Gong Sil takes his words as a reflection of the pain over the loss, not as a result of being betrayed and then kidnapped by her. He liked her that much to curse her for leaving him alone. Joong Won looks at her like she has two heads. Gong Sil whispers that she’ll tell Hee Joo that he still really likes her. He tries to clarify that he was really cursing her. She nods, ‘understanding.’ Joong Won starts waving his finger, to accentuate that No, he does not still like her! He tells her that if she’s going to say that, then she needs to get lost. With the hand wave he does.
Gong Sil just smiles and says that she’s happy that Joong Won believes her. He tells her he *doesn’t.* She calls him a ray of light and her bomb shelter. He’s, like, ‘No. That’s also not right.’ Not that he wasn’t just jealous five minutes ago over her relationship with Kang Woo. He is such a dork! He’s totally jealous and yet in denial. Why else would he come over and *initiate* this conversation? He tells her that if he’s her bomb shelter, when she knocks, he’ll never open up. Gong Sil pleadingly whines, “Please open up.” But Joong Won smiles as he says “Never.” She’s pleading and suddenly the lights of the fountain turn on. They both look at it, but Joong Won doesn't acknowledge that it's weird. Because he doesn't believe in ghosts.
Kang Woo has come back from waiting outside and sees them talking.
Uncle VP’s secretary is walking down the hall. She drops a pen and when she pauses to pick it up, she spies a pink designer shoe. Only one, though. She decides to take it to the mall’s lost and found center. As she starts to walk away, she hears the clacking of heels behind her. When she turns to look, there’s no one there. From the camera work, we know it’s a ghost. They show the creepy ghost, who wants *her shoe,* and it’s left eye has been destroyed. Yuck.
Jin Joo was waiting for the elevator but the flickering lights and falling sign, and weird dragging/clacking noise, they cause her to take the stairs. Which I guess is just what the ghost wanted, because she trips poor Jin Joo and causes her to fall down the stairs. Gong Sil and Joong Won hear her scream and come to investigate, with Kang Woo shortly behind them. She says that she tripped over something, but when Joong Won investigates, there’s nothing there. Gong Sil doesn’t see anything either. Luckily Jin Joo only sprained her ankle. Side note: I love the spats! I know I said it before, but I just love them!
Joong Won shuffles his foot on the floor and concludes that the fall was caused by wax. He tells Gong Sil to clean it again, immediately. Which conveniently means that she can’t go home with Kang Woo. But who thought of that? For good measure, he has Kang Woo take Jin Joo to the hospital. As Joong Won starts to leave, he hears Kang Woo tell Gong Sil, “Looks like we won't be able to go together today.” This makes him frown and me laugh. Joong Won stays to hear Kang Woo tell her that he’ll see her at home. Heehee. Kang Woo escorts Jin Joo out and Joong Won looks at Gong Sil. She starts to explain, but he tells her he’s not interested. Yeah, right.
Joong Won is walking with Gwi Do. Something’s come up that will delay Gwi Do taking Joong Won home. Joong Won tells Gwi Do that he’ll just drive himself. Gwi Do is surprised and asks if Joong Won will be okay. Of course he will. Gwi Do reluctantly hands over the keys.
Joong Won arrives at the car and clicks to open the door. But he opens the trunk. Hee. He presses another button, which causes the alarm to beep, startling Joong Won in the process. Now his lights are flashing. Joong Won mutters, “Did I never drive this car?”
Gong Sil is cleaning the stairwell, upset that she didn’t get to go home with a man like a normal person. She spots the shoe and, thinking about what it would be like to go out on a date, she puts it on. This does not please the ghost, who is sprawled on the stairs below her. Gong Sil spots her and starts running, leaving one of her shoes behind (so that she’s barefoot). I would run, too, if I suddenly saw *this* ghost. It’s so creepy. Gong Sil running down the hall and the ghost is scooting along the floor after her. It reminds me of one of the creepiest, grossest X’Files I remember where this crippled Indian mystic was randomly possessing (and killing) businessmen. He couldn’t walk either. He pulled himself along on a small cart.
Now the ghost is running after Gong Sil. And she’s only wearing one of her heels. Gong Sil makes it to the elevator and frantically pushes the down button as bloody footprints approach. As the doors close, the ghost appears, reaching for her shoe. The elevator doesn’t seem to be doing anything but suddenly, it opens to another floor of the building.
Joong Won is finally in the car, trying to start the GPS to get himself home. That reading problem of his makes things difficult, but he’s able to press the home button. He is very happy with it announces that it will guide him home. He pats his chest and tells himself he did well, for reading the GPS and getting it started.
