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Ep 11

Hospital apple scene – the extended version. Mr P wins pre polls(?) by a margin of over 28%. Mr P says, “it’s time to start over again.” (Huh?). He gazes at the plate of apples Mrs P has peeled for him with a resigned look. Camera pans in on the tray the plate of apples is sitting on…and there it is…the blue orchid. Mr P picks up a fork and pokes it into an apple slice. Mrs P looks apologetic (?). As explained by @packmule3, apple in Korean sounds like “sorry”.

Scene change. Mr P walking to an abandoned building with the blue orchid in his hand. Gazes up at the temporary steel stairwell built alongside the building to get up to the roof. He is a solitary figure as he trudges up those stairs. Dead man walking. Voiceover (Mr P) – I know why you married me…scene flicks back to hospital and plate of apples are all eaten. Mr P picks up the orchid from the tray. Voiceover continues (Mr P) – you knew I would die for you anytime without hesitation. Mr P stands up and mutters to Mrs P, “I’ll get going now.” Mrs P looks almost sad/reluctant to see him go. “Stay a while longer.. I am not done eating yet”, she says. He nods. Voiceover (Mrs P as she looks up at Mr P with a slice of apple on her fork) – why did you marry me? You know I wouldn’t have died for you? Scene change. Mr P back on the roof with his orchid, brings it up to his nose and smells it (maybe to dull his senses?), gives a wan smile and heads resolutely to the edge of the roof.

Back at the Park manor. IH has sent Mrs P a package. She opens it and it’s the picture of the 3 children that she requested IH to paint. Mrs P lets out a sob. Voiceover (Mr P) answering her question above – because when I was 12, my dream was to live with you in this house. I dreamed of marrying you, becoming owner of this house and having everything in this world. Mrs P runs her fingers over the face of PJS in the painting, breaks down and cries. Voiceover (Mrs P) – then you should’ve made it happen at any cost.

O my goodness this flicking back and forth is annoying me. We’re back to the hospital again and we see Mrs P saying to Mr P, “…because you failed, my father and I are in danger now.” Mr P walks over and lays his hand on her head, “you and the General will be safe.” Gives her one last smile, picks up his coat and orchid in hand walks out. Voiceover (Mr P) – I told you I will protect you at all cost. Scene change. Back to the rooftop. Voiceover (Mr P) – even if I had to jump off the highest place in the world. And he takes a dive off the roof…camera stays on the rooftop view of the city lights…ominous thud is heard after a few seconds. We see the orchid fall to the ground as well (maybe he let go of it mid flight?). RIP Mr P.

Mrs P at home summons Ms Go (Mean Lady). She’s testing Ms Go. If she will stay true to the cause. Ms Go affirms that she knows the martyrdom of Mr P was necessary to “save everyone else”. She tells Mrs P she’s willing to accept whatever fate is dealt her way. Mrs P tells her she’s never seen anyone as mean as she is so she’s giving her carte-blanche to do as she pleases. No questions asked. Ms Go asks if that means she can kill IJ and IK. Mrs P says they need to wait for a bit because if they are killed now, it would make her the main suspect behind the murders so they need to bide their time.

IJ staring at the laptop with the zero balance. Bangs on the door. “Ms OIJ? Are you home?” It’s the police. She gets a phone call from a restricted number? But she hangs up. What’s the bet that that was Choi? 😑 Instead she dials IK and tells her the police are here for her. IK tells her hang tight (and she’ll be right there) because they may NOT be cops? Huh? IJ says they are breaking in. IK tells her to try to buy time (how??) but to stay on the phone with her. IJ says she no longer has the money with her and blames Choi for taking it all. 🙄😑. Police break in. Read IJ her rights, cuff her and take her away. IJ drops her phone in the process.

Choi driving his mom. They are being followed. Choi tries to lose them. Other car gets the better of them and rams into them. Both Choi (with bloodied head) and his mom are knocked unconscious.

