Post by humblestudent2 on Sept 12, 2007 21:35:27 GMT -5
Note: a lot of stuff comes out in this episode... so if you haven't seen it yet, and have a chance to watch the tape, or watch or tape the replay, my advice is to do it.
Episode 10 recap
Based on the 56K VOD, the d-addicts subtitles, and the KBS screenplay.
Episode begins: Thursday, Day 15, late morning.
"The evidence of the moon"
At the end of episode 9, both reporter Seong Joon-p'yo had received the "Moon" tarot. Joon-p'yo's card was delivered in the standard red envelope taekbae (express package), while Oh-soo's was left for him in a volume of Dante's "Divine Comedy" at Hae-in's library.* This card shows the moon in the sky overhead, with two dogs, wearing coats I think, facing each other in the foreground, and a scorpion in the middle.
A folded sheet, with familiar cut-and-paste lettering, reads:
"The only way to avoid this hell is to always protect oneself."
(This is my own translation; if it's a quote or literary citation, I haven't been able to track it down.
The d-addicts translator has "In this hell, the sole remaining is only naturally being protected." I don't think this is right. One thing I've noticed is the d-addicts subtitles are usually from the audio alone, and sometimes it can cause some slips. What was the KBS translation?)
There is no way to determine who left the envelope; there is no surveillance camera in the right place.
Hae-in explains that this tarot signifies waiting. It is night, so you can't see anything clearly, and you should wait until daytime. "There is a hide-and-seek ordeal to come, but people can do nothing about it." "What if you act too quickly?" Oh-soo asks. "Somebody dies," she says - that's the meaning of the scorpion.**
Oh-soo has suspected for a while that the mastermind is planting false clues for Hae-in to follow. Now he asks Hae-in if the reverse is possible - can he prevent Hae-in from getting information from objects? She doesn't know for sure, but she does know that some people can't be read. Her priest was one of these people (I originally had this as 'her father' but see later posts).*** Later, she tries doing a reading on the volume of Dante that Oh-soo's "Moon" was found in. It seems to resist her, and she gets nothing from it.
Oh-soo believes that, since he has received a tarot card in his own name, according to the mastermind's pattern some potential victim must have gotten a copy of the same tarot, along with some other thing that will lead to his death (like the knife for Lawyer Kwon, and the bear for Dae-shik).
Later on, after Oh-soo has checked the card for fingerprints and found nothing, he takes it to Hae-in's house (where Seung-ha is visiting, making arrangements for Sora to live at his brother Soo-gon's place for the duration. He invites Hae-in to come along for the trip, and she agrees).
Hae-in tries to do a reading on the "Moon" card to find out where the other card went, and she gets impressions of the man with black gloves cutting out letters and stuffing the "Moon" in a red envelope, and also of a clown performing in front of a convenience store with an arch of balloons in front. The reading is more difficult for her this time.
As for Joon-p'yo, we'll get back to his doings later.
"The smell of freesia"
Also at the end of Episode 9, Seung-ha met a blind woman who was waiting for him on what looked like a park bench. He approaches her carrying a bouquet of freesia; she smells it, smiles, and knows that he is there. He addresses her as "Nuna" (elder sister).
Seeing it now from a new angle, we gather that we are on the grounds of a sanitarium or very nice long-term-care facility. She asks to take Seung-ha's hand and remarks on the fact that he seems so thin.**** He says he's been very busy, and is sorry he hasn't come to visit more often. She says she is living like a queen thanks to "our Seung-ha".
Seung-ha says that he's sorry for her being left alone. She only smiles in response.*****
Later, he is talking with a doctor about her condition; her diabetes is acting up some and she also seems to be experiencing some stress. Meanwhile, she sits alone in her room with the flowers, with a look of sadness on her face.
Seung-ha later has a flashback. In the flashback, two boys are standing with their backs to the camera in front of a flower shop; the boy on the left is looking at some pots of flowers. The boy on the right asks why he is staring at those particular flowers, which he doesn't think are very attractive. The boy on the left says that his nuna likes these; she can smell them even if she can't see them.
