Post by humblestudent2 on Sept 27, 2007 21:36:42 GMT -5
Episode 15 recap
Beginning Sunday morning, April 29, Day 21
"The Bad Policeman"
At the end of Episode 14, Detective Kang was burglarizing the basement apartment of greengrocer Hwang Dae-bil, who ran down reporter Seong with his truck a couple of nights ago. He was looking for evidence that would hook Dae-bil in with the "mastermind", and he found it - a pile of letters from the "Destiny" writer, just like the ones that were sent to Jo Dong-seop in prison that paved the way for Dong-seop's killing of Lawyer Kwon in the first episode. However, just as he made this discovery, Dae-bil whacked him on the head with some metal bar type thing and knocked him unconscious!
And that isn't the worst of his problems! When he wakes up in the hospital, Jae-min and Min-jae fill him in on things: not content with bashing him, Dae-bil is now at the police station, raising a big ruckus, demanding Oh-soo's head on a platter and threatening to sue the police for violating his constitutional rights! Oh-soo is likely to get suspended or worse. Team Chief Ban is being really apologetic, bowing and making excuses, but not making much of an impression on the irate Dae-bil.
That is the situation when Oh-soo hustles in. Ignoring his furious boss, he earnestly begs Dae-bil not to allow himself to be used in the "mastermind's" schemes. Dae-bil doesn't want to hear this, but Oh-soo pursues him out to the lobby. "Why do you want to ruin your very own life?" he pleads. "If Reporter Seong dies do you think it will resolve your grudge?! Luckily he's still alive so it's not too late to tell the truth." At this point Chief Ban is so furious that he slaps Oh-soo in the face! Dae-bil stalks out, but you can tell from the look on his face that maybe Oh-soo has gotten through to him ... just a little.
Chief Ban goes to his own chief to try to intercede for Oh-soo and keep it from going to a disciplinary committee, but the chief isn't very sympathetic. In fact, the chief wants him off the case entirely, and Oh-soo is kept out of the questioning of "Two-knives". Fortunately, Ban and Min-jae are able to convince him that they have enough on him, with the phone records and all, that he had better say something. His story is that some unknown person hired him to steal Joon-p'yo's stuff, and stayed in touch with him by phone; the traffic accident was unexpected and unintended as far as he was concern. Which is pretty much what Oh-soo had said in the last episode.
In the evening, Oh-soo drops by Hwang Dae-bil's house to talk to him again. Dae-bil is in the middle of burning all those letters, but he gives Oh-soo a couple minutes. Oh-soo would like him to hold up his complaints long enough for him to find the mastermind, since it's his responsibility because he really caused everything with his old crime. Dae-bil doesn't say what he's going to do. Then Oh-soo and his team go out to a local cop bar, where he gets an earful from "Detective Kim", a guy with a nasty insinuating voice who says he's a disgrace to the force and never should have been allowed to be a detective with his record.
"A Brief Vacation"
While Oh-soo was getting his head bashed, Hae-in was going out to the country with Seung-ha to take Sora to stay with his brother, Soo-gon. This guy is no common farmer, he has a lovely country place which is full of woods and hills with an ocean view; I'm surprised there isn't a Kang hotel sitting out there. He and his wife have an outdoor meal with Seung-ha and Hae-in, and they sort of assume that Hae-in is Seung-ha's girlfriend and tell her that she's really good for Seung-ha - Soo-gon says he's never seen him smile so much, not in the "ten years that he's been like a brother to him." Hae-in says that Seung-ha always speaks very well of him, and Soo-gon says that he owes everything to Seung-ha, that if it weren't for him he'd be a cabaret manager now. (Note: cabaret managers in this show are always tied in with the underworld. Bear this in mind a couple paragraphs further on!)
Later, Seung-ha finds Hae-in planting her daffodil bulb from the library off a shaded path. She talks about how next spring it will be blooming nicely. "Next spring," repeats Seung-ha, in a desolate tone, as if it were a million years away, forever unattainable. Hae-in mentions that Oh-soo gave her the bulb, and talks about how similar he and Seung-ha are, and opines that they will be great friends.
