Original subtitles

[The locales, characters, agencies, and incidents in this drama have no relevance to real life.]

[My Perfect Stranger] [10: Far, Or Perhaps Close]

[Episode 10]

[Motel Entrance]

Some truths...

may be bound to arrive in the end.

Even if they've traveled far and for a long time,

they will still reach the person.

Do you think you can walk?

Let's go to the hospital.

I don't want to.

How much more shameless would that be

to get treatment after getting out by myself like this?

I can't go anywhere...

until my brother comes out.

Yes, you would have thought that.

You probably left your leg like that.

When you were alone in this alley.

But it won't be that way now.

I won't let that happen.

[Grilled Fish & Sake] [Woojeong Village Mokpo House] [Motel]

Geez! Be careful!

Please just go.

I told you to leave me alone.

I have to go to my brother.

If Hee Seop is released, please take good care of him.

Actually, when Baek Hee Seop was dragged in there, I called my seniors right away.

They said they would arrive in 50 minutes, so they'll be here soon.

- It's this way, right? - Yes, that's right!

What the heck!

Geez, what the heck!

- Take care of it! - I'm sorry!

It's Room 204!

Shit!

Of course, I'm aware of the current state of affairs.

But...

Oh, no. I'm sorry!

As you said, there may be no good way in this situation.

However, there's something even those guys can never beat.

Someone who knows the future.

The reporters will arrive soon after receiving a news tip.

Fifteen minutes from now on,

you'll be the only one who knows that everything will be over

if you can last that long in that room.

Send out your brother first, and try not to get hurt the rest of the time.

Stay safe just for fifteen minutes.

For your family.

Yes, I'll do that.

Evacuate.

Was there any torture?

There was torture, wasn't there?

Let's get out.

- Can you tell us what's going on? - A few words, please.

There was torture, right? You tortured kids, didn't you?

Why did you bring in a high schooler? A civilian?

- Say a few words! - Tell us!

Why did you bring students here to the motel room?

Thank you for creating the future that I know about.

[Woojeong Hospital]

Did your seniors return all right?

Since they finished a great show,

they're probably enjoying a fun after-party at a makgeolli restaurant by now.

In the year of 1987,

there is no way it could've been broadcast.

They came knowing that already, and I know the direct numbers of those connections.

So all that falling and rolling around was a show, too.

Oh, that was part of the performance, too. Wasn't it?

So, you saw.

He was cute.

Reminded me of when I was a new recruit.

I hope he will survive...

this horrible world all right. I worry for him.

Goodness. Not only did he survive,

he held the position of the news press director the longest.

The one who looks like a baby bird?

Wow, that's amazing.

What kind of people do you think these two have become?

I wish they could have

started over from this point onward.

They've felt pain and suffered a lot, so now

I hope they can live the kind of life they long for.

They will.

The surgery went well, and both of them will recover like before.

Many things will have changed already.

Return and check for yourself.

What kind of family awaits you.

So, I want to buy you a meal.

Do you have money here?

You have to lend me some, but I want it to be my treat.

I'll pay you back when we return. Okay?

Buy me tomorrow. So I can look up some expensive restaurants.

Yoo Seop.

Senior.

What exactly happened?

I couldn't get in contact with you for a long while.

And now you show up like this?

Does it make sense? Let go!

Does this make sense?

How could you send away a kid like that without any evidence?

Those bastards. You know what kind of bastards they are!

Without saying a word to me!

Don't be ridiculous, punk!

Would such a caring uncle arrest his own nephew and bring him in here? Baek Hee Seop?

Why? Is that different from this?

Oh, I see!

If you had caught the murderer, it would've helped your track record.

But it's a pain in the neck to get involved with a protestor!

You already have a record. Right, punk?

- Wait, wait! - Hold on!

Anyway, I know you're just trying to look out for yourself.

Don't overreact, Baek Dong Shik!

It's embarrassing for both of us, you asshole!

You!

Whoa, come on!

