Miss Night and Day: Episodes 13-14
by Unit
If you think last week was intense, this week ups the scale. On one hand, we have our OTP’s dating era characterized by cuteness and growing curiosity. And on the other, we have unravelling of plot threads and the reveal of how our raincoat case and the missing women’s case are linked.
EPISODES 13-14
Last week’s kiss ushers us into Ji-woong and Mi-jin’s dating era, and boy are they so cute! Height difference between couples is one of my major catnips, and you bet I was squeeing all the way to Seoul and back whenever they hugged and her head fit snugly under his neck. Our OTP’s dating era involves texting at work, and while Ji-woong is blushing to himself at his desk, Soon is doing the same at hers. Heh.
Of course, Myung-duk is in the middle of this, and he thinks they have both cracked under the pressure of their workload. I about died when he asked if Ji-woong took any drugs by mistake while investigating. And I was on the floor in literal tears at the parallel of Ji-woong’s romantic texts and Myung-duk’s inbox of spam messages.
In the midst of this, Soon runs into Won, and he asks if she keeps avoiding him because of his confession. Soon tells him she likes someone else, but it doesn’t matter because he has no intention of moving on from her. While Won is entitled to his feelings, those feelings make our heroine uncomfortable — and Won is pleased with her discomfort. “You’d at least become attracted [to me],” he says. But men who can’t take no for an answer are one of the least attractive species out there. Won needs to give it a rest because not all of us are in the league of his fangirls who pledge their undying love to him.
At home, Mi-jin realizes that she left her phone at work so she rushes back to the office. She succeeds in retrieving the phone, but Ji-woong — who’s back at work for overtime — catches her in the lobby, and she claims she came to see him. He gives her a tour of an office she already knows, and she’s a bit emotional to be in the office for the first time as Mi-jin. Mr. Best in Comic Relief, Myung-duk, joins them… and reaches the very natural conclusion that Mi-jin stopped by for cake. Remind me again how this man managed to become an investigator? Lol.
Being in the office is second nature to our heroine, and she knows everything from where items are kept to personal information she picked up from being Myung-duk’s colleague. “What is this familiar but unfamiliar feeling?” Myung-duk asks, after noting that people might think Mi-jin works here. Lool. Mi-jin makes up excuses as to why she knows these things, and Myung-duk buys them. But Ji-woong says he will wait until she is ready to tell him the secrets she’s been keeping from him. Mi-jin worries that she might disappoint him, but he reiterates that she’s the only person he fully trusts, and he understands that she has reasons for not revealing her secrets. Aigoo! The weight of his trust is almost as crushing as it is relieving.
Cheol-gyu is brought in for another round of questioning, and he asks to see Soon again. He asks how she intends to catch the culprit, and she tells him she smelled a unique scent when she approached the raincoat killer’s car. To mark the start of their cooperation, Cheol-gyu gives Soon a list of all his fentanyl transactions for the past 24 years, and the prosecution uses this to formally charge him for drug distribution.
In the meantime, Detective Intern confirms that Ji-woong is the son of the witness in the missing women’s case — who also went missing 20 years ago. And he’s relieved to see that Ji-woong grew up well. He tells Ji-woong that Cheol-gyu has Parkinson’s, and further investigation reveals that Cheol-gyu was receiving treatment at the time AWOL intern was killed. Ain’t no alibi stronger than that.
Ji-woong is assigned to work the drug distribution case with a female prosecutor, TAK CHEON-HEE (Moon Ye-won), who’s been hanging around our plot since week one. Cheon-hee has a crush on Ji-woong, and our resident confusion specialist, Myung-duk, ropes Soon into his theory that Ji-woong and Cheon-hee are flirting. Now our heroine is jealous. Lol.
Back to our romance, Ji-woong begins to question why he only ever gets to see Mi-jin at night. Myung-duk and Soon separately come up with a “Mi-jin might be allergic to the sun theory,” but it doesn’t really matter to Ji-woong if his girlfriend is a vampire. The fact that he doesn’t know where Mi-jin works or what she does for a living unsettles Myung-duk. And of course, the best way to investigate Mi-jin is to bring food over to her best friend’s house. Heh.
