![]() He also had a saying: “People are complex beings, that’s why they’re such simple animals.”After a round of sibling-like bickering, Da-jung uses the first opportunity she can to sneak the last stack of bills into the suitcase-which, consequently, Dal-goo had already taken notice of.She’s pretty obvious as she tries to sneak the bag out the front door with her, and Dal-goo’s expression instantly sharpens as he asks if there’s money inside.Da-jung can’t come up with a feasible excuse or lie, so she instead makes a run for it, dragging the suitcase behind her. Haha.Like a kid making petulant demands of his mother, the debt collector, JO DAL-GOO ( Jo Jae-yun), asks Da-jung to feed him. “Oh, is that right?” he asks, genuinely wondering. “I’ll take it to the police as soon as the sun comes up,” she says, before snuggling in for the night.A debt collector gives her a rude awakening the next morning, and Da-jung shoots out of bed to hurriedly stuff the cash back in the bag while shooting the debt collector a reminder that she has two days left to pay him. ![]() Because while people may lie, money doesn’t.Speaking of dollar bills, Da-jung looks positively terrified as she pours out the contents of the grandma’s bag in her cramped apartment to count out the total: Five hundred million won, or half a million dollars.The idea of the money is tempting when the only things written on Da-jung’s calendar are due dates for bills, but she doesn’t let herself entertain it for long, and resolves to return the money to its owner somehow.But that doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy it just a little bit, since it’s not every day one gets to sleep on a pile of money. That entire bag is filled with stacks and stacks of cold hard cash.Meanwhile, mysteriously dapper television host KANG DO-YOUNG ( Shin Sung-rok) introduces his show with a worldview not too dissimilar from the never-trust-anyone teacher by saying how the aim of his show is to unveil people’s true selves by pitting them against an enormous sum of money.To illustrate his point, Do-young unmasks himself for the camera and grandly gestures to the cubic ton of dollar bills just waiting for the right contestant. ![]() Long minutes tick by, and though the grandma doesn’t reappear, Da-jung still faithfully waits with her bags, even when the friend she was in such a hurry to meet calls to ask what’s taking so long.Da-jung tries to explain her situation, but her friend is much more flippant about Da-jung’s sense of social responsibility-if she’s so worried the grandma left something important, why doesn’t she check the bag?She does, and is not expecting what she finds: Money. We all know what it feels like to be in her shoes.As they near the destination(-ish), Da-jung agrees to watch the woman’s bags while she goes to the ladies room. As they converge on him, he stares dead ahead at the writing on the wall: Never trust anyone.One year later.Hapless and hurried, NAM DA-JUNG ( Kim So-eun) finds herself at war with her conscience when she so badly wants to ignore the kindly grandmother asking for directions, but finds herself doubling back anyway.She’s just as lost as the grandma is when it comes to the directions written down on a torn calendar page, though she helps to wheel the grandma’s large bag without complaint. He knows what’s coming.“I killed someone,” he says, before the police burst through the back doors to arrest him. The students-who had no idea this was his final lecture-whisper confusedly amongst themselves as the teacher turns his back to them and places his hands behind his head. ![]() Is that the school they’re rushing into?It only takes one minute and a little math for the teacher to tally enough lies to prove his point, which he repeats in English: “So, never trust anyone.”This, he says, is what he wanted to impart to his students in his final lecture to them. ![]() Judging by their numbers, they aren’t taking any chances. Each time he catches a student in a lie, the tally counter goes up, and up, and up.Meanwhile, the police are out in force to catch a man who’s slipped out of their grasp one too many times before. Things like whether they’ve cheated on exams, or stolen money-and instantly, the teacher is able to pinpoint who isn’t being forthcoming by studying telltale changes in their behavior when avoiding the truth.Click. ![]()
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