Although Kang Cheol, whose entire family was mysteriously murdered,
was framed as the suspect for murdering his family, he was ultimately found innocent.
Ten years later, he had become super rich and his
personal assets reached â‚© 800 billion ($800M USD).
He formed 'W' broadcasting station to find the true murderer of his family.
But, he mysteriously was attacked.
His life was saved by a woman who suddenly appeared.
Oh Yeon Joo, where are you?
She merely left her business card with Oh Yeon Joo printed on it and disappeared.
Move! Move out of the way!
Whenever Kang Cheol's life was in danger, Oh Yeon Joo appeared to save him.
Are you okay?
The world that you live in is...
You're inside a cartoon.
You are that cartoon's main character.
Kang Cheol realizes he is the main character of a cartoon.
In that moment,
Kang Cheol's world stops.
Huh? What's wrong with this? Why is it doing this?
Kang Cheol comes out into reality.
- W -
Watch out! Be careful!
Are you trying to get yourself killed or something?
Aren't you going to do it right?!
Jerk! If you want to die, you can die on your own!
- W -
What do you think you are doing?!
Episode 5
Sold 10 million copies! The last episode - July - W -
Is it me?
KANG CHEOL - MAIN CHARACTER: Born in 1987 in Seoul
YOON SO HUI - FEMALE LEAD: Kang Cheol's High School Friend
Seo Do Yoon - Kang Cheol's Bodyguard/Right Hand Man
Son Hyeon Seok - Producer of the Crime Investigation
Program and Kang Cheol's father's friend
There's a 75 second limit, but it seems like he's very nervous.
He has to empty his mind.
- He has to shoot! - Three, two, one...
10.9! It's 10.9! Athlete Kang Cheol has achieved 10.9!
I'm home.
Mom... Mom!
Dad!
Now, we have all the evidence. Until when are you going to keep your mouth shut?
It's always the ones who succeed at an early age who are the problem, right?
Why? Did you learn how to shoot so you could kill your family?
What are you looking at, you psychopath!
You crazy bastard!
How can that be the conclusion?!
Han Cheol Ho, former prosecutor, joined the Changmin Party
today and declared his intention to enter politics.
Rebuilding the social justice that has crumbled away
is the desire of our citizens.
I will look only at you, our citizens,
and keep that promise.
What?
- What are you talking about? - Take a look.
They said the Co-CEO was that kid, Kang Cheol.
I wondered if he drank alcohol and died in an alley or something.
Apparently he still collaborated with his colleagues after he withdrew from his school.
In order to avoid the media, he kept his name hidden.
His real name was confirmed yesterday.
This must be the end of the world.
A murderer who should rot in prison for life
became a company's CEO?
Do Yoon!
Why are you trying to learn from me?
Well... You said you were the best. I like to be first.
But why? You have a lot of money. You could just have a lot of guards.
There are moments that can't be solved with money.
Also, I feel like I'm going to get a lot of enemies soon.
Shall we go?
Do I need to wear this?
One, two!
That's right. Again!
Dodge, dodge!
Come! That's right! That's right!
You can do it.
Last night, a wanted criminal, the big boss of White Sand gang,
Park Eun Hyeok, was arrested by the police force.
Mr. Park who escaped the hands of the police
was found to have yet again been caught by J&Global's CEO Kang Cheol.
Take a look at the videos that citizens filmed themselves.
This kid is putting on a show! All of it is a show!
Whether it is a show or not, public sentiment is no joke right now.
Kang Cheol is resolving all of the cases that even the police took their hands off of.
On top of that, even the cost of the victims' lawsuits
he's financing it entirely.
Assemblyman, this jerk is buying public sentiment with money.
Kang Cheol is the culprit without a doubt, which is why I prosecuted him!
Assemblyman Han, this is not something you should
get angry over. You need to keep your cool.
As Kang Cheol's popularity increases, your support is going down.
It's in precisely an inverse proportion!
During the past two years, due to your incompetent investigation,
more than 80% of people are saying that you wrongfully man-hunted Kang Cheol.
