Post by humblestudent2 on Aug 29, 2007 21:33:39 GMT -5
Episode 6 recap
(based on the VOD, d-addicts subtitles, and the screenplay)
At the end of Episode 5, three things were going on: Oh-soo and Hae-in had both been delivered express packages, and Team chief Ban was having an important conversation with his old acquaintance, Cha Kwang-doo, now "Director of General Affairs" at Oh Seung-ha's law office.
Oh-soo's package contains an envelope which contains some pictures (I saw two) of a couple of high school students in uniform standing on a sidewalk or in front of a building. They are not posed and seem almost like surveillance photos. They have dates in the corner - they were taken 12 years ago. The only one whose face can be seen is the young Kang Oh-soo.
Also, there is a page, seemingly from a computer printer, with the following message:
If one would go into the suffering city, one must pass by me.
If one would go into eternal suffering, one must pass by me.
If one would go among the lost-souled people, one must pass by me.
[This is more poetic in the original Italian:
Per me si va ne la città dolente.
Per me si va ne l'etterno dolore.
Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
In Dante's Inferno, they are the first three lines of a poem that is written on the doorway to Hell; the final line is the familiar "Abandon all hope, you who enter here." ("Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate")
I have always liked this poem and thought that the opening lines would be a good motto for the Chicago Transit Authority. Perhaps the writer of this show has similar ideas about the Seoul subway system?!]
Hae-in's package contains only the "Empress" tarot card. She is about to do a reading on it right there in the library, but Seung-ha shows up just then, in the course of his many researches, and engages her in small talk, opining that the woman depicted on the "Empress" card, painted by Hae-in, resembles Hae-in herself. (She doesn't, by the way. She has orange hair, for one thing. The "Empress", not Hae-in.)
"The Shadow of the Past"
OK, now let's get to the long expository conversation that Kwang-doo has with Chief Ban in a café. Chief Ban starts off by telling Kwang-doo some stuff that he doesn't already know - how they originally suspected the reporter Seong Joon-P'yo but no longer do now, because he had no motive to kill the latest victim, named Yoon Dae-Shik, and how they think some "mastermind" is behind all this.
Now Kwang-doo tells what he knows about the killing of Jeong Tae-hoon, 12 years ago. According to Kwang-doo, who was then a police detective and was investigating the crime, Oh-soo himself turned himself in for the killing the same night. But three witnesses - fellow students and friends of Oh-soo, namely Dae-shik, Soon-ki, and Na Seok-jin - came forward and swore that it was self-defense, and that Tae-hoon had threatened them all with the knife (which was his).
Now, Hae-in, at the time, had had a vision of the killing and had seen another student take the knife from Tae-hoon's pocket and ultimately stab him with it as his cronies looked on. (Ban had not known of Hae-in's involvement in this case.) Furthermore, Oh-soo had a reputation as a troublemaker back then, and nobody at the school believed this "self-defense" story, and neither did Kwang-doo. But Oh-soo's powerful father had gotten involved, and brought in Lawyer Kwon to defend him, and ultimately Oh-soo was completely "exonerated" with no criminal record. Kwang-doo flashes back to how he then told the remorseful Oh-soo that "you have to live for two people now - yourself and the dead boy's share of life."
Also, it turns out that the reporter Seong Joon-p'yo actually does have a connection to this affair. He is the nephew of the guy who was the principal of the school, and - to clear the school of the shadow of "school violence" - wrote an article accusing the police of conducting a witch hunt, basically.
Ban is shaken by all this, and later tells Oh-soo he wants him off the case, but again he lets Oh-soo talk him out of it.
"The First 48"
Meanwhile the investigation into Dae-shik's killing is proceeding. Oh-soo attends the autopsy, and the doctors reveal that in addition to asthma Dae-shik had a heart condition that could easily have caused death, particularly if there were some other shock. They think that the "gas gun" theory has some merit and will run some tests on a skin sample from Dae-shik's face.
