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Girl Who Sees Smells: Episode 6

Another day, another case to solve, though this one comes with a bit of fun for the whole detective team. Cho-rim and Mu-gak grow closer yet, as some brutal honesty gives both of them something important to think about when it comes to their future, at least as friends. But an important break in the Barcode Murders investigation simultaneously brings the detectives closer to solving the murders, and puts them all in more danger than they realize, unless they can work fast to catch the killer.

EPISODE 6 RECAP

Under the falling cherry blossoms, with a sleeping Mu-gak’s head in her lap, Cho-rim leans down to gently blow a blossom off his cheek. Suddenly Mu-gak wakes to find their faces very close together, and they both freeze. Mu-gak sits up and wordlessly folds Cho-rim into a hug, and she melts. “I like you, too,” she tells him, and Mu-gak just smiles and hugs her closer.

But it’s just her imagination — Mu-gak is still asleep on Cho-rim’s lap and it’s beginning to rain. She shakes him awake and he apologizes for falling asleep on her, asking what he’s like when asleep like that. Cho-rim says he’s like a zombie and, still befuddled from her daydream, hobbles away even though her legs are half-asleep from his weight.

Mu-gak is adorably confused at her strange behavior, but follows her to her bus stop to see her off. He’s even more thrown off when she gets on the bus in a hurry. After she sits, she motions for him to check his hoodie, and he finds the little teddy bear he gave her. He jumps on the bus to ask why she gave the bear back.

Cho-rim fibs that it’s because he said he got it as a freebie for buying one, and she doesn’t care for freebies. Mu-gak pouts that she doesn’t even know if this bear was the free one, and the bears were identical anyway. She says she accepted it because she didn’t want to hurt his feelings, but he just says that since she accepted it anyway, to take it back and throw it away if she doesn’t want it.

Knowing it was really for his sister, Cho-rim gives herself away by being horrified at the thought of binning the bear, and she gives it back to him again. She tells him to keep and treasure it, and gets off the bus quickly. Mu-gak accidentally squeezes the bear, causing it to repeat his message to Eun-seol, and realizes it’s the one he meant to leave for his sister, and also realizes that Cho-rim knows and that’s why she gave it back.

Baek-kyung packs up his office, having accepted another job all the way in Senegal. He finds Cho-rim’s medical files and packs them too, and suddenly connects Mu-gak’s screaming at him with the name Choi Eun-seol. He says to himself that if the wrong Choi Eun-seol was killed accidentally, then the true witness must still be alive. He staggers a bit with the realization: “Oh Cho-rim is the witness.”

Later he talks to the company that shipped all his files, and discovers that they accidentally took Jae-hee’s wine box, the wine box he asked Baek-kyung to remove from his house when he was in jail. Jae-hee comes to his office for the box, but he’s not angry as long as the company found the box. The friends are sad they won’t see each other for a couple of years, and make plans for dinner.

Cho-rim talks to her director, and tells him that Mu-gak won’t be her partner anymore. He reminds her that he only gave her a second chance if Mu-gak was her partner, because alone, she’s just not very good. Ouch. He does offer to let her stay as crew, though he can’t pay her, and Cho-rim gratefully accepts.

But after Cho-rim leaves, the director asks Woo-ya to help out Cho-rim by getting her a partner and some comedy ideas, so that she can make it into the troupe eventually. Awww, that’s so sweet, and Woo-ya grumpily agrees. Meanwhile Cho-rim starts her new job working for Jae-hee as a waitress, and he smiles at her enthusiasm.

Before he leaves the country, Baek-kyung sits to write a letter to Cho-rim (who he also addresses as “Choi Eun-seol,” unaware that she doesn’t remember who she really is). He says he’s been wanting to apologize to her, because once, he wished for her death. We see that she’d been in the same hospital as Baek-kyung’s wife, at the same time as his wife had been waiting for a heart transplant.

