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63 July 4, 2014 January 24, 2016

Medico Stranger: Episode 18

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Our hero gets railroaded into doing nothing but reacting this hour as the only person he could cling to with whatever sense of balls takes some time away from her main job of keeping secrets in society to multitask—now she gets to continue secrets and attempt to scrape Hoon off like an actress-clingy barnacle. When that inevitably fails to piece of work, nosotros tin can at least trust the show to stick to its prevailing modus operandi: If at get-go you lot don't succeed, keep doing it for xix more episodes.

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EPISODE 18 Epitomize

Hoon grabs Jae-joon's hand to stop him from beginning his surgery equally the president and Prime Government minister Jang watch the live feed with confusion. As Hoon concedes his loss to go Jae-joon to stop, the president asks Prime Minister Jang what only happened. Jang: "The game is over."

Chairman Oh smiles like he but won the villainous lottery while Sang-jin continues to exist irrelevant. Jae-joon asks Hoon to repeat those magic words about him losing before he dares to put down the scalpel.

Doctor Moon is NOT happy about Hoon conceding his loss. After he goes off to exercise whatever it is he does, a reformed Doctor Yang gives Hoon a smile of approval.

Jae-joon takes over surgery for Hoon's original patient while Hoon watches from the mezzanine. Jae-hee exchanges a look with him during surgery, and afterward oral fissure breathes to herself: "I'k sorry, Hoon-ah. I have no option if I'm to allow you become."

When she actually confronts Hoon, she puts on an aroused facade as part of her act(?). Claiming that Prime Minister Jang told her the truth right before the surgery, she asks Hoon well-nigh her father and how he killed him in gild to transplant his kidney to her.

Hoon's expression turns nervous as he stutters, "I… I really had no choice." He flashes dorsum to the moment when her father begged him to salvage his girl at all costs, and apologizes to her in the present.

"You're lamentable?" she repeats back incredulously. "For what? For killing my male parent, or for saving me?" Again, Hoon claims he had no pick, but Jae-hee thinks he did: He could've only let her die. At least then she would've died happy and in love.

Jae-hee: "Is that dearest? Saving me past killing my father? No. That was simply your greed to save the girl y'all loved. My father died because of that greed, which you've kept subconscious from me until now. Information technology was a lie that y'all loved me. Y'all just felt guilty for what you did, so you just tried to compensate for the wrong you lot did to me. Isn't it funny? Fifty-fifty after that, yous still pretended to be a existent physician. You'd win the competition and practise the surgery with me? Then why didn't yous exercise the surgery today? Afterwards promising that yous wouldn't permit me go in there solitary, why? Everything you said was a two-faced lie."

Hoon tries to get through to her, just she cuts him off soundly by ordering him never to say her proper noun again or to appear in front end of her, because she'll never forgive him. Merely afterwards she storms out, she crumples to the floor from the weight of her idiocy. Sorry, noble idiocy. I meant noble idiocy.

Hoon is in a state of emotional daze equally he goes straight to Mom in guild to tell her about what happened with Jae-hee, and cries equally he realizes that if Jae-hee hadn't found out, he would never accept told her.

"Begetter told me never to forget that I'm a doctor," he says through his tears. "From the beginning I was never a doctor, Mom." Aww. Even with her reduced capability to understand the situation, Mom instinctively reaches out to comfort him.

Jae-joon reports to Chairman Oh, who congratulates him on his big win past inviting him to attend a board meeting with him, seeing as how he promised to give Jae-joon some executive responsibilities.

When the topic turns to how this will affect the losing team, specifically Md Moon, Chairman Oh decrees that he'll be sent to that co-operative hospital in the fifth dimension. He's got Sang-jin looking for ways to revoke Hoon's license, and if there aren't any, he vows to pressure the right people to get it revokes anyway.

At least Jae-joon finally asks why Chairman Oh hates Hoon so much, to which Chairman Oh replies that it'southward because Hoon's father once dared to challenge him by testifying in a medical malpractice arrange. And if he hadn't taken care of Hoon's male parent and so, there would be no Myungwoo at present.

Jae-joon's optics grow wide every bit he realizes that Hoon was telling the truth about his father's involvement—especially because it means he's been antisocial the wrong person. Chairman Oh is the real bad guy.

