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I Hear Your Voice: Episode 16

It’s time for fallout, consequences, and a hefty dose of horrifying omens. What, you didn’t think Show would send you into finale week without the ever-living terror ground into your bones, did you? Pssh. As a standalone episode it’s the least whole of the series—it’s a bit of a prelude episode, to set us up for the finale to come. Ratings hit another high at 24.1% today.

 
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EPISODE 16: “Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)”

Su-ha hears Do-yeon’s conflicted thoughts about prosecuting her biological father in court, and sends Hye-sung to find her in the bathroom. She finds Do-yeon sobbing uncontrollably, and Do-yeon begs for her help to save her dad.

I know, a hug is asking for too much (and would frankly be jarring) but would it kill you to pat the girl on the back?

By the time Lawyer Shin comes looking for them, they’re both crouching behind a row of chairs like co-conspirators, which kind of makes my day. Hye-sung asks if Do-yeon can really go back in there, and I honestly think she’s talking about the state of her mascara as much as her dilemma about her two fathers.

She mimes to Lawyer Shin, as if Do-yeon’s tears weren’t telling enough, and Do-yeon sincerely asks for their help to get an acquittal for Hwang Dal-joong. Hye-sung assures her that they’ll do their best, and Su-ha smiles.

Lawyer Shin even gives her the closing argument, saying that she’s their best shot at moving the jury. After the prosecution gives their closing statement, Hye-sung looks over at Su-ha to ask how many jurors are on her side. He says four.

She gets up to speak and scoffs at Lawyer Shin’s worry that she’s nervous (even throwing in a hair flip for good measure, ha) but gets off to a rocky start. She shuts her eyes and takes a deep breath, and it takes us to a flashback.

She finds Kwan-woo listening to music before a trial, and he says it’s a form of mind control, to prepare himself before he enters the room. He shares, and it’s the overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). She asks why this song, and he says it’s based on a true story.

Back in the courtroom, Hye-sung plays the song in her head, and it calms her nerves. It also gives her an idea, and she opens her argument with the story of the opera—a woman is sent to prison for stealing silver, when in fact the real culprit was a magpie.

She asks who’s to blame in this circumstance—the bird, or just plain bad luck? She says that it was the law that sent her to the gallows that’s to blame, and the people who made that unjust decision. Her argument is for the jury to right the wrongs of the system, and by the time she’s done, Su-ha’s holding up all ten fingers.

While they break for the jury’s decision, Sung-bin and Choong-ki arrive, having gotten so heated in their debate over the case that they wanted to see how it turned out. Su-ha laughs, and then gapes when he sees Choong-ki’s nails painted blue. Haha.

The jury is unanimous in their verdict: not guilty. But the problem is the judge, who disagrees, and has the final say. He calls both sides to a conference room to deliberate. As the prosecutor argues, Hye-sung gets a phone call and screams, “Shut up, Grass Hair, I can’t hear!” Hahahaha.

It’s good news: the victim is awake. It doesn’t change the fact that they have to make a decision though, and Grass Hair is pretty much the only vocal dissenter. Finally Do-yeon speaks up and offers to withdraw the prosecution entirely.

Aw, are you throwing yourself under the bus to save your dad? Grass Hair tells her this won’t be taken lightly, and she says she’s prepared for the consequences.

The trial resumes for the verdict, and the judge sums up the arguments again, just in case we were sleeping the first time. He then announces that the prosecution has withdrawn the case, and that Hwang Dal-joong is a free man.

He breaks down in tears in the middle of the courtroom, as does Lawyer Shin. It’s twenty-six years’ worth of tears for the both of them. Do-yeon struggles to hold back her tears, and Hye-sung holds Lawyer Shin’s hand as he cries.

She exchanges a victorious thumbs-up with Su-ha, while Sung-bin gets to gloat over winning the debate, and hugs Choong-ki. Omo. He goes from sulky to happy in about two seconds flat. Okay, you had nothing to do with the case, but that was worth it.

Long after the courtroom has cleared out, Hye-sung and Do-yeon are the only ones left. Do-yeon is the first to get up, and stops to say in a tiny voice: “I’m sorry.” Gasp. Hye-sung wonders if she doesn’t mean “Thank you,” but no, Do-yeon was talking about the fireworks eleven years ago.

Hye-sung can’t believe it, and wonders if Do-yeon finally believes that she may have been wrong. Do-yeon: “I think just like my father, I didn’t want to acknowledge that I might be wrong. But I found out today, just how horrible it is not to acknowledge your wrongs.”

She turns around to look her in the eye: “I apologize. Sincerely.” Wow. And Hye-sung doesn’t even gloat about it (I fully expect her to later, but I think it’s big of her not to do it in front of her face) and just accepts the apology.

Lawyer Shin and Hwang Dal-joong finally get to smile and laugh after the trial, and Dal-joong sees Do-yeon walking out. He asks if she’s really his daughter, and says he pretty much figured out what Judge Seo did.

Lawyer Shin asks if he isn’t angry, and Dal-joong says he is, but he already forgave. Hye-sung and Su-ha stop to listen. Lawyer Shin wonders how such a thing can be forgiven, but Dal-joong just smiles, “I don’t have much time. I don’t want to spend the rest of my days hating someone. I don’t want the last things I feel in this life to be so terrible. That’s why I forgave.”

The words trigger Hye-sung’s last memory of Mom, and what she told her in her final moments: “Promise me, that you won’t spend your life hating someone else.” Su-ha looks over at her and reads her thoughts as she sheds a tear.

He just puts an arm around her and pulls her close without a word, while Lawyer Shin hugs Dal-joong.

