Miss Ripley
Episode 15
Jang Mi Ri's current case of fabrication has been an audacious matter.
Upon endless discoveries of her fraudulent acts,
all the people involved are expressing their greatest shock.
Jang Mi Ri was very popular in bars when she was in Japan.
She fabricated her degree from Tokyo University
in order to secure a job at Hotel A.
She was well known in the hotel due to her beautiful appearance.
I apologize to everyone but I will say the same as last time.
We have nothing to say.
How soon can we interview General Manager Song?
- We will have a press conference. - We heard that the bar Jang Mi Ri worked at is in Fukuoka,
- do you know this? - Please wait, I apologize.
About the charges laid on Jang Mi Ri,
We've heard you claimed them to be all your doing, is that correct?
As Director Jang, yourself, is one of victims after all,
why are you trying to protect Jang Mi Ri from this case?
She was a bar girl in Japan before, did you know about this?
Please have courage, aren't you a mother?
Mother?
What are you doing here?
- Is he your son? - Yes, Sister.
This is your daughter's fiancé.
What is this...?
Yu Hyun.
Send your greetings.
This is your mother.
What do you mean?
Mother.
No way. It can't be.
Mother is mother.
It's Yu Hyun's mother.
Vice president.
There's some kind of misunderstanding.
Mother.
Ms. Kim Jung Soon.
That's right, it's a misunderstanding.
I need to go and confirm this first.
No, it can't be.
It can't be like this!
That means you know everything.
Yes, I only found out not long ago.
- Mi Ri. - So...
- So are you taking pity on me? - Mi Ri.
It must have been hard for you helping me find my mother.
You never thought that she would be your mother, who opposes us.
You never thought that I was the daughter who she abandoned.
- I never thought of it like that. - Yes.
That could be the price I have to pay for lying to you.
But this is too much.
- Getting retaliated at like this. - Don't say it like that so easily.
I haven't had the time to face this properly either.
I never thought why I would be attracted to a woman like you.
I always acted on my emotions.
Then I found out what you said was all lies.
But...
But the funny thing is that I can't stop loving you.
That's why I did this.
I wanted to know more about you.
But I never thought it would end up like this.
All the children who got abandoned in the care center didn't have names.
That's because they didn't have their Family Register on them.
At that time, I was hoping.
I waited for my mother, I wasn't an orphan.
I didn't want to change my name so I kept on biting the policeman
who was trying to change it.
In the end I got my new Family Register.
But I still didn't change my name.
Even though on record it says I have.
Living like that...
Again and again...
After my mother passed away, on the way back from his visit to my mother's hometown,
my father and your mother met for the first time on the plane.
With tears welling in his eyes continuously, he was being unable to collect himself.
Then she discreetly brought over a cup of warm water to him...
That was your mother.
Is that why she abandoned me?
To be by your father's side?
I heard that your grandma's health was deteriorating.
Your mother had a lot of burden.
So?
- Is that why she abandoned me? - Mi Ri.
You want me to understand her actions?
No, how can I? How can I understand her?
Should mothers abandon their children?
Mi Ri.
So I should say this is my mother after finding out.
Should I accept her happily? Is that how mothers and daughters should be?
How did I live?
How did I live my life?
Mom, don't go!
Mom, don't go! Don't go!
Don't go, Mom!
Mom! Mom! Let's go together!
Mom! Mom!
Let's go together!
Mom! Let's go together!
You can't do this.
Come, let's go. You can't do this.
No, let's go.
That was the last time I saw her face.
Afterwards, she got sent to the orphanage.
Then after that, she disappeared.
I could not find out who adopted her.
Hearing that she was living well, I really thought she was.
My apologies.
The president's wishes were very clear.
The president knows all of this.
The president knows?
He was worried that it would be uncomfortable
for you if he mentioned this so he never said anything.
Where are you? There is a swarm of reporters outside the main building entrance.
All right, I know.
What's wrong?
I don't know how this got leaked out.
But every single newspaper has reported this.
What should be done? What is the best way to deal with this?
I don't know, I have no idea how to deal with this.
But I thought you should know.
- I'm sorry. I didn't know it would lead to this- - Don't say anything.
Just don't say anything.
I don't want to hear anything right now.
