His captor releases him, dressed in a new suit, with a wallet, a cell phone, and a challenge: “Find out why you were imprisoned. You have five days. Fail, and someone else dies.”
Lee refuses. “Now you know. Now you feel what I felt when my sister died. But you—you will live with this. And you will never tell her.” His captor releases him, dressed in a new
The real enemy: , a wealthy, reclusive industrialist in his late 30s, pale as a ghost, soft-spoken, and utterly merciless. “Now you know
Seoul, 1988. A rainy night. Oh Dae-su, a loudmouthed, heavy-drinking businessman, is arrested for public drunkenness. His friend Joo-hwan bails him out. As they wait at a phone booth, Dae-su’s young daughter, Mi-do, calls. He promises to be home soon. And you will never tell her
Dae-su finds a hypnotist. He asks to have his memory of Mi-do’s identity erased. The hypnotist warns him: “You will still know something is wrong. You will still feel the guilt. You’ll just never know why.”
Cut to a snowy forest. Mi-do finds Dae-su, dazed, smiling. She hugs him. He whispers: “I love you.” She smiles. She doesn’t know.