Yeah this drama is NOT a light rom com, and it is NOT fluffy or meaningless, and the acting is totally nuanced and the script is tight, and the issues are super deep, and you have to THINK while you are watching as well as enjoying the drama.
Also the "romance" in this drama is toxic and related to crime. ML seduces women to get his way and to commit crime and FL consents to get her revenge and SFL consents out of entitlement and "buying" a boy toy
If you want something simple to turn your brain off, and just long scenes of "pretty" male faces and staple cheesy cliches and tropes.... a very simple plot.... no wondering about anything... then go watch Sold out on You or Perfect Crown or Pursuit of Jade or something like that.
This drama ML is extremely handsome and you can look at him as long as you want but it is different than looking at say ML in Sold Out on You, where he is put strictly to pose as a pretty photograph and NOT act - his only role is to provide a chance for audience to look at him and fantasize. FL is very cliche... and not very ... potent...
But in this drama, FL is ... a mystery... and demands watching with attention... And ML here is acting in very complex ways and is an extremely complex character so you can look at him but you also have to THINK about what he is doing - and he is a major con artist and criminal.
I had to make some changes on May 6, I mixed up ep 4/5 and 6 scenes of FL visiting Adjushi. In ep4/5 she visits…
I organized this like this: first TIMELINE, then CHARACTERS - who they are, what they do, how they relate ============================= TIMELINE FROM MDL DESCRIPTION ============================= >>> FL's parents are killed >>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents >>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL gets a good opportunity to revenge her parents >>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia >>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
============================== MY TAKE ON THE TIMELINE ============================== >>> FL's parents are killed We do not know who ordered the murder and why. Homeless man Adjushi was paid to say he killed them and he went to jail for it. FL was livid psycho with rage, visited Adjushi in prison, never listened to anything he had to say, and promised /screamed/made a scene that she will kill him. Adjushi just f.cked her off >>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents FL waited for Adjushi to get out of jail Finally, Adjushi got out of jail and bought a decrepid property >>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL got a good opportunity to revenge her parents FL found Adjushi and tried to kill him at his house. Adjushi beat up FL and made her listen to him for the first time. He told FL that Chairman Young Ho (Hee Su's dad) ordered the murder and paid him to take the fall. So FL convinced Adjushi to join her in revenge (this is FL's memory) So FL befriended HS, who was living with JH.... We are not sure who started first, but we see that JH first kissed FL and so they both cheated on HS... and HS knew it... SO THIS REVENGE SETUP LASTED FOR 2 YEARS... AND THEN ... FL was in the Chairman's house when HS and Chairman were killed, and she drove away from the burning house (this is FL's memory)
>>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia To be precise, the car accident was WTOD hitting FL's car. Most likely, she was running away from the murderer >>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info .. FL wakes up with ONLY JH by her side, telling her he was her fiance. He brings her to "his" house AND FROM NOW ON WE GET DIFFERENT PIECES OF FL'S MEMORY RETURNING, AS IT HAPPENS, SO WE GET A VIEW OF CURRENT TIME, THEN MEMORY - So future, past and present are all mixed up AND THE AUDIENCE HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH TIME SLOT THAT MEMORY BELONGS TO
============================= SUMMARY OF MAIN CHARACTERS: ============================= FL: Myo Jin aka MJ - a poor girl who then shacked up with JH - we meet her as amnesic after she wakes up from coma from car accident after she left the site of murder. We meet her all meek and sleek and later we learn that she was a vitriolic revenge psycho trying to kill people - and is still doing it
ML: Ryo Jun Ho aka JH, whom we meet as a very nice handsome rich company owner / construction tycoon helping FL recover, but then slowly we learn he is a top level gangster ML is very handsome and he uses women to get ahead =============== CHARACTERS: =============== CHAIRMAN CHOI (YOUNG HO?) AND HIS DAUGHTER HEE SU of Seokwang Group, - both were killed by .... JH and/ or FL?? - we will find out. Hee Su was shacking up with JH - who was effectively acting as her gigolo - he used HS to get ahead in arhitecture and he was paid by Chairman in many ways for being HS's lover - Chairman financed Mono architecture company owned by JH and it was under Chairman's "umbrella" FL was HS's best friend and then JH's secret lover, and HS knew about it HS and FL were hanging out in a gallery - which is often a front for slush funds and tax evasion. We dont know yet WHO ordered killing of FL's parents and WHY. Old Chairman or JH or HS or someone else? See details about this below.
FL's PARENTS - the green house owners, killed by ... ? Adjushi said they were killed by JH. Before her coma, FL was revenging them and trying to kill Adjushi. . ADJUSHI - the homeless neighbor who was paid to say he murdered FL's parents and who went to jail for it. Adjushi told FL that (Chairman's or JH's?) Chauffeur brokered the deal and told him that Chairman Choi Young Ho ordered that murder. Adjushi was FL's collaborator in revenge but then she had the accident and lost her memory. Currently, Adjushi has pancreatic cancer, 3 months to live, and he owns a decrepid property in demolition area. So he paid his ex-jail friend, a demolition thug, to help him bust the demolition. See details below.
CHAUFFEUR: - what was his name Lee Song Ju something?? the guy who escaped the Detective chasing him so the police took the Detective and left him alone. Was he Old Chairman's chauffeur or JH's chauffeur? He was somehow "stirring Adjushi to extort Chairman, FL, and JH" says the text from Adjushi SO THE QUESTION IS - Did the Chauffeur tell the truth or not? WHO ORDERED THE MURDER AND WHY?
FL: MYO JIN aka MJ - has 2 versions: version 1. "before coma" super violent rash stupid revenge edition where she was JH's secret lover and she and he cheated on HS - JH was HS's live in - and 2. "after coma" amnesia and quietly investigating her past, and JH keeps her essentially jailed, drugged and monitored and bribes doctors etc to NOT help her recover her memories.
Before coma, FL thought Adjushi was the murderer, and she promised to kill him He was in jail for many years. When he got out of jail, FL tried to kill Adjushi but Adjusthi told her what he knew, he said he has proofs ("insurance") and they agreed to cooperate. Seems like FL went to infiltrate Choi family. After coma, FL restored her phone, found messages from Chauffeur and Adjushi, found them and started investigating with a Detective, and ML tried to prevent her.
ML: RYO JUN HO also called CHOI JUN HO, aka JH, MONO CHAIRMAN, CURRENTLY FAKING TO BE FL's FIANCE - a pretty boy con artist gangster. SERIOUS TOP LEVEL GANGSTER, very rich and powerful well connected, often operating by seducing women for favors.... We see him threatening ppl, using thugs, etc. He bribed to be the ONLY person next to FL after she wakes up from coma with amnesia... He is faking to be FL fiance, keeping FL under druggy improper medication, has hired Purple Hair Gangster Woman to monitor FL, is refusing to help FL recover - he bribed the doctors .... Before FL's coma, JH was living with HS, and her rich Chairman dad paid him for it Then JH cheated on HS with FL, and then... he and/or FL killed HS adn Chairman. After coma, JH told FL that he killed HS. Right now JH is also getting his Mono subcompany to be a separate company, he did shenaningans with the architecture competition for the museum see ep 6 min 21
============================ TIMELINE OF ML/FL/ADJUSHI ============================= Adjushi really liked FL's parents. but consented to say he killed them so that he could be paid for going to jail. We see scenes of FL visiting Adjushi in jail, he was super rude crude violent hostile - and she thought she was the murderer and so she was trying to revenge her parents and murder him.... and she was LIVID MAD about it, totaly out of control...
After many years, Adjushi got out of jail .... He got 2 bags of money via chauffeur and bought himself some property in a decrepid area FL TRIED TO MURDER ADJUSHI IN HIS HOUSE BUT HE BEAT HER UP AND TOLD HER HE WAS PAID TO BE FRAMED - and seems like they decided to cooperate against Chairman Choi. FL REMEMBERED THIS IN EP 6. AS SHE WAS DRIVING AWAY, ESCAPING JH AND PURPLE GIRL
At that time, 2 yrs ago, when Adjushi just got out of prison, Adjushi told FL that Chairman Choi is a gangster of such high level that they have no chance, but she said there must be a way and demanded he help her. He said he has "insurance" some proof that can be used against Choi. SO FL AND ADJUSHI MADE A DEAL TO COOPERATE AND BRING CHAIRMAN CHOI DOWN. ( THat all fell through when FL got hit by WTOD and lost her memories. FL LATER FOUND ADJUSHI FROM MESSAGES ON HER PHONE).
Back to that scene 2 yrs before the coma, when Adjushi and FL make a deal: Since FL said that her family did not know anyone rich, we conclude that FL then went to Choi family to set up revenge. This is all happening before the car accident...
SO FOR 2 YEARS, FL WAS SETTING UP REVENGE BY BEFRIENDING HS.. ?
Seems like FL befriended HS to bring Chairman Choi Young Ho down in revenge... Was seducing JH a part of FL's plan? We do not know. We see that JH kissed FL first, on 2 occasions.... HOWEVER, JH is a big gangster and he must have known FL is the daughter of the ppl killed... So it is very possible that JH was pretending to love MJ and then used her as his pawn in his game to become the chairman.
Then the murder of Chairman and HS happened, and FL remembered that she was at the murder scene and saw HS burning in a raging house fire. After being at the murder scene seeing HS die in fire, FL drove away'and was hit by a WTOD.
