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I'm sorry, Do Hyun.
Tell me something that makes sense.
Did you get the heatstroke or something?
Are you even sane?
Do you remember...
when you asked me why your father and your Director always acts so sensitive
whenever you get involved with Hwang Dal Joong?
It's because Hwang Dal Joong is your father.
I can't listen to this anymore.
- Get out. - No, you have to finish listening to this.
Seo Do Hyun. This is about your father.
My father is... Seo Dae Suk. He's the only father I have.
Hwang Dal Joong is your biological father.
The man that you believe to be your father...
put your birth father behind bars for 26 years for a crime that he didn't even commit.
Jang Hye Sung.
Your joke is borderline harassment.
You've crossed the line.
I really am sorry, Do Hyun.
But...
we need you.
Get out of here right now!
Episode 15. [I'm not going to ruin anything.]
Hey.
Have you ever seen stars flash right before your eyes?
I saw it.
Do Hyun that wench smacked me in my face with that bony hand of hers.
And then the stars just started shining before my eyes.
You just let her hit you?
If I hit her back, then I'd be on the same level as that wench.
I thought for a brief moment that maybe I should sue her for act of violence...
but I thought of the situation she's in and was barely able to stop myself from doing it.
Ouch, that really hurts. I can hold onto that.
Just hold still.
- I wonder if that's going to bruise. - Really?
It can't bruise. I have a ton of court trials tomorrow.
Where does Seo Do Hyun live?
Why? Are you going to go and talk to her yourself?
No, I'm going to go and scold her.
Take me with you from now on whenever you go to see her.
No, thanks.
The way you're acting right now is exactly how my mom acts.
- Me? - Yeah.
Whenever I'd come home after getting beaten by other kids
she always used to grab her broom and demand to know where those kids lived.
What was your mother like?
- My mother? - Yeah.
I don't think you've ever talked about your mother before.
Is it rude of me to ask you about her?
Yeah, it's rude.
Okay, then I won't ask.
Team Leader.
Let's trade off.
When is this undercover work ever going to end?
I feel like my whole body is starting to rot away.
No kidding.
I think we may be the ones to die off first in our attempt to catch Min Joon Gook.
Okay, I'm going to catch some sleep.
That bastard...
he's going to come out sooner or later, so why doesn't he just make it quick?
I just have no idea what it is that he's planning.
Please stop avoiding my question, and just answer me.
Just why it is that I can't be put in charge of Hwang Dal Joong's case.
I told you that I never did that.
Do you remember...
when you asked me why your father and your Director always acts so sensitive
whenever you get involved with Hwang Dal Joong?
It's because Hwang Dal Joong is your father.
Do you really... believe what Hye Sung says?
It's the first time in ten years that you're seeing the daughter of our former housemaid
and you lose your very first case that you fought in court against her?
Hye Sung... came to see me yesterday.
Really?
She told me something that was just utterly absurd.
She has to find Hwang Dal Joong's birth daughter and do a DNA test...
and she asked me to take that test.
- What? - She told me that I was his daughter.
So... what did you tell her?
Did you... agree to take the test for her?
- Father. - I asked you if you agreed to take the test.
I...
thought that when you heard what I just told you...
you'd tell me that it's completely absurd...
and to bring Hye Sung here so that you could scold her.
That's what I thought you'd say.
That's how most fathers would react.
Do Hyun.
I'll give you a yogurt face mask.
Why don't you go and wash your face?
What are you doing?
I told you to go on and wash your face.
Just stay...
Just stay with me like this.
Why are you suddenly acting like this?
Mom.
Is there something going on with you?
No.
Are you not going to go see Prosecutor Seo Do Hyun again?
Why?
Are you seriously going to come with me?
Forget it. I can go meet with her myself.
Don't worry. I'm not going to do anything foolish.
And who knows?
Maybe I can read her mind and find out something that you could use to convince her.
Maybe you're right?
I wonder...
if I really can't convince Do Hyun to believe the truth
I wonder if I can convince her to stay out of this trial?
It's just too cruel for her to stand as the prosecutor at her biological father's trial.
Instead of making her take the DNA test?
Didn't you tell me that's what you needed the most for the trial?
Yeah, I do need that in order to start the ball rolling.
And then we can request a retrial.
What's that?
If it's proven that the verdict from the past trial was wrong
you're going to have to right that wrong.
That's what a retrial is for.