After this, one of Dae-shik's loan shark henchmen comes to Oh-soo with his business records; furthermore, he knows who "Sora's mom" is. He identifies her as Kim Jeong-yeon. Also, the gas gun itself turns up and fingerprints on it. Meanwhile, Jeong-yeon goes by Dae-shik's office to see how he is and is horrified to find out from a security guard that "someone killed him". Min-jae and Jae-min stake out Jeong-yeon's house.
Unfortunately, the search for the "mastermind" who has set up these killings is not going anywhere. Chief Ban and Oh-soo release Joon-p'yo from custody, whom they have been holding for a day; he says some sarcastic things that imply that he's not going to just forget about it. Oh-soo goes to question Jo Dong-seop about who could have used him as a pawn in the first murder, but Dong-seop doesn't seem to quite understand what Oh-soo is talking about. Then Oh-soo talks with Dong-seop's lawyer, Seung-ha, and tells him what they suspect and asks Seung-ha to agree to postpone the trial until they have more evidence against the real mastermind (paehujojong, maybe "puppet-master" (behind-the-scenes controller)). "This would be to your client's advantage," he says. But Seung-ha is flatly opposed - he says he has a clear enough case of self-defense already.
Later on, Cha Kwang-doo approaches Seung-ha with basically the same idea. He has been thinking about this "mastermind" a lot, and believes that this is all clearly about the old homicide; the "mastermind" is getting all the old actors together and re-enacting the events of 12 years ago, and wants Dong-seop to get off on "self-defense" grounds just as Oh-soo got off on "self-defense" grounds before; so proceeding with the trial now just plays into the "mastermind's" hands. Kwang-doo also believes that the only reason that Seung-ha is involved with Dong-seop must be because of Kwang-doo's own old connection to the case; the "mastermind" is going after Kwang-doo and Seung-ha has been dragged in as a result. "I was unable to help the dead boy, so I myself might be one of those who hurt him." Seung-ha doesn't respond to this - and he's still unwilling to change his trial strategy.
"Ne la Citta Dolente"
Earlier, Hae-in called Oh-soo to tell him about the delivery, but he left his cell phone at the office and so she just left a message for him to call her (which he never gets). Then, taking a long lunch I guess, Hae-in takes the "Empress" card back with her to the Tarot Café to do a reading there. She asks Joo-heui to make her some sandwiches; safely alone, she touches the card. She gets a picture of a school building ... a corridor inside the building, by a room marked "1 - 4" (I guess this means 1st year, fourth classroom) ... a student, whose face we don't see, runs down the hall, as if fleeing some unseen pursuer. In addition, she sees a subway sign for the Noksap'yeong station, and also parts of the Rodin "Gates of Hell" sculpture, the running student again, and, finally, a recent image of Soon-ki! whom of course she doesn't recognize. When Joo-heui returns with the sandwiches, Hae-in makes her excuses and takes off to investigate, leaving Joon-heui justifiably irritated.
In the next scene, she is apparently in the Noksap'yeong subway station. Among the illuminated advertising signs on the wall there is a sign for something at the Rodin Gallery; it depicts the parts of the "Gates of Hell" that she saw in her vision. As she is leaving, she walks by Kim Yeong-cheol. She doesn't notice him, but he notices her and gives her a long look.
(After this, there is a very brief scene in which a hand takes a red envelope out of a locker which the screenplay identifies as a subway security locker; of course there are no lockers in the CTA anywhere, but apparently they exist in Seoul? Now, I didn't mention this before, but there was a very similar scene in Episode 4, and a while after that there was another scene that I didn't mention of Yeong-cheol in the subway. And of course we know that Hae-in tailed him out of the subway in Episode 5. This is not proof that Yeong-cheol is the person who gets envelopes out of lockers in subways, nor is it proof that these are the same envelopes that end up in express packages, but I think the writers intend us to be making connections - which of course may be red herrings.)
