Updated: 03-MAR-2024
I’m back with an episode four recap of the ever-popular
Korean drama, “I Hear Your Voice.” I’m glad to hear that this show is producing
good ratings right now. I’m running behind on recaps so please bear with me.
I am writing weekly episode responses for the Dramafever Drama Club: I Hear Your Voice along with other writers,
Jhon and
June. Check out my thoughts on episodes three and four here:
Episodes 3-4 and
Wrap Up.
If you would like to watch “I Hear Your Voice,” you can watch it on Viki for free with English subtitles.
Episode four, titled, “You, Within My Hazy Memory,”
focuses on Park Soo Ha (Lee Jong Suk)’s personal investigation on his enemy,
Min Joon Gook (Jung Woong In)’s whereabouts after his release from jail. Lawyer
Jang Hye Sung (Lee Bo Young) receives her next case involving a twin burglary
and suffers an early-career crisis. Lawyer Cha Kwan Woo (Yoon Sang Hyun) wraps
up his case involving his hearing-impaired defendant, Jo Young Sook.
WARNING: Please do not read if you don’t want to see
spoilers. I am reviewing the story as it progresses.
Park Soo Ha (Lee
Jong Suk) runs up to Jang Hye Sung (Lee Bo Young)’s front door, panting the
whole time. Hye Sung, with her frying pan in her hand, yells and demands that
the burglar and possible stalker come out and that she already called the
police. Upon hearing Hye Sung’s voice, Soo Ha wastes no time and kicks the door
open. When Hye Sung sees Soo Ha, she does not need to speak since Soo Ha read
her mind, telling him that Hye Sung thinks there is somebody in her (other)
room. As a brave man, Soo Ha ushers Hye Sung out of the apartment and faces the
unknown himself.
Carefully opening the door to the other room, Soo Ha sees
the ringing cellphone on the shelf, but nobody in sight.
A lazy policeman, who I will henceforth refer to as Lazy,
questions Soo Ha and Hye Sung. Lazy doesn’t understand why Soo Ha broke the
front door, but did not fight with anybody, though looking beat up himself. Hye
Sung tries to explain that she has been getting texts from the newly discovered
cellphone found in her home. The policeman confirms with Hye Sung that Soo Ha
is not the burglar since Soo Ha looked beat up. The policeman is confused since
there is nobody to charge with a crime and I believe nothing was taken either.
Hye Sung states that this is a clear case of breaking and entering: Penal Code,
section 319. The punishment would be three years in prison and five million won
($5000 USD) if the person is caught.
The policeman thinks Hye Sung is a total psycho and a
pain in the neck. He lightly promises that they will find the owner of the
cellphone. Hye Sung asks if the policeman is going to search around for the
person and the policeman says they usually have policemen on patrol.
The policeman leaves to go to his car. Nosy neighbors
crowd around the police car. Soo Ha runs after the policeman and tells the
policeman that Soo Ha knows who owns the cellphone.
Hye Sung tries to close the broken front door, but the
door wouldn’t close. Soo Ha comes back and helps her close the door. He
comments that Hye Sung shouldn’t stay at home since there is a possibility that
the culprit might be back. Hye Sung looks at Soo Ha’s injuries and says that
they should worry about him more. She
asks why Soo Ha came and what happened to his face. Soo Ha tells her that it’s
nothing. He suggests that Hye Sung stay
over a friend’s house for a few days. Sadly, I don’t think Hye Sung has any
friends.
Soo Ha suddenly faints on top of Hye Sung and they fall
to the ground. Hye Sung cries out, “Gumshoe!” and reaches for her phone to call
119 (the equivalent of 911 in the U.S. for emergency purposes), but she stops
calling when she hears Soo Ha snoring. Is Soo Ha a narcoleptic? I’ve never seen
anyone fall asleep that fast and snoring too.
In a flashback, little Soo Ha is facing the aftermath of
his father’s death. At the cemetery, Soo Ha’s uncle cheerfully tells Soo Ha
that Soo Ha will live with him from now on in a room shared with his two
cousins. Unfortunately, Soo Ha reads his uncle’s mind who thinks that his
brother should have took Soo Ha with him since three kids is already a burden
for him, but now he’s going to take on four kids.
At an amusement park, Soo Ha looks for his uncle with a
park attendant. Soo Ha sees his uncle holding balloons and tries to call him.
They lock eyes for a brief moment, but Soo Ha’s uncle prays that Soo Ha
disappears because Soo Ha’s uncle cannot take Soo Ha to a new country with him.
Soo Ha’s uncle lets go of the balloons he was holding and Soo Ha stares at
them.
