Next we see Jane, Cho, and Rigsby back at Cedar Creek Equities, and find Reed in a conference room, sharing drugs with a woman. Cho tells the woman to get out if she doesn't want to be arrested. He then roughs Reed up, trying to get him to confess to blackmailing Seung into buying the drugs, as well as stealing laptops to get customer's account numbers and passwords to siphon money out. Reed finally confesses to the drug sale, but swears he had nothing to do with the accounts or with murder, or with hitting Cho's girlfriend.
Cho doesn't believe him, and drags him out of the office. Rigsby and Jane head after him, but he locks the door handles with a broom from the janitor Frank's cart. He takes Reed outside, and Rigsby and Jane bang on the door until Frank sees them and lets them out. They also get Frank to unlock the outside door so they can follow Cho and Reed.
Outside they discover Cho standing over Reed's bloody body. Jane and Rigsby are horrified, and Frank is terrified. Jane yells at Cho, saying that Reed would have talked if he'd been guilty. "What do you think, Frank?" he asks.
"I don't know anything about it," Frank protests. Jane persists, saying that Frank lied about knowing the numbers. After cleaning up after the rich people, Jane guesses it must have felt good to be stealing their money. Jane and Cho wonder about the gloves on Frank's hands, if they're hiding abrasions from beating Elise. Cho draws his gun again, threatening Frank to confess or he'll kill him, too.
Frank begs for his life, on his knees, and confesses to killing Seung and going to Cho's house. He takes off his gloves to show his damaged knuckles. He says the gun is in the storm drain in front of the building. Jane tells Cho that Frank is telling the truth. Cho then calls out to Rigsby, who brings Reed out--and Reed is still alive. We see a quick flash of Cho pouring fake blood on an unconscious Reed, and then shooting a couple rounds into the pavement.
Jane tells Cho, who isn't playacting his anger, that it's all over, that Frank confessed. Cho puts his gun away, but punches Frank in the face as payback for Elise.
Back at CBI headquearters, the team interrogates Frank. He says that he killed Seung because he wanted out, and Frank was afraid he'd go to the cops. He identifies the other man who attacked Cho as one of his employees.
In Lisbon's office, Cho apologizes in a monotone to Reed and his lawyer, for accusing him of crimes he didn't commit. The lawyer threatens to bring several lawsuits against Cho and the CBI, until Lisbon reminds him that Crystal's testimony means they can charge Reed with a host of crimes including sexual assault. Reed grudgingly agrees to cut some kind of deal with the DA in exchange for forgetting about any lawsuits.
That night, Cho visits his girlfriend at home, watching over her as she sleeps. Her kisses her goodbye and then goes out again, to Seung's grandmother's house. He tells her that he didn't want to face that Seung had gone straight, because then he would have to admit that he let him down. He assures her that she was right about her grandson, and he was wrong. He then asks for her forgiveness. After a long pause, Mrs. Seung leans over and embraces Cho. He closes his eyes and returns the embrace, and we can finally see the anguish that Cho is so good at hiding.
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