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[This drama is a work of fiction.]

[Any resemblance to real persons, places, or events is coincidental.]

[Scenes with child actors and animals were filmed safely]

[under professional supervision.]

[Episode 9]

Sang Ah.

Director Lee asked me to give you this.

[100% real, not edited, not manipulated, not AI]

[Private video scandal spreading in real time]

[Shocking footage of Chu Sang Ah leaked]

[Is this the end of Bang Tae Seop's political career]

[Her husband's in politics? Unbelievable]

Voting in the 22nd National Assembly election closed just moments ago at 6 p.m.

We'll soon begin counting the ballots to see where the public's choice is headed.

Let's go live to the counting site and check in on the situation.

Reporter Jeon,

how are preparations for the count coming along?

Hey, Reporter Hwang. Lean into the Son Guk Won story.

This shouldn't get buried over some tabloid scandal.

Get it everywhere. Damn it.

This isn't just gossip right now.

Think about it.

With a scandal like this, something we've never seen before...

Who's paying attention to politics?

Hey.

And on top of that...

Looks like Son Guk Won's people stepped in.

The higher-ups are already killing the story.

Anyway,

that's as far as I can go.

Hey.

You've got media in your pocket.

Since when do you play by the rules? Damn it.

Hey!

Hello, sir.

Do you think this election is a joke?

You promised to save that card for the big stage,

and you just played it whenever you felt like it?

You don't care what happens to the party, is that it?

No, sir. I'll clear this up and fix it.

- I will... - Save it.

I'll set up a press conference, so keep it clean.

This is so embarrassing.

Mr. Kwon.

I need you to cover for me...

The number you have dialed is unavailable...

Damn it! I'll kill them!

Fuck!

I'll kill every last one of them!

I'm pulling out.

Is candidate Bang Tae Seop inside?

How is he responding to this?

Assemblyman, what's your take?

The momentum was on his side.

No one saw a reversal like this coming.

Bang Tae Seop's camp popped the champagne way too early.

At this point, his political career is over.

I see. As you said,

a camp that was so confident about winning must feel like a funeral now.

It was a knockout blow.

Public opinion flipped before the campaign even had time to respond.

What did I tell you?

Nothing beats a sex scandal.

I'll keep that in mind.

Now you can cruise all the way to the Blue House.

- Have a drink. - Sure.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Let's take a look at Dongnam-gap, where things took a dramatic turn.

Candidate Park Hong Jip, with 64.5%...

is projected to win.

Who the hell are you guys?

Yes, sir. I'll put him on.

Hey, Bang Tae Seop.

You look pathetic right now.

Hell, so do I. Damn it.

Sir, well...

I'll get this under control first...

Save it.

As of today, that investment is now your debt.

Pick up your phone

and pay it all back in cash.

[No. 2, Bang Tae Seop]

It's a one-way ticket for tomorrow.

I had a box sent to your place, so it should be there by now.

You're done here. Get lost, and don't come back.

If it weren't for us, you'd be rotting in prison.

So keep your mouth shut and leave.

You've got it wrong.

You didn't catch me. I was set up.

Tell Director Lee Yang Mi this.

She'd better stay away from Chu Sang Ah.

What's got you so confident...

You've got something, don't you?

Sang Ah.

Hwang Jeong Won was a mole.

It was all Choi Ji Ho and Director Lee Yang Mi.

And when Jeong Won got pinned as the killer, she dragged you...

Hey...

I'm hanging up.

Say something.

Anything.

I know anything I say right now

will sound like an excuse...

but that night, I wasn't in my right mind.

I think Hwang Jeong Won drugged my drink.

I don't remember anything after that.

Aren't you going to apologize?

I'm sorry.

So in the end,

you think this is my fault. Right?

Then you should apologize to me too.

That tax evasion setup Director Lee staged back then...

You knew about it, didn't you?

If you'd told me then, I could've handled it somehow.

Were you really just looking out for yourself?

Everything that's happened to me...

I thought I deserved it.

I thought it was the price

I had to pay for hurting people,

for stepping on them just to survive...

for never apologizing.

So yeah... it hurt.

But in the end, I was the one who got played.

When I was falling apart, when I was at my lowest...

you couldn't even say it wasn't my fault.

That I'd already paid the price.

I'm sorry.

Is that enough?

Go to Lee Yang Mi and beg her.

- What? - We can't beat her.

We can't! Damn it!

Get on your knees if you have to, just please!

It's your pathetic pride that got us here!

Hey.

Do you even know

what I've been trying to protect, putting up with all this crap to stay here?

What? Pathetic pride?

Pathetic pride?

You think

I came this far, getting stomped on like this,

just to sell you out and save myself?

Hey!

Do I

even matter to you?

Do you ever even look back when I call your name?

Do you have any idea

what it's been like for me,

standing next to you all this time?

How lonely it's been, watching you.

Did you ever think about that?

And this is my fault?

Even then...

I was trying to hold on to us.

I kept holding on, and holding on.

And you...

how could you say that to me?

Right.

In the end, you just wanted me.

