Post by humblestudent2 on Aug 24, 2007 8:07:12 GMT -5
Episode 5 Recap
As the episode starts, Dae-shik has just arrived at the hospital, while Seung-ha is taking cute little Sora home to her mommy. They get to her house, but Jeong-yeon is a while showing up. Seung-ha entertains her nicely, listening to her sing a nursery song and playing little games and giving her a piece of peppermint candy (!!!*). When Jeong-yeon shows up, he leaves her with his business card and takes off into the night. Later, Jeong-yeon asks Sora about her day; she tells how a man took her to the zoo and then dropped her off at the police station. "Was that the scary ajeossi who came to our house that day (Dae-shik)?" "No. It was the nice ajeossi, the one who gave me the bear." (Of course, we know that this was Kim Yeong-cheol.) Jeong-yeon looks troubled on hearing this...
Well, being unable to put off the sad business of Dae-shik any longer - he was dead on arrival, apparently from an obstructed airway due to his asthma, though an autopsy will perhaps show more. Oh-soo just loses it, going through all the stages of grief in about 20 seconds - manhandling the doctors, begging them to do something, then bursting into unrestrained heartfelt wailing. After that he charges over to reporter Seong Joon-p'yo's hotel room and angrily accuses him of killing his friend, but Min-jae manages to keep him from doing anything irrevocable.
Then he goes over to Dae-shik's place and helps search it, but the only new thing they find is a woman's coat button which has rolled under the bed.
Miserable, blaming himself for Dae-shik’s death, and obviously not thinking clearly at all, Oh-soo goes over to Hae-in’s house and stands outside in the rain, while the audio plays the pop tune “Please don’t love this undeserving man”. Hae-in comes out and tries to give him an umbrella, but he won’t take it – he just runs off in the rain. (Hae-in’s mom then complains that she has a secret boyfriend and so on.)
Oh-soo argues with Chief Ban, who is not even sure that Dae-shik’s death was a murder case – “We can’t assume it was murder just because someone sent him a tarot card.” Oh-soo says that it’s not just that, he noticed a “strange smoky gas smell” in Dae-Shik’s office. Anyway, soon the case against Joon-p'yo looks a little more solid, as Min-jae manages to find the website that had been the subject of Hae-in's visions since last episode; it is a blog with pictures of the "Judgment" and "Justice" cards and of Rodin's "Gates of Hell". (Seung-ha again visits the Rodin Gallery in this episode – maybe it’s his favorite place.) The blog is registered to Seong Joon-p'yo! This is enough for a search warrant; Oh-soo and his team go over to his room again and immediately find, guess what? The distinctive sneakers of the guy who appeared on the surveillance camera leaving the keycard in front of Lawyer Kwon's office! So they take Joon-p'yo in!
Alas, the case then quickly dissipates. Joon-p'yo says that he got the sneakers in the express package which, as we know, and they confirm, he actually did get. (Where is the box? He has already recycled it, conscientious environmentalist that he is.) He has an alibi for the time of the killing – he was eating dinner with his editor. And the blog? Joon-p'yo denies any knowledge of it; and in fact, the IP address records show that the blog posts were made from an Internet café in the Shin-chon (Yonsei University) district, not from Joon-p'yo's usual addresses. Oh-soo lays out his theory that Joon-p'yo is taking revenge on the Kang family for having ruined his life. "That's a good theory," allows Joon-p'yo, "but if I were doing it I would have started with Congressman Kang** himself. Or maybe his son! Anyway, I wouldn't be stupid enough to commit a crime like that to get revenge. I have enough self-control to watch greedy powerful men walk around unscathed." None of the people who have seen Mr. X in action recognize Joon-p'yo's photograph, and ultimately Oh-soo believes he's telling the truth.
Well, of course Mr. X could put any return address he wanted on his envelopes, but why did Joon-p'yo's old address show up in Hae-in's vision? Oh-soo and Chief Ban come up with a frightening theory - maybe Mr. X has known about Hae-in's powers from the beginning, and is deliberately manipulating her visions to lay false trails! Which means that none of her visions can be completely trusted.
