Post by TheBo on May 6, 2011 11:59:48 GMT -5
Ep.16 synopsis (FINAL EPISODE):
The three "thugs" are congressional aides to Cong Oh. He asks T and W to hold off for now, things are more complicated than they know they are. T flounces out. After more investigation, Wujin goes to meet Cong Oh and makes him feel bad by talking about how he must have felt when writing that government report saying the zone would never work. He meets with the Younghwan Const baddies and learns they know he has the list, so he decides to work with Wujin to expose them. We learn he used to be a reporter; he gives her the list and a recording of himself being coerced into taking the fall for the bribery incident that landed him in jail, and he asks her to promise not to act on the material until they are sure they can "win"--he'll call her when that time has come. W gives it a look and listen, then gives it to T who wants to report it now. She says no, tells him her promise and they agree to wait. "Three months later," Soonchul is doing reports live but is not a good editor, Taesok is head of the news division (he supervises 9:00 Spotlight) and teaches classes at the university, and Wujin has transferred to the political department and is well known to the politicos. She gets "the call" from Cong Oh. T, W and S kick into "go" mode. W gets Dir Lee and Cong Kim (the stab-ee from earlier) to come onto Spotlight for a live interview by sending the casino share list to the NIS agent, who says Younghwan has to take care of it, the NIS won't get involved. Wujin, who has promised the NIS agent she won't release the list, nevertheless manages to get Cong Kim and Dir Lee sniping at each other on the air by asking uncomfortable questions and drawing conclusions that make them look idiotic and expose their lies. Cong Oh, meanwhile, has withdrawn from the congressional race on the air in an interview with Soonchul. (While all this is happening, new News Boss Jung is practically having heart failure in the control room; T tells him to "fire me later.") While the Lee/Kim interview is in session, the anchor gets a breaking news flash--Cong Oh has released a statement about his report on the economic zone, confirming it is not viable. As a result, Cong Kim tries to put the entire blame on Younghwan, saying the gov't couldn't know a thing about it, and Dir Lee finally gets pissed off to the point where he reveals the existence of the list and everyone on it. This is naturally a huge news coup. The show ends with Taesok, who has been watching Wujin talking to the cameras doing an "audition" for 9:00 Spotlight while the studio is "empty," telling her it wasn't professional enough and why don't you try again. As she starts, the show ends.
My thoughts:
The description of this show is "What if a mentor and his protege fall in love?" and I think that's kind of a disservice to the show and the characters. There's so much more going on here, and they never really do say they love each other or indicate what their future will be, it's more open-ended. I wonder if, as is their habit, the writers found out that viewers were upset at the idea of a boss and employee having such a relationship and chickened out? This seems likely. Whatever the reason, I think the show is better without an explicit love story.
The three "thugs" are congressional aides to Cong Oh. He asks T and W to hold off for now, things are more complicated than they know they are. T flounces out. After more investigation, Wujin goes to meet Cong Oh and makes him feel bad by talking about how he must have felt when writing that government report saying the zone would never work. He meets with the Younghwan Const baddies and learns they know he has the list, so he decides to work with Wujin to expose them. We learn he used to be a reporter; he gives her the list and a recording of himself being coerced into taking the fall for the bribery incident that landed him in jail, and he asks her to promise not to act on the material until they are sure they can "win"--he'll call her when that time has come. W gives it a look and listen, then gives it to T who wants to report it now. She says no, tells him her promise and they agree to wait. "Three months later," Soonchul is doing reports live but is not a good editor, Taesok is head of the news division (he supervises 9:00 Spotlight) and teaches classes at the university, and Wujin has transferred to the political department and is well known to the politicos. She gets "the call" from Cong Oh. T, W and S kick into "go" mode. W gets Dir Lee and Cong Kim (the stab-ee from earlier) to come onto Spotlight for a live interview by sending the casino share list to the NIS agent, who says Younghwan has to take care of it, the NIS won't get involved. Wujin, who has promised the NIS agent she won't release the list, nevertheless manages to get Cong Kim and Dir Lee sniping at each other on the air by asking uncomfortable questions and drawing conclusions that make them look idiotic and expose their lies. Cong Oh, meanwhile, has withdrawn from the congressional race on the air in an interview with Soonchul. (While all this is happening, new News Boss Jung is practically having heart failure in the control room; T tells him to "fire me later.") While the Lee/Kim interview is in session, the anchor gets a breaking news flash--Cong Oh has released a statement about his report on the economic zone, confirming it is not viable. As a result, Cong Kim tries to put the entire blame on Younghwan, saying the gov't couldn't know a thing about it, and Dir Lee finally gets pissed off to the point where he reveals the existence of the list and everyone on it. This is naturally a huge news coup. The show ends with Taesok, who has been watching Wujin talking to the cameras doing an "audition" for 9:00 Spotlight while the studio is "empty," telling her it wasn't professional enough and why don't you try again. As she starts, the show ends.
My thoughts:
The description of this show is "What if a mentor and his protege fall in love?" and I think that's kind of a disservice to the show and the characters. There's so much more going on here, and they never really do say they love each other or indicate what their future will be, it's more open-ended. I wonder if, as is their habit, the writers found out that viewers were upset at the idea of a boss and employee having such a relationship and chickened out? This seems likely. Whatever the reason, I think the show is better without an explicit love story.