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  • Suits: Episode 10 (recaps)

     

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I thought that our lawyer duo would be learning some lessons this week, but unfortunately, they’re not the lessons I was hoping they’d learn. Nothing goes right for them these days, and they’re at each other’s throats over conflicting ideas of the “right†thing to do. Still, they manage to ride out the storm, at least for now.

 

 

 

 

 

  • EPISODE 10: “You can prove your worth by showing the kind of risk you’re willing to take.â€

     

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After the start of Seok-hyun’s retrial, Kang-seok notices that Geun-shik came to watch. He says the other partners are concerned, but Kang-seok snaps that Geun-shik is the one getting them worked up. Geun-shik says that if the prosecution is making such ridiculous claims, then this retrial isn’t about winning or losing — it’s about teaching Kang-seok a lesson.

 

Kang-seok goes to speak to Seok-hyun, who’s scared he’s about to be blamed for something he didn’t do, again. Seok-hyun screams that he agreed to this retrial, but now they’re claiming he forcefully drugged Min-joo as well as killed her. Kang-seok says the prosecution is just trying to scare them because they’re not confident they’ll win. Seok-hyun asks Yeon-woo his opinion, and Yeon-woo says that he trusts Kang-seok. Seok-hyun asks if Yeon-woo would risk his life for this retrial, and Yeon-woo replies earnestly, “I bet the rest of my life on Attorney Choi. I trust him.â€

 

They return to the courtroom where Kang-seok says his client wants to continue the retrial, and that he thinks the court should take into consideration that the prosecution is pressuring the plaintiff with baseless accusations. The judge agrees to begin the retrial tomorrow, and Kang-seok promises Prosecutor Heo a great show.

 

 

 

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Afterward, Kang-seok heads to the police station to speak Detective park, who originally arrested Seok-hyun. Detective Park insists that all he did was arrest the guy Kang-seok told him was guilty. He says he won’t go down alone for evidence tampering, and that Deputy Chief Prosecutor Oh threatened him twelve years ago. He says that Deputy Chief Prosecutor Oh said he had to be badder than the bad guys he catches, and that if he refused, he’d make sure he lost everything. He snaps at Kang-seok to just threaten him the same way, and stalks off.

 

Back at his office, Da-ham says that if Kang-seok’s uneasy about firing her, she can just quit. She says she’s not having a hard time, but she thinks he is. Kang-seok grumbles that he never said he’s firing her, but he won’t stop her from quitting.

 

 

 

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Yeon-woo invites Ji-na for a beer on the catwalk. He’s worried that if he asks the hit-and-run victim’s family to settle, he’s no better than the attorney who approached him after his parents’ deaths. But Ji-na says he’s different because he’s feeling tortured.

 

She says she knows what kind of guy Yeon-woo is because you can tell what a person values by the kind of risks they take. She adds that she supports him, but she also reminds him that he once said he didn’t want to ruin his job by being too emotional.

 

Yeon-woo goes to see the victim’s family the following day. Sung-hwa’s sister tells him that her parents came to Korea recently to earn money. Yeon-woo says that he and the driver of the car are sorry about the accident, and that Sung-hwa’s death can’t be converted into money.

 

 

 

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Whoa, that is a lot of shit hitting a lot of fans all at once. I would not want to be Kang-seok or Yeon-woo right now, because Director Ham looks terrifying. Next week is going to be one wild ride.

 

I’m conflicted about Yeon-woo offering the victim’s family ten times what they asked for, just because he’d been approved for it. I love that he wants to help people, and his idealism and big heart truly are wonderful, but this isn’t what I meant when I said that he’s in a good position to help those who need it. By offering the family the full amount and telling them to lie that they asked for it, he sided with the opposition. He could have compromised and offered them a lot less, still helping them but also working in the interest of his client. But what he did abused his position and betrayed his client, which shows that he’s still thinking entirely with his heart and not with his head.

 

 

 

So for that reason, I’m glad he got a slap upside the head with the ketamine discovery, and Prosecutor Kim’s refusal to reveal it. She was right that his actions could get him in a heap of trouble, both during the settlement negotiations and because he broke confidentiality. Yeon-woo can read all the books he wants, but he doesn’t truly understand how the law works in practice. Sometimes it’s not fair, and often people twist things to their own best interest. It’s what Kang-seok has been trying to tell him all along, and he’d do well to attempt to understand it before he begins bucking the system. Yeon-woo is breaking the law every day and claiming moral superiority, so he’s really got no right to his high horse.

