Cain and Abel
Episode 16
Father,
I can't forgive Hyung.
Though the patient died, the tumor was removed successfully,
so the surgery was a success? Is this the Neurology Center's thinking?
Dr. Lee Cho In, can you be responsible for what you've just said?
Bosung University Hospital's President Lee Jong Min's surgery,
was performed by you, wasn't it?
Then, what should we do?
Case conference.
Case conference,
I'll do it for you.
Episode 16
My heart
Hi, Seo Yeon.
Yeah.
Today?
Alright.
Yeah, I'll go.
Yeah.
Yes, Doctor.
Young Ji, I'm going to be late again.
Do you have a lot of patients? I don't have anything to do.
Take your time and see your patients.
No, I have dinner plans.
Ah,
is that so?
Then, have a good dinner and come.
I'll be back quickly.
If you go anywhere, call me, okay?
Yes. Have a safe trip.
You bloomed so beautifully.
I'm sorry.
You came?
Yeah.
Kim Seo Yeon,
you're really pretty today.
Is it a special day I don't know about?
Well,
since you've been back, we have yet to have dinner together.
How you've been living,
since you've gained some of your memory...
I wanted to hear about it,
which is why I asked to see you.
I see.
Thank you.
Say thank you to Sun Woo.
There he comes.
Young Ji came too.
Young Ji.
Doctor.
Seems like everyone is surprised.
Young Ji, have a seat.
Hyung,
I heard you prepared this party for my return.
I'm tearing up.
Oh Young Ji got a job at the hospital,
it's for that too,
so don't be too happy about it.
Today's quite a day for many congratulations.
Yeah, it will be.
There will more congratulatory news.
Young Ji, since you're always so bright,
you don't seem like a North Korean refugee but a Seoul person.
Is that so?
When Cho In disappeared,
I went to a North Korean defector prison camp in China.
The people there looked so poor and pitiful.
To look for me,
you went all the way to a North Korean defector camp?
Yeah, together with Sun Woo.
Is that so?
Then,
you must have been all around the camp.
No,
because my heart hurt, I had fainted.
Later, Sun Woo looked by himself.
Although we couldn't find you.
Hyung and Seo Yeon...
I didn't know you went to a prison camp.
There, the brother I was looking for wasn't there.
There was...
a patient with amnesia though.
It's been a while and with having invited Young Ji,
aren't you two going too far?
Can't we eat happily?
I don't mind,
but didn't you say that there was something else to congratulate?
I was going to set the mood and say it.
Seo Yeon and I,
we're getting married.
Oppa.
No, Kim Seo Yeon,
I object to this marriage.
No, Kim Seo Yeon.
Cho In.
Who are you,
to object to our marriage?
Don't be mistaken, Cho In.
I'm not saying this to gain your permission.
Oppa, why are you doing this?
Cho In, don't be like this.
Kim Seo Yeon, just wait a moment.
Lee Cho In,
despite your feelings for Seo Yeon, your hyung said he's getting married,
so shouldn't you congratulate him?
Lee Sun Woo,
you know that's not why I'm doing this.
I'm not sure
Why do you object. Shall we hear the reason?
Tell me quickly, Lee Cho In.
Since you objected, there must be a reason.
Why?
Perhaps, do you have an unspoken reason?
Tell me.
Openly tell me.
What?
You can't do it?
If you aren't confident, just accept it.
Don't boldly object.
Sincerely congratulate us.
That's
what you should do.
No,
don't be ridiculous.
Lee Sun Woo,
your evildoing,
I'm going to make you confess to it.
And Kim Seo Yeon, listen carefully.
I don't care about other people,
but this person is definitely not okay.
Young Ji, let's go.
Cho In.
Oppa,
we didn't have to do all this in front of Cho In.
And I
doing it this way, I told you I don't like it.
Seo Yeon,
you don't have to tell him immediately.
But to Cho In,
I wanted to make our relationship clear.
Lee Cho In,
you wouldn't want Seo Yeon to know too, right?
The fact that I tried to kill you,
Seo Yeon can never know.
Seo Yeon,
just leave her alone.
I'm sorry, Young Ji.
I don't mind.
I went without realizing the situation.
I'm sorry.
No, Young Ji,
because you were next to me, I was steady.
Because of me, you couldn't eat dinner.
I'm really sorry.
Please stop saying sorry.
I don't like it when you're sorry.
