-You went through a lot today,
Have a sip.
-The campaign ended successfully.
According to our own research, support has reached over 71%.
-Great work.
You must be thirsty, go ahead and have a sip.
I've seen you today on TV.
When I was at Japan to negotiate K-J treaty, I met Yuk Dosan.
People at that time were thinking that all the pro-wrestling was fake.
One of the reporters asked him,
...if the pro-wrestling is just a show.
Do you know what his answer was?
He said,
'Life is a show.'
'That's why I put my life on the line for this show.'
You and Yuk Dosan are quite alike, do you not think so?
-I will take that as a compliment.
Ah, that indeed was a compliment, you should take it as such.
Eat.
Sometimes I wish that you were my own child.
How hard it must have been to achieve everything for you, coming from such a poor family!
That's what I think.
-I respect you.
-Really?
-Your life journey is the history of Korea itself.
-Ah, I was just born during a tumultuous time.
-I saw your old photo from Jisoo's album.
During the Japanese occupation, the twelve year old you were carrying a carrying rack.
-That photo was there?
-The boy who were carrying the rack has become a giant who lifts the Korean economy.
-They only paid me half the regular wage and make me carry twice the load, because I was young.
-Because of you, I was able to dream on.
Thank you.
-Ah, by the way, is your father well?
-Yes.
-Do you still only go to that barbershop?
-Yes.
-You should take me there someday.
I should get a haircut from my in-law.
Oh, by the way,
Youngwook will leave to the American division tomorrow.
He will be there for few years.
-I will summon him right after my inauguration.
Arrest is inevitable.
The special prosecution is still ongoing.
-If you take him down, there will be no new investments for few years. I fear that the national economy may suffer.
-I could audit the entire HanOh companies.
-Dongyoon.
Do you know why people take HanOh's money so easily?
It's because they know that our money is trouble-free.
You know this too, right?
No one got in trouble after taking our money.
That benefactors list is with me.
Even if you sit on the throne, who do you think the people will side with?
Dongyoon.
Do you still want my position that badly?
You aren't even my offspring.
-Is there a such thing as royal bloodline?
-My offspring is not you.
Dongyoon, have another drink.
Ah, you know what they say about those westerners who stop fighting the war when it's Christmas, right?
Let's celebrate for now.
6:40 AM, Election Day.
-Detective Baek!
Detective Baek.
You are all soaked.
What should we do,
Our good old detective..
You are as wet as a squid!
I heard that you couldn't turn the ship around until the morning.
Right.
Everyone is here.
-As of right now, 8'o clock, The voting rate is at %5.6
Perhaps the massive support rate gap between you and Cho Dongsoo is the reason for the low level of participation.
By tomorrow, you will be the president of Korea.
-Even if you sit on the throne, who do you think the people will side with?
-Make an appointment with the owners of major media companies.
Find out what it is they want, and research their crucial business plans.
Make a list of the prosecutors who my father in law does not influence.
-He will try to control the media first.
He will need people who will write what he tells them.
-The company owners are close with you...
-They are not close with me, they are merely afraid of me.
Mess with me and they lose half the advertisers.
They know who to take sides with to make more profit.
If there is someone scarier than me, they will line up and lick his ass.
Oh, Youngwook will leave to the American division by tomorrow evening.
-He will be arrested right after I become the president.
Arrest is inevitable.
-Then he will try to make the prosecutors his.
That, I can try to stop.
-Will there be anyone in the prosecutor's office who is not under Chairman Suh's influence?
-Dongyoon,
Do you know why people take HanOh's money so easily?
It's because they know that our money is trouble-free.
You know this too, right?
There are no one who got in trouble after taking HanOh's money.
That benefactors list is with me.
-Check everyone in HanOH who was arrested for various accusations in the past.
If I can get rid of those who are under the chairman's influence..
Only if I can replace them with my people...
Hyera.
The Prosecutor's Office can be my personal strategic command center.
