Upstairs, the old man who called is there. He’s ready to get the case and get to getting.’ But Gun Woo wants to see his ID. Adjusshi pulls it out of his pocket along with a bunch of trash and is able to recite his number and address. He’s ready to go but Shi Ohn is questioning him now. She asks what’s in it and he’s vague. I would have requested he open the case, if it were really his. The owner wouldn’t object, especially if it were this or that like he claims. The man says he’s busy, grabs the case and leaves. Gun Woo starts to complain about his attitude but Shi Ohn gets a ghostly sign that this is wrong.
Shi Ohn runs after the old man, but he rushes out of the building and into a waiting taxi. Shi Ohn and Gun Woo follow them, with Gun Woo driving the car. He’s complaining because they gave an item back to a guy who showed id. Shi Ohn has a problem with the fact that a guy who’s obviously homeless – I just thought he was eccentric in how he dressed – had a taxi waiting for him. How could he afford it? Gun Woo thinks what they’re doing is odd, too. Although he’s going along with it. She yells at him to speed up so they don’t lose him.
They end up wandering through a mall after him. That’s a lot of extras, if they’re extras. They lose him, but see his hat in the trash. It leads them to see him by the elevator. Gun Woo yells adjusshi which makes the guy take off down the stairs, but they’re able to quickly catch him because he’s an old homeless guy. He no longer has the suitcase, but struggling against Gun Woo, the guy drops a key to a locker at a subway station.
There’s nothing in the locker, which irritates Gun Woo. I’m noticing that suddenly, the old guy’s face looks a lot dirtier, accentuating the idea that he’s homeless and isn’t able to clean himself sufficiently. The old guy says that the locker was the drop spot for the suitcase and he doesn’t know who the guy was, just that he got money for doing it. Shi Ohn decides that they’re not going to get anywhere and they need to go back to the station. Before they leave Gun Woo tells adjusshi that if the guy calls again, come tell him, *then* adjusshi will get his idea back. And then Gun Woo smooshes the hat back on adjusshi’s head. Oh, and adjusshi can take a cab; Gun Woo will pay for it. So what’s adjusshi supposed to do if the guy never contacts him again?
Driving back to the station, Shi Ohn’s wondering what was in the case. Gun Woo mutters that he wonders what’s in there, her head. He says he’s trying to avoid it, if he can. Shi Ohn notices they’re not on the way back to the station. Gun Woo’s decided to take her home, since she doesn’t look too good. She tells him not to bother himself and he says it’s just normal friendship between colleagues.
The guy with the suitcase is getting into a car. He calls whoever he’s working for.
Shi Ohn’s outside her place and gets a strange feeling. The suspenseful music plays to make sure we know the ghost is coming. The ghost really looks frozen. Shi Ohn rushes inside her apartment and tries to get warm, putting on a down coat. The ghost is now inside the apartment. Shi Ohn starts yelling at her, telling her to get out. Like she’s going to listen. Shi Ohn leaves her apartment, without changing her slippers for shoes. She’s running, terrified, but remembers to change into her slippers. She’s frustrated but doesn’t put on her shoes. It totally makes sense.
Gun Woo has stopped at a convenience store. Shi Ohn has come across the ghost following a teenaged girl, who is also affected by the cold. She’s boarded the bus with the girl to follow the ghost. Gun Woo just happens to see Shi Ohn flag down then bus and board it, so he follows them. The ghost keeps staring meaningfully at the girl, trying to communicate with Shi Ohn. The girl is really cold. The ghost doesn’t follow the girl off the bus, partially because Shi Ohn seems to be listening to her now.
The guy with the briefcase is in the woods, digging IN A SUIT. Shi Ohn and the ghost get off the bus at the edge of the woods. The ghost is leading Shi Ohn, although Shi Ohn’s not having to wear the coat anymore. Gun Woo is not far behind, watching Shi Ohn slowly walk through the woods for no apparent reason. The ghost stops at the spot that the guy was digging and meaningfully looks down at it. There’s a twig snap, which scares Shi Ohn, but it’s just Gun Woo. She wants to know what he’s doing there and he starts chastising her for being out so late and in her slippers.
Shi Ohn remarks that it’s strange and Gun Woo replies there’s nothing not strange about all this. He tells her she really looks crazy right now. She notes that one place in the dirt looks like it’s just been recently dug up. Shi Ohn starts digging. Gun Woo complains that she’s crazy. They find the ghost's hand. Shi Ohn looks up meaningfully at the ghost, who reveals that one of her hands is missing. And again, like with 'Good Doctor,' the hand is blurred. I guess it’s ‘too disturbing’ for the audience.
