Scandal Episode 35

Per Jang Tae Ha's orders, Ha Myeong Geun climbs over the side of the railing up on the roof of the highrise.

 

Down below, Real Eun Joong and his manly backpack are arriving at work when he sees two old men out front holding protest signs. It has something to do with that crooked deal Jo Jin Woong is pulling and I don't care about. After learning Eun Joong works here, one of the old men grabs the young man's collar and starts shaking. This causes Real Eun Joong to look up and notice the teeny tiny speck up in the sky that is his kidnapper father.

 

Suddenly Myeong Geun remembers how Eun Joong (after they were reunited in the hospital) had asked for his father to keep fighting to live a little bit longer. Myeong Geun changes his mind about jumping but he's too afraid to move. He asks Tae Ha to help save him. Tae Ha, to my surprise, actually does grab Myeong Geun and pulls him back over the railing to safety.

 

Real Eun Joong takes the old protestors up to his office so he can learn more about his brother-in-law's greedy plans.

 

It wouldn't be a Scandal episode if Center Pole wasn't shoved down our throat some way. Jang Joo Ha is overseeing a photo shoot when she receives a phone call from a bank. They've been trying to get a hold of Jin Woong but he's not answering so they've called her. It's about the loan he was asking for and listed Joo Ha as a co-signer. This is news to Joo Ha.

 

Phooey. Is this episode going to be nothing but business talk? I hate business talk.

 

Real Eun Joong is in his office looking at papers when Myeong Geun drops by to tell his son how much he loves him.

 

Over at the Ha house, Fake Eun Joong gives Hwa Young a new phone and prompts her to start using this one although he won't admit to the clone phone Tae Ha has. Hwa Young won't take his phone but she gets the idea and will get another one on her own. Fake tries to rebuild bridges with his mother but she's finally reached the end of the line with him, what with the whole trying to kill Real Eun Joong and all.

 

With that scene abruptly over with, Fake Eun Joong is now accompanying Tae Ha down to the D.A.'s office for questioning. But when they enter the office it is to discover Real Eun Joong is already there and confessing to the crimes that Tae Ha is really guilty of.

 

Even with this twist Tae Ha continues on with the plan by pulling out the pictures of the D.A. with another woman and a child. The prosecutor claims it's all innocent. This isn't his secret family but the widow and child of an old friend of his. Tae Ha argues back that by the time the media get a hold of the pictures no one will believe the prosecutor.

 

That's when Kang Joo Pil (in a wheelchair) is brought into the room. A defiant Joo Pil warns Tae Ha that if the pictures are made public then he will go public with the whole sordid story behind the blackmail scheme.

 

Hwa Young arrives at the building as Tae Ha and Fake are walking down the hall. When she learns her son has taken the rap for Tae Ha she falls to the floor. After everyone is gone she goes in to try and talk the D.A. out of doing anything. The prosecutor fully admits he's using Real Eun Joong as bait in order to catch Jang Tae Ha.

 

Hwa Young wakes Tae Ha up from his nap to try and get him to go to the authorities and confess in order to save their son. Tae Ha replies Eun Joong made his own choice. Hwa Young gets down on the floor (again) and begs her husband to save Eun Joong. She lays the guilt on with a trowel.

 

Time passes I take it as next time we see Hwa Young she's asleep on the couch. Fake gently covers her with a blanket as he too feels the weight of The Guilt. Tae Ha goes back to his nap. Real Eun Joong comes into the bedroom and covers his father up with the blanket off of his own bed.

 

The Guilt!

 

The next morning at the outdoor workout facility, we see Myeong Geun lying on the ground. Nearby joggers don't pay him any mind.

 

Fake Eun Joong cries over all the old pictures of penguins he tried to draw.

 

Someone finally notices the old man on the ground and calls an ambulance. Myeong Geun is being rushed to the hospital as Real Eun Joong is heading off to his trial. The women at the Ha house come to the hospital where a nurse with no bedside manner at all tells them to prepare for the worst. This time it is Soo Young's turn to hit the floor.

 

Since the scandal broke over Real Eun Joong's confession, Taeha Group has been on shaky ground. Fake Eun Joong urges his father to make a decision: either go to the office and save the business or go to the D.A. and save his son. Tae Ha says he'll go to the office.

 

He goes to get dressed and puts on the Ugliest Jacket Ever. Before he leaves the bedroom he finds an old picture Real Eun Joong drew of an emperor penguin back before he was kidnapped.

 

Ah, Myeong Geun has flat lined!

 

Real Eun Joong is sitting in the D.A.'s office. The prosecutor says it looks like Tae Ha isn't coming and they can't stop the trial just thirty minutes before it starts. (What do you mean? This is DramaLand. Of course you can stop a trial before it starts.) With a heavy heart Eun Joong starts to follow the D.A. out to stand trial when suddenly Tae Ha bursts into the room. With tears in his eyes Tae Ha confesses to everything. Real Eun Joong starts crying too. Everybody cries.