FL woke up from coma without ANY memories. She had nobody by her side except JH. At first he looks like a doting fiance, but later we learned that he bribed the hospital and essentially isolated FL and brainwashed her AND collaboartes with serious gngsters AND blackmails and threatens and bribes people... . JH brought MJ to his house and lied to her about many things from the past. JH told MJ that he killed HS. Later we learn that he bribes doctors to NOT help MJ restore her memory... So it is entirely possible that JH somehow used MJ to get rid of the Chairman and HS so that he can inherit faster
FL was leaving the house to go to a psychiatrist to recover her memories - the doc knows JH is a swindler and perhaps JH already removed that doc
FL somehow found her old phone and restored, and found a Detective to help her investigate... and they figured out a lot of stuff.... On her phone, she found Chauffer's and Adjushi's messages and called them - and then went to visit Adjushi in ep 4.
So FL left JH's house to go to psychiatrist on some days, and on other days, to roam around with the Detective - ... And JH saw that, got worried, and hired PurpleHead gangster woman to live in the house, monitor FL and prevent her from going out...
JH did not know that PurpleHair worked witih BaldHead to kidnap FL.. and that they will bring the Joseongjok thugs and SellingPeople gang to JH's house. See below ==================================================================
PURPLE HEAD GANGSTER WOMAN has purple hair when we first meet her. She is some higher-level crime boss of unknown origins and the girlfirned and slave owner of small kine ganster BOLD HEAD. JH paid PurpleHead to live in his house and to monitor and "jail" FL (PurpleHead died her hair black for that part). She got paid by JH at least $30K to monitor FL and never let her get out - yet she and BoldHead planned to kidnap FL and sell her - but BoldHead found someone else to sell her to and started working independently from PurpleHead
BOLD HEAD MALE GANGSTER - has a bar and his business is to sell people for money and to extort money. He pays bar and restaurant owners to drug customers, take fake pictures and blackmail them into paying huge amounts of money; or to drug customers and bring them to him so that he can sell them to another gang that ships them out. A "nice person" like FL cashes for about $200,000 Because BoldHead extorted money from some Joseaonjok people, their leaders started chasing BoldHead to recoup the money.
JOSEONJOK aka KOREAN CHINESE GANG consists of TWO thugs - the LongHair / moustache one and the Scrawny one - they take care of other Joseonjok people living locally... One group of them was a victim in a bar that works with Bold Head... and paid huge amounts of money... like $10K or so... So... LongHair and Scrawny are doing their own investigation and trying to recoup that money.
========================================== KIDNAPPINGS OF FL AND BOLD HEAD AND ALL GANGS COLLIDING TIMELINE =========================================== PurpleHead was hired by JH to monitor and "jail" FL but she secretly collaborated with BoldHead to kidnap and sell FL. So in ep 4, Purplehead intentionally let FL go out so that BoldHead can kidnap her, but FL somehow escaped the kidnapping. JH was livid and almost fired PurpleHead. but she promised to do better.
In ep 5, PurpleHead tried to "jail" FL per JH's orders, but FL overheard their call and realized JH is jailing her.. So FL decided to escape and jumped out of window and drove away to ... ? Driving after so long reminded her of going to Adjushi's house before coma and making the deal with Adjushi...so her memories of meeting Adjushi 2 yrs ago, right after he got out of prison, are in ep 6.
but BoldHead and kidnappers gang were following FL in a black van and kidnapped her after she got out of the car.... .. but Joseonjok thugs were looking for Bald Head, and somehow found the kidnappers van, waited or them to come back (and they came back with drugged kidnapped FL). Then LongHair and Scrawny attacked them, kidnapped BoldHead and left the drugged out FL in the van. They had no idea who she was. THe only reason they left her there is bc Scrawny did not want to use her a slave for rape, she was not his type... SO FL WOKE UP ALONE IN THE CAR at the start of ep 5 and went home.
JH had no idea that PurpleHair arranged all this and he yelled at her to monitor FL better..... So in ep 5, Purple Hair tried to drug FL. but FL did not swallow the pills, overheard that Purple Hair and JH were jailing her, and escaped and DROVE AWAY. Ep 6 is about her memories fom the past. So at the end of ep 6, FL is in the car, driving away, where to?
====== Ep 6 continues Ep 5 current story about Joseonjok and Bold Head. How did two Joseaonjok thugs find kidnapper's van (and indirectly saved FL) in ep 5? They were looking to recoup the money that their fellow Joseonjok friends had to pay in a bar that that worked for BoldHead and drugged them, took fake photos, and blackmailed them... So they kidnapped the bar owner, and he took them to BoldHead's bar... and then bar owner, Long Hair and Scrawny started to follow Bold Head .... I forgot how they found BoldHead while he and the Kidnapper Gang were followng FL in a black van trying to kidnap FL .... ....
Joseonjok thugs saw the empty van... they waited for ppl to return (kidnappers succeeded and returned with drugged FL), then attacked them... (bar owner escaped successfully this time, I think)... 2 Joseonjok thugs chased away the kidnapping gang and kidnapped BoldHead... and tortured him... and he told them about PurpleHead located at JH's house. That led to Joseonjok thugs snooping on PurpleHead at JH house... ... the two Joseonjok and BoldHead went to JH/FL house .... and BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny ... and ... LongHair escaped.
When Joseonjok thugs LongHair and Scrawny attached the kidnappers' van, kidnapped BoldHead and killed/chased others, they left FL in the car instead of taking her as a slave for raping ...bc she was not Scrawny's type... ... !!!! so when FL woke up in that van all alone, she just walked away and went home to JH, who ordered PurpleHair to Jail FL - so FL escaped and drove away.
SO THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION - FL WENT OUT DESPITE PURPLE HEAD MONITORING HER - while PurpleHead was scheming with Bold Head to kidnap FL , THEN PURPLEHEAD WAS TASKED TO "JAIL" FL and FL LEARNED THAT JH ORDERED THAT, SO FL SECRETLY ESCAPED - SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW, took a car and left .
FL WENT TO ....?
======================================= WHERE EVERYONE IS AT THE END OF EP 6: ======================================= FL is driving away in a white car, remembering her visiting Adjushi 2 years ago when he came out of prison.
PurpleHead is all alone in JH's house, panicking... JH still does not know that FL escaped? I think - and PurpleHead bought a Hong Kong passport and plans to leave - and LongHair thug saw that Joseonjok thugs and their kidnapped victim Bold Head are around JH's house coming to get money from PurpleHead - but BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny... and LongHair ran away when police came. (BoldHead was kidnapped by Joseonjok thugs and he told them to ask money from PurpleHead - and so Joseonjok ppl went to FL/JH house where PurpleHead is - )
JH bribed the doctor to quit treating FL so that she does not remember. JH also blackmailed ViceChairman of Mono so now JH got his company to separate from Mono i.e JH now has his own company... JH also bailed out of architecture competition so now the Chief Judge knows how big of a scammer JH is... I still dont quite understand what JH was trying to accomplish with that competition or with bailing out of it.
SO AT THIS POINT, ALL THUG'S PATHS ARE CONNECTED AND JOEONJOK ARE UNINTENTIONALLY STARTING TO STEP ON THE TOES OF JH, THE ULTIMATE GANG LEADER....
PURPLE HAIR WILL BE PUNISHED BY JH - but JOSEONJOK ARE ALSO AFTER HER - so she is pretty much isolated and done for unless she makes another deal with JH
BOLD HEAD BETRAYED PURPLE HEAD, MESSED UP KIDNAPPERS, LOST HIS BAR OWNER AND JOSEONJOK IS AFTER HIM - so BoldHead is pretty much done for... He has to lee Korea asap or he dies :)
FL cannot go back to JH's house unless she lies :) but ... will he let her.... and for how long... ?
so that's where we end
============================= RECAP PER EPISODE ============================= At the very end of ep 4: Purple Hair and Bold Head are working together to kidnap and sell FL, so although Purple Girl is supposed to "jail" FL, she let her go out and Bold Head was following FL..
And FL left JH's house bc she found Wang Gi Chal's aka Adjushi phone number and called him and went to visit him.... and he told her she has to get her head straight on if she wants to revenge.. ... he also mentioned 2 yrs ago when he got out of prison and she tried to kill him (AND SHE WILL REMEMBER THAT IN EP 6.) WE DO NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT ELSE HE TOLD HER
and on her way out, BoldHead and kidnapper gang kidnapped her.... but she was magically saved bc Joseonjok attacked the kidnapper gang and BaldHead, and captured Bold Head = and left FL alone in the car.. ...
EP 5: and then FL came back home and JH ordered PurpleGirl to drug FL and keep her at home for sure
So at this point, FL learns that JH is jailing her with PurpleGirl . and she escapes..
EP 6 is about FL driving away from JH's house, she escaped "the jail" and she is remembering how she visited Adjushi 2 years ago and tried to kill him and they made a deal WHERE IS FL GOING? Joseonjok thugs and Bold Head go to JH's house to grab Purple Hair - Bold Head escapes, he and Scrawny fight, LongHair runs away JH is telling the doctor to NOT help FL remember
I had to make some changes on May 6, I mixed up ep 4/5 and 6 scenes of FL visiting Adjushi. In ep4/5 she visits him in present time, after the coma In ep 6, she remembers visiting him 2 yrs ago
******** RECAP IS IN THE SPOILER. ******* So perhaps this is a good solution, keeping th drama a puzzle, and then writing recaps to tie all lose ends. . I lost what I wrote so I had to rewrite it :( Please appreciate my efforts :) Aaagh after literally 4 hours I am done with the recap!!! omg... MDL does not autimatically save as you go so I lost what I wrote and had to retype... See the spoiler below (I also updated the earlier spoiler)
A TIP FOR ENJOYING THIS DRAMA ie how to play this drama game successfully: FL's MEMORIES ARE LIKE A PIECE OF A PUZZLE. YOUR TASK IS TO PUT THAT PIECE INTO THE TIME SLOT IT BELONGS TO. Bc the drama has scenes totally out of order... first you have to determine which scenes are memories and which are from curent time, and put the scene into the right timeline order
HAVE FUN!!! IT IS ACTUALLY FUN TO DO THIS!!!!