Cho-rim had been given zero chance of survival, and he’d hoped she would die so his wife could get her heart. But Cho-rim had hung on, and his wife was dying, so Baek-kyung decided to facilitate Cho-rim’s death. He’d planned to inject her with something that would kill her painlessly, but when the time came, he had stopped at the last second. This explains so much.

In the letter he apologizes for nearly killing her, and says that she seems so happy these days. He writes that he doesn’t want to shatter that happiness, so he probably won’t send this letter. He asks her forgiveness, seals the letter, and leaves it on his desk. But when he’s not looking, a nurse mistakenly packs the letter with some books.

Mu-gak comes to eat at the restaurant and sits in Cho-rim’s section, but carefully avoids looking at her even while ordering. Hilariously, he orders the wine that’s on special two-for-one — he’s so freaking precious when he’s being petty.

When she brings the two wine glasses, he stops her from leaving and asks with extreme seriousness which is the free one and which is the one he paid for. Cho-rim rolls her eyes so hard, ha. She tells him to decide, but he reminds her that she said she could tell.

Jae-hee interrupts their bickering to thank Mu-gak for proving his innocence in the murder of his chef colleague. Mu-gak apologizes on behalf of the police, and Jae-hee proposes a toast with the two wine glasses. Interestingly, they clink glasses but neither of them actually drinks.

Mu-gak takes a call from Baek-kyung, who mysteriously asks him to meet at a church that evening. Jae-hee seems relaxed, but he sees who the call was from and listens in to Mu-gak’s side of the conversation.

Baek-kyung meets the deliveryman at Jae-hee’s house to receive Jae-hee’s wine box. The man asks him to check the contents, and Baek-kyung slices open his thumb on the latch. Jae-hee arrives home just as the deliveryman is leaving, noticing Baek-kyung’s bleeding thumb as he takes his box back. He offers to bandage it inside, but Baek-kyung says he’s busy with moving plans, and quickly leaves.

Inside, Jae-hee opens the wine box, and to exactly nobody’s surprise at this point, it’s full of Ma-ri’s missing diaries. He flips through one diary and when he gets to the end, we see that he’s pasted into the book a photo of the barcode that was sliced into Ma-ri’s wrist — I knew it, he’s the Barcode Killer! But his eyes narrow with fury to see a smear of fresh blood on the photo… Baek-kyung’s blood.

The innocent-after-all Baek-kyung drives away, valiantly trying to keep his composure. A short flashback shows that he saw the photo of Ma-ri’s wrist in the book just before Jae-hee arrived home, and he’d only just barely managed to keep from giving away his horror to find that his friend is a serial killer. As he drives, he focuses on one thing — he must protect Cho-rim, the only witness.

Baek-kyung goes to the church where he arranged to meet with Mu-gak, and sits to wait in the pews. The door opens, but the person who enters isn’t Mu-gak… it’s Jae-hee, and there’s literal murder in his eyes. Oh no.

Baek-kyung plays it cool, and the two men sit to talk. Jae-hee asks why Baek-kyung’s here when he said he had to prepare for his move, and asks if they can pray together. Jae-hee clasps his hands and closes his eyes serenely, but Baek-kyung can only sit and shake with fear, unsure what to do. He decides to make a run for it, but Jae-hee grabs him by the arm, quick as a snake.

When Mu-gak arrives, the church is empty. He sits to wait for Baek-kyung, but something tells me he’ll be waiting for a very long time.

Since Mu-gak made a point to give Detective Kang all the credit for catching the drug dealer and his murderous employee, Kang is presented with a Certificate of Excellence and a cash reward to take his team out for some fun. Cho-rim is at the station borrowing some old uniforms for the Frog Troupe, and deflects when Mu-gak asks when they’re going to rehearse again.

They run into Detective Kang as he struts through the office, but a mix-up with the uniform hats reveals that Kang was trying to take the cash prize for himself, ha. Busted, Kang proposes that they all go out to spend the day together, and even invites Cho-rim along. She tries to politely decline, and I die when Mu-gak mutters that she has to go since she found the envelope. No, that’s not why, it’s because you liiike her.