Myung-duk is a surprisingly good cook, and coincidentally, he and Ga-yeong have the same taste in food. It’s boys over flowers and best friends, so Ga-yeong invites him in against Soon’s wishes. Poor Soon is trapped in the room with her bowels in a protest — and when she can’t take it any longer, she bursts out of the room and interrupts their date. But Myung-duk and Ga-yeong were just about to have their Lady and the Tramp spaghetti kiss!
Myung-duk reports back to Ji-woong that he saw Soon at Ga-yeong’s. Ji-woong recalls the first time a drunk Mi-jin passed the night at his place and then panicked to the point of climbing out the window of his house before sunrise. He also recalls seeing Soon when he came over to Ga-yeong’s place with hangover medicine for Mi-jin, and now he’s not sure of what to think.
Cheon-hee reports back to Ji-woong that one of the fentanyl customers on Cheol-gyu’s list made a deal with him 20 years ago, and fast forward to the present, the same woman made another deal but with a new name. It’s suspicious that the woman reappeared after 20 years under a new name, and it’s even more suspicious that the last time she bought fentanyl was right before AWOL intern’s murder. OMG! I think I know where this is going.
Soon catches Won in his investigation of the “an intern is lying about her identity” letters, and she’s upset that he didn’t tell her about the letters. The end of the investigation trail leads them to a shocking discovery: the other female intern (Bae Hae-sun) stole someone else’s identity to get the job. Whoa! Confronting the lady intern doesn’t seem like a good plan, so Soon asks Myung-duk to run a background check on her.
Following Myung-duk’s advice to create a situation where Mi-jin has to see him during the day, Ji-woong drops by Mi-jin’s house on a weekend. Unfortunately, Mi-jin overslept, and when her parents go to fetch her, they see Soon. We have a repeat of the “who are you and what are you doing in our house?” chase sequence, and Soon lands in the police station again. Ji-woong recognizes Soon as his office assistant — and while both parties find it very frustrating, our heroine cannot tell Ji-woong that Mi-jin and Soon are the same person.
Mi-jin decides to resign from work because she can’t keep lying to the people she cares about, but writing her resignation is one of the saddest things she has ever done. The silver lining to her transformation is that she was able to get a job and work, and she cries as she thinks about all the happy and productive memories that accompanied her stint at the prosecution office. I blinked back a few tears here. Soon drops her resignation the following morning and apologizes to Ji-woong. But he doesn’t want an apology, just an explanation. He mentions that Mi-jin’s mom now believes that our Soon is her sister, and he asks how she will take responsibility for her actions. But our heroine maintains her silence.
Myung-duk shows Soon the results of the background check on the intern, and it turns out that she’s GONG EUN-SHIM, the fentanyl customer who reappeared after 20 years! Wow! The big bad was hiding in plain sight the entire time! Eun-shim stopped coming to work after Cheol-gyu was arrested, and now we see her decked in fancy clothes and parading the streets in all her full villain glory — looking much younger than the intern we used to know, because she aged herself up to get the job.
A flashback reveals that Eun-shim drugged Cheol-gyu’s wife with fentanyl, before carting away all her valuables and shakily axing her. Eun-shim then posed as the victim to withdraw the money in her bank account. But because Cheol-gyu previously met with the real Soon to inform him about any activity on his wife’s account, she flagged the withdrawal. From Soon’s body language, Eun-shim suspected the jig was up, so she waylaid her at night and axed her to death. In contrast to her first kill, Eun-shim carries out this murder with nerves of steel, and Ji-woong’s mom witnesses the scene. Ji-woong’s mom drops her things and runs away in fright, but among the items she dropped was a branded lighter from the coffeehouse she worked at.
Eun-shim is subsequently confirmed as the raincoat killer, and we see that the woman she axed in our premiere week is the lady whose identity she stole to get the intern job. AWOL intern witnessed the murder, and that’s why she also killed him. Dear Lord, this woman is unhinged!
Myung-duk informs Ji-woong about Eun-shim, and his findings show that: 1) she took night classes at nursing school and administered beauty injections/sedatives to women during house calls — which is probably how she identified targets she could steal from; 2) she ran a teahouse but she recently closed it — probably to resume as an intern.