Young Ji, next time,
I'll buy you a better dinner than today.
Man, why is it that I'm craving for the potato dumpling soup?
Should I have cooked the soup?
The last time I cooked that was…
Doctor,
perhaps?
I should go faster. I'm hungry.
Neurology Center Case Conference
Lee Jong Min, 65 years old.
In 2007, he was diagnosed with chordoma.
Chordoma - bone tumor that develops
from the cellular remnants of the nervous system.
On November 14, 2008,
he received surgery from you Director Lee Sun Woo.
Correct?
Yes.
That's correct.
While you were able to remove the chordoma,
he went into a vegetative state.
Why aren't you stating the fact
that he was able to regain his consciousness
after the surgery?
These are Lee Jung Min's surgery pictures.
As you can see, the size of the tumor was 5.2 cm before the surgery.
Tumor - Size
But after the surgery, it was recorded as 5.8 cm.
Even though it was barely 2 weeks after the surgery,
can you explain why the tumor grew 0.6 cm in size?
Dr. Lee Cho In,
for an experienced neurosurgeon like you,
isn't that a silly question?
What's shown on the CT
is something that even the first year residents in our center can answer.
The only way to accurately measure the size of a tumor
is to directly open the skull and look at it
and the only person who can do that is the surgeon.
And the standard for a chordoma surgery is to perform a complete excision of the tumor.
Is your question answered now?
So you mean,
the tumor that was 5.2cm on the CT,
when you actually opened up, was 5.8cm, right?
Of course.
So, if you're positive that the removed tissue of 5.8cm is only tumor,
then there should be no side effects,
but why is the patient a vegetable?
Dr. Lee Cho In,
have you recently checked the patient's state?
Of course.
Is that so?
After moving to the Emergency Center from the Neurology Center,
it seems like your skills have gone down exponentially.
Then,
should we look at the patient's state together?
Lee Sun Woo.
If you have any conscience,
you wouldn't have touched Father.
The one who started it is you.
Patient Lee Jung Min was in a semi-coma state before the operation,
Semi-coma: Vegetative state.
A state where there is no voluntary movement, only reflex to pain.
so, he was unable to breathe on his own.
But after the surgery, as you can see,
he has gained his consciousness obviously and some of his senses.
In order to show us that,
you've brought the patient into this uncomfortable situation?
Dr. Lee Cho In,
will you wait just a moment?
Father,
can you hear me?
If you can hear me,
move your finger once,
if you can't hear, move your finger twice.
Father,
can you hear me?
Father,
am I Lee Cho In?
Director Lee Sun Woo's surgery was a success.
No, it was a great success.
Has the President really waken up?
Is this supposed to be happy or sad?
I really don't know.
Lee Cho In,
did you know what the patient's ability to obey a command means?
obey commands - Command training.
Testing a patient's mobility with a command.
It means that the patient is steadily recovering motor function?
Will you still say that there's a problem with my surgery?
Can I check it out myself?
Yes.
Father,
for making you come all the way here,
I'm sorry.
I didn't know this was going to happen.
Father, what should I do?
Should I acknowledge Sun Woo
and back down?
Father,
if you have really regained consciousness,
please tell me what to do, Father.
There seems to be something wrong with the president.
Director,
I think it was simply muscle spasms.
The patient was able to move his hand not because he was recovering motor functions
but because of muscle spasms.
Father, without trembling,
try moving your hand once.
Tragically,
it seems like the patient hasn't recovered motor functions.
No,
even if he had recovered, it would be a miracle,
not because of your surgery, you know that right?
Please take a look at this.
This is the director's histopathology report from the clinical pathology department
regarding the tumor that was removed.
As you can see,
the report states the that tumor was surrounded by about 0.5cm of normal tissue.
Normal Tissue - Normal tissue formation
To put it simply,
in what Director Lee Sun Woo claimed was all tumor tissue,
there was about 0.5cm of normal tissue.
What's more interesting
is that this report was not uploaded into the EMR.
EMR - ( Electronic Medical Record) - Electronic Chart.
By any chance, was it to hide
the fact that you deliberately removed an extra 0.6cm of normal brain tissue?
If that's true, isn't this a crime?
Director Lee Sun Woo went too far this time.
How much of the tumor gets removed
is up to the surgeon and is a matter of judgment.
Don't you know that?
Then, the reason why patient Choi Yoo Ra lost her sense of taste is the same?
