[Baku] And you are?
I've never seen you before.
You've got a lot of guts. [chuckles]
[Si-eun sighs]
[Baku] Hey, move it. Go. Move it, move it.
Move it, you punks.
Hey, Gotak, you still alive?
[bully 1] Hyo-man, are you okay?
- Yes. Go. - [bully 1] Go where?
- Just go, you assholes. - [Baku] What are you doing?
- I fainted. Go. - You need to be practicing with the team.
Not here.
What? Practice?
Hey. We can't even compete in the tournament because of you.
What are you talking about, dickhead?
We can't compete in the tournament,
because you were suspended, you stupid idiot.
- Fuck. - Man, really? Are you sure?
Oh. Oh! I shouldn't have dyed my hair.
- This color takes a while to fade. Hey! - You fucking asshole!
- [groans] - [cracking]
- Hey, you happy to see me? - [whimpering]
Huh? What about you?
- My arm. My arm. My arm. - Yeah?
[screams]
Fuck, please!
[all groaning]
- [Baku] Man. - [groaning]
I don't care what you guys do to be full of yourselves or whatever,
but when you're wearing Eunjang's uniform, no fighting allowed.
Repeat after me. Let's hear it. No fighting allowed!
[all mumble] No fighting allowed.
That's it. Now get outta here. Yeah! Go. Go. Go.
- Uh… - [Baku] Go.
Yes. Let's go.
Go, go, go. [chuckles]
[Jun-tae] Si-eun-a, this is yours.
Are you okay?
[Si-eun] Thanks.
[sighs] Hey, Si-eun.
Sorry.
I think I had the wrong impression.
[Baku] Hey.
I don't know what's goin' on, but saying, "I think," doesn't show sincerity.
I'm sorry! My dear Gotak comes with lots of faults.
- [Gotak] Man, stop it! Please? Just go. - But he… he isn't a bad kid at heart!
Aah!
[Jun-tae] Si-eun-a, where are you going?
Oh, I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
- Si-eun-a, you can't just leave like that! - Oh-ho!
That kind of politeness is rarely found in Eunjang.
- [laughs] - Such a dumbass.
Who were you trying to impersonate this time?
No idea. My dad?
Anyway, the timing was insane.
What if
Park Hu-min hadn't shown up?
[sighs]
[poignant ambient music playing]
[Gotak] You ruined someone else's life, so stop acting all high and mighty.
What a fucking hypocrite.
[Gotak yelps]
[Jun-tae] You must've been
offended by all the stuff Hyun-tak said back there.
Don't worry about the rumor.
It's just, they all pretty much like
to talk about other people behind their backs.
It's not a rumor.
Huh?
That's why I never wanted to fight with the other kids.
Ever again.
["Hero" by Meego playing]
WEAK HERO: CLASS 2
11TH GRADE, CLASS 7 09 - PARK HU-MIN
[rock music playing]
- [boy 1] Hey. Hey! - [boy 2] Baku!
- Oh, hey there! Hey, there! - [boy 3] Baku!
Oh yeah! It's nice to be back! Hey, good to see you.
Hey, you put that cigarette out! You little shit.
- [boy 4] Hey, Baku. - Hey there.
Ah-ha-ha!
- How are you, man? - How've you been?
Yeah, I'll see you at the cafeteria later.
Hey! You've lost so much weight!
- Whoa, you been good? - [Baku] Doing all right?
[students shouting]
[boy 5] Can you stand?
[sighs]
Everybody, freeze!
[silence falls]
[tense music playing]
Baku.
- You need to stop harassing other kids. - It's Ba… Baku.
- It's Baku. - It's not the World Cup stadium.
It's better to kick the ball outside.
Oh, outside? Heh.
- That's a great idea. Right, guys? - [all agreeing]
- We should've thought of that. Right? - [sighs]
- Everybody, try to get along! - [rock music resumes]
Huh? Hey, man. That's right. Hey, back to your classes.
Get your butts back to class. Don't be late. See ya later!
- Aah! - [boy 6] Whoa!
- [boy 7] Oh my God! - Nice to see you!
- Oh, Baku, Baku! Hell, yeah! - [Baku laughing]
[inhales sharply]
You son of a bitch. Listen, Baku-ya.
Those asshats at Ganghak High don't play basketball.
It's practically mixed martial arts.
Why do we have to play a practice game when they don't even know basketball?
There are all different kinds of teams out there, Gotak.
A true master doesn't care who he plays against.
If there are different kinds of teams out there,
that means we can play a different team.
You don't want anybody getting hurt out there.
- Do you? - You're a chicken.