This is not the time to get angry. It's time to make a plan.
You're our Party's face.
But,
if Kang Cheol finds the real murderer,
what will become of us?
How would he ever find the real culprit
when Kang Cheol is the real culprit?
Excuse me, Customer. Are you okay?
Our business is done for today.
We have to close.
Does this book
- sell well? - Pardon me?
Is it popular?
Yes, of course. It's been a bestseller for over five years.
I see.
That's interesting.
We'll put it in a bag for you! Just wait a moment.
I don't need it. It's a story I'm familiar with.
I think I'm going to falter if I hear that one more time.
Hello? How did it go?
I tried calling someone to fix it, but there's nothing wrong with it.
There's no cause for it. There is no problem with the server, either.
- Noona, nothing's going on, right? - I'm at the hospital.
I just came out of the workroom. It's so scary
staying there alone, like the house is possessed.
I'm going to go back in after Teacher gets back.
Okay, do that.
- Dr. Oh, room #3 is ready for you. - Okay.
Hey Oh Yeon Joo, you!
Did you perhaps get engaged?
Engaged? What are you saying out of the blue?
Well, someone came looking for you, saying that he is your fiancÃ©.
FiancÃ©? Who?
I don't know. He didn't say his name, just said
that you'd know if I tell you he is your fiancÃ©.
What? I guess they confused me with someone else.
It's not, right?
Whom would I get engaged? There needs to be someone in order for me to get engaged.
Yeah, right. Right. There needs to be someone.
What's with that guy? Was he drunk? Do well, anyway.
I think you were mistaken. You came for the wrong person.
Seok Beom.
- Do you really know each other? - Yes.
Are you doing well?
I was curious about the aftermath of the jail break. You look good.
How... Did I get dragged in again?
No I didn't, it can't be. This is our hospital.
Seok Beom is here too!
I came.
I came hereâ€”to your world.
How? H-How?
The world that I lived in stopped.
What did you say?
It all stopped. Except for me.
So I came out, leaving everything.
I don't know why I'm the only one living,
but according to you, I'm the main character.
Maybe it's the main character's special privilege.
I'm here after reading all 33 parts of the W series, with all the cash that I had on me,
and I understand now
how Oh Yeon Joo knew so well how I lived.
You were probably a die-hard fan while watching over me for seven years.
Do you know
how much I am regretting now?
I should've listened to your warning back there, Oh Yeon Joo.
- Answer me. - I can't.
I told you. You'll become unhappy.
The truth
was something unimaginable.
I should have listened to you then.
Your silence back there, Oh Yeon Joo.
I now understand how much consideration you had for me in doing so.
That's why I came. Because I wanted to say my last farewell to you.
Thank you so much for doing your your best to
show as much consideration for me as possible.
You are a really good person,
and you have a right to become a good doctor.
- Doctor Oh, Professor Park is here now. - Okay, I'll be right there.
I guess it's busy. Go back in.
Are you going somewhere?
Where are you going? Just wait here.
It's not a big surgery, so it will be over quickly. Alright?
Don't do anything, and just stay here. Wait for me, and think of me as your guardian.
Are you imitating me right now?
No, you don't have anything right now. You don't have money, or a house, or an ID.
I know how hopeless you feel right now.
But in this world, I'm a real doctor,
and even though it can't be compared to you, I have money and a house.
So, just trust me and wait until I come back out.
Stay right here. And don't go anywhere.
Okay?
Listen to me, please.
It won't take long. It'll be over in about 40 minutes.
Why are you like this?
If I were to tell you how I feel after reading all the comic books,
my misery multiplied about 99 times,
but there's one good thing about that.
It felt as if I was always the only one at a disadvantage, but
I also saw your feelings too.
So, it's best not to say things you don't mean, while trying to be coy.
Wait here.
Meanwhile, if something happens, look for Kang
Seok Beom of the Thoracic Surgery Department.
He will help you if you say you are my friend. Okay?
That friend from earlier?
