Assembly (어셈블리 / Eosembeulli)

All characters, party names, and incidents appearing in this drama are fictitious creations.

Episode 17

Prosecutor's Office

Thank you for appearing.

Assemblyman, I am notifying you of your rights to refuse to make

any statement which may incriminate you and to have an attorney present during the questioning.

Shall we start the questioning?

Oh, go ahead.

I tell you this in no uncertain terms...

Mr. President, I will subpoena you to an Assembly investigation hearing.

Have you made such a statement?

Yes, I have.

It was with the intention to ask him to bear responsibility for making materially misleading statements in the sale of the Babel Tower City Fund.

Isn't it true that right after your meeting with the president, in the Hanmin Bank underground garage

you received a bagful of cash from your secretary, Kim Gyu Hwan?

Do you really want to have a beating?

Stop posturing.

This money... They are definitely giving it to you so you won't ask for an investigation by the Assembly.

You just have to keep silent once.

Yes, I did.

The accused has consistently maintained that he received it and returned it.

Are you going to continue to interfere with the questioning like this?

I am supplementing the statements that may be used against him in a court of law.

He is exercising his legal right to counsel.

I can have you forcefully removed if you keep doing this.

If I were you, Prosecutor, I would not do that.

I am an incumbent assemblywoman from the ruling party

and unlike my client,

I am steeped in the notion that an assemblyman ought to enjoy many privileges.

I will make a lot of noise.

Assemblyman, why did you return to the bank president's office?

To return the money.

Bank President Kim stated that it was to ask for more money.

He was lying.

You will find out if you look at the CCTV tape from his office.

If you look for it,

I went in with the box of money but came out empty handed.

Except for the public CCTV from the underground garage that shows you getting money from Kim Gyu Hwan,

all tapes were past the mandatory record-keeping period and were erased.

Give me some other evidence.

I will come to the media room with your prepared statement.

No, not that.

Let's go with something stronger.

What?

If I really was tempted by that money,

why would I have said those kinds of words?

Because the bank president had to be scared for him to cough up more money.

Look here!

Assemblyman Jin.

Okay. Fine.

Let's say I did like you said.

Then, if I am that kind of person, why would I ask for a special prosecution?

So that you could deny it like this, if the fact that you received a bribe was revealed. Isn't that the truth?

Wow, you really are something else.

You don't need to answer.

Prosecutor, your unreasonableness is a bit harsh.

The suspect is the kind of person who received a watch as a bribe and immediately converted it into cash.

Whether that's unreasonable, I guess the judge will decide.

The fact that the suspect took the money and bought food for the homeless,

that is also the accused's consistent position.

Honestly, I don't believe the suspect's statement.

I only believe in evidence.

You really do live a tiring life.

If you want to avoid going to jail, show some remorse and

admit to the charges.

Not just to avoid going to jail but

even if you want to give me a death sentence,

I can't admit that. I won't. Do you understand?

There is one thing I must absolutely point out.

Even if Assemblyman Jin admits all the charges,

if the arrest motion fails to pass the Assembly this evening,

nobody can detain Assemblyman Jin. You know that, right?

Of course I know. But do you think the arrest motion will fail to pass?

Motion to Consent to Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's Arrest

How is the arrest motion being handled?

The assemblymen are gathering one by one.

But don't be too hopeful.

Since the Anti-BH faction decided to vote autonomously,

there is still a chance to block it with help from the opposition parties.

Ahew, I'll say...

I wish Democratic Party Leader Oh Sae Chang would help...

The arrest motion will not, by any chance, fail to pass, right?

Do Hyeon... it's Oh Sae Chang.

Aigoo, long time no see, Assemblyman Baek.

Long time no see. Congratulations, belatedly, on your becoming the party leader.

Since a person who is not an incumbent assemblyman took on the important position of a party leader,

there are many difficulties.

But in a few months, you will gobble up the windfall voting district Secretary General Baek relinquished.

Like a thief burglarizing an empty house.

Well, whether I'm burglarizing an empty house

or the owner is avoiding the encounter first...

Which is the case?

Well, it's all in the past.

More importantly, about the motion for Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's arrest;

how are you going to handle it?

Well, I have spoken to our assemblymen,

so wait and find out.

Oh, by the way, Assemblyman Baek, if it's hard for you to settle down in Gyeongje City, come back.

I will welcome you any time.

I will do that.

Isn't Oh Sae Chang, by any chance, telling their assemblymen to save Jin Sang Pil?

I put before you the motion to consent to National Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's arrest.

I think we have to discontinue the questioning.

Why? Go on.

