Miss Ripley
Episode 13
Hey, who are you guys?
What is this?
You need to come with us.
Who are you?
You'll know if you come with us.
I'm told to accompany you, with respect.
I'm asking you a favor.
He's here, sir.
I guess we've already seen each other, right?
I wondered who might be. It's you, the crown prince.
So even the crown prince is doing this kind of thing? Kidnapping me, are you?
I am Song Yu Hyun.
I've never shaken hands with someone of your caliber.
Am I making you uncomfortable?
I'm Hiroyama.
Please have a seat.
Hold it, lady!
You can't go in there.
- I'm sorry? - Are you an employee here?
- No, I'm not. - Then you should leave now.
- The thing is, I need.. - Lady, you can't do this.
- Please, just leave now! Leave! - Ahjussi! Ahjussi!
From when would that be? From when...
People keep two different times.
One that they like to remember,
the other that they don't like to remember.
For me,
Jang Mi Ri exists in the time that I don't like to remember.
At fifteen years old, she approached me to sell some cigarettes.
Running away from her foster parents, there she was with a carton of cheap cigarettes,
Jang Mi Ri.
She served her first table as a bar hostess at nineteen.
Became famous playing flute at twenty-one.
After six years,
this very spring, one gorgeous morning,
she ran away.
That morning brought me the longest day of my life.
Then, it's the study dorms,
where you and I met each other.
Speak of the devil, I should say.
[Jang Mi Ri]
Not going to face her right now, are you?
Right, it's me, Mi Ri.
Don't you dare say anything. Do you hear me?
Are you asking me not to do any talking?
That's it, you don't speak in the presence of someone this royal.
What?
Not saying, you should bark instead, like this.
Now you saw it.
We're engaged in this kind of relationship.
Love! Love...
About love, I would say,
if it is not the right kind, it just screws up a person.
I would say this about the truth in one's mind.
It's all different, depending on whom you're talking to, right?
I mean the truth, when it is spoken by someone like you, the educated.
I don't think it can be a truth,
when you have different versions for different people.
I see you saying something worthy to hear.
But when it comes to Jang Mi Ri.
She is not the kind of person to stay beside you,
Rather, she has to be with a person just like me.
Carp is to be with carp.
Mudfish is to be with mudfish.
Carp and mudfish?
I didn't know I was talking to someone with such ideas about people.
I see you've done some research on me.
Few would relocate one's business only in pursuit of a relationship.
Such truth cannot be uncovered by a mere background check.
It is all because of her, isn't it?
I need to know the truth.
That's why I wanted to see you like this.
The truth about Jang Mi Ri? That's what you want to know, right?
Nothing special, it was made that way just to serve the business purpose.
I didn't know who gave it to Director Jang.
But I've noticed that he has one.
Right, your love is not being swayed even by this kind of thing.
What a joke.
Take a look at this.
Open your eyes and do it.
The one you love is not Jang Mi Ri.
You're not facing this with your own eyes. And you're saying you've love her?
That's why I can't help but laugh here.
What did you say?
What on earth have you said?
He said he loves you,
the one who graduated from Tokyo University.
The fancy hotelier,
the one who lectured in a university,
and even made it on TV, that's the one he loves.
But that's not who you are.
Mi Ri, there is this thing one should not trespass.
That's the truth of oneself.
That's what you trespassed.
You, don't be careless in what you say.
Do you know what would happen if you are careless with the truth?
You will die.
Oh, love! I know it's a good thing.
But it's something you can't have.
And about the person up there,
I don't think I like him.
You better start cleaning up this mess now.
If you need help doing so, you let me know.
Hang on, give me a minute.
Hey, lady! Lady!
I think it's not good for you to see him today.
General Manager Song hasn't come to work? Is that true?
I don't know the reason why, in detail.
He insisted on driving by himself when he left home.
I'm wondering, while he's been at work recently,
has he met with Director Jang Mi Ho?
