Chicken Nugget (2024) s01e04 Episode Script

[dynamic music]
[roars]
[clucks]
[whimpering]
[dramatic music playing]
[groaning]
MORE THAN MACHINES
[bleeping]
[gasping]
[gasping]
[sobbing]
THE DAY BEFORE
[machine whirring]
[thumping]
Cha Eun-woo!
[energy zapping]
[hissing]
Ah, I knew it was ridiculous,
but it was worth a try.
That is not how it works.
Okay.
THE BOOKSTORE THA
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A BOOKSTORE
[panting]
[gasping]
Uh, excuse me, sir.
Hello, Mr. Store Owner?
[sighs]
Well, sorry to wake you up,
but it's urgent.
Excuse me, sir. Hello!
[suspenseful music plays]
Oh! Oh no. No, no!
- Oh! [trembling]
- [ringing tone]
Is this 911?
There's a man who's not breathing here.
Uh, yes, it's a bookstore.
Well, the name of this bookstore is
The Bookstore That
Doesn't Look Like a Bookstore.
No, it isn't my opinion that it doesn't!
Lady, please just listen to me!
An old man here isn't moving.
Oh, he just moved.
I'd like to ask
for your support in reviving
the struggling used book industry.
This is The Bookstore That Doesn't
Look Like a Bookstore. Thank you.
[sighs]
Here to buy books?
Actually, I called you earlier.
I called earlier and asked
DR. YOO IN-WON'S STUDY ON MECHANICS
- You have these books?
- Oh.
Well, they're
probably somewhere up there.
But I can't climb up ladders now.
- Oh, right.
- Mm.
I'll climb up there.
[mysterious music plays]
YOO IN-WON'S STUDY ON MECHANICS
[chuckles]
[grunts]
[straining]
Aah!
[music stops]
[crow cawing]
- [door closes, key turns in lock]
- [grunts]
Huh? Huh?
Oh! Sir!
What? No!
[gasps]
[muffled] Hello? Old man?
There's someone here! Aah!
Sir
- [clattering]
- [Choi grunting]
[grumbling]
Huh?
Uh
[yelps]
[groans]
[moaning]
[dramatic music plays]
[growls]
[roars]
[music fades]
[birdsong]
[dog barking]
[Min-ah] It's so nice.
I felt really stuffy, being kept
in a cool place without direct sunlight.
Let's do this more often.
[gasps] Oh, wait.
You're a little dry.
Look at me.
[Min-ah] You got me
the premium corn syrup?
I would have been happy
with just Ottogi corn syrup.
It was bothering me.
It was attracting flies.
This keeps the pests off.
And it should feel much lighter
on your skin.
[Min-ah] Aah That does feel really nice.
Sorry I can't do more for you.
[Min-ah] Why would you say that?
You're always doing things for me.
It's my pleasure.
It really brings me a lot of joy.
[Min-ah chuckles]
[both laugh]
Min-ah, you're starting to blush.
- Spicy chicken nugget?
- Ah, stop teasing me! [giggles]
[Baek-joong sighs]
- Min-ah.
- Yes?
[Min-ah gasps]
Baek-joong, you don't have to spend money
on this kind of stuff.
King-sized sesame seeds are
really expensive.
It's beautiful on you.
[Min-ah] Ah, I don't know
what I did to deserve this.
You deserve everything. You're
the most beautiful chicken nugget ever.
[Min-ah chuckles]
[Baek-joong laughs softly]
Oh. Tofu man.
Ah, tofu man needs a helmet.
Isn't that dangerous?
[Min-ah] It must be suffocating.
- He needs fresh air.
- [bell ringing]
- [cyclist] Ohh
- [girlfriend yelps]
- Ooh!
- [Min-ah gasps]
- [woman] Are you okay?
- [girlfriend] Oh, tofu!
- [Min-ah] Oh, no.
- [girlfriend screams]
- No, your tofu head is crumbling! [sobs]
- [tofu man groans]
- [tofu man] Oh no!
- [girlfriend wails]
- [Min-ah sighs]
- [Baek-joong] Don't worry.
Thankfully, you're not tofu.
[Min-ah] It just breaks my heart.
- Min-ah.
- Uh
- [Min-ah sighs]
- Oh uh
My sugar level's low. Uh
[Min-ah] I want some candy too.
[slurping]
How can you possibly eat candy?
[Min-ah] I can. Give me one.
- But how can you eat this?
- I said I can.
