Download The Apartment Job Episode 3

Episode 3 opens with the intermittent family's official campaign launch — a polished photoshoot that puts Hae-gang, Ha-ri, Lizard, Big Guy, and their young pretend son on display as the wholesome neighbourhood family they absolutely are not. The fake unit sits down together for their first proper lunch and hammers out the terms of their arrangement, including a strict contract on how many hours a day they will actually behave like a family and how they will address each other in front of watchful residents. With Ha-ri's sister on leave from the management office, Ha-ri steps in personally to register Hae-gang as a candidate for District 4's building representative election — one of three candidates in the running, making it the most contested race in the complex. Suk-jin arrives at the office shortly after, pressing staff for details about the mysterious newcomer and his unusually convenient family, growing visibly suspicious when no one can remember ever seeing them before. The campaign shifts into higher gear when a delivery crisis hits the entire apartment complex. Hae-gang mobilises his former Oasis Gang associates and turns them into a door-to-door delivery squad — packages verified by identity, delivered straight to residents' doors with speed and courtesy that the complex has never seen before. The neighbourhood forum lights up with praise, and Hae-gang rides a wave of goodwill that puts him in a strong lead. Suk-jin, his most dangerous rival, is far from finished. Anonymous complaints flood the community board claiming that packages are being damaged, and when Hae-gang's team investigates the source of the complaints, every single one traces back to Suk-jin's household. Ha-ri, who freely admits she has an allergy to failure and physically cannot watch a poor strategy go unchallenged, devises a counterattack: an anonymous post circulating allegations that Suk-jin falsified her academic credentials. Given Suk-jin's reputation for superiority and boasting, residents believe it immediately. No matter how loudly Suk-jin protests that she graduated at the top of her class, her political momentum collapses. With election day approaching, Hae-gang is careful to avoid any controversy that could undo his lead. That calculation cracks one evening when he and Ha-ri witness a resident physically assaulting one of the complex's security guards. Hae-gang's first instinct is to walk away and protect his campaign, but Ha-ri stops him cold. She tells him flatly that she has no idea whether he will become the district representative, but that he has already failed at being a decent human being. Her words hit their mark. Hae-gang steps in, and with a single clean roundhouse kick, knocks the attacker unconscious. Two students nearby catch the entire confrontation on their phones — but only record the kick itself, with no context. The edited clip spreads across the apartment community board overnight and public opinion flips in hours. The delivery hero is now accused of hiding a violent double life, and with Yong-man — the father figure Hae-gang is risking everything to save — collapsing in his detention centre and being rushed to hospital, the pressure on Hae-gang reaches a breaking point. On election day, the intermittent family gathers with almost no hope left. Then the announcement comes over the complex speakers: District 4, Candidate No. 3, Park Hae-gang, elected. The reversal came from an unexpected source — the security manager, who posted the full truth about the assault on the community board, identifying the attacker by a distinctive carp tattoo as a man who had repeatedly victimised the complex's guards. Once residents understood that Hae-gang had been protecting their security team, the edited video lost all its power. Hae-gang spends that night rewatching the kick and reading every supportive comment, and greets the morning by throwing another roundhouse kick toward the rising sun. Elsewhere, Lee Chung-won's composed public face shatters completely during a fishing trip with senior officials whose failure to secure the Oman district's inclusion in his new-town development plan has cost him money and patience. He smears spicy vinegar sauce across the Oman mayor's face and shoves the officials into the sea one by one, extracting a new promise before he lets them back aboard. Winning the District 4 seat completes only the first step of Hae-gang's plan — the presidency of the residents' council still stands between him and the 17.8 billion won reserve fund, and the enemies gathering around him are far better connected than any opponent he has faced before.