The Price of Confession (2025) s01e08 Episode Script

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What do you mean, he's dead?
I received a photo.
Not a fake one like this.
But a real one of Ko Se-hun, dead.
Where is this photo?
It's gone.
I tore it up and ate it.
You ate it?
Do you find this amusing?
What if there were
someone else
who wanted him dead besides us?
What if
that someone killed him to get to you?
Who else would do such a thing
besides you?
What the hell have you done?
- Is he dead?
- No way.
- Let's go.
- This way.
I heard he went missing.
Oh my God!
- What is it?
- Is he dead?
I think he's dead!
Ms. An.
- Hello, sir.
- Hello.
He was found in that freezer.
Turns out Ko Se-hun was on trial
two years ago.
On trial?
Yes.
It was a juvenile case,
so the court kept it sealed.
PROTECTIVE DETENTION NO. 5
- It went unreported due to COVID-19.
- And the victim's family?
Both the victim and her father
committed suicide.
I'll look into the rest of the family too.
He hasn't said a word.
He lost his son and daughter-in-law.
And now his grandson. It's no wonder.
Sir, I--
May I
go now?
I'm sure we need to talk.
Let's talk next time.
Later this afternoon,
Se-hun's autopsy will take place.
I'll be in touch, sir.
We have tragic news.
Ko Se-hun, who went missing last Friday,
was found dead this afternoon.
This is the house that's been vacant
for months since Ko's parents' murder.
Ko was discovered frozen
inside a freezer in the basement.
The police suspect Ko,
who went missing last Friday evening,
was murdered
after being imprisoned inside this house.
They are looking for leads
through forensic examination.
Why are you staring at me?
Authorities have stated
that signs of a struggle
It wasn't you,
was it?
Ko would have suffered extreme pain.
- No suspect has been identified yet.
- What was?
With a possible connection
to Ko's parents' murder in mind
Never mind.
Four months after his parents' murder,
Ko has also been brutally murdered.
The tragic news of this family
has left the public in shock and mourning,
while also raising questions
According to authorities,
the brutal murder
and the method of body disposal
point toward premeditation
rather than a spontaneous act.
Further investigation is underway
to determine the exact cause of death.
The police are tracking
the suspect's movements
LAWYER JANG JEONG-GU
by reviewing CCTV footage and entry logs
surrounding the crime scene.
They have also requested an autopsy
from the NFS
to determine the exact time of death
and how the murder was carried out
and are conducting a thorough analysis
of the crime scene evidence.
Mun-jun, can you pick Sop up
from the kindergarten?
And please look after her for a few days.
I'll explain everything later.
Please take good care of her.
Meanwhile, a past interview with Mo,
who murdered Ko's parents,
has attracted renewed attention.
Here's what she said.
I'm sure you know,
but your mom and dad
weren't exactly good people.
Blame your parents
for making you pay the price.
Mo's remarks sparked
a major controversy at the time
What if there were
someone else
who wanted him dead besides us?
What if
that someone killed him to get to you?
The police are focusing on
uncovering the motive and the connection
between the two cases.
Currently, the investigation team
is conducting various background checks,
including on Ko Se-hun's family ties.
In particular, Ko's friends and neighbors
provided character statements about him,
helping the team establish
the context of the case.
The police are also checking CCTV footage
and communication records
to trace his movements
before and after the incident.
So who is it?
Ruler.
3.0 cm.
2.5 cm.
3.5 cm.
3.5 cm.
This may be very distressing, sir.
Would you still like to stay?
Scalpel.
The immediate cause of death
was the four stab wounds to the neck
NATIONAL FORENSIC SERVICE
piercing the carotid artery.
There's a clear strangulation mark
and signs of urinary incontinence.
Signs of urinary incontinence?
So they strangled him
with the intent to kill?
It means they almost did.
But they finished him off with a knife?
And the estimated time of death?
The frozen state of the body
makes things uncertain.
But the burger remnants
found in his stomach
indicate he died
about two hours after consumption.
I understand. Thank you.
Thank you.
Sir.
I'd like to hear from you now.
When you reported him missing,
you said he wouldn't be able to return
to his old neighborhood.
I don't recall.
Was that due to the incident
that put Se-hun in court two years ago?
