Post by humblestudent2 on Sept 6, 2007 21:55:32 GMT -5
Episode 9 recap
Begins: evening, Tuesday, Day 13
"Dangling Conversations"
First, Oh-soo talks with Yeong-cheol for the first time in years. Convinced that Yeong-cheol is behind all the killings, and really filled with remorse, he tells him to stop going after third parties - "don't make me destroy you". Yeong-cheol doesn't admit to anything, acts surprised though weird and distant to hear that Dae-shik is dead, and breaks off the conversation because he has an "appointment".
(In fact, he visits the high school. In a flashback, we learn that the knife that Tae-hoon was killed with was a knife that Yeong-cheol himself had been carrying around, with some kind of vague idea of attacking his tormentors; Tae-hoon took it from him and stood up to the gang himself, with the results that we know. In the present, Yeong-cheol tearfully promises "I'll pay you back, Tae-hoon.")
Meanwhile, Seung-ha has discovered reporter Seong Joon-p'yo in the act of spying on Hae-in; he is trying to figure out her role in the investigation. In a café, Seung-ha warns Joon-p'yo off - "if you keep this up you'll have to answer to me;" he says it'll be a matter for the law and "I don't give warnings twice."
Now, Oh-soo meets Chief Ban and Cha Kwang-doo, formerly the detective in the Tae-hoon case. Kwang-doo has been looking in the family registries for the information on Tae-hoon's family and has come back with the news that the younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong, who had been thought of as possibly behind the killings - is dead. The mother died in an auto accident four months after Tae-hoon - apparently, the day of Oh-soo's own court appearance - and Tae-seong apparently died two months afterward (they don't know the cause of Tae-seong's death, because of its being "after his having run away” ("Jeong Tae-seongeun siljongtoin twi"))*. Kwang-doo has brought copies of the forms showing their removal from the family registries. (As this conversation continues in voice-over, we see Lawyer Oh Seung-ha looking at his own reflection in the window of his office. He closes the blinds; his reflection disappears, completely erased.)
"Secrets and Lies"
Then Oh-soo heads over to talk with Seok-jin and Soon-ki (who is still crashing with him) to fill them in on things and why some murderer might be out to get them. Now, around this time, Soon-ki comes back to Seok-jin's place and the concierge recognizes him and gives him a delivery that came for him "yesterday" when he wasn't in. In the package is a box, and in the box is another red envelope with a copy of the compromising picture of Seok-jin and Na-heui, his supposed "girlfriend", actually his boss Heui-soo's wife! Oh-soo and Seok-jin come back to the apartment together, and when Seok-jin goes in - Oh-soo providentially stays in the corridor to make a phone call - he finds Soon-ki with the picture in his hand! Of course if Oh-soo sees it then the lovers' secret will be out! As Oh-soo comes in, desperately he rips the photo from Soon-ki's hands, locks himself in the bathroom, and tears it up and flushes it down the toilet! Then, over Soon-ki’s complaints, he tells a string of flimsy lies - it's a blackmail photo, his girlfriend has gone to America, maybe his girlfriend sent the photo to break off the relationship, and so on.
In fact, though, Seok-jin is starting to think that Soon-ki is the real criminal, and, as Oh-soo leaves, having filled both in on things, he follows and tells Oh-soo this. Soon-ki was the one who saw the girl. And Seok-jin doesn't think that the timid Yeong-cheol could have become a murderous mastermind. And Dae-shik fought with Soon-ki before his death. "That was just the beer," says Oh-soo, and as for Yeong-cheol, "People change. He changed because of me." Returning to the apartment, Seok-jin glares suspiciously at Soon-ki. Soon-ki, for his part, also doesn't believe Yeong-cheol has it in him to plot all this. "Then who do you think it is?" "No idea". "Of course you have no idea!" They spend the evening glowering at each other in mutual suspicion.
Later on, Seok-jin and Heui-soo fill in Kang Dong-hyeon on the investigation up to this point, apparently including the fact of Tae-seong's disappearance. Dong-hyeon, who hasn't gotten where he is today by being anyone's fool, orders them to check into the circumstances of the "death" of Tae-seong.
In a flashback, we learn that Dong-hyeon has special reasons for concern. Years ago, apparently after his mother's death, the young Tae-seong (his face obscured by darkness in this shot) paid a visit to Dong-hyeon to deliver a message - basically, to enjoy life and be rich and happy, because one day Tae-seong was going to come and get his revenge on him and his son.** "He must have died", muses Dong-hyeon, I guess on the theory that if he hadn't died he would have shown up by now to get revenge.***
"Big Girls Don't Lie"
The next day, Oh-soo really gets going on the Yeong-cheol angle. The suspects have been "narrowed down to one." He thinks he is really going to stop the crime spree in its tracks by getting little Sora to identify the "nice ajeossi" who kidnapped her. She sits inside a second-floor café with Min-jae, Hae-in, and Seung-ha; Oh-soo has arranged to meet Kim Yeong-cheol on the sidewalk out in front, where Yeong-cheol can't see inside but Sora will be clearly able to see him. Yeong-cheol shows up, Sora gets a good look at him and ..... completely refuses to identify him. "Don't you recognize him?" they repeatedly ask her; "Nei" ("Yes, I don't recognize him" (standard Korean usage)), she repeatedly answers; Oh-soo, when he comes inside, can't believe it and starts to badger her and Seung-ha has to bring him up short. Of course, she is lying like a trouper; in a flashback, we learn that Kim Yeong-cheol instructed her to lie about him because "bad people" were trying to find him. Anyway, Hae-in sees that Yeong-cheol doesn't match the adult in her recent visions (as we know, this is Soon-ki).