Do-yeon comes home and back-hugs Mom, and then asks through her tears: “No matter what I say, I’m still your daughter, right?” Aw. She asks Mom to brace herself, and starts to tell her what she knows.

Hye-sung plops down on the couch at home, and Su-ha tells her she should rest after expending so much energy today. She sighs that he did all the work, and chastises herself for relying on him again.

She tells herself she has to stop depending on him all the time, and he pouts, “Why can’t you keep depending on me?” Hye-sung: “Obviously because…” and she doesn’t finish her thought, because the news report of the case comes on.

The verdict gets reported rather succinctly, with no mention of her. She shoots up from the couch, suddenly very energized, and up in arms about how they could leave her out: “ME. I was the star of that case! They call that news?!” Lol.

Su-ha: “I thought you said it was all because of me.” She huffs that that’s just stuff you say, and he laughs.

Judge Seo finds the breakfast table set for one, and his wife says that Do-yeon told her everything. They plan to stay at Grandma’s house for a while, and adds that never in thirty years did she think he could be that cruel a person.

He’s left alone at the table muttering aloud to himself, “What did I do wrong? I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong!” Is it wrong that I rather enjoy that he’s a bitter hateful man till the end?

Hye-sung tells Kwan-woo all about the trial on the way into the office that morning, and she hilariously gathers the whole office and asks Lawyer Shin to tell everyone how good she was. She cracks me up.

She insists on details, and Lawyer Shin genuinely tells her she did a great job, adding that it made him wonder if he had any right to give advice and act like he knows anything.

Kwan-woo picks up on his existential crisis, but Hye-sung remains blissfully unaware, and keeps prodding for more praise. Kwan-woo plays interference and makes sure that Lawyer Shin is okay, and he swears he’s fine.

Do-yeon goes to see Hwang Dal-joong in the hospital, and returns his belongings that he had the day he entered prison. He asks if there wasn’t a set of pastels, and she takes them out of her purse: “Didn’t you buy these for me?”

She asks him to sit down, and takes out a sketchpad. Aw to draw his portrait? He lights up, and she says nonchalantly, “I’ll come by as often as I can from now on to draw for you… Father.”

He doesn’t even really register it until a moment later, and then asks her to repeat it. He has to prod her to repeat the last part, and she finally says it again: “Father.” He breaks down in sobs, and she tells him not to move otherwise it’ll ruin the picture, so they both tamp down their tears and smile.

Kwan-woo finds Lawyer Shin deep into his third bottle of soju that night, and joins him. Lawyer Shin asks what might have happened twenty-six years ago if Hwang Dal-joong had met a different lawyer—someone like Kwan-woo or Hye-sung. He figures he might not have wasted half his life away unjustly, blaming himself for all of it.

Kwan-woo knows a pity party when he sees it, and asks if Lawyer Shin remembers someone throwing poop all over his car seven years ago. He does. “That… was me.” Haha. What?

He gets chased in circles around the pojangmacha table and Lawyer Shin screams that it took forever to get all that poop off. He asks why, when they didn’t even know each other then. Kwan-woo promises to tell him the story if he won’t hit him.

He says that was back when he was a cop (and partners with Hyung Cop currently on Su-ha Watch), after the Red Socks Murder trial. He didn’t shower or change his underwear for seven days to catch that bastard (ew, thanks) and worked tirelessly to collect all the incriminating evidence.

But because of one public defender, all his work was for nothing, and Red Socks was proven innocent in court. Lawyer Shin asks if that’s a reason to go throwing poop around, and they go for another spin around the table.

Kwan-woo says the real criminal was caught later, and Lawyer Shin saved two people that day in court: Red Socks, who would’ve spent his life in jail unjustly, and Kwan-woo, who would’ve been responsible for that man’s life.

“And so that day I quit the police force and began to study the law, so that I could become a public defender, just like you.” D’awwwww.

And then Lawyer Shin does the best thing ever. He just stands there, arms outstretched, waiting for his big bro-hug. It’s so great.

Kwan-woo runs over to hug him, and then Lawyer Shin gets in a good hair pull for the poop thing, before coming back around to the hugging. Heh.

Su-ha sleeps on the couch, and he’s lit way too dreamily for this to be real. Hye-sung wakes him up gently, wearing a white dress. He wonders why she’s dressed that way at home out of the blue, and takes a look around the room. “Is this a dream?”

Hye-sung: “Of course it’s a dream, like this would be real. Could your dreams be more childish?” She futzes with her dress: “What is this concept anyway?” HA, I love that Dream Hye-sung is a smartass.

He says she looks pretty, and she just rolls her eyes, ordering him to hurry and wake up because the dress is uncomfortable. He just grabs her in a hug and says he’ll wake up whenever he wants to, and kisses her forehead and cheek and snuggles some more. Gah.

Then suddenly, her hand falls limp. What. He looks down at his own hand, and it’s covered in blood. He asks what it is, but she’s already dead in his arms, and bleeding through her dress, in the place where he once stabbed her.

He pleads with her to wake up, but she doesn’t.

Hye-sung finds him tossing and turning in the middle of his nightmare, and wakes him up. He finally opens his eyes, and grabs her in a hug, so relieved that it was just a dream and she’s okay.

She asks what he dreamt, and he says it was nothing, but won’t let go of his vice grip on her.

Min Joon-gook looks like he’s planning to spring into action—he gathers a rope, duct tape, and his favorite weapon of choice, a wrench.

Kwan-woo gets to the office early and intercepts two more letters from Min Joon-gook, this time a story written by someone else reporting that a man went into a violent rage at a hospital. A flashback shows it was Min Joon-gook. And then another is an article about a grandma with dementia and a little boy, found in the streets. Interesting, this is going further back than just the two wives’ deaths.