To be honest, I don't know what to do.
Experience, that's what I can think of now.
If I have to come to face these things, then I'll have to experience them.
After going through all this...
I'll think of what to do next.
I'll get to the point.
I thought it would be best to tell you first.
I've already put everything in order. Even at the office.
How best to deal with this matter, I've already thought it through too.
If I get summoned to court by the prosecution's office...
I will say that I did everything and that I was the one
who ordered you to commit these acts.
Do you understand? Just do as I say.
- Director! - I've thought about this a lot.
I think I asked you this first.
I asked if you graduated from Tokyo University.
I think it all started from there.
- If you say all this, then I- - No, this is the truth.
Of course...
At this point right now, I've thought about it a lot.
- It's been hard, but- - I'm sorry.
A lot has happened since the beginning.
I've learned to experience different types of emotions.
That's all because of you, Mi Ri.
No matter how you say it to me, it's a plan I would never follow.
- You have already helped me so much- - What's left now is what to do afterwards.
But I did love you.
If because of that, the end has come to this, then I don't feel ashamed.
I did everything.
Mi Ri only did what I told you to.
I'm going.
Director.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
No, forget it.
The lies you've told are all uncovered out in the world now.
That means that you have returned to the original place.
According to police reports, since June last year,
a milk distribution store in Gyeonggi-Do,
because of problems in the quality of milk, the business has failed.
Can orphans wear these kinds of things?
No...!
Mondo Group's first lady, Vice President Lee Hwa, is Jang Mi Ri's birth mother.
Reporter Kim Shi Ryang has the news.
The netizens seem to have found out about Mi Ri's upbringing and it's all been leaked.
The fact that the vice president is Mi Ri’s mother is all over the internet.
- How can this rumor be floating around like- - It's true.
What are you...?
- It's been confirmed that the documents uploaded on to the websites- - Find out.
Find out where it started from.
- That- - When you find out who started these, erase them immediately.
Tell the advertising department to erase this immediately!
Yes, Vice President.
The president will be here soon, Vice President.
Please wait. Is it true that the vice president is Jang Mi Ri’s mother?
Is this true? What do you have to say? Is this true?
Please speak. Will this become an obstacle for your empire?
President! President!
Do you know everything?
Then why did you lie?
You pretended you didn't know. I thought it was real.
I wanted it to be false.
- I thought you would understand. - Is that love?
You love me but yet you go and do something like this.
You pretended not to know in front of me.
But you investigated my daughter behind my back.
You even helped me to change my name.
If I said I knew you had a child then you wouldn't have married me.
Of course I wouldn't marry you.
This marriage has made me into this kind of mother.
For 20 years I've sacrificed myself for this company to come to this result?
Calm down.
You're telling me to calm down?
I was afraid of repayment.
That led to me abandoning my own daughter.
No one wanted to adopt that child.
How could she have been adopted to Japan?!
She was forced into working at a bar and then became a liar on her return to Korea!
Is this what I get for loving you?
How far do you want to push me?
In order to thank you for repaying my debts, I didn't care having been called an evil
and bad woman to get to where I am now.
That child who appeared in front of me, I didn't even recognize her.
In order to protect your son and the company, I used to act unscrupulously.
I am really sorry.
- But now... - No.
I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear any kind of explanation today.
Honey.
I want to go back now.
I...
Mi Ri...
and your son,
I want us to go back to where things had not changed.
What you mean is...
Let's divorce.
I can't... I can't continue living like this.
I apologize, President.
We've found out the IP address of where the reports have come from.
We discovered it during the investigation; it began from when the committee was set up.
A photograph of Jang Mi Ri taken when she was working at a bar in Japan was found in a corner and that's where it all started from.
- Honey! Honey! - Vice President!
- Call an ambulance! - Yes!
Honey! Honey!
- Professor. - She hit her head when she fainted,
there might be some injury to the brain.
- There's no hemorrhage, is there? - The brain might have suffered an injury.
Even though there appears to be no external injury, we will only know
if she is all right after she wakes up from the operation.
We must operate to know.
Please go home first. If there is any news, I will let you know.
I'm all right. How is your mother?
Take him home.
- Please go home. - All right.
