City hunter 13 With Yoon-sung locked inside the market and Nana standing outside, Dad comes screeching

towards her on a motorcycle. Yoon-sung sees his face, and acting quickly, he shatters the glass to get to Nana first. He knocks her out of the way and Dad stops And pulls out a gun. Whoa. Yoon-sung puts himself between Dad and Nana, as if to say You gotta shoot me first. But um remember that time you stood on the car, and he hit you anyway? With a semi? Dad knows hes lost his advantage, so he zooms away. Nana trembles as she asks, Is that your father? Makes you grateful that you walked away from that tea party with your life, doesnt it? On the way home, Yoon-sung explains that this is Dads way of retaliating because he disposed of Target No. 3s money in his own way. You should just tell her that when other kids got grounded, you got shot at. That pretty much tells her what she needs to know. He swears to protect the people around himAjusshi, Mom, and Nana. But Nanas not having any of that, and tells him that next time, he shouldnt jump in the line of fire to protect her. Nana: I dont like it when youre in danger because of me. I dont like it when youre hurt because of me. I dont like it when youre struggling because of me. But he just yells at her to stop, refusing to listen and getting angry at her instead. He walks into the house all silent and pissy, and Ajusshi wonders if they fought at the market. Nana tells him that they ran into Dad. Ajusshi starts stuttering immediately at the mention of Dad, and asks if theyre okay. She nods, and he just gapes, But thats not likely He describes Boss as the kind of person who stole Yoon-sung from his blood to raise him. Dad sits in his office, calmly cleaning his gun. Sang-gook asks what hes going to do now. Dad says matter-of-factly that Yoon-sung is the kid who ran guns-a-blazin when his surrogate mother was killed. I just have to make him like that. Shivers, meet Spine. This is so messed up, but so genius too. Hes realized that threatening Yoon-sung with his peoples lives isnt really getting him anywhere, but he knows the trigger to lure him into hell. I believe that Dad, despite his coldness, has a soft spot for Ajusshi and Mom. But Nana? Shes just in the way. Nana confronts Yoon-sung right away (which I love), and he asks how hes supposed to just pretend not to notice if her life is in danger. Nana: I know better than anyone that every single day is a war for you, and every moment is a struggle, so how can I lean on you? How can I ask you to protect me too? Im going to become someone that you can lean on. Im going to become stronger. So I can protect you. I. LOVE. HER. He sighs, wondering what on earth she eats to make her so plucky. She smiles, You just thought, That woman is really cool, didnt you? You thought, I have a good eye when it comes to women, right? Pwahahaha. He gets mad again, mostly out of embarrassment, What kind of woman just pops into a mans room all the time? The kind who wants your bacon. Duh. He tells her to stop saying stuff like that, or he wont leave her alone. Rawr? Target Kim Jong-shik tries to do some damage control by telling the press that the City Hunter is the one who stole university funds. When asked why the money was found at his house then, he says that the banks are unsafe, and he therefore was keeping the money safe for the school personally. HA. Oh, okay then. Surely people will believe THAT story. Why its perfectly logical. Yoon-sung sets a tiny spy camera in a book, and prepares to plant it in Kim Jong-shiks office. He thinks hes going alone, but once he gets in the car, Nana pops out of the backseat, grinning from ear to ear. Shes basically not going to take no for answer, so he finally gives in. City Hunter and his Girl Friday, on the case. God, I love this drama. Kim Jong-shiks minion tells him that theyve lost the City Hunter and Bae Man-duk to the wind, but theyll keep trying the Nana angle. He orders them all killed, for stealing from him. Wow. Apparently this man really loves his money. Young-ju heartbreakingly watches as his fathers name gets smeared all over the news. Nanas aunt worries that shes been unable to reach her, and at work they say that an uncle called in sick for her, which is highly unlikely. But Young-jus day is about to get worse. The City Hunter case gets handed off to a different prosecutor, right out from under him. He storms into his boss office, only to be told flat out that he is to wash his hands of all the City Hunter cases because of his father. Young-ju understands that he cant handle his own fathers case, but pleads to continue his work on the City Hunter. His boss tells him that all it takes is one wrong move to taint a prosecutors good name, but what he really means is that hell bring the whole office down with him, which is not okay. He takes a hard line and adds, Im not suspecting you or anything, but did you really not know about the money? Oh. Oh, poor Young-ju. You are having a really bad day. Yoon-sung and Nana pose as Kim Jong-shiks bug sweeping team and distract the secretary long enough to plant their camera. Problem is, Young-ju is on his way to see Dad unannounced. Nana steps outside for a cup of water and sees Young-ju walk in. He plows straight into the office and insists on waiting inside. Yoon-sung freezes, trapped behind nothing but a glass divider with some venetian blinds.