Only then I can beat HanOh's strategic center.
Where will the victory celebration be held at?
-11PM tonight, at Han River Public Park with the citizens.
The event will be named "To the nation of justice with Kang, to the world of hope with the people".
You will take the podium around 11:20PM.
You will bow to the oldest voter, grandma Choi Booksoon, and thank her for creating and protecting such a great country.
When you move from your residence to the Blue House, all broadcasting stations will show your path in real-time.
-I will take the subway.
-I will prepare the people who can have a conversation with you in the subway train.
8:25 AM, Election Day.
-Yongsik got this yesterday.
-One of my closest friends sells spy cams.
He gave me one for free.
This can open anything except women, it's a locksmith's key.
He is my very close friend.
He was beaten often since young age, so he has a habit of bowing down deeply to anyone.
-This is the barbershop that Kang's father runs.
The building is under his father's name.
You enter from the main road and go further for about 100m, and you will find a traditional market on the left and a parking lot on the right.
Kang will park here.
The driver and his assistant will wait in the car.
The car will be 30m away from the barbershop,
...and he will walk to the barbershop.
Alone.
Today, we hit right here.
Kang Dongyoon..
I will get him.
Prosecutor,
Are you okay with this?
-I could not keep my first promise.
(Inside) Baek Hongseok, trust the law.
I have to keep my second promise.
-(Monologue) But if the law cannot solve this, then you have to help me.
-Ah, detective Baek.
Will Kang really come here today?
-You told me about Kang when I was hospitalized.
And I remember what you said.
You told me that he goes to his father's barbershop before an important day.
-I forgot that I told you that.
-After I hand over myself to the prosecutors and solve this case, you can forget about the favor I asked you earlier.
-Those who oppose death sentence says that it is also a form of murder.
The public servants do the execution with our tax so we are actually the ones who does the killing.
But since we can't see it, since we are not the ones pressing the button, we all conveniently say that we agree, disagree, or don't care.
I guess I was like that too.
Since Choi was leading us and everone was involved, I perhaps thought I am doing my part by helping just a bit.
It's hard...
I have to take down my brother in law directly...
It's a lot different...
...than helping from behind.
It sure feels a lot different.
-If there was another way, I would not have asked you this.
-I know.
If you had different ways to do this, I would have turned you down easily.
-Why aren't you giving me this month's allowance?
-Because...
I hate you.
-Oppa.
Let's take this seriously.
Who did you give the phone to?
I'll be there right away.
Jiwon.
Let's talk later.
-You've been saying that for months.
Jiwon, let's talk later.
-Okay.
Let's talk.
But let me ask you first.
Baek Hongseok, where is that man?
-Sister.
-You know it.
You know where he is.
You were with him when you snuck him out of the hospital too.
-And if I tell you?
When you find him,
What will you do?
-Jiwon!
Baek will be the death of me.
Your brother in law will go down too!
Stop playing reporter, Jiwon.
Be the nice sister that you once were, please?
Jiwon.
I'll hand over HanOh media shares to you.
Don't do reporting anymore, make a broadcasting station for yourself.
I will give you the art hall as well.
You like musicals, right?
Let the kids make the musicals that you love so much, please?
-I think we're done here.
-Oppa.
I'm on my way.
Wait for me.
Don't go anywhere!
-Let me talk to Baek.
I'll do it.
If our plan fails today, I'll help you.
-Do you think he will really help me?
-He will.
He will come.
This is my brother in law's...
official schedule for today.
you have a meeting with the advising academics at 11AM, and you have a meeting with the camp staff.
He will go between 11:30 to 1:30PM.
I'm sure.
-What's the vote progress right now?
-Yes?
I just saw it...
I am bad at arithmetics.
-11.4%.
Exit polling support is at 68%.
I heard it from a reporter who goes into Daehan party camp.
-If you get him during the lunch,
we can change things around by 2'o clock.
