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(All people, places, organizations, and incidents appearing in this series are entirely fictional.)

Arms.

Next.

Kim Yo Han.

You know, when we went there, we took my car.

I guess the record of it came out.

I'm sorry to say this, but

can you say that you borrowed the car from me that day?

If I stay out of jail,

I could ask my dad to save you somehow.

But if I get caught with you and go to jail,

I'll be the only one who'll be released, man.

Then it'd be hopeless for you.

This is a matter of life and death now.

You, me, and your grandma.

For the three of us to stay alive,

we need Lee Tae Gwang's video in our hands quickly.

Give me your car key.

Hey, here.

Come on in.

Yellow.# (A gangster gets a yellow name tag.)

This is a room for gangsters.

Give me your stuff.

Introduce yourself.

With sunshine.

I'm Kim Yo Han. I'm here for illegal gambling.

This is like a painting.

How did the gambler come to our room?

Hey, you.

Do you know Jang Sun Oh?

I don't think he's one of them.

I don't know Jang Sun Oh. But do you know Lee Tae Gwang?

These are perennial plants.

Orange flowers blossom like a reddish sunset burning...

What's going on?

From now on, we do the asking.

You just answer honestly.

Wrap him up.

The beautiful view reminds you of...

Attention, everyone!

The dean is coming!

With its tenacious vitality,

He still has more time in solitary confinement, though.

Now it's-

Sit down, everyone.

The Crows# are here. (Nickname for prison guards)

- Tools? - They are in the workroom.

Open the door.

Freeze.

Sang 1, Room 8, inspection.

Come out, everyone.

Hey, didn't you hear we're going to inspect the room?

So-called "hyungnims" tattled on me to the correctional department.

What a waste of tattoos.

Shut your fucking mouth.

Let's have a ceremony.

I came back alive even after getting stabbed in my back.

- How did you get out? - What do you mean?

I got to play.

With one bet, even a kitchen servant at the Ministry of Justice becomes Cinderella.

Isn't that the beauty of gambling?

# Shaba Shaba I Shaba# # (Cinderella song for children)

Your tag is not yellow. What did you come in here for?

Gambling.

Right on. Your number is even Yangbang#. (Whatever card comes before or after the card, it makes a Straight.)

Your face has Five Blessings# of a gambler. (Longevity, Wealth, Health, Love of Virtue, Peaceful Death according to Confucianism.)

The living room of Room 8 is clear.

Chicken is here.

Let's go, Chief.

Let's go home.

(Prisoner Record)

He's the Judicial Institute trainee who got caught at the gambling house in Gunae Mountain, right?

Yes.

Unity.

Come and eat before it gets cold.

How are the new guys?

They all seem pretty dumb.

Shit! It's all fried batter and no meat.

How about Kim Yo Han?

He just went into the oil.# (Metaphorically speaking about him as a chicken)

We'll see...

how he turns out.

You take care and do it well.

No accidents in Seongju Prison.

You know, right?

Hey, newbie! You'd better have.

There's this guy Lee Tae Gwang.

Whenever Chairman Yang goes on vacation to Macau, he's in charge of Yang's rolling.# (Keeping his customer happy)

Can you get close to that Lee Tae Gwang and get that video?

Hey, 2345. You have a visitor.

Who...

Wasn't I going to the visiting room?

Go inside.

Have a nice visit.

Hey, 2345!

Hey, Mister.

Are you seeking peace?

You vicious prick!

Our boss told me to tell you this.

First, compensation for the suspension of our house.

Second, compensation for us who can't work and

are rotting here because of you.

Third, compensation for embarrassing us in our line of work!

Including all that, 1 million won per week.

Our boss is telling you to pay that.

- Who is our boss? - OK!

Jo Hae Do. Unexpectedly, he is not all that stubborn.

He understands that there is a limit to your ability to make money here.

That's why he accepts 1 million won a week in installment payments.

So say thank you and bow toward

that direction over there where Mr. Jo is.

What if I say no?

If you say no, then

the supermarket that your grandmother runs.

That supermarket where the land price jumped due to redevelopment. That supermarket.

(Choongnam Supermarket)

- You'll have to hand it over to him. - What if I don't want to do that, either?

If you don't like this and that and everything else,

then she is absolutely of no use.

Forget about the money.

Just consider her gone.

Gone.

You know what that means, right?

Grandma, are you crazy?

Bastard! How dare you come in here?

Get out of my house right now!

I said your grandson, who went to prison for gambling, owes me the deed to your house!

I came here to collect my money.

Bunch of bullshit!

Why would you look for my grandson's deed?

