East of Eden
Song Seung Hun, Yun Jung Hoon, Park Hae Jin, Han Ji Hye, Lee Da Hae
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Episode 53
Pack up quickly.
What happened?
Where did those people go?
What's this all about?
Where did they go?
They said the filming is over, so they left.
What?
I thought they were filming something.
Isn't that it?
We've been tricked.
What did you say?
That was all for show?!
A fake funeral wake for people to pay their respects!
Lee Dong Chul, this cunning fella.
So many of us have been tricked by this wolf!
Calm down, President.
We must get rid of Lee Dong Chul.
If we miss this chance, you and I are both finished!
What are you doing here at this hour?
What is happening exactly?
Since 10 am, Ji Hyun went to the Prosecution Office and till now there's no news of her.
And I couldn't contact you either.
She herself said she didn't need a lawyer and went there on her own, right?
I suspect she must have acted arrogant, so she must have been detained there.
What?
Isn't that just as expected?
If at this time she's still not released then that must be the case.
You!
- What's wrong with me? - So...
You knew all along that Ji Hyun would be detained there?
Must I be responsible now for matters with the hotel, too?
Indeed, you are...
Shin Tae Hwan.
If I'm not Shin Tae Hwan, then who am I?
You should worry about your son's future instead.
Your son is Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook.
Your son, Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook, is now at the crossroads of life and death!
Kim Ji Hyun.
Even if you maintain your silence,
you cannot get away from your crime.
The representative of the hotel is you, Kim Ji Hyun.
Here's your signature.
I'll ask you again.
Suspect Kim Ji Hyun,
in 1988,
the secret funds sent to the General
were from the Tae Sung Hotel slot machines,
is that correct?
Kim Ji Hyun!
According to your orders, the funds from the slot machines
were transferred to the General's fake account, is that right?
Yes.
So when the General got arrested, the funds from the slot machines,
who were they given to?
I don't know.
We will get to the end of this.
If you prolong the time so as to hide the rest of your crimes,
that can only do you harm.
It's the truth.
Where the money went, I have no idea.
Suspect!
You are the representative of Tae Sung Hotel, right?
Yes,
that's right.
Then are you a representative in name only?
About the slot machines,
I really have no inkling whatsoever.
I don't know.
You don't know?
So the real owner is someone else?
Suspect Kim Ji Hyun, this is not working.
Now you're under emergency arrest.
What?
Considering you might abscond with the secret funds from tax evasion,
you will now be detained at the Detention Center.
What?
Investigating Officer Jeon!
Yes.
Take her out.
She's out!
Ji Hyun.
We must have it for the investigation.
I've heard so much about you, Prosecutor Lee.
But in our position, without the presence of the treasury owner...
The President has passed away,
that's why he can't be here.
Yes,
but...
After his death was pronounced,
and before his successor officially requests it,
we cannot reveal it to anyone.
Please understand.
Then there's one other method, I'll come again with the official search warrant.
In that case, it will be reported by the media.
To the rest of the VIP customers of your bank's private treasury,
that might be an unpleasant matter.
In the end, it will not be beneficial to your bank.
And it won't be beneficial to you as the branch manager either.
I will be sure to keep it a secret.
We really need it for our investigations, that's why.
Please cooperate with us.
I'm sorry.
If you have the secret code,
I will open it for you.
If I violate this regulation,
then I can't keep my job, too.
Please bear with us.
I understand.
I will come again.
Oh yes.
The fact that I came here, you must keep it a secret.
Wow, you've got a pretty face.
You're so conscious of being here that your hands are shaking.
As if you've been wronged so badly.
From what I can tell, this slut here,
she...
She's not in here for adultery but for fraud.
Hey!
Adultery or fraud?
That stupid look, to keep her air about her, she's gritting her teeth like crazy!
Kim Ji Hyun.
Kim Ji Hyun!
Anyone named Kim Ji Hyun here?
Tae Ho's mother.
Don't call me that.
I don't have any right to be Tae Ho's mother.