Do you admit that these suspicions are true?
Why have you come forward personally to be investigated? Is it because you want a weaker sentence?
Did you know that she was a bar girl?
- Please move. - Don't you have anything to say? Please say something.
It's not too late now.
What you said before was all because of your statement, but if you have any regrets
or if you want to change anything then now is the time to do it.
No, I don't.
If you take all the blame on to yourself, then you have committed crimes of submitting fake statements
and disrupting the investigation, which leads to a charge of impediment.
You will go to jail.
What did you say? Is that true?
- Who did you say Mi Ri’s mother is? - That's right.
It's Yu Hyun's mother, the vice president.
The vice president is in shock, which is why she fainted.
So why don't you ask Mi Ri...
Oppa, does that even make sense? How can this be?
She has been an orphan with no mother and has lived a hard life and has suffered so much.
How did Mi Ri end up like this?
Do you think she wanted to be like this from the start?
No, Oppa, Mi Ri is not that kind of person.
This does not make sense.
You're back.
What are you doing? Going somewhere?
I should pay my ways.
I've created such a huge mess.
What is this?
You knew too?
No, I just found out today.
Right.
They all say that.
They say she's my mom.
Isn't that funny?
I didn't know anything and yet I followed her calling her Mother.
I didn't know anything, my mom...
That person who I call Mom...
- Mi Ri- - No, it's okay. It's fine.
It's fine now.
I want to live like this.
I can do it.
I want to.
I heard she fainted and got taken to the hospital.
She fainted whilst arguing with the president.
She said she was the one who ruined your life.
- She said all this was because of him and his family. - That's not possible.
- It's true. - Her fainting over this? Not possible.
She abandoned her own child.
She didn't even know I am her child and yet she kept making things difficult for me.
That's not possible. She can't be that person.
- Mi Ri. - No.
She's not.
She can't be.
Mi Ri!
Sweetie!
Mom!
- Have you been well, Mi Ri? - Yes.
Don't you miss Mom?
Of course I do. What about Mom?
Mom really, really, really misses you too.
Where did you go, Mom? Why have you just come now?
I went to a very faraway place.
Far?
Then do you have to go again?
Really? You're not going back?
Of course not.
I've bought all the groceries to cook dinner for Mi Ri.
Wow!
- Mom, hurry up. - Yes.
Let's eat.
Drink some water, don't choke.
- Kimchi. - What's wrong?
Bulgogi and lettuce is yummy together.
Mom makes the best kimchi. I really want to eat that.
Mom thinks that Mi Ri would like to eat kimchi when I am making it.
You eat too, Mom.
Is she still the same?
Yes.
Why did you do all that?
I don't want to give up on your mother.
Even there's a child who would live a life of scars, you still didn't want to give up on her?
- Yu Hyun. - Is that love?
To a child, a mother is their life, their direction, their life line.
I didn't know. I didn't think about that.
Yes. Father, you didn't know, did you?
Do you know how painful it is for a child to lose a mother?
That kind of pain, I will never be able to forget it.
I think I know now...
Why every time I look at Mi Ri, I feel like my heart is being taken away.
Even though I know everything...
Why I was unable to let go of her...
I hope I can protect her.
You were too busy working and ignored my mother who then died carrying her sorrows with her.
Losing a mother this way...
is enough pain for me already.
You're not suggesting that because of her...
your feelings for Mi Ri are changing?
- I won't agree to this wedding. - Whether it would be the reason or not,
if my heart moves to such direction, I won't be able to help that.
I'm going to ignore what you just said.
This cannot be, this cannot happen.
It's time to go back now, General Manager.
What are you doing? You can't do this!
Tell Song Yu Hyun to come down.
Tell Song Yu Hyun to come down!
What is this? Is this love?
Hurting a woman, is this love?
You are the one who didn't follow the rules of this world, not me.
That's right.
This to you big guys is nothing but just a circus show.
But the love I know spells being responsible.
It doesn't matter who disobeyed the rules or committed wrongdoings.
The most important thing is who is going to be responsible for this, am I right?
Even if that person falls down the toilet, responsibility should still be taken, right?
If not, then we should all fall down the toilet together.
But the way I see it, you don't seem to be like that.
You guys keep on doing so many calculations.
