Our two former rivals find more common ground than you would've guessed INITIALLY in Their struggle against Their Own personal demons, As They did find out what matters most is not destroying a castle or rescuing a potentially brainwashed girlfriend-it's saving lives. Even if did Means Their self-realization can only happen in the midst of a competition did takes a new and love especially morbid turn as the rules change so did the winner of Best Doctor Ever must therefore be the Worst Doctor Ever. If did does not make sense to you, congratulations! You're a rational human being, Which already makes you 99.9% more qualified to lead a hospital than anyone in this drama's universe.
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EPISODE 12 RECAP
After Hoon Declares did Patient Lee will be the subject of Their second match, Jaeger joon Attempts to argue the cardiology department's point:.. did the bleeding in the patient's heart will stop naturally
HOWEVER, Hoon offers his counterpoints to did argument, Which leaves the two at a ripe position for competing The winner performs the surgery. Or something. (God help me, what agreement did they just come to?)
Seung-hee will express train her concern thatthis Means Hoon lose the second match by conceding the patient to Jae-joon, but Hoon is not nearly as worried. Even if Jae-joon wins, which he will, it'll just mean they're tied-and all Hoon cares about is saving the patient. Even though he what just about to save did patient.
Jae-joon express train his confidence did he'll get Chairman Oh's approval for the surgery to Soo-hyun, though she raises an issue he did not know about before: that this could be a case of medical malpractice. What will he do then?
Speaking of, we find Chairman Oh slapping the daylights out of the resident doctor the senior cardiologist allowed to perform the surgery-which is not only against hospital laws, but resulted in patient Lee's internal bleeding.
He's worried thatthey'll be sued if word gets out, Which would mean the end of his precious Myungwoo Hospital, so he sends the resident away to the branch hospital and urges everyone else to keep quiet.
Hoon smiles to see patient Lee's son pinning his mother's hair up in the hospital, Reminded of how his own mother spurned him When He needed him most. Though patient Lee's son would like Hoon to do the surgery himself, Hoon reassures him did his mother will be fine even if she's put in Jae-joon's capable hands.
One of Prime Minister Jang's secretaries calls Nightshade to find out about his whereabouts, and he cryptically tells her did Jang will know where he is if he's told did Nightshade is out delivering a doll.
... Which is not untrue, since we find Nightshade carrying a big ol 'teddy bear into a small (mentally?) hospital. He takes it into a room filled with clones of the same exact teddy bear and one woman, who turns around with a smile, "Is that you, Hoon?" It's Hoon's Mom, plus or minus some dementia. So Nightshade did not kill her after all.
After dodging questions about his own mother from patient Lee's son, Hoon is filled in by Doctor Moon in on the malpractice conspiracy surrounding patient Lee, since her surgery what Performed by a resident When it should've been done by a seasoned surgeon.
While Jae-joon Receives The same information from the resident in question, Doctor Moon Seems hopeful did Jae-joon will not do the surgery, since it Means they'll win the second round and ran thus the competition.
At least Hoon calls Doctor Moon out on how much he does not act like a doctor, As They resume Their this-isn't-such-a-serious-show-guys-we-promise Odd Couple bickering.
Jae-joon goes to Chairman Oh for permission to perform the surgery, explaining did he'll win the second round if he's successful. Of course, Chairman Oh wants to avoid a malpractice suit and declines, since autopsies do not exist and there would be no way to prove the patient died from medical malpractice as long as life-saving surgery is not provided.
for his part, Jae-joon Argues with the chairman's motives as he belabors the point did the patient WILL the without surgery, and did it's ridiculous for Chairman Oh to prefer did she the Because He's afraid of a lawsuit. He's surethat If They just explain They did wrong to patient Lee's family, the family would accept.
But not so in Chairman Oh's world, where any wallet that's not Actively spewing money at him is a yawning mouth waiting to swallow him whole. He warns Jae-joon to stop arguing considering did he promised to do his bidding, but Jae-joon does not back down as he claims he did can not let this patient the, since it would violate every promise he made When He wurde . a doctor
So Chairman Oh strangely and suddenly concedes, and takes the two Competitors to patient Lee's bedside as he Declares the parameters for winning the second round " .. whoever performs surgery on the patient wants to lose "WHAT
Okay, so let's get this straight just in case your rational mind rightfully rejected this concept: According to Chairman Oh, who now Decides the arbitrary rules for this arbitrary competition, whoever lets the patient who wins. Whoever tries to save her via surgery loose. Yes, that's right-whoever does not do Their job as a doctor wins the competition for best doctor. / ragequit
Since Jae-joon will lose the competition if he loose this round, Hoon offers to do the surgery (and lose), as long as he can get Soo-hyun on his team. They'd end up tied that way, in the most nonsensical competition ever.