We can flip the game for sure.
You said its 30m from the parking lot to the barbershop, right?
It's too close.
If the assistant or the driver rushes in, things will be difficult to control.
How many cars can fit in the lot?
-About 10 cars?
-We will fill it up beforehand.
I can let the investigators fill about two spots.
-I'll call my friend and fill the entire lot.
Block the entrance and all.
-Then the next nearest parking lot is 200m away.
Even if something happens, we will have enough time to react.
For an exit,
this will do.
10:16 AM, Election Day.
He insisted that I bring you.
Let's hurry.
-Did you never take any friends to the barbershop?
-During high school, they did a census.
How big the house was, was it rented, what kind of furnitures we have..
Those were the questions of the census.
They asked if we have a color TV.
Everyone else said that they have one.
So I also said that I have one too.
After that, I did not take anyone to the barbershop.
Our TV was black and white.
My father hanged up the trophies that I got.
I bet he wanted to show it off to the customers.
But the landlord's son was bad at studies.
The landlord made a fuss about them,
And he took down all the trophies that day.
Only after we bought the building off, he took them back out and hanged them on the barbershop wall.
-The place is sort of your hometown, I guess.
-But I do not wish to show it to anyone.
12 PM. Voters turnout 22.3%
Kang Dong Yoon rating: 70%
Father.
I am here.
Kang.
Dong.
Yoon!
-The likely winner of the election, Kang of Daehan, is planning a citizen's celebration after the election.
-When I,
..was going to the church with my first husband,
I asked the preacher.
Preacher,
Why is the world so messed up?
He joked,
...that it is because he made the world in 7 days only.
He should have taken about ten years or so, but because he created it in a hurry that bad guys prevail everywhere.
-Detective Cho.
Drink this water.
What's wrong?
-This is all because of me.
Damn it.
Only if I wasn't in the accident, he would have released the cell phone.
Then Kang would have went down for sure this time.
I feel so terrible.
-Detective Cho.
I talked to Hongseok earlier.
He told me to tell you this.
You do have a pretty face when you look closely.
-My face is kinda pretty when you look closely enough!
-I've seen you for 7 years, but I am not so sure!
-And he told me to tell you this also.
You have to get well soon, so you can pay my debt.
-I owe $20 to the Soondae restaurant.
-I'll pay it back for you.
-And he also said this.
He will catch Kang for sure.
You have to be more evil than him to catch Kang.
-Don' be scared.
You do as I say, you will get out of here alive.
In a few hours, you will become the president.
The Blue House will be your new place.
-Where's my father.
-He is okay.
He does what we tells us to do, and he is eating well also.
Don't bother fighting back.
I've been a detective for twenty years.
If I hit you, it's gonna hurt.
A lot.
-What is it that you want?
Where is my father?
He has diabetes.
He has to take the pills in time.
He needs heart pills too.
-This is for Soojung.
This is for Miyeon.
-Did you come just to punch me?
-I came here to make a deal with you.
I took the boat last night.
But I lost it all while being chased by the coast guard.
I came back to the shore, and I saw it.
You and your wife voting at the election center.
-So?
-I feel like a loser.
Lost my child, my wife, and be chased by the police.
I even had to sneak out of the country, and you become the president and go to the Blue House.
-How much do you want?
-How much can you give me?
I, Chief Hwang, Cho, and Yongsik.
How much can you give to the four of us?
-I thought you would never give up.
-You said this.
-When the moment of choice comes, the true nature of the man is revealed.
-I have to make a choice.
Whether should I continue to fight the president Kang or to give up.
There are only about five people in this entire country who believes in me.
You will be a president in few hours and what I can do is giving up instead of forgiving.
You win, Kang.
I, as well as those who were helping me, must live too.
I will disappear, your father will come back, and you will be safe forever.
How much do you want to buy that for?
-I will have to make sure the safety of my father.
-Hey,
I do not need something this fancy.