Why are you under emergency arrest?
The Iran big project,
it can't be due to that.
What exactly is the Prosecution Office after?
At the 1988 Olympics...
1988?
General Park's secret funds?
But you were not involved at all.
Only I and Shin Tae Hwan knew about that.
They said someone sent them an anonymous letter.
No matter what,
I'm still the hotel's representative.
Anonymous letter?
Now I can guess what he's up to.
In order to get the rights to the slot machines, he sent huge sums of secret funds.
The mastermind was Shin Tae Hwan and I was the one who sent the money.
You're not guilty.
I can't say I'm not guilty.
You...
I can't let you stay in here.
Ji Hyun.
Through this matter,
Shin Tae Hwan is what kind of a man.
You know that, right?
You should leave this place right now.
Stop running away.
Be courageous.
Go and be your real self.
I have a favor to ask.
My mother...
I hope you'll sort things out with her.
Myung Hun...
I know, there's a deep conflict between you two,
but that's all my fault.
Because I, who was once Shin Tae Hwan's son,
as the son of an enemy, I fell in love with you.
That's why mother said such awful things to you.
After her husband passed away,
she placed all her hope in her children.
Just like how Tae Ho is to you,
her children were everything to her, too.
You are a mother yourself.
Being a mother too,
please understand her.
And...
Accept that she is Tae Ho's grandmother.
Please.
And...
My heart for Kim Ji Hyun...
It's not guilt,
it's love.
Because of that guilt,
my entire life, I could never say, "I love you" properly.
From now on,
I want to rid myself
of that guilt in me.
I love you.
I'm saying I love you.
I love you.
Yes, Galaxy Food Shop.
Mother, this is Myung Hun.
Yes, where are you?
The food's ready. Come back and eat a warm meal.
Mother...
I might have to go somewhere.
Where? Will you be back late?
It might take quite a long time.
What do you mean?
What for, and where are you going?
Is it a business trip?
Tae Ho...
Please take care of him, Mother.
What? Tae Ho?
Myung Hun...
Myung Hun!
Myung...
1988, Tae Sung Hotel.
We got in our hands, the upcoming power, General Park.
You should know very well that the general
took bribes from many companies.
Especially as the owner of slot machines, we not only had to pay for rights,
we also had to take care of the money laundering, too.
Those matters...
I took care of them.
Then,
the one who's detained now, Kim Ji Hyun,
is she not involved at all?
My wife,
as the hotel representative, she only managed the normal running of the business.
Stop running away.
Be courageous.
Go and be your real self.
Eat some more.
Have some soup.
Ji Hyun, is that you?
Is something the matter?
Hyungnim, Ji Hyun is here.
Mom!
Well...
She said she has something to tell you.
Myung Hun, he's gone on a trip.
I know Myung Hun is not here.
He asked me for this favor.
Whether I could settle things with you.
Whether I could be understanding to you.
So I thought about it from your point of view,
those things you said to me.
I did wrong.
I was too harsh with you.
I...
I'd wanted to look for you to apologize.
I'm not here to look for accountability for that.
Because of me,
Myung Hun has gone in.
What do you mean by that? Gone in?
Where to?
The Prosecution Office.
He got arrested in place of me.
What? Arrested?
Why Myung Hun?
For what crime was he arrested?
All because of me.
Because of me,
he took my place.
He went in to be investigated for Tae Sung Hotel's tax evasion.
He's at the Prosecution Office now.
Who is it?
Who did this?
Who is it who pushed Myung Hun in there?
Is it Shin Tae Hwan?
I'm so sorry, Mother.
- It's all my fault. - No...
What did you do wrong?
I might be ignorant, but I do know what I should know.
Tae Sung Group
belongs to Shin Tae Hwan, everyone on earth knows that.
Everything happened because of Shin Tae Hwan.
In the end, he pinned all the crimes onto Myung Hun.
I... I can't bear with this anymore.
I can no longer bear with him destroying my children.
I won't bear with this anymore.
