Chi Kook had been with Dong Koo and Bong Yi at her place. Just as they promised, they had started to clean the house and prepare for her grandmother's return the next day.
They had already finished a little while ago, but had decided to wait for Ba Reum's return. When some hours passed and he still wasn't there, they tried to call him, but his cell phone just went on voicemail.
"Well, he said he had something to do at his work. Perhaps he's still busy." Dong Koo said, already looking up the number of the police station.
He called them, but started frowning.
"They said that he never was there. No one called him to come over." The three friends started to worry over Ba Reum, wondering what happened to him.
To pass the time they played some cards and put on the television as background noise, but then the news started.
They news about Ko Moo Chi surprised them a bit, but they hadn't known the man that well, and he did have a temper, but to go after his brother like that seemed a bit farfetched.
These thoughts were immediately pushed from their minds when they heard the news of Ba Reum's mother.
"Let's go." Chi Kook said, immediately grabbing his coat. Bong Yi and Dong Koo followed him.
"I'll try to call him again." Dong Koo said, tapping in the number once more.
"I'll go check the hospital." Bong Yi said, both man nodded at her and Dong Koo handed her his keys, knowing that she already had a driver's license, but no car.
The drive to Ba Reum's house was a quick one, and they were lucky that no cops had tried stopping them. They parked the car and all of them jumped out.
Chi Kook was knocking on Ba Reum's door in a panic, in the hope that he was home. He saw no lights, but perhaps Ba Reum had gone home and had fallen asleep? Chi Kook swore when no one came to open the door and took out his key to open it himself.
The house looked normal, no one had touched anything and there was no sign of Ba Reum anywhere. They made sure to look in every room, just in case that Ba Reum had left a note somewhere. In his mind Chi Kook could just see the turmoil in his friends spirit.
He entered Ba Reum's bedroom, and everything was looking normal, except the laptop standing on Ba Reum's desk. Chi Kook entered the room.
In any other room a laptop on a desk wouldn't be abnormal, but they knew how OCD Ba Reum was and he would never leave a laptop standing like that. At least, not when he was in his normal mindset.
He put the screen up and pressed a button, and the screensaver disappeared.
"Dong Koo, get over here." He shouted and his friend came running at top speed in the bedroom.
"What is it, you found something?" he asked.
"It's Father Ko" Chi Kook said to Dong Koo, turning the screen so his friend could look as well.
"What is going on?" Dong Koo asked.
Chi Kook looked around the desk and quickly found several flash drives lying in a row.
"We'll find it out soon enough." Chi Kook said, and entered the first flash drive in the USB port.
When Father Ko woke up in the morning he was feeling very confused. He didn't know where he was and his head was pounding. He looked around. It was still dark outside and he could only manage to see several outlines. He was lying in a bed and someone was lying next to him.
He slowly turned around, trying not to make any noise and then he tried to get a better look at the figure with whom he was sharing a bed.
"Moo Chi?" he asked. The figure next to him stirred and when he noticed that Moo Won was awake, the figure immediately turned on the light.
It was indeed his brother.
"Hyung." Moo Chi said, and hugged his brother, crying in relief.
Moo Won was still feeling very confused and his brother's hug and tears were not really helping with clearing matters up. It had been so long ago since the last time that his brother had hugged him.
"I was so worried about you." Moo Chi said.
"What happened, I remember being hit on the head." Father Ko said, rubbing his head and still feeling the lump that was there.
"I'm afraid it's my fault again that you are hurt." Moo Chi said, hanging his head. Father Ko put his hand on Moo Chi's head. "It's never your fault" he said benignly.
"Don't you remember what happened afterwards, in the church?" Moo Chi asked. Moo Won frowned and then he remembered.
"Yes, Ba Reum came in, and then you rescued me. What happened afterwards?"
Moo Chi explained about how he had fainted in the car and about who the people were that kidnapped them.
"I think it's better that you stay here for a couple of days, just until the dust settles." Moo Chi said.
"But then everyone will think that you kidnapped me. I can't do that." Moo Won protested.
"Yes you can. Please brother, please keep safe. I won't know what to do if anything happens to you." Moo Chi was on his knees begging his brother to play it safe. Moo Won looked at his brother, feeling sad, but also happy that his brother was accepting him again.
"I will stay here, as long as you need me to." He eventually agreed. They turned off the lights of the guest room and tried to sleep some more, Moo Won felt the gaze of his brother on him.
It warmed him that his brother still loves him.
The chief sighed, rubbing his temples in the hope that his massive headache would magically disappear.
Since Moo Chi had been officially charged with kidnapping, he was stripped of his rank. That meant that all the cases he was involved in had to be put under revision and be reassigned to different detectives. As if they weren't understaffed as it was.
Detective Sang, who had worked together with Moo Chi on the womb stealer case, had been put in charge of it, and he protested it every step of the way. Sang was angry at the whole precinct because they believed that Moo Chi was capable of kidnapping his own brother.
The problem with detective Sang was that his father was rich, so he didn't actually need this job for the money. That meant that were most people would not protest or take it too far because they feared that they would lose their jobs, detective Sang had no such restrains.
There he was once again about to start a shouting match with a colleague. The chief was just about to call him in his office, for another little talk when detective Sang's phone rang. He answered it and immediately took up his coat and ran off somewhere. Probably a case then.
The chief sighed.
