01x11 - Episode 11

[bunniefuu]

L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

♫ Voice to me. ♫

♫ Find tree. ♫

♫ Please let me sleep on it, ♫

♫ so I can breathe in. ♫

L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual names, places, organizations, religious references, and incidents is entirely coincidental.

This episode was filmed with adequate accommodations to ensure the safety and the emotional well-being of the infant and minor actors used.

Episode 11

Timing and subtitles brought to you by The Children of LUCA @ Viki

It's okay, my baby.

You trust Mommy, right?

Everything will be alright.

Let's go.

He shines brightly even in the darkness.

He sees you wherever you hide.

The sins of your deeds and even the sins of your thoughts,

he'll punish you for them all. Thus he has spoken.

Stop the nonsesical lies!

The baby angel or whatnot, I gave you all that I had.

You've been going on about the same thing for the last ten years!

A fraud like you must die now!

Oh, my goodness!

♫ Look at me. ♫

♫ Voice to me. ♫

♫ Find tree. ♫

♫ Please let me sleep on it, ♫

♫ so I can breathe in. ♫

He has come!

It's okay.

♫ Keep looking for trees. ♫

♫ Look at me. ♫

♫ Voice to me. ♫

♫ Find tree. ♫

♫ Please let me sleep on it, ♫

♫ so I can breathe in. ♫

They're going nuts.

We'll be okay.

Get back in without causing problems for us.

Are you here to catch me or save me?

You've got blood on you.

Let's go.

We can get out of here right now.

This is the first time I'm holding the baby.

That's not how you hold her.

Give her to me. I'll hold her.

Ji Oh, give me the baby.

Let's go back in.

I risked my life to get out of there.

This is the safest place.

No one dares to harm us here.

This place is a prison.

The outside is even a bigger prison.

Get in.

Ji Oh.

Ji Oh!

In the darkness, you shall cry alone in sorrow.

In the light, I shall lament and cry with you.

I have heard your prayers and seen your tears.

Thus says he, "If you lower yourselves before me, I will raise you."

To only those who fall prostrate and cry, he will show his grace and glory.

Those who do not know what honor is are like perishing beasts.

Even when you come to realize the Divine Presence,

if you don't well up with tears, you are no different from beasts!

Our tears are like the dewdrops at nightfall,

his tears are weightier than the waterfall pouring into the ocean.

Who can know it fully?

Do you remember the place we lived in?

I thought we had it all, but you didn't.

We have nothing.

No future, no hope.

And what's worse, we have no money.

Look around, we have nothing.

You're still the same.

I see a future and hope for us here, but you don't.

What hope?

I won't. Nor do I want to.

Then don't. You don't need to.

I'll walk the path of evil. You walk the good one.

I'll do anything for us.

What on earth are you going to do?

A baby sheep grows in an artificial womb.

Are you crazy? That's ridiculous.

If there are hundreds of thousands of kids like our daughter, no one will dare to harm her.

Will more of what's abnormal make it normal?

Ji Oh, please come to your senses.

There are things we can and things we can't do as people.

What is abnormal?

Is anyone different from you abnormal? I've never thought you're abnormal.

I'm going to destroy the arrogance of people.

I'll show them it's okay to live just as you are with what you have.

What you want to change isn't the world, but the people in it.

That's human remodeling. How are you different from the others?

That's the only way for our family to survive.

In the matter of survival, there's no good or evil.

Ji Oh.

Will you really let yourself become a monster?

Just...as much as I need to.

I heard you had quite a night last night.

You've succeeded, Spiritual Leader.

It was some mountain climber's dream

to scale all fourteen peaks of the Himalayas in his 20's.

After numerous failed attempts,

he finally realized his dream as he neared his fifties.

Perhaps because it took him so long

joy wasn't the only emotion he felt.

I'm sure he wasn't sad about it either.

Now that Ji Oh became something like a god,

you've made your dream come true.

Once the clones are made, we'll handle them, going forward.

What do you mean? Why should you handle something that we make?

Ji Oh alone, maybe.

But for this magnitude, we feel uneasy about letting a private business handle it.

