“Numbers” brings a convoluted pair of episodes this week rife with altering loyalties, new faces, and devious schemes. Jang Ho Woo (Kim Myung Soo) and Han Seung Jo (Choi Jin Hyuk) are in over their heads and combating too many enemies without delay. But the worst betrayals are from these they used to name pal, and Ho Woo and Seung Jo now not know who suits that label.

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 beneath.

1. Telling Joyce Jang the reality about Je Gyun

Accounting is a fancy science, and whereas the present does an excellent job of highlighting simply how straightforward it’s to make use of numbers to carry out nearly each unlawful act one can consider, it will probably get a little bit twisty on the subject of the scheming. This is one in all them. Joyce Jang (Kim Yoo Ri), previously referred to as Jang Ji Soo, Seung Jo’s ex-fiancée, is out for blood. Seung Jo’s blood. Having by no means requested him the reality, and with Seung Jo having felt too responsible to present it to her, she’s resented him all these years and has was a monster in her efforts to take him down. Beginning with Soma Tech.

Like her father, Jang In Ho’s (Nam Myung Ryul) development firm, Soma Tech makes use of concrete 3D printing tech to create modular houses. Despite displaying a lot promise, the corporate hasn’t been managed properly and has borrowed an excessive amount of from Jisan Bank, who now has the leverage to power the corporate right into a buyout so {that a} bigger firm buys up all their property and cuts the present CEO and different workers out. Seung Jo and Ho Woo don’t wish to see this occur as a result of it’s precisely what occurred to Joyce’s father’s firm, Haebit Construction. However, Joyce doesn’t appear to care and is totally on the aspect of Seung Jo’s power-hungry father, Han Je Gyun (Choi Min Soo), to intestine and promote the corporate. And this is similar girl who as soon as begged him for assist.

She ridicules Ho Woo’s makes an attempt to avoid wasting the company, stating that its potential development will solely require additional capital injections. No creditor is required to attend ceaselessly for an organization’s potential to understand itself. She’s equally curt with Seung Jo who’s gutted at her callousness. Je Gyun, then again, is impressed and tells Seung Jo that Joyce would have made a nice daughter-in-law, even when Ji Soo was nugatory. Ho Woo is aware of he has to nip this budding partnership between Je Gyun and Joyce proper within the bud, so he goes to her with the reality. Seung Jo wasn’t answerable for what occurred to her father – Je Gyun was. And only for a second, he has the higher hand.

2. Foiling Joyce and Je Gyun’s scheme of forcing a buyout

Only, Joyce doesn’t care. There’s nothing in her of the girl Ho Woo and Seung Jo used to know. This girl’s arduous and chilly, and she’s going to fortunately wreck lives if it will get her the place she must be. She additionally appears to be in a relationship with somebody at her current office, HK Equity, the non-public fairness group attempting to buy Soma Tech. Je Gyun’s maintain over Soma Tech’s largest creditor, Jisan Bank, signifies that nobody will lend the corporate any extra money. They can’t even pay their employees, identical to Haebit Construction all these years in the past. Ho Woo barely saves the CEO from taking his life, and Seung Jo is at his wits finish on repay Soma Tech’s loans when the corporate is so deep in debt.

An opportunity remark by Jin Yeon Ah (Yeonwoo) ends in Ho Woo hitting upon the answer: pawning the corporate’s main asset: their concrete 3D printing tech. Selling the property equals promoting the corporate, however promoting the patents to the property permits for the corporate to be paid whereas retaining its property. Ho Woo races to the patent workplace however Seung Jo will get there first. Just as Je Gyun is congratulating himself and Joyce on forcing Soma Tech right into a buyout with HK Equity, Seung Jo bursts in to announce that Soma Tech has paid off its loans. Jisan Bank has no maintain over it and can’t power the corporate into being offered to HK Equity. Joyce appears to be like nearly relieved that the sale didn’t undergo, now that she is aware of the reality. But her subsequent actions stay questionable.

3. Seeing by way of Joyce’s cash laundering

It seems that Joyce is sticking at HK Equity for a cause. Someone named An inside Taeil despatched HK Equity the funds to buy Haebit Construction’s patents because it went underneath. She’s attempting to work her solution to the highest at HK to determine who it was and get her revenge. The distinction between her and Ho Woo is that she doesn’t care who she hurts, as long as she will get what she needs. She approaches Je Gyun with a request to promote a pastry franchise referred to as Cakebean. Je Gyun smells that one thing is off, however perks up when Joyce presents to pay double the standard charges.