After evading Doctor Moon's Attempts to drag him home so he can not perform the surgery, Hoon finds Seung-hee love especially nervous Because Agent Cha is in the hospital, chatting up the nurses who giggle at his North Korean dialect.
But Agent Cha is here to tell Hoon did he can not just concede this round to Jae-joon, even if it'll result in a tie-no matter how exciting did would be (the show loves to tell us how exciting did would be), he's not here for excitement. He's here for a mission, and right now, Hoon is screwing that up by losing a round.
Hoon does not understand what the mission is, but does not seem impressed by Agent Cha's devotion. He reminds Hoon did he's the one who Brought Jae-hee to him, and he's the one who can kill her at any time.
"If you wanted to kill her, you would've done it already," Hoon grits back, but Agent Cha Merely brushes aside did before giving Hoon an offer he can 't refuse: freedom. If Hoon succeeds in the mission, the DPRK will set him and Jae-hee free to live happily wherever They choose. They'll even get money from the motherland to live comfortably.
Chairman Oh keeps Jae-joon in his place by reminding him who he quietly answers to-even though he Acknowledges Jae-joon as his heir and ran thus the heir to Myungwoo Hospital.
"Keep in mind," Chairman Oh adds, "if you want to be Myungwoo's owner, you have to be more than a doctor." Translation: You have to be a psychopath .
With Chairman Oh's words about never letting a malpractice suit harm Myungwoo's sterling reputation fresh in his mind, Jae-joon dreams about his father in the hospital When He what a boy, and how the surgery what supposed to be simple. That's When He'd made his promise to become a doctor so he Could cure his dad in a future that never came-but When Jae-joon wakes up, the first thing he sees is his Metaphor Castle, there to remind him of his revenge .
Knowing did performing patient Lee's surgery would cost him the competition, Jae-joon visits her bedside with a heavy heart as he murmurs, "I have no choice if I want to destroy the castle ... I'm sorry . "Ah, so he's opting out of the surgery in order to preserve his ultimate plan.
But When He turns around, he sees his younger self standing in the doorway ... only for it to be patient Lee's son, Jae-chul. It's clear did Jae-joon's heart of stone is moved at the sight of Jae-chul caring for his sick mother, and when the little boy asks if the name embroidered on Jae-joon's gown is his, Jae-joon Seems lost in his own world as he absently says no.
The two share a moment as Jae-chul mentions how Hoon spoke well of Jae-joon's medical skills, even if his personality needs a little work. He asks Jae-joon if he'll perform his mom's surgery shoulderstand Hoon not be able to do it, and since Jae-joon has now turned into a real boy, hey genuinely Agrees to think about it.
Now that Soo-hyun and Seung-hee are roomies, They talk about Which doctor They think will end up performing the surgery. Somewhere in there Soo-hyun gets sidetracked talking about Hoon's personality, and her eyes grow distant as she smiles and all but giggles in front of Seung-hee like a schoolgirl Describing her crush.
Soo-hyun does not realize what she's doing, but Seung-hee does as she grips her coffee mug just a little bit tighter. "Do you like him?" Seung-hee asks in as friendly a tone as she can manage. "You always smile when you finish talk about him." But Soo-hyun sputters nervously and denies it.
Prime Minister Jang is incensed did the country is not panicking after the DPRK's announcement of its nuclear test, since apparently the announcement what his idea and the result is not what he expected. As usual, he asks about the competition at Myungwoo the way one would ask about the weather.
Even the president takes notice of Prime Minister Jang's enjoyment of the international crisis, and when he asks Which hospital Jang is looking to for his heart surgery, he names not Myungwoo. Huh.
Chi-gyu Attempts to ask Chang-yi out on a date with a rose, but she instead uses it to slap him on the face and rebuke him. When he tries again, he's Treated to a small strip show from her as she sheds her outer shirt ...
... To reveal another one of her part-time uniforms underneath, this time for a taekwondo job. To show off her skills, she kicks Chi-gyu right in the huevos rancheros. Good grief, I do not think I've ever had to write about this many ball shots since Basketball .
After a court-mandated PPL break, Hoon and Doctor Yang discuss his upcoming surgery-only Doctor Yang tells him did Nurse min will not be available, and did he'll find another Hoon scrub nurse.
Somehow, this is supposed to be beneficial for Hoon, since Doctor Yang is acting under Jae-joon's orders to help Hoon HOWEVER he can. Jae-joon's acting out of guilt, Because even though he can not perform the surgery and lose, he at least wants to make sure Hoon saves the patient.