If Do Hyun helps us, we can request a retrial for Hwang Dal Joong.
Since he was convicted of committing a murder, but the victim is clearly still alive.
What is it?
Huh?
It's nothing.
It doesn't look like it's nothing.
I'm serious. It really is nothing.
Let's go.
So what happened? Did you go meet with the daughter?
I did meet with her, but she doesn't believe me.
And even if she does believe me
I don't think she'll help given how her personality is like.
She's living very well in an affluent family, and I'm sure she doesn't want to ruin that.
- Who's the daughter? - You don't need to know.
What do you think? Should I meet with her and try to talk to her?
Come on, that's not something you can talk someone into doing.
If I was in her shoes, I don't think that I'd do it either.
What do you think of going to visit all of Hwang Dal Joong's friends instead?
I'm searching for them even as we speak.
If the daughter doesn't step up to help...
I'm thinking of calling his friends in as witnesses...
to testify that Kung Young Ja and Son Chae Ok are the one and the same.
Come on, you know that you can't use that as evidence in the court of law.
I bet that the prosecuting stand will argue that the witnesses are biased because
they're friends of the defendant.
You need to bring more solid evidence than that.
Hey, just who's side are you on anyway?
I knew you were going to be in trouble.
[A miraculous heart transplant surgery that guarantees 100% success rate.]
[Reporter Park Joo Hyuk]
Is this really my mail?
Yes, why?
It looks like a newspaper article that's more than ten years old.
I wonder why this was sent to me.
Reporter Park Joo Hyuk?
What's this? I think this was sent to me by a mistake.
Somehow... we need to stop Hwang Dal Joong from being indicted for the attempted murder.
He's already spent 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't even commit.
Making him spend the brief time he has left to live behind bars is just too cruel.
Since it's a jury trial...
Don't you think that more compassion will be shown rather than it being so by the book?
- What's this? - I think this was sent by Min Joon Gook.
Find out who sent this letter.
There's no return address.
But... how do you know that Min Joon Gook is the one who sent this?
It's a gut feeling that I have.
Don't ask me any questions about it, and just look into it for me.
Hey, there's nothing in here.
It was just an empty envelope?
Just stop asking me all those questions, and just find out who sent the letter.
Check all the security tape footages around all the post boxes.
Hey, are you a rookie to the investigation process or something?
I need something to work with if I'm going to look into anything.
- Come on, Bro... - Hey.
Knock it off.
I'm not going to stop until you agree to do it.
Please! Please look into it for me!
Stop it. You're creeping me out. Fine, I'll do it!
Thanks.
So, did you check your score for the GED exam you took?
Yeah, I checked it over the internet.
What score did you get?
- 98 points. - 98 points?
Wow!
Soo Ha, you... wow.
What?
Ah, that's right. You took the GED test too, didn't you?
What score did you get?
Oh... 84 points?
Hey, the GED exams back in my day was extremely difficult.
And also, every institution has a things.
The place I took my exam was a really tough place.
I'm leaving.
Call me when you're done for the day.
Whatever!
Long time no see, Park Soo Ha.
What business do you have here?
Why would I need to tell you that?
Yoo Chang.
What time did you say the interview with Kim Yoo Hee was?
What?
Seo Do Hyun.
I have to talk to you.
I'd like for us to talk in private.
Okay, let's talk.
Follow me.
What... is going on here? Why are things so tense between them?
- Why don't you and I wait outside? - Why?
Am I the only one who's curious to know what those two are talking about?
But, why are you allowing him to stay?
Soo Ha, why don't you step outside with us too?
Ah... I already know what those two are going to be talking about.
Really? Okay, then.
Yoo Chang, you follow me.
Wait... why are you singling me out?
I'm not leaving! I need to know what they're talking about, too.
I told you that you don't need to know about it.
The nonsense you told me the other day...
who did you hear it from?
Tell me who the source is.
I have a witness.
But, I can't reveal who it is yet.
You have your own suspicions too, don't you?
Isn't that why you're here?
No, it's not like that.
I came because I have something to tell you.
Then go on and tell me.
What you said to me that other day...
is absolutely absurd and ridiculous.
But if...
if by the smallest chance...
what you told me happens to be the truth...
my father isn't guilty of any wrongdoing.
Father?
Which father?
I only have one father.
I've only had one father in the past...
and it'll be the same in the future as well.
