Episode 5

[pip]

Here's something I've been pondering since this episode. We've seen how Eun-jae can summon scholars, experts, a security firm, money and so on with no trouble at all. So why did she take her case to the Sloppy Inquiry Agency, especially since they aren't reall private eyes? If she really had a case for an investigator, she would have one of her assistants find the best private eye in Korea, then hire him.

So what's her real motive? Why does she want to involve herself with these three people who are just barely getting by? They have asked themselves why she bosses them around, but they haven't asked themselves why she is with them at all. Hmmmm...

[creidesca]

Dec 26, 2007 23:15:54 GMT -5 pip said:

Here's something I've been pondering since this episode. We've seen how (what's her name??) Rich Girl can summon scholars, experts, a security firm, money and so on with no trouble at all. So why did she take her case to the Sloppy Inquiry Agency, especially since they aren't reall private eyes? If she really had a case for an investigator, she would have one of her assistants find the best private eye in Korea, then hire him.

So what's her real motive? Why does she want to involve herself with these three people who are just barely getting by? They have asked themselves why she bosses them around, but they haven't asked themselves why she is with them at all. Hmmmm...

you might have missed out on EP 2. By the end of EP 2/start of EP 3, the trio knew she lied to them about why she asked them for help.

You might need to go watch EP 2. The opening sequence of EP 2 shows the audience why she was doing on the rooftop of the Gold Building and what led to her unconscious state.

Rich girl has a gold piece (belong to her deceased father) that must have come from the same batch of gold pieces that the dead man in the wall (Jo Man Gi) has. She also feels she's been to this Gold Building before (as a child). Whatever she experienced in her childhood before her father passed away is triggering these panic attacks, and she feels that the dead man in the wall will be able to answer the questions she has. Thus she "hires" the trio, giving the story that the dead man might somehow be involved in the kidnapping/disappearance of her brother (who doesn't exist). Besides the lump of money they will be getting, the trio are naturally curious as to why a dead man would be in the wall. In their investigations, something keeps pestering Yong Soo, and it isn't till the end of EP 2 that he has figured it out and confronted the Rich Girl (with the other 2 in the room). He ponders, why isn't she as anxious as she should be when she receives of any news pertaining to the case of her missing sibling; does she remember what he wore the day he disappeared; what her brother's name was...and finally, he outrightly asks her if she's been lying to them, that she doesn't have a brother, right [Yong Soo asks these questions because he himself has a older brother that went missing, and hasn't turned up]?

And in the beginning minutes of EP 3, each member of the trio comes up with theories as to the Rich Girl's connection to the dead guy in the wall/why she would lie, thus leading to fortune teller girl and Taekwondo instructor to shadow her.

Towards the end of EP 3, before Taekwondo instructor's confession of love in the hospital, Rich girl explains about how and why she came to the Gold Building.

And by the end of EP 4, the trio have gotten a map in their possession. It now belongs to them (and not the Rich Girl's).

Futhermore, the trio have uncovered things that even the best private investigators were likely to even pass by--just take a look at their uncoventional methods showcased in EP 2.

These guys rescued her from an attempted kidnapping...make that several attempted kidnappings. Wouldn't that already be a good enough reason for her to stick with them?

The trio are quite relaxed...the Rich Girl has made herself clear she's somehow connected to the gold (as she herself has a gold piece). They are the type of people who, if you somehow connect yourself to the gold, they let you join in the hunt. Just look at how quickly/willingly they allowed the old grandpa to join in.

And she's obscenely rich...I'm sure they (fortune teller girl) figured they could do certain things/get access to certain things much easier with her being around (besides the fact that Taekwondo instructor is infatuated with her).

Also wait till you get to ep 8. I think when you reach the end of that episode, you likely would have answered your own question.

[TheBo]

thanks for the update, creidesca, I know some people are "losing" episodes of some of the dramas, I'm sure your little synopsis will be very very helpful.

Bo

[pip]

Actually, I have seen all episodes to date. I just think it doesn't make sense to ask those three people for help when Eun-jae could hire real investigators.

[creidesca]

Dec 27, 2007 15:06:39 GMT -5 pip said:

Actually, I have seen all episodes to date. I just think it doesn't make sense to ask those three people for help when Eun-jae could hire real investigators.

asking real investigators would usually require you to divulge more than you want to necessarily give, and the sincerity of their help? did you notice how she couldn't even trust her own family? her own uncle? Just because she's so rich...

She already thought she could get away with it in EP 2 when hiring them, seeing they are so simple. But they figured out she lied, and then to have gone through so much together...not to mention they have uncovered things that likely even real private investigators couldn't.

Also, when she first came to them...wouldn't it be better to have them do the investigating? They were the ones to discover the dead guy in the wall with the gold pieces. It would make much more sense for them to be talking to the dead man's family than someone unrelated to the case that would likely arise suspicions.

Ask yourself what defines a real investigator is when you watch the beginning of EP 6.

[creidesca]

So what's her real motive? Why does she want to involve herself with these three people who are just barely getting by?

Actually, I have seen all episodes to date. I just think it doesn't make sense to ask those three people for help when Eun-jae could hire real investigators.

Rather, the better question to ask is why she would stay with them for this long, when A. she's learned the identity of the dead man, and B. they've figured out she's lied to them.

Remember that as the trio were running about investigating on her behalf, she herself was investigating (recall the CSI theme playing). At around the same moment she came up with a composite of the dead man from his remains, it was the trio that dug up with the name and background on him.

Could private investigators come up with a name? They likely would have been able to get the list of the miners much easier, but a name from the hundreds on that list? More of the investigation would have come from them only after Rich Girl Eun-jae decides to give them the composite of the dead man.

[pip]

Maybe this is a case of my overthinking a television show. One thing is for sure: if Eun-jae had decided to hire a real private eye, then the show would have been only two episodes long! It's much more interesting this way. I am enjoying this show.
I seldom watch TV, so I am unfamiliar with the CSI theme song, but thank you for telling me about that.

[creidesca]

the drama also employs the MacGyver theme song.

Even if Eun-jae uses real private investigators, they might never happen onto the map which had been in Yong-soo's possession.

[pip]

See? I never saw MacGyver, either. Let me know if you hear other TV themes, please. The only theme I've recognized is that from the James Bond movies.

[creidesca]

the X-Files theme was used in the 1 scene from EP 4 after Mu Yeol's cursing bleeps when he bent down to retrieve whatever was balancing his refrigerator (turns out that's where his money ended up, considering it was supposed to be hidden behind the picture frame)

Prison Break theme in EP 3 as the trio came up with theories for Eun-jae's connection to the dead man in the wall/her lying.

Whitney Houston's theme from the movie 'The Bodyguard' feat in the ending vignette of EP 3.

[pip]

Wow - - I never heard any of those themes. Thanks. It's lucky for me that you're knowledgeable about pop culture.