-Tonight, the reporters will rush in, so he asked me.
Yeah.
-Hey, Kang.
You have to be a good son.
Let's get him out of there.
I will disappear from your world forever.
-Baek Hongseok.
I thought you can't be bought off.
-Let me know if there is another way.
Let me know how I can beat someone who can be a president in few hours.
Is there how?
-Mom's been busy the last few days, because of the work stuff.
Dongyoon?
-Jisoo.
Transfer funds from the safe line to a bank outside the country.
I'll send the account number by SMS.
It's two million.
-Okay.
-I'll tell you later why I...
-You don't have to tell me.
I'll send it now.
Don't worry about it,
Birthdays come every year.
-'BITCH'
I've seen PK Jun's phone.
Kang's wife Suh Jisoo, BITCH.
The first lady of Korea, BITCH.
-Shut up.
-POODLE.
Suh Jiwon told me.
They call you a POODLE at your home.
WOOF WOOF.
-Baek Hongseok.
-You solemnly worry about your nation in front of the public,
while at home you are a POODLE and a BITCH.
-That's you.
The poodle that was bought for Jisoo.
Since Jisoo wanted you, we bought you for her knowing that you were a mongrel.
-I thought you were a great, powerful man, but you killed my daughter just to be a poodle.
-It's because I will go down if your daughter regains consciousness.
It's unfortunate.
Yes.
I killed her.
Baek Soojung, the daughter of Baek Hongseok.
I told my people to find your best friend Yoon Changmin,
I gave him three million dollars.
He took care of my problem just next day.
-You rigged the trial, too.
-Because I will lose everything if PK Jun was not declared innocent.
-Kang Dongyoon.
You are really pathetic.
-Interesting.
I hear that from someone whose wife and daughter are dead, escaped custody, chased by the policed, and was planning to leave the country.
-I have people beside me.
I bet you also have your people.
There's the chancellor who abandons honor for the Minister position, people who will do anything for money.
I bet there are people like that with you.
My people are different.
The prosecutor who arrests his family member to uphold the law,
The reporter who confronts her brother in law to reveal the truth,
The detective who still worries about me while in a hospital bed after an accident.
Kang.
This is 'human'.
This is..
..the 'human' that I know.
-The money's sent.
Two million dollars.
-(Jungwoo) The money's here.
-Leave in a minute.
-Congratulations.
President Kang Dong Yoon..
-Congressman Yu has contacted us.
He wants to buy you a dinner.
What should we do?
-Detective Baek.
You are such a gentleman outside but I heard that you are a beast when interrogating suspects.
Kang's messed with the wrong one.
Let's send this off and go find Detective Cho.
-Yongsik.
You have somewhere to be at before that.
Breaking News
-I dropped Kang's father off to the Barbershop.
-The desktop has the files already, get to work.
-Okay.
-There's sushu in the fridge, eat it before you work.
-Okay.
-I'll come back in an hour, so be patient even if you miss me.
-Okay. .....?!
-You were the one who wanted to meet.
And you are late 10 minutes.
-I heard you are running away to US tonight?
-Hey.
-Cancel the flight.
-(Dongyoon) Yes, I killed him.
Baek Hongseok's son, Baek Soojung.
I told them to find Yoon Changmin.
I gave him three million dollars.
He took care of my problem the next day.
-Time's running out.
I heard that you can influence the UBC station executives.
-Such a waste.
Only if it was just a day earlier...
It's too late now.
It's 1PM.
In 5 hours, everything's over.
The exit polling shows that Kang will win the election.
-SO?
-No press or stations can write anything with this at this point.
If you do, there will be talks of forge or false information. Such companies will not survive in Kang's administration.
-Can you survive his administration?
At his government.
I have sent the footage to all media companies in the country.
If one company reports, the rest will follow.
-If no one reports it, the election will end quietly.
-I hope you have a pleasant trip to the States.
I wish the in-flight meals are to your likings.
