Post by TheBo on Jul 24, 2012 9:33:41 GMT -5
MOE Ep.2
Sunwoo pulls his dad down from the tree while Jangil goes for help.
We learn Mr. Lee stumbled on President Jin ("PJ") strangling Kim while delivering some flowers, tried to report it and was half-threatened, but mostly bribed, to bury the body. Instead, he typed a suicide note and took the body out to the woods. However, Kim was not dead and begged for help. Lee cold-bloodedly hung him and returned to his gardening shack to find Jangil almost discovering Kim's "suicide" note. When police find the suicide note and medical report on Kim's body, they tell Sunwoo the case is closed. Jangil begs them to reconsider, but clearly they won't. A grieving, unbelieving Sunwoo later starts his own investigation. He learns from the police that his dad had a criminal past.
Meanwhile, Mr. Lee joyfully tells Jangil of his great good luck--a full scholarship anywhere with full expenses paid. Jangil, a little suspicious, but overwhelmed with the news, accepts it. They go to see PJ and wife, who fall all over them. Jangil gets an expense packet too, which Mr. Lee immediately wants to filch from. On leaving, they pass Han Jiwon, the girl who helped Sunwoo when she was breaking PJ's window. She and her mother try to see PJ's wife, who refuses them entrance (through the oily Secretary Cha) and refuses their gift. Jangil had seen (and been deeply affected by) Jiwon earlier when she performed "Moon River" at her father's company in an effort to help save it from PJ's depredations.
Soomi confronts Jangil about being a jerk. Both Jangil and Jiwon are accepted to Seoul University. Jiwon confidently tells her dad she's going to get his fortune back and clear him in the future. At his later acceptance celebration, Jangil asks Sunwoo to stay with him in Seoul and try to get into university, and also swears to find the people who killed Sunwoo's dad once he's a prosecutor.
Soomi's dad (Mr. Choi) holds a seance for Mr. Kim (for "cheap') "in return for Sunwoo having befriended Soomi when no one else would." It's held outdoors, and suddenly Choi seems to go into a real trance and reveal Mr. Kim's murder by hanging (severely upsetting Mr Lee, who is present). He says things Sunwoo never told him about, but Sunwoo is suspicious and wants to know what Choi knows. He claims it's "the spirits," but actually he had witnessed the second murder of Mr. Kim and seen Mr. Lee's scar (from the loan sharks burning his arm). Later, at a neighborhood celebration of Jangil's acceptance to University, Mr. Choi sees Lee's scarred arm, realizes Jangil is Mr. Lee's son and learns that Sunwoo and Jangil are best friends. Disgusted, he makes drunken remarks to Sunwoo that he should dump Jangil, but Sunwoo sends him home.
Sunwoo tells Jangil at his house, in his dad's hearing, that he noticed the suicide note had strange grammar and was clearly not typed with his dad's typewriter. Mr Lee, under cover of charity to Sunwoo, steals the note and burns it.
In Shanghai, PJ's old nemesis Taejoo gets a letter from dead Mr. Kim asking who Sunwoo is--PJ's son or Taejoo's? And Sunwoo finds an old photo of his dad, PJ and Taejoo, looking like buddies.
Sunwoo, heading home after Jangil's happy celebration, is kidnapped by the loan sharks, who apparently knew Sunwoo took the fall for Jangil in the beating incident and now want payment. They'll ruin Jangil's life with this info if Sunwoo refuses to take a "clean" weapon they provide and beat a rival gangster near to death with it. Sunwoo takes the weapon, thinks over his options and throws away the weapon in the harbor. He runs down the dock--to where?
Comments. What's with Moon River and these dramatists? LOL. It featured in Phoenix, too. As a matter of fact, is it my imagination or are there an awful lot of English language recordings being played here? I don't mean Korean covers with English lyrics, I mean recordings with the original western singers.
I liked how Mr. Lee first wiped off Jangil's fingerprints from the note, then took off his own gloves to put it (and everything else) into Kim's pocket. Really highlighted his ineptitude.
And again, why not give us the suicide note text? Geez. And who is Pres J siccing Sec. Cha onto? Couldn't they just translate the name on the post-it note? I guess we should feel lucky they did a voiceover with Mr. Kim's letter to Taejoo, so we could at least know what that said.
Finally, I wonder if the person Mr. Kim was actually asking for help was Mr. Choi, hiding in the bushes. He was looking in that direction. It seemed so unlikely he'd beg Lee for help, but Choi makes some sense.