Later, Hae-in, back at work, finally gets hold of Oh-soo on the phone; he had been on his way out the door to Dae-shik's memorial service, but, hearing that she has gotten a package, he dashes over to the library, frantic with worry, and bursts in like a lunatic. When he finds her in the stacks, he sees some guy reaching out towards her and immediately jumps him and gets an armlock on him! It turns out to be a patron she knows, and he has to apologize. "The news that I have a boyfriend will get around the whole library very quickly," she says.
The "Empress", she explains to Oh-soo, represents Demeter, the Earth-mother, ruler of nature and personification of the life force. Oh-soo is happy to hear that this is a comparatively nice card, but she says this isn't necessarily so. "The daffodil in the picture represents the voice of the dead, the truths that the dead people are determined to tell. It might mean that I am supposed to speak for the dead."
Oh-soo takes Hae-in home and meets her mother. As he is leaving, all of a sudden she remembers what the building in her vision is - it is a high school in her old neighborhood. After Oh-soo leaves, her mom first teases her about her "boyfriend" but, upon hearing that he is a police officer again, sharply orders her to stop helping with the investigation because it will make her sick again. But Hae-in thinks it's her special responsibility to go on with it.
"Peculiar Men, Peculiar Woman"
Soon-ki is causing a lot of distress now that he is out of jail. In particular, he is really messing up the love affair between Na-heui (Oh-soo's brother Heui-soo's wife) and Na Seok-jin (Heui-soo's secretary). Soon-ki is actually living in Seok-jin's officetel room. Na-heui goes over there to vent her frustration on Seok-jin (while Soon-ki is out): not only is their "haven" (Seok-jin's place) ruined for them, but when she is at home (at the Kang house) she is terrified that Soon-ki will come over again and identify her as the woman he found in Seok-jin's rooms when he first went over there. She doesn't want to hear Seok-jin's empty apologies; she wants something done about Kim Soon-ki! They get in a spat and she stalks out; he runs after her to kiss and make up. As they do so in the windowed officetel hallway, however, someone outside the building apparently takes their picture....
Meanwhile, Soon-ki is over at Heui-soo's office demanding to be hired to manage the casino at the new Kang hotel on Jeju!! So much for "a word to the wise"!! This is way too much for Heui-soo, and he angrily orders him out; just then Mr. Kang shows up and is even more menacing than he was in the last episode: "Do you think I don't know more than one way to dispose of trash?" Furious, Mr. Kang then calls up Oh-soo at work to berate him for not keeping his "friend" in check; this is all Oh-soo's fault, because if he had lived right (i.e., if he hadn't killed Tae-hoon) Kang wouldn't have had to fix everything (i.e. buy Soon-ki's perjured testimony). "I never asked you to interfere," Oh-soo responds. Mr. Kang has nasty words for Heui-soo as well. If Soon-ki is the mastermind's next target, he has a lot of weapons to use - everybody hates him at this point!
Later that evening Dae-shik's memorial service takes place. It is the bleakest thing imaginable; it is in a room that looks a lot like a cafeteria or cheap banquet hall, ornamented only by a bouquet contributed by Oh Seung-ha!, and the only people attending that I could see are Soon-ki (who is drunk), Seok-jin, Seung-ha (who invited himself last episode), and Oh-soo, who is insulted by Soon-ki for showing up late. Afterwards, Seung-ha, standing outside, eats a piece of peppermint candy, drops the wrapper on the sidewalk, and smiles to himself.
"My Lovely Family"
Earlier in the day, Seung-ha's older brother, Soo-gon, showed up at Seung-ha's office, having come into town for the birthday of some elderly relative. He brings some side dishes and a present from his daughter, some kind of artificial flower thing, which Seung-ha agreeably oohs and ahs over. Soo-gon also tells him about some businessman* they used to know of ages ago who just opened a cabaret. Then, he mentions that this guy had a robbery at his place, but the only thing that was taken, apparently, was an album of photographs of schoolboys. "Doesn't it sound like it was taken by some pervert?" Seung-ha doesn't answer.