- Get off! - Hold him!

What are you all doing?

- Wait. - Get up.

What's going on?

Oh, things just got a little heated during our meeting.

What a disgrace!

[For the eradication of violence, the disease of society]

Two people just died in this town.

I've been taking you all out to dinner and drinks every day.

Yet you pathetic human beings are fighting among yourselves

while many people are shedding blood and tears after losing their families!

- I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.

I'm really disappointed today.

And as for Baek Hee Seop...

Don't you dare put your hands on one of my students like that ever again!

Got that?

[For the eradication of violence, the disease of society]

Geez.

Chief, we're sorry—

Yes...

Goodbye!

- Geez. - Shit!

[It's tasty if you dip it in soy sauce]

What are you doing?

What's that?

Well... I don't know.

It's twisted breadsticks.

Kyeong Ae really liked these.

Dinner's ready. Let's go inside, Ok Ja.

[Woojeong Village Serial Murder Case Suspects]

He came back for real this time!

- Who did? - Our hero.

I see...

I only have...

two conditions.

- Out of nowhere? - I usually prefer to eat one meal in the evening.

The menu should be grilled cheese toast, and I'd like it between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Second, no interruptions other than that.

I hate losing my flow when I'm focusing on something.

- Okay. - This is on the premise

that it's true you can do this in five seconds.

5, 4, 3, 2...

Okay, I'll fix it for you.

Whoa. You're acting pretty high and mighty.

Once I open the hood, you'll be begging me to let you fix it.

I have two conditions as well.

First. No matter what you see here, you can't speak of it to anyone else.

Second. You will only go in and out of the garage so that my housemate doesn't feel uncomfortable.

I'm doing it for free, and you're giving me conditions?

What is this?

Why? Is something different?

Well, this battery...

What do you think? Is it worth it for you to fix it?

Yes. Hyung.

Now that we started fixing the time machine,

we have to try to finish everything we can before we return.

Catch the ones we need to catch. Save the ones who need to be saved.

For now, the last victim in 1987...

[1987 Murder Case Victim's Personal Data]

Ta-da! Guess how you do this one?

Okay, I'll do it for you. I'll play with you.

- You have to do it like this. - Oh, yeah!

Then I have to do this.

Oh, she's here! Hae Kyeong!

Kim Hae Kyeong, 12th grade in Class 1 at Woojeong High School.

Although we ran out of suspects over there, maybe it's better this way.

It means we can advance by taking a different path that doesn't overlap with the police.

[The People I Killed] We know someone they overlooked.

By chance, do you still think it's not Go Mi Sook?

Because it's only a novel?

The only thing that pointed out Kim Hae Kyeong as a victim was...

There was nothing specific written here.

Was there anything else Go Mi Sook said about Kim Hae Kyeong?

There is.

She told me how she was going to write about the third victim.

I'm trying to lose weight right now!

You gained weight!

- I did lose weight, you know. - You gained.

Geez, whatever.

The main character...

So, Go Mi Sook...

- You made it. - She said she liked her.

Yeah.

Go Mi Sook also knew this full well.

Okay! Now that everyone's here, I'll show you.

- Ta-da! - Wow!

My mom has a side job these days.

She said they give her 20 won for placing the ribbon.

But when they sell it, they go for 3,000 won.

Talk about inflating the price!

So I picked up a few. You can all wear one.

Are you crazy? Wearing the same thing. It's not like a set or anything.

That's tacky.

What do you think?

Is it pretty?

Wow...

Mi Sook, it looks like it's 9,000 won when you wear it!

Let me try!

Looks like there's one extra.

- I'll wear one. - I was going to give you one anyway, Unni.

So pretty!

- Oh, my gosh! - Oh, goodness.

- Unni! - Unni!

- What do you think? Does it look like 10,000 won? - No, it looks like 1,000 won.

You've gained weight.

Let's talk.

What are you going to do now?

About what?

Seems like Baek Hee Seop was released.

That's good.

