I Hear Your Voice: Episode 16
by girlfriday
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.
COMMENTS
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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51 drina ros
July 25, 2013 at 10:41 PM
I only wish that Kwan Woo sets his phone GPS to connect with Hye Sung's too, just like what SuHa does... so both of the could track that girl,
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52 MJ
July 25, 2013 at 10:42 PM
I really love this writer. She knows how to make people believe and care for each of the character. Everyone serves a purpose and every action has consequences. There's a story behind everyone's choice. If there's an episode that I "multitask" while watching it was yesterday's episode, other than that... no one can disturb my precious one hour ride with this drama. LOL...
I'm going to have to say goodbye next week. I hope the writer knows what she's doing and do not disappoint us with a forced or "someone good has to die" ending. Soo Ha deserves to be happy for his whole life has been a tragedy and loneliness. And there's no way he could be happy if he didn't end up with Hye Sung. He could not live without her.
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53 Ek Ladhki Thi
July 25, 2013 at 10:42 PM
Recaps are the only way I can keep up with this drama and even then, I'm able to feel the emotion through the writing, thanks girlfriday.
Also, the second half Su Ha's dream threw me for a loop and at the end of the show I was chanting 'don't die don't die'. Hyesungah hang in there, okay!
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54 khina
July 25, 2013 at 10:46 PM
i'm more worry about HS's foreshadowing SH will be not in her side always. if one of them dies in that 2 hours and half i can't watch rest of the drama for real. they should have happy ending after so much sruggles.
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55 sophia
July 25, 2013 at 10:47 PM
Just finished watching and in the last 3 minutes proceeded through the five stages of drama stress:
1. TOTAL AND UTTER PANIC, characterized by a gaksital worthy scream and frantic hand waving;
2. THE SEARCH FOR MEANING - i.e. sprinting over to see what the beanies have to say and hoping that someone has a good theory that won't rip my heart out;
3. DENIAL - deciding that writer-nim wouldn't do this. As someone pointed out, PSH doesn't die because he's narrating (right? please say yes, chaebal) and this isn't makjang enough to have JHS die (RIGHT?!?!?!?!);
4. RELAPSE INTO PANIC - recalling past disappointments like BIG and thinking...holy crapsies what if writer-nim DOES do this? What if JHS dies and PSH is left in misery FOREVER? What if JHS death galvanizes the rest of the cast to be the best cops/public defenders/prosecutors they can be and they all get together to commemorate her death every year and honor her for making them into LEGAL TOP TEAM?..the end?
5. ACCEPTANCE - realizing that this feverish speculation is going to give me agita so...settle in for a HELLISH week of waiting and hope for the best.
p.s. DY again for the win this episode. So cute with bio-appa.
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ARIANA12
July 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM
HAHAHAHAHA Omg this made me laugh. well said!
I too went through all 5 stages but stage 1 was pretty severe. i actually cried during the phone booth scene..this drama is seriously ripping my heart out x____x
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56 fan2527
July 25, 2013 at 10:50 PM
First time commenting here, but definitely not my first visit.
I actually like these last 2 episodes. While the pacing is definitely slower and focused on everything except for the madness which is Min Jong Gook, it definitely allowed the writer to tie up a lot of loose ends and the side plots that wouldn't have been addressed properly if this show ended at 16 originally.
They were able to close up all the little side relationships, and I think most importantly the fri-enmy relationship between Hye Sung & Do Yeon. I don't think we would have walked away with a satisfying conclusion to that story if it wasn't for the extension. Also, it gave Do Yeon a chance to have a relationship with a father where she wasn't constantly trying to prove herself.
Can't wait for the next 2 episodes because there is nothing left to tie up other than our main story and seeing how easily Su Ha waiver between being confident and insecure in the last few moments of this episode will definitely make for an interesting end. Hopefully nothing like his dream and the only one bleeding in the end is Min Jong Gook.
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57 rj
July 25, 2013 at 11:02 PM
I found the scene where he hopes his uncle deposited his money very telling on how much Suha has to grow. I am assuming that they ate going to do a time jump at the end of 17 or the beginning of 18. I don't mind the age gap but I find that Suha is too young.
I don't know if people know but they way Koreans calculate age if different than the norm. When you are born you are 1 yrs old. When the new year starts then you turn 2. So for Suha, when the show says he is 20 it really means he is either 18 or 19.
If he was born in December he would be 1at birth but when January 1 st rolls around he would be 2 even though physicaly he is a month old. Confusing I know!
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Carmensitta
July 26, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Suha is 20 in Korean age, HyeSung is 29, only 9 years difference no matter how you look at it. I think I don't have the tiniest bit of reluctance towards this relationship since I know quite a few couples with up to 10 years difference that are doing fine.