The boy on the right - the thinner one - turns to look at his friend. He - the boy on the right - is clearly recognizable as the youthful version of lawyer Oh Seung-ha.
"The evidence of the traffic cop"
You will recall that in episode 9, Cha Kwang-doo (who is just about functioning as an unofficial detective in this case now) found the records of the unfortunate Jeong family, and discovered that the only surviving member - Tae-hoon's younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong - was recorded as dying six months after his brother was killed, and two months after his mother died in a traffic accident.
However, the records of his death were not complete, and today Kwang-doo digs up Detective Yoo, one of his old buddies in the traffic division in the Jeongs' district. This is the story he gets: Tae-seong had run away after his mother's death, and was killed by a hit-and-run in a different district. His body was mangled in the accident, and he was only identified from the school ID and possessions that were found on the body. The body wasn't turned over to the home district police, because of the investigation of the hit-and-run, and in fact they aren't sure what happened to it. His friend promises to call him later with whatever information he can dig up.
The next day, Detective Yoo does indeed call him back with the location of the hit-and-run. He also tells Kwang-doo that someone else was asking about the case, saying only that he was a "close friend". This may be a result of the investigation that Mr. Kang ordered. Kwang-doo tells team chief Ban about this. (This makes a total of THREE people who are looking into Jeong Tae-seong's death, as we will see.)
"The evidence of the photograph"
In the last episode, Oh-soo strictly warned Seok-jin and Soon-ki about the dangers of red envelopes and express packages arriving from the "mastermind" who is out to kill them all. So what is Soon-ki's immediate reaction when he gets another express package containing the familiar red envelope?! In fact, he starts calling Oh-soo on the phone, as he should.
However, as he actually gets Oh-soo on the phone, he simultaneously gets the red envelope open and finds a new photograph. Whereas the last one showed Seok-jin's girlfriend (Na-Heui) smooching in the corridor of the officetel, this one shows Na-heui in her domestic habitat, exiting the Kang domicile with her husband Heui-soo. Now, with Oh-soo on the line, he is caught between fear, greed, confusion, and curiosity; he stammers and stalls, apologizes for bothering Oh-soo and hangs up on him; his mind catches up to what he is being shown, and at that point, Soon-ki being the guy he is, greed wins out and a big smile stretches across his face. With luck, he now has the lever that he can use to pry the Jeju job or anything else he wants out of Na Seok-jin. Of course he doesn't have the photo of the lovers that he had before, but he knows what to look for. (Meanwhile, we see Soek-jin dispose of the photos of him and Na-heui that - I guess - are the ones he got at work earlier, and hid in a file folder at the time. I'm amazed he didn't get rid of them days ago! (I don't think they're a new set?))
Over the next day, he makes insinuating remarks to Seok-jin about his girlfriend, prompting Seok-jin to tell him to move out because he's a "disagreeable person", and then, just to make sure, he lurks around the Kang house, watches Na-heui leave, and then rings the bell to ask after "Heui-Soo's wife", being told that she has "just left".
"In front of the Gate of Hell"
Putting several clues from Hae-in's visions together, Oh-soo finds his way to the Noksap'yeong subway station, where there are lockers and the illuminated "Gates of Hell" poster. The surveillance cameras here aren't working either, so Oh-soo and Min-jae stake out the lockers, hoping to catch the elusive man in black gloves who takes red envelopes out of them.
After a long wait, who shows up but - Kim Yeong-cheol! He takes a brown envelope out of a locker .... Oh-soo and Min-jae are ready, and Oh-soo leaps on him, grabs the envelope from Yeong-cheol, rips it open, and finds - nothing but some typewritten manuscript!!! Mad with frustration, Oh-soo grabs Yeong-cheol and berates him - "You think it's fun to see me running here and there? Why don't you kill people with your own hands instead of ruining people's lives?" The normally timid Yeong-cheol responds with an uncharacteristic burst of repressed anger and contempt: "You haven't changed! You're still a bad guy, a worthless, violent, cowardly jerk just as Tae-hoon said! If you lay your hands on me again I'll report you to the police!" Min-jae pries Oh-soo off of Yeong-cheol and apologizes to him, and Oh-soo is left in a miserable state. Later he tells Hae-in, "If the criminal is trying to break me down, he may be succeeding."
