It's a Giant reunion with Park Sang Min and Hwang Jung Eum as well as the writer and director. Oh, there's also Kang Ji Hwan in this but looking over his credits shows me I've never watched any of his dramas. And what's with that haircut?!?
We open with a construction site and an excavator has just revealed some printed money and gold bars hidden in the dirt. Money is flying through the air. Understandably all the construction workers drop what they're doing and run around trying to catch it. They end up fighting each other over the horde and requiring medical attention. Remember, kids, the love of money is the root of all evil.
A TV reporter on the scene estimates the haul was $10 million dollars. Hell ya I'd be fighting over that! Prosecutor Lee Cha Don and his weird haircut shows up at the site as well. The (strangely clean for being buried in the dirt) money is all piled up on a table. Another man speculates the money once belonged to Lee Kang Seok who went missing 15 years ago.
Right in the middle of all this Cha Don receives a mysterious phone call from an unknown source. The man on the other end claims he knows Cha Don's real name. Mystery Man (who is sitting in a car at the construction site) arranges for a midnight meeting at a hotel. After he hangs up, Mystery Man says to himself that Cha Don is the missing Lee Kang Seok.
Now its flashback time to 1997. Answer me! Oh, Cha Don is now played by Park Ji Bin (who also played the young Kang San of May Queen). Young Cha Don/Kang Seok is living the good life with a mansion and servants. He's planning to ride to the airport to pick up his father. It is Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary and Mom hears from the help that she might be getting a pearl necklace from her hubby. I suspect this will be important later on.
Meanwhile, on the airplane, Fat Dad Lee Joong Man is squirting medicine up his nose for his sinuses. The camera makes sure we see this so again this must be important later on. He's reading a newspaper and is happy to see a story about his mistress, actress Eun Bi Ryung (played by Oh Yoon Ah).
We now cut to her bedroom where she's snuggling up with Ji Se Kwang (Park Sang Min) who also works for Fat Dad. She thinks she's got another week with him before her sugar daddy arrives back in town.
Kang Seok greets his dad at the airport. Fat Dad takes a bag (the pearl necklace) from the driver/family lawyer and tells him to take Kang Seok back home. Fat Dad can't wait for some hot messy love from his young sweet thang and goes directly to her house. Eww, and he's planning to stay there for a couple of days.
Kang Seok, who knows exactly what his dirty old man is up to, returns home and makes up the excuse to his mother that Fat Dad had to go meet an investor from Hong Kong. Mom isn't fooled - she knows who Fat Dad has gone to see. She goes to choke down a handful of pills and flashes back to when Fat Dad threaten to kick her out if she interfered with Bi Ryung's acting career. (Frankly I think Mom should be grateful to Bi Ryung. The farther Fat Dad stayed away from me the better.)
Fat Dad quietly enters Bi Ryung's house and spies her and Se Kwang cavorting in the bath tub. He goes back out to his car and puts the necklace in the trunk while he takes a golf club out. Sadly we're not going to see anything good. Just as quickly he throws the golf club back in and instead calls Bi Ryung, talking like he's still in America and not outside in the drive way.
Night falls and some guy is outside in the bushes taking pictures of Bi Ryung as she does yoga. Oh, it's the reporter from the $10 million dollar first scene. Se Kwang catches the guy in the act. The reporter manages to run away but Se Kwang got his camera.
Fat Dad returns home and starts cleaning his hunting guns and asking all sorts of questions of the lawyer about beating murder raps.
Se Kwang develops the pictures (remember, this is 1997. gotta do it the old fashioned way) and sees the evidence of him and Bi Ryung being more than just pals. He also sees one of the pictures shows Fat Dad outside of the house when he claimed to be outside of the country. At that moment Se Kwang gets a phone call from his boss. Fat Dad (still saying he's in the U.S.) invites Se Kwang to a party next week. After that phone call, Se Kwang gets another one, this time from the lawyer who is warning Se Kwang that the boss is after his balls.
It's the day of the big party. Fat Dad is loading his shotgun and planning to wait for the fireworks to cover the sound of shooting. Mom comes in to give Fat Dad his herbal tonic. The lawyer watches intently as Fat Dad drinks the tonic down. Hmmm.