Gong Sil is still in the elevator, afraid to leave. The lights flicker and the ghost appears next to her. The ghost starts whispering in Gong Sil’s ear. Gong Sil takes off running again. Joong Won happens to be driving by just as Gong Sil reaches the parking lot. She pounds on his window, scaring him, and begs him to let her in. He tells her no and waves her away as he tells her to get lost. He drives away and the ghost is coming for Gong Sil. She clutches her head, terrified.
Joong Won stops about 50 feet away. The ghost staggers closer to Gong Sil. Joong Won decides to back up. He stops a few feet away and gets out of the car. He demands she tell him why she’s causing such a fuss. She just runs up and hugs him. He starts to push her away but the strength of her grasp makes him stop. The look on his face says he isn’t sure what he thinks about it.
Up in the security booth, Han Joo is eating his dinner and spots their embrace. No one else is there to watch it with him. And because he’s a gossip, you know that he’s not going to keep it to himself.
Eventually, Gong Sil is no longer afraid and lets go of Joong Won. She meekly tells him thank you and he notices that her right shoe is missing. He also notices the shoe she’s clutching. She tells him that the owner of the shoe was chasing her and that she thinks the woman is dead.
Elsewhere, the dead woman’s body is being loaded onto an ambulance. The policeman in charge of the investigation thinks that it was a drunk driving incident because the woman only had one shoe on. And the reason for her smashed face? Her car rammed into the back of a truck transporting an i-beam. Horrible way to go.
At the hospital, a nurse has just requested that Jin Joo drop her skirt. Why she’d need a shot in the bottom is beyond me since she *fell down the stairs.* Kang Woo excuses himself and goes outside, where he is bumped from behind by a strange woman wearing a hoodie and really big sunglasses. She doesn’t bother to apologize but then uses him as a shield to hide behind to avoid passerbys from seeing her. Then she scuttles off to the parking lot where she climbs up the side of a car and attempts to grab something through the open sunroof. Kang Woo arrives to investigate and she just tells him to be on his way. When he warns her to stop or he’ll restrain her, she kicks at him, so he grabs her down off the car, knocking her sunglasses loose. She looks familiar.
It’s Yi Ryung. The car is hers and she came for the money holder. After seeing what she’s after, Kang Woo adjusts his tie, hops up onto the top of the car and deftly slides down into it through the sunroof. He stands back up through the sunroof – instead of, say, opening up the car door – and shows her that all that’s in the holder is 1,000 won. Not going to buy much.
Being the nice guy he is – hopefully my theory is correct – Kang Woo takes Yi Ryung to a nearby convenience store and picks up what she was *needing* to purchase: 2 bottles of Soju and some dried seafood. He wants to know why she checked herself into the hospital, if she’s healthy enough to down 2 bottles of Soju. She hostilely admits that, he’s right, she checked herself into the hospital, not because she’s sick, but because it’s a convenient time to do it. When he says he understands, she tells him not to feel sorry for her. He retorts, isn’t that the whole reason she’s doing it, to garner her some sympathy? She asks for his number, so she can repay him, and he tells her not to worry about it. He bows and walks off and she is flabbergasted that he just refused her offer to give him her number. She’s not vain at all.
Back at the hospital, the husband of the ghost, who is called Choi Yoon Hee, has arrived. Slowly he staggers over to her bedside and then, after pulling back the sheet, begins to weep. And then *we* see that he’s actually really happy that she’s dead and is faking his sadness.
Joong Won and Gong Sil have arrived at the hospital. Gong Sil is now using a tissue box for a shoe, because it would have taken too much time, I guess, for her to take those 5 minutes to go back inside and get her shoe. She’s even pulled up her pants leg so that it’s really noticeable. Joong Won is bothered that she’s planning on going into the hospital like that; isn’t she embarrassed? She’s not; once she ran out of a bathhouse naked and had to go home wearing a box. Joong Won sighs like he can’t believe it and counters with: if the ghost’s body *isn’t* there, he’s going to have her committed.
Gong Sil mutters about hating the ER and gets frightened by the ghost of a man they’re trying to revive. She hides behind Joong Won. He stays on task and asks where the owner of the shoe is. The ghost is helpful and points towards her body. And the shoe is on the right (correct and right) foot again. The body is wheeled by and the other shoe falls off. The husband picks up the shoe and slowly, ‘sadly’ follows his dead wife’s body. Joong Won can’t believe that she actually just proved that she sees ghosts.
