Tempest (북극성)

Answer the fucking phone. You… Shit.

Okay. All right.

Let's go.

What…

You really didn't know that the client was Kim Hansang?

I told you, man. I didn't know.

Okay, okay. I heard it was someone else.

Who was it?

Some American woman named Stella Young.

Find out everything about her.

I mean, everything.

Don't leave a single thing out.

You do that,

and I'll let you retire in peace.

Yeah. Yes. Yes!

Miji, can you come pick me up?

Where are you?

I was actually gonna call you.

We got in touch with Anderson.

You remember Hassan, right?

I told him about your situation, and he insisted you stay at his place.

He's in the States right now staying at my place.

He said he had the room cleaned and the bedsheets changed for you.

Is this real?

'Cause this matches the crew members' description exactly.

I ran it through a deepfake detection program,

and there's a 98% chance that the video is real.

So the submarine really exists?

Yesterday, I got word that the submarine's chief engineer,

the one that got shot, woke up after his surgery.

That submarine

definitely isn't fake.

I… I saw it.

He said for the past five years,

they have been building two submarines simultaneously

at Youngpo Shipyard.

The one that they unveiled is a modified version

of an older Russian model,

and the real one, the nuclear one,

is hidden somewhere below.

Don't move! Don't fucking move!

He also said…

I'm sorry, Chief.

…after their initial testimony,

-somebody got to that young crew member… -I'm sorry.

…and ordered him to shoot his comrades.

So I emailed my FBI contact

asking him what's going on.

He said he never sent me anything.

He doesn't know anything about it. He doesn't have a record of it.

Somebody sent me that video.

Why? I think it's because I'm the only Korean-American

on the Security Council.

They think I'm gonna do anything to prove there is no submarine

to prevent a war.

An endless line of trucks carrying food and other basic necessities

continues to move across the New Amnok River Bridge

between Sinuiju in North Korea and Dandong in China.

In China, the 139th and 202nd Group Armies

have started moving toward the border.

The North Sea Fleet's also on the move.

The war seems inevitable.

No preemptive strikes, Terry.

The US cannot go to war without justification.

Well, we will have confirmation of the submarine's existence shortly--

Enough with the goddamn submarine. I don't want to hear it, okay?

-What have they decided? -Well, Russia's still on the fence.

We're on the edge of a crisis where

the slightest misstep could start a war.

And North Korea will make a mistake.

Soon.

We just need to be ready to act when that happens.

TEMPEST

Do you think someone used Anderson and the ambassador

to stop the submarine from being destroyed?

Every piece of information Anderson has given us

is something only he can verify.

We have no way to verify the information here in Korea.

None of it.

Not Stella Young's contracts or his FBI contact.

What if Anderson used Mr. Jang to keep the submarine from getting destroyed?

Then he used his friend…

He used him and got him murdered.

How could he do that?

Let's go back and rethink everything.

No, please don't, ma'am.

Why?

You're thinking about going there, aren't you?

You want to go to Geumseol Port so you can find out the truth about the submarine.

-Miji. -I don't care anymore

whether the submarine exists or not.

How many people have died because of this?

You have to leave right now.

And go where, Miji?

The NIS and the police are after her.

She must be on the no-fly list.

What about a ship?

You want her to stow away on a ship?

It'd be difficult for most people, yes, but…

I know I'm able to make it happen. I'll come up with the perfect plan.

This is an embassy employee's residence, it'll be safe to stay here for a few days,

but you can't stay any longer than that.

Excuse me.

Hello? Hassan?

By the way, about the boat we talked about last time…

What do you want to do, Ms. Seo?

If I don't uncover the truth about the submarine,

I'll become a traitor who betrayed her country.

I need to find out who asked me to be there and why.

Help me, Changhee.

Help me get to Geumseol Port.

It's too complex.

I don't think I'll be able to cover it alone.

Let me just check it out first.

Who ordered you to come here this time?

Why did you do that to me?

Why go that far?

Why did you make me need you?

Make me want to run away with you?

Was that also part of your plan?

Why did you lie to me, Sanho?

I didn't want you to get killed.

Who's there?

-Who said you could be here? -You can't be here, all right?

-Right, I'm sorry. -This area is restricted to the public.

-Get out! -Get out of there! Now!

I was the one who needed you.

I wanted to run away with you.

I'm sorry.

Everyone who tried their best to kill me,

Kim Hansang, the NIS, but more than any of them,

I was angry with you the most.

But I'm grateful for one thing.

When I was completely broken,

you gave me this.

You taught me that I'm the one who has to protect myself.

No one else can do it for me.

"The one who shoots first gets to go home," right?

If you follow me, I'll shoot.

I was at my weakest when I trusted you.

I refuse to be weak again.

Ms. Seo, is Mr. Paik Sanho ever coming back?

You were right about him, Changhee.

Bad things happen wherever he goes.

You won't see him again.

I know I was suspicious of him initially, but I think I was wrong.

I'm worried that you could be in danger with just me helping you.

-With Mr. Paik, you'd be more-- -Right now,

my safety doesn't matter to me.

I'm not gonna let my feelings jeopardize what's most important.

Could you pull over for a second? I don't feel good.

Let me step outside alone.

Sure, yeah.

CHAIRWOMAN LIM OKSEON

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Find out everything about Stella Young.

I want every arms deal contract, her history,

who she met with, where she's been.

All the records of her movements. I want it all.

INCOMING MAIL

KIM YONGJUN

Oh. Uh, we've got a problem, Ms. Seo.

Do you remember José Kim, the lawyer for Shiv Holdings?

My name is José Kim, corporate lawyer for Shiv Holdings.

We were supposed to meet him a few days ago.

But with all the chaos from the nationwide alert…

EMERGENCY ALERT

PLEASE PREPARE FOR IMMEDIATE EVACUATION

I completely forgot about the appointment.

It looks like he's been waiting all this time.

He came all the way from Argentina.

What should we do?

Um, Mr. José Kim?

-Miji? -Oh, please get in.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry I kept you waiting.

I'm visiting Seoul for the first time in 30 years.

Excuse me.

My father took me and my family to the Southern Hemisphere to escape the war.

Figures that just as I arrive…

I have offices in Panama and in Buenos Aires.

Five years ago, I was approached by Mr. Jang Junik's representative

to set up four shell companies in Panama.

Through these companies,

Mr. Jang wanted to acquire real estate in Argentina.

A massive amount of land.

To be honest, that had always been my dream.

To build a large farm in the Pampas of Argentina

and live as an unnamed gaucho.

So I secretly grew to love acquiring and managing land on his behalf.

Then one day…

Did you see the news? Jang Junik was shot and killed yesterday.

What? Jang Junik, the presidential candidate?

Someone assassinated a candidate?

What's going on in Korea?

I heard it was some anti-reunification fanatic who killed him.

I heard that a South Korean presidential candidate named Jang Junik

had been assassinated.

And I realized that the man who had been killed