IK visiting IJ in jail. IJ tells her the 70bil is gone. She’s afraid she’s the scapegoat and she doesn’t even have the money to show for it. She blames Choi. IK informs her that Choi was in a serious accident en route to the airport. But she can’t find out which hospital he’s been taken to? IJ asks hopefully if that means he didn’t betray her after all? Duh. 🙄. Then IJ mentions how Mrs P told her to expect payback. IJ asks IK to find out if Choi survived the accident or not otherwise she will worry about him 🥰. IK nods.

Burial of Mr P. Mrs P shovels some dirt onto the coffin in the ground. Mystery old man Jang SaPyeong is there too. Mrs P plays the grieving widow.

IK at their old home. Watching news on her phone. On the 10th of last month, Jin, a bookkeeper in her 30s withdrew 2bil won from the bank. A few days later she committed suicide in her apartment, disheartened by her circumstances. A woman is seen leaving the yoga studio where Jin was a member (footage of IJ with the backpack), carrying a backpack with all the cash. She is OIJ, a coworker of Jin’s. Footage of Interviews of girls in the company. Everyone knew they were close. They seemed like they were scheming something. At Ms Jin’s funeral, everyone else was grieving but Ms Oh didn’t shed a single tear. All she cares about is money. Footage of Singapore apartments. Where only the richest people live. Newsreader confirms Ms Oh owns a 9th floor apartment. Girls continue piling on “evidence” that IJ was acting strange after Unnie’s death.

Mean lady, mean journalist lady Jang (why do all the women I dislike have the surnames Jang? Imma looking at you Ms Winter 😑) and Mrs P discuss how they need more than hearsay/office gossip to convince everyone that she murdered Unnie. Mean journalist says she will make sure that after the trial is over that everyone will think that IJ is the devil incarnate. Mrs P vetoes her. She wants to control the narrative. She wants everyone to believe that IJ and IK were the people who masterminded PJS’s downfall and death. That the sisters used priest Won to set the trap (murder video) because they wanted the money. Mrs P offers Jang the anchor position if she would be willing to twist the facts enough to get the public to buy her narrative. She reminds Jang of her pledge to the JR society and for her to be willing to do all it takes (like Mr P) to further the cause.

Lawyer and IJ talk. You’re looking at 20 years in prison. IJ is stunned. All I did was take some money out of a locker? I would be 50 when I get out? The lawyer suggests, if she was just concealing criminal profits, then it would be a 7year sentence. IJ insists she even returned most of the 2bil? And someone else has the 70bil now. Not her. Lawyer replies that a crime is committed as soon as the criminal act is completed and the court doesn’t care if you return the money or not. IJ lists all the items she bought…ice cream, lip gloss, a winter coat…that’s all I bought? Lawyer informs her that the prosecution’s case against her is for embezzlement. IJ insists she only profited from the proceeds, she didn’t do any of the embezzlement. 🤦‍♀️. Even the lawyer rolls his eyes. He explains this is a high profile case and the spotlight is on them. He explains to her that her act of happily taking money that didn’t belong to her had got the public all riled up. And the court is likely to soothe public sentiment by ruling against her. He advises her to plead guilty.

Trial. IJ admits to taking the money. Prosecutor shows a document on the screen, “this company makes software for bookkeepers. Bookkeeper from the future. CEO Jin (Unnie). Director OIJ.” IJ, “I just let her use my name…”. Another witness is being questioned. A picture of Unnie is put up on the screen. IK looks intently at the photo and frowns? Court is in recess. IJ talks to her lawyer and asks if she can get Choi to testify on her behalf. Lawyers looks at his notes and says, “Choi Do-il is testifying on behalf of the prosecution though?” IJ is stunned.

IJ led out of the courthouse into a mob of reporters. It looked like someone was trying to pass her a note but someone knocks that person’s hand out of the way and the note drops to the ground. It’s picked up again by the original person (don’t recognize who this person is).

IK at home searching for something on her laptop. JongHo asks her what she is looking for. IK finds Unnie in one of the photos from the Bank case. So she’s met her before. At the Bobae Bank victim’s meeting back in 2018. Footage of meeting. Unnie is speaking. She saved up 200mil won and gave it to her mother for an apartment. Bank went under and her mother lost all the money and took her own life. Unnie blames the money for causing her mother’s demise. Money is evil she says. IK and JongHo can’t work out why Unnie would go against this statement and embezzle money from the company. IK thinks it wasn’t the money she was after. Flashback to the victim’s meeting. Unnie gives IK a tip off about Mr Kim CheolSong (this was the nephew that died in the car crash – I forget?).