I don't know.
It drove the victim and her father
to commit suicide.
You know that, don't you?
I don't know.
Sir.
You need to tell us everything you know.
So we can--
I don't really know
anything about that incident.
I was estranged from my late son
and his wife.
I HOPE HE DESERVES TO DIE
I'LL ALWAYS WATCH YOU AND ROOT FOR YOU
WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WHATEVER YOU DO
You don't have much time.
Don't get any funny ideas.
If you don't kill him, someone else will.
If that person fails,
I'll send another person.
Either way
that kid
is going to die.
LAWYER JANG JEONG-GU
POOJIM BAKERY & CAFÉ
I had asked Mr. Jin for a favor.
To help me meet with Mo Eun.
I wanted to know why she attempted suicide
just before testifying.
But then
I saw you at the hospital,
running off in a lab coat.
Second floor.
Doors closing.
I thought, "What is Ms. An doing here?"
"Why is she in a lab coat?"
"Where's she going in such a hurry?"
Why were you at the missing kid's No.
Why were you at the scene of his death?
How did you know?
Did you have something to do with it?
Did you really make
some kind of deal with the Witch?
Please say something.
I'm your lawyer.
At least let me pretend to trust you!
There's something
I've always wanted to ask but never did.
Why did you appoint me
as your lawyer?
You should leave now.
Ms. An.
Oh, that's ours.
- Thank you.
- Enjoy.
Let's sit at the back.
Coffee will be served soon.
Please enjoy.
Thank you.
I'm just taking a two-hour nap.
Huh? Yun-su!
You've lost even more weight
since last time.
- Are you here with Sop?
- Was it you?
That kid, Ko Se-hun.
Was it you?
What do you mean?
Didn't you kill him
because Mo Eun told you to?
I killed him?
Let go.
What are you doing?
Stay still.
Enter your passcode.
You're not close with Mo Eun, are you?
Yu-ri! Not there.
It's in the storage room.
- Don't move.
- Bring two.
This one?
My parents own this place.
If I scream right now,
everyone outside will come running in.
But I won't.
Because Mo Eun told me to just watch you.
What does she have on you?
Have on me?
She's got nothing.
Because Mo Eun
is a good person.
Do you trust that woman?
She saved my life.
And she extended a hand to me, the fatty
who no one ever cared about.
The victim had an older sister
named Kang So-hae.
She died in a car fire a year ago
near the Chiang Rai border.
The sister, Kang So-hae,
moved to Germany
at the age of 17 to study.
She finished medical school there
and did
international medical volunteer work.
She was in a refugee camp in Chiang Rai
for two years.
There's little to no record of her
here in Korea though.
Please contact someone
in Chiang Rai yourself.
All right, I will.
Okay.
PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
So
this was an open-and-shut case at first.
CASE NUMBER: 2020 PU 14
CLIENT: KANG SO-MANG
"The male student sexually assaulted
the female student after getting her drunk
and secretly filmed it."
That was the story.
The evidence was solid,
and the perpetrator also admitted to it.
But the trial dynamics changed?
The perpetrator's family
was quite influential.
They'd pulled strings here and there.
All the testimonies
started to turn against the victim.
They said, "It wasn't rape."
"She drank with him
and came on to him first."
And one even stated
that she was a sugar baby.
Did Kang So-mang take her own life
because of those rumors?
It wasn't just the rumors.
During the trial,
the perpetrator distributed the video
to her acquaintances.
Basically, to everyone
in her phone contacts.
Please.
Please pick up.
MY SIS♥
I told you that you'd pay for this.
Did you think I couldn't?
KO SE-HUN
TO: ME, 146 MORE
ONE VIDEO ATTACHMEN
Don't.
- Stay still.
- Should I film it?
I'm fine.
Start filming. I said stay still.
But all he got
was Protective Detention No. 5?
He was a minor.
THE LATE KANG SO-MANG
She just got discharged.
A proper procedure will--
Shall we go to the prosecutor's office
or handle it here?
Here is fine.
In the end,
Ko Se-hun also died.
How do you feel?
Couldn't say.
"2020 Pu 14, Defendant Ko Se-hun."
"Violation of the Youth Protection Act."
"Verdict on the Production
and Distribution of Obscenity."