They head out to the country to a little chicken restaurant, where Cho-rim comments to Mu-gak that for a chicken joint, it smells way too much like ramyun. He just brushes it off as probably the owner’s personal food.

They all agree not to call each other by rank while off-duty, and Kang especially likes it when Cho-rim calls him “brother.” They decide to play a game of Go-Stop, betting forehead flicks instead of money. Ki and Yeh form a team, Kang decides to be his own team, leaving Mu-gak and Cho-rim as the third team. Cho-rim worries that Mu-gak isn’t good at this game, but he insists he’s great.

Yeah, so, he’s not. Kang’s on a roll though, dispensing forehead flicks with great relish, even with Cho-rim. Mu-gak of course can’t feel a thing. Kang decides to up the stakes, betting punches instead of flicks, and Cho-rim agrees but shoves Mu-gak over to let her play.

Uh-oh, when a girl ties her hair back, you know it’s on. She’s pretty good, and Mu-gak cutely eggs her on as she uses her scent-seeing ability to gauge whether Kang and Ki are bluffing by seeing their scents change. She wins, and Mu-gak gets the dubious honor of punching his boss square in the face. At least he respectfully apologizes first?

Later as they eat (and Kang and Ki compare bruises, ouch), they ask Cho-rim how she got so good at the game. She says Frog Troupe does a skit about a professional gambler, and Detective Yeh whines that she should have told them earlier while rubbing his sore forehead, ha.

They complain that Lieutenant Yeom should have joined them and that she’s too intense, but surprisingly, Kang actually comes to her defense. He says her father was a policeman and was killed in the line of duty when she was young, which seems to touch Mu-gak in particular.

Outside, Detective Ki notices something unusual about the size of the building — it appears bigger on the outside than on the inside. Detective Yeh scoffs that only in novels do buildings have secret rooms. A tiny little granny passes them carrying a covered basket, and Cho-rim notices that oddly, the scent of money is coming from under the blanket.

She tells Mu-gak the lady must be rich because she smells (sees) a lot of money here, which is strange since there aren’t many customers. Mu-gak thinks a moment then asks Kang to call the station for reinforcements, as he thinks this is an illegal gambling house.

Ki, Yeh, and Mu-gak go back inside and find a hidden door, and HAHA, Ki tries to count to three but on two, Mu-gak shoves them both through the doorway and right into a huge room filled with people playing cards. They all run, but are stopped outside by the team that Detective Kang called in.

Cho-rim is knocked to the ground in the kerfuffle, and Mu-gak hears her cry out and drops his suspect to run to her. He picks her up and brushes her off, then leads her to a safe place. All together now… AWWWW. As they file all of the offenders onto a bus to the police station, the whole team give each other thumbs-up.

At the station, the restaurant owner asks how they knew it was a gambling house. Mu-gak explains that the place smelled of ramyun even though it was a chicken place, since ramyun is faster to feed to large groups. Then the gamblers started running out of money and borrowed some from the owner, which is why the granny was walking around with baskets of money. Again Mu-gak gives all the credit to Detective Kang, who grins at him gratefully.

That night Cho-rim is excited to see Mu-gak waiting for her to come home, and stops to spray on perfume. He brings a gift of red bean cakes from Detective Kang, and asks her to sit down to talk. He asks her again to stop getting involved in the investigations, and starts to explain, but Cho-rim interrupts.

She says that lately, she feels like her “devil-colored eye” is finally useful, and that she can do something with it that helps people. She says he probably can’t understand how that feels, but Mu-gak just worries that it’s too dangerous. Cho-rim tells him that he’s always right next to her at the investigations: “You can protect me when I’m in danger.”

Her utter trust in him seems to rock Mu-gak, and he can’t think of anything to say in response. She goes inside, leaving Mu-gak gulping air like a stranded fish.