"I hate that person!"
Seung-ha visits with his new client, Kim Jeong-yeon, the woman who was set up to kill Dae-shik. He tells her that her first hearing is coming up but that he expects it to go well; he has every hope of getting her off.
But none of Seung-ha's reassurances make her happy. She is tormented by guilt, and wracked with anger against the unknown mastermind. She rejects the suggestion that the crime was "not your fault" and that "you didn't mean to kill him." "I wanted him dead!" she declares. "I thought if he were dead everything would be better! I became a murderer because of the person who sent me the gas pistol! I can't sleep, I can't eat! I hate that person!"
Seung-ha seems sad to hear this. Later, he goes to his (and Hae-in's) church and pushes the bell to summon the priest to hear his confession. But he thinks better of it; when the priest arrives, Seung-ha is no longer there.
"The evidence of the book"
Hae-in is really determined to advance the investigation; on Friday, in the library, she decides to really have it out with the one-volume Dante which defeated her earlier. Summoning all her psychic power, she puts her hand on the book and really goes at it. And she breaks through: she gets a reading. She sees construction workers in the street, with orange safety jackets and a sign sticking out of the access hole: "Under Construction". She sees the photo of Na-heui and Heui-soo being put in a red envelope by the man with black gloves. At the construction site, she sees a worker carrying a t'aekbae package into a store. The worker's wrist has a light ribbed knit sweater cuff and a thick silver chain.
Then she turns faint and apparently begins to collapse, having overstrained herself. Seung-ha is visiting the library and is on the spot to come to her assistance. The next we see her, he has apparently checked her into a hospital (or emergency room?). She is asleep or unconscious. Oh-soo tries to call her; Seung-ha picks up her cell phone, says she's asleep, and turns off the phone, so when Oh-soo calls again he just gets "your call is being connected to an automated answering system."
Later Hae-in wakes up, apparently okay, and Seung-ha gets her back home in time to avoid any anxious questioning from her mother.
"The evidence of Pierrot"
(It appears that the French "Pierrot" was borrowed into Korean as the word for "clown": "P'ieiro".)
Using the material from Hae-in's clown vision, Oh-soo and his team start combing Seoul looking for convenience stores that have just opened, and checking their records for express packages that have been sent without a return address. Well, they find it. They recognize the addressee: reporter Seong Joon-p'yo. The clerk remembers that it was the clown himself who sent the package. The clown says that someone asked him to send it - we recognize the mute man with a cap, black gloves, and a limp as the "mastermind" who similarly got other people to send packages for him earlier.
Now Oh-soo believes that Joon-p'yo has the mate to his "Moon" tarot and may be next on the "mastermind's" hit list. But Joon-p'yo is nowhere to be found; he's not at home, and isn't answering his phone. Oh-soo camps out in the corridor of his officetel. Eventually - it is now the night of the second day - Joon-p'yo arrives home. "Where have you been? Why did you turn off your phone?" Oh-soo demands. "First, I have something to tell you," Joon-p'yo responds mysteriously.
And the episode ends there! But there is a great deal that Joon-p'yo CAN tell Oh-soo in Episode 11, if he wants to.
"What the reporter did"
While Seung-ha was talking with "nuna" at the rehab place, Joon-p'yo was going to have a heart-to-heart with his own relative, his elderly uncle, formerly the principal of Oh-soo's high school. He goes out to visit him in his cottage where he is busy gardening in his retirement. The setting is peaceful, but the conversation rapidly turns acrimonious.
