After a moment of leaning on Myeong Geun for support, in more ways than one, Hwa Young gets a hold of herself and decides to get some fresh air. Myeong Geun at least sees her to the door. Joo Ha catches sight of the couple and wonders to herself how Mom #2 knows Dad #1. Real Eun Joong also sees his not-father and wonders why Dad #1 is here. Jeez, everybody comes to this hotel. It's so fancy it even has vases in the elevators. Poor people like me aren't used to that.
Anyway, Myeong Geun goes back up to meet with Joo Pil and shows the ex-reporter the notebook with the bribery list written in it. Joo Pil isn't satisfied and demands the USB. Myeong Geun cagily doesn't say he doesn't have it, just that he doesn't trust Joo Pil with it, which is also the truth. He asks Joo Pil for a little more time so he can tell Real Eun Joong the truth about not being his son. Until then, Myeong Geun warns no harm should come to Eun Joong or Ah Mi. As Myeong Geun leaves the room he's surprised to find Real Eun Joong outside. I don't know why he's surprised. The door is made of glass. He should have clearly seen Eun Joong standing on the other side.
Jang Tae Ha is beginning to suspect that his wife is meeting another man at the hospital. (Which is actually kind of smart. No one would suspect lovers hooking up in a hospital waiting room. Or even better the pharmacy. Remember this, kids, next time you're stepping out on your Significant Other.) Tae Ha orders Kang Ho to be extra vigilant at the hospital.
It's an awkward drive back home to the Ha House. Real Eun Joong proclaims he'll sleep in the car. He asks if the grave next to Mom's is Myeong Geun's real son. Oh, so he heard part of the conversation through the glass door. So now he knows Dad #1 isn't biologically his dad, but he doesn't know yet about the whole kidnapping story.
Myeong Geun is sitting dejected on the front steps when Woo Ah Mi and Fake Eun Joong come home. Fake asks Ah Mi to allow him to have a word alone with the old man. Ah Mi is just barely inside the gate when Fake starts shouting about how he knows Myeong Geun is the kidnapper and that Real Eun Joong is the real Eun Joong so what is the old man going to do? And Ah Mi (and probably half the neighborhood) is hearing all this.
It's an awkward morning at the Ha House. Myeong Geun has been up all night. Ah Mi doesn't know what to say or do about what she knows. Soo Young simply continues to be annoying and wondering where her not-brother is. At least Real Eun Joong has been at the office checking out the contents on the USB that cost Gi Chan his life. And now the Prodigal Son has returned.
Over at the Jang House Joo Ha is still trying to break up her engagement by insisting on dating Real Eun Joong. Fake Eun Joong blows a gasket and yells at her he told her to stop seeing that guy so she'd better stop and I mean now! Tae Ha thinks its just the pressure of the case getting to his not-son. Oh, look who has returned to the fold - it's Hwa Young moving back in. Once she's able to get a word in edgewise, Hwa Young lets Tae Ha know she's still going to handle the case against him. It's for his own good.
Myeong Geun doesn't know where to start with this hard talk but that's okay as Real Eun Joong is the one who does all the talking. He confesses that he's known since high school that he wasn't really Myeong Geun's son. Still thinking he's simply been adopted, Real Eun Joon assures Dad #1 that he's not going to look for his birth parents and wants to continue being Myeong Geun's son and Soo Young's older brother. Myeong Geun is overcome with emotion and doesn't tell the full story.
Joo Ran shows her daughter the picture on her cell phone of Hwa Young and Myeong Geun, asking if the two are having an affair. Joo Ha instead realizes Myeong Geun must be the whistle blower her father is so anxious to find.
Fake Eun Joong is back to begging Hwa Young to stop looking for her real son. She correctly assumes this means Fake must have found the real son although Fake lies and says he hasn't. Fake quickly calls the Dick Detective to tell him that if Hwa Young calls to ask (and she does) to lie and say the search is still on.
Real Eun Joong is at his office checking out video of all the vehicles that were near the construction site at the time of Gi Chan's death when he receives a surprise visit from Fake Eun Joong. Naturally they can't stay in the office and talk. I figure this means another trip up to the roof (it's a Kdrama after all) but no, they simply go outside.
Fake first hints that Real doesn't know his father (Myeong Geun) as well as he thinks he does, then Fake asks the odd question of does Real still draw emperor penguins. Real is like, "Penguins? What the hell are you talking about?" So therefore Fake changes the subject and warns Real to not allow Myeong Geun to meet Tae Ha as that will put Dad #1 in danger since he's the whistle blower.
Speaking of Myeong Geun, the doctor confirms he's got terminal cancer and has about three months to live. Out at the pharmacy Myeong Geun figures why bother to get his prescription filled since he's dying so he stuffs the paper in the trash basket. This is the time when Hwa Young happens to see him but he doesn't see her. She pulls the paper out of the basket and wonders why he didn't get his medicine filled. Being a Nosey Nellie, Hwa Young easily convinces a nurse to tell her all about Myeong Geun's terminal diagnosis.
Myeong Geun is sitting outside on a bench, his shoulders bent in weariness, which is where Hwa Young finds him. She doesn't alert him to her presence as she only wants to look at him with concern.
At the same time Real Eun Joong has made a breakthrough with all the videos. He's spotted a car with a license plate that is registered to Yoon Hwa Young. He calls her cell phone. The ringing is what causes Myeong Geun to look up and see her standing nearby. She hurriedly answers the phone and gets that wide-eyed look to hear the caller identify himself as Detective Ha Eun Joong. She keeps asking, "You're name is Eun Joong?" He tells her he's calling about a case she may have a connection to and he needs to meet her.
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