Mother.
Some time ago, President Guk came to me.
He said, for the sake of wealth, he committed many crimes.
Dad.
Since he, himself, proclaimed he was a sinner,
he already paid the price, and he will be forgiven.
So,
you shouldn't be too saddened.
He wanted me to bury him next to my mother,
but I couldn't, I'm so sorry.
I'd really wanted very much to do that for him.
Yes.
Once the situation has settled,
we'll move him then.
Now our every move is plagued with danger.
That's not what he wants, too.
Dad, you're a fool.
In the end, you still can't lie down next to mother.
What's the use of having so many people with you in your lifetime?
In your final journey,
there's no one here to even cry for him sincerely.
At least he should have given me a chance.
To let me do my duties as a good daughter,
he should have given me more time.
To just go like this,
all my wayward willfulness towards him, I can't ever redeem myself now.
You've been a good daughter.
He said because he had you,
he's been so happy.
Now, there's no one to scold me.
And I won't get to eat the rice balls that he makes,
nor hear again the songs that he hums.
Now, there's only me left on this earth.
Grace.
From now on, in place of the President,
I will always stay by your side.
If all this doesn't work...
If all this doesn't work?
It's time to get someone killed.
No, you don't have an appointment...
And who is this?
Long time no see, Madam Yang Chun Hee.
Asia Casino Representative Lee Dong Chul's mother, what is it you want here?
Ah!
I didn't know you had a guest...
It's alright, I'm on my way out.
President, it looks like our deal is going to be easily settled.
Some people fall backwards and break their nose,
but I fall forwards and find some money.
You don't have to wait too long, Director Hwang.
I'll let you two talk.
What is it you want? Tell me.
What is it again now that involves me?
My son, Myung Hun.
Myung Hun,
why must he grab an oil barrel as he jumps into the fire?
Myung Hun?
Why must you push my Myung Hun into the fire?
Rescue him immediately, you jerk.
Wipe his slate clean right now!
He walked into it himself, what can I do?
Moreover, when he was at Tae Sung, he was a director.
If he has to face the consequences for his actions, then he ought to, right?
You sure sound right.
Above the director, is the president.
The president stays put while the director takes the blame, what kind of law is this?
Moreover, Myung Hun...
For 30 years, he grew up as your son.
In the past 30 years, I brought him up as my son as best I could,
but in an instant, he turned around and betrayed me!
I say, Madam Yang Chun Hee...
With this much time on your hands,
you should be home advising your son, Lee Dong Chul, to beware of himself.
My Dong Chul!
Stop mentioning him so casually with your lips.
Looks like you're not aware what kind of a son you have.
Your son.
It seems you're not aware your son is using all sorts of schemes to threaten others.
How dare you speak nonsense!
Let me make it even clearer for you.
Your son, Lee Dong Chul,
in order to attain the role as the casino successor,
he's obstructing Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook, who's digging up President Guk's illegal matters.
My Dong Chul is obstructing Dong Wook?
My Dong Chul?
Yes.
The one who's gradually rising to be the country's idol, Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook.
Lee Dong Chul is conspiring to make him fall into an abyss in one day.
And let me tell you the reason.
It's because Lee Dong Chul
personally delivered Guk Dae Hwa's illegal money, that's why.
Now, don't just wait here.
Follow me.
You'd better listen to me.
What did you say?
Hyungnim is held captive by Shin Tae Hwan?
Tell Lee Dong Chul,
if he wants to rescue his mother, Yang Chun Hee,
he must bring all the tapes, not leaving out any one.
Just tell him this, he'll understand.
What? What should we do?
What should we do?
Wait for me.
You're here.
Hey...
Shin Tae Hwan,
he took mother.
What?
What do you mean?
Jung Kyung Tae passed the word to us.
He said this time, he wants you to go by yourself.
It just feels like a trap.
Where is she?
Where is that place?
Now is not the time to get emotional.
No matter how, we'll....
No, no need.
Where is that place?
Where is my mother?
