Oh Lord, it's on WAT. I hate WAT.
Lee Jeong Hye is forcibly removed from the tea house and thank goodness. She's awful. This clears the way for Plaid and Pal to negotiate with Sin Jeong Gu, the manager of the performing troupe. He wants to be paid in advance for his show. My scam radar is going off and I'm afraid naive Plaid is all in. But wait, perhaps he's not so dumb. After they leave the tea house, he orders Pal to go check with the performing troupe association and make sure Sin Jeong Gu is legit.
Slimy (and bruised) Yang Tae Seong wants Jeong Hye to appear in a film in which she'll have to be nude. Jeong Hye says she'll consider it. Stupid. No wonder you look like Korea's version of That Girl.
Proud Mary break! Although the singer doesn't seem to know all the words and simply repeats the first part over again. Still, A for Effort.
Plaid and Pal meet up with Tae Seong in a honky tonk. Plaid wants to know about Jeong Hye. Tae Seong claims she's an orphan and that he thinks of her like a sister. (A sister you want to strip for money.) As he's talking, Tae Seong suddenly becomes greatly nervous. The reason why saunters up to the table. It's Jilsuk from Queen Seondeok and he's wearing a purple leisure suit! He orders his minions to drag Tae Seong outside, excusing himself to Plaid and Pal. After a pleading Tae Seong is taken outside, Plaid wants to go stick his nose in other people's business, despite the begging of Pal to leave well enough alone.
Everybody was kung fu fighting - and losing to Plaid. He takes the minions down. Jilsuk - I mean, No Sang Taek - is impressed. Who knew this show had so much action.
Meanwhile, Senator Jang meets with Cha Soo Hyuk and his totally non-period hairstyle. Soo Hyuk agrees to work for the senator. He's shocked when they're joined by Jo Myeong Guk. He's publicly Old Man Who Is In Absolutely Everything's right hand man, but secretly has started working for the senator as well.
Back in Seoul, Plaid (Oh Lord, Plaid, what are you wearing now?!?) and Pal attend a performance of the troupe they're supposedly going to hire. My scam radar is still pinging away.
Mony Mony break! While whoever did the subtitles got the lyrics right, the singer seems to ad-lib a bit. Then Korean Elvis performs, followed by Korean Diana Ross. This does seem to be a show well worth the money.
After the show, as Plaid is ready to sign the contract, Jeong Hye interrupts and once again tries to audition. Once again she's forcibly removed. Is this going to be her regular schtick? Plaid asks Sin Jeong Gu to allow her to perform with the troupe at his theater.
Senator Jang has Old Man's taxes investigated. Traitor Jo attempts to convince Old Man to change his mind and join forces with Jang. Old Man is not impressed. He drives his luxury jeep over to Jang HQ and barges into the office, having bodily thrown people out of his way to do so. Now we know where Plaid gets his fightin' skills. He lets the senator know in no uncertain terms he will not become bedfellows with Jang. I'm still wondering why Jang is so intent on getting Old Man. I mean, he's only one guy who turned down making campaign contributions. Move on, Jang. Find other contributors.
Plaid returns home triumphantly, explaining to Old Man how they've hired a troupe and big name performers are coming to town. He orders Pal to go make up some posters, something with prominent pictures of the stars he's promising.
Yang Tae Seong tries to hit Jeong Hye up for some money but she doesn't have any at the moment. Next he goes to try and bum some off of Manager Sin. Sin at first tells him to get lost, yet Tae Seong seems to have something on the manager and hints at blackmail. Sin changes his tune and asks how much.
In between plastering the town with posters, Soo Hyuk talks Plaid into meeting with Jang and trying to patch things up between his father and the senator. During the meeting, Jang asks for 5000 vouchers to the mid Autumn festival show so he can get campaign contributions. Plaid points out that handing over that many vouchers would prevent him from making a profit off the show. Jang explains that Plaid is still young, he has plenty of time to make a profit, while the window of opportunity for making a friend of a senator is short. Son, like Old Man, is not impressed. In a snit, Plaid goes over to the opposition party and offers them 500 vouchers for their campaign.
Suddenly the subtitles go insane.
"Self to obey positive theater to establish later."
I'm left to guess what is being said at the very end of the episode. I do get that the bus with the performing troupe comes into town and (as anyone with a brain expected) there are no big name stars on it.
So far the endings of this show have been rather flat. I think they should have ended each episode like this, with the cast performing a classic song used on the soundtrack. They should have started it nice and easy, and then ended it rough.
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