Post by humblestudent2 on Sept 20, 2007 20:55:16 GMT -5
Episode 13 Recap
Begins: late Sunday night, day 18
"The first 24: the helpful K-drama truck driver"
At the end of the last episode, reporter Seong Joon-p'yo was run down by a truck in an intersection while being chased by Two-knives and his rogues (keondal). His pocket digital recorder - which presumably contains his interview with the old man (Episode 10) which revealed Seung-ha to be actually Jeong Tae-seong - was taken from him by Seung-ha himself. Joon-p'yo is not dead yet but is in bad shape. We see Seung-ha in the pedestrian lane of a highway tunnel. He hears the ambulance siren overhead, and smiles coldly to himself. The lights seem to dim. He is now literally the brother in the "dark tunnel" in the children's story. Seung-ha pitches the recorder into the Han River.
Oh-soo collects Joon-p'yo's stuff from the scene. In his bag, he finds the stuff from the t'aekbae that Joon-p’yo received three nights ago - his old article on school violence, and the "Moon" tarot.
Meanwhile, Seok-jin and Boss Kyeon are out in a secluded spot on the riverbank, impatiently waiting for Joon-p'yo to show up and get his bribe. (Detectives Min-jae and Jae-min are watching at a distance from their own car, as they followed Kyeon here from the night club.) Now Boss Kyeon gets a call on his cell phone: "Boss (hyeong-nim), Reporter Seong had a traffic accident."1 There is more that we don't hear. Kyeon seems surprised by this. He does NOT tell Seok-jin this; he lies and says it was a "personal call".
Seok-jin eventually gets tired of waiting. Kyeon suggests they give up, but Seok-jin calls Joon-p'yo's cell phone. This phone was in his bag, and Oh-soo has it now in the front seat of his car. He roots around and finds it and picks up; Seok-jin says, "Where are you? We're waiting for you." Oh-soo hangs up but is very shortly on the scene to confront Seok-jin and Kyeon. He questions Seok-jin sharply. Seok-jin says he is offended at being treated like a criminal; Oh-soo says he'll make sure to have a warrant next time.
Seok-jin reports in to Mr. Kang about the reporter's traffic accident. He also seems surprised at this, and, talking with Kyeon, asks if he had anything to do with it. Kyeon assures him he didn't. Mr. Kang feeds Seok-jin a cover story to use - that the meeting was to arrange to have Joon-p'yo do the publicity work for the new Jeju resort.
Back at the station, the driver - Hwang Dae-bil2 - is being interviewed. He says that the man he hit dashed into the street in front of him, apparently being chased by three bad guys. He says he could identify them again.
Oh-soo wants all the phone records from Joon-p'yo's phone and also (though Min-jae implies that he is being way too paranoid) from Dae-bil's phone as well.
As for Joon-p'yo, he has a fractured skull and is comatose after surgery.
Chief Ban is ticked at Oh-soo for not telling them beforehand about his plan to meet with Joon-p’yo. He is worried about the possibility of Mr. Kang’s involvement, and forbids Oh-soo to talk with any of the suspects, unless he gets specific permission (although Oh-soo and everyone else ignores this hereafter. Anyway, the suspects at this point are all Oh-soo’s friends and family! Who is Ban saying that Oh-soo shouldn’t talk with?)
The next day, Oh-soo and his team go over to Joon-p'yo's apartment and search it. They can't find a laptop anywhere, and they are convinced that he must have owned one.3 Min-jae turns up a tarot deck, and cleverly checks through it and finds that one card is missing – the Tower card.
Oh-soo goes to the hotel and confronts his father and asks if he had anything to do with taking the laptop. He says he didn't, and, from his private musings, this seems to be the truth. Mr. Kang remembers what Joon-p'yo said in the phone conversation that Kyeon recorded, about how he might “go easy on one of the two”, and seems to be wondering if the "two" are himself and Kyeon, and if Kyeon might have taken some preventative action on his own.
(As for the missing laptop, I should mention that during the night we also saw Yeong-cheol putting a leather case in a subway locker.)
Oh-soo tells Hae-in about the accident to Joon-p'yo and arranges to meet her at 6 PM. He also calls Kong Joo-heui, who sold Joon-p'yo a tarot deck the day that he came asking questions about Hae-in. He asks her if there is any chance that there was a missing card when he bought the deck. "No," she says, "because we went through the deck and he asked questions about the meanings of all the cards."