Hye-sung and Su-ha stop by the mall, and she asks what his dream was about. He refuses to tell her, which she calls unfair since he can read her mind, and guesses that maybe it was a naughty dream: “He is a man…”

He hears her thinking it and swears up and down that it wasn’t, and she does that patronizing, Oh okay, we’ll say it wasn’t. He butts heads with her to get her to take it back.

They split up to run errands, and he catches her stopping to look at a pretty necklace and sighing that it’s too expensive. It looks conspicuously just like the one in his dream. Uh-oh. Don’t buy the thing in the omen! Don’t tempt Fate!

Once she’s gone he goes over to look at it and sighs at the price, wondering if Uncle deposited his allowance yet. I love the pair of detectives watching from their respectful distance, sucking on lollipops and sighing at the romance. “It makes me want to date.” “Does your wife know that?”

A woman shows up eyeing the same necklace, and the jeweler says it’s the last one. Suddenly Su-ha bolts, and the detective on Su-ha duty sighs, “He’s running again.” Lol, I didn’t stop to think how annoying his job would be. At least Hye-sung is always in heels.

He chases him all the way to the ATM, and witnesses the adorable little “Yessssss!” when he checks and sees money in his account. He grabs the cash and runs back, annoyed detective in tow. He slams the cash down to buy the necklace, and the shopkeeper happily sells it to him instead of dealing with the crazy lady who keeps trying to haggle (both are comediennes swinging by for a cameo).

Do-yeon sketches her father, and amidst jokes about his better side (she deadpans that he doesn’t have one) he wonders if she would’ve grown up to be this beautiful and smart if he had raised her.

She says (not even slightly kidding), “Of course. No matter who raised me, I’d be pretty and successful.” She proudly shows him the finished product, beaming that it’s a perfect likeness. He agrees in that way a father would say of an unintelligible finger painting, and then adds that she probably chose well to quit art and go to law school. Ha.

He suggests they take a selca and send it to Hye-sung and Lawyer Shin, and I never would’ve believed it, but she does it, complete with cutesy faces. Lawyer Shin laughs, and Hye-sung actually jumps in horror.

She picks up her phone like it has cooties and tells Pretty the Paralegal, “No matter what you could possibly imagine, I saw the thing that’s worse than that.” Pfffft.

She goes rooting through Kwan-woo’s desk looking for a new rubber thimble, when she comes upon a stack of letters addressed to her. Uh-oh. Kwan-woo runs in a moment too late, and she asks why he has her mail.

Su-ha is walking down the street grinning from ear to ear, when a pickpocket on a motorcycle whooshes by and nabs his bag. Not the necklace! He was SO happy. The detective runs after him, but gets knocked down. It turns out to be a license plate he’s already familiar with, and he calls the precinct to say that the purse-snatcher has shown up again.

Hye-sung sits Kwan-woo down in the conference room, and it’s a little like principal and misbehaving kid. He refuses to make eye contact, which she doesn’t let go on for very long. He begs her not to make him say anything, because he can’t.

She figures that it must be for her own good, because that’s the kind of person Kwan-woo is. She guesses that whatever the truth is, she’ll be hurt. “If that’s the case, then I’m really disappointed in you. Do you think that I’m that pathetic a person that I can’t even handle a thing like this?”

THANK YOU. Why do the boys not understand she’s a grown-ass woman? I mean, yes, petty and immature, but still. She can handle the truth, people.

He remains tight-lipped, so she says she’ll just have to find out for herself. She grabs the articles and gets up, when he finally spills the beans: the reporter is Su-ha’s father, the grandma with dementia is Min Joon-gook’s mother with his son, and the person who sent the letters is Min Joon-gook.

The detective returns Su-ha’s bag and he’s relieved to find the necklace untouched. He isn’t missing anything else, except for his phone. He doesn’t seem worried about it, but I get the sneaking suspicion we ought to worry.

He pops into the office looking for Hye-sung, but they say she’s in court. So he goes to the courthouse, but it’s empty, and a clerk says the hearing was rescheduled because the defense lawyer never showed. Okay, it’s too early to panic, right? She could just be upset.

He finds Kwan-woo out in the hall and he doesn’t know where she is either. They came together, and each had trials. He calls, but she hangs up as soon as he says hello. Su-ha reads his mind and realizes that she knows about his father and the letters.

Kwan-woo says he had to tell her the truth because she found them in his desk, and Su-ha asks in a panicked voice if she knows the whole truth—about his father starting this whole chain of events.

Kwan-woo confirms that she knows the whole story, but promises that it has nothing to do with her going off the grid. Su-ha screams, “What do you know?!” His eyes fill with tears, “Why did you tell her?”

He storms out of the courthouse, and his detective sighs that he should’ve picked Hye-sung duty. He asks his partner to switch, which of course gets denied.

Kwan-woo runs out and asks Hye-sung’s detective if he’s seen her. He says he never even took a bathroom break, and swears she never came out. It’s official: she’s missing. Okay, I’m starting to panic now.

Su-ha sits outside the courthouse and drives himself crazy thinking about how furious Hye-sung must be, and how he lied to her time and again. He walks over to the payphone and thinks to himself: “How do I tell her? No excuse will get through to her. What if she hears my voice and hangs up? If this is the end, will I be able to live?”

His hand trembles as he picks up the receiver and dials her number. She picks up. He races to say it’s Su-ha, and begs her to listen and not hang up. But it’s Min Joon-gook who answers on the other end of the line. Fuuuuuck. “I’ve been waiting for your call, Park Su-ha. Are you looking for Jang Hye-sung?”