Hwang Dal Joong wants an apology from your father.
That's something you need to talk to him about yourself.
If that original trial really was wrong...
it's not the judge...
but it's the prosecutor who didn't check the evidence well enough
and the attorney who didn't argue the case well enough that are at fault.
I didn't say that it was the trial that was wrong.
What I'm saying is wrong...
is the actions that your father took after the trial was over.
After the trial?
I know this must be torturous, but you still need to hear me out.
Having to tell you this is difficult and upsetting for me, too.
But since this is the truth, I think you need to know...
Don't act like you care about how I feel.
Because I know that it's all just a pretense.
Cut out all the crap...
and just get to the point.
After the trial ended...
Jung Young Ja paid your father a visit.
What?
I'm sure he must've been flustered.
Since someone whom he was convinced was dead came to see him...
I'm sure it must've astounded him.
I came because I have a request to make of you.
If you'll grant me my request...
I'll live the rest of my life as an invisible person so that your name won't get tarnished.
- That's absolutely absurd! - Why is it absurd?
As long as he's kept locked up in jail like he is now
everyone else can live in peace.
You...
I understand that you don't have any kids.
I know that you're looking into adoption right now.
Please take my daughter as your own.
That is...
the request I have to make of you.
Your father accepted her proposal...
and you are that daughter.
You must've lost your mind.
What kind of a novel are you writing here?
Why do you think that Judge Seo adopted you?
When you were nothing but a complete stranger to him.
Not only that, but the daughter of the defendant?
- You think he did it out of compassion? - That's enough.
You know it yourself.
You know what an authoritative person your father is.
I'm sure that he didn't want to admit that he was wrong.
Especially because the world was focusing their attention on that 'Left Hand Murder' case.
And that was the first case he took on as the presiding judge.
To admit his mistakes and correct his wrongdoing...
may have been something that he could never allow with the personality he has.
- That's why he took the proposal. - I told you to stop right there!
What do you think you're doing!
Let go.
- Apologize to her immediately. - Let go. I said, let go!
Father.
Please tell me that this isn't true.
Father.
Please tell me that this isn't true.
Do Hyun! Seo Do Hyun!
Hey, hurry up and go catch her.
Just let her go.
She has to finish hearing the rest.
We have to make that jerk Seo Dae Suk apologize to Hwang Dal Joong.
I have to go convince Do Hyun.
Give her time.
Soo Ha.
I'm sure it must feel like her world is suddenly crumbling around her.
She just found out something evil about her father whom she's trusted all her life.
She can't be expected to take all that in so quickly.
Give her some time to come to terms with this.
Give her some time to think.
There is no time.
Hwang Dal Joong doesn't have much time left.
Soo Ha, just why are you acting like this?
Why are you all of a sudden taking Do Hyun's side?
Why do you keep telling me to keep the truth buried?
I'm not telling you to keep the truth buried.
I'm telling you...
to open up your eyes to the person first.
Jang Hye Sung.
You awful wench.
You awful, wretched wench.
When you were arrested 25 years ago...
you lost your daughter, did you not?
- Excuse me? - You want to get out of here...
and search for your lost daughter, don't you?
Do I even have a chance of getting out of here anytime soon?
Soo Ha, you and I need to talk.
Fine.
Just talk to me from out there.
It's better that we don't talk to each other face to face
because I'm having a lot of nasty thoughts in my head right now.
Okay, then talk.
Do you really think that Do Hyun is right?
What wrong has Seo Do Hyun done?
Listen to you.
Are you taking Seo Do Hyun's side right now?
It was her father that did the wrongdoing.
And she's acting the way she does because she can't believe what he's done.
I bet she'd still be acting like that even if she did believe it.
I'm one hundred percent positive
that Seo Do Hyun will end up taking her father's side.
She's his daughter.
She's his daughter, so how can she deny her own father?
Then that makes Do Hyun the same type of a person as her father.
What?
Staying silent about what her father had done means that she agrees with her father.
I see that as being the same thing.
I can't understand Do Hyun.
It's not that she and I are different, but Do Hyun is just wrong about this.
Are you listening to me?
What the heck? Why isn't he listening to me?
Just like...
the way I killed your father...
your father...
killed my wife.
Staying silent about what her father had done means that she agrees with her father.
I see that as being the same thing.
[Letter of Acceptance - Seo Do Hyun.]