On their way back to the house, a brief shower forces Hae-in and Seung-ha to shelter under the eave of a shed ... just as they did so long ago, under the awning of the record store when they were Hae-in and Tae-seong. "It could have lasted longer," Hae-in sighs afterward.
When Seung-ha drops her off at home, as she starts to go in the house, he does a K-drama hand grab (where the woman is going in one direction and the guy grabs her hand/arm and roughly yanks her back the other way), then thinks better of it and wordlessly lets her go in. Her mom teases her, saying that she's getting a crush on Seung-ha; Hae-in unconvincingly demurs. Seung-ha is still in front of the house, rubbing his wrist and looking as if he is having a hard time getting his fist clenched again.
"In search of Oh Seung-ha"
Meanwhile that day, Mr. Kang called up his gangland buddy, Boss Kyeon, and accused him of not following orders, in view of the fact that his man "Two-knives" was arrested near the scene of Reporter Seong's "accident". Kyeon says that had nothing to do with him - Two-knives had been hired independently by another party. "Might this be the other party that Joon-p'yo was talking about?" Kang asks.
Kang then asks if Kyeon has gotten the record of calls from the pay phone that Joon-p'yo used that night. In fact they have just been put in Kyeon's hands, but when Kyeon looks at the four names on the list, one jumps out at him - the name of Oh Seung-ha. He stalls Mr. Kang with a lie, then places a phone call. The person who picks up is Seung-ha's brother Soo-gon! Soo-gon doesn't seem very happy to hear from Kyeon, who is apparently an old acquaintance. Boss Kyeon asks about that "person you used to go around with", Oh Seung-ha - didn't he become a lawyer? Soo-gon says he did, but doesn't volunteer other information. (Soo-gon later reports the call to Seung-ha, who takes the news expressionlessly.)
There isn't much else to the phone call, but it raises a lot of interesting questions about what Seung-ha was doing during those years of his life when he wasn't in school. What ties was he making? What assets was he cultivating?1 It looks as though Soo-gon is not Seung-ha's brother in any legal sense, but maybe just someone he took up with while living on the fringes of the law. Anyway, Boss Kyeon then reports to Kyeon that Joon-p'yo apparently called Lawyer Oh Seung-ha.
"The End of the Affair"
On Sunday evening, Kang Heui-soo is having a lovely dinner with his wife, Choi Na-heui. He is all smiles as he pulls out a jewelry store box and puts a ring with big stones on her finger. He tells her that he's sorry if he has been distant and inattentive since their marriage was arranged, because of the pressures of business and all, but he promises to do better. He wants to go to Europe with her for a month to get a new start. (At this point Seok-jin calls her on her cell phone, but she doesn't take the call.)
Later, though, Na-heui meets Seok-jin in her car. She tells him it's over. She really wants to be a good wife for Heui-soo and put their affair behind them. Sadly, Seok-jin assents to this. They share one last good-bye kiss.
Unfortunately, this kiss is photographed by somebody or other.
Immediately afterward, Heui-soo gets a phone call. His face is like stone. He says only, "Understood." Then he hurls the phone across the room in a fury and smashes it.
Seok-jin goes back to his apartment to drink some, and is there when Soon-ki comes back. Soon-ki is in a state. Earlier in the evening, he went to visit his mom, who runs a lowly restaurant,2 and boasted to her that he was going to get a big casino job in Jeju. However, his mom, who is wise to her good-for-nothing son's schemes, told him that Seok-jin had come by to deliver some money so the two of them could open a store somewhere. She doesn't want this money that Soon-ki has squeezed out of his friends, and angrily shoves it back in his hands.
So when Soon-ki comes in and Seok-jin wants a drinking companion, he is in a cold rage and tosses the money back in Seok-jin's face. He is mad that his mother was "belittled"; also he obviously is not going to be put off with a future owning some little store. When Seok-jin tells him the affair is over, and that he only wants Na-heui to be happy with Heui-soo, Soon-ki sneers at him, and asks what that has to do with anything. He is still ready to tell everyone about the affair - Heui-soo, Mr. Kang, and maybe the public as well. That's what will happen unless he gets the Jeju job in a week.