Get out of here! Get out right now!

Does this granny have rabies or something?

Come here.

You got it?

Let this go. Let Hae Do go!

It's over now. It's mine!

Where is it?

Shit!

Hot water.

2345 has financial obligations.

Please send him to the kitchen at 11 p.m. tomorrow.

Gil Sang.

Yes, Hyungnim.

We're going to the sauna today, right?

Hey, hey, hey!

Go away!

Damn!

Fuck off!

You want to croak?

Hey, I'm washing right now!

Can't you clean later?

I'm asking if you can clean here later! Answer me!

Let's use words.

Are you nuts?

I'm sorry I meddled without thinking.

I learned it thanks to my mom.

Hey, newbie.

Stop washing.

Come out.

Certain people know how to take a beating.

Were you a pretty good player outside?

It's not like that.

Hey.

What would you do if I taught you how to make a million won?

Is-is that possible?

Was it two years ago?

Some asshole came in here crawling

and muddied the school# water. (A slang for prison)

That guy...

captured all the guards with this one thing.

That punk doesn't win money

but win people.

Because of him, this is not a prison but a gambling house now.

The winner of this game can be a tiger fur# or a dog fur# here. (Tiger fur: someone with lots of money) (Dog fur: someone who's broke)

I'll pay you the stake, so try to catch his attention.

Then stay next to him and do me a favor.

Then I'll take care of Hae Do for you.

I heard you blew away his gambling house and ended up here.

Don't be scared.

Hae Do is my hoobae. Many years junior.

That much I can resolve on my own.

Think about it carefully.

Got it?

(48th Judicial Training Institute Trainee, Prosecutors' Office Practical Training Completion Ceremony)

- Congratulation! See you later! - Thanks, good job.

Congratulations on being at the top of the class.

Thank you.

Knowing your father, he must be elated.

His son received the Chief Justice Award that he couldn't even get.

I owe it all to you.

Oh, right. I'm supposed to have lunch with my father later.

My father asked me to bring you there.

Your father said that?

I thought I should buy him zzajangmyun at least since he completed his practicum.

You did a good job teaching my son, Chief Mok.

Thank you.

It's a pity that Director Noh passed away like that.

Then now, what are you going to do?

Why don't you come to the Central District Prosecutors' Office from the Northern District?

We have a shortage of mid-level prosecutors.

There's Director Noh's case

and there is that fucking Corruption Investigation Agency.

At times like this, it'd be nice if someone from the 26th judicial class smoothes things over.

When you watch team sports such as soccer,

it's a battle of the strong waists.

You have to be strong in the middle so that

the front and rear can show off 200 percent of their skills

and eventually, the whole team wins.

We need that kind of victory now.

What if...

I say I'd stay in the Northern District Prosecutor's office?

Then I'll have to look for someone else.

How can we live without a waist?

Is there anyone from the 26th class in the countryside somewhere?

But if we do that, you should fill that vacancy in the countryside.

Hey, Mok Jin Hyung.

Aren't you too selfish if you wouldn't even do that?

Bring more pickled radish.

Me?

And also that Kim Yo Han.

Make sure to sort things out on his case responsibly so we don't hear anything strange about it later.

Being one class ahead of you still makes me your sunbae.

You'd better use honorifics.

Or next time, Sunbaenim...

you'll have to go get pickled radish.

As promised,

you'll give me the list of Korea Customs Service employees

who engaged in sex trafficking abroad.

I guess there are various ways to sell alcohol.

But what are you going to do with that list?

For me to sell even more alcohol.

Aren't you afraid of people pointing fingers at you for working with a Japanese man?

I'm just a bar girl. Why would I be afraid of such a thing?

Are you a good person or a bad person?

I'm...

just businesswoman.

Hello, welcome.

Dean, it's been a long time.

CEO Oh, long time no see.

Thank you.

(Transcript)

(Kim Yo Han, GPA 4.5)

(Kim Yo Han, All A+, Judicial Training Institute)

(GPA 4.0 / Overall Ranking 1 out of 864)

(Expelled on November 2nd, 2018)

Do you want a ride to the bottom of the mountain?

No. I just can't stand losing.

I'm the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's security department, Cha Bong Won.

Excuse me.

You accept a deed, right?

It looks like he can get whatever price he asks for.

But he went to gamble with this as collateral?

Congratulations in advance.

Thank you.

Pull up a car.

Where are men's socks?

How much is it for three pairs?

(Choongnam Supermarket)

My gosh...

Thank you.

How do you know my grandson?

I met him for pro-bono legal consultation.

For my work.

What kind of work do you do that you're so gutsy?

