Born Again (본 어게인)

Chun Jong Bum?

Apparently, Jong Bum is a complete psychopath.

(That skeleton got some sunshine on a warm spring day.)

And this is Prosecutor Kim Soo Hyuk

from the Excavation Team of Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office

Is it a wedding date?

It could be the date when he first saw his bride.

I promise I'll help you find your face.

The book that was loved by the mummy

that was tied with a red rope.

You're a med school professor, after all. You're not red-green colorblind, right?

I have red color deficiency.

I can't distinguish blood and organs, so I'm destined to love only the bones.

Is my heart beating for that formalin man?

He's... He's bleeding way too much.

There's... There's blood everywhere.

Kim Soo Hyuk got hurt instead of the girl?

You know that Gong Ji Chul wrote this, don't you?

Chief Prosecutor Chun will get furious once you mention Gong Ji Chul.

30 years ago, there was a murderer even worse than Byun Sung Hoon.

But someone is mimicking him.

(I'll dispatch a detective who knows a lot about Gong Ji Chul for you.)

This is his MO too.

Is that you, Detective Cha Hyung Bin?

I'm Prosecutor Kim Soo Hyuk.

Even your voice sounds like his.

(Chun Jong Bum is the strongest suspect as of right now.)

I'm investigating Lim Hwa Young's death. You know her, right?

You're investigating Lim Hwa Young's death?

Your son, Chun Jong Bum,

is a suspect of this case.

I see a resemblance.

I used to know

a talented painter, and this is where he lived.

(Everything happens as Heaven sets it out to be.)

(My dad told me he'll be able to recognize Gong Ji Chul's eyes.)

Dad, Gong Ji Chul is dead.

You told me you pressed the button to have him hanged.

There's a possibility that Byun Sung Hoon buried a body here.

Over here!

I wanted to see her,

at least once.

Jung Ha Eun.

It's time for "Case Inside."

Today, we have with us the author of "Secrets of a Murderer,"

and the attorney at Gong Ji Chul's trial.

She's Jang Hye Mi, John Grisham of Korea.

Welcome to the studio.

Would it be okay to refer to you as the expert of Gong Ji Chul?

Not really. I've only written a novel...

based on the scribblings on the wall in his solitary confinement.

There's a poem here.

"A bone comes out of a birdcage."

"When it was separated from the world and life, alive,"

"the bone would croak."

"Leaving there its robe of feathers,"

"it walks out, whistling."

This was the poem he transcribed on the day before he was executed.

I see. At the ending of your novel,

Gong Ji Chul is still alive at the end.

Do you think he might still be alive somewhere?

No one thinks that Jack the Ripper or Zodiac Killer is alive,

but we still talk about them.

Gong Ji Chul is just like that.

Isn't that why...

someone would want to be noticed by committing a copycat crime?

Do you think Gong Ji Chul as a psychopath?

I...

have interviewed many serial killers.

But Gong Ji Chul is not a psychopath.

He's not a psychopath?

Gong Ji Chul had...

all the emotions a human being could have.

He could even feel beauty.

He likes to read and loves music.

He was...

the same as ordinary people in the beginning.

"I wanted to live."

I wanted to live.

That woman is alive.

Why is this thing buried here, Father?

I assume you're aware of something.

Father!

That child thought of resurrection.

Who is that child?

Chun Jong Bum?

No, I'm not at school now.

I'm at the museum for remains.

I don't know what he's doing, but he won't come out.

Why are you tying ribbons on the tree?

It's a ritual in East Asia that carries a wish of resurrection.

The body may have died, but the soul will be a butterfly...

and fly away, they'd hoped.

In the national myths of Eurasia, ribbons symbolized...

the border between this life and the afterlife.

(Hosted by Korean Osteology Society, Supervised by Seoyeon University)

The Altai natives hung ribbons on sacred trees...

in this way and made a wish.

They wished their loved one could resurrect back to life.

When I see your face...

at the museum of remains,

sometimes you're like a whole different person.

Someone I don't know well.

But then...

someone I think I might know so well.

Oh, Prosecutor Kim.

I'd like to ask you to accompany me voluntarily.

We found the remains of a baby at Sky Garden Cathedral today.

Remains?

If I accompanied you voluntarily,

would it be as a suspect or testifier?

You'll know when you get there.

What is it?

It's nothing. Please don't worry, Professor.

I'm asking you what this is about.

We should go. You can stay here, Ms. Jung.

I feel so comfortable seeing you here. We should've met here sooner.

Chun Jong Bum. Or...

shall I call you Chun Eun Woo?

You can call me as you wish.

The box that carried the child's remains had your fingerprints.

You buried the box by yourself.

The priest gave testimony.

So do you think that I killed the child?

You're not as imaginative as you look.

Prosecutor Kim Su Hyuk.

Is that so?

Then let's hear what imagination I need.

That child was Lim Hwa Young's.

- What? - Check the DNA results.

DNA...

So you're saying...

The day she died...

she told me something while she was drunk.

That she killed her own child with her own hands.

- So? - And I found the child...

who was buried in the mountains.

Then I moved the remains to the cathedral.

Do you expect me to believe that?

I'm only telling you the facts.

It's up to you to believe it or not.

How did you know where the child was buried?

How would I have known?

- I heard from Hwa Young. - Whatever.

All right, let's say that's true.

Then why... Why did you do it?

You dug up a buried child...

then wrapped it up in a box...

and buried it again in the cathedral. Why?

Did you form a meaningful relationship with Hwa Young?

Or did she ask that as a last favor before she died?

You killed her. Didn't you?

I felt bad for the child.

You felt bad?

I guess you came up with some sort of a story.

But who would believe you?

You killed a woman when you were 15.

Do you want me to read your criminal records again?

You killing that girl back then...

is also a fact, isn't it?

- I don't know about that. - You don't know?

I have a question.

Why did you ring the neighbor's bell before you killed Hwa Young?

The neighbor's bell?

I pressed a doorbell?

But what does that bell have anything to do with the sock?

You pressed the bell then waved the sock.

Someone like you wouldn't have pressed that bell by accident.

Tell me why you set up a witness.

Sir.

The chief prosecutor has called you in.

Jong Bum's fingerprints were found on the remains of the child.

So I'm looking into that.

I don't care whether it's the DNA or the fingerprints.

But you can make up evidence or hide them. You're good at that.

But why did you do it this time?

Why?

Should we call a press conference with the people...

you put up in jail with fabricated warrants and proofs?

Su Hyuk.

Yes, sir.

Are you trying to be my enemy?

Why do people play the victim...

when they are the ones at fault?

That woman killed her own child ten years ago...

yet tell me her dead child is torturing her.

I'm going to throw this away.

So it can't...

torture me anymore.

I'm going to throw it away.

Watch me.

Goodbye.

I've done it.