I've heard that they held a meeting somewhere outside here.
Hello, I'm here to see General Manager Song Yu Hyun.
He's not in today.
I see.
It's me, Mother.
The thing is, I'm feeling confused now.
I don't know what to do to make things right, really.
Are you listening?
Are you watching?
You knitted this by yourself, really?
You can see, it's uneven in texture with my poor craftsmanship, if you look closer.
No way, it's smooth and nice all the way.
Do you like it?
Not just liking it, I'm feeling happiness with this.
I'm really amused that the mode of your speech is the same as Yu Hyun's.
Seeing you so happy with it, I think I'm the one who's really getting happy here.
The word "father"... I guess I haven't had a chance to say it to you for a long time.
I've been missing spending time with you so much.
Since I'm staying here like this, he must be feeling lonesome around the house.
Take these up there.
- Yes, Madam. - You should visit him for a meal or something.
He seems to be so busy. It's been hard to see him.
I see you two are having a good time talking here.
Oh, you're here?
I haven't seen you in quite a while.
Come and look at this. Mi Ri knitted this for me, all by herself.
Oh, she did?
I hoped we'd never see each other again. There must be something more fateful in this relationship.
I'm sorry, Mother.
I don't believe your apologies anymore.
No matter what I say, you'll be entering his life yet again.
Mother! That is..
I'll be frank.
I know you would have thought out your advantages to marrying him.
Nothing strange there, it's human nature,
but wanting to marry him for real?
I wouldn't say that I didn't expect advantages at first, no.
I did have them clearly, to be honest.
There you are.
Now, that narrows the gap between us in communicating to each other.
But I'm not that way anymore.
It's true that I love him now.
I know you wouldn't believe it, but..
Do you really think General Manager Song wouldn't know about Director Jang and you?
It's time for you to stop this.
If you do so, I'll compensate you enough.
If you want to study, I'll support you to study abroad,
- Or if you want to own a house, I'll.. - I don't.
I don't want to leave him.
Your pretense here is just flawless.
If possible, you'd better stop this quick.
I don't want this stain on General Manager Song to get smeared any further.
Let's eat now.
I guess we've talked enough already over a meal.
Even working chopsticks would be hard for you, right?
if you didn't get properly educated for it as a child, I mean.
It seems her true mother doesn't really want to claim her back.
What is her reason?
The thing is, she got pregnant with her while living with a boyfriend.
She's been married to somebody else, keeping it a secret.
It looks to me as if she is afraid of uncovering the baby's existence.
From the person acting on her behalf, I managed to get a phone number.
So there is not much hope on that part.
If any bank account is still active under her legal name,
we could find some information through the bank.
Yes, I'll be on it.
If I get to know about her childhood and her life afterward,
would this uneasy feeling subside at all?
Now what? Is it still going on?
I don't think it'll let up anytime soon.
Why me? Why do I have to take all the blame?
Hello? Oh, Hyung!
Where are you?
What a recruit you found for me this time.
You don't know what kind of blame I'm taking from my superior.
- Hey, I'm not running a private detective office or something! - Whatever you're running, I got..
Here! Director Jang.
- What's going on? - Looks like things are turning sour.
It's been few days now. Postings are showing up on the opinion board for Mi Ri's program.
At first I just thought there was some kind of mistake.
Today, one Tokyo University alumnus posted the whole list of the graduating class that year.
That list does not include Jang Mi Ri.
So it's spreading farther and farther through the internet, Twitter, and such.
And the general manager at the station has been aware of this, already.
I now know it's true.
- What are we going to do about it? - Don't ask me.
Oh, isn't today's cue sheet out yet?
The thing is... there's been a new appointment for the panel.
What are you talking about?
The order came down suddenly from somebody in the executive office.
I've heard all the noise about whether you graduated from Tokyo University or not.
You did graduate from there, right?
Of course. I did.
So, this is what he got from the Tokyo University Alumni Association, right?
