Soo-im and her team rush to fulfil Sang-woo’s request while Jae-sang manages to disarm the former CEO. He then tries to shoot Sang-woo, but is shocked to learn that the gun did not have any bullets. Jae-sang is angry and filled with rage. ..
Jae-sang is so enraged when Sang-woo calls him names that he picks up a big stone and brutally kills Sang-woo. Once he is back home, he praises Jae-sang saying that he had done a good job and asks him to rest by giving him a sleeping pill to prepare for the big day the following day.
Just then, In-joo and Do-il sneak into the house with the help of a maidservant. They visit Hyo-rin and the girl claims that Sang-ha was responsible for In-hye’s disappearance. She is sure that In-hye would never leave her alone. They overhear Sang-ha moving about the house and notice her going to a secret passage in the house. Sang-ha is in a closed room with In-hye and the child is stoic about Sang-ha’s next move. ..
In-hye, a young woman, claims that she would rather die than live in Sang-ha’s closed room. Sang-ha, the older man, reveals how his mother’s absence from her life as she lived in the same room haunted him. Sang-ha states that his mother was a devout Christian and did not like the ways of the Jeongran Society. She locked herself in the room in eventually killed herself. ..
Sang-ha believes that she should’ve just stayed on like nothing was wrong and pretend to live a normal life. She also states that he brother too should have played along as she sheds some tears. Sang-ha then gives In-hye a photograph of herself, Sang-woo and Jae-sang as kids and asks her to paint it for him.
In-kyung worries about Sang-woo and Hee-jae states that one of his guns was missing. Hee-jae states that Sang-woo is not the kind to kill someone as In-kyung wonders if the former CEO went out to kill Jae-sang all by himself. As In-hye paints, Hyo-rin, In-joo and Do-il manage to break into the closed room and flee In-hye out of the Park house as Hyo-rin joins them too.
Jae-sang is at the rally where the public is cheering over him. Soo-im tells him that Do-il has been involved with the Oh sisters and he orders Soo-im to have his mother hospitalized in order to stump him. In-kyung is not able to make it on any leading news and Hee-jae seems disheartened. The next morning, Sang-ha has brought the house down when she learns Hyo-rin is missing. Soo-im tells Jae-sang that Do-il has been involved with the Oh sisters and Jae-sang orders Soo-im to have his mother hospitalized in order to stump Do-il. In Kyung’s case, he’s not able to make it on any leading news outlet but Heejae seems disheartened nonetheless. The next morning, Sang Ha brings the house down when she learns Hyo Rin is missing. ..
In-joo is at the Park house to meet Sang-ha. She tells Sang-ha that the two girls are on their own trying to live a normal life away from the chaos and asks Sang-ha to let them be. She hands Sang-ha a letter from Hyo-rin and the mother gets emotional. She believes that she will be able to get her daughter back but In-joo tells her to leave them to live a better life.
The two girls are on their cruise to Japan. Sang-ha plants a seed of doubt in the mind of In-joo about her trust in Do-il. At Hee-jae’s house, In-joo wonders if In-kyung will be ready to leave everything behind for a while and take a trip abroad but the latter states that she wants to really expose Jae-sang first. In-kyung suddenly sees something on her laptop and is shocked as In-joo comforts her.
Do-il and Hee-jae are at the place where Jae-sang will be holding his rally and the veteran gives his son a list of weapons he owns. He states if Hee-jae is not able to make it the following day after Jae-sang’s assassination, Do-il should take care of the weapons but the son does not agree to do so. Do-il calls Hee-jae a stranger and leaves as he gets a message from Soo-im.
Do-il visits his mother, Jae-sang arrives there. After a conversation, Do-il makes a deal with Jae-sang promising to help kill Hee-jae and stop the assassination in exchange for his mother’s freedom. Do-il agrees to the proposal and seemingly betrays In-joo and the team as he makes her sign a contract to hand over her power of attorney to the 70 billion won. In-kyung and Jong-ho read the paper and state that In-joo should sign the document and the oldest sister does so.
Do-il releases his mother from the hospital and allows Soo-im’s men to know the location of Hee-jae’s guns to assassinate Jae-sang. The guns are moved away after Hee-jae has left them. Do-il sends In-joo to the military veteran that In-kyung had visited in the past with a document on Do-il’s behalf.