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aliablack
August 21, 2013 at 10:43 PM
The "allowance" SuHa gets is his father's insurance and pension money that his uncle took for himself and doles out to Su Ha each month. It's what he's been living on for the past 10 years because his uncle took his 3 kids and emigrated, leaving 10 year old Su Ha behind all by himself in that apartment with only the grandmother next door to feed him each day. (This last bit was revealed in the "Su Ha diary entries" SBS posted.) Also, according to the diaries, that grandmother died in like 2009 so he'd been caring for himself completely alone since. (hence the reason he's a good cook.) He basically raised himself.
He just completed his GED, and he's going to that academy to study every day. And with MJG loose, it's not like he can get a part time job at the moment. He wants to go to the police academy, which is very difficult to get into. It's not as if he's slacking off.
In Coffee Prince, Han Kyul was a lot older and unemployed, living solely off his family's money - until Grandma forced him to work. He was far more immature than Su Ha, yet Su Ha is "too young" because he ... currently lives off his family's money?
(*I adore Han Kyul, but I did want to smack him in the first episode, despite his charm!)
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58 rj
July 25, 2013 at 11:04 PM
I forgot to add that sometimes a person asks how old you are by asking what year you are born, not the actual day or month your b-day is
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59 altran
July 25, 2013 at 11:18 PM
Argh. I saw that preview and I could smell the Gaksital coming. That premonition threw off the entire tone of the episode for me. Like, beat for beat this show has repeated itself from the first arc. This is why the reward HAS to be a different, happier outcome. But So Ha and Hye Sung are going into the final confrontation and I don't know 1. what is important (how can SH's dad's involvement be so, so central in reversing the morality of the MJG saga? I refuse to entertain the Darth Vader idea); 2. how our mains have been prepped to react differently to last time. If you exclude revenge killing and throwing onto knives for each other, I guess what's left is the power of forgiveness? Seems a little trite with MJG.
Even it's that resolved nicely, it'll be a little silly if after half an hour of MJG crisis we get these 2 mains bickering over trust issues. So I'm hoping it'll get done in a satisfying way.
The last convo between KW and SH suggests what hurt Hye Sung wasn't SH's dad's involvement but SH's lie. I can't fault SH as much as the show faults SH. Hye Sung, girl, you told your 20 year old boyfriend who would live and die for you that your relationship was on a timer. Of course he's on pins and needles. So I'm anticipating a time skip because of SH's immaturity. But then, I don't want that to trickle over to him being portrayed weak in the MJG saga, a treatment his character doesn't deserve. Hmm.
A lot of things suggest the mains live - the necklace, the unresolved trust issues. But if instead they kill off one of the characters to make this a "you shouldn't live your life hating someone" kind of ending - NO. Those would be some cheaply extracted tears, Writer.
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Mar
July 26, 2013 at 1:23 AM
Good cohesive post and you touch on some important points!
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60 MizzMizzEka
July 25, 2013 at 11:32 PM
Oh great! Now I'm not just hate monday, but also friday, saturday, sunday, tuesday and whole of wednesday to see this serial comes to the end. *sad
I kinda terrifying with Su Haa voice over at the end, pleaseee what end? They love story, life story, their destiny? What? What?
I hope Su Haa wasn't MJG son's. *praying so hard
even I must give writer-nim a great applause to make the whole story up and down with tense and twist between that emotions. It' so energizing for adrenaline. Gahhh.
Oh noo, now I must struggling from curiousity for a week
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61 lina
July 25, 2013 at 11:37 PM
Soo ha is not min joon gook's son. Coz after he bludgeoned soo ha's dad, he meant to bludgeon soo ha in the car but got interrupted by hye sung and do yeon.
Would he kill his own son?
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Mystisith
July 26, 2013 at 1:13 AM
Greek tragedies are full of infanticides and it's not like dramas didn't use shockers recently. :(
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KimYoonmi
July 26, 2013 at 5:40 AM
But this is listed as a comedy.... so it's not a Greek tragedy--it's not even Western.
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Mystisith
July 26, 2013 at 6:30 AM
I don't believe in genres anymore for K dramas: Burnt too often recently. Example: When a man loves was supposed to be a melo and we hadn't a single death but we had a happy ending. She is wow was supposed to be a family/parody kind of thing and it ended as a frigging makjang with 2 deaths.
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Caitlyn
July 26, 2013 at 6:54 AM
She is Wow was still a comedy parody thing though. I think the makjang was there from the start though, and one of the deaths was always going to happen. But I get what you mean, I find it hard to trust genres as well. So often a drama just won't be what you expect it to be.
Mar
July 26, 2013 at 8:06 PM
Yes, I would agree that Korean Dramas do not always fit neatly into genres. That is one of the first things I learned, mostly from being traumatized lol. You can be yukking it up at a rom com and the next thing you know someone is losing a body part or has cancer.