Hye Sung puts some ointment on Soo Ha’s facial wound. Soo
Ha is sleeping in Hye Sung’s bed. Hye Sung puts her hand on Soo Ha’s forehead,
wondering if he has a fever. Soo Ha slowly wakes up and is alarmed to see Hye
Sung. He bolts up into a sitting position, but Hye Sung pushes him back down on
his back, telling him to lay there since he has a high temperature. Soo Ha
obeys and Hye Sung puts a band-aid on his facial wound. At this time, Hye Sung
starts thinking whether she should call Soo Ha’s parents, why Soo Ha came to
her house, what was he doing that made him injured, and whether Gumshoe is a
thug.
Soo Ha directly answers Hye Sung’s thoughts by
explaining that he doesn’t have parents, came to ask Hye Sung a question,
tripped and fell, and he is not a thug. Hye Sung zippers her hood all the way,
fully covering her face. I have one of those hoods by Polham. It must be
popular in Korean fashion. Hye Sung doesn’t understand why Soo Ha is always
reading her thoughts.
Hye Sung tells Soo Ha to spend the night at her apartment
since there are no buses so late at night, but in the morning, Soo Ha should go
to the hospital. Soo Ha shrug off the idea of going to a hospital.
Hye Sung remembers their prior conversation and asks what
question Soo Ha had for her. Soo Ha thinks and then asks Hye Sung seriously if
she knows his name. Hye Sung swiftly replies that she doesn’t need to know
since they will not be seeing each other again. Hye Sung starts to leave, but
Soo Ha tells her his name and pulls down Hye Sung’s hood zipper so he can see her expression.
Hye Sung tells Soo Ha that he has an abnormal
name. She thinks the name, Gumshoe, suits him better. Hye Sung commands Soo Ha
to go to sleep before leaving the room. Soo Ha tells himself that he knew Hye
Sung wouldn’t remember.
Hye Sung walks back to the couch, thinking the name, Soo
Ha, sounds familiar. She yells at Gumshoe to shut the lights before sleeping.
Outside, Min Joon Gook watches Hye Sung’s home from outside, crunching her
lawyer poster together.
In the morning, the Seo family have breakfast together.
Seo Dae Suk (Jung Dong Hwan) comments on how there is so much food today. Do
Yeon’s mother says it is because today is Seo Yeon’s birthday. Do Yeon’s mother
gently reminds Dae Suk that she made reservations at a restaurant for seven
o’clock and requests that Dae Suk come on time. Dae Suk turns to Do Yeon to
tell her that he met the chief prosecutor yesterday, found out that Do Yeon
dropped her case, and wants to know why. Do Yeon’s mother defends Do Yeon by
saying the victim changed her testimony. Dae Suk comments that the opposing
attorney is Jang Hye Sung. Do Yeon admits that the opposing attorney is the
same person who lived in their house ten years ago. Dae Suk chides Do Yeon by
remarking that Do Yeon dropped the case when Hye Sung is nothing but a maid’s
daughter. Do Yeon drops her head and tells Dae Suk that she will not make that
mistake again. Afterwards, Do Yeon makes an excuse, saying that she has a crime
scene to visit that morning, and leaves. Dae Suk gives Do Yeon no reaction.
After Do Yeon leaves, Dae Suk’s wife comments that rumor of Do Yeon being found
underneath a bridge will start. Dae Suk
turns to his wife and says that her joke is not funny. His wife replies that it
wasn’t a joke.
Soo Ha wakes up and checks the mirror in Hye Sung’s room
before exiting the room.
At the same time, Hye Sung wakes up on the couch and
proceeds to stand up to stretch. Soo Ha does a double-take when he sees Hye
Sung’s hair, face, one pant up, and one pant down.
Hye Sung realizes Soo Ha is
staring at him and admits that there is no use playing cool in front of him.
She says that it’s only because Soo Ha doesn’t have a noona (older female
sister) that he doesn’t know that 99% of all women wake up with Hye Sung’s hair
and face. Hye Sung urges Soo Ha to wake up from his fantasy and accept the
reality. Hye Sung drinks water out of the bottle from the fridge and asks Soo
Ha if he wanted any water. Soo Ha can only mutter out a "no" phrase.
For breakfast, Hye Sung tosses rice, kimchi, corn, and
sesame oil together and shakes it in a plastic container. Hye Sung gives some
to Soo Ha and eats sitting with one foot on her chair, a position my family
calls “gangster style.”
Soo Ha manages to ask if this is dog food. Hye Sung
happily replies, “Just don’t ask for seconds.”
Soo Ha eats with the rice paddle since Hye Sung only has one set of
utensils in the apartment.
Looking around, Soo Ha asks if Hye Sung is missing
anything since the culprit apparently made a mess in the house. Hye Sung looks
around and casually tells him that the culprit didn’t make that mess.
Soo Ha’s
eyes grow wide asking if that’s really how Hye Sung lives. His image of his
first love who was pretty, drop-dead gorgeous, nice, smart, and the coolest
girl in the world had disappeared. With a mouthful of food, Hye Sung argues
that that is how Suzy and Girls Generation live too.