“The first 24: the suspicious K-drama truck driver”
It turns out that the cigarette lighter that Oh-soo found is from Boss Kyeon's night club, and it has fingerprints on it. The fingerprints are identified as belonging to a wanted criminal named Heo Do-shik, or, more popularly, "Two Knives". Dae-bil is brought in again and identifies a picture of the bald criminal.
But is Dae-bil really just an innocent K-drama truck driver after all?? As he leaves the police station, he looks around apprehensively, as if he thinks he is being watched.
When Dae-bil’s phone records are recovered, it turns out that he got ten phone calls from public pay phones as he drove around on the night of the "accident". Oh-soo, having a real brain wave here, gets out a map of Seoul and a magic marker and some pushpins, marks the locations of the phones that Dae-bil got calls from, and “connects the dots” in the order of the calls. He gets a more or less smooth curve that converges on the accident scene, with the last two calls being made from the booth right across the street. “This was not an accident,” he concludes. Somebody guided Dae-bil to Joon-p’yo’s location like a wire-guided missile.
Questioned again, Dae-bil claims that nobody said anything on these calls, and they were all prank calls made by some “pervert” making a "weird moaning sound". He says he gets prank calls often, since he puts up stickers all over with his phone number to advertise his business (he shows a sticker with fruits and veggies on it). Dae-bil is allowed to leave, stating in response to a last question by Oh-soo that he had never heard of Joon-p'yo before the accident. Oh-soo is convinced, though, that somebody on the phone gave Dae-bil directions to bring him to Joon-p’yo’s location. Looking for a motive, he asks Jae-min to read all of Joon-p’yo’s old articles looking for a connection with Hwang Dae-bil.
Oh-soo also drops by Kil Publishing, talks with Joon-p'yo's editor briefly, and then runs into Yeong-cheol on his way out. He apologizes once again for his past sins, and tells Yeong-cheol that Tae-hoon wouldn't want him to "live in pain" and basically wants him to tell the truth about what he's been up to. This all bounces off; Yeong-cheol doesn't want to be taught morality by Oh-soo.
"The lovers' day"
Today Soon-ki, who is still trying to blackmail Seok-jin over his relationship with his boss's wife, goes after Na-heui directly. He surprises her in front of her house and drags her off to a café. There, he says just the kind of disagreeable stuff you would expect, telling her how he doesn't mind their adulterous affair, because "I have no conscience", but making it clear that Seok-jin is expected to make his life comfortable.
Na-heui is completely in a state afterward, and calls Seok-jin and tells him she can't live like this and wants to break it off with him. Incensed, Seok-jin goes back to the apartment and really goes after Soon-ki, screaming at him and manhandling him, and threatens to kill him if he bothers Na-heui again. Soon-ki throws a punch at him and knocks him down, but Seok-jin gets up and really slugs Soon-ki hard and knocks him flat, and picks up a big vase and is really just about to bash Soon-ki's brains in. Soon-ki is quite terrified. Realizing what he is doing, Seok-jin restrains himself and walks out; Soon-ki picks himself up, with a look of hate in his eyes.
"Seung-ha's day"
Seung-ha started off by laying a bouquet of freesia at a place in the woods - presumably different from the place shown in Episode 7, but where?4 - and speaking to the deceased (real) Seung-ha.
Then, Kwang-doo fills him in on reporter Seong's accident. "He told Detective Kang that he knew who the mastermind was," says Kwang-doo, "and I'm going to look for him too." The somewhat downcast Seung-ha tries to warn him off – when Kwang-doo says “he’s only human”, Seung-ha points out that “nothing is as fearful as a human being” - but Kwang-doo thinks it's his obligation.
Then, Hae-in invites him to dinner at their place, saying her mom wants to cook for him. He accepts, for 7 PM.
Later in the day, he goes to Joon-p'yo's hospital room and puts a bouquet of lilies in a vase next to the comatose reporter. You are maybe expecting him to start ripping out tubes and turning off switches, but he doesn't; he leaves without further incident.
Then he heads off to court. Before three judges, with Jo Dong-seop in the defendant's chair, Seung-ha argues that there was no criminal intent on Dong-seop's part, so it has to be considered an accident (a "sago"). At this point, the son of deceased lawyer Kwon gets up in the court and starts protesting - "He killed my father, how can you call it an accident?" - and the judge threatens to put him out. (The irony of this is not lost on Seung-ha, however, as he, playing the same role as Lawyer Kwon did 12 years ago, looks into the eyes of possibly the next vengeful version of himself.)