"Cool competitors"
The next morning, Seung-ha goes to court for his last appearance on behalf of Jo Dong-seop. He gets off with a suspended sentence. Lawyer Kwon's son gets up angrily and stalks out of the courtroom, fixing Seung-ha with a baleful stare as he leaves in his turn.
Then, as Seung-ha is driving around, he gets a call from Congressman Kang who is asking if he wants to do lunch! Seung-ha agrees with his usual calm affability.
Seung-ha meets him at the hotel and is happy to let him order. Mr. Kang claims that he is just interested in Seung-ha because of his remarkable record. He says he is a good judge of character, and sees that Seung-ha has a "cool competitor's nature". "Isn't that what you are famous for yourself," Seung-ha responds with a smile. They are apparently getting along quite nicely; Mr. Kang apparently enjoys the experience of fencing with an equal for a change. Seung-ha soon edges the conversation in the direction of Oh-soo, the "many coincidences" that have brought the two together, Mr. Kwon's case, people getting off on grounds of self-defense, and hence to Oh-soo's old case, which he says he knows about because of Kwang-doo working in his office. Seung-ha asks if this is what he has been asked to lunch - because Mr. Kang is concerned because he knows about the old case. But Mr. Kang says, "I'm not concerned about an old case."
Now Mr. Kang brings up the subject of Seong Joon-p'yo. Seung-ha says he's "a friend of mine" and lets it drop that he called him the night of the accident but Seung-ha missed the call and doesn't know what he wanted.
After Seung-ha leaves, Boss Kyeon shows up and arrives with some meager information about Seung-ha being raised in an orphanage with his sister. Mr. Kang tells him to keep digging.
"Cleanly, without a hitch"
That evening, Heui-soo is in his office, looking over the photographs of that last smooch - which are in a manila envelope - as well as the red-envelope photographs that he got before. "I wonder who sent these?" he asks himself idly, referring to the latter - it seems that the latest photographs were probably taken by his own spies.
Putting the photos away, he calls in Secretary Na and tells him to arrange a two-day personal trip for him to Jeju on short notice. And while he's gone, he wants Seok-jin to deal with Soon-ki. Not just by bribery - that won't solve anything. He wants a "specific plan" - he wants Soon-ki taken care of "cleanly, without a hitch". How he does it is up to him. He will provide whatever men and money Seok-jin needs.
"In search of Jeong Tae-seong"
Now, during this whole two-day period, the real topic on Oh-soo's mind has been the present whereabouts and condition of Jeong Tae-seong. After recovering from his blow to the head, he didn't lose much time in resuming his interrupted conversation with Kwang-doo. They discuss the possibilities. If the boy who died in the hit-and-run were not Tae-seong, then who was it? Why haven't the family come forward? Maybe he was a runaway himself. Oh-soo says he'll get hold of a list of runaway boys from that time. Kwang-doo also tells Oh-soo he thinks Joon-p’yo got some information from the old man at the Dongbu store, but the old man is still too sick to be questioned.
The next day, while Oh-soo is lunching with Congressman Kang, Oh-soo meets up with his old teacher Mo In-ho, and picks up another hint. Somebody that Min-ho attended a wedding with recently said that he had seen Tae-seong a couple years after his supposed death (that would be 10 years ago now) but Tae-seong pretended not to know him. This was in Uyjeongbu (which is north of Seoul). Obviously this is pretty thin stuff, but it encourages Oh-soo a bit.
In the evening, Oh-soo drops by for another short and fruitless conversation with Yeong-cheol. (Yeong-cheol is once again the last one to leave the publishing office, alone on the floor with only his desk lit. He is on the phone with someone, apparently being told that there has been a change of plan and agreeing that he will hold on to something. (I don't know what this is about, if anything.)) Oh-soo accuses Yeong-cheol of making the phone class to Dae-pil on the night of the “accident”. (How did he come up with that? Yeong-cheol WAS at that phone booth, as I mentioned in my Episode 12 recap, but I didn’t think Oh-soo actually saw him.) Oh-soo tells Yeong-cheol that he knows Tae-seong is behind all this, and that Yeong-cheol should tell him to stop ruining people's lives, but Yeong-cheol doesn't give anything away.