The receiver drops from his hand, and he lets out this terrifying, wailing scream, over and over as he beats his head against the phone, like he might knock the whole booth over. And then he narrates:

Su-ha: July 26, 2013, 3:10 in the afternoon. She was kidnapped by Min Joon-gook. And two hours and thirty minutes later, our story of eleven years came to an end.

 
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Oh. Holy. Crap. And he doesn’t even have his phone to track her! Aaaaaugh. I knew that pickpocket was bad news. That damned necklace was a diversion. It was the freaking phone we should’ve cared about, Su-ha-ya! Goddamn omen. Nothing good ever happens after somebody has a dream on this show.

I was thisclose to calling it a slow episode (granted it still was for the most part, and far less cohesive than any other episode of the series) but then that happened, and now I’m back to the way I love to be when watching this show: terrified and clutching my broken heart. We did meander a bit to get here for the past few episodes, which is an unavoidable fact of the late extension. I mean, all that angst about The Secret and Kwan-woo outs it offscreen anyway? Whatever. I guess the fallout with Su-ha is the more important part, which will come later. Well, hopefully later, because if one of them dies in two and a half hours, I’ll stop believing there’s any good left in this world.

At least Min Joon-gook FIIIIINALLY got his act together. I still don’t see the point of having waited so long if all he was going to do was kidnap her, which so far is unimpressive for the guy who cut off his hand so that Su-ha would go to jail for murder. Yunno, on the Evil Scale of Evil. And what was the point of the chain mail when he was just going to kidnap her anyway? Basically we spun our wheels on the central plot to fill extension time, which I don’t hate for the extra episodes themselves, but it does take something away from the villain in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully we have a long history of things we’ve seen him do that are terrifying enough to keep us on edge now, despite the fact that he hasn’t done something scary in a while.

My favorite moments in this episode were the friendship ones, between the two girls and between Kwan-woo and Lawyer Shin. (Also the two detectives, who’re cracking me up. Wish we had gotten more running commentary from them in past episodes.) The reconciliation between Do-yeon and Hye-sung felt so earned—despite not being the most prominent conflict, it is one of the longest-running relationships of the series. I feel like we watched them grow up onscreen, and when they shared that quiet apology and acceptance in the courtroom, I was genuinely proud. I do think that the two women gained a lot in terms of character growth from the extra episodes, and I appreciate how far they’ve come.

Su-ha’s growth is at a bit of a standstill, because we’ve been at this secret for far longer than we needed to be. But now that Hye-sung knows (and more important things are at stake), we can finally get to the good stuff—oh you know, just life and death and whether or not our couple has a future with each other… or at all. See, when the stakes are that high, you can’t blame me for wondering why we’re wasting our precious time with less important questions. Giddyup, horsie. You’ve got people to save, and some of us might not be breathing until you do.

 
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OH MY GOD! How can this show end like that and make me wait for a week to see what happens?! And that voiceover by Su-ha at the end? Noooooooooo! PLEASE tell me that it ends their 11 years of worrying about Min Joon-gook, not their 11-year connection to each other!

I think I'm too much of an emotional mess right now. This episode really did me in, thinking I was going to be bored with flashbacks on minute, and then WHAM, punching me in the gut. I can't believe I actually groaned when Attorney Oska started his Red Socks flashback. I thought we were in for a big old slice of filler, but then the reveal! When Kwan-woo tells Attorney Shin that was the case, the moment, the inspiration for his studying law and becoming a public defender? *sob*

Okay, for the not-as-emotional stuff:

I love most of Hye-sung's outfits in this how, but aren't they starting to verge on the unprofessional for a public defender? They're starting to be reminiscent of Aly McBeal -- lawyers with lots of leg. We're in the 21st century, not the 1990s.

My absolute favorite part of this episode? The two cops in the mall, one saying to the other that watching Su-ha and Hye-sung makes him want to date again, it looks so fun. But oops, what will your wife think? LOL!

Su-ha's dream was so cute, with Dream Hye-sung staying in character, grumping about the frilly dress, but then . . . Gah! Please tell me he can only read minds, not the future. Does Su-ha know that Min Joon-gook's wife, mother, AND son died? Ouch! Okay, so now I'm back to the emotional stuff. I think I need my own phone booth to rip apart, trying to make next Wednesday come RIGHT NOW! (And you just know that evil bastard used Su-ha's phone to trick Hye-sung into walking into his trap! And why did he have to buy that necklace after his nightmare, making it a premonition!)

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Even though the extension slowed down things a little bit, I must say the good moments make it all worthwhile. Watching Lawyer Cha and Lawyer Shin’s argument was priceless; Do-yeon apologizing and bonding with her father was touching and fun (that selca!); and the first half of Su-ha’s dream was cute. Also, by now I think we know that there is no way that Hye-sung would end up with Lawyer Cha. Nothing has been set up to indicate this could be a possibility. The question now is if death will tear apart. I am hoping and praying that this will not be the case. Or else I will take a few clues from Min Joon-gook and go hunt the writer down.
Another (crazy) thought: Min Joon-gook was arrested for the disturbance in the hospital when his wife died. His mother with Alzheimer’s took his very young son and died in the street because she had nowhere to go. Then Su-ha’s father, out of guilt, adopted the kid. Min Joon-gook gets out of jail and doesn’t recognize his son, Su-ha. We know the rest of the story. Crazy! Of course, I sincerely hope it doesn’t go that way. But I am suspicious that Su-ha has never spoken about his mom, and yet we see her picture in the locket. That would just be nuts. Please drama, prove me wrong.

