Chương 20: Don't Give in
Mom now realizes that this is why Joon-young quit school and became an actor, and why he thinks he doesn't deserve to be a prosecutor. Joon-young confirms it, saying that he has no right to judge others after doing such a thing.
Eul is still narrating Joon-young's trip to come get her, accounting for his lateness by adding in a fan-related delay, as well as a broken traffic light, and then his car running out of gas. She counts down the miles he still has to go to reach her, trying to keep herself sane.
Gook-young had overheard Joon-young and his mother's conversation, and he promises Mom that after he takes her home, he'll go let Joon-young out. He does, telling Joon-young that he still won't be able to see Eul at this late hour, though that doesn't stop Joon-young from rushing for his car.
He goes straight to Assemblyman Choi's home, where his wife looks shocked to see him on her doorstep politely asking to speak to Choi. She tells Joon-young that her husband's not home (while Haru quietly freaks out in the background), which is a lie since he's right there. Haru blurts out that Joon-young is here, but her mother painfully grips her arm to shush her and says it was a mistake.
But Assemblyman Choi isn't stupid, and he wonders why Joon-young would be coming to see him. Joon-young is let in and he apologizes for showing up unannounced, and Assemblyman Choi sends his wife and Haru away so they can talk privately.
Assemblyman Choi notes that Joon-young looks like he's been ill, and Joon-young doesn't deny it. Choi knows this is about Eul, but he says that even if he dropped the charges she'll still be tried for attempted murder. Joon-young points out that it wasn't considered attempted murder until a week after the incident — until then, the police treated it as an accident.
He asks why Assemblyman Choi changed his mind, and Choi says that it's because he learned that she really was trying to kill him. He doesn't know why, because she's not talking, and asks Joon-young to ask her for him.
Joon-young just calmly says that if she really wanted to kill the assemblyman, she'd have done it five years ago. And if she really wanted to kill him, she'd have never turned the wheel — and if Joon-young had been in her place, he wouldn't have.
Over at the restaurant, Ajusshi watches as Joon-young's mom crouches in the kitchen mindlessly shoveling food into her face, and he tells her employee to call the doctor and tell them that a patient is on the way.
At Joon-young's words, Assemblyman Choi shuts down, and tells Joon-young that he can't help him. He does thank him for risking his life to save him, but Joon-young says that he regrets it. Choi says that he doesn't know why but he feels a sort of fondness for Joon-young, and he starts to ask Joon-young to have dinner with Haru since she's a fan.
But Joon-young slaps the USB file with Eul's recording of Choi and Madam Song on it down on the table, and says he never wants to see Assemblyman Choi again.
Joon-young runs into Ji-tae on his way out, and freely admits that he came here to threaten Assemblyman Choi. Ji-tae asks if it worked, but Joon-young doesn't know yet.
Meanwhile Choi watches the video, then makes a call to someone about Eul. His wife bursts in and frantically says that he can't let her go free, or she'll just try to kill him again. She begs him not do do this, and he sighs heavily.
Joon-young drives home, but Ji-tae soon calls him to say that five years ago, if he hadn't taken that USB away from Eul, if everyone had paid for their sins then, Eul would be living a different life. He bellows that Joon-young isn't innocent in this, and he has no right to be happy with Eul either — he's also Choi Hyun-joon's son. Stunned, Joon-young has nothing to say.
The next morning Eul steps out of the police station and into the sun, and she's immediately tackle-hugged by Na-ri. Na-ri tells her not to bother with Joon-young anymore, and Eul nods, but she can't help scan the parking lot for a sign of him. Na-ri snaps that he's not coming.
He's at home playing video games, and it looks like he's been up all night drinking. His face is slack and his eyes look dead and cold.
Jik almost gets hit by a car on his way to school, and his ankle is injured. He misses Na-ri's call, but Eul is still too busy looking for Joon-young to be very worried. Na-ri thinks he's avoiding Eul now that she's been to jail, and Jik pulls up just then, having gotten a ride from the driver who almost ran him over.
And then a woman steps out of the backseat of the car… Ji-tae's mother. She apologizes for Jik's accident, but Eul just stares at her.
Ji-tae is at the shooting range taking his frustrations out on some clay pigeons, until his assistant reports that Eul was cleared of all charges this morning. Ji-tae hardly reacts, even when he's reminded of his engagement ceremony tuxedo fitting this afternoon, and just goes back to blasting things out of the sky.
President Namgoong and Gook-young check on Joon-young, and are surprised to see his condition. President Namgoong apologizes for locking Joon-young up, though he says he doesn't regret it (then you're not really sorry, are you?), taking the credit for protecting Joon-young's image.
Joon-young doesn't respond to their presence at all, until Gook-young tells him that Eul is free, but even then only his eyes flicker. He remembers Ji-tae saying that he has no right to be happy with Eul, and he goes upstairs to sit on his bed. He clutches his head, and curls up under the covers.
Eul is actually outside Joon-young's door when President Namgoong leaves, but he stops to yell at her for coming here. He tells her that Joon-young wants nothing to do with her, but Eul refuses to leave. President Namgoong tries to poke a hole in her confidence by saying Joon-young would have gone to see her if he wanted to (not if he was locked in his room, you evil little troll).
He even implies that Joon-young was dreading seeing her after she got out of jail. I hate you so much. Eul calls him a liar, but she leaves, deflated.
Upstairs, Joon-young answers his phone when Na-ri calls, and she asks why he never went to see Eul. He says, "Just because," and Na-ri cries that she wanted him to ask Eul not to leave. That gets his attention… leave where?
We backtrack a bit and see that Ji-tae's mother and Eul talked privately in her car, and Mom asks why Eul is still hanging around when they'd agreed to have nothing to do with each other again. She makes not-so-vague threats that she can go much further than she has in the past, particularly mentioning that Jik seems like a nice boy who will take care of Eul — if he's alive to do so. Whoa, are you serious??
That night Joon-young calls Ji-tae to come outside, and when he steps out of his front door, Joon-young punches him in the face, hard.
It's Jung-eun and Ji-tae's engagement ceremony day, and Jung-eun's father crows about his daughter and her impending marriage to Ji-tae to anyone who will listen, while she sits looking like a nervous wreck. She admits that her only ambition in life has been to marry Ji-tae, and now her dream is coming true.
Eul and Jik sneak out of Na-ri's place secretly, planning to move overseas to escape everything. Jik is against the idea but Eul argues that anywhere is better than here, and she threatens to go alone if he won't come with her. But before they can leave, Ji-tae comes screeching up and orders Eul out of the taxi.
Joon-young finds the former prosecutor who was in charge of Eul's father's case ten years ago, Lawyer Cha, and blatantly asks him who the real criminal was back then.
Cut to Jung-eun, waiting happily for her groom.
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