He acted a bit tough when I told him I was your fiancÃ©.
He's not your boyfriend, is he?
I told you I didn't have a boyfriend.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
The name Oh Yeon Joo is the problem.
Whenever Oh Yeon Joo butts in everything turns out wrong.
Look at W.
Because of that shitty character, Oh Yeon Joo, the plot is going downhill.
It's not just a normal hill, but it's climbing up something as big as the Himalayas,
while the other Oh Yeon Joo is about to burn the
Great Myeong Sei University Hospital into ashes...
You're dead. See me after we're done.
Pardon...?
Yes.
Oh Seong Moo (IN KOREA, THE HOUSES HAVE THE NAMES OF THE OWNERS IN FRONT OF THEM.)
Minimalism, simplicity, modern
Seo Do Yoon
Yoon So Hui
Kang Cheol
Excuse me! Excuse me, get ahold of yourself! Can you hear me?
Excuse me!
Get out of the way.
Are you okay?
I wish that you have a happy ending.
I'm your fan, honestly.
- W -
Surgery in progress
- Good job. - Good job.
- Where are you going? - Pardon?
Didn't you hear me say that you're dead after surgery ends?
Ah... I didn't forget...
But where are you going? Come here.
Right now? Professor, there's someone outside who's waiting for me...
Oh Yeon Joo, change your position. One. Two.
Hey, you naturally had no manners before, but
I thought about when you officially started acting up more, and
it was after I said I was a fan of W.
Since then you kept pushing my buttons acting out a death wish.
You! How dare you rely on the support of your father to rampage around as you wish?
It's nothing like that...
Then what is it? Huh?
Also, because I'm already talking about it,
Pointlessly because of it, the stress is not a joke.
Why is your dad being like this, really?
I mean, why did your dad suddenly put in a ridiculous
romance in the middle of searching for the culprit?
What is this! He even forgot what kind of genre his work belongs to!
Can't that happen?
What did you say?
How can a person just be working? I think that's more unrealistic.
A hero can also fall in love!
No matter how important revenge is, there can be times where love goes beyond that.
Kang Cheol is also human!
Are you acting up right now because I just called out your father?
No.
Also, what kind of love is that? That's only "some" (A romantic
('SOMETHING' OR FLIRTATION IS GOING ON. SO ABBREVIATED AS "SOME").
In you guys' term, "some" is the what's going on between Kang
Cheol and the cesspool girl that has the same name as you.
It could be love, too! Why are you defining that it's not love?
Look at you.
How does that look as just "some" to you? I don't see it that way.
Hey... What's been done?
Kang Cheol, hasn't said anything.
Has he said he loved her before?
Well, must he actually say it aloud?
Then what do you know?
What do you know?
Even though I know... I won't tell you.
Oh! Spoiler! She must have heard something.
Is that it?
Huh? It can't be! Our Kang Cheol and that cesspool woman aren't getting together, right?
No way! That's going crazy! This can never happen!
Why? Why is that going crazy? This could happen.
Hey! Does that make sense? It'd be normal to marry Yoon So Hui!
Why not? Why does he have to get married to Yoon So Hui?
Hey, they've been together since high school. It makes
sense for the story to end with them getting married.
No! Doe's not!
Does it say somewhere that you have to get
married with someone that's always next to you?
Why do you think Kang Cheol likes Yoon So Hui?
Ah... That's right. It's certain that Yoon So Hui
has a one-sided love, since it came out many times.
But! There had never been a scene that shows
Kang Cheol thinks of Yoon So Hui as more than a friend. I remember everything.
Must you know that with words, with words?
Even without it being said it's naturally supposed
to work out that way, idiot. Can you just see that?
"So Hui, I haven't realized it before, but the person I truly love is you."
Then he should confess, kiss her and end it there! That's the formula!
There's no formula with love!
Why do you interpret Kang Cheol your own way, when you don't even know him that well?
Kang Cheol likes me! I'm sure of it!
Doctor Oh.
You said that, Kang Cheol likes you?
