Whisper (Gwitsotmal / 귓속말)

Lee Dong Joon, in a ruling which throws his conscience away,

incarcerates Sin Yeong Joo's father, Sin Chang Ho.

Thus Yeong Joo creates a video clip to pressure Dong Joon but

when Dong Joon falls into a trap, she rescues him.

Meanwhile Lee Dong Joon learns his wife Soo Yeon and Kang Jeong Il are lovers

and Kang Jeong Il intends to take over Tae Baek.

Kang Jeong Il sets a trap to catch Dong Joon and Yeong Joo, but

Hyeon Soo! Get rid of it!

Hang up!

Yeong Joo gets rid of the original video file.

Kang Jeong Il, the person in front of you right now is my secretary.

Soo Yeon is going to be arrested for using narcotics.

Thank you for the present, Soo Yeon.

I should repay the favor, since I'm your husband.

There will be an additional charge of being a chronic drug abuser.

Since she's been taking it twice a day for the past several days.

If you want to save Soo Yeon, then hurry up and decide. A detective is on standby as we speak right now.

Mr. Kang Jeong Il, I'll send you your woman.

Return my secretary to me.

Tell him to save you.

Or else, say your last goodbyes.

Narcotics, did you say?

I'm only returning the gift I received. It was too excessive for me.

Dad.

This is an issue between couple. You guys resolve it by yourselves.

Oppa. I don't think the day we waited for is today.

I guess I will have to take a rain check for tea.

Hey, it's a rough world. Let's live carefully now.

You clean it up yourself.

If I leave Tae Baek, then what happens?

He will be delighted. Jang Hyeon Gook, the Supreme Court Justice.

The Supreme Court Justice's daughter had a miscarriage.

In a time so sensitive, her husband was put in jail.

Thanks to you.

How about Soo Yeon? Why did she accept this marriage?

Dad! Help me! It's my mistake.

I am responsible for the leak of the confidential document on the performance test of the body armor,

as well as for hiring Baek Sang Goo.

The corpse has been transferred to the National Forensics Service, I heard. Help me to settle the situation.

Dad, I am begging you!

I'll postpone the wedding between Soo Yeon and me.

Until the case is resolved.

No. We have to proceed with the wedding.

With another person.

Dad...

The day is getting light. Before people can see,

there are a lot of things to cover up.

I was planning to send Jeong Il out after holding the wedding ceremony.

But,

my daughter tied my hands.

Dong Joon, you're going to have to confront Jeong Il alone.

There is nobody at Tae Baek who can help you now.

No,

there is someone.

~ Episode 5 ~

You need to disinfect it at least. There's a pharmacy nearby.

If you had given the right trial ruling, this injury wouldn't have happened.

You must have ruled in a lot of trials in the ten years you were a judge.

Someone received the death penalty. Someone was imprisoned.

Mr. Lee Dong Joon, if you were to stand up in court, which way would the judgment go?

A suspended sentence.

Yeah, Mom?

Yeong Joo, your father is coming out for a medical examination tomorrow morning, I heard.

After they insisted that outside check-up was forbidden, they called to inform me of this so that I could go see your father.

What's going on?

Mom, where is the hospital?

It might be small-scale, but it's a decent hospital.

The doctor is an expert in pneumoconiosis. ( Diseases of the lung caused by dust inhalation. )

Okay, Mom.

Because I am helping the victim, it can be an extenuating circumstance for my case.

I might get a suspended indictment.

Mr. Lee Dong Joon, you are bound to be successful.

Looking at how you have no regrets and no reflection.

I do regret that l didn't rule "not guilty" for the Supreme Court Justice's son-in-law.

If so, there would've been no evaluation for my reappointment.

I also reflected that I should've covered up the embezzlement of the Supreme Court's son-in-law.

If I had done that, I could've promoted to a research officer in the Supreme Court.

By the time I would return, I would've become a chief judge.

Why would they call you that? A judge with conscientious rulings and a judicial officer with convictions.

You are a traitor.

I will not become a traitor again.

Because now I don't have a conviction which I can't even personally protect.

Being tamed, everyone lives like that.

Not everyone lives like that. In a world where his friend who used to share the same road left and his colleague betrayed him,

my father did not bow down (give up his convictions) until the end...

By doing so, Mr. Sin Chang Ho ended up in jail...

Mr. Lee Dong Joon!

You have to get him out. If you are not in a hurry, should I just regret more things?

There is no evidence now of homicide. I suppose we should obtain evidence starting with the motive.

There is a document secured by Reporter Kim Seong Shik.

It was worth more than a human's life to Kang Jeong Il. Although it wasn't his own life.

Choi Soo Yeon has the confidential document about the performance test of the body armor.

Choi Soo Yeon's safe. It must be in her office.

Get the key to the safe. I will look into the reference on the body armor.

I will lead the investigation. Either follow me or get lost.

If I grant your request, then until my back is bent with age,

you will guarantee my sitting at the desk of the Chief Secretary, is that it?

You said the key to the safe was by fingerprint, right?