To raise the stakes and our blood pressure, Mi-jin’s dad drops by the teahouse to see Eun-shim. And via a flashback, we learn that Dad first met her at the coffeehouse in his search for Soon — because he heard one of the attendants at the shop (Ji-woong’s mom) also disappeared. Eun-shim had promised to help find Soon for a fee, and Dad is here to cash in on the promise. It probably took him this long to find Eun-shim again since she had a different identity back then. She’s had like four identities now, and I can’t keep up at this point.
In the present, Dad’s phone rings and Mi-jin is his wallpaper. Eun-shim recognizes her as the witness, and compliments her beauty. Dad is proud of the apple of his eyes, and says that she’s his daughter, Mi-jin. This is all Eun-shim needs to confirm that her target is Lee Mi-jin, not Im Mi-jin. Eun-shim asks Dad if anyone knows he came to see her, and he replies in the negative. “What a relief!” our villainess says, before locking the door and trapping Dad inside. Oh no!
Earlier that morning, Cheol-gyu sent his spy to give Soon a poppy flower, and she confirms that’s what she smelled in the raincoat killer’s car. Soon breaks into Eun-shim’s locker at work and sees a stash of poppy flowers, and this is her confirmation that Eun-shim is the raincoat killer. Our heroine calls Ji-woong and tells him she found the culprit, and at this point, she doesn’t care that he recognizes the voice as Soon’s. Ji-woong orders a tracking on Eun-shim’s location, and tells Soon to stay put in the office. But Soon gets a video of her dad tied up, and Eun-shim says to meet up. “Bring the cops, and your dad dies.”
By the time our heroine arrives at the location of the meet, it’s already sunset and she’s back to Mi-jin. Next thing you know, Eun-shim creeps up to her dressed in the Raincoat of Death, and the week ends with our heroine getting knocked out from behind.
What a week! I’m tempted to think that everything is finally in the open, but it won’t surprise me if there’s a secret this misdirection-filled drama is still holding on to. Heh. l do love a good mystery — especially if the reveal doesn’t come out of left field or make me feel stupid — and this show did exactly just that. I was actually kinda impressed.
Eun-shim was not on my radar as the ultimate villainess, and I just saw her as a condescending lady with a crush on Cheol-gyu. But thinking back to some of her words and actions, it does make sense that she’s not the typical ahjumma intern. Honestly, my first thought when it clicked that Eun-shim was the serial killer was: Wow! It’s nice to see women in male dominated fields. Lol. The humor is a little dark, but yeah, it is what it is.
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Tags: Choi Jin-hyuk, Jung Eun-ji, Lee Jung-eun, Miss Night and Day
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1 imzadi
July 29, 2024 at 1:11 PM
A complete irrelevant observation, because My sweet Monster did the same: why does the episode end on a long awaited kiss that we barely get the see and the next episode starts after this kiss? We deserve a proper kiss. Especially after all the teasing of great kisses they they watched in tv.
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2 vienibenmio
July 29, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Mi-jin is frustrating me. I kept yelling "JUST TELL THEM."
Does the prosecutor’s office not run background checks with new hires, even interns? I did an internship with the government and I had to get fingerprinted.
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3 Nefret
July 29, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Dad better not get seriously injured. I'm optimistic that he'll survive, but if not, I'll travel to South Korea and give the writers a piece of my mind.
I watch MNAD for the comedy and romance, though the murder mystery doesn't bother me (it rarely bothers me in other KDramas either). But apart from the fact that episode 14 understandably lacked fluff, it was well done. It's been speculated for a while who the culprit is, so the revelations weren't entirely surprising, but at least it wasn't obvious from the start.
But it seems to be an unwritten law that the main characters always go alone to a meeting with a murderer without informing the police or anyone else. I'm so used to this by now that I hardly get upset about it anymore.
This week I finally realised why in one of the previous episodes FL's father and SFL's father were afraid to talk about the shop for sale in front of FL's mother. Thanks to MOVING, I know what extra job some of the female employees of a teahouse were doing.
Does anyone know why ML is saved in FL's smartphone under cock-a-doodle-doo? I could understand an association with a crow, thanks to his black clothes, in which he looks freaking good, but with a rooster?
