I am so not down with that title.
A long line of policemen (didn't see one police woman) are at the shooting range practicing their skills. Only one lone cop seems to be a fraidy cat and won't pull his trigger. In fact he looks like he's about to piss in his pants. This is our hero, Ha Eun Joong (played by Kim Jae Won.) Tears fall from his eyes as he hallucinates (at least I hope that's a hallucination) the image of a Lost Child poster.
He can't take it anymore and Eun Joong runs from the shooting range. He also happens to take the loaded gun with him. Inside his car are more Lost Child posters of a young boy. The kid is identified as Jang Eun Joong, son of Chairman Jang Tae Ha (who will be played by Park Sang Min when he shows up.)
Still crying, Eun Joong squeals his tires as he leaves the parking lot. He's followed by two other cop cars who really, really want their gun back. Whoops, I looked away. Apparently there was a car chase as the cops tried and failed to stop their wayward detective.
Eun Joong skids to a halt in front of the house of Ha Myeong Geun (played by Cho Jae Hyun). His voiceover tells us that he's the missing Jang Eun Joong. With gun in hand, Eun Joong heads inside to confront the man who kidnapped and raised him. Dad #1 (or would that be #2?) is watering the garden when Eun Joong pulls the gun on him. Seeing the pain in his not-son's eyes, Dad simply stands there, ready to take his punishment.
Dangit, the scene fades to black just as we hear a gunshot.
We now timewarp back to 1988. Dad #1 is trying to comfort his crying son, Geon Young. There's another younger baby girl who sleeps through all this. Spoke too soon: now baby sister Soo Young is awake and crying. Dad, you've got your hands full. I envy you not. Ah, it seems the boy was crying because Mom is gone. (Not sure at this point if she's dead or just walked away.)
In another scene we see the Eun Joong boy from the Lost posters performing a ceremonial bow to his grandfather's grave. His mother, Yoon Hwa Young (played by Shin Eun Gyung) makes it a point to drill into her son's head that he is the grandson of Yoon Cheon Ha. This name is repeated several times so it will probably be important later on in the drama. Another important fact is the kid is really into penguins.
Hwa Young's voiceover tells us she's hoping when Eun Joong grows up he will be able to take back the family company. In addition I get the impression she's none too happy with her husband, Jang Tae Ha.
Finally this Tae Ha shows up. He's doing push ups against his desk while an engineer with extremely ugly glasses warns there are cracks in the Taeha Plaza which they built and it could collapse. Engineer Kim repeatedly warned that there would be problems with the building but he's preaching to deaf ears. Tae Ha simply orders the cracks to be covered up.
Kim dares to stand up to his boss, bringing up how this was Yoon Cheon Ha's company that Tae Ha basically stole from him and is driving into the ground. An angry Tae Ha takes out a golf club and starts smashing the glass doors on a display case because.... because? When he grows tired, Tae Ha's right hand man Kang Ho offers to take over the important job of smashing this case with the club.
What. The. Hell.
Back to Hwa Young who is an attorney opening up her own law firm with or without her husband's approval. She gives her partner her divorce papers and orders him to get her a huge settlement. Here's where we learn Tae Ha doesn't know he's the father of a five year-old boy. The partner warns Hwa Young that if that golf club swinging blue meanie learns about Eun Joong he may fight for custody. Hwa Young considers finding some other man to claim he's Eun Joong's father.
(I have to laugh at the ignored secretary who is getting to hear all this juicy gossip between the lawyers. If Facebook had been invented back in the Eighties, he would have been posting all this by now.)
Tae Ha stops by to visit his aging mistress, an actress named Go Joo Ran (played by Kim Hye Ri.) They have a daughter together, Jang Joo Ha.
A group of tenement dwellers have set up barricades and are protesting the planned demolition of their homes. The police are called in to defuse the situation. Tae Ha watches from the back of his car as Detective Ha Myeong Gun bumbles his way through the crisis. Tired of waiting, Tae Ha jumps into a nearby bucket loader and starts to demolish the slum himself.
In the ensuing chaos, Tae Ha does damage to Myeong Gun's police car. This gives the detective the excuse to arrest Tae Ha.
Joo Ran is wanting to get Tae Ha divorced so he'll marry her so she stops by Hwa Young's law office to cause trouble. Cat fight! Joo Ran gives Hwa Young a sex tape of her and Tae Ha and encourages Hwa Young to use it as grounds for adultery.
Down at the precinct Myeong Gun is ordered by his boss to release Tae Ha.
At home, after putting Eun Joong to bed and lying about his father being away visiting America, Hwa Young can't resist and pops her husband's sex tape into the VCR. That ain't right, girl. That just ain't right. Hwa Young is just about to stop the tape (but not until the payload is delivered) when she hears Tae Ha talking to his mistress. He may just have been behind his father-in-law, Yoon Cheon Ha, being sent to prison.
Gosh, Tae Ha: what won't you do?
Myeong Gun drops off his son at pre-school - which just happens to be held inside the Taeha Plaza - which just happens to be erupting in CGI cracks all over the place. Kang Ho alerts his boss to the fact the building may collapse in an hour and they need to evacuate everyone. Tae Ha doesn't want anyone to know his building is collapsing because of shoddy workmanship. Instead he comes up with the off-the-wall idea to purposely plant a bomb and blame it on terrorists because of the Olympics.
As people are running pell mell for the doors, stupid Geon Young thinks he'd better stay put in his classroom for when his father comes to pick him up. And here does come Myeong Gun just in time to watch the building collapse.
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