Sunwoo pulls his dad down from the tree while Jangil goes for help.
We learn Mr. Lee stumbled on President Jin ("PJ") strangling Kim while delivering some flowers, tried to report it and was half-threatened, but mostly bribed, to bury the body. Instead, he typed a suicide note and took the body out to the woods. However, Kim was not dead and begged for help. Lee cold-bloodedly hung him and returned to his gardening shack to find Jangil almost discovering Kim's "suicide" note. When police find the suicide note and medical report on Kim's body, they tell Sunwoo the case is closed. Jangil begs them to reconsider, but clearly they won't. A grieving, unbelieving Sunwoo later starts his own investigation. He learns from the police that his dad had a criminal past.
Meanwhile, Mr. Lee joyfully tells Jangil of his great good luck--a full scholarship anywhere with full expenses paid. Jangil, a little suspicious, but overwhelmed with the news, accepts it. They go to see PJ and wife, who fall all over them. Jangil gets an expense packet too, which Mr. Lee immediately wants to filch from. On leaving, they pass Han Jiwon, the girl who helped Sunwoo when she was breaking PJ's window. She and her mother try to see PJ's wife, who refuses them entrance (through the oily Secretary Cha) and refuses their gift. Jangil had seen (and been deeply affected by) Jiwon earlier when she performed "Moon River" at her father's company in an effort to help save it from PJ's depredations.
Soomi confronts Jangil about being a jerk. Both Jangil and Jiwon are accepted to Seoul University. Jiwon confidently tells her dad she's going to get his fortune back and clear him in the future. At his later acceptance celebration, Jangil asks Sunwoo to stay with him in Seoul and try to get into university, and also swears to find the people who killed Sunwoo's dad once he's a prosecutor.
Soomi's dad (Mr. Choi) holds a seance for Mr. Kim (for "cheap') "in return for Sunwoo having befriended Soomi when no one else would." It's held outdoors, and suddenly Choi seems to go into a real trance and reveal Mr. Kim's murder by hanging (severely upsetting Mr Lee, who is present). He says things Sunwoo never told him about, but Sunwoo is suspicious and wants to know what Choi knows. He claims it's "the spirits," but actually he had witnessed the second murder of Mr. Kim and seen Mr. Lee's scar (from the loan sharks burning his arm). Later, at a neighborhood celebration of Jangil's acceptance to University, Mr. Choi sees Lee's scarred arm, realizes Jangil is Mr. Lee's son and learns that Sunwoo and Jangil are best friends. Disgusted, he makes drunken remarks to Sunwoo that he should dump Jangil, but Sunwoo sends him home.
Sunwoo tells Jangil at his house, in his dad's hearing, that he noticed the suicide note had strange grammar and was clearly not typed with his dad's typewriter. Mr Lee, under cover of charity to Sunwoo, steals the note and burns it.
In Shanghai, PJ's old nemesis Taejoo gets a letter from dead Mr. Kim asking who Sunwoo is--PJ's son or Taejoo's? And Sunwoo finds an old photo of his dad, PJ and Taejoo, looking like buddies.
Sunwoo, heading home after Jangil's happy celebration, is kidnapped by the loan sharks, who apparently knew Sunwoo took the fall for Jangil in the beating incident and now want payment. They'll ruin Jangil's life with this info if Sunwoo refuses to take a "clean" weapon they provide and beat a rival gangster near to death with it. Sunwoo takes the weapon, thinks over his options and throws away the weapon in the harbor. He runs down the dock--to where?
Comments. What's with Moon River and these dramatists? LOL. It featured in Phoenix, too. As a matter of fact, is it my imagination or are there an awful lot of English language recordings being played here? I don't mean Korean covers with English lyrics, I mean recordings with the original western singers.
I liked how Mr. Lee first wiped off Jangil's fingerprints from the note, then took off his own gloves to put it (and everything else) into Kim's pocket. Really highlighted his ineptitude.
And again, why not give us the suicide note text? Geez. And who is Pres J siccing Sec. Cha onto? Couldn't they just translate the name on the post-it note? I guess we should feel lucky they did a voiceover with Mr. Kim's letter to Taejoo, so we could at least know what that said.
Finally, I wonder if the person Mr. Kim was actually asking for help was Mr. Choi, hiding in the bushes. He was looking in that direction. It seemed so unlikely he'd beg Lee for help, but Choi makes some sense.