May Queen Episode 19

Let's see what our Saint Hae Joo is up to.

 

BTW, totally off-topic, but after I "recovered" from watching Darna, I went back and watched the next episode. Things got very dark very quickly, I must say. I'm talking child exploitation/prostitution kind of dark. And this wasn't by any tree woman with green lips, but the kind of monsters we have here in the real world.

 

 

 

Hae Joo tells Prosecutor Yoon Jeong Woo about the strange picture she got on her cell phone. Because Chang Hee went and smashed the thing, she can't show them the picture. Jeong Woo promises to look into who may have sent her the photo of the bloody license plate.

 

Grandpa Dae Pyung tries to get Kang San to stop looking into his parents' past. At the most we learn that San's parents were in Japan, drove through a guard rail and drowned in the ocean. At least, that's Dae Pyung's version. I still feel like Do Hyun is somehow involved.

 

Speak of the devil, Do Hyun is in his study sitting at his desk. Out of a drawer he pulls out an old book that holds a photograph inside it. On the title page is an inscription to Yoon Hak Soo (Hae Joo's father) from Kang Woon (San's father.) For an extra laugh, the title page of the book is printed Tradition Notebook Magic Spells Witch and Wizard. The picture is of three men, one of them being Do Hyun in his old toupee. Aha, they're a coven!

 

The next day an angry Il Mun goes to confront his father about Chang Hee being given an executive position in the maritime division. For once I agree with Il Mun as he argues that Chang Hee is a lawyer, he knows nothing about the ocean or shipbuilding. Do Hyun gives some kind of parable about whacking a tree to make it bear fruit and how this is all for Il Mun's good.

 

Chang Hee shows up to his new job, which is in charge of Hae Joo's development team. As he's coldly going over the rules with them, a disgusted Il Mun walks in. Chang Hee orders him to never be late again. Hmm, this could be interesting. Leave it to Kang San to saunter in and break the tension. He can do that because technically he's not an employee of Cheonji.

 

Do Hyun calls Hae Joo to his office. Even though she's not had a formal education, he trusts Hae Joo's instincts and plans to send her to check on the azimuth thrusters they're building. Then he tells yet another story about trees. He ends with saying when he looks at Hae Joo he sees himself. Yep, I'm even more convinced the show is setting us up to learn he's Hae Joo's biological father.

 

When Il Mun hears Hae Joo is going to the thruster factory, he starts to sweat bullets. And for good reason. Once at the factory, Hae Joo sees the work on the thrusters hasn't even been started, while the paperwork says they're almost done.

 

Jeong Woo contacts her to explain that the number used to send her the picture is a fake. He takes Hae Joo and Kang San to lunch, where Hae Joo seems more concerned about the mystery of the propeller more than the mystery of the bloody license plate. Kang San reports that the thruster was never built because Il Mun was diverting the funds towards his Indonesia escapade. This is news to Jeong Woo. San is surprised Chang Hee didn't tell his boss all this back when he was still a prosecutor.

 

In Hwa goes to the office to confront Chang Hee about his manly kiss the other night. She whines that it was her first kiss, even admitting that big wet smooch with Kang San didn't count. (I don't see why it didn't. I mean, a kiss is a kiss.) She's going to tell her father everything and then he'll be fired. Newly minted bastard Chang Hee doesn't care and dares her to come with him to Do Hyun's office. In Hwa is starting to get turned on by this new, aggressive Chang Hee.

 

Chang Hee was going to Do Hyun's office to tattle on what Il Mun's been doing with the company money, and that Kang San knew about it and never said anything. Do Hyun heads straight for Il Mun's office and it's Bitch Slap City.

 

Hae Joo goes to Chang Hee's office and tries to ask if he's still got her cell phone, the one he smashed at the airport. He's all, know your place and don't have personal conversations at work and such. She leaves his office and is broadsided by Il Mun who thinks she's the one who tattled to his father. He gets one good hit in but when he goes for another, Hae Joo shows her skills. Gosh, he's wimpy. All he can fight with is words and he tells her how her lowly family came to the big house and kicked up a fuss. This is news to her.

 

Do Hyun asks for Kang San to come to his office. He asks the young man why he didn't say anything about the thrusters not being built. San brushes it off, claiming he was trying to preserve the relationship between Do Hyun and Il Mun. Oh, but if Cheonji isn't able to build the ship on time, they'll have to pay a large penalty (like forty million) to Noble, Kang San's parent company. Even if Do Hyun orders the thrusters from another company, they still won't get here before the deadline. San is enjoying this.

 

Geum Hee goes to see Dal Soon once again. She explains that stuff about the blood and again asks if Hae Joo is Dal Soon's biological daughter. No matter how much Geum Hee cries, Dal Soon sticks to her story and claims Hae Joo as her own.

 

Back at the big house, Gi Cheol is starting to get a big head now that his son is an important executive at the office. Good thing Il Mun is there to put the gimp back in his little rat hole. Too bad Geum Hee comes home at the moment and puts a stop to things. She takes Il Mun to task for misbehaving so. He argues she's not his real mother so what's it to her? Geum Hee slaps him (golly, he's going to have a bruised face tomorrow) and says she raised him so she is his mother. That's when Il Mun drops the bomb that he knows about her other daughter, Yoo Jin. I fully expected Geum Hee to drop to the floor as she usually does, but no, she manages to keep her knees locked for this shocker.

 

Kang San learns about Hae Joo being hit at the office. He goes to get in line to slap Il Mun. No, not really. He goes to tell Chang Hee about it, but Chang Hee says he's too busy with business to worry about one female employee. (I'm getting a strong feeling that Il Mun is going to end up murdered and all these people will be suspects.)

 

Kang San takes Hae Joo back to his yacht so they can talk about propellers and noodles.

 

In Hwa continues to find herself getting hot and bothered over Chang Hee. Even store mannequins are turning her on.

 

Young Joo meets up with a drunk Il Mun. It's an almost touching moment as he quietly begs her to stay with him because he has no one to drink with. He's so lonely.

 

Sang Tae overhears Hae Joo and Dal Soon talking and learns that Hae Joo is not his mother's daughter.

 

It's nearly the end of the episode and only now does Bong Hee show up. Anyway, she's meeting with Kang San. He knows she's going to Japan tomorrow and he asks her to do him a favor. He asks her to look into this guy, Akiyama, which may be his father under a Japanese name. Before she leaves, at least Bong Hee gives me a funny scene in Jeong Woo's office.

 

Hae Joo (who just accidentally hit Bong Hee with the office door) has come by because Jeong Woo has figured out that the phone that sent her the picture was used in the vicinity of the Jang home, the only home in the area she has any connection to. As they're walking through the hallway, a couple of cops are escorting a handcuffed prisoner. Hae Joo recognizes the loan shark. Jeong Woo has the man taken to an interrogation room where the loan shark tells them he already told everything to the other prosecutor. That would be Chang Hee. When asked what he did spill, the loan shark explains how it was Gi Cheol who paid him to abduct Hae Joo fifteen years ago.

 

Hae Joo goes (alone!) to confront Gi Cheol.