Twelve years ago, when Joon-p'yo was just starting off as a reporter on the police beat, his uncle fed him this story about how the police were making up a "school violence" scare. Joon-p'yo apparently trusted his uncle and basically wrote the story to his uncle's tune and then apparently really forgot about it until the present day. Now, looking back on it, re-reading it, and putting it together with the stuff he has dug up about Oh-soo's old crime, he feels angry and used and disgraced. Partly he feels like his professional honor was violated; but what makes it worse is that magnate/politician Kang Dong-hyeon later ruined Joon-p'yo's life with his libel suit, and now he discovers that his own story was apparently part of the picture of whitewashing Oh-soo's crime. He asks his uncle whether the main idea was to protect his own reputation or whether the uncle was acting for Mr. Kang. The uncle orders him out of the house, but Joon-p'yo turns down the heat and apparently finds out more of the details from him.
The next morning, really in an act of useless bravado, which apparently doesn't accomplish anything positive, Joon-p'yo accosts Kang Dong-hyeon while he is out for his morning jog. He makes provocative comments about the old business, but all it really does is to provoke the old tyrant to action. (Later on, Dong-hyeon calls up Seok-jin and orders him to put him in touch with "boss Kyeon", apparently some old crony of his, and to not tell Heui-soo about this.)
After that, Joon-p'yo really pulls out his old police reporter skills and goes to work on the deaths of the other Jeong family members as well - this is what I meant when I said there was a third party looking into the death of Jeong Tae-seong. (Joon-p'yo identifies himself as a reporter, though, and so he is not the supposed "close friend" whom Kwang-doo's friend was referring to? or is he?)
"What the old man saw"
On the second night after receiving "The Moon", as Oh-soo is waiting for Joon-p'yo himself to come home, Joon-p'yo finds the intersection where Jeong Tae-seong was killed by a truck in a hit-and-run. There's a convenience store there; Joon-p'yo's cigarette lighter isn't working, and he goes in to buy a replacement. He asks if the store was in existence 12 years ago; the woman working there says that it was, but the accident was at night, after closing time.
But as he comes out, an old man asks him why he was asking about the accident. The old man didn't see the accident himself, but this is his story:
There were two boys, apparently orphans, who hung around the store in those days, who were always together; one was called Tae-seong. And one of them was indeed killed in the accident. But he remembers that the next day one of the boys showed up there alone, and it was the boy who was called Tae-Seong, not the other one. But the boy told him:
"Tae-seong has gone far away."
And when he asked, "Aren't you Tae-seong?" the boy answered, "My name is Seung-ha."
In his memory we see the boy. He is indeed recognizable as the future Lawyer Oh Seung-ha. It is the boy we saw in the graveside scene in Episode 7; it is the boy on the right in the earlier scene in front of the shop, who was told by his friend about his friend's blind sister's favorite flowers. It is Tae-hoon's younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong.
Jeong Tae-seong, who, when his friend Oh Seung-ha was killed by a truck, planted his own ID on the mangled corpse, thus faking his own death. Jeong Tae-seong, who assumed his dead companion's identity in 1995, and has been posing as Oh Seung-ha for the last 12 years, under the blind eyes of his sister, and successfully duping the other members of his scattered family and the rest of the world.
A scheme whose audacity, strength of will, patience, meticulous execution, and ruthlessness are hallmarks of the true mastermind.
Episode ends: Friday, Day 16, night. (So, nobody died on Day 15! I had a theory that the "mastermind" was going to kill at neat one-week intervals ... but it didn't work out
)
* When was it left there? Suppose Oh-soo had checked out the Dante quotation from the last package at the time he got it? Or suppose he had never thought to ask Hae-in about it? Wouldn't it have messed up the whole timing of things, either way? Possibly this is a plot flaw (very rare in this show so far)
** Actually, in the European decks, this is a lobster or crayfish! (per Wikipedia and sources cited there) However, Hae-in is always telling us that tarot is very individualistic...
*** Oh Seung-ha might be one of those people. There was a moment in episode 1 where she touched him and had a 'reaction', if you will, but we didn't see her receive any coherent impressions.
**** Soo-gon said the same thing in the early episode where he gave Seung-ha the old photograph of the two of them - he said that Seung-ha had thinned out since the photo was taken.
***** The stage direction in the screenplay says, "Whether she knows the meaning of these words or not, she only smiles in response."
