Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident Episode 36

And so it is time to say farewell to this drama. I would like to thank the Academy the hardworking Scandalous Team over at Viki who worked so quickly (and free) on this show. 

The doctors are striving to shock Ha Myeong Geun back to life. Out in the waiting room Soo Young thinks back to all the hurtful things she said to her father. 

Fake Eun Joong meets with his not-brother-in-law to ask Jo Jin Woong to work with him in protecting Taeha Group from falling into Real Eun Joong's hands. It's all about the money with you, Fake. Jin Woong is hesitant to join forces with Fake as he's not all that sure Fake will win this fight.

!!!CENTER POLE!!!

The Three Joo's are opening a new store. Joo Pil, thanks to rapid Kdrama therapy, is now out of his wheelchair and getting around just fine. He's the one who has to tell Joo Ha about her father turning himself in and being in a detention center. Joo Pil advises her to quickly get her father to give her power of attorney before Fake can get it.

I take it the defibrillator worked as Myeong Geun's machine is beeping again. Soo Young makes peace with her unconscious father. All her caterwauling is enough to make Myeong Geun wake up. 

Yoon Hwa Young is sitting out in the hospital hallway when Real Eun Joong (praying hard in the elevator) arrives. First she makes her son promise to never turn himself into the police again before taking Eun Joong in to see his not-father. With a weak voice, Myeong Geun reminds Eun Joong how they were planning to take a trip to the mountains. He'd still like to go, just the two of them. 

Over at the Jang house, all that's left of the family is Fake Eun Joong, Joo Ha and Jin Woong and they're all fighting over who gets to be chairman of the board. 

Hwa Young pays a visit to Tae Ha at the prison. They seem to make their peace and Tae Ha agrees to sign the divorce papers next time she comes to visit.

Real Eun Joong is packing up the Center Pole camping gear in the car. Alone, he takes a moment to break down and cry. Myeong Geun comes out of the house to say goodbye to the womenfolk, who are all trying to keep a brave face. He smiles and waves at them from the car as Eun Joong drives away. Oh, you know that'll be the last time the women see him alive.

Fake Eun Joong goes to the prison to visit with his father. Tae Ha knows the only real reason Fake is here is for the power of attorney. Fake neatly lays out the paperwork, a pen and the pad for the thumbprint. Tae Ha picks up the pen and in the appropriate places writes

Jang Joo Ha

Eat it, Fake Eun Joong.

Fake screams that he'll just rip this paper up. Tae Ha can't do anything to his not-son now that he's in prison. Tae Ha says nothing as there's nothing to say. It doesn't matter if Fake rips the papers up as Joo Ha got the power of attorney from her father already. Fake bawls like a baby.

Myeong Geun and Real Eun Joong are walking up a (kind of crowded) hiking trail. An extremely skinny old man congratulates Myeong Geun on having such a devoted son. 

Myeong Geun and Eun Joong have a nice father and son time around the campfire as they knock back barrels of rice wine. Myeong Geun doesn't want to go to sleep (because he's about to have the Big Sleep) so goes to wade in an icy cold creek to keep himself awake. Eun Joong takes off his shoes and socks to join his father in the cold, cold water. They smile and splash water at each other. Then Eun Joong loudly shouts, "Father, thank you for raising me!"

And that's when I have to go get my tissues.

They make it back to the tent and their warm Center Pole sleeping bags. Eun Joong can't really get any sleep as he's constantly checking to make sure his father is still breathing. 

The next morning Eun Joong is the only one who wakes up.

Time skip (I'm assuming) to the big day when Chairman Jang Joo Ha has the Zeus condos torn down. Fake Eun Joong watches this on the telly at the airport as he and his one bag of luggage are heading off somewhere to start anew. Real Eun Joong watches the explosion from the rooftop of a nearby building. 

Time skip (I'm sure this time) one year later. Real Eun Joong is back on the police force. Hwa Young reopens her law firm. Soo Young gets her old job back. Jo Jin Woong gets released from prison. (No, I don't know when or how this happened. I guess it had to do with the scam he and his dad were trying to pull.) Joo Ha greets him with tofu and divorce papers. She has to make him look twice at the papers before he notices it mentions she wants custody of their daughter which he didn't know she'd had. Joo Ha offers to start over with her husband for the sake of their secret baby.

Real Eun Joong goes to visit Tae Ha in prison and talk about the bread his biological dad has been baking. Eun Joong has moved back home with Soo Young. She's preparing things for Myeong Geun's death memorial. Hwa Young and Ah Mi are also there. Are they still living in the house as well? Not sure. Eun Joong had been reading his father's last entry in his diary. Myeong Geun had felt the love from everyone and wondered if he was worthy of it all.

Afterwards they're all looking through Eun Joong's photo album. He had earlier commented to his sister how he didn't have any picture of him and Myeong Geun together except for that one family photo. Hwa Young, however, points out to her son that Myeong Geun is in every one of the photos, just way back there in the back. So for every important moment in Eun Joong's life, Dad had been there after all.

Ah Mi goes out back to check on the garden. Eun Joong joins her and tells Ah Mi to stop paying so much attention to the tomatoes and start paying more attention to him. 

Zoom! We're suddenly at a church. The guests start clapping as a bride walks down the aisle. There's Hwa Young, Joo Ha, Jin Woong...  

And Eun Joong and Ah Mi. 

They're here to attend the wedding of Go Joo Ran and Kang Joo Pil. Hwa Young happens to glance around and sees standing at the back is Fake Eun Joong. He joins the rest of the cast for the wedding photo. Everybody holds hands. 

Real Eun Joong and Ah Mi stay behind in the church so they can say a little prayer for their departed loved ones. At peace now, Eun Joong and Ah Mi smile at each other.

The End.