[dynamic music]
[roars]
[clucks]
[Choi] Stop, you bastard!
Stop, damn it!
[dramatic music playing]
Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue me from the deceitful and wicked.
You are God, my stronghold. Why have you rejected me?
Why must I mourn, oppressed by the enemy?
Send me your light and faithful care. Let them lead me.
Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre. O God, my God.
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior and my God.
I'm not religious, but… amen.
[Tae-man] I have met the Lord.
Whatever you saw, that was just a poor sinner before he got to meet the Lord.
-He's only a 25-year-old boy. -What?
The herbal medicine I gave him went wrong.
I can't blame him for harboring so much hatred towards me.
-[Choi] Oh… -It's the Lord's will.
[Yoo] I understand what you did as well, Mr. Choi.
[warbles]
Firstly, let's take a seat.
[rustling]
Unload the bullets.
-I fired four, right? -Yes.
-There's none left. -[Baek-joong] Put it in here.
[rustling]
[Yoo squeaks and gulps] Come this way. Over here.
[light buzzing]
[Tae-man] I'm the one who took… I mean, stole…
your chicken nugget and the machine.
I'm sorry.
Go on, I'm listening.
[sighs]
[mysterious music plays]
Oh! That's…
This is the same painting that Mr. Du showed us on his phone.
[Tae-man] He thought the drawing and the machine
were just useless garbage, just scrap paper and a chunk of metal.
I used to think the same thing.
My dad would show us this painting and tell us a story.
It was such a boring fable.
After all, fables are just made-up stories.
But once it was verified that this was actually drawn 200 years ago,
and the material of the machine was confirmed,
Uncle began to believe that the fable was real.
Then I came to believe it too.
[scoffs] However…
[humming and rattling]
[whooshing and hissing]
[Tae-man] All we ever got out of it was smoke.
[Yoo] We need to find the other machine.
According to what my brother said, we must find both machines
if we want to know how this works.
Find it where?
It'd be quicker to make a machine tracker.
[gasps]
That's it! You're right!
I can definitely make one.
[exciting music playing]
Call me when you figure it out. I'm outta here.
Learn to speak politely.
-[door opens] -You're only 23.
I'm 22.
[Tae-man] A few months later, Uncle succeeded in making a machine tracker.
-What did you say? -[door opens]
You've actually made it? I mean, that's…
[liquid pouring]
Oh… Damn it! Mom! Ugh!
-[clattering] -[Tae-man] That night, Uncle went missing.
If he went to that building with the machine tracker,
that meant the machine was somewhere around there.
I was convinced that his disappearance was connected to the machine,
and I started to think that the fable my dad had told me
was true to some degree.
[Tae-man] Have you seen anything like this?
-I did everything I could for a few days. -Sorry, no.
But I had no luck finding the machine.
[Tae-man] I notice there are a few vacant spaces.
Is there any store or apartment that moved out between the 4th and 7th of this month?
People are always moving in and out of this building, so I don't know.
Recently, a pizza shop moved out.
Could you give me all of their contact information?
Are you a detective?
I can't give it to you just because you ask. That's personal information.
I'm investigating a missing person.
KIM TAE-MAN NATIONAL POLICE
[ringing tone]
You should have some food, Detective.
[Tae-man] I had to find the machine that had been removed from the shut-down lab
and start all over again making a tracker by myself.
[suspenseful music playing]
[grunts]
[burst of energy]
[hissing]
Fuck me.
I regretted not helping my uncle and thinking that it was all meaningless.
Two years later, when the tracker was almost finished…
[device pinging]
[bleeping]
Hmm?
Three, seven, two, four.
Four, five, eight, four, three, four… Oh, fuck me.
-[device pinging] -It's somewhere here…
[pinging continues]
NOBLEMAN'S CHICKEN NUGGET
NOBLEMAN'S PIZZA
[Tae-man] That couldn't have been a coincidence.
[device pinging]
[ominous music playing]
[pinging continues]
[Tae-man] The machine wasn't there,
and the shop and the house upstairs were a complete mess.
[Baek-joong] We're actually from a company called More than Machines that's nearby.
[restaurant owner] Why are you looking for him?
[Baek-joong] He left this… machine in front of our company, and the machine…
[Tae-man] Then I happened to overhear your conversation.
[Baek-joong] …turned into a chicken--
-More than Machines… -[whirring]
[crackling and pinging]
[Tae-man] I spent day and night fixing the tracker,
and it led to this company.
More than Machines.
And what's the reason that you're so obsessed with this machine?
This is not something that can be solved by any human power.
This isn't a matter that any soul under the Lord would believe.
If this is the devil's scheme, should we comply or not?