The veteran makes an offer to purchase Hee-jae’s weapon collection and Hee-jae agrees to deliver them to the man. Soo-im’s men plant a bomb on Hee-jae’s truck that blows up as soon as Hee-jae arrives at the veteran’s house. Soo-im’s men watch Hee-jae being rushed to the hospital after he had burned himself and notice a hysterical In-joo trying frantically to call Do-il.
Do-il, the other boy on the flight with his mother, is happy about his victory as he will be appearing on a news show. However, the news channel is airing a special broadcast with In-kyung. Do-il’s mother and In-kyung seem to be very close and it seems like Do-il managed to double-cross Jae-sang.
On the news platform, In-kyung exposes Park Jae-sang’s father Il-bok for being responsible for the death of Do-il’s mother, So-yeong’s alleged victim. So-yeong claims that Il-bok had killed the man in order to generate a slush fund with trillions of won and used her to take the fall in his stead. Park Jae-sang is revealed to be the son of Il-bok and So-yeong.
Il-bok had stored evidence with Jae-sang’s DNA on the murder weapon and used that to expose how Jae-sang was the son of a killer. Do-il rushes to the hospital to save In-joo and Hee-jae and the trio rush out. Meanwhile, In-kyung states that she will answer more questions in the coming days.
In-joo is shocked by the events that took place without her knowledge as Do-il narrates how it all started when she led him to meet Hee-jae. It is also revealed that all but In-joo were in on the plan as she is incapable of telling a lie. In-joo is a bit pissed at Do-il for lying to her as he smiles wickedly at her expense.
Jae-sang and In-kyung run into each other on their way out of the building. Jae-sang mockingly calls her a mentally retarded criminal, but In-kyung promises to expose him with all the right evidence that she needs. He mocks her for being a mentally retarded criminal, but she states that she will let the nation know who their mayor was in reality. As In-joo, Do-il and Hee-jae are moving through a parking lot, the cops arrest the veteran for illegal possession of a weapon. ..
The next day, it is reported on the news that Hee-jae was arrested after a tip mentioned that the veteran was planning to assassinate Jae-sang. Ma-ri states that despite the exposé, the public sentiment against Jae-sang had still not soured. Later that evening he appears at the rally with crowds of people watching.
Do-il and In-joo watch from a distance as the former plays the video of Jae-sang murdering Sang-woo. Soo-im manages to turn off the video but a while later, Do-il plays the second clip of Jae-sang brutally killing Sang-woo. Jong-ho praises In-kyung for her bravery. ..
Jong-ho and In-kyung share a moment where Jong-ho reveals that In-kyung is someone who reports typhoons. Jae-sang too was a typhoon of a kind, soo-im manages to stop playing the second clip and Jae-sang tells the crowd that this was all a hoax asking them to trust him. Meanwhile, In-kyung is on public news again and she reveals how the victim – Sang-woo himself uploaded the clip on a server for her to find after his death.
The video of Jae-sang’s representatives telling reporters and media that the video was made using a deep fake of Jae-sang and that it was completely synthesized has created a lot of confusion. Jae-sang still manages to win the election despite the exposé from the sisters. Jae-sang mentions how it was time for him to start all over again.
In-kyung is on the news for a third time while during her broadcast it is announced that Jae-sang had committed suicide after jumping off a roof. In-joo, who is watching the news from her house is shocked while In-kyung is motionless when she is asked to comment about this on live television. Sang-ha looks at Jae-sang’s body in the morgue and there is a blue orchid in his hand.
In-joo is on her way out of the house when she gets a call from Sang-ha. Sang-ha warns her about what is going to happen in the days to come and In-joo is worried. She checks her balance on her international bank account and it turns out that the 70 billion won are gone too. She finds some people banging on her front door as they forcefully enter the house to find her in shock.
The Episode Review
This episode is likely to be a hard watch for many, as Jae-sang brutally murders Sang-woo within the first 10 minutes or so. It is disheartening if Sang-ha is letting all this happen for money. It seems ironic how her father left behind the orchids for her and how she turned the world around in the name of said orchids. ..
The novel Little Women is nuanced with its approach and how fans were initially led to believe that it is Jae-sang who was the master manipulator and Sang-ha was a pawn, only for it to be turned the other way around. The rich and the poor aside, I am glad that Hyo-rin and In-hye finally have a getaway and that they are away from the chaos.
The little girls in the show have a bigger purpose by the end of the show. I refuse to believe that Do-il betrayed In-joo by stealing all of her money as she is arrested as shown in the preview. I hope this is a part of his grand plan and that he is actually doing that to avoid anything Sang-ha has planned against the Oh sisters.
