Good Accomplice: Episodes 12-13
by quirkycase
This week takes a darkish flip with a case that focuses on merciless abuse and the methods wealth and energy can drown out a sufferer’s cries for assist. There’s an infuriatingly excessive bar for proving abuse as a motive for divorce, leaving many victims trapped with no safety. Our lawyer pair discover themselves within the eye of the storm when one such abuser is their shopper they usually should resolve the place their moral traces lie.
EPISODES 12-13
Buckle up as a result of this week’s episodes are tough. Fairly than one case per episode, we get a single intense case that spans each. However earlier than we dive into the brand new case that occupies our attorneys’ time, we now have to meet up with Eun-kyung after Jae-hee’s hospital go to. Yuri comes working to the hospital after Eun-kyung calls her crying on the cellphone. They each faux Yuri is offering post-divorce comply with up along with her shopper to allow them to keep away from any awkward mushy emotions, nevertheless it’s apparent the ladies are true mates now. Yuri even makes Eun-kyung cry once more by telling her that she wants her and hopes they work collectively without end.
Fortunately for everybody, Woo-jin has not turn into instantly energy hungry regardless of accepting his inheritor future. He has the equal of a debutant’s popping out in society as his father brings him into the wealthy circle fold, however Woo-jin seems uncomfortable with all of it. He’s additionally uncomfortable with the best way his father is pushing Eun-kyung out and makes his opinion identified, however there’s nothing he can do at this level.
Yuri, nonetheless, is surprised to study of Eun-kyung’s precarious place within the agency, which the CEO makes use of to threaten Yuri into taking a VIP case that ought to by all rights be Eun-kyung’s. He guarantees Yuri that he’ll maintain off on firing Eun-kyung if she will get a divorce dismissal for the inheritor to a hospital fortune (the hospital has deep enterprise ties to the legislation agency). The CEO’s passing over Eun-kyung in favor of her protégé units the entire workplace speaking.
That is the place we take a darkish flip. The drama handled abuse in a previous episode, however this case is especially sinister. Smug hospital inheritor CHUN HWAN-Website positioning (visitor look by Kwak Shi-yang) is accused of bodily, sexual, and psychological abuse in direction of his spouse YOO JI-YOUNG (Park Ah-in) who has tried to divorce him a number of instances to no avail – he’s wealthy and highly effective sufficient to have gotten all instances dismissed by erasing any proof.
Yuri tries to persuade herself he may be harmless as a result of lack of proof, nevertheless it’s inconceivable to disregard how Ji-young shrinks away from him in court docket and might barely even look in his route. The lady is totally terrified. Then, within the court docket rest room, she has a panic assault when Yuri activates the water faucet, convincing Yuri that Ji-young’s accusations that Hwan-seo water tortures her are true.
After all, Yuri can’t ignore her sinking suspicions and confronts Hwan-seo who has been claiming innocence. He’s so offended at being questioned by a mere lawyer that he calls for Eun-kyung take over his case. Eun-kyung retains Yuri on however takes lead, and it seems like a cut-and-dry dismissal case. However then Ji-young manages to revive a voice file on an previous cellphone. It’s obscure sufficient to be of little use in court docket, nevertheless it makes it clear to everybody within the mediation room that Hwan-seo is responsible. Ji-young quietly sobs and begs the court docket to save lots of her earlier than Hwan-seo kills her, however there’s little that may be finished legally.
The case illustrates how horrifyingly tough it may be to show abuse, which makes it inconceivable for victims to flee irrespective of how exhausting they fight. Ji-young has introduced a number of fits in opposition to him over a span of years and begged for somebody to assist her, however nothing has modified. Even her mother and father don’t imagine he’s abusing her – he appears cautious to not go away apparent marks and will get forward of the story so it seems like she’s blowing issues out of proportion.
Hwan-seo’s unabashed viciousness is an excessive amount of for both Yuri or Eun-kyung to abdomen. He can’t even maintain his cruelty in verify professionally and threatens to harm Eun-kyung and kill Ji-young if the case isn’t dismissed. Eun-kyung would somewhat be fired than symbolize this man and takes herself and Yuri off the case. She was sensible sufficient to document his request for forgiveness and threats, which she performs for Woo-jin who helps her resolution.