"The defendant, Ko Se-hun,
is charged with recording a video
of himself
engaged in sexual activities
with the victim
and sending it to everyone
in her phone contacts."
You look as if you have no idea
what I'm talking about.
If he sent it to everyone
in the victim's contact list,
I suppose her father
and her older sister saw it too.
She would've been devastated.
That's why she took her own life.
And her father, guilt-stricken
for failing to protect his daughter,
made the same choice.
Her only sister
died in a car accident in Thailand.
Goodness
What a tragic family.
Yes.
You wouldn't have heard this.
It's a statement
from the victim's classmate, "P."
"The victim
had shown interest in the defendant,
and I witnessed excessive physical contact
between them at a drinking party."
"The victim, Kang So-mang,
also spoke about her own experience
with sugar daddies
and encouraged it."
"As a result,
it is difficult to conclude
that the defendant
sexually assaulted Kang So-mang
through coercion based on the statements."
"Rather,
it is more reasonable to find credibility
in the defendant's claim
that sexual intercourse took place
with mutual consent."
Kang So-hae, Kang So-mang's sister
If she's alive,
her rage will be unimaginable.
She would've thought about
nothing but revenge.
People would've mistaken that
for psychopathy,
making it difficult to find any grudge
between you and your victims.
As for the polygraph,
the responses to the baseline questions
were false to begin with,
so it had to be inconclusive.
Is your name Mo Eun?
Yes.
Kang So-hae is alive,
and it was some other woman
who died in Thailand.
I wonder how that poor woman
ended up dying.
So
what are you trying to say?
You couldn't bear that Ko Se-hun
was alive.
That's why you used An Yun-su
and offered her a deal.
In the end,
it's back to
An Yun-su, isn't it?
You did not
kill Lee Ki-dae.
You did medical volunteer work
in a refugee camp,
spending years in a remote place
to save just one more life.
That's who Kang So-hae really is.
She couldn't kill anyone without a grudge.
DETECTIVE RYU JI-SU
Yes, go ahead.
We got the test results
for the hair collected at the crime scene.
It came back to An Yun-su.
Right, understood.
Because of your revenge,
An Yun-su has become a murderer again.
This is on you.
Can I go now?
Oh yeah.
An Yun-su
did not kill Ko Se-hun.
That's who she really is.
GANGAN DAILY
This is Hong Se-yeong.
I'm calling because I have information
on Ko Se-hun, the murder victim.
Right. One moment, please.
What kind of information would it be?
There's a connection between the Witch
and Ko Se-hun's past crime.
If it's not much trouble,
may I ask who's calling?
Please just call me an anonymous source.
Okay, sure. Please continue.
It's a statement
from the victim's classmate, "P."
"The victim, Kang So-Mang,
had shown interest in the defendant."
"She spoke about her own experience
with sugar daddies and encouraged it."
KO SE-HUN'S JUVENILE COURT RECORD REVEALED
INVESTIGATION PROBING
POTENTIAL REVENGE MOTIVE
Wait here.
Inmate 407,
wait until visitation's over
and head back with the others.
Damn it. I'm off now.
Controversy over poor construction
has come under scrutiny once more.
Hey! Did you go and see your boyfriend?
You little brat.
He's not my boyfriend.
If a guy shows up at a women's prison,
he's either your boyfriend or creditor.
Fortunately, it has been confirmed
that their lives are not at risk.
However, future residents
I thought you'd live on hospital food
for longer. That was damn quick.
are planning collective action.
The Land and Transport Ministry is
Hey, how come you two didn't buy
anything today either?
You don't have anyone
to send you commissary money?
Man.
Hey, come here.
Snacks are on me today. Eat up.
What? What's going on between you two?
Did you fight?
Save it for after eating!
The juvenile court records
of the late Ko Se-hun have been released.
This disclosure
has triggered a new round of investigation
into his death.
Based on the records
Can you repeat what you said to me
that day?
investigating whether his prior offenses
may be connected to his death.
You said his family got divine punishment.
I believe that's what you said.
You know,
I actually knew the people you killed.
You see,
I believe what they got
was divine punishment.
You're "P," aren't you?
It has been confirmed that Mo,
the dentist couple murder case suspect,
has assumed a false identity.