Episode 10 recap
Based on the 56K VOD, the d-addicts subtitles, and the KBS screenplay.
Episode begins: Thursday, Day 15, late morning.
"The evidence of the moon"
At the end of episode 9, both reporter Seong Joon-p'yo had received the "Moon" tarot. Joon-p'yo's card was delivered in the standard red envelope taekbae (express package), while Oh-soo's was left for him in a volume of Dante's "Divine Comedy" at Hae-in's library.* This card shows the moon in the sky overhead, with two dogs, wearing coats I think, facing each other in the foreground, and a scorpion in the middle.
A folded sheet, with familiar cut-and-paste lettering, reads:
"The only way to avoid this hell is to always protect oneself."
(This is my own translation; if it's a quote or literary citation, I haven't been able to track it down.
The d-addicts translator has "In this hell, the sole remaining is only naturally being protected." I don't think this is right. One thing I've noticed is the d-addicts subtitles are usually from the audio alone, and sometimes it can cause some slips. What was the KBS translation?)
There is no way to determine who left the envelope; there is no surveillance camera in the right place.
Hae-in explains that this tarot signifies waiting. It is night, so you can't see anything clearly, and you should wait until daytime. "There is a hide-and-seek ordeal to come, but people can do nothing about it." "What if you act too quickly?" Oh-soo asks. "Somebody dies," she says - that's the meaning of the scorpion.**
Oh-soo has suspected for a while that the mastermind is planting false clues for Hae-in to follow. Now he asks Hae-in if the reverse is possible - can he prevent Hae-in from getting information from objects? She doesn't know for sure, but she does know that some people can't be read. Her priest was one of these people (I originally had this as 'her father' but see later posts).*** Later, she tries doing a reading on the volume of Dante that Oh-soo's "Moon" was found in. It seems to resist her, and she gets nothing from it.
Oh-soo believes that, since he has received a tarot card in his own name, according to the mastermind's pattern some potential victim must have gotten a copy of the same tarot, along with some other thing that will lead to his death (like the knife for Lawyer Kwon, and the bear for Dae-shik).
Later on, after Oh-soo has checked the card for fingerprints and found nothing, he takes it to Hae-in's house (where Seung-ha is visiting, making arrangements for Sora to live at his brother Soo-gon's place for the duration. He invites Hae-in to come along for the trip, and she agrees).
Hae-in tries to do a reading on the "Moon" card to find out where the other card went, and she gets impressions of the man with black gloves cutting out letters and stuffing the "Moon" in a red envelope, and also of a clown performing in front of a convenience store with an arch of balloons in front. The reading is more difficult for her this time.
As for Joon-p'yo, we'll get back to his doings later.
"The smell of freesia"
Also at the end of Episode 9, Seung-ha met a blind woman who was waiting for him on what looked like a park bench. He approaches her carrying a bouquet of freesia; she smells it, smiles, and knows that he is there. He addresses her as "Nuna" (elder sister).
Seeing it now from a new angle, we gather that we are on the grounds of a sanitarium or very nice long-term-care facility. She asks to take Seung-ha's hand and remarks on the fact that he seems so thin.**** He says he's been very busy, and is sorry he hasn't come to visit more often. She says she is living like a queen thanks to "our Seung-ha".
Seung-ha says that he's sorry for her being left alone. She only smiles in response.*****
Later, he is talking with a doctor about her condition; her diabetes is acting up some and she also seems to be experiencing some stress. Meanwhile, she sits alone in her room with the flowers, with a look of sadness on her face.
Seung-ha later has a flashback. In the flashback, two boys are standing with their backs to the camera in front of a flower shop; the boy on the left is looking at some pots of flowers. The boy on the right asks why he is staring at those particular flowers, which he doesn't think are very attractive. The boy on the left says that his nuna likes these; she can smell them even if she can't see them.
The boy on the right - the thinner one - turns to look at his friend. He - the boy on the right - is clearly recognizable as the youthful version of lawyer Oh Seung-ha.
