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SBS Drama "FALSIFY" Nam Goong Min, Uhm Jiwon, Jeon Hye Bin etc. *FINALE Episodes*


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There’s pressure on both sides as our heroes begin to close in on their formidable adversaries. Finally, Moo-young and So-ra begin to realize that they’re in much more danger than they expected, and Seok-min is thrown for a loop by Chief Gu’s nefarious plotting. As a new character emerges who seems to be at the center of this convoluted web of corruption, an old one also returns, and there’s little doubt that there’s a big reveal on the horizon.

 

EPISODE 17 RECAP

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The judge officially announces his ruling to reopen Seon-woo’s case. Overcome with emotion, Seon-woo breaks free of his guards and gives Moo-young a tearful hug. In the background, Killer stalks around and witnesses their heartfelt hug with his lighter flicking, but only Seok-min notices that something is off.

Chief Gu and Lawyer Jo have a secret meeting in a parked car, and they start turning on each other in the face of adversity, accusing each other of incompetence that led to this situation. Chief Gu laughs, treating Lawyer Jo indulgently as if he were a child, while at the same time threatening that if he is thinking about betraying him, he should know that Chief Gu has never lost in a power struggle. Editor Jung reports to Chief Gu that Seok-min has made a proposal: He wants independent editorial rights over all of the Splash Team’s articles in exchange for keeping quiet that Reporter Na’s source was actually Chief Gu.

Chief Gu doesn’t want to listen and barges out, taking a minute to think. As he walks along Daehan Daily’s halls, he remembers one of his last conversations with Chul-ho, who had come to him saying that he couldn’t write fabricated stories any longer. Although Chief Gu attempted to persuade him otherwise, Chul-ho had stuck to his guns in front of his mentor, saying that he couldn’t bear to lie to himself and the world any longer.

 

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Back in the present, Seok-min receives the server analysis results that show that Seon-woo’s article was written by Chul-ho. He also remembers a conversation he had with Chul-ho, when he had found out that Chul-ho had been fabricating stories. Chul-ho couldn’t reveal to him who was feeding him this false information, but Seok-min hadn’t asked.

He had just told Chul-ho that he expected him to recover from this, and that he needed to keep writing and revealing the truth as a way to pay the world back for his wrongdoings. According to Seok-min, anyone can fall into temptation, but the way one decides to repent is the true measure of a real reporter. His last words to Chul-ho were to tell him that he trusted in him.

 

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Seok-min meets Moo-young outside, and Moo-young finally shows him copies of the tattoo symbol on the killer. He’s initially angry that Moo-young didn’t tell him from the beginning, but he accepts that Moo-young couldn’t trust him back then. Moo-young then admits that that Seok-min was right the first time: They should have used Lieutenant Jeon to follow the corruption all the way to the core.

Seok-min tells him that there’s another way, and reveals to Moo-young that Chul-ho was the one creating falsified reports regarding Seon-woo. Moo-young can’t believe it and almost punches Seok-min for saying it, but he stops right before his fist connects. Seok-min begs him to look at the situation rationally so that they can get to the bottom of this case.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/08/falsify-episodes-17-18/

 

 

COMMENTS

Those last scenes were excellent, thanks in part to an excellent performance by Eom Ji-won. Her frantic running through the streets was so realistic, exactly conveying the horror she’s going through from the trauma of a literally life-threatening experience. Many a drama heroine shrug off these near-death encounters without so much as a frown, so I’m glad that Falsify is going a more believable route, because now I feel more empathy toward So-ra as a character.

She was never my favorite, but that was because she seemed so rigid and unbending and always saw things in black and white, no matter how great the stakes or the temptation. So to me, she seemed more like a robot than a human, one who was just programmed to be righteous. Her core beliefs haven’t changed, but I think through this experience (having had the bejeezus scared out of her), she’s coming to realize that external factors (such as fear) can motivate someone to act against the law.

Speaking of which, I really hope that she swiped the USB before the killer made off with the lighter. But then again, that might be too easy a solution. At the same time, Falsify has been pretty predictable this entire time, with the clues (like Lieutenant Jeon’s last words on the cigarette) being almost spoonfed to our heroes, so it’s definitely a possibility that she has the USB. The killer definitely has a motive for wanting the USB (because it clearly incriminates him), but I’m still wondering why he became involved in the first place. Does he have any ties with this Nam Kang-myung person?

 

For now, he just seems like a follower who just does whatever Lawyer Jo tells him to do, which is a grave disappointment for me. Before his face was revealed, I had built him up in my mind to be the ultimate mastermind assassin. And to an extent, I still think he’s awesome (primarily due to that crazy awesome seatbelt-steering wheel stunt), but so far, he hasn’t impressed me on his smarts.

In my book, any villain that monologues is just stupid, and killers (that aren’t mentally unstable) that do so irk me even more because they should be vigilant about any possibility of getting caught. But almost every time, this killer speaks to his victims and then sometimes doesn’t finish the job (like with Moo-young and So-ra), which leaves stray ends loose. Sometimes I wonder why he even bothers with choking/stabbing people if he’s going to let them leave after having seen his face and heard his voice.