Dok Sa, where is my mother?
Where is she?!
I brought the address but...
Hyungnim, you can't go alone, it's too dangerous.
Grace, I have to go somewhere for awhile.
Did something happen?
No, I just need awhile.
I'll be back soon.
I'm going. Don't follow me.
Look after Grace for me.
Wait a minute.
Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook here.
Shin Tae Hwan kidnapped mother.
Your father, Shin Tae Hwan, kidnapped mother!
What? Kidnapped?
What nonsense is this?
Come here right now.
Come now to the Yangsoodi villa.
Hello?
It's me.
Yes, Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook.
Madam Yang Chun Hee.
You kidnapped the mother who brought me up, is that true?
Kidnapped?
Lee Dong Chul said that?
Did you, or did you not?
It's not a kidnapping, but a formal invitation.
Why did you do that?
He wants you buried, why can't I do something worse than he did?
Madam Yang Chun Hee, you formally invited her, did you?
Then why don't you come verify it yourself?
Whether my words are true or false, you verify it yourself.
Yes, I'll go. If there's any sign that she's being harmed,
I won't let you off.
Damn!
Now I can tell, it's you.
You're destroying Dong Wook.
I told you it's Lee Dong Chul who wants to destroy him!
There's no father here on earth who'd destroy his own son.
It's you who's been indoctrinating Dong Wook with phony things.
Your temper sure hasn't changed.
You're a heroine whom I admire.
But with that spirit, you've been fostering in your sons' hearts, revenge on me.
Isn't this the one big mistake in your life?
You should have let them set their sights much further away.
To destroy Shin Tae Hwan, that's the goal in life, will that do?
Yes.
Through the mouth of my enemy,
I hear the right words spoken.
I see it's true.
It seems you do understand me.
It's not too late now.
Speak words to Lee Dong Chul that will make him change his life's direction.
He mustn't destroy the innocent Lee Dong Wook just because of me.
I don't want to waste my breath on you.
Just save my Myung Hun. Save him now!
There is a way to save him.
Myung Hun...
Let's see how Lee Dong Chul performs.
Why did he kidnap mother?
Don't say it's a kidnapping,
it's a formal invitation.
Did Shin Tae Hwan say that?
You will know it once you go in and see.
Yes, I will know after we go in and see.
But...
He said I could only save mother if I brought this.
Said what?
I said before clearly that it will be destroyed!
But am I not that trustworthy?
Do you have to do it?
It's done by Director Shin Tae Hwan.
I don't know about it.
Do you think
I would use mother as a deal?
Don't you just stop everything, no matter what, as long as it affects your reputation?
Don't beat about the bush!
All these that started,
are all due to Lee Dong Chul's greed.
Unable to let the casino go,
the greed of Lee Dong Chul.
Lee Dong Wook.
Don't think that only you are right, and that only you are righteous.
Also, keep the idea that you sacrificed your life for me.
That is not what I asked you to do.
How I raised Lee Dong Wook up,
also keep this kind of idea.
You have given the other party enough stress.
Let's live our own lives now.
No matter if it's good or bad intentions,
don't even try to restrict me.
Okay.
Think of it this way.
Okay.
I won't be seeing you in the future anymore.
Let's make it like this.
Mother!
Mother.
Look at the things he does, Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook.
Not daring enough to come alone, so he called you along.
Just like that in front of you, still acting as the righteous hyung.
You must be clear that in this world, he is the most cunning, the most selfish person.
Who let you do this kind of thing?
Didn't you tell me to settle it myself?!
Dong Chul.
Dong Wook.
I came myself.
Mother.
Is it true?
You weren't forcibly taken here by Shin Tae Hwan?
Dong Chul.
Whatever tape that is,
just give it to them.
Only this way will Dong Wook be able to live,
and Myung Hun too.
Myung Hun?
Shin Tae Hwan.
What did you do to Myung Hun this time?
He went to the prosecutor's office himself to get investigated, why do you blame me?
He sent himself there.