 

(Side note: I noticed that this all seems to be taking place in the year 2011, based on the

 

date of Yeon-woo’s parents’ accident and the fact that the events in the drama happen ten years later. I hope this means we get a time skip, and will be able to see Yeon-woo as a real lawyer.)

 

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Kang-seok and Da-ham are straight-up killing me. I loved the focus on their relationship in this episode. They know each other so well that even the little things — like Da-ham knowing Kang-seok’s plans for the day just by the watch he’s wearing — show how long they’ve been together and how in tune they are. They have so much professional respect for each other, and a personal connection as well, one that I think runs deeper than either of them has ever admitted. I didn’t feel it was a romantic link until Da-ham’s advice to Ji-na about how difficult it is to start and maintain a relationship in their line of work, but now it seems very possible that Da-ham loves Kang-seok, and probably has for years. It must be so painful to love a man who locks his emotions away so carefully. But I think that he’s about to become very acquainted with his emotions very soon, and if Da-ham can be there for him in just the way he needs, she may find herself richly rewarded.

 

Until now I’ve been fine with Geun-shik’s role as comic relief, but I find myself wishing he were more of a real obstacle to Kang-seok and Yeon-woo. Not in the sense of exposing their lie about Yeon-woo’s credentials, but in the sense of just being a decent lawyer, so that his threats to ruin Kang-seok might actually feel threatening. He’s a partner, yet we’ve seen nothing about how he got there, and he constantly whines that Ha-yeon doesn’t see his worth. But he wouldn’t be a partner if he weren’t a good lawyer — I just want to see it. I would feel more concern about his threats to discover Yeon-woo’s secret if he were actually a respected part of the firm, instead of the office joke.

 

As for Kang-seok, his morals are so shaky I don’t even know what to think. He claims conflict of interest in representing Sun-tae, yet he just defended a man he put in prison for murder… it’s the exact same scenario. He says he’s no different than David Kim, but that he would take a client he knows is guilty of murder for enough money. And he told Yeon-woo to pretend he didn’t know about information that completely changed his hit-and-run case, right after saying repeatedly that when one makes a mistake, he should do whatever it takes to make it right. It’s no wonder that poor Yeon-woo is having trouble understanding what’s the right thing to do, when the “right thing†seems to change according to Kang-seok’s mood that particular day. I was really hoping this retrial would bring Kang-seok some enlightenment about the way he practices law, but every time he takes a step forward, he seems to take ten steps back.

 

 

 

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  • Suits: Episode 11 

 

Today’s episode lightens things up a bit, as Yeon-woo tackles his first solo case. He still has some important lessons to learn about when it’s appropriate to follow his heart, and this time he has a new teacher, who makes the effort to learn what makes him tick. This understanding may just be the key to Yeon-woo’s ethical dilemmas, as well as another, more personal lock on Yeon-woo’s heart.

 

 

EPISODE 11: “If you wish to swallow a demon, you must swallow its horns, too.â€

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A suited man lumbers slowly down a dark hallway, dragging a crowbar behind him. It’s Director Ham, dripping wet from the storm outside. Ha-yeon comes out of her office and asks him to calm down and give up the crowbar.

Advancing on her, he says, “Ah, I do have one last thing that I must give up on.†He gives a low, dark chuckle as Ha-yeon shakes in fear, then swings the crowbar at her with a roar.

Back in the present, Ha-yeon and Kang-seok attend Director Ham’s wife’s funeral. Ha-yeon asks if Director Ham is really returning. Kang-seok says that he didn’t flinch at embezzlement evidence, but that when Ha-yeon said she’d send his wife evidence of his affair… Ha-yeon finishes, “He tried to kill me.â€

 

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Kang-seok tells her that now that the “knife†pinning him down is gone, Director Ham will surely return. From inside the temple, Director Ham turns and sees them. He comes out to thank them for coming, but when Kang-seok wishes for his wife to rest in peace, Director Ham snaps that everything he says sounds like a lie. Kang-seok says it was a lie when he said he was disappointed to see Director Ham kicked out. Director Ham sighs that it’s all in the past, but Ha-yeon asks if he’s telling them to forget what happened. She says she’ll remember, and Director Ham admits that he was out of his mind the night he attacked her.

In flashback, we see that before he’d swung at her, he’d growled, “If you wish to swallow a demon, you must swallow its horns, too.†Ha-yeon had stood her ground as he swung the crowbar and smashed the name “Ham†from the company logo on the wall behind her. Now he says he’s a different man, and that he’s actually thankful to have the two of them in his life. Kang-seok asks if Director Ham wants to return to work, but he says he hasn’t thought about it yet. Once he’s gone, Kang-seok remarks that he sensed no sadness in Director Ham, and Ha-yeon agrees. Kang-seok offers to get rid of him before he ever sets foot in the building, in return asking for her okay to hire Prosecutor Kim.