[sighs]
Dumbass.
You scored 99 on the IQ test in middle school. Are you a monkey?
[laughter]
- [boy 1] Dolphins are smarter. - I will kill you.
I just couldn't finish the test in time, you dickhead.
[laughing] He couldn't finish it.
Not enough time? It wasn't enough time for you?
- Running out of time makes you an idiot. - Hey! Okay, then, Professor Gotak.
You think you're all grown-up?
I've always been taller than you. How's that for grown-up?
- You're a dead man! - Come on!
- [choking] Hey, okay! - [boy 2] You'll kill him.
I give in!
[music stops]
[Baku] What?
Is this a raid?
[Gotak coughs]
The teacher wants to see us.
Well, that did actually happen in the underpass,
but it's been blown a little out of proportion…
[teacher] Everyone who hangs out with Choi Hyo-man is absent from school.
Doesn't that seem weird to all of you?
And more than a couple of kids saw you all fighting.
False acquisition.
Hey, dumbass. It's "accusation," not "acquisition."
Hey, dumbass. I said "accusation."
- [Gotak] 99 IQ idiot. - [Baku] Shh.
- Is your brain completely empty? - Shut up, dumbass.
- [teacher] Hey. Be quiet. - Idiot.
Take these. Here.
YOUTH CULTURAL VOLUNTEERS WANTED
[teacher] Make it up volunteering over the weekend. You'll still get demerits.
Wait, what about Hyo-man and all those guys, then?
It's unfair to single us out. Especially since they were the ones who started it.
Hey! Does it sound like I'm here to debate this with you?
You brats.
[Si-eun] But it's true.
Hyo-man and those guys started the fight with us.
- We just-- - [teacher] Yeon Si-eun.
Did they rub off on you already?
- All you brats always talking back. - I'm sorry, sir!
We'll volunteer diligently from now on.
I'll make sure the basketball club doesn't get involved in things like this anymore.
Once again, sir, as the captain of the basketball club, I sincerely apologize!
[chuckling]
- [groaning] - [Gotak] Come on, volunteering?
- [Baku] Aah! - Aren't you pissed off at all?
You gonna let Hyo-man and those guys off the hook?
Man, I get dizzy when I breathe the air in the teachers' office. I almost puked.
And you did get into a fight. What did I tell you about not fighting?
I wasn't looking for it. They started it with us, Baku-ya.
Hey, friend.
He wants to say something.
- I do? - You have something to say, man.
He sided with you back in the teachers' office too, kid.
Well…
I'm sorry
'bout yesterday.
For saying that stuff and getting mad at you.
So am I.
What?
I'm sorry for yesterday.
What?
Sounds like you two made up, but not really…
[Si-eun] Hey.
I'm not in the club.
And also, don't touch my head anymore.
[playfully] What are you gonna do? Huh?
What are you gonna do about it? Huh?
What you gonna do? What you gonna do about it?
- [squeals happily] - What are you doing?
Hey, buddy. Things in life happen sometimes, hmm?
Your turn. Like this. You can do it to me too.
Yeah. Like this.
- [laughing] - [Gotak] Hey, hey, hey, Baku.
Why are you so hyper today? Enough's enough, all right?
All right, try getting suspended.
It's freaking boring.
I almost burst into tears because I missed the pizza bread here.
[Gotak] So why'd you get yourself suspended, then?
[Baku] Hey, my friends! Come with us! Today, your grub is on Gotak! [laughs]
- Hey, mark him, mark him. - Aah!
- Okay. - [all shouting]
[Jun-tae] He seems kinda odd, right?
[chuckles] But things have been peaceful here.
It's because Baku protects all of us.
[Baku] Let's go for one more.
[Jun-tae] The thing is,
there's a group called the Union.
It's a collective that all school gangs in the area are a part of.
[harmonica music playing]
[Jun-tae] Rumor has it that
Na Baek-jin of Yeoil High,
Geum Seong-je of Ganghak High,
Do Seong-mok of Yeonsung High,
Baek Dong-ha,
and many others get together
to conduct business like a real gang.
Hyo-man had been collecting phones so he could get into the Union.
But Hu-min said he wasn't into things like that,
so Eunjang was the only school that wasn't in the Union.
- EUNJANG HIGH, NO FIGHTING - BAKU
[Jun-tae] After that, kids in the Union would take money
and pick fights with anyone they saw in an Eunjang uniform.
It was total chaos.
Park Hu-min got pissed off and beat up everyone in the Union.
Apparently, no one in the Union stood a chance against him.
Baku did that to protect us.
As Eunjang's top dog.