ML is such an amorous softie. I love the laugh lines around his eyes.
Inspector Ju seems to have practically moved in with him by now. At least they cook together and the Inspector even gets a blanket when he sleeps on the couch.
Our Inspector is always on the trail of a mystery, but he's often way off the mark, at least when it comes to interpersonal relationships.
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Kathykat
July 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Thanks for asking why ML is saved as cock-a-doodle-do! I have the same question.
I also hope Dad doesn't get injured!
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Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Maybe because of the cultural significance of roosters? They are brave and chase evil away. He helped her with that scam guy, and he is also a Prosecuter, so chasing away evil fits.
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Nefret
July 30, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Thank you, that sounds plausible. I've learnt something new again.
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4 Peridot
July 29, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I honestly was suspicious of intern ahjumma a little while ago, but I'm not too convinced by her method of killing her victims. What is the point of her chopping up certain body parts? Is this a misdirection so that detectives will waste time creating a profile of a serial killer who dismembers "his" victims for a particular reason? With her characterization, and learning a bit more about her background, I could see her using more subtle ways to subdue and ultimately kill her victims.
Regarding Mi-jin's dilemma and her inability to confide in her parents: I keep wondering why Mi-jin never spoke directly to her parents about her changing appearance. The only time she tried to do so, it was as Lim Soon. How could her parents believe the ravings of an unknown ahjumma? But she could have tried again as herself. She did so with her friend and when the latter did not believe her, she waited for the dawn to prove the veracity of her words. Why couldn't she have done the same with her parents? Instead, because of her previous bad experience of trying to tell the truth, she has had to keep so much bottled up insider herself. As for her parents, how is it that they didn't think it strange that on the two occasions they discovered the strange ahjumma in their daughter's room wearing their daughter's clothes, that their daughter was also not to be found? I know the first thought to come to mind wouldn't be that your daughter appears to be suffering from some fairy-tale-esque curse, but still, the wheels in their head should have been turning, lol.
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Peridot
July 29, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Also, Chul-gyu recognized Lim Soon immediately, even though he wanted DNA confirmation before making his move. How come, then, Mi-jin's mother didn't have a similar reaction the first time she saw Lim Soon in her daughter's room? Was she not looking carefully? I believe she did note a resemblance to her missing sister after the second encounter.
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bunnylita
July 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
It wasn't until episode 14 when I wondered why she hadn't told her parents. If anyone would understand, it would be them.
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5 Kathykat
July 29, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I really wanted Mi-jin to tell Ji-woong for many reasons. But it would have been such a hilarious scene if Ji-woong was then flirting with Soon at the office, with Myung-duk watching yet another younger man falling for Soon.
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late as always
July 29, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Oh, my, I love that idea. If only!!
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Kafiyah Bello
July 29, 2024 at 5:44 PM
This is also why I wanted her to tell him, lol.
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Nirbhay
July 29, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Wish you had suggested this to the writer. Would have been fun to watch and it would have made the show's latter episodes stick to the landing.
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6 geminirat
July 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Thank you, @Unit, for the weecap! I, too, am getting confused with all the fake names the axe murderer had been using! I can't wait for the time Ji-woong finds out who Mi-jin/Soon really is, although I feel a bit sorry for Won.
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Kathykat
July 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I was also so confused by all the names.
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7 bunnylita
July 29, 2024 at 4:18 PM
I thought it was odd they'd cast an actress I usually see in middle aged roles as Ok Hui with those obviously fake grey streaks in her hair, but I didn't think she was the killer. Wow.
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8 Kathykat
July 29, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Thank you also for your recap @Unit! I can't wait until next week's episodes.
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9 too_much_tv
July 29, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Ah if only I had actually known the name of the character when I made my comment last week that she was going to be the villain! I totally saw this one coming.
What I have been unable to predict, and still can't totally understand, is who understands the magical day/night split and why. Also, it occurred to me a good while ago that it was weird Mi-jin's mom didn't think she was her aunt when she first showed up. Also, is Mi-jin's aunt her biological mother? There's really a lot going on here.
