It is unexpected who the murderer is, it is not unexpected they broke up or that she is breaking up with her. I actually feel a little bad for Lee Jin Geun, he needed therapy and to be punished. He didn't deserve to die like that.

I dont understand people complaining that the fun part of the show is gone, or that it is too slow.

Exactly how do you talk about a situation like this, presented in the last 3 episodes?

I still think there is more to it. We saw that this neighborhood had a lot of kids at that time. If something like this happened, it would have a huge impact not only in 2 to 3 families, but to everybody that lives there. I cant wait to find all the answers!

havent watched but hey more females than men in this drama. nice-õ

i expecting the broke up scene but its still hurts, i wish they wont drag it too long. i think there is a lot more than Lee Jingeun side of story and Dahyun's hazy memories. its weird at how everyone said in earlier eps "small village, everybody knows" but nobody noticed 2 girls missing??? should have someone seen dahyun running after escaping? or the whole village agreed to hide something? or the one who kidnapping and murdering gyeyoung is different person? so many questions.

"At least his mom is relatively nice to him this time." i dont think showing to her son that you cooked for him and throw away everything last minute in the sink knowing damn well your son gonna see it later is nice... we as viewers could see everything but maybe because his mom refuses to see how his feeling all this time, she couldnt bear the thought of gyehoon deserve to be happy.

I am starting to lose interest even with the reveal of the potential kidnapper/murderer. A family is ruined because of a missing person and another is ruined because of false blaming, but the villagers do not care to share their knowledge on the past event. Mom and granma are becoming annoying by trying to hide the incident from Da Hyun. Their efforts have made Da Hyun grow into a lovable and kind girl which makes me wonder why they do not have the trust share the past. Unless the writer comes up with a compelling situation, I am afraid all this is going to look like a situation that could be avoided/prevented at the end.

I would like for the show to explore the story of some of the residents that we have been introduced to. I believe that most (if not all) know more than they are letting on about what happened eighteen years ago.

finally some plot development! it's only at the last half of ep 12, but at least something.
I think we all expected/knew that dahyun was more like a victim than a simple witness at this point, but the drama dragged this revelation SO MUCH that it was almost anti-climatic. the directing and acting were on point, I really liked how they did the camera movement in that basement, showing her as an adult and panning to them as kids.

I wish the restaurant was already opened. we would have at least a new dynamic. everything about gyehoon and dahyun feels extremely repetitive by now. they do the same thing over and over again.

how can dahyun and gyehoon know about the house and, at least, talk to their police friends to see who it was the previous owner?

my last complaint: whoever decided jingoo's styling for this drama did him no good lol

all the actors and the directors are doing a good job with what they have.

I don't think this story can end without recovering the remains of Gye-young and finding out what happened to the father. Since the likely killer of Gye-young was the one who made the creepy remark for Jin-geun to repeat to Gye-hoon, it would seem he also did away with the father.

Some things just don't add up here. Mom supposedly killed someone responsible for taking Da-hyun, but the killer appears to be alive and well. Da-hyun escaped from the basement on her own, but Mom talks about not losing her again, as though she had disappeared and needed to be rescued. Are the shifty couple who live in the house now the parents of the killer? Did they cover up the murders?

Is it really possible that someone evil enough to kidnap, probably assault, and finally murder a little girl - that someone like that would have stopped with one? And the show seems to be hinting he only became violent again when he started drinking again.... Really?

The silence in this neighborhood keeps the neighbors apart. I hope, by the end, the neighbors are able to each tell the truth, come together to catch the killer, and share a delicious meal together. Maybe at the opening of the restaurant.

Kids never thought to maybe scream for help when they were running down the alley??

Or did they scream and maybe nobody heard because either:
1: Everyone was off across town attending a crime-prevention meeting?
2: Nobody heard because they had the volume up to high on their favorite kdrama?

-I want them to explore the link more now that it goes both ways.
-I hope this breakup doesn't last long; they need each other now more than ever.
-I'm not surprised by who the Big Bad is because I thought he was suspicious from the beginning.
-I still appreciate the humor, like the dog's new name or grandma throwing salt on the Fridge of Death.
-I actually laughed to see Lee Jin-geun back in that fridge. He was a bully as a child (a budding psychopath, if you ask me), a stalker/abuser as an adult, and quite possibly a murderer (though it was not proven). The only way to stop him was jail or death, and no one was putting him jail, so there's that.