No, no... You know my character in W has the same name as me...
You're the exact same level as my daughter.
My daughter is in middle school, but her symptoms are identical to yours:
Eighth grade illness (TEENAGE SELF-CENTEREDNESS), and even fangirl illness.
Should I introduce you to her? You guys want to have a fangirl meeting or something?
No, I'm fine.
Why? I think you guys will have a fire like friendship.
Professor, I'm sorry, but I have a really urgent situation.
Can you scold me more again later?
When did I scold you? You kept sharply retorting back to me by yourself.
I'm sorry.
Hey, hey, Oh Yeon Joo... where are you going?! Oh Yeon Joo!
Where did he go? I told him to stay here.
Your silence from that time, Oh Yeon Joo, indicated
to me how much consideration you had for me.
That's why I came, because I wanted to say my last farewell.
Dad
The call cannot be connected as dialed. It will be transferred to voicemail...
Dad, where are you?
Teacher, where are you?
I think Noona Yeon Joo has been sucked into the comic again.
This is Team Manager Park. I am requesting a confirmation
if what you sent this morning was the edited version
because the content was a bit weird.
Since I couldn't contact you I uploaded it.
Teacher, have you seen W?
Fortunately Noona is fine, but the story line can't be fixed.
Please, please contact me.
Yeon Joo (1)
Dad, where are you?
Yeon Joo
Writer Oh Seong Moo?
Hello? Dad?
Dad, where are you?
Hello?
As expected it was you.
I thought it would be you.
We've already met a few times. You remember, right?
Come out over here because we have a lot to talk about.
How...
How did I come into this world, you ask?
You should explain that to me since they say you created me.
I said, come over here.
Have a seat.
Dad. Dad!
Get up.
You should thank your daughter.
I'm treating you nicely for Oh Yeon Joo's sake.
Because while you were so crazy about trying to kill me,
your daughter put in all her effort to save me.
Hello?
Soo Bong, where are you right now?
I'm at the neighborhood game room. I'm trying to kill some time.
Hurry and go to the workshop. I think something's going to happen.
What will?
Kang Cheol. Kang Cheol, went to Dad.
What? Wha... What does that mean?
Kang Cheol is here right now. I said he's with Dad right now.
I mean... What does that... Kang Cheol is here?!
I said run to the workshop this instant! Tell Kang Cheol to wait and that I'll be there.
I have something to say, so please tell him to not do anything and just wait. Got it?
Hello, Noona. It's that... Noona?
Kang Cheol, Kang Cheol is here? Why did he come here?
Ahjusshi! Here's the payment for cubicle number 31!
You're bleeding.
I guess you're not invincible here.
You're just a normal human being that hurts and bleeds, too.
This is normal. This way it's fair.
I was always the only one who bled, died, and was wronged.
The first person I grabbed unconsciously, wasn't Oh Yeon Joo.
It was you.
Help me please.
Please call 119.
Let's stop.
Let's stop this now!
No!
The person who gave me the critical injury wasn't that bastard, but it was you.
And then your daughter appeared, and saved me.
No one knew that there were two culprits who stabbed me.
I kept my mouth shut because there was no evidence, but I knew intuitively
that the man who wanted to kill me for no logical reason was you,
although I had no idea what kind of existence you were back then.
I guess you created me here
while moving around those measly fingers of yours.
You probably deliberated on how to kill me here,
since after finally earning your taste of money,
honor, and success, you didn't need me anymore.
You created me, abused me, and made my life a living rollercoaster.
In return you succeeded and received recognition.
Now, you want to kill me by stabbing with a knife,
injecting poison, and hitting me with a truck.
And because drawing them wasn't enough, you held a
knife in your own hands and stabbed me yourself,
cold-heartedly and mercilessly, even when I pleaded for you to save me.
While I was here, I found out more about you. How famous you are,
that just by typing in your name the Internet was flooded with information about you.
Stop drinking already!
I don't want to drink either. Do you think I drink
it because I like it? It's because I'm miserable!