It will be difficult to deal with the consequence if the clones fall into the wrong hands and are used as human weapons.

Still, we'll continue to support your business with what you need.

You clearly misunderstand something on a colossal level.

It's us who have been assisting your business.

We shouldered all responsibility for ill*gal experiments on living humans which the intelligence agencies couldn't do.

Hence my superior is grateful for your hard work.

Your superior, who? Director Kim or Oh or Song? Who?

I have many superiors above me. My organization has many levels.

Director Jeong, stop acting up.

Do you know how many of your superiors' heads will roll from just one word from me?

In politics, economy, society in general, and culture,

plus in religion and even sports, we foster many organizations.

When any of these organizations becomes big enough, we're helped by them.

When the organizations grow interconnected, they become one gigantic lump in which they sustain one another.

In good times, they're collectively called the Establishment.

In tough times, they're called unorthodox and dangerous. One thing important is this.

The star is that lump, and we're its supporting cast.

Whenever the supporting cast overacts, the film is ruined. You know that, right?

I know quite well what you're saying. So go and tell your superiors this.

That I'll handle everything, so they shouldn't overact.

At my one command, I have hundreds of people willing to throw themselves with grenades in their hands.

I'll pass it along. After all, I'm just someone doing the hands-on work.

What's going on with Director Kim?

Lee Son is gone under the radar, and I thought I put some sense into Director Kim.

But he hasn't turned in his letter of resignation, and has gone into hiding.

I suppose when you get older, you grow less inclined to listen. Right?

Do you want to transfer? Okay.

Well, why is it so complicated? Damn it.

What was the passcode for transfer? Okay.

Done.

- Did you see the money deposited to you?
- Yes, Sir.

Here on out, we're stuck together with the unbreakable tie of money.

Do this with your lives on the line. Listen to me well, and I'll give you the life you want.

- Who's the target?
- Damn it, I forgot about that.

You just need to k*ll all four of them.

If anyone gets in the way, do what you must, to get rid of them.

When you finish, put his corpse alone into a body bag and bring it frozen to Juan Airport.

The moment you hand me the body bag, the rest of the money will be deposited to you.

- Questions?
- Are g*ns allowed?

This is the Republic of Korea. Don't you know it's ill*gal to use g*ns?

When you get there, you'll see a baby. Taking it as a hostage is the easiest.

You're dismissed for now, and assemble again when I tell you the time and the place.

Yes, Sir.

Who are they?

They're just like you. The guys I used once and got rid of.

Still, do they come to you when you call?

Even ghosts can be ordered around with money. Why not, men?

Are the shots okay for you?

Yes.

- Any side effects?
- None.

This is the last. Take it.

Dr. Ryu said this injection will make your cells go to w*r against each other.

The weak ones will be k*lled and only the strong will survive.

And the surviving cells will work feverishly to differentiate in order to fortify their power.

- Do you know what that means?
- I do.

Do you, really?

In a few days, that arm of yours will explode.

Doesn't matter. I only need to k*ll Ji Oh.

Fine.

There was a time when I put my life on the line, trusting my guts alone.

It was all useless. Wait for my call.

The people who hold this place together are those fanatics.

The fact that they knelt before you

means you just became the king over this church.

Is becoming a king of a cult religion something to celebrate?

Do you think this place exists just as a church? Not at all.

This is just one of the cartels that comprise the giant Establishment.

It's too big and deep to crumble when any of them is cut off.

It's an organization that won't vanish when any part of it revolutionizes itself.

That organization is finally starting to use you.

I won't let myself used by anyone.

You're being used already.

How would they feel since they witnessed the Divine Messenger with their own eyes?

Selling and giving away all they have would be nothing for them.

What's really frightening is, with your words alone,

you can get people to jump into fire carrying grenades.

- I won't say such words—
- Of course, you won't.

What about the Spiritual Leader?

It seems to me the woman can do anything by invoking your name.

I guess anyone can be her target.

This is how they control the world. By confusion.

They pit people against each other by their regions, sexes, and even generations.

As they fight tooth and nail, they don't even know who their real enemy is.

You coming on the scene on top of eveything will usher in utter chaos.

