W-Two Worlds Apart

episode 13

I hope you were really in the mood to have your heart served to you on a platter today, because that's pretty much the only thing on the menu. You can order it bloody, filleted, or burnt to a crisp. Because who needs a heart anyway? It just gets in the way of things, like plotting the total destruction of all your enemies with mind-bullets. For starters.

EPISODE 13

So it looks like the manhwa world is no longer frozen, even when Kang Chul is outside of it. As Assemblyman Han mulls over his new problem-namely New-Face Killer getting caught by the police-we go back a few days to Kang Chul reading the latest episode of the webtoon out in the real world. Chul saw that the two villains had made contact, and realized he could make something of this. Now we're talkin'.

The lead prosecutor dealing with Corpse Kang Chul called Assemblyman Han with the news that even in death, Kang Chul was coming after Assemblyman Han: He left a dying letter behind, in which he told the authorities to look into the assemblyman's phone records.

In the letter to Do-yoon, Chul listed all the things that didn't make sense, like a murder without context, a mass shooting without motive, a fabricated audio recording. He wrote that he was dying in vain without context, and asked Do-yoon to look into a recent call between New-Face and Assemblyman Han.

Chul wrote for Do-yoon to find the connection between those two men and shed a light on the truth, because he was falsely accused. Assemblyman Han was rattled as he read a copy of the letter, which the prosecutor told him would have to be admitted into evidence despite its ridiculous claims. In the present, Assemblyman Han erases the incriminating audio recording he made of his call with New-Face.

Yeon-joo wondered if Assemblyman Han would kill New-Face over something like that, and Chul said that was how the character was written by her father-a simple-minded, typical villain-and he'd react accordingly, unless a new variable came into play. Well, now you've gone and jinxed it.

In the present, New-Face fumes impotently in the police interrogation room, and demands to speak to Assemblyman Han. He threatens to spill everything if anyone tries to kill him in here, and tells them to start looking for Kang Chul, because he's not dead.

The message reaches the top brass in Assemblyman Han's political party instantly, though he quickly denies any association with the killer. But Assemblyman Han knows he's trapped now, because New-Face wasn't just some random crazy guy. He wonders if he should get rid of New-Face, and calls an old acquaintance on the phone. An assassin, perhaps?

The image morphs into a drawing on Yeon-joo's computer screen as she reads the latest episode of the webtoon, and she smiles to see that Assemblyman Han is doing exactly as they'd hoped.

Yeon-joo calls Su-bong, who says with a broad smile that the story is all going according to plan. She wants him to check on Dad, and even though he just checked on him ten minutes ago, Su-bong complies and pokes his head in (with a hand over his eyes, ha). Still no face, and Su-bong winces to have to see it again.

Yeon-joo wonders where Chul is, but he calls her first because he's near the hospital to pick her up after work. She beams and primps in the mirror before running out to meet him.

As Yeon-joo walks down the street, she narrates that hope has made her imagine again, and we see her fantasy version of a happy ending play out: Dad miraculously regains his face, and the true ending of W begins, with Assemblyman Han hiring gangsters to kill New-Face in prison.

Then Do-yoon makes all of Assemblyman Han's misdeeds public and he's prosecuted for his crimes. The people regret not having faith in Kang Chul, and though he remains dead in the manhwa world, his honor is restored and people grieve him, and his is no longer at risk of disappearing because he's a hero.