- You're drinking because you're miserable? - Yeah.
Then I should drink as a pair! Alongside you!
Then drink some, drink some.
This is so vexing!
I'm really, really, sick and tired of this too!
Just stop it! Please!
Oh Seong Moo was an incompetent head of the family.
He was a no-name cartoonist until after the age of 50.
A human being with no self-determination, who cannot live without alcohol.
You were drenched with inferiority, a losing mentality seeped into your bones.
On top of that you are now old.
So you created me, someone who was young, successful, wealthy, and famous.
A person with determination like no other.
Someone who was the complete opposite of you. A strong person.
You even named me Kang Cheol (TEMPERED STEEL). That's what it said in the news article.
You found vicarious happiness through meâ€”an escape from reality.
But that didn't last long either. Your wife couldn't take it anymore and left.
You quickly hit a wall and were devastated. You
were that kind of a guy from the beginning.
A lump of inferiority with low-self confidence who
quickly falls even with something very minor.
So you killed me off.
Different from your original plan, you didn't even have
the courage to kill yourself, yet you did it to me,
because I was the only thing you had control over in the entire world.
From that moment on, something was very strange.
I kept dreaming the same nightmare:
Drowning to death in the Han River.
I wondered why that was,
but it was that I really died at that time,
before you capriciously saved me, once again!
I didn't save you. You were the one that persisted on.
I killed you there.
But you were the one who endured. Putting on a tantrum to be saved.
So I let you live because my heart went soft.
Because I had affection for you at the time.
That was the problem.
Starting from that moment was when you turned into a monster. Like now.
Yeah, you're right! I gave everything to you!
All of the things that I've ever wanted, I gave them all to you!
But what happened? With the brain I gave you,
you tried to know about this world!
Does that make sense? You're just a measly drawing! Not even a person!
You kept bothering me, and eventually, you even showed yourself here!
Sometimes the pen just moves by itself.
Also, there are times where I wake up in the
morning and there's a whole different drawing.
At first, I thought I was crazy, and even went to see a psychiatrist. (quite
(EXTREME BECAUSE MENTAL ILLNESS IS STILL TABOO IN KOREA)
Hey, do you think I've gone crazy?
No, it's because you're dripping in alcohol, you rascal!
You're not even a kid, either.
Even though I talked to my friends, no one believed me.
I was so scared that I even tried running away.
I couldn't
because of Yeon Joo.
Dad!
I didn't do anything for her while she grew up.
Yeon Joo.
Dad's sorry.
So I told myself to bear with it just a little longer.
Anyway, people liked it, and it made money.
If I earned just a bit more I could open her own practice for her,
and I could assure she spends a lifetime without ever worrying about money.
Do you think you're the only one who had nightmares?
I also had nightmares every single day!
A nightmare that you would come see me like this.
Although it was hell to drag you this far,
I still persisted with the hope and joy that the end wasn't far.
The hope that I wouldn't have to draw you once it ended.
But, you didn't die again and dragged me and even Yeon Joo in.
So, I stabbed you with a knife because I thought
there would be no end to this damned curse.
You are an illusion.
You're nothing! You're just a character I created!
But, why are you here in front of me right now pretending to be human?!
Why did you go so far as to drag my daughter in and create the story to your own liking?
You're just a character! You understand?!
A predetermined configuration that I created!
You're telling me that you'd shoot me with that?
Go ahead and shoot, if you're going to.
Do you think you can pull the trigger?
No. You can never shoot.
Because you're a character who cannot murder from the get-go.
Because I've predetermined you to be a righteous guy.
A guy that lives conscientiously and according to the law.
You even have to carry out revenge in accordance with the proper law.
That is how you have become a hero and people like you.
You are a guy who cannot shoot a completely unarmed, powerless old man
just because you are angry.
That is your predetermined configuration.
Do you believe you're here on your own accord?
Your own free will?
No. That is all predetermination as well.
I made you to be a man of extraordinary self-determination.
The kind of will that would endure and breakthrough every difficulty.