The timing coincided with when he started recalling the ad,
I think this document would have given him the reason.
Director Jang is here, Madam.
Did you wish to see me?
[Tokyo University Korean Alumni]
Let me hear what you have to say about this.
I'm afraid I don't have anything to say.
What do you mean by that?
It means exactly what I just said.
With what you just said,
I presume that you have known this all along.
Yes, I have.
Now, this is a surprise to me.
Seeing that you're at ease to admit your involvement in this kind of serious matter,
was it a mistake caused by your personal feelings?
I hate to say this,
but Jang Mi Ri is to be engaged to General Manager Song soon.
Whether it's about personal history or love affairs,
You can't think we'd be careless about such information when she's his fiance.
It's true that my personal feelings were there,
but I only found out about her falsified education history recently.
Even though she didn't graduate from a prestigious university,
she is talented at many different things.
I brooded over the decision to fire her only because she really didn't have the education.
What you're saying now is what I should believe, right?
It's uncharacteristic of you to make this kind of mistake.
I know the merger was not smoothed out all the way.
But we've had so many expectations of you about taking care of the business.
You're known as one of the few world-class businessmen in this industry.
Then how could you make this absurd mistake?
I see love is a terrible thing in this way.
Amend the situation immediately.
- Yes, I'll do that. - Firing her is not an option.
- I know what you mean. - And no rumors should be out, too.
Yes, I understand.
We are the victims here,
but public revelation of it would hurt us in many more ways.
Like damage to our public image and share values. That can't happen.
I'll try to minimize any rumors.
Trying won't be enough. You have to make it happen.
Quietly, you will resolve this. That'll be what I believe of you.
Excuse me.
Where can I find the office of Vice President Lee Hwa, the mother of General Manager Song?
Could I ask what your business is?
What do you think it is?
It only can be about General Manager Song.
[Jang Mi Ri's resume]
- Who is he? - He introduced himself as Hirayama Takeshi.
What would you like to do with him?
- No, you can't do this. - You can't go in there.
- You leave now! - Let go of me.
You, don't do this.
- You have to leave now. - I just need to talk to the Vice President.
So sorry, Madam. He just wouldn't listen.
Oh, here she is.
Leave us.
I'm Hirayama Takeshi.
I see what I've heard about your beauty is so true.
Because of Jang Mi Ri,
I met your son the day before yesterday.
She was doing fantastic then, back in Japan.
She was such a beauty.
I never knew I'd get to use this name card in this kind of junction.
General Manager Song looked so unhappy, seeing this card.
Is this really Jang Mi Ri?
See this? It's her.
Her Japanese name is Mi Rai.
She was my woman until she came to Korea.
Of course.
She is now rumored to become your daughter-in-law.
What is that?
What do you want?
You're so swift to understand the situation.
Is it money you want? But I doubt that.
See this? A professional recognizes other professionals by instinct.
So if it's not money, then what?
I came to take my woman back.
She'll only be kicked out of your family anyway, right?
Looking at the obvious end to come,
I'm feeling bored and sick.
What do you mean by that?
Only to those who graduated from a fancy university,
and come from a prestigious family, would you people pay proper respects as human beings?
I could never guess what goes on in your minds.
Paying a visit to me, in turn,
and asking questions to me, in turn.
And you people would discard her, right?
Tearing her up into pieces, like throwing away a dirty mop. Is that it?
She is the one who dreamed such an undeserving dream.
Not us.
"Undeserving dream"?
You people always say two different things for one meaning.
You say "of this undeserving kind of dream", when a dream ought to be a dream by itself.
Also saying that this kind of man doesn't need to be treated as one,
when a man ought to be treated as a man, nothing else.
Are you people not?
For those who don't know the existence of such boundaries,
there is a world unknown to them inside this world.
A land on which only a few walk,
a privilege which is not available to everybody.
But there sure are people who can enjoy all those privileges being granted.