Mu-gak goes to Baek-kyung’s empty office, where his nurse says he’s gone, and leaving for Senegal today. He makes a quick call to put a travel ban on Baek-kyung, but his flight already left that morning. However, Baek-kyung wasn’t on it, and there’s no sign of his leaving the country.

Jae-hee makes a meal, notably plating up two portions. Mu-gak arrives at his place as he’s eating and Jae-hee offers to make him something if he’s hungry, which tells me that the second meal was already fed to Baek-kyung (who is probably in the “wine cellar,” I’m assuming). Mu-gak declines, and they sit to talk over coffee.

Mu-gak asks when Jae-hee saw Baek-kyung last, and he answers that it was two days ago when he found out his friend was moving to Senegal. He expresses surprise that Baek-kyung hasn’t left the country, and shows Mu-gak the box of books that Baek-kyung mailed to him (the same box in which the nurse packed his letter to Cho-rim).

At the station, Mu-gak and Lieutenant Yeom talk about how it’s strange that Baek-kyung would tell everyone he was leaving the country, but never get on his plane. If he was fleeing the country he would have done the opposite, and caught a flight in secret. Yeom suggests they put Baek-kyung on the wanted list.

Mu-gak meets Cho-rim at a fan meeting for Jung-shin, the bassist from the kpop band CNBLUE, giving the innocent idol the side-eye when he shakes Cho-rim’s hand. HA, I love meta-funnies. Cho-rim shows how Jung-shin’s distinctive autograph can only be read upside-down, but Mu-gak is annoyed that his thunder was stolen and throws a package onto the table at her (“It’s not a freebie!”).

Co-rim gapes at him when she opens the box to find sexy lingerie, and a matching set of furry handcuffs. HAHAHA~snort~, that’s awesome, especially considering Mu-gak’s admitted love of handcuffs. But he was clearly shipped the wrong items, and Cho-rim calls to check the shipping barcodes. As she describes the barcode to the operator, Mu-gak looks at Jung-shin’s inverted autograph again and gets an idea.

He goes back to the station and checks out the barcodes from the victims’ arms, which previously didn’t seem to mean anything. He flips them over, and suddenly he sees the pattern. Lieutenant Yeom calls a meeting and Mu-gak explains that the barcodes are the same as those found on books. The murderer is comparing his victims to books, for some reason, and there’s a pattern to those numbers too — Mu-gak can even predict the identifying number that will be on the next “book,” or victim.

At his home, Jae-hee prepares two identical meals again… at least his victims eat well before dying? He takes an elevator in his home down to an underground library, and removes a thick book from his desk. He prints out a barcode sticker to put on the book, with the same identifying number that Mu-gak just predicted. On the cover is an engraving of the name “Chun Baek-kyung,” and the dates December 23, 1980 to March 7, 2015. Oh. Shit.

Smiling contentedly, Jae-hee takes the book to a shelf and lines it up with the previous books in his grisly “series,” each one marked with one of the same barcodes he carved into his victims.

COMMENTS

I KNEW IT. I knew this guy wasn’t right. I don’t know if I really believed Jae-hee was the Barcode Killer until this episode, but his whole demeanor from the beginning was just off somehow. He never seemed all that distraught over his girlfriend going missing, then found dead, and he’s never really reacted to other events like a normal, feeling person would. When he did display reactions, like his chef friend being killed, that eery blank face would show up again as soon as he was alone.

Now that we’ve identified our Big Bad, it opens up even more mysteries to solve: What are Jae-hee’s motives for the killings? How does he choose his victims? Why only one of two victims a year? Does he have multiple white rooms for the times he chooses two victims, since we saw Ma-ri in a room by herself, and we know there was another victim alive somewhere at that time? And what significance do the books in Jae-hee’s library carry? Obviously the books are a message or a form of memento, at least to himself. But why books? As a bibliophile myself, I’m dying to know.