PS - I STRONGLY SUGGEST TO THE PRODUCTION TEAM TO START EVERY EPISODE WITH A SHORT RECAP OF SOME SORTS, IF POSSIBLE. Yeah, the drama's charm is in hodge-podge-out-of-order puzzle pieces scenes.... So maybe keping the puzzle and doing recaps is the solution. But what worries me is that nobody here is posting their questions related to the drama content. I had lots of questions
Agree.Naturally SR still has some lingering bond with HY. That's her "Omma" for 30 yrs. Sometimes her…
Well said, in fewer words that I did :) Thank you !
I still say that SR was ALWAYS an immature petulent girl as well as a smart girl. Before, we never got to see her too closely to really get the depth of the petulent and immature, we just had glimpses.
The "immature petulent" SR was shown as chasing JH, whining to mom and grandpa asking for things, harassing Golddiggers, etc.
The "Smart SR" did not really exist at work or at home... SR was shown "smart" getting her way, harassing others, and avoiding any work. "Smart SR" was shown only regarding the JM issue - and SR was smart bc it was not SR's issue :)
BUT NOW JM ISSUE HAS BECOME A PROBLEM FOR SR PERSONALLY :) and now the petulent immature side of SR comes to the forefront :)
I think the audience is having issues with PARADOX and COMPLEXITY -
SR CAN BE SMART AND ALSO IMMATURE/PETULENT... those are all aspect of her character
THE AUDIENCE IS NOT USED TO SEEING THIS BC SHORT DRAMAS HAVE NO TIME TO SHOW DIFFERENT SIDES OF CHARACTERS IN MORE DEPTH.
I disagree. ep 3/4 set the stage. THIS IS A REALISTIC DRAMA WITH MANY GROUPS OF THUGS . I think ep 6 cleared up…
that's true I even put typo in my answer and said ep 4
HOWEVER I still say that ep 3-4 are 100% necessary bc without them it would be too much info all at once. ALSO that is the pace of her memory coming back
I haven't watched all eight episodes yet, but this project might have been better if it had been compressed into…
Ah no!!! not at all ... that would kill the drama. The juice of this drama is to slowly reverse her memory :) There are too many characters so it takes time to show it all
THIS DRAMA REQUIRES INTELLIGENT AND ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE
Ep 3/4 PROVIDED LOTS OF INITIAL INFORMATION. Ep 3-4 are 100% necessary bc without them it would be too much info…
I organized this like this: first TIMELINE, then CHARACTERS - who they are, what they do, how they relate ============================= TIMELINE FROM MDL DESCRIPTION ============================= >>> FL's parents are killed >>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents >>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL gets a good opportunity to revenge her parents >>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia >>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
============================== MY TAKE ON THE TIMELINE ============================== >>> FL's parents are killed We do not know who ordered the murder and why. Homeless man Adjushi was paid to say he killed them and he went to jail for it. FL was livid psycho with rage, visited Adjushi in prison, never listened to anything he had to say, and promised /screamed/made a scene that she will kill him. Adjushi just f.cked her off >>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents FL waited for Adjushi to get out of jail Finally, Adjushi got out of jail and bought a decrepid property >>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL got a good opportunity to revenge her parents FL found Adjushi and tried to kill him at his house. Adjushi beat up FL and made her listen to him for the first time. He told FL that Chairman Young Ho (Hee Su's dad) ordered the murder and paid him to take the fall. So FL convinced Adjushi to join her in revenge (this is FL's memory) So FL befriended HS, who was living with JH.... We are not sure who started first, but we see that JH first kissed FL and so they both cheated on HS... and HS knew it... FL was in the Chairman's house when HS and Chairman were killed, and she drove away from the burning house (this is FL's memory) >>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia To be precise, the car accident was WTOD hitting FL's car. Most likely, she was running away from the murderer >>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info .. FL wakes up with ONLY JH by her side, telling her he was her fiance. He brings her to "his" house AND FROM NOW ON WE GET DIFFERENT PIECES OF FL'S MEMORY RETURNING, AS IT HAPPENS, SO WE GET A VIEW OF CURRENT TIME, THEN MEMORY - So future, past and present are all mixed up AND THE AUDIENCE HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH TIME SLOT THAT MEMORY BELONGS TO
============================= SUMMARY OF MAIN CHARACTERS: ============================= FL: Myo Jin aka MJ - a poor girl who then shacked up with JH - we meet her as amnesic after she wakes up from coma from car accident after she left the site of murder. We meet her all meek and sleek and later we learn that she was a vitriolic revenge psycho trying to kill people - and is still doing it
ML: Ryo Jun Ho aka JH, whom we meet as a very nice handsome rich company owner / construction tycoon helping FL recover, but then slowly we learn he is a top level gangster ML is very handsome and he uses women to get ahead =============== CHARACTERS: =============== CHAIRMAN CHOI (YOUNG HO?) AND HIS DAUGHTER HEE SU of Seokwang Group, - both were killed by .... JH and/ or FL?? - we will find out. Hee Su was shacking up with JH - who was effectively acting as her gigolo - he used HS to get ahead in arhitecture and he was paid by Chairman in many ways for being HS's lover FL was HS's best friend and then JH's secret lover, and HS knew about it HS and FL were hanging out in a gallery - which is often a front for slush funds and tax evasion. We dont know yet WHO ordered killing of FL's parents and WHY. Old Chairman or JH or HS or someone else? See details about this below.
FL's PARENTS - the green house owners, killed by ... ? Adjushi said they were killed by JH. Before her coma, FL was revenging them and trying to kill Adjushi. . ADJUSHI - the homeless neighbor who was paid to say he murdered FL's parents and who went to jail for it. Adjushi told FL that (Chairman's or JH's?) Chauffeur brokered the deal and told him that Chairman Choi Young Ho ordered that murder. Adjushi was FL's collaborator in revenge but then she had the accident and lost her memory. Currently, Adjushi has pancreatic cancer, 3 months to live, and he owns a decrepid property in demolition area. So he paid his ex-jail friend, a demolition thug, to help him bust the demolition. See details below.
CHAUFFEUR: - what was his name Lee Su something?? the guy who escaped the Detective chasing him so the police took the Detective and left him alone. Was he Old Chairman's chauffeur or JH's chauffeur? SO THE QUESTION IS - Did the Chauffeur tell the truth or not? WHO ORDERED THE MURDER AND WHY?
FL: MYO JIN aka MJ - has 2 versions: version 1. "before coma" super violent rash stupid revenge edition where she was JH's secret lover and she and he cheated on HS - JH was HS's live in - and 2. "after coma" amnesia and quietly investigating her past, and JH keeps her essentially jailed, drugged and monitored and bribes doctors etc to NOT help her recover her memories.
Before coma, FL thought Adjushi was the murderer, and she promised to kill him He was in jail for many years. When he got out of jail, Adjusthi told her what he knew, he said he has proofs ("insurance") and they agreed to cooperate. Seems like FL went to infiltrate Choi family. After coma, FL restored her phone, found messages from Chauffeur and Adjushi, found them and started investigating with a Detective, and ML tried to prevent her.
ML: RYO JUN HO also called CHOI JUN HO, aka JH, MONO CHAIRMAN, CURRENTLY FAKING TO BE FL's FIANCE - a pretty boy con artist gangster. SERIOUS TOP LEVEL GANGSTER, very rich and powerful well connected, often operating by seducing women for favors.... We see him threatening ppl, using thugs, etc. He bribed to be the ONLY person next to FL after she wakes up from coma with amnesia... He is faking to be FL fiance, keeping FL under druggy improper medication, has hired Purple Hair Gangster Woman to monitor FL, is refusing to help FL recover - he bribed the doctors .... Before FL's coma, JH was living with HS, and her rich Chairman dad paid him for it Then JH cheated on HS with FL, and then... he and/or FL killed HS adn Chairman. After coma, JH told FL that he killed HS. Right now JH is also getting his Mono subcompany to be a separate company, he did shenaningans with the architecture competition for the museum see ep 6 min 21
============================ TIMELINE OF ML/FL/ADJUSHI ============================= Adjushi really liked FL's parents. but consented to say he killed them so that he could be paid for going to jail. We see scenes of FL visiting Adjushi in jail, he was super rude crude violent hostile - and she thought she was the murderer and so she was trying to revenge her parents and murder him.... and she was LIVID MAD about it, totaly out of control...
After many years, Adjushi got out of jail .... He got 2 bags of money via chauffeur and bought himself some property in a decrepid area FL TRIED TO MURDER ADJUSHI IN HIS HOUSE BUT HE BEAT HER UP AND TOLD HER HE WAS PAID TO BE FRAMED - and seems like they decided to cooperate against Chairman Choi
Adjushi told FL that Chairman Choi is a gangster of such high level that they have no chance, but she said there must be a way and demanded he help her. He said he has "insurance" some proof that can be used against Choi. SO FL AND ADJUSHI MADE A DEAL TO COOPERATE AND BRING CHAIRMAN CHOI DOWN. ( THat all fell through when FL got hit by WTOD and lost her memories. FL LATER FOUND ADJUSHI FROM MESSAGES ON HER PHONE).
Back to that scene before the coma, when Adjushi and FL make a deal: Since FL said that her family did not know anyone rich, we conclude that FL then went to Choi family to set up revenge. This is all happening before the car accident...
Seems like FL befriended HS to bring Chairman Choi Young Ho down in revenge... Was seducing JH a part of FL's plan? We do not know. We see that JH kissed FL first, on 2 occasions.... HOWEVER, JH is a big gangster and he must have known FL is the daughter of the ppl killed... So it is very possible that JH was pretending to love MJ and then used her as his pawn in his game to become the chairman.
