A person Greenback Attorney: Episodes 7-8

A single Greenback Lawyer: Episodes 7-8

by missvictrix

Girls and gentlemen, the award for most intense tonal modify in just just one drama has been awarded to… Just one Dollar Lawyer! The whole backstory of our one particular greenback lawyer is below, and it’s as rife with tragedy as we imagined it would be.

 
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Much to my shock we spend all but 30 seconds of this week’s episodes in pure backstory — it is not only the strongest tonal change in one drama potentially ever, but it breaks up our drama in the strangest way.

We used approximately the very first half of our 14-episode drama with the non sequitur antics of our wacky lawyer, and then, at the halfway mark, dove into his past. It’s fantastic, it is tragic, and Namgoong Min’s performing will destroy ya. But also, the tale is not a great deal distinctive from just about every other lawful or melo backstory we’ve seen.

Even so, in this article we go! In the present-working day storyline, we see Mari drinking herself foolish while listening to Prosecutor Na notify the tale of Ji-hoon’s past, and we dive yet again into our drama within a drama.

Ji-hoon is like a canine with a bone investigating his situation, and refuses to give into the strain. But the CEO of JQ Team is only the commencing — justice will not be truly served right up until his slush fund and recipient(s) are recognized and dealt with. Ji-hoon investigates, and then the terrible things starts off to take place.

His 1 guide — the tail conclude of license plate digits — factors straight to his personal father, Applicant KIM YOON-SEOB (Nam Myung-ryul). It’s a terrible minute of recognition, where by our solemn Ji-hoon receives even extra solemn (if you imagine it achievable), when he recognizes the number.

The detail is, Ji-hoon’s often idolized his father, and he tells him that he dreamt of becoming a righteous prosecutor like he was — even although Ji-hoon expended most of his childhood lacking his usually-doing the job father. His fondness for jajangmyeon gets to be obvious way too: Ji-hoon equates it to lacking his father.

That topic of lacking his father before long packs even more punch, nevertheless, when his father jumps from a developing and commits suicide correct in front of his son. He had been complying with the investigation, and appeared keen to acknowledge the truth… As this sort of, there is absolutely extra to the dying than his father having his everyday living out of shame — his father was likely to be the scapegoat to hide the other folks driving the slush fund dealings.

Ji-hoon, not even allowing for himself to grieve, commits the next two tricky yrs of his lifetime to uncovering the corruption close to his father and the strong politicians in his circle. I truly sense for Ji-hoon, but can we get a tale that presents us even a minor some thing new?

It is an dreadful time in Ji-hoon’s existence, but there is just one human being who retains popping up around him, and that is Joo-youthful. We find out about her by means of observing her dealings with Ji-hoon. When the prosecution turned towards him and he was blackballed at every single change, she was the a person particular person that stood by his side, compelled him to smile, and even laid in the road in the rain with him. You know, as you do when you have hit rock base in daily life.

We do not see a great deal of their romance, but it is adequate that in his distress Ji-hoon proposes marriage to her, and truly enjoys the light of goodness that she is, that we can fill in the blanks.

Joo-youthful decides to go away Baek Legislation Firm — turning down a partnership provide from Grandpa — and starts her possess apply. And then we see that it was Joo-younger who scoped out their existing office environment, who filled the fish tank, who initially took on Moo-jang’s circumstance, and who made a decision, very philanthropically, to support folks for only a 1,000 gained payment.

Joo-younger desires Ji-hoon to be a part of her, but we aren’t supplied also substantially explanation to hope: we know that sad audio that keeps actively playing is there for a purpose. And sure adequate, in a entire accident just one working day at Baek Legislation Company, Joo-youthful inadvertently swaps documents with a baddie who slips earlier our notice. And these papers have everyday living or loss of life penalties.

When Joo-youthful sees them — and we get a glimpse of Ji-hoon’s father’s picture — she runs off to satisfy him. But, as we all predicted, she does not make it by means of the working day. A hitman follows her onto the subway, and there’s this absolutely creepy and perfectly-captured instant wherever she sees him, and understands he’s after her. By the time Ji-hoon locates her, she’s stabbed and bleeding out. It’s unhappy as hell, but it is all moving so rapidly, I either desired considerably more, or substantially a lot less.

Ji-hoon is sadder than ever now, and we see him overtly weeping when on the lookout above her business. He puts on sun shades to conceal his swollen eyes when Moo-jang will come in for enable with his circumstance, and as they say, the rest is historical past.

It is up for grabs no matter whether we’ll soar back again to the current-day timeline with Mari, or if we’ll watch Ji-hoon and Moo-jang in the previous, but possibly way, I imagine viewing the story behind the business and 1,000 gained was my most loved element of all of this. There was something rather wonderful about looking at the critical and solemn Ji-hoon of the past in the heat, shabby, and fishtank-filled regulation workplace the place we to start with fulfilled him what feels like ages back.

A further excellent link created by the backstory is to give us the context driving Ji-hoon’s comment about parents from the former episode. I respect how they had been in a position to carry hints about Ji-hoon’s tale entire circle for the viewers. I like complete circle. I just can not come to a decision if the drama is going to go back to its prior tone and have our workforce of 3 finish the loop, or if the drama will check out to come to be a hybrid of its two pieces. Bets are on — what do you imagine?

 
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