I do have one complaint, and that’s that it’s lazy storytelling that the police never thought, in four years, to try looking at the codes from the other side. You’d think that the actual physical message the killer leaves on his victims’ bodies would be the first thing the investigators would want to decode. I do think they tried, since we saw that the carvings from the bodies had been converted to actual barcodes in the police files, which shows that an effort was made at some point. But really, nobody thought to turn them over? And even upside-down, there would still be an obvious pattern. Ah well, at least now we know what they mean, if not why they relate to books, specifically.

I’ll admit I was starting to actually like Baek-kyung in episode 5, and even more so in this episode. So I hope he’s rescued, because I would be sad if he’s killed off just when I was starting to think he’s a pretty nice guy after all. Yes, in a moment of weakness and great emotional turmoil he considered committing an unforgivable act, but in his defense (if considering murder can have a defense), he thought Cho-rim was going to die anyway and was trying to save a life, too. And who among us hasn’t had horrible thoughts? What makes us better than animals is that they stay as thoughts, and we don’t act on them. In the end Baek-kyung’s humanity prevailed and he did the right thing, even if it meant losing his wife. So I forgive Baek-kyung for his momentary lapse in judgment, especially since it seems like he’s been following Cho-rim around in an attempt to make amends. I only hope he actually gets a chance to do that.

Now that we know who the killer is, I expect the Barcode murders to take a more pervasive role in subsequent episodes, though I hope the show still keeps in the smaller cases that allow Cho-rim and Mu-gak to work together and become closer emotionally. Like Cho-rim said, helping Mu-gak gives her strange ability a purpose and makes her feel less of a monster, by using that ability to help people in a meaningful way. I also noticed that for the first time, she didn’t mention their deal for him to help her with her audition — she’s helping him now for the right reasons, and not just to get something she wants for herself. We’ve been saying for weeks that Cho-rim’s ability, and her courage and tenacity, would make her a fantastic cop. Maybe this experience will give her a new purpose in life, who knows?

And Cho-rim helping Mu-gak solve cases could be the way to break through to Mu-gak personally and heal him, too. Cho-rim’s absolute faith that he can keep her safe cuts right to the heart of why Mu-gak can’t feel anything in the first place — that he couldn’t protect his sister. The fact that Cho-rim knows that, and yet still believes that she’ll be safe as long as she’s near Mu-gak, just gets me right here. And since he’s a detective for the sole purpose of finding his sister’s killer, I would love to see him go back to his original career that he seemed more suited for, and let Cho-rim do all the sleuthing from now on.

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I continue to enjoy the heck out of this kdrama. The pairing of the various cast members is just so great, and the writing is taking us along for a marvelous ride.

I wondered 2 ep ago in a post when and if the bar code was of any value, or if anyone thought to scan it for same. Hummmmm, interesting development . . . . . .

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@ midwest mz

Yes, and we also discussed it at some length in the last recap thread LOL! and considered if it might have a message taken individually or together. Now we have the book ISBN theme behind the barcodes, and the info from the Spoiler on the webtoon (Comment 47 if you don't mind being spoiled). Still, I'm not sure how it links up well in our show unless more backstory is given to us about Chef, so we know if having book barcodes makes sense for him as it did in the Web toon.

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Mu-gak did ask the question you are asking in one of the earlier episodes, except he was a nobody at that time, so he eventually got kicked out from the room by Chief Kang lol. I'll always remember this scene cause it's hilarious.

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Yeah and it seemed pretty clear the answer was "no, they never thought they could be real codes" so it's not as big of a shock that they just recently checked and NOW he's tried flipping the codes and now they do reveal something.

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Are there 2 murders a year? I thought it was once a year. Was there another person held in captivity the same time as Joo Ma Ri ? Confused..

And I was thinking why did Cho Rim bother to put on perfume before meeting Mo Guk when he cannot smell anything anyway lol...

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@prettysup

I was wondering the same thing... I thought only 1 person was held captive at a time ... except for Cho Rim's parents, maybe.

A confusion with the fake barcode killing by Det Tak? :)

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About the perfume thing - LOL! Yeah, that's true!