Then the murder of Chairman and HS happened, and FL remembered that she was at the murder scene and saw HS burning in a raging house fire. FL drove away'and was hit by a WTOD.
FL woke up from coma without ANY memories. She had nobody by her side except JH. At first he looks like a doting fiance, but later we learned that he bribed the hospital and essentially isolated FL and brainwashed her AND collaboartes with serious gngsters AND blackmails and threatens and bribes people... . JH brought MJ to his house and lied to her about many things from the past. JH told MJ that he killed HS. Later we learn that he bribes doctors to NOT help MJ restore her memory... So it is entirely possible that JH somehow used MJ to get rid of the Chairman and HS so that he can inherit faster
FL was leaving the house to go to a psychiatrist to recover her memories - the doc knows JH is a swindler and perhaps JH already removed that doc
FL somehow found her old phone and restored, and found a Detective to help her investigate... and they figured out a lot of stuff.... On her phone, she found Chauffer's and Adjushi's messages and called them - and then went to visit Adjushi in ep 6.
So FL left JH's house to go to psychiatrist on some days, and on other days, to roam around with the Detective - ... And JH saw that, got worried, and hired PurpleHead gangster woman to live in the house, monitor FL and prevent her from going out...
Then FL went out again and JH found evidence that FL is investigating, so he was really mad at PurpleHead and ordered her to "jail" FL... but FL escaped and went to.... ? Adjushi's house, I think. JH did not know that PurpleHair worked witih BaldHead to kidnap FL.. and that they will bring the Joseongjok thugs and SellingPeople gang to JH's house. See below ==================================================================
PURPLE HEAD GANGSTER WOMAN has purple hair when we first meet her. She is some higher-level crime boss of unknown origins and the girlfirned and slave owner of small kine ganster BOLD HEAD. JH paid PurpleHead to live in his house and to monitor and "jail" FL (PurpleHead died her hair black for that part). She got paid by JH at least $30K to monitor FL and never let her get out - yet she and BoldHead planned to kidnap FL and sell her - but BoldHead found someone else to sell her to and started working independently from PurpleHead
BOLD HEAD MALE GANGSTER - has a bar and his business is to sell people for money and to extort money. He pays bar and restaurant owners to drug customers, take fake pictures and blackmail them into paying huge amounts of money; or to drug customers and bring them to him so that he can sell them to another gang that ships them out. A "nice person" like FL cashes for about $200,000 Because BoldHead extorted money from some Joseaonjok people, their leaders started chasing BoldHead to recoup the money.
JOSEONJOK aka KOREAN CHINESE GANG consists of TWO thugs - the LongHair / moustache one and the Scrawny one - they take care of other Joseonjok people living locally... One group of them was a victim in a bar that works with Bold Head... and paid huge amounts of money... like $10K or so... So... LongHair and Scrawny are doing their own investigation and trying to recoup that money.
========================================== KIDNAPPINGS OF FL AND BOLD HEAD AND ALL GANGS COLLIDING TIMELINE =========================================== PurpleHead was hired by JH to monitor and "jail" FL but she secretly collaborated with BoldHead to kidnap and sell FL. So Purplehead intentionally let FL go out so that BoldHead can kidnap her, but FL and Detective somehow escaped the kidnapping. JH was livid and almost fired PurpleHead. but she promised to do better.
So PurpleHead tried to "jail" FL per JH's orders, but FL overheard their call and realized JH is jailing her.. So FL decided to escape and jumped out of window and drove away to ... ? Adjushi house? to some really decrepid housing area... .. Seems like driving after so long reminded her of going to Adjushi's house before coma and making the deal with Adjushi...
but BoldHead and kidnappers gang were following FL in a black van and kidnapped her after she got out of the car.... .. but Joseonjok thugs were looking for Bald Head, and somehow found the kidnappers van, waited or them to come back (and they came back with drugged kidnapped FL). Then LongHair and Scrawny attacked them, kidnapped BoldHead and left the drugged out FL in the van. They had no idea who she was. THe only reason they left her there is bc Scrawny did not want to use her a slave for rape, she was not his type... ====== How did two Joseaonjok thugs find kidnapper's van? They were looking to recoup the money that their fellow Joseonjok friends had to pay in a bar that that worked for BoldHead and drugged them, took fake photos, and blackmailed them... So they kidnapped the bar owner, and he took them to BoldHead's bar... and then bar owner, Long Hair and Scrawny started to follow Bold Head .... I forgot how they found BoldHead while he and the Kidnapper Gang were followng FL in a black van trying to kidnap FL .... ....
Joseonjok thugs saw the empty van... they waited for ppl to return (kidnappers succeeded and returned with drugged FL), then attacked them... (bar owner escaped successfully this time, I think)... 2 Joseonjok thugs chased away the kidnapping gang and kidnapped BoldHead... and tortured him... and he told them about PurpleHead located at JH's house. That led to Joseonjok thugs snooping on PurpleHead at JH house... ... the two Joseonjok and BoldHead went to JH/FL house .... and BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny ... and ... LongHair escaped.
When Joseonjok thugs LongHair and Scrawny attached the kidnappers' van, kidnapped BoldHead and killed/chased others, they left FL in the car instead of taking her as a slave for raping ...bc she was not Scrawny's type... ... !!!! so when FL woke up in that van all alone, she just walked away. Where to? we dont know.
SO THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION - FL WENT OUT DESPITE PURPLE HEAD MONITORING HER - while PurpleHead was scheming with Bold Head to kidnap FL , THEN PURPLEHEAD WAS TASKED TO "JAIL" FL and FL LEARNED THAT JH ORDERED THAT, SO FL SECRETLY ESCAPED - SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW, took a car and left .
FL WENT TO SOME DECREPID AREA. Seems like she went to SEE ADJUSHI IN DEMOLITION AREA?
ONCE OUT OF THE CAR, FL WAS CAUGHT BY BOLDHEAD AND KIDNAPPERS AND ESCAPED BC THE KIDNAPPERS WERE BEAT BY JOSEONJOK THUGS ======================================= WHERE EVERYONE IS AT THE END OF EP 6: ======================================= FL walked out of the empty kidnappers' van and we last see her still somewhat drugged hobbling along the dark street. It was not shown where FL went. She knows JH was jailing her... so I dont think she can go back to JH's house... unless she is a major liar and willing to risk being killed or imprisoned? Where can she go??? to Adjushi?
PurpleHead is all alone in JH's house, panicking... JH still does not know that FL escaped? I think - and PurpleHead bought a Hong Kong passport and plans to leave - and LongHair thug saw that Joseonjok thugs and their kidnapped victim Bold Head are around JH's house coming to get money from PurpleHead - but BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny... and LongHair ran away (BoldHead was kidnapped by Joseonjok thugs and he told them to ask money from PurpleHead - and so Joseonjok ppl went to FL/JH house where PurpleHead is - )
JH bribed the doctor to quit treating FL so that she does not remember. JH also blackmailed ViceChairman of Mono so now JH got his company to separate from Mono i.e JH now has his own company... JH also bailed out of architecture competition so now the Chief Judge knows how big of a scammer JH is... I still dont quite understand what JH was trying to accomplish with that competition or with bailing out of it.
SO AT THIS POINT, ALL THUG'S PATHS ARE CONNECTED AND JOEONJOK ARE UNINTENTIONALLY STARTING TO STEP ON THE TOES OF JH, THE ULTIMATE GANG LEADER....
PURPLE HAIR WILL BE PUNISHED BY JH - but JOSEONJOK ARE ALSO AFTER HER - so she is pretty much isolated and done for unless she makes another deal with JH
BOLD HEAD BETRAYED PURPLE HEAD, MESSED UP KIDNAPPERS, LOST HIS BAR OWNER AND JOSEONJOK IS AFTER HIM - so BoldHead is pretty much done for... He has to lee Korea asap or he dies :)
FL is beat up and cannot go back to JH's house unless she lies :) but ... will he let her.... and for how long... ?
Ep 3/4 PROVIDED LOTS OF INITIAL INFORMATION. Ep 3-4 are 100% necessary bc without them it would be too much info all at once. ALSO that is the pace of FL's memory coming back As her memory comes back, we get pieces of a puzzle, and then we have to put them back into the proper timeline .
The drama shows past, present and future without much order :) As FL gets a memory in "current" time, the drama shows it and the filming is such that you have to figure out it is her memory, not current time, and then YOU have to put that piece into the correct time frame
AND EP 5/6 CLEARED UP ALMOST THE ENTIRE PLOT. And it is not convoluted or boring, it is most mesmerizing as we get to discover little by little as she remembers and ppl make their moves.
THIS DRAMA IS SUPER REALISTIC, THIS IS HOW REAL LIFE WORKS, MANY GROUPS OF THUGS UNDER VARIOUS GANG LORDS. You have to carefully watch
So this drama is such an intriguing and great thriller... AND HOW IT IS FILMED REQUIRES PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION bc very often the scenes from the past look like the scenes from today, and the only way you know it is from the past is because you know the timeline of the plot... for example Adjushi was in prison BEFORE her coma. Also the drama shows scenes from the future, then how it got there...
Keeping track of it all week by week is a rather chore, it is easy to forget the details, esp since nobody here except me is keeping track of details. If more of us did it, it would be a lot easier.
**** My suggestion to drama production team is to summarize the previous episode in the opening scenes... The audience is used to watching frilly mindless stuff and this drama might be overworking their brains.
SEE THE SPOILER FOR MY SUMMARY OF THE PLOT, THE TIMELINE, THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS by the end of ep 6
This is what happens after watching trashy mindless stuff like... Pursuit of Jade, Perfect Crown, or most recently. Sold Out on You.... it becomes hard to See Clearly and Connect The Dots. Lesson learned, anyone?