But if you just return the tape,
I can get Myung Hun out.
Shin Tae Hwan.
I've already settled the tape.
What?
Hyung
has already agreed to destroy the tape.
Lee Dong Chul agreed to destroy it?
Can you believe now?
This is the original tape that you wanted.
Is it okay now?
If you are done,
then give us some space.
Dong Chul.
Forgive Mother.
My sin of not raising you properly
is higher than the sky.
Hence we are like this today.
Mother.
Not being able to raise you into a bigger shot,
the sin of only being able to raise you as a person who seeks revenge for Mother.
If you cannot forgive Mother,
after I die,
I will also have no face to meet your dad.
Shin Tae Hwan, if he was the enemy that killed your father,
he will receive the punishment he ought to have.
The lords will punish him accordingly.
Ignorant Mother
actually led her sons to take revenge,
in order to satisfy herself.
So let everything go now.
Mother.
Give up from now on.
It seems that I
lived my life carrying Shin Tae Hwan.
Not only me,
I also let you both
carry him in your lives.
Let everything go now.
Put down everything.
Whatever that is not part of our business,
let it go, Dong Chul.
Mother.
You are also my child.
To you, I can only ask for forgiveness.
In my life,
giving me strength,
you are the one that gave me light.
When Dong Chul,
is destroying his life in the dark,
I thought I would be fine just having you alone.
Committing the sin of letting you carry the burden of making Mother happy forever.
So,
when you wanted to be famous,
even that kind of greed
feels like it was given to you by me.
So I wish to ask for your forgiveness.
Dong Chul.
You swear by Mother's name,
you will live your life,
Dong Wook will live his.
Don't detest, and don't hate.
Break all love and relationships.
Yes.
I know, Mother.
But Mother...
To break the love for Dong Wook
is even harder than letting go of detesting Shin Tae Hwan.
Mother, you have to know that.
Lee Dong Wook.
Whatever hyung is saying, you should understand.
Right?
Please get up.
Are you okay?
The biggest in the world is Dad.
No, you both must be bigger shots than that.
Then like what Ki Sun said, Dong Wook, you must become a big shot like Lincoln.
Yes.
You'd already reached a deal with Lee Dong Chul before I acted, right?
Lying that you will protect yourself,
you really shocked Dad.
Don't be soft-hearted.
You must toughen yourself.
You cannot spoil the big thing for personal feelings.
As for Lee Dong Chul,
don't believe him.
He's a man who works with drug smugglers in order to get the casino.
Drug smugglers?
How did you know?
If, as a father, I don't know what my child is doing, who will know?
I am the one, in your process of being the highest person in this country,
who carefully notices what you need,
and is helping you solve the problems.
I don't wish to think about it now.
Please let me be in silence.
Just don't believe the words of Lee Dong Chul.
Even the words of swearing not to interfere with your life, don't believe it.
In order to bury you, he got the tape with a plan.
And then replicated a few hundred more.
We don't know when he will strike again.
You are the one that should not interfere in my life!
Because of you, Director Shin Tae Hwan,
my life, my destiny have become a mess!
So,
don't say anything more.
Just act like someone who is not here!
You even resemble me with this temper.
Forget everything from now on, Dong Chul.
And don't waste any more effort trying to find the Dong Wook in the past.
Mother.
What should I do in the future?
Why don't I just get married?
Who is stopping you?
Do you have a bride that is willing to marry you?
Of course!
Do you want to know who?
Nothing is true.
Mother.
Tighten your seat belt.
Alright.
There is something wrong with the brakes.
Shin Tae Hwan.
We have fallen for Shin Tae Hwan's trap again.
Mother, hold tight!
Mother is alright, just drive the way you think is safe.
Dong Chul, Mother is alright.
Shin Tae Hwan is a bastard like this!
He cannot be forgiven!
Hold tight!
Don't worry about me, you should be careful.
Mother, hold tight!
Yes, I am alright, I am alright!
Mother, hold tight!
Hold tight!
Mother!
