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

ALL CHARACTERS, PLACES, ORGANIZATIONS, CASES,

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

Your nephew who beat up a teacher.

Did he cause trouble again?

Well, Mr. Eun,

what brings you here today?

I executed a stock-manipulation strategy against Chairman Myung.

Is that right?

So that was your handiwork?

Hang on. I thought I heard a rumor that the mighty Chairman Myung

suffered a great loss to a counter-strategy.

All right. How much did you make?

A little over 11 figures.

Ten, hundred, thousand, 10,000, 100,000, one million…

Ten billion?

Ten billion won?

Wow! Astounding!

PROSECUTOR LEE SU-DONG

Hold on.

You're not here talking to a prosecutor

just to boast of your prospects from working the stocks.

This doesn't look like a confession either.

What is it you want?

Look who this is.

It's been a while, Chairman Myung.

I mean, Manager Eun over here, he has a knack for memorizing numbers.

He told me some of your borrowed-name accounts.

I found lots of issues.

Eun fled Korea on an early flight.

Geez. That damn son of a bitch.

As for Lee Su-dong, he's received a bribe of bearer bonds worth one billion won.

And he left them as security at the gambling joint last night.

How much did he gamble away?

He lost his entire loan of 50 million won

and spent 20 million more in exchange for his prosecution key card.

The card sharps I sent to play against him--

Did he notice them?

Well, he basically loses his shit when he's given a hand,

so he didn't notice a thing.

If he keeps this up, we might reclaim the one billion won he got

in two to three months.

Even if we reclaim the bonds,

lend him up to five billion and get a written promissory note.

I'll give you the money.

But the card sharps' winnings are retrievable anyway.

Why go that far?

Eun Yong, that fucker,

handed over the borrowed-name accounts of the Supreme Office seniors to Lee!

If we are to retrieve them too, we need Lee tied down.

Yes, sir.

PROSECUTOR LEE SU-DONG

Hey, man. The hell did you drive wasted?

Man.

The hired driver was fuck--

was running late.

So you ram your car into a police station?

Where there are cameras all over the place?

You can't get away with that.

As far as the public is concerned, drunk driving is socially unacceptable.

Sir, what are you doing tonight?

Buy me a drink. I'm in a bad mood.

Heck! Haven't you learned your lesson?

You're a shame to our alma mater.

You better not attend the reunions, understood?

You disgraceful imbecile.

Sir.

Sir.

Hey, man!

Geez. Unhelpful as always.

Our dear Prosecutor Lee.

How has it come to this?

Chairman, what brings you here?

What do you mean?

Heard you were getting fired,

so I came to collect my loan.

Your key card lost its effect as security.

Excluding the one-billion-won bearer bonds,

you still owe me 2.76 billion won.

What shall we do about that?

I believe you remember Eun listing me your borrowed-name accounts,

so I looked into them.

This is my investigation report.

BORROWED-NAME ACCOUNTS

Let's call it even.

You've no conscience.

My 2.76 billion won for this?

What else can I do when my prosecuting days are over?

You want me to take this to the papers and expose everything?

Shall we go down together? Yeah, that's it.

Let's go down together, huh?

All I've left besides my gambling debt is my loud mouth.

I've nothing left to lose anyway.

Look here, Lee Su-dong.

You have plenty to lose.

How about you kneel before me?

Can you do that?

If you do that, I'll call it even for the interest.

You can pay off the principal by working as my attorney.

Wait-- Chairman.

Please have mercy.

I'm a drunk driver and a dishonored retiree.

An ordinary prosecutor to just another ordinary attorney,

that money--

How will I ever pay it off?

Allow me to work with you in your money business.

I'll do anything you ask.

Chairman…

Okay.

Chairman, Chairman. My dear Chairman.

As you requested, we sucked all their capital dry,

and they're beginning their delisting.

All right. Good work.

To prevent getting sued by the damaged investors,

I'll have to have a drink

with my friends at the Suwon District Prosecution.

-How shall I pay for the expenses? -I got you covered.

Make them drink like fish,

but be sure you take care of business.

Of course. Salute!

By the way,

what about the thing I asked you to look into?

Right.

-About Prosecutor Hwang Gi-seok? -Yes.

Matchmakers for the filthy rich have been hounding him.

He's not seeing anyone right now.

He doesn't drink, gamble, or have lady problems either.

-What about his family? -His father is a trucker.

-I think his family is in some debt. -Really?

Perhaps it's time for us to get someone who may be of some use for a long time.

Oh, right. There's one thing.

I'm told he's quite ambitious.

Very proud too.

That's good.

What are you planning?

I've thought this through, all right.

What do you want?

Seeing that you're visiting me here,

I'm sure you want to talk in private.

Okay.

Okay.

The Bawoo Fund incident.

Lee Su-dong will be the scapegoat.

But as you know, he's not enough to cover up the case.

That's why I'm planning to bring Jang Tae-chun into the game

as the insider who leaked information.

How does his uncle feel about this?

But if you're willing to help us out,

we could go with a different narrative.

Let's face it. You're going to rot here.

No need for your nephew to come here too, is there?

You want me to take the bullet for Tae-chun?

I'm a con artist of an international hedge fund

and a violent criminal who's charged with homicide.

It does make more sense, huh?

You catch on so quick.

I love that.

But it's such a trite narrative, no?

Mr. Kwon.

Hey, it's me.

How's the US investigation going with the Jukich mutual fund?

The Jukich Fund? Why are you asking about Russian mobsters?

Just do some research and send it to Mr. Kwon.

JUKICH HEDGE FUND STATUS REPORT

A New York hedge fund: Jukich 54.

Its CEO is Russian.

He's known for his filthy deals.

CEO PROFILE VASILY GRIGORIEVICH ZAITSEV

I gather this isn't cooked, since you're handing it up front.

You sure about this?

Of course.

If one were to categorize Hwang as an investor type,

he's the type who'd want a portfolio filled with fancy global brands.

This global hedge fund which received Bawoo Fund's investment

known as Jukich 54

is under FBI investigation for suspicions of insider trading,

and all its accounts have been frozen.

If you point to Wall Street for the fund's filing for bankruptcy,

wouldn't that disperse the nation's anger a bit?

The VP's embezzlement will seem more believable too.

Mention it's a cooperative effort with the FBI.

It'll look much better for your office.

While our office is in full cooperation with the FBI,

we hope to use our resources to compensate damaged investors.

And your conditions?

I'm already in quite a pickle, so I won't ask for much.

As the Special Investigations' lead, I wish to uphold procedural fairness

by recusing myself from this investigation.

The newly formed Bawoo Fund Task Force

will be led by our seasoned investigator Chief Lee Yeong-jin,

specially appointed to report directly to the attorney general.

As a safety measure on my part, include my nephew

in the investigative team.

This investigative team

consists of a group of prosecutors vetted for their uprightness and skill.

I daresay they are the best we have.

You're saying it was Yong's idea to tie things to Jukich?

I spoke with Hong.

She confirmed the information is fabricated by them.

I wondered why Jang was on the team. That explains everything.

How are things on your side?