62 Pauline
July 25, 2013 at 11:44 PM
This is the very first drama I've watched, in it's entirety, and following through while still on air in over 6 years. I have a huge pet peeve when it comes to writing and this drama by far has met/exceeded my expectations. I swear, if they end this drama on that ridiculous rumor I've been hearing about....I WILL go ratchet and cut a bitch.
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63 Denali
July 25, 2013 at 11:47 PM
A 19-years-old boy/man in love with a woman who shares his feelings and roof, with no sexual desire for he even as he is half-dressed next to her? Who feels embarrassed/ashamed at her mention of his potentially "naughty dreams about her"? That's telling of her role to him.
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alua
July 26, 2013 at 5:30 AM
That's Asian dramas for you.
Recently I watched "Shotgun Wedding" (a Japanese drama), where they had a one night stand in the first episode, resulting in a pregnancy and full chastity for the whole rest of it – not even kissing and I think any hand-holding was incidental (running away or something of the sort).
I loved the actors, but that part... was just so NOT believable.
Here it's a bit weird because they are pretty touchy-feely otherwise, which most dramas don't do (normally the heroine shrinks back and faints when her finger brushes against the hero).
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RWJQ
July 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM
"normally the heroine shrinks back and faints when her finger brushes against the hero." — LOL!!
"... because they are pretty touchy-feely otherwise, which most dramas don’t do ..." — they being touchy-feely is one of the reasons I love this couple and the show. They are so natural together. :)
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64 kiyutata
July 25, 2013 at 11:47 PM
nooooo.... don't die.... both both SH or HS.....
show!... why you so mean to me...
cant wait next week... where is the talisman?? or whatever time travel machine? where? wheree??
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65 Sarah
July 25, 2013 at 11:52 PM
I think Su-Ha's phone wasn't used to track Jang Hye-sung down, but to lure her out of her security zone without the police or anyone noticing. Pretending to be Su-ha and messaging her about meeting in private to talk about his father or scaring her about Su-Ha thinking of taking vengance on Min Joon-gook could very well make Hye-sung sneak out of work without unwanted attention to go to Su-Ha' side.
That's probably why Min Joon-gook sent the letters and had all of them reserarching: to have an excuse he could use when he impersonated Su-Ha over the phone (via message). Also it will make Su-Ha's guilty feelings all the stonger knowing that talking openly with Hye-sung from the start about his dad maybe could have avoided the kidnapping altogether.
By the way, is the necklace inside the little box? Why Su-Ha didn't even check? -____-
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icic14
July 26, 2013 at 2:23 AM
But, if MJG's pretending to be SH, there wouldn't be a reason why the police didn't know that she came out from the court right?
Except if she purposely came out without anyone knowing. And it was impossible if MJG pretended to be SH and told her to came out without without any1 knowing.
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Kris
July 26, 2013 at 7:57 AM
What if they didn't come out of the courthouse? Hide where you least expect them...that explains why they never saw HS leave the building.
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66 nonski ⭐️A forever JIN who crash landed on Hyun Bins heart❤️!
July 25, 2013 at 11:58 PM
thank you so much for the recaps and your thoughts about this episode GF!
i love this episode at the same time it made me afraid of what is to come. so many fears for this drama, it has taken over my life. what if they don't end up together? i am so invested in ihyv emotionally that it would be devastating for me if they don't have a happy ending.
it was the first time last night that i wasn't able to stream and after hearing snippets of what the episode is all about, i dreaded even just reading the recap. it's now that i finally got the courage and read the recaps here and at softy's. i wish that the writer would be so good to us to let the two end up together. seriously, with everything su ha suffered, will he continue to live suffering? the last quote was so ominous. i hate it. why would it end? how would it end? now when i think about the title - i hear your voice -- does it mean that he can still/recall hye sung's voice? *shivers*
i love the closure on HS and DY's issues. i love how it ended. :)
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67 the50-person
July 26, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Omg I just realized that today IS July 26 2013. Goodness. (ref suha's narrative at the end)
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Kaybee
July 26, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Oh! WAIT! I have to go back and rewatch the episode!
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Oh my! YES of course.... so....so....what now?!!!
You've got good eyes...how could I over look it....
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OMO... I just can't wait for Ep.17 and 18!
It feels so REAL...like SuHa and the rest are looking for HyeSung and Min Joon Gook right now....I can already feel the desperation and the pain... and when Wednesday/ Thursday comes, they'll find her and later we'll be given a glimpse of the future of SuHa and HyeSung together in the end...
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68 Fanboi
July 26, 2013 at 12:05 AM
Doesn't double jeopardy apply in the case? I just thought that once you've served sentence for a crime you cannot be convicted for the very same crime, I thought that was the point in the DNA testing???
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Celery
July 26, 2013 at 4:37 PM
Double Jeopardy only works if it’s for the same crime.