That'll be the fall of our views on religion, value, and the world.

And that's no different from w*r.

Is there anything more profitable than w*r?

Hence, they're dragging you into this.

Is that why you made me? For their sake?

They're nothing more than ordinary people.

You'll destroy all of them,

and bring in a new order.

I don't need anything as grand as order or chaos.

For me, the world where my daughter goes to school and has friends to be with is enough.

Anyone with the thought of using me will be the first to die.

Don't forget the reason why I've kept you alive in spite of all that you've done to me.

Just tell me what your plan is for the coming days.

I am your father.

Leave us alone.

The experiment was done at a pediatric hospital in Philadelphia a few years ago. This is an artificial womb.

They raised a premature baby in it.
A 23-week old human baby survives in a similar fashion.

The baby was born healthy just as it would've from a real womb.

Not only in America but in Japan, Europe,

and in Korea, too, the experiment has been done.

I eagerly awaited the perfection of this technology.

No need for surrogates. If there are a hundred of these, a hundred will be born, and if a thousand, a thousand.

This thing can reproduce in one year thousands the same as you.

This is, indeed, the greatest blessing from science.

Is what is made in this way ...

really human?
Connect the umbilical cord to the tube. Supply oxygen and nutrients.

What's wrong with this? What's a human anyway?

There isn't much to being human.

Nor is it some great being.

You said there's a bare minimum number that can survive the ecosystem.

Take my cells. Whether that number is a thousand or tens of a thousand,

make as many as you need.

Did you say one hundred ova?

There may be defective ones. So it'll be good to have ten extra ones.

My followers line themselves up to conceive Divine Children.

Getting a hundred surrogates can be done in no time. Aren't they better than an artificial womb?

The artificial womb is stronger and more reliable even when it's overworked.

Babies' conditions can be observed through naked eyes as well.

My followers will get disappointed.

I find it hard to rely on people. I'll only take the egg cells.

All I need is run a few, simple tests and draw your blood.

What about my bone marrow?

When I collected stems in the past, I did by drawing from bone marrow, or cultured it using an organism.

Nowadays blood from any superficial body part will do.

Have you ever heard of immortal jellyfish?

No.

They're the Red Sea Jellyfish.

They're given the name because of their eternal longevity. Speaking in human terms,

it's like an old man, nearing his death, sheds his old cells,

and returns to being a fetus all over again.

That's precisely what we are about to do.

When electricity is amped to its maximum, cells that are about to die will die.

Only new and strong cells will live.

This way, we get the best of fertilized eggs.

Begin.

It won't be as painful as before.

I have no more pain to feel.

The voltage will be increased incrementally till it reaches Level 6.

Let's get started.

Sweetheart.

They say the world was a dot in the beginning.

From that same dot, the universe and mankind came to being.

In other words, we were that tiny dot in the beginning.

♫ The light shining through the night ♫

That dot became a whale and an eagle.

It became a human, too.

Isn't it all so mysterious?

Then a man came along

and solved the mystery of that dot.

Then the man came to have the power to make anything he wanted.

He made people and animals.

He made what wasn't human and animals, too.

That's how your father was born.

But if your heart is human, you are truly human.

Right? You've got to remember what Mom says.

That you are never a monster.

Injae Sunsa, the giant of Chinese Buddhism wrote in Injae Rok , a book about gaining understanding,

there is a passage that says, 'Bongbul salbul bongjo sajo.'

When you meet Buddah, k*ll the Buddah, and when you meet a teacher, k*ll the teacher.

k*ll anything that stands in the path of your understanding.

He concluded at the end that you are to k*ll yourself, too.

Not only our religion but others, too, teach denying of all faiths apart from the true one.

Relay to all our regional faith leaders that this should be the essence of their prayers.

Tell them, starting today, to select only the true believers and put them in the book of names.

Supreme Spiritual Leader, did the Divine Messenger really come to the earth?

Correct. He greeted all my followers in person.

Why do you all look so surprised?

What, did you not truly believe in the coming of the Messenger?

Oh, no, no.

Now that he bore witness to the divine words, no one can call us a cult anymore.