Meanwhile, Hae-in is at the tarot café fiddling idly with the flash drive that Oh-soo gave her two days ago (that he got from Seung-heui in Episode 14). An idle question from Joo-heui prompts her to look twice at it, and somehow she realizes that it looks different from the flash drive in her vision, the one that she saw Joon-p'yo put in the envelope at the convenience store before his death. (She must have a better view of her visions than I do at 56K...) She calls Oh-soo and tells him this. Seung-heui must have switched drives then, but why would she do that? Why would Joon-p'yo have sent her evidence anyway?
Alone with his thoughts on the roof of the police station, Oh-soo mumbles names to himself idly. And suddenly he makes the connection between Jeong Tae-seong and another name. It's not clear how he is reasoning, but there are several ways he could be going. If Tae-seong is alive under the identity of another man in his late 20's, who is he? What would he be doing today? Would he have gotten involved with all of the victims somehow, to learn their habits and their weak points? Who HAS been involved with them all? If Joon-p'yo sent evidence to Seung-hui to incriminate someone, then who can it incriminate? And if she hid evidence to protect someone, who was she protecting – given that as far as we know there is only one person in the world whom she cares about?
And what is he doing at this moment? In his dark, UV-lit apartment/eyrie, he has chosen two more tarot cards to send. "What choices will you make?" Seung-ha murmurs.
Episode ends, Monday night, April 30, day 22
(Once again, nobody died this week! You have another 6 days at least to get in your answers to my unpopular death poll.)
(1) Remember back in the Episode 12 recap, when I was wondering how he knew where the Kang/Kyeon meeting was, and asked if he had a mole in the Kyeon organization? Doesn't seem out of the question now, does it?
(2) A “covered wagon” according to the screenplay
Beginning Sunday morning, April 29, Day 21
"The Bad Policeman"
At the end of Episode 14, Detective Kang was burglarizing the basement apartment of greengrocer Hwang Dae-bil, who ran down reporter Seong with his truck a couple of nights ago. He was looking for evidence that would hook Dae-bil in with the "mastermind", and he found it - a pile of letters from the "Destiny" writer, just like the ones that were sent to Jo Dong-seop in prison that paved the way for Dong-seop's killing of Lawyer Kwon in the first episode. However, just as he made this discovery, Dae-bil whacked him on the head with some metal bar type thing and knocked him unconscious!
And that isn't the worst of his problems! When he wakes up in the hospital, Jae-min and Min-jae fill him in on things: not content with bashing him, Dae-bil is now at the police station, raising a big ruckus, demanding Oh-soo's head on a platter and threatening to sue the police for violating his constitutional rights! Oh-soo is likely to get suspended or worse. Team Chief Ban is being really apologetic, bowing and making excuses, but not making much of an impression on the irate Dae-bil.
That is the situation when Oh-soo hustles in. Ignoring his furious boss, he earnestly begs Dae-bil not to allow himself to be used in the "mastermind's" schemes. Dae-bil doesn't want to hear this, but Oh-soo pursues him out to the lobby. "Why do you want to ruin your very own life?" he pleads. "If Reporter Seong dies do you think it will resolve your grudge?! Luckily he's still alive so it's not too late to tell the truth." At this point Chief Ban is so furious that he slaps Oh-soo in the face! Dae-bil stalks out, but you can tell from the look on his face that maybe Oh-soo has gotten through to him ... just a little.
Chief Ban goes to his own chief to try to intercede for Oh-soo and keep it from going to a disciplinary committee, but the chief isn't very sympathetic. In fact, the chief wants him off the case entirely, and Oh-soo is kept out of the questioning of "Two-knives". Fortunately, Ban and Min-jae are able to convince him that they have enough on him, with the phone records and all, that he had better say something. His story is that some unknown person hired him to steal Joon-p'yo's stuff, and stayed in touch with him by phone; the traffic accident was unexpected and unintended as far as he was concern. Which is pretty much what Oh-soo had said in the last episode.