Oh-soo is just about out of ideas. (In addition, he discovers that Yeong-cheol was apparently in Australia while some of the letters were being sent to Dong-seop in jail, so maybe he isn't the end of the trail after all.) So he goes to visit Hae-in, and (belatedly) shows her the note he got with the pictures in Episode 6 (five days ago! Of course he had an emotional time of it for a while, but he has been sitting on this for way too long and hasn't yet even figured out the reference.) The literate Hae-in immediately recognizes it as a quote from Dante, the poem written above the doorway to Hell. (As she reads it, we see Seung-ha standing by the "Gate of Hell" poster in the Noksap’yeong subway station, reciting the same passage in unison with her!!)
Doing a reading on the photos, she sees a row of subway lockers, the man in black leather gloves taking out a red envelope, a man standing at the “Gate of Hell” poster, and the number 333 on a label which she doesn't immediately recognize.
That night, reporter Seong Joon-p'yo gets a red envelope containing a copy of his 12-year old news story, decrying the police's concern with "school violence", written at the behest of his uncle, then the school principal - and a tarot card. "The Moon". Also, Seung-ha tells Oh-soo that Joon-p'yo is following Hae-in, and expresses his worries for her safety.
And the next morning, as the episode ends, Hae-in (who has remembered where labels like that are to be found) meets Oh-soo at the library where she works. They go unerringly to shelf number 333, the Italian literature section. On it they find a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy. Opening it, Oh-soo finds a red envelope addressed politely to "Detective Kang Oh-soo." Inside it is a folded piece of paper, and "The Moon."
And Oh Seung-ha goes to a grassy place with a bench and affectionately meets a blind woman whom he addresses as "elder sister" (Nuna).
It is two weeks since Lawyer Kwon's death, and a week after Dae-shik's death. Episode 10 might be interesting.
Ends: Morning, Thursday, Day 15
* You want some clarification on this? Unfortunately there isn’t any in this episode.
** Tae-seong says, "good people have died", clearly using the plural. In this connection, how sure are we about the mother's "car accident"??
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Begins: evening, Tuesday, Day 13
"Dangling Conversations"
First, Oh-soo talks with Yeong-cheol for the first time in years. Convinced that Yeong-cheol is behind all the killings, and really filled with remorse, he tells him to stop going after third parties - "don't make me destroy you". Yeong-cheol doesn't admit to anything, acts surprised though weird and distant to hear that Dae-shik is dead, and breaks off the conversation because he has an "appointment".
(In fact, he visits the high school. In a flashback, we learn that the knife that Tae-hoon was killed with was a knife that Yeong-cheol himself had been carrying around, with some kind of vague idea of attacking his tormentors; Tae-hoon took it from him and stood up to the gang himself, with the results that we know. In the present, Yeong-cheol tearfully promises "I'll pay you back, Tae-hoon.")
Meanwhile, Seung-ha has discovered reporter Seong Joon-p'yo in the act of spying on Hae-in; he is trying to figure out her role in the investigation. In a café, Seung-ha warns Joon-p'yo off - "if you keep this up you'll have to answer to me;" he says it'll be a matter for the law and "I don't give warnings twice."
Now, Oh-soo meets Chief Ban and Cha Kwang-doo, formerly the detective in the Tae-hoon case. Kwang-doo has been looking in the family registries for the information on Tae-hoon's family and has come back with the news that the younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong, who had been thought of as possibly behind the killings - is dead. The mother died in an auto accident four months after Tae-hoon - apparently, the day of Oh-soo's own court appearance - and Tae-seong apparently died two months afterward (they don't know the cause of Tae-seong's death, because of its being "after his having run away” ("Jeong Tae-seongeun siljongtoin twi"))*. Kwang-doo has brought copies of the forms showing their removal from the family registries. (As this conversation continues in voice-over, we see Lawyer Oh Seung-ha looking at his own reflection in the window of his office. He closes the blinds; his reflection disappears, completely erased.)
"Secrets and Lies"
Then Oh-soo heads over to talk with Seok-jin and Soon-ki (who is still crashing with him) to fill them in on things and why some murderer might be out to get them. Now, around this time, Soon-ki comes back to Seok-jin's place and the concierge recognizes him and gives him a delivery that came for him "yesterday" when he wasn't in. In the package is a box, and in the box is another red envelope with a copy of the compromising picture of Seok-jin and Na-heui, his supposed "girlfriend", actually his boss Heui-soo's wife! Oh-soo and Seok-jin come back to the apartment together, and when Seok-jin goes in - Oh-soo providentially stays in the corridor to make a phone call - he finds Soon-ki with the picture in his hand! Of course if Oh-soo sees it then the lovers' secret will be out! As Oh-soo comes in, desperately he rips the photo from Soon-ki's hands, locks himself in the bathroom, and tears it up and flushes it down the toilet! Then, over Soon-ki’s complaints, he tells a string of flimsy lies - it's a blackmail photo, his girlfriend has gone to America, maybe his girlfriend sent the photo to break off the relationship, and so on.