Meanwhile, Kwang-doo gets out to the same country store5, which has the word “DONGMUN” (friend) on its sign, that Joon-p'yo found a couple of days ago, and talks with the same woman who was working there then. She is surprised that people keep coming in asking about that old hit-and-run, and mentions that a guy (Joon-p'yo) talked with her father-in-law about the accident a few days ago, but "you can't see him right now." (As to why not, maybe we'll find out in the next episode?)
"Hae-in's day"
During the night Hae-in had a dream, really a series of disconnected dream images, of the photos being put in the yellow envelope (by Seung-ha’s hand); Joon-p'yo at Seung-ha's door saying "Since Jeong Tae-seong is already a dead person"; and then the young brothers, Tae-hoon and Tae-seong, standing in front of the record shop listening to music, one of them holding an umbrella.
In the evening, Oh-soo comes by and asks her to do a reading on the "Moon" card that was received by Joon-p'yo. She sees the Dongmun store; Joon-p'yo at the convenience store, sending the flash drive to Oh Seung-heui; and finally the old man at the Dongmun store speaking to Joon-p'yo although it is silent and she can't hear a word of what he says. She also tells Oh-soo about her dream images. The words “Jeong Tae-seong is already a dead person” strike Oh-soo as odd somehow.
Oh-soo is about to ask her about the "Tower" card, but Seung-ha shows up just then; Oh-soo excuses himself (and goes back to the accident scene and stands in the phone booth. "He was here. He saw everything.", he muses.)
"You said you'd never eat with me, but here you are," teases Hae-in. Oh-soo, quite seriously, says that it was her mother who invited him, and he feels as if he owes her because of taking care of Sora. Hae-in tries to explore why he will never eat with her - "Didn't you like it? Are you mad at me?" - but gets nowhere.
At the house, Seung-ha persuades Hae-in's mom to accept a gift bag that he says contains a music / jewelry box. He says he just bought it, but is it possible that it is THE music box that once belonged to his own mother? We don't know; it doesn't get unwrapped.
"Tae-seong has gone far away"
As the episode ends, Oh-soo, is called back to the station. He is told that there was a piece of paper in Joon-p'yo's pocket with the name and address of Oh Seung-heui, who has now been identified as lawyer Oh Seung-ha's sister. They talk about asking Seung-ha about this. Oh-soo mentally links this with Hae-in's vision of the reporter sending someone a flash drive.
Then Jae-min bursts in with an old article by Seong Joon-p'yo, entitled "Death invited by student training camp", which he says furnishes the missing connection between Joon-p’yo and truck driver Hwang Dae-bil.
Seung-ha, who is trying to eat Hae-in's mom's noodle dish, finds that his memories of him and Tae-hoon happily eating their own mom's cooking intrude on the experience. He takes a bite - says it's good - then abruptly stands up, excuses himself abruptly with a bow, and heads out for the alley where he strikes himself in the stomach with his fist, as if trying to vomit up that poisonous morsel of love and domesticity.
And – really, this was a couple hours earlier, but I put it here because I think it closes things out nicely - Seung-heui, at the nursing home, has gotten the package that Seong Joon-p'yo sent her: the flash drive. An attendant puts it in her PC and leaves as it starts up. It is a copy of the flash drive that Joon-p’yo had given to Seung-ha - an audio file of his conversation with the old man at the Dongmun store. As she hears the words "My name is Seung-ha", and the file runs out, a look of horrified realization appears on her face; slowly, she dissolves in tears.
Episode ends - Monday evening, Day 19.
(Well, look at this, we don’t have a winner yet in the poll! You’ve got more time to get in your votes!)
(1) If you have a good ear for voices, you’ll recognize the caller as Two-Knives. Even without the good ear, you might pick up on it from the fact that he uses the same term of address that he did when talking on the phone in Episode 12, coupled with the fact that, after all, he was on the scene. Anyway, the screenplay says it's him. I don't think this is a big spoiler, if it even is one.
(2) Really?? 1.De-bil?
(3) Such is the state of technology in Korea. They can’t believe that a reporter could get by with just the PCs at his home and office.
(4) I presume that the body of the supposed Tae-seong did not get buried at the family memorial tree. The district police didn’t get the body back at all; and anyway Seung-ha would have said hello in Episode 7 if that were the case. But would he have been buried out in this forested area? Maybe Seung-ha can commune with him from anywhere.
(5) In the screenplay this is called a “Sup’a”, which I take to be a loanword from “supermarket” but to be applied to just about any old corner store.