The result of the arrest motion came out.

9 Motions Including Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's Arrest Passed during the Plenary Session.

Even though it was not an instruction, I recommended to our assemblymen to vote yes.

Our Korean Democratic Party will let go of parliamentary privileges

and address our countrymen in a humble manner.

Ms. Choi In Kyung, did you see the news?

Yes.

The only remaining hope is the court's hearing of the warrant's validity.

When the arrest motion has passed, do you think the judge will deny the warrant?

I will see you in the courthouse. Please take care of the Assemblyman.

In Kyung!

After questioning by the prosecution, Assemblyman Jin is en route to the court for the warrant hearing.

You want me to hold a press conference?

Yes, please urge non-custodial interrogation for Assemblyman Jin.

What are you talking about? Jin Sang Pil's arrest motion has passed.

The passage of the motion means that you consent to the Assemblyman's arrest.

It does not mean he has to be arrested.

Before being an assemblyman, as a person with human rights, he has the right to be questioned while maintaining his personal freedom.

Sunbae-nim, please help us.

I understand your feelings.

But you know better than I do, how I am kind of riding Gookmin Party's coattails.

Not just coattail riding, but you've become Secretary General Baek's lackey.

Hey, Choi In Kyung, are you really going to keep saying those sorts of things?!

I am saying this for your sake.

Stop ruining yourself and join my Assemblyman now.

What?!

Assemblywoman Hong Chan Mi has joined the Indifferent-to-BH faction.

If you join as well, it will become a force to be reckoned with.

That is the only way for you to overcome the stigma

of being a migratory bird and do politics with pride.

Oh, yes.

Oh, Assemblyman Jo, you will have to play the trumpet.

What?

I support Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's interrogation under custody.

No words can express the distress I feel for having to call for a fellow assemblyman's arrest.

However, the cozy relations between politics and business are like a mass of cancer cells that kills Korean politics.

The deep-rooted corruption of Korean politics where dirty money changes hands

between politicians and businessmen must disappear.

In Kyung,

let us not meet as sunbae and hoobae in the future.

That's what I hope for, too.

I am Assemblywoman Cheon No Shim.

Even though Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's arrest motion has passed,

I firmly believe that Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil

is a person our Assembly needs.

I want Assemblyman Jin to be released and

stand trial while carrying out his legislative duties.

Accordingly, I have decided

to submit a petition to the court to deny

Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's arrest warrant.

I wish a lot of like-minded fellow assemblymen would join me.

Assemblyman Park, do you want to sign one of these too?

Petition?

Yes, Cheon No Shim and Jin Sang Pil's staff are

handing out these petitions together in the Assembly Center.

I guess they want to give these to the judge assigned to the warrant hearing.

What are you doing right now?

When an opposition party assemblywoman is getting in knee-deep like that trying to help him,

if we, as fellow party assemblymen, turn a blind eye,

people will call us unfeeling. No,

we conservatives have humanity, too. We should show them.

Do you think the prosecution will do nothing if Jin Sang Pil is released?

Do you think

the prosecution does not know about Lee Taek Jo handing out designer watches to assemblymen?

While they are overlooking it because of political pressures, let sleeping dogs lie.

Come to think of it, if he did something wrong, he should eat bean rice (euphemism for going to jail).

Lay low for the time being.

Because the sword is in the hands of the prosecution.

Ah, yes, quickly call your old man and ask him to put his seal on it.

What is this?

This is Assemblyman Jin Sang Pil's office. Have you reviewed the petition we sent you?

Here.

To those doubful assemblymen, you have to highlight

no risk of destruction of evidence or flight as much as possible, understand?

Yes.

Thank you. Aide-nim, Assemblyman Lee Sam Tae of the Korean Democratic Party will endorse it.

Run and get it.

Yes.

The accused is an assemblyman of the Republic of Korea. The people...

What are you doing? We have no time, type it up fast, fast!

Aide-nim, here!

Okay. Aide Seo, how about the Anti-BH faction?

Aigoo, I got it, I got it. Hang up, hang up.

All Anti-BH assemblymen are saying no.

What? When they agreed to vote autonomously on the arrest motion?

I guess they have had a change of heart.

Those bastards...

This won't be enough to change the judge's heart.

Yes, this is Choi In Kyung.

Aide-nim.

Kim Gyu Hwan?

I... have a favor to ask.

The accused is an assemblyman and as such, there is no risk of flight.

I acknowledge that there is no risk of flight.

However, using his privileged position as an assemblyman, he may spoliate evidence.

He relinquished his parliamentary immunity and voluntarily appeared. Please take that into consideration.