At least the rest were still doing their work. He was just going to visit the evidence locker, just to check if everything is alright there, with Ba Reum still in sick leave and all. When he arrived Park Du Seok had just received an urgent letter from a delivery guy. Who the hell sends urgent messages by letters these days?
He stood back a bit, knowing that sometimes the guys received private messages when they were at work. Seeing that they spend so much time here, it was not frowned upon to let some post be delivered here, as long as it wasn't every day.
Detective Park opened the envelop and looked at the content in shock. He dropped the paper and rushed off without saying anything, bumping in the chief and not even apologizing. The chief shouted after him, but he didn't seem to hear.
Everyone was looking at him go, surprised. It had been years since anyone saw such fast movement from him. The chief went in the evidence locker and saw a picture lying on the desk, next to the fallen envelop.
He picked it up and saw a photograph from Hong Ju PD with underneath the words written, "a unique bracelet."
Hong Ju sherlock was just being broadcasted on the television. She had been nervous from the beginning, knowing that their plan would be set in motion. She was wearing her bracelet, letting it show quite clearly. Ba Reum said that he had made sure that her father would storm in during the episode, thus causing the distraction that they needed.
They expected that once everyone knew what they were talking about, most of the broadcasting stations would be in chaos, trying to get the news as hot of the press as possible.
That would give them a change to sneak in.
There were 3 important national stations, and each one of them Ba Reum, Moo Chi and Yo Han would try to sneak in and import the selected video clips that would expose OZ and especially their leader. They were just waiting for their cue.
Hong Ju her show was busy in full swing, just when detective Park rushed in, in the middle of filming. People saw him run in and when, he actually ran towards Hong Ju, they tried to stop him, but they were already too late.
He took her wrist in his hands, even when people came to try to get him away. He took a look at her wrists, then looked in her eyes.
"Daughter?" he said, trying not to get his hopes up. Hong Ju's eyes started to tear and she couldn't pull back her hand.
"Yes." She said, her voice strained.
"What did they say?" "Daughter?" "isn't that detective Park?" "didn't he lose his daughter to the head hunter?" came the whispers.
"Quick, aim the camera at them." The director came in, "they ratings are rising. Find some footage of when his children were kidnapped, so that everyone knows what this is about." The phones started to ring and other broadcasting stations were calling.
It took 15 minutes before it was swarmed with reporters from different stations.
This is where their plan got into motion.
Each of the three man snuck in, making sure they were dressed like reporters. They were all wearing wigs, much to Moo Chi's grumbling and different clothes than usual. If someone would look at them closely, they would be recognized, but it was already dark and everyone was in a hurry.
All three of them reached the right area and uploaded the fragments, knowing that it would play in every commercial block. Ba Reum had programmed it that it acted a bit like a virus, spreading in the system so it would take ages to root out.
All three man got out safely, with a minimum risk. Ba Reum ran into someone, but he pretended to be a lost intern and they let him go just like that.
They were going over to Yo Han's house, while Yo Han was going to wait outside of Hong Ju's broadcasting station, just for moral support.
It took another 2 hours before Yo Han and Hong Ju finally returned home.
"So, how did it go?"
"It was bad and weird and good." Hong Ju said, having difficulty with naming all the feelings that she was having at the moment. "and you guys? All successful."
"Yes, they should start any moment now. Let's just put on the TV and wait."
Chi Kook and Dong Koo had contacted Bong Yi who had come over. They had seen all the footage on the flash drives and they could barely believe the scenes that they were seeing. A secret organization, following the killer? Protected the culprits? Father Ko being kidnapped. It had taken most of the night
"What do we do now?" Bong Yi asked.
"I don't know, but Ba Reum seems to be in neck deep." Chi Kook answered, his stomach feeling queasy.
"This must be the thing he was working on when he disappeared. But where is he now? Was he found out?"
"I think it's best that someone stays here." Chi Kook said, "and that someone goes with Bong Yi to get her grandmother."
They looked at the clock. They had spent all of the night looking at these movies, and halmoni would be almost released from prison.
"Why don't you two go, and I'll stay here, just in case Ba Reum returns here." Dong Koo volunteered.
Bong Yi and Chi Kook went to the prison and went to get halmoni from there.
"Halmoni, I'm so glad you're free." Bong Yi said, happy to be able to hug her grandmother.
Halmoni smiled at her, but then she saw her face.
"What's wrong?" she asked, worried.
"We'll talk in the car." Chi Kook said, and they went to the car.
They explained to halmoni what had happened and how worried they were for Ba Reum. Halmoni frowned a bit and hesitated at first.
"I know this sounds weird, but I don't think his mother is really dead." She said. Chi kook and Bong Yi looked at her in shock.
"Halmoni, how do you know?" and in the safety of the car, she explained what Yo Han had asked of her and what had happened then.
"God, he's really in deep." Bong Yi said worried.
"Halmoni, do you mind if we go to Ba Reum's place? Just in case he returns there."
"It's okay, I'll join you." She said, knowing how worried her granddaughter, feeling worried about the young man herself;
They just entered Ba Reum's home when Dong Koo was talking with someone on the phone. He waved at them in greeting.
"On the TV?" he asked, going to the living room and turning on the TV, and right there was a clip of the politician Choi Young Shin, saying that she wanted no one to interfere with the current murders, even if they had to kill all the witnesses;
"Shit." He said, the others quickly coming to look.
"Ba Reum what have you been doing?"