In the evening, Oh-soo drops by Hwang Dae-bil's house to talk to him again. Dae-bil is in the middle of burning all those letters, but he gives Oh-soo a couple minutes. Oh-soo would like him to hold up his complaints long enough for him to find the mastermind, since it's his responsibility because he really caused everything with his old crime. Dae-bil doesn't say what he's going to do. Then Oh-soo and his team go out to a local cop bar, where he gets an earful from "Detective Kim", a guy with a nasty insinuating voice who says he's a disgrace to the force and never should have been allowed to be a detective with his record.
"A Brief Vacation"
While Oh-soo was getting his head bashed, Hae-in was going out to the country with Seung-ha to take Sora to stay with his brother, Soo-gon. This guy is no common farmer, he has a lovely country place which is full of woods and hills with an ocean view; I'm surprised there isn't a Kang hotel sitting out there. He and his wife have an outdoor meal with Seung-ha and Hae-in, and they sort of assume that Hae-in is Seung-ha's girlfriend and tell her that she's really good for Seung-ha - Soo-gon says he's never seen him smile so much, not in the "ten years that he's been like a brother to him." Hae-in says that Seung-ha always speaks very well of him, and Soo-gon says that he owes everything to Seung-ha, that if it weren't for him he'd be a cabaret manager now. (Note: cabaret managers in this show are always tied in with the underworld. Bear this in mind a couple paragraphs further on!)
Later, Seung-ha finds Hae-in planting her daffodil bulb from the library off a shaded path. She talks about how next spring it will be blooming nicely. "Next spring," repeats Seung-ha, in a desolate tone, as if it were a million years away, forever unattainable. Hae-in mentions that Oh-soo gave her the bulb, and talks about how similar he and Seung-ha are, and opines that they will be great friends.
On their way back to the house, a brief shower forces Hae-in and Seung-ha to shelter under the eave of a shed ... just as they did so long ago, under the awning of the record store when they were Hae-in and Tae-seong. "It could have lasted longer," Hae-in sighs afterward.
When Seung-ha drops her off at home, as she starts to go in the house, he does a K-drama hand grab (where the woman is going in one direction and the guy grabs her hand/arm and roughly yanks her back the other way), then thinks better of it and wordlessly lets her go in. Her mom teases her, saying that she's getting a crush on Seung-ha; Hae-in unconvincingly demurs. Seung-ha is still in front of the house, rubbing his wrist and looking as if he is having a hard time getting his fist clenched again.
"In search of Oh Seung-ha"
Meanwhile that day, Mr. Kang called up his gangland buddy, Boss Kyeon, and accused him of not following orders, in view of the fact that his man "Two-knives" was arrested near the scene of Reporter Seong's "accident". Kyeon says that had nothing to do with him - Two-knives had been hired independently by another party. "Might this be the other party that Joon-p'yo was talking about?" Kang asks.
Kang then asks if Kyeon has gotten the record of calls from the pay phone that Joon-p'yo used that night. In fact they have just been put in Kyeon's hands, but when Kyeon looks at the four names on the list, one jumps out at him - the name of Oh Seung-ha. He stalls Mr. Kang with a lie, then places a phone call. The person who picks up is Seung-ha's brother Soo-gon! Soo-gon doesn't seem very happy to hear from Kyeon, who is apparently an old acquaintance. Boss Kyeon asks about that "person you used to go around with", Oh Seung-ha - didn't he become a lawyer? Soo-gon says he did, but doesn't volunteer other information. (Soo-gon later reports the call to Seung-ha, who takes the news expressionlessly.)