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I wish I could have enjoyed this episode more, but when Su-Ha had that dream, I just knew something bad when going to happen. :(

Which brings me to the question: why in the world did he buy the SAME exact necklace from the one in the dream? Dude, what are you trying to do? :(

I'm freaked out that the rumored spoiled ending might be true. Here's hoping that the writer will surprise us- like she has from the beginning- with a fantastic ending and end on high.

Talk about being anxious. I don't know how I'm going to get through the week. This is pure torture.

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What, an end to their 11year history?! What do you mean, Show?! You can't kill off Lawyer Jjang or else we will have fistycuffs! Arg, I'm glad Hye Sung finally knows about the letters. Since she understands why Lawyer Oska was hiding them from her, I don't think there'll be much or any lets-take-a-break stuff between her and Su Ha because she's totally going to come back from being kidnapped so he can teasingly hit Su Ha... right?!

On a happier note, I'm loving how Hye Sung continues not to be afraid or ashamed to toot her own horn and being hr frugal self (ha, a necklace = 300 sausages). The pacing of the show seems to be affected by the extension but at least the filler is a bunch of cute. I'm going to need as much cute as I can get since I know the next episode is going to be an emotional sling shot.

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The tension is back! It began with Su-ha's dream then ratcheted up the moment I saw Min Joon Gook put that wrench in his murderous shopping basket, giving me teary flashbacks to awesome mom. I was on pins and needles, waiting for something awful to happen. Gah, Su-ha, I know that you wanted to have to an awesome romantic moment and were worried about the necklace (from your scary premonition dream no less), but hello, cellphone with tracking on it for Hye-sung?! You need that!

Needless to say, I think we all had that sinking feeling that said her disappearing was likely not over finding out about his dad. I hate when I’m proven right. SO NERVOUS to see fallout from this episode…I’ve already been scared by Su-ha’s ongoing narration, but that bit at the end just about did me in, that in 2 and half hours their 11 year history would be ending…this means the end of having to be scared of MJG, right? Not SH or HS, right? Right?

Ugh, scared as I am, I just know these next two episodes are going to be back to the tightly paced and tension filled show we know and love. But cute has always been a part of it too, so lets end on that!

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Holy mackerel!
It looks like Suha may be MinJG's son after all! His wife died in the hosp. He went on a rampage there. Got jailed. His senile mother died of hunger, with his young son by her side. Where is that son?

I'd so hate for that son to be Suha, cos he'd be devastated! His monster father killed the only father he knew. And how can he face HS, know his father killed her mother? YUCKS! That'd suck BIG TIME.

Plus, 2 involuntary adoptions in 1 series is too much, no?

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What a cliffhanger! Kidnap HS and SH would come running. 2 for the price of 1.
Then MinJG finds out that SH is that son???
Then all hell breaks lose, for Suha???

Now I'm freaking out.

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It's here, it's here, it's finally here.

I was beginning to hate Shark because it seemed to be blocking my joy.

But now it's here.

Yeeeaaaahhhhh

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I just visit this site and suddenly the recaps pop up. Don't want to get spoiler because the subs still not available. But judging by the screencaps alone it's scary!! Don't want them to be separated! Please Show, please let them together happily ever after!!

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omg...think I will wait for next week recap before even watching this ep!!!

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ACK. Cliffhanger much?? No one better die in next week's final 2 episodes. Even Min Gook. I'd like to see him in jail for a very very very long time.

I've started really liking Do Yeon in the past couple of episodes...and the selca she takes with her bio dad is ADORABLE.

I loved the beginning of the dream sequence as well, Hye Sung is so haughty lol. I can't wait for next week...will it really be over? That's the only downside.

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Oh my so many feels right now.... Thank you for the recap... I've bee refreshing like mad... Can't wait for next week!

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I can't breathe. What's with Su Ha's narration!!!!

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I was beginning to think this was the slowest of the bunch but then I thought back to my overall experience with this episode and realized I teared up quite a bit, i think even moreso than the last episode. And that's because this show hit so much emotional beats with do yeon and her dad, as well as lawyer shin. I actually love how her started to waver in his skills as a lawyer, but then when kwan-woo told him the red sock case there was so much heart. I feel as if at this point show did what I wanted it to do and then some. Everyone got a moment to shine(pretty the paralegal being the exception), so i'm going to leave this show loving our characters for the most part.
Now that we've got tons of character growth all around, I can't wait for the intense, thrilling, heartbreaking finale. All this build up will be worth it for the payoffs.

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The newsclipping on how MJG's son and mother starved to death during his incarceration sheds a new light on his malice for Hye-sung. I guess he blames her for leaving him in jail, for causing him to be thrown in jail, and also rendering him to be unable to look after his dependents? (Though, the translation I saw only stated the grandma passed away, no info on the son's whereabouts.)

I read transcriptions of Suha's diaries posted by SBS, beyond what's shared with us through Chong-Ki, oh how little Su-ha's emotional dependence on Hyesung grew over the years, after the people around him left one by one. And of course we saw how HS responded, even to the point of willingly running toward his knife to save him from becoming a murderer. I think that's the aspect that touched me about the love between HS and SH (not just romantically but just a pure emotional connection). Even though I really didn't like Su-ha's ending voice-over (what end to what story??), reading the diaries makes you feel that they are eventually meant to be read by Hye-sung, after she gets freed, and anticipating Su-ha's return.

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A question about Korean semantics: someone highlighted there's a transition in the diaries in Su-ha's reference to Hyesung from Noona to "You" (tang-sin). Some said that tang-sin is used to convey respect, whereas others said it's used to convey a sort of loving familiarity. What does the term actually convey? I think he used it when he talked to Min Joong Guk...