One thing that seriously dings my enjoyment of this show is that I just can't buy in to the recovered memories thing. From what I have read, human memory/perception/imagination are quite squishy. "I saw X but if that happened they Y must have happened too so I (think I) saw Y too".

Researchers have apparently been able to create false memories in people. Meet with a subject several times over months, make up some story, and then at subsequent sessions "Tell us more about that XYZ that you told us about last time".

Then there was the McMartin preschool case, where persistent and suggestive questioning led children to "remember" and report things that never happened - things that would have been bizarre even in kdramaland.

So when somebody thinks they have solved some old and troubling mystery by remembering something from years ago, I think they are full probably of it.

Any psychologist / memory-researcher Beanies around?

The return of the refrigerator.

I was right with two assumptions.

As expected, the refrigerator, which is once again proving its worth as a storage place for corpses, turned up again. But I would be lying if I said I felt sorry for the victim.

My theory that Da-hyun was locked up with Gye-young was also surprisingly correct.
I found the stalker creepy before, but the fact that he was already capable of deliberately leading others to their doom as a child (because he was guaranteed to have guessed that nothing good awaited the children) shows another dimension. This is pure evil.

It's a mystery to me why people would more or less deliberately expose themselves to danger like Da-hyun did, involving the yard and basement of a house where she can be pretty sure a crime has occurred. I wouldn't even like to enter someone else's cellar if I didn't want to solve a crime.

I wasn't feeling sad for Ji-Geun. He was creepy as a child and never changed since. He never showed any remorse and took pleasure to torture our leads by giving them only some informations and kept the whole truth for him. He tried to separate them too.

I never really had theory about the murderer so I was surprised by his identity. Now, I wonder what the old couple is hidding, if they're not guilty.

The mother and the Grandma are frustrating. They are in the case "they know, she knows" but won't talk...

I really hope the break-up will be short! Gye-Hoon needs to convince her!

As it often happens with this kind of stories, the character's behaviour is starting to make no sense. The stalker was a killer. Even without knowing about the other victims (two? I guess we don't care anymore about that) he was really dangerous and still everyone kept meeting him everywhere at night. Bring the police with you, maybe? No.
Then you have the house of a kidnapper and you just go inside the basement without a single care? And you meet the owner, who could easily be the kidnapper, and you have a friendly chat? Really?
And Da Hyun... does it make any sense that she is not grilling her mom and grandma about what happened? Okay, she could be scared about knowing the truth... but the truth could help figure out what happened to Gye Young. You still don't ask?
I'm getting a bit frustrated about the story... there is too much happening on the thriller side. Too many crimes, shady people, misteries.
But what has really become a joke is the opening of the restaurant. They talk about saving money but they keep buying expensive food and eating it with a lot of wine. I guess the opening will be on the last episode.
Don't get me wrong... I enjoy the drama and I like the two main characters but it's become a bit frustrating.

Parents in this series are not really a good lot in this series. Neglect, stupid decisions and overall lack of care of the children by their parents in a recurring theme.

