As Yoon Hwa Young faces the kidnapper of her son so many emotions flitter across her face. That's because Shin Eun Gyung is a damn fine actress. And the spitting at Myeong Geun says so much more than just a mere slap could ever do. With her anger barely in check, Hwa Young freely admits if she had a gun or a knife right now she would have killed Myeong Geun. How dare he kidnap her son and then have the audacity to seek her out, to speak with her, eat with her, smile with her. Myeong Geun can't even look her in the eye as she cries about gouging her eyes out and cutting her hands off after comforting him and feeling sorry for him.
It's a really powerful scene and a heck of a way to start the episode.
During all this what they don't realize is Jang Tae Ha is planning to come to the house to confront both Myeong Geun and Detective Ha Eun Joong - and he's bringing a golf club with him.
Inside the house Myeong Geun gives Hwa Young a box of childhood mementos of her son as Myeong Geun tries to explain how he meant to give Real Eun Joong back but days turned into years and eventually Myeong Geun realized he had come to love Eun Joong as much if not more than his own dead son.
He gets down on his knees and begs for forgiveness. Hwa Young is like, "Aw, hell no! My own son doesn't recognize me. I've missed everything important in his life. I'm gonna make you feel the same pain I'm feeling, old man."
Outside, Tae Ha, Kang Ho, and the golf club arrive. Tae Ha bursts unannounced into the living room where Myeong Geun and Hwa Young are. Tae Ha gets in one good swing with the club before Hwa Young takes it away from her enraged husband. However she does nothing to stop Tae Ha from beating the crap out of Myeong Geun with his bare hands.
Down at the station, Real Eun Joong is being questioned by Internal Affairs about the large amount of money transferred into his bank account as well as the rest of his questionable dealings with the investigation that he shouldn't have been conducting in the first place.
Back at the beating, Tae Ha threatens Myeong Geun in the worst way possible: by breaking every one of his son's bones. Myeong Geun starts to tell Tae Ha not to harm Eun Joong because of who he really is when Hwa Young finally speaks up. She cuts Myeong Geun off before Tae Ha can learn the truth of not only what Myeong Geun has done but also what Hwa Young has done. She desperately tries to turn Tae Ha's head away from directing his vengeance towards Real Eun Joong. In a last ditch effort Hwa Young shouts that she'll give up the law suit against the company. This seems to settle Tae Ha down a bit although he warns Myeong Geun he'll be back.
Real Eun Joong is meeting with Kang Joo Pil and asking about what happened in 1988. Who did Tae Ha kill back then? Frankly I'm surprised when Joo Pil answers honestly that it was Geon Young, Myeong Geun's real son. The ex-reporter goes on to dangle the fact that he knows who Real Eun Joong's parents are but Eun Joong doesn't care. He's perfectly satisfied with his life and the family he knows. Still, if one day Eun Joong changes his mind and does want to know the whole truth, he should come to Joo Pil who will tell him everything.
Back home Hwa Young continues to try and talk Tae Ha out of messing with Real Eun Joong. Since she promised to drop the law suit, Tae Ha now wants her to head the family's foundation. This will be the cornerstone of Fake Eun Joong's future run for the Blue House. He also talks about moving some Taeha Construction stock around so that in the end Fake Eun Joong will own it all (leaving Joo Ha out in the cold apparently). Hwa Young appears to be thinking the company (that once belonged to her father) should really be going to her real son.
(I hope this doesn't become a fight for the family company because those story lines just bore me to tears.)
Hwa Young gets a call from Real Eun Joong. She even has him listed in her cell phone as "Our Eun Joong." (Hmm, wonder if that will come back to bite her.) Anyway he's calling to arrange a dinner date as a thank you for her warning about the frame-up.
Real Eun Joong meets with Deputy Chief Whatshisname to ask for the elder's support as Eun Joong plans to use the bribery list to lure Tae Ha into a trap.
Fake Eun Joong tells his father how he's had a wiretap secretly installed in both Real Eun Joong's car and desk at work.
Ah Mi is tending to Myeong Geun's wounds. He uses the excuse that he fell down the stairs but my girl isn't fooled. She demands to know who broke in here with a golf club (Tae Ha left it behind) and beat him up. Perhaps she should say something to Real Eun Joong. Myeong Geun has no choice but to tell her what really happened. Ah Mi once again urges Dad #1 to tell Real Eun Joong the truth before he finds out about it from someone else.
Hwa Young arrives at a cheap dive where Real Eun Joong is waiting for her. It's a rare Kdrama restaurant with other customers in it. Hwa Young just stares and stares and stares at him. Stares and cries. Even Eun Joong is weirded out a bit.
Go Joo Ran and Joo Pil have another drunkfest. First they're talking about lining up support behind Joo Ha to take over the company. Then Joo Pil quickly sobers up when he hears that not only does Joo Ran know Fake Eun Joong is fake but also Hwa Young knows. (I hadn't thought about it before but I guess Joo Pil thought Hwa Young had been mistaken in thinking the orphan was her real son.)
Fake Eun Joong is agonizing over what he heard through the wiretap. It was Real Eun Joong memorizing the names and bribe amounts from the list. Fake wonders if Real has the USB after all.
At work the next day it is Fake Eun Joong who has to break it to Ah Mi that their law firm isn't going to handle her lawsuit against Taeha Construction anymore. Ah Mi worries that she won't be able to find another law firm to take the case as everyone seems to quake in their boots in the company's shadow.
In the parking garage Kang Ho is driving his boss when Real Eun Joong calmly walks out in front of their car. (It's a cool yet foolhardy move.) Tae Ha orders Kang Ho to get out and take care of the cop as they're pressed for time. Action fight scene - hell yeah! As Tae Ha sits in the car watching he gets a call from his fake son warning him that Real Eun Joong has seen and memorized the bribery list. Tae Ha looks ready to explode right as Real Eun Joong takes Kang Ho down.
Tae Ha has no choice but to have a meeting with the winner and still champion. As part of his plan, Real Eun Joong pretends he'll return the USB back to Tae Ha for 10 billion won. They'll meet somewhere tonight for the exchange. But, oh no! Once Real Eun Joong gets into his (bugged) car he calls Deputy Chief to report everything is going according to plan. Tae Ha is listening and now knows this is all a trap and starts planning a trap of his own.
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