March 8, 20th hour, Impeachment Assumed.
There will be more victims...
if I don't back down now.
Then, I'll ask myself every time it happens.
Even then... will I make the same choices?
The answer...
is the same.
I...
will not give up.
I pledge to uphold and protect the constitution of this nation.
I am the President.
I can't back down.
Until I can do what I set out to do,
I must remain this nation's President.
Until then...
will you
protect me?
Is this your first real experience?
This is... my thirteenth year.
But...
I feel the same way.
I'm... just as nervous as you are.
Especially... a day like today.
Alright!
Let's begin.
When did you received the call from the Election Commission?
- December, 2012. - When was the Secret Service called in?
The Secret Service just arrived at the home of the President elect, Lee Dong Hwi.
As soon as the Election Commission confirmed his victory,
they enforce protection for the President-to-be.
Episode 8
You came later than I thought.
Congratulations on winning the election!
We'll protect you throughout your term.
We're the Presidential Secret Service team.
You look quite young.
How long have you been in the Secret Service?
He's a rookie but a very talented agent.
The agents will lay their life down for the President.
But...
You're too young to die for me.
I can do it.
You're my first President.
No matter what happens,
I'll protect you at all cost.
I'm Chief Ham Bong Soo.
I'm Agent Kim Ahn Joon.
I'm Agent Kim Hyo Sun.
I'm Agent Han Tae Kyung.
At that time...
I thought I had everything.
I mistakenly believed I could change the world.
I have...
nothing left in me anymore.
The Intelligence, the Prosecution, the Police Agency...
Not even... anyone inside the Blue House...
I can't trust anyone.
The only one I can trust is...
you.
I'm a President only in title.
But there's something I must do.
Until then... will you
protect me?
I'm...
I'm not sure.
Things were much clearer before.
But now...
I don't have the confidence.
In my state...
I shouldn't remain as an agent.
I think I hit my limit.
It's not just one.
The Intelligence information the Secretary Han found...
Military information compiled by General Kim
Ki Bum and Colonel Yang Dae Ho at the time...
Fund Manager, Kim Woo Young, discovered the source of money delivered to North Korea.
Each person gathered information from their respective positions.
The culmination of information from each
is what your father had in his possession.
The Classified Document 98.
He was delivering it to me and special prosecutor Choi Ji Hoon.
That's why he died.
Your father fought hopelessly in isolation for over sixteen years.
He told me the truth.
He also gathered like-minded people.
He never dreamed of giving up.
The biggest reason behind why he did what he did is
he wanted to be...
a man of integrity for his son.
Even if...
you can't believe me... don't ever doubt...
your father's truth.
The special prosecution...
investigation results.
It's all true.
It's not important...
what kind of person the President is.
The President was chosen by the people.
What?
Would you like to sit in that chair?
How could I...
What brings you here?
Senior Civil and Political Affairs...
Secretaries and Blue House employees...
About thirty-five people submitted their resignations.
Other employees are doing the same.
How about you?
Where is your resignation?
I...
I'll stand by your side to the end.
We were together from the beginning.
We should be together in the end as well.
The Prime Minister will be back from China soon.
Do you have something to tell him?
Then...
I'll be back.
While the impeachment is underway,
Prime Minister, Lee Kyung Wha, is returning from China.
Minister!
They initiated the impeachment proceedings. What do you think about it?
Did you know about the President's alleged criminal activities?
How do you assess your political future?
One word please!
What happened to the request I made?
I followed your orders precisely.
Of course...
this will be our secret.
I'm aware.
How can the Blue House let things come to this?
We couldn't help it.
What do you mean?
The special prosecution conclusions are...
true.
Is that true?
I think you should prepare to step in.
The fate of this nation...
lies on your shoulders.
The Blue House will fully support you.
Before that...
there's someone who wants to meet you in private.
Well...
how about Chief Ham Bong Soo's funeral?
What will happen?
The Chief has no one to receive his body.
Chief Ham tried to kill the President.
He even killed our fellow agents.
But I still feel sorry for him.
He never got married.
He completely devoted his life to Secret Service.
So...
Should he be buried in the National Cemetery?
It was his only mistake.
All his life... he never faltered.
It was his only mistake.
Are you having regrets?
Even if it happened all over,
you'd have to pull the trigger.
If you can't, you should leave the Service.
Yes.
That's what I plan to do.
Tae Kyung.
Hey, Han Tae Kyung.
Tae Kyung, what's wrong with you?
Letter of Resignation.
Submit it for me.
Are you really...
going to quit the Secret Service?
Chief Ham Bong Soo...
That was his only mistake, but...
it was the most crucial mistake of them all.
Don't falter.