There isn't much else to the phone call, but it raises a lot of interesting questions about what Seung-ha was doing during those years of his life when he wasn't in school. What ties was he making? What assets was he cultivating?1 It looks as though Soo-gon is not Seung-ha's brother in any legal sense, but maybe just someone he took up with while living on the fringes of the law. Anyway, Boss Kyeon then reports to Kyeon that Joon-p'yo apparently called Lawyer Oh Seung-ha.
"The End of the Affair"
On Sunday evening, Kang Heui-soo is having a lovely dinner with his wife, Choi Na-heui. He is all smiles as he pulls out a jewelry store box and puts a ring with big stones on her finger. He tells her that he's sorry if he has been distant and inattentive since their marriage was arranged, because of the pressures of business and all, but he promises to do better. He wants to go to Europe with her for a month to get a new start. (At this point Seok-jin calls her on her cell phone, but she doesn't take the call.)
Later, though, Na-heui meets Seok-jin in her car. She tells him it's over. She really wants to be a good wife for Heui-soo and put their affair behind them. Sadly, Seok-jin assents to this. They share one last good-bye kiss.
Unfortunately, this kiss is photographed by somebody or other.
Immediately afterward, Heui-soo gets a phone call. His face is like stone. He says only, "Understood." Then he hurls the phone across the room in a fury and smashes it.
Seok-jin goes back to his apartment to drink some, and is there when Soon-ki comes back. Soon-ki is in a state. Earlier in the evening, he went to visit his mom, who runs a lowly restaurant,2 and boasted to her that he was going to get a big casino job in Jeju. However, his mom, who is wise to her good-for-nothing son's schemes, told him that Seok-jin had come by to deliver some money so the two of them could open a store somewhere. She doesn't want this money that Soon-ki has squeezed out of his friends, and angrily shoves it back in his hands.
So when Soon-ki comes in and Seok-jin wants a drinking companion, he is in a cold rage and tosses the money back in Seok-jin's face. He is mad that his mother was "belittled"; also he obviously is not going to be put off with a future owning some little store. When Seok-jin tells him the affair is over, and that he only wants Na-heui to be happy with Heui-soo, Soon-ki sneers at him, and asks what that has to do with anything. He is still ready to tell everyone about the affair - Heui-soo, Mr. Kang, and maybe the public as well. That's what will happen unless he gets the Jeju job in a week.
"Cool competitors"
The next morning, Seung-ha goes to court for his last appearance on behalf of Jo Dong-seop. He gets off with a suspended sentence. Lawyer Kwon's son gets up angrily and stalks out of the courtroom, fixing Seung-ha with a baleful stare as he leaves in his turn.
Then, as Seung-ha is driving around, he gets a call from Congressman Kang who is asking if he wants to do lunch! Seung-ha agrees with his usual calm affability.
Seung-ha meets him at the hotel and is happy to let him order. Mr. Kang claims that he is just interested in Seung-ha because of his remarkable record. He says he is a good judge of character, and sees that Seung-ha has a "cool competitor's nature". "Isn't that what you are famous for yourself," Seung-ha responds with a smile. They are apparently getting along quite nicely; Mr. Kang apparently enjoys the experience of fencing with an equal for a change. Seung-ha soon edges the conversation in the direction of Oh-soo, the "many coincidences" that have brought the two together, Mr. Kwon's case, people getting off on grounds of self-defense, and hence to Oh-soo's old case, which he says he knows about because of Kwang-doo working in his office. Seung-ha asks if this is what he has been asked to lunch - because Mr. Kang is concerned because he knows about the old case. But Mr. Kang says, "I'm not concerned about an old case."
Now Mr. Kang brings up the subject of Seong Joon-p'yo. Seung-ha says he's "a friend of mine" and lets it drop that he called him the night of the accident but Seung-ha missed the call and doesn't know what he wanted.
After Seung-ha leaves, Boss Kyeon shows up and arrives with some meager information about Seung-ha being raised in an orphanage with his sister. Mr. Kang tells him to keep digging.
"Cleanly, without a hitch"
That evening, Heui-soo is in his office, looking over the photographs of that last smooch - which are in a manila envelope - as well as the red-envelope photographs that he got before. "I wonder who sent these?" he asks himself idly, referring to the latter - it seems that the latest photographs were probably taken by his own spies.