It’s daytime now and the spot is a crime scene. Gun Woo wants to know how Shi Ohn knew that the hand was there. She just tells him that she felt like there was something. Gun Woo protests that this answer doesn’t work, especially because she went out in her slippers. The lead investigator assigned to the case comes up and starts to ask for details. When Shi Ohn tells him she found the hand around 11:30pm, he wants to know what she was doing there that late. Shi Ohn is stumped for an excuse but Gun Woo covers for her, saying they were doing PT late at night because of the summer heat; it’s a division tradition. The detective reluctantly buys this excuse.
Walking away, Gun Woo is still pestering Shi Ohn to tell him how she knew. She keeps avoiding answering. Gun Woo gets mad and yells at her about how he’s tried to be a team with her, doing crazy things and covering for her, treating her not like she’s the crazy lady, but she won’t reciprocate. She takes him for a joke. He kind of has a revisionist view of their relationship, because he constantly mutters about how she’s crazy.
At the office, Shi Ohn does some research into people who can see ghosts. The web says that once a ghost knows you can see it, it will try to attach itself to you, so pretend you don’t. Shi Ohn decides to consult with this expert, our friend, Kim Ye Won as Jang Hee Bin. The ‘expert’ tells her that the only reason ghosts come to the living is to ask them to relieve their resentment. They come to her because she can see them. Shi Ohn wants to know why *she’s* been ‘blessed. Hee Bin implies that she *wants* to see them, that’s why she does. Shi Ohn gets insulted and leaves. Hee Bin looks after her thoughtfully.
Gun Woo is waiting in the hall for Moon Shik. Moon Shik says he heard they did something big. Gun Woo wants to know when he can come back. So I guess Moon Shik *is* his old supervisor. Moon Shik tells him that his probation isn’t up yet. So what did he do with a gun that got him this punishment? Gun Woo declares that he can’t spend even one more day with Shi Ohn. When Moon Shik asks why, Gun Woo says it’s because they don’t get along. Moon Shik’s response is something along the lines of ‘Really? When do you get along with someone?’ Gun Woo’s upset that he’s being upfront but she isn’t. Gun Woo begs to be moved to a different department.
Prosecutor Park Eung Joon arrives and Moon Shik greets him. Eung Joon is polite but cold. He’s been assigned the case. Eung Joon’s lack of warmth rubs Gun Woo wrong and Moon Shik says he changed after his bride dumped him and disappeared the day before the wedding. Moon Shik wonders why women are like that and Gun Woo has no idea. Heh.
Ah, Sung Chan has found his junior in the department (Seung Ha) and is making him work while he reads a magazine. Shi Ohn arrives and tells them to break open all the lost items to check what’s inside. Gun Woo arrives and wants to know what they’re doing. Shi Ohn tells him they’re opening bags. Gun Woo has a problem with it. He calls it making a fuss. She starts to get mad.
Gun Woo turns around and tells the other two to leave. When they hesitate, Shi Ohn repeats the order. Gun Woo asks her to transfer him. Shi Ohn asks him if he’s holding a grudge about this morning. Gun Woo doesn’t answer, just says he doesn’t care where, so long it’s someplace else. She asks if it’s because she’s the crazy lady and he says he could put up with her, if she didn’t act stuck up and make other people feel like idiots. She asks if he’s finished.
Outside the door, Sung Chan and Seung Ha are listening. They almost get hit with the door when Gun Woo storms out of the store room. Gun Woo comes back and orders them to go out with him. At the restaurant, when they want to leave, he tells them they’re going to stay out all night with him. Sung Chan worries about not having Shi Ohn’s permission, but Gun Woo says it’s his farewell party, so it’s okay. Sung Chan makes up a lame excuse about needing a pass and Gun Woo lets them go.
Sung Chan wants to go out anyway, just not with the boring Gun Woo. He makes Seung Ha go with him. Seung Ha worries about getting in trouble, but Sung Chan tells him that Seung Ha’s happiness at work depends on *him* not Gun Woo. They go to a club. Sung Chan meets eyes with Hee Bin on the dance floor and they hit it off. She says she’s a trainee making her debut soon. He says he used to be a trainee but now he’s an inspector. She’s impressed. I like how their relationship is built on mutual lying.