[cheering]
- Yeah! - Nice!
- [Si-eun] The bottom line is he fought. - One, two, three! Yeah!
- Nice. - Let's go, let's go.
- Hey, Si-eun, Jun-tae!
Play with us! Come on!
[Gotak] Hey, dumbass. Stop harassing them.
I don't want to nag, but then you shouldn't have done anything violent.
You concerned the school and made them call me.
It's not saying I don't trust you, Si-eun-a.
I'm just getting worried.
Something…
something like that can't happen again.
You… you haven't been hanging out with sketchy kids again, have you?
[poignant, ambient music playing]
- [boy 1] Good work. - [boy 2] Thank you!
- [boy 3] I told you to meet the quota. - Thank you.
Thank you.
- [boy 3] How am I to face Baek-jin? - Thank you.
Thank you.
If you haven't found anything, you need to steal to meet the quota!
- Got that? - [all] We're sorry!
[tense music playing]
[yelping]
Hey, you fucking asshole.
[moaning]
- Hey, move it. Move it. - [grunts]
[panting]
[sighs] These shitheads from Eunjang High.
We should round them up and just kill them all.
[panting]
Well, Baek-jin wants to see your face.
- Let's go. - [gasps]
GEUM SEONG-JE
[Seong-je] Hey, what was that shit's name again?
Choi Hyo-man, right?
[tense music continues]
[Seong-je] Anyway, that dumbass.
He hasn't brought enough money, and he lost all the phones he collected.
[laughing]
I heard he got owned by Baku.
I shouldn't have trusted him to begin with. [sighs]
We won't secure Eunjang as long as Baku's around.
Baek-jin-a.
I'll do whatever it takes to handle this on my end.
- If you give me a little more time-- - I said keep your mouth closed, dickhead.
You're out of the Union.
What would you do with more time? Huh?
[panting]
[Seong-mok] Baek-jin-a, what should we do?
[sighs]
[Hyo-man] Baek-jin-a, please.
Please stop. Baek-jin-a, one second.
- [Dong-ha] Get out of here. Hurry up. - [Hyo-man] Please? Baek-jin-a!
- Baek-jin-a! - [Dong-ha] Just go!
[sighs]
Seong-je-ya,
let's go check in on Park Hu-min.
[chuckles] Baku?
Sounds great.
I've been itching for some action lately.
Okay.
SEOUL MUSEUM OF HISTORY
[traditional music playing]
- [man] Okay, Ji-u. Face the front. Look! - [woman] Smile, Ji-u-ya.
- Show your teeth. Big smile. - [man] One, two, three. Peace sign?
- Now. - [woman] That's my girl.
[Ji-u] Dad, this king is making a weird face. I don't like it.
[Baku] Please, will you goddesses give me just one more chance?
I heard there's a precious treasure that was hidden somewhere here.
I looked all over.
And I found it! [laughs]
[girl 1 laughs] Who's that?
- [girl 2] Who was that guy? - [girl 1] No idea.
[Baku] Why do you keep fluttering into my heart?
- Butterflies of love. - [girl 1] Ah!
- [Gotak] Eat slow. - [Baku] What?
[Gotak] Slow down, bro. You barely worked, and you're shoveling your food.
[Baku] Hey! Hey, focus, focus.
Guys.
I got the numbers of girls from Buil Girls' High.
Should I ask them out to dinner or what?
[Gotak] Lost cause. A hundred percent, they'd turn you down.
[Baku] Then how about this? Hmm?
If I manage to set up dinner plans with them,
then you're paying, deal?
- Deal. - It's a deal.
- If you're turned down, dinner's on you. - Okay, fine.
- Deal. - What do you wanna eat?
- Think of something delicious. - I'll eat something really expensive.
- [Gotak] Okay, sure. - You're dead.
The number you have dialed is not in service.
Please check the number and dial again.
Hah! Aren't cell phone numbers usually eight digits
without the zero-one-zero in the front?
One, two, three…
[laughing] Oh my God!
- It's nine digits! - [Baku] Give it back, asshole.
- [Gotak] "Give it back!" Why are you mad? - [Baku] Oh, that's why!
She made a small mistake here.
- It's not two sevens, it's actually one. - [Gotak] Mm-hmm.
- [Baku] Now she'll pick up. - [Gotak] Try it.
- [Baku] You're dead. You're so dead! - [Gotak] Go ahead.
- [Baku] I wondered! - [Gotak] Call again. Do it!
[Baku] Ah, shit! [laughs]
Wait, give me your phone. Hey, dummy.
- You have to put it on speaker. - [ringing tone]
[man] Hello, you've reached Seonheung Finance.
