Hide: Episodes 7-8

by quirkycase

Cat-and-mouse games turn into all-out war this week now that lies are laid bare. Hidden agendas come to light, and our heroine starts to unravel the truth behind her mysterious neighbor-turned-nemesis. Our heroine barely has time to breathe between life-altering revelations, but she doesn’t let that get in the way of her quest for righteous justice with a dash of satisfying payback.

 
EPISODES 7-8

Once again, we get an action-packed set of episodes that heap shock after shock on Moon-young. Proving the adage of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, every new obstacle and insane thing that happens to her makes her that much more intent on pushing forward. With everything that’s thrown at her, she’s going to be emotionally indestructible by the end of all this.

For now, she’s having to deal with the sickening fact that her husband not only cheated but moved next door to his mistress for easy access. Oh, and he and said mistress faked a whole kidnapping scenario. Hence Moon-young smashing into the glass wall of Yeon-joo’s house, making the couple topple to the ground (unharmed). She then grabs a golf club and starts hitting Sung-jae with it. She really lets loose – Moon-young clearly has some pent-up rage from recent events. When Sung-jae knocks the club away and smacks her in the face, she hits him back harder.

The man has the gall to blame Moon-young for everything, his victim complex rearing its ugly head again. But Moon-young has seen the light, and she’s impervious to his nonsense. Now seeing how little their decades-long relationship means to Sung-jae, Moon-young is ready to rain hell down on him.

With her trusty sidekicks Jin-woo and Shin-hwa, Moon-young outs Sung-jae to the media and announces she’ll help the investigation to bring him to justice. Yeon-joo and Sung-jae retaliate by discrediting Moon-young with an article accusing her of having an affair with Jin-woo. The back-and-forth escalates with Moon-young turning in the murder video – Sung-jae gets a fun trip to the police station, but it’s not clear enough to arrest him – and Sung-jae kicking her out of the law firm.

Sung-jae may be scum, but he does somewhat care about Bom. In this case, that’s unfortunate since it means he wants to take her with him when he and Yeon-joo take Chairman Choi for billions and flee the country. Naturally, mommy dearest is helping her precious murderer baby Sung-jae with this escape plan. Of course, being a child, Bom immediately tells her mom after Sung-jae tries to convince her it’d be fun to go abroad. So once Moon-young and her crew figure out what Yeon-joo and Sung-jae are planning, she tips off Officer Baek.

Moon-young then outmaneuvers Yeon-joo by revealing her betrayal to Chairman Choi’s son who is the current CEO of Geumshin. Rich men are not known for being chill about their money, and true to form, he immediately has Yeon-joo arrested.

Now here’s where things get strange. Chairman Choi’s son comes to understanding with Yeon-joo – we don’t hear what the deal is – and withdraws his lawsuit. But not before Yeon-joo requests Moon-young as her lawyer. It makes no sense, so of course, Moon-young is intrigued enough to meet with her. Yeon-joo is clearly still playing some game and cheerfully warns Moon-young she plans on “punishing” her.

At this point, Moon-young and her people are starting to get the sense that this is personal. Moon-young can’t recall ever meeting Yeon-joo, but it’s becoming clear that she’s been Yeon-joo’s target from the start. Yeon-joo probably intended for Moon-young to get arrested for murder; all the cash and the insurance payout would’ve made it look like she killed Sung-jae. But Moon-young didn’t play by Yeon-joo’s rules, so Yeon-joo has had to improvise. The question is why she’s after Moon-young at all. (My guess is her father conned Yeon-joo’s family.)

Now, back to Sung-jae and his failed attempt to leave the country. Since he has no loyalty to anyone, he attempts to betray Yeon-joo and steal the money on his way out, but he’s intercepted by the cops (and Jin-woo who for some reason is allowed to help with the arrest). Sung-jae burns his passport, which is under Tae-soo’s name, so the cops once again have nothing but circumstantial evidence that he’s illegally using Tae-soo’s identity.

Not only is the investigation a mess, but Moon-young’s family life continues to devolve. Bom may be young, but she knows something is wrong between her parents. Then, through her window, she spots Sung-jae with Yeon-joo next door. Moon-young is livid, but he’s also horrified Bom saw him there. Yeon-joo is the one who made sure to open the curtains so Bom could see Sung-jae. (They were fighting, not doing anything that would scar a child.)

We do finally see a crack in Yeon-joo’s cool façade when she’s alone with Chairman Choi. He’s been like a father to her, and when he sweetly tells her to marry a nice guy and wants her to do whatever she wants without holding back, she breaks down and cries. Because she’s about to engage in the ultimate betrayal – it looks like it’s time for her to make good on her end of the deal with Chairman Choi’s son. She concocts a plan to have her own father, Chairman Choi’s driver, show up and take the fall for his death (she hid all the man’s life-saving pills).

Then, for the second time, Yeon-joo approaches Moon-young: she wants her to represent her father. Moon-young is lured by the promise that if she takes on his case, she’ll learn Yeon-joo’s reason for targeting her. Moon-young shows up at the prison to meet Yeon-joo’s father, except it’s her father she finds herself facing. You know, the supposedly dead one.

How is this the second man in Moon-young’s life to deceive her by faking his own suicide and living under a new identity?! That is one strange, distressing pattern. So somehow, Moon-young’s father became Yeon-joo’s father, at least on paper. How long has she been waiting to spring this on Moon-young? I can’t wait to hear the explanation for this because if Yeon-joo did this all for revenge, that’d be wild. There’s also a chance he really did become her adoptive father with his new identity, and maybe that plays into why she hates Moon-young. Either way, talk about dramatic. This drama keeps one-upping itself with the twists, and I can’t even begin to guess what comes next.

 
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