How shoud we select those to go on the book of names?

As the proof of their true faith, tell them to dedicate what they treasure the most.

Be it money or time or youth.

Only those who give their all will go into the book of names.

I'm going to draw some blood and see your cell immunity.

I'll repeat today's tests for a week or so.

I'm going to take the best of your cells.

Ji Oh.

♫ What should I do ♫

♫ Please wait, I wish you’re here ♫

It's Dad. It's your dad, my baby.

Daddy is here.

♫ Let's go back home, for a weary heart ♫

Give her to me.

Sweetheart, it's Mom. Mommy is here. It's okay.

I was just surprised, that's all. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Sorry.

It's alright. Mommy is okay, so don't cry. Can you please leave?

What if it happens again when you're alone?

I was just startled. That won't happen again. So please leave.

-Wipe your blood first.
-I said, get out!

♫ Home ♫

Don't scream, or you'll startle the baby.

♫ To warm ♫

♫ lonely heart; To ♫

Don't cry. Mommy is here. I'm okay.

♫ our own shelter ♫

♫ I'm sorry, I will be with you ♫

♫ I swear. ♫

Ji Oh.

There's something wrong with the baby. She doesn't seem to recognize her mom.

What do you mean?

Looks like she has memory loss.

That's bullshit.

Just like you. She has memory loss.

Shut up!

♫ What should I do? ♫

It's okay.

Sweetheart, sorry. Mommy's sorry.

Mommy isn't hurt. It's alright.

♫ What should I do? ♫

♫ Please swear. ♫

Speaking.

Come down. Let's go.

Is it time for the operation?

Today is the day of prayer. The easiest day to break in.

These are the cells that produce electricity.

This is yours, and this is your daughter's.

You two were different at first.

This is the first day she came in. And this is from her first test.

And this is from the day she first released electricity.

And this...

Specific analysis of Control-B’s Chromosome 6 by gene mapping

is from the last night.

I initially thought because of the degeneration of her cells, they won't function.

But hers gradually began to resemble yours.

Now they match you perfectly.

Specific Analysis of Control-B's Chromosome & by Gene Mapping

Control-B's gene map day by day

Once electricity circulates, it kills off weak cells.

That goes the same for brain cells, causing memory loss.

I woke up each day in an unfamiliar place.

I couldn't remember why and how I ended up there.

The person in the mirror was a stranger to me, and I wasn't sure that was me.

I thought it'd be better to die.

I really wanted to die, but I've kept myself alive till now because I wanted to know who I was.

Then one day, you began not losing your memories even when you used your electricity, correct?

The day when I fell off from the rooftop.

Since then, my memories won't go away.

Probably, you gave out the amount of electricity your body couldn't handle that day.

It's likely that all your weak cells burnt, leaving only the strongest to survive.

No matter what electricity you use, only the cells that withstand remain, you can now keep your memories.

There is only one way to treat her.

Electric shock.

Are you going to run electricity in a baby?

We've got to try until she overcomes her limitations.

No. You can't do that to my child.

She's your daughter.

She won't die.

You were never let outside of the lab until you became six years old.

Since you wanted so much to go out, I promised that I'd take you out on a picnic.

How happy you were when I told you that we'd see mountains and oceans.

It was the first time I saw you hopping with joy.

I opened the door to your room on the day of our picnic.

Do you know what you said?

"Who are you, Mister? Where am I?"

Your daughter will grow up like that too.

She'll keep forgetting the faces of her mom and dad.

If that happens when she goes out alone,

she'll never find her way back home. Just like you.

It's your choice.

I've never prayed, so I don't know how.

I also know nothing will change. But still...

I am praying.

Did you pray?

No, I cursed.

Since I was little, they say I lost my memories whenever I used my electricity.

That's because my brain cells burnt.

But now my weak cells are all burnt,

leaving only the strong. So even with electricity coursing through me, I don't lose my memories.

So?

Our child, too, will grow up like that.

Don't say that.

Does she know who you are?

Does she meet your eyes when she hears you?

Her memories are gone.

It's hard enough for me already. Without you adding anything, I'm terrified.

We can fix her.

