Scandal Episode 5

Hmm, how am I supposed to differentiate between two characters who will both be Eun Joong?

Yoon Hwa Young brings home the orphan she's going to present as her son, Jang Eun Joong. Go Joo Ran knows the kid is a fake.

Myeong Geun has brought the kids back to Seoul where he works at construction.

Joo Ran wants a sample of Jang Tae Ha's and Fake Eun Joong's hair so they can be sent off to America for a paternity test. (It's the Nineties. I'm pretty sure they could have done that right there in South Korea.) Hwa Young kept Real Eun Joong's first tooth he ever lost and she's looking at it meaningfully as she overhears Joo Ran announce she's mailing the samples off today. Obviously Hwa Young is going to mess with the package before it gets out the door.

Two weeks later. (Wow, even Maury Povich isn't that fast!) The test results have just arrived in the mail. Joo Ran eagerly rips open the envelope only to find the paperwork is all in English. She goes calling for Tae Ha in his home office. We see he's closing a secret door disguised as a book case just as Joo Ran enters. Tae Ha can read English (my ass) and ... 

Back at the office, Tae Ha is giving a briefcase full of money to Jo Chi Gook (played by Ahn Suk Hwan, who is just about to enter the Old Man Who Is In Absolutely Everything category.) They're interrupted by a secretary delivering a resignation letter from Engineer Kim, he of the big ugly glasses. Tae Ha worries that Big Ugly Glasses will spill company secrets. 

Big Ugly Glasses has moved on to a rival construction firm, the one Myeong Geun happens to work for. Not that Big Ugly Glasses would recognize the former cop. Real Eun Joong has come to the work site to give Dad #1 some pain patches. And here comes Dad #2 driving up as well. He's here to confront Big Ugly Glasses. Real father and son stand next to each other. 

Suddenly some big sacks of I don't know what start to fall. Tae Ha jumps out of the way leaving it to Myeong Geun to be the one to hasten forward quickly there and throw himself over Real Eun Joong to protect him from the sacks of I don't know what. Dad #1 makes sure to keep his face averted until Dad #2 leaves the scene. 

The accident causes Myeong Geun to have an emotional revelation. He'll return Real Eun Joong to his real family. He packs up the clothes Real Eun Joong was wearing the night he was kidnapped and takes the boy to the gate of Tae Ha's house. A ball comes bouncing over the high wall and Fake Eun Joong comes out to claim it. Real and Fake Eun Joong introduce themselves to each other and Myeong Geun is like, "WTF? Where'd this kid come from?"

The housekeeper takes Fake Eun Joong back inside. Fake Eun Joong tells Hwa Young about meeting another eight year-old boy named Eun Joong out front. Hwa Young goes tearing out to the front gate but by this time Myeong Geun and Real Eun Joong are gone. Ah, but there's that security camera up at the gate. She goes to check the video tape. The shot doesn't show Myeong Geun but it does have Real Eun Joong in it. Hwa Young, as only a mother can, instantly recognizes this is her true son. 

There's a long musical interlude featuring scenes from the previous four episodes as well as what just happened earlier in this one. I guess they really want to sell this theme song.

Oh thank goodness, now we're up to the present time and the adults will be taking over the roles. Kim Jae Won is now playing Real Eun Joong. The scene has him chasing a criminal as K-hip hop music plays. (I'm having a Crime Squad flashback from this scene. I really hate Crime Squad.) 

Elsewhere in the city a lawyer is cross examining a police officer in court. This is Fake Eun Joong, now played by Ki Tae Young. He's proving the cop has really poor eyesight and is therefore not a reliable witness against Fake Eun Joong's client. 

As Real Eun Joong continues his chase, he knocks over a young woman's food cart. She prevents him from going on any further as she demands reparation, which I don't blame her. Real Eun Joong threatens to arrest her for running an illegal business. She pretends to faint in order to avoid being arrested. This annoying woman is Woo Ah Mi, played by Jo Yoon Hee.

Fake Eun Joong returns to his office and - OMG, is that The Nerd from Heartless City?! Anyway, looks like Hwa Young finally returned to her law practice and Fake Eun Joong is working for his not-mom. Hwa Young receives some faxes to her office. She's had Real Eun Joong's picture digitally aged to see what he might look like in his thirties. It does kinda almost sorta looks like Kim Jae Won. 

Real Eun Joong has taken Ah Mi to the hospital and we learn she's pregnant. Well I wasn't expecting that since she's supposed to be his love interest in this show.