Chapter 19: shin joon young threat
After finding Joon-young sick and locked in his room, Ajusshi rightfully berates Gook-young for going along with such a stupid and dangerous plan. He reminds Gook-young that Joon-young only ever helped him, and this is how he repays him?
Gook-young tries to justify his actions by saying that Joon-young is trying to go find Eul in jail, where she's landed herself for trying to run down Assemblyman Choi with her car. Ajusshi asks Gook-young to clarify, stunned at the mention of Assemblyman Choi Hyun-joon's name.
In his room, Joon-young's mom wakes him from his stupor, and he cries like a little boy when he sees that she came to him. He's not even concerned about himself, but instead he pitifully begs his mother to help him go to Eul.
His mother overrides his wishes and gets up to get some medicine, but the mention of Assemblyman Choi's name stops her cold. Accusingly, Joon-young says, "If you'd stayed by his side, he wouldn't have become such a horrible person. It's all because of you. It's all your fault! This is all your fault!! " He screams it over and over, finally releasing years of pent-up anger and resentment.
Ajusshi comes to yell at Joon-young for speaking to his mother that way, defending Mom for raising him under so much hardship. "You're a star, but you're not a star to us." But Mom stops him and sends him outside to wait.
Once he's gone, Joon-young says that he'll crawl to the police station if he has to, if Mom doesn't help him. She hesitates for a long moment, then leaves the room and shuts the door. Outside she collapses on the stairs, heavy with the weight of everything that's happened.
Alone now, Joon-young takes a chair and swings it, hard, at the window.
He makes it to the jail and is let into Eul's cell, where she cries at him for taking so long. He softly apologizes and gives her his scarf and coat, while she says she wasn't trying to kill Assemblyman Choi — she just wanted to forget it all and live normally for once.
Joon-young just holds her face, and tells her that he knows. He tells her not to be scared, because he's here, and they're going on their ten-year trip now.
Joon-young looks so peaceful just to be with Eul, and she's finally looking at him the way he's always wanted her to… with love. She leans on him and sleeps while he drives, and they go to the beach and walk hand-in-hand.
Joon-young leads Eul to a romantic pergola he's set up, complete with candles and a comfortable couch, right there on the beach. It's beautiful. He asks her to stay here with him for a hundred years, where nobody can find them, and Eul nods agreement. He pulls Eul's head to his chest and she melts into him, smiling through her tears.
But it's all a dream — Eul is still in her jail cell, and Joon-young is still locked in his room. He's refusing to eat, or even move away from the window, and everyone is beginning to grow concerned for him. Ajusshi threatens to shove the food down his throat if he won't eat. Or — and this is crazy I know — you could
let him out?
Joon-young's mom is pretty torn up too, having participated in the imprisonment of her son. Jik sits outside the police station, waiting to visit his sister, while Ji-tae watches him from an unseen distance.
He overhears Na-ri complaining that "Hyun-woo" has disappeared right when they need him, and Jik says angrily that both Hyun-woo and Joon-young can go hang. Jik is mostly worried he might see his noona cry — he's never seen her cry since their dad died, and he's worried it might make him go crazy.
They let Eul out to have a small meal with her brother and friend there at the station, and she's a totally different person than last night. She keeps things light and cheerful, telling funny stories on her cellmates, but it's obvious that she's trying way too hard. In fact she seems a little manic.
Jik asks if she really was trying to kill Assemblyman Choi, and Eul says of course she wasn't. That's all he needs to hear and he relaxes, but Na-ri is angry that Joon-young hasn't come to speak up in her defense. She tells Eul that Jik even begged Joon-young for help, but he didn't even open the door. To Jik, this is just more proof that he can't be trusted, but Eul brushes off her disappointment and tells him to just concentrate on school.
She lies and says that Joon-young called, and that he'll be coming to get her out soon. When she's sent back to her cell she snuggles up in the scarf he gave her, and narrates Joon-young's movements like she's wishing them to happen: "He goes to the parking lot, he gets in his car, he starts the engine…""
Joon-young still hasn't moved or eaten, even when Gook-young tells him that the food is from his mother, the food he's been craving for years. He's completely unresponsive to Gook-young's cajoling, and Gook-young says that he's under orders to keep him here even if he starves. And that order comes from his mother, too.
Mom cuts herself while cooking, too preoccupied to concentrate on what she's doing. She can't stop thinking about Joon-young's accusations that this is all her fault for not staying with Assemblyman Choi all those years ago. She takes off her apron, and heads out with purpose.
Ji-tae sits down with his father, and requests respectfully that he let Eul out of jail. Assemblyman Choi can tell that Ji-tae likes her, but Ji-tae is in no mood to chat, and says that it was his mother and father who ruined her life by lying and hiding the truth.
Assemblyman Choi notes that Ji-tae has always been compassionate, but points out that he has too much to lose to risk it all on pity. Ji-tae says he's not scared, so his father instructs him to go and tell everyone that when he was a prosecutor, he covered up a hit-and-run case. His wife played along, and they destroyed a young girl's life. In return they received everything they ever wanted and have no boundaries.
He tells Ji-tae that if he doesn't have the courage to say all this, then to keep his mouth shut. Oh, you absolute ass .
Joon-young's mom goes to his house, where Gook-young complains that Joon-young won't eat or drink a thing. She ignores him and goes straight to Joon-young, and demands to know what Assemblyman Choi did to deserve what Joon-young said. She defends him as an honorable man, and asks who dared to say otherwise.
Joon-young just whispers, "I saw him. I saw him with my own two eyes." He tells her that he saw how terrible, selfish, and brutal that man is. Mom says he must be mistaken, listing Choi's good works for the poor, telling Joon-young that he even hid the fact that he was a law school student to her back when they met out of consideration for her. Oof… that's not love, or even consideration. That's just lying.
Joon-young tells his mother what Assemblyman Choi did when Eul's father was killed, but that he thought Eul was okay now that time has passed. Now he knows that she's not, that she's still living in hell, and Assemblyman Choi doesn't even remember what he did to her.
Unwilling (or unable) to accept this, Mom just nods that Ajusshi was right, and Joon-young is out of his mind because of "that gold-digger." She says that Assemblyman Choi is the most fabulous, most wonderful, nicest man in the world, someone Joon-young can't even be compared to.
She tells Joon-young to stop calling him by his name because he's his father, and Joon-young screams back that that's why he nearly killed Eul. He considered Choi his father, and tried to cover up what he did, and Eul almost died.
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LaurenThunderbird Fasten your seat belts, folks, we’re in for one bumpy emotional ride in this episode. It’s difficult to keep up a positive image when feelings are running high and stakes even higher, as nearly everyone is beginning to discover. It’s time for some serious decisions to be made, and maybe for some real honesty to be shared. We can only hope.
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