Oh, lawyer?

You haven't even visited your grandson because you're busy, right?

I heard it's freezing in prison even in the middle of the summer.

Get 2345 for me.

At it again?

Go.

Make it short.

(010-0757-8878)

Hello.

Grandma.

Dear! How do you feel?

Good.

What about you? I heard thugs keep coming over. Did you get hurt?

Gosh, I'm fine.

How is it there?

Isn't it cold? Or hot?

No.

They turn fans on during the day.

It's cool at night.

They feed me well.

I see.

Grandma.

Grandma.

Why don't you come visit me?

Something's going on, right?

That punk from that time...

He did something to you, right?

Grandma.

Grandma...

Hello, Yo Han.

I think it's almost time to hang up.

Who are you?

Let me get straight to the point.

Your grandmother has been through all the things you are thinking.

Please pay off what you owe to Mr. Jo for your grandma's sake.

What the hell am I supposed to do in here?

Mr. Jo is doing this because it's possible to pay off from there.

Who are you?

We'll see each other soon.

- Bye. - Hey.

Hey!

Shut up.

Go back to your room.

I'll pay you the stake

so try to catch his attention.

Then stay next to him and do me a favor.

Then I'll take care of Hae Do for you.

Yes, Hyungnim.

If you say so, then I have to obey, Hyungnim.

So, if I let Kim Yo Han go,

are you sure you'll give me your Sangju Corporation stock?

Right. Then I'll assume we have an agreement.

I got it.

Yes, yes. Take care, Hyungnim.

Geez, this motherfucker...

It's not enough with just Sangju.

Happy now?

I put a deposit down with this.

And the balance is Lee Tae Gwang you asked about.

As for that, after you finish your part...

I'll introduce Lee Tae Gwang to you after that.

Everything will be fine if you are a good gambler.

It's all about money.

Be a goose laying the golden egg.

Then he will be blinded by gold and get close to you.

When I get next to Jang Sun Oh,

what are you going to ask me to do?

Why?

You won't do this if you hear about it and don't want to do it?

No. I'll do it.

The food used to be too greasy in the past, but it's okay nowadays.

The warden is crazy about gambling, and he lost all his pensions.

The kingpin in the country had bitten off the back of his head

and he was about to die.

That kingpin put his henchman here and opened a gambling house

to collect the warden's debt.

That henchman is Lee Tae Gwang you were looking for.

- And then? - And then...

that Lee Tae Gwang was swallowed up by this freak, who came in later.

No one knows where Lee Tae Gwang is right now.

The freak is?

The freak is... Jang Sun Oh you met yesterday.

If the warden acts as a house owner and attracts customers,

Jang Sun Oh plays as a player.

And they put them

in the positions of Folding Screen, Ashtray, Tail, and Pants.# (Servers, players, loan)

Wait. Then what if the rumor leaks out?

Through released prisoners?

Look up there.

I hear the security manager is a house manager.

All the staff here is in cahoots.

And there are three leagues in total at this Seongju Prison.

The lowest 3rd league is the changing room.

The cigarettes are used as chips here.

Shit! What the hell!

If you play well there,

the staff will take you to the staff lounge.

Why?

- For a dogfight. - A dogfight?

From the 2nd league, it's a cash game.

They sometimes bet on prisoners while watching them playing.

Or they sponsor good players and

share the money that the players win.

All the guards have gone nuts trying to make a killing

while the warden is here.

And if you stand out from there, then where would you go?

You'd go up to the 1st league.

The leading battle in the Seongju Prison gambling house.

Next to the dean of the Seongju school#, Jang Sun Oh. (Slang for prison)

What kind of person is Jang Sun Oh?

Genius.

They say he's a genius who comes out once every few decades in the gambling scene.

Geez, that young punk.

Who is the warden bringing in today?

They are Hanguk University professors.

Hanguk University?

Stop.

Oh, my. What's the matter?

Don't you know that if you screw over the nerds with bets, they'll get a tilt# right away? (Emotional breakdown from losing too much)

These punks!

Don't Hanguk University professors poop?

Do Hanguk University professors have three brains?

Put your hands together.

Gambling is all about spirit. Spirit!

Now, count to three.

One, two, three!

Seongju, Seongju, Seongju! Go! Fight! Win! Hey! Seongju School! Yay!

They're dead.

Hello.

This is Professor Park of Physics at Hanguk University.

Nice to meet you!

Good to see you.

Yes. He's an IT professor.

- Nice to meet you. - Good to meet you.

Here he comes.

Sending a player today, huh?

- This newbie? - Yes.