Meanwhile Na-heui is sitting at the Kang family home with her husband, Heui-soo, and the door buzzer rings, and she goes and looks at the security monitor, and OMG, there is Soon-ki’s nasty face staring into it, asking to come in!! Of course if he sees her he will be in a position to expose her affair with Soek-jin. She persuades Heui-soo to go out and chase him off; he goes out there with another envelope full of money. While they’re out there in the driveway, Congressman Kang himself comes home, and gives Soon-ki a very frigid, even menacing, reception, and clearly warning him that the time has come to stop trying to squeeze them for money and favors. “A word to the wise is sufficient”, but we’ll see how wise Soon-ki is, I suppose. Heui-soo offers him the money; Soon-ki claims to be insulted - "I didn't come for that". (But he takes it anyway!)
Oh-soo comes by the library and is a little more communicative than he was the last time, and Hae-in tries to reassure him that it isn’t all his fault. He leaves Dae-shik’s “Justice” tarot with her. When she finally does a reading on the card, she gets nothing much new about Dae-shik, but only echoes of the killing of the student Tae-hoon 12 years ago - we see him surrounded by a clump of four or five other boys in uniform, and we hear his voice: "Kill me now, if you have the confidence."
Hae-in then goes down in the subway, but as she is boarding a train she brushes against someone and gets exactly the same vibe she got from the tarot immediately before. She gets off and tries to track the guy up the stairs and onto the street - we recognize the man she's trailing as Kim Yeong-cheol. She loses him on the street, though, and bumps right into Seung-ha, who is concerned about her being out of breath and such and offers her his handkerchief to mop off the sweat ... there is a well-done moment where she hesitates to take the handkerchief, clearly worried about getting some kind of unpleasant psychic shock from him as she has gotten before - but when she takes it, there is nothing like that - sometimes a hanky is just a hanky.
Seung-ha then gives her a ride back to the Café where they run into Oh-soo. Seung-ha asks Hae-in if she'd like to go out to dinner sometime, and she says, "sure". Seung-ha departs. Inside the café, Hae-in relates her experience. Joon-heui scolds her for playing detective hero - "You're not Angelina Jolie!" "Where did the guy get off the train?" asks Oh-soo. She tells him it was in the university district - Kyo-dae station.***
Oh-soo then produces the button that was found in Dae-shik's office. Joon-heui tries to prevent Hae-in from trying to do a reading on it, afraid that she'll sicken herself, but Hae-in insists on it - she wants to find out who is using her own tarot cards in these plots. From the button, she has a vision of the woman we recognize as Jeong-yeon fighting with Dae-shik, demanding to know where her daughter is, and then pulling out a pistol and pulling the trigger repeatedly (though we don’t see the gun actually fire); Dae-shik staggers; the button comes off her coat and rolls under the desk.****
Of course Dae-shik didn't die from gunshot wounds, but Oh-soo has an idea: suppose the pistol in Hae-in's vision were actually a gas gun?
Meanwhile Jeong-yeon, who has been brooding about the whole thing, but apparently hasn't heard of Dae-shik's death, calls Dae-shik's cell phone. Since his phone is at the police station, in evidence, it is answered by Detective Min-jae! A brief but tense conversation ensues in split-screen; Jeong-yeon wants to know if Dae-shik is okay; Min-jae first wants to know who is calling .... Jeong-yeon hangs up, but they are able to trace the call to the steam room she made it from. It looks like she might need a good lawyer soon – how prescient of Seung-ha to leave his business card with her!
As the episode ends, Cha Kwang-doo, who has been trying to track down his busy old colleague Team leader Ban since the end of last episode, finally manages to catch up with him to have a heart-to-heart with him about Detective Kang Oh-soo (but he hasn’t yet gotten to the point at the closing credits). Meanwhile, Mr. X, or “Lord T’aekbae”,***** sends out two more packages – one to the police station, apparently for Oh-soo, and one to Hae-in herself!
* If you missed the peppermint candy reference, see the Episode 1-2 recap!
** I’m not clear about whether Kang Oh-soo’s rich father is still a Congressman or just has been one.
*** This isn’t spelled out, but you know what happened, don’t you? She went over there to confront Dae-shik, and sitting right there – apparently – was Sora’s own stuffed bear (really the duplicate bear from the package), effectively framing Dae-shik for the kidnapping.
**** These geographical references are from whoever did the d-addicts subtitles for this episode. I really hope we don’t have to start tracking all this stuff on a map of Soeul!!
