The Priest (Peuriseuteu / 프리스트)

Don't you know it's illegal for LPN to perform medical practice?

I don't think that you were necessarily wrong, Jae Moon.

I thought you would understand me, Doctor.

Surgeon.

Seo Jae Moon.

Jae Moon, your last day of work is today.

Please forgive me just once.

I just want to be kind and live a normal life.

Let's place the blessed salt...

on the routes that employees frequent...

rather than the routes patients take within the hospital.

Be careful. I just found a trace.

Jae Moon, what are you doing?

I liked you, Dr. Ham Eun Ho!

Sun Young. Sun Young, wake up!

She's stable now.

Go ahead and move.

Now that it knows we're after him,

the symptoms of the possession will become much more severe.

We better go to Dr. Ham Eun Ho.

If I blow this and it torments you,

that means you're really a monster, okay?

The energumen was hiding here.

Dr. Ham probably knows everything.

You will come, right? I'll be waiting.

You must not tell the priests about this.

Dr. Ham went to the hospital.

I think she went to see the energumen.

We'll be going soon. Get ready.

The Lord sent you to me.

Don't worry. I'm a cop.

I said put your hands up.

I'm sorry. I hate being looked down upon.

No, don't do it. - Jae Moon.

Help.

Kyung Ran!

Don't die on me!

You don't even know who you are.

You're the one who let me go. Peter.

Detective!

This time, it didn't go as smoothly as we'd planned.

During the Korean War,

it was fragmented into a hundred pieces.

This mother-of-pearl box will be restored over ten years.

Among Asian cultural heritage experts,

it is considered the peak of craftsmanship of the Goryeo era.

This picture was taken during the Joseon government...

in the year 1929.

This is the only remaining image...

found inside of a historical book...

that shows the original mother-of-pearl box.

As you can see for yourself,

although it is an artifact from 900 years ago,

you can still see how elegant and exquisite it is.

It is a masterpiece of the century.

This is our expected model of the restored artifact,

mother-of-pearl box.

Ms. Shin.

It's been a while.

Professor, you look good as always.

Well, you know me.

What could you need to come looking for me?

I came to see you, of course.

About the mother-of-pearl box...

If it's restored to its original form,

it would be the status of a national treasure, right?

I'll tell you a secret.

Only certain people know about this.

They say that when this was made, two were made.

Then where do you think the other one went?

If you look at the Goryeo documents,

they made two mother-of-pearl boxes during a burial.

One for the person being buried, and one for the wife.

They always made two.

The amazing thing about it is...

that it has the power to conquest the devil.

They say you can trap a soul in it.

So, I heard that Catholics...

have actually captured a demon in it.

Isn't that a fiction?

A great piece of fiction.

That's why I don't believe it. It'll shorten my life.

Exactly.

Pardon?

What? It's nothing. Thank you.

No problem.

Then let's have a drink next time.

Of course.

We have to. - Okay.

Goodbye.

During the construction of a parish in 1991,

this was found in the vicinity of an old well.

We predicted what it was with the help of a document that was with it.

It looks to have been written right after the Korean War.

I will read the important parts.

"This demon is on a different level than the ones we've seen so far."

"This is what it said to us directly."

"I have taken Lee Kyung Sung on as my family."

"I am a great being who has exterminated many in Asia."

During the Korean War, Lee Kyung Sung

who lead the Bodo League massacre.

"We succeeded in binding up this evil."

"We hope that the mother-of-pearl box is not found."

"But just in case that it is,"

"we are leaving behind a record of the exorcism."

Once the mother-of-pearl box was opened,

the documents left by the priests turned black and burned.

November 2010, the box which was in storage...

was taken outside by someone.

Taken?

It is more accurate to say that it was lost.

We were robbed.

What? - Robbed?

What?

The box was returned the next day, but it was unsealed.

We, at 634, knew that demon was released.

We have been chasing after it for the past eight years.

Recently, we found traces of it.

We've had a detective, and a former exorcist die.

Also, we've had three energumens in a matter of days.

We can't neglect this any longer.

Okay. Suppose this is all true.

You're saying the church couldn't keep the box safe.

So people ended up dying,

and you want us to admit that?

Whatever the case, we need to catch the demon,

and send it back to hell where it belongs.

We kept a wicked thing like that in storage?

Get rid of it immediately!

We have no time to argue.

The only way to catch it...

is to trap it in this mother-of-pearl box it was in.

Allow me...

to use the mother-of-pearl box.

Please leave.

You said you'd protect her.

You told me you'd protect her.

She was so young.

She always got injured and hurt.

You said you would protect her whenever that happened.

You said she'd be okay because you'd protect her!

Kyung Ran! Oh, Kyung Ran!

Why did you come to this hospital?

As a priest?

Pardon?

Perhaps, do you not remember either?

Am I wrong?

What... What are you talking about?

Are you okay, Tae Hyun?

Yeah, I am.

What a relief.

Were you two having a conversation?

Not at all.

It's been so long. I'm not sure either.

I might be mistaken.

Don't worry about it, Father.

Father Moon, do you have time right now?

I need to go to the parish.

I'll go with you.

I prefer going alone.

Have you talked to Detective Koo?

No, I didn't call on purpose.

She was like a daughter to him.

We should give him time to grieve.

We need to know the situation in order to plan.

Don't worry. I planned out the basic things.

A person died.

We must take care of it properly.

That was Detective Koo's duty.

You two were the ones who always caused trouble.

Go and see about your business.

It would be simple if we could look at the CCTV.

Strangely, it all got deleted.

She was a corporal under you.

You were the last person to see her, so I'll just ask you a few things.

Did you know that Corporal Jang had depression?

Depression?

Oh, you didn't know?

It was in her records several times.

Here you go.

Ms. Shin.

What?

No. Just continue.

I suppose you can't know all the personal things.

But there is one suspicious thing.

There is her reputation with her co-workers,

and she even got chosen as the police of the month.

Yet it turns out she's depressed and committed suicide?

When you last saw her,

what did she say to you?

Is that important?

Let me be frank with you.

There would be no problem if we closed this case as it is now.

Since we have her records for being treated for depression,

it will pass with the bosses with no issue.

It's probably better for the family too.

But you know how it is. Isn't this...

the most dishonorable way to die for a cop?

Corporal Jang's mother is suggesting that it's murder.

She's not the kind of girl who'd kill herself, she says.