Begins: late Sunday night, day 18
"The first 24: the helpful K-drama truck driver"
At the end of the last episode, reporter Seong Joon-p'yo was run down by a truck in an intersection while being chased by Two-knives and his rogues (keondal). His pocket digital recorder - which presumably contains his interview with the old man (Episode 10) which revealed Seung-ha to be actually Jeong Tae-seong - was taken from him by Seung-ha himself. Joon-p'yo is not dead yet but is in bad shape. We see Seung-ha in the pedestrian lane of a highway tunnel. He hears the ambulance siren overhead, and smiles coldly to himself. The lights seem to dim. He is now literally the brother in the "dark tunnel" in the children's story. Seung-ha pitches the recorder into the Han River.
Oh-soo collects Joon-p'yo's stuff from the scene. In his bag, he finds the stuff from the t'aekbae that Joon-p’yo received three nights ago - his old article on school violence, and the "Moon" tarot.
Meanwhile, Seok-jin and Boss Kyeon are out in a secluded spot on the riverbank, impatiently waiting for Joon-p'yo to show up and get his bribe. (Detectives Min-jae and Jae-min are watching at a distance from their own car, as they followed Kyeon here from the night club.) Now Boss Kyeon gets a call on his cell phone: "Boss (hyeong-nim), Reporter Seong had a traffic accident."1 There is more that we don't hear. Kyeon seems surprised by this. He does NOT tell Seok-jin this; he lies and says it was a "personal call".
Seok-jin eventually gets tired of waiting. Kyeon suggests they give up, but Seok-jin calls Joon-p'yo's cell phone. This phone was in his bag, and Oh-soo has it now in the front seat of his car. He roots around and finds it and picks up; Seok-jin says, "Where are you? We're waiting for you." Oh-soo hangs up but is very shortly on the scene to confront Seok-jin and Kyeon. He questions Seok-jin sharply. Seok-jin says he is offended at being treated like a criminal; Oh-soo says he'll make sure to have a warrant next time.
Seok-jin reports in to Mr. Kang about the reporter's traffic accident. He also seems surprised at this, and, talking with Kyeon, asks if he had anything to do with it. Kyeon assures him he didn't. Mr. Kang feeds Seok-jin a cover story to use - that the meeting was to arrange to have Joon-p'yo do the publicity work for the new Jeju resort.
Back at the station, the driver - Hwang Dae-bil2 - is being interviewed. He says that the man he hit dashed into the street in front of him, apparently being chased by three bad guys. He says he could identify them again.
Oh-soo wants all the phone records from Joon-p'yo's phone and also (though Min-jae implies that he is being way too paranoid) from Dae-bil's phone as well.
As for Joon-p'yo, he has a fractured skull and is comatose after surgery.
Chief Ban is ticked at Oh-soo for not telling them beforehand about his plan to meet with Joon-p’yo. He is worried about the possibility of Mr. Kang’s involvement, and forbids Oh-soo to talk with any of the suspects, unless he gets specific permission (although Oh-soo and everyone else ignores this hereafter. Anyway, the suspects at this point are all Oh-soo’s friends and family! Who is Ban saying that Oh-soo shouldn’t talk with?)
The next day, Oh-soo and his team go over to Joon-p'yo's apartment and search it. They can't find a laptop anywhere, and they are convinced that he must have owned one.3 Min-jae turns up a tarot deck, and cleverly checks through it and finds that one card is missing – the Tower card.
Oh-soo goes to the hotel and confronts his father and asks if he had anything to do with taking the laptop. He says he didn't, and, from his private musings, this seems to be the truth. Mr. Kang remembers what Joon-p'yo said in the phone conversation that Kyeon recorded, about how he might “go easy on one of the two”, and seems to be wondering if the "two" are himself and Kyeon, and if Kyeon might have taken some preventative action on his own.
(As for the missing laptop, I should mention that during the night we also saw Yeong-cheol putting a leather case in a subway locker.)
Oh-soo tells Hae-in about the accident to Joon-p'yo and arranges to meet her at 6 PM. He also calls Kong Joo-heui, who sold Joon-p'yo a tarot deck the day that he came asking questions about Hae-in. He asks her if there is any chance that there was a missing card when he bought the deck. "No," she says, "because we went through the deck and he asked questions about the meanings of all the cards."