Young-ju is immediately suspicious of all things, which I love because its fitting for his character and awesome for the story. So he cautiously approaches the man standing in the corner, in an attempt to get a good look at him Yoon-sung steels himself, for what I dont knowto attack, to run, maybe all of the above I really wish you had a face mask on right now And then just in the nick of time, Young-jus phone rings. Its Nana, hilariously faking bad reception in an attempt to draw him out of the room. Smart girl. Its such an instinctive thing we all do with cell phoneswalk around to find a better signal, even if we can hear clearly while the other person insists they cant. She manages to draw him completely out of the office to give Yoon-sung an exit, and also assuage his concerns that shes out sick and unreachable. She turns around to leave, and nearly runs right into Kim Jong-shik, on his way in. She hides behind a pillar and Yoon-sung pulls her out of sight before she gets discovered. He notes the license plate on Kim Jong-shiks car. Nana wonders what Young-ju is doing here (still in the dark about the daddy-son connection), and realizes that he must be here to investigate the money, like the awesome prosecutor that he is. Yoon-sung spits jealously that hes not being cool; hes just doing his job. Heh. I love that youre a big enough person to keep Young-jus family connection a secret, but petty enough to remind her that hes not such hot stuff. Young-ju pleads with Dad to turn himself in. But Dad is just as insistent as ever that he DESERVES that money, because he built this school up from nothing. He wonders why hes the only one who has to abide by the law when no one else does. Uh, what now? Young-ju calls him out for being so far gone that hes made himself believe in his own innocence. He tells him how much pain he felt the day he realized what Dad had done after the accident, and that as his son, he wanted to somehow right his fathers wrongs. Dad declares that hes innocent by law, since the statute of limitations has expired. Young-ju asks how he can really feel no guilt, when someone died, and another has been a vegetable for ten years. His eyes widen, What a relief that one died and the other became a vegetable. The dead cant talk, and the vegetable wont likely wake up. What a relief that those people are taking my sins in my place. WHAT THE ? Young-jus jaw drops as he murmurs in disbelief, Father Oh my god. Hes a loon. A proper sociopath. Oh my god. He goes even further: So what if those people pay for my sins? Do you think all lives are equal? Im different from them. SAID THE PSYCHOPATH. Oh god, hes far scarier than Jin-pyo. I know, ones got guns, but this guy is actually a nut job. He insists that the accident was nothing but bad luck. Young-ju hangs his head, his last drop of hope in his father shattered before his eyes. He draws the line in the sand: Young-ju: It should have been you who died in that accident. At least then I wouldnt have come to hate you like I do now. I resent being born as your son. Will sin really disappear in time? October 1983. What happened that day? Why is the City Hunter after you? I dont think Ill be able to protect you this time, Father. Take care of yourself. Daddy vs. Son all around it is. Young-ju comes back to the office ready to glue himself to the City Hunter case, rules be damned, but finds that his staff is not with him. He realizes that hes on his own now if hes going to go rogue. I like you much better this way. Rogue prosecutor is much cooler, even if youre still a rule-stickler at heart. He decides to track Lee Kyung-hee first, and goes to her snack shop to ask around in the neighborhood. One of the nearby ajummas tells him that she doesnt know where she is, and that she has no family because her son was taken from her. In 1983. He comes back up the steps and lo and behold, Yoon-sung is sitting there in front of Kyung-hees store. Young-ju hides, his mind rapidly piecing together what he knows: Lee Yoon-sung, Lee Kyung-hee. 1983. He had his blood test when she went into the hospital needing a bone marrow transplant. He thinks back to earlier at the man in his fathers office. The City Hunter used hidden cameras to trap both Targets 1 and 2. If it was Yoon-sung Oh man, I love that hes smart. I hate it, and I love it. He goes right back to Dads office, and I totally expect him to tear the place apart looking for the camera, but he coolly pretends to just answer his phone and loudly exclaims, Youve found Lee Kyung-hee? and repeats the location, for Yoon-sung to hear. Hot damn, youre even smarter than I thought. He leads him to a convent and tells a nun to lead the man who arrives into the chapel. He waits inside, trap set. Yoon-sung speeds over and the nun takes him to the chapel and opens the door He looks in and then halts, just an inch outside the door. He baits the nun with a trick question, asking if Kyung-hees leg has healed, and she lies that yes, her leg has healed and shes doing well here. And with that, he disappears, trap averted not a moment too soon. I love this cat and mouse game. Young-ju runs out but hes gone. He refuses to let it go and arrives at Yoon-sungs house just two seconds behind him.