Also a question on assistants to actors: having viewed some making-of footage for the series, and considering that I thought tennis players were well attended to by ball boys in between games, it is striking how much the actors are fussed over by a posse of their assistants in between takes -fanning/watering/wiping sweat... IHYV is the first drama I followed with great interest and detail, is the meticulous fussing a norm for Korean actors?

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... Why show why???!?!?!? Why must you end that friggin episode like that after making me cry and laugh the entire time??? WTF?!?!?!?

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Omg..my heart start to stop,naughty min joong gok!!!!!*SlapOnTheBum*

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So MJG got someone to steal Suha's phone and tricked Hyesung into thinking he had kidnapped Suha, and told her to come alone. I don't think Hyesung was kidnapped from the court house, that would be too hard with all the security.

My guess for what happens next:
I feel like Doyeon still has a big role in the story left. She JUST learned a big lesson, it would be unsatisfying to see her apply it. She still regrets not coming out as a witness against MJG. For her character development to be complete, I feel like she has to be the one to make the sacrifice this time. Hyesung put him away the first time, Doyeon has to be the one to ultimately take down MJG this time.

As for Suha: He ultimately wants to protect Hyesung, but it has always ends up being the other way around. He has this supernatural power, but he's always been powerless to save Hyesung. His desire to protect her ended up getting her hurt the first time around. Now MJG has her and again he cannot do anything about it. Throughout the series he has been slowly growing. Learning that he cannot do everything by himself, learning to rely on others. Though he feels like it's his job, he may not always be the best person to save/protect Hyesung. He lived his whole life thinking his purpose was to protect Hyesung. But I think it's actually the other way around. Hyesung has always been his guardian angel(whether she meant to be or not).

I know people are afraid that Suha will die, but I don't think that will be the case. It seems like he's been the narrator of this story. I think he's alive at the end of it. Also, his character has always been the one being protected or saved. I think the drama will end with him all grown up, protecting people as a police officer.

I believed MJG when he said he won't kill Lawyer Cha, but Doyeon and Hyesung are not safe. They are the one I'm most worried about.

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BAAHH! uhhhhh... uhh... EEE!...

cannot wait for next week.

ajdfk;ladf;af;fjk;jlsl...

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I didn't even realize what the phone-losing meant. The tracking thing completely slipped my mind. And that narration at the end is making me so worried. How am I going to wait an entire week? And to top it off, I have my english exam on the day of the finale. Show, I'll already be crying, please don't make me cry any more D;

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LEE JONG SUK IS A TERRIFIC ACTOR.

That scence with oska-byun adter he knew that HS knew.. and that in the phone booth .. i was in awe how could this pretty faced giant lad act that well ... as in well ..

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1) I know we've all been waiting for Min Joongook to make his real reappearance, but as soon as I saw him out of his fisherman's garb I got the heebie-jeebies and would have given anything for him to go back to sending chain letters.

2) As soon as we learned that Do Yeon's Mom is pretty awesome herself I started to fear for her life. Good moms don't last long around here.

3) Just WOW at Do Yeon's Dad. So brazen. Also, who expected that glass of water Mom gave him to be poisoned? Just me? Oh, nevermind...

4) I haven't shed a single tear for this drama but I was sooooo close when Do Yeon visited her BioDad at the hospital. Seriously, that girl is awesome. I vote she gets a spin-off show.

5) That crazy story about Oska Byun and the poop throwing was entertaining even though it was purely filler.

6) The flashback of Jjang Mom got to me. I just barely started to heal from losing her.

7) I am satisfied with how the resolved the court case. I would be irate right now if they had gone for a strait up acquittal because I'm pretty sure it is not legal in any nation on this planet to tell a Jury "Just ignore the facts of this case and pretend you're retrying a case from 26 years ago."

8)Highlight of this Episode for me was when Hye Soeng called Pretty the Prosecutor "Turf Head." I wanted to tell him "Don't worry, she's just jealous because you're prettier than she is."

9) Now that Do Yeon has apologized and moved out of her Crazy Daddy's house can these girls please HUG IT OUT AND BE BESTIES??????

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Yea, I had the same reaction as you (well, a little bit more of a reaction than you... I kinda threw a fit), Girlfriday, when Su Ha's phone got jacked and then when I heard Min Joon Gook's voice on the phone T.T I also kinda-- well, not kinda, I DID-- have a little break down and my heart sank six feet under seeing Su Ha scream and freak out like that T.T

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Thanks for your recap GF!

Feel like I'm watching this reading your recaps:)

Especially loved the part of Kwan-woo and Lawyer running around the table. I can imagine them going hell for leather. And of course Hye-sung is a crack up as usual too.

But the ending. Oh my goodness. Talk about cliff-hanger.

Hoping for a happy ending but am prepared for the worst.

However I'll accept whatever way the writer writes it as they're doing an A plus job on this drama.

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Thank you girlfriday! This is gonna be a long long week! I sometimes imagine all of us fans watching this episodes together. Its like a bunch of guys watching world cup together.

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Well, I think this extension business hasn't been that bad. It could have been worse. Gosh what a cliffhanger. I wonder what it menas when Su ha says that their 'story' comes to an end. Is it literal or something else?

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I think Su-Ha is going to lose his ability to read minds, that would fit with "our story of 11 years came to an end," because that would certainly change their dynamic (story).

At least I'm hoping the writer is racketing up the tension with ominous sounding monologues that aren't actually quite as terrifyingly creepy as they'd like us to believe...

Unrelated side note, the PPL is starting to get a bit ridiculous, I'm usually blissfully unaware during dramas but there's some seriously heavy handed PPL going on here.

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SH cant be MJG's son.

Based on the flashback, MJG's son who was lying on his granny's body and in the toilet was already a boy, not a baby. This means that when MJG went after SH's dad, he would already "know" how his son looks like.