He stays so out of it, in fact, that he isn't even listening when the lath unanimously votes him in every bit the youngest acting chairman Myungwoo Hospital has e'er seen.

After Chi-gyu and his sister share a bonding moment over his promise to be the one who performs the surgery she'll need later in life, Jae-joon calls him out to the One Dunkin' Donuts In All Of Seoul.

Information technology's there that Chi-gyu apologizes for ignoring Jae-joon's judgment in his sister's example, but unlike before, Jae-joon'south all smiles now as he tells Chi-gyu not to worry most it. Hell, he would've done the same! Or something.

Later, Md Yang turns his resignation letter in to Jae-joon with an improver: A witness statement detailing what he and Chairman Oh have been ordering him to do.

"Is this a threat?" Jae-joon asks. "It's a recommendation," Doctor Yang replies, earlier adding that he hopes Jae-joon doesn't get even more of a monster in the hellhole that is Myungwoo Hospital. (Testify!)

After he tears up Doctor Yang's resignation letter, Sang-jin easily him confidential hospital documents he was supposed to deliver but tin can't for whatsoever reason.

Naturally, Jae-joon opens the envelope and reads nearly the infirmary'due south development fund (on Jeju island?), along with its listing of donors and the amounts donated.

Jae-joon takes the documents to Chairman Oh when he's invited for dinner with him and Soo-hyun that evening, and Chairman Oh is none too pleased that Jae-joon had the documents in the first place.

Chairman Oh referees the forced date his daughter may as well non be on for all the weight he gives anything she says. Since he's only got eyes for Jae-joon at present, Chairman Oh tells the pair to prepare for Jae-joon'southward congratulatory party as well equally the next footstep forrad in their human relationship: marriage.

He completely ignores Soo-hyun'south shock when he only checks with Jae-joon about whether this whole marriage thing is peachy keen with him. (While nosotros're at it, would Chairman Oh like to be the bride?) Jae-joon says yes, which has Soo-hyun sending him all sorts of dislocated gazes from across the table—but again, the men are talking.

While Chairman Oh tears into Sang-jin for entrusting Jae-joon with confidential hospital documents, Jae-joon gets a private moment with Soo-hyun to tell her that he'll take care of this whole marriage deal.

He also apologizes before admitting that he was wrong about Hoon, and basically gives her permission to like him. Because not having that actually stopped her earlier.

An abrupt cut takes us to the next day, where Soo-hyun and Chi-gyu end up meeting for [choose your own hazard] in Jae-joon's function. Having merely learned of Jae-joon'southward date as acting chairman, Chi-gyu remarks that this means Jae-joon finally took over the castle.

But in proverb that, Chi-gyu has to explicate the story of the Metaphor Castle to Soo-hyun—and the story starts sounding all also familiar when he mentions how the knight wanted to seduce the princess, just to end up falling in dear with her instead.

Soo-hyun doesn't starting time to realize the connection until Chi-gyu gets to the part where the princess (her) was rejected by another knight (Hoon) when she confessed her feelings to him. Now that she can finally put Jae-joon'south "No matter what, forgive me for whatever I practise in the hereafter" into context, she asks Chi-gyu why the knight wanted the castle. Chi-gyu doesn't know.

Soo-hyun finds Hoon outside her apartment, and even though he's there in an endeavour to track down Jae-hee, she tells him near Jae-joon's eerie Metaphor Castle in an attempt to glean his thoughts on the event.

That's when Hoon remembers Jae-joon telling him about "his friend" Lee Seung-hoon, and asks Soo-hyun if she knows the name. He pieces together (aloud) that Lee Seung-hoon is the son of the plaintiff from the medical malpractice suit that got him and his begetter sent to the DPRK all those years ago, which leaves Soo-hyun wondering if Jae-joon could possibly be Lee Seung-hoon even if she doesn't desire to believe it.

Standing in forepart of his Once-A-Metaphor Castle, Jae-joon asks his father to watch over him as he begins the kickoff phase of his revenge plan. With a smirk, he crushes Chairman Oh's cardboard figurine.

At the stiflingly formal congratulatory political party Chairman Oh throws, Soo-hyun tries to broach a conversation with Jae-joon about his hospital takeover plans merely to be cut off when he brushes her off thinking she's needlessly worried about her father announcing the matrimony today.