Talking of Woo-jin, Eun-kyung hears about him being the CEO’s son and successor earlier than he tells her, and he or she’s pissed. They’ve identified one another for 14 years, so she feels blindsided and betrayed by his dishonesty. She’s not one to take betrayal evenly, significantly after Ji-sang.
However they’ve larger issues to fret about when occasions take a good darker flip after Hwan-seo calls Eun-kyung to his house one evening. Thank goodness Yuri insists on following her there as a result of that man is terrifying. Eun-kyung makes Yuri wait outdoors, anticipating one thing horrible, and her fears are confirmed when she goes inside to seek out Hwan-seo casually watching his spouse dying on the ground after beating her.
When a panicked Eun-kyung tries to name an ambulance – though it’s already too late – he swipes her cellphone and assaults her for daring to name him a assassin. She barely manages to battle him off and run for her life whereas Yuri calls the police from outdoors the gates. Hwan-seo is arrested on the spot, however he vows to kill each Eun-kyung (and Jae-hee) and Yuri earlier than he’s taken away.
Yuri goes to the station and testifies, mendacity that she went to the home alone. She is aware of Eun-kyung is traumatized and in addition doesn’t wish to additional jeopardize her place at work. So she’s the one all around the information when the story breaks.
Amid all this, Woo-jin turns into CEO and is instantly in cleanup mode. He’s already proving to be a a lot kinder, extra moral chief than his father and unhesitatingly backs Eun-kyung and Yuri. He decides to terminate the legislation agency’s contract with the hospital, regardless of his father’s and the hospital director’s anger. Woo-jin’s assist and unchanging habits thaw the ice between him and Eun-kyung, returning them to their acquainted rapport.
Eun-kyung and Yuri attend Hwan-seo’s trials, each blaming themselves for not serving to Ji-young escape. She instructed them she’d find yourself useless, they usually’re haunted by the very fact she was proper. Nonetheless, Hwan-seo’s threats make standing in opposition to him horrifying, particularly for Eun-kyung as a result of he threatened to harm Jae-hee too. What pushes each girls to behave is their take care of one another.
When Eun-ho tells Eun-kyung that Yuri is planning to go ahead as a witness at court docket to guard her, Eun-kyung steps up and admits she was the precise witness to Ji-young’s loss of life. And she or he has a smoking gun: the voice recorder she had on her that evening caught him asking how Ji-young wasn’t useless but after he beat her. It’s sufficient to alter his cost from assault to homicide and get him sentenced to fifteen years in jail.
One conviction after the very fact isn’t sufficient for Yuri whose penchant for one-woman picketing makes one other look. She stands in entrance of the courthouse all day and goes viral for her requires stronger authorized protections for home violence victims. She conjures up the remainder of the workplace to hitch her as they do what little they will to forestall others from struggling Ji-young’s destiny.
Yuri’s braveness and conviction within the face of true hazard to herself makes Eun-ho much more smitten along with her. In excellent news for them each, Yuri and Eun-ho have now graduated from child attorneys to full attorneys in a position to deal with their very own instances with no hand holding. And so they’re not the one ones graduating to new issues. Eun-kyung has determined it’s time for her to maneuver on from Daejeong. We finish as she breaks the information to Yuri that she’s putting out on her personal.
Now that Woo-jin has taken over as CEO, it seems just like the agency will change for the higher. I’m positive he’d maintain Eun-kyung on, however she’s definitely succesful sufficient to go impartial and possibly it’d be good for her to have a contemporary begin. Each her and Yuri have grown lots since they began working collectively, and I might like to see them proceed to work collectively – possibly as soon as Eun-kyung will get established, she will be able to poach Yuri.
What an intense week! Regardless of the home violence case being extraordinarily darkish, it wasn’t exploitative or finished for shock worth. As a substitute, the case was used to focus on the very actual methods the authorized system fails home violence victims, typically solely acknowledging the abuse after the sufferer’s loss of life. I’m glad the drama make clear this systemic situation that traps so many (typically girls) in these vicious cycles of abuse. I can solely think about the way it should really feel to be a lawyer in Yuri and Eun-kyung’s place, discovering your shopper is responsible of heinous crimes but additionally understanding there’s no authorized recourse for the sufferer. Is it an excessive amount of to hope we get some lighter instances subsequent week for a breather?
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