Scandal Episode 28

Ah Mi once again asks for the USB stick back. Real Eun Joong lies (?) and claims it is too dangerous for her to hold with her weak little feminine hands.

 

In between thinking about Ah Mi (cuz he's in lurve), Fake Eun Joong/Koo Jae In is thinking about how he's screwed the Taeha Group over with the transfer of the shares.

 

We get an extended scene of Ah Mi and Real playing their much talked about badminton game. Since that's boring, I'm going to digress and tell a little tale about myself. In college I was forced against my will to take at least two P.E. classes. I searched for the least physically demanding sport available but billiards was already filled up. I saw badminton and I thought: Wimpy racket. Lightweight plastic birdie. How hard could it be? Boy, was I wrong!

 

Now back to the show.

 

Myeong Geun is tired of Soo Young dragging her drunk ass home and he throws cold water on her. Soo Young screeches because that's all she seems to be able to do. There are much tears as Myeong Geun begs his daughter to straighten up and fly right.

 

Jang Tae Ha's new right hand man supplies the boss with a clone phone that will allow Tae Ha not only to listen in and follow who Hwa Young speaks to, he can also send texts supposedly from his wife. At that moment Hwa Young receives a call from Myeong Geun and Tae Ha eavesdrops. Major flirtage. Uh-oh, they mention the upcoming press conference.

 

After the phone call, Hwa Young tells Real Eun Joong about the plan to hold a press conference along with Myeong Geun. Fearing for her safety, Eun Joong begs her not to do it. Hwa Young assures him she's not afraid. If anyone is going to be hurt it's going to be Tae Ha.

 

The next day Tae Ha assigns Real Eun Joong the important task of scuttling the 11 o'clock press conference. Eun Joong tries several excuses not to until settling for asking Tae Ha to come along with him on the mission. They're riding in the car together when Eun Joong receives a phone call from Myeong Geun. Tae Ha orders his son to answer and to put it on speaker phone so he can hear.

 

Myeong Geun tries to explain himself, that he isn't doing this press conference for any kind of revenge but to simply make the wrongs known to the world. With Tae Ha sitting right there, Eun Joong must react with coldness, ordering Myeong Geun to stop bothering him and to not meet with the press.

 

Hwa Young and Myeong Geun walk into a room of shouting journalists and flashing bulbs. Our couple is nervous and frightened. She reaches over and squeezes Myeong Geun's hand. Fighting! (Only Koreans don't say "f" so it's more like Hwighting.) Eun Joong and Tae Ha arrive just as Myeong Geun is starting to speak. Eun Joong messes with the fire alarm system and sets it off, forcing everyone to evacuate. (And Tae Ha had to accompany Eun Joong to do this because...?)

 

All the reporters flee the room. Hwa Young knows this isn't a coincidence and that somehow her evil husband is behind this disruption. Suddenly the alarm shuts off and the sprinklers stop spraying. It's Eun Joong's multi-colored-hair hacker who has come to continue the press conference. Hwa Young and Myeong Geun are like, "Wha?"

 

Tae Ha is so pleased with himself he's singing a little song as they ride back to the office. He's not singing for long when he spots on of those giant TV screens in the sky. The press conference is back on, thanks to the hacker. Myeong Geun tells not only the story of his own son's death at the hands of Taeha Construction but also the death of Ah Mi's husband who had uncovered the shoddy workmanship on the new Zeus apartments.

 

Next they play Hwa Young's CD with the recorded depositions. Engineer Kim (he of the ugly big glasses) makes a return appearance as he testifies on trying to warn Tae Ha about the dangers of Taeha Plaza not being safe and how Tae Ha covered it all up with a fake terrorist attack.

 

With the price of stock in the company rapidly dropping since the press conference, Tae Ha orders Joo Pil to buy up all the shares he can and put them all in Eun Joong's name.

 

So she won't have to live in a hotel since she's left her husband, Myeong Geun offers Hwa Young a place to stay at his house. She can even still live there after he dies and hopefully Hwa Young will be able to bring Real Eun Joong back to his old home. She accepts.

 

Meanwhile at Center Pole Lair, Joo Ran, Joo Ha and Joo Pil (the Three Joo's) scheme on how they can get their greedy little hands on as much Taeha stock as they can while displaying all the colorful parkas you can purchase from the show's sponsor. Joo Pil thinks to embezzle the money from the company's secret slush fund and use that to buy the shares.

 

That evening Hwa Young and Myeong Geun are walking home together. Major flirtage. Before he can get up the steep steps to the house, Myeong Geun has another pain attack and falls to his knees. Hwa Young helps him take his pain meds and holds the man in her arms for comfort. Neither one sees Tae Ha appear.