Seung Jo can’t relaxation with out understanding what Joyce is as much as, so he will get on the deal, together with Ho Woo. He spots that one thing is fallacious with Cakebean’s financials immediately, however refuses to inform Ho Woo. The reply comes out fairly rapidly when Ho Woo digs into it on his personal. Cakebean is financially useless, the financials are largely remastered, and Joyce has been seeking to dump the corporate after getting what she needed from it: its patents. That has Ho Woo and Seung Jo confused. She was after Soma Tech’s proprietary expertise and now a bakery’s patents.

Yeon Ah is ready to shed some gentle. It seems that HK Equity has a little bit of swallowing companies and franchises, sucking the patents for each little bit of expertise that they’ll from them and spitting them out. Those patents are then lent out in one of the best bit of cash laundering a drama has proven but. Politicians and highly effective figures lend these patents for bakery tools, development corporations, and so forth, to cronies as bribes. They may hire them out to corporations for an arbitrary quantity above market worth as a result of they’re patents. Seung Jo guessed at this from the beginning however needed to be fallacious. He’s horrified by who Joyce has turn out to be however nonetheless needs to guard her. But neither he nor Ho Woo can let the sale undergo after discovering the reality.

4. Foiling Je Gyun’s plans and incomes energy with Lee Chang Jo

For his half, Ho Woo has one other downside. He’s cornered at work by Taeil’s VP of Auditing, Ahn Seung Yeon (Bae Hae Sun), who’s Je Gyun’s largest enemy. She’s not a fan of Ho Woo in the meanwhile as a result of Kang Hyun (Kim Young Jae), the accountant who sacrificed his job to do the fitting factor within the premiere episodes, was one in all her individuals. She blames Ho Woo for his departure and asks him to go away for manipulating one in all her individuals to perform his targets. Ho Woo agrees as long as he can carry out one final gambit. In actuality, Ho Woo doesn’t belief Seung Yeon. He suspects her of being the “An” concerned with HK Equity and being a quiet however harmful enemy. But she’s been a longtime pal to Seung Jo, who doesn’t suspect something about her.

Ho Woo wants extra allies than simply Seung Jo. So, he decides to go for an enormous fish. Yeon Ah, who’s half in love with Ho Woo and likewise occurs to be the daughter of the President of Jisan Bank, reveals to him that Chairman Lee Chang Joo (Jung Hae Kyun), Je Gyun’s largest consumer and the top of the Sang Ah comglomerate, can be an investor in HK Equity. So, Ho Woo prepares a entice. He is aware of that Je Gyun has his eye on him, and when Je Gyun asks him for recommendation, Ho Woo gives him with info that results in Je Gyun recommending to Lee Chang Joo to buy Cakebean. Je Gyun isn’t any idiot and is aware of that the corporate is hemorrhaging cash. But the factor with him is that he’s all the time assured that he can create an issue whereas making a living and clear up it whereas making much more cash. And the worst half is that he’s normally proper.

But Ho Woo steps on this time. Lee Chang Joo’s conglomerate is in dire straits in the meanwhile too. And buying Cakebean appears to be like like a godsend, till Ho Woo, Seung Jo, and Yeon Ah rush in on the final minute to cease the sale by informing the Chairman of Je Gyun’s deception. The outcome: Joyce doesn’t get the sale she needs, Je Gyun doesn’t get the double price he needs, and Ho Woo simply gained a large ally. Accounting corporations are on the mercy of their shoppers, and even when Je Gyun decides to get revenge on Ho Woo for undercutting him right here, he received’t have the ability to push him out.

Next week appears to point out simply that. Je Gyun’s about to deal with Ho Woo like grime, however Lee Chang Joo is now his new greatest pal (for now, not less than). VP Seung Yeon continues to seem actually shady, leaving Seung Jo and Ho Woo at odds, as a result of the previous trusts her and the latter is aware of she’s dangerous information. “Numbers” is doing an excellent job of displaying greater than Ho Woo studying from Seung Jo, however vice versa as properly. And now that Yeon Ah is lastly getting used as greater than a love-interest, it appears to be like like we’ll have an accountant trio combating corruption inside the agency!

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