The ticket flies up and up to a tree branch, getting stuck before a wind blows it down near the grates. It miraculously doesn’t slip through, and flies onto the street – and then flies again due to the passing cars. It flies up and lands on the back of a pickup truck, which is heading for Jang Bong Island. It rests comfortably in a pocket of a bag that’s in that pickup truck, and rides across the ferry, through the small town, where it once again flies… and lands on the outside table of Granny Choon Jak’s house.Everyone else rushes to the bank to try and claim the ticket portion that only says “#334.” They look at the clerk expectantly, but he only stares back skeptically. He makes a call to the prosecutor, saying that the ticket is being redeemed, and that’s when Bong Yi spots Soon Geum. Bong Yi can’t help them either as they don’t even have the portion of the ticket with the winning numbers. There’s no way they can verify it’s the winning ticket. That’s when the prosecutor enters.
He questions all of them: Who owns the ticket? The maids declare that they do. Soon Geum says that the CCTV at the convenience store even caught her purchasing the ticket. So why did they take so long in redeeming it? Once again, Soon Geum answers honestly: they were fighting amongst themselves and had only reached a compromise. OK…so why is Kang Tae Won here?That – Tae Won struggles for an answer. In front of everyone, he grimaces, “Because…Soon Geum is my daughter in law, and that boy is my son.” Everyone is slack jawed that it would take a moment like this to make him admit that Soon Geum is part of his family.Yoon Joo is being blamed for being partially at fault for losing the ticket, Hyun Joo is likewise being beaten up by the Three Maids, who are so angry that she just let go of the ticket so easily. That evening, Hyun Joo and Yoon Joo end up drinking themselves to a stupor in a pojangmacha.Hwang Yong manages to get out of jail early due to his daughter’s help. He’ll continue to be investigated but won’t be in custody. Soo Jung even drops by with some white tofu for him to eat. Though she is nervous about being in the presence of a former gangster, she can’t help but confess that she knows what happened to his black book. Hyun Joo had taken it to protect his secret from the prosecutor, and then burned it so that no one would know what he did. And she expects nothing in return. “She doesn’t want anything from you, and she’s going to leave! That frustrating girl…Even then, does Hyun Joo still not qualify? Does she still have no right to like you?”Soon Geum and Gun Woo head over to Jang Bong Island for Choon Jak’s funeral. He visits her old home, where everything now belongs to him, and finds that Choon Jak had wanted to feed him some clams before she left. They cook them all to eat in her memory, using the charcoal metal box to cook it. And yes, Gun Woo lights a charcoal piece. And yes, he lets it burn the lottery ticket. They head home, only to find out that Tae Won has already replaced Soon Geum with a new maid. Yoon Joo wants a divorce; the lottery money she lost will be her alimony, and she’ll say that he provided for her well. And with that, she packs her bags and leaves 1st Street on foot.At the same time, Hyun Joo leaves Hwang Yong’s house, her bags also packed. Gun Woo heads over to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance to see if there’s any way possible to redeem the lottery ticket. An official takes a look at the half of the ticket that he does have and finds that there is a way to claim it. There’s a string of coded numbers in the top half of the ticket that contains all the information about the ticket: when it was bought, what the numbers were, etc. However, since this is the first time it’s ever happened to the lottery bureau, they’ll have to set up a committee and fully investigate it.Gun Woo drives over to Soon Geum’s new apartment, which she bought for her friend Shi Ah. He presents food for her – ramen! She invites him inside but he wants to be alone with her only, so he takes her out to a park. First thing he notices? Her shorts are too short. Soon Geum smiles – did he know that she used to be a big flirt in school? She asks for updates about the household as she eats, and that’s when Gun Woo drops a bomb: “Let’s stop seeing each other.”Hyun Joo is now working at a small restaurant. Her last remaining customer is Hwang Yong. He thanks her for the dumplings she made while covering up the book. The next day, the Three Maids and Young Hee sit on his lawn to drink some beer. They notice Tae Won, and Soo Jung is more brazen now, ignoring him instead of greeting him at all. They make fun of him, noting that he must enjoy being alone because everyone left his household. Ha – and Tae Won can’t do anythign about it.
But it’s news to Young Hee – he didn’t know that Gun Woo was leaving for the States! He barges into Gun Woo’s room, where he’s packing, and punches the guy in the face. Gun Woo only smiles. Young Hee is pissed off – “You’re not even worth my punches.”Young Hee heads over to Soon Geum’s, angry that she’s letting Gun Woo go like this. She should have quit being a maid a lot earlier if it was going to end up like this. Soon Geum insists they’re not over yet, as they still love each other. Young Hee thinks she doesn’t know, and so he drags her to the airport.Soon Geum catches Gun Woo just before he enters the security gate. Is he leaving only temporarily? Gun Woo says he’ll come back when he can forget about her, and doesn’t think about her anymore. Soon Geum: “So… you’ll be gone forever?!” Gun Woo: “Maybe.”
He gets his ticket and passport checked, and slowly heads for the gates.
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