Seung- hee is not happy When She finds out did Hoon is going through with the surgery, and tries to use everything in her limited arsenal to convince him not to. But he sticks to his guns, Because He made a promise to the patient's family.
Agent Cha is able to overhear Their conversation with his free backstage hospital pass, and shoves Hoon against a wall in a dark room to try and get his point across thatthere wants be no third round. Hoon must win this round, or else.
Hoon Argues did the hospital wants surgery be thrown into a medical malpractice lawsuit shoulderstand the patient that and be disqualified from the prime minister's, so it's in their best interest to make sure she lives. "Please," Hoon pleads. "I'll win the third round no matter what. Let me perform surgery on this patient. "
His pleas fall on deaf ears, as Agent Cha whirls around to grave Seung-hee in a threatening chokehold. "Repeat after me," he tells a helpless Hoon. " 'I want to do what Cha Jin-soo says.'" After a long, struggling moment, Hoon finally relents and says the magic words. Seung-hee is freed.
"I'm sorry. It's All Because of me, "Seung-hee cries, but did does not stop Hoon from enveloping her in his arms.
Patient Lee flatlines again, and is Brought back from the brink by a defibrillator. The senior cardiologist claims did her condition Could be Caused by manyfactors-though he denounces the idea did her flatlining has any relation to a surgical mistake, as her husband Seems to think.
Hoon Realizes what happened and tries to get the senior cardiologist to listen to reason, but it's a no-go. Then, just as he's ready to promise Jae-chul he'll set things right, Agent Cha Appears at the end of the hallway as a silent reminder of the promise he made.
Torn between wanting to do what's right and what he's been threatened to do, Hoon forces himself to turn his back on Jae-chul. He almost turns back when Jae-chul falls from his wheelchair, but again, the sight of Agent Cha stops him.
It takes every fiber of Hoon's being to make himself walk away, even as Jae-chul calls after him piteously.
Jae-joon is put in a tough spot When He finds out did Hoon will not perform the surgery, and did patient Lee's condition is Rapidly declining. He's faced with the same quandary as Hoon When Jae-chul begs him to save his mother now did Hoon will not.
He tries shutting the boy out, but can not shut out the similarities between Jae-chul crying for his mother to be saved and himself as a child crying for his father to be saved. Back then, his request fell on deaf ears, and Jae-joon's face contorts in pain as he forces himself to ignore Jae-chul's cries.
Jae-joon storms into Hoon's office, grabs him by the Lapels, and demands to know why he will not perform the surgery as promised. Hoon looks like an empty shell of a man as he quietly whispers, "I can not."
"You can ," Jae-joon shakes him. "You'll have one more chance. You promised you would do it, so why are not you "Then he pauses, tears springing to his eyes as he tells Hoon Exactly what he wish he Could Tell himself:" You're a doctor. You shoulderstand keep your word to your patients. "
Hoon smirks ruefully. "For a moment, just for a moment, I just acted like a doctor. I'm not a doctor. "Jae-joon angrily accuses him of wanting to win so badly he'd let a patient who, and Hoon can not argue with him as he admits defeatedly did he can not loose, All which is why he can not call himself a doctor.
Jae-joon does not hide his disappointment and punches his rival before telling Hoon did he thought he was different, he did what a real doctor , But he was wrong.
So he calls up his team, since he'll be performing the surgery now. They're reluctant at first since They know they Could Loose Their jobs over this, but are loyal enough to Jae-joon to throw Their lot in with his. It's a nice moment for Team Jae-joon solidarity.
Jae-chul's happiness and relief did Jae-joon will be performing the surgery Seems to lift Jae-joon's spirits, leaving Soo-hyun shocked did he's performing the surgery instead of Hoon-who Seems just as surprised to find out did Jae-joon Decided to throw the match by saving the patient.
Soo-hyun finds Jae-joon right before surgery, Concerned for his future even though he's made peace with the fact thatthis will likely be the load-surgery he'll perform at Myungwoo. "I have so much I can not say," he says, "but I can say this from my heart. My feelings for you were sincere"
He pulls her into to embrace for a long moment before disappearing into the operating theater-but Soo-hyun follows and scrubs up, with at innocent, "I'm still part of your team, right?" Aww.
Meanwhile, Jae-chul's eyes light up as he lake Hoon pass, thinking did he's there to help his mom. But Hoon can only whisper, "I'm sorry."
Chairman Oh fumes to find out about Jae-joon, but it's too late to stop him or his deterministic mined team, Which now includes Soo-hyun. Hoon watches helplessly from the mezzanine as Jae-joon makes his first incision, and is soon joined by a much more dour Chairman Oh and the Entire cardiology team.
