And we’re right here! After six weeks of tunneling by means of monetary fraud, pressured liquidations, and Machiavellian schemes, “Numbers” has come to an finish. The time has come for Jang Ho Woo (Kim Myung Soo), Han Seung Jo (Choi Jin Hyuk), and their allies at Taeil to take down Han Je Gyun (Choi Min Soo) as soon as and for all. But can a power of nature like Je Gyun ever really vanish? And what final playing cards is he hiding up his sleeve?

Warning: spoilers for episodes 11-12 beneath.

1. Halting the sale of Ji San Bank

Je Gyun’s financial institution run ploy in final week’s episodes efficiently resulted in particular person and company purchasers pulling their cash out of Ji San Bank en masse. Jin Tae Soo (Kang Shin Il), the president of the financial institution and Jin Yeon Ah’s (Yeonwoo’s) father, remains to be one way or the other satisfied that Je Gyun wouldn’t do something to hurt him, provided that they’ve been allies for years. Yeon Ah is aware of for a incontrovertible fact that Je Gyun doesn’t care. But as a lot as Ho Woo and Seung Jo strive to think about a approach out, Ji San Bank’s debt-to-assets ratio sinks low sufficient for the financial institution to go up on the market. And Je Gyun cleverly dangles HK Equity as a purchaser.

The Financial Commission agrees, barring a proper assembly to vet HK Equity. Many don’t know that Je Gyun is the true thoughts behind HK Equity, and people who do know don’t care so long as they get to affix a person who’s about to manage all of Korea. Because if one financial institution falls, then the remaining can simply be wolfed up. Je Gyun has just about proven each unsavory participant a blueprint for the best way to make it occur. And he’s on the cusp of succeeding when Jang Ji Soo (Kim Yoo Ri) will get in the best way. On paper, Je Gyun has no relation to HK Equity, however Ji Soo is the official Korean consultant for HK Equity. She goes to the vetting assembly and outs HK Equity as violating nearly each monetary legislation there may be. The sale fails. And Je Gyun is livid.

2. Forming a financial institution consortium

But the sale’s failure doesn’t cease Ji San Bank’s woes. Clients are nonetheless pulling their cash out of the financial institution, and one other purchaser may simply as simply step in HK Equity’s sneakers. Je Gyun is planning to have one other of his firms buy the financial institution when Seung Jo will get in his approach.

Seung Jo’s concept is straightforward however good. It requires the banks to put aside their greed and kind a consortium the place if one financial institution begins to lose property, the others will rally round them and make up for the shortfall by offering a few of their property till the financial institution can discover its ft once more. It’s a short-term mortgage often because when individuals pull their cash out of a financial institution, they take it to a different financial institution. Here, the banks could be doing that internally. The financial institution presidents drag their ft till Seung Jo factors out that Je Gyun can simply do that to any of them, and if Ji San Bank, a financial institution with a robust historical past and legacy, is dealing with this, then all banks are honest recreation. The 5 main banks band collectively actual fast after that. They lend Ji San Bank the shortfall in its funds, and the financial institution goes again to working as traditional as individuals see that it isn’t about to break down and is a secure place to deposit their cash.

3. Going public with all the knowledge

Still, Je Gyun stays a formidable enemy, and the following factor we all know, Ho Woo’s been positioned on indefinite go away. But he nonetheless has a pair weeks earlier than issues go into impact, and he makes probably the most of them. Using each little bit of proof that Shim Hyung Woo (Sungyeol) left him, he sends all of it to reporters—home and international—within the hopes that one among them will choose up the story. And they positive do. The worldwide press has a area day, which prompts Taeil’s chairman (Nam Kyung Eup), who has been working in live performance with Ho Woo and Seung Jo, to name an emergency assembly, kicking out Je Gyun as associate.

With the story making international information, home reporters haven’t any selection however to cowl the story now, whereas they wouldn’t have been capable of contact it beforehand attributable to Je Gyun’s energy and affect over their bosses. And Je Gyun’s profession at Taeil implodes. He’s kicked out as a associate, prosecuted, and thrown in jail. And the person nonetheless smiles.

That by no means bodes effectively. It seems that Je Gyun is even busier in jail than he was out of it. There’s a couple of solution to fillet a fish, and Je Gyun owns so many individuals at this level that he is aware of he can stage a comeback at any second. He simply wants the proper venue. And just a few days later, it’s breaking information {that a} mid-size financial institution goes bankrupt after a financial institution run, simply as Je Gyun is being launched from jail.

4. Stopping Je Gyun’s last play for energy

Seung Jo, Ho Woo, and their crew didn’t have a lot hope that Je Gyun could be in jail for some time, however this was a pace they didn’t count on. They know that this different financial institution’s sinking is probably going Je Gyun’s work, they usually rally round it earlier than he can pounce. They persuade each mid-size financial institution to affix the consortium that the large banks fashioned in order to insulate them from being focused by Je Gyun.

Even higher, they be sure that the funds Je Gyun was planning to make use of to buy the financial institution weren’t accessible to him. Je Gyun had hidden the cash by making a checking account for a troubled survivor of the identical building incident that killed Ho Woo’s mother and father. The account holder didn’t even know that Je Gyun was utilizing his identify to retailer a sizeable slush fund. Unexpected help arrives within the type of Je Gyun’s new righthand man Woon Sang Hyun (Shin Woo Gyum), who was solely utilizing the place to destroy Je Gyun after Hyung Woo’s dying. Between all them, Seung Jo, Ji Soo, and Ho Woo are capable of halt the sale and power Je Gyun right into a nook so tight, it’ll take him some time to regroup.

Ji Soo and Seung Jo have been slowly reconnecting over the previous few episodes, together with her rising more and more impressed by the person he’s develop into. They reunite as a household, and she or he strikes again to Korea with their son. She all the time advised her son that Seung Jo was his father, so the boy is aware of him. Seung Jo is overcome after assembly him, regaining Ji Soo and a household he didn’t know he had.

Seung Jo leaves Taeil to create a enterprise of his personal, utilizing his abilities proactively to assist others. Ji Soo goes into enterprise capitalism, serving to struggling firms and saving them from liquidation. And Yeon Ah and Ho Woo get collectively too. She makes the primary transfer, whereas Ho Woo simply seems pleased to be there.

Choi Min Soo feels a bit of wasted on this position as a result of we nonetheless don’t know what made Je Gyun tick. We get a small glimpse into his head when he visits a playground to see his grandson taking part in and waits there for hours, simply watching him. And the smallest crack appears to seem—as if he regrets that he’s going to overlook out on this boy’s life. But then his options easy out once more, and it’s again to enterprise for him. This time he’s begun a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and Seung Jo and Ho Woo are already on it. And that’s our ending.

We go away with the information that there’s no possible way of defeating individuals like Je Gyun. They have an excessive amount of energy and affect to not survive time and time once more. But so long as individuals like Ho Woo and Seung Jo are keen to take each threat to do what’s proper, then their progress may be halted. It might all look like simply numbers, however the destiny of a rustic can grasp within the stability. And if there’s something that “Numbers” proved, it’s that these figures on a stability sheet actually do run the world. But the beauty of numbers is that anybody can use them, and which means anybody can battle again.

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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in more and more implausible worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be happy to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “Revenant,” “Numbers,” “Longing for You,” and “My Lovely Liar”
Looking Forward to: “Gyeongseong Creature,” “Ask The Stars,” “The Girl Downstairs,” “The Worst Evil,” “Queen of Tears,” “Vigilante,” “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” and Ji Sung’s subsequent drama.