I told him not to do anything from the beginning.

He didn't listen to me.

Because of that brother of his.

I thought he was going to go blabbering so I tried to kiss him, but

he was taken away in the end.

But I think it turned out better this way.

This is buying me time.

It didn't heal completely yet.

His hand.

M-Mi Sook's friend!

P-Please...

Call her! Please!

That her brother's hurt!

Are you...

really going to frame your brother?

Why do you keep asking me? You're getting on my nerves.

Since Kim Hae Kyeong knew her secret and acted nervous,

Go Mi Sook felt annoyed by her.

Then, she happened to run away from home.

It's true that she ran away from home.

She even wrote a letter in her handwriting.

[The People I Killed]

There was nothing to worry about since she ran away like that.

She told Go Mi Sook that if she doesn't run away with her to Seoul, she will reveal her secret.

- That's why... - By "secret," you mean... that she was the culprit?

Yes.

Then let's just keep that in mind for now.

"Just keep that in mind"?

There are things I found out as well.

The reason Kim Hae Kyeong ran away from home.

[Stella] What a great night!

- Oh, that's good! - Cheers!

The drill instructor?

My homeroom teacher?

Why would we talk about him here?

He liked Kim Hae Kyeong's mother.

And she felt the same about him.

- Here! - Yes.

- Two more beers. - More beer?

- I'll bring you more. - How is business these days?

- Let me hold you. - Oh, my gosh!

Oh, my gosh! Please stop!

Stop right there!

- What the heck? - What's going on?

- Let go! Let go of me! - Wait.

But still! How could you mess up my husband like this? And you're a teacher.

I'm sorry.

I'll pay for your medicine. Could you please leave before Hae Kyeong comes home?

So you do have some shame in front of your daughter?

The audacity to play around with your daughter's teacher.

Don't speak so rudely like that! She doesn't deserve that.

Please, let's go! Mom!

- Please? - Come on!

Geez!

When did you get here?

Did you eat?

You made kimchi soup again that's not on the menu.

What homeroom teacher likes.

I want to eat seaweed soup.

What?

Oh, yes. I'll make it for you tomorrow.

Only make seaweed soup.

If you make kimchi soup again, I'm really not coming home anymore.

You don't actually mean that she ran away because of kimchi soup?

I guess you could say that.

So, Kim Hae Kyeong likes seaweed soup, and the drill instructor likes kimchi soup.

But because her mom ultimately chose kimchi soup...

That's how Kim Hae Kyeong misunderstood the situation.

Actually, for the sake of her daughter,

she told him not to come anymore and cooked kimchi soup for the last time.

But what's important to us is what happened after she ran away. Right?

Not the reason.

If it was before, yes.

Since we thought things like the time and place where she ran into the culprit were important.

But now, I don't want to leave out any possibilities.

No matter what variance occurs, I don't want her running away from home.

But what if this is the last chance for us to run into the culprit?

There will be other ways.

Before that, we need to make sure we save her.

If it was just a misunderstanding, she could easily change her mind about running away.

"Mom chose you and not the drill instructor.

It was seaweed soup, not kimchi soup."

We just need to show her this fact.

[Woojeong High School]

[Let's move forward with self-discipline and creative intelligence.]

- What do you think? - It looks good on you.

Oh, goodness. Are they the four princesses, or what?

Why are they wearing the same headband? All pink, too? So tacky.

Did she like pink?

Well, what about you? Are you a rice cake bar or what?

How can you make such a comparison...

Anyway, what would good-looking people know?

All right.

Are you proposing today?

Yes, today is a great day.

Don't you think you're being too optimistic?

Haven't you thought about getting rejected?

No, I haven't. I will make sure she doesn't reject me.

You might have heard already, but

it's bad enough that people gossip about her running a bar alone as a woman.

But now that she's involved with me, the gossip's doubled.

I can't prevent my heart from having those feelings.

So I've decided just to end those rumors.

