The Lee family finally gets the lawyer they’ve always wanted, but it’s not Hyo-joon — it’s Mi-rim! Following her motel encounter with Hyo-joon, Mi-rim is pregnant, moving into her soon-to-be in-laws house, and taking a month off work to coach Hyo-joon for his bar exams. Sigh. What has this writer done to Mi-rim? Hyo-shim’s mom is distraught, but there’s nothing she can do other than call the rest of the family over for their runaway dad’s memorial service — which is her usual excuse to throw a tantrum. As an incoming member of the family, criminal lawyer Mi-rim offers to use her vast network of police officers to find the runaway dad, and the ball is in Hyo-shim’s mom’s court to take up the generous offer or not.
Tae-min is happy to see Halmeoni, but as always, he is adamant that his parents are innocent — at least of murdering Tae-ho’s parents. Tae-ho is released on bail, and he announces his intention to sue Chairman Kang and Sook-hyang for embezzlement and other charges, and he also calls for the reinvestigation of his parents’ death. Tae-min strips his mom of all her positions at work and tells her that he knows Halmeoni is alive. Sook-hyang is on her own from now on, and with the prosecution summons and TV Live’s media pressure, she takes out her frustration on Mr. Yeom — who goes on to tell Tae-min that everything began with Halmeoni.
Halmeoni visits the shoeshine shop to confront Chairman Kang, but he maintains that he didn’t kill Tae-ho’s parents — even when Halmeoni says she has evidence (footage from the dashcam of Tae-ho’s parents’ car). Halmeoni covered up the investigation back then to protect Chairman Kang, but she can no longer sit back and watch her grandsons go to war over the case. So she tells her son to turn himself in or she’ll go to the police herself. Chairman Kang collapses, and Tae-min pleads with Halmeoni to help his father. Halmeoni then reveals that Tae-min and Tae-ho are biological brothers, and the show’s makjang-o-meter hits a new high.