***** t’aekbae = express delivery
As the episode starts, Dae-shik has just arrived at the hospital, while Seung-ha is taking cute little Sora home to her mommy. They get to her house, but Jeong-yeon is a while showing up. Seung-ha entertains her nicely, listening to her sing a nursery song and playing little games and giving her a piece of peppermint candy (!!!*). When Jeong-yeon shows up, he leaves her with his business card and takes off into the night. Later, Jeong-yeon asks Sora about her day; she tells how a man took her to the zoo and then dropped her off at the police station. "Was that the scary ajeossi who came to our house that day (Dae-shik)?" "No. It was the nice ajeossi, the one who gave me the bear." (Of course, we know that this was Kim Yeong-cheol.) Jeong-yeon looks troubled on hearing this...
Well, being unable to put off the sad business of Dae-shik any longer - he was dead on arrival, apparently from an obstructed airway due to his asthma, though an autopsy will perhaps show more. Oh-soo just loses it, going through all the stages of grief in about 20 seconds - manhandling the doctors, begging them to do something, then bursting into unrestrained heartfelt wailing. After that he charges over to reporter Seong Joon-p'yo's hotel room and angrily accuses him of killing his friend, but Min-jae manages to keep him from doing anything irrevocable.
Then he goes over to Dae-shik's place and helps search it, but the only new thing they find is a woman's coat button which has rolled under the bed.
Miserable, blaming himself for Dae-shik’s death, and obviously not thinking clearly at all, Oh-soo goes over to Hae-in’s house and stands outside in the rain, while the audio plays the pop tune “Please don’t love this undeserving man”. Hae-in comes out and tries to give him an umbrella, but he won’t take it – he just runs off in the rain. (Hae-in’s mom then complains that she has a secret boyfriend and so on.)
Oh-soo argues with Chief Ban, who is not even sure that Dae-shik’s death was a murder case – “We can’t assume it was murder just because someone sent him a tarot card.” Oh-soo says that it’s not just that, he noticed a “strange smoky gas smell” in Dae-Shik’s office. Anyway, soon the case against Joon-p'yo looks a little more solid, as Min-jae manages to find the website that had been the subject of Hae-in's visions since last episode; it is a blog with pictures of the "Judgment" and "Justice" cards and of Rodin's "Gates of Hell". (Seung-ha again visits the Rodin Gallery in this episode – maybe it’s his favorite place.) The blog is registered to Seong Joon-p'yo! This is enough for a search warrant; Oh-soo and his team go over to his room again and immediately find, guess what? The distinctive sneakers of the guy who appeared on the surveillance camera leaving the keycard in front of Lawyer Kwon's office! So they take Joon-p'yo in!
Alas, the case then quickly dissipates. Joon-p'yo says that he got the sneakers in the express package which, as we know, and they confirm, he actually did get. (Where is the box? He has already recycled it, conscientious environmentalist that he is.) He has an alibi for the time of the killing – he was eating dinner with his editor. And the blog? Joon-p'yo denies any knowledge of it; and in fact, the IP address records show that the blog posts were made from an Internet café in the Shin-chon (Yonsei University) district, not from Joon-p'yo's usual addresses. Oh-soo lays out his theory that Joon-p'yo is taking revenge on the Kang family for having ruined his life. "That's a good theory," allows Joon-p'yo, "but if I were doing it I would have started with Congressman Kang** himself. Or maybe his son! Anyway, I wouldn't be stupid enough to commit a crime like that to get revenge. I have enough self-control to watch greedy powerful men walk around unscathed." None of the people who have seen Mr. X in action recognize Joon-p'yo's photograph, and ultimately Oh-soo believes he's telling the truth.
Well, of course Mr. X could put any return address he wanted on his envelopes, but why did Joon-p'yo's old address show up in Hae-in's vision? Oh-soo and Chief Ban come up with a frightening theory - maybe Mr. X has known about Hae-in's powers from the beginning, and is deliberately manipulating her visions to lay false trails! Which means that none of her visions can be completely trusted.