-No, we shouldn't. -Then who do you think can resolve this?
This is a sacred matter, not to be handled by humans.
-[thumps chair] -Only the Lord can resolve this.
Who do you think could be the Lord's messenger?
The fact that this is related to my family, that I was born a genius,
that Professor Yoo is my uncle, that I had the herbal medicine,
and that I met the Lord.
Could this be a mere coincidence or something?
All of this…
is the Lord's will.
-Did I explain that clearly? -Yes.
-Right, Mr. Choi? -Mm? All clear.
[Baek-joong] Ah.
I… nearly shot and killed a 25-year-old messenger of the Lord.
I apologize.
-Amen. -Not religious, but amen.
Now, listen while I tell you my story.
Actually, I was contemplating retirement back then.
Really?
Scientists also need some sort of inspiration.
But I don't know why the feeling of helplessness doesn't go away.
Then one day, when I put everything down,
-I found that machine. -[optimistic music plays]
But it wasn't a machine. Should I call it nature?
To humanity, science was just something like a convenience store.
A little store they built nearby for their own convenience.
-Something you can live without. -[heartbeat]
But as you know…
[power fades]
…I took on that impossible challenge.
Some said it was nothing but metal junk.
And one by one, they all left.
[door slides open then closes]
[Yoo] But I didn't mind at all. I guess I wanted to have it all to myself.
It'd be quicker to make a machine tracker.
That's it! You're right!
[Yoo] Have you seen the eyes of a retired, frail whale hunter
when they're cutting up a whale that's been caught in the net?
How those eyes shine, like they're roaming the ocean again!
That's what happened to me.
[exciting music playing]
[pinging]
[rapid pinging]
[Yoo] Why did I try to conquer it? I should've waited until it accepted me.
[music fades]
But I was blinded then.
[rapid pinging]
[pinging speeding up]
[yelps]
[device sizzling]
NOBLEMAN'S PIZZA
[door closes]
[trembling] Oh!
[Yoo] I just wanted to check if it was the same machine.
I couldn't think of anything else in that moment.
[optimistic music playing]
[powers on]
[whirring]
-[power fades] -[hissing]
[Yoo] And just like that, for two years,
I lived as a caterpillar.
-A caterpillar. -A caterpillar.
-Larva? -Larva.
BAEKJUNG CHICKEN NUGGET
CLOSED FOR BREAK
[man 1 sighs]
[sniffs]
[man 2] Huh?
You're really eating that? A customer had it packed to go and left it there.
I think they'll come back for it.
Are you eating them too?
Even though we made that, that's not ours.
You know why? That's been paid for.
You're not listening.
Why are you eating that? You aren't human!
[dynamic electronic music plays]
[sighs]
Yeah, chicken meat!
I love raw chicken!
[music fades]
Oh, don't worry.
We also eat raw sometimes.
[man 1] I'm sorry.
-I'll go and make you a new batch. -I think we'll pass.
But we ate all your chicken nuggets, so we'll…
That's okay. We don't mind that you ate our chicken nuggets, you know…
Okay. Anyway, I will remake yours.
I said we're fine! We'll never eat chicken again.
[sighs]
Why are we… making chicken nuggets?
-Seriously? -Because everybody loves these.
And I was amazed to see that.
They feel happy when they eat delicious food.
So let's make delicious food.
This food makes us money. We make a living with that money.
Out of everything, why make chicken nuggets?
Chicken, horse meat, beef… Is that important?
Remember the reason we're doing this.
That's what's important.
It's just,
if we hadn't gone with chicken nuggets…
Chicken nuggets? What?
But there's already a chicken nugget place right there.
They also just opened up recently.
Oh, is that so?
Uh-huh!
That's not very nice of you. What about business ethics?
Well, okay, but that's the only food we make.
It's probably best you don't.
Why do you think the rent is low around here?
This neighborhood isn't very big.
Go to the next one. There are lots of good properties.
No. It has to be this one.
Let me guess.
-A fortune teller told you that. -Yeah.
Trust me, believing that stuff will only lead to…
…great success.
Mmm. Keep working hard.
-Goodbye. -Mmm.
-[door opens] -Excuse me.
You're selling the same shit across the street? Where's your owner?
-[yells] I want to see the owner! -Write your name down and wait outside.
-[mildly] Oh yeah? -Oh yeah.
And the size of the group.
-I came alone, though. -Write "one."
The Arabic one.
[high-pitched laugh]
KIM BAE-DAL ONE
-Kim Bae-dal, one person. -Here! I'm here! That's me!
I'm Kim Bae-dal. I'm Kim Bae-dal!