Young Kang Seok pals around with Se Kwang. Fat Dad comes out to greet Se Kwang and the arriving Bi Ryung, introducing the two as if they don't know each other. Mom spots the pearl necklace around the young actress's throat. Bi Ryung is a total bitch to Mom. Mom slips off to swallow some more pills. (Is this bad camera work or is someone supposed to be watching Mom through a window?)
Fat Dad gives a speech to his guests. Hey, there's Grandpa Dae Pyung, also from May Queen! Kang Seok sees Bi Ryung trying to cop a feel of Se Kwang under the table. After the speech, Kang Seok goes up to the actress and asks for an autograph. She says the fountain pen isn't working. Kang Seok works with it a bit, causing the ink to spray all over her chest. As Kang Seok pretends to try and help clean the ink away, he purposely breaks the pearl necklace. As Bi Ryung crawls under a table to retrieve some pearls, Kang Seok joins her and warns the actress to cut ties with his dad or the boy will torture her even more. To prove his point, as Bi Ryung emerges from underneath, Kang Seok dumps the table's contents all over her.
Fat Dad is anxiously waiting for nine o'clock for when the fireworks start. He's in his private office with Bi Ryung (who has gotten a change of clothes) when they're joined by Se Kwang. Fat Dad grabs his hunting rifle and points it at the pair, demanding to know why they betrayed him after all he's done for both of them. Bi Ryung screams.
The fireworks explode!
Fat Dad pulls the trigger but nothing happens. Aha, seems that Lawyer (need to learn his name) took out the shells and gave them to Se Kwang earlier. Fat Dad starts to use the rifle as a club when suddenly he keels over. As Fat Dad lies on the floor, Se Kwang tells a story. Long ago Fat Dad was involved in a drunk driving incident that killed a person. Instead of going to prison, Fat Dad arranged for someone else be blamed for the accident. That person, who died of a horrible disease while in prison, was Se Kwang's dad. Oh, and now we learn that it was Se Kwang who has been spiking Fat Dad's tonic so long suffering Mom will be blamed for her husband's death. Se Kwang, don't you realize this makes you no better than Fat Dad, framing someone else for your own dirty deed?
Kang Seok is about to come into the room. Se Kwang abandons his girlfriend and dives out the nearest window. As the son comes into the room, Bi Ryung calls upon her acting skills to pretend Fat Dad just now collapsed for no reason. Se Kwang comes around the building and returns to the room as though he just got there. To the duplicitous duo's dismay, Fat Dad is still hanging on to his fat ghost and Kang Seok has him rushed to the hospital.
It is time for the obligatory K-drama riverside scene. Se Kwang, Bi Ryung, and Lawyer are all worried about the semi-comatose Fat Dad. What if he revives? What if he remembers? Also, that fake will they went to so much trouble to fabricate will now be useless if he lives.
Mom is arrested and taken down to the police station where she gets into a slap fight with Bi Ryung. The prosecutor in charge of the case is Kwon Jae Kyu (played by another Giant alumni, Lee Ki Young.) He's planning to send Mom up the river for the maximum amount of time.
Kang Seok beats up a kid at school for calling his Mom a murderer. Through a flashback we see another time when Kang Seok beat the ever living daylights out of another kid and Fat Dad praised him. The Father of the Year goes on to advise his son to not bother to study hard as that's for poor kids who are trying to get out of poverty. Since Kang Seok is already rich, he can just hire those poor kids to think for him.
Back to the (1997) present, Kang Seok returns to his father's hospital room to find Se Kwang and Lawyer. They tell him Fat Dad is now technically brain dead and the best thing to do for him is to turn the machines off and let him go.
Lawyer meets with jailed Mom and tells her about Fat Man's new will which leaves everything to his mistress. Mom (being secretly recorded by Lawyer) tells him to fix the will so she gets everything. Then after she's found not guilty she'll have the life support on her husband shut off. I'm not really sure what Se Kwang is planning to do with the tape recording.
At the trial, Se Kwang - acting as an assistant lawyer for Mom - argues that Fat Dad may have had a reaction to his sinus medication which caused his collapse. Se Kwang actually seems to be doing a good job of defending Mom. The judge is about to read off the findings of the court when....
The Credits suddenly burst onto the scene!
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