Meanwhile Na-heui is sitting at the Kang family home with her husband, Heui-soo, and the door buzzer rings, and she goes and looks at the security monitor, and OMG, there is Soon-ki’s nasty face staring into it, asking to come in!! Of course if he sees her he will be in a position to expose her affair with Soek-jin. She persuades Heui-soo to go out and chase him off; he goes out there with another envelope full of money. While they’re out there in the driveway, Congressman Kang himself comes home, and gives Soon-ki a very frigid, even menacing, reception, and clearly warning him that the time has come to stop trying to squeeze them for money and favors. “A word to the wise is sufficient”, but we’ll see how wise Soon-ki is, I suppose. Heui-soo offers him the money; Soon-ki claims to be insulted - "I didn't come for that". (But he takes it anyway!)
Oh-soo comes by the library and is a little more communicative than he was the last time, and Hae-in tries to reassure him that it isn’t all his fault. He leaves Dae-shik’s “Justice” tarot with her. When she finally does a reading on the card, she gets nothing much new about Dae-shik, but only echoes of the killing of the student Tae-hoon 12 years ago - we see him surrounded by a clump of four or five other boys in uniform, and we hear his voice: "Kill me now, if you have the confidence."
Hae-in then goes down in the subway, but as she is boarding a train she brushes against someone and gets exactly the same vibe she got from the tarot immediately before. She gets off and tries to track the guy up the stairs and onto the street - we recognize the man she's trailing as Kim Yeong-cheol. She loses him on the street, though, and bumps right into Seung-ha, who is concerned about her being out of breath and such and offers her his handkerchief to mop off the sweat ... there is a well-done moment where she hesitates to take the handkerchief, clearly worried about getting some kind of unpleasant psychic shock from him as she has gotten before - but when she takes it, there is nothing like that - sometimes a hanky is just a hanky.
Seung-ha then gives her a ride back to the Café where they run into Oh-soo. Seung-ha asks Hae-in if she'd like to go out to dinner sometime, and she says, "sure". Seung-ha departs. Inside the café, Hae-in relates her experience. Joon-heui scolds her for playing detective hero - "You're not Angelina Jolie!" "Where did the guy get off the train?" asks Oh-soo. She tells him it was in the university district - Kyo-dae station.***
Oh-soo then produces the button that was found in Dae-shik's office. Joon-heui tries to prevent Hae-in from trying to do a reading on it, afraid that she'll sicken herself, but Hae-in insists on it - she wants to find out who is using her own tarot cards in these plots. From the button, she has a vision of the woman we recognize as Jeong-yeon fighting with Dae-shik, demanding to know where her daughter is, and then pulling out a pistol and pulling the trigger repeatedly (though we don’t see the gun actually fire); Dae-shik staggers; the button comes off her coat and rolls under the desk.****
Of course Dae-shik didn't die from gunshot wounds, but Oh-soo has an idea: suppose the pistol in Hae-in's vision were actually a gas gun?
Meanwhile Jeong-yeon, who has been brooding about the whole thing, but apparently hasn't heard of Dae-shik's death, calls Dae-shik's cell phone. Since his phone is at the police station, in evidence, it is answered by Detective Min-jae! A brief but tense conversation ensues in split-screen; Jeong-yeon wants to know if Dae-shik is okay; Min-jae first wants to know who is calling .... Jeong-yeon hangs up, but they are able to trace the call to the steam room she made it from. It looks like she might need a good lawyer soon – how prescient of Seung-ha to leave his business card with her!
As the episode ends, Cha Kwang-doo, who has been trying to track down his busy old colleague Team leader Ban since the end of last episode, finally manages to catch up with him to have a heart-to-heart with him about Detective Kang Oh-soo (but he hasn’t yet gotten to the point at the closing credits). Meanwhile, Mr. X, or “Lord T’aekbae”,***** sends out two more packages – one to the police station, apparently for Oh-soo, and one to Hae-in herself!
* If you missed the peppermint candy reference, see the Episode 1-2 recap!
** I’m not clear about whether Kang Oh-soo’s rich father is still a Congressman or just has been one.
*** This isn’t spelled out, but you know what happened, don’t you? She went over there to confront Dae-shik, and sitting right there – apparently – was Sora’s own stuffed bear (really the duplicate bear from the package), effectively framing Dae-shik for the kidnapping.
**** These geographical references are from whoever did the d-addicts subtitles for this episode. I really hope we don’t have to start tracking all this stuff on a map of Soeul!!
***** t’aekbae = express delivery