This isn't like you.
What would you have done?
If I made that mistake...
If I aimed the gun at the President,
and you were there...
What if you shot me dead?
How would you feel?
The Secret Service agent must protect the President.
You can't be shaken.
You can't be distracted.
But...
I have feelings.
I'm alive with a heart.
To protect someone else,
I must kill another.
I can't do that again.
So...
I must leave the Service.
I heard you were suspended.
Because of me.
I'm sorry.
It's not final yet.
I'll prove my actions were justified to the disciplinary committee.
My father's accident report...
Do you need it for your statement?
Did you... attend a funeral?
So did I.
I went to...
three funerals.
General Kim Ki Bum.
Fund Manager Kim Woo Hyung.
Colonel Yang Dae Ho.
I met with their families.
In their belongings...
I thought I could get information to support my statement.
That's why I was there.
Did you find what you were looking for?
No.
Data for my statement...
wasn't important.
I want to... reveal the truth.
Everything started with your father's accident.
If you investigate further,
you might find out why they died.
You will find the proof.
Officer Yoon.
Although...
I'm only a country police officer.
As long as I'm able, I want to do my best.
Letter of Resignation.
Post office receipt: Weight 10oz, quantity 1, $18.
Document Library.
Yangjinri.
Classified Document 98 (Secretary Han)
Enter password.
The password to father's classified document.
The year Yangjinri occurred.
1998.
February 6th.
Classified Document 98
February, 1998.
More than ten members of the North Korean reconnaissance came to the South.
Including civilians,
twenty-four dead.
Nineteen injured.
It was one of the worst atrocities for our country.
I...
want to report...
the dirty truth about the incident.
Classified Document 98 - Han Gi Joon.
Those responsible for Yangjinri
are high ranking officials and corporate executives.
They initiated contact with North Korea with Falcon's assistance
on January 1998.
It was an unofficial summit held in Beijing.
After the "North and South Korea Economics Summit" was over.
January, 1998, Beijing.
Here you go.
Let's fill it up.
South Korea should sponsor this kind of meeting more often.
We're all brothers.
Please let me.
We should help each other.
Yes, right.
The North Korean dignitary from that evening was
Korean People's Army Reconnaissance, General Hwang Kyung Joon.
And... Korean People's Army Reconnaissance
Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu.
Ah... Shall we... begin a real summit?
I'll be direct.
Will... sending a submarine down...
be sufficient?
Do you think such a boat ride...
will get the attention of the nation?
I'll be direct as well.
A submarine and price for several lives...
How much do you think it's worth?
I'll pay you $10 million in advance.
$90 million after everything is over.
$100 million in total.
All of this information is based on Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu's confession.
However...
the evidence to support his confession
does not exist yet.
Are you telling me all this is true?
Yes.
The prosecution already indicted.
The written arraignment has also arrived.
If that's the case...
He'll be the first President in office
to stand trial.
The Republic of Korea is facing a crisis.
The people are nervous.
You're the only person...
who can overcome this crisis.
I will...
fulfill...
my duties... according to the constitution.
But during this time,
you'll be the number one man...
in Korea.
As a businessman...
I'd like to support you in whatever way I can.
For this country.
He's a classic number two man.
Good at what he does with small ambitions.
His well-being is important. You never know when he'll change his mind.
That's why... you should stay by his side.
There's only a few days left until D-Day.
We just have to use the Prime Minister until then.
Someone asked me to give this to you, Chairman Kim.
North and South Korea Economics Summit, 1998.
Korean People's Army Reconnaissance, Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu
is the first person to tell me the truth behind Yangjinri.
1998, Nanjing, China.
Exile?
There will be a great purge soon.
You're the only person I can trust in South Korea, Professor Han.
Instead...
I'll steal classified information from the reconnaissance.
Wait... Give me some time.
I don't have time.
What's...
What's this?
Yangjinri Atrocity, North Korea's Unilateral Action.
Do you remember...
the $10 million you delivered to me last time?
The food supply fund for North Korea?
Do you still believe that lie?
That was an advance.
Wh... What are you talking about?
That was the blood money for Yangjinri.
What...
What nonsense...
That was money for food.
That was a conspiracy between the US and South Korea.
It negotiated a multi-billion dollar weapons deal.
It was a negotiation.
List of fatalities.
I'll contact you in a month.
At that time,
I'll bring evidence to support my confession.
Please have my exile prepared by then.
Tell me one more time.
It's a lie.
Answer me.
Tell me it's a lie!
Why can't you say anything?
Answer me.
Tell me it's a lie!
Tell me.
Answer me.
Dad.
What did you say?
Tell me what you just said.
- Tell me. - Stop, Dad.
You're lying.