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"And I was thinking why did Cho Rim bother to put on perfume before meeting Mo Guk when he cannot smell anything anyway lol…"

For a simple reason, it didn't hit her at that time that Mu-gak is different from other guys and that's the most normal thing any girl would do haha

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Also, Cho Rim can actually *see* her perfume so for her it's the exact same thing as putting on lip gloss or spritzing your face.

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My mother always fixes her hair before she takes a phone call. It's the attitude.

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@Jon G.

So it's like the phone can ring all she wants, I need to get my hair fixed first, that's what's important?
Hahahaha your mama sure has attitude :D

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Like: Phone rings. My mother doesn't go to the living room where the phone is, but she goes to the bathroom instead to check her hair and fix it if necessary. It's plain rude to talk to people when your hair or clothes look disheveled.

I'm used to let it ring for a while when I call her.

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I think another guy was held captive and murdered at the same time as Joo Ma Ri. The killer is killing one to two persons, at the same time of every year, consecutively for a few years now. The police did expect Joo to be the serial killer's next victim but too bad they can't do anything to help her.

Why killer? Why are you doing this?? You psycho!

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Are u referring to the other guy who was missing at the same time as Joo Ma Ri ? Hmm.. but was he found dead later on the 7th day? I dont remember it was so...

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@Gb is right. It's all in my imagination, I must've watched too much OCR, I'm starting to imagine things lol

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@ neutral and prettysup

There was only mention that there was more than 1 missing person, but after Ju Ma Ri, no others turned up with the same MO, except the copy cat killing of the gym instructor. So I don't think more than one person is being held captive at any one time.

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@Gb

Oh you are right :)
When Lieutenant Yeom first came, she brought two files of two separate missing persons (Joo Ma Ri and another guy) with her. Apparently, both of them were categorized as potential victims of the barcode killer. Obviously Joo was confirmed to be a victim of the serial killer later on but no one knows what happened to the other guy :P my bad, haha

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i did notice in his library that there are actually 7 books with barcodes (including the doc's) and 2 blanks. so unless he gave the fisherman's couple one volume each with the same barcode there has to be a victim we don't know yet? and who are the blanks? One before and one after the Jo Ma-ri book i think.

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I agree on how good pyc's manner and attitude bts.

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@ iana,

You do? He seems to care about the people he works with, really. I was a little surprised, when I came across one BTS of RTP, and HJM (female lead), after saying goodbye to everyone, went to him, and she gave him a hug. He hugged her back, and you could tell that they had been good colleagues. I was a little surprised, but in a good way, you know what I mean? It was really nice to see that she looked for him, and then SHE gave him a hug. PYC seems to give good hugs, by the way.

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There were plot-holes but I wouldn't say they are illogical. There are missing connections, yes, but I guess the problem would be not the writing but the editing. It seems like they're really trying to pack everything in in one episode that some scenes were not executed that well. Maybe it's just me, but everything in this drama is making sense. It might not be THAT well-executed, and the establishments that lead from one event to another might not be smooth, but they were not to the point unintelligible.

Anyway, on a few people saying Dr. Chun could have just ran away immediately when Chef Kwon went in the Church, that's a kind of long judgment considering that even if he now knows that the chef is the murderer, he couldn't just act rashly by running away, so I guess any scared person trying to feign ignorance would opt to do that. Chef Kwon overhearing Mu-gak's conversation with the Doctor was too coincidental, but I'd let it pass. And I also do think that the distance between him and the Chef was an ample amount of distance for the Chef to have heard it since he was pretty close by the table.

This show just wins every single time with the build-up of the romance, and I find it nice considering how these two were linked together. The show started out with just the right balance of light and dark, so I am taking this romance build-up as a sign that when everything gets revealed, there won't be that super-angsty drama between the two. Because if there's one thing that's so loveable about this soon-to-be-couple (I couldn't say couple yet, 'cause they're not officially a couple yet in the drama hehe) is that when they have some misunderstandings, at the end of the day, they talk about it. They don't let it stretch for too long unlike other drama couple. For instance, in episