The Sacrifice
Andrew and Sae-Bom take Sae-Yoon away to a safe place. Sae-Bom promises to find her and bring her back.
Jung-Kook is in a rough way though, as Sae-Bom makes another promise. This time that they’ll all leave this place alive. Jung-Kook is in a difficult situation though, as Sae-Bom has made another promise. This time they’ll all leave this place alive if they can fix it up.
Yi-Hyun strikes a deal with Tae-Seok in order to learn more about Sae-Bom’s antibodies and use this information to try and fight off the infection. This gives them leverage against the official. ..
The Building Rep and Joo-Hyeong knew about the killer’s intentions from the beginning. They had been keeping an eye on him for a few days before the cleaning lady was killed.
Their meeting is broken up by Andrew returning and bringing Yi-Hyun and Sae-Bom into the gym. Their radio is slid across the floor, as our two protagonists confirm they’ve been liaising with Tae-Seok on the outside. They’ve been feeding back everything they’ve been up to, including the fight for food and mutiny. While some are indifferent, Se-Kyu and Moon-Hee look genuinely shocked and ashamed at their actions.
Andrew smiles evilly, telling them that the only way he’ll agree to let Seo-Yoon go is if they switch the electricity back on in the building. Dong-Hyun goes with them, down to the parking lot. He intends to try and drive away, even if it means smashing into the barricades to do so. ..
The pair turn the electricity on but the loud hum from the generators immediately brings the infected swarming to their location. While Yi-Hyun and Sae-Bom manage to get out, Dong-Hyun is not so lucky. Inside his car, he’s completely surrounded.
Meanwhile, Yi-Hyun’s bite is finally revealed to Se-Bom. As the infected try and pull him out of the elevator, his shirt opens up and it’s shown. “I’m sorry I didn’t keep my promise,” He says, as she throws her arms around him and begins weeping. ..
Joo-Hyeong finally meets his match after almost suffocating Jung-Kook with a pillow. Sang-Hee gets the last laugh by grabbing a golf club and smacking him upside the head while he’s on his laptop.
Another character who almost gets their comeuppance here is our slimy lawyer, Hae-Sung. His wife, So-Yoon, locks him outside the apartment in a bid to try and knock some sense into him. Soon Sae-Bom shows though and is reunited with Sae-Yoon, who happens to be inside. All of them band together and head for the rooftop. ..
With Tae-Seok impending arrival, Andrew heads up to the roof to stop their escape. Yi-Hyun sacrifices himself to make sure the others are safe, handcuffing the door and making sure Andrew can’t get to them. Yi-Hyun throws the key off the edge and turns, biting Andrew and infecting him too.
Sae-Bom drives out of the apartment complex with Sae-Yoon, where soldiers are ready to pick them up. Only, Tae-Seok injects her and takes the young woman to their facility. This isn’t what Sae-Bom wanted though, desperate to find Yi-Hyun and bring him back too. It’s clear she’s grown true affection for him and as she sits in her room, she plays videos of Yi-Hyun and struggles to hold back her sobs.
The Episode Review
In the penultimate episode of Happiness, many different subplots progress. Joo-Hyeong finally gets his comeuppance while the building rep gets a taster of her own medicine too. Yi-Hyun’s sacrifice is perhaps obvious and orchestrated, but still a different pill to swallow all the same. However, there’s still time for one final twist, especially if they end up saved.
The current situation surrounding Sae-Bom is that she is the key to all of this now and the final episode will see her antibodies used to hastily secure a cure to this infection and save the day. There’s no season 2 to this one though, so it all comes down to the final episode to wrap everything up.
Happiness is a well-written and compact story about the human condition and the good and bad in all of humanity. It’s been a surprisingly compact and well-written story, although extra episodes would have been nice to flesh out more of the world at large. Either way though, Happiness looks set to bow out on a high!
