The Village: Achiara's Secret (마을 - 아치아라의 비밀)

Is no one there?

Officer Park?

Teacher!

Are you okay?

Yes. But what brings you here?

Just a minute.

You shouldn't touch him. You could contaminate the evidence.

Oh... You really shouldn't.

Oh Gap Soo

Oh Gap Soo.

Oh Gap Soo?

Mom, that child will come to see you.

This time, you have to tell her the truth.

Hye Jin... Our Hye Jin is so pitiful, right?

Episode 9 Time Capsule

He cut off in the middle of a phone call with me and I couldn't reach him after that.

So that's why I came all the way here to see him.

But where did the witness that was with you go?

Don't you think it was definitely a murder?

I'm a police officer. In my opinion, I think that it's a murder.

After murdering him, they hung up his corpse

to disguise it as a suicide. It's a very well known method.

Oh, these shoes! This ahjussi's style...

Ahjussi, you were in the middle of giving a statement. What are you doing here?

Hey! Who let this person in?

I'm also a police officer. I am.

You're just a rookie who still stinks of breast milk, but what did you say?

"I'm also a police officer"?

It's not a lie, is it?

I was just thinking that employees in the same line of field could be of help—

Because of you, we almost got kicked off the scene. You could have ruined the entire investigation.

I'm sorry, but I was really careful.

This— - I'm not lying.

Sunbae! According to the examination, there were no signs of injury.

The cause is asphyxia due to neck compression

and there were no signs of any forced entry.

It couldn't possibly be a suicide, could it?

Among pieces of meat of all places... What an odd choice...

Before he died, there was someone who came to see him.

What brings you guys here?

It was people.

He seemed really taken aback,

so that's why the phone call cut off and I couldn't contact him after that.

By any chance, isn't it possible that those people were involved?

You didn't eat a lot. You must have starved...

Do you want to eat more? I haven't touched it.

No, no. I don't have much of an appetite either. I was so stressed.

How high is the chance that a coincidence like this could happen?

Huh?

Through the TV broadcast, I saw Officer Park's post online and went to look for Oh Gap Soo,

but that person died right before we arrived.

I think it's a very difficult coincidence.

I think someone purposefully tried to block Oh Gap Soo's mouth.

Would they even kill someone over something like that?

We were just trying to find a grandma.

They killed my older sister, too.

By any chance, are you saying the criminal is the same person?

Who could it have been that wrote those things online?

Wouldn't it be someone who knows that Kim Hye Jin searched for the Bengi Ahjimmae, in the past

and knows that you're looking for the Bengi Ahjimmae now?

There seems to be two different kinds of people in the village.

Those who are trying to tell us about Kim Hye Jin's birth secret—

And those who are fervently trying to prevent that.

After thinking about it carefully,

there was another woman who disappeared from this village aside from the woman who used to live there.

Twenty years ago.

I see.

Aren't you interested?

Even though that woman is Bengi Ahjimmae?

You have no manners.

Coming empty handed in front of a God is an abomination. Don't they teach that overseas?

How much...

Since you're a close neighbor, I'll give you a discount.

Her features were pretty good-looking.

Her pockmarks stood out.

A pockmarked person, pockmark, pockmark, pock-Bengi, Bengi, Bengi Ahjimmae.

After her husband died, she gave birth to another man's child.

Since the mother's behavior is disgraceful, her daughter will have difficulty getting married.

That person has a daughter?

Her daughter married into the wealthiest household in our village

and that woman left the village.

Why?

Because that was the condition her powerful in-laws gave her.

"Take that vulgar mother of yours and throw her out of the village!"

Where is she right now?

Unclear, unclear, unclear...

The God refuses to speak.

Then... What about those in-laws?

At least that much you should figure out on your own. Do I have to shove it in your mouth for you to chew?

What? - If they're the best in our village, then it's obvious.

Haewon Steel Corporation?

Are you out of your mind?

Why would you refute something the school principal decided?

Should I just stay still and watch when he's firing someone for a ridiculous reason?

What do you mean "ridiculous?" That woman is Kim Hye Jin's—

She's her younger sister! Does that serve as a reason to fire her?

This bastard—

Why are you making such a commotion? Mother-in-law will hear everything.

Get rid of her immediately! Just because of that one woman, the school's atmosphere is dreary!