Attempted murder/aggravated assault isn’t murder (of which he was trialled and convicted for). For example, if he steals from a person he supposedly has killed but is alive now, he is still liable to a charge of theft. Technically, one crime doesn’t absolve the other but if you have good lawyers, well.
I hate to say this but he should have killed the lady – problem solved.
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69 starryskyes
July 26, 2013 at 12:45 AM
Goddammit show! How can you do this to us? Ok, I love you for it, I love these stakes BUT ughh the voiceover is doing bad things to my breathing
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70 jyyjc
July 26, 2013 at 12:55 AM
I just realized that I've been so preoccupied with the possibility that either SH or HS will die, that I did not think about the possibility that MJG will die, which could also be the reason why their story of 11 years come to an end like SH narrated!
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aer24
July 26, 2013 at 12:57 AM
That's the loophole I'm clinging to at the moment too ;)
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71 aer24
July 26, 2013 at 12:56 AM
So, thoughts. You know, besides, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh":
First, I think it was either Min Joon Guk on that motorcycle (unlikely with only one hand) or it was something he orchestrated to get Su Ha's phone (which explains leaving behind the wallet, money, and expensive necklace). Once he had Su Ha's phone, tracking and/or summoning Hye Sung would have been only too easy. As an added bonus, Su Ha also has no way of finding her without playing right into Min Joon Guk's.....hand (ok haha)
Second, as Hye Sung has proven time and again, she is awesome. Petty and immature, but also awesome. I can't see her holding Su Ha's father's actions against him at all. If anything, I imagine she would've wanted to tear him a new one for *thinking* she'd hold any of it against him, and also for withholding the truth from her (yet again).
I am firmly against the whole "sins of the father" idea. Not to mention, Su Ha's father seems to have only been peripherally responsible for MJG's wife's death, if that. Furthermore, it was MJG who went on a killing spree. Pure revenge should have ended with Su Ha's father if that's really what this was. But there is no logic in the jump that Su Ha's father is somehow responsible for Hye Sung's mother's death. None.
As such, the scenario I imagined for Hye Sung's disappearance is that Hye Sung went to seek out "Su Ha" to talk things out, and then found herself kidnapped by MJG.
I have to admit, this week's episodes didn't grab me by the heart the way the previous ones have. I love the characters, and I'm happy we get to spend more time with them, but I can't help but feel like we've been spinning our wheels on several well worn plot points instead of exploring the numerous new plot points that could use some attention (Su Ha's mom/MJG's past/etc.) This show was always ahead of expectations in not drawing out conflicts, and instead bringing them to a head and raising the stakes, and that's part of what I love about it. In contrast, I felt like 95% of the movement for this week's episodes happened in the last 3 minutes of episode 16.
Lastly, I don't know if I'll be able to handle it if Hye Sung or Su Ha dies. I really won't. I'm all for character death when it serves a narrative purpose and has emotional impact, but character death in the mistaken name of being somehow more "realistic" is never ok in my books. Not to mention, if MJG DOES succeed in killing one or the other, Mom's parting words and Hye Sung's steadfastness in blocking Su Ha's attempts at preemptively killing him would lose their impact. Killing either of our leads would feel pointless to me at this point. They have so much more story left beyond their conflict with MJG, (for example, life with/as a mind reader) and I hope the writers will give them that (off screen of course). I guess what I mean to say is, both of our leads have grown and changed so much for having known each other, and I really really hope they get the chance to use that growth to shape their world and their lives for the better.
Writers, you've brought them this far, please show us it was all for a purpose!
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Kris
July 26, 2013 at 8:07 AM
Well said! Yes, writers, please give our OTP the respect and love they deserve. And is it too far-stretched if we have a happy ending, seriously?
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72 ilikemangos
July 26, 2013 at 1:07 AM
Ah, the reoccurring theme of living life without hatred. How this writer manages to use dal joong's case as a reminder to what hye sung's mom's last wishes were...Priceless.
This writer is pretty awesome because even if she diverts from the main plot somehow everything comes full circle. Everything -- from the conflicts, to the characters actions and their words -- serve as a reminder to us as it does to them. All the themes this writer set out to convey will leave a strong impression on our minds even as we reach the end..
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73 biankoy
July 26, 2013 at 1:29 AM
gaaaaad. Pulling out a Darth Vader would be too much for uri Suha I think. He's already broken by how his father (the canon one) has indirectly caused pain in HyeSung's life. I don't think he'll be able to live if and if the writer's make Min Joongook his father. I don't want to see a heartbroken Suha. nooooo.
Maybe the voiceover is talking about their (Suha and HyeSung) story of eleven years with Joongook. Their intertwining stories came to end with the bloody and painful death of Joongook (I won't be satisfied until the guy has a painful end. What he did to best.mom.ever is unforgivable) and at the end of the drama we will see the two of them HAPPILY starting a new story of their own.