They decide to leave the ER. His body language is different, like he can't believe she just proved she wasn't crazy and he's stuck with being her bomb shelter. Gong Sil asks whether Joong Won is scared, now that he believes that ghosts exist. He sticks with his line that they don’t, saying that he’s not afraid because *he* can’t see them. He doesn’t waste time imagining useless things. Yeah, right. That’s why you’re not still hung up on the kidnapping. Gong Sil can’t believe that he’s not agreeing that they’re scary. She imitates the ghost chasing her and ends up backing Joong Won up against the glass doors as he averts his face and tries avoiding touching her. I am laughing. Hard.
To get her to stop, Joong Won admits that it might be scary for *her.* She grabs his lapel and repeats that grabbing him makes them go away. Doesn’t he understand that? As Joong Won tries to figure out what to say to get her to stop touching him, we hear Gwi Do tell his aunt that Joong Won doesn't let just anyone be around him; he analyzes whether people are useful, or will be useful in the future, and only gives his time to people who will benefit him. It’s not the ghost fiancée at all; he’s just picky. Uncle VP sums it up: Joong Won hasn’t found the right business merger to marry yet. Gwi Do does add that sometimes, there are people who can’t be measured the normal way. I wonder who he’s thinking of?
Gong Sil wants to make sure that Joong Won understands that she’s not clinging to him because of his money or good looks, but because he chases away the ghosts when she touches him. He puts his hands together in a prayer pose and breathes deeply. She asks him if he’s Christian, but nope, it’s so that he can throw off her grasp as he reaches for the sky (kinda reminds me of yoga, complete with breathing). So, he asks, she wasn’t just trying to glean a sugar-daddy, it was because of a sixth sense, and that it stops these things – he refuses to admit they’re ghosts – from clinging to her.
As they walk through the hospital, Gong Sil explains that the ghosts will come and ask her for favors and then will torment her until she fulfils their requests. And what does the shoe owner want? For Gong Sil to give the shoe back to the husband. The ghost told Gong Sil that she would watch and keep Gong Sil safe. Isn’t that kind of a clue that something’s off with this guy? They find the husband sitting, looking at the other shoe. Joong Won recognizes the man as the owner of one of the stores in his mall. Gong Sil thinks that the wife must have lost her shoe when she came to visit her husband and wonders if the shoe has some special meaning for the ghost.
The husband’s phone rings and he answers. When they approach, they overhear his happy conversation with someone, telling them that his wife is dead, calling it a miracle and convenient.
Now in the hospital lobby, Gong Sil says that the husband’s smiling face was scarier than the dead wife’s ghost. She thinks that something must have really startled the wife, that’s why she left her shoe when she ran. When she asks Joong Won what he thinks it is, he tells her that he doesn’t let his imagination run wild about useless stuff. And yet, he’s there. He’s so full of it. He’s definitely hooked on this weird woman and her crazy life.
Gong Sil wonders if the guy will still be laughing when she tells him that his dead wife is watching everything he’s doing. She decides to find out, but Joong Won doesn’t follow her. He tells her to have fun and tries to leave. She begs him to come with her. He remembers that she said he was her bomb shelter. He holds out his hand to her, but when she goes to grab it, he pulls it away, into the air. He tells her, that because these ghosts don’t provide any useful information (for making money – like lottery numbers or stock prices), she’s of no use to him. But he will give her some advice: people see her as crazy because she runs around saying she sees ghosts and doing things like wear tissue boxes for shoes. He tells her to pull herself together and take care of her face. She protests that he knows she’s not crazy and he says, “No. I'm only going to see what I want to see, and believe what I want to believe.” He’s still going to see her as a crazy lady. And he leaves her there. Doesn’t even take her home. Nice. Major crow, dude, you need to eat it.
So Gong Sil has to walk home wearing the tissue box for a shoe and listening to people snicker as they walk by. She doesn’t even care, because the ghost is still bugging her. Gong Sil’s angry because the ghost isn’t giving her anything useful so that Joong Won will stick around. And Gong Sil moans because she doesn't have enough money for a taxi ride home.
Joong Won makes it to the parking lot and, trying to unlock the door, he opens the trunk again. He goes to shut it and notices that he had some extra shoes. He also notices a tissue box. He picks it up and examines its sturdiness – I guess so he doesn’t have to feel guilty for abandoning Gong Sil and forcing her to walk home wearing a tissue box – but it breaks as he’s testing it. Which means hers will definitely break.
