Jung-ah is the most agreeable of the bunch, and says she’ll go along with whichever plan is best-so in the end, Woo-jin and Jung-ah will be the ones to vote “yes,” which means the other two members will do the opposite. They naturally assume Woo-jin’s choice will be the best one. They bicker amongst themselves about which answer would be best, but when Woo-jin says he’ll be voting “yes,” everyone starts to rethink their earlier decisions.
When addressing all the teammates gathered, Woo-jin tells them they can decide how they want to vote. The spying teammates report nothing of note, and Da-jung says the same about watching from the security room-no one acted suspiciously. “But remember, whatever you’re guessing isn’t everything.” “Think what you want,” Sung-joon says flippantly. Innnteresting.Įven though Woo-jin claims that he doesn’t think Sung-joon is X, Sung-joon neither confirms or denies it. The meeting doesn’t go so well, considering that Sung-joon won’t remove his sunglasses on purpose-he knows Woo-jin’s talent lies in his ability to read people’s eyes. While they go after their targets, Woo-jin plans to meet Sung-joon to decide for himself whether he’s Betrayer X or not. He doesn’t allow Da-jung to follow Jung-ah though, and instead assigns her to keep watch in the security room-since they can’t use their phones, whoever Betrayer X is will have to approach another teammate in person. So Woo-jin devises a method to try and smoke Betrayer X out of their group by assigning the four teammates who didn’t advance to keep an eye on the four who did. “But in order to trust, you have to doubt first.” “I understand that you want to trust in people,” Woo-jin tells her. Eek.ĭa-jung would rather believe it isn’t true, since Woo-jin can’t be absolutely certain the contestants have been split into three separate teams (including theirs). And since he’s survived to the next round, Betrayer X has to be one of their four remaining teammates. But Woo-jin knows that if Betrayer X really did what he’s notorious for, then manipulating a contract would be child’s play to him.īut that still leaves one remaining question: If Betrayer X made himself a part of three teams, then that means he’d have to be in theirs.
While they just created a team of eight, he’s figured out that X formed three teams of eight among the remaining contestants, with him as a member in each one.Īnd through a complicated series of mathematics which I won’t really go into here (I’m a writer, not a wizard), Woo-jin shows her how Betrayer X’s three-team formula is foolproof-no matter what, X will be the sole winner of all two billion won/two million dollars.ĭa-jung gets it without really getting it, since she doesn’t see how X would get out of splitting with the remaining twenty-one contestants if he signed contracts with each team. Woo-jin takes Da-jung aside, without the rest of the team, to explain what’s happening now that Betrayer X has thrown his hat into the ring. There’s something strange about the way Do-young answers: “That may be so, but when Ha Woo-jin joined the game, didn’t we all realize it? That he was born for this show.” She’s confused that he’d take it so personally, considering that Da-jung was the one who brought Woo-jin into the game in the first place. PD Lee wonders if Woo-jin will be able to tell which of the contestants is Betrayer X, and is surprised when Do-young replies that he’d be disappointed in Woo-jin if he proves unable to handle this latest twist. Of course Jang demurs, and Do-young does the same when he’s asked how those pictures of Betrayer X were leaked. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.Īfter Do-young tells the contestants that they have one hour to choose their answer to Sung-joon’s “I am the notorious Betrayer X” question, he leaves the broadcast to find Director Jang looking pretty darn pleased with himself.ĭo-young knows Betrayer X is Director Jang’s plant, and insinuates that Jang might’ve leaked the rules of the game to him beforehand. Even in a setting where you wouldn’t think trust and cooperation could be possible, our jaded hero and our maybe-too-naive heroine manage to find a way, resulting in-you guessed it-yet another engrossing hour of Liar Game.Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. For a show that’s as much about the fallibility of man as it is about the vampiric bloodsuckers who capitalize on our suffering, there’s a surprising amount of human connection to be found.
To trust or not to trust, that is the question.
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