Delayed Justice (Fly Dragon / Fly From Rags To Riches / Narara Gaecheonyong / 날아라 개천용)

If you really are the culprit,

do you have evidence to support your statement?

At the crime scene, there was probably traces of water...

on the victim and on the floor.

Let's take a look at the photos of the crime scene.

Where is the water?

What is that?

Did you know that?

I just thought a bowl of water in her room spilled.

Witness, why and how...

do you remember the spilled water?

I had no intention to kill her.

We were tying her up in the dark and accidentally blocked her nose.

I see. Well...

What next?

We panicked to see that she wasn't breathing,

so Won Bok and I tried to make her drink some water.

Water!

Ma'am! Please wake up!

Ma'am!

Please wake up, ma'am.

We tried our best to save her,

but it was too late.

Prosecutors.

Counsel.

Do you have anything to add?

Witness, can't it be also said that the water was always there,

and the bowl just spilled over?

I got cold water from the kitchen,

and I spilled it myself.

How can you be sure of that?

When you kill someone,

you can't forget it easily.

Witness.

How does it feel to have told the truth?

To be honest, I'm scared and nervous.

Do you have any last words you'd like to say?

I'd like to sincerely apologize to the lady who passed away,

her family, and those who took the blame instead of me.

I can't turn back what I did, so I won't ask for forgiveness.

But I will...

take the punishment now, even if it's late.

Let's take a break,

hold the defendant questioning, then close the trial.

The witness confessed, saying he'll take his punishment?

It was completely unexpected and beyond my control.

Between Kang Sang Hyun's and Lee Cheol Gyu's confessions,

which one sounds more believable and in line with the case?

The presiding judge has the sole authority over which confession...

is admitted into evidence and relied upon.

You understand what I mean, don't you?

You may head out now.

Yes.

Young judges these days are so unexpected.

Please keep a good eye on them.

Also,

I believe that to reform the court administration,

I'd like to recommend a female judge...

as Supreme Court Justice.

Thank you.

I made myself clear to Judge Heo Jae Young.

We didn't kill the old lady.

Hey, you. You can't do this now.

I'm only getting 300 dollars to do this.

Defendant Lim Soo Chul, you ran away as soon as you saw...

Oh Jae Soo and Jung Hae Yul in February 2013, right?

Yes, but...

Please only answer yes or no.

Yes, sir.

Defendant Choi Jae Pil, in February of 2013,

you wrote a confession...

at the Samjung Police Station admitting the crime.

Correct?

Yes.

Defendant Kang Sang Hyun.

You heard the recording of your confession.

You made that statement in January of 2014...

in Jang Yoon Suk's office.

Correct?

Yes. It was written...

Answer yes or no!

Mr. Kang.

Did you go to Dawoo Supermarket?

No, I did not.

I never even met the old lady.

Let me ask you something.

Then why did you not deny the crime...

during your trial in 2014?

Your Honor.

You know better than anyone...

why Mr. Kang and his friends couldn't tell the truth back then.

The defendants accept all the charges set forth...

in the indictment that they caused the victim's death...

while robbing Dawoo Supermarket.

They deeply regret it. If you'd show mercy,

they will do their best as upright citizens going forward.

During a trial,

everyone begins by saying, "Your Honor."

However,

I am having a difficult time saying "honor".

That is my honest truth.

Defendant Kang Sang Hyun.

When he was seven, his mother drank a pesticide...

and died.

Immediately before she died, she held him tightly.

Sang Hyun. It's okay.

Sleep with Mommy.

He remembers that night as the warmest in his life.

Defendant Choi Jae Pil.

His mother was paraplegic,

and his father had a high-level spinal disability.

With a development disability himself,

he worked as a day laborer...

and took care of his disabled parents.

When he asked to be sent home...

to take care of his parents,

the prosecutor wrote this in the case file.

I have to go home.

My mom and dad are both ill.

"He seems mentally disabled. He keeps babbling."

Both of his parents passed away within a year of his incarceration.

Defendant Lim Soo Chul.

He had a history of sleeping out on the streets.

He took his younger sisters...

and fled under a bridge to escape their father's violent abuse.

Get away from here!

They ate watermelon to fill their stomachs.

He wanted to eat something other than a watermelon,

so he stole money from a truck... and ended up being framed.

Your Honor.

Developmentally disabled minors...

who resided in the town in which the victim was killed...

were framed for her murder.

That is the truth of the case.

The police, prosecutors, and the judge.

Everyone shunned the truth.

Was it an unavoidable mistake?

Or because they disrespected them as being beneath them?

Your Honor.

Prosecutors.

It isn't that difficult...

to soften a hardened heart...

and open a closed heart.

Saying you're sorry...

That's all it'll take.

However, during this trial in this courthouse,

not a single cop, prosecutor, or judge responsible for this...

said a single word of apology.

Only the real culprit Lee Cheol Gyu...

said he was sorry.

Is it that difficult...

to say you're sorry?

Bearing this sadness in my heart, I rest my case.

Please console the defendants by finding them...

not guilty.

I rest my case.

His closing argument is simple and yet a work of art.

That's why I hang out with him.

I'm picky with people.

We will render our decision.

There are two confessions to the crime...

in this case.

I find Lee Cheol Gyu's confession unreliable.

I differ. I think his testimony is more consistent...

with the facts.

I agree.

Whereas Kang Sang Hyun's confession is in a recording,

I suspect whether it was made voluntarily.

The three defendants are innocent.

The presiding judge has the sole authority over which confession...

is admitted into evidence and relied upon.

You understand what I mean, don't you?

Defendants...

Lim Soo Chul,

Kang Sang Hyun,

and Choi Jae Pil are found...

not guilty.

The court gives our apologies to the defendants who were framed...

and suffered for many years as a result thereof.

Park Tae Yong! You rock!

A warrior for the underdogs! A master of reversals!

- Please take me! - Sit down.

What?

Yoon Suk.

Shouldn't you apologize to me as well?

Ms. Hwang Min Kyung. Are you feeling ill?

You degraded the honor of Prosecution Services.

Aren't you apologetic to all the prosecutors?

Hey, you. All prosecutors are the same.

We are all one. Don't you know that?

People really don't change.

Things will be tough for a while.

Take care.

Crybaby. You've gotten brave.

You'll rot in jail for about five years.

Sir.

I'm not doing this because I'm brave.

I'm doing this because I know shame.

Cheol Gyu. What do you mean, shame?

That's a foreign word for prosecutors.