[Reporter Park Joo Hyuk]
What is that hideous thing on your head? Are you wearing that to avoid my eyes?
Yeah.
That really clashes with your outfit.
I don't care.
Where's my wallet? I can't see anything.
Ma'am. Take off that weird hat and then look for it.
You can't see anything because you're wearing that.
Mister, two people.
Go on in. And call me when you're done for the day.
Okay.
Attorney Jang!
Do you have a trial this morning too?
Yes.
But what is that thing on your head?
Who's that character on Star Wars...
You look like Darth Vadar!
I felt like my skin was starting to show some signs of aging.
- Why don't we go in? - You go on in first.
I have to talk to Soo Ha about something.
Talk to Soo Ha?
What's this?
This is...
Attorney Jang and I received an unidentifiable letter recently.
So, I asked the detective to look into who sent the letter without Attorney Jang knowing.
They searched all the CCTV footage of the area surrounding
the post box from which the mail was sent from
and that's what they found.
But... his new disguise is quite different than the one he used the last time we saw him.
I thought that you should know about it, too.
You're saying that Min Joon Gook sent this letter to Attorney Jang as well?
He sent you one, too?
Yes.
Did Attorney Jang see the letter?
Yeah, but she didn't seem to know what it was about.
And I've been sneaking away all the subsequent letters that she's received since.
So, you don't need to worry.
We can make sure that she doesn't find out about it.
Thank you.
Okay. You can get going now.
Just why are you doing this for me?
Huh?
I know that you like Attorney Jang, too.
So, why do you keep helping me?
Are you trying to show off to me right now?
That you're a good person, with a good job, parents and an adult who has everything?
Are you showing off and trying to tell me that I can't even compare to you?
Park Soo Ha.
Get your head on straight.
Because the more you act out like that, the more pathetic that makes me seem.
Attorney Jang didn't even give me a chance, and she chose you.
So, stop being so anxious and show me why she chose you.
Because based on the way you're acting right now...
I can't understand why she chose you.
The DNA test...
I'll take it.
What?
Really?
But...
you need to do me a favor in exchange.
A favor?
What favor?
What's the favor you want to ask?
You found my daughter?
You found my Ga Yeon?
She's even agreed to take the DNA test for you.
How did she grow up?
Did she grow up well?
Did she grow up to be a kind person?
Did she grow beautifully?
Yes, she did. She grew up to be a very smart and beautiful woman.
- She grew up in a very nice family. - When can I see her?
Did she say she'll come to visit me?
I think that a visit...
is going to be difficult.
Does she not want to see me?
No, rather than saying that she doesn't want to...
I think... that she's having a difficult time accepting all this.
Yes, I see what you mean.
I thought that as much as I longed to see her
my own daughter would without a doubt want to see me just as badly.
I guess I've been too selfish and thought only of myself.
Anyways...
your daughter's DNA test results will prove that the victim is your ex-wife.
When that happens, we can request for a retrial.
And the trial may also may lean a little more towards our favor.
Please relay a message to my daughter and tell her that I'm grateful.
Okay.
I'll do that.
We'll request for a retrial as soon as the DNA test results comes out.
I heard that it's really difficult to be granted a retrial.
That's true.
You know very well yourself...
that I don't have much time left to live.
But still...
I want you to request for one.
You never know, but it could happen sooner than we expect.
[Reporter Park Joo Hyuk]
[The nation's leading hospital which gives the best survival rate for their patients.]
[Reporter Park Joo Hyuk] [The nation's leading hospital which gives the best survival rate for their patients.]
[Reporter Park Joo Hyuk]
[Century College Hospital, Reporter Park Joo Hyuk.]
[Century College Hospital aims to become one of the top three hospitals in the nation.]
[Professor Woo Sung Shik]
[Heart transplant surgery]
[Century College Hospital]
[Funeral for Reporter Pak Joo Hyuk's wife to be held at Century College Hospital.]
Hello?
Yes, this is she.
The test results are already out?
What's the result?
Yes.
Yes, I understand.
I'm sure she must feel like her world is suddenly crumbling down around her.
She just found out something evil about her father whom she's trusted all her life.
How is she expected to take all that in so quickly?
Give her some time to accept it.
Give her some time to think.
I'm not telling you to keep the truth buried.
I'm telling you...
to open up your eyes and see the person first.
Judge Seo.
I have something to talk to you about.
What do you think?