Using electricity, we can burn all the weak cells in her.

What, are you serious?

If that's the only way, I'd rather not fix her.

They're the very people who made you this way. They have no regard for people. How can I trust them with our baby?

They've done things to you.

So I have to stop them from doing the same things to my daughter.

No more talk of that nonsense. Never.

Each time she uses her electricity, she won't remember a thing.

No one knows whether it'll be a few times a year, or once in a few years.

She won't recognize us eventually.

Do you know what it's like to live losing your memories?

You're left nothing to reminisce in life.

Honestly, I hated you.

You've denied all along, but k*lling my parents,

and losing all other memories, you still remembered me out of all people.

Because of all that, I hated you a lot. But not anymore.

It's my life, however scary it is.

Ji Oh,

You stop right here.

Even if I die, I won't give them my baby.

If you're still taking her, you'll have to k*ll me first.

If not, set us free.

I'm going to have to take the baby to a hospital first.

I was always sorry.

And I am still.

He said hell isn't the shadow of death, but the footsteps he took.

Hell isn't anything far away but right on the path you walk.

But the ones with true faith will escape from hell and live forever in this life.

All becomes useless when you die. It's the end. You must live and get on the book of names.

To go on the book of names, you must prove your faith is true.

I believe, Spiritual Leader!

You just need to bring that which is the most precious to you.

If you bring me what's more important than your own life,

- I'll be happy to open the door to heaven for you.
- Amen!

You did the right thing.

The blood test is first. Then the recovery rate of her cells

and her immunity will be tested. Then next—

I know.

Start.

You, there. What are you, people?

Stop them!

My baby.

Aren't you hot dressed like that in this weather?

Hey, what are you, Mister?

What the hell—

I'm beginning the electricity test. She'll endure it well.

Look at her arm. All the injection marks already disappeared.

Her ability to recover is better than yours.

Begin.

Who knew I'd have a day when I'd look up to you like this?

Just accept it. You probably thought it something grand,

but all death is empty.

Aren't you curious about Yu Na?

Don't you know why Yu Na came to me? It was all because of you.

Yu Na only wanted one thing. Your freedom.

On the condition that I'd set you free, she promised she'd give me the fertilized eggs.

But that day, Ji Oh came. It was him who k*lled Yu Na.

- No need for us to be like this.
- I know.

Don't let Yu Na's death go in vain.

I'll do everything for you. I can give you much more than freedom.

Does someone like you dare to k*ll me? You lowlife.

How come you folks are all the same?

Don't do this. Don't be like this.

Save me. Don't do this. Don't!

k*ll him! k*ll them all! All of them!

What was that?

Is the private plane ready? [In Japanese]

I already turned over the visual data.

Even if his cells die,

they'll stay fresh for 24 hours.

Let's just stick with the industry rules.

The moment we turn over the corpse,

you'll deposite the rest of the money.

Director Jeong. Director Jeong, please here.

Send people. Right away!

At once!

We're ready.

Release 1K.

Wait. Wait a moment.

This has to be done at least once anyway.

Later. When she grows a little bigger.

You endure your own pain. The child will endure hers.

Flip the switch.

Get her out.

If you go back to your room, we'll later—

You're not qualified to be a dad.

Nor are you a human.

Don't open it!

Don't open it!

k*ll them all.

Let's get out of here.

Gu Reum.

Get out.

Gu Reum.

I'm telling you I came to rescue you.

I won't get fooled anymore. Get up and turn around.

Come on, Rookie.

Hey!

Get up! Put your hands above your head and turn around.

Hey, there's no time for this. We need to leave here quickly.

Hey, don't sh**t!

So many bad guys are here. You better save your b*ll*ts.

-Are you happy?
-Turn around.

Hey, sh**t everyone that comes our way. No, wait.

-Everyone except me, got it?
-Shut up and walk.

Gu Reum, sh**t. Hurry up and sh**t!

Team Captain.

How's the child? Looks like she's sleeping away the whole morning.

You brat. I told you I came to save you.

Oh boy, what do I do now?

Team Captain, why would you-

This isn't it.