Yoon-sung plays it cool, musing that the good prosecutor seems mighty interested in his affairs with no evidence, and Young-ju tosses back with a smile that he knows Yoon-sung was at the convent. He even picks up on the dirt smudge on Yoon-sungs back, noting that children were playing soccer in the field just outside the chapel. Okay Sherlock Holmes. Was it also a rare kind of dirt only to be found at that specific location, imported from India or something? He reminds him that checking traffic cameras will confirm that he went there, though he guesses that Yoon-sungs already changed his plates. Hes got nothing for now, and both men know it. Yoon-sung goes inside, and Young-ju texts his father with one last plea to turn himself in before things get ugly. Ajusshi tries Kyung-hees house, to see if shes come home at all. She hasnt, but the mail is piling up, and he shuffles through it and lands on letters from a temple. He heads up there and finds that its where shes been staying, but shes gone on a trip to visit cancer patients and pray for them. He tells the woman at the temple that she has a son, Lee Yoon-sung, whos alive and well and looking for her. He leaves Yoon-sungs number and begs her to have Kyung-hee call the second she arrives. On his way out he notes some green tea that the monks at the temple harvest themselves. Young-ju cleans out his desk of all the City Hunter files hes to turn over, and comes across an old mp3 player that he got as a gift from his father. Hes kept it all these years because it has a recording of Dad, telling him to become the kind of prosecutor who upholds justice and truth. He listens to it now, the emptiness of Dads words ringing in his ears. He shows up at Yoon-sungs gym, insisting that its pure coincidence. Yoon-sung doesnt skip a beat and says sure, why not, since he grew up with a silver spoon too. He is Kim Jong-shiks son after all. Oof. He wonders that since Young-jus outed himself as Nanas Daddy Long Legs, when he plans on coming out with the truth that hes the son of the man who killed her mother. Eep. Young-ju spots another weakness and counters that he sure seems to know a lot about Nana. Yoon-sung challenges, Walk away from her cleanly. If you really want to remain a Daddy Long Legs. Young-ju asks saucily, Is that why you saved her? At the broadcast station, he let Seo Yong-hak go to save Kim Nana, the City Hunter. Oh you two and your dancing around each other. Is it prom night up in here? Ajusshi visits the Blue House to give Nanas partner Eun-ah the green tea that he bought at the temple. His pipedream crush on her is so cute. He even plays she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not with some leaves while he waits for her in the garden. She accepts the tea happily thinking its from Yoon-sung, and Ajusshi sighs, his gesture totally misunderstood. Aw. At home Yoon-sung frets that Ajusshi isnt answering his phone (because he dropped it in water up at the temple), but then he gets a call from Eun-ah, thanking him for the tea. Nanas eyes widen. The Blue House? You mean where Kim Jong-shik sent a bunch of lookouts for me? They book it over to the Blue House, and find Ajusshi on their way, crossing the road. Yoon-sung stops the car and waves, just as another car zooms right past him And straight for Ajusshi. NO! Yoon-sung and Nana realize whats happening, but in a split second, the car speeds up, and hits him dead on. Ajusshi smashes right into the front windshield and gets thrown over the car. He lands on the ground. They race over to him and try to wake him up. Yoon-sung looks up at the car with a ferocious look in his eye. Its Kim Jong-shiks license plate. The driver sees Yoon-sung and Nana in the rearview mirror and drives away, as Yoon-sung mutters his name aloud. They race Ajusshi to the hospital and the doctor begins CPR to try and revive him. No heartbeat. OH SHIT. OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT Yoon-sung pleads, Ajusshi, open your eyes! Ajusshi, get up! The doc keeps pumping his chest, but still no heartbeat. Yoon-sung starts to cry. Trembling, he whispers, Ajusshidont die. Please. Dont die. He screams, AJUSSHI! Dont die. Dont die. Please dont die. Dont die. Dont die. Dont die. And then finally a pulse. Oh THANK GOD. I nearly had a heart attack waiting for that heartbeat. Yoon-sung cries tears of relief, and even in this moment, he tries to hold back his tears, which just crushes my heart even more. Ajusshi gets through surgery, but he remains in a coma. Yoon-sung sits by his bedside silently, not answering his phone. But it might be your mother! Aaaaugh! Nana looks over at him warily, telling him that she knows what hes thinking right now. Nana: When my father was lying in a coma, I thought about it hundreds of times every day. If I werent a powerless high school student If I could only drive I could repay Kim Jong-shik in the exact same way Your eyes right now are just like mine back then. It makes me nervous. Yoon-sung: I finally understand my fathers heart now. He might even be going easy Those people NO. No.no.no.no.no.no.no. He asks her to take care of Ajusshi and walks out before she can stop him. He looks at himself in the mirror like an animal hungry to kill, his eyes piercing with rage and darkness. God, it kills me inside, and yet the City Hunter, finally coming to war with his own darkness Its the BEST. THING. EVER. He shatters the mirror with his bare fist. And in turn his reflection fractures, the Yoon-sung we know, broken and no longer whole.