Soo Ha demands Hye Sung to
eat or speak.
Soo Ha is attending class, intently listening to his
teacher’s explanation of a poem where the writer compares losing his country
and faith to his first love. According to the writer, first loves are a
beautiful entity that can blind a person’s eyes and deafen a person’s ears.
The
hope of seeing his first love again makes his hear beat faster.
Unable to
handle the stress, Soo Ha pounds his desk and shouts, “No!”, waking up Choong
Ki and alerting the rest of the class.
Choon Shim brings Hye Sung lunch and they sit outside the
office to chat. Choon Shim’s business neighbor, Mr. Kim from the pizza shop, is
watching the restaurant for Choon Shim. Hye Sung asks Choon Shim to hire
another person to help out. Choon Shim reaches into her pocket and gives Hye
Sung a piece of paper. Hye Sung reads the words out loud: Kirin Hotel at seven
o’clock. Choon Shim admits that the person is her friend’s son who is similar
to Hye Sung in age. He is also a lawyer and a nice person. Hye Sung asks Choon
Shim incredously if this is a date. Choon Shim continues saying that the man’s
parents own a sauna, he’s rich, and he’s the second son, which is ideal for
women who don’t want to live and deal with in-laws that much.
Hye Sung simply
replies that she has no desire to get married since she is a hidden gem in the
law field. Choon Shim says that is nonsense. Hye Sung argues that Choon Shim
didn’t see her in court that day. Hye Sung considers herself on a different
level. She boasts that letting a skill like hers rot away in a marriage is a
huge disgrace to the law.
Furthermore, she informs Choon Shim to consider Hye
Sung as married to the law for the time being. Choon Shim hits Hye Sung in the
head, scolding her that she’s overacting and that she barely won her first
case. Choon Shim thinks Hye Sung should be humble. Choon Shim puts the note
back in her pocket and Hye Sung is surprised that it was so easy to convince
her mother from forcing her to go on a blind date. Choon Shim comments that Hye
Sung’s eyes are shining more than if she gets married at this time. Choon Shim
advises Hye Sung to get a pair of oars to get through the water before leaving.
At the office, Sang Duk is happy to receive a mound of
chicken every time a case is won. Kwan Woo asks Hye Sung to have some chicken,
but Hye Sung replies that she already ate a lot already. Go Sung Bin (Kim Ga
Eun) is giving Hye Sung the most expensive nail treatment, which is worth a
minimum of $20,000 won (approximately $20 USD). Hye Sung reminds Sung Bin that
Sung Bin hit the jackpot because Sung Bin received Hye Sung’s services for
free. To show gratitude, Sung Bin offers to do Hye Sung’s nails for the rest of
her life. Hye Sung puts a piece of apper in front of Sung Bin and tells her to
make a written promise as proof.
By now, Sung Bin scrowls at Hye Sung’s joke. Sung
Bin admitted that she thought she was screwed at first when Hye Sung was
assigned to Sung Bin’s case, but Hye Sung believed Sung Bin even when her
family and teachers didn’t. Sung Bin wanted to know why Hye Sung believed her.
Hye Sung hesitates and tells Sung Bin that she Hye Sung had a feeling Sung Bin
was innocent. Sung Bin thanks Hye Sung. Sung Bin wanted to say that Hye Sung
was the only one, but Sung Bin remembers that Soo Ha believed her too. Hye Sung
wonders where Soo Ha is and Sung Bin says that Soo Ha originally wanted to
come, but he received a phone call and rushed off.
Soo Ha is at the police station asking the same lazy
policeman that was at Hye Sung’s house for answers. It must be the policeman’s
lunch time because he is having jajangmyeon (brown noodles)
while answering Soo Ha’s questions at the same time. Soo Ha finds out that the
missing cellphone belonged to a random woman who lost her cellphone. Soo Ha ask
the policeman if any prints were lifted from the phone and the policeman
annoyingly says “no” and there were no prints. The lazy police officer’s
attitude tells me that he probably didn’t do anything at all involving the
case. Soo Ha should become a police officer himself when he is graduated by his
school. Anyway, Soo Ha touched the phone already so wouldn’t his prints be all
over the phone instead?
Soo Ha proceeds to press the lazy police
officer for information on Min Joon Gook (Jung Woong In). Joon Gook was never
questioned by the police since he has been living honestly, volunteering all
over the place. Soo Ha asks the lazy policeman for Joon Gook’s address and the
policeman defensively says that it is against the law to tell him that
information. I wonder if Korea has the equivalent of White Pages, a book directory
of people’s names and addresses? Soo Ha tries to reason that he needs to know
because Joon Gook is a dangerous person.
The lazy policeman looks Soo ha in the eye and tells him that he thinks
Soo Ha is the more dangerous one.