-I… I… I'm Kim Bae-dal! I am Kim Bae-dal! -[onlookers murmuring]
[yelling] I am Kim Bae-dal. I am Kim Bae-dal. I am Kim Bae-dal!
You're selling the same shit across the street?
Where's the owner? I want to see the owner!
I am the owner.
-Selling the same shit across the street? -We are.
-[mildly] Oh yeah? -Oh yeah.
[screaming]
-[man 2] Bad nuggets? -[Bae-dal screaming]
-[crash] -Shit, it won't budge.
What is that?
What is this?
The chicken? Or the machine?
-Or the chicken nugget? -A machine?
You know what it is?
[eerie music plays]
How would I know? What is it?
-First tell me why you care. -If I do, will you tell me?
-Well, do you? -No, I don't.
-[sighs] A secret method. -Secret?
Put a chicken in there, press the button, then you get a delicious nugget.
[Bae-dal laughs]
Why, you little… You…
I might just…
Why, you… I might just…
[inhales] Are you picking a fight?
-Didn't you start this? -Shit, you're right.
[door opens]
[door closes]
Everyone was talking about how my research had failed.
And that's why I chose that moment to disappear.
That wasn't true.
-How did you know that Min-ah turned into… -I haven't finished telling my story.
I was locked inside the machine as a caterpillar.
You set the record for quickest closure. Maybe it was the name…
I mean, why does a nobleman make a pizza?
"Vincenzo's Great Pizza." That name would've been a success.
Fucking bastard…
[Yoo] And the next day, I was moved to a tiny little apartment.
But one thing that I was thankful for was that our pizza-man-turned-builder
always left the TV on when he went out for work.
-And it was a drama channel. -[dialogue in Korean]
The TV welcomes me home again today.
[Yoo] He was a lonely man.
Those dramas were his only friends.
He would watch Be Melodramatic over and over again, like a truly good man.
[gentle ballad playing]
[Yoo] Cheers.
After a while, I memorized almost all of the lines.
That drama is a must-watch, and it's more fun the second time around.
[Baek-joong] I think we're straying too far off-topic.
[Yoo] I lived like that for two years, stuck on that machine.
Surprisingly, my caterpillar body didn't grow or die.
[Bae-dal] You should sleep too.
[woman singing ballad in Korean]
[gasps]
[Yoo] Time passed just like that.
He opened a chicken nugget joint with his own hard-earned money.
NOBLEMAN'S CHICKEN NUGGET
[ballad in Korean continues]
[sighs]
-Fuck chicken nuggets! -[ballad stops]
[Yoo] Business doesn't always go as you had hoped.
Then, one day…
[Bae-dal] A chicken turns into a chicken nugget?
That crazy bitch. How dare she mock me with some bullshit?
How dare a butcher talk down to a nobleman?
And it doesn't have a fucking button!
You're totally fucked if this doesn't work, God damn it!
[low humming]
What?
-[whirs] -[yelps]
[machine powering up]
-What the hell? -[electricity crackling]
-[whooshing] -[yelps]
-[power fading] -[Bae-dal sighs]
-[soft hissing] -[gasps]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing shakily]
[gasps]
[thunder rumbling]
[whirs]
-[machine powering up] -[yelps]
[panting]
Let's do this! Let's fucking do this!
-[clucks] -Let's go!
[squawking]
[panicked squawking]
[flock of birds calling]
[yelps]
[hissing]
[breathing shakily]
-[gurgling squawk] -[gasps]
-[bird shrieking] -[Bae-dal screaming]
A zombie bird?
But there's no way…
It is ridiculous.
Just like Baek-joong's yellow pants.
But it's all true.
This is the life I lived, I promise you.
A chicken nugget, a caterpillar, and a zombie bird.
So was it that zombie bird that killed him?
When I overheard your conversation, you said that he was dead.
He died?
-Is he really dead? He can't be. -I heard, um… it was a hit-and-run.
What?
[whimpers]
Are you all right?
[sobs]
He was a very precious friend to me.
[pop song in Korean plays]
Hmm?
[laughing]
[both singing along]
-[music stops] -That's enough. Let's stop there.
That's why…
That's why he couldn't come back to the house.
-[Bae-dal screaming] -[bird screeching]
-[Bae-dal yelling] -[squelching]
-[groaning] -[bird calling]
[thumping]
[screams]
The fuck?
What the fuck is happening?
[bird calling]
[suspenseful music playing]
More than Machines.
MORE THAN MACHINES
[thunder crashing]
Fucking bastards, they'll think I'm crazy.
Should I bring that crazy bird too?
[suspenseful music continues]
[music fades]
[dramatic, thrilling music plays]
[music fades]
[wistful pop music plays]
[man singing in Korean]
[music fades]