“The first 24: the suspicious K-drama truck driver”
It turns out that the cigarette lighter that Oh-soo found is from Boss Kyeon's night club, and it has fingerprints on it. The fingerprints are identified as belonging to a wanted criminal named Heo Do-shik, or, more popularly, "Two Knives". Dae-bil is brought in again and identifies a picture of the bald criminal.
But is Dae-bil really just an innocent K-drama truck driver after all?? As he leaves the police station, he looks around apprehensively, as if he thinks he is being watched.
When Dae-bil’s phone records are recovered, it turns out that he got ten phone calls from public pay phones as he drove around on the night of the "accident". Oh-soo, having a real brain wave here, gets out a map of Seoul and a magic marker and some pushpins, marks the locations of the phones that Dae-bil got calls from, and “connects the dots” in the order of the calls. He gets a more or less smooth curve that converges on the accident scene, with the last two calls being made from the booth right across the street. “This was not an accident,” he concludes. Somebody guided Dae-bil to Joon-p’yo’s location like a wire-guided missile.
Questioned again, Dae-bil claims that nobody said anything on these calls, and they were all prank calls made by some “pervert” making a "weird moaning sound". He says he gets prank calls often, since he puts up stickers all over with his phone number to advertise his business (he shows a sticker with fruits and veggies on it). Dae-bil is allowed to leave, stating in response to a last question by Oh-soo that he had never heard of Joon-p'yo before the accident. Oh-soo is convinced, though, that somebody on the phone gave Dae-bil directions to bring him to Joon-p’yo’s location. Looking for a motive, he asks Jae-min to read all of Joon-p’yo’s old articles looking for a connection with Hwang Dae-bil.
Oh-soo also drops by Kil Publishing, talks with Joon-p'yo's editor briefly, and then runs into Yeong-cheol on his way out. He apologizes once again for his past sins, and tells Yeong-cheol that Tae-hoon wouldn't want him to "live in pain" and basically wants him to tell the truth about what he's been up to. This all bounces off; Yeong-cheol doesn't want to be taught morality by Oh-soo.
"The lovers' day"
Today Soon-ki, who is still trying to blackmail Seok-jin over his relationship with his boss's wife, goes after Na-heui directly. He surprises her in front of her house and drags her off to a café. There, he says just the kind of disagreeable stuff you would expect, telling her how he doesn't mind their adulterous affair, because "I have no conscience", but making it clear that Seok-jin is expected to make his life comfortable.
Na-heui is completely in a state afterward, and calls Seok-jin and tells him she can't live like this and wants to break it off with him. Incensed, Seok-jin goes back to the apartment and really goes after Soon-ki, screaming at him and manhandling him, and threatens to kill him if he bothers Na-heui again. Soon-ki throws a punch at him and knocks him down, but Seok-jin gets up and really slugs Soon-ki hard and knocks him flat, and picks up a big vase and is really just about to bash Soon-ki's brains in. Soon-ki is quite terrified. Realizing what he is doing, Seok-jin restrains himself and walks out; Soon-ki picks himself up, with a look of hate in his eyes.
"Seung-ha's day"
Seung-ha started off by laying a bouquet of freesia at a place in the woods - presumably different from the place shown in Episode 7, but where?4 - and speaking to the deceased (real) Seung-ha.
Then, Kwang-doo fills him in on reporter Seong's accident. "He told Detective Kang that he knew who the mastermind was," says Kwang-doo, "and I'm going to look for him too." The somewhat downcast Seung-ha tries to warn him off – when Kwang-doo says “he’s only human”, Seung-ha points out that “nothing is as fearful as a human being” - but Kwang-doo thinks it's his obligation.
Then, Hae-in invites him to dinner at their place, saying her mom wants to cook for him. He accepts, for 7 PM.
Later in the day, he goes to Joon-p'yo's hospital room and puts a bouquet of lilies in a vase next to the comatose reporter. You are maybe expecting him to start ripping out tubes and turning off switches, but he doesn't; he leaves without further incident.
Then he heads off to court. Before three judges, with Jo Dong-seop in the defendant's chair, Seung-ha argues that there was no criminal intent on Dong-seop's part, so it has to be considered an accident (a "sago"). At this point, the son of deceased lawyer Kwon gets up in the court and starts protesting - "He killed my father, how can you call it an accident?" - and the judge threatens to put him out. (The irony of this is not lost on Seung-ha, however, as he, playing the same role as Lawyer Kwon did 12 years ago, looks into the eyes of possibly the next vengeful version of himself.)