Using a new strategy, Soo Ha asks the
policeman if Joon Gook lives in Yeonju and whether Joon Gook lives near the
courthouse. The policeman spits out his noodles, wondering how Soo Ha knew
those facts. After regaining his composure, the policeman states that Joon Gook
lives far away. Soo Ha got the answers that he needed.
Not long afterwards, Soo Ha figures out
where Joon Gook volunteers and visits the location. Soo Ha must have been lucky
since Joon Gook volunteers at many places. Joon Gook is working the soup
kitchen line and a man tries to steal one more potato, but is caught. The
benevolent Joon Gook offers to give the man two potatoes and even puts it in a
bag for him. Has Joon Gook turned nice?
Soo Ha brazenly cuts the line and walks up
to Joon Gook. Joon Gook comments that Soo Ha looks like a student. Joon Gook
asks if Soo Ha is here because he is hungry. Soo Ha smiles and tells Joon Gook
that he wants to be a volunteer.
Joon Gook calls Manager Kim over and asks Soo
Ha for his name. Soo Ha grins and replys, “Kim Choong Ki.”
At the office, Yoo Chang hands Hye Sung her new case
files. The first thing Hye Sung checks is the prosecutor’s name. Sure enough,
Seo Do Yeon’s name is on the file. We’re going to have another show down. Yoo
Chang heard that Hye Sung and Do Yeon went to school together. Hye Sung scoffed
that Do Yeon’s grades weren’t that great in high school and that Do Yeon
couldn’t get a loaf of bread out of a whole bag of flour. Hye Sung believed Do
Yeon went overboard again.
Yoo Chang informs Hye Sung that this is a unique case.
Two brothers went into the convenience store to steal money from the register.
The owner caught them in the act. One brother tried to stop the other brother
from stabbing the owner, but the stabber ended up stabbing the owner and killing
him. Hye Sung tells Yoo Chang that the case is not unique. The stabber would be
charged with robber homicide while the one who tried to stop the killing would
be charged with violent robbery. Yoo Chang informs Hye Sung that both robbers
will be charged with robber homicide since nobody could tell who did the
stabbing. Hye Sung asks Yoo Chang if there was any CCTV footage around. Yoo
Chang reveals that the robbers are twins, who both confess to the murder. Hye
Sung is in charge of the alleged stabber, Jung Pil Seung (Han Ki Woong).
Hye Sung meets with Pil Seung, who is the younger twin,
in jail. Pil Seung mentions that he heard of Hye Sung’s rise to glory as a
public defender who crushed a prosecutor in her first trial so he told her that
he thinks he is lucky and in good hands.
Hye Sung comments that she will have to see how the trial goes to see
whether he’s lucky or not.
Pil Seung explains that his brother came along with
him and got blamed for the crime Pil Seung committed. Pil Seung admits he
stabbed the victim. Hye Sung notes that Pil Seung has no prior criminal record.
Pil Seung explains that his brother does and if his brother’s indicted, it will
count as a repeat offense, a life sentence. I was thinking how Min Joon Gook
only received ten years for killing someone and a repeat homicide will give a
murderer a life sentence? Hye Sung advises Pil Seung not to take the fall for
his brother. Pil Seung asks Hye Sung to fight the court case that way and
maintains that his brother is innocent. Hye Sung reminds Pil Seung that she is
his attorney and that prior record is not some mileage club where he might win
a free trip aboard if he gets picked. To Hye Sung, the main issue is whether
PIl Seung will go to jail for life or not. Pil Seung understands all of this
and asks Hye Sung for a favor.
Hye Sung goes to the Jung home as a favor to find Pil
Seung’s dog, who was recently rescued by Pil Seung.
At the office, Kwan Woo struggles to stay awake while
typing. Yoo Chang notices this and thoughtfully places a mint choco can in
front of Kwan Woo, commanding him to pick either sleeping or typing.
Kwan Woo
explains that the closing argument for Jo Young Sook’s case is the next day.
Kwan Woo pulled an all-nighter the night before as well. He comments that he
needs a new brain since he can’t think of anything. I give him points for
dedication, but if he can’t think, he should sleep.
Hye Sung walks
into the office holding a crate and hands it to Yoo Chang, who freaks out upon
realizing that there is a dog inside the crate. Hye Sung nonchalantly tells Yoo
Chang that she promised Pil Seung that she would take care of the dog until the
trial is over. In panic, Yoo Chang says that a person would go to jail for ten
years for robbery homicide. I guess Min Joon Gook should have robbed the Park family as well since he’s getting
the same ten year sentence. Hye Sung feeds the dog with some water and tells
Yoo Chang that the crime is not robbery homicide and that the prosecutor was
wrong. She said she will use this angle since it worked last time. Yoo Chang
informs Hye Sung that the twins trials will be tried together. Not only will
Hye Sung face Do Yeon in court, but she will also have to face the other twin’s
attorney in court as well. Yoo Chang says that the brother’s attorney will also
seek a not guilty plea. Curious, Hye Sung asks Yoo Chang the name of that
attorney and guesses Attorney Shin. Yoo Chang shakes his head and says it’s
Kwan Woo. Hye Sung doesn’t think highly of Kwan Woo, who promptly drops his
head on the keyboard, fast asleep.