Gun Woo has left the bar and gone back to the division to find the two slackers. They’re busted and he’s pissed. He tells himself that his life has turned to acorn jelly. I like that: acorn jelly. So weird but so perfect. He decides to finish up all his reports before he goes. Shi Ohn returns to the station to find Gun Woo asleep on the couch with his shoes off. I guess he got comfortable and can’t sleep with his shoes on. She covers him up with a vest and notices what he was doing. She decides to finish his reports for him.
The next morning, Gun Woo wakes up to discover Shi Ohn asleep bent over her desk and that she’s taken care of all his reports. She shifts her arm, causing her mug to fall off the desk. Gun Woo leans over her and catches it, but he’s caught in this ‘awkward’ position by Sung Chan. How Sung Chan can misinterpret things, I don’t know. She’s slumped over her desk, asleep, and he’s perpendicularly leaning over her body. What kind of weird stuff do you do, Sung Chan, that you would mistake that?
Sung Chan runs but Gun Woo catches him. Gun Woo warns him not to spread a false rumor. Sung Chan says that he can’t lie, but Gun Woo reminds him of the whopper he told the night before. Gun Woo mentions running into and talking to Seung Ha. Sung Chan quickly says that, of course, he didn’t see anything; nothing happened. Gun Woo starts to mutter about how dirty his desk is and Sung Chan eagerly offers to clean it.
Shi Ohn’s in the bathroom washing her face. The ghost appears and Shi Ohn screams and then tells herself she doesn’t see anything. She remembers Hee Bin saying that the ghost is there for her help. She calls Inspector Chul (the cop in charge of the case) and asks if they identified the body. But the prints are damaged and there’s nothing in the DNA database. It’s like finding a needle in the Han River. Shi Ohn decides to go over to the National Forensic Service.
Sung Chan enters the office and starts to yell at Seung Ha about telling Gun Woo what they did. And he discovers that he was faked out by Gun Woo.
Gun Woo is outside and sees Shi Ohn leaving the station. And even though he says he wants that transfer and have nothing to do with her, he mutters to himself about her. He goes to a convenience store to get something to eat and there’s a report of a female foot being found at a redevelopment construction site. A second body part? Is it connected?
Creepy suit guy is there, apologizing to someone on the phone about the mistake with getting *this* body part discovered.
Blurry hand at the National Forensic Service. Shi Ohn asks about the hand’s color and the coroner tells her that it was frozen and the hand cut off post-mortem. They cut it up to store it and later dispose of it. So that’s why the ghost is so cold. Gun Woo arrives, asking whether the foot they found is from the same person. Shi Ohn’s surprised he’s there, but he says he wants to find out, since they found the first part.
Prosecutor Park arrives and wants to know why they’re there. He tells them to leave because they’re not involved in the case. When Shi Ohn looks at Park, the ghost’s face flashes across his. The rest of the ghost appears, weeping. Now not only is her hand missing, but both her legs. Shi Ohn stares at Eung Joon, horrified.
Thoughts
I can’t stop noticing Taecyeon’s ears. They fit him, but they’re as bad as Will Smith’s in how much they stick out. At least they’re not big.
So the new ghost has been frozen and is now being disposed of, piece by piece. My suspicion is that she’s the prosecutor’s missing fiancée. I don’t think she was crying because he did it to her, but rather than he’s been so hurt by her ‘leaving him at the altar’ that he’s become a different, cold person. She’s there because she wants him to know that she loved him and something took her away.
I don’t think I would mind the dynamic between Shi Ohn and Gun Woo IF THEY WERE PARTNERS. Because that’s what they act like, partners. Equals. But she’s his SUPERVISOR, his boss. And she lets him act like the boss often. It bugs me. They should have made them partners. Then her submissive dynamic wouldn’t bug me so much.
Gun Woo keeps complaining that Shi Ohn’s treating him like he’s too stupid for her to tell how she solved the cases, but she isn’t. Be secure, man!
Because I don’t think that the ghost was killed by Eung Joon, I’m wondering who *did* kill her? One of the people he put away? And who was the girl she was following sadly?
Even if he wasn’t the hero, you know Gun Woo’s not going anywhere. He complains, but he’s hooked on solving these cases, too. He blusters about having to follow her craziness, but he’s itching to investigate something, since that was his job before his demotion. I wonder how long it is going to be before she tells him her secret, though. Because she will. It’s inevitable.
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