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74 sakura
July 26, 2013 at 1:33 AM
Show, I signed onto a romantic comedy, not TRAGEDY.
So why i am getting this unshakable premonition? (the bloody dream, the preparing to live without you speech..)
If you don't want to be sued for misrepresentation, you had better give me romance and comedy next week.
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gaeinalee
July 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Ahh, dear... you are not alone.
I'll join you in legal action if that happens.
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75 divyrus
July 26, 2013 at 2:14 AM
Fuck. Seriously.
I am
Gonna kill someone if they didnt end up together !
11 year story comes to an end!????
Way to laugh at our faces when we started taking you for granted these last two episodes show!
I had tons of complaints and issues about the extension and also this week's episodes but that is totally driven off my mind with the last dialogue !
Damn you show !
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76 icic14
July 26, 2013 at 2:17 AM
Ah.. I think my brain will explode soon..
We got so many question to solve :
1. What did Hyesung want to say about why she kept on saying she couldn't keep depending on Suha as if one day they would be separated?
In previous episode Suha's voice said, "Those words presuming some day I'm not with you, why do you keep presuming such a situation?" In addition, in the latest ep, HS's sentence was cut abruptly.I think there should be a special reason why the show keep on empatizing on this.
2. I kinda think that there'll be a speacial reason why Suha's given with that mind-reading skill. What do you think?
3. What exactly did Suha's father do to MJG's wife?
4. What's Suha's mom identity and connection with the past tragedy?
5. About how HS was kidnapped, like some of the comments above, it would be kinda difficult for MJG to kidnap her in the court.
Remember Lawyer Cha's words when they found out HS's missing? He was trying to say that HS went missing isn't DEFINITELY not because of finding out the truth (articles). I believe in HS too, maybe she said something to Lawyer Cha.
I kinda think there's a chance HS went to meet MJG willingly because she want to stop the whole revenge thing (MJG - coz the death of his wife,mother and son (maybe), and SH - coz MJG killed his father)
One thing that I really want to complaint about, why the hell it should be Lawyer Cha who told her the truth, when he's also the one initiating not to tell her? And moreover, he should've tell Suha about that the moment he met SH at the court.
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77 Lily
July 26, 2013 at 2:56 AM
Talk about a dramatic shift... After sitting around and waiting for the ep to just lead somewhere (first time I felt bored omg) they bring about THAT. I felt things were gonna go horribly wrong right after that robbery :(
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78 kDkiddo
July 26, 2013 at 3:27 AM
Oh oh oh ! Well im so proud with this show ! Omg this extension made it even better of course ! And im not ry worried ! Since the end he was talking about after 2hrs and 30 min can just be the end of that psyco ! What I love more is that this whole 2 more eps may going to all about these 2 hrs so the writer is one smartass !! I love the show ! I love u for recapping and I love kdrama !!
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79 shelly
July 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM
if su-ha turns out to be MJG's long-lost son, i'll go and break something.
seriously, there's only so much one can take along the lines of "luke, i am your father" in one drama.
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80 Schmazel
July 26, 2013 at 4:21 AM
I vote Lawyer Shin and Hwang Dal Joong as the best bromance of the year. That hug? So many feels. *bawls*
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Celery
July 26, 2013 at 5:17 AM
IKR? And they aren't even pretty to look at.
I love affable Lawyer Shin and his grumpy bear ways :DD
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81 Karen
July 26, 2013 at 4:22 AM
It will be such a long wait to next Wednesday..
I have decided to avoid dramabeans on Thursday. Watch 2 episodes continuously on Thursday night!!!
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82 mlhwrhh
July 26, 2013 at 5:18 AM
oh what'slove?...
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83 Wynter
July 26, 2013 at 5:21 AM
Thank you for the recap. It was thrilling as always.
As for this episode, I stake my ground firmly that it was indeed a slow episode and used as a filler and prelude to final week. The extension hasn't "hurt" the show so far, but it has changed the pace considerably. It feels like I'm watching a completely different drama to the first eight episodes, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad drama.
In breaking down the episode, I like to look at the good and the bad. Always start with the good I suppose. I actually enjoyed seeing Do Yeon and her father bonding, as well as Do Yeon's mother choosing to leave her husband after learning what kind of man he was. That was truly impressive. The fact that he is still trying to convince himself that he did nothing wrong is actually hilarious in a sense, because he knows he was wrong, and just failing miserably and talking about it.
The cliffhanger was great. That was the only part of the episode that had the same pace and intensity as the earlier part of the series, and I enjoyed having that thrill to keep me on the edge of my seat until finale week.
As for the bad, not enough focus on MJG, he is the main threat to our lead couple and his lack of presence in their lives kind of makes things more uneventful.