[squelching]
[roaring]
[yells]
- [gasps]
- [dog barking outside]
[Baek-joong panting]
- [banging]
- [Baek-joong yells]
Are you there, sir?
Uh! [whimpers]
Oh no!
MR. KIM
- Mr. Kim, my phone's on one percent!
- [horn blares]
Okay. I talked about
that machine you're looking for
over a drink with someone I worked with
when I was in Professor Yoo's lab.
I heard there was a research assistant
who joined the team after I quit.
Anyway, I managed to get his contact info.
But Mr. Choi isn't answering,
so I called you.
Thank you, Mr. Kim. Text me the number.
[ringing tone]
911? I'm calling from The Bookstore
That Doesn't Look Like a Bookstore.
Oh. Are you the one I talked to earlier?
[sighs] Oh God
Well, uh
[shrieks]
[groans]
[exhales]
It's okay. It's okay.
It's been a fruitful day today.
Gosh, my blood sugar's getting low.
[breathing shakily]
CANDY
Aah!
[whimsical music plays]
There's a little treat
Inside the candy box ♪
RECEIP
There's no candy in here.
Certain death.
[yawning]
[groaning]
[Choi moaning]
- Holy shit, man!
- [Choi groans]
- [mumbles]
- [yelps]
- Uhh
- [shop owner whimpering]
- [joints crack]
- Nope!
[laughs]
- [joints crack]
- [high-pitched] Nope!
A are are you
[Choi] Uhh
the the guy from yesterday?
- [joints cracking]
- Uh-huhhhh
- [moaning]
- [shop owner shrieking]
[groaning loudly]
MORE THAN MACHINES
CHOI SUN-MAN
If you see that machine,
reach out.
Uh-huh!
If you find that machine,
don't go inside that thing.
[gasping] Hah!
[breathing heavily]
- [joints cracking]
- [Choi moaning]
[mumbling]
- [joints crack]
- [shop owner yelps]
Do you have a son or daughter?
One daughter, and one son.
[screams]
- That's why you shouldn't go inside.
- [gasping]
- Understand?
- Uh-huh! [sobs]
- [panting]
- It's trouble!
Yeah?
- [gasping]
- [Choi mumbling]
- Call, okay?
- Okay!
- [moaning]
- [joints cracking]
- Mmmmph!
- [shop owner gasps]
[Choi] Aaah
[shop owner] Uh
- [Choi] Quit drinking.
- Uh-huh.
- [groaning]
- [joints cracking]
Uhhh
Min-ah!
THE BOOKSTORE
THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A BOOKSTORE
CCTV IN OPERATION
[breathing shakily]
Huh?
Here to buy books?
How much are they?
[sobbing]
[spaghetti Western-style music playing]
[groaning]
Sir? Sir?
Si sir I
[groans]
Min-ah
[bleeping]
[music fades]
Huh? Mr. Ko!
[panting]
- Mr. Ko.
- [Baek-joong whimpers]
[Choi grunting]
[Baek-joong sobs]
- Mr. Ko. Huh? Huh?
- [whimpers]
- Mr. Choi.
- Yeah.
Me
Me, me, me?
Food.
- Food?
- Food.
- You want a meal?
- Big meal.
- A big meal.
- Food.
- Food.
- Feed me.
- [slurping]
- [cutlery scraping]
Good morni
You're having breakfast, I see
You know you should chew your food?
That's what teeth are for.
[suspenseful music plays]
A chicken nugget
[yawns]
[Choi snoring]
[Baek-joong sighs]
I'm curious, but I don't wanna know.
This is absolutely perfect.
I'll just go to the sauna.
Hmm.
MORE THAN MACHINES
[ringing tone]
[phone rings]
- [Choi] Thank you for calling
- Thank you for calling More Than Machines!
Oh, yes, sir. Okay.
Oh no, it's acting up again?
Why does it keep doing that?
Okay, I'm coming right now.
Mr. Choi, that machine
in the Healing Shop's acting up again.
I'll go fix it for them.
Huh? Uh, take care of it.
[sighs]
[door opens]
- [door slams]
- [gasps]
Hey. What about Professor Yoo's
research assistant?
Ah!
He said he's available during lunch today,
so I asked him to meet us at one o'clock.
We have some time till then.
I'll change
and head over to the meeting place.
- Okay.
- It looks like you should, too.
Okay, I probably should.
Why don't you try
maybe wearing yellow pants this time?