The reason the school's atmosphere is dreary isn't because Teacher Han So Yoon is Kim Hye Jin's younger sister,

but because Kim Hye Jin was your mistress!

You said you had nothing to do with Kim Hye Jin's death.

What are you so afraid of?

Gi Hyun, that's not what we were talking about just now.

If you fire an innocent teacher over malicious gossip,

do you think the villagers will stop talking?

No way. They're going to be certain that you had everything to do with Kim Hye Jin's death!

You rascal! - If you want to escape from Kim Hye Jin's spirit, rather than hiding and excluding yourself,

we have no choice to embrace it...

If you're innocent, that is.

You're meant to forget it if you can't see it, whatever that may be.

There's reasoning behind your words,

but for the peace of this village, I think that Han So Yoon has to leave.

Peace for whom?

Peace for all of us. Our family, our village—

You want to bury a woman's unfair death for that peace?

How do you know if it was an unfair death or not—

Gi Hyun, what I mean is that the police will take care of that,

not that English teacher.

The day I met Kim Hye Jin because you asked me to,

do you know that's the day she died?

What?

After she received what you told me to give to her, she suddenly said she was going to go to the Achiara fountain.

After that, she went missing.

Are you saying that I called her out to the fountain and killed her?

I'm saying that if it wasn't for me, Kim Hye Jin wouldn't have gone to the Achiara fountain that day.

So that's why I always feel

as if I was the one who led her to her death.

Did you forcefully drag her to that place? Why are you thinking such foolish thoughts?

I only gave her the money she requested.

The fact that she changed her mind has nothing to do with me or you.

The reason she died

was just her luck.

I can't send her younger sister out from this village.

My conscience won't allow it, never.

Dead Body of a Man in His Sixties Found in the Meat Processing Center

Good morning!

Why are you so surprised?

W-what brings you here so early in the morning?

I was just going to bring you a cup of coffee since I was going to work early.

Has it already started?

T-thanks.

What's with your complexion?

Let's leave the village quickly. We have to hurry.

Is something wrong?

I'm so sick of it. No, I'm scared.

You're here? - Mm.

Sunbae.

No matter how I look at it, this is murder.

Hey, I told you not to concern yourself over someone else's district. Do you know how much work we have to do?

I'm an eyewitness. I'm a witness, so how is it someone else's matter?

When I spoke with the English teacher, I doubted it,

but the more I think about this...

If someone had a motive to kill Oh Gap Soo, considering the timing,

it could have been to prevent any information from leaking about Kim Hye Jin and the Bengi Ahjimmae.

By any chance, if that's really the case...

If that's really the case, then what?

Hey, Park Woo Jae.

Couldn't that "someone" also be the person who killed Kim Hye Jin?

We could be looking completely in the wrong direction.

I came to turn myself in.

Don't your eyes hurt if you keep doing that?

Woo Jae, go over there and get some eye drops. His eyes look like they're going to fall out.

Yes.

Because of you, I might go bankrupt!

We didn't even frame you for something you didn't do! Did we tell you to commit crimes?

If I completely resolve all your curiosities,

will you promise not to bother me again?

I'll think about it after I see you resolve everything truthfully.

Seo Chang Gwon.

The gambling debt, loan debt, and even the farm,

all of that came out of Seo Chang Gwon's pockets.

What's the reason? What's the condition for Seo Chang Gwon to empty his pockets?

Let's make it very clear here.

If I turn myself in, I will get everything back, right?

You want to meet my mother? Why?

Because I want to find my older sister's birth parents.

I heard that your mother was the Bengi Ahjimmae who did illegal adoptions.

You're the same.

What is?

The woman from two years ago sat in that same chair and said the same thing.

I want to find my parents. I have to find them.

Please help me.

My answer will be the same as well.

My mother has never been involved with any adoptions and she has nothing to do with Kim Hye Jin either.

I want to meet her personally and ask her.

No.

Why not? - Her health isn't good.

Allow me to meet her. - Please

don't drag any of my family members into your personal matters.

Isn't suffering once enough?

My older sister wouldn't have just backed down.

What did she say to you?

She understood my meaning better than you.

She sincerely apologized for bothering me with uncertain evidence and left.

I heard that my older sister could be the Bengi Ahjimmae's daughter.

Then you should hurry up and find the Bengi Ahjimmae instead of bothering an unrelated person here.

Please leave.

Unni (older sister)

Yeah.