While getting dressed for work, Yeon-woo finally puts on the shiny dress shoes he’s been avoiding. He shows up in Kang-seok’s office in the shoes and a much nicer suit than usual, with a defiant look on his face, and announces that he’s ready to become an attorney worthy of Kang & Ham.

Kang-seok asks if he’s over-confident, and Yeon-woo asks if that isn’t a good thing. Kang-seok asks why Yeon-woo always answers his questions with another question, and Yeon-woo asks why he always questions his answers. (Kang-seok: “Are you crazy?†Yeon-woo: “You question my answers.†LOL)

 

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Kang-seok gives Yeon-woo a case where a woman claims that a best-selling book was her original idea. He says that it will seem like a threat if he talks to her, but merely a collision if Yeon-woo goes, and orders him to just focus on winning.

On his way out, Yeon-woo stops by Ji-na’s office to see how her studying is going. Taking in his snazzy suit, she wonders what’s up, so he explains about his first solo case. He says he’s taking her advice to be the kind of attorney that Kang-& Ham wants, saying that he should become a real attorney first.

He belatedly realizes his slip when Ji-na asks if he’s a fake attorney now. Luckily she’s only joking, and she tells Yeon-woo not to get too stressed, because it’s just work.

 

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An agitated Da-ham tells Kang-seok that the office is in an uproar over the rumor that Director Ham is returning. Kang-seok assures her that he won’t let that happen, and she says that she trusts him, but she doesn’t trust Kang & Ham because everyone is still badmouthing Kang-seok for supposedly turning on his mentor.

Kang-seok has confidence in his own competence, but Da-ham reminds him that someone will catch onto Yeon-woo’s identity eventually. Yeon-woo will become a weakness then, and Kang-seok says they both just need to be careful. Da-ham mentions that something is going on between Yeon-woo and Ji-na, and he agrees that it’s a possibility that Yeon-woo will want to tell Ji-na the truth.

 

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Director Ham is an interesting character, from what we know of him, and I have no doubt he’s about to turn Kang & Ham on its ear. From what I could gather, he was doing some pretty serious embezzlement before Ha-yeon threatened to tell his wife about his affair (not sure with whom). He lost it and attacked her, which got him kicked out, but now that his wife is gone and there’s nothing to keep him in line, he’s decided to go back to work. I’m fuzzy on some of the details and motivations, but I’m sure we’ll learn in time, and I’m actually looking forward to see the firm get a good shake-up… so long as everyone stays safe.

 

I’d really hoped that Kang-seok and Yeon-woo’s ethical slip-ups of last week would be addressed, because I see their recent behavior as being extremely problematic. I’d hoped that they were both behaving badly as a way for the show to point out what can happen when lawyers go astray, and that their hypocritical decisions would lead to some revelations, not just conveniently forgotten for storytelling purposes. But their professional life seems to have gone on as normal, so I’m worried that their bad choices will be swept under the rug. It doesn’t help that Kang & Ham itself keeps taking on shady cases that could create conflicts of interest (just handling a merger and a lawsuit involving the same company at the same time seems iffy to me). I’m counting on Attorney Kim, who knows very well that Yeon-woo is a fake and that Kang-seok is aware of it, to serve as a moral compass for them, to point out that they’re both behaving in opposition to their clients’ best interests.

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It’s a strange feeling, to be wishing for our antagonists to be taken down a peg. But I really feel that Kang-seok’s hypocritical choices and illegal actions in handling the retrial, and Yeon-woo’s actively attempting to send his own client to jail, need to be addressed. These are not minor issues — they’re serious, illegal breaches of trust between lawyer and client, and both of them should be serving jail time for what they’ve done. It’s easy to say that the ends justify the means… as long as the bad guys go to prison, who cares how it happens? That’s exactly the attitude that Kang-seok claims made him quit being a prosecutor a decade ago, but even though he still acts like he’s above all that, he turns right around and does the exact same thing. And if I were Attorney Kim, I’d be watching Yeon-woo like a hawk — not just for practicing law without a license, but also for his tendency to get his clients to tell him their secrets then use those secrets against them.

