Post by TheBo on Sept 18, 2012 12:55:44 GMT -5
MOE Ep.10 - I may edit this down later, but this is what I have now.
After the restaurant meeting, we see that Sunwoo is plainly not blind any more. After many operations, he could see again, and the first thing Moon Taejoo showed him was the photo of Jiwon. Then Sunwoo went to college in London. Taejoo had let his business collapse (to President Jin’s great delight) to help Sunwoo, so the latter went to the Equator (Indonesia) and shepherded through a difficult business deal with the government there. PJ heard a “David Kim” was turning Taejoo’s business around and had him investigated, but didn’t really learn anything, then decided to get in on Taejoo’s mining interests without showing himself. After the Indonesia deal, which obviously took years, Sunwoo proposed to go to Korea and destroy PJ and the Lees. Taejoo gave him some Zen advice and sent him on his way.
While this was going on, Jangil passed his law exams with flying colors, and Jiwon graduated. Over the years, she received anonymous cards and flower arrangements on special occasions. She also tried to find Sunwoo, but failed.
In the present, at work, Jiwon warns someone against grafting, but the woman attacks Jiwon first and gets her into a difficult situation. David Kim also watches an oblivious Jiwon from afar. We then learn Jiwon is supporting her family, including her mother’s emergency medical bills. She calls a headhunter, who sends her on an interview. She is late because of her mother’s problem and stunned when Sunwoo is the interviewer. He is rude and preemptory, but offers her “another chance” if she can get it together. [What a shate.] She leaves, tottering, then goes back to ask reception his name. Not Sunwoo,” she is told, “David.”
Stop. Right. Here. Cruelest thing I’ve ever seen a character do to someone they love? Ever? Exactly. He seriously seems not to know that she recognized him. She was about to faint. Didn’t make her any promises? What about asking her to “wait.” What a complete idiot. He tells his assistant he has to re-open his father’s case before it expires. At her home, Jiwon looks at Sunwoo’s stuff, then idly pokes at Mr. Choi’s letter, but does not open it. [Stupid Sunwoo missing a chance there, too.] Later, she sees Sunwoo at the hotel and can’t help asking why he doesn’t remember her voice. He pretends he didn’t hear her, treats her like a servant, tells her she didn’t clean his room properly.
Geumjool has a car repair business, and Sunwoo/David Kim surprises him to ask him to be a private investigator for a bit. Geumjool gets him in touch with the cab driver who dropped Mr. Kim at PJ’s house that day, as well as the police investigators. Sunwoo meets the now-itinerant taxi driver, who is up to his neck in gambling debt, and tells him he’ll fund him as long as he remembers Dad. [This does not seem wise.]
Jangil’s staff suggest a “field expert” to help them with identifying some hanky panky--David Kim. After a remark by one staffer about a chairman who pretends he can‘t walk to excite sympathy, Jangil remembers Sunwoo didn’t have his cane. So he calls Sunwoo’s number to ask for him, but it’s the Institute for the Blind and they don’t know him. Sunwoo is there, overhears the conversation, then tells the guy, “I was here the other day for recording services.” (Must have said he’s David Kim.)
Jangil goes to a colleague’s wedding at Jiwon’s hotel and sees her but doesn’t speak. He sends her a note and flower arrangement, so her coworkers assume all the flowers were from him. He also puts off PJ, which infuriates Mrs PJ. PJ is being investigated, but he’s cool with it.
At Mrs PJ’s gallery, Soomi gives an interview to the press, with the hapless assistant (is this Mrs PJ’s daughter??—I can’t believe she’d be working at the gallery!). When Soomi finds out the girl knows Jangil, she changes her tune and is friendly.
Mr. Lee wants to show off his son, he says, and tries to get Jangil to go to the opening with him, assuring him PJ won’t show up. Jangil gets Soomi’s invite and decides to go. Then he calls Jiwon, anonymously, and arranges for an 5:00 appointment to set up a dinner reception. Jiwon has another dispiriting meeting with Sunwoo, and then goes to her desk to find Jangil is the appointment. Jangil has noticed she has law books on her desk and asks her if she needs his help. “It’s nothing” she says.
At Soomi’s reception, Mr. Lee is introduced to Soomi, Jangil’s school friend. Jangil arrives, then tries to leave, but his father sees him. After an uncomfortable conversation, he tries to leave again, but is arrested in flight by Soomi’s painting, from a high vantage point, of himself, stumbling over the bridge after attacking Sunwoo. [Was she there? Man!] He walks slowly toward the picture, and it starts to come alive for him. Then Mr. Lee escorts in PJ. “He rushed over when he heard you were here!” gloats Pa.
Later, “Do you know this prosecutor” asks PJ. “Can you look into his investigation of me?” Jangil refuses, but PJ replies, “If I get investigated, nothing good will happen to you either.”
At Jangil’s office, they await the expert. The door opens. In walks Sunwoo. “Are you prosecutor Lee Jangil?” he asks. ‘Nice to meet you. I’m David Kim.” And puts out his hand.
ROFL. Perfect.
So, Soomi was chosen as one of the top 50 people who gave inspiration to Hollywood directors (ridic in and of itself). “31 people” corrects Soomi. SRSLY, it probably was a “top 50” list and she was no. 31. How’s that to brag? Poor Soomi. Victim of her own insecurity.
TIMELINE: It’s 2012, 13 years after Sunwoo went away (so that was 1999). The murder took place in April 1997. It must have taken several months for all that to play out, so Sunwoo was in a coma from late 1997 until 1999, or a year and a half or two years. Why the heck couldn’t they tell us that when he came out of the coma? So frustrating.
