Your Honor: Episodes 7-8
by lovepark
A secret is revealed that adjustments your complete recreation, and those that deemed themselves gamers discover out that they might have been pawns all alongside. Nonetheless, issues have escalated past what anybody might have predicted, and even when it prices them all the things, neither father will again down if it means defending their sons.
EPISODES 7-8
What if this tragedy began not as an accident however as revenge? This one query — a lingering doubt in Pan-ho’s thoughts — shifts the story this week from a father out to avoid wasting his son to at least one a couple of damaged household with opposing wills. Did Ho-young plan this assault, and if that’s the case, was the goal his father, as properly?
Within the midst of all these schemers and chasers, there’s Ho-young, the catalyst that began this sequence of occasions, and because it seems, the true heart of this story. Whereas the fathers occupy themselves with their very own little cat-and-mouse recreation, Ho-young deepened his relationship with Eun to the purpose the place the youthful lady makes herself sick with fear over him. By the point anybody else realizes what he has executed, it’s too late to separate them.
His son’s duplicitous actions make Pan-ho rethink the details, and although part of him claims that he would by no means act as an confederate to homicide, his fervent denial of the reality speaks in any other case. Even entertaining the thought makes Pan-ho react violently, however all indicators level in the direction of a grim actuality the place Ho-young orchestrated all the things for vengeance.
In reality, Pan-ho’s world turned the wrong way up two years earlier when his spouse dedicated suicide. Whereas volunteering, she crossed paths with Sang-hyuk who drugged and assaulted her. Nonetheless, the courts dropped all fees in opposition to him, and because of this, she took her personal life. After his mom’s passing, Ho-young tried to comply with her, however Pan-ho saved him then and plans to avoid wasting him now, too.
That harrowing case additionally occurs to be the explanation for Detective Jang’s vendetta in opposition to Sang-hyuk, which then turns into the protection’s argument in the course of the trials. Following Pan-ho’s recommendation, Kang-heon muddies the case by eliminating key witnesses and planting fakes, however all this effort crumbles when Prosecutor Kang reveals her hidden card: Detective Jang.
The evening Pan-ho thought she perished, Detective Jang had already realized who the true hit-and-run offender was and partnered with Prosecutor Kang. Fortunately, her crew was on standby when the pretend driver attacked her, and figuring out that her life was at risk, they determined to faux she died till the time was proper.
Sadly, Detective Jang and Prosecutor Kang are usually not the one ones who know the reality since Kang-heon lastly figures out the identification of the bronchial asthma affected person, as properly. Nonetheless, Kang-heon can not hurt Ho-young but since each his kids’s lives are tied to the boy’s destiny, so as a substitute, he takes this information to Pan-ho and asks the query our decide has been dreading: was all of it intentional?
Unwilling to confess the reality, Pan-ho diverts Kang-heon’s consideration by revealing his personal ache wrought by Sang-hyuk’s actions and tries to persuade the latter — and probably himself — that all the things was a coincidence. Ho-young occurred to be on the identical highway as Kang-heon’s second son that morning, and it was by probability that he received near his valuable youngest daughter. When mentioned aloud, it sounds so determined, like a idiot’s errand to cover the solar together with his arms.
Pan-ho manages to purchase himself a while by bargaining with Kang-heon, however meaning his secondary plan with Boss Jo should be placed on maintain. He will get in contact along with her in time earlier than her males strike Kang-heon, however even cornered, our steely gangster stays calm, assured in his personal powers. As for Pan-ho, his different lifeline (aka, the Blue Home) additionally will get reduce, leaving him marooned with no exit in sight.
Following Pan-ho’s recommendation, Kang-heon makes use of Assemblyman Jung to strategy Cheong-kang and sow seeds of dissent. They persuade the younger man to retract his assertion, and with out his testimony, the prosecution falls aside. Whereas Detective Jang and Prosecutor Kang bemoan their impending loss, the previous involves a realization which will flip the tides. If their opponents play soiled, so will she.
Detective Jang meets up with Pan-ho and affords to trade one reality for an additional. If he declares Sang-hyuk responsible, then she’s going to bury Ho-young’s crime. She wants his reply now, however unbeknownst to Detective Jang, her hasty motion was the push that Pan-ho wanted to achieve readability. Simply when he thought he had misplaced, he understood after listening to her risk that he solely ever had one purpose: to avoid wasting his son. With that in thoughts, Pan-ho calls Kang-heon’s secretary for a favor, after which in entrance of Detective Jang, he asks her for a technique to smuggle his household in a foreign country after the trial.
As soon as he returns residence, Pan-ho faces his son and the truth he tried to shun. He asks Ho-young why he did it when he, himself, tried so exhausting to avoid wasting him, however Ho-young argues that Pan-ho compelled him to dwell a life worse than demise. He wished Kang-heon to expertise the identical ache, admitting that he did trigger the accident on objective, and he factors out that the one who actually desires to dwell will not be him however his father. As Pan-ho hears his son’s want, he tells him that it doesn’t matter what, he’ll maintain him alive.
Episode 7 opened with a flashback mirroring the one from final week — one of many many parallels the present likes to make use of — revealing an fascinating similarity but key distinction between the 2 sons. Whereas Sang-hyuk would kill others for his household, Ho-young would kill himself for his. Each fathers would do something to guard their sons, and the present makes it clear that no boundaries exist that both won’t cross. Nonetheless, that misguided want to avoid wasting their sons is what finally introduced upon this tragedy since Kang-heon’s lack of ability to let his son face penalties brought about the demise of Ho-young’s mom, and Pan-ho’s refusal to handle his son’s harm brought about him to hunt revenge at the price of his personal life. The fathers have enabled their sons to wreak havoc, and even now, their lack of self-reflection and accountability continues this cycle of harm.
All this may very well be stopped if Kang-heon would enable Sang-hyuk to be punished, however his personal hubris would by no means let him bend. In the identical vein, I agree considerably with Ho-young that Pan-ho acts to not solely save his son however himself. He needs to maintain his son alive, which I’d by no means fault a mother or father for, however Pan-ho’s actions have gone past that to an obsessive diploma of management and insanity. Pan-ho craves energy even when he doesn’t admit it to himself, and it’s this denial that pushed Ho-young away. Quite than admit the courtroom is flawed and settle for his personal errors within the course of, Pan-ho upholds the legislation as untouchable, which solely signifies to Ho-young that his mom was a liar who deserted her son. Because of this, so many harmless bystanders have died and can proceed to die as a result of each fathers would somewhat let the world burn than lose their son.
With the reveal of Ho-young’s true intentions, his actions change into extra insidious, and the uneasy feeling he delivered to the display screen from the very starting was deliberate. Nonetheless, whereas I do suppose his relationship with Eun was premeditated, I’m nonetheless not sure of how precisely he deliberate the accident with Sang-hyeon. From the scene in Episode 1, it did seem like an accident, however possibly that was all a deceive idiot the viewers together with Pan-ho. Whether or not or not Ho-young crashed into the motorbike on objective or not, his actions afterwards had been nonetheless acutely aware decisions he made to harm Kang-heon in addition to his father, and due to his egocentric want for revenge, he has brought about a lot loss and ache to others.
Although I sympathize with Ho-young and the trauma he will need to have endured, I discover him deplorable as a personality. His haphazard plan led to so many deaths, and whereas he isn’t immediately liable for them, his lack of regret for what his general actions price makes him terrifying. Pan-ho claims that he would let the world collapse if he might save Ho-young, however it appears that evidently his son is the one toppling over the tower with everybody nonetheless in it.
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