- Hwang Min-sik speaking. - [Baku] Sorry, I dialed the wrong number.
[Gotak laughing]
- What? - [Baku] I swear, I'll take your mouth…
- I'm gonna-- - Hey, hey. I'm sorry. I'm truly…
[gasps]
[Jun-tae] Oh, it's hard to get Buldak sauce out.
Hey, Jun-tae-ya.
Get rid of the chopsticks in front of Si-eun.
I hear he stabs people with chopsticks and stuff.
[whispers] Si-eun, put those away. It was a mistake.
I didn't do anything wrong.
[Si-eun] I'm going to the restroom.
[video game sounds]
[scoffs]
Are you Baku's friend?
[tense music playing]
[sighs]
Hey, you know,
people say you'll ruin your life hanging with the wrong crowd.
[laughs]
Oh, here it is.
Now, look over here.
One, two, three.
You have sad eyes. Yeah?
[laughs]
Do you know me?
[sighs]
Man, look at this guy.
Lower your eyes.
Whew.
Not bad. [laughs]
[music fades]
What? You plan to crack my skull? [chuckles]
I just came by to say hi, so let's end it here.
Until we meet again.
[laughs]
I'll pummel you the next time we meet.
[breathing shakily]
- [Gotak] No way. - [Baku] You made my stomach hurt.
- [Gotak] They weren't into you. It was me. - [Baku] The toilet calls. Go!
- [Gotak] It was honestly… Whoa, what? - [Baku] Oh shit, man.
- [Gotak] How many dumps do you take a day? - I'm dying. Oh!
What?
Hey, Baku.
What are you? A fucking woodcutter?
Why are you here?
[Seong-je] What do you think?
I came to see how you're doing.
And then I bumped into an unfamiliar face.
- So I said hi. - What?
[tense music playing]
I'll kick your ass.
[snorts]
Okay, keep snickering, man.
It'll be your funeral.
You still not planning to joining the Union?
Every fucking school is in it except for Eunjang.
[scoffs] Fuck this.
- Aren't you sick of this? - [Seong-je] I am.
I am sick of this.
But I guess Baek-jin isn't.
[sighs]
I get it, though.
Try to get along with Baek-jin. Put an end to your lovers' quarrel.
Shit.
Hey, are you okay?
Did you meet a weird guy?
I'm sorry Si-eun. It's because of me.
What is?
Huh?
What's because of you?
[chuckles] Nothing. Never mind.
[woman 1] We'll now present the Outstanding Student Award.
The above student excelled
on the National High School Association Academic Evaluation
for the second semester of the 2023 academic year…
[girl] What? Why is he getting an award?
- What was his score? - Forget his score.
He only got the trick question wrong, number 30 in mathematics.
- [woman] …enhancing the honor… - [girl] Whoa, that's insane.
[woman] We present this award to Na Baek-jin
in year 2, class 2 of Yeoil High School.
[sighs]
DONGMYEONG BANK DEPOSITED: 12,435,000 WON
DEPOSITED: 7,435,000 WON
[Dong-ha] Baek-jin-a, we took care of all the phones we collected.
Remember how Eunjang was the only school left out?
Well, I guess that loser assembled everyone somehow.
He called and said he wanted to meet you in person.
[tense music playing]
[Dong-ha] It's a pain, but you should meet with him.
I'll send you the address.
- [bully 1] Wait, what? Where'd he go? - [bully 2] What?
[bully 1] Look for him.
- [bully 2] It's too fucking dark to see. - [bully 1] Damn it. It's locked.
[bully 3] Is he not there? Where is that son of a bitch?
[bully 1] Hey. Are you sure he came in this way?
- [bully 2] What the fuck is going on? - Come out!
- Not there? - [bully 3] No.
- Where did he go? - [bully 2] I can't believe this.
- Ugh. - [bully 3] What's going on?
[bully 1] I know he came in this way.
[Hyo-man] Hey, hey.
[shuffling]
[Baek-jin] What?
[Hyo-man] "What?" [laughs]
Hey.
Is it your favorite thing to just, like, fucking use people and throw 'em away?
I did fucking everything you told me to, you goddamn asshole.
Hey, Baek-jin-a.
I did a little digging.
I heard all you ever fucking do is study.
I bet you can't fight for shit. You hide behind Geum Seong-je, huh?
You just punch numbers into a calculator and shit.
Ignoring me?
Ugh!
I had to keep asking myself
how the hell some petty-ass, trick-playing guy is head of the Union.
[Baek-jin] One pair of brass knuckles. Two steel pipes.
