K’s Past
Kyung-Yi races against time to find her comrades before they drown in the shipping container. She realizes they’re not in the sea and must track down the location for the lake before it’s too late.
Kyung-Yi uses her expertise to find Je-Hui and Gyeong-Su before it’s too late. Je-Hui is taken to the hospital but she’s in a rough way. Santa relays on that she’s injured her neck and needs to be kept in for observation. ..
Kyung-Yi tells Gyeong-Su about their ordeal, including the wooden box they were kept in and the poisonous gas. Now, it seems the container was already there too, which Kyung-Yi interprets as K not operating alone.
Kyung-Yi and her team review the CCTV footage from the vehicle rental place, looking for any clues as to who may have been behind the attack on K. They find footage of a man in a mustache and glasses, who Kyung-Yi recognizes from her past. They also find footage of K walking into the men’s room, which leads them to believe that he was attacked there. ..
Kyung-Yi realizes that K has been targeting people she knows for no reason other than to taunt her. Kyung-Yi has been divulging important information to go after these targets, knowing full well that K is doing this without any justification. ..
Kyung-Yi spends her days learning more about her sister Yi-Kyung and her life, including familial ties and background. Through flashbacks, we learn more about what happened to K, including how her parents died out in the woods, turning a gun on themselves. K, as it turns out, actually spent a week out in those woods but strangely she wasn’t dehydrated or had any scratches on her. Her aunt interprets that as a sign.
Jeong-Yeon took in Yi-Kyung after she lost her father, and the two of them have been working together to help the young girl through her grief and trauma. However, Yi-Kyung constantly sees a shadow in Jeong-Yeon’s periphery vision, leading her down a dark and twisted path. This seems to be the origin of this alliance.
Gun-Wook and K’s ties go back to when they were both patients at the hospital. Gun-Wook was unhappy with his grandpa still being alive, so he wished he was dead. K came down from the windowsill and promised to take care of him, unplugging the machine and letting him die.
In the present, K’s instability sees her confront Gun-Wook outside the hospital, choking him out with his dog-tags and questioning his prior radio silence. She promises to reveal all to his lover if he doesn’t cooperate, going on to tell Gun-Wook she’ll call in the future.
Kyung-Yi and Santa break into Jeong-Yeon’s place and begin looking around. The perfume on the counter is the same one K was wearing that evening in the parking lot. She also finds those creepy finger puppets and strong painkillers too. When Jeong-Yeon shows up, Kyung-Yi thinks fast and pretends that Santa is actually dating K. He shoots some cute expressions their way to back this up too. Jeong-Yeon falls for it hook, line and sinker.
When she receives an international call, she begins to feel emotional and needs to rush out. ..
Yong Sook and Mr Kim are greeted by a breathless Mr Kim, Seong-Tae and Yong Sook’s son, Hyeon-Tae. It’s a pretty tense meeting, one that eventually paves way for them talking politics. Specifically, they assess Ko Dam’s threat.
Jeong-Yeon’s mother is dying and K and her aunt are going to visit her. Je-Hui sees this as an opportunity to intercept the flight and catch the pair. Although Je-Hui isn’t 100%, the gang join her as they head for the terminal. Yong-Sook and Mr Kim are there too. ..
Jeong-Yeon arrives at the airport, but is alone. K meanwhile, rings and tells her aunt she’ll meet inside. When Yi-Kyung’s phone switches on, Yong-Sook and Kim immediately perk up, believing that’s their ticket to track her down. Only, there’s a problem. She’s not on the monitors and with the plane about to board, Yi-Kyung suddenly changes her mind and decides against going. She’s actually at home, as it turns out, but her phone signal is pinged from the airport thanks to a planted decoy. ..
Yong-Sook is not happy with the plan to have Je-Hui killed, as it was a bust from the start. She looks up and sees that Seong-Tae is currently leading the political polls. The noose is certainly tightening around Je-Hui and the gang, as we cut to K and her inside guy, confirming the number of people after her. However, what they weren’t banking on is Yi-Kyung showing up at her house that evening. As she stares through the window, the episode comes to an agonizing close.
The Episode Review
However, the rest of the episode felt a bit off. The tone was dark and serious for a while, then it shifted to light slapstick comedy and it just didn’t feel right. It felt like there was too much change in tone without any clear explanation. I also found the ending a bit anticlimactic.
The early parts of this episode feel jarring because they are in the past, which is opposite of the tone that most of these episodes have adopted.
Despite the fact that the show has been good value for its run-time and the 60 minutes certainly don’t drag on the plot, there’s still enough here to whet the appetite and both K and Kyung-Yi make a great match-up. Quite how and when K will be caught though remains to be seen, but this is shaping up to be a very intriguing k-drama, even if this chapter tends to veer off into tonally inconsistent waters.