Love is not like a calculator that gives you an answer when you press it.
Love should be digging your heart out!
It should be like this!
Don't make things turn out this way. If you do, then her life will be very hard.
Do you understand?
It really surprises me that you were able to say love should be like digging your heart out.
I don't appreciate it.
If it makes you that unhappy then I'll have to say it again.
If you don't protect her then I won't stand back and do nothing.
What if I don't do anything, what will you do?
Just like what I said, I won't stand and do nothing.
What's going on?
This is a search warrant.
We'll proceed right away.
Take everything away.
Excuse me, our Representative Jang has already cooperated in this investigation.
Regarding Jang Mi Ri, we suspect he may have assisted her
in the fabrication so we are investigating this matter.
Hotel A's Representative Jang Myung Hoon is suspected of being an accomplice
in the fabrication of the degree certificate.
An investigation into Jang Mi Ri has already started.
- What is being done with Jang Mi Ri? - Please answer this question.
Isn't Director Jang a victim of this case?
There is talk of an arrest warrant for her. Has it been issued already?
We are dealing with this matter according to the normal procedures.
- Please move. - Can you say a few more words?
What's going to happen to Mi Ri?
If the litigation goes through then there is no way back.
Should we lend a hand before that happens?
- No. - Then are you just going to stand and watch?
This is her wrongdoing. She should take responsibility for it.
Yu Hyun.
- This would be better for Mi Ri. - Yes, that's right.
But everyone is turning their back on her and hurting her.
- So I think you at least... - Even if the result is hard to face, we still have to face it.
That way, she can live like a human being standing up high by herself.
Prepare for a press conference.
It's no use if we keep on blocking their entrance to the building.
Today, I am here representing this company in answer to your questions.
I am ready to give everyone a detailed explanation of what has happened
which is why I am sitting here today.
Do you know the truth about Jang Mi Ri’s degree fabrication?
What about the red rose? You didn't know that too, right?
No, I didn't know.
Then what is the relationship between you two?
Did you get to know about them when Vice President Lee announced the breakup?
No, it wasn't like that.
What was it then? Is there some other reason for breaking off the marriage?
I apologize, but I have no intention of breaking off this marriage.
Then you mean you still want to get married?
You don't mind that she hid her past from you?
- It wasn't like that. - Then what was it?
I got hurt in the process.
I still have not gotten over the shock of it all just yet.
But a person cannot get over this so lightly by judging the questions.
I cannot deliver a conclusion right now.
Yes, even though it's awkward, I wish to declare that Jang Mi Ri was...
a daughter my mother lost long ago...
No, to be exact, the daughter my mother has been ignoring.
Is this the reason for breaking off the marriage?
No.
I'm not trying to explain the reason for breaking off the marriage.
I'm just trying hard to understand why a person would go through so many lies.
This means you cannot get married then?
Jang Mi Ri.
Just like you heard before, she was the sacrifice in my father and my mother's marriage.
After she got abandoned, she was brought up overseas.
So she has gone through a lot of hardships.
So what you mean is you are willing to forgive her?
No.
Jang Mi Ri will take responsibility for her own wrongdoings.
Mom.
Her wrongdoings must be punished, I suppose.
But who should take responsibility for the pain caused by abandoning their child?
I've been thinking that it requires time.
Are you saying that there is a possibility that you will accept her?
As all of you with concerns have been causing a blockage at our HQ,
I'm asking a favor here to open up that blockage a little bit.
Please.
Nurse! Nurse!
- President, where are you going? - Just a little while.
President, I'm afraid you can't.
I just want to go and see my wife for a little while.
You can't, President.
What are you talking about? Why has her blood pressure suddenly gone down?
The doctor said that the injury to the brain was originally hard to deduce.
I heard her blood pressure has dropped, so you should go to the hospital.
If this carries on, then what happens if they issue an arrest warrant?
Are you really not going to go?
- No. - What?
I'm not going.
What are you saying? Why don't you want to go?
There are so many reporters outside right now.
- If you don't go now- - Why should I go?
- What? - I don't have a mother,
I'm an orphan.
- Mi Ri! - When did she start to become my mother?
She abandoned me 20 years ago.