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10 Blue (@mayhemf)
July 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I have no clue what’s happening with the mystery. I am just here for the OTP! They are so cute. Their hugs are lovely. But give me those damn kisses. I signed up for kisses. Gimme gimme.
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Kafiyah Bello
July 29, 2024 at 5:45 PM
They are really in short supply.
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Blue (@mayhemf)
July 30, 2024 at 7:38 AM
And from the past dramas I know that both leads are good with kisses. Why deny us!!!
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Kafiyah Bello
July 30, 2024 at 8:18 AM
#FULLFACTS
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11 late as always
July 29, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I don't understand why murderer lady needed to get an intern job.... Is she trying to keep an eye on the fentanyl investigation? What exactly is her role in the fentanyl trade? I'm confused.
Also, not sure I know how Cheol-Gyu found out about Im Soon and wangled a job at the prosecutor's office. And (somebody already mentioned this) how is it that he recognizes Im Soon 20-odd years later, when she was just a bank teller he knew slightly, while her own sister doesn't know her?
Lots of things not quite adding up for me in the mystery. I'm also pretty disappointed in the romance. I can't buy Choi Jin-Hyuk being cutesy. And I just don't see chemistry between him and Mi-Jin. Maybe if they kissed again I'd see it...
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too_much_tv
July 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Yes, I think your guess is correct that the murderer was using the intern job to keep an eye on something. Was it the fentanyl, or was it the prosecutor, who was the survivor of one of her victims? Or was it the husband of her first victim, the retired hospital CEO with Parkinsons? Or was it Im Soon? Someone was keeping an eye on someone, or these well-off people with better jobs wouldn't have agreed to be interns and clean the building.
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12 Mr Everything
July 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
So, it was the female intern all along. And, my dream of cat-human hybrids in a kdrama will have to wait.
On a serious note, I loved the biking scene and how it tied into the rest of the story. A man who Mi Jin once idolized and healed her in the same memory with a woman who was like a mother to her in an activity that she does every day thanks to getting her identity. Feels.
Also, I find the missing cell phone scene very relatable. Spicy pork is generally the solution for everything.
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13 Nirbhay
July 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Two really lame episodes. It felt like the writer does not know how to make Mijin's reveal and is dragging the storyline until it reaches Ep 16. First time feeling that FL deserves to die at the hand of serial killer. I am so disappointed with the FLs. She exploits everyone. Everybody is keeping secrets for her; bestie, idol-boy, Ji-ung, even Dad! But she does not have the guts to tell the people nearest to her about the transformation and is moaning about being jobless again. Ji-ung gave at least 4 openings to FLs to tell him about the transformation. He is right; he needs explanations not lame apologies. Someone way back had commented why did Mr.Prosecutor fall for Mijin? I agree he is better off without her. Even Lim Soon whose physical comedy has been fun was really jarring with her jealous-simpering act when she was around Mr and Ms. Prosecutor working together. I can almost call her bratty. Its too bad the drama end is such a flop. Still I am grateful for being introduced to the gorgeous Choi Jin Hyuk and getting to hear Lee So ra's gorgeous Wind Blows!
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14 empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 12:31 AM
So many burning questions, so little time....
My wish list I hope to see answered by this weekend's finale:
1. The transformer Night/Day curse: what first triggered it, how to stop or reverse it, will everything stop once the real killer is caught?
2. Is that CGI cat / well just a red herring?
3. Why does Society Lady need to become a senior intern? Why does Medical Director need to become a senior intern? Why is everyone weaseling their way into an internship at that Prosecutor HQ building? Is there gold buried under ala Vincenzo?! Who or what do they need to gain access to?
4. I get why Society Lady needs steady supply of fentanyl (hence regular buyer for 20 years) but Cheol-gyu is obviously not in collusion with her - he is dead obsessed with finding the killer of his wife.
So what's this whole weird police-prosecutor collusion/cover-up vibe we have been sensing since Day One? What's the Big Reveal? Does it all tie in together in the end?
5. You are trying to tell me Society Lady (played by a rather slight actor) decides that her killer M.O. is an axe. *Right* Why? Doesn't it make more sense to administer drugs, which was how she first killed the wife of Cheol-gyu.