[snorts]
[both laughing]
[both coughing and wheezing]
[spluttering] Ugh
- [Choi] See you later.
- Okay.
[Choi] Mm. I'll be back.
My dear Min-ah.
[Baek-joong whimpers]
1-0-0-4, star. Easy four digits.
[whirring]
Only one CCTV.
How naive.
That's how you lose
something valuable, idiots.
REALLY GOOD RESTAURAN
Yes, please write your name here
and your signature here.
Sir, please, the same,
and check the agreement box too.
[customer] Order, please. One galbijim
Could we get one soy sauce bulgogi
and two gochujang bulgogi.
- Rice in stone pots, please.
- [server] Okay.
[assistant] You'll get a call
in a few days.
Just need to tell them
you've been fully informed,
and that you understand everything.
You'll get asked quite a lot of questions,
but that's because they need
to check each item off one by one.
- Should I just check all
- Yeah, just check "no" on everything.
The insurance coverage
for this plan is very simple.
More pain in death, more money.
Straightforward, right?
Hope you get a lot.
[laughs]
Will the compensation increase
if I pretend to be really sick?
- Your joke is really not funny, man.
- Do you think you're being funny?
[chuckles]
So, you you worked with
Professor Yoo, right?
Of course I did.
I may be an insurance planner now,
but I was a proud researcher
with no future.
[chuckles]
- Stop laughing. It's not funny.
- [Choi continues laughing]
- [mouths]
- So, um, this is why No, no, I mean
So, you quit all on your own?
It shows how unfortunate
the Korean science community is.
No matter how small it may seem,
I'd appreciate any information.
- Please, tell us something.
- Please.
I'll just be honest with you.
I was definitely hired
as Professor Yoo's research assistant.
I'll I'll tell you why I was hired.
Oh. Uh-huh
[assistant] He was obsessed
with some kind of metal junk.
I just sat on my ass all day long.
He only hired me so he could meet the
requirements for the government funding.
So when the funding was cut off,
I got canned.
I didn't even have any regrets,
because I did nothing.
Uh, well I mean, that junk, um
Uh did you ever, I mean
get any results from it or anything?
- Not that I know of.
- [sighs]
- Is there anything to
- I have a picture.
- Here.
- [Baek-joong gasps] This
This one right here is what
Professor Yoo was obsessed with.
But he kept saying some lunatic stuff,
saying that the machine and this drawing
were 200 years old.
But what's surprising is
that it was all true.
Just how did you verify that?
I took it to Professor Wang Jong-geun
at the K1 University.
Wang Jong-geun?
It's an old craft paper.
Crap paper?
No, craft paper.
Paper to make fans.
- Oh.
- It's very durable.
And this one
seems to be around 200 years old.
- Really?
- But are they scribbles, or a drawing?
This even has a seal,
as well as some thumbprints.
I think someone made it as a joke.
- You want me to appraise this shit?
- Yes, please.
We're researching
a machine like this at work.
- What machine is it?
- A machine to look at.
- A machine just to look at?
- Yeah, we've just been looking at it.
Shit.
Professor Yoo fucking with me, or what?
- I have no fucking idea. I'll go.
- Wait, wait. Wait a moment.
[Jong-geun] They're the same, right?
- How come it has this seal?
- Wh why?
- This is Jeong Hyo-bong's seal.
- Jeong Hyo-bong?
[Jong-geun] Who's Jeong Hyo-bong?
JEONGJO: 22ND MONARCH
OF JOSEON DYNASTY
In Joseon history, he was one
of the brightest prodigies,
born into a prestigious family.
Are you Seol Min-seok?
What's with the history lesson?
His family even once had a prime minister.
His father was a genuine scholar.
King Jeongjo wanted to appoint him,
but he didn't like politics.
- INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR ME?
- NO
Why? He was a Catholic!
His son is Jeong Hyo-bong.
This guy started writing
while learning to talk.
He started to write poems
and paint at the age of five.
The Veritable Records show the King
called the little boy to the palace.
- YOU TAKE AFTER YOUR DAD, DON'T YOU?
- MOM, ACTUALLY.
He thought they were outstanding
and wanted to exchange them.
He was a prodigy,
starting on his road to success.
Why would he do random doodles like this?
We don't really know.
As Queen Dowager Jeongsun served
as regent after King Jeongjo passed away,
the conservative ruling faction
began a full-scale Catholic persecution.