In fact, though, Seok-jin is starting to think that Soon-ki is the real criminal, and, as Oh-soo leaves, having filled both in on things, he follows and tells Oh-soo this. Soon-ki was the one who saw the girl. And Seok-jin doesn't think that the timid Yeong-cheol could have become a murderous mastermind. And Dae-shik fought with Soon-ki before his death. "That was just the beer," says Oh-soo, and as for Yeong-cheol, "People change. He changed because of me." Returning to the apartment, Seok-jin glares suspiciously at Soon-ki. Soon-ki, for his part, also doesn't believe Yeong-cheol has it in him to plot all this. "Then who do you think it is?" "No idea". "Of course you have no idea!" They spend the evening glowering at each other in mutual suspicion.
Later on, Seok-jin and Heui-soo fill in Kang Dong-hyeon on the investigation up to this point, apparently including the fact of Tae-seong's disappearance. Dong-hyeon, who hasn't gotten where he is today by being anyone's fool, orders them to check into the circumstances of the "death" of Tae-seong.
In a flashback, we learn that Dong-hyeon has special reasons for concern. Years ago, apparently after his mother's death, the young Tae-seong (his face obscured by darkness in this shot) paid a visit to Dong-hyeon to deliver a message - basically, to enjoy life and be rich and happy, because one day Tae-seong was going to come and get his revenge on him and his son.** "He must have died", muses Dong-hyeon, I guess on the theory that if he hadn't died he would have shown up by now to get revenge.***
"Big Girls Don't Lie"
The next day, Oh-soo really gets going on the Yeong-cheol angle. The suspects have been "narrowed down to one." He thinks he is really going to stop the crime spree in its tracks by getting little Sora to identify the "nice ajeossi" who kidnapped her. She sits inside a second-floor café with Min-jae, Hae-in, and Seung-ha; Oh-soo has arranged to meet Kim Yeong-cheol on the sidewalk out in front, where Yeong-cheol can't see inside but Sora will be clearly able to see him. Yeong-cheol shows up, Sora gets a good look at him and ..... completely refuses to identify him. "Don't you recognize him?" they repeatedly ask her; "Nei" ("Yes, I don't recognize him" (standard Korean usage)), she repeatedly answers; Oh-soo, when he comes inside, can't believe it and starts to badger her and Seung-ha has to bring him up short. Of course, she is lying like a trouper; in a flashback, we learn that Kim Yeong-cheol instructed her to lie about him because "bad people" were trying to find him. Anyway, Hae-in sees that Yeong-cheol doesn't match the adult in her recent visions (as we know, this is Soon-ki).
Oh-soo is just about out of ideas. (In addition, he discovers that Yeong-cheol was apparently in Australia while some of the letters were being sent to Dong-seop in jail, so maybe he isn't the end of the trail after all.) So he goes to visit Hae-in, and (belatedly) shows her the note he got with the pictures in Episode 6 (five days ago! Of course he had an emotional time of it for a while, but he has been sitting on this for way too long and hasn't yet even figured out the reference.) The literate Hae-in immediately recognizes it as a quote from Dante, the poem written above the doorway to Hell. (As she reads it, we see Seung-ha standing by the "Gate of Hell" poster in the Noksap’yeong subway station, reciting the same passage in unison with her!!)
Doing a reading on the photos, she sees a row of subway lockers, the man in black leather gloves taking out a red envelope, a man standing at the “Gate of Hell” poster, and the number 333 on a label which she doesn't immediately recognize.
That night, reporter Seong Joon-p'yo gets a red envelope containing a copy of his 12-year old news story, decrying the police's concern with "school violence", written at the behest of his uncle, then the school principal - and a tarot card. "The Moon". Also, Seung-ha tells Oh-soo that Joon-p'yo is following Hae-in, and expresses his worries for her safety.
And the next morning, as the episode ends, Hae-in (who has remembered where labels like that are to be found) meets Oh-soo at the library where she works. They go unerringly to shelf number 333, the Italian literature section. On it they find a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy. Opening it, Oh-soo finds a red envelope addressed politely to "Detective Kang Oh-soo." Inside it is a folded piece of paper, and "The Moon."
And Oh Seung-ha goes to a grassy place with a bench and affectionately meets a blind woman whom he addresses as "elder sister" (Nuna).
It is two weeks since Lawyer Kwon's death, and a week after Dae-shik's death. Episode 10 might be interesting.
Ends: Morning, Thursday, Day 15
* You want some clarification on this? Unfortunately there isn’t any in this episode.
** Tae-seong says, "good people have died", clearly using the plural. In this connection, how sure are we about the mother's "car accident"??
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