And the law cases, I know its dramaland and I really shouldn't let it get to me, and imagine that it is a whole new world created for the sake of TV, but I was so confused I did an internet search on the "Double Jeopardy law" and it DOES exist in South Korea too. So there is NO way that the trial that has taken up two episodes would ever really happen. It's the same as the charging of a person with murder based on a missing body. These unrealistic sides of the storytelling are driving me nuts, especially when they are focusing on it sooo much. If I was getting small snippets of it, in between the real story I wouldn't even mind, but letting it control a good part of the narrative is affecting my appreciation of the show.
As I head into finale week, I just hope that we pick up the pace and no longer have to deal with any unbelievable legal aspects in the tale.
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Celery
July 26, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Although Double Jeopardy only works if it's for the same crime.
Attempted murder/aggravated assault isn't murder (of which he was trialled and convicted for). For example, if he steals from a person he supposedly has killed but is alive now, he is still liable to a charge of theft. Technically, one crime doesn't absolve the other but if you have good lawyers, well.
I hate to say this but he should have killed the lady - problem solved. But then the emotional arc and reconciliation with daughter would be utterly dissolved.
I was uber worked up about the non-case of the left hand murder but I decided that, screw it, I will take it that the show's aiming for some romanticized lawyering gibberish and that's that.
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Celery
July 26, 2013 at 4:40 PM
*was referring to the SH / MJG left hand case
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Amber81
July 26, 2013 at 7:52 PM
Double jeopardy means u can't be charged twice for the same crime. HDJ was jailed for killing his wife 26 years ago. This trial is for him stabbing a woman now, 26 years later. NOT the same offence. The DNA test only proves he was wrongly accused 26 years ago but technically, it doesn't change the fact he stabbed a woman recently. But it's not double jeopardy to charge him for another stabbing 26 years later, even if victim supposedly died long ago. After all, the victim of the current crime is lying in hospital.
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Kidsname
July 29, 2013 at 4:36 AM
I know this is a show about public defenders fighting for justice. I understand but the first 8 episodes had different cases so i found the court room scenes less boring because i didn't know the characters or verdict and i was willing to find out.
When it comes to Soo-ha case well, he had forgotten His memories and i watched the court room scene because it atleast had an element of suspense whether soo-ha will get His memory now or later.
But the last case of Do yeon bio dad well i know the characters for the last 14 episodes , i know the verdict is most likely to be not guilty and there is no soo ha in the mix. So how can you expect me to wait while the judge rereads all the happened in the court room when we sat through it just 5 minutes ago.I apppreciate the moments given to do yeon to shine but the court room scenes where really way too long to my liking.
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84 miyacchi
July 26, 2013 at 5:24 AM
First time commenting gere, after being a silent follower of IHYV recaps & comment sections since episode 4. Reading every bits of comments here and in soompi is my way to cope with the agony of waiting until next Wednesday... It's kind of relieving that we share same agony and worry about fictional characters that we've come to love so much...! :)
The last 10 minutes was very intense. I kept shouting at Soo Ha when he was worrying in the park about Hye Sung's reaction to his lies, "It's not the time to worry about that don't you realized she has been missing from the court?!!!". And my heart break with him when he scream in the phone booth... >_<
At the beginning of the show I had a feeling that KW is the one who would die, just like what happen with that 2nd lead male in City Hunter (that share the same producer with this show right?). Maybe for protecting Hye Sung or what. But now I don't know anymore. All the premonitions might lead to HS or SH death, which I will resent for the rest of my life...! Please Writer nim I still have faith in you in making an open but somehow happy ending. Even now I don't mind long distance separation for certain amount of time like what happen in Dream High as long as they are not separated by death, really....
About DY & HDJ, I am so happy for them (the selca was soo cute) and now I am wondering if their story will end at the 16th episode or will they be involved in the MJG case? I mean HDJ knows MJG in prison and now HDJ also has some kind of gratitude to HS who have helped him free. DY might also still want to catch MJG. Considering that HDJ has only several months to life, isn't it possible that he will help DY & HS to the extend of sacrificing his life? That maybe too far but I keep creating various scenarios where HS & SH will be safe after the 2,5 hours. Gosh I even think maybe Judge Seo will also help them, in his effort to redeem himself....
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85 Kyuviko
July 26, 2013 at 5:26 AM
I can't sleep last night after hearing Su-ha's voiceover. I hope the scriptwriter wasn't out of his/her mind while penning the ending.
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86 Caitlyn
July 26, 2013 at 7:21 AM
I think it was out of character for Do Yeon to take that selca with her father. And to call him father. And to hang out with him at the hospital. It all seems too... sudden. She seems to have just accepted everything in like, a day. Too happy.
I love the beats with the cops, i guess they're just filler but hey, if the filler is funny, i'll take it. Even Choong Ki and Sung Bin are adorable enough that I don't mind that filler either, lol.