With 3369's detention money?

(3rd League)

Hi, Hyungnim!

Sit over here.

Check the four cartons of cigarettes.

- Correct? - Okay.

One cigarette is 25,000 won.

Four cartons are

- 20 million won. - A new face.

- Who's his sponsor? - Song Doo Chul paid for him.

Bukyeongpa Song Doo Chul?

Newbie. Good luck.

Okay, the school's out.

Let's play.

Texas Hold'em.

It's in the same family as the Seven Poker.

The difference is that each player is dealt two cards and

other five community cards are shown to all.

Each person gets two cards and makes a bet.

Call.

Out.

Call.

Flop# (The first three of the community cards are dealt)

They bet again whenever the community cards are dealt.

Call.

Call.

Every time you see a card,

you pay for a chance.

For two cards, I pay.

- Call. - Pay.

Pay.

Call.

One pair of sevens.

Wow. You sail a deep-sea fishing boat, but you only catch a trout.

Trout.

If I keep this up, I'll find Lee Tae Gwang real soon.

One pair of Kings.

Good. Let's go.

Raise.

- Die. - Die.

- Die. - Good job.

Out.

Was I in a rush?

All right.

- Call. - Out.

- Out. - Out.

Still not following me?

Then I'll bluff this time.

- Raise. - Raise.

Call this time.

- Okay. - Call.

Call. Raise one more pack.

Call.

How do they know this?

You were going to do this, huh?

Give me some good cards.

9-Double. No, I mean one pair of nines.

Let's see. Call.

Isn't this good enough to go for it?

Raise.

Out.

- I'm out. - I'm out, too.

Call.

Raise two packs.

Raise?

Who the hell are you?

Is he holding higher ranking hands than 9-Double?

Call.

Flop.

Jack, Queen, King, and Ace haven't been exposed.

Three packs.

What can it be?

If the final card is 9, then I'll get 9 three-of-a-kind.

If the final card is 3, 4, or 8, then I'll get two pairs.

There's a chance.

Call.

King.

Check#. (Pass the action to the next player, but keep their cards)

Why did he stall for time just now?

He finishes with Check just in case I have a king?

Then I'll go safely.

Check.

River#. (The final community card is dealt)

Raise one carton.

- What the? - One carton?

If he had a King, he'd have done this earlier.

I don't think he'd pay one carton for one pair of 10.

Or is he bluffing?

Action#. (All actions such as folding, calling, or raising)

Call.

Look at that punk. Call my ass.

He was baiting me with a King from the beginning.

I had a good dream last night for some reason.

That was an easy win.

Why didn't you cut us some slack?

Hey, Kim!

How did you play the game like that?

It's over.

It's over. Hey, what the hell is this?

Are you a philanthropist?

I can't help it.

This field is...

Your prison labor starts with that thing, fucker.

I keep getting a good hand.

Raise.

- Call. - Call.

- Call. - Out.

- Out. - Out.

Raise.

Raise.

I should call this time.

All in.

All in?

All in, too.

What's going on here?

- Three-of-a-kind. - Wow.

Wait. Wait. Wait!

2345.

It's Yangbang.

This 234 is also Yangbang!

Yangbang! Yangbang!

The meat is burning.

Sorry, Hyungnim.

It's hard to win with Western painting# since you only dealt with Asian painting# before, right? (Poker vs. Hwatoo, referring to art styles on the cards)

I'll get used to it quickly.

All right.

Let's start over again.

Why don't we start over and win back everything we lost?

Don't strain too much standing on the edge of the cliff.

People don't die in a fight.

They die because they fight on the edge of the cliff.

Got it?

Thank you.

(Yo Han's Judicial Institute Friend, Hong Jae Sun)

Why don't they answer the phone?

I think it was around here.

Granny.

Granny, please find my home.

Hey, baby. What's your name?

Yo Han.

Yo Han?

I heard that you are busy every night these days?

You enjoyed gambling last night, too?

Where the hell did you get that money?

Our room leader paid for me.

And I'm sure he spoke to your Mr. Jo.

I haven't heard anything from him.

So where is all the money you received?

Do you not have any?

Did you lose it all already?

You should've come to us as soon as you got some money.

Isn't that being conscientious and right?

How about 1 million won for this week?

Don't expect to be treated like a human.

- Let's catch this mutt. - The Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.

Who gave you the name?

My dad.

I see.

What does your dad do?

Hey, mutt. Put it down.

Good boy. Put it down.

Take it easy.

Hey, hey. Get that punk!

Hey! Shit!

- Let go of me. Let go of me. - I'll go that way.

Hey! Hey!

