100 Days of Deception Episode 6 Recap

Who's in the cast:
Kim You-jung as Lee Ga-kyung
Park Jin-young as Kim Tae-ung (Sato Hideo)
Kim Hyun-joo as Yoo So-ran
Lee Mu-saeng as Yoo Philip
Jin Sun-kyu as Sato Shinichi
Kam Woo-sung as Keum Seok-jung

What the name Seo-hee means

Out in the rain, Yoo Philip catches up with Lee Ga-kyung. She has just quit the Gugukdan, the independence group that placed her inside the Government-General, the Japanese colonial administration in Gyeongseong (Seoul). He asks whether she knows what her cover name, Keum Seo-hee, means to Yoo So-ran. The prisoner she interpreted for that day is So-ran's husband. Because he would not give up his comrades, Sato Shinichi killed their daughter, Seo-hee, while So-ran watched. Philip asks Ga-kyung to understand what a mother who lost her child overnight wants.

Before that, Philip and So-ran argue over her. Philip says traitors are dealt with and wants no loose ends. So-ran answers that Ga-kyung did her job and that they never trusted her. Even in her fear, So-ran says, Ga-kyung has not thought of betraying them. She is the spy they sent to kill Shinichi, and So-ran asks for one last try at winning her back.

At the Sato residence, Sato Hideo comes home worn out. He is the adopted son of Inspector General Sato Shinichi. Shinichi's young daughter, Sato Hanako, wants to show him the capital letters she has learned. When he puts her off until tomorrow, she calls him a liar who never keeps his promises and says she hates him.

Shinichi praises Hideo for showing nothing when the police chief, Fukuda, slapped him. A true Japanese, he says, hides his feelings even then. He corrects how Hideo sits and orders him to keep every thought off his face, because that is what makes him Japanese and Shinichi's son. Seo-hee, he expects, will lean on Hideo and pass all she learns to Mr. Yoo, so Hideo must win her trust without ever trusting her. Joseon (Korean) women betray, Shinichi says, just as Hideo's mother promised to share Shinichi's life and then left him.

Ga-kyung remembers being taunted as a child that her mother left her for a Japanese man. She once told herself, she recalls, that her mother simply loved someone else more, yet still loved her too. Watching So-ran, she finds she envies Seo-hee a little.

The next morning, Ga-kyung asks how long killing the Inspector General will take if they move fast. So-ran says a month. Ga-kyung agrees to one month. After that, So-ran must send her to America no matter what, and So-ran promises.

Seo-hee's father

At Jongno Police Station, a guard sneers that the prisoners cling to life like cockroaches. In his cell, Keum Seok-jung recalls an ally's report. The Gugukdan planned to kill Shinichi on the night of the dinner at the American reporter's house. They also have a female sniper said to rival the independence fighter Nam Ja-hyeon.

At the Yoo house, Philip wants to save Seo-hee's father before the police torture him to death. He plans to tell Shinichi he is interested in the Kyeam-ri incident, the 1919 massacre of Seok-jung's village, and to ask to speak with a prisoner. The man behind the massacre went by Ishikawa then, Philip explains. He rose through his in-laws and even took his wife's family name, Sato. With the world watching Japan over Manchukuo, its new state in Manchuria, a foreign story could cost him his post.

So-ran refuses. Killing Shinichi would let her die without regret, she says, and that is when Philip's own fight begins. He has sworn to expose the crimes of Japan and Shinichi under his own name, so he must stay on good terms with the Government-General. If Shinichi learns that Seok-jung survived Kyeam-ri, he could also work out who she is. She tells Philip to leave her husband to fate, even if he dies in prison. When Philip protests that the prisoner is her husband, she answers, "You are my husband."

Over files on Sato Hideo and Keum Seo-hee, Ga-kyung receives a new task: win Hideo's heart. Shinichi keeps everyone at a distance, and Hideo is among the few he lets near. Warned never to let personal feelings in, she says that will never happen.

Cookies, workers and a pawn ticket

In the Foreign Affairs office at the Government-General, Ga-kyung reads notes on Ms. Yamada, the Inspector General's secretary, who is said to have a crush on Hideo. Ms. Yamada soon arrives asking for him. Hideo has not come in, so she leaves cookies for him, and Ga-kyung eats one.

Behind a no-entry sign, Hideo interprets for a foreign engineer. As Hideo puts it, the Joseon workers are falling ill after 14-hour days for three straight months, and pushing them harder will backfire. An hour off every other day is first proposed. Shinichi then asks whether Hideo interpreted correctly and says he trusts him. Instead, he orders an extra hour of work each day. When Hideo objects, Shinichi makes it an order.

Back in the office, Hideo finds Ga-kyung cleaning and tells her she will not be sent to an interrogation again. She says she would not mind, since she is angry at the prisoner who nearly killed her too. She assures him she told Mr. Yoo nothing and offers to help him find the Jongno Pawnshop. Hideo refuses, says he has played her game long enough, and demands the pawn ticket she stole. Then an officer arrives. The police chief wants her back at Jongno for the same prisoner, and he wants Hideo too.

