The village in the drama "The Village - Achiara's Secret" had plenty of secrets. All were revealed by the finale of this thriller tale turned tragedy.

The biggest secret was that the serial murderer was not the village's only monster. The other monster was the rapist who ruined the lives of two of the village women and their families for generations to come. Both the children born of the rape died, one due to an inherited disease and the other as a murder victim.

Moon Geun Young played Han So Yoon, the young woman determined to find out what happened to her adopted sister, played by Jang Hee Jin. In the final episode it was revealed that two people were involved in her murder and that each in her own way was a victim of the rapist's actions.

Spoiler alert: Don't read any further if you have not seen the final episode.

At first it seemed as if Hye Jin was killed by her birth mother Yoon Ji Sook, played by Shin Eun Kyung. Ji Sook was so traumatized by visiting the site of her own childhood rape, that she tried to strangle her daughter, Hye Jin.

She couldn't go through with it. But then the rapist's wife, decides to kill Hye Jin and remove any threat of her husband's exposure. She justifies the murder by saying she wants to protect her family. And Ji Sook, who also has her reasons for keeping the secret, helps her dispose of the body. Both ultimately confess and are arrested.

There were a lot of bad moms in "The Village - Achiara's Secret." Moms who hated their children, who lived a lie, who preferred one child over the other. But in a way each of those moms was a victim of the village's most terrible secret.

The Ji Sook that lands in jail is a broken person but in a way it's a good thing that the truth is known and she no longer has to be afraid that her secret. The serial killer is also caught and the rookie policeman played by Yook Sung Jae is finally rewarded for his detective instinct.

In the end Moon Geun Young learned that her sister had found at least one of the things she was searching for. For a while, she got to spend time with her birth mom and sister and for a brief while her birth mom acknowledged her and wanted to help her.

Ji Sook was not completely a monster.

The rapist, who set all this horror in motion, was not punished.

The final episode of the drama set a record, with Nielsen ratings reaching 7.6 percent and landing in second place. "The Merchant: Gaek Ju 2015" held first place with 12.2 percent and "Sweet Savage Family" rated 6.5 percent.

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