Café Minamdang (미남당)

THE NIGHT BEFORE JUNG HYE-YOON'S MURDER

EPISODE 16

I heard Seung-won still comes to you for counseling.

Yes. He comes by occasionally.

That reminds me, Seung-won was talking about you earlier.

Are you here about that day?

Did you remember anything?

I'm sure Seung-won killed Hyeon-u that day…

but why do I keep seeing a completely different memory?

You don't…

-remember-- -It was you, wasn't it?

You messed up my memories.

It was the chairman's orders.

My father?

You know.

He didn't think Seung-won had what it took to lead the company.

You were the smart one, but you turned out to be a…

psychopath.

What did I tell you happens when you abuse a puppy?

That I'd get punished.

For the sake of your future, you need to learn to control your impulses.

You did well.

Use this the next time you get an impulse like that.

Click on this until you calm down.

The chairman and I were both at ease,

thinking we had completely brainwashed you as a child.

But then you suddenly murdered someone.

How much do you remember?

Hyeon-u…

Hyeon-u asked for water, so I gave him the water.

Was it really water?

-This isn't water. -It's antifreeze.

I saw in a movie that you die if you drink it,

so I was curious.

But you're not dying as fast as they did in the movie.

I told the chairman

that once you had tasted that forbidden fruit,

you would murder again.

That it was impossible to remove a memory perfectly.

In the end, the chairman chose to manipulate your memory.

I'm almost done.

I have some pictures to show you.

Look at the first picture.

What does this look like?

A glass of water.

Now, the next picture.

What's this?

A necktie.

Seung-won's necktie…

So I inserted a distorted memory

-through hypnosis. -Seung-won has the necktie…

-Seung-won's trying to do something… -…to do something

-bad to Hyeon-u with the necktie. -…bad to Hyeon-u with the necktie.

I made you believe that the pleasure of killing

was the anger from seeing a criminal.

Why did you make me believe that

Seung-won was the one who killed Hyeon-u?

Because

I needed someone you'd easily believe to be the killer.

After you got the water and came back to the garage?

Seung-won was choking Hyeon-u.

You must have been so scared.

It's okay now.

So you do remember.

You know who to thank for the fact that you're an amazing prosecutor

and not a psychopathic murderer.

You must be proud of how you trained me like a dog.

A dog?

You

are my best creation.

I've never seen a patient correct their behavior

and adjust to society as perfectly as you did.

I brainwashed you so that you uphold the system and the law,

and you became a prosecutor, who is now trying to arrest his brother

based on fabricated memory.

Don't look at me like that.

If it weren't for me,

you would have had to live in an institution your entire life.

What's that?

It entails the entire process of how I brainwashed and manipulated your memory.

It's my accomplishment

as well as the proof that you are a psychopath.

Of course, with a small token of gratitude,

it can remain a secret forever, between just you and me.

JUNG HYE-YOON

I replaced the memory of him handing over the antifreeze

with him handing over water. And the intense experience of murder

with a memory of having witnessed a murder.

As a result, the subject showed frustration and anger

at the fact that his brother killed a person.

Die.

If the desire to kill cannot be stopped,

it must be redirected to something else.

"It is evil not to uphold the law."

"Evil must be eliminated from society."

"You are not someone to be eliminated,

you must become a leader who judges these evil men."

I am using these statements to brainwash him.

I've been punishing criminals

because I've been brainwashed?

No.

I made those rules.

It was my own will.

I became a savior

through my own will.

The subject changed his dream job to a prosecutor.

The brainwashing seems

to have strengthened his will to punish criminals.

What I did wasn't wrong.

HYEYOON MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC

You're back faster than I thought.

The video must have

assured you that I saved you.

Yes.

It assured me.

No,

it'd be more accurate to say it made me determined.

Yes.

As a child, you never missed any opportunity that came your way.

Pay back my husband's debt,

and I'll give you all the data that I have.

I will never ask you for anything again.

How do I know that you're giving me the original data?

You could blackmail me again like this using copies.

Yes.

It must be hard for you to trust me.

I understand.

But if I didn't care for you,

I'd have sold the data to Seung-won already.

If I weren't in such a tight situation,

I'd never have asked you for this.

Okay.

Are you still going to say this is a favor and not blackmail?

I just told them to come here because I thought it'd help you decide.

Send away the detectives,

and we'll talk about the details.

Hong Myeong-su said that

you quarreled with Cha Seung-won that day.

I don't know.

I've quarreled with Seung-won quite often.

This is related to a recent murder, so it's important.

Every little bit helps.

So please, think about it carefully.

What do you mean, a recent murder?

His psychopathic tendencies must have shown from his youth.

That's why Chairman Cha hired you.

Medical records are confidential,

so I can't tell you.

Then at least tell us about that day.

I'll look for the diary I kept at the time.

I have a habit of recording even small details.

Could you wait here for a minute?

HYEYOON MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC

How much will the token of gratitude for the diary be?

You haven't killed anyone again

since that day, have you?

Why?

Are you afraid your best work is actually a failure?

No.

It just makes me anxious,

now that I've heard

I'm a psychopath.

You don't have to be nervous.

How you live going forward depends on the decisions you make.

So you just keep on being a model prosecutor like you've been until now.

Yes.

I'll just blame Seung-won like that last time.

How does it feel, dying at the hands of your own creation?

You think you and Father are the reason behind my acts of judgment?

You think I seek justice

because I've been brainwashed?

No.

I'm giving the victims the gift of salvation through my own will.

She's taking longer than I thought.

More than ten minutes to go get a diary…

I've got a bad feeling about this.

I'd better go see what's going on.

Wait. You can't just go in there.

She's dead.

Who was in her office?

Well, I heard that a VIP was coming, but I didn't see who it was.

Is there a separate entrance for VIPs?

There.

Damn it. I should have picked up on this.

There aren't any CCTVs here. We should find the ones in the surrounding area.

I'll go to her office.

CHA SEUNG-WON

The CCTVs nearby are being checked. What's that?

It's Cha Seung-won's chart.

He's been visiting her for a long time.

He'd know the layout of this clinic better than anyone,

so he could be the killer.

I'll check his alibi.

Do you think he's nervous because we found Hong Myeong-su?

It seems to have been out of impulse. This wasn't planned at all.

Only the diary from when the murder took place is missing.

Mr. Nam.

This…

It's the garage Oh Hyeon-u died in.

That's the uniform from Cha Seung-won's high school.