Flames of Desire (Flames of Ambition / Yokmangeui Bulkkot / 욕망의 불꽃)

Flames of Ambition

Episode 11

Aigoo!

Come on in, General Nam.

I've been waiting for you.

I always tell myself to pay you a visit, so I'm really glad you came.

I should have come a lot earlier.

Hearing that someone as strong as you collapsed really shocked me.

All your concerns helped me get back on my feet, as you can see.

Here... Let's go inside.

Hurry up and come in, the breeze is cold.

All right, then.

I guess you can wait outside and enjoy the view?!

Always lock the door, and don't let Minjae skip meals.

Yes, Ma'am.

What are you doing there? Aren't you getting ready to leave?

There's a board meeting in the afternoon.

Your mother is looking for you.

So you're going to go down to Ulsan every time she asks for you?

Now she's counting on you and I,

after only looking for your sister-in-law in cases like this.

You can go by yourself, it will be nothing serious anyway.

What's wrong with you?

I should ask you that question.

I said your mother is looking for you!

If you're trying to create a rift between me and my brother, better give up now.

There is going to be a rift between you two, anyway.

What I mean is that only one of you will survive this.

Wow... Nice house, all right.

Thought I'd enjoy my final years, so I spared no expenses.

Are you going to retire already?

If my time has come, shouldn't I?

Chairman Kim.

The reason why I fought off my friends' opposition to grant you that chairman's seat...

is because I thought you were a man of loyalty.

I know.

So can you really be so ungrateful to us?

I wouldn't really put it that way.

You wouldn't?!

Is a handful of rice enough to make a sumptuous banquet?

I poured my sweat and tears into making Atlantic Group what it is today.

And who is denying all your efforts?

I'm just telling you it's time to enjoy your hard-earned rest.

Haven't you built yourself the perfect place for it?

Listen, General Nam.

Don't you think it's time to stop mooching out of our plate?

I see our Chairman Kim doesn't beat around the bush?

Am I wrong?

I'd feel a little shame asking for more food after acting as if this was an all-you-can-eat buffet.

What are you, trying to rile me up for real?

You've had a long trip, so enjoy the view and have a nice rest.

We're full of empty rooms here.

And you can have all the raw fish you want.

Is anyone there?

Here I am, Chairman.

Give our General Nam the driver's room for the night, will you?

But I'd worry about my waistline if I were you.

Keep mooching off of people's plates and it'll be bad for your health.

What am I supposed to do?

Don't you worry.

We have plenty of empty rooms upstairs.

I've had a good look at the house, so I better go, Ma'am.

So how did it go, Dad?

Ahh... La... Later.

Give it here.

Yes, Hyungnim.

Aeri, is that you?

I'm so sorry, Uncle.

I tried to handle this on my own, but...

No need to worry.

I'll show that Kim Taejin who he's dealing with once and for all.

Sorry to bother you, Uncle.

I really apologize.

- Hyung. - Don't say a thing.

Let's go to Ulsan together.

Why would I go there?

Dad and I made a promise,

and since he was the first to break it,

I have no intention of getting involved any longer.

What did you promise each other?

No need to know.

It's between Dad and I.

I'll be damned, really...

I should be the one saying that.

What?

By the morning, the principal you have to pay will double.

Do as you wish, sue me or whatever.

We can't do that to each other, can we?

You know what happens to glass when caught between two rocks?

This is not your average little quarrel.

My father-in-law and my uncle are going at each other's throats.

Aigoo... How scary.

Park Deokseong.

We've had a military junta for over three decades.

He could get rid of you without breaking a sweat.

Want to know how I'd answer that?

My father values money more than his own life.

Even if you bury me alive, he won't even blink once.

Now he even uses his father to make excuses...

First it was your in-laws.

Aigoo... Looks like I'll have to spend some time here.

Mother.

Mother, where are you?

Ohh... I'm here.

So what happened, Mother?

Listen... The chairman is really something.

He started chiding him so bad...

that he had to leave without even saying a word.

It must have really startled you, Mother.

You're all pale.

Do you even know how scary General Nam can be?

Back in the day, he would just slap ministers left and right,

and there was nothing they could do.

Mother, let me help you up, I'll give you a massage.

I'm glad you came.

Seeing you already makes me feel better.

What is there to worry about, Mother?

Youngmin and I will always be here by your side.

So don't you worry about a thing.

All right?

Right.

Let's go.

Is it proceeding well?

Yes, Hyungnim.

Does it hurt?

Not at all.

That new complex Atlantic's construction branch is building is a goldmine.

Can we let someone else steal that event from under our noses?

I will bear that in mind.

Hey.

Ahh... Those fools...

Why bother his face, of all places? Look at all this.

So let's do things right, don't mess up.

Yes, Hyungnim...

How could you leave Minjae all by himself?

Have anything else to say?

We wrapped up things in the US and came back to Seoul...

on May 14 of ten years ago, a Sunday.

And?

Yang Insuk's car accident happened a few days earlier, on Wednesday May 11.

That's quite the memory.

I've read all the newspapers from that day.

A local paper in Flushing briefly mentioned it.

About an unidentified woman involved in a hit & run around Koreatown.

I told you already.

I killed her.

So someone who never trusts anything I say would believe that?

- Was it really you? - Of course not.

But I told you, if you want to believe that, go ahead.

Tell me the truth.

I've read that newspaper, too.

Before we came back to Seoul,

I went to meet Yang Insuk thinking I'd at least give her some money.

I must be out of my mind. Why am I even making excuses?!

So... Did you meet?

We didn't.

I went to her apartment, and the door was locked.

So I wrote a memo and left it there, telling her we needed to meet urgently.

There were no signs of her, so I went looking for her the day before we left.

The memo was still there.

Then I went looking for her again when Minjae went to school in Philadelphia.

That's when I heard.

The administrator said she'd been in a car accident and was taken to the hospital.

I asked him whether she made it alive, and if so, how serious the injuries were,

and he said he didn't know.

He just said this Korean man came to pick up her things and left.

There you go, that is all I know.

So go ahead and speak to me!

If you say no, I'll just have to believe you.

Why can't you trust me?

Do I really look that wicked to you?

The only thing you can blame me for is raising Minjae instead of her.

I only tried to protect Minjae so that she wouldn't ruin his life.

I just wanted to hear it from you.

Hear what?!

That you had nothing to do with it.

You still don't believe me!

I do... I believe you.

I don't care if you love me or not.

But don't take Minjae away from me.

Who ever said anyone would take him away from you?

You still think I killed her!

I said I believe you!

Minjae is all I have... I beg you, don't take him away from me.

Honey...

Honey!

Honey!

Honey.

Honey.

Honey!

Nayoung.

Nayoung!

Honey.

Hey... Don't just sit here.

You're killing the mood.

What's wrong, Minjae?

Minjae...

Hey...

What's wrong with you?

Let go.