Putting the photos away, he calls in Secretary Na and tells him to arrange a two-day personal trip for him to Jeju on short notice. And while he's gone, he wants Seok-jin to deal with Soon-ki. Not just by bribery - that won't solve anything. He wants a "specific plan" - he wants Soon-ki taken care of "cleanly, without a hitch". How he does it is up to him. He will provide whatever men and money Seok-jin needs.
"In search of Jeong Tae-seong"
Now, during this whole two-day period, the real topic on Oh-soo's mind has been the present whereabouts and condition of Jeong Tae-seong. After recovering from his blow to the head, he didn't lose much time in resuming his interrupted conversation with Kwang-doo. They discuss the possibilities. If the boy who died in the hit-and-run were not Tae-seong, then who was it? Why haven't the family come forward? Maybe he was a runaway himself. Oh-soo says he'll get hold of a list of runaway boys from that time. Kwang-doo also tells Oh-soo he thinks Joon-p’yo got some information from the old man at the Dongbu store, but the old man is still too sick to be questioned.
The next day, while Oh-soo is lunching with Congressman Kang, Oh-soo meets up with his old teacher Mo In-ho, and picks up another hint. Somebody that Min-ho attended a wedding with recently said that he had seen Tae-seong a couple years after his supposed death (that would be 10 years ago now) but Tae-seong pretended not to know him. This was in Uyjeongbu (which is north of Seoul). Obviously this is pretty thin stuff, but it encourages Oh-soo a bit.
In the evening, Oh-soo drops by for another short and fruitless conversation with Yeong-cheol. (Yeong-cheol is once again the last one to leave the publishing office, alone on the floor with only his desk lit. He is on the phone with someone, apparently being told that there has been a change of plan and agreeing that he will hold on to something. (I don't know what this is about, if anything.)) Oh-soo accuses Yeong-cheol of making the phone class to Dae-pil on the night of the “accident”. (How did he come up with that? Yeong-cheol WAS at that phone booth, as I mentioned in my Episode 12 recap, but I didn’t think Oh-soo actually saw him.) Oh-soo tells Yeong-cheol that he knows Tae-seong is behind all this, and that Yeong-cheol should tell him to stop ruining people's lives, but Yeong-cheol doesn't give anything away.
Meanwhile, Hae-in is at the tarot café fiddling idly with the flash drive that Oh-soo gave her two days ago (that he got from Seung-heui in Episode 14). An idle question from Joo-heui prompts her to look twice at it, and somehow she realizes that it looks different from the flash drive in her vision, the one that she saw Joon-p'yo put in the envelope at the convenience store before his death. (She must have a better view of her visions than I do at 56K...) She calls Oh-soo and tells him this. Seung-heui must have switched drives then, but why would she do that? Why would Joon-p'yo have sent her evidence anyway?
Alone with his thoughts on the roof of the police station, Oh-soo mumbles names to himself idly. And suddenly he makes the connection between Jeong Tae-seong and another name. It's not clear how he is reasoning, but there are several ways he could be going. If Tae-seong is alive under the identity of another man in his late 20's, who is he? What would he be doing today? Would he have gotten involved with all of the victims somehow, to learn their habits and their weak points? Who HAS been involved with them all? If Joon-p'yo sent evidence to Seung-hui to incriminate someone, then who can it incriminate? And if she hid evidence to protect someone, who was she protecting – given that as far as we know there is only one person in the world whom she cares about?
And what is he doing at this moment? In his dark, UV-lit apartment/eyrie, he has chosen two more tarot cards to send. "What choices will you make?" Seung-ha murmurs.
Episode ends, Monday night, April 30, day 22
(Once again, nobody died this week! You have another 6 days at least to get in your answers to my unpopular death poll.)
(1) Remember back in the Episode 12 recap, when I was wondering how he knew where the Kang/Kyeon meeting was, and asked if he had a mole in the Kyeon organization? Doesn't seem out of the question now, does it?
(2) A “covered wagon” according to the screenplay