At the church
kitchen, Soo Ha and Joon Gook chop vegetables together. Joon Gook cheerfully
comments that all the food they are preparing will not last a week. Soo Ha ask
Joon Gook when he started volunteering. Joon Gook answers that he’s been living
at the church for the past month.
After
chopping vegetables a few more times, Joon Gook noticed Soo Ha staring at him
and asks if why he was staring at him. Soo Ha asks Joon Gook if Joon Gook
remembered Soo Ha because Soo Ha says that Joon Gook looked familiar to Soo Ha.
Joon Gook casually says no, but Soo Ha reads Joon Gook’s thoughts, which tells
Soo Ha that Joon Gook thinks Soo Ha is kind of familiar. Soo Ha further asks
Joon Gook if he went to the courthouse recently, specifically the District
Court of Yeonju. Joon Gook starts to wonder if Soo Ha saw him there. Joon Gook
raises his vegetable knife in contemplation, smiles, and tells Soo Ha that he
never went to the courthouse.
Soo Ha laughs in awkwardness. He says he must
have mistook Joon Gook for somebody else.
At Hollys coffee
shop, Sang Duk buys Hye Sung coffee to her surprise. Hye Sung comments to Sang
Duk about not making things complicated and Sang Duk changes his mind
about paying, Hye Sung changes her mind as well. Sang Duk tells Hye Sung that
he wants to invite everybody at the office to dinner. Hye Sung automatically
says she can’t come and has to check her schedule. They both head toward the
courthouse and Sang Duk convinces Hye Sung to go see Kwan Woo’s court hearing.
In the
courtroom, the prosecutor states that Jo Young Sook stole 6 million won
(approximately $6000 USD) from the
foundation for the disabled in Poongjandong when the director reported her as
the thief. She also resisted arrest by wielding a knife at the police. Hye Sung
sits in the gallery and notices Do Yeon a few seats away from her. The
prosecution seeks two years of imprisonment for Jo Young Sook.
Kwan Woo makes his defense rebuttal. Jo Young Sook is
worried at her seat. Kwan Woo checks his watch before plugging the USB in the
desktop computer. Sang Duk wonders what
Kwan Woo will do.
Kwan Woo tries to slowly look for the file on the computer and
plays the Kara music video instead. The judge pounds his desk and tells Kwan
Woo that the USB drive is below the folder where Kwan Woo looked.
Kwan Woo
acknowledges the judge and plays another Kara video by accident. The judge
pounds his desk twice in agitation.
Kwan Woo thank the judge and tells the
court that he has just experienced life from his defendant’s perspective. He
explains that nobody would listen to his defendant no matter how much his defendant tried
to speak. Within 50 seconds, the judge got angry and pounded his desk. Kwan Woo
explains that if nobody understood his words, he would try to speak loud and if
that doesn’t work, he would speak louder until he gets angry. Kwan Woo’s
defendant, Jo Young Sook, had been living for fifty years without a voice. She gave the disabled foundation 30 million
won and when she couldn’t pay her own debt that she incurred, she tried to ask
the director of the foundation for a loan, but had the door slammed in her face
instead. Kwan Woo agrees that stealing money out of anger is clearly an act of
crime and Jo Young Sook should have endured her problems, but not a single
person stopped to listen to her voice. I thought Kwan Woo’s story was touching,
but I don’t buy it.
Hye Sung sits on a bench after the trial in deep thought
over Kwan Woo’s words. Do Yeon walks up to Hye Sung, asking Hye Sung what Hye
Sung was doing. Hye Sung asks Do Yeon if Do Yeon came to check Kwan Woo out,
but to Hye Sung’s surprise, Do Yeon admits it because Kwan Woo is one of the
defendant’s attorneys on the twins case. Hye Sung warns Do Yeon that prosecutor
evaluations are around the corner and having Do Yeon drop another case against
a public defender would make her look bad.
Do Yeon mentions that her opponent
is not to be taken lightly either. Hye Sung thought Do Yeon was complimenting
her, but Do Yeon meant Kwan Woo instead. Do Yeon asks Hye Sung whether she
should be concerned as well.
While Joon Gook is volunteering at the soup kitchen, the
director asked Joon Gook if he knew the phone number of the student who came to
volunteer. Joon Gook admits that he only
knew his name and the school he attended. The director forgot to give him his
volunteer certificate, which is a big help to a student with college entrance
exams. Joon Gook eagerly offers to deliver it to Choong Ki.
At the school playground, Joon Gook sees Soo Ha playing ball
and asks the Leader to call him. Leader asks if Joon Gook meant to call Park
Soo Ha. Confused, Joon Gook asked for confirmation that the student wasn’t Kim
Choong Ki.