Eating and enjoying different things than ordinary people,
but taking charge of different responsibilities in return.
Do you think you know this world?
Jang Mi Ri is the kind of woman who cannot step past those boundaries.
What are you trying to say?
She shouldn't have overextended her wishes.
The problem with her was her unrealistic desire.
- Unrealistic desire comes from being forgotten. - Are you guys really that special? Really?
Are you guys that special even in blood and bones?
The royal class, is that it?
I wouldn't say you are wrong.
I don't care.
I don't care how superior you guys are.
Even If I had to eat shit when you guys eat something good, I don't care.
But with regard to Jang Mi Ri,
if anybody harms her, there will be only death to be given.
I'm...
never going to tolerate that.
What a bunch of despicable things you people are.
I'm sorry, I'm late.
That's okay, I just got here myself.
Actually,
while on the way here,
I've kept thinking about what I would get to say or what I should say.
I don't know how you have been feeling.
But I've always been so happy with everything.
Thinking of you, being on the way to you, then being on the way back.
Meeting you at the study dorms for the first time,
Feeling good about you there,
and then starting to like you. I've been asking myself endlessly,
"Why do I like her?"
"Why do I have to love her?"
and, "Why do I start on this love for her?"
But...
Can you guess the answer I gave myself?
"I don't know."
It was "I don't know".
Right.
In an attempt to explain the reason of such an answer to myself,
To Dad, I said you look like my late mother.
To Director Jang, I even said you are pure in nature.
But...
none of those were the answers that I really liked.
I...
without any reasoning...
liked you.
I realized something because of you, Mi Ri.
I realized love...
comes into one's heart without any reasons.
And it claims more and more of one's heart, without any reasons.
- Yu Hyun, let me.. - About what I've heard and seen,
I'm not going to ask if it's all true.
Regardless of whether I ask you or not,
the facts will not change to something else.
- Yu Hyun, they are.. - What makes me upset is not those facts.
Right.
I wish they were not true.
But what would be so different now, by existence of those facts?
My heart that loves you would be different now?
Does it have to be so?
What university you graduated from and what kind of life history you have,
Yes, they are important.
I do care about them.
But I care more about...
why you didn't talk to me about it.
No, that's not it.
Why couldn't you do that?
However you have led your life, and whoever you are,
It's you, Mi Ri.
I really don't know...
why you should deny your past.
Why you only try to hide.
What I really am to you.
If it's the right thing to do for one whom you love.
All that, I really don't know now.
It's so hard to do, but...
I try to understand that,
one's life could lead itself to that way as it goes,
against one's own will,
there might be such a life to be forced to live that way.
I wouldn't say I really understand it fully,
and many times I didn't want to understand it at all,
But I try.
Then, what's more unbearable to take, is that...
you deceived me.
I'm sorry,
that I cannot speak to you any other way.
But...
for now, that's what I need to say to you.
And under these circumstances,
I don't think we should go ahead with the engagement ceremony.
I'll wait for you,
until you accept who you are,
and until you come back out to the world accepting who you are.
If it is going to be otherwise,
I have to say I'm sorry.
At it is a matter of finding someone's real mother, we'd like to cooperate.
But by the law, without Kim Jung Suk's consent,
we cannot let such information out as one pleases.
Yes, I understand what you mean.
We shall be in touch.
Welcome, Madam.
- Hello, there! - Hello, Madam!
I don't think they are going to give up that easily.
I wonder if it would be better to meet that representative and explain things,
so you could bring a conclusion to this matter.
Before I told her that you've been aware of this,
she insisted she would not seek after her daughter.
I think she's determined to keep it a secret forever.
I thought letting her presume that I didn't know about it...
would make her feel better,
But I guess it worked out the opposite way.
It's a thing that happened twenty years ago.
About that child, have you had a chance to find her whereabouts?
Since three is her firm wish,
I haven't been holding myself to working on that.