6. The face recognition (or lack thereof) of Lim-Soon: as noted by other Beanies too. This is such a distracting BS plot hole. Cheol-gyu can recognise her, her own sister can't, and her bank ex-colleague can -- like how does it work?!
---Also, in the flashback to what happened 20 years ago at the bank when killer showed up with deceased's bank account to empty it out, it is very clear Lim Soon was played by a different actor (not Lee Jung-eun), so by right either you have no one being able to recognise her 20 years later, OR everyone being able to recognise her 20 years later. You can't have BOTH.
7. Poppy flowers & weird smell: in an earlier episode, someone noted that 2 drugs are actually found in the blood stream (not just fentanyl). I went back to check that episode and the other drug is opium (derived from poppies).
OK, thing is: it doesn't make (common) sense to me. Those in the house with more medical knowledge pls chip in. Two types of drugs are found in the bloodstream - fentanyl and opium. But fentanyl is already an opioid-class drug, and 100 X stronger than morphine at that. So why do you need opium, an opiate that is not as strong? It is also way less versatile in administration than fentanyl.
8. Why the resuming of killings now after a 20-year hiatus? What triggered that?
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Caveat: 📣
Last one completely unrelated to the serial murders arc. This is going to be a rant about the FL so please kindly skip if it is triggering to you.
1. I agree with one of the Beanies here that FL deserves to die at the hands of the killer. And so does her dad. Their sin? Stupidity.
2. Show, shame on you. There is an unspoken implicit social contract between the viewer and the show that it needs to give us...
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empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 12:35 AM
CONTD - I got cut off
2. Show, shame on you. There is an unspoken implicit social contract between the viewer and the show that it needs to give us leads we can root for, or get emotionally invested in.
You have betrayed your viewers by turning the FL into an absolute cretin and coward in the last lap of the story. Whilst I have always known that Mi-jin is not the brightest bulb in the box, but this latest development is really the last straw. I can no longer root for her. Adieu Mi-jin, and GG
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empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM
P.S. if Show manages to answer these questions and resolve the mysteries in a satisfying manner in last 2 episodes, it will be a narrative recovery as miraculous as UEFA finals '05 by Liverpool. Tis still possible, and I will be happy to eat crow when it does.
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Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 2:12 AM
My (non medical) explanation of why they need opium is that it is a cultural Big Bad in Korea. As are poppy seeds. Apparently, you are not allowed to import bagel toppings, because they...contain poppy seeds. No orange poppy seed cake for morning tea in modern Joseon!
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Bethy80
July 30, 2024 at 5:52 AM
I think that is a big part of it, yeah. It has more cultural resonance than fentanyl (which they take time to explain to the audience).
And looking at the history of the Opium Wars in the region and toll the drug had in the people's lives, I can see why it would have more narrative power.
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vienibenmio
July 30, 2024 at 9:52 AM
I've started to just remind myself that Kdrama portrayals of drugs and substance use are going to be like Reefer Madness, and I need to just stop trying to expect nuance, sensitivity, or even realism
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empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 6:41 PM
I sincerely hope not. If THIS is the reason, I would be speechless.
p.s. bummer. I like orange poppy seed cake
p.ps. I doubt they are tapping into the historical resonance of the Opium Wars though. Where I live, the Golden Triangle is right up North from our backyard. We still occasionally cuss the British for introducing opium into Asia, but tis frankly water under the bridge.
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late as always
August 1, 2024 at 9:27 AM
There is still no good reason for the murder lady to be carrying around poppy flowers wherever she goes. You can't use them in their unprocessed form.
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Kathykat
July 30, 2024 at 6:11 AM
These are all such good points The fact that the Medical Director, the retired Police Detective and the killer all decide to become senior interns twenty years later is hard to fathom. In my own mind, I've decided that the prosecutor's office announced that they re-opened the investigation when they assigned it to that first woman.
And yes, an ax, opium and fentanyl as the murder weapon seems like overkill (pardon the pun).
And how does the car smell of poppies? I hope they explain that too.
And it looked like there were so many women killed. How did they not look back at CCTV to see who was withdrawing the money?
And that woman who was sending the anonymous notes - wouldn't she have just gone to the police station? She seemed very irate about it.