Hold tight!
Mother!
Dong Chul!
Mother!
Mother.
Mother, are you okay?
Are you more conscious now?
Mother, can you recognize me?
I am Dong Chul, can you recognize me?
Mother.
It's all my fault.
Mother, it's all my fault.
It's all my fault, Mother.
Dong Chul.
Mother.
Dong Wook.
Dong Wook, that child, just show him more affection.
When he is walking his own path,
he is definitely aching more than us.
If we don't show him more affection,
who will?
Just show him more affection.
I know.
Oh yes, don't meet anyone tomorrow night.
The power holder in the next election, Representative Park Young Chang,
wishes to see you.
I think he will meet tomorrow.
I am not interested.
What are you saying, you're not interested?
His winning the next election is an open secret.
That kind of person wishing to see you
is your honor, as well as a safeguard of your future.
He is also like you, being a prosecutor in the special unit, and was famous once.
So he is even more interested in you.
The heavens are helping me, Shin Tae Hwan, and my son.
On this day when you kidnapped my mother,
you can still say this?!
Don't embarrass me anymore.
Drive safely.
Just shape him a bit more, and he will be a big shot.
With Director Shin Tae Hwan taking office, Tae Sung then grew rapidly.
Even though the world thinks that our financial resources weren't strong enough,
but it can still acquire firms that are facing bankruptcy.
And when every parliament is investigating on the secret funds,
all the names are on the list.
Director Shin Tae Hwan,
how did he escape all the time.
I am willing to provide the documents that recorded the answer.
This suggestion is interesting.
Okay.
I will think of a way to let you accept investigation, without being detained.
Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook.
Yes, Chief.
Your family is really complicated.
Your father is Tae Sung Group's Director Shin Tae Hwan, right?
He is really something.
When he was developing a potential big organization,
he actually never offered people funds before.
I am really curious what the secret behind it is.
Go.
I have also accepted another big case, I'm very busy.
Lee Dong Chul, together with his mother,
have escaped from the gates of hell.
We have failed again.
Seems like heaven doesn't want to accept him yet.
If he knows that we are toying with his mother's life,
he will not let it go like this.
Now that he doesn't care about anything,
we must send him to die even if we resort to horrible tactics of suicide.
Or else all of us have to die.
President.
It's urgent now.
Don't be anxious.
Isn't this the tape of my declaration of conscience?
What do you want to do with it?
What does Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook fear the most?
If this is exposed,
it will be a lethal blow to Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook's life.
A lethal poison will also be an antidote if used in the correct way.
In order to let Lee Dong Chul leave Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook,
we need stronger things.
You are really wonderful.
But just based on this, it is not enough.
We need something more real.
What if we use that mafiosa from Macau?
Jackie?
The battle plan.
What?
Out from the military tactics book,
the tactic of letting your allied force betray you, before using them.
The original allied force,
might just change into the enemy, according to the situation.
Throw out lures that are enough for Jack to betray Lee Dong Chul.
What kind of person is that Jack?
Jack is...
illegal gambling, illegal money lending,
human trading, and drugs.
Drugs?
Drugs.
That's right.
Drugs will be it.
Tie Lee Dong Chul and Jack together with drugs.
And let Prosecutor Lee Dong Wook catch them.
This is to say, shifting the blame.
If we do well,
we will be able to finish off Lee Dong Chul without even seeing a drop of blood.
Great.
Wonderful, no wonder you are President.
Now we'll have to see if Jack gets onto our lure.
President Hwang, hurry and think of a way to get in contact with Jack.
Lee Dong Chul.
Why do you think that Hwang Kyu Taek only said all these after mentioning your name?
The day when the tape is being sent, you will have to be mentally prepared.
Please break off all trade with Lee Dong Chul.
We still have a lot of things to do together in the future.
The tainted money of the casino, and all the truth related to the drug funds,
I knew it all along.
Shin Tae Hwan did something to the brakes of the car that I and mother were sitting in.
Get the evidence out. Get it out!