My Mission and Your Case

Diamond Fun Krei Building, Los Angeles.

Sunny looked at Sok-ji who had been staying by the window, she's not stupid, she the one of the smartest people in this building, and she can see what other people may not realize.

3 months, an actor taking leave for 3 months is strange. Sok-ji should have done a lot of work considering how they managed to clear his name, of course, many media want him to appear because they want to hear Sok-ji's 'feelings' after what happened.

Appearing so suddenly that Lay didn't even tell her before Sok-ji's arrival was quite strange. There must be something. She knows something is fishy around this. but she can come out with one particular reason.

Meanwhile, Sok-ji's starting to believe what he thought when he was in the lobby, someone was targeting Sunny most likely with the threat of a sniper, because this glass is different.

Sok-ji turns around and sees Sunny sitting in her chair looking at him suspiciously. Sok-ji approaches and looks her in the eye then smiles.

"I know that look," said him.

"So do you want to talk now? What's going on? It's not that I don't like you taking 3 months off, but it's strange to me, you have a lot of work, did Lay allow you to go?"

"The shooting has finished, we'll do the press conference near the end of the year. So I can take a leave. My other schedule remains magazine interviews, which is, can be postponed. So don't worry about my career, you made me still in this industry and I thank you for that. Now, I just take what Lay gave me, take 3 months' leave."

"Lay told you to go here?"

"Lay thought that it was time for us to meet, you've been walking with DFK and I've been putting my feet back in the entertainment world, but that's not the case," Sok-ji stood up and leaned against the window while looking at her.

"So what?"

"Blue Lab Kingz," Sok-ji said the words without thinking. He knows what happened and knows what the odds are.

"How do you know that name? Did Lay tell you?"

Sok-ji shook his head. "You know for sure Lay won't do it, he will do what you to tell him to. So when you say don't tell me anything, he won't do it."

"And where the hell do you know that name?"

"It was NIS."

"Lee Jong-gi bastard, I already said I don't want to. I told him to go to the Team, why did they go to you and Lay?"

"They said that you and Lay sending industrial spies to that company, and they know about my training during the military service."

"Is he threatening you?"

"No, it's more like we or I don't know how to tell you about this. And one leads to another, we succeeded in lobbying them, and they assured me and Lay, they will re-open the Park Suwon case."

"NIS? They re-opened the case?"

Sok-ji nodded. "They re-opened it because of that... "

"What is he talking? Do they want me involved in the case and come back home? I already said that I won't. What would I say to him anyway... " Sunny stops her words, she can't even talk about it.

Sok-ji frowns, he knows Sunny wants to say it, but somehow her mouth is shut. "Are you afraid to tell him, that you know about him?"

"How can I not be afraid? I found something, Lay found something."

"I know what you find. But this is not the time to talk about that."

"You knew? Do they give you the files?"

"Yes, they do. I'll tell you what happened, but you need to calm down."

"Tell me."

"Seo-won picked me up at the airport and said that Lay put me on leave for 3 months, and he said Lay wanted to meet. So we're going to the café that we always went. But, not long after I arrived, NIS came, they want me to make you come home because they think that I can convince you to come home, back to Seoul."

"And they show you the files? Is that necessary?"

"Well, I said to them, did I have to see this, 'cause if they want you to come home, they should come to you, not me. But they said they already asked you, but you said no."

"I do say no, for a couple of reasons I can't leave my position."

"I know, but something is bothering you right?"

"Yeah. I don't know how but what I see is they know what we found. I didn't even find it when I investigated the case 5 years ago."

"About hyung's dad?"

"Yeah, I don't even know that they were family." 

"And how did you know? When you investigated me?"

"Yes, when he came to my shop that time, and you call him hyung. I asked Lay to find out about it, and we found out the facts. I'm not surprised why he became a person who was so adamant about the case 5 years ago, even more stubborn than me."

Sok-ji reaches into his coat pocket and hands Sunny a card.

"This is a hotel room card, what is it for? We are going to my mansion now, what is this for?"

"Give this to one of your bodyguards who you trust to carry all the items in the room."

"What exactly are you carrying? I don't understand, if the NIS reopens this case, what does it have to do with me? I told them I don't want to get involved."

"It's too late now. Now I'm here, and the second I arrived, I called Lay, and now NIS and Lay met the Team. Today is the day. They re-open the case."

"You and the other, think I will know what happens, I can predict, and I can prevent everything from happening, and I know everything about things, meanwhile I don't know about all of this not even the case that I've been working on since 5 years ago."

"Hey, I know that you think about this company, you don't want everyone will suffer from your decisions, but you can despite them, you know this case made you suffer from it, and it's not just you. You know this will happen soon or later. Otherwise, you won't accept their request to meet you at the hospital."

Sunny turned silent when she heard Sok-ji talking.

"I know you are afraid to put someone's life on the line. I know the burden. I know you can't leave this country, but I do know, you have that solution in your mind, you do know, what you will do. You always do that Sun."

Sunny covers half her face with the palm of her hand, Sok-ji really knows her, he even understands her thoughts. They don't know what will happen but for her now there are no words other than she is worried about her friend.

"I know you can read me well but... "

"There's no but."

"Jae-young?"

"I met him before I went to pick up the equipment, but I didn't say anything. Jong-gi said he's the one who wants to talk to him, and my mission is to bring you home."

"You have a mission? You have to bring me home? Me? Are you sure?"

Sok-ji nodded. "Go home with me to Seoul, we have to finish what you've start and they need you."

"Who? Government?"

"Well, I don't know, did the Government or the intelligence needs you? Well, from the first time, this is your case, this case belongs to you, Tae-guk, and Min-tae. So that's just you and them who have to finish it. This is your case."