Sunday, August 11, 2013

Scandal Episode 13

Jang Tae Ha is sitting in his car and wondering, "Who is this guy laughing with my woman although technically she isn't my woman and hasn't been my woman in quite some time and I really have no right to be jealous but I'm going to be because I'm a putz." Myeong Geun, his back still to Tae Ha, takes his leave. Kang Ho slowly follows the mystery man with the car until they're blocked by another vehicle. Myeong Geun gets away - this time.
 
Tae Ha (whose hair roots are really showing) returns to his wife's office to blow his stack about her laughing and smiling with another man. Hwa Young keeps her cool, at least.
 
Real Eun Joong takes Ah Mi to a... I'm not really sure what it is but there's a lot of water faucets. Ah Mi is cleaning the seawood soup off of her as Eun Joong febreezes some of his old clothes he has in the trunk of the car. This whole incident has caused Eun Joong to forget he has a "date" with Joo Ha. (Which is good because no one should be dating their half sister.) Instead Eun Joong spends quality time with Ah Mi as they kick a ball back and forth.
 
(Bad weather is giving me a poor connection. I'll try to persevere.)
 
Play time is interrupted when Joo Ha calls to remind Eun Joong of their date. Ah Mi pushes Eun Joong to forget about her and go meet his girlfriend.
 
Real Eun Joong finally picks Joo Ha up and was planning on taking her to a gym so they can box (how romantic - not) when she gets a call from her father. Tae Ha insists she join him for drinks. Joo Ha expects Eun Joong to drop her off somewhere and end their date since she has to go do something else. Instead Eun Joong proposes he go with her so he can meet his date's father.
 
Fake Eun Joong has joined Tae Ha and Jo Jin Woong at the restaurant. The other guys are asking Fake Eun Joong what his problem is, he seems so despressed. Fake Eun Joong denies being down in the dumps. Joo Ha comes into the room and is surprised to see her unwanted fiancé as she thought her dad was alone. Real Eun Joong joins the party and makes everyone uncomfortable, especially Fake Eun Joong who is now covered in flop sweat.
 
Tae Ha makes Fake Eun Joong pour a drink for Real Eun Joong. Fake is so nervous he's rattling the kettle. Tae Ha assumes his not-son is ill and calls for Fake to go home but Fake claims he wants to stay.
 
Go Joo Ran is back to haranguing Hwa Young into divorcing Tae Ha. Hwa Young agrees to leaving her (unwanted, unloved) husband but warns that Fake Eun Joong is still a son to her so Joo Ran had better leave him alone.
 
Tae Ha asks Real why he isn't drinking. Real explains he doesn't want to get inebriated and wake up in the morning with a large check stuffed into his pocket and once again having to pack up and move to another department. When Tae Ha asks why the cop is with Joo Ha, Real replies he's developed feelings for the woman and they're going to start dating. If you thought Fake Eun Joong was flop sweating before you ain't seen nothin' yet. He's like Lake Flop Sweat when he hears this news.
 
Ah Mi tells Myeong Geun that she's going to start a lawsuit. Since she and Gi Chan had put money down on a unit in the faulty condominium building, she has a right to sue Taeha Construction for selling them an unsafe apartment. Myeong Geun worries about her being in even more danger and tries to talk her out of the lawsuit, or to at least let him be the one to bring it to court.
 
We can't go long without a musical interlude in this show. They really wanna sell their soundtrack.
 
Drunk Tae Ha has to be brought home by his kids. He's in a belligerent state and orders Joo Ha to stop seeing "that bastard." When Hwa Young attempts to guide Tae Ha to bed, he pushes her to the floor and also orders her to stop seeing any bastards or else. Fake Eun Joong hugs Hwa Young and gets his flop sweat all over her.
 
Jin Woong is at the gym working out (my, that's tight shirt you're wearing) when Joo Ran barges in and continues to show what an idiot she is. "Do you make socks?"
 
Hwa Young hears that Joo Ha is supposedly dating someone. Mom wants to meet this guy. Fake Eun Joong just sits there. Are you going to say anything, Fake? Are you even going to sweat this time?
 
Hwa Young calls Myeong Geun to tell him she plans to confront Tae Ha about the faulty construction. She may be able to stop her husband, she may not. If not, then Myeong Geun needs to get a pre-resident (as in Ah Mi) to file a lawsuit as it can't be done by someone not directly involved with the building. They arrange to meet later that evening.
 
Ah Mi meets with Joo Ha to talk about the internal audit that was supposedly done on Gi Chan when he was alive. Ah Mi, showing off her new backbone and purpose in life, points out how half-assed the audit was done and how she plans to file a lawsuit against the company for shoddy workmanship.
 
Joo Ha goes running to warn her daddy (who is wearing a little skull pin on his lapel) about the lawsuit. She worries that Ah Mi will get other pre-residents to join in on the suit. Tae Ha is confident that he can make a phone call to all the big law firms and stop this suit in its tracks. The small law firms that would dare to sue him will be crushed.
 
Hwa Young stops by her husband's office to confront Tae Ha about the poor safety of his building. She gives him an honorable way out of this mess if he'll just fix the problem before it gets any worse. Otherwise she will fight him.
 
Fake Eun Joong pressures his not-sister to just go ahead and marry Jin Woong. More importantly she needs to stop seeing Real Eun Joong. Joo Ha refuses as she's hoping to win the cop over to their side. With that topic dead in the water, Fake Eun Joong switches to asking if she remembers anything from the time he was kidnapped. Joo Ha tells him to ask dad, or better yet ask Kang Ho.
 
Speaking of Kang Ho, Real Eun Joong has gotten the print results back from the cuff link. He has no idea who Kang Ho is but it's his prints all over the man jewelry.
 
Joo Ran is at a fancy restaurant where she's trying to get Joo Ha to meet her so they can talk about this detective. Around the corner Joo Ran spies Hwa Young meeting up with Myeong Geun. Suspicious about who he is and what is going on, Joo Ran takes a couple of pictures of them with her cell phone. Myeong Geun's face is pretty clear in the shots.
 
Kang Joo Pil is meeting with Myeong Geun's old boss, the deputy chief who had Real Eun Joong transferred to the pencil pushing department. Joo Pil lays it all out on the table (literally) that he suspects Myeong Geun is the kidnapper from the old days and that Ha Eun Joong is really Tae Ha's Eun Joong.
 
From the restaurant, Hwa Young calls Fake Eun Joong to come meet her there while Myeong Geun calls Ah Mi to come meet him there. As it just so happens Ah Mi is with Fake Eun Joong so that saves on gas.
 
Real Eun Joong is arriving home and just walking up the steps when he's attacked from behind by Kang Ho (wearing a mask). Kang Ho beats the tar out of Eun Joong.

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