Reverse 4 You Episode 7

What is the plan???

The episode starts with Wa and Four saying goodbye to Vivi, whom Wa couldn’t save. Wa blames herself, because Vivi always relied on Wa being able to reverse events. Four instead blames herself because she took Wa out on a date, unknowingly keeping her from being able to return in time. Someone is watching them.

At night, Wa is unable to sleep fearing that the images of her sister dying will haunt her. Four promises to always stay beside her and help her coping.

We are jumping ahead a decade to the flat we already saw in Wa’s dream at the end of episode five. Wa is living with Wa; apparently, she has bought condos everywhere Wa was working as a prosecutor in the last ten years. Wa asks if it wasn’t better if she became a lawyer instead of the a prosecutor (her original plan), but Four is fine as it is, she got her part of the inheritance (apparently, they could never prove that Film was not her father’s son) and she gets to live with the Woman she loves. Wa just wishes Vivi could be here with them.

At the office, Wa is dealing with a case everyone labeled as a suicide, but Wa is not so sure. This reminds her of Vivi: back then, they reviewed the CCTV footage that showed a man entering the building during the time of Vivi’s death, but there was no evidence linking him to their condo, as the camera on the floor was broken. She remembers the detective concluding Vivi’s death was suicide. There was a posting on social media by Vivi that looked like a suicide note, but the writing wasn’t in her style. The police even found the potential killer, a Mr. Ekkachai, but he is not a suspect anymore, because some neightbor of Wa and Four said he visited him an that he was his friends. For the detective, it was case closed – but not for Wa who decided to become a prosecutor then and there, promising to show them how to do the job properly. They tried to interrogate the neighbor by themselves, but he had already moved.

In the evening, the TV shows the news of Jattawa charging someone with murder. Wa asks Four what would have happened if back then, someone had done his job properly. Four says Wa would have become a prosecutor, and this culprit would have gone away – so Vivi’s death wasn’t In vain. As they proceed with making out, someone else is watching the same TV footage in a dark room. The next day, after Wa presented her case to the judge, Four await in front of the building, but she isn’t the only one, and unknow male waits there as well and wants to get to Wa, but Four intervenes. It turns out to be their neighbor, who wants to confess that he falsely claimed that Mr. Ekkachai was a friend for money. He couldn’t live with this lie any longer; Four says she let’s someone search for the suspect’s new identity.

Then, we are back at the exact same scene from episode five. Wa awakes to find Four on the balcony. She is grieving for Vivi – because she has found out that Mr. Ekkachai. He was formerly an Four’s father’s driver, but got fired, and in retaliation killed Four’s father. He was looking for Four on the day he murdered Vivi, but he didn’t know a Four wasn’t living in her apartment anymore. Now, she really blames herself for Vivi’s death – but Wa tries to console her as she did back then. The next day, they visit Vivi’s “tombstone” and encounter someone the placing a garland there. He tries to flee but is rather slow so Four catches him easily – it’s Wa’s long-lost father.

The three go back to his home, where the father has numerous photos from Wa and Vivi on the wall. Wa asks her where he’s been all this time and why he didn’t raise them – he say he left them alone because he hoped Vivi wouldn’t die this time. This time?

At this point, Four excuses herself and leaved Wa alone with her father, who explained that he tried to prevent Vivi’s death from happening – but no matter what he tried she always died somehow, different ways, different reasons, but always the same result. In the end he turned the time back to rather after she was born, left Vivi in Wa’s care and left. But even that didn’t work. Wa says that she knows the killer now, but her father maintains she will just die from something else, as before. She was a good life now, she should not risk it. But what about Vivi’s life, she says. He asks back, what if her connection to Four is the one thing she would have to give up? Every death of Vivi he witnessed had somehow to do with Four.Four still believes that she can save Vivi and be with Four; now, that she’s aware of the connection. But her father is old, because his lifetime continues every time he reverses time, this next try might be his last. He leave’s it up to her, but she should consider this carefully.

She’s back at home at night when Four returns; Wa wonders why Four isn’t asking about her father, she replies that Wa usually tells her everything, unless it’s making her uncomfortable and then, she doesn’t what to know. Wa gives her a brief summary of her family’s powers, Four does not seem surprised. Wa says the things about stopping time – Four says let’s do it together. The leave the apartment and go back to the rooftop where they first really connected all those your ago. Wa’ voiceover tells us that this time she will save Vivi and keep Four. Four wonders how the found each other in all the previous iterations of their lives – and what will they do differently this time.

Then, it is revealed that Four went back to Wa’s father. She pleads with him that he should turn back time, she’s knows she’s been good to Wa, but she cannot give her a family. She knows what to do now in order to save Vivi’s life. Wa doesn’t want that, she does not want to lose Four, either, but Four say’s it’s already been decided. Wa wonder whether Four will remember her at all when the time is reversed, but four claims there is only one Jattawa in this world and she will remember her. Wa claims even if she doesn’t, Wa will always orbit around her like a satellite. Then the clock turns to midnight and the time is reversed.

That was one hell of an episode, and one that raises more questions than it provides answers. I must admit I do not know what Wa’s plan was or what Four’s plan is, and how this is supposed to work at all. Up until know everyone who did not reverse time didn’t keep any memories (apart from some déjà vus) from the previous iterations. That would mean only the father would keep his memories – but how does that keep Four and Wa from repeating the same iteration once again? How does Four even know about the time-travel?

Other than that, this episode only got through the plot in 40 minutes by reducing the characters essentially to three, Wa, his father, and Four. Everyone else we previously got to know did appear in this episode at all, separating and distancing this from the previous episode. The whole plot with Four’s family was left unresolved, and the investigation into Vivi’s death was extremely shoddy work. I always expected Wa’s dad to appear, especially as he kind of made an appearance in the novel (which I’ve at this time I’ve only read to about 66%, so I have no knowledge of the plot to come) which was adamant that he’s not dead, just disappeared. But the plan they’re following now I do not know or comprehend at all.

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