And the timing seems off with the killing of the woman who the killer replaced. Wouldn't she have killed her before she replaced her?
Anyway, I still enjoyed the show, and if they can't wrap up the mystery well, I hope they at least figure out some way to wrap up the romance.
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Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Some poppies do smell floral. Poppy seeds don't smell though, and I assume opium prepared to be injected does not smell either... It feels a bit like a spell 'I invoke the power of opium, axe, and fentanyl, by the old, the new, and cold hard iron, and you shall be most dead'
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Nirbhay
July 30, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Loved the invocation. 😀 that is what the writer of this show would like us to believe. I have been in wild poppy fields , hundreds of them and absolutely there is no poppy smell, so I have no idea how Mijin can smell such a thing.
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empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Re: "if they can't wrap up the mystery well, I hope they at least figure out some way to wrap up the romance."
To satisfyingly wrap up the romance, Show would have to resolve the Night/Day transformation curse. This identity conundrum is really the heart of the love drama, so rich in narrative potential. Pity they didn't really delve into it
Think about it:
The person that Ji-Ung saw and liked first is Mi-Jin
(not Lim Soon).
The person that Lo Won saw and liked first is Lim Soon (not Mi-Jin).
IF the curse progresses, and they cannot resolve it -- guess which guy has the emotional/mental edge here?
Even IF things stay the same (she keeps having to toggle between Night/Day for the rest of her life), do you think the two guys would feel the same way about it?
Ji-Ung would probably feel dismay, cos it feels like he has lost half of Mi-Jin to gain Lim Soon, whereas Ko Won would probably feel delight, cos it's win-win he already likes Lim Soon and now he gains Mi-Jin too.
I wish Show has gone on to explore these nuances and emotional dilemmas instead
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Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM
sadly, instead of Won and the subtlety of a complex plot, we have Mr Investigator and comedy as the SL
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empressgirl
July 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
It's the penultimate week and I can be brazen about my loyalties: Ko Won FTW!
"I wish Ko has Won the (miss) Day".
The epigram that never was
Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I think I am just a shade on the side of Won; when writing my fan edit (below) he got the girl, though I hedged my bets and left it unsaid in the words on the page.
Mr Everything
July 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Ko Won also has the best lines. Last week, call me whenever you want to take advantage of me. And, this week, I don't expect anything in return and now at least you think of me as a man. I hope next week he says something like now you know how much you mean to me as he meets his tragic end defending his love #RealOTP
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empressgirl
July 31, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I hope Won doesn't die though!
p.s. this would be acid-attack-tier of insult to SML 😭
Kathykat
July 31, 2024 at 8:02 AM
I know. I loved the line, call me whenever you want to take advantage of me. lol.
Kathykat
July 31, 2024 at 8:01 AM
That's so insightful. I also felt that the romantic dinner between Mi-Jin and Ji-Ung felt awkward vs. the very comfortable feeling between Won and Soon when they're driving around either to find the cat or to figure out who is behind the notes.
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15 Kurama
July 30, 2024 at 1:48 AM
The stupidity of the FL is kinda tiring now... When she is given important informations, she does nothing with them. She should tell the truth because it's connected to her aunt and murders!
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16 Dylan [JooJoo couple, fighting!]
July 30, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Love how it's always food with Mr. Ju. He always gets a particular dish on his mind and he won't stop yapping about it. Last week it was pho, this week it's spicy pork trotter. I love this man so much, wish him nothing but the best.
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Blue (@mayhemf)
July 30, 2024 at 7:37 AM
He really does have an unexpected charm. I hope they resolve the misunderstanding soon and we see him dating.
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17 Bethy80
July 30, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I was intrigued by the reveal of our (possible) final villain although, as many other Beanies have pointed out, her story has many holes still. This is not surprising at this is an investigation and they have found a thread to pull on but many questions remain. I am willing to be patient if they really do pull that thread and unravel an interesting, believable story. So far we only have snippets (just like the characters) and I really am curious if there is a good reason for our villain to chose identity theft and murder to get a job at the Prosecutor's office. Did she think the interns would be doing something more vital than just cleaning and she would get access of some kind? And how the heck is identity theft so easy when getting hired by the government?