He slips away to run across with Hoon and to repent for his misconception regarding Hoon's father. Hoon is unimpressed that he was called out to Chairman Oh's house just for this, even though Jae-joon claims that he wanted them to part without any bad claret betwixt them.

Hoon also shoots Jae-joon down when he asks for a favor, but Jae-joon starts to ask it anyway as he mentions how Soo-hyun sincerely likes him. Hoon seems to know where he'due south headed and asks if this ways Jae-joon was faking his love for her, earlier adding that he better finish hurting Soo-hyun/Quack.

He talks around Jae-joon's takeover program even though he couldn't be clearer in referencing it. "If y'all've done something wrong, ask for forgiveness equally soon as possible," Hoon advises.

Jae-joon's face up falls as he admits that he can't tell Soo-hyun what he's nearly to practice, and definitely tin can't ask her forgiveness for it. Hoon simply responds that Jae-joon shouldn't do whatever it is then, only for Jae-joon to ominously reply: "It's already begun."

Right on cue, the political party is interrupted past the arrival of the police with a warrant for… Not Chairman Oh. They've actually come up for Sang-jin, and arrest him on charges of embezzlement and bribery.

When Hoon asks Jae-joon if he's responsible, he says that this is only the beginning. "What happens from now on will scar Soo-hyun irrevocably," he adds with a tinge of regret.

Hoon guesses that he's Lee Seung-hoon and asks if this is all part of his revenge. Jae-joon doesn't deny it and gives the reasons we're familiar with by now, but for Hoon to remind him that he's taking his revenge on the father of the adult female he loves.

"The adult female Han Jae-joon loved, not Lee Seung-hoon," Jae-joon barks back. Hoon: "You're wrong. Both Lee Seung-hoon and Han Jae-joon loved Oh Soo-hyun. Am I wrong?" Jae-joon'south guilty expression suggests he isn't.

While Md Moon tells Chairman Oh that a Lee Seung-hoon tipped off the prosecutors, Soo-hyun confronts Jae-joon over his not-so-cloak-and-dagger identity. He tries telling her that who he is matters less than the crime her father committed xx years ago, but she's less than moved. Was this his idea of revenge?

Jae-joon's eyes well up with unshed tears as he replies: "Lee Seung-hoon merely wants one matter… A sincere apology."

Soo-hyun then goes to her father—the only person who hasn't still made the Lee Seung-hoon = Han Jae-joon connection—in order to inquire him nigh his history with Lee Seung-hoon.

He tells her everything, but defends his actions in protecting Myungwoo Infirmary from a malpractice suit all those years ago. Unsurprisingly, he stands by his belief that he did nothing wrong when Soo-hyun entreats him to apologize sincerely so he can be forgiven.

But unlike his daughter, Chairman Oh is unafraid of the consequences should he continue to be stubborn: "I, Oh Joon-gyu, volition not go down so easily."

Jae-hee meets with Prime Government minister Jang while he'due south faking a hospital visit to fool the press. He tells her Lee Seung-hoon's real identity before adding that he'll be sticking to his side of the bargain in sending Hoon and his mother to a condom place.

As if on cue (again), the prime minister's other secretary gives Hoon two tickets to Switzerland and some money, but Hoon refuses to leave unless he gets to see Jae-hee showtime. Wish granted.

Jae-hee is standoffish at their meeting and unwilling to listen when Hoon tries to explicate that her male parent had begged him to save her. She looks like her facade is in danger of breaking as she keeps trying to cut Hoon off, and rejects him in equally many means as she can verbalize.

Only Hoon won't be swayed, and promises that he'll come dorsum for her once he gets his mom somewhere safe. "I promised your father I would protect you," he says, a reason that she turns dorsum around on him: If he'due south doing this out of guilt, he can stop at present.

She turns to leave, but stops to add in her final words: "Forget about me and my male parent. Forget it all and live well."

The president calls Prime Minister Jang upwards after looking over Hoon's extensive medical records. Y'know, it'd exist really funny if he chooses Hoon in spite of the contest, considering null else could possibly negate the competition'due south existence more than. But, that'd be insane. That'due south something only an insane author would practise.

