Scandal Episode 32

Kang Joo Pil anxiously waits at the office to hear if his car-tampering has been successful or not.

 

Real Eun Joong is thinking about Ah Mi and their (very loud) conversation at the courthouse. The traffic light is (very quickly) turning red and Eun Joong presses the brake pedal. Nothing happens. He does what anyone in this kind of an emergency should do: aims his car at two innocent people as he somehow skids to a halt.

 

Not finding it at all strange that his brakes are malfunctioning, Eun Joong just keeps on driving when the light turns green again.

 

Fake Eun Joong is preparing breakfast for his prisoner, Poong Gi. Seriously, can they not charge him with unlawful imprisonment? Anyway, Go Joo Ran stops by with a paper she wants Fake to stamp and thumbprint. It doesn't say outright there on the paper (thank goodness) but basically it is an agreement that if Joo Ran gets rid of Real Eun Joong then Fake will give his company shares over to his sister. Fake thinks she means remove Real as a contender for chairman of the board. Joo Ran means more than that.

 

Fake hesitates for only one breath before agreeing to Joo Ran's demands. Joo Ran shows she's not that stupid after all by recording their conversation on her phone. Unfortunately she goes right back to being stupid. She's down in the lobby listening to the recording again when she's caught by Hwa Young. While Hwa Young doesn't get to hear all of the recording she at least thinks it is strange that Joo Ran would a) be visiting Fake at all, and b) be recording their conversation.

 

Hwa Young goes upstairs to ask Fake about Joo Ran's visit. She's further surprised to see Poong Gi (known to her only as "Batman" - well, "Bat-eh-man" as Koreans pronounce it) coming out of the bathroom. Fake hastily lies, saying he's keeping the hacker here to protect him from Jang Tae Ha. While mother and son are talking about Joo Ran's recording, Poong Gi finds the discarded agreement paper Joo Ran had brought with her. (She left the paper because she felt the recording was a much better leverage.)

 

Fake lies some more, claiming Joo Ran is going to help in Hwa Young's divorce as to why they were meeting. Fake tries to hustle his mom out the door. She stops to say goodbye to Poong Gi. While shaking hands he's able to pass the incriminating paper on to her. Good boy!

 

As Hwa Young later reads the paper, she sees Poong Gi scribbled his own note on the corner saying he's on the same side as the person who pulled the fire alarm (Real Eun Joong) and to not trust Fake Eun Joong.

 

Tae Ha shows the shredded documents to Joo Pil, letting him know their top security has been infiltrated. He orders Joo Pil to search all of Eun Joong's computers and lap tops to find the missing files. Joo Pil goes to Eun Joong's office, too dense to pick up on the fact that someone has been there. He starts snooping around on the lap top and finds a list of porn movies. He's so engrossed in the list that he doesn't notice Eun Joong coming up beside him.

 

A shocked Joo Pil expresses surprise at seeing Eun Joong here alive. (Subtlety, thy name is not Joo Pil.) Trying to cover his tracks, Joo Pil explains he's here because of Tae Ha's orders to turn over Joo Ha's stocks to Eun Joong. Eun Joong is like, "Fine. Let's get right to it. Do I need my seal?"

 

Jin Joong and his dad are having coffee and a good laugh at all the little people that are going to be crushed beneath their feet. Good times.

 

More pushing of Centre Pole outdoor equipment and clothing. But wait! Joo Ha decides to liven this dull board meeting up a bit by publicly calling her brother out on the secret document he's in possession of.

 

[Sorry, I got distracted. I was doing really well on Farm Heroes Saga. Where was I?]

 

Before Eun Joong can say anything it is Tae Ha who speaks up, saying he's currently investigating who planted the false papers in an attempt to incriminate his son. Why Tae Ha, did you just do something noble?

 

Oh dear. Hwa Young sends Eun Joong a text message thanking him for secretly being on her side concerning the press conference. Of course Tae Ha sees this message as well on his clone phone.

 

Since it didn't work the first time, Joo Pil is back to further cut Eun Joong's brake lines. He happens to notice the little keychain doll hanging from the rear view mirror and that something seems to be sticking out of the bottom of her dress. Now get your mind out of the gutter, it's the bottom of the all-important USB stick. So Eun Joong didn't give his father the real one.

 

Joo Pil is climbing into the car to retrieve the USB when he's caught by Eun Joong. Eun Joong gets into the car and Joo Pil, much like Chae Won from A Hundred Year's Inheritance, has the inability to open his car door and get out as Eun Joong starts the vehicle up and pulls out.

 

Joo Pil can barely speak in a coherent manner (and he's probably wet himself) as he stammers to Eun Joong about the brakes not working. They're in the thick of traffic so Eun Joong...  steps on the gas?!?  Joo Pil is sweating buckets as Eun Joong swerves around other cars. They run into some road construction, hit a pile of ... stuff, and the car is airborne and down the side of an embankment.

 

You'd think a cop would know the proper way to stop a car that has no brakes.

 

Eun Joong is the first one to come to but Joo Pil isn't moving. We can only hope the ex-reporter will continue to stay that way. Eun Joong fights to get the other man out of the car as flames start to erupt. Joo Pil regains consciousness and actually motions for Eun Joong to leave him and get away from the burning car. Eun Joong reaches deep down for that adrenaline push to finally wrench the door open and pull Joo Pil to safety.

 

Since he's at the hospital, bleeding and all that, Eun Joong isn't able to make the appointment with Fake Eun Joong to get Poong Gi back. The hacker acts like he's been betrayed (at least I hope he's acting) and will now work with Fake.

 

Hwa Young and Joo Ran run into each other as they're both rushing into the hospital to be with their loved ones. Joo Pil is in surgery for a ruptured spleen. Eun Joong got off with just some minor burns to his arm. Hwa Young tries to figure out why the two men were together in the first place.

 

Fake takes Poong Gi with him to face Tae Ha and to reclaim his rightful position by his father's side. He tells Tae Ha how it was Real Eun Joong who arranged for the press conference to still make the airwaves and that he's not to be trusted or loved.

 

As Joo Ran nervously waits outside the operating room she pulls out her cell phone and is moving to erase the recording when Hwa Young comes up from behind and grabs the phone away. She listens to the entire recording, including the part where Joo Ran offers to make Real a cripple and Fake says yes to her plans.

 

Tae Ha is listening in on the clone phone when Hwa Young calls Myeong Geun to tell him about the car accident. Tae Ha doesn't know whether to go to his traitorous son or not.

 

Hwa Young and Myeong Geun are at Eun Joong's bedside when he wakes up. At first he's like, "Who are you? I don't remember anything." But he's just joking, because THIS IS NOT A TIME TO BE JOKING!! 

 

Tae Ha shows up at the doorway just in time to hear his son calling another man, "Father." Perhaps realizing that Real will never be his son in any way other than biological, Tae Ha gives in and goes to Fake's apartment. He asks Fake to come home with him, come be with his father. Tae Ha even calls Fake by his old name of "Eun Joong."