The plot thickens. We knew the wife and subordinate were suspicious, but wood chile. An affair, how messy.

Now comes the what if part. What if the only reason Da Bin was kidnapped(if the wife did it) was because Ae Ri said she was going to be kidnapped.

Now, the nanny is still suspicious to me. Also for why is his assistant contemplating murder?

It is getting tedious that they keep trying to kill Ae Ri, but I guess in makes sense, in that someone needs to die in her circle because everyone keeps escaping death. Hmmm

Also his boss seems to be a good guy, which is suspicious. At the same time it is unclear why his wife is doing that to him. Hopefully it is for something more interesting than that he was an inattentive husband. There are easier ways to escape a marriage girl.

Anywhere, can't wait for the next episode.

I knew it.

The affair. I was hazarding a wild guess, and gee, I got it right. Haha.

The rest of my theory.

The wife is not a good person. She is faking it. She hatches a plan with the lover to kidnap her child. The little girl is safe somewhere with her mother, who faked her own drowning.

But...I can't think of a reason why she would want to do all this. There is no ransom demand. Unless she wants to drive the husband insane. Some revenge agenda connected to her own past. Maybe her dad died in the construction accident years ago. Maybe she set him up.

But the kidnapper has the toys. And the clothes she was wearing. So maybe he's working with the wife and the lover. Maybe he is related to the wife. Her big brother, or something.

Thanks for the recap @laica 🥳. I too feel that the drama is not that unpredictable (especially when one follow updates for months 🤣) but it's the way the story is told makes it so intriguing and exciting to watch. The camerawork, editing, score placement, excellent acting and tight plot are all working together nicely. And I just realized as of ep 4, there are no osts being played in the drama at all lol.

I think this is a good description for Kairos: "Making a decision at the right time might avert Seo-jin’s tragic loss, but getting the timing wrong could endanger Ae-ri in the future. The strangers will have to decide exactly what the right timing is." (<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2020/11/05/two-characters-in-kairos-connect-despite-living-in-different-times/amp/?sh=79283cda693e&__twitter_impression=true"/a&gt;)

The description ties nicely with Kairos meaning: the right, critical, or opportune moment. I think with each adjustment they make, more trouble will ensue until they find the right timing to make changes that will benefit them both. Currently there is about 2 weeks before Da Bin's kidnapping in Aeri's timeline. Ep 3-4 covered about 2-3 days only. I was worried if they would have enough material to last for 16 eps, but looking at the current pace, probably I don't need to worry and just trust the rookie writer and PD team. The PD and writer are both considered rookies as this is their 1st project as the main PD and writer 😎.

So many things happening on every episode, and the theories I had last week are not valid by this week, and I'm pretty sure the ones I have right now will not be valid by next week! This is how fast pace is!

I'm pretty sure Hyun Chae is not dead in any timeline, and my theory (this week) is that she is the one who plotted everything. As other beanies pointed out, there must be another couple (or more) of time-talkers and one of them may be Hyun Chae and JinHo. I believe she's alive and with her daughter, I don't buy the girl to be death, no matter how much a dad wants a revenge over someone, I don't think he would kill another's man child.

How much does DoKyun know? Well, I'm not pretty sure, but he knows more than we do. I always thought he was the one having an affair with Hyun Chae. He just wants SeoJin's position (and probably SeoJin's life).

I'm not suspicious about TaekKyu. I know he feels suspicious, but I don't buy it. And what's more important: he's the one who gave SeoJin AeRi's number. So he actually is the one who made the connection between them. He also knows more than we do.

I also agree that AeRi should stop going alone in the night just before her daily call (girl, it only lasts one minute, there's no difference between doing one thing now or two minutes later, just listen to your voice mail and read the damn messages before you knock on the next door!!).

Performances are top notch. Can't wait to next week's episodes!

So Kim Jin-ho is helping Seo Do-Kyun and Kang Hyun-Chae by becoming a kidnapper and murderer. I guess he did it for his second daughter in the hospital. What is the connection with Ae-Ri's mother?

But why Hyun-Chae did it? I mean killing Kim Seo-Jin in accident looks easiest that all of that. If her fake death is possible, her daughter's one is more complicated, the finger was cut after her death... Which loving mother would agree to cut her daughter's finger? To kill her?

I'm pretty sure that the CEO is responsible for at least one accident.

I didn't think Ae-Ri would be in danger every time like this. First she was a murderer, now she's a victim.

Thank you for the recap, I'm so impressed with the acting and the entire production. The scene were seojin is re-enacting ae-ri's footsteps outside jin-ho's house was brilliant.
I knew Do-kyun was suspicious, but I just can't believe he would do all that to steal Seojin's life.
Why does he hate him so much? Surely it can't be just to steal his job?

I wonder if Ae-ri's mother came across jin-ho in the hospital, he may have worked together with her husband at the building site. Also when Ae-ri came to Jin-ho's house, was da-bin in the closet?

all people in Seojin's company are suspicious af. Seojin is an outsider in his company imo he is successful have high position for his age but somehow people in his company cant stand him? from conversation between him and Aeri i think he is a decent man, and i dont think he lied about the accident but why all of this happened to him?

i love the way it is set for a month in advance. i can actually follow the story so far and that is a feat for me. this is so exciting and keeps me guessing.

I have to admit, the show is gripping me intellectually but not emotionally. I'm more interested in the what of what is happening than the emotions of it. I think this is the problem when a show like this is stretched to 16.
Obviously it's very good in all technical aspects but this 'evil cheating wife' just rubs me the wrong way. This is just a standard kdrama contrast of the virtuous Candy with the evil second female lead and I'm so over this dichotomy in how women are portrayed. There's literally not one other female character who's not someone's mother and yet here we are: one's an evil slut and the other is a virtuous Candy. And now I'm just bracing myself for some skeevy romance between them. Can we just... not? For once? Please.

At this point, it's probably safe to say that all this tragedy come as some form of cosmic punishment for Seo-jin's cold indifference to almost everyone else in his life. It must felt like a hard slap for him to see everything came down to his careless treatment of many important people he has encountered, be it friend or family or work colleague.

Seo-jin has underwent a massive change of personality that only dawned on me when Ae-ri met him in her timeline. He used to be so aloof and negligent of others' feelings, almost willfully blind of the pain he caused and the negative feelings pouring off towards him. He is a rare character that made me sit back, a little bit stunned, mulling on the idea that being an honest, fair and dedicated person doesn't necessarily make someone a nice person (or even a good person, tbh). And that's such an interesting point for the drama to bring up.