IK meeting with another one of the victims (?). I think this is a flashback? Or not? Who tells her that Unnie was a bit odd. Everyone else just wanted their money back but Unnie was different. Unnie believed everyone is controlled by money. Unnie had asked him what someone must do to live humanely free from money’s influence? This sounds like Squid Game…I can’t even…🙄😑. Here we go, writer is trying to summon up some sort of moral high ground message for us after taking us on a wild goose chase. Voiceover (IK) – she was planning revenge.

IK visiting IJ in jail (telling her what she’s found out so far). IJ adds to her story. “IK, I think I was the one who introduced you to Unnie.” Flashback. Unnie at the funeral home for death of her mother. She asks IJ to attend her mother’s burial on her behalf because she has to go to Singapore for a business trip. IJ is shocked but after some convincing agrees. They see IK on the TV reporting the Bobae Savings Bank fall out. IJ mentions to Unnie that IK is her sister and how strong her sense of justice is. IK believes that Unnie is the one who told Won SangWoo (priest) about her tenacity. IJ has a minor meltdown and decries how she was a puppet caught up in everyone’s plans…err..no…you freely walked into it and went along with it because of your stupidity? 🙄😑. Sorry girl, I ain’t sorry for you at all. IJ feels the “injustice” of it all and vows to go down fighting. She tells IK that she wants to prove it was Mrs P who killed Unnie and have her put behind bars too. IJ says the evidence is the Closed Room. She tells IK to look up the photos in her cloud storage. She also reveals Mrs P’s MO. That she likes to set the scene for her murders. That Unnie’s murder was a copy of the scene where Mrs P’s mother died. She tells IK about IH’s reveal about the art project. IK finds it on the internet.

IK hunts down Unnie’s father and finds out the furcoat that Unnie died in was disposed off and burnt by the dad. JongHo isn’t convinced. He searches up the fur coat and finds that it was actually sold off online a week after Unnie’s death? How? He just happens to find it after a cursory search? Whatever 🙄. Somehow he’s found it because Unnie’s dad’s phone number is listed as the seller’s number. Wow…I should try that next time. But you know…every online auction place I know hides those numbers…it’s never displayed or searchable like that? Pacifist JongHo assures he he will find the buyer. And he texts the buyer (how?? This is a major privacy breach?).

Mean journalist Jang in an exclusive with someone else trying to discredit the video footage of Mr P killing the priest. Showing footage from a dashcam that it was the Priest who pulled the gun on PJS first and the killing was in self defense. Story was Priest and Unnie were working together and embezzled the 72bil won. IK and IJ wanted to frame PJS with the crime because they wanted to keep all the money for themselves. Footage of IK meeting Unnie at the Victim’s meeting is played. IK and JongHo having a meal watching this all play out on the TV. Another table of men exclaim how they knew it was the Oh sisters all this time and they were greedy money grubbing lowlife. IK bristles. JongHo grabs her hand in his and stops her from making a scene. Our pacifist calms her down.

Mrs P is dining with old man Jang SaPyeong (see…surname Jang again 😂). Jang is amazed by her leadership. She tells him he needs to step up now that PJS is gone. JSP is the last surviving member of the Vietnam Unit? She wants him to run the Foundation (which I guess is just the shopfront for their cult to lure the poor who want to make something of themselves?). She wants JSP to “handle IK” (get rid of her?). Turns out JSP was the most formidable member of the Unit…and knows torture methods. Mrs P wants IK to suffer more pain than she has thus far experienced. JSP wants to know one thing, if PJS really killed the priest? She dodges by saying her brother was insane and didn’t abide by the same rules they did…just like their mom. They head to the orchid room. JSP has brought his orchid. Mrs P plants it back onto the tree on one of the highest branches. JSP gives a satisfied smile and takes a pic of the orchid on the tree with his phone.