Ironically, Young-ju is up for a commendation, just when his career is on the cusp of landing in the toilet with one false move. His boss hands him an invite list, and he wryly crosses off the first name his fathers. But Dad gets the invitation anyway and smiles, thinking that his son still wants him to be proud of him, despite everything. So he shows up happily, right next to Young-ju. But Young-jus lightning fast on the uptake, and guesses right away that the City Hunter is behind his dads appearance. He tells his assistant to look around, and plants the mp3 voice recorder in Dads pocket. Yoon-sung arrives, noting Kim Jong-shiks car parked downstairs, fixed up like new. Nana shows up too, flowers in hand, after hearing from her aunt about Young-jus award. She sits eagerly, applauding along with everyone else as Young-ju receives his award and trembles, giving his speech using his fathers own righteous but empty words about what it means to uphold the law, beyond words in books. Dad smiles proudly. But then the screen comes up behind Young-ju, and he hangs his head, knowing whats about to come. And sure enough, theres the video of his conversation with Dad, incriminating the both of themDad for his crimes and Young-ju for knowing. Nana watches in shock, the truth dropped on her like a ton of bricks. Kim Jong-shik turns to see all judgment pointed his way, and walks out. Young-jus boss is the only one to break everyone out of their stupor when he declares that this must be the work of the City Hunter. Both Nana and Young-ju bolt at those words. She cuts off his path, for Yoon-sungs sake but also for her own, asking Young-ju: Are those words true? Youre Kim Jong-shiks son? So the father commits the crime, and the son feels sorry, so he becomes a Daddy Long Legs? All this time, Ive been encouraged by letters and gifts, even living with hope. What was it? Pity? Guilt? He apologizes for not being able to tell her sooner, and promises to take all of her hatred later, but she refuses any apology. He runs, more concerned with finding his father before the City Hunter gets to him. But hes too late of course. Kim Jong-shik runs to his car, but the second he gets in, Yoon-sung is there waiting for him, knife to throat. He orders him to drive, unless hed like to die in front of his son. As Kim Jong-shik drives, Yoon-sung plays a recording of Young-jus voice saying, I shouldnt have let it go that day when I found that 200 billion won. Oh, nice. And dark. Youre threatening him with his son. Kim Jong-shik guesses that this is all because of October 83, and Yoon-sung muses that hes lived nicely after killing those men, living off students tuition, and committing murder and getting away with it. But hes going to send him to be captured, by Young-ju. He shows him evidence of his embezzlement, the bow on the present when he delivers dad to son. Being caught by your own sons hand ought to be fun. Kim Jong-shik pleads for him to leave Young-ju out of it. In a fit of desperation, he swerves the car and runs out with the documents. Yoon-sung chases him in that creepy serial killer slow walk, knife at his side and in no hurry whatsoever. Kim Jong-shik stumbles up onto a pedestrian bridge over the road, out of his mind with fear. He trips and the papers go flying out of his hand, and crazed with that single-minded pursuit of keeping them from getting out, he jumps up to try and catch them, hurling himself over the ledge. He barely grabs onto the rail, hanging over the traffic down below. Yoon-sung stops in his tracks, and then He turns around and walks away. *GASP* But! Your soul! Youll lose your soul! But in that moment, he remembers the same pain when his surrogate mother was killed, and his fathers sacrifice to save him. And then Nanas words, that what she wanted was not blood spilling blood, but for the City Hunter to bring Kim Jong-shiks sins to light, to make it known that he is not someone to be upheld and respected. Her words shake him, and he drops the knife. Young-ju arrives and sees Dad hanging from the bridge. He cries out, Father! It startles Yoon-sung into action, and he turns around, running towards Kim Jong-shik. Oh whew! Kim Jong-shik hears his son below and sees the City Hunter running towards him. He realizes whats to come, and unable to face it, he closes his eyes and lets go. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He falls to what is surely his death. Young-ju looks up and sees the City Hunter, standing there in the place where his father fell. He screams and runs over to Dad. Yoon-sung trembles, feet locked in that place, looking over the ledge as it dawns on him what just happened.