Loved the opening scene of Ep 4. Go Soo truly did a remarkable job with this role. It was so eery to see him bewildered,…
But then he gave it up. Did you understand the explanation that the Senior gave for that? ep 6 min 21.. and JH's thinking that he can quit it now... bc ... vice Chairman allowed him to separate
really plus it’s too many people it’s just making it more confusing
No it is just right... ep 3/4 set the stage. THIS IS A REALISTIC DRAMA WITH MANY GROUPS OF THUGS . I think ep 6 cleared up almost everything!!!! Now we have most pieces of the puzzle. I am posting a new post
I do not understand why all those bad guys and what is their objectiveVery disjointed
I disagree. I think ep 6 cleared up almost everything!!!! and ep 3/4/5 were needed to build the information, otherwise it would have been an overload. Now we have most pieces of the puzzle. I am posting a new post
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The fact is, they are 100% replaceable.
MDL has ridiculously low ratings for artsy dramas and ridiculously high ratings for fighting stuff - seems like lots of teenagers and trolls
Also the "romance" in this drama is toxic and related to crime.
ML seduces women to get his way and to commit crime
and FL consents to get her revenge
and SFL consents out of entitlement and "buying" a boy toy
If you want something simple to turn your brain off, and just long scenes of "pretty" male faces and staple cheesy cliches and tropes.... a very simple plot.... no wondering about anything... then go watch Sold out on You or Perfect Crown or Pursuit of Jade or something like that.
This drama ML is extremely handsome and you can look at him as long as you want but it is different than looking at say ML in Sold Out on You, where he is put strictly to pose as a pretty photograph and NOT act - his only role is to provide a chance for audience to look at him and fantasize. FL is very cliche... and not very ... potent...
But in this drama, FL is ... a mystery... and demands watching with attention...
And ML here is acting in very complex ways and is an extremely complex character so you can look at him but you also have to THINK about what he is doing - and he is a major con artist and criminal.
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TIMELINE FROM MDL DESCRIPTION
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>>> FL's parents are killed
>>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents
>>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL gets a good opportunity to revenge her parents
>>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia
>>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
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MY TAKE ON THE TIMELINE
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>>> FL's parents are killed
We do not know who ordered the murder and why.
Homeless man Adjushi was paid to say he killed them and he went to jail for it.
FL was livid psycho with rage, visited Adjushi in prison, never listened to anything he had to say, and promised /screamed/made a scene that she will kill him. Adjushi just f.cked her off
>>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents
FL waited for Adjushi to get out of jail
Finally, Adjushi got out of jail and bought a decrepid property
>>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL got a good opportunity to revenge her parents
FL found Adjushi and tried to kill him at his house. Adjushi beat up FL and made her listen to him for the first time. He told FL that Chairman Young Ho (Hee Su's dad) ordered the murder and paid him to take the fall. So FL convinced Adjushi to join her in revenge (this is FL's memory)
So FL befriended HS, who was living with JH.... We are not sure who started first, but we see that JH first kissed FL and so they both cheated on HS... and HS knew it...
SO THIS REVENGE SETUP LASTED FOR 2 YEARS...
AND THEN ...
FL was in the Chairman's house when HS and Chairman were killed, and she drove away from the burning house (this is FL's memory)
>>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia
To be precise, the car accident was WTOD hitting FL's car. Most likely, she was running away from the murderer
>>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
FL wakes up with ONLY JH by her side, telling her he was her fiance. He brings her to "his" house
AND FROM NOW ON WE GET DIFFERENT PIECES OF FL'S MEMORY RETURNING, AS IT HAPPENS, SO WE GET A VIEW OF CURRENT TIME, THEN MEMORY - So future, past and present are all mixed up AND THE AUDIENCE HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH TIME SLOT THAT MEMORY BELONGS TO
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SUMMARY OF MAIN CHARACTERS:
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FL: Myo Jin aka MJ - a poor girl who then shacked up with JH - we meet her as amnesic after she wakes up from coma from car accident after she left the site of murder. We meet her all meek and sleek and later we learn that she was a vitriolic revenge psycho trying to kill people - and is still doing it
ML: Ryo Jun Ho aka JH, whom we meet as a very nice handsome rich company owner / construction tycoon helping FL recover, but then slowly we learn he is a top level gangster
ML is very handsome and he uses women to get ahead
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CHARACTERS:
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CHAIRMAN CHOI (YOUNG HO?) AND HIS DAUGHTER HEE SU of Seokwang Group, - both were killed by .... JH and/ or FL?? - we will find out.
Hee Su was shacking up with JH - who was effectively acting as her gigolo - he used HS to get ahead in arhitecture and he was paid by Chairman in many ways for being HS's lover - Chairman financed Mono architecture company owned by JH and it was under Chairman's "umbrella"
FL was HS's best friend and then JH's secret lover, and HS knew about it
HS and FL were hanging out in a gallery - which is often a front for slush funds and tax evasion.
We dont know yet WHO ordered killing of FL's parents and WHY. Old Chairman or JH or HS or someone else?
See details about this below.
FL's PARENTS - the green house owners, killed by ... ? Adjushi said they were killed by JH. Before her coma, FL was revenging them and trying to kill Adjushi.
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ADJUSHI - the homeless neighbor who was paid to say he murdered FL's parents and who went to jail for it. Adjushi told FL that (Chairman's or JH's?) Chauffeur brokered the deal and told him that Chairman Choi Young Ho ordered that murder. Adjushi was FL's collaborator in revenge but then she had the accident and lost her memory.
Currently, Adjushi has pancreatic cancer, 3 months to live, and he owns a decrepid property in demolition area. So he paid his ex-jail friend, a demolition thug, to help him bust the demolition.
See details below.
CHAUFFEUR: - what was his name Lee Song Ju something?? the guy who escaped the Detective chasing him so the police took the Detective and left him alone. Was he Old Chairman's chauffeur or JH's chauffeur? He was somehow "stirring Adjushi to extort Chairman, FL, and JH" says the text from Adjushi
SO THE QUESTION IS - Did the Chauffeur tell the truth or not? WHO ORDERED THE MURDER AND WHY?
FL: MYO JIN aka MJ - has 2 versions:
version 1. "before coma" super violent rash stupid revenge edition where she was JH's secret lover and she and he cheated on HS - JH was HS's live in - and
2. "after coma" amnesia and quietly investigating her past, and JH keeps her essentially jailed, drugged and monitored and bribes doctors etc to NOT help her recover her memories.
Before coma, FL thought Adjushi was the murderer, and she promised to kill him
He was in jail for many years.
When he got out of jail, FL tried to kill Adjushi but Adjusthi told her what he knew, he said he has proofs ("insurance") and they agreed to cooperate. Seems like FL went to infiltrate Choi family.
After coma, FL restored her phone, found messages from Chauffeur and Adjushi, found them and started investigating with a Detective, and ML tried to prevent her.
ML: RYO JUN HO also called CHOI JUN HO, aka JH, MONO CHAIRMAN, CURRENTLY FAKING TO BE FL's FIANCE - a pretty boy con artist gangster. SERIOUS TOP LEVEL GANGSTER, very rich and powerful well connected, often operating by seducing women for favors.... We see him threatening ppl, using thugs, etc. He bribed to be the ONLY person next to FL after she wakes up from coma with amnesia... He is faking to be FL fiance, keeping FL under druggy improper medication, has hired Purple Hair Gangster Woman to monitor FL, is refusing to help FL recover - he bribed the doctors ....
Before FL's coma, JH was living with HS, and her rich Chairman dad paid him for it Then JH cheated on HS with FL, and then... he and/or FL killed HS adn Chairman.
After coma, JH told FL that he killed HS.
Right now JH is also getting his Mono subcompany to be a separate company, he did shenaningans with the architecture competition for the museum see ep 6 min 21
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TIMELINE OF ML/FL/ADJUSHI
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Adjushi really liked FL's parents. but consented to say he killed them so that he could be paid for going to jail.
We see scenes of FL visiting Adjushi in jail, he was super rude crude violent hostile - and she thought she was the murderer and so she was trying to revenge her parents and murder him.... and she was LIVID MAD about it, totaly out of control...
After many years, Adjushi got out of jail ....
He got 2 bags of money via chauffeur and bought himself some property in a decrepid area
FL TRIED TO MURDER ADJUSHI IN HIS HOUSE BUT HE BEAT HER UP AND TOLD HER HE WAS PAID TO BE FRAMED - and seems like they decided to cooperate against Chairman Choi. FL REMEMBERED THIS IN EP 6. AS SHE WAS DRIVING AWAY, ESCAPING JH AND PURPLE GIRL
At that time, 2 yrs ago, when Adjushi just got out of prison, Adjushi told FL that Chairman Choi is a gangster of such high level that they have no chance, but she said there must be a way and demanded he help her. He said he has "insurance" some proof that can be used against Choi.
SO FL AND ADJUSHI MADE A DEAL TO COOPERATE AND BRING CHAIRMAN CHOI DOWN. ( THat all fell through when FL got hit by WTOD and lost her memories. FL LATER FOUND ADJUSHI FROM MESSAGES ON HER PHONE).
Back to that scene 2 yrs before the coma, when Adjushi and FL make a deal:
Since FL said that her family did not know anyone rich, we conclude that FL then went to Choi family to set up revenge. This is all happening before the car accident...
SO FOR 2 YEARS, FL WAS SETTING UP REVENGE BY BEFRIENDING HS.. ?
Seems like FL befriended HS to bring Chairman Choi Young Ho down in revenge...
Was seducing JH a part of FL's plan? We do not know. We see that JH kissed FL first, on 2 occasions....