The Chief Secretary has the authority to access the personal information of the management staff.

Get a copy of Choi Soo Yeon's fingerprint.

Dong Joon, are you going to make the 3-D sample of the fingerprint?

But, Dong Joon, how can you make it without a fingerprint?

How can you change completely in a month?

Sunbae.

Sunbae whatever. A sponsor prosecutor, you see,

catches on quickly.

When this current president's seat is empty, I think the next president will be in that office.

What can I do, Dong Joon?

Oh, I hear you're giving a speech at the World Legal Conference.

Kid, you studied English saying that you wanted to give free legal advice to immigrants.

You really are using it well, you punk.

Lee Dong Joon and Sin Yeong Joo. The video of the two of them is gone now.

The chains to tie up Lee Dong Joon have disappeared.

I will try to tie him up again.

He isn't an easy person, Soo Yeon. For you to handle...

Can't a wife do what she wants with her husband?

Too bad. At the World Legal Conference, Lee Dong Joon,

will experience a nightmare.

2017 World Legal Conference

It's been a long time, Attorney Lee Dong Joon.

Come out of Tae Baek. Help Mom with her work and stay home.

Don't do anything until I come out.

If I do nothing, then you won't be able to come out.

Half of the ministers and vice ministers are associated with Tae Baek.

The police stations and prosecutor's offices are filled with Tae Baek people, too.

That's why I respect you, Dad.

In order to expose the corruption in the body armor project,

you stood up against that powerful Tae Baek.

And so you became a prisoner.

I'm in the process of exchanging prisoners. Wait just a little bit.

Yeong Joo...

Why not just take after his food preferences? Why get his stubbornness, too?

Put some rice in there too.

Drink with me. It's a wine from Bordeaux.

It's good for when you are tired.

It is okay for when you are anxious too.

Fair court, trusted judges.

That's the motto that Supreme Court Justice Jang Hyeon Gook said at the inauguration.

He'll start an all-out internal investigation. Judges who receive bribes from interested parties,

judges who give preferential treatment to the predecessor,

and the former judge,

who has slept with the victim's daughter.

What did you give to the Supreme Court Justice?

Chief Justice Jang Hyeon Gook will probably uncover the face.

In exchange for taking his son-in-law's case at the retrial?

I'm thinking about it. Who is the best lawyer in Tae Baek for the embezzlement case?

How was it? That night?

What feeling would it be?

Spending time with a murderer.

I should wipe off the blood he got on himself because of me.

I promised the Supreme Court Justice

that his son-in-law would get out of jail and that Tae Baek's son-in-law would be going in.

You made a promise you can't keep.

Go struggle somewhere else, where I can't see you.

Supreme Court Justice Jang Hyeon Gook announced that in order to reform the court,

he will implement a service inspection for incumbent judges and former judges who retired within the past two years.

This inspection is targeting incumbent and former judges who are suspected

of receiving bribes from lawyers or victims' families.

Since they're judges who have social responsibilities, if they're found guilty,

they'll be punished severely regardless of their current statuses...

The son-in-law of the Supreme Court Justice. His sentence in his first trial was light.

Because everyone believed the fraud accounting ledgers.

These are the real accounting documents. The embezzled amount is double what has been discovered.

When is your first trial?

You'll be busy. Preparing for the trial and doing the broadcast, too.

Supreme Court Justice cast a wide net just to catch Lee Dong Joon.

I think he is afraid that people will think it is a targeted investigation.

It's a rule that the presiding judge can't even talk to the defendant's family.

Since he spent a night with her, Mr. Lee Dong Joon's future days will get dark.

Mom.

I'm from the Supreme Court Internal Affairs Team. Attorney Lee Dong Joon?

Yes. - Would it be okay if we interrogated you?

From an anonymous tip, we heard that you coerced and slept with a defendant's daughter while you were an incumbent judge.

As far as we know, you won her over by offering to have an advantageous trial,

and you kept a continuous relationship with that woman.

Please explain what you did on the day before your wedding.

Hurry.

Do you not remember?

You had dinner with me, didn't you?

Soybean paste stew with shepherd's purse and you emptied two bowls of rice, right, Dong Joon?

Is that true?

I picked the shepherd's purse

from the back yard myself.

The statements differ.

Someone testified that you were drinking with him until very late that night.

Excuse me, you could be subject to criminal punishment too.

The sentence for perjury got heavier, you know.

Mom.

I got word from the Chief Justice's office

that the Chief Justice isn't feeling well and can't make it today.

That Chief Justice could drive a ball even 230 yards at his age.

He was probably energized hearing that I'd invest in his son-in-law's company after he is released.

I should have a cup. Give me some.

Geez. Why is that body armor issue so upsetting?

You should have made them properly.

You were supposed to supply body armor that could block steel bullets from North Korean soldiers.

But you supplied body armors that bullets just easily passed through.

In order to be a supplier for those, I had to spend tens of billions of won to bribe the military and defense industry people.

How could I make proper body armor with what was left?

Here.