The only problem is that I've predetermined that part too much.
If you cannot understand it yourself, you even reject death itself.
Making you to have such strong resolution is the problem.
However, that resolution in its entirety was made by me.
You have never once swerved from my predetermination.
If you want to shoot me, shoot.
Dad, please don't. Just leave it alone, please.
Can you shoot?
I said, TRY SHOOTING!
Sit and draw the ending that you first planned.
So what you're saying is that you broke your original plan then made me commit suicide,
and as I rejected it, everything became tangled.
Then if you draw up the story as it was first planned, I too, would comprehend it.
Then everything will go back to the way it was.
Isn't that so?
My friends remain there.
Hyung!
In a state that's not living nor dead.
I can't allow them to remain in that pitiful plight.
I'm sure it's because you came out into here.
Find the method, not the cause!
Draw the panels and restore everything back.
I don't know.
- What do you mean you don't know? - There's nothing I can do.
I can't even create an ending as I wish.
What do you want me to do when the story only progresses when you have to comprehend it?
You know the kind of ending I can comprehend.
It's simple. Capture the real culprit,
and make him pay the price, and let me live an ordinary life.
That is all.
Just let me know who the real culprit is. As you
say, my resolution to find the culprit is so strong
that I seem to have come all this way, unable to die.
Draw the real culprit's face. In a way that I can remember.
Draw.
There's none.
- What? - There's no real culprit.
That was just a supposition from the beginning.
A set up to make the protagonist strong...
M-m-mom.
It is a common set up found in hero genre.
A traumatic scar from his youth.
♫ Oh Victory! Korea! Oh! (CRYING NUT - "OH FIGHTING KOREA")
♫ Oh Victory to...
I also do not know who the culprit is.
Are you... seriously feeding that line (BS) to me?
The hero is made when (THE CRIME) isn't solved, you see?
If you catch the culprit, the story ends there.
If one is happy, who'd offer to suffer through all that hardship?
That is why there is not a single clue.
Since there wasn't one to begin with.
You said you don't know?
There's no culprit?
After having killed my entire family,
after framing me, throwing me in jail, even then you say you don't know?
Without a doubt...
they died in front of me, pitifully.
My mom, dad, and younger siblings...
I saw all of their corpses with my own eyes, yet you say there was no shooter?
Ahjussi, hurry please. Hurry!
Is that why... you tried to kill me?
Since you can never give a happy ending.
If this incident hadn't happened, you'd have continued
to draw this to enjoy your success until your dying day.
As for me, without knowing the reason,
I'd try to catch a criminal that I can't, daily
suffering from insomnia, getting hurt, and broken.
Suffering endlessly, yet repeating the same tasks.
Have you
any idea at all what I've been through?
If it were you, you wouldn't have been able to endure even one of those events,
you made me go through countlessly many times.
Acting as god with those measly fingers,
without bearing any responsibility...
When I remember each and every agony...
That is fiction.
That is the author's job.
No.
You are not a mere author.
You tried to kill me even after you saw me alive and breathing.
That is your true nature.
You are merciless and violent.
It only didn't show because you held a pen instead of a knife.
You're by nature a son of a b****
and is no different than someone had already committed murder.
No. No. No, no, no. Please!
T-T-Teacher!
Teacher! Teacher!
Think of a way.
Whatever it takes.
Before I return.
Consider yourself lucky.
It's not good luck.
You couldn't have shoot me anyway.
That is the price you pay for your predetermined character.
♫ We will walk in the same time ♫
♫ the fact that we're connected to each other ♫
♫ whether I go to you ♫
♫ whether you come to me ♫
♫ to be under the same sky ♫
- W -
Why did you make him live then? You should have
just let him die. Because you let him live
didn't things turn out like this, Noona?
To the protagonist who became the murderer while trying to find the culprit,
there must be no more fitting ending then this.
When the cartoon reads "the end", what happens after?
By the way, what would this thing called "the end" really be?
Help save Kang Cheol. Save him!
I think we can revive him!