"The evidence of the traffic cop"
You will recall that in episode 9, Cha Kwang-doo (who is just about functioning as an unofficial detective in this case now) found the records of the unfortunate Jeong family, and discovered that the only surviving member - Tae-hoon's younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong - was recorded as dying six months after his brother was killed, and two months after his mother died in a traffic accident.
However, the records of his death were not complete, and today Kwang-doo digs up Detective Yoo, one of his old buddies in the traffic division in the Jeongs' district. This is the story he gets: Tae-seong had run away after his mother's death, and was killed by a hit-and-run in a different district. His body was mangled in the accident, and he was only identified from the school ID and possessions that were found on the body. The body wasn't turned over to the home district police, because of the investigation of the hit-and-run, and in fact they aren't sure what happened to it. His friend promises to call him later with whatever information he can dig up.
The next day, Detective Yoo does indeed call him back with the location of the hit-and-run. He also tells Kwang-doo that someone else was asking about the case, saying only that he was a "close friend". This may be a result of the investigation that Mr. Kang ordered. Kwang-doo tells team chief Ban about this. (This makes a total of THREE people who are looking into Jeong Tae-seong's death, as we will see.)
"The evidence of the photograph"
In the last episode, Oh-soo strictly warned Seok-jin and Soon-ki about the dangers of red envelopes and express packages arriving from the "mastermind" who is out to kill them all. So what is Soon-ki's immediate reaction when he gets another express package containing the familiar red envelope?! In fact, he starts calling Oh-soo on the phone, as he should.
However, as he actually gets Oh-soo on the phone, he simultaneously gets the red envelope open and finds a new photograph. Whereas the last one showed Seok-jin's girlfriend (Na-Heui) smooching in the corridor of the officetel, this one shows Na-heui in her domestic habitat, exiting the Kang domicile with her husband Heui-soo. Now, with Oh-soo on the line, he is caught between fear, greed, confusion, and curiosity; he stammers and stalls, apologizes for bothering Oh-soo and hangs up on him; his mind catches up to what he is being shown, and at that point, Soon-ki being the guy he is, greed wins out and a big smile stretches across his face. With luck, he now has the lever that he can use to pry the Jeju job or anything else he wants out of Na Seok-jin. Of course he doesn't have the photo of the lovers that he had before, but he knows what to look for. (Meanwhile, we see Soek-jin dispose of the photos of him and Na-heui that - I guess - are the ones he got at work earlier, and hid in a file folder at the time. I'm amazed he didn't get rid of them days ago! (I don't think they're a new set?))
Over the next day, he makes insinuating remarks to Seok-jin about his girlfriend, prompting Seok-jin to tell him to move out because he's a "disagreeable person", and then, just to make sure, he lurks around the Kang house, watches Na-heui leave, and then rings the bell to ask after "Heui-Soo's wife", being told that she has "just left".
"In front of the Gate of Hell"
Putting several clues from Hae-in's visions together, Oh-soo finds his way to the Noksap'yeong subway station, where there are lockers and the illuminated "Gates of Hell" poster. The surveillance cameras here aren't working either, so Oh-soo and Min-jae stake out the lockers, hoping to catch the elusive man in black gloves who takes red envelopes out of them.
After a long wait, who shows up but - Kim Yeong-cheol! He takes a brown envelope out of a locker .... Oh-soo and Min-jae are ready, and Oh-soo leaps on him, grabs the envelope from Yeong-cheol, rips it open, and finds - nothing but some typewritten manuscript!!! Mad with frustration, Oh-soo grabs Yeong-cheol and berates him - "You think it's fun to see me running here and there? Why don't you kill people with your own hands instead of ruining people's lives?" The normally timid Yeong-cheol responds with an uncharacteristic burst of repressed anger and contempt: "You haven't changed! You're still a bad guy, a worthless, violent, cowardly jerk just as Tae-hoon said! If you lay your hands on me again I'll report you to the police!" Min-jae pries Oh-soo off of Yeong-cheol and apologizes to him, and Oh-soo is left in a miserable state. Later he tells Hae-in, "If the criminal is trying to break me down, he may be succeeding."