IK confronts journalist Jang in the carpark accusing her of lying. IK brings up the fact that Jang received a scholarship from WonRyeong Foundation back in 1997 and that she had poor beginnings too. Jang accuses her of being an accessory to the crime her sister had committed. That she is just as greedy as anyone else. They exchange more barbs and Jang leaves in her car. As IK is pondering what to do next, a black van screeches in from behind and she is abducted.

JongHo returns to the Oh residence…O look, he’s got the fur coat. How? Never mind. He wonders where IK is. He tries to ring her. His call can’t be connected. He furrows his brow with worry.

Mrs P comes to gloat at IJ in prison. She takes out a lip gloss purposefully and waves the colour in front of IJ. IJ recognizes it as the lip gloss she gave IK. Then Mrs P pulls out IK’s notepad and reads from it and shows IJ the handwriting. The penny drops for IJ. IJ screams and threatens Mrs P, “if you hurt IK, I won’t sit back.”
Mrs P mentions IJ’s parents in the Philippines and IH. IJ is fighting back tears and then in pure frustration takes up the chair she’s sitting on and hits the clear partition between them multiple times. Screaming hysterically whilst Mrs P watches disinterestedly. A guard emerges and tries to calm IJ down. Mrs P asks, “was the 70bil worth it? All this pain?” IJ pleads for her to leave her sisters alone. Mrs P replies, “you still owe me 70bil won. You will keep hearing bad news whilst still in prison. And you can do nothing about it. I will make sure you stay alive for 20years.” IJ is taken back to her cell where she sobs.

At the Police station. JongHo reports IK missing.

IK captured. Tape over her mouth. She wakes up. She’s in a room in WonRyeong University. JSP enters. He’s wondering why Gardening News never featured the blue orchid they came to film. He’s picking up all his “tools” of torture as he speaks. He accuses her of being a spy, then brings a scalpel up to her neck. Camera pans on her hands which slacken. Did she faint?

Trial. Choi walks into court and sits in the public seating area and avoids eye contact with IJ. Mrs P glances across at Choi from the public seating. Choi testifies. He claims IJ was the one who asked him for help and requested him to help her withdraw the 70bil from the account in Singapore. Cross examination by defending lawyer who asks him why IJ got him to withdraw her 70bil. Choi claims it was because IJ told him she was afraid because she found out Unnie had deposited that amount in her account and was afraid of the consequences. Lawyer asks him why he then deposited the money into a paper company in the Virgin Islands. Choi revealed the money was then moved across to another paper company in Panama…the owner of which was Mrs P. Mrs P’s face isn’t so happy now as the crowd murmurs. The man with a plan strikes again. Choi takes out a usb drive stating it has all the transactions of the company over a decade relating to a slush fund in Panama owned by Mrs P. Prosecution objects stating that the evidence may have been illegally obtained. Judge asks where the evidence was obtained? Choi states it is his job to manage the accounts using transaction records lawfully issued by banks so I guess it means he acquired if legally? 🤔. Usb is given to scribe (?) who plugs it into her laptop and the records flash up on the monitors. It clearly shows the money being moved. Defence asks, “are you saying that Ms OIJ was unaware that the 70bil had been embezzled, and had rather withdrew the money to avoid being involved in the embezzlement?” Choi replies, “we never share such confidential tasks with a low level employee like Ms OIJ.” Give the man a best unofficial boyfriend award 🥇. Yet again, he takes all the heat off her and absorbs all the blame. IJ looks puzzled. 😂😂😂 KGE is so good at playing dumb. Choi continues, “the reason HwaYoung (Unnie) targeted her was because she was naive and financially illiterate which allowed her to open accounts using her (IJ) name.” IJ looks pissed at Choi’s assessment of her 😂😂😂. Choi, “when the culprits Jin HwaYoung and Shin HyeoMin suddenly died, OIJ became scared and returned the 2bil she had. Even risked losing her job in the process. She also withdrew the 70bil and insisted I take it.” O Choi…👏👏👏🔥. Defence, “are you aware that your testimony may subject you to criminal punishment in the organized embezzlement and establishment of slush funds for Orchid E&C?” Choi…ever the cool dude (even with the faint scars on his face from the car accident) replies after a pregnant pause, “yes I am.” IJ gives him a look but he avoids eye contact and exits the witness seat. Leaving Mrs P and Ms Go looking daggers at him as he saunters pass their seat and sits down on his. IJ is confused with the turn of events. Her lawyer leans over, “my guess is one year in the first trial and probation in the second trial.”