Right on cue, Gong Sil’s box breaks and as she’s moaning over it, she catches the attention of Kang Woo, who’s waiting for the bus. After exchanging pleasantries, he asks about the box and then tells her that it doesn’t look crazy, but rather wise, to be wearing the tissue box to protect her foot. When she worries over the box breaking again, he proposes that the box fulfilled its duty and died and they should just take a taxi home.
The GPS informs Joong Won that he’s turned onto the wrong road, which he knows since he’s looking for Gong Sil. He tells it to be quiet and complains about seeing that useless stuff. Which, of course, made him feel guilty about being a jerk. But he can’t find her (since she’s already left in the taxi) so he gets frustrated and decides just to go home. He disgustedly tosses the shoes he has for her in the backseat. A tissue from the left-behind box floats and lands on his car and the GPS tells him to take a right turn. Which is odd, to Joong Won, since that would seem to take him back where he started from, but he follows the directions.
The husband is at the hospital with an older woman, talking with the police. The policeman tells him that she wasn’t drunk, like they first suspected. It’s not a problem, it’s just strange. As the cop walks away, the mother-in-law asks if that means it wasn’t an accident. The husband declares that the wife probably just lost the shoe somewhere and says he’ll find it. Later, he’s alone and leaving the hospital. He’s talking to someone – who turns out to be the mistress. She hasn’t been able to find the other shoe. Taking one final look at the other shoe, he drops it in the trash.
Gong Sil and Kang Woo have arrived at their apartment building. Gong Sil’s now wearing pink sandals. She thanks him for getting her home safely and he takes the opportunity to ask about her relationship with Joong Won. When she struggles to describe it, he covers his interest with being worried about him escorting home the boss’s girlfriend. She assures him that Joong Won just sees her as a confused woman and nothing more.
As Kang Woo bows and leaves, Gong Sil’s sister arrives. She wants to know who the hot guy is. They giggle together and head up to Gong Sil’s apartment. Gong Ri asks if he knows about her abilities and Gong Sil doubts he would want anything to do with her if her did. I actually don't think he'd be that shallow. Just something about him tells me that. Gong Ri tells her that a lack of male companionship might be the reason for her problem, because she lacks that yang energy. Gong Ri suggests she get a little of his yang energy for herself. Gong Sil wonders if “that man” is special because of his strong male energy, but won’t explain who when Gong Ri asks who she’s talking about. Gong Ri tells her to get to know the guy and suck the energy out of him. Gong Sil mutters that it’d be hard when she can’t even touch the guy. Gong Ri suggests Gong Sil just start with Kang Woo, then, and tells Gong Sil to go to sleep.
The next day, as Joong Won and his managers tour the mall, talking with all the store owners, Uncle VP is telling Joong Won how great the Kingdom mall is doing. Joong Won tells Uncle VP that they need to have a strong strategy to continue since Giant mall is opening soon. Joong Won is very friendly with the stores that are profitable and scowls at the owners of stores that aren’t. Even when he smiles, it's just creepy, like a Sheldon Cooper smile. They stop at an advertising poster of Yi Ryung kicking a soccer ball. Uncle VP wants to know if they should still use it, since Yi Ryung was dumped at the altar. Joong Won says that it’s a good poster and doesn’t care if Yi Ryung complains, since she’s already been paid.
Gong Sil has arrived at the husband’s store, but it’s closed. She walks away, presumably carrying the shoe in the plastic bag she’s holding. Joong Won arrives at the store right behind her and Uncle VP tells him that the wife of the owner died a few days ago. The place is 4th in their list of sales and Giant mall seems to be courting him, but Uncle VP is confident that it won’t happen, since the guy is loyal to him (Uncle VP). Joong Won remarks that he’s seen some things and doesn’t trust the guy. He tells Uncle VP to look into it.
Down at the coffee shop, Han Joo is talking to his friend about the husband and his dead wife. The friend remarks at how he heard how kind the husband was to his wife and Gong Ri agrees, from when she saw them together. Han Joo remarks that the guy *had* to be nice, since his wife was the rich one who opened the shop for him. He bemoans the guy’s good fortune because the mother-in-law was even more loaded and the wife was her only child.
Gong Sil arrives to ask some advice: if she says that someone’s bad but everyone thinks he’s good, people won’t believe her, will they? Gong Ri wants to know if ‘something’ came again. Gong Sil shakes her head no. Gong Ri tells her that she has to be good there (the mall) so she can go home with handsome men and get some of their yang energy. Gong Sil nods and leaves. Gong Ri mutters that it always feels like there’s something there when Gong Sil’s around, and as if an answer, something knocks off a couple of thermoses off the counter. I wonder if it’s black-eyed coffee boy. Or maybe the ghost of the week.