Did you know that the prosecutors have formed a special investigation unit only for you?
If he becomes the president, tens of prosecutors will make your file.
You will be summoned shortly.
-Prosecutor Choi.
1 PM. Voters turnout 29%
Kang Dong Yoon rating: 68%
-How will we form the transfer commitee?
-The Blue House will be run as is.
The governmental bodies will be merged or be shut down to make 15/2/18 divisions into 13/2/16.
The transfer committee will be headed by Choi Hyunsub or Gu Ohkeum.
-Stop the vehicle.
-Only UBC has broadcasted the footage.
The other presses are still assessing the situation.
-Contact the media corps owners.
Voting will end in less than five hours.
Tell them that any reports that may affect the election will be dealt with maximum severity after the election.
-Okay.
-Baek Hongseok..
-I've sent the data and the footage.
Check it, it's under the Politics desk address.
Other presses will begin reporting it.
UBC is moving on to the follow-up report.
-Good job.
What time is it?
-1:17PM.
-This is an urgent news report by KGB.
Only merely four hours before the vote's end, a crucial video that will prove the relationship between Candidate Kang and Baek Hongseok.
-You killed my daughter only for this?
-Yes, that's why I killed her.
Baek Soojung, Baek Hongseok's daughter.
I will be the hope of the weak,
I will make a nation where justice flows like a river!
I, Kang, will make it with you!!!
-You hit where it hurts.
-The Korean politics have only lied to its people.
I, Kang Dongyoon, will only speak of the truth.
How much do you want?
-How much can you give to me?
I, Chief Hwang, Cho, Yongsik.
The four of us.
-Sunbae...
-If no one leads, no one will follow.
If a powerless citizen cannot receive legal aid due to poverty, the country must help them.
-You killed my daughter for this?
-If your daughter wakes up, I will be taken down.
I had no choice.
It's unfortunate.
So...
After I went into politics, I have never said anything which was unconfirmed.
I have told you everything that I know.
Now I will let the people discover the truth.
-You rigged the trial.
-If PK Jun isn't decleard innocent, I will lose everything that I have.
As a son of poor barber, I have only come this far for the people, and did not give in to lies and deception!
I wanted to show them all that I can still become a president like that.
-Chief.
How about Detective Cho?
Let the caregivers help her for the day.
-Hongseok.
My conscious can't allow that.
-Ah, you are broke as a hobo, no wonder your conscience can allow anything.
I'll wait.
-Ah, Detective Baek!
-Wait.
-Hello?
Ah, bro,
Let me talk to Cho.
-Yongsik, I am busy right now~
Let's talk later~
-Detective Cho?
-Can I ask for a caregiver for toda..
-Don't.
Leave it alone.
-Ah, how about you?
He doesn't want to be cuffed by someone else.
Go, now.
-I said no already!
-Ah, chief!
-Why are you doing this, Cho?
I sold him out for money, now I am doing this to repent my sins.
I will be punished after all this.
I should have not done that.
I feel so guilty already, and you expect me to arrest him and be promoted?
Can you do that, if it was for you?
-Why did you get discharged in the first place?
-Still!
-Those were not my words.
That's what Baek said.
I asked him.
I asked if he didn't hate you,
But,
He said.
Chief was discharged because of me.
-I took the bribe.
I took care of Yongsik.
Hongseok.
-Yes?
-You have to get him.
-Okay.
-You have to get that killer by yourself, .
-Okay.
-He only remembers that.
That's our chief.
Just go already!
He is waiting for you.
-We truly regret that someone has released unknown videos that attempt to tarnish Kang's name.
These dirty political attacks should be never repeated again.
At the time of video's recording, Kang was with his advisers discussing the policies.
These advisers will testify for Kang.
-Kang skipped dinner just to discuss how to revive the economy.
2 PM. Voters turnout 32%
Kang Dong Yoon rating: 67%
-From 1 to 2PM, voting rate increased by 3%.