I don’t think we’ve solved the mystery of what happened to Gyeyoung yet. In the preview for the next episode there’s a voiceover from the perpetrator wondering if DaHyun will recognize him, but the fish monger already met with her earlier at the restaurant, apparently without qualms (though maybe somehow he’s found out she’s recovered some memories and wants to test her? But why would he do that?).
I read a theory online that the abductor just wanted to kidnap Dahyun for ransom (because the family was comparatively well off and the twins were kind of minor tv celebrities). But then Ji-guen brought Dahyun because he wanted games for the console, which messed up the plan.
We don’t see the fishmonger kill Jiguen or Gyeyoung so maybe there’s another accomplice out there?
More questions: why did the perpetrator want to ask GyeHoon if he knew where his father was? Why was Gyeyoung injured? How many people were involved in the whole kidnapping/rescue/coverup (current owners of the house seem to feel remorse over something that happened, we also know grandma entered the red gate at some point).
How did the link transfer to Dahyun (or was it with her from the beginning?). And how/why did Dahyun completely lose her memory of what happened? Was she physically hit in the head or did she see Gyeyoung die and suppressed it? Seems like she knows who the perpetrator is, somewhere in her memory.
@quirkycase thank you so much for the recaps, and I agree with you that Dahyun and Gyehoon acted in character in that she very openly talked about the elephant in the room- ie how could he love her unreservedly without thinking of his sister- and he was afraid to talk about it. But the break up was frustrating given it took them 9 episodes to get together. I’m hoping Gyehoon be brave enough to really talk through his feelings (because I got the sense what drove dahyun to break up with him was him saying it didn’t matter when it clearly did).
I’m missing the dark humor of the earlier episodes as well but I guess there were only so many times mom and grandma could roam the neighborhood with their baseball bat and hammer. I appreciated Eun-Jeong’srunning up to intercept the woman from confronting Dahyun but am curious about what the woman was going to say (a confession of sorts)?
I was really moved by Ji won-tak’s/Han sejin’s hesitant moves to reconnect with his father, would like to see more of that.
Hoping the show will wrap up all these storylines, bring the link couple and police couple together, along with the wrongly accused father and his son, open lines of communications between all the children and their parents, and do so in a realistic way without making me dislike the people I’ve already fallen in love with (specifically grandma and mom). Is that too much to ask?

Like everyone else i was surprised by the murderer...

I can't believe Dahyun walked into that creepy home without one of the family's weapon of choice 🙄

Sigh... Although it kind of makes sense for everything not to continue smoothly between both did we really need the mandatory episode 12 break up? 😩

The drama is now all serious... I don't think I laughed watching these episodes 😑

This is how these two episodes went for me, approximately, give or take the strength required to get a fridge up 3 stories and the intelligence to not go into mysterious basements alone at night:

11 and Most of 12: slow, slow, slow, reveals the audience knew by episode 6, filler noble idiocy stares, slow, more slow, ooh evil fish man, is he the leader of an Evil Fish Cult perchance? hidden context, hidden context, hidden context ...

The Return of the Fridge and her Encore Reveal: Amazing. Spectacular. Showstopping. What a performance.
Laughed way too hard and had to stifle my laughter because I'm 95% sure the show at this point in its run, didn't actually intend that to be as funny as it was, and I'm just a morbid child.

Momento Mori, and all that.

I get that he’s super rich and famous etc so probably has a lot of capital, and I’m also no economist or commerce person but for some reason I’m getting increasingly anxious thinking about the state of finances atm with Gyehoon’s restaurant - they keep cooking so much 3 star Michelin food for ‘prep’ or to feed for free, but there’s no real solid sign of opening soon or any potential revenue in sight. And that’s not even considering maintenance, utilities or employee entitlements. Just how loaded is this guy and how much has he already sunk 😭

I also love that they comically addressed the whole whisper talk thing - I always found it hilarious when characters take a side bar to chat in ‘private’ or think they’re whispering but are actually talking at a very normal decibel around others who can hear them pretty clearly hahahaha

As for the murder mystery part of it - I think everyone else has summed up my feelings. I didn't see that coming at all so I'm still processing it and although I knew the breakup would be coming (after also realising the writer last worked on Suspicious Partners, there's a few dozen similarities here) I just hope they don't drag it out too much!!

When they revealed the culprit, imma be honest, I didnt know who he was. I didnt even know his name. I just knew he was the guy who lied about his statement that led to won-tak's dad being framed for it. If i recall correctly, he wasnt even present in much scenes throughout the show hence I did feel disappointed and I'm praying for an accomplice or a plot twist.

LJE was so twisted, even as a child like damn

The culprit is totally unexpected! So where is Gye Young? Is she alive, or is she murdered? At least where's her remains.

I believed there's more to what's shown in episode 12. How did mom & halmoni stumbled upon Da Hyun. What caused Da Hyun to forget the whole thing.

I am probably wrong, but I keep thinking the female police officer is Gyeyoung with amnesia because she looks a lot like the age progressed picture that Gyehoon had made in an earlier episode.