Outside Mrs P is mobbed by reporters asking for her side of the story with Choi’s revelation. She gets into her car without a word and drives off. Mrs P didn’t know that Choi had moved the funds into her account. She claimed she has so many accounts she can’t keep an eye on them all. She thinks he may have fabricated it so she needs to head back and do some research. Ms Go wonders why Choi didn’t keep the money and if he’s doing this all for IJ. Bingo. Mrs P asks what sort of nonsense she’s spouting. 😂.

IJ and defense lawyer in holding room? Lawyer gets a call and walks out of the room to take it. Choi walks in. He sits across from her and smiles softly. What was that? IJ demands. 😂😂😂. Do you think I am an idiot? Financially illiterate? She’s mad. Choi smiles at her petulance. Financially illiterate is NOT the same as an idiot. You got that right lover boy. IJ, “you left without a word then show up out of nowhere and put up a show? That’s treating me like an idiot!” Choi sighs, “I am sorry, something came up.” IJ, “ why didn’t you let me know you were okay?“. Aww… Choi defends himself, “you ignored my calls and texts and when I tried to send someone but you were in solitary confinement.” Flashback to the call that IJ ignored when the police came knocking and the failed note pass as she mobbed by reporters. Lawyer walks in on them. Choi walks out. As IJ is being led away she sees Choi apprehended by Police and charged. He turns to give her one last longing look before he is cuffed and led away.

Mrs P talks to reporter Jang. Who gives her all her options of getting out of jail. Why doesn’t she speak to an attorney instead of a reporter? A man comes running to Jang to interrupt her and tells her IK is on the news? Another exclusive? JongHo sees it too (on someone else’s phone) and runs to the broadcast studio. It’s the furcoat reveal. CCTV footage of Mrs P wearing the coat out on the night of Unnie’s murder and then the same coat being found on Unnie. There’s only 8 of these coats made. IK brings up the Closed Room art project. And the rare blue orchid. All the deaths have the blue orchid left at the scene. Mrs P shakily tries to dial JSP. But who should show up as an “expert” of the orchid at the exclusive? Yeah JSP. Mrs P gasps in horror as she watches on. JSP reveals the Park residence has a tree that the blue orchids thrive on. Flashback to “torture scene”. JSP cuts IK’s tape so she can speak. She somehow manages to convince him that PJS’s dream (greed and power) was not what the original General envisaged for helping impoverished children realize their dreams. And they even killed the General’s son – the priest. So I guess he decides to side with IK. Back to the studio. JSP took a photo of the tree and it’s now displayed for all to see on Tv.

IK finishes her exclusive, walks out of the broadcast building and sees JongHo. She runs into his arms. JongHo tells her he really thought he lost her this time. She apologizes. He promises to hold her tighter from now on and never let her go. Whatever.

IJ back in court. IJ’s final testimony. She admits that when she first saw the 2bil, she thought it was shining. She admits that many people would doubt that she didn’t have anything to do with the embezzlement and why Unnie would just give her the money like that. She admits to wondering herself. She realizes that the moment she saw the money, it seemed to be a compensation for all the poverty she had experienced in her life. She thought Unnie would’ve felt the same way about the money. Because they were alike. She pleads for the judge to punish her for the thrill and greed she felt when she was in possession of the money. She almost lost her life because of the money. And the lives of those she loved most. She now values her life much more than she values the 70bil. Wow…that’s it? That’s the punchline? The money moment? Why do I feel so…err…underwhelmed? 🤷🏻‍♀️. She demands for those who laundered the money be brought to justice. Door to the courtroom opens. Stilettos walking. Her face is blurred. The courtroom is silent except for the stilettos. Everyone gasps with surprise as they turn to see who it is… IJ turns round…and it’s Unnie! With a bandage conspicuously on the side of her neck? IJ and Unnie lock eyes.

END