[mslee's thoughts] PUNCH - How Greedy Can One Get?

The drama is slowly reaching it's climax. The ending was showing the power couple of Prosecutors Office, Ha Gyung and Jung Hwan  riding the elevators on their way to interrogation room. It's like a game of chess [or baduk in Korea] a miscalculation may lead to losing a game.

Jung Hwan's choices since 7 years ago had not ended there. He kept on making decisions on his own, disregarding ha Gyun's personal thoughts which are often opposite his plans. Even when he got cornered, when friendship betrayed him, his actions never showed that he will ever consider turning back to be the goog old rookie Prosecutor Park Jung Hwan. For him, the world is not black and white. More often, the world is covered in shady dealings and one can never survive without fighting the enemy's own brand of game. Park Jung Hwan continues to make arrangements for Hye Rin's future the only way he knew, to be able to study at an international school but through bribing a principal. He even left an apartment for Ha Gyung in Gangnam with money he has through corruption, not anticipating that his enemy is not yet finished digging dirt to be thrown at him anytime.

His way to stop both Yoon Ji Sook and Lee Tae Joon from going higher in position and staying in their current seats has required him to threaten people or make deals with them. His way is not Ha Gyung's way and will never be. But he is too stubborn to hear her, hence, all his plans backfired on him somehow.

How greedy can one get?

This is a scary question. The drama by now has depicted a change in character. The power is exhilarating for Yoon Ji Sook. A good example of just prosecutor turn bad. The continuous excuse to stay in power to protect the office is like broken record spinning on turn tables. How long can someone stay to listen and believe in her excuses when it she seems becoming a hypocrite disguise as a modern heroin?

Lee Ho Sung should have stopped believing. But then he deluded himself into thinking that just as Jung Hwan chose Tae Joon years ago, this is his choice now, to work with Yoon Ji Sook.

How low can these two get?

At the cost of a young child they are willing to use it to turn around the course of their fate that Jung Hwan has started to block. This is now a case of good turn bad. Ironically, what they did is much worse than  what Tae Joon is doing because they are becoming more greedy and ambitious. Lee Ho Sung betrayed his friend twice now. 

As of this latest episode, it is now about bad versus gone bad. Who will win?

Lee Tae Joon found himself not on the list of Yoon Ji Sook's invites for the ceremony. Now, the former but still corrupt Lee Tae Joon becomes nothing. While Yoon Ji Sook enjoys the limelight. 

Although I am becoming impatient to see Jung Hwan win with a knock out, the story is not yet fulfilling my wish. But I know he will always be one step ahead with both LeeTae Joon and Yoon Ji Sook. He just need right timing to turn the good fate in his favor.

Now that they are backed in a corner, Ha Gyung has vowed to get them at all cost. Not alone, but she and Jung Hwan together will make it happen, if only for Hye Rin's sake. A mother's vengeance is scary and I think Ha Gyung now realized that they must defeat Yoon Ji Sook, Lee Ho Sung and Lee Tae Joon while Jung Hwan is alive. There must not be a Park Jung Hwan Gate either.

I am looking forward to a more fiercer Ha Gyung and totally powerful Jung Hwan. Let the good wins over evil. 

I love so many scenes in this week's episodes. Like how Jung Hwan grabbed Ha gyung's hands inside the elevator. It tells how he will be by her side. Romance might be lacking but the subtle insinuations are enough to digest and ponder.

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