SH could not have been MJG's son.

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that terrifying scream and moment he had in that phone booth...heart wrenching....my heart can't take it!! He loves her so much, and to have failed in protecting her is something unforgivable for him...even worse than she hating him for the secret.....I LOVE THIS SHOW!

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Oh my gosh! I am on pins and needles and I have yet to watch this week's episodes! Do I watch it now or wait till next week and watch all four at once! Can't decide, can't decide! But I am definitely loving this show. It's the first time I have allowed myself to read the recap before watching the episode and STILL wanted to watch the episode after.... arggg!

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I need a time machine to take me next week!!!

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What this show did to us (and the characters) in the last three episodes: it is kind of like what happens right before a wicked storm hits in the summer. Life is a little slower than normal, just enough to make one lazy. And then it gets real quiet. Right before the maelstrom hits. We have been lulled into distraction and forget it is hurricane season.

Duck and cover Beanies.

I think we can safely say shit just got real.

And just one more thing-black tank top. Yeah that did not suck. More please.

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I watched this episode with no spoiler at all and totally enjoyed the first secs of Su-ha's dream . then it started to look bad and then I had a premotion that a huge CLIFFHANGER would be there. :(((((( This was the most cruel cliffhanger ever for this show! Bring me next week pleaseeeee

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sigh. drat this extension. drat myself for wishing for one in the first place, and a slap for myself on the forehead for actually thinking it could go over smoothly. i'm sorry, but i loved loved this show so far, and i just hate seeing the pace, the rhythm broken.

i LIKED some of these filler scenes. i liked the ideas of them. i just didn't think they were the most smoothly executed. i thought the acting was awkward in many spots. a bit too cute, and a bit too pat. do-yeon's moments with her father were great, but it was a bit abrupt and jarring how she suddenly got there. if they'd shown us more of her internal struggling before she decided to strike up a real relationship with him, it wouldn't have felt so.

there was just too much filler, everywhere. for a drama that was always so tightly plotted and beautifully controlled, even down to all the cute moments, episodes 15 and 16 were disasters in that sense. i was really losing interest, growing bored, which i'd never done with this drama till now...

i will never ever wish for an extension again.

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Thanks for the recap!
Cliffhanger: I hate you so VERY MUCH. One week of misery because of you. I will be sad when this drama ends but also relieved cause the emotional tension is really of an insane level.
HS's will be OK and Baddie will get killed (or will kill himself): 2 eps are not enough for another round of court stuff, right? Plus we want a looong happy ending party.
Timejump. HS and SH will be married and SH will be a cop. I want kids who drive our Telepathic Cutie insane at home, with one of them sharing the ability of his dad. Just to drive HS mad... Full circle.

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I think Sung and Soo Ha will both live because well just take a look at the Olleh LTE cfs! I don't think Olleh LTE would be happy if either side of their cute cf couple died in the drama.

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Nooo please don´t do this! Why are you doing this?

please, show! I am at a festival and I want to have a good time. Now how can I? I am gonna cry in the middle of concerts. You EVil Show, I hate you! I HATE YOU!

I am hoping this means "the story came to an end" - that Min Joon Gook dies. So they are free.
*devours a bottle of ketchup* < yeah, I do this, when I am nervous. eat ketchup.
waahhaaahaa I hate you Show!
I am sprry. when I always said "Let Su Ha stay alive" I did not mean you could kill off Hye Sung!
If they don´t have a good ending, I will feel so scarred.

everyone, I am listening to gypsy punk in the evening so have a good open thread. if you like, you can answer my question there: what makes you attached to a character?

wwwaHHH *ketchup ketchup*

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Gah.......... talk about speeding things up! I could make a barbie doll with the amount of hair I pulled.

And now I'm left feeling like someone I loved has been wheeled into the operation room, and I have to wait another friggin WEEK to find out if he will make it. All I can do is to pray and pray and also mentally prepare myself for the worst. Please, Show, don't kill anyone. PLEASE.

On second thought, if you MUST kill someone, please not let it be Suha. I still haven't seen him wear the police uniform... ><

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1) On main characters dying -
I'm worried that someones going to die. Namely Su-ha or Hyesung. HOWEVER, seeing that Su-ha was the narrator of that last part, I doubt Suha will die. Hyesung I don't know.

If someone dies, I'm going to be angry. Not because I love the characters (ok, ok, partially because I love them), but because it wouldn't bring anything to the show. This show is about learning lessons, and emotional payoffs. I can't imagine what lessons or payoffs having someone die will bring to the show. But of course, my imagination is not the writers imagination - which means there still is a possibility of one of them dying. =(

2) On Hyesung's reaction to MJK and Suha's dad-
While I understand why Suha was freaking out, I agree with Hyesung and girlfriday that Hyesung can take the truth. Everyone's underestimating her. I'm guessing when Suha goes to rescue her, he's going to brace himself for her rejection. And then were going to find out that Hyesung didn't blame him at all. She might have smarted a little bit, but in the end, she accepted it. After all, she DID learn some lessons in today's episode. Doyeon apologized and didn't selfishly send HDJ to jail - children don't always grow up to be like their parents. And it seems through watching HDJ, she's learnt not to hate and bear grudges toward people. I'll even go as far to say that she might have gone directly to minjingook to stop blaming things on suha.

3) On Doyeon -
I agree with what Ellie said. Doyeon's still has a bit of a character arc to finish. She's gotta apply the lessons she learnt, and the writer will have to show us that she has changed. In what form this is going to take, I don't know. Make it good Writer-nim.

But I loved the last two eps on Doyeon. She's matured so much! And she finally got away from depending on her (fake) dad for love and attention. Also, I have newfound respect towards Jung Min Ah as an actress.