Didn't you?

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go, damn it!

Yeah...

Maybe...

we should die.

We should just end it.

Maybe that's better.

I can't imagine my life

without Chu Sang Ah.

It wasn't easy being with her.

It was the best decision and the biggest risk of my life.

[Murder and tax evasion: an actress with both charges]

We made a promise.

To be the best partners for each other.

But it turned out

to be the worst decision he ever made.

Their marriage, dressed up like the romance everyone dreams of,

was really a sham hiding something far uglier.

[Together with Changjo Party]

I'm sorry.

I know it may sound like an excuse,

but that video was manipulated.

I'll do everything I can

to contain this and keep the party from taking damage.

Please,

please give me one last chance...

We've already...

explored every option on our end.

This is the best we can do.

[Bang Tae Seop to announce departure from the Changjo Party]

Damn it!

First,

I sincerely apologize for the disappointment

and confusion my personal conduct has caused

the Changjo Party, its members, and everyone

who supported my campaign.

This is entirely my responsibility

and stems from my personal conduct.

[Bang Tae Seop to announce departure from the Changjo Party]

[Chu Sang Ah scandal and Hwang Jeong Won]

Get the hell out of here.

You're heading to Chu's place, right? What's your relationship?

The public has a right to know.

What? Just get lost.

Get that camera out!

Just one comment, please.

Hey.

Worry about your own wife first.

Take a good look at yourself.

Hey, I'm calling the cops for trespassing!

I knew from the start

this marriage was a mistake.

I knew

you'd stab him in the back,

one way or another.

So why didn't I stop it?

Because even though he's my brother,

I've never once been able to beat him.

Just blame me.

Yeah, I will.

I came here ready to tear into you.

For ruining my brother's life while he was out there fighting for it.

I was ready to rip you and that other bitch apart.

My gosh...

Look at you. Look at this place.

Seems like the damage is already done.

What's the point of me going off now?

Just stabbing a corpse at this point.

The only thing I'd get is a sore arm.

So...

why...

Why...

You're a bitch,

but you were...

filmed without your consent.

You are a victim.

Still, be ashamed.

Be ashamed enough to want to die.

Hurt like hell.

You're not just anyone. You're a public figure.

This is yours to carry.

So take the punishment. Take all of it.

But,

don't go talking about

dying again like last time.

If you die, I'll dig you back up myself

and drag you out.

Just grit your teeth and live.

Live through it, and make it right.

Got it?

It's your birthday, isn't it?

What a damn way

to be born.

He

probably

saw himself in you.

In a world even your own mother walked away from,

all on your own,

you fought like hell just to survive...

That's who you are.

[Lee Yang Mi]

What are you waiting for?

You're thinking about where it all went wrong, right?

That you shouldn't have walked in here that day.

Shouldn't have played the Nam Hye Hoon card.

Shouldn't have teamed up with that idiot Kwon Jong Uk...

Yeah, a lot's probably going through your head.

But hey, you're wrong.

It's not any of that.

The worst decision you ever made was marrying Chu Sang Ah.

The best one I ever made was marrying Kwon Se Myeong.

Now do you get it?

This is your last chance.

Your call.

Let's die together

tonight.

Have you lost your mind?

It's not fair dying alone.

But before that, let me ask you one thing.

Why go this far?

Sang Ah...

Why are you so set on dragging her all the way down?

Because that's all you have left.

Out of everything you have,

that's the only thing worth anything.

Damn it.

You think this is rock bottom?

You think this is the end?

Don't be ridiculous.

You want to die?

You really think you can go through with it?

After humiliating yourself?

I know exactly who you are.

You knew this was your last shot when you walked in.

So think it through.

What you do right now decides everything.

Your life. And Chu Sang Ah's.

Got it?

It's Chu Sang Ah. She's coming out!

How did we...

end up as monsters?

Bang Tae Seop...

I'm not letting it end like this.

Could you comment on the controversy?

I'll use every means I have to bring Lee Yang Mi down.

Just one statement, please.

I'll take back everything you lost,

and everything that was taken from me.

- Chu Sang Ah! - Wait!

Chu Sang Ah!

Just a moment!

Sang Ah!

You're just like me.

We're the same kind.

I know exactly

what you're capable of.

You do it your way.

I will do it my way.

[You do it your way, I will do it my way]

Let's see this through. Each of us, to the end we want.

This is the ancestral grave of Gu Hong Seo,

Son Guk Won's only real rival.

Your task is

to cut off that family line for good.

This is no different from putting a hit on the dead...

so you have to drive it straight into the skull and the heart.

That's the only way to end it.

But

you'd be going against the natural order of life and death.

Whoever does it will have to pay a price.

For example...

someone closest to you might take the hit.

[Missed Call] [Chu Sang Ah]

[To: Bang Tae Seop, 701, 27-9 Gachan 1-dong, Dongnam-gu, Seoam-si]

What are you doing?

Is this what you got for humiliating yourself?

Watch your mouth.

I'm giving you this for everything we've been through.

I'm leaving.

Don't come looking for me.