Is it okay for me to just say it out loud right here?
It's about Do Hyun.
You all go on ahead.
Keep it short.
I have a meeting that I have to get to.
The truth is, I was planning on calling you to the stand as a witness at the trial.
And if you don't show up...
I was planning on requesting you as a witness until you came.
I was going to see the things through to the end.
Just what it is that you did 26 years ago, and just how you ruined a man's life...
I was planning on revealing it to the whole world.
You talking about that again?
As the presiding judge of that case, I made my verdict based on the evidence.
If the judgment I made was wrong...
it's not me who made the mistake...
but it's the prosecutor and the attorney who made the mistakes.
How can your words be so exactly the same as Do Hyun's words?
Do Hyun took the DNA test.
And she received her results today.
It seems you didn't know about that.
Do Hyun agreed to taking the test, but her agreement came with a condition.
I came because I thought you should know what her condition was for taking the test.
A condition?
Yes.
What's your condition?
You can't...
allow this trial to ruin anything for my father.
So...
don't even mention a word about my father during the trial.
The reason why I'm taking this test...
isn't to help Hwang Dal Joong.
But it's for my father's sake.
I want to make sure that you keep that in mind.
When she told me that...
for the first time since knowing her, I felt sorry for Do Hyun and pitied her.
If it was me...
I think I would've hated a father like you.
I'm not going to request you as a witness.
I'm going to keep my promise to Do Hyun.
Are you... done speaking?
Yes.
I have nothing to testify.
Attorney Jang didn't even give me a chance and she chose you.
So, stop being so anxious and show me why Attorney Jang chose you.
I'm done for the day. Let's go.
Take this off. It's dangerous to wear this at night.
It's okay.
And I'm still mad at you.
If you're mad at me, then tell me instead of hiding it.
I won't get hurt no matter what you're thinking.
I understood when my own uncle abandoned me.
Even when you called me an ankle grabbing gum shoe...
and even when you told me that it was your fault that your mother passed away...
I will just accepted your thoughts and just let it all go.
And I'm going to continue to do so.
I've heard the worst that you could think of me, and have accepted them all.
And I've also seen the worst of you, and accepted them all.
No matter what you say to me in the future and what you show me...
I'll never be disappointed in you.
So...
don't use this to hide your face.
No, don't look.
I just told you.
No matter what it is that you're thinking, you can't hurt me.
What shlould I do?
Why won't my heart stop racing?
Let go.
What woman out there would want those thoughts to be known?
Don't look. You're dead if you look.
Look at you.
What do you think you're doing?
You remember what I just told you, don't you?
That I'll never be disappointed in you.
Okay, I got it. I understood you perfectly.
So no matter what I say... and no matter what kind of a person I am...
don't be disappointed in me either.
Answer me. Okay?
Okay.
Let's go.
Is there a chance... that I can see Doctor Woo Sung?
Doctor Woo Sung? Just a moment please.
Which department is he in?
I heard that he used to be the chief of the heart transplant department.
Why are you looking for Doctor Woo Sung?
I have something that I need to ask him.
He passed away a long time ago.
I see.
May I ask you how he passed away?
He passed away in a car accident.
He either fell asleep behind the wheel, or he was drunk driving...
I think it was something like that.
By any chance... did he pass away about 11 years ago?
Yes, it was when I was still an intern, so I think that's about the right time frame.
What's this about?
Did you come here to ask about him when you already knew that he had passed away?
No, it's not like that.
What are you...
What are you doing here?
That's what I'd like to ask you.
Did you by any chance look into those articles, too?
So all you know yourself is that your father killed Min Joon Gook's wife...
but you don't know how it happened either?
Yes.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the articles that my father wrote.
But I don't know any of the details.
What did Min Joon Gook tell you when he came to see you?
He told me...
that no one listened to his side of the story.
He said not even the police listened to him.
He said no one in the world would take his side.
And that's why he started all this.
Do you think that Min Joon Gook is responsible for Doctor Woo Sung's death 11 years ago?
I'm not sure.
Even though we need to look into it some more...
I'm already getting a bad feeling about it.
I guess we need to wait and see what other newspaper articles he'll send us.
I thought you were just scared...
but you're looking into this yourself now?
Yes.
I need to know what Min Joon Gook is planning so that I can protect her.
Then, I'll be going now.
Okay.
The rascal.
He actually listened.
What time did you say the trial is at?