The boy's father was executed
during the Catholic Persecution,
and the rest of his family
was either demoted to the lowest class
or taken as slaves.
And after that, he disappeared.
So what you're telling me is
we can assume
the drawing's 200 years old, right?
I mean, apart from
that craft paper or whatever,
if the drawing or the metal is older,
why would I care?
Also, Jeong Hyo-bong's seal?
I mean, a seal
from someone who became a slave?
Why do I care if that seal was just
somehow stamped on that scribble?
So I guess Professor Yoo grew
even more obsessed after he found out.
Who who told you that?
Yeah, he got crazier after that point.
He kept arguing
that there was another machine
and he needed both of them
to make them work.
- So he started making a machine tracker.
- [both] Machine tracker?
- Jinx. You owe me
- A device that tracks these machines.
Ah, actually, Professor Yoo's
nephew egged him on about this.
[both] His nephew?
Come to think of it, I wasn't
the only research assistant there.
He wasn't technically a researcher,
but he was spending a lot of time
in the lab, suddenly.
The younger one was
a smart, promising kid.
But he followed his machine-crazy uncle
around and went crazy too.
I don't know where he is now.
Professor Yoo said he was a real genius.
But if you ask me,
he was a fucking nutjob.
He kept saying that he was 22,
but he had the face of a 50-year-old.
[Baek-joong] Professor Yoo was looking
for the machine we have,
and we're looking for the one he had.
And remember, we're looking for him also.
It's possible that he could've
turned into something too.
Why do they have different marks
if they do the same thing?
I know, right?
It seems like a brand of some kind
Maybe they're characters.
[sighs]
- Oh!
- Oh!
[dramatic music playing]
Oh, it's gone!
- Min-ah?
- Min-ah?
- [Baek-joong yelping]
- [Choi] Min-ah.
Min-ah!
[Baek-joong gasping]
- Min-ah. Min-ah!
- Aaah! Min-ah!
- Min-ah! Min-ah!
- Min-ah!
Min-ah!
[Baek-joong] No! Aah!
- [Choi] Min-ah! Min-ah!
- [Baek-joong wails]
- Min-ah!
- Min-ah!
Min-ah! Min-ah!
- [screams]
- Min-ah!
[wails] Min-ah! Min-ah!
Min-ah!
[yells] Min-ah!
Min-ah!
[music fades]
I thought it could only
turn things into humans. Fuck.
[suspenseful music plays]
A mirror
should tell the truth.
Why are you lying to me?
[chuckles softly]
[gasping]
Oh
Where are you going?
Huh?
[panting] The office.
I'm going there too.
That means one of us is facing
the wrong direction, right?
[door opens]
You couldn't find her?
[emotional music plays]
- [colleague] Guys, the camera's broken.
- [Choi] Min-ah
- [colleague] What's going on?
- [Choi whimpering]
- What? Where'd that machine go?
- [Choi groans]
Did we get robbed?
I mean, there's nothing valuable here.
So they took something useless
out of spite?
- I'd better call the police.
- [Choi] There's nothing valuable?
What? What do you know?
Taking this scrap metal alone
is worth something.
Why are you angry?
Let's say there's nothing worth taking.
So they took something useless
out of spite? That doesn't make sense.
You really think robbers get
that emotional while they're robbing?
They'd end up getting caught.
Robbers should be calm.
Why are you worried about
some robber's personality?
What do you mean there's nothing valuable?
Nothing to take?
There is! My life!
My life belongs to me ♪
You see? They took it.
My everything.
All right. Then I'll report
that your life has been stolen.
No need.
[gasps]
Mr. Ko broke it while moving it.
Wait. Me?
How long are you going to
work carelessly like that?
Follow me.
[sighs]
[shuffling footsteps]
- [door opens]
- [Choi sobs]
[intriguing music playing]
[chuckles softly]
Soon you're gonna die.
You will die.
You won't, technically.
Since I'm going to become you.
[whirring]
[loud whooshing and rattling]
[energy zapping]
[loud whooshing]
[assistant] The hell? Go away. Go away!
Stop!
[screams]
Go away! [screams]
[dramatic music playing]
[music softens]
[music fades]
[cheerful music]
500 nights, I have my plan ♪
To have a good time
With you, my friend ♪
So we don't have much time
'Cause we've got many things to do ♪
One year is so short
With you, my friend ♪
Ah-ah-ah, with you, my friend ♪
Ah-ah-ah, with you, my friend ♪
[music fades]