Do you know what your name means?

It means merciful God.

It has a very good meaning.

Only good things will happen to you in the future.

Where are you going?

You'll be a good student.

You'll get a good job.

You'll meet a good person and get married.

Let's go.

Come out.

Hey, 2345!

Yo Han!

If I do this, do I go to solitary confinement?

2345! Detention for 20 days for an unauthorized departure and disobeying orders!

Excuse me.

I'm in the next room.

If you don't like it here,

you could always leave if you have money.

By chance, do you play poker?

You know they gamble in here, right?

You can win money there.

You must have lost money.

Even if it's gambling inside the prison,

you should memorize the hand range#, at least. (A set of hands that either you or an opponent might hold in a particular situation)

You know, the first two cards you get.

They have good or bad rankings.

You need to know that to decide whether to continue the game or not.

I guess you didn't know that.

So, do you want me to teach you?

No, thank you.

2345.

Come out.

(Funeral home)

I'm Inspector Kwon from Seoul Yongmoon Police Station, Criminal Affairs Division.

There's no specific traumatic injury on the corpse.

We assume it's suicide.

(Incident Report on Deceased Shin Dal Soo on Paldang Bridge)

(Incident Report on Deceased Shin Dal Soo on Paldang Bridge)

We retrieved what she had swallowed in her mouth.

(Ownership Deed: Shin Dal Soo)

Can you recognize what it is?

(Ownership Deed: Shin Dal Soo)

You...

Don't you have anything to say to me?

Say what?

I've been thinking in there, you know.

I don't think it was Jo Hae Do.

He's not the type to kill when there is no money in it.

He's too simple.

Then people who know about my house deed are me, Grandma, Jo Hae Do...

But you shouldn't use the deed to your house, man.

And you.

Now that you've been commissioned, you just have to fly high.

But murder?

Why?

And you're still suspicious of me?

Do you know why?

At the temple that day,

I heard that you were targeting

my uncle Chairman Yang and even my father?

Yes.

(Transcript: Kim Yo Han / Practical Training Advisor: Prosecutor Mok Jin Hyung)

Can Yo Han really get out?

Yes.

I did some research.

If you make an agreement with those thugs,

- Yo Han could get out early. - Really?

But the agreement means the deed to this house.

Right.

But what if I go out to deal with them myself and

get the deed to the house taken away?

So I asked them to meet you in front of the Northern District Prosecutors' Office.

I thought I'd bring Chief Mok there.

Mr. Jo Hae Do?

(Prosecutor Mok Jin Hyung)

(Tae Su sunbae's mother)

(Tae Su sunbae's mother)

Why don't you answer?

What brings you here?

That was...

all your doing?

You started first.

Be human about it, and think what goes around comes around.

Then who killed my grandma?

Can you handle it?

Your grandma...

was killed by you.

You killed her, bastard.

You started a fight you couldn't win, to begin with, trusting in your own intellect.

While your innocent grandmother got...

What did you say, fucker?

Don't blame other people.

Just think, "I'm paying for killing my grandmother."

After you send her off to burial, then go back...

What are you guys doing!

What are you doing?

Kim Yo Han!

Kim Yo Han!

- Yo Han! - Chief!

- Are you okay? - Gosh...

What are you going to do with this punk?

I'll take care of it here. Leave.

Doesn't he know that it's all over for him?

Hey!

I ought to!

Hurry up and go!

I'll leave now.

Chief.

What was that about just now?

- Yo Han. - Am I...

still doing the investigation...

Am I still carrying out official duties?

- Yo Han. - Chief!

Yo Han...

If you bear it and survive,

you'll live through it.

Yo Han, I'm sorry.

Are you...

abandoning me?

It's not what you think.

There was a brief setback in operation.

We pray she rebirths in an earthly paradise after she goes to Amitabha's world.

Oh great, compassionate Buddha! Please accept our sincerest prayer!

I'll decide...

whether the investigation is over or not.

Hong Jae Sun might have prepared for murder, but he's not the culprit.

Someone like him would've never gotten blood on his hands.

Sir.

What is it?

Texas Hold'em.

Please teach me.

Why?

As long as human greed is alive and well,

the game is not over.

So why...

Why did you change your mind?

Hong Jae Sun, Mok Jin Hyung, Yoon Byung Wook,

and the murderer who killed my grandmother, still out there somewhere.

I'll finish them all with my own hands.

Why?

Because I'm not...

finished just yet.

# I'm getting tired in the dark night #

(Insider)

# I will stand up again #

# I won't give in #

# Who was the justice for? #

# There was no one, not anywhere #