I was so proud of Mi-Jin last week and so frustrated with her at the end this week. Going haring off on your own is always stupid (I know she sent a message to her friend but still) and what makes her think her dad is going to be let out of this alive?? He's seen the villain and there is no way she is going to leave a witness (as evidenced by her extensive body count)
We need more detail before I can understand her many changes of identity/job/murder m.o.
Was she always killing people? Did it start as theft and drugging and then progress to killing, finding she enjoyed it? Was our hospital director's wife the turning point, and if so, why? What put a pause on things 20 years ago and how exactly did they restart?
I am suspending judgement until I see how they tell the rest of this story. I will say, I will be much happier with Mi-jin if she reveals her secret (and that transformation makes any kind of sense in context) because she chooses to, not because of an accident or being backed into a corner. Bit the bullet, kiddo and make the hard choices!
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18 Jingbee
July 30, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Thank you for the recap and the comments. I am glad I read this first so do not have to waste 4 hours of my time. I am out.
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19 Neolttwigi
July 30, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Overthinking the plot: The fan edit
MJ is the daughter of Dad and the Aunt. They were happily married until the evil sister turned up and threatened them. Cowed, Aunt lets them move to a new town and lets sister take over her kid and her marriage in return for everyone's safety.
But evil sister (the mom) gets steadily more crazed, forces Aunt to steal money from the bank, starts murdering people and drops Aunt down the well after cutting her up. She comes to her senses a bit after Aunt dies, and is no longer jealous and also has a small child that she must care for.
Forward twenty years, and a new prosecuter who is the son of one of her victims comes to town, and starts hanging around her house.Frightened, her killing spree starts again, But the Ghost of Aunt trapped in the well transforms MJ. In her new persona as LS, she reconnects with the Aunts old friends and with help from Won solves the crime! Prosecuter and Investigator bumble in background as comic relief.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
August 4, 2024 at 12:25 PM
I love your fan edit.
Definitely Beanies write the best dramas. 👌👏
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20 Pan cake
July 30, 2024 at 9:18 AM
the show is full of stupidity, both ML and FL do not bother to use their brain at all. I have so many questions at this point but now the killer is a middle-aged woman who is going to kidnap a fully grown man..really
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21 rainbowdash
July 31, 2024 at 4:05 AM
His name is Byung Duk, not Myung Duk.
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22 Ahjummaaa
July 31, 2024 at 9:36 AM
To echo above comments, I also did not consider the possibility that the ajumma cleaner could be the suspect even though it did seem odd to me that this particular actress would accept a random role. There's another thing that's been on my mind, and I don't know if perhaps others have already mentioned it, is that the hospital director remarked how young FL looked like she could be ajumma FL's daughter. This isn't just a random offhand comment, right? Does this mean she could be the biological mom, by any chance? Is it possible that young FL's parents wanted a child but were not able to conceive, and thus adopted ajumma FL's baby somehow?
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empressgirl
July 31, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I hope this set-up gets a pay-off, cos I don't think it's a random comment -- having been said more than once by various characters.
1. Likely. To save her own sister and niece from social stigma and to give the child legitimacy and a household register Mi-Jin's current parents may have adopted her as their own (so their niece becomes their daughter)
2. THEN it actually gets interesting -- cos it means this current incarnation of Miss Day may really be:
(a) the version that Lim Soon will end up as (should she still be alive) OR
(b) the future version of Mi-Jin should she live to her 50s (cos she looks like her aunt-maybe-mum)
The whole story is like a parable of living your future in the present like a sneak preview, and on top of righting all the wrongs from the past, you also get a possibly depressing cautionary tale of time/age's inevitable conquest of your youth and strength (cos her hours of living as Miss Day is lengthening) eventually she will be all Day no Night -- forever 54.
Though I hope not. It's a rom-com. Show! Remember yourself!
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23 🌸 Seeker 🌸
August 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Thank you for the 🌄 and 🌆 recap.
Ain't our cute texting OTP the best. 👌😘 What are you talking about you can lure me just about anywhere with cake!! 😋 That's why we drink coffee. ☕ 🍰
Kudos to all Beanies to pointed the finger at Society Lady. But is she really the Big Bad!?
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