Can't wait til next week. Su Ha and Hye Sung need to end up alive and happy at the end, I swear to God! And I don't think Su Ha will be MJG's son because the kid in the flashback with the Grandma was old enough that if it was Suha, he'd remember it.
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Mystisith
July 26, 2013 at 7:29 AM
Poor DY doesn't have time to ponder her feelings since the clock is ticking. Also, it's not to difficult to let go of a rotten dad for a good one, even if it won't last.
It's like when you receive people you don't know at all at home and you know they will take the plane in a week: Enjoy every moment. Carpe Diem.
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ilikemangos
July 26, 2013 at 2:11 PM
I think dal joong deserves it though. Having those 26 years of your life taken away from you only to find out you'll be dying in a few weeks/months -- spending his last breaths with his daughter is the least society could do to repay him back. Living in the moment and making the best of what you've got so that there's no regrets. I think Do Yeon knows better than anyone else what it means to regret her choices or lack thereof later on.
Yeah, it was sort of cheesy but it touched my heart.
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87 Dora
July 26, 2013 at 7:34 AM
Good episode.
And about the ending...well, I don't think either of them will die. If he did mean that they would seperate when he said what he said, that narration is probably not from the very end of the drama, but probably before the "X years later" title screen comes into play, although that would be bad considering they already had a one year time jump.
This isn't a melodrama and despite the fact that it's harsh at times, like Hye Sung losing her mother, it doesn't have the heaviness of a drama with an unhappy or tragic ending.
I think that they will beat Min Joon Gook and both survive and live happily ever after. At worst, some hospital time and jail time might be thrown in, but nothing serious. He just has to be criptical because we have to keep wondering, or maybe fearing is a better way to put it, if it will be a happy ending or not.
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88 Aleena
July 26, 2013 at 7:50 AM
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG.
WHAT. Omg.
HOW am I going to wait till next week?
HUH?
Okay, so I LOVED this episode, every bit of it. And YES, at last the pace has quickened and I think the last eps are going to be awesome. PLEASE.
I loved the friendship between Laywer Shin and Hwang Dal Joong, and Hye Sueng and Do Yeon, and of course also the relationship between Do Yeon and her birth father.
And OF COURSE, Su Ha and Hye Sueng :') Please, let Lee Jong Suk star in a romantic comedy. Everyone will die of the cute. :') <3
GF, thank you so much for your recaps and your awesome analysis of the episodes. :') <3
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89 RWJQ
July 26, 2013 at 8:13 AM
Two wishes:
01) that the producers release the full OST album with all the different background music used in the show. The last time I hankered after a Kdrama's BGM so much was TK2H.
Love the song Echo by Every Single Day but prefer the acoustic and the instrumental versions. Especially the latter. It's so moving and really works well to elevate the scenes in which it was played.
There's a new (I think) piece used in recent episodes — it was played when Do-yeon was crying in the car after learning of her bio-parents from Hye Sung, and many other scenes throughout her story arc.
02) The finale two episodes' ratings next week will cross the 30% mark. The show totally deserves it.
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90 Ankemaybe
July 26, 2013 at 8:15 AM
Bad omen: The necklace. Am I the only one who thinks that the 2 necklaces look different? The one in the dream had one loop whereas the one that SH bought had two... I don't think the necklaces figure as a bad omen but were there as Product Placement...
I am thinking that the only way MJG managed the lure HS out to meet him was via SH's lost handphone. He probably told HS to ditch the police as he had SH. To me that meant that SH's lie did not matter to HS at all. She's there in a heart beat to save SH.
I can't help but feel that SH's mum's death or her person has a part in the story. What's the point of bringing SH's mum into the narrative in ep15? And I refuse to think about SH being MJG's son. Both MJG's wife and SH's mum died in the same hospital....Could MJG's wife be an unwilling heart donor for SH's mum???? A mistake of sorts made her an unwilling donor? The surgery went wrong and both died?
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Kaybee
July 26, 2013 at 9:51 AM
I agree with you on the necklace. They were 2 different tear drop shaped pendants, dream one with single loop and the one in the shop with double loop.
...but heart donor?! It is not like Kidney donating where a person can survive with a single kidney while donating the other...or am I missing something...
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Ankemaybe
July 26, 2013 at 5:03 PM
I think the Doc misdiagnosed MJG's wife's condition (brain dead?) and MJG had earlier signed something that allowed for organ transplant?
Or SH's mum died in the hospital due to some illness and she was a suitable donor for MJG's wife... however, SH's dad refused to sign the document that allowed for organ donation and MJG's wife died shortly?
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91 merlyunho
July 26, 2013 at 9:01 AM
Yeeesssshhhhhh.
