Episode 2 Recap (4/4)

[BAE]

Could anyone possibly give me a short recap of what happened in last night's episode? I totally forgot about the new show!

[creidesca]

just so you can have a taste...the below were scenes cut from the SoCal aired version of EP 2. I'm sure someone will be able to fill you in on the rest:



Episode 2: Can Love be Bought?

CUT SCENES


outside the women's restroom at Handa Shopping, DJ unni & DJ, on a couch

DJ unni: Hey! Oh Dal Ja, your hair is really pretty today... [seeing that they're once again alone]
See, you should just have been embarrassed once instead of dragging in a guy you barely know into this?!
DJ: What should I do? Maybe, I should just call the police or something.
DJ unni: You want to end your social life? [newspaper headline as DJ unni reads] Old spinster Oh Dal Ja was cheated with money by a younger man, who was suppose to pretend to be her boyfriend. You think you can show yourself around here anymore if that happens? Can you look at Shin Sae Do and Wee Seon Joo in the eye anymore?
DJ: What should I do then? I lost $3,000. I still have to pay the rent and pay for my car. How can I just lose my life savings?
DJ unni: Who said to get drunk and do those damn things? [rubs her tummy] I curse again...
DJ (narration): In these times, even my senior can't help.

at a lawyer's office...the lawyer's nameplate has him as "Jang Dong Gun" (I'm guessing this must an inside joke, if you know who "Jang Dong Gun" is

Lawyer JDG: Yes, we can get it back.
DJ: All of $3,000?
Lawyer JDG: Of course, why do you think that you can't get it back?
DJ: Then how much will I have to pay you?
Lawyer JDG: $3,000. $3,000 will make everything clear.

on the streets, DJ sees a sign reading "We Will Get Your Money Back!"
DJ (narration): Then is there only one place to rely on?


fantasy, parody of the K-movie 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance', in a dark wooded area, TB is tied, bagged, and gagged, attempting to scream, and thrown in a pit by a bunch of thugs, with DJ, dressed in dark clothing and sunglasses overseeing the entire 'burial'


Thug: Kid! To deceive a person...there are people who can't live without deceiving in society. For example, those weeping people who hate the society. That's what deceiving is. Why would a guy like you, who doesn't lack anything, deceive anyone? And with $3,000?
DJ: Don't take too long.
Thug: Bury him! [police cars and sirens approaches] Run!

Police: Stand still! [grabs ahold of DJ]
DJ: Mister, it's not me!! It's not me!! It's not me!! Really!! Forgive me just once!!

back to reality, a car horn honks loudly at DJ
DJ (narration): No, that's not the way.

returning to Handa Home Shopping
DJ (narration): So my $3,000 is long gone.

enters elevator...at the last moment Sae-do comes in
Sae-do: Hello, Oh Dal Ja.

words are flying out of DJ's head: God! I hate him! Bastard! Son of XXX! Loser!! Son of a gun! Unlucky XXX!
Sae-do: I never knew your type was like those kind of guys.
DJ: Excuse me?
Sae-do: The guy we met at the hotel.
DJ: Oh yeah...
Sae-do: I thought you were a conservative type. You know to get married right after you kiss...You know those scary and boring women.
DJ: Ohh...
DJ (narration): You bastard, unlucky player!!
Sae-do: Maybe I didn't know you that well. I should have waited until I knew you better. Maybe I was too quick to call it quits, and now I have regrets.
DJ (narration): Regrets?
Sae-do: And it wasn't a joke when I was waiting for you for eight years. Really!

exits elevator
co-worker: Hello.
DJ and Sae-do: Hello.

Sae-do enters his office, DJ heads to her workstation
co-workers: Hello! Good morning!
DJ sits down, narration: No way...
receives text message from Sae-do: Are you coming to the end-of-the-year meeting?
DJ (narration): What is this? The woman he lets go is more interesting now that she has a boyfriend? [laughs out loud]
Then...you are finished.

at a cafe, DJ places a sheet of paper on the table and pushes it over to TB, music from movie Mission Impossible comes on

TB reads from the paper: After law school, you were immediately accepted to a very well known law firm and an income that goes over one million?
DJ: And there is the luxury car and an expensive, large apartment.
TB: Your standards are too high. That's why you're not married.
DJ: Say one more word or I'll break this whole contract.
TB: If we are going all the way, why don't we put in that I have a golf membership...And while you're writing, maybe add a hotel membership. I have to be this much in order for people to be impressed.
looks at what she's written, DJ: Here! From this day and a month, you are what is written on that paper. So memorize everything. And after you memorize everything, come to my company by 7 p.m. Got it?
Mission Impossible theme goes awry, TB: But there is a problem. If I have an income that is over one million, shouldn't I have better clothes? Isn't that right?


at a clothings store...the Pretty Woman theme comes on as TB tries on several different outfits till he receives DJ's approval

a salesclerk approaches TB: Is she your sister?
TB: No.
DJ comes over: I'm his girlfriend.
salesclerk gives this weird look: You look so good together. Would you like to see something else?
cashier: Altogether, it is $425.
[screen with bank statement scrolls up] Bank Information : Money in bank: $11.22 - Shopping costs: $425
DJ (narration): Crap!

outside, DJ is looking at the receipt
TB: You spent so much! Are you sure your account isn't going to be negative? [it's already in the negative thanks to the purchase]
DJ: It's OK. This is nothing.
TB: Well even if it's a fake boyfriend, it would look bad if your boyfriend did, right?
DJ: Of course, I have a reputation in my work.
DJ (narration): Darn that reputation! It looks like I am going to starve for the next month.
TB: Is he worth all this? $3,000 and these clothes are a lot of money, so are you sure he is worth all this?
DJ: It doesn't matter if he is worth it or not, but he touched my pride.
TB: Are you sure it's not your vanity?
DJ: It's at 7, don't be late. If you're a minute late then I'll break the contract, understand?
TB: Yeah, I won't be late!