The trial starts at eleven, but the jury selection is at nine.
Then I guess I just need to get to the courthouse by eleven after my lesson school?
Do you need me to read the thoughts of both the jury panel and the judge?
Yeah.
Soo Ha.
You don't need to come to the trial today.
Why?
I can't always rely on your help with all my cases.
If I keep doing that, I think I'm going to get too used to it
and I won't be able to do it on my own later on down the road.
I can't keep doing all my trials with the help of your skills forever.
I'm an attorney after all.
I'm going to try to do it on my own today.
Okay.
Don't' worry. I know I can do this.
Didn't you see me during your trial?
I did really well even without the help of your eyes.
I realized that my eyes aren't totally rotted out after all.
Let's go.
The greedier I get...
rather than your harsh words, or your stabbing words...
but words like the ones you spoke are what hurts me the most.
The words that presupposes that I won't be here one day...
Why do you keep assuming such things?
Aren't you coming?
I'm coming.
So, today has finally come.
Will you be alright?
Yeah.
I'm fine.
Your eyes look swollen.
Yeah.
I stayed up all night last night finishing up some paperwork.
Are you really...
going to stand at the trial as the prosecutor today?
Yeah.
No matter what happened...
Hwang Dal Joong is your biological father.
Stop it. You keep telling me that.
But no matter what you say to me...
he's nothing more than a murder suspect to me.
I've never even met him, and I don't even remember him.
Just because we share the same blood...
doesn't make him my father.
You really are cold blooded.
Even more cold blooded than me.
That's not an easy thing to be.
I can do this.
Welcome!
What is it? What are you doing here?
I'm here as a customer.
Basic... care?
You?
- You're here to get a manicure? - All the work that I'm doing lately...
is turning my hands into an absolute mess.
I'm here as a customer, so don't get all prickly on me.
If you murder the person you killed 26 years again for the second time
does that count as a murder or not?
The murder that's now dubbed as 'The Ghost Murder'...
Killed... a ghost?
A ghost?
On July 3rd at the Yeonjoo City's hospital, 58 year old defendant, Mr. Hwang
used a weapon to stab the victim and is now being indicted for attempted murder.
At the time of the murder, Mr. Hwang, who had spent the past 26 years in jail for a murder
had only been recently been released from prison under stay of sentencing.
The defendant's counsel is arguing
that the victim of the attack is the same person who was supposedly murdered 26 years ago
thus stating that she is the one and the same wife of Mr. Hwang's.
Thus, the defendant cannot be indicted for murder of someone who's still alive.
On the other hand, the prosecutors are arguing that the counsel has no evidence
to support their argument and since Mr. Hwang's attack was caught on CCTV
it is a clear cut case of his guilt of the crime.
In case of the victim turning out to be the same wife of Mr. Hwang...
who was supposed to have been murdered by him 26 years ago...
just how it is that the court will rule on the murder of someone who's already been found
to be dead 26 years ago, the focus of the whole nation is hanging on this verdict.
He spent the past 26 years of his life in prison for killing his wife...
but his wife actually has been alive this whole time?
Then, it's too unjust. He's been made to waste away his whole life.
That's why he stabbed his wife?
My goodness... how can such things even happen?
But does that even make any sense?
He's already been punished for having been found guilty of murdering someone.
But he's now going to be found guilty again for stabbing the same person?
When he has already paid for the crime that he didn't even commit in the first place?
But that's two separate issues.
No matter what had happened, he stabbed a living person.
No, that's not right.
He stabbed someone who's supposedly dead.
So that's why they're calling this case 'The Ghost Murder Case'.
Because he didn't stab a living person, but he stabbed a dead person.
After the defendant murdered his own wife 26 years ago...
and mutilated and disposed of her body, he was found guilty for his crimes
and while serving his sentence for the crime he was found guilty of
he was released on stay of sentencing due to his aggressive and malignant brain tumor
and as soon as he was released, he committed another attempted murder.
The very next day after he was released from the prison...
July, 3rd, 2013...
at around the time of 11:40 pm...
after the defendant saw the victim working at the hospital who was missing her left hand...
He mistook...
the victim to be his wife that he thought he had killed 26 years ago
and became so enraged at the sight of her...
he stabbed the neck of Son Chae Ok with broken shards of the glass vase
and damaged her esophagus and her airways.