If one of them ends up dead, I doubt I will ever have any more courage to watch anymore k-drama in the near future, or at all.
IHYV is one of the very few k-dramas I watch this year and is (finally) interesting enough for me to finish!
Cmon, don't be a party pooper.
I just secretly wish that when Suha said "In two and a half hours, our story of eleven years is going to end" he meant it as his and Min Joon Gook's instead of his and Hyesung's.
Or else I will become Lee Jong Suk in that last wailing scene inside the phone booth.
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92 sushi
July 26, 2013 at 9:13 AM
i really dont want sooha to turn out to be MJG's son cz if it happens which i really pray dznt happen,i ll be really disgusted,knowing that MJG's blood IS flowing through his veins cz to the extent i loathe him i so want to feed him to the dogs,i swear
lets just hope it doesnt turn out to be that way OR I ll go crazy
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93 Jambo
July 26, 2013 at 9:31 AM
It's kind of comforting to know I'm not the only one going crazy over this drama. :o
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94 pg
July 26, 2013 at 9:43 AM
When this drama ends I m literally gonna break down n no I dont feel ashamed of saying tht I m already clenching myheart in the fear of not seeing park so haa the week aft n with the sadness of the show coming to an end if something happens to sohaa I might actually die along with him by crying my heart out.... y r u so good drama .damn u
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95 Alex
July 26, 2013 at 9:45 AM
The show does well in humour and call back, both bold and subtle:
Lawyer Shin essentially saved two pairs of socks: a red pair, and, a white pair. HAHA~
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ttc
July 27, 2013 at 2:19 AM
hehe you're so funny!!!
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96 Rach
July 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM
I NEED NEXT WEEK TO COME QUICKLYY
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97 whimsicalnet
July 26, 2013 at 9:59 AM
I watched this episode raw. Meaning that if I'm lucky I understood 30% of what was going on based on actions, body language, a smattering of korean words. Yes I'm one of the nut cases.
But the ending scared me so much that I still don't dare to watch it subbed now. I hope my heart will be strong enough for the last 2 episodes.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a happy ending... make it happy... and a good and reasonable one as well, pretty pretty please!!!
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98 Lilian
July 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Lee Jong Suk was plain awesome in the last scene. T_T I am still hoping for a happy ending. Hope we get one! Gotta agree that the friendship scenes were the standout ones for this episode. And for me I liked the simple scene at the hospital where father and daughter reconciled! And kudos to Do Yeon's mum for standing up to daddy-who-does-not-know-he-is-wrong........
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99 cea
July 26, 2013 at 10:20 AM
First time commenting, though I've been lurking for a long time.
This drama is killing me. Seriously. I haven't been this obsessed with a drama in...ever, it feels like.
Please, please, no Su-ha or Hye-sung deaths, Show. I don't think I could take it. Right now I am at the point of watching over and over again because I really love it, and I don't think that would be the case if either of them were to die. For Su-ha, if nothing else. Poor puppy has been through so much already that all I want is for him to have his happy ending, but I worry because there was so much cute to be had so early...argh. Is it next week yet??
As for Hye-sung blaming Su-ha for whatever dad did that sent Min Joon-gook after him, I think there is some precedent for that. She did blame him for her mother's death, after all. But there is also precedent for her realizing that this is the wrong attitude to be taking, and making a huge effort not to do so. I doubt we'll see her working through that part, but I do hope for some resolution about the lying bit, becaus that is such a big sticking point with her. Understandable, too, as Su-ha has the unfair advantage of being able to know if she is lying, while she has to rely on him to tell her the truth. The only way that she can feel on equal footing with him would be if she believes (knows) that he doesn't lie to her, the same way she can't lie to him.
Everything else I would say has already been said, so I'll leave off here, before this comment grows into a novel of confused rambling and I scare everyone off right away. :)
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Kidsname
July 27, 2013 at 12:47 PM
I agree too. If the ending of a drama disappointed me i can't rewatch the series happy moments knowing they didn't have a happily ever after. So just because i want to watch this show for a long time give me an happy ending
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100 judepps
July 26, 2013 at 11:02 AM
whoa! a lot of expectations and various presumptions of the story after epi 16 was aired.. who will not be anxious after Suha's voice over ? Writer-nim just killed us with that gripping ending..its more of a torture for me waiting for another 6 days to know what will happened next.
Just like others i hope it'll not turn out that MJG might be Suha's biological father its just too cruel..and way beyond my imagination but since it's Kdrama anything can possibly happened.
and im one of those who love to end my drama with a happy ending..Please don't let any1 of my OTP get killed. I hope the writer will not let one of the OTP get killed for the sake of the age gap relationship issue..
IHYV drama is one of the good drama i have seen so far this year so im crossing my finger to have a happy ending despite my intuition tells me not to fully expect it.
thanks GF for the wonderful recaps as always!
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