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'Why Her?' Finale Theory: Who is Soo-jae's secret witness and will Ha Il-ku betray Choi Tae-kook?

The final episode of 'Why Her' is titled 'This Is Her' that has fans wondering what Soo-jae has in store for the evil doers on the show

SPOILER WARNING: The article discusses major plot points from an ongoing K-drama.

The Seo Hyun-jin and Hwang In-yeop (Hwang In-youp) starrer SBS drama 'Why Her?' will air its final episode on July 23. The penultimate episode of the show aired on Friday, July 22 and despite having only one episode left to air, the courtroom K-drama held onto its Number 1 spot for its time slot. Episode 14 of 'Why Her?' scored an average nationwide rating of 7.7% among the key demographic of viewers, between ages 20 to 49.

'Why Her?' owes its success to the impeccable acting by Seo Hyun-jin, playing the main lead, Oh Soo-jae. The actress has carried the show through its two-month-long run. Fans love the unfailing trust between Gong Chan (played by Hwang In-yeop) and Soo-jae and hope Chan has the ability to protect Soo-jae. She needs him to reveal his true identity to help expose Choi Tae-kook in Episode 16 of 'Why Her?'.

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Fan theories for the finale of 'Why Her?'

The final episode of the show is titled, "This is Her" and fans are sure that the K-drama finale will be all about Soo-jae and how she brings down the TK Law Firm owner, Choi Tae-kook, and his 'evil trio' made up of Assemblyman Lee In-soo and Hansu Bio's Director Han Seung-beom. The shocking turn of events from Episode 15 had fans question talking about Soo-jae's rule that she taught the Seojung University students in the initial episodes of the show.

Soo-jae had told the law students that she purposefully loses the first trial to make her enemies think they have cornered her and then overpowers them in the second trial. It seems like that is how it will go down for Soo-jae's Disciplinary Hearing in Episode 15. She was exposed as a law-breaker in this episode only for her to expose the entire scandal involving the 'evil trio', Choi Joo-wan, Lee Si-hyuk and Han Dong-o, in the upcoming finale.

Fans wonder if Baek Jin-ki's daughter, Kang Eun-seo will turn out to be Soo-jae's wild card witness. Since Tae-kook has asked his secretary Ha Il-ku to take the fall for the deaths of Park Soo-young, Hong Seok-pal, Jeon Na-jung as well as the rape of Kang Eun-seo, a lot of attention is being paid to whether or not Il-ku will betray his master.

It is possible that Tae-kook had Il-ku's sick son killed in order to get his focus back on work which has possibly come to the notice of Il-ku and he has finally come to aide Soo-jae. This theory is asserted by fans who saw Il-ku sitting behind Soo-jae's lawyers in the final moments of Episode 15.

Episode 15 also showed how Tae-kook did not completely go through watching the CCTV footage of his office. It is quite possible that his younger son, Choi Yoon-sang may have finally gotten inside Tae-kook's secret office and taken out confidential documents that the law firm owner had kept as blackmail material. From the looks of it, Soo-jae was able to find the photo of Tae-kook and Park So-young with the help of Yoon-sang, the photo that served as a 'turn-the-table' moment for Episode 15. 

With the death of her child being her driving force these years ago, Soo-jae is even more determined to destroy Tae-kook now as she has lost Jae-yi a second time. Fans are hoping that Jae-yi is actually still alive and that Soo-jae is finally reunited with her daughter while getting her happily ever after with Chan.