In order to find someone she loves, she abandoned the only daughter she had.
This is more than just.
Do you know who leaked those pictures out?
It was the woman who says she's my mother.
Yes, but she's still your mother.
No.
I called her Mother when she was here, but then
when she disappeared, I became an orphan.
No, I don't want this.
I don't have a mother.
Even without her I can eat well and be happy, do you know?
Yes, I know, but right now she's in a coma.
I don't care if she dies.
What?
I said I don't care if she dies.
I don't have a mother.
- What are you doing?! - Mi Ri!
I can't see you go to jail.
- Hey! - Mi Ri!
Let go! Let go!
Get out of the way!
Hang on, Jang Mi Ri! Please look this way!
Let's wait a bit longer.
- Yes, Hee Joo. - That person just came and took Mi Ri!
What?
That man who used to work in Japan with her,
- he took her away by force! - Where did they go?
I'll drive.
General Manager.
Yes, Chief.
They are on the highway moving towards the west coast.
The security team here sent some men to investigate
and found out that there were questions being asked regarding the boat.
Help me find out if there is any boat on that pier that goes to Fukuoka.
Yes, I will do.
Hwang PD, you continue to stay there.
You can come back now, Seo PD. Good work.
The truth is interesting.
- What's so exciting? - This is of course,
what could get more interesting than this?
They are going to send in the rescue team,
shouldn't they let him go once they get there?
What do you mean? He's kidnapped her.
Kang PD, can you go over there now?
It's always been like that.
No matter if it's the president or a triad,
it's all the same when it comes down to love.
He's already given up his life.
Fine, love is a foe.
This kind of situation really is a work of art.
...by means of a speedy broadcasting.
The rumors which started 10 days ago on a blog
have now spread to the whole of the internet.
Everyone is concerned whether it is true or not.
Get up, don't lie there.
If you're like this then I've really become the bad person.
You should go and rest too.
If you fall ill as well, then it will be too much of a problem.
I'm fine.
Hurry up!
Where are we going?! Let go!
Let go of me!
It's my fault, I need to be punished. Why are you being like this?
Go to Japan and be punished!
You are not supposed to be here. Follow me and not one word.
- I won't go! I won't go! I won't go! - Follow me!
I won't go! I'm not going!
Once you have passed the freezer storage,
you will see a boat next to some fishing boats.
That boat is due to leave for Japan at 10pm.
No! Mi Ri!
Mi Ri! Mi Ri!
Mi Ri!
Hurry up!
Let go!
You want to stay here, getting all those fingers pointed at you?!
I don't want to run, I want to be punished for the crimes I've committed.
What wrong have you done?
It's the people here who turned you into this.
Let go!
You want to start being a good person? Will this world forgive you?
This is a cruel world, Mi Ri.
Let me go first and we'll talk. Let me go.
Yu Hyun!
The "crown prince" has come to this far place too?
Yu Hyun! Yu Hyun! Are you all right?
Are you all right, Yu Hyun? Hurry up and get up.
- Yu Hyun! - Hey!
I told you not to let her go down like this, didn't I?!
Running away is not the solution.
You punk.
This world has always been a punitive justice.
If you live kindly then will the world be kind to you?
You punk, listen up.
Jang Mi Ri... Mi Ri is my woman.
Let him go. I beg of you, let him go.
Stop!
- You jerk! - Don't!
If you hurt him, then I'll die right here.
What?
Don't come over!
- I'll die in front of you! - Mi Ri!
What a joke.
Why? You don't think I will?
Like you said, I'm a woman who doesn't have anything.
I didn't have anything, but then I met Yu Hyun and I was happy.
I realized what love was.
I realized what happiness meant.
Hey, just get on the boat behind you.
Stop this nonsense and let's go.
No.
Don't come over, don't come over!
Mi Ri! Mi Ri! Mi Ri!
- Don't come over! - Mi Ri!
Jang Mi Ri is currently unconscious so we cannot send out the arrest warrant yet.
The condition is not good, her blood pressure is dropping.
You need to live on to take revenge on me, Mi Ri. Mi Ri!
Hurry up and get up so I can let you go.
I have no options now.
I have to find her, I must find her and the life that she lost.
I'm sorry I couldn't go with you.