And it sucks to have to say all this, because instinctively, I want to believe that it’s all okay so long as the bad guys are punished. But the law says that a lawyer must work in his client’s best interest, regardless of the truth. On the whole, it would be great if lawyers could be like Yeon-woo and look at both sides, then side with the person in the “right.†But there’s already a name for people who do that… judge. People have to be able to trust their lawyers and know that they won’t tell if they discover they’re guilty. Yeon-woo already broke that rule once, and even though he’s not a real lawyer, he’s got to learn that he can’t do that if he’s ever going to be one.

Luckily, Yeon-woo and Ji-na’s relationship is progressing right on time, because I think that Yeon-woo is going to need Ji-na’s ethical guidance. He knows the letter of the law, but Ji-na understands the spirit of the law, which is where Yeon-woo gets confused. He’s so hell-bent on always doing the right thing that he doesn’t stop to think whether the “right†thing is also the legal thing, but Ji-na is very clear on what a lawyer can and cannot do. She also knows that Yeon-woo is coming from a good, if naïve and inexperienced place, so she can help him use his idealism both legally and effectively. She inspired Yeon-woo to find a way to do the right thing while still properly representing his client, which is a lot more than Kang-seok has taught him. Now that they’ve figured out how they feel about each other I think they’ll make a pretty good team.

 

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  • Suits: Episode 12

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An old enemy is back at the firm, making new threats and throwing everyone into a tailspin. His only purpose seems to be to create havoc among the lawyers at Kang & Ham, and he has a way of digging at their weaknesses and forcing them to react. Kang-seok and Yeon-woo are just beginning to work as a team — can they survive this latest hurricane?

 

EPISODE 12: “If you have blind faith about your ideals, you’ll be betrayed by the reality.â€

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Director Ham announces to the firm that he’s coming back. He confesses that he acted immorally when he was an acting partner, but adds that if he keeps hiding out of shame, it will only become his weakness. In the interest of transparency, he tells everyone that two years ago, he embezzled from a client’s account.

He asks them to give him a chance to show that he’s changed, and promises to focus on what’s best for Kang & Ham. His sappy speech seems to win over many of the associates, but Kang-seok whispers to Yeon-woo to go to his office immediately and not to let Director Ham catch him.

Director Ham goes straight to Kang-seok and Ha-yeon and wonders out loud how he would have repaid Ha-yeon for sending Kang-seok to threaten him, if he were still a bad guy. Oh sure, if. He says that he told his daughter everything about the embezzlement and his affair. He tells Kang-seok that if there’s something you want to keep, you have to turn into a demon to keep it, then gives a dark chuckle and claims he’s only joking.

 

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In Ha-yeon’s office, she tells Kang-seok that their deal is off since he failed to keep Director Ham from returning. She orders him to send Attorney Kim back to the prosecutor’s office, but when he balks, she gives him a choice… fire Attorney Kim, or resign himself. He says that the fair thing is for him to resign. But he also says that if Director Ham came back this quickly, it’s because he’s prepared and will go after the weakest link first. He tells Ha-yeon that the firm needs him, and that Director Ham isn’t here to become second-in-command, so they need as many people on their side as possible.

Meanwhile, Geun-shik pesters Da-ham at her desk, asking whose side she’s on, Ha-yeon’s or Director Ham’s. She correctly guesses that he’s trying to figure out which side is most likely to get him promoted to senior partner. She thinks about it carefully… then says she doesn’t care. HA. But Geun-shik waves a pair of tickets to “Man of La Mancha†under her nose, a musical she’s always wanted to see. She whines that she doesn’t know the answer to his question, so he tucks the tickets away and says that his doors are always open.

Yeon-woo asks Kang-seok what kind of person Director Ham is, and he replies that he’s a viper — he may have shed his skin, but he hasn’t changed. Since it was Kang-seok who had Director Ham kicked out of the firm, he’s sure that he’s back for revenge. He warns Yeon-woo not to catch Director Ham’s attention, but tells him not to worry too much for now, because he’s not his weakness.

He doesn’t explain what he means, just asks about Yeon-woo’s grandmother and whether she’s still in Haram Sanatorium. The hospital has hired Kang & Ham regarding the union strike, and Kang-seok says that the union leader is so clever that she’s already fooled two of their attorneys.

 

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Yeon-woo wonders if his grandmother should move to a new hospital, but Kang-seok says he’s about to put an end to the negotiations. He and Yeon-woo meet with the union leader and her attorney, where Kang-seok informs her cheerfully that he’s not like the previous lawyers she met with.

He offers a ten percent raise, a nurse’s lounge, and regular breaks, but makes it clear that the hospital won’t be hiring more nurses. He tells the union leader that as one of the best sanatoriums in the country, the hospital spends a lot of money on facility maintenance and the best medical equipment.