After the brother has left, Kwang-doo remarks on what a nice-looking fellow he is. "If everyone were like that, we'd have to shut down this law office," Seung-ha agrees. Kwang-doo then remarks that "he doesn't look anything like you." (Note also that they don't share second syllables. Half-brother? Stepbrother? Is Seung-ha's family history going to be important?)
In the evening, after the memorial service, back in his room, Seung-ha slowly, reverently picks up a carved wooden box and opens it. The only thing in it is an unadorned ring. He picks up the ring and utters the single word "Mother."
"Oh-soo, let's go to school!"
The next morning, Oh-soo picks up Hae-in on her day off to go and look for that building that was in her vision. Naturally, it is Oh-soo's own high-school. They go inside – it’s a Sunday, apparently? I should track the calendar of the episodes - and they find the place where the student ran in her vision. She tells Oh-soo she is sure this has something to do with the incident from 12 years ago where a student was killed, the incident which first led her to her special powers.... Of course Oh-soo has already been sick with fear that this is all related to the Tae-hoon business somehow, but he has not previously had any idea that Hae-in herself had any connection with it. He is staggered by this. He hears Tae-hoon's voice from the past call him a "coward", tell him he "can't do anything without help." For a moment it seems as if Tae-hoon is there instead of Hae-in. It looks as if he himself is about to flee, like the student in the vision. But as Oh-soo turns he sees a man's figure at the end of the corridor. We can't make out who it is - and it's the end of the episode.
- - -
* Soo-gon refers to him in the screenplay as "the ma-bbak manager". "Ma-bbak" apparently is slang for "forehead" or "face" (maybe "kisser" would be a reasonable translation?) or maybe slapping your forehead. The d-addicts translator seemed very unsure about this and thought maybe it was a nickname for the guy, but maybe the guy ran a bar called "Ma-bbak"?
An on-line search gives a lot of hits for this term, some on sex sites and a lot on blogs and boards and such, and a site called "mabbak.com" which will design little cartoon figures for your adverts. And there was a movie called "Champion Mabbak", some kind of slapstick comedy. If you can make anything out of all this, enlighten us please!
(based on the VOD, d-addicts subtitles, and the screenplay)
At the end of Episode 5, three things were going on: Oh-soo and Hae-in had both been delivered express packages, and Team chief Ban was having an important conversation with his old acquaintance, Cha Kwang-doo, now "Director of General Affairs" at Oh Seung-ha's law office.
Oh-soo's package contains an envelope which contains some pictures (I saw two) of a couple of high school students in uniform standing on a sidewalk or in front of a building. They are not posed and seem almost like surveillance photos. They have dates in the corner - they were taken 12 years ago. The only one whose face can be seen is the young Kang Oh-soo.
Also, there is a page, seemingly from a computer printer, with the following message:
If one would go into the suffering city, one must pass by me.
If one would go into eternal suffering, one must pass by me.
If one would go among the lost-souled people, one must pass by me.
[This is more poetic in the original Italian:
Per me si va ne la città dolente.
Per me si va ne l'etterno dolore.
Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
In Dante's Inferno, they are the first three lines of a poem that is written on the doorway to Hell; the final line is the familiar "Abandon all hope, you who enter here." ("Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate")
I have always liked this poem and thought that the opening lines would be a good motto for the Chicago Transit Authority. Perhaps the writer of this show has similar ideas about the Seoul subway system?!]
Hae-in's package contains only the "Empress" tarot card. She is about to do a reading on it right there in the library, but Seung-ha shows up just then, in the course of his many researches, and engages her in small talk, opining that the woman depicted on the "Empress" card, painted by Hae-in, resembles Hae-in herself. (She doesn't, by the way. She has orange hair, for one thing. The "Empress", not Hae-in.)
"The Shadow of the Past"
OK, now let's get to the long expository conversation that Kwang-doo has with Chief Ban in a café. Chief Ban starts off by telling Kwang-doo some stuff that he doesn't already know - how they originally suspected the reporter Seong Joon-P'yo but no longer do now, because he had no motive to kill the latest victim, named Yoon Dae-Shik, and how they think some "mastermind" is behind all this.