DJ (narration): I don't care if you mock me. If it is atrocity, I don't care. I have to do this in order to protect something of mine.


flashback to when DJ was still in grade school, comes running into her mom's restaurant
DJ: Mom! Mom! Mom, what does a destiny being too strong mean?
DJ mom: What?
DJ: My friend told me that all the women in our family make their husbands die young, so that's why my friend doesn't want to play with me. If he plays with me, then he might die young.
DJ mom: Then you don't play with him either.
DJ: But I want to...
DJ mom: Is he the only boy in the world? Why would you want to play with him? You don't even have pride?

appears in large letters above DJ's head: P..RI..DE ?

DJ narration: Pride. That is it, pride. [returns to Handa Home Shopping] If he doesn't want to play with me, then I don't either. If he treats me like I'm worthless, then there is no need to take in consideration. [screen pauses on Sae-do's smiling face as he nears DJ] But this guy! He touched a nerve not just once but three times.

flashback to the 3 times, and another flashback
DJ unni: It's all over the company that you were dumped by Shin Sae Do.
DJ (narration): At age 32 almost 33, I fought through because of my pride.

DJ gets on stage, to the models: Today's item's focus is utility. So move your body a lot to show that you are comfortable and capable.
models: OK.
DJ (narration), looking to Sun-joo: I won't just take everything in anymore like an idiot. Whatever it is, I will return to them as much as I received.
DJ: Are you ready?
Sun-joo: Whenever.
DJ: OK, let's start.




TB in his rooftop room, eyes on the Handa Home Shopping broadcast featuring Sun-joo, hands playing with a Rubics cube, and mind elsewhere. He turns off the TV, sets down the Rubics cube, which is completed, and heads out the door

TB, scratches his hair: Wow, she is getting to me.
[Runs to his friend's clothing stand...the same one where he sold off the clothes DJ had bought for him]

TB: Did you sell the clothes that I gave you yesterday?

back at Handa Home Shopping
co-workers: Good work! Happy New Year!
DJ whispers as some of the other co-workers are asleep Good Work!
DJ, slamming her hands on the desktop: It's a new year! You should go home.
co-worker, woken Yeah, I should. What about the broadcast?
DJ: It went alright and the numbers were OK.
co-worker: Good. [Leaving] Happy New Year!
DJ: Have a happy new year.
another co-worker, entering: Here is your phone. You left it in the conference room.
DJ: Thanks!
co-worker: Your boyfriend kept on calling.
DJ: Boyfriend? Oh yeah...
co-worker: Happy New Year!
DJ: Happy New Year!

DJ (narration): The show went smoothly and the 2007 New Year's came, and I turned 33.

cell phone rings, from Kang Tae Bong, but DJ doesn't answer

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ending illustration



the ending illustration for EP 2 is pretty self explanatory, don't you think, considering the events that occurred at the end of the episode.

In case you missed out, DJ's fantasy kissing TB in the hallway of a motel is a parody of the HK movie "In the Mood for Love" [Tony Leung won for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in this movie]...the drama in the parody, not only used the black/red color theme, but the musical score from the movie as well.

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as to clues concerning who TB is from this episode:
1. He seems very well verse in the law [the scene where he tells DJ the terms of the contract, him confirming from her five times, his example of murdering someone or impregnating a woman]
2. He even had DJ include in little details as hotel/golf membership for his 'fake' history.
3. He didn't hesitate to answer when asked from which law firm he worked for [Lee&Jang, which is a pretty well known firm in Korea], that was not written on the 'history' DJ gave him. There might also be a ring of truth when he also said that he'd work there for 3 years, and only with the last year quit, again, which wasn't written down by DJ.
4. He solved the Rubics cube in a very short amount of time, considering he wasn't EVEN looking at it--his mind was on DJ, and his eyes were on the TV...attesting to his mental abilities? A prodigy?

Of course, we still don't know why he's being chased by loan sharks. Especially, since he had $50,000 in his account to wire to someone named Choi Hee-Yun. And who's the old man in the glasses he seems so afraid of?

[BAE]

Thanks creidesca! I shall visit the socal board for episode 3 as well. The Rubics cube isn't that hard to solve! My cousin who's like 5 solved it in like under a minute. Maybe he's just a child genius? LOL. I like Taebong.. Heehee

[PippiBella]

What happened on thursdays episode? When are they repeated?

[BAE]

They're repeated at around 1:00pm the following afternoons. And creidesca has posted a description of cut scenes from Ep. 3 on the SoCal thread for Dalja's Spring.