When she asks why they can spend money on machines and not people, Yeon-woo points out that the money was donated specifically for medical equipment, so using it for other expenses would be illegal. She sneers that they just proved they’re exactly like the previous lawyers, and starts to leave. Kang-seok warns her that if she leaves, there will be no more negotiation, but she goes anyway.

 

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Later, Kang-seok tells Yeon-woo that they need a restraining order to stop the nurses from striking. Yeon-woo says it will be difficult to prove that the strike is illegal, but Kang-seok asks if he’d still feel that way if a nurse endangered his grandmother’s health or safety.

Yeon-woo remembers passing the striking nurses the other night. He says they can get the restraining order on the basis that they’re being too loud and disturbing the patients. Kang-seok says they don’t just need to buy time — they need to find their weak spot and strike.

Geun-shik tries to suck up to Ha-yeon at the office, but she purposely ignores him. He sighs that he shouldn’t plant flowers that won’t bloom, while in the elevator, Ha-yeon figures out that he’s trying to decide who to side with.

 

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The first half of this episode really didn’t say anything that we didn’t already know. I mean, Director Ham is back. We already know he’s a bad dude without a shred of moral fiber, and we already know that Kang-seok and Ha-yeon want him gone from the company. All he really did was to throw his weight around and make a lot of vague threats, but we still don’t know why he’s come back now, or what his intent is. The only new thing that happened was Geun-shik getting a big head about being Director Ham’s toady, but he gets a big head about everything so that was no surprise.

Then, in the second half of the episode, Kang-seok and Director Ham finally had a good old-fashioned verbal battle, and suddenly things heated up. I loved the angry, masculine energy flying around the room when they showed their true emotions towards each other instead of sugarcoating every interaction. I’ve been wanting for Kang-seok to bump up against a true match for his strong personality, and while David Kim was interesting, he was more underhanded and snarky than a true equal to Kang-seok.

 

 

But Director Ham is someone whose mere presence in a room can be construed as a threat, and he proved it by buddying up to Yeon-woo, who we know is a bit too willing to give people the benefit of the doubt. Director Ham may just be the person that finally makes Kang-seok lose his iron control over his temper, particularly if he’s threatening his relationship with Yeon-woo, and I can’t wait to see Kang-seok blow up.

 

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The writing in this version of Suits can be a little on-the-nose at times, often clunky and expositional. In real life, lawyers wouldn’t explain how the law works to each other, but it’s understandable in a drama where there’s so much legal information to convey to the audience. But there are some truly beautiful moments when the characters are simply talking about life, such as Yeon-woo and Ji-na’s first conversation about fears and “rabbits,†and in those scenes, I find myself really connecting with the characters. I particularly loved Da-ham and Ji-na’s wine-tinted talk about not regretting the things you didn’t try, because it revealed a lot about both ladies.

Ji-na doesn’t hide how she feels about Yeon-woo (I love how open she is with her heart), but Da-ham also gave herself away when she told Ji-na to go for it, unlike her. I’ve suspected that she’s harbored feelings for someone — most likely Kang-seok — for quite some time, and by confessing that she regrets not taking romantic chances, she pretty much admitted that she loves him but has never had the courage to tell him. I hope that seeing Ji-na take a chance with Yeon-woo inspires Da-ham to do the same, and I can’t wait to see the expression on Kang-seok’s face when she does. (Though honestly, I wouldn’t even be mad if she let Geun-shik convince her to date him if Kang-seok isn’t up for it, because Geun-shik wouldn’t be nearly so annoying with a strong lady like Da-ham keeping him in line.)

I appreciate that Yeon-woo is finally learning how to work for his client while using his compassion for the underdog to smooth the way. He did that wonderfully when he negotiated with the nurses, but unfortunately, he let Director Ham manipulate him into it right after Kang-seok told him never to talk to his opponents alone again. At least Yeon-woo tried to confirm Kang-seok’s approval, but when he couldn’t reach him, he should have waited, because Kang-seok had information that made Yeon-woo’s deal impossible. Yeon-woo’s worst flaw is thinking that his moral goodness gives him the right to act on his own, which would be fine under most circumstances, but again, we’re talking about tricky legal situations. He’s not even a real lawyer, and Kang-seok is right to expect him not to run off making deals without guidance. Still, it was horrible of Kang-seok to use Yeon-woo’s inside information of bullying to blindside the union leader, and between that and their fight, I’m not looking forward to the upcoming rift in their relationship.

 

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