For the mother and daughter to not hear those things anymore,

I want to be a protective fence for them.

[Science Lab]

Hello.

[Teachers' Office]

Goodness.

When will he ever grow up?

What is he wearing? Is he a chalk or something?

I heard he got into a fight with a parent at a bar last night.

He got into a fistfight with a parent because he's dating another parent...

Goodness.

Should I just fire him as soon as possible?

You know you're not going to. You only talk like you are.

You're right. How could I fire family? Right?

Yes.

[Teachers' Office]

Hey, I heard your dad was humiliated yesterday.

Are your dad and Kim Hae Kyeong's mom really having an affair?

Hey, what if Hae Kyeong hears?

Kim Hae Kyeong went to the convenience store.

Hey, be careful. Her mom is really beautiful.

Do you want to die?

Kim Hae Kyeong's mom has a thing with the homeroom teacher.

I guess she's not even embarrassed, luring different men, and now she's even with the homeroom teacher.

- What? - Oh, my goodness.

She can't live without a man, can she?

- Hey, be quiet! - Quiet!

That's all right. Sit down.

Page 58.

Did you see my mom luring men? How does that work?

How would I know that? But I saw it. I'm telling you, I saw it!

Kim Hae Kyeong!

That's enough.

- That's enough! - Let go!

- You come back here! - I told you that's enough, Kim Hae Kyeong!

Think of your mom and get a hold of yourself!

This is none of your business! Stay out of it!

You're a teacher. Is my mom running a bar the best you could do?

You punk!

Hae Kyeong!

I'll be back.

[Arcade]

[Stellar: Draft Beer Specialty Store]

[Stockholder of Malt Liquor]

No, that's okay. Go inside.

What?

Go inside. Go.

You just wrote a letter to your mom, didn't you?

H-How do you know that?

Look at the way you're dressed.

That's what runaways look like.

Go inside and bring it back here.

Should I bring it?

Oh, geez.

"Mom, I really hate that I was born as your daughter.

You must feel that way, too.

So let's not see each other until we die.

- Let's live our separate..." - Oh, stop reading it!

I only read it nine times.

If you left this behind,

your mom would be heartbroken after reading this a thousand times in her life.

Why? It's hard for you already?

Where are we going?

You won't want to go home right away.

You're supposedly running away, so you should at least get some fresh air.

Oh, here it is.

Get on.

Teacher.

Teacher.

What?

I was wondering if I could leave early.

- My reason is... - You can go.

Thank you.

Sit down.

This is a one-day field trip.

Looking at the 300-year-old tree.

What's so special about it?

Do you know how long 300 years is?

There must have been many floods and droughts throughout that time.

But it's still here, withstanding it all without being swept away.

All those years.

All trees are like that.

Well, probably because they're trees.

But what about people?

I know a little about that.

Someone who lived like this tree.

[August 2013]

[Please help find my daughter: Kim Hae Kyeong]

Thank you.

Thank you.

- Here. - Yes.

- Oh, you gave this to me last time. - Thank you for taking it.

- Thank you so much. - Yes.

[December 2015]

- Yes. - Thank you.

Thank you.

[August 2020]

Senior, thank you for the meal.

- Thank you! - I'll treat you again next time.

[Please help find my daughter: Kim Hae Kyeong]

[October 2020]

Goodness. Goodness!

Are you all right, ma'am?

Let's get up.

Thank you.

Is it really all right not to go to the hospital?

Oh, I'm all right.

Thank you.

But you should still rest...

While I'm resting...

what if my daughter comes during that time?

What if she comes after hearing that I'm here looking for her

and then leaves disappointed when she can't find me?

Others tell me that she's probably dead, but...

I don't believe that.

I...

only believe the letter...

my child wrote for me.

I believe she hates me so much and despises me

and that's why she's hiding and living somewhere.

I really hope she is.

I hope she continues to live well like that.

Then before I die,

just once... even if it's just once...

it would be nice...

to see her face again.

I'd tell her that her worthless mother is sorry.