Moo-young’s naivety regarding Chul-ho’s involvement in the falsification stories baffles me, because he’s been the one who has been following the leads on his brother’s stories all these years. He’s the one who knows the stories inside and out, so he probably knows that there was a pattern where certain ones set up the background for other events to follow. I guess it shows that where family is concerned, Moo-young has held onto his shred of innocence. Seok-min, on the other hand, seems to be the only one who has an idea of the main players in this game and how to strategize to capture them. So I’m glad that he’ll be given an opportunity to showcase his talents in the next episodes, where he’ll grapple with Chief Gu’s trap/scoop.

Sometimes I do get confused in this story though. There are so many threads to keep track of, and as one subplot ends, another one begins. I’m glad that Yeon-soo has popped back in, and I hope she stays for good because the screen was on fire whenever she was on it. Hopefully this Nam Kang-myung chase doesn’t drag on for long so that maybe we’ll finally get to some type of closure on this coast guard coverup business, even if only for Seon-woo. That kid really deserves a second chance at life.

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  • Falsify: I’m liking Eom Ji-won’s character more and more. She seems like a real prosecutor, stumbling through her job and taking risks and making mistakes. She’s tough, but she’s not unbreakable, and after she was attacked by the killer, I thought her reaction was so perfect—anger at her own vulnerability, and pride in her job making her push past her fear.

 

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  • Falsify: I get the distinct feeling that this show’s newbie writer feels really strongly about the subject matter and researched it thoroughly, since she loves for the characters to say lots of words and uncover lots of conspiracies. It’s just that I’m, well, bored.
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Moo-young has reached a point in his journey where everything he believed about his brother has been stripped away, and he’s realizing the pain his reckless pursuit of vengeance can cause to those he cares about. To stay on this path, he’ll need more than his anger to fuel him now. Meanwhile, both Seok-min and So-ra begin to understand the depths of the danger they face while investigating this case — and while our heroes battles with their conscience, our villains plot to undermine each other.

 

EPISODE 19 RECAP

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So-ra manages to get away from the killer and stumbles down the road as Moo-young looks everywhere for her. Finally, he finds her curled up on a street corner as concerned pedestrians worry over her frazzled and bloody appearance. He hurries to her side and tries to reassure her as So-ra grapples with the shock of nearly being murdered.

Seok-min sits outside the office and thinks back to a time when he was young and tried to get an article about a corrupt company printed, even though he knew that they advertised with the paper and that his piece would never get approved.

Chief Gu had brought him into the Splash Team then, saying that he liked Seok-min because journalists like him “try even though they know it won’t work.†In the present, Seok-min swears that just like Chief Gu had taught him, “I’m going to return what you did to me.â€

 

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In his office, Chief Gu talks to his wife on the phone and asks her to remain in the hospital for a few more days. Gently, he tells her to rest, then hangs up and looks at Nam Kang-myung’s picture on his monitor. Aloud, he wonders if Seok-min will take the bait and worries that he might give up the scoop.

The Splash Team watches the videos Chief Gu provided in the pen-drive. Yoo-kyung is convinced that the man in the recording — which seems to have been taken recently in China — is Nam Kang-myung, but Reporter Na is less sure, given the grainy quality of the video.

Seok-min decides that they can’t ignore the resurrection of a criminal just because they feel uneasy about the source of the information, so they have to find out more about their new quarry. Around the same time, Prosecutor Cha is giving her superior the run down on everything she’s discovered about Nam Kang-myung.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/08/falsify-episodes-19-20/

 

 

COMMENTS

I can’t tell if Seok-min is just trying to save Moo-young’s life with this talk or if he’s trying to save the case from Moo-young’s impulsive maneuvers. I suspect it’s the former, but Moo-young has proven himself so unreliable as a team player until recently that I wouldn’t blame Seok-min if he genuinely wanted Moo-young away from the case to keep him from meddling.

I find that I like Moo-young a lot more now than I did initially. His single-minded pursuit of vengeance was almost selfish in the first act, but he has mellowed somewhat now, and has even begun to worry about the people around him. He’d clearly felt responsible for Boss Park’s death, and his immediate apology in the face of Paralegal Park’s fury showed show hard he is taking So-ra’s attack.

So, twisting that knife into his conscience is perhaps not the best way to make him disengage from the case. He’s more emotionally invested in it now than ever before. He’s no longer chasing the faceless killer who murdered his brother, he’s trying to protect people he cares for in the present.

 

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I hadn’t expected a romantic subplot in this drama, but I like So-ra and Moo-young together. She loosens up when she’s with him and sheds the impassive professional mask with which she deals with everyone else in her world. Their race to catch the stalker was hilarious and very revealing. She might be law-abiding, whereas he distrusts the law, but they’re both childishly competitive and surprisingly stubborn when they go after something.

My favourite character in the show is finally having some fun now. It’s not satisfying to watch the bad guys being taken down, unless their powers of evil have been properly explored. Chief Gu has always displayed a delicious cynicism that let him espouse the ideologies of an honest, hard-hitting newspaperman, while undermining the functions of a free press in aid of a corrupt system. But greed is a predictable motive for crimes. Watching Chief Gu wage war on Lawyer Jo to bring him under his power and manipulate the donor system to get his wife a new heart is a lot more riveting.

Suddenly, as our chief bad guy uses our heroes to manipulate his erstwhile ally, Chief Gu becomes a character who is charismatic in his cleverness and a villain you suddenly find yourself rooting for. I want his powers of evil to end up being used by our protagonists, so that he ends up on the side of good and truth. But until that happens, I’m going to watch with glee as Chief Gu takes down Lawyer Jo and shows him what he’s capable of.

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