Kokdu: Season of Deity (꼭두의 계절)

Oh, you're here?

Sign this for me.

All I did was take care of a patient.

Why are there so many papers to sign?

Government work is all like that...

- It's all paperwork. - Oh, right.

I met the man I saw in Yeongpo again here.

Who was it?

You called to set up a security system, right?

I'm pretty sure he set up the security system for me in Yeongpo...

Maybe he relocated to Seoul.

He's supposedly a doctor.

He was wearing an internal medicine doctor's gown.

His name was something like Choi Tae Hyung.

Oh, Professor Choi Tae Hyung?

Who are you?

Hello.

Why? Do you know him?

Yeah, I've seen him before. He's a professor here.

Really? Gosh...

How come they look so much alike?

I guess they're brothers or maybe doppelgangers.

What? Did I say something wrong again?

Is it dogangoppel?

Buy your own coffee.

How could you drink half of it?

- You get paid pretty well... - Geez.

Gosh, Lee Sang Je...

They told me to get the confirmation document from him too...

Where is the office of Professor Lee Sang Je?

- It's Room 704. - Thank you.

What about Professor Choi Tae Hyung's office?

- Who? - Professor Choi Tae Hyung.

Professor Choi Tae Hyung?

There isn't anyone by that name in our hospital.

Excuse me?

Oh, right. I met the man I saw in Yeongpo again here.

Noona. Noona!

The siblings are similar in that they're both late.

- Hello? - Something's happened to Noona.

- What happened? - It appears she's been kidnapped-

- Kidnapped? - I'm chasing them. Don't worry.

Where are you right now?

Hey, Han Gye Jeol.

Come out with your hands in the air.

Come out!

Wake up! Han Gye Jeol!

Doctor! Doctor, come out!

What are you doing just watching!

Put your hands up!

Drop your knife, you asshole.

Drop your knife before I kill you!

Turn around.

Damn it...

Chairman...

I've failed.

Hey, you!

Erase your tracks and go into hiding for now!

Stay hiding as if you're dead until I call you!

Please tell him

not to come near me.

Yeah, Kokdu.

Don't meet with the Chairman for the time being.

From tax evasion and bribery, and even sexual favors...

You've been all over the place.

You must have been so busy.

What are you talking about?

You probably tried your best to hide them,

but this small room stinks of your corruption,

so how long did you think you could hide them?

Turn the car around.

Turn it around, turn it around!

I don't intend to kill you in one blow.

That would be too generous of me.

I will take away everything you have

in front of your eyes.

I'll make you feel the pain of your insides being pulled apart

from the suffocation and desperation

of not being able to do anything.

Do Jin Woo!

Han Cheol, open your eyes!

I told you to open your eyes!

Stop it.

If you're like this, how can I face your sister?

I told you to stop it!

They say he's asleep. Okay?

Isn't he sleeping for too long?

It's not like he's a bear in hibernation...

He drank so much of the drugged coffee.

Even a bear would fall asleep from that.

Are you okay when your brother is in this state?

Why are you so calm?

A passing monk told me

that his life span is really long.

I don't believe in anything like physiognomy,

but I can believe that.

I'll go buy some water.

Wake up. Come on.

Come on.

Let me just sleep a bit.

Brother-in-law, are you all right?

I thought you died! How could you yawn like that...

I won't die.

If I die too,

my sister won't be able to go on.

That's a relief.

I'll bring your noona.

Come on, Doctor.

He's taking too long to wake up.

Shouldn't we try to examine him again?

He'll be fine.

How could you be sure of that?

I'm a doctor, too,

but there's no way to know what drug he took!

You took the same drug and woke up pretty quickly.

He could have a different physical reaction than me.

You know how different the side effects of drugs are for people.

It could be that this drug might only negatively affect Cheol.

This won't do.

Please do the toxicology screening again. Please!

First, let's wait a bit more and talk again then.

Mom...

Mom...

If you were scared, you should have said something.

I couldn't say anything because I was scared...

If I say something bad,

I was afraid that something bad might really happen...

Well, no need to worry.

Your brother woke up.

Really?

Gosh, what do I do with this jerk...

Gosh, seriously! I was so scared...

On the path I pass by shaking,

everything breaks down and disappears like me.

The breath that has gone away...

The love that disappears...

The growing misery...

That is the death I know.

However,

I didn't know about the tears...

Then you would be set free from eternal suffering by dying, Master Kokdu,

but what about Han Gye Jeol?

What about Han Gye Jeol, who is left behind by herself?

She'll be placed in deep agony.

Would you be able to handle her tears?

Han Gye Jeol's tears are hers to handle, not mine.

How arrogant...

have I been?

Death with no tears?

There's no such thing in this world.

This bunny doesn't have many tears.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't have sadness.

Hey. You moron!

That's why I'm telling you to think a bit!

How I could disappear in a way that would make her less sad!

Roll your eyes?

How about you die suddenly in a car accident?

Will you come to your senses only after being punished?

The moment you suddenly die from a car accident,

Han Gye Jeol will get an inheritance.

A five-story building on extremely valuable land in Jongro!

If that becomes hers, she'll have no time to be sad.

A building overcomes tears.

Yes, of course.

I can't die from an accident.

She has trauma from her mother's death.

How about you say you went abroad to study and don't call her?

Don't you know how she is?

She found Do Jin Woo through social media. You think she couldn't find me?

- Saint Kitts and Nevis. - What's that?

São Tomé and Príncipe.

Antigua and Barbuda.

Wow, this must be a forgetting spell.

Tell her you went to one of these countries.

The name is so difficult, so she could never find you!

- Where are they all? - Africa.

So, tell her I'm going to study in Africa?

Yes.

And tell her I'll be doing what?

Racing with the cheetahs and drinking water with hippos?

Would you believe me if it was you?

Gak Shin, you're very disappointing these days.

Then, say you're terminally ill.

What?

I'm saying you should tell her the day you will die.

So that Han Gye Jeol will spend the remaining time with you without regrets.

My time in this world is short, Gak Shin.

Why think of death when I should enjoy life to the fullest?

I don't want to spend time having her tear up whenever she sees me.

Whether her remaining days with you are tearful or bright,

you and Han Gye Jeol should decide together.

You were in a relationship together, so why are you deciding your farewell alone?

Drink it.

I heard that was a tonic in ancient Mayan times.

It was an aphrodisiac.

The chemical phenylethylamine in chocolate

is the same chemical as the hormone released when in love.

It seems you're growing more shameless by the day.

A small room, late at night, a man and a woman by themselves...

Anyone would become shameless in that setting.