Judging from the style Prime Minister Jang ordered Nightshade to brand sure Hoon was "taken intendance of", the judgement wasn't just cutting off earlier he added "…all the way to Switzerland." He wants Hoon expressionless.

Secretarial assistant #2 is tasked with carrying out Prime Minister Jang's orders as he aims a gun at Hoon and his mother.

While Hoon stands protectively in front of Mom, the president discusses him with the prime minister. After watching how Hoon tossed his risk at victory away, the president is convinced that that quality (of caring for patients) makes Hoon more than of a doctor than Jae-joon.

Secretarial assistant #ii's finger tightens on the trigger without squeezing, virtually as if he was waiting for the phone call he gets ordering him to stand downwardly. He hands the telephone with Prime number Minister Jang on the line to Hoon, who screams into the receiver every bit he accuses Jang of planning to kill them from the get-go. (And… he's surprised?)

Prime Government minister Jang is his usual haughty self as he tells Hoon that he's been chosen as the president'south surgeon. While Hoon seethes that he won't do what he wants, Jang replies: "You'll have to. We have your mother."

Hoon turns around to discover that Mom has disappeared. Pffft. He somehow failed to notice Secretarial assistant #two taking her back to his motorcar, and is helpless as Mom is driven away.

After all that fuss, Prime Minister Jang tells Chairman Oh that the surgeon has to exist Hoon now. He literally even says that there'southward nothing they can practice about the president'south choice with a shrug, similar he didn't just spend Ten amount of episodes trying to make that choice for him.

He promises that he'll exist the one to tell Jae-joon, and reassures Chairman Oh that Myungwoo volition still get all the credit since Hoon will be working under them. He's likewise pulled strings to go Sang-jin out of jail.

Prime Minister Jang does every bit he promised and calls Jae-joon, simply it's mostly to warn him to sit quietly for a week. He claims Jae-joon will get his risk for revenge after the surgery is completed.

Hoon pays a visit to the prime minister while he'due south pretending to be a hospital patient, and demands to know where his mother is. He doesn't trust Jang anymore when he says Mom will be safety if the surgery is successful.

"Fine," Prime number Government minister Jang petulantly concedes. "What if I said it similar this? If y'all say something stupid, your mother will die. How'southward that?" Ugh, this man.

Hoon tells Jae-hee everything, but earns a not-reaction from her at the news that he'll be the surgeon subsequently all. She says disinterestedly that every bit long as he does his all-time during the surgery, she'll handle the residuum.

He'south worried that she won't be able to get to the president afterward with Prime Minister Jang'south men hovering around, simply she brushes that business aside: Agent Cha taught her how to take care of problems like that. Hoon looks surprised at her meaning: "Take… intendance of them?"

"Did you lot remember I came here trained only in anesthesiology?" she asks incredulously, and it's clear from Hoon's reaction that yes, yep he did think exactly that. Only she makes certain to add that if she had known he killed her begetter, she wouldn't take gone through with the training because she wouldn't have had a reason to run into him again.

Hoon asks what her plans are if everything ends upwardly working out for the mission. "I don't know," Jae-hee replies. "But the ane thing I'm sure of is that I'll never be with you lot."

Later on trying in vain to get her father to apologize for a wrong he still claims he didn't commit, Soo-hyun attempts to convince Jae-joon to stop what he's doing. "I know you used me and deceived me. I tin forget everything, and then delight stop here," she begs.

Jae-joon but replies that he'due south deplorable, causing Soo-hyun to desperately catch his easily in an effort to connect with him every bit she promises that she'll practise all that she can to convince her begetter. He cuts her off past telling her not to bother.

He makes a product about locking the door in Chairman Oh's role and closing the blinds. For a moment, you think that Chairman Oh has realized who he is… but instead he just buys that both Jae-joon and Soo-hyun have been meeting with Lee Seung-hoon. Somehow.

It is so ridiculously obvious that Jae-joon is speaking as Lee Seung-hoon past pretending to speak for him as he tells Chairman Oh in every feasible form just song that ALL he has to practice is apologize sincerely in order to put a stop to Seung-hoon's revenge.

Only Chairman Oh repeats the same tired refrain that he didn't do anything he needs to repent for. Jae-joon: "Yous never in one case thought you did anything wrong?" Chairman Oh: "Never!" Trust me when I say information technology goes on similar this for far too long, and becomes less of a conversation and more like a Monty Python sketch.