A second interrogation

At the station, Hideo reminds Fukuda that his division was to stop lending interpreters. Fukuda says the prisoner keeps asking for Seo-hee and insinuates they hit it off. Word comes that the Inspector General has ordered Hideo to sit in. Ga-kyung remarks in the Joseon language that Hideo speaks Japanese, English and Joseon, then apologizes for slipping. Asked his name, Seok-jung answers with a curse. In another room, officers bring Na Byeong-sun, Seok-jung's accomplice, a visitor: his weeping wife.

Elsewhere, Kim Myung-nam finds the bandaged Lee Young-bok out of bed and tells him to rest, assuring him her father knows nothing. At the Government-General, a wealthy donor visits Shinichi and brings up his daughter. He has given money to the pneumatic tube project, a message-tube system being installed in the building.

Back at Jongno, Ga-kyung asks to speak to the prisoner in their own language. Hideo understands every word, she reminds Fukuda. She tells Seok-jung she was the live-in maid on the night he came in as a deliveryman. Had he tried to kill her madam, if that was ever his aim, she would have stopped him. Her madam is Chinese and speaks little Joseon, she says, but treats her well and gave her the name Keum Seo-hee. When Fukuda grows impatient, she calls it small talk.

Seok-jung finally speaks, asking about the comrades shot as they fled Dongsung-dong. Ga-kyung tells Fukuda he wants news of the wounded men. Then she tells Seok-jung that she always worries about her madam first. When her madam saw her off that morning, she says, she hoped the madam would stay safe and live a long life.

An officer reports that the accomplice gave up the prisoner's name after the police broke his wife's leg. Seok-jung calls them monsters in Japanese, revealing that he speaks it. He is Keum Seok-jung, from Kyeam-ri in Suwon, a childhood friend of Na Byeong-sun. Fukuda ends the session and sends Ga-kyung and Hideo home in his car. As they leave, Seok-jung asks whether her madam is really that good to her. He tells her to buy castella, a sponge cake, on the way home.

At the Government-General, an urgent call from the police chief pulls Shinichi away from the donor.

Lee Gae-ttong

Afterward, Ga-kyung claims she did not hear Seok-jung's last words. Hideo tells her the man faces trial. He has also killed and wounded police officers, badly hurt Hideo's predecessor Suzuki Hiroyuki and tried to kill her too, so he could face death. Then Hideo asks for her real name. She says it is Lee Gae-ttong and begs him to keep it from the Government-General.

Hideo accuses her of repaying a kind madam by carrying on with Mr. Yoo and confessing to another man behind her lover's back. Ga-kyung insists he is the first person she has ever said it to. She offers to stop seeing Mr. Yoo if he asks, even if it costs her job. Hideo tells her to lead the way to Mr. Yoo and end it now. When she does not move, he says liking someone is a game to her, and that people who make promises they never mean to keep disgust him.

Shinichi faces the man from Kyeam-ri

At the station, Shinichi meets Seok-jung alone, 13 years after Kyeam-ri. Seok-jung calls him by his old name, Ishikawa Nobuyuki, and names him a mass murderer who killed and burned his whole village. Shinichi says he was doing his duty, putting down a riot, and that a court cleared him. Seok-jung answers that they only cried out peacefully for their nation, and for that they were shot and burned alive. Shinichi replies that the villagers would still be alive if Seok-jung had not led them into the protest.

Gunshots ring out. Shinichi remarks that the couple died side by side and asks the name of Seok-jung's friend from Kyeam-ri. Seok-jung shouts that Ishikawa will pay. Shinichi says he will not kill him; Seok-jung's cause of death "will be an illness." Then he calls for Fukuda.

Hideo tells Ga-kyung that whatever she suspects is wrong and that the trial will take months. She runs anyway, and he calls after her. She sees Seok-jung's body. Fukuda then tells her the suspect has just died of sepsis from his gunshot wound. Ga-kyung answers briefly and excuses herself. When Hideo tells her to get into the car, she says she will go on her own. He points out that her hands are shaking.

In his office, Shinichi hears Fukuda's report: Na Byeong-sun and his wife are recorded as suicides, Seok-jung as dead of acute sepsis. Fukuda worries that Seo-hee saw the body and that word could reach Philip. A foreign reporter's story about Kyeam-ri once put them in court. Shinichi says Seok-jung died of illness and that Philip has nothing to do with it. Noting that Keum is a rare family name, he orders Seok-jung's records from 13 years ago from the Suwon Police Station. Then he says the names Keum Seok-jung and Keum Seo-hee aloud.

Back home, Ga-kyung wonders how she can break the news. Hideo asks whether she is all right. She starts to say she is fine, then admits, "No. I'm not." In the rain, Hideo pulls her into his arms.

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