Sisyphus (시지프스 : the myth)

ALL NAMES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND INCIDENTS IN THIS DRAMA ARE FICTIONAL

Are you on your way?

Don't rush me. I'm coming.

Do you even know where I am?

You've been hovering around me all this time.

What are you? My employee?

That's right.

Hurry here and finish coding. And that will be it.

You stay right there.

This time, let's really put an end to this.

Will you be all right, though? You'll die.

No, I won't go that easily.

The nuclear bomb will go off tomorrow.

You know, there's one thing that made me very sad.

That I couldn't witness the amazing explosion firsthand.

Tae-sul, do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for this day?

Hey, Sigma. Stop, that's enough.

Even this time, you won't see it, so don't get ahead of yourself.

Had I known I'd have to find you again, I would've just shot you that day.

You were really fast when running away in tears.

You should've become a professional runner instead of an artist.

Then you probably would have turned out all right.

Did you just scoff? What the hell?

I'm dead serious right now.

Some people just never make it no matter how hard they work. That's you.

-Keep babbling away. -Are you upset?

Nothing would've happened had you kept your mouth shut.

You're still playing the blame game in this situation?

This is why you can never make it.

You were like this even as a kid.

You tried to blame everything you did and even your guilt on me.

The same goes for all your hate comments.

You think you're better than others and that everyone else is wrong.

This nuclear war?

You want to say that's also my fault, don't you?

What? Go on and say it.

Why are you all quiet? Answer my question.

-You're one to talk. -Me?

Why? I never blame others for my mistakes.

-You're-- -That's why people hate you, you bastard.

Shut up!

You're changing your word now? You told me to babble away.

What do you even know?

You people… You, Gang Seo-hae,

that old man who sold me the rope and charcoal briquettes and said nothing,

the taxi driver who hounded me for the fare when I was

running away barefoot covered in blood, and the cops!

I slept at the park for two nights, freezing.

Not a single person asked me if I was okay.

Not even one person.

Taxi!

The police station. Go!

-Is that blood? -What?

It is blood.

Hey, what happened?

Han Tae-sul… He barged into my place and--

-Did you bring your apology letter? -He shot me.

I told you to write an apology letter, not to fight.

-No, hear me out! -What the heck happened?

-Hey! You punk! -Han Tae-sul shot me!

-Han Tae-sul shot me. -Detective, he didn't pay his fare.

-Hey, mister. -You bastard!

He shot me!

Shut up, you prick! Stop! Enough!

Did you pay your taxi fare?

No. But Han Tae-sul…

Have you lost your mind? Why would he shoot you?

That's…

That I don't know.

What a total lunatic.

Look, you must repent when you've done something wrong.

What you're doing is defamation. You piece of trash.

I told you to write an apology letter, not to talk such bullshit!

You jerk, you'd better pay me!

-Get your act together. -You scumbag!

-Hey, snap out of it! -You punk!

-What's with you? -What's your problem?

-What are you doing? -You'd better pay me!

-Hey, you punk. -Pay your fare!

-Hey, stop! Get him! -Pay me at once!

I kept racking my brain.

To figure out

why the heck you tried to kill me.

I thought it was unfair.

I didn't think I'd done anything to deserve that.

You tell me, since you're smart.

Did I do something to deserve getting shot? Did I?

But you know,

it turned out the reason didn't even matter at all.

Because the world

is an unfair place to begin with.

-Look! Grab this. -That's so cool.

Even if you shoot me, I'm the bad guy.

Yes, you're right.

This world has always favored you and hated me.

I mean, what other reason could there be?

I will not die at your hands.

Our country is under attack.

The highest level of national security alert has been issued.

The Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant was first hit,

and nuclear bombs are being dropped all over the country.

Even the metropolitan area has been hit by…

That's why you want to start a war?

People don't like you, so you want to wipe them out?

Not all of them.

I survived, you know.

Because I'd sealed all the windows shut to die,

I was protected from the nuclear fallout.

I ate anything that was edible.

I held out like that for two months.

It was difficult to keep track of time,

so it could've actually been shorter or longer.

When I had nothing left

to eat or drink,

I went outside.

The outside world had become so quiet.

It was dark, even during the day.

And there was no one.

Those who belittled me,

all those arrogant show-offs and obnoxious jerks.

They were all gone.

That moment, I realized

that those jerks were the ones who deserved to die,

not me.

Do you know that you're a little weird?

It's too bad.

I should have paid more attention to my employees' welfare.

I'm sorry, but you're fired, you psycho.

Let's see.

Darn it.

SHUTTING DOWN

SYSTEM BOOTING

"Maintain strict security"?

These fools. Strict, my ass. I got in right away.

PERSONNEL INFORMATION

Six thousand employees work in this building now.

And 300 of them have been here since day one.

If I exclude female employees, there are 170.

Age 53, give or take 3 years.

NONE

What?

MAINTAIN STRICT SECURITY

"Security."

You sneaked into my place

and wrote "Don't look for your brother." How did you do that?

Oh.

You see,

I can get in anywhere.

Someone who can get in anywhere.

Someone who was always around me

and who could get in anywhere.

HUMAN RESOURCES

Then he must've had a high position.

Why can't I find him?

No, I got it all wrong.

Damn it.

Shit.

CLEANING STAFF ROOM

CODE OF CONDUCT

BE QUIET AND UNOBTRUSIVE

Darn it!

Hey, you must watch a lot of movies, seeing how you like places like this.

First time down here, right?

I've been waiting for you here all this time.

I kept dropping hints.

Had you paid more attention to your surroundings,

you would have already found me.

Well, in any case… I'm here now, right?

Come over here.

All you do is talk like you're better than everyone else

and act like you know everything.

Damn it.

Do you know why everyone addresses me so politely?

Because I've worked here since the day this company was founded.

Aside from you, the founder of the company,

I've been here the longest.

Once again, I won this game of hide-and-seek.

I won last time too.

The time before that too. And I won again.

I told you not to get ahead of yourself. The game isn't over yet.

Just finish coding the uploader.

Then I'll return your brother safely as I promised.

You jerk.

Soon, there will be drugs that can wake him up.

We need him to get on the uploader and go find his little brother

for this story to begin again.

Hey.

-What are you really after? -What?

Oh, what was it?

Right!

I just can't stand your obnoxious face.

Stay away from me.

Get lost!

Those eyes…

You're no different from the other kids.

That arrogant face. Gosh, I really couldn't stand it.

So I wanted to see, even just once,

you falling apart.

Your family, friends, business, and even love.

If I take away everything you have,