You messing with me right now?

Do you know what I've done for you?

You think I'll take this and just walk away?

Stop doing this kind of shit

and start living like a decent person.

I'm also starting over

somewhere no one knows me.

What, you think you're somebody now

because you've been hanging around Chu Sang Ah?

Don't bullshit me.

Woo Sik...

Where are you going?

Running away?

You're the only proof left that Lee Yang Mi did this to me.

And you're just going to walk away like this?

Yeah, maybe your life got messed up because of me and Bang Tae Seop,

but if you run now just to save yourself,

I'm done.

You came here knowing everything, so go ahead.

Make your excuses.

There's nothing to explain.

You just got unlucky...

meeting someone like me.

That's what ruined your life.

You didn't know I was this kind of person?

I've had blood on my hands just trying to survive,

spent my whole life screwing people over.

And you thought there was something real in me?

Maybe.

But I meant it.

Even if

it was just for a moment.

One last favor.

I'm going to use everything I have to take Lee Yang Mi down.

So everything you saw,

everything you heard, everything you know.

Anything I can use to go after her, lay it all out.

You and me...

if we go any further,

it won't just end with us getting hurt.

So stop. Right here.

Did I

really want you dead?

I'm already dead anyway.

When Ji Soo died like that, something in me died too.

Living like this...

it's no different from being dead.

So even if I break, I'm taking her down with me.

Please...

Just stop. Please!

Please.

Yeah.

We've become monsters.

- Oh, no! - No!

Jeong Won...

Go after him.

Jeong Won...

Jeong Won... look at me.

What do I do?

Wait...

Jeong Won!

Look at me.

Stay with me...

Please, stay with me.

Jeong Won...

Please stay with me.

Please...

Jeong Won...

Jeong Won.

Hey...

Jeong Won.

Please.

[Sang Ah]

The number you have dialed is currently unavailable...

Sir, are you Chu Sang Ah's husband?

Yes...

what is it?

So

you're saying a man in his 30s,

wearing a black top, stabbed Hwang Jeong Won and fled.

You didn't get a clear look at his face?

Disappointed it wasn't me?

It wasn't me, damn it!

- Hey, keep it down. - Let go!

- It wasn't me! I didn't do it! - Be quiet!

- Quiet. - Hey!

You know it wasn't me. You saw it.

- Shut it. Move. - You saw it!

- Move. - Hey! Chu Sang Ah!

You saw I didn't stab her!

Hey! Chu Sang Ah!

What are you going to do now?

It's not him.

I know it.

So what?

You think stepping in now helps you?

Don't get dragged into anything else.

This is as far as it goes.

A rookie actress, identified as Hwang, has been killed by a stalker.

Nine years ago, she was charged with attempted murder of her mother's partner,

and is believed to have concealed her past to pursue an acting career.

The suspect was arrested at the scene.

He had been stalking her since last year

and has multiple prior convictions for violence,

[Ms. Hwang brutally killed after fight with ex] including several arrests.

Meanwhile, based on the bundles of cash found in a bag in the car,

police are not ruling out the possibility that

this was a contract killing, not just a stalking crime.

[The media covered it all up. Right? Acting while hiding a murder conviction...]

[The agency casts a convicted murderer as the lead? Oh my]

[Why do people like this keep showing up?]

[Hwang Jeong Won, 26, deceased]

Darn it.

Excuse me.

What is your relationship to the deceased?

Why?

If there's no next of kin, she'll be listed as unclaimed.

I'm her next of kin.

Then please sign here.

[Relationship to the deceased: Next of kin]

[Resident Registration Card, Hwang Jeong Won]

[To: Bang Tae Seop, 701, 27-9 Gachan 1-dong, Dongnam-gu, Seoam-si]

What's got you so confident...

You've got something, don't you?

Remember when I worked under Bang Tae Seop as a mole for the prosecution?

If I spill what I've got,

we all go down together.

Kill Hwang Jeong Won.

[Dark web screenshot of Choi Ji Ho]

This is the USB Hwang Jeong Won sent before she died.

It has CCTV footage of the man who killed Park Jae Sang,

and call records between the person who ordered it and the broker.

[Call Records]

Is this blackmail, or loyalty?

What does it look like to you?

Well...

Either way, it's not hard evidence.

Well...

It'll definitely get an investigation moving,

and it'll be a headache for you.

So

besides getting into Son Guk Won's camp, what else do you want?

Clean up the leaked video.

And get Sang Ah's film released.

That's almost touching.

After everything,

you still have feelings for her?

Until I make it to the Blue House, my trophy needs to stay spotless.

This is why I took you in.

You really are

a filthy bastard.

You don't actually believe

there's such a thing as a decent man,

do you?

You're risking all that for what?

I'm cutting Lee Yang Mi loose.

What if I jerk the wheel?

You're going over the edge. It's only a matter of time.

Medical malpractice. Soliciting murder.

It'll be the most shocking story of the year.

You didn't leave anything behind, huh?

Make it look like suicide.

I'll turn WR to dust.

The real owner of WR

is about to change.