According to the investigation,
the suspect's real surname is Kang.
At 17, she was selected
as a state-funded overseas student.
She graduated from medical school
in Germany,
and in Chiang Rai
- Get her!
- Oh my God.
No, don't! Stop it!
What's wrong with you?
Let her go!
That's why I said
I didn't like kids your age.
The police are focusing
on her motive and possible links,
including her complex family background
and false identity,
to uncover the truth behind this case.
An Yun-su is currently on her way home
from the bakery.
She still seems unaware
we found incriminating evidence,
so we'll carry out the arrest
at her place.
Hello, sir.
Where's An's probation officer?
She's on her way here.
This is the requested log of her movement
for the day Ko Se-hun was killed.
There's no record
of her going near the crime scene.
The lines are only plotted
around the kindergarten and her home.
Sorry I'm late.
- Hello.
- You're here.
Let me see An's records since her release.
Pull up her full movement log
from the day of her release until now.
Yes, ma'am.
- Please zoom in on those lines.
- Yes, sir.
On the 1st, 3rd, 4th,
and 6th of this month,
she took this route.
It matches Ko Se-hun's movements.
She would've tailed him
to decide when and where to kill him.
Can you be certain
of An Yun-su's movements
on the day of the incident?
Well,
around 7:00 p.m. that evening,
I received a call
saying her ankle monitor was broken,
and I went to her house to replace it
about an hour later.
Why are you
only telling us this now?
I didn't think
she could've done all that in an hour.
It was pouring down,
and factoring in travel time--
Who are you to make the call?
Sop says she misses you,
so we're on our way there now.
An Yun-su just got home.
Keep it calm, and carefully approach her
to make the arrest.
Yes, ma'am.
Huh?
Hey.
You know who I am, don't you?
Someone sent me this.
Don't be afraid.
I only came to hear the truth.
Would you like to come in?
Would you like a cup of tea?
No, thank you.
I think I'll have some.
One day,
I heard that my son and daughter-in-law
had been murdered.
I spent my whole life as a soldier
and never once said a kind word to my son.
Even when he died, I couldn't cry.
But yesterday,
I found my grandson's body myself.
Inside a cold freezer.
Without knowing why this happened,
I felt I couldn't die.
That's why I'm here!
Get off me!
Get off!
What bastard drives like
Wait. I think that's An Yun-su's car.
- Well? Follow her!
- Yes, sir.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It'll be okay.
It's okay.
NIGHT CURFEW VIOLATION
Relay An Yun-su's location
to all police units!
RETURN TO YOUR DESIGNATED AREA IMMEDIATELY
CONTACT YOUR SUPERVISOR
TO CONFIRM THE VIOLATION
PROBATION OFFICER BAE SUN-DEOK
The person you're trying to reach
isn't available
Come on. Pick up.
The number you have dialed is turned off.
You'll be directed to voicemail
HAIR FOUND AT KO'S MURDER SCENE
IDENTIFIED AS FEMALE TEACHER A'S
An just stopped at Haneul Mart
in Jungang-dong.
- Go as fast as you can.
- Yes, ma'am.
Come on, hurry.
ELECTRONIC MONITORING SIGNAL LOS
A sudden tightening
disrupted her circulation a bit.
Thank you.
You won't be seeing Inmate 407 again
until you get out of here.
Don't worry. She's been moved
to a first-floor single cell.
There's no need to be afraid.
Consider this the safest place
you could be.
NEW REVELATIONS IN KO'S MURDER CASE
DEAL BETWEEN THE WITCH AND AN DISCOVERED
- Doctor, could you turn the TV off?
- Sure.
TAILED KO SE-HUN
REMOVED ANKLE TAG BEFORE MURDER
I'll come with you
when you go back to the cell block.
- There's an inmate who needs insulin.
- Okay.
If you get anxious
or have trouble breathing again,
don't hesitate to ask to come see me.
This is my stop.
Hey, it's Ms. Eom. Be quiet. Put it away.
What's going on?
We're busted.
Inmate 7137, get out here.
What are you doing?
My apologies.
How many times have I warned you?
Also,
eating is prohibited after lights out.
Ms. Eom, what is she doing?
No!
No.
No!
No!
Subtitle translation by: Lisa Kim