4) On Lawyer Shin -
I loved that they fleshed out Lawyer Shin as a character too. He could have totally been the cardboard grumpy, fatherly lawyer with no character arc. I love that we get to see his insecurities and struggles as well. Even older and more experienced people have their moments of doubts. And that drunken talk with Lawyer Cha. Too cute.

5) On the Suha and Hyesung -
What I love MOST about this couple is that they're so accepting of each other. It's not like other shows - He misunderstands her and then gets really hurt/angry and pushes her away and then later forgives her because he finds out it's a misunderstanding. No. Due to suha's abilities, it's hard to misunderstand her. Everything he sees from her thoughts is the genuine. Which makes all her harsh words and mean thoughts all the more painful - there's no misunderstanding to poof away the nasty. However, Suha just stays there and takes it. Because he loves her and accepts her, and all the mean and egotistical thoughts that comes along with her. He doesn't even try to change her mean and egotistical, but gently guides her along, like with the Doyeon in the last two eps. And hyesung is the same. He's too young for her, but she holds his hand for the world to see anyway. He lies to her about getting his memories back, and she forgives him completely. It's unconditional love I tell you! And that's why she's gonna forgive Suha for lying about his father. I have total faith in this.

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you mean story of eleven years CAME TO AN END?? WHAT DOES THAT FREAKING MEAN?????????????????? HUHUHU... Please let it be min jon gook's story that is coming to an end... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. My heart can't take Su Ha or Hyesung's death.

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It will be torture for me for the next days until Wednesday.

OTTOKE!

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I'm just going to pretend that ending voice over never happened. Because if I dwell on it, I'm going to make myself crazy with worry.

This drama WILL have a happy ending, damn it. I refuse to believe otherwise.

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this I don't like to see in the next episode, Min-yook as Suha's dad... writers, please don't go there

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I must be of the minority to prefer this episode to the last 2 and didn't think it was that slow. A large part was due to the emotional beats in it.

- love how they resolved the case by dropping the charges against Dal-joong. The best solution for all around.

- we didnt get the hug we wanted, but we got Do-yeon apologizing to Hye-Sung. I thought the way they maneuvered the apology, tying it to Dal-joong's case and Do-yeon acknowledging how horrible lying can be was brilliant.

- It hit me (I admit, I'm slow) when I saw Hye-sung scribbling on her palm in prep for her closing argument that her mom did exactly that in Ep 1 with the list of things she wanna say to Do-yeon's dad.

- love the callback to mom's last words to Hye-sung not to spend her life on hate.

- love that Judge Kim and his 2 minions "bowed" to Dal-joong after he announced the drop of charges. I take that as them acknowledging and apologizing for the legal system that had failed him and cost him 26 years of his life.

- if there is gonna be any death (fingers crossed tightly nothing of that sort will happen) it has to be Hye-sung and not Su-ha. He couldn't have died and yet narrated that their 11-year feud ended 2.5 hours later.

- from the subs, I gathered that the boy died with the granny. Maybe I need to rewatch that scene, but I dun think Su-ha is MJG's son. It's too far-fetched for him not to recognize his own son. Of course, this is Kdrama which means anything is possible. I'd be really disappointed if it turned out so.

Now, another looooonnng 6 days of agony till next Wednesday. Sigh.

Thanks GF for the recap.

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Crap crap crap! Gah I am so nervous. I know for sure she won't die but that doesn't mean he won't... I hope not. I really truly hope not.

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Oh wow, so many comments already! I haven't watched the episode yet, so I'll come back after the subs are up. I just closed my eyes and scrolled down haha.
Thank you, girlfriday, for the super fast recap! Now back to waiting anxiously for the subs for me! This drama takes so much time of my life!!! And gives me white hair... and finds a different way to break my heart in every episode... to just glue it with cutesy glue afterwards...

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I'm too much of a writer. I smell red herring wafting in my direction. Sorry. I also guessed from the pacing about halfway through that it would end with the kidnapping. I wasn't shocked.

And I picked up on the cellphone aspect right away when they pointed it out and the necklace bit.

Despite that, I don't mind the slow pacing and the connecting back and forth isn't so bad. Some things did lag--but it was as I exactly predicted with this writer. She's not as experienced with extensions.

And I have to say thumbs up on the adoption bits. Do Yeon still considers both men her father. It's not ambiguous at all. She still firmly believes she is herself no matter where she is and who she's with. Power to the writer for *getting* that about adoption. 'cause many people *don't* get it or *refuse* to. (Even when I explain it to them three or four times. What's so wrong with that?)

She'll explain to him about going at it alone, which I'm guessing has to do with his army service. He'll be off in the army at some point, since he hasn't gone yet, and she'll be on her own, flash forward, probably skip a wedding? Not sure...

=P It's a COMEDY. Comedies by Aristotle's standards needs a wedding.

Red Herring smell is strong.

And the reason for seeding the articles is that he really wants a complete set of suffering. Tear her down, make it complete before the kill. Psychopath/sociopath behavior. He wants her to suffer and know that the person she loves is guilty of being involved and to regret all her choices. It's basics. Sometimes brooding is wise according to Sun Tzu's art of War. Know when to wait and know when to attack.

Also, didn't I say you'd know *this* week how the extension would affect the show overall? I know my writer lore.

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There's a missing puzzle -

- MJG's wife dies
- He throws a fit in the hospital and maybe around that time, after the fit, also killed the doctor.
- SH's father reports it.....but what did he report that made MJG so vengeful towards him ?
- MJG's mother (and son?) found dead (one year after the wife dies) when MJG was no longer around to take care of them ?

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