Free Shop shares.

Uh, the shop's total profits
for this quarter are now in.

It's about three and a half trillion won.

So the amount paid out
to each of Seoul's citizens

through the private enterprise
the city has established for this purpose

is over 270,000 won.

And in comparison
to the year before, this amounts to

a four percent increase on average.

Seoul is creating new work opportunities
by amending certain city regulations,

and this should also make employment
conditions a lot more stable as a result.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will
keep monitoring Eunsung's Duty-Free Shop

so that it continues its role
of serving as a public asset

for all of the citizens
of this great city.

[mellow music playing]

[footsteps approaching]

[guard] You have a visitor, 1228.

[knock on door]

[door closes]

Hwang Do-hee.

Is that you?

You made Oh Kyung-sook the Rhino
mayor of Seoul.

[mysterious music playing]

[exhales softly]

[Hwang] Yes.

I am her.

[unsettling music playing]

[sighs]

Who are you?

I'd need you

to perhaps lend me a hand.

[theme music playing]

♪ Take me to the sky ♪

♪ Breaking down the wall ♪

♪ When you hold my hand ♪

♪ Dreams are coming true ♪

♪ Is this a fantasy? ♪

♪ This is a real life... ♪

[singing continues in Korean]

♪ This is a mastery ♪

♪ I'm on your side, we're on our own ♪

♪ I don't wanna fly high ♪

♪ I just wanna stay with you ♪

♪ I don't wanna break down ♪

♪ We can all get down ♪

♪ I don't wanna fly high ♪

♪ I just wanna stay with you ♪

- ♪ I don't wanna break down ♪
- ♪ Ohh, ohhhh ♪

♪ Take me to the sky ♪

♪ Breaking down the wall ♪

♪ When you hold my hand ♪

♪ Dreams are coming true ♪

♪ Is this a fantasy? ♪

♪ This is a real life... ♪

[singing continues in Korean]

♪ This is a mastery ♪

♪ I never give up ♪

♪ On your life ♪

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