No matter how many final chances Jae-joon offers in Seung-hoon's name, Chairman Oh stubbornly rejects every last i until you're left wondering how on god's light-green earth he hasn't connected the dots yet. However, he stubbornly sticks to his story, at to the lowest degree until Jae-joon tells him that Seung-hoon has made information technology so that Oh can't open up his branch hospital in Jeju island anymore.

This is really the last straw for Chairman Oh, plenty to drive him to take a heart assault on the spot. Every bit he clutches his chest in agony, Jae-joon just gives him even MORE details about Seung-hoon's main plan to bring Myungwoo Hospital downward, and Prime Government minister Jang with it.

As Soo-hyun tries to get into her begetter'southward office, Jae-joon tells the ailing chairman that Seung-hoon spent his life thinking most his revenge and worried what he'd do if, afterward all that, he found Chairman Oh living in regret as penitence for his sins. Would information technology brand his life seem meaningless?

Chairman Oh starts to become suspicious when Jae-joon says he's relieved. "Information technology's actually a relief that you're however like this and haven't changed. Actually, I desire to thank yous." Chairman Oh: "Are you… maybe…" Jae-joon: "Yes. I'm Lee Seung-hoon from xx years ago. Thank yous for not letting my life get to waste, Chairman Oh Joon-gyu."

He casually knocks the telephone from Chairman Oh'due south reach when he grabs for it with 1 hand, while the other stays clutched tightly to his chest. Jae-joon stands equally still as a stone as Chairman Oh writhes in pain earlier collapsing on the floor.

Soo-hyun scrambles for a central to the office while crying exterior for her father and Jae-joon, as if she knows something terrible is happening inside.

However, Jae-joon continues to ignore her cries every bit his longtime enemy, her father, is finally lying helpless at his feet.

COMMENTS

A lot can be said about the whiplash-inducing feel it's been to picket Jae-joon's character fluctuations from week to week, since he never quite striking a sweet spot and stayed there. He played with beingness a lot of things, and ultimately I think his potential has been wasted but waiting for this moment for episodes on end. Notwithstanding, Jae-joon has the pleasure of being the simply character to offer united states of america the least bit of gratification this hour, so for that I take to thank him.

Compared to literally everyone else, Jae-joon at least fabricated decisions this hour, followed through with them, and wrestled with their emotional consequences. He actually did stuff with a purpose, which—while being so grossly overstated that stating it at all is akin to killing a horse just for the purposes of beating its expressionless, desecrated husk—could not have been made whatsoever clearer to us. In a desert of murky and constantly changing objectives, Jae-joon's clarity of idea actually was similar having our own little morally-cryptic oasis.

Is it deplorable that the bar has now been ready and so low that a character needs only to brand a decision within reason to automatically catch our attention? Yes. That upshot seems inevitable when eighteen episodes are spent watching characters we just don't understand. And echo offender Jae-hee undoubtedly won at being the most completely and totally incomprehensible character this hour. I'chiliad honestly shocked that I dared to think she couldn't get much worse after her most milquetoast of identity reveals, but I stand corrected. Being wrong has never felt and then wrong.

That being said, there are two possible ways to contextualize Jae-hee's recent deportment: 1) In an attempt at noble idiocy, she's trying to push Hoon away emotionally to salvage him from heartbreak while also trying to spare him from performing THE surgery, or two) She really is mad about her father's death and now hates Hoon because of it.

I'm more inclined to believe it's the first, mostly considering Jae-hee had that moment where she apologized to Hoon from afar before putting on her aroused/normal face to shut him down, and considering she had that wilting bloom moment after being hateful to him where she couldn't stay continuing from the paaain. Her knowledge of Hoon'southward involvement in her father's death is where understanding becomes incommunicable, since she either knew information technology all forth and is merely using it at present as an excuse, or she'southward telling the truth and actually did only discover out in an off-screen game of telephone.

Honestly, her existence would nevertheless exist a moot indicate fifty-fifty if some or any of those explanations had been fabricated clear by now. With just i week left, it's time to beginning making peace with what this show is rather than what it isn't. So for case, you could say that it is—…

Actually, that's all I've got. It exists, therefore it is.