Han Joo comes up and asks Gong Ri if Gong Sil is her sister. She nods yes and he just claims he’s curious because he’s interested in knowing Gong Ri better. I know it’s just because he thinks Gong Sil’s snogging the boss and he wants to suck up. As part of his schmooze, he picks up the thermoses for her.
Yi Ryung is looking at the soccer poster with her manager, who wants to file a complaint about it. Yi Ryung doesn’t have a problem and actually likes it better than pretending to be sick in the hospital for sympathy. Yi Ryung just wants to try to find the girl who ruined her wedding. Then she sees Gong Sil walking down the hall, but doesn’t believe that it could actually be her. Gong Sil’s gone to ask Jin Joo about where she found the shoe.
The husband is with the mother-in-law at the mausoleum. The mother is understandably upset at her daughter’s death. 27 Nov 1976 to 03 Aug 2013. Only 36 years old.
Gong Sil’s got her other shoe back and is starting to retrace the ghost’s last steps. She pretends to have fallen in the hall and that’s when Joong Won shows up. She explains that this is where the ghost dropped the shoe. Joong Won tells her that the shoe is trash now and since she’s a janitor, she should throw the trash away. She whines at him that he knows what she wants to do. He squats down and tells her he doesn’t; she just looks like a lazy person who does weird things. He also says she’s very close to being fired.
As they’re close to the ground, both Gong Sil and Joong Won notice the shoes of the woman who just walked by; they’re the same. Joong Won doesn’t see the big deal. Gong Sil mutters that as much as *she* would like to ignore when she sees things, she can’t, and gets up to follow the woman. A little zinger at Joong Won. Deserved. He mutters, "And again, again, again!" Joong Won’s annoyed that she’s doing useless things. Heh. I just giggle that it bugs him so much. I actually now think that part of why it bugs him so is because he really likes her but the useless things make her an unacceptable mate. Not that he’s aware of this, of course.
The woman with the shoes works at the husband’s store. And the husband slithers in shortly after the woman arrives. Gong Sil looks in through a window and making herself the height of the woman’s shoes, she sees the husband canoodling with his mistress. The husband glances in her direction and Gong Sil drops to the floor. She gets a vision of what happened to poor Choi Yoon Hee: the woman stumbled across her hubbie having his affair. He’s planning on an accident when they go hiking that weekend. The two laugh and then he sees his wife. Yoon Hee takes off running, with the husband running after her, trying to ‘explain.’ That’s when she lost the shoe. He chased her in her car and because she was looking at him following her, terrified, she didn’t see the i-beam and ended up dead.
Gong Sil sits there, stunned, as people walk by, but is roused from her shock when she hears the husband ask his mistress about her wearing the same shoes. He tells the girl to be careful since the mother-in-law is still around. But he chuckles that the old lady hasn’t been doing well since her daughter’s death, so she should be dying any day now. The wife’s ghost is there, hearing everything, and cries at what a man she married.
Joong Won is staring out his golden telescope again, telling Gwi Do they need to make sure that Giant mall doesn’t steal their leases. Gwi Do tells him that’s why they went and greeted everyone. Joong Won’s annoyed because his face hurts from having to smile so much. Gwi Do says it’s a small price to pay to keep shops like the “Dahlia” store there. Joong Won mutters that his mouth might even hurt more having to smile at that guy. Gwi Do mentions that the woman with the shoes is a Dahlia employee and hopes that Gong Sil doesn’t cause any problems.
Down at Dahlia, the mother-in-law has arrived. She’s brought the husband lunch, since there’s no one else for her to have lunch with anymore. He even offers to take his halmoni hiking. Gong Sil arrives with a disgusted look on her face and holds out the shoe. Gong Sil says that she was asked to give it to him. When the halmoni asks about the shoe, Gong Sil adds that Yoon Hee lost it after she saw her husband having an affair and ran away in surprise. Oops. Busted.
But the husband denies everything, going so far as to get the girlfriend’s shoe and claiming that it’s the other shoe of the wife’s. He claims that the police found it at the scene of the accident and brought it to him. Gong Sil tries to prove that the shoe the husband has belongs to the mistress, but the husband acts like Gong Sil’s crazy and has bad motives. Gong Sil tells the mother that she wants to protect her because the husband is a bad person. He acts striken, since it’s only been a week since his wife died. It seemed like just a few days, but I guess it's a week. When Gong Sil is amazed that he would say such things, with his wife here, he says that if she was there, she’d know how much he’s been suffering and how much he loved her.
Gong Sil looks at Yoon Hee’s crying ghost and tells the halmoni that his tears are lies! She shoves the husband, and is rebuffed by two of his employees, and she starts saying that she saw everything: how he smiled when he found out Yoon Hee was dead! That he’s a bad man! Isn’t he sorry!
Up in the security booth, this commotion is noticed and one of the security people tells Kang Woo that the woman making the disturbance is part of the cleaning staff, that it looks like Tae Gong Sil. The employees have dragged Gong Sil from the store and are telling her to get ahold of herself. She’s just concerned about the halmoni. A crowd has gathered. Han Joo and his buddy have arrived. So has Yi Ryung and her manager, who notes that Gong Sil was prettier and smarter than Yi Ryung in high school. Yi Ryung decides that the rumors about Gong Sil getting weird were true.
One of the store employees shoves Gong Sil to the floor. He tells Han Joo and his buddy to get Gong Sil out of there. The crowd is muttering about whether Gong Sil is crazy or not. Aw, it’s like all the other times before where she’s looked crazy. And she was just trying to be helpful. The husband and halmoni have come outside the store. The security guys are trying to nicely help Gong Sil up, especially since Han Joo thinks that this is the boss’s girlfriend. Hubbie and halmoni are about to leave when someone says Gong Sil’s name: it’s Joong Won.
Joong Won looks down at her and asks her why she’s sitting on the ground, looking like a crazy person. She sadly frowns at him. He says, “I said, stand up,” and then *offers her his hand.* The guy who doesn’t like touching people. It strikes me as especially meaningful because when he held out his hand to her at the hospital and then snatched it away, he was refusing to be her bomb shelter. And now he’s not. Aw. He asks her if she found the shoe’s owner. Yes, and she points to the husband, saying that he’s denying it’s the wife’s shoe. Again the husband says that the shoe he has is his dead wife’s shoe. He basically calls Gong Sil crazy and Joong Won laughs at him, his stupidity.
Joong Won says that they can find out who is crazy and who is the liar by putting the shoes together. Gwi Do presents an open box, which holds the wife’s discarded shoe. How did he get the shoe? Walking over to the husband, Joong Won says that he picked the shoe up out of the trash after the guy dumped it. He takes the ‘wife’s’ shoe and compares them and the mistress’s shoe is larger in size. Plus, they’re for the *same foot.* The crowd mutters. Han Joo smiles in amazement at his cool boss.
Joong Won nods Gong Sil forward and pointedly drops the mistress’s shoe to the floor. Taking the real shoe, he puts them together and they’re a set. “This one, makes a perfect match.” Halmoni takes her daughter’s shoes and asks where the other shoe came from. Joong Won spots the mistress hiding in the store and motions for Han Joo to go get her. And she’s missing her shoe. Oops. Joong Won smiles at the liar being exposed and adds that it looks like the shoe the husband had belonged to this woman. The husband can think of nothing to say to weasel out of it. Gong Sil steps forward and tells him that his wife will be watching him and looking for his deathbed, just like he looked for hers. This actually scares the husband. Security escorts the husband and the mistress away and Yi Ryung doesn’t quite know how to take what she’s just seen.
Outside, Gong Sil hands the shoes to halmoni. Halmoni asks if her daughter is there watching over them? The daughter is, face whole again. Halmoni begins to weep and Yoon Hee hugs her a last goodbye. Then she dissipates in the ghost mist, leaving this world.
Yi Ryung and her manager are discussing what’s happened and Yi Ryung thinks it’s strange, Joong Won taking an employee’s side, since that’s not his character. I think it was before the kidnapping. As they come down the escalator, Yi Ryung spies Kang Woo. She hurries after him and grabs his arm. Reflexes take over and he quickly has her arm twisted behind her back. He lets her go when he realizes who it is. She gets his name off his name tag and starts to try to have a conversation (telling him it’s good to see him) but he cuts her off, saying he’s on duty and has to go. Rebuffed again! She's even more flabbergasted.
Kang Woo arrives at Dahlia and Han Joo tells him that Joong Won resolved the whole thing. Kang Woo’s surprised that Joong Won did it personally, probably confirming to him that something’s going on, despite Gong Sil saying that there isn’t, especially after Han Joo walks away telling his buddy that Gong Sil is Joong Won’s secret lover, he saw it on the monitor. What that means for Kang Woo, we don’t know.
Gong Sil’s standing in front of Joong Won’s desk. He’s got his feet propped up on the desk. I noticed before that he wasn’t wearing socks (neither of them are) but it’s really noticeable. I hate wearing shoes without socks because I notice my feet sweating. She thanks him for his help, even if he’s not going to believe her and just ignore things. He tells her that she doesn’t need to thank him. He did it for revenge, since the guy betrayed not just his wife but Joong Won’s kingdom; he was going to be defecting to Giant mall. Gong Sil asks about why he was watching him, wasn’t it because Joong Won was concerned? He says that it just happened because he stumbled across it, going the wrong way.
Flashback to the hospital. The GPS has led him back to the hospital instead of home like it’s supposed to. He noticed the husband discarding the shoe and picked it up.
Present. Gong Sil says that people sometimes find what they lost at an unusual place, or arrive at an unusual place by getting lost on the way. But it’s not always a coincidence. When Joong Won scoffs, Gong Sil whispers, “Take a right turn.” The exact words of his GPS, which in a flashback we see that the ghost is riding in the car with him. He stares at her as he gets her meaning but suddenly, she sees something creepy. He doesn’t see anything. Looking around, he tells her to stop there, and not to tell him any more useless things. Because he's starting to not have any good excuses not to believe her.
Gong Sil begins to smile and says that there is a way for her to become special for him: she can see Cha Hee Joo. She’s happy at the prospect of this, but we know *he’s* not. She’s giddy as she leaves and his expression is strange as he thinks about seeing Hee Joo again.
Uncle VP is having tea with his wife. She asks him if he felt anything from the incident with the cheating husband. Uncle VP doesn’t understand what she’s saying. She basically thinks he married her because of her money, which she doesn’t mind, as long as he doesn’t cheat on her. Uncle VP looks stricken as he professes that (in English) he sees only her. She just reiterates that she has no problem dumping him if he tilts just a little, but passionately he declare that that sort of thing would *never* happen. And I actually believe him. From what I’ve observed, he may be a lot of things, but he’s not like that.
Down at the café, Han Joo is getting Gong Sil a orange smoothie. He invites her to a get-together of the security team after work. She looks cute in the dress she’s now wearing. Gong Ri’s all about Gong Sil going, since Kang Woo will be there. She wants them to go and “receive the spirit.” Gong Sil’s hesitating because it’s trouble if she ends up unconscious and she can’t drink for sure. Unni says she could just eat the snacks. They basically pressure her into going.
At the outing, Kang Woo doesn’t seem to be very eager to drink either. Han Joo’s trying to butter Gong Sil up and Kang Woo watches her as she laughs with her sister. Gong Sil’s cola accidentally ends up with alcohol in it, but Han Joo gives it to her anyway. She downs it and the alcohol hits her like it would me. Gong Ri has her go lay down over by Kang Woo (little matchmaker). Gong Sil doesn’t understand why her head is bugging her, but when Kang Woo asks, she says she’s fine, since she hasn’t been drinking. When she does drink, she turns into someone else. When Kang Woo says that everyone does that, she adds that she *literally* becomes another person. What does that mean?
Joong Won is in his office, thinking about Hee Joo. In his memory, he asks Hee Joo if she likes him because he’s rich. She basically says yes. He gets offended, but she says he’ll forgive her if she says his name three times. Joo Joong One (Won). Joo Joong Two. Joo Joong Three. (Numbers in English.) Despite himself, he laughs and forgives her.
Joong Won’s leaving the mall and muttering about that bitch. A dizzy Gong Sil is walking along behind him. Joong Won’s stopped outside the doors and Gong Sil spots Hee Joo. Hee Joo’s looking at him sadly and then turns to look at Gong Sil.
Kang Woo is on the phone, telling someone that he suspects that Gong Sil has a special relationship with Joong Won. He says that he’ll keep an eye on their relationship and if she has any connection to Cha Hee Joo. Hmmm. Again, who are you, Kang Woo?
Gong Sil arrives at Joong Won’s apartment building. She doesn’t look drunk anymore. She rings Joong Won’s bell and he comes down to yell at her for showing up at his place. Her face doesn’t quite look right. Usually, she’s really meek with him, but not now. Is it because she’s drunk? Walking past her, he wants to know what she wants and how she knows where he lives. She hasn’t turned around to look at him yet. As he starts to threaten her, she turns around and smiles at him, addressing him as Joong Won-a. He laughs and tells her she must be out of her mind (to address him so familiarly).