Right?
Well?
Dad, stop.
Don't do this.
Since that day,
That was the last I heard from Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu.
I contacted
brokers for North Korean defectors and human rights organizations in Inchon
to find out whether he was alive or dead.
But Lee Chul Kyu was purged in 1998.
He was executed.
The cell phone number list on the day of the accident.
Blue House Presidential Offices.
Incomplete calls.
Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu?
How would I know someone like that?
I run a restaurant.
What is the sentence for getting caught smuggling defectors?
Geez...
What are you trying to do?
Go away quietly.
Dead Secretary Han Gi Joon.
You know him?
I have all the data he researched on you.
You know Secretary Han Gi Joon?
Yes.
Korean People's Army Reconnaissance Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu.
Are you sure he was executed?
That guy...
He was purged and executed.
The rumor was spread even to here.
By chance,
among the defectors,
does anyone know him?
Any relatives or... someone from the army.
Secretary Han asked exactly the same thing.
Hello.
My name is Han Gi Joon.
Yes.
By chance...
do you know this man?
His name is Lee Chul Kyu.
As far as I know,
there's no one like that here.
Han Tae Kyung speaking.
Agent.
Did your father know someone in Inchon?
Inchon?
Why Inchon all of a sudden?
What?
Where?
So... I'll tell you exactly where I am.
Yoon Bo Won was here.
Someone sent me this photo.
North and South Economics Summit, 1998.
Who can send this photo?
There were no headlines about this meeting.
It was an unofficial summit.
Who could it be?
This person asked the employee.
Are you...
Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu?
How could he...
Didn't he tell me then?
He was purged and executed. He'll never...
be able to speak up again.
He's clean.
The first person to come up with this method was
Secretary Han Gi Joon.
You used the same method...
to contact me.
You told me.
The Blue House isn't safe.
99 Emergency.
06000, 6 am.
5578.
Chungjoo Station Arrival Transportation Point.
What is the reason behind your urgent call to me?
I met with Korean People's Army Reconnaissance
Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu.
Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu died.
Aside from the Intelligence,
I confirmed his death several times through human rights organizations.
No.
He's alive.
He's alive and here.
In our country.
You can use him to accomplish what you set out to do.
I placed Lee Chul Kyu on spy wanted list.
I dispatched officers as well.
He sneaked in through China.
He's likely in Inchon.
Why...
would he send me this?
If he was to reveal himself, he knows he's putting himself in danger.
He probably wants money.
He didn't come down empty handed.
He must possess something to make a deal with me.
That's why... he contacted me.
So...
we should keep quiet and kill him for sure.
Lee Chul Kyu is...
an elite undercover agent notorious even in North Korea.
He has plenty of experience.
He's smart, too.
If we underestimate him, he'll get us.
Even if we kill him,
we must find out what kind of information he has.
We should kill him only then.
Why did you change your mind?
Why did you start working on this again?
Someone said...
she wants to reveal the truth.
She's faced many difficulties because of all this.
She has no responsibility to any of it.
But still...
she wants to find the truth.
After hearing that...
I realized something important.
That's why...
I want to do the same.
Agent Han Tae Kyung.
I want to ask you one more thing.
Do you trust...
your fellow agents?
What do you mean?
Is Agent Lee Cha Young...
trustworthy?
Yes.
She's a trustworthy colleague and a friend.
Why...
do you ask?
I just...
want to know your thoughts.
Alright then.
Please be careful.
Presidential Security Committee Report.
Presidential Secret Service.
09000 + 3595 = Rain shower
- Chief of Staff. - Talk to me later.
It's urgent.
The President...
called for a special press conference.
A special press conference?
A press conference?
He's wanting public sympathy.
I'll pressure the departments and media.
I'll make sure they're tough on him.
The press conference isn't the issue.
He decided on his own without discussing it with Public Relations.
How about his speech?
What's the content of his announcement?
He didn't speak to us about his speech at all.
He wrote it himself.
What's going on?
We were just notified.
How about the location?
At the Chunchugwan or Sangchunje?
Neither.
The VIP plans to hold the press conference outside the Blue House.
Outside the Blue House?
Presidential press conferences are usually held at the Blue House Chunchugwan.
But...
why is Lee Dong Hwi...
having the press conference outside the Blue House?
What happened?
Did you find Lee Chul Kyu?
Yes.
We found him.
He was living in a nearby motel.
But by the time we arrived,
he had already checked out.
So...
you lost him?
More importantly...
there's something else.
According to the motel owner,
someone came by looking for Lee Chul Kyu before he checked out.
I asked him what they looked like.
I also showed him photos.
They were Agent Han Tae Kyung and that female police officer.
Are you saying...
he left with them?