Save the loudmouth for last.
[Hyo-man] What are you waiting for? Get him!
- [alarm blaring] - [groans]
[coughing]
Oh shit.
[yells]
- [crunch] - [bully 1 screams]
[Hyo-man] Fuck you!
[yells]
[thud]
Hey, you son of a bitch!
[choking]
[yelps]
[Baek-jin] Come more prepared next time.
[bullies groaning]
[phone buzzes]
SEONG-JE: NEW FACES APPEARED ONE'S A WUSS AND ONE'S NOT BAD
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
[sighs]
[ominous music playing]
[groans] Why am I so low on energy today? Oh, I'm hungry.
Let's eat something amazing! Hey, let's eat! It's on me!
- Yeah? - Yes!
- All right! - Bullshit. He's not gonna treat us.
- He just said that he would. - He's lying.
- Don't believe-- - I know a great place.
What's important is good food. You know Michelin stars?
- Michelin, my ass. Don't let him fool you. - I'm not bullshitting. It'll be great.
- I have to leave. - [Baku] Huh?
Why? You said you'd have dinner with us.
- When did I say that? - Well… uh…
Ah, I guess you didn't.
You should still come with us, Si-eun-a. We had a tough day.
- I have someone who's waiting. - Ah…
You're gonna regret this big time.
I'll let you go since you said you'd treat us next time.
- [Jun-tae] Have a good night! - [Baku] Be safe!
Anyway, he's not gonna pay.
Hey, what's going on?
I said it's my treat!
BAKU CHICKEN
[harmonica music playing]
- It's coming out of your allowance. - Abeoji, please, come on.
My friends are here.
Then fry the chicken yourself, spoiled brat.
[sighs] That freeloader…
[pouring]
[sighs]
It's okay. Come on. Eat up. Eat up. Eat up.
Eat up. Eat up. Hey, Jun-tae, take a drumstick.
- Here. Eat up. - All right, let's eat.
Oh, right. What about Jun-tae?
- Hmm? - You said something happened at school.
Oh, you know how that guy Hyo-man, used to steal kids' phones and money?
Well, Jun-tae got everything back and returned everyone's belongings
by delivering them all to the kids in the entire school.
[Jun-tae yelps]
[Gotak] Yeah. Isn't that freaking awesome?
Jun-tae, my man.
You've got some guts, don't you?
Whoa, Jun-tae! That's so cool.
[laughs]
Not at all, I just took the advice Si-eun gave to me.
Wh… what advice was it?
The advice…
Do you know about Newton's third law?
…was about Newton's third law.
"For every positive action,
there's a corresponding reaction that follows."
Wow. The U-turn law, man? What?
I have no idea what that is, but it sounds freaking amazing.
I'm gonna use that later. [chuckles]
Hey, I heard Si-eun was forced to transfer to our school
after getting in some major trouble.
He seems all right to me. Not that I know him.
Si-eun was the one who saved me when I was getting beaten up by Hyo-man.
He's really nice.
Ah. I hope Si-eun
got home safely.
PATIENT'S NAME: AHN SU-HO VISITOR: YEON SI-EUN
RELATIONSHIP TO PATIENT: FRIEND
[phone buzzing]
Hello?
[Baku] Si-eun? Hey, it's me, Hu-min.
Yeah, what?
What do you mean, "Yeah, what"? I called to see if you got home all right.
[smacks lips] So? No one tailed you?
You made it home all safe and sound?
Yeah, I'm home now.
Really? [laughs]
And, um…
You know how I got turned down by those girls today?
I gave it some thought,
and I realized that you might have
the kind of looks that girls are into these days.
So while we're on the topic,
we should go pick up some girls together!
Why would I do that?
Okay, shithead.
[line beeps]
Huh.
[emotional music playing]
[Si-eun] I had to volunteer today.
It wasn't so bad
once I got there.
The weather was nice too.
Above all,
it took my mind off things for the first time in a while.
I wondered, "How did that happen?"
I think it was thanks to the guys I was with.
- [monitors bleeping] - [ventilator hissing]
[tense music playing]
[chuckles]
So this jerk is Ahn Su-ho.
Your friend.
The kid whose life you ruined, right?
Why are you here?
What are you gonna do,
now that you're standing up?
Hmm?
[sighs]
Come with me for a second.
You shouldn't interrupt your friend's sleep.
Huh.
You look like the kind of kid I love to beat up. [scoffs]
Just my type. [laughs]
Get moving, you fuckin' asshole.
[laughing]
[music intensifying]
[breathing shakily]
[heavy rock music playing]
[mysterious music playing]
[electronic music playing]