But...

I really... really...

missed her so much.

She spent 40 years like that.

In that same spot.

Regardless of rain or snow.

And then she passed away in the end.

Without ever seeing her daughter's face again.

I wasn't going to stay away for that long.

I know.

But why?

Why are you running away?

Didn't you get in a fight because of your mom?

Just hate the person who talks nonsense.

Why hate the person who's the target of that nonsense?

When you don't even hate her.

Soon Ae?

Yoon Young.

How did you get to come now?

What about school?

I left early. I thought I'd find you like this.

Did you eat?

I'm okay.

There's no one here in our house, right?

Yes. Did your parents both go somewhere?

They went to the police station because of sister's corpse.

We need to have a funeral, so to find out what's taking so long.

Baek Hee Seop has been safely released.

Where is he now?

How is he?

Is he hurt anywhere?

Do you want to see him?

[Elevator]

Why did you guys come here?

I only want to show you when I'm handsome, that's why I wanted hrivacy.

You mean privacy...

Because I hurt my head...

Why didn't you say anything?

If you had told them you were with me, they wouldn't have taken you away!

But that's your hrivacy!

I mean, privace!

You idiot.

You can't even remember what I just told you.

Soon Ae.

There's nothing you did wrong.

When you lose someone you love,

it always becomes like that.

"Would things have been different if I did this?"

"Or if I had done that?"

Everything seems like my fault.

But that's not it.

There's nothing you did wrong that night.

You know I saw it myself.

There was nothing.

♫ Susan, I love you ♫

♫ Without regrets, I love you ♫

♫ Susan, I can't forget you ♫

♫ Susan, the one more precious than my life ♫

♫ Susan, the chilly winds are blowing ♫

♫ Susan, as dusk approaches ♫

♫ Where are you right now, all lonely? ♫

[Stellar]

♫ Why don't you come to me? ♫

[Arcade]

Hurry up and go inside.

Go and see what your mom made for you.

Oh, my baby's here.

You didn't eat, right?

I made you seaweed soup.

Come here.

Sit down and eat.

I don't know if it tastes all right.

Let's see.

Here.

Didn't you make kimchi soup?

What?

Oh, yeah. I made that, too.

But he didn't come.

He said he wouldn't come by anymore.

I was going to tell him not to come anymore.

It's true.

I was going to tell him that today, but...

he said he's not coming anymore.

That's fine.

All I need is you, Hae Kyeong.

Even if you don't run away now, you'll leave her soon enough.

When you turn 20, you'll be independent and go off to college.

You'll date, work...

and before you realize it, your mom will be old and alone.

Only waiting for you.

Isn't that too much of a burden for you?

Even the things that made you annoyed and angry up close

will all become sad when time passes and

you look from afar.

That's how it is.

He didn't come because of me.

My homeroom teacher slapped me earlier today.

That crazy bastard!

I badmouthed you, Mom.

That's why he couldn't come.

Tell him to come by again.

Honestly, I don't like seaweed soup that much, anyway.

Eat up.

- Is it good? - It's yummy.

[Stellar]

Some truths...

may be bound to arrive in the end.

Even if they've traveled far and for a long time,

they will still reach the person.

There was one thing... about my mom that I really didn't understand.

She always said she hated him, but she'd prepare a huge spread for Dad's birthday

and worry that I wouldn't show up.

I used to wonder, "What's so great about him that she couldn't let him go?"

But after seeing them today, I could understand a little bit.

During the most difficult time in her life,

he comforted her by her side.

Did you see that they sell eels for 2,000 won?

When you pay me back, be sure to consider inflation.

Here.

You should've taken me to a nicer spot. I wanted to buy you an expensive meal.

Later on. In the future, you can.

Oh, yeah!

I know a great place.

Let's meet there one day.

I'm not the kind of person who just goes anywhere.

Yeah, you seem like it.

I know you like places where heartless people who don't enjoy the sweet and salty go.