Considering the circumstances, yes.
Lee Chul Kyu...
We lost him to the President.
Shin Kyu Jin.
The Secret Service and the President are up to something.
What is that supposed to mean?
I discovered a secret code on the report.
It's a Secret Service code.
Secretary Han and Colonel Yang Dae Ho both
communicate this way with the President.
I've seen the code booklet.
During the attempted assassination investigation.
So... what did they communicate exactly?
09000.
3595.
Rain shower.
09000 tells the time.
9 am.
35 means reporters.
95 means making connection.
It means press conference.
And?
What does "Rain shower" mean?
A guest.
Today's press conference...
There's a guest present.
What?
What's going on?
The Blue House will not allow access to an unidentified person.
It will be impossible for a North Korean defector to enter.
What are you talking about?
That's why they're holding the press conference outside.
To allow someone who cannot enter the Blue House access to the press conference.
Could it be... Yes.
Lee Dong Hwi will...
have Lee Chul Kyu present at the press conference.
Lee Chul Kyu...
We must stop him.
Breaking news.
President Lee Dong Hwi will hold a press conference in an hour.
He's been keeping silent.
What will he have to say to the nation?
The Republic of Korea is waiting to hear President Lee's voice.
It's me.
I need the Secret Service Security Plan.
I don't need to know Lee Dong Hwi's movement.
Which route will Lee Chul Kyu use to enter the press conference?
That's what I need to know.
The Secret Service Security Plan.
They keep it a top secret even within the Secret Service.
Unless you're one of the agents at the event, it's impossible to get.
Nothing is impossible.
If all of us are found out,
Chairman Kwon Jae Yeon's suicide note will also be revealed as a lie.
You don't want them to reopen the case, do you?
East entrance.
I don't see Lee Chul Kyu yet.
Any special issue?
No.
All clear at the west side entrance.
Press Conference Security Plan.
Control the pedestrians on both sides, okay?
Okay.
The Secret Service Security Plan.
Transportation Exits.
Basement customer parking lot, VIP arrival.
You should hurry.
The agents will arrive after the meeting.
I'm sure you're aware.
Leaking the Secret Service Security Plan is prohibited.
I'm aware.
This is...
our secret.
Yes.
I have the Security Plan.
I know the route Lee Chul Kyu will take.
Let's go.
It's not where the President gets off the vehicle.
There's another location.
Fifth floor underground.
In front of the customer parking entrance.
Everything okay?
Everything is fine.
Vehicle number 5198.
He's in that car. p
How is Agent Han Tae Kyung?
He'll meet the agents in the underground parking at 08:53.
Is he here?
No, not yet.
What should we do, back out?
No.
Let's begin...
the press conference.
Here comes the President.
People of Korea.
I'm President...
Lee Dong Hwi.
Long time no see, Lt. Commander Lee Chul Kyu.
The press conference must've began already.
What will he say without you there?
I'm anticipating.
On March 6th,
the special prosecution team...
made an announcement.
The announcement is false.
Are you denying the allegations?
Do you have any connections to the Yangjinri incident at all?
Do you have a clear evidence to prove the special prosecution is wrong?
You can use him to accomplish what you set out to do.
Use... him?
The people you're dealing with...
move this nation.
They're heartless monsters without any trace of justice.
You must think it through carefully.
Something no one can refute...
You're saying I must have absolute evidence?
Yes.
In order to obtain the evidence,
I need Secret Service and your help.
Yes.
I have proof.
What is it?
Can you tell us?
President Lee Dong Hwi Special Press Conference.
You sent me a photo.
Do you want to make a deal?
I'm a businessman.
You made me come this far.
It must be a worthwhile information, right?
What information?
The fact that you were behind Yangjinri?
That information?
It will be hard to prove with your testimony alone.
Who would listen to an illegal North Korean defector?
I'll give you a new identity and $5 million.
The information you brought...
Hand it over.
What you say is correct.
An illegal North Korean defector's testimony won't do it.
Unless there's more proof.
So...
I became the bait.
To put it exactly,
it's not evidence.
It's a witness.
On top of Lee Chul Kyu's testimony,
there has to be additional undeniable evidence.
We need a live witness.
March 9, 09:18, 13 hours and 18 minutes after impeachment initiated.
This document states the true culprit behind
the Yangjinri is Chairman Kim Do Jin.
Do you have clear evidence supporting such an accusation?
The Presidential Secret Service has become the President's fraudulent thugs.
Agent Han Tae Kyung became a murderer.
Please stop the investigation.
Do you still trust the President?
Chairman Kim Do Jin is scheming again.
The second Yangjinri.
People will die no matter what.
Remember, they'll die because of all of you.