Post by humblestudent2 on Aug 17, 2007 13:33:15 GMT -5
Episode 3 recap (I fiddled with the scene order a bit to make it concise)
(This presumes knowledge of episodes 1 and 2. They are recapped under the "Spoilers" thread, although now that I think about it that really wasn't the best place for it, was it? Also see the "Cast of Characters" post.)
With his lawyer, Seung-ha, in attendance, Jo Dongseop gives his account of the death of Lawyer Kwon (and we see it as he recalls it). He says he got a text message from Kwon to meet him that night; when he arrived, he found the keycard on the floor and used it to come in. When Kwon picked up the knife and told him to get out, a struggle ensued, during which Kwon slipped on some papers and they both fell, Kwon getting stabbed by his own knife. He doesn't know anything about any accomplice or about the tarot cards.
Oh-soo doesn't want to believe this, but it turns out that Dong-seop was making an audiotape of the whole thing, and it backs him up. Also, it turns out that a text message (apparently faked) was sent to Dong-seop from an Internet phone registered to somebody named Lee Bong-kyu, who "disappeared 6 months ago".
As to the letters he was getting in prison for five years, Dong-seop says they all had different signatures and return addresses, but they were all from the same person and they all concluded with the words, "God makes destiny but people change destiny." However, he burned all these letters in a fit of anger when things were going badly after he got out. Hearing this, Oh-soo loses control and starts to rough him up; Team Chief Ban, infuriated, tells him he is off the case, although he ignores this.
Oh-soo and Min-jae go to search Dong-seop's place again, and don't find anything, but while they are there another of the mysterious letters with the "destiny" signature arrives. They go to the apartment building of the return address, but of course find nobody with that name.
Detective Jae-min goes to the shop that the "Justice" tarot card was sent from. Unlike the earlier cards, which were sent by school students, this one was sent from a convenience store by a guy in an overcoat and baseball cap (like the guy who gave the first tarot packages to the schoolkids) who apparently comes in there pretty often. They check out the surveillance camera, stake out the place and eventually catch the elusive Lee Bong-kyu! But he doesn't know anything about the keycard either or the tarot cards or the letters, and was just carrying out the instructions of a mysterious unknown guy with white hair, a moustache, and sunglasses, who gave him the cap and coat! And he may not have sent the text message himself either.
Meanwhile, Seung-ha visits the library again and asks Hae-in's help finding a book. When they touch, she gets a sudden viewing of a stark image of a woman's face, like a washed-out photograph, apprehensive and staring, surrounded by a green aura. She sees it again when Seung-ha says that her narcissus was his mother's favorite flower. (By the way, in Ep. 1 he said that the day of Kwon's death was his mother's death anniversary.)
Oh-soo's father wants Kwon's killer put away and is disgusted that Seung-ha is defending him. He calls up Oh-soo and demands that he come home for dinner, suggests that he resign and learn the hotel business, and calls him a "useless fool", at which point Oh-soo hangs up on him.
A reporter, Seong Joon-P'yo, interviews Seung-ha at his office; Cha Kwang-doo listens at the door (although the interview wasn't very interesting, they were talking about different kinds of truth and stuff). Later, we see him writing an article asking if Dong-seop isn't just a "scapegoat". Still later, we find that there is a lot of buzz among the media and the Internet community about the case.
Na Seok-jin happens to run into the mysterious Kim Yeong-cheol in a bookstore and recognizes him as an old high school classmate, whom he hasn't seen since graduation. He invites him to tea, but Yeong-cheol very nervously declines.
Oh-soo visits Hae-in to ask her about the "Justice" card. She recognizes the "All elements are one..." message that came with it as a quotation from Goethe's Faust. Here it is in German, by the way:
Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt,
Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!
or, more or less,
How all things are united in the whole,
each working and living in each other.
Oh-soo is unfamiliar with the story of Faust, so Hae-in recaps it for Oh-soo (and while she does, we see Seung-ha sitting in a darkened church! Then, while leaving, Seung-ha has a brief conversation with Hae-in's mother - he's so accomplished, he even knows how to sign!)
Hae-in does a reading on the "Justice" card. She sees children's drawings, Disney stickers, and the like, some of them in a window of an apartment building - day care center type stuff - a white stuffed bear - the child holding the bear. (It's Sora.) It's the same building that was on the return address of that letter to Dong-seop! The next day she goes back there with Oh-soo, they find that the day care center is indeed there, and they ask for P'yo Joon-Seong (the name on the letter) but of course they've never heard of him. (In the course of all this, Hae-in has an unintended viewing of Oh-soo as a teenager being chewed out by his enraged father.) At this point, Ban is willing to call the case closed and forget about searching for whoever wrote the letters and delivered cards and such.
(By the way, is it coincidence that the name on the return address, "P'yo Joon-seong", is the reverse of the syllables of the reporter Seong Joon-p'yo? I have no idea.)
Dae-shik, with a couple thugs along, goes to Jeong-yeon's run-down place and she finds them in the yard "making friends" with Sora. She frantically orders Sora into the house. Dae-shik, who still has his cold, tells her she has four days to pay something on her debt or she'll never see Sora again.
Heui-soo is going out of town overnight, and his wife, Na-heui, takes advantage to go over to Seok-jin's house, let herself in with her key, put on a comfy robe, and start cooking up a nice dinner for him. He comes home, but as he comes in the door, who comes in right behind him but Kim Soon-ki, who has just got out of jail that day and starts complaining about how nobody had given him a ride or answered his calls and asking insinuating questions about who she is.
Seok-jin muscles him out of there and they go off to a bar to celebrate Soon-ki's release with his old gang, Dae-shik and Oh-soo. (These are lovely old buddies you have, Oh-soo!) And then, who should show up to join the party but Soon-ki's lawyer, Seung-ha - and it's the end of the episode.