The real Kim Choong Ki shows up and asks threateningly if Soo Ha had been using his name. Joon Gook
asks the students for Soo Ha’s cellphone number.
The lawyers are toasting in a restaurant for dinner. Yoo
Chang asks Hye Sung why she is not drinking since Sang Duk is picking up the
tab. Hye Sung replies that she doesn’t drink and stares at Sang Duk. Sang Duk
asks if Hye Sung wants water.
Hye Sung suspiciously states that she finds it
strange that Sang Duk is treating her to dinner and is speaking to her. Sang
Duk replies that he only uses formal language towards people he does not
respect. Hye Sung counters that Sang Duk used informal speech to Kwan Woo right
away. Sang Duk argues that Kwan Woo is respectable. Sang Duk asks if Hye Sung
saw Kwan Woo earlier in court. Hye Sung sarcastically asks Sang Duk why he
invited her to dinner if he didn’t think she was respectable. She thinks Sang
Duk should keep using formal speech towards her instead. Sang Duk says Hye Sung
has good points too. Unable to believe him, Hye Sung says forget it since she
doesn’t need his consolation.
A moment later, she presses Sang Duk for an
answer. Sang Duk tells Hye Sung that her eyes can tell whether the defendant is
lying or not.
Hye Sung desperately asks if there are any other good points.
Sang Duk tells her that was it. Hye Sung argues that she went to her
defendant’s school. Sang Duk says Kwan Woo dragged her there. When the
prosecutor attacked, Sang Duk saved Hye Sung in court by giving her a hint.
Hye
Sung suddenly needs wine. Sang Duk says Hye Sung doesn’t drink, but Hye Sung
says that it's not that she can’t, but doesn’t drink.
Moments later, a drunk Hye Sung cries, asking nobody in
particular why she only has one good point. Yoo Chang tells Sang Duk that he should have named ten points. Sang
Duk claims that he didn’t know that would happen and suggests they leave.
Yoo
Chang is conflicted, but Sang Duk says either Yoo Chang or Kwan Woo should take
care of Hye Sung. Yoo Chang quickly gets up with an excuse to leave.
Hye Sung keeps mumbling that those eyes aren’t hers.
She
doesn’t have eyes that can see through a defendant. She doesn’t see it and she
can’t see it.
Kwan Woo returns from the restroom and wonders where everyone
went. Hye Sung depressingly tells him that they all left and abandoned her. Hye
Sung comments that she can’t see their innocence.
Her headband falls forward,
blocking her eyes and she panics, thinking she really can’t see. She panics and
cries, asking Kwan Woo for advice. Kwan Woo calmly fixes her headband.
Hye Sung
wonders out loud what she should do since she is going crazy. She mentions that
even Kwan Woo looks like a pretty boy to her and her eyes must have gone bad.
Kwan Woo leaves the restaurant with Hye Sung on his back.
Hye Sung claims that she doesn’t have seeing eyes and asks Kwan Woo if that
means that she should keep Gumshoe around her. Struggling, Kwan Woo asks Hye
Sung where she lives.
Hye Sung continues her rant and states that if that kid
wasn’t around, she cannot handle her trials since her eyes are rotten.
Her headband
falls over her eyes again and she panics that she can’t see again. Kwan Woo
amazingly reaches over to her head and fixes it. He still doesn’t know where
she lives.
Soo Ha sits on a public bench and wonders why it is
taking Hye Sung so long to come home and why she wasn’t answering her phone
calls. Soo Ha runs to Kwan Woo upon seeing Kwan Woo carry Hye Sung. I guess
Kwan Woo at least knows the general direction of Hye Sung’s home address. Soo
Ha asks Kwan Woo if Hye Sung is sick, but winces when he smells alcohol on her
right away. Kwan Woo recognizes Soo Ha since Soo Ha visited the office and asks
Soo Ha why he is there. Soo Ha says he had a question for Hye Sung. Kwan Woo
explains that Hye Sung is not in the right state right now. Soo Ha reads Kwan
Woo’s thoughts. Kwan Woo wonders where Hye Sung lives since he can’t take her
to his home. He thinks about leaving her in the office, but the office is cold.
Soo Ha volunteers to take Hye Sung home and asks Kwan Woo to give him taxi
money.
After the men move Hye Sung into the taxi, Kwan Woo prepares to get into
the front seat when Soo Ha tells him that he can take it from there. Kwan Woo
tells Soo Ha that Hye Sung is heavier than she looks. Soo Ha states that both
of them carrying Hye Sung is unnecessary. I can’t help alluding to their love
lines.
Kwan Woo hesitantly gives Soo Ha money and wonders if Soo Ha is
trustworthy. Soo Ha asks Kwan Woo for
his business card so Soo Ha can call Kwan Woo when Soo Ha brings Hye Sung home.