Now Kwang-doo tells what he knows about the killing of Jeong Tae-hoon, 12 years ago. According to Kwang-doo, who was then a police detective and was investigating the crime, Oh-soo himself turned himself in for the killing the same night. But three witnesses - fellow students and friends of Oh-soo, namely Dae-shik, Soon-ki, and Na Seok-jin - came forward and swore that it was self-defense, and that Tae-hoon had threatened them all with the knife (which was his).
Now, Hae-in, at the time, had had a vision of the killing and had seen another student take the knife from Tae-hoon's pocket and ultimately stab him with it as his cronies looked on. (Ban had not known of Hae-in's involvement in this case.) Furthermore, Oh-soo had a reputation as a troublemaker back then, and nobody at the school believed this "self-defense" story, and neither did Kwang-doo. But Oh-soo's powerful father had gotten involved, and brought in Lawyer Kwon to defend him, and ultimately Oh-soo was completely "exonerated" with no criminal record. Kwang-doo flashes back to how he then told the remorseful Oh-soo that "you have to live for two people now - yourself and the dead boy's share of life."
Also, it turns out that the reporter Seong Joon-p'yo actually does have a connection to this affair. He is the nephew of the guy who was the principal of the school, and - to clear the school of the shadow of "school violence" - wrote an article accusing the police of conducting a witch hunt, basically.
Ban is shaken by all this, and later tells Oh-soo he wants him off the case, but again he lets Oh-soo talk him out of it.
"The First 48"
Meanwhile the investigation into Dae-shik's killing is proceeding. Oh-soo attends the autopsy, and the doctors reveal that in addition to asthma Dae-shik had a heart condition that could easily have caused death, particularly if there were some other shock. They think that the "gas gun" theory has some merit and will run some tests on a skin sample from Dae-shik's face.
After this, one of Dae-shik's loan shark henchmen comes to Oh-soo with his business records; furthermore, he knows who "Sora's mom" is. He identifies her as Kim Jeong-yeon. Also, the gas gun itself turns up and fingerprints on it. Meanwhile, Jeong-yeon goes by Dae-shik's office to see how he is and is horrified to find out from a security guard that "someone killed him". Min-jae and Jae-min stake out Jeong-yeon's house.
Unfortunately, the search for the "mastermind" who has set up these killings is not going anywhere. Chief Ban and Oh-soo release Joon-p'yo from custody, whom they have been holding for a day; he says some sarcastic things that imply that he's not going to just forget about it. Oh-soo goes to question Jo Dong-seop about who could have used him as a pawn in the first murder, but Dong-seop doesn't seem to quite understand what Oh-soo is talking about. Then Oh-soo talks with Dong-seop's lawyer, Seung-ha, and tells him what they suspect and asks Seung-ha to agree to postpone the trial until they have more evidence against the real mastermind (paehujojong, maybe "puppet-master" (behind-the-scenes controller)). "This would be to your client's advantage," he says. But Seung-ha is flatly opposed - he says he has a clear enough case of self-defense already.
Later on, Cha Kwang-doo approaches Seung-ha with basically the same idea. He has been thinking about this "mastermind" a lot, and believes that this is all clearly about the old homicide; the "mastermind" is getting all the old actors together and re-enacting the events of 12 years ago, and wants Dong-seop to get off on "self-defense" grounds just as Oh-soo got off on "self-defense" grounds before; so proceeding with the trial now just plays into the "mastermind's" hands. Kwang-doo also believes that the only reason that Seung-ha is involved with Dong-seop must be because of Kwang-doo's own old connection to the case; the "mastermind" is going after Kwang-doo and Seung-ha has been dragged in as a result. "I was unable to help the dead boy, so I myself might be one of those who hurt him." Seung-ha doesn't respond to this - and he's still unwilling to change his trial strategy.