"I hate that person!"
Seung-ha visits with his new client, Kim Jeong-yeon, the woman who was set up to kill Dae-shik. He tells her that her first hearing is coming up but that he expects it to go well; he has every hope of getting her off.
But none of Seung-ha's reassurances make her happy. She is tormented by guilt, and wracked with anger against the unknown mastermind. She rejects the suggestion that the crime was "not your fault" and that "you didn't mean to kill him." "I wanted him dead!" she declares. "I thought if he were dead everything would be better! I became a murderer because of the person who sent me the gas pistol! I can't sleep, I can't eat! I hate that person!"
Seung-ha seems sad to hear this. Later, he goes to his (and Hae-in's) church and pushes the bell to summon the priest to hear his confession. But he thinks better of it; when the priest arrives, Seung-ha is no longer there.
"The evidence of the book"
Hae-in is really determined to advance the investigation; on Friday, in the library, she decides to really have it out with the one-volume Dante which defeated her earlier. Summoning all her psychic power, she puts her hand on the book and really goes at it. And she breaks through: she gets a reading. She sees construction workers in the street, with orange safety jackets and a sign sticking out of the access hole: "Under Construction". She sees the photo of Na-heui and Heui-soo being put in a red envelope by the man with black gloves. At the construction site, she sees a worker carrying a t'aekbae package into a store. The worker's wrist has a light ribbed knit sweater cuff and a thick silver chain.
Then she turns faint and apparently begins to collapse, having overstrained herself. Seung-ha is visiting the library and is on the spot to come to her assistance. The next we see her, he has apparently checked her into a hospital (or emergency room?). She is asleep or unconscious. Oh-soo tries to call her; Seung-ha picks up her cell phone, says she's asleep, and turns off the phone, so when Oh-soo calls again he just gets "your call is being connected to an automated answering system."
Later Hae-in wakes up, apparently okay, and Seung-ha gets her back home in time to avoid any anxious questioning from her mother.
"The evidence of Pierrot"
(It appears that the French "Pierrot" was borrowed into Korean as the word for "clown": "P'ieiro".)
Using the material from Hae-in's clown vision, Oh-soo and his team start combing Seoul looking for convenience stores that have just opened, and checking their records for express packages that have been sent without a return address. Well, they find it. They recognize the addressee: reporter Seong Joon-p'yo. The clerk remembers that it was the clown himself who sent the package. The clown says that someone asked him to send it - we recognize the mute man with a cap, black gloves, and a limp as the "mastermind" who similarly got other people to send packages for him earlier.
Now Oh-soo believes that Joon-p'yo has the mate to his "Moon" tarot and may be next on the "mastermind's" hit list. But Joon-p'yo is nowhere to be found; he's not at home, and isn't answering his phone. Oh-soo camps out in the corridor of his officetel. Eventually - it is now the night of the second day - Joon-p'yo arrives home. "Where have you been? Why did you turn off your phone?" Oh-soo demands. "First, I have something to tell you," Joon-p'yo responds mysteriously.
And the episode ends there! But there is a great deal that Joon-p'yo CAN tell Oh-soo in Episode 11, if he wants to.
"What the reporter did"
While Seung-ha was talking with "nuna" at the rehab place, Joon-p'yo was going to have a heart-to-heart with his own relative, his elderly uncle, formerly the principal of Oh-soo's high school. He goes out to visit him in his cottage where he is busy gardening in his retirement. The setting is peaceful, but the conversation rapidly turns acrimonious.
Twelve years ago, when Joon-p'yo was just starting off as a reporter on the police beat, his uncle fed him this story about how the police were making up a "school violence" scare. Joon-p'yo apparently trusted his uncle and basically wrote the story to his uncle's tune and then apparently really forgot about it until the present day. Now, looking back on it, re-reading it, and putting it together with the stuff he has dug up about Oh-soo's old crime, he feels angry and used and disgraced. Partly he feels like his professional honor was violated; but what makes it worse is that magnate/politician Kang Dong-hyeon later ruined Joon-p'yo's life with his libel suit, and now he discovers that his own story was apparently part of the picture of whitewashing Oh-soo's crime. He asks his uncle whether the main idea was to protect his own reputation or whether the uncle was acting for Mr. Kang. The uncle orders him out of the house, but Joon-p'yo turns down the heat and apparently finds out more of the details from him.
