Liar Game

Daniel gets a taste of the ever-growing fan fervor for “Goddess” Sunhwa while waiting for the broadcast, and makes it in time to see Seunghyun introduce the nine contestants for the next round. Mi-hye gets booed while Sunhwa gets a standing ovation.
Joon isn’t with them since he gave his winnings to Dongho, but he and Reporter Kim are on the hunt for the contestants eliminated in the last round. He wants to know if there’s a connection they all share, considering his newfound connection with Sunhwa.
It turns out that Daniel attended the broadcast just so he could report the game parameters to Joon, which he does in the men’s bathroom. He doesn’t know exactly where the next round will take place other than that it’s a shopping mall, that the contestants were told they could bring anything they wanted, and that only one of them will be eliminated.
Seunghyun then tells the contestants that this game has to do with layoffs that can happen to any employee. So in this game, they’ll be evaluating each other on job performance and productivity, and whoever gets the lowest score will be laid off/eliminated.
When a few contestants murmur that it’ll be nothing more than a popularity contest, Seunghyun proves it won’t be so simple by laying out the rules: They’ll have ten rounds to evaluate their fellow contestants using a phone app. They’ll have three stars to give out to contestants other than themselves each round, and whoever has the least amount of stars by the end loses.
But, in true Liar Game fashion, they can also make deals using virtual money they’ve been given through the app—each of them gets three hundred million won (three hundred thousand dollars). If they survive the game, that virtual money will turn into real money.
Since they were told to bring anything they wanted, they can sell those items to other players if they choose, and can purchase anything they’d like in the mall using the virtual money. Any trades, purchases, or contracts made with the other players through the app will be uploaded to the staff, and if any of the terms are violated, all the player’s prize money from this round or any previous rounds will be confiscated.
Daniel reports all this to Joon dutifully, while the contestants (minus Mi-hye) share a meal. Dongho cutely calls Sunhwa “noona” as he urges her to eat up more, and that he defends his noona when she suggests that they all make an agreement to split the final round prize money amongst themselves and Joon if one of them were to win. That way, each of them would be guaranteed to get one billion won/one million dollars.
They agree, but they want to start next round. Sunhwa wanted them to start this round, though they don’t think they have to when they already plan to eliminate Mihye.
Reporter Kim leads Joon to the rundown home where the female contestant who was in the final four in the Minority Game, TAE-YEON, lives. Reporter Kim hasn’t been able to reach her for days, and when they see the trash piled outside her door… well, things aren’t looking good.
When she doesn’t come to the door, Joon picks the lock. The apartment looks ransacked, like she left in a hurry—but the fact that her dog was left behind proves that she didn’t leave on her own accord.
Joon asks the apartment security guard to take a look at the surveillance camera footage, only to be told that the cameras are just for show. But Joon is able to quickly pick up on the fact that the guard is lying, and guesses that he was paid off by whoever kidnapped Tae-yeon. Joon has to only intimidate him to get the license plate of the car used for the crime.
Joon sends Reporter Kim to tell his buddy at the station, Detective Cha, about the case so he can pull information on the license plate they have. After reading Daniel’s text update, he texts back to tell him where the game is taking place.
Though Reporter Kim thinks the outcome of the round will be as simple as the rest of the contestants seem to think—that Mi-hye will be eliminated easily—Joon disagrees. “Mihye might have the greatest advantage of them all.” What how why?
Mihye manages to cause a tiny rift in Sunhwa’s group by pointing out that they may all be friends now, but they’ll go back to being enemies in the next round. Suddenly Sunhwa’s suggestion that they remain a team and split the winnings in the end doesn’t seem like it matters so much to her teammates.
But they follow Mi-hye’s suggestion to get to know each other better by giving short introductions with subsequent explanations on how they got in a position where they desperately need money. Mi-hye interrupts their session to talk about herself, though somehow her “I wasn’t always a bitch” story doesn’t really clear her of that status now.
Sunhwa prepares to say her few words, but Mihye swiftly takes over: “What’s your relationship with Lee Joon? You two seem to have a special relationship.” Caught off guard, Sunhwa just says that he was helping her.
Mihye accepts that for the first round, but how about the second? Why did they work as a team? And how does she even have her creditor helping her? Slowly but surely, it becomes clear that Mihye is insinuating that Sunhwa is sleeping around for favors.
Dong-ho won’t stand to hear such accusations against his noona, while the others also stand up for her and call Mihye the easy one. Mi-hye doesn’t deny that she’s been around the block a few times, but claims that’s what makes her able to spot another of her ilk.
And to prove it, she tosses pictures of Sunhwa’s makeover session with Seunghyun for all to see. PD Dasom thinks it’s Director Kim’s doing, but she looks disbelievingly at Seunghyun when he’s so flippant about the reveal—the game would’ve been too obvious otherwise. He planned this from the beginning, didn’t he?
Now everyone thinks Sunhwa slept with Seunghyun to get more attention, which isn’t helped by Mihye throwing all sorts of wild accusations her way. Sunhwa is left with nothing and no one when her teammates turn away from her in disgust and disappointment. Even Dongho leaves her.
Meanwhile, Joon follows up on the address linked to the license plate and finds an empty, dilapidated space filled with shredded papers and the shredder itself. When he goes to investigate the machine, he finds the remnants of papers bearing the L Company logo…
…Before a man comes up from behind him and bludgeons him with a baseball bat. Joon drops to the ground, unconscious.
Mihye is the only one who stays behind to talk to Sunhwa, and much to the naive girl’s surprise, Mi-hye admits she lied about Sunhwa being a loose woman—she knows Sunhwa can’t manipulate anyone to save her life, much less men.
And while she doesn’t say where she got the pictures from, Mi-hye explains that she showed them to everyone because she had to survive. “But how could you lie like that?” Sunhwa then sighs, because she knows the answer: “This is Liar Game.”
“They changed their minds so fast,” Mihye says of the others. “That’s why you can’t trust people.” Contrary to Sunhwa’s belief, she’s not there to rub it in, but because she’s figured out a way for both of them to survive the game.
If the two of them team up and give each other all three stars every round, they’ll end up with thirty stars and undoubtedly make it to the next round. Even if someone else figured out what they were doing toward the end, they wouldn’t be able to catch up anyway.
Sunhwa says thank you, which seems to make Mi-hye slightly uncomfortable as she brushes it off—she’s not being kind, she’s just trying to survive.
Naturally, PD Dasom and Seunghyun watch their conversation. PD Dasom questions whether Seunghyun knew about the pictures beforehand, since the cameras were already poised to capture them at the correct angle… Man, I love how sharp she is.
Seunghyun laughs that he can’t ever fool her, and admits he gave the photos to Mihye. PD Dasom can’t figure out why he’d do such a thing to Sunhwa, but Seunghyun simply replies, “It’s fun.” Besides, he wasn’t going to let Director Kim have all the fun by using Mi-hye as a card—now he gets to use her too.
A sudden phone call sends Seunghyun outside, and PD Dasom keeps a close eye on him via the security cameras. She can’t hear the conversation, but seeing Seunghyun’s cheshire grin after hanging up definitely unnerves her.

Notes

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