But I've heard she's about to marry someone.
I think it's about time to find her.
If the daughter finds her real mother first, the mother could be blamed for not seeking her child.
So I think we better work on that now.
Matters of family are equal to matters of God.
If you give me permission,
finding her could be easier than we thought.
What would you want me to do?
What are you looking at so hard?
A fly dropped in there or something?
I've come this far without ever changing my heart toward her.
So it's frustrating that my love is swaying like this right now.
Just to keep going, I could pretend that what's real is just a cloud in the sky,
But I don't think I could do that.
I just hate this feeling.
You better talk me in a way I could understand.
I told Mi Ri to put off the engagement ceremony.
What?
She must be feeling so sad right now.
What about you?
Aren't you feeling that way?
I wish I didn't regret it after choosing which side I'd be on.
Whichever I choose,
I can't help but linger on.
I feel like I'm lost on the street.
Is it this way I have to go, or the other?
I'm overwhelmed.
You're feeling that way because you're trying to remain still.
For me, it's harder to brood over what to choose.
I'd use more time to fight to defend my decision after making it.
Is that so?
You don't doubt that.
It's a saying from me who has led a life of struggle all along.
Right, I think you're right now.
Let's drink up, and then loosen yourself up little bit today.
Sometimes, we all need to be totally ourselves, shutting off all the switches connected to us.
It's a failing of yours that you're not allowing yourself to do that.
It's not Jang Mi Ri you love.
For myself... I really liked her indeed.
Why are the police sending her this?
Mi Ri.
Here is a registered letter for you.
Yes.
I wonder what it's for. It looks like it's from the police.
It's...
What is that for?
It's nothing.
[A Writ of Summons]
[Falsifying personal documents, interfering with course of business. Plaintiff: Hun Kuk University]
Is this your doing?
Is it?
The problem is so rotten that it is bursting out now.
I want you to be relieved of your job at hotel.
I know you're working on hiring replacement for me, but..
It's not the time for you to talk about such things.
All right, I'll tell you everything.
As things have come this far,
I should stop covering up the truth.
I know it's a lie that you graduated from Tokyo University.
You were called "Rose" in Nakas, who played flute.
That's not it.
- Jang Mi Ri... - Yes, I was, at one time.
At night, being a hostess and envying those students during the day, it was me in the past.
But I'm not that way anymore.
I've become a different person ever since I started to see you, right?
Now, I have a good job, was cast for the hotel's ad,
lecturing at a university, and appearing in a TV program.
That is not the real you.
Are you saying it's not the real me?
It's the real me.
A fancy hotelier,
coveted lecturer, and famous TV personality.
They're all you made me to be.
Please don't do this to me.
You cannot be like this now.
You're the one who gave me a new life.
You've enabled me to become who I am now. You paid off my debt.
And first of all, and most importantly, you loved me.
That's not the issue here.
The lies you told are ones that cannot be forgiven.
Tell the truth.
- It's not too late for you, tell the truth, ask forgiveness. - I don't have the guts to do so.
I'd really like to do so.
Many times a day, I'm agonizing with myself, thinking what to do, this or that.
- But... - The Vice President knows now.
It's not too late for you.
Please spare me from this.
You can do that for me, can't you?
You can call me whatever you want.
But I'm begging you.
Please, at least, buy me some time.
At least for Yu Hyun,
I want to be the one who tells him the truth, not the Vice President.
He said he'd be waiting for me.
He said he'll wait for me until I..
Do you love him that much?
You've probably convinced yourself of that.
That's what you did with me.
Now, no more of that.
You really have to stop here.
- Director Jang! - If you don't do that,
this problem will start affecting the hotel.
And then things will be totally out of control.
You cannot drag this out any longer,
not any longer.
If you add an admission letter, your student visa will be issued with no trouble.
And everything else looks good.
Thanks for everything.
After even doing the media conference,
since there is no follow-up to the engagement,
and being in the public eye,
things might have been hard on her.