Is that what you're saying?
Prolonging the patient's life is the policy of my surgery
and the policy of our Neurology Center.
Patient Choi Yoo Ra,
upon returning to Korea,
is the one you performed surgery on, right?
So?
This is patient Choi Yoo Ra's first diagnosis report.
Six months ago,
at Cheongju Bosung Hospital, she was diagnosed with brain tumor.
On top of that,
a week before she received the surgery from the director,
after undergoing CT and MRI scanning again,
at the suggestion of someone in high power at Bosung Hospital,
she was put on the same flight as Dr. Lee Sun Woo.
For someone who could experience an emergency situation at any time,
a brain tumor patient on a plane,
putting the patient's life at risk
and making it an issue and a publicity stunt for the Neurology Center.
Are you telling me this is your policy, and the way of the Neurology Center?
From the start, the neurology center plays dirty and underhanded,
so do you feel compel to continue?
Vice President, I believe we've been fooled.
We prepared only to defend the surgery of the President,
but what's this about patient Choi Yoo Ra?
We have been completely used by Cho In. Completely.
I'm sorry.
My thoughts have been short sighted.
I've ended up tying you down.
Have you filed suit to nullify the grant contract?
Yes, it's been filed already.
Then it's fine.
First, get all the doctors on our side in line.
Tomorrow at the board meeting,
Cho In will probably push for the grant contract.
After that, we'll start cleaning up the mess.
Do you have a plan in mind?
Now either Cho In goes or I go.
It'll be one of these.
Is your strategy meeting over?
Lee Cho In,
you're wrong if you think you've won.
If you think it's over with this, you're wrong.
Arrogant bastard.
Arrogant.
Yes.
Director.
Is it time for the afternoon clinic already?
I'm sorry, but everything has been cancelled today.
I understand.
These are, from John Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota,
where we were getting visiting scholars, emails from Jonathon Kim and Yeil Kwon.
What are they about?
They are going to reconsider coming as visiting scholars.
What?
Looking at the content of the emails,
they cannot see eye to eye
with the management style of the Director of the Neurology Center.
What does that mean?
I'm not sure.
It seems like the information about the case conference
is all exposed.
If you think it's over with this, you're wrong.
Alright. That's all
Dr. Kang Seok Hun,
do you think my method was wrong also?
I agree with your surgery methods,
but I can't agree with this start to the Neurology Center.
Wow, Cho In really did this perfectly.
I feel refreshed.
Yeah, it was refreshing.
Right?
But when the President moved his finger,
I was shocked*. (*literal meaning - I thought my liver dropped.)
Yeah, I was really surprised.
But has the President really regained his motor functions or not?
Well, that only the President knows.
Okay.
But how did Cho In
find out that the hospital orchestrated the incident with Choi Yoo Ra?
I don't know, since Cho In found that out on his own.
That means that in this hospital, someone, other than us is helping Cho In, right?
Perhaps, there could be someone like that.
Yes, it's possible, right?
Oh Young Ji,
you've just entered through backing, but it looks like you'll be fired soon.
It's unfortunate.
What do you mean? I'm going to be fired.
You haven't heard the rumors?
Your supporter, Director Lee Sun Woo
and the second son, Lee Cho In had a dispute.
What?
They had a fight?
You didn't know?
I thought you were in because of his support, but I guess not.
Young Ji, food time, okay?
Dr. Lee Cho In.
Yeon Young Mi, I can take Young Ji, right?
Oh of course.
Young Ji, go ahead.
Though it's lunchtime, I'll watch the center.
Thanks.
Oh Young Ji, exactly whose support do you have?
Um, Doctor,
is something going on at the hospital nowadays?
If there's no work at the hospital, what are we supposed to do?
All the doctors should starve to death?
Well, it's not that.
Before,
I heard at the health improvement center that
Dr. Lee Cho In and Dr. Lee Sun Woo...
Young Ji...
Yes?
Can you hear me?
I can't hear you well.
No matter what you hear in the hospital,
cover your ears just like this.
And later, I'll tell you everything, okay?
Yes.
Did you drink with your lips to it?
No.
Why are you looking at me like?
I don't know.
Why am I?
I can't remember your face,
so I'm looking at it again.
People say that it's the people you love that you want to look at all the time.
Maybe it's Young Ji that I love.
Don't joke around.
I get it.
I'm leaving
Young Ji, I got a call, so I'll go first.