Therefore, according to Criminal Code Article 250, Paragraph One, Section 254...
the defendant is hereby charged for the crime of attempted murder.
Defendant.
Do you understand the crime that you're being charged with?
Yes.
Defendant. How to you plea to these charges?
I do admit that I stabbed her.
But, I'm...
innocent.
Okay, I understand.
Counsel.
Please make your opening statement.
I...
was the counsel for the same defendant during the 'Left Hand Murder Case' 26 years ago.
Twenty-six years ago...
the defendant was found guilty of murdering his wife and mutilating her body
and has been serving his sentence for the crime in prison until very recently.
And also...
this current crime shows that the verdict the defendant received 26 years ago was wrong...
and thus, he realized that he has spent the past 26 years in prison unjustly.
The defendant...
has already spent 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't even commit.
And under the reasoning that he stabbed someone who's supposed to be dead...
he stands there as you see him right now.
Granted...
The prosecutor stand is arguing...
that his former wife, Jung Young Ja...
is not the same person as the current victim, Son Chae Ok...
but through the use of various evidence
we will prove that she is the one and the same person.
Also...
since he's already served his sentence for the murder...
to indict him for murdering the same person again...
is a clear case of double jeopardy.
He's now being indicted for the exact same crime that he has already been indicted for
the defendant cannot be charged for the same crime again.
But the wife that he killed 26 years ago, and the woman that he just stabbed...
how do we know that it's the same person?
Of course, he'd know.
Do you think that he wouldn't recognize his own wife just because 26 years has passed?
And both the women were missing their left hand.
You can't say that they're the same person based on that fact alone.
You cannot say that they're the same person.
The counsel is holding the fact that the victim is missing her left hand
and the DNA test results of the defendant, the victim, and their daughter as evidence.
But just because the victim was missing her left hand...
is not enough to prove that the victim and Jung Young Ja is the same person.
And the daughter's DNA test results...
cannot be accepted as evidence as long as the identity of the daughter isn't identified.
Grass hair boy, you're dead.
The daughter in this said trial has lived blissfully unaware that she was adopted.
Just to make things easier, we'll call that daughter, 'Shim Chung'.
Shim Chung has requested that her identity not be made known through this trial.
That's why we cannot reveal her identity.
Why don't we all take a look at the screen?
As you can see on the test results, Shim Chung and Hwang Dal Joong...
are 99.999997 percent a match...
and also with the victim, Son Chae Ok...
are 99.9999997 percent...
a match for being their biological daughter.
What this means is that the defendant Hwang Dal Joong, and victim, Son Chae Ok...
were a married couple.
Okay, I'll give you that.
Let's say that those two were a married couple just like you say.
But what does that matter?
No matter what the case, he stabbed a living person.
Why are you hitting me!
That's your punishment for telling the police about Soo Ha's locker a year ago.
You already hit me for that!
See? You're getting mad at being hit again for something you've already been hit for.
It's the same thing for that person.
He's already paid his price, but he may get punished for it again.
Hey, how is this situation the same?
This absolutely cannot be seen as the same thing.
There is a rule against double jeopardy even in our country.
Once the final verdict is passed on a case
a person cannot be charged for that same crime again.
That's the founding principles in how the criminal cases are governed.
But it's difficult to say that this case is the same case that happened 26 years ago.
The time and place which the crime took place
and even the names of the parties involved are different.
The method in which the crime was carried out, and the result of the crime itself...
is very different.
The only thing that's consistent is the fact that the victim and the defendant is the same.
That fact alone cannot be used to say that this is the same crime.
In the courtroom 26 years ago...
the defendant was charged for murder, mutilation and concealment of the body.
Through that verdict...
the victim, Son Chae Ok became a dead person.
In other words, the defendant stabbed a dead person, a ghost, if you will.
When he only stabbed a ghost...
how can he be found guilty of an attempted murder?
The fact that the victim whom he thought to be dead is still alive...
and therefore having served 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't even commit...
I feel is extremely unfortunate.
That injustice...
will have to be revealed through the process of a retrial.
Even though the victim in this case is the same, the crime is different
and thus, the defense of Double Jeopardy cannot be used in this case.
It's too late to reveal the injustice that's been done to him through a retrial.
Unfortunately, the defendant...
does not have many days left to live due to an aggressive form of a brain tumor.
A one month's time to us means a year to the defendant.
No, it would be no different than ten years of living to the defendant.