(This presumes knowledge of episodes 1 and 2. They are recapped under the "Spoilers" thread, although now that I think about it that really wasn't the best place for it, was it? Also see the "Cast of Characters" post.)
With his lawyer, Seung-ha, in attendance, Jo Dongseop gives his account of the death of Lawyer Kwon (and we see it as he recalls it). He says he got a text message from Kwon to meet him that night; when he arrived, he found the keycard on the floor and used it to come in. When Kwon picked up the knife and told him to get out, a struggle ensued, during which Kwon slipped on some papers and they both fell, Kwon getting stabbed by his own knife. He doesn't know anything about any accomplice or about the tarot cards.
Oh-soo doesn't want to believe this, but it turns out that Dong-seop was making an audiotape of the whole thing, and it backs him up. Also, it turns out that a text message (apparently faked) was sent to Dong-seop from an Internet phone registered to somebody named Lee Bong-kyu, who "disappeared 6 months ago".
As to the letters he was getting in prison for five years, Dong-seop says they all had different signatures and return addresses, but they were all from the same person and they all concluded with the words, "God makes destiny but people change destiny." However, he burned all these letters in a fit of anger when things were going badly after he got out. Hearing this, Oh-soo loses control and starts to rough him up; Team Chief Ban, infuriated, tells him he is off the case, although he ignores this.
Oh-soo and Min-jae go to search Dong-seop's place again, and don't find anything, but while they are there another of the mysterious letters with the "destiny" signature arrives. They go to the apartment building of the return address, but of course find nobody with that name.
Detective Jae-min goes to the shop that the "Justice" tarot card was sent from. Unlike the earlier cards, which were sent by school students, this one was sent from a convenience store by a guy in an overcoat and baseball cap (like the guy who gave the first tarot packages to the schoolkids) who apparently comes in there pretty often. They check out the surveillance camera, stake out the place and eventually catch the elusive Lee Bong-kyu! But he doesn't know anything about the keycard either or the tarot cards or the letters, and was just carrying out the instructions of a mysterious unknown guy with white hair, a moustache, and sunglasses, who gave him the cap and coat! And he may not have sent the text message himself either.
Meanwhile, Seung-ha visits the library again and asks Hae-in's help finding a book. When they touch, she gets a sudden viewing of a stark image of a woman's face, like a washed-out photograph, apprehensive and staring, surrounded by a green aura. She sees it again when Seung-ha says that her narcissus was his mother's favorite flower. (By the way, in Ep. 1 he said that the day of Kwon's death was his mother's death anniversary.)
Oh-soo's father wants Kwon's killer put away and is disgusted that Seung-ha is defending him. He calls up Oh-soo and demands that he come home for dinner, suggests that he resign and learn the hotel business, and calls him a "useless fool", at which point Oh-soo hangs up on him.
A reporter, Seong Joon-P'yo, interviews Seung-ha at his office; Cha Kwang-doo listens at the door (although the interview wasn't very interesting, they were talking about different kinds of truth and stuff). Later, we see him writing an article asking if Dong-seop isn't just a "scapegoat". Still later, we find that there is a lot of buzz among the media and the Internet community about the case.
Na Seok-jin happens to run into the mysterious Kim Yeong-cheol in a bookstore and recognizes him as an old high school classmate, whom he hasn't seen since graduation. He invites him to tea, but Yeong-cheol very nervously declines.
Oh-soo visits Hae-in to ask her about the "Justice" card. She recognizes the "All elements are one..." message that came with it as a quotation from Goethe's Faust. Here it is in German, by the way:
Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt,
Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!
or, more or less,
How all things are united in the whole,
each working and living in each other.
Oh-soo is unfamiliar with the story of Faust, so Hae-in recaps it for Oh-soo (and while she does, we see Seung-ha sitting in a darkened church! Then, while leaving, Seung-ha has a brief conversation with Hae-in's mother - he's so accomplished, he even knows how to sign!)
Hae-in does a reading on the "Justice" card. She sees children's drawings, Disney stickers, and the like, some of them in a window of an apartment building - day care center type stuff - a white stuffed bear - the child holding the bear. (It's Sora.) It's the same building that was on the return address of that letter to Dong-seop! The next day she goes back there with Oh-soo, they find that the day care center is indeed there, and they ask for P'yo Joon-Seong (the name on the letter) but of course they've never heard of him. (In the course of all this, Hae-in has an unintended viewing of Oh-soo as a teenager being chewed out by his enraged father.) At this point, Ban is willing to call the case closed and forget about searching for whoever wrote the letters and delivered cards and such.
(By the way, is it coincidence that the name on the return address, "P'yo Joon-seong", is the reverse of the syllables of the reporter Seong Joon-p'yo? I have no idea.)
Dae-shik, with a couple thugs along, goes to Jeong-yeon's run-down place and she finds them in the yard "making friends" with Sora. She frantically orders Sora into the house. Dae-shik, who still has his cold, tells her she has four days to pay something on her debt or she'll never see Sora again.
Heui-soo is going out of town overnight, and his wife, Na-heui, takes advantage to go over to Seok-jin's house, let herself in with her key, put on a comfy robe, and start cooking up a nice dinner for him. He comes home, but as he comes in the door, who comes in right behind him but Kim Soon-ki, who has just got out of jail that day and starts complaining about how nobody had given him a ride or answered his calls and asking insinuating questions about who she is.
Seok-jin muscles him out of there and they go off to a bar to celebrate Soon-ki's release with his old gang, Dae-shik and Oh-soo. (These are lovely old buddies you have, Oh-soo!) And then, who should show up to join the party but Soon-ki's lawyer, Seung-ha - and it's the end of the episode.