Give me the g*n and go. I'll do whatever I can to stop them.

No. Come with me.

You must come with me. Get up.

Hurry and get up.

You really don't listen, do you?

Quick, get up already.

Gu Reum!

Hold on a bit longer.

Over there, my car.

Hold on.

The child. Give her to me.

Go slowly. You shouldn't speed with a child in the car.

Hang in there a bit longer. We're almost at the hospital, Team Captain.

Stop making too much fuss.

If this were back in the day,

we'd just put on an bandage and go to work the next day.

Why did you do all that, when you can't stay bad all the way?

That's what I'm saying.

I should've just k*lled her back then.

What are you talking about? k*ll whom?

I told you once I chased after this criminal for over ten years.

Anyone can tell

that woman is the criminal, but no one can touch her.

The police wouldn't investigate her, nor would the prosecution indict her.

I got so mad.

But I became more and more scared.

Once I knelt before her, though,

the world became an easier place to live. And I was promoted to become a Team Captain.

And I got generous personal funds on the side, too.

I should've k*lled her then. If I had, I wouldn't be living like this.

Hey, Rookie. Rookie!

Open the arm rest.

Later.

Open it now. Now, you brat.

You see a business card, right? It should say Kim Cheol Su.

He's that b*stard.

Kim Cheol Su

He's what?

He is the b*stard who k*lled your mom and dad.

Not Ji Oh, but that b*stard.

What are you talking about?

Framing you for m*rder was also his doing.

Team Captain, is that all true?

Team Captain.

Team Captain!

Team Captain!

Team Captain!!

Team Captain, please open your eyes.

Team Captain, open your eyes!

Team Captain, we're almost at the hospital. Quick, open your eyes.

Team Captain, we're at the hospital. Open your eyes!

Team Captain. Team Captain.

Team Captain, wake up!

Come on, wake up.

Come on, open your eyes, Team Captain!

Team Captain!

♫ The light shining through the night ♫

How could you leave like this?

♫ In this life. ♫

♫ Sunk into the sadness that descends endlessly ♫

♫ that descends endlessly, both my eyes closed ♫

♫ So that I don't disappear. ♫

♫ Hold my hand so I am not afraid. ♫

♫ Let me hold you in my arms. ♫

♫I hope we can stay together. ♫

♫ We don't have to run away ♫

♫ as we do now. ♫

♫ It's time. ♫

♫ Time to save our souls. ♫

Was it me you were running away from?

Why?

Why!

I just found out you didn't k*ll my parents.

I'm sorry for suspecting, no, for believing you did.

I'm relieved that you didn't. Thanks to that, I have now the strength to go on.

No problem then. Why did you run away?

I'm scared of you. You put our baby on that experiment table.

Do you think I felt at ease doing that?

Gu Reum. Is your pain today more important than the pain our baby will endure later?

Do you know the last element that makes a human a true human?

It's love.

You had that in the past, but you don't now.

What's the point of loving if you can't protect it?

When the whole world rejects and points its fingers at us, should I just let them?

Is that love?

Should the three of us run away and live in hiding? Is that what you want?

Isn't that what you wanted?

You said the world was like scenery, and that you could take it in from afar.

We weren't a mom and a dad back then.

We're no longer just the two of us now.

I want to go back to the time when I didn't know anything.

Now is that time.

We can live like that.

Okay.

You're not a monster, Ji Oh.

But we made you to be one.

- As long as we're gone—
- No, no.

As long as we're gone, you won't live like a monster.

Don't go.

I'm sorry. And thank you.

I loved you very much.

Don't leave. Don't do this to me.

Please don't do this to me.

Don't go! Don't be like this!

Don't be like this. No!

No, I love you, Gu Reum!

No, I love you. Don't go!

No!

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L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

I'm asking you. If that is your plan.

Consider I am entrusting you with my own life.

Please trust me just this once.

I can find someone for you.

Run away good. If you get caught, your daughter will die a miserable death as an experiment subject.

I have no reason to be like the rest. I'm not a perfect human being, to begin with.

That's why I liked you.

Because you weren't perfect.

Now I know for sure. Being human is not a righteous existence..