Gong Sil walks over to Joong Won and asks if he’s mad at her. He says, yes, that’s right. Pointing his finger at her, he tells her she’s fired and not to ever show up in front of him again. He does his little hand wave in front of his face as he tells her to get lost. She asks him if he’ll forgive her if she calls him name three times. Recognition from Joong Won as she says it like Hee Joo used to. Oh, crap, Gong Sil’s been possessed. Slowly he turns around. She smiles and he tells her it’s not funny. He asks who she is and Hee Joo responds, “It’s me. Your bad bitch.” Joong Won doesn’t know how to take that, but you can definitely tell that he’s shaken and definitely believing in ghosts now.
Thoughts
We *finally* are going to meet Hee Joo! I was wondering when that was going to happen! And what the heck is with this girl? She’s part of the kidnapping scheme and doesn’t bother to show up until she can possess poor Gong Sil. I’m really not liking her, even though I think that despite all his protests, Joong Won does still love her. He may not even be able to admit it to himself, but I think he does, what with how she can affect him still. His reactions to seeing her again, it wasn’t overtly hostile, more bothered, like he isn’t sure what she’s going to say. All we’ve seen of her is (1) sadly looking at him right before the car explodes, (2) impassively looking at him as he wakes up from being kidnapped and apologizing for things, and (3) smiling at him, even as she tells him she likes him because of his money. The more I see of this girl, the more I *don’t* like her, even though it’s tempting to think that there’s more to the story.
And at least we’re going to get more of the story, since now there’s going to be a conversation between them. We’ll find out whether Joong Won actually doesn’t care as much as he claims and maybe what the deal was with the kidnapping. Did she really care about him? Is that why her ghost has hung around so long?
And what’s up with Kang Woo? I really think he’s working for the dad, maybe trying to recover the money, since he’s looking out for connections/references to Hee Joo. Although, my gut says more that he’s there to take care of Joong Won., since he’s concerned about their relationship. I do love how he totally isn’t interested in vain miss Yi Ryung. I have a feeling that maybe in this story the second leads will actually not end up stuck with unrequited relationships, which I always like.
Gong Sil’s sister cracks me up, pushing her and Kang Woo together so Gong Sil can get a little of his “yang.” It’s interesting how much Gong Sil gets excited about doing normal things. It makes me think about how lonely she really is.
And Joong Won. He is such a butthead. But I’m starting to realize that the more he protests and denies, the more it means that he’s actually trying to convince himself of what he’s saying. He keeps calling Gong Sil’s stuff ‘useless,’ but he still gets pulled in anyway. I think it’s partially because she needs him and no one’s probably ever really needed him like that. Heck, even his first love didn’t really love him; she liked him because of his money. I also think it’s because he’s rude and she ignores it, not taking it personally, so he can’t scare her off, no matter how obnoxious he is. There’s something attractive about not having to worry about being yourself with someone. And she doesn’t worry, really, about what people think, at least not like he does. She doesn’t get embarrassed and he’s certainly concerned about his appearances.
That wariness about his appearance seems to get pitched out the window when it comes to her, though. Yes, he blusters about it, but she was lying on the ground and he squatted down there with her instead of just talking down to her. She was freaking out and he stopped his car and backed up. She grabbed him and he stayed in the hug. He stood up for her when there was a crowd and told her to stand up (and be proud). And the shoe of his revenge was in a box.
I've also noticed that ever since their hug, he's a little softer with her, too. The more he believes, the more he sees her as put upon rather than someone out to seduce him. It's not much, because our hero has some serious growing to do, but he's definitely more tender with her. He's still a butthead, but a slightly nicer butthead.
It was an interesting way for the second leads to meet. I like that there’s romance brewing between them rather than it being a love triangle. I definitely have to laugh at Joong Won as he acts like he’s not jealous. And Gong Sil is clueless that he is. But I’m not. He is so obvious. I love that Gwi Do sees it, too.
One of my favorite moments of the entire episode, besides Joong Won overhearing Kang Woo sigh over not being able to escort Gong Sil home, was when Gong Sil caused him to slam up against the glass doors at the hospital. That was hysterical. I’m still laughing at him.
I want to add that Baek Seung Hyun did a great job as the scummy husband. Everything else I've seen him in, he's played a straight-laced nice guy (like Shining Inheritance and City Hunter. He's always left me with a really 'tender' feeling for his characters. And this character was so against that type. He played the slime so well. Great job!
I can’t wait for next episode. I wonder what their conversation will be?
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