Kwan Woo insists that Soo Ha call him if Hye Sung is too much to handle. Soo ha
assures Kwan Woo that he will be fine by himself. Somehow, it feels wrong for a
grown man to let a high school kid take a woman home.
Soo Ha struggles to carry Hye Sung up the stairs. The
front door is still tied with metal wire. Soo Ha struggles to untie it with Hye
Sung on his back. Once inside, Soo Ha lets Hye Sung off on the couch. He drops
a blanket on top of her and looks around the house. The house is in a mess and Soo Ha is
disgusted.
Hye Sung talks in her sleep, calling for Gumshoe. She commands
someone to bring Soo Ha to her because she needs him for a trial. Hye Sung says
she needs Soo Ha by her side since her eyes are rotten. Soo Ha smiles.
Hye Sung wakes up on the couch in the morning. Her
cellphone rings. Choon Shim is screaming on the other side of the phone,
telling Hye Sung that she called more than twenty times, thinking something
happened to Hye Sung. Hye Sung says that her eardrums would explode before
anybody dies. Choon Shim notices Hye Sung’s voice immediately and asks Hye Sung
if she feels sick. Hye Sung explained that everyone in her office went to
dinner and she drank too much. Surprised,
Choon Shim comments that she doesn’t drink.
Hye Sung asks her mother if
Hye Sung should go on that blind date. Choon Shim says she thought Hye Sung was
married to the law. Hye Sung meekly stated that the law and her broke up. Choon
Shim asks why and Hye Sung replies that she doesn’t believe the law wants a
relationship with her. Annoyed, Choon Shim doesn’t understand how Hye Sung can
be so indecisive.
Hye Sung is outside her office having trouble opening her
plastic-bottled drink. Kwan Woo walks behind her and sprays air freshener in
his mouth before approaching her. He opens her drink and asks her if she got
home okay and if her stomach is okay. Hye Sung starts acting awkwardly around
Kwan Woo. Kwan Woo wants to know if he is still a pretty boy to Hye Sung. Hye
Sung pinches Kwan Woo’s cheeks and orders him to get his head straight and asks
him if he is still drunk.
In the office bathroom, Hye Sung thinks she is going
crazy because even while sober and while Kwan Woo is still wearing glasses, he
still appeared handsome to her. Hye Sung feels her cheeks.
As Kwan Woo enters the office, Yoo Chang stares at Kwan
Woo’s cheeks, wondering what’s wrong with it.
Yoo Chang tries to gossip and
asks Kwan Woo if anything happened the night before. Kwan Woo tells him nothing
happened. Park Soo Ha took Hye Sung home instead.
Yoo Chang noticed that Soo Ha
takes Hye Sung to and from the office and home every day. Yoo Chang speculates
that Soo Ha might be her body guard.
Sang Duk asks Kwan Woo if Kwan Woo asked Hye Sung if she
knew Min Joon Gook just as Hye Sung enters the office. Hye Sung drops her bag and
asks Sang Duk how he knew Min Joon Gook. Sang Duk explains that Joon Gook
shared the same jail cell with somebody he knew. Kwan Woo asks Hye Sung if she
knew him. With a grave expression, Hye Sung says yes. Sang Duk explains that
Min Joon Gook was released from prison a month ago and he was wondering how Hye
Sung is doing. Sang Duk adds that Joon Gook said that he owed Hye Sung
something.
On the bus, Hye Sung studies all the “I’ll be there” text
messages and wonders if those messages are Joon Gook’s doing. Funny, I don't remember see that many "I'll be there" messages. A man sits in the
open seat next to her and Hye Sung immediately gets up, feeling paranoid. She
walks the path home in paranoia.
Soo Ha tries to fix Hye Sung’s doorknob and accidently
hammers his thumb, causing it to bleed. Hye Sung walks up to Soo Ha and asks
him what he is doing. Soo Ha says that she didn’t answer her calls, so he came
over. He notes that it’s been a while since the burglary and Hye Sung still
didn’t fix her door. Hye Sung orders Soo Ha to leave and tells him she will
take care of it herself. Soo Ha tells
her he is paying her back for helping Sung Bin. Hye Sung screams at him to
leave. Confused, Soo Ha asks if anything happened. Hye Sung tells him to get
lost and leave. She warns him not to come back again.
Soo Ha reads Hye Sung’s
mind. Hye Sung thinks that Soo Ha may be aligned with Joon Gook before she
slams the door on him. Soo Ha stands there with his thumb bleeding.
On the main street, Soo Ha receives a phone call from
Joon Gook. Joon Gook asks Soo Ha if he remembers Joon Gook’s voice. Soo Ha cautiously admits that he does and
asks Joon Gook how he got Soo Ha’s phone number.
Joon Gook replies that he went
by Soo Ha’s school. He then states Soo Ha’s full name. While Soo Ha stays
silent, Joon Gook admits that he didn’t recognize him since Soo ha used another
name. It has been ten years since he saw Soo Ha in the courtroom. Soo Ha asks
Joon Gook for his location.
