A Certain Promise
In episode 5 of Blind, Sung-Joon and the other kids find small moments of happiness, namely when cleaning the bathroom and splashing water at each other.
The soldiers soon stop when Sergeant Choi appears. He immediately grabs one of them and forces the kid to clean everything with his tongue. If not, then he’ll have his skull broken in half. ..
Next, Moon-Kang tells the kids that they have a visitor coming soon and he doesn’t want a repeat of an incident that occurred 3 years ago. One of the kids passed a note asking for help and Crazy Dog took Yoon-Jae’s necklace instead. ..
Sung-Joon is considering who to call when he finds a phone booth. He can’t call the police because they’re in collusion with Moon-kang, so who should he call? Eun-Ki.
Sung-Joon is hiding under a tarp in the back of a black car when Moon-Kang arrives. Sung-Joon tells Moon-Kang that he’s the one who killed his wife and he needs her help. Moon-Kang doesn’t believe him and wants to take him away but Sung-Joon insists that he’s telling the truth.
Moon-Kang opens the door to find Sung-Joon in trouble. Eun-Ki, who is driving, realizes this and decides to take action. She pretends to be drunk and hides in the backseat. When Moon-Kang asks what’s going on, Eun-Ki tells her that Sung-Joon is in trouble. Moon-Kang then takes action and stabs Sung-Joon in the back.
Anyway, when Yeom finds out that Sung-Joon has slipped through Moon-Kang’s fingers, he’s not happy. As a result, Moon-Kang doubles down on trying to find Sung-Joon, circling back to Eun-Ki’s car which happens to have the Children’s Center logo advertised all over. Why did she take her work car? Anyway, it doesn’t look good for Eun-Ki, while she’s oblivious to what could happen as she tries to patch up Sung-Joon. ..
A parcel from “Man-Chun” is sent to Sung-Hoon, which happens to be a knife with a message attached. Opening it up, Sung-Hoon notices that it reads “Murderer who made an innocent man guilty.” This only raises the stakes further, as the police work to find Sung-Joon, whom they believe is responsible for killing Man-Chun’s family and is the real Joker killer. Not only that though but Won-Woong has also been killed. ..
Sung-Joon is shocked when he reads about the boy’s death online. He rings Seok-Goo, one of the officers working, and asks for the cause of death. Seok-Goo tells him that asphyxiation is the cause of death. Sung-Joon can’t ring him again though, as his superior almost finds out about the secret call. But at least he can work with this information.
Sung-Joon’s name is being dragged through the mud and Eun-Ki is a key part of that. However, there are incriminating evidence linking Sung-Joon to the crime scene, including hair and fingerprints on the murder weapon. There’s also a button from Sung-Joon’s sleeve by the railing on the roof too, which we now find out did actually belong to Sung-Joon.
Did the pair wrestle for control leading to Man-Chun being pushed off the roof? That’s certainly the theory that Sung-Hoon is currently wrestling with.
Moon-kang shows up at the Children’s Center, determined to find Sung-Joon. He’s not alone either and while Sung-Joon hides, Moon-kang begins rooting around. Eun-Ki shows up and immediately phones the police. They don’t find Sung-Joon, thankfully, as he’s up in the attic but its definitely touch and go for a while.
Sung-Joon tells Eun-Ki that he adopted from his family and that he overheard them talking about how they regretted this decision. Their public image is more important to them than the welfare or wellbeing of Sung-Joon, which is something we’ve seen first-hand.
Moon-Kang and Eun-Ki meet at the courthouse, where they hand over a note from Sung-Hoon asking for help and to meet at 7pm. Unfortunately, Sung-Hoon hands over the note, which gets back to Moon-Kang and the officers. They have a lot of police on the case and at the meet, he makes sure the area is surrounded by officers.
Sung-Joon walks right into the trap and he’s forced to flee from the police. Thankfully he does so and make it back to the Children’s Center attic. Sung-Joon hangs his head, realizing he truly is alone and his brother isn’t going to help him… or is he? Sung-Hoon shows up after all, without the police around.
The Episode Review
This episode of Blind seems to show that Sung-Hoon isn’t the Joker killer after all and that he’s going to help Sung-Joon. At this point, I’m thinking he may actually be Boy 11 from the children’s center. Sung-Joon clearly looks up to him and it may well be that he allowed Sung-Joon to come into his family and perhaps something happened to sour their relationship. Either way, it’s a tantalizing mystery.
There is not much plot progression in this episode, but what we do get is a reminder of how alone Sung-Joon truly is. This is obviously a very personal case for whoever this killer is, especially given the way they’re targeting Sung-Joon. Or it could well be that Sung-Joon has a mental disorder such as multiple personality disorder. We’ll have to wait and see! ..
For the time being, Blind sets up a beautiful plan for the next episode which should be quite an intriguing watch.