Okay.
People say that it's the people you love that you want to look at all the time.
Maybe it's Young Ji that I love.
I can't remember your face,
so I'm looking at it again.
Doctor,
did you just say that without thinking?
Or have you regained all your memory?
Doctor.
Young Ji, you aren't sleeping yet?
I have something to tell you.
Doctor, is it possible that...
Young Ji,
I'm really tired and have something important tomorrow,
so can you let me sleep?
Yes.
Good night.
Father, if what you did today was to take Cho In's side,
you made a mistake, Father.
Father, Cho In, the son you love so much,
you'll end up pushing him off the edge of a cliff.
From this moment, I open the 7th interim board of directors meeting.
This is the grant contract I received from President Lee Jung Min
regarding Lot 2000 on Mount Kodang.
There seems to be talk about building a Neurology Center there,
but that land is mine.
So, I'm going to do what I want to do.
Dr. Lee Cho In,
haven't you ever thought that land might not be only yours?
These documents are a nullification of the contract
and a claim for cancellation of the transfer of property.
Petition Plaintiff Na Hye Joo
Vice President,
I'm sorry, but those documents
are only effective if I had died in China or something, right?
The recipient of the grant, I am alive and well.
What do those papers have to do with anything?
Isn't that so, Chief Counsel?
Yes,
that's correct.
Well then,
since the Chief Counsel has confirmed my grant
I'm going to go ahead and excuse myself.
Dr. Lee Cho In,
it would be a good idea to tell us what you plan on to do with the land.
Obviously, it'll be the Emergency Center.
It will definitely be the Emergency Center.
No matter what.
Ok then, the meeting is over.
I'm going.
Sun Woo.
Are you okay?
My baby, are you okay?
Sun Woo.
I'm okay...
Sun Woo.
Lee Cho In, you jerk.
You're not getting away with this!
Father,
I know.
I know how you feel.
But I have to make your dreams come true.
You said that was destiny.
That's why at the case conference, you helped me, right?
Right?
Father,
the Emergency Center,
I'll definitely build it.
Your dream,
I'll make it come true.
You trust me, right?
So then, the Neurology Center can't continue?
If it's certain that Dr. Lee Cho In owns the land,
that's what's going to happen, right?
Dr. Lee Cho In and Director Lee Sun Woo's relationship will get really bad.
That's what I'm saying. They had a good relationship before.
This is all because of what happened in China, don't you think?
Um, Director, what does that mean?
The reason Dr. Lee Cho In and Dr. Lee Sun Woo are fighting is because of the land?
Originally, the President and Dr. Lee Cho In were going to do the Emergency Center,
but when the President went into coma and Dr. Lee Cho In went to China,
Dr. Lee Sun Woo opened the Neurology Center.
And then Dr. Lee Cho In returned.
How could the fighting not happen?
Doctor,
because I helped with your kidnapping,
I really didn't know that things were going to become like this.
Now,
I'll accept everything even if I become the bad person and get punished.
Young Ji, I'm going into surgery now.
I'll be done around 12, so meet me at the cafeteria.
Let's have a late-night snack.
Sun Woo,
are you alright?
Are you alright?
Mother.
You're awake?
Drink this. It's medicine.
For someone who's sick, why did you drink so much?
You don't remember anything, right?
What did I say?
"I love you"
And?
"I love you" again.
I made dinner. Do you think you can eat it?
Yeah, let's eat.
Wash up. I'll set the table.
I'm not going to let it get taken away from me.
I'm never going to lose the Neurology Center and Seo Yeon
I'm not going to get it taken away from me.
I'm never going to let it get taken away, bastard.
Dr. Lee Cho In?
Dr. Lee Cho In.
Why are you so late?
I thought I was going to die from hunger.
Hurry and come.
Yes.
Sit and eat.
Yes.
Today's snack is prepared.
Young Ji, you were hungry too, right?
I'm not.
Really?
Then I'll eat everything.
Doctor,
I have something to say to you.
What is it?
It's about your kidnapping in China.
Didn't I mention someone named President Choi?
But you know,
to tell you the truth,
I received money from the man to follow you.
Eat.
Doctor,
the reason you and Dr. Lee Sun Woo are fighting may be all my fault.
Young Ji,
my kidnapping in China is not why I'm fighting with my hyung.
What?
So don't worry and eat.
This...
Young Ji,
this potato dumpling soup, you know,
has an addictive power, just like you, you know?
Doctor,
could you have regained all your memory?
Doctor,
then,
China
and my oppa, Gang Chul,
and Cheongju
you remember it all?
Yes.
I remember everything.
Even though you remember everything,
you pretended not to know who helped with your kidnapping?
Doctor, I'm sorry.
Because of my greed, this happened.
I'm sorry.
Young Ji,
I said I'm not fighting with Sun Woo because of you.
Actually, there was something I was curious about.
Young Ji, you came to Seoul to find me
and we met again.
Whether I liked you as Oh Gang Ho,
or if I liked you as Lee Cho In who met the guide in China
I was curious about that.
Now, that doesn't matter.
The Oh Young Ji I met has always been the same person.
Always thankful.
Always loveable.
Doctor, you know me well.
I'm not that good of a person.
Really?
Then, I should not like you.
No, I don't like that.
What I mean is
Hurry and eat.
Bosung University Hospital's Neurology Center Faces Difficulty
That person... why is he wearing a hat?
He's someone who's very close to me.
He received brain surgery and can only move one finger.
Look closely.
Patient Lee Jung Min,
if there's something you'd like to write, move your finger above the letter.
You saw, right?
Yes.
This patient has a lot of money and is the best.
He's probably strong.
Then, I'll leave you.
Have a good day.
Doctor, hello.
I'm Oh Young Ji.
From now on, I'll be helping you, so relax and write what you want.
Doctor,
if you see a letter you want to write,
blink once and I'll stop there.
Would you like to give it a try?
You're doing well.
This patient is going to have surgery, right?
Well about that, Doctor.
His guardian asked to cancel the operation.
- Are you the guardian? - Yes.
Do you understand the state the patient is in?
If he doesn't get surgery soon...
Even if it means more time, I want the surgery at another hospital.
I don't want my father to turn into a vegetable after having surgery here.
I'm going to move him.
So please release him.
Guardian, how can you say that?
Release them.
I'm not going to let it get taken away from me.
I'm never going to lose the Neurology Center and Seo Yeon
I'm not going to let anything be taken away, bastard.
Doctor.
Dr. Lee Cho In.
Young Ji, what is it?
Come quickly.
I said come quickly.
Why?
Let's go.
What's wrong? Did something happen?
Dr. Lee Cho In, is he your father?
How did you know?
This is the first thing he wrote.
Lee Cho In, my son.
Father.
Young Ji,
looks like I have to treat you tonight.
Yes, you have to buy something big.
What would you like to do?
I want to see Seoul's nightlife.
Nightlife?
Then, later at 6, meet me in the lobby, okay?
Okay.
Cho In,
Sun Woo is sick.
The reason he didn't come 7 years ago was because of it.
But
the tumor from that time reappeared just a few months ago.
They say he may not have much time left.
Cho In,
you might not be able to see him forever,
so
don't hate him.
You cure him.
You're also a neurosurgery specialist.
You're a doctor who performs surgery well.
China desert Kidnapping order Director Oh and Who???
Temporary Board of directors Neurology Center: Emergency Medical Center
5:5 (Rejection) Lee Cho In
Zhujiajiao Last phone conversation with Sun Woo Hyung
(Father's chordoma surgery)
Concentration camp
Who? Sun Woo Hyung? Seo Yeon? Korean telephone number
Instructions for murder
(Leaflet) North Korean refugee concentration camp
Gas chamber Oh Kang Chul. Lee Sun Woo
And Kim Seo Yeon, listen carefully. I don't care about other people,
but this person is definitely not okay.
Lee Sun Woo,
your evildoing,
I'm going to make you confess to it.
Instructions for murder Lee Sun Woo
Have you checked the patient?
Okay. I'm going now,
so explain well to the guardian.
Seo Yeon.
Kim Seo Yeon?
Seo Yeon.
Kim Seo Yeon.
Oppa.
It's not true.
It's not true, right?
Kim Seo Yeon!
Lee Cho In...
Lee Sun Woo...
You,
what did you tell her?
What did you tell her?!
To a person like you,
you're not worried about what Seo Yeon is feeling right now, right?
You want to know what Seo Yeon found out?
If you're curious, ask her yourself.
You aren't confident, right?
Then, just accept it.
Whenever the wind blows,
the deep emptiness in my chest fills up just with that.
No matter how I try to forget and swallow it up...
I can't erase it...