Payback: Money and Power (Law Money / Beopjjeon / 법쩐)

LEE SUN-KYUN

MOON CHAE-WON

KANG YOU-SEOK

PARK HOON KIM HONG-PA

ALL CHARACTERS, PLACES, ORGANIZATIONS, CASES,

AND THE SETTINGS OF THE PROSECUTION IN THIS DRAMA ARE FICTITIOUS.

Still don't carry umbrellas with you?

I didn't see your email in time.

That's what I thought. I'm sure you were busy.

Sorry for being so late.

Pour me one too.

I wanted to buy you something nicer.

This is what I like.

I just want to buy you better food.

Who knows when I'll get to treat you out again.

Are you really leaving Korea?

Yeah.

Why do you have to go overseas to make money?

Earning money at the risk of jail time means there's no future here.

Unless you suck up to those with power, it's hard to make real money here.

Anyway, I won't get to see you at your swearing-in ceremony.

That's a shame.

Here. My gift to you.

What's this?

Use this to sign papers incriminating the bad guys, okay?

Can't you stay?

What?

I liked having you around.

Mom laughed often, and the house felt lively.

Can't you just stay?

Well, the Internet's around everywhere.

If something happens, send me an email.

You don't have to tell me when good things happen,

but when bad things do, tell me right away.

You understand?

Fine.

Stay healthy, wherever you go.

Come back once you make enough.

All right.

Will do.

I live alone, so it's a bit messy.

Just a minute.

Okay.

HEAD HONCHO MYUNG IN-JU WHO'S BEHIND HIM?

Have some tea.

Sure.

Thanks.

You've been living like this all this time?

Why?

This place is too big for one person.

And what kind of bed is that?

The heart weakens if the body is too comfortable.

Wow. You are so hard-core.

This fight isn't for you to fight alone.

Your mom was like family to me.

You and I are on the same team.

You haven't changed. I've changed quite a bit.

There's something you need to know.

The real reason your mom passed?

BLUENET CEO YOON HYE-RIN ARRESTED ON BRIBERY CHARGES

Doesn't looking at this stuff all night scare you?

I get my salary from people's taxes, so I can stare at that stuff.

-What time is it? -7:30 a.m. Drink this.

-Geez, I want coffee in the morning. -Damn it, girl.

You complain even when I give you healthy stuff.

I'm visiting your office in the morning. Let's have lunch.

The prosecution? For what?

Witness investigation about the tech fund.

Attorney Jung said it'd be over quickly.

Give me a call, but I might not pick up if I'm busy.

Hey, busy or not, can't you find the time to have lunch with your mom?

DESPITE INVESTIGATION, GENERAL SON GETS HIGHEST RATING

A cut into the shoulder.

A cut into the side.

A cut here, a cut there. Something's not adding up.

Oh my goodness.

What is this?

Apologies, sir.

Wow.

Miss Prosecutor uses a pen like a knife.

-I'm sorry if I startled you. -No, it's nothing.

Please capture those who wield knives and give them the punishment they deserve.

Hello, sir.

Let's go.

Oh, this was going up.

I heard that my mom had been arrested during the witness investigation,

so I ran over to Special Investigations.

-Sir, what is this? -You can't be here.

Let her be. Miss Park is our family too.

This was a witness interrogation about a tech fund,

but you're arresting her for bribery?

The warrant came through.

I saw that warrant. All the evidence was circumstantial!

Okay, okay. Got it. Could you leave us?

First off, calm down.

You know I can't reveal case files in an ongoing investigation.

Take a look.

Your mother and the general were a well-known couple during college.

Did you know that?

What does that have to do with this case?

Nothing, legally speaking. But what if this picture gets out?

Including the reporters, the whole country will babble about this.

Is this about General Son running for provincial governorship?

If we don't respond to his threat, he'll get us first.

"Us"? Who is "us," exactly?

Don't play coy with me.

The senior secretary for civil affairs ordered this, so we're going all the way.

This is prosecutorial misconduct. It's illegal.

-Prosecutorial misconduct, sure-- -Doing this when you know--

Hey, Park Joon-gyeong!

You know better. Why are you whining?

If we decide to dig deep, do you think your mother and her company will be safe?

You're smart, so you should know. There's still a way around this.

Only you can save your mother.

Don't be rash.

Special Investigations prosecutors fight against great evil, or so they say.

But not Hwang Gi-seok.

He's a businessman.

He offers non-negotiable deals with his prosecutorial authority.

I too took his deal.

For my mother.

I fabricated evidence, as Hwang wanted.

YOON HYE-RIN, BLUENET CEO

The accusations made against me prior to this election

are categorically false.

Although nothing has been revealed objectively,

after much deliberation,

I have decided to drop out of this election.

GENERAL SON DROPS OUT

General Son eventually gave up the election.

Prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt

the defendant's guilt on the bribery charge.

I thereby declare the defendant…

not guilty.

We're happy for you.

Thanks for your hard work.

Hwang kept his promise.

The acquittal awarded by the court today

marks the beginning of a new fight.

We are going to expose the truth behind this prosecutorial misconduct.

So Mrs. Yoon and I,

we will fight to the end.

Once Mom was freed, she and General Son sought the truth

because it was an unfair arrest.

Yes.

Your mother would do that.

But then…

Hwang made a move first.

LETTER OF RESIGNATION

Use this to sign papers that will incriminate the bad guys, okay?

Miss Park Joon-gyeong.

We're from the Supreme Prosecutors' office.

We begin the interrogation

for forgery of private documents and obstruction of justice.

Did you forge these documents

that you handed over to Special Investigations?

Your daughter did everything for you.

Now she'll be robbed of her entire life.

Then why did your mother die?

-It was because of me. -How was it because of you?

Fine.

Their sins are greater.

This was Mom's last message to General Son.

General Son.

No, Seung-jin. It's me.

It's raining.

I remember the cheap rice wine

we drank at the store near the dorms after the student demonstrations.

At the time,

we thought we could change the world.

But now that time has passed, I realize the world has changed us.

I'm the one who forged…

the bribery document.

Forgive me for old times' sake, huh?

I'm sorry.

I'll take all the blame.

Those sons of bitches.

Let me handle them like the dogs they are.

I'll throw them into the gutters.

They're trying to cover Tae-chun's case with an arrest for Kim Seong-tae.

I have something to take them down, both Chairman Myung and CEO Oh.

Leave it to me.

They can't be dealt with by law anyway.

Yong.

I'm going to fight.

No matter how steep the price, I'll fight till the end.

Anyone on Hwang's side is an enemy.

Even if it's your nephew or your family.

Have you not gone home yet?

-Do you know who that is? -Attorney Lee, who was just appointed.

I heard he was a former prosecutor.

He's called Hairtail in the money market. He's known for money laundering.

If he launders money,

he takes capital out of problematic companies and delists them?

If Myung sent him in, it means he's trying to shut this down.

Speak.

Rambo's shares are taken care of.

Did he say anything else?

LEE SU-DONG LAWYER (PREVIOUS CHIEF PROSECUTOR)

Not if he wants to live another day. What can he do?