After the restaurant meeting, we see that Sunwoo is plainly not blind any more. After many operations, he could see again, and the first thing Moon Taejoo showed him was the photo of Jiwon. Then Sunwoo went to college in London. Taejoo had let his business collapse (to President Jin’s great delight) to help Sunwoo, so the latter went to the Equator (Indonesia) and shepherded through a difficult business deal with the government there. PJ heard a “David Kim” was turning Taejoo’s business around and had him investigated, but didn’t really learn anything, then decided to get in on Taejoo’s mining interests without showing himself. After the Indonesia deal, which obviously took years, Sunwoo proposed to go to Korea and destroy PJ and the Lees. Taejoo gave him some Zen advice and sent him on his way.
While this was going on, Jangil passed his law exams with flying colors, and Jiwon graduated. Over the years, she received anonymous cards and flower arrangements on special occasions. She also tried to find Sunwoo, but failed.
In the present, at work, Jiwon warns someone against grafting, but the woman attacks Jiwon first and gets her into a difficult situation. David Kim also watches an oblivious Jiwon from afar. We then learn Jiwon is supporting her family, including her mother’s emergency medical bills. She calls a headhunter, who sends her on an interview. She is late because of her mother’s problem and stunned when Sunwoo is the interviewer. He is rude and preemptory, but offers her “another chance” if she can get it together. [What a shate.] She leaves, tottering, then goes back to ask reception his name. Not Sunwoo,” she is told, “David.”
Stop. Right. Here. Cruelest thing I’ve ever seen a character do to someone they love? Ever? Exactly. He seriously seems not to know that she recognized him. She was about to faint. Didn’t make her any promises? What about asking her to “wait.” What a complete idiot. He tells his assistant he has to re-open his father’s case before it expires. At her home, Jiwon looks at Sunwoo’s stuff, then idly pokes at Mr. Choi’s letter, but does not open it. [Stupid Sunwoo missing a chance there, too.] Later, she sees Sunwoo at the hotel and can’t help asking why he doesn’t remember her voice. He pretends he didn’t hear her, treats her like a servant, tells her she didn’t clean his room properly.
Geumjool has a car repair business, and Sunwoo/David Kim surprises him to ask him to be a private investigator for a bit. Geumjool gets him in touch with the cab driver who dropped Mr. Kim at PJ’s house that day, as well as the police investigators. Sunwoo meets the now-itinerant taxi driver, who is up to his neck in gambling debt, and tells him he’ll fund him as long as he remembers Dad. [This does not seem wise.]
Jangil’s staff suggest a “field expert” to help them with identifying some hanky panky--David Kim. After a remark by one staffer about a chairman who pretends he can‘t walk to excite sympathy, Jangil remembers Sunwoo didn’t have his cane. So he calls Sunwoo’s number to ask for him, but it’s the Institute for the Blind and they don’t know him. Sunwoo is there, overhears the conversation, then tells the guy, “I was here the other day for recording services.” (Must have said he’s David Kim.)
Jangil goes to a colleague’s wedding at Jiwon’s hotel and sees her but doesn’t speak. He sends her a note and flower arrangement, so her coworkers assume all the flowers were from him. He also puts off PJ, which infuriates Mrs PJ. PJ is being investigated, but he’s cool with it.
At Mrs PJ’s gallery, Soomi gives an interview to the press, with the hapless assistant (is this Mrs PJ’s daughter??—I can’t believe she’d be working at the gallery!). When Soomi finds out the girl knows Jangil, she changes her tune and is friendly.
Mr. Lee wants to show off his son, he says, and tries to get Jangil to go to the opening with him, assuring him PJ won’t show up. Jangil gets Soomi’s invite and decides to go. Then he calls Jiwon, anonymously, and arranges for an 5:00 appointment to set up a dinner reception. Jiwon has another dispiriting meeting with Sunwoo, and then goes to her desk to find Jangil is the appointment. Jangil has noticed she has law books on her desk and asks her if she needs his help. “It’s nothing” she says.
At Soomi’s reception, Mr. Lee is introduced to Soomi, Jangil’s school friend. Jangil arrives, then tries to leave, but his father sees him. After an uncomfortable conversation, he tries to leave again, but is arrested in flight by Soomi’s painting, from a high vantage point, of himself, stumbling over the bridge after attacking Sunwoo. [Was she there? Man!] He walks slowly toward the picture, and it starts to come alive for him. Then Mr. Lee escorts in PJ. “He rushed over when he heard you were here!” gloats Pa.
Later, “Do you know this prosecutor” asks PJ. “Can you look into his investigation of me?” Jangil refuses, but PJ replies, “If I get investigated, nothing good will happen to you either.”
At Jangil’s office, they await the expert. The door opens. In walks Sunwoo. “Are you prosecutor Lee Jangil?” he asks. ‘Nice to meet you. I’m David Kim.” And puts out his hand.
ROFL. Perfect.
So, Soomi was chosen as one of the top 50 people who gave inspiration to Hollywood directors (ridic in and of itself). “31 people” corrects Soomi. SRSLY, it probably was a “top 50” list and she was no. 31. How’s that to brag? Poor Soomi. Victim of her own insecurity.
TIMELINE: It’s 2012, 13 years after Sunwoo went away (so that was 1999). The murder took place in April 1997. It must have taken several months for all that to play out, so Sunwoo was in a coma from late 1997 until 1999, or a year and a half or two years. Why the heck couldn’t they tell us that when he came out of the coma? So frustrating.