The exit poll results are promising.
We can hold it until the end.
I will create mass confusion.
I will hire a few computer experts to say that the videos are forged.
I will make the power bloggers to spread rumours that it is a lookalike, not you.
It doesn't matter if they believe it or not.
The people will be confused, and will postpone judgments.
-Hyera.
-Yes, candidate.
-Even if we last the election and become the president, the controversy will still be there.
-If there are too much complications, people will forget.
It will take some time, but...
-What am I supposed to do for now?
-You felt no need to respond to such appaling video, and are resting for the time being.
-Tell them that I am going over the 10 Fair Korea goals that will be released at the victory celebration.
-Okay.
-Kang's not faltering.
The voting rate is suspended, and Kang used advisers to create an alibi for himself.
And I have the evidence to break that alibi.
-It's my turn now.
Kang told me...
That this is a fight between the adults.
I am not to interfere.
-No.
What they are doing is a fight between beasts.
Adult's fights are between those who knows what's right or wrong.
Reporter Suh.
What you are doing right now, is the real adult fight.
-Hey?
-Miyeon.
Soojung...
I dropped by to say hello.
The next time I am here, I will be very old.
You guys will still recognize me though, right?
Soojung.
Miyeon.
-The news that Baek's 2-million account and who sent the fund was revealed just came in.
Suh Jiwon is reporting at Daehan People's Party.
-This is the Party HQ, where Kang's camp is at.
The controversy intensifies as Kang and Baek's videos are released.
We have just acquired the proof of the account that the money was sent to.
The sender of two million dollars is thougt to be...
Suh Jisoo, Kang Dong Yoon's wife.
-Two million dollars, it's transferred.
-It is now proven that Kang's meeting with the advisors did not take place.
The released footages are thought to be legitimate.
The time is 3PM right now,
and three and half hours remain until the end of the vote.
People will decide what we make out of this shocking situation.
This is Suh Jiwon from SBC News.
-Did you eat?
-Yes.
Yongsik got a bento from a convenience store.
-Yongsik went to find Cho at the hospital.
-Chief...
Do you remember,
when you bought me lunch at the station, on my first day of work?
You were pretty cocky that day.
It wasn't even Seoul, you showed off that you got a small condo. You did that the entire day.
Sigh...
-I was quite young, I guess.
-Before going into that Condo, your wife got hurt and Chanwoo kept on being hospitalized.
-I guess poor people's lives mess up once it starts crashing..
-You still let me borrow money when I got married.
Sigh...
Good old chief.
What should we do with you?
-Life isn't much, eh?
When I first came to Seoul, I wanted to live well as others.
Life was hard, but every time difficulties hit me I thought,
Get over this and my real life will begin.
I did that for 50 years!
But after than, all that was life itself.
The life I wanted to live will be forever gone.
-Chief,
There's still chance for you.
You have your wife, son and daughter.
Take me in, get promoted, and find ways for you to make money after retiring.
It will be a good life.
-Hongseok.
-And then,
After ten or twenty years, when I am out of the prison, you can take me out and buy me lunch.
I hope
you have a lot of things to show off at that time too.
Good old chief..
Come on.
-Don't bother.
Let's just go.
-Do it properly.
Only then, catching me will be your feat.
Do not let others benefit from what you have done again.
-Hongseok.
Baek Hongseok.
I am arresting you for...manslaughter and escape charges.
-Candidate...
The v...voting rate is...
-At 4PM today, the voting rate skyrocketed.
While it was merely 38% at 3PM, it has increased 13% in the last hour and is at 51% right now.
-Let's go vote.
-I probably would have taken the shot.
-If we do that...
We lose to him forever.
-Hongseok.
What do you want?
-I want him to say what he did with his own words.
Tell the truth at least once, tell it just once!!
-Why, why why, why!!
Why are you not giving up!
Why.
-Because
I am
Soojung's father.