In our country, it's not only difficult to request a retrial
but even if the request for retrial is granted
it takes a significant amount of time for the retrial to commence.
The time it takes for him to wait...
the defendant... may have to spend the rest of his life waiting for that retrial.
Next, we will start the questioning of the defendant.
Excuse me, your honor.
May I say something on record before the questioning starts?
Okay, will it take long?
No.
It won't take long.
Will what I'm about to say be put on record?
Yes, it'll be put on record.
It's also being recorded.
My daughter who took the DNA test for my sake...
It's about Shim Chung.
I want to tell Shim Chung that I'm very grateful.
Even though...
I don't know who she is, or where she may be living...
I want to tell her...
to continue to live happily, and to live beautifully...
that's what I'd like to tell her.
That's all.
Yes, I understand.
Prosecutor, you may start your questioning.
Yes.
Defendant.
You ran into the victim, Son Chae Ok at the hospital this past July, 3rd, 2013. Correct?
Yes.
At the time, did you, the defendant...
attack the victim, Son Chae Ok with the intention of killing her?
No.
The victim is currently lying in a state of coma
and should the victim die, you, the defendant will become a murderer.
Are you aware of that?
- Your honor! The victim is still alive! - Your honor! The victim is still alive!
Yes, I ask that the prosecuting stand refrain from asking questions based on unfound events.
Yes.
No further questions.
Is that it for your questioning?
Yes.
Why did you stop questioning him?
They were questions that the counsel was going to attack like earlier.
When you ran into the victim, Son Chae Ok... I mean, Jung Young Ja...
what did she say to you?
She tried to explain to me why she turned me into a murderer 26 years ago.
Why did she say she did that?
She said that she hated me.
And that she also hated my debt.
She said she wanted to live as some other man's woman, instead of living as my wife.
And she also said...
that she didn't want to raise my daughter in the midst of all that debt.
That's why she went as far as cutting off her own hand...
to have me locked up in jail.
And she also...
told me it was better for me as well to go to jail rather than to live with all my debts.
So, the words that the victim spoke
shocked you into grabbing the broken shard of the glass vase?
Yes.
Is this the shard of glass that you used to stab the victim with?
Yes.
I'm sure there must've been bigger pieces of broken glass when the vase broke.
So, why did you pick such a small shard of glass as this one?
I just grabbed whatever my hand could grab.
As you've just heard, the defendant had no intentions of killing the victim.
This was a crime of passion.
No further questions.
People of the jury...
I'm sure you must be exhausted by how long the trial is taking.
We will take a brief recess, and reconvene at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
Father...
I'm so sorry.
I'm so very sorry.
Hey, did you see what the jury panel are thinking?
How many of them do you think are on our side?
What is this? I thought you were going to do this on your own.
Well... I was going to do that.
But tell me since you're already are here. How many people on our side?
More important than that is Prosecutor Seo Do Hyun.
Don't even mention her name.
I gave her a break because you asked me to, but she's a machine.
The way she attacked her own father without even blinking an eye...
No, I don't think that's the case.
What?
And I think that Hwang Dal Joong knows that Prosecutor Seo Do Hyun is his daughter.
Really?
How did he find that out?
The daughter of Judge Seo Dae Suk is the prosecutor of my trial...
I'm so sick and tired of my fate with that family of yours.
And it's toxic.
What are you doing here?
My father...
will never apologize to you about the verdict he gave during your trial 26 years ago.
If that's what you're waiting for, then you need to give up on that idea.
You came all the way down here just to tell me that?
Then I guess there's nothing else left for me to listen to here.
I'm sorry.
I really am sorry.
I will apologize...
in my father's place.
Why would you apologize?
The verdict that he passed down at that trial...
I'm sure that my father is regretting it himself.
I'm sure that's probably why I...
I?
My father isn't humble enough to admit to a fault like that.
That's how he's lived his whole life.
That's why...
I'll apologize to you in his place.
Please forgive him.
I'll see you at the trial tomorrow.
When we're in that courtroom...
I won't be there as Judge Seo Dae Suk's daughter...
but I will stand there as your prosecutor.
You.
How old are you?
I'm 29 years old.
Are you by any chance...
my Ga Yeon?
No.
My name is Seo Do Hyun.
Seo Do Hyun.
Why are you...
Hye Sung...
I...
I feel like I'm going to die.
Save me.
Please save my father.
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