Good ingredients, mild, healthy, expensive foods, and tasteless foods.

I see.

You know me well.

Just wait. Well, about 34 years.

Here is the eel.

Thank you.

All right.

Try it.

Spicy, salty, and sweet. A dish you know who really loves!

It's really good!

Please enjoy.

Do you want to try one?

You won't have one? Yeah, you won't.

I'll eat it all.

Be careful. You might fall doing that.

It's really refreshing!

This is what's nice about the countryside.

All right. Come out now.

Did you see that just now? My sense of balance?

I saw it. I saw it, so come out now.

If you fall there, you'll crack your head.

Wasn't once enough?

Can't you come in just once? It feels really good.

No, I'm never going in.

Why not? Just once!

I don't want to.

♫ No matter what anyone says, no one knows my heart ♫

♫ I wish he would speak with the deepest voice ♫

♫ Enough, enough, without being greedy ♫

♫ Since I can gaze at you ♫

You should come in.

But I don't want to.

♫ Please give me your heart ♫

♫ In the warm and dark nights ♫

You should come in.

♫ If you tell me that ♫

♫ If you do ♫

♫ That you love me ♫

By chance, are you sleeping?

All of a sudden?

♫ Then... ♫

My gosh...

♫ If by chance, you don't want me ♫

So indifferent.

Very consistently indifferent.

I knew it the moment you were asking if I'd be comforted if you were gone.

♫ If you would see me at some point ♫

♫ I think I can endure thanks to that ♫

♫ Give me this night ♫

So annoying.

♫ Fill up my embrace with hot and dark nights ♫

What a menace. That's going to be a problem.

♫ If you tell me that ♫

♫ If you do ♫

♫ That you love me, those painful words ♫

♫ If you tell me that ♫

♫ If you do ♫

I'm sorry I'm a little late.

Someone was playing in the water for some time.

Geez, you scared me. When did you come in?

I even knocked. Eat.

Thank you.

What time is it?

10:00 p.m.

What, 10:00 p.m.?

Oh, no! The movie's at 9:30 p.m.!

- Movie? - Yeah.

What was it? "O-Our Happy Youthful Days"?

Where did I put it? She told me not to be late!

I'm going!

[Year 2020]

You collected all these?

Oh, yeah. Just...

All the movie tickets from when we were dating.

I didn't want to just throw them away.

With Mom?

Yeah. You know...

What was the first movie we saw together again?

"Our Happy Youthful Days."

I didn't get to watch it because I fell asleep.

I get sleepy whenever I watch a movie.

[Ticket: "Our Happy Youthful Days," May 20, 1987, 21:30]

[Woojeong Spot]

[Woojeong Theater]

Why did I come... here?

[Our Happy Youthful Days]

What would I do even if I saw anything?

So what if I found out who it was now?

What kind of person was she?

My mom. [Year 1994]

Grandpa, what kind of person was my mom?

Your mom left town the night she gave birth to you.

Even when your cheeks turned red from crying,

she left without even holding you once.

She thought you were a stain on her life.

So... don't be curious or wonder about her from now on.

- Oh, that was good! - Yes, it was.

[Woojeong Theater]

Some truths may be bound to arrive in the end.

[Woojeong Theater]

Even if they've traveled far and for a long time,

they will still reach the person they're supposed to.

Mr. Yoon.

Hello.

Then, why now?

How can it be you?

♫ When everything seems far away ♫

♫ In that passing hour ♫

♫ Holding the hand reaching out to me ♫

[My Perfect Stranger]

- Did you see the bookstore on the way? - Of course, I did!

I was so shocked to hear Go Mi Sook is a novelist!

I was wondering why women who like books were that way.

I can't stand the way they act like they're special.

All this time, the biggest question for me was this sentence.

"A woman who reads is dangerous."

This could be a kind of warning.

Don't lie even in front of me!

I'll tell them everything.

Soon Ae, why are you being so annoying?

Keep acting up, and you'll end up like your older sister.