Meanwhile, Kwang-doo gets out to the same country store5, which has the word “DONGMUN” (friend) on its sign, that Joon-p'yo found a couple of days ago, and talks with the same woman who was working there then. She is surprised that people keep coming in asking about that old hit-and-run, and mentions that a guy (Joon-p'yo) talked with her father-in-law about the accident a few days ago, but "you can't see him right now." (As to why not, maybe we'll find out in the next episode?)
"Hae-in's day"
During the night Hae-in had a dream, really a series of disconnected dream images, of the photos being put in the yellow envelope (by Seung-ha’s hand); Joon-p'yo at Seung-ha's door saying "Since Jeong Tae-seong is already a dead person"; and then the young brothers, Tae-hoon and Tae-seong, standing in front of the record shop listening to music, one of them holding an umbrella.
In the evening, Oh-soo comes by and asks her to do a reading on the "Moon" card that was received by Joon-p'yo. She sees the Dongmun store; Joon-p'yo at the convenience store, sending the flash drive to Oh Seung-heui; and finally the old man at the Dongmun store speaking to Joon-p'yo although it is silent and she can't hear a word of what he says. She also tells Oh-soo about her dream images. The words “Jeong Tae-seong is already a dead person” strike Oh-soo as odd somehow.
Oh-soo is about to ask her about the "Tower" card, but Seung-ha shows up just then; Oh-soo excuses himself (and goes back to the accident scene and stands in the phone booth. "He was here. He saw everything.", he muses.)
"You said you'd never eat with me, but here you are," teases Hae-in. Oh-soo, quite seriously, says that it was her mother who invited him, and he feels as if he owes her because of taking care of Sora. Hae-in tries to explore why he will never eat with her - "Didn't you like it? Are you mad at me?" - but gets nowhere.
At the house, Seung-ha persuades Hae-in's mom to accept a gift bag that he says contains a music / jewelry box. He says he just bought it, but is it possible that it is THE music box that once belonged to his own mother? We don't know; it doesn't get unwrapped.
"Tae-seong has gone far away"
As the episode ends, Oh-soo, is called back to the station. He is told that there was a piece of paper in Joon-p'yo's pocket with the name and address of Oh Seung-heui, who has now been identified as lawyer Oh Seung-ha's sister. They talk about asking Seung-ha about this. Oh-soo mentally links this with Hae-in's vision of the reporter sending someone a flash drive.
Then Jae-min bursts in with an old article by Seong Joon-p'yo, entitled "Death invited by student training camp", which he says furnishes the missing connection between Joon-p’yo and truck driver Hwang Dae-bil.
Seung-ha, who is trying to eat Hae-in's mom's noodle dish, finds that his memories of him and Tae-hoon happily eating their own mom's cooking intrude on the experience. He takes a bite - says it's good - then abruptly stands up, excuses himself abruptly with a bow, and heads out for the alley where he strikes himself in the stomach with his fist, as if trying to vomit up that poisonous morsel of love and domesticity.
And – really, this was a couple hours earlier, but I put it here because I think it closes things out nicely - Seung-heui, at the nursing home, has gotten the package that Seong Joon-p'yo sent her: the flash drive. An attendant puts it in her PC and leaves as it starts up. It is a copy of the flash drive that Joon-p’yo had given to Seung-ha - an audio file of his conversation with the old man at the Dongmun store. As she hears the words "My name is Seung-ha", and the file runs out, a look of horrified realization appears on her face; slowly, she dissolves in tears.
Episode ends - Monday evening, Day 19.
(Well, look at this, we don’t have a winner yet in the poll! You’ve got more time to get in your votes!)
(1) If you have a good ear for voices, you’ll recognize the caller as Two-Knives. Even without the good ear, you might pick up on it from the fact that he uses the same term of address that he did when talking on the phone in Episode 12, coupled with the fact that, after all, he was on the scene. Anyway, the screenplay says it's him. I don't think this is a big spoiler, if it even is one.
(2) Really?? 1.De-bil?
(3) Such is the state of technology in Korea. They can’t believe that a reporter could get by with just the PCs at his home and office.
(4) I presume that the body of the supposed Tae-seong did not get buried at the family memorial tree. The district police didn’t get the body back at all; and anyway Seung-ha would have said hello in Episode 7 if that were the case. But would he have been buried out in this forested area? Maybe Seung-ha can commune with him from anywhere.
(5) In the screenplay this is called a “Sup’a”, which I take to be a loanword from “supermarket” but to be applied to just about any old corner store.