"Ne la Citta Dolente"
Earlier, Hae-in called Oh-soo to tell him about the delivery, but he left his cell phone at the office and so she just left a message for him to call her (which he never gets). Then, taking a long lunch I guess, Hae-in takes the "Empress" card back with her to the Tarot Café to do a reading there. She asks Joo-heui to make her some sandwiches; safely alone, she touches the card. She gets a picture of a school building ... a corridor inside the building, by a room marked "1 - 4" (I guess this means 1st year, fourth classroom) ... a student, whose face we don't see, runs down the hall, as if fleeing some unseen pursuer. In addition, she sees a subway sign for the Noksap'yeong station, and also parts of the Rodin "Gates of Hell" sculpture, the running student again, and, finally, a recent image of Soon-ki! whom of course she doesn't recognize. When Joo-heui returns with the sandwiches, Hae-in makes her excuses and takes off to investigate, leaving Joon-heui justifiably irritated.
In the next scene, she is apparently in the Noksap'yeong subway station. Among the illuminated advertising signs on the wall there is a sign for something at the Rodin Gallery; it depicts the parts of the "Gates of Hell" that she saw in her vision. As she is leaving, she walks by Kim Yeong-cheol. She doesn't notice him, but he notices her and gives her a long look.
(After this, there is a very brief scene in which a hand takes a red envelope out of a locker which the screenplay identifies as a subway security locker; of course there are no lockers in the CTA anywhere, but apparently they exist in Seoul? Now, I didn't mention this before, but there was a very similar scene in Episode 4, and a while after that there was another scene that I didn't mention of Yeong-cheol in the subway. And of course we know that Hae-in tailed him out of the subway in Episode 5. This is not proof that Yeong-cheol is the person who gets envelopes out of lockers in subways, nor is it proof that these are the same envelopes that end up in express packages, but I think the writers intend us to be making connections - which of course may be red herrings.)
Later, Hae-in, back at work, finally gets hold of Oh-soo on the phone; he had been on his way out the door to Dae-shik's memorial service, but, hearing that she has gotten a package, he dashes over to the library, frantic with worry, and bursts in like a lunatic. When he finds her in the stacks, he sees some guy reaching out towards her and immediately jumps him and gets an armlock on him! It turns out to be a patron she knows, and he has to apologize. "The news that I have a boyfriend will get around the whole library very quickly," she says.
The "Empress", she explains to Oh-soo, represents Demeter, the Earth-mother, ruler of nature and personification of the life force. Oh-soo is happy to hear that this is a comparatively nice card, but she says this isn't necessarily so. "The daffodil in the picture represents the voice of the dead, the truths that the dead people are determined to tell. It might mean that I am supposed to speak for the dead."
Oh-soo takes Hae-in home and meets her mother. As he is leaving, all of a sudden she remembers what the building in her vision is - it is a high school in her old neighborhood. After Oh-soo leaves, her mom first teases her about her "boyfriend" but, upon hearing that he is a police officer again, sharply orders her to stop helping with the investigation because it will make her sick again. But Hae-in thinks it's her special responsibility to go on with it.
"Peculiar Men, Peculiar Woman"
Soon-ki is causing a lot of distress now that he is out of jail. In particular, he is really messing up the love affair between Na-heui (Oh-soo's brother Heui-soo's wife) and Na Seok-jin (Heui-soo's secretary). Soon-ki is actually living in Seok-jin's officetel room. Na-heui goes over there to vent her frustration on Seok-jin (while Soon-ki is out): not only is their "haven" (Seok-jin's place) ruined for them, but when she is at home (at the Kang house) she is terrified that Soon-ki will come over again and identify her as the woman he found in Seok-jin's rooms when he first went over there. She doesn't want to hear Seok-jin's empty apologies; she wants something done about Kim Soon-ki! They get in a spat and she stalks out; he runs after her to kiss and make up. As they do so in the windowed officetel hallway, however, someone outside the building apparently takes their picture....