Soo Ha arrives at a fast-food restaurant where Joon Gook
is dining on a burger. As Soo Ha sits down, Joon Gook says that he ordered Soo
Ha a shrimp burger since Joon Gook didn’t know what Soo Ha liked. Joon Gook
thinks that the kid finally came. Soo Ha asks Joon Gook what he is planning to
do. Joon Gook starts testing Soo Ha with his thoughts. He thinks that Soo Ha
grew up a lot and still has the mind-reading ability. Soo Ha orders Joon Gook
to say it in words instead of thinking it. Joon Gook wonders why Soo Ha is so
worried. Joon Gook wonders if Soo Ha thinks Joon Gook will do something to Soo
Ha. Soo Ha accuses Joon Gook of being behind the cellphone scheme. Two girls
nearby look at them oddly. Joon Gook asks in his thoughts if Soo Ha was scared
because Joon Gook didn’t get started yet. Soo Ha wonders what Joon Gook is
planning to do. Joon Gook honestly thought that he was after Soo Ha’s father
and not Soo Ha. This time, he is also after somebody else. Soo Ha asks who.
Joon Gook thought that person became an attorney.
Soo Ha loses self-control and
knocks over Joon Gook’s drink before he punches him repeatedly.
Joon Gook cries
for help, pleading with everybody that Soo Ha is going to kill him. I would have thought Soo Ha took up boxing
instead of Tae Kwon Do. Now, I see how scary Soo Ha can be.
At home, Hye Sung lies on the couch, holding a taser and
a bat. A cat makes noise by the door and Hye Sung gets scared. I wonder why she
is not sleeping in her bed instead. The phone rings and Hye Sung finds out that
it is the police.
Hye Sung goes to the police station where she meets Lazy
officer outside. Lazy informs Hye Sung that Soo Ha beat somebody up. He had no
parents and they could not contact his teacher. Lazy says that the victim
didn’t want to press charges and put up with more trouble since he was recently
released from prison. Hye Sung asks for the victim’s name and Lazy tells her
that it is Min Joon Gook. Lazy asks Hye Sung if she knows Min Joon Gook. Hye
Sung requests to see the CCTV footage.
Hye Sung asks the officers why Soo Ha beat Joon Gook up.
The police don’t know and the witnesses say Soo Ha was the one doing all the
hitting. Police found it strange that witnesses say that Joon Gook didn’t
speak, yet he got beat up. Another officer said only Soo Ha spoke.
After the
footage was found, Hye Sung asks the officers what Soo Ha said. An officer says
that Soo Ha kept telling the victim to tell him in words instead of just
thinking it. This situation makes Soo Ha look like a loon. Hye Sung tries to
imagine as the officer tells him what Soo Ha said.
Soo Ha tells Joon Gook that
if it weren’t for Hye Sung being there for him ten years ago, he would have
died in Joon Gook’s hands. From that point, Soo Ha counts his life as being
lost so he’s going to protect Hye Sung. Soo Ha warns Joon Gook that he’s going
to kill him.
A policeman found a hammer in Soo Ha’s bag and comments that they
would have had real trouble. After a
flashback, Hye Sung tells the officers that she will sign for Soo Ha’s release.
Soo Ha sits impatiently at the police station, claiming
that Joon Gook cannot be released. He asks the officers if they retrieved his
address and phone number. Honestly, Soo Ha already has Joon Gook’s phone number
since Joon Gook called him. The skeptical officer, who I will call Skeptical
from now on, clarifies that Soo Ha is the one who threw punches, thus being the
perpetrator and Joon Gook is the victim. Soo Ha tries to convince skeptical
that Joon Gook has revengeful intentions by trying to find the person
responsible for his jail time and kill that person. Skeptical tells Soo Ha that
there are no witnesses. He notes that Joon Gook volunteers at six foundations
including a soup kitchen and an animal shelter. Skeptical asks Soo Ha why he
would accuse an innocent man who is trying to turn his life around. I agree
with the officer and I think Soo Ha is too rash. He never thinks before acting,
which is why he fell into Joon Gook’s ploy. Soo Ha confidently tells Skeptical
that he has proof. Soo Ha blurts out that he heard Joon Gook’s thoughts.
Hye
Sung enters the room and commands Soo Ha to stop. Hye Sung walks up to Soo Ha and subconsciously
tells him that was enough and orders him not to say anything useless or else he
will repeat what happened in the courtroom ten year ago. Finally, Hye Sung
thinks that she remembers Soo Ha.
Wow, we have an exciting ending. Now that Hye Sung knows
Soo Ha’s identity, what will she do? What will they do about Joon Gook? We also
have our next twins court case to look forward to. I feel Hye Sung can be so
mean, but I understand where she is coming from, though I wish she wasn’t so
insecure about herself.