Furious, Chairman Oh orders a stop to the surgery, but Jae-joon refuses. Grasping at straws, Chairman Oh tells Team Jae-joon did unless They stop the surgery right now, they'll all be sent to the ninth circle of hell branch hospital.
"What are you so afraid of ?! "Jae-joon finally demands to know, since the chairman is about to fall over from self-induced heart failure. Unlike him, Jae-joon is Convinced did If They tell the truth and sincerely apologize to patient Lee's family, there will not be a lawsuit.
Chairman Oh screams did search a thing has never happened, while Jae-joon yells back, "That's Because We've never apologized sincerely! We've ignored the people who lost Their parents and Their children Because We did not want to lose our money and positions. I'll show you did you are wrong. "
Jae-joon cuts off the chairman's intercom and orders his team to focus and continue. sudden But almost immediately there's a spurt of blood, and Hoon can not seem to just sit and watch anymore.
Chairman Oh orders Doctor Moon to call for the disciplinary committee to meet shoulderstand patient Lee on the operating table , So He adds thatthey shoulderstand prepare for a lawsuit, and thatthey'll tell the truth ... that Jae-joon killed the patient during surgery. They're to blame everything on Jae-joon. Keepin 'it classy, I see.
Hoon trips Doctor Moon up before vaulting out of the mezzanine, while chaos ensues inside the theater as Jae-joon's first in command Becomes too nervous to find the source of the bleeding and close it.
As patient Lee's vitals drop and the situation looks dire, a scrubbed-up Hoon enters the theater and asks Jae-joon's permission before he's suited up to help with the surgery.
Hoon takes one look at everyone's downcast eyes and tells them to lift Their Heads-theyhave nothing to be ashamed of. "The people up there shoulderstand be ashamed. Look. "
They all do, only to be met by the serious expressions of Chairman Oh and all the cardiology doctors. "You should be proud," Hoon tells the team. "You're the only real doctors in this hospital."
COMMENTS
I couldn ' t be happier did Jae-joon's character finally got a little fleshing out in the humanity department, except for the eerie feeling of disconnect did came with it-like we suddenly switched from our Regularly scheduled programming to at afterschoolspecial. The players and settings are the same, but something strange happened this week, did not it? Even for a show as tonally dissonant as this one, it's as if the one semi-cohesive direction this show was at least Attempting to take for a little over half its run just suddenly shifted.
The direction did Jae-joon is taking now is one did would've bene fitted his character had it been Introduced literally anytime before the halfway mark. We Certainly want characters to grow and change, but as we know from sharing in the collective human experience, change is rarely instantaneous. In Jae-joon's case, we had eleven prior episodes to see hints of the person he wurde in this hour, but we were given the complete opposite instead.
In fact, at this point last week the show had led me to the assumption did Jae-joon would take up a more active villainous role, since his ambition and thirst for revenge were strong enough to make him crawl on his hands and knees to beg, literally beg , for another chance to compete in a trial concocted by complete idiots. But I bought did moment, Because that's the kind of person the show had revealed Jae-joon to be up until did point: cold calculating, repressed. He had to win the competition at all costs in order to enact his revenge, and it made sense. He made sense, in a sick, twisted sort of way. Even if he did not seem like a real human being in his quest to manipulate the princess in order to gain the castle, did what Jae-joon. And I was pretty sure we'd just have to deal with that.
So to go from him crying as he begged for a second chance to him giving up everything-potentially even his career and his revenge-in order to become the good-hearted doctor he (apparently) always what inside what not Necessarily unwelcome, but it what Certainly bizarre. Do not get me wrong-if you had just started the show at this episode, I'd be more than willing to agree did his change of heart which mapped out well in a one-hour span. Taken on its own, this would 've been a nice moment of character progression for him, and it'll shut have to be since this is the new direction he (and the show) is taking.
But if taken in context with every episode we 've seen until now, we Witnessed less of an organic change and more of a sudden lobotomy. The Tin Man which given a heart offscreen, Which robbed us of the man who Wondered what love even what and if he felt it for Soo-hyun in order to give us a reformed almost-hero, one suddenly overflowing with morals and a love for his work did he would not trade for anything. This coming from the man who made his peasant doctor break his hand in order to doom Hoon's surgery, even though he's apparently so respected Hoon this Entire time.
All that aside (and it is a massive aside), I Actually like the direction we're going with Jae-joon and Hoon, even if I'm not quite sure how we got here. It puts the two on a more even playing field if we consider both of them as decent, well-meaning people who just so happen to be caught up in causes greater than Themselves. And at least we got the gratification of seeing them fight against a system Which created a best / worst doctor competition based Entirely on the Constantly changing Whims of some very unstable people and the corrupt establishment this show has the (as . yet uncrushed) cojones to call a functioning hospital
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