Meanwhile, Soon-ki is over at Heui-soo's office demanding to be hired to manage the casino at the new Kang hotel on Jeju!! So much for "a word to the wise"!! This is way too much for Heui-soo, and he angrily orders him out; just then Mr. Kang shows up and is even more menacing than he was in the last episode: "Do you think I don't know more than one way to dispose of trash?" Furious, Mr. Kang then calls up Oh-soo at work to berate him for not keeping his "friend" in check; this is all Oh-soo's fault, because if he had lived right (i.e., if he hadn't killed Tae-hoon) Kang wouldn't have had to fix everything (i.e. buy Soon-ki's perjured testimony). "I never asked you to interfere," Oh-soo responds. Mr. Kang has nasty words for Heui-soo as well. If Soon-ki is the mastermind's next target, he has a lot of weapons to use - everybody hates him at this point!
Later that evening Dae-shik's memorial service takes place. It is the bleakest thing imaginable; it is in a room that looks a lot like a cafeteria or cheap banquet hall, ornamented only by a bouquet contributed by Oh Seung-ha!, and the only people attending that I could see are Soon-ki (who is drunk), Seok-jin, Seung-ha (who invited himself last episode), and Oh-soo, who is insulted by Soon-ki for showing up late. Afterwards, Seung-ha, standing outside, eats a piece of peppermint candy, drops the wrapper on the sidewalk, and smiles to himself.
"My Lovely Family"
Earlier in the day, Seung-ha's older brother, Soo-gon, showed up at Seung-ha's office, having come into town for the birthday of some elderly relative. He brings some side dishes and a present from his daughter, some kind of artificial flower thing, which Seung-ha agreeably oohs and ahs over. Soo-gon also tells him about some businessman* they used to know of ages ago who just opened a cabaret. Then, he mentions that this guy had a robbery at his place, but the only thing that was taken, apparently, was an album of photographs of schoolboys. "Doesn't it sound like it was taken by some pervert?" Seung-ha doesn't answer.
After the brother has left, Kwang-doo remarks on what a nice-looking fellow he is. "If everyone were like that, we'd have to shut down this law office," Seung-ha agrees. Kwang-doo then remarks that "he doesn't look anything like you." (Note also that they don't share second syllables. Half-brother? Stepbrother? Is Seung-ha's family history going to be important?)
In the evening, after the memorial service, back in his room, Seung-ha slowly, reverently picks up a carved wooden box and opens it. The only thing in it is an unadorned ring. He picks up the ring and utters the single word "Mother."
"Oh-soo, let's go to school!"
The next morning, Oh-soo picks up Hae-in on her day off to go and look for that building that was in her vision. Naturally, it is Oh-soo's own high-school. They go inside – it’s a Sunday, apparently? I should track the calendar of the episodes - and they find the place where the student ran in her vision. She tells Oh-soo she is sure this has something to do with the incident from 12 years ago where a student was killed, the incident which first led her to her special powers.... Of course Oh-soo has already been sick with fear that this is all related to the Tae-hoon business somehow, but he has not previously had any idea that Hae-in herself had any connection with it. He is staggered by this. He hears Tae-hoon's voice from the past call him a "coward", tell him he "can't do anything without help." For a moment it seems as if Tae-hoon is there instead of Hae-in. It looks as if he himself is about to flee, like the student in the vision. But as Oh-soo turns he sees a man's figure at the end of the corridor. We can't make out who it is - and it's the end of the episode.
- - -
* Soo-gon refers to him in the screenplay as "the ma-bbak manager". "Ma-bbak" apparently is slang for "forehead" or "face" (maybe "kisser" would be a reasonable translation?) or maybe slapping your forehead. The d-addicts translator seemed very unsure about this and thought maybe it was a nickname for the guy, but maybe the guy ran a bar called "Ma-bbak"?
An on-line search gives a lot of hits for this term, some on sex sites and a lot on blogs and boards and such, and a site called "mabbak.com" which will design little cartoon figures for your adverts. And there was a movie called "Champion Mabbak", some kind of slapstick comedy. If you can make anything out of all this, enlighten us please!