The next morning, really in an act of useless bravado, which apparently doesn't accomplish anything positive, Joon-p'yo accosts Kang Dong-hyeon while he is out for his morning jog. He makes provocative comments about the old business, but all it really does is to provoke the old tyrant to action. (Later on, Dong-hyeon calls up Seok-jin and orders him to put him in touch with "boss Kyeon", apparently some old crony of his, and to not tell Heui-soo about this.)
After that, Joon-p'yo really pulls out his old police reporter skills and goes to work on the deaths of the other Jeong family members as well - this is what I meant when I said there was a third party looking into the death of Jeong Tae-seong. (Joon-p'yo identifies himself as a reporter, though, and so he is not the supposed "close friend" whom Kwang-doo's friend was referring to? or is he?)
"What the old man saw"
On the second night after receiving "The Moon", as Oh-soo is waiting for Joon-p'yo himself to come home, Joon-p'yo finds the intersection where Jeong Tae-seong was killed by a truck in a hit-and-run. There's a convenience store there; Joon-p'yo's cigarette lighter isn't working, and he goes in to buy a replacement. He asks if the store was in existence 12 years ago; the woman working there says that it was, but the accident was at night, after closing time.
But as he comes out, an old man asks him why he was asking about the accident. The old man didn't see the accident himself, but this is his story:
There were two boys, apparently orphans, who hung around the store in those days, who were always together; one was called Tae-seong. And one of them was indeed killed in the accident. But he remembers that the next day one of the boys showed up there alone, and it was the boy who was called Tae-Seong, not the other one. But the boy told him:
"Tae-seong has gone far away."
And when he asked, "Aren't you Tae-seong?" the boy answered, "My name is Seung-ha."
In his memory we see the boy. He is indeed recognizable as the future Lawyer Oh Seung-ha. It is the boy we saw in the graveside scene in Episode 7; it is the boy on the right in the earlier scene in front of the shop, who was told by his friend about his friend's blind sister's favorite flowers. It is Tae-hoon's younger brother, Jeong Tae-seong.
Jeong Tae-seong, who, when his friend Oh Seung-ha was killed by a truck, planted his own ID on the mangled corpse, thus faking his own death. Jeong Tae-seong, who assumed his dead companion's identity in 1995, and has been posing as Oh Seung-ha for the last 12 years, under the blind eyes of his sister, and successfully duping the other members of his scattered family and the rest of the world.
A scheme whose audacity, strength of will, patience, meticulous execution, and ruthlessness are hallmarks of the true mastermind.
Episode ends: Friday, Day 16, night. (So, nobody died on Day 15! I had a theory that the "mastermind" was going to kill at neat one-week intervals ... but it didn't work out
)* When was it left there? Suppose Oh-soo had checked out the Dante quotation from the last package at the time he got it? Or suppose he had never thought to ask Hae-in about it? Wouldn't it have messed up the whole timing of things, either way? Possibly this is a plot flaw (very rare in this show so far)
** Actually, in the European decks, this is a lobster or crayfish! (per Wikipedia and sources cited there) However, Hae-in is always telling us that tarot is very individualistic...
*** Oh Seung-ha might be one of those people. There was a moment in episode 1 where she touched him and had a 'reaction', if you will, but we didn't see her receive any coherent impressions.
**** Soo-gon said the same thing in the early episode where he gave Seung-ha the old photograph of the two of them - he said that Seung-ha had thinned out since the photo was taken.
***** The stage direction in the screenplay says, "Whether she knows the meaning of these words or not, she only smiles in response."
But I did notice one discrepancy. In our subtitles, the person Haein said she couldn't get a "read" from was a priest, not her father. Unless I was hallucinating?
So, never mind. 