I'm thinking hard on that right now.
But it's not easy for me to make a decision.
Aren't you going to tell me what the problem is?
Okay, that's fine.
Whatever you decide, it'll be the best, whatever my son would do.
There's this thing.
For men, love is like a well inside the mind.
Once you dig it there,
it won't dry up easily.
I see.
That's why that mind could feel happy here, and feel sorry there.
I hope the well you dig would be pure and deep.
Don't act yourself to show something up to the world.
The water from that well is not to share with other people,
it's just for you to drink.
That's why it has to be so pure that it won't harm you.
If pure water is not springing out now, it's okay.
If you believe it will once you wait enough, then wait for it.
Waiting for it could be an option for you.
I know such waiting is not an easy thing to do.
Actually, it's very hard.
But the same thing goes for love, which is easy come, easy go.
I'll wait on you, believing in my son.
I believe you'll dig a really deep and pure well eventually.
Since it's the first general assembly after the merger,
everything has to be perfect in the presence of the President,
from serving to table setting.
If not, your job will be lost.
Come on, you don't need to scare me like that.
We are all attending, right?
You are not attending, you are doing the serving.
How soon would I show up wearing a party dress instead of a uniform?
What kind of dress are you wearing for the assembly?
Have you decided on it yet?
- What? - The assembly for Mondo's anniversary.
There's no way the crown prince's wife-to-be is wearing a uniform there.
I thought you'd be there as a VIP, so I didn't assign you to the prep team.
You didn't know about this?
Actually, I've been told already, I just forgot about it.
I guess too many events are going on with me right now.
I knew it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
It's been thirty years since our company was founded.
And now,
thanks to all of your love and concern,
our company has grown to become a company with larger visions of the future.
I would like to have this opportunity to sincerely thank all of the employees of the company.
My family, my colleagues, and the board who have supported us with it.
A valuable enterprise, throughout the years.
Thank you very much.
This has been the greeting from the General Manager, Song Yu Hyun.
- What are you doing here? - Next is General Manager Lee Hwa to brief on...
- It's my business. - The Vice President is attending.
Even though General Manager Song is here, this doesn't look good.
All I'm interested in is meeting Yu Hyun.
Dear Shareholders and VIPs, please allow us a moment.
How dare you!
I'm terribly sorry, Mother!
What did you say?
It's me.
It's all my fault.
I lied.
I didn't graduated from Tokyo University.
I didn't even graduate from any university.
But my heart is real.
I love Yu Hyun, Mother.
I wasn't truthful from the beginning. It's all my fault.
- But everything else is true. - Stand up, you.
Mother!
How despicable you are!
What a lie you're telling!
- Mother! - Mr. Han!
Yes, Madam.
Bring that here.
Great job you did there.
Have you seen Mi Ri here?
I thought I saw you two talking while ago.
You said your heart for General Manager Song is truthful, right?
Yes, I did.
It's the truth.
Is that so?
Here it is, Madam.
You can go on.
I think your expectations are natural.
You'd want your daughter-in-law to be from a prestigious family, and to be highly educated.
Then I'm not either of those.
I'm an orphan.
So what are you trying to say?
But even as a person of such low quality, I have truth in me.
Is that so?
Yes.
I swear on this.
For Yu Hyun, I've been giving that truth to him.
Do I need to say more?
I will consider this as the end.
What's going on?
Mi Ri?
Mi Ri!
So, what you're trying to say is that...
Because of you, he's been covering up the past of your mother.
Because of me, Mi Ri had to be abandoned and live by herself. Is that it?
I cannot do that!
She's been abandoned for twenty years, then I show up now? That cannot be.
Not by the Vice President!
I have to tell him by my will and with my voice.
Let's go!
You and Director Jang will both be arrested.
Everything has begun from the point when we first met.
Yu Hyun said he'd wait for me.
I want to deal with the situation on that side.