May It Please the Court (변론을 시작하겠습니다) is a law-drama TV series directed by Kang Min-ku and stars Jung Ryeo-won, Lee Kyu-hyung, Jung Jin-young and Kim Hye-eun, alongside other cast members.
The series is based on the novel Byeonloneul Shijakhagekseubmida by Jung Hye-jin. May It Please the Court episode 12 has a runtime of 69 minutes.
Disney+ describes the show as:
NOH CHAK-HEE, THE ACE LAWYER OF THE BIG LAW FIRM, JANGSAN, BECOMES A PUBLIC DEFENDER OVERNIGHT AND MUST DEFEND THE CRIMINAL WHO KILLED HER LOVED ONE.
– May It Please the Court Episode 12 Recap Contains Spoilers –
May It Please the Court episode 12 starts with Chak-hee presenting everything that she found to Si-baek and asking for the timeline of events to this entire mess – when Hee-soo met Gi-do in university and when Eun Jung-ho was sentenced to 10 years in prison, where he eventually died thanks to the torture he endured. Also – when Hee-jun found himself turning into Si-baek after essentially becoming an orphan after his mother lost her mind?
Now with additional information regarding Byung-chun’s atrocities, she promises to destroy the family and asks for Si-baek’s help. Understanding that she’s on their side, Si-baek decides to tell her everything – how his father was arrested after he led Byung-chun to him and eventually died in prison. Chak-hee feels Si-baek’s guilt as they both cry at the losses that they once faced.
At Jangsan, Chak-hee gets her shares of the firm as Gi-do reminds her that she is like his own daughter, and that’s why her backstabbing hurts this much. He continues to emotionally blackmail her using Byung-chun’s name and tells her that she can’t let greed take over her. Chak-hee, however, gives him 24 hours to sign the agreement or else she promises to hand everything over to the media and police, leaving Gi-do absolutely fuming.
Elsewhere, the police move in to where Lee Dong-pil is in order to arrest him and find him bound and gagged with a ton of evidence all over the place. He later tells them about Chi-sik and that he’s being set up. At the cemetery, Chi-sik takes a sledgehammer to Hee-soo’s grave while Si-baek tells Kyung-jin that he submitted a false confession so that people would hear his voice.
However, he also tells her that he never wanted the victims to die in the way that they did – he wanted them to be punished by the state in court. However, Dong-pil destroyed his plan, and now he can’t have the revenge that he wanted and deserved. As Si-baek comes out as a free man once more, Gi-do starts to think about his political career, with Chak-hee holding power to destroy him.
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At the cemetery, Si-baek is shocked to find Hee-soo’s grave empty and goes to meet Chi-sik at home. He asks him whether he really killed Byung-chun and whether it was actually him who killed everyone. Si-baek asks him for answers and his logic behind doing something too silly. A heartbroken Chi-sik simply mentions that he only wanted to hear an apology.
Si-baek implores him to turn himself in, and Chi-sik agrees to do so only if he can bury Hee-soo. In a rather heartbreaking scene, both men cry as they think about the ramifications of what has happened to them.
Chak-hee and Si-baek later share a rather sweet moment together after checking in on his mother in the hospital and discussing his father’s case and she promises to get the important case files if she gets her hands on Byung-chun’s shares. However, she is in for a rude surprise when Gi-do refuses to hand the shares over to her the next morning and chooses to rather take the nuclear route.
He holds a press conference to tell the media of his past and instructs Dae-hyeon to get rid of Duk-man’s body as soon as possible so that there’s no way he can be incriminated in his death. The press conference goes as dramatically as you’d expect it to go, and Chak-hee looks like she’s had enough of his crap.
Outside, she gets a call from Ha-ran, proving that the two women have been working together this entire time. After the press conference, however, their general good mood gets interrupted when they learn that Duk-man’s body has disappeared from the hospital. Gi-do is angry at the way things have gone, realizing finally that Chak-hee played him like a fiddle.
With nothing going his way, Gi-do thinks about the next steps while Chak-hee and Ha-ran come up with their own plan to take Gi-do down before his term begins if elected. In order to help her own interests, Ha-ran promises to take over the reins from Chak-hee and bring her husband down once and for all and get the case files on Jung-ho and transfer Byung-chun’s shares to Chak-hee.
On election day, Gi-do’s agitation knows no bounds as he is unsure of where Chak-hee is and what she might be plotting against him. The agitation turns to fear as he receives a video from moments before Byung-chun’s death, and once he calls the number, Chi-sik tells him to meet him alone. Meanwhile, Si-baek steps on the gas after Chak-hee tells him that the police have located Chi-sik.
In the final face-off, Gi-do turns out to be a disgusting, backstabbing, molesting monster just like his father, who victim-blames people and considers those around him to be beneath him. Chi-sik, however, requires nothing but an apology which pushes Gi-do to try to strangle him. As Chak-hee and Si-baek get there, Chi-sik sacrifices himself to incriminate Gi-do in front of witnesses.
In his last moments, Chi-sik remembers Hee-soo before dying, and we see that he recorded everything using a recording device.
As Gi-do is taken away by the police, Si-baek’s looks heartbroken at losing another member of his family.
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At the police station, Gi-do completely loses his mind after facing the reality that he, in fact, might not be able to become an assemblyman any time soon. Gi-do’s video makes waves in public, who all despise the family’s and the police’s past practices.
May It Please the Court Episode 12 Ending
At the prison, Chak-hee meets Gi-do, who seems to have lost his mind. He’s still the same guy who thinks that he’s better than everyone, and it’s almost pitiful to watch him beg her to get the best attorneys for him and promise to turn the shares over to her as well. Dong-pil, too, gets what he deserves as he is sentenced to death for his crimes, and both Gi-do and Dae-hyeon are handed extended prison sentences.
With justice being served, Si-baek and his mother share a tender moment together as she gets ready to go to Hee-jun’s “entrance ceremony”. At court, Si-baek and Chak-hee get ready for Jung-ho’s retrial, and she makes an impassioned speech to get her point across and asks for the court to give the victims justice.
May It Please the Court Episode 12 Review
There’s something very disturbing about watching someone seemingly in power call people from a different background vermin. However, the vision Gi-do in prison is rather satisfying. That being said, the May It Please the Court finale is emotional and satisfying, with the bad guys getting what they deserve and the audience seeing a little spark between our wronged protagonists.
Jung Jin-young and Kim Sang-ho steal the show in the series, especially in the last episode. The two of them deliver a worthwhile episode that plays with your feelings. Although things turn out to be a bit convenient for the protagonists in terms of justice being served, it’s still fun and satisfying.
May It Please the Court is streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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