HOWEVER, JH is a big gangster and he must have known FL is the daughter of the ppl killed...
So it is very possible that JH was pretending to love MJ and then used her as his pawn in his game to become the chairman.
Then the murder of Chairman and HS happened, and FL remembered that she was at the murder scene and saw HS burning in a raging house fire.
After being at the murder scene seeing HS die in fire, FL drove away'and was hit by a WTOD.
FL woke up from coma without ANY memories. She had nobody by her side except JH. At first he looks like a doting fiance, but later we learned that he bribed the hospital and essentially isolated FL and brainwashed her AND collaboartes with serious gngsters AND blackmails and threatens and bribes people... .
JH brought MJ to his house and lied to her about many things from the past.
JH told MJ that he killed HS.
Later we learn that he bribes doctors to NOT help MJ restore her memory...
So it is entirely possible that JH somehow used MJ to get rid of the Chairman and HS so that he can inherit faster
FL was leaving the house to go to a psychiatrist to recover her memories - the doc knows JH is a swindler and perhaps JH already removed that doc
FL somehow found her old phone and restored, and found a Detective to help her investigate... and they figured out a lot of stuff.... On her phone, she found Chauffer's and Adjushi's messages and called them - and then went to visit Adjushi in ep 4.
So FL left JH's house to go to psychiatrist on some days, and on other days, to roam around with the Detective - ... And JH saw that, got worried, and hired PurpleHead gangster woman to live in the house, monitor FL and prevent her from going out...
JH did not know that PurpleHair worked witih BaldHead to kidnap FL.. and that they will bring the Joseongjok thugs and SellingPeople gang to JH's house.
See below
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PURPLE HEAD GANGSTER WOMAN has purple hair when we first meet her. She is some higher-level crime boss of unknown origins and the girlfirned and slave owner of small kine ganster BOLD HEAD.
JH paid PurpleHead to live in his house and to monitor and "jail" FL (PurpleHead died her hair black for that part). She got paid by JH at least $30K to monitor FL and never let her get out - yet she and BoldHead planned to kidnap FL and sell her - but BoldHead found someone else to sell her to and started working independently from PurpleHead
BOLD HEAD MALE GANGSTER - has a bar and his business is to sell people for money and to extort money. He pays bar and restaurant owners to drug customers, take fake pictures and blackmail them into paying huge amounts of money; or to drug customers and bring them to him so that he can sell them to another gang that ships them out. A "nice person" like FL cashes for about $200,000
Because BoldHead extorted money from some Joseaonjok people, their leaders started chasing BoldHead to recoup the money.
JOSEONJOK aka KOREAN CHINESE GANG consists of TWO thugs - the LongHair / moustache one and the Scrawny one - they take care of other Joseonjok people living locally... One group of them was a victim in a bar that works with Bold Head... and paid huge amounts of money... like $10K or so... So... LongHair and Scrawny are doing their own investigation and trying to recoup that money.
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KIDNAPPINGS OF FL AND BOLD HEAD AND ALL GANGS COLLIDING TIMELINE
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PurpleHead was hired by JH to monitor and "jail" FL but she secretly collaborated with BoldHead to kidnap and sell FL. So in ep 4, Purplehead intentionally let FL go out so that BoldHead can kidnap her, but FL somehow escaped the kidnapping. JH was livid and almost fired PurpleHead. but she promised to do better.
In ep 5, PurpleHead tried to "jail" FL per JH's orders, but FL overheard their call and realized JH is jailing her.. So FL decided to escape and jumped out of window and drove away to ... ? Driving after so long reminded her of going to Adjushi's house before coma and making the deal with Adjushi...so her memories of meeting Adjushi 2 yrs ago, right after he got out of prison, are in ep 6.
but BoldHead and kidnappers gang were following FL in a black van and kidnapped her after she got out of the car.... ..
but Joseonjok thugs were looking for Bald Head, and somehow found the kidnappers van, waited or them to come back (and they came back with drugged kidnapped FL). Then LongHair and Scrawny attacked them, kidnapped BoldHead and left the drugged out FL in the van. They had no idea who she was. THe only reason they left her there is bc Scrawny did not want to use her a slave for rape, she was not his type...
SO FL WOKE UP ALONE IN THE CAR at the start of ep 5 and went home.
JH had no idea that PurpleHair arranged all this and he yelled at her to monitor FL better.....
So in ep 5, Purple Hair tried to drug FL. but FL did not swallow the pills, overheard that Purple Hair and JH were jailing her, and escaped and DROVE AWAY. Ep 6 is about her memories fom the past. So at the end of ep 6, FL is in the car, driving away, where to?
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Ep 6 continues Ep 5 current story about Joseonjok and Bold Head.
How did two Joseaonjok thugs find kidnapper's van (and indirectly saved FL) in ep 5?
They were looking to recoup the money that their fellow Joseonjok friends had to pay in a bar that that worked for BoldHead and drugged them, took fake photos, and blackmailed them... So they kidnapped the bar owner, and he took them to BoldHead's bar... and then bar owner, Long Hair and Scrawny started to follow Bold Head .... I forgot how they found BoldHead while he and the Kidnapper Gang were followng FL in a black van trying to kidnap FL .... ....
Joseonjok thugs saw the empty van... they waited for ppl to return (kidnappers succeeded and returned with drugged FL), then attacked them... (bar owner escaped successfully this time, I think)...
2 Joseonjok thugs chased away the kidnapping gang and kidnapped BoldHead... and tortured him... and he told them about PurpleHead located at JH's house. That led to Joseonjok thugs snooping on PurpleHead at JH house... ... the two Joseonjok and BoldHead went to JH/FL house .... and BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny ... and ... LongHair escaped.
When Joseonjok thugs LongHair and Scrawny attached the kidnappers' van, kidnapped BoldHead and killed/chased others, they left FL in the car instead of taking her as a slave for raping ...bc she was not Scrawny's type... ... !!!! so when FL woke up in that van all alone, she just walked away and went home to JH, who ordered PurpleHair to Jail FL - so FL escaped and drove away.
SO THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION - FL WENT OUT DESPITE PURPLE HEAD MONITORING HER - while PurpleHead was scheming with Bold Head to kidnap FL , THEN PURPLEHEAD WAS TASKED TO "JAIL" FL and FL LEARNED THAT JH ORDERED THAT, SO FL SECRETLY ESCAPED - SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW, took a car and left .
FL WENT TO ....?
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WHERE EVERYONE IS AT THE END OF EP 6:
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FL is driving away in a white car, remembering her visiting Adjushi 2 years ago when he came out of prison.
PurpleHead is all alone in JH's house, panicking... JH still does not know that FL escaped? I think - and PurpleHead bought a Hong Kong passport and plans to leave - and LongHair thug saw that
Joseonjok thugs and their kidnapped victim Bold Head are around JH's house coming to get money from PurpleHead - but BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny... and LongHair ran away when police came.
(BoldHead was kidnapped by Joseonjok thugs and he told them to ask money from PurpleHead - and so Joseonjok ppl went to FL/JH house where PurpleHead is - )
JH bribed the doctor to quit treating FL so that she does not remember. JH also blackmailed ViceChairman of Mono so now JH got his company to separate from Mono i.e JH now has his own company... JH also bailed out of architecture competition so now the Chief Judge knows how big of a scammer JH is... I still dont quite understand what JH was trying to accomplish with that competition or with bailing out of it.
SO AT THIS POINT, ALL THUG'S PATHS ARE CONNECTED AND JOEONJOK ARE UNINTENTIONALLY STARTING TO STEP ON THE TOES OF JH, THE ULTIMATE GANG LEADER....
PURPLE HAIR WILL BE PUNISHED BY JH - but JOSEONJOK ARE ALSO AFTER HER - so she is pretty much isolated and done for unless she makes another deal with JH
BOLD HEAD BETRAYED PURPLE HEAD, MESSED UP KIDNAPPERS, LOST HIS BAR OWNER AND JOSEONJOK IS AFTER HIM - so BoldHead is pretty much done for... He has to lee Korea asap or he dies :)
FL cannot go back to JH's house unless she lies :) but ... will he let her.... and for how long... ?
so that's where we end
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RECAP PER EPISODE
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At the very end of ep 4:
Purple Hair and Bold Head are working together to kidnap and sell FL, so although Purple Girl is supposed to "jail" FL, she let her go out and Bold Head was following FL..
And FL left JH's house bc she found Wang Gi Chal's aka Adjushi phone number and called him and went to visit him.... and he told her she has to get her head straight on if she wants to revenge.. ... he also mentioned 2 yrs ago when he got out of prison and she tried to kill him (AND SHE WILL REMEMBER THAT IN EP 6.)
WE DO NOT REALLY KNOW WHAT ELSE HE TOLD HER
and on her way out, BoldHead and kidnapper gang kidnapped her.... but she was magically saved bc Joseonjok attacked the kidnapper gang and BaldHead, and captured Bold Head = and left FL alone in the car.. ...
EP 5: and then FL came back home and JH ordered PurpleGirl to drug FL and keep her at home for sure
So at this point, FL learns that JH is jailing her with PurpleGirl . and she escapes..
EP 6 is about FL driving away from JH's house, she escaped "the jail" and she is remembering how she visited Adjushi 2 years ago and tried to kill him and they made a deal
WHERE IS FL GOING?
Joseonjok thugs and Bold Head go to JH's house to grab Purple Hair - Bold Head escapes, he and Scrawny fight, LongHair runs away
JH is telling the doctor to NOT help FL remember
In ep4/5 she visits him in present time, after the coma
In ep 6, she remembers visiting him 2 yrs ago
******** RECAP IS IN THE SPOILER. *******
So perhaps this is a good solution, keeping th drama a puzzle, and then writing recaps to tie all lose ends.
. I lost what I wrote so I had to rewrite it :( Please appreciate my efforts :)
Aaagh after literally 4 hours I am done with the recap!!! omg... MDL does not autimatically save as you go so I lost what I wrote and had to retype...
See the spoiler below (I also updated the earlier spoiler)
A TIP FOR ENJOYING THIS DRAMA ie how to play this drama game successfully:
FL's MEMORIES ARE LIKE A PIECE OF A PUZZLE.
YOUR TASK IS TO PUT THAT PIECE INTO THE TIME SLOT IT BELONGS TO.
Bc the drama has scenes totally out of order... first you have to determine which scenes are memories and which are from curent time, and put the scene into the right timeline order
HAVE FUN!!! IT IS ACTUALLY FUN TO DO THIS!!!!
PS - I STRONGLY SUGGEST TO THE PRODUCTION TEAM TO START EVERY EPISODE WITH A SHORT RECAP OF SOME SORTS, IF POSSIBLE. Yeah, the drama's charm is in hodge-podge-out-of-order puzzle pieces scenes.... So maybe keping the puzzle and doing recaps is the solution. But what worries me is that nobody here is posting their questions related to the drama content. I had lots of questions
ALSO that is the pace of her memory coming back
I still say that SR was ALWAYS an immature petulent girl as well as a smart girl. Before, we never got to see her too closely to really get the depth of the petulent and immature, we just had glimpses.
The "immature petulent" SR was shown as chasing JH, whining to mom and grandpa asking for things, harassing Golddiggers, etc.
The "Smart SR" did not really exist at work or at home... SR was shown "smart" getting her way, harassing others, and avoiding any work.
"Smart SR" was shown only regarding the JM issue - and SR was smart bc it was not SR's issue :)
BUT NOW JM ISSUE HAS BECOME A PROBLEM FOR SR PERSONALLY :) and now the petulent immature side of SR comes to the forefront :)
I think the audience is having issues with PARADOX and COMPLEXITY -
SR CAN BE SMART AND ALSO IMMATURE/PETULENT... those are all aspect of her character
THE AUDIENCE IS NOT USED TO SEEING THIS BC SHORT DRAMAS HAVE NO TIME TO SHOW DIFFERENT SIDES OF CHARACTERS IN MORE DEPTH.
HOWEVER I still say that ep 3-4 are 100% necessary bc without them it would be too much info all at once.
ALSO that is the pace of her memory coming back
I FIGURED OUT A LOT MORE
THIS DRAMA REQUIRES INTELLIGENT AND ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE
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TIMELINE FROM MDL DESCRIPTION
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>>> FL's parents are killed
>>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents
>>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL gets a good opportunity to revenge her parents
>>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia
>>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
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MY TAKE ON THE TIMELINE
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>>> FL's parents are killed
We do not know who ordered the murder and why.
Homeless man Adjushi was paid to say he killed them and he went to jail for it.
FL was livid psycho with rage, visited Adjushi in prison, never listened to anything he had to say, and promised /screamed/made a scene that she will kill him. Adjushi just f.cked her off
>>> For 15 yrs FL tries to revenge her parents
FL waited for Adjushi to get out of jail
Finally, Adjushi got out of jail and bought a decrepid property
>>> Finally after 15 yrs, FL got a good opportunity to revenge her parents
FL found Adjushi and tried to kill him at his house. Adjushi beat up FL and made her listen to him for the first time. He told FL that Chairman Young Ho (Hee Su's dad) ordered the murder and paid him to take the fall. So FL convinced Adjushi to join her in revenge (this is FL's memory)
So FL befriended HS, who was living with JH.... We are not sure who started first, but we see that JH first kissed FL and so they both cheated on HS... and HS knew it...
FL was in the Chairman's house when HS and Chairman were killed, and she drove away from the burning house (this is FL's memory)
>>> But revenge does not happen bc FL gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia
To be precise, the car accident was WTOD hitting FL's car. Most likely, she was running away from the murderer
>>> FL tries to remember what happened and finds new info ..
FL wakes up with ONLY JH by her side, telling her he was her fiance. He brings her to "his" house
AND FROM NOW ON WE GET DIFFERENT PIECES OF FL'S MEMORY RETURNING, AS IT HAPPENS, SO WE GET A VIEW OF CURRENT TIME, THEN MEMORY - So future, past and present are all mixed up AND THE AUDIENCE HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH TIME SLOT THAT MEMORY BELONGS TO
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SUMMARY OF MAIN CHARACTERS:
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FL: Myo Jin aka MJ - a poor girl who then shacked up with JH - we meet her as amnesic after she wakes up from coma from car accident after she left the site of murder. We meet her all meek and sleek and later we learn that she was a vitriolic revenge psycho trying to kill people - and is still doing it
ML: Ryo Jun Ho aka JH, whom we meet as a very nice handsome rich company owner / construction tycoon helping FL recover, but then slowly we learn he is a top level gangster
ML is very handsome and he uses women to get ahead
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CHARACTERS:
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CHAIRMAN CHOI (YOUNG HO?) AND HIS DAUGHTER HEE SU of Seokwang Group, - both were killed by .... JH and/ or FL?? - we will find out.
Hee Su was shacking up with JH - who was effectively acting as her gigolo - he used HS to get ahead in arhitecture and he was paid by Chairman in many ways for being HS's lover
FL was HS's best friend and then JH's secret lover, and HS knew about it
HS and FL were hanging out in a gallery - which is often a front for slush funds and tax evasion.
We dont know yet WHO ordered killing of FL's parents and WHY. Old Chairman or JH or HS or someone else?
See details about this below.
FL's PARENTS - the green house owners, killed by ... ? Adjushi said they were killed by JH. Before her coma, FL was revenging them and trying to kill Adjushi.
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ADJUSHI - the homeless neighbor who was paid to say he murdered FL's parents and who went to jail for it. Adjushi told FL that (Chairman's or JH's?) Chauffeur brokered the deal and told him that Chairman Choi Young Ho ordered that murder. Adjushi was FL's collaborator in revenge but then she had the accident and lost her memory.
Currently, Adjushi has pancreatic cancer, 3 months to live, and he owns a decrepid property in demolition area. So he paid his ex-jail friend, a demolition thug, to help him bust the demolition.
See details below.
CHAUFFEUR: - what was his name Lee Su something?? the guy who escaped the Detective chasing him so the police took the Detective and left him alone. Was he Old Chairman's chauffeur or JH's chauffeur?
SO THE QUESTION IS - Did the Chauffeur tell the truth or not? WHO ORDERED THE MURDER AND WHY?
FL: MYO JIN aka MJ - has 2 versions:
version 1. "before coma" super violent rash stupid revenge edition where she was JH's secret lover and she and he cheated on HS - JH was HS's live in - and
2. "after coma" amnesia and quietly investigating her past, and JH keeps her essentially jailed, drugged and monitored and bribes doctors etc to NOT help her recover her memories.
Before coma, FL thought Adjushi was the murderer, and she promised to kill him
He was in jail for many years.
When he got out of jail, Adjusthi told her what he knew, he said he has proofs ("insurance") and they agreed to cooperate. Seems like FL went to infiltrate Choi family.
After coma, FL restored her phone, found messages from Chauffeur and Adjushi, found them and started investigating with a Detective, and ML tried to prevent her.
ML: RYO JUN HO also called CHOI JUN HO, aka JH, MONO CHAIRMAN, CURRENTLY FAKING TO BE FL's FIANCE - a pretty boy con artist gangster. SERIOUS TOP LEVEL GANGSTER, very rich and powerful well connected, often operating by seducing women for favors.... We see him threatening ppl, using thugs, etc. He bribed to be the ONLY person next to FL after she wakes up from coma with amnesia... He is faking to be FL fiance, keeping FL under druggy improper medication, has hired Purple Hair Gangster Woman to monitor FL, is refusing to help FL recover - he bribed the doctors ....
Before FL's coma, JH was living with HS, and her rich Chairman dad paid him for it Then JH cheated on HS with FL, and then... he and/or FL killed HS adn Chairman.
After coma, JH told FL that he killed HS.
Right now JH is also getting his Mono subcompany to be a separate company, he did shenaningans with the architecture competition for the museum see ep 6 min 21
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TIMELINE OF ML/FL/ADJUSHI
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Adjushi really liked FL's parents. but consented to say he killed them so that he could be paid for going to jail.
We see scenes of FL visiting Adjushi in jail, he was super rude crude violent hostile - and she thought she was the murderer and so she was trying to revenge her parents and murder him.... and she was LIVID MAD about it, totaly out of control...
After many years, Adjushi got out of jail ....
He got 2 bags of money via chauffeur and bought himself some property in a decrepid area
FL TRIED TO MURDER ADJUSHI IN HIS HOUSE BUT HE BEAT HER UP AND TOLD HER HE WAS PAID TO BE FRAMED - and seems like they decided to cooperate against Chairman Choi
Adjushi told FL that Chairman Choi is a gangster of such high level that they have no chance, but she said there must be a way and demanded he help her. He said he has "insurance" some proof that can be used against Choi.
SO FL AND ADJUSHI MADE A DEAL TO COOPERATE AND BRING CHAIRMAN CHOI DOWN. ( THat all fell through when FL got hit by WTOD and lost her memories. FL LATER FOUND ADJUSHI FROM MESSAGES ON HER PHONE).
Back to that scene before the coma, when Adjushi and FL make a deal:
Since FL said that her family did not know anyone rich, we conclude that FL then went to Choi family to set up revenge. This is all happening before the car accident...
Seems like FL befriended HS to bring Chairman Choi Young Ho down in revenge...
Was seducing JH a part of FL's plan? We do not know. We see that JH kissed FL first, on 2 occasions....
HOWEVER, JH is a big gangster and he must have known FL is the daughter of the ppl killed...
So it is very possible that JH was pretending to love MJ and then used her as his pawn in his game to become the chairman.
Then the murder of Chairman and HS happened, and FL remembered that she was at the murder scene and saw HS burning in a raging house fire.
FL drove away'and was hit by a WTOD.
FL woke up from coma without ANY memories. She had nobody by her side except JH. At first he looks like a doting fiance, but later we learned that he bribed the hospital and essentially isolated FL and brainwashed her AND collaboartes with serious gngsters AND blackmails and threatens and bribes people... .
JH brought MJ to his house and lied to her about many things from the past.
JH told MJ that he killed HS.
Later we learn that he bribes doctors to NOT help MJ restore her memory...
So it is entirely possible that JH somehow used MJ to get rid of the Chairman and HS so that he can inherit faster
FL was leaving the house to go to a psychiatrist to recover her memories - the doc knows JH is a swindler and perhaps JH already removed that doc
FL somehow found her old phone and restored, and found a Detective to help her investigate... and they figured out a lot of stuff.... On her phone, she found Chauffer's and Adjushi's messages and called them - and then went to visit Adjushi in ep 6.
So FL left JH's house to go to psychiatrist on some days, and on other days, to roam around with the Detective - ... And JH saw that, got worried, and hired PurpleHead gangster woman to live in the house, monitor FL and prevent her from going out...
Then FL went out again and JH found evidence that FL is investigating, so he was really mad at PurpleHead and ordered her to "jail" FL... but FL escaped and went to.... ? Adjushi's house, I think.
JH did not know that PurpleHair worked witih BaldHead to kidnap FL.. and that they will bring the Joseongjok thugs and SellingPeople gang to JH's house.
See below
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PURPLE HEAD GANGSTER WOMAN has purple hair when we first meet her. She is some higher-level crime boss of unknown origins and the girlfirned and slave owner of small kine ganster BOLD HEAD.
JH paid PurpleHead to live in his house and to monitor and "jail" FL (PurpleHead died her hair black for that part). She got paid by JH at least $30K to monitor FL and never let her get out - yet she and BoldHead planned to kidnap FL and sell her - but BoldHead found someone else to sell her to and started working independently from PurpleHead
BOLD HEAD MALE GANGSTER - has a bar and his business is to sell people for money and to extort money. He pays bar and restaurant owners to drug customers, take fake pictures and blackmail them into paying huge amounts of money; or to drug customers and bring them to him so that he can sell them to another gang that ships them out. A "nice person" like FL cashes for about $200,000
Because BoldHead extorted money from some Joseaonjok people, their leaders started chasing BoldHead to recoup the money.
JOSEONJOK aka KOREAN CHINESE GANG consists of TWO thugs - the LongHair / moustache one and the Scrawny one - they take care of other Joseonjok people living locally... One group of them was a victim in a bar that works with Bold Head... and paid huge amounts of money... like $10K or so... So... LongHair and Scrawny are doing their own investigation and trying to recoup that money.
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KIDNAPPINGS OF FL AND BOLD HEAD AND ALL GANGS COLLIDING TIMELINE
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PurpleHead was hired by JH to monitor and "jail" FL but she secretly collaborated with BoldHead to kidnap and sell FL. So Purplehead intentionally let FL go out so that BoldHead can kidnap her, but FL and Detective somehow escaped the kidnapping. JH was livid and almost fired PurpleHead. but she promised to do better.
So PurpleHead tried to "jail" FL per JH's orders, but FL overheard their call and realized JH is jailing her.. So FL decided to escape and jumped out of window and drove away to ... ? Adjushi house? to some really decrepid housing area... .. Seems like driving after so long reminded her of going to Adjushi's house before coma and making the deal with Adjushi...
but BoldHead and kidnappers gang were following FL in a black van and kidnapped her after she got out of the car.... ..
but Joseonjok thugs were looking for Bald Head, and somehow found the kidnappers van, waited or them to come back (and they came back with drugged kidnapped FL). Then LongHair and Scrawny attacked them, kidnapped BoldHead and left the drugged out FL in the van. They had no idea who she was. THe only reason they left her there is bc Scrawny did not want to use her a slave for rape, she was not his type...
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How did two Joseaonjok thugs find kidnapper's van? They were looking to recoup the money that their fellow Joseonjok friends had to pay in a bar that that worked for BoldHead and drugged them, took fake photos, and blackmailed them... So they kidnapped the bar owner, and he took them to BoldHead's bar... and then bar owner, Long Hair and Scrawny started to follow Bold Head .... I forgot how they found BoldHead while he and the Kidnapper Gang were followng FL in a black van trying to kidnap FL .... ....
Joseonjok thugs saw the empty van... they waited for ppl to return (kidnappers succeeded and returned with drugged FL), then attacked them... (bar owner escaped successfully this time, I think)...
2 Joseonjok thugs chased away the kidnapping gang and kidnapped BoldHead... and tortured him... and he told them about PurpleHead located at JH's house. That led to Joseonjok thugs snooping on PurpleHead at JH house... ... the two Joseonjok and BoldHead went to JH/FL house .... and BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny ... and ... LongHair escaped.
When Joseonjok thugs LongHair and Scrawny attached the kidnappers' van, kidnapped BoldHead and killed/chased others, they left FL in the car instead of taking her as a slave for raping ...bc she was not Scrawny's type... ... !!!! so when FL woke up in that van all alone, she just walked away. Where to? we dont know.
SO THAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION - FL WENT OUT DESPITE PURPLE HEAD MONITORING HER - while PurpleHead was scheming with Bold Head to kidnap FL , THEN PURPLEHEAD WAS TASKED TO "JAIL" FL and FL LEARNED THAT JH ORDERED THAT, SO FL SECRETLY ESCAPED - SHE JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW, took a car and left .
FL WENT TO SOME DECREPID AREA. Seems like she went to SEE ADJUSHI IN DEMOLITION AREA?
ONCE OUT OF THE CAR, FL WAS CAUGHT BY BOLDHEAD AND KIDNAPPERS AND ESCAPED BC THE KIDNAPPERS WERE BEAT BY JOSEONJOK THUGS
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WHERE EVERYONE IS AT THE END OF EP 6:
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FL walked out of the empty kidnappers' van and we last see her still somewhat drugged hobbling along the dark street. It was not shown where FL went. She knows JH was jailing her... so I dont think she can go back to JH's house... unless she is a major liar and willing to risk being killed or imprisoned? Where can she go??? to Adjushi?
PurpleHead is all alone in JH's house, panicking... JH still does not know that FL escaped? I think - and PurpleHead bought a Hong Kong passport and plans to leave - and LongHair thug saw that
Joseonjok thugs and their kidnapped victim Bold Head are around JH's house coming to get money from PurpleHead - but BoldHead escaped and beat up Scrawny... and LongHair ran away
(BoldHead was kidnapped by Joseonjok thugs and he told them to ask money from PurpleHead - and so Joseonjok ppl went to FL/JH house where PurpleHead is - )
JH bribed the doctor to quit treating FL so that she does not remember. JH also blackmailed ViceChairman of Mono so now JH got his company to separate from Mono i.e JH now has his own company... JH also bailed out of architecture competition so now the Chief Judge knows how big of a scammer JH is... I still dont quite understand what JH was trying to accomplish with that competition or with bailing out of it.
SO AT THIS POINT, ALL THUG'S PATHS ARE CONNECTED AND JOEONJOK ARE UNINTENTIONALLY STARTING TO STEP ON THE TOES OF JH, THE ULTIMATE GANG LEADER....
PURPLE HAIR WILL BE PUNISHED BY JH - but JOSEONJOK ARE ALSO AFTER HER - so she is pretty much isolated and done for unless she makes another deal with JH
BOLD HEAD BETRAYED PURPLE HEAD, MESSED UP KIDNAPPERS, LOST HIS BAR OWNER AND JOSEONJOK IS AFTER HIM - so BoldHead is pretty much done for... He has to lee Korea asap or he dies :)
FL is beat up and cannot go back to JH's house unless she lies :) but ... will he let her.... and for how long... ?
so that's where we end
ALSO that is the pace of FL's memory coming back
As her memory comes back, we get pieces of a puzzle, and then we have to put them back into the proper timeline .
The drama shows past, present and future without much order :) As FL gets a memory in "current" time, the drama shows it and the filming is such that you have to figure out it is her memory, not current time, and then YOU have to put that piece into the correct time frame
AND EP 5/6 CLEARED UP ALMOST THE ENTIRE PLOT.
And it is not convoluted or boring, it is most mesmerizing as we get to discover little by little as she remembers and ppl make their moves.
THIS DRAMA IS SUPER REALISTIC, THIS IS HOW REAL LIFE WORKS, MANY GROUPS OF THUGS UNDER VARIOUS GANG LORDS. You have to carefully watch
So this drama is such an intriguing and great thriller... AND HOW IT IS FILMED REQUIRES PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION bc very often the scenes from the past look like the scenes from today, and the only way you know it is from the past is because you know the timeline of the plot... for example Adjushi was in prison BEFORE her coma. Also the drama shows scenes from the future, then how it got there...
Keeping track of it all week by week is a rather chore, it is easy to forget the details, esp since nobody here except me is keeping track of details. If more of us did it, it would be a lot easier.
**** My suggestion to drama production team is to summarize the previous episode in the opening scenes... The audience is used to watching frilly mindless stuff and this drama might be overworking their brains.
SEE THE SPOILER FOR MY SUMMARY OF THE PLOT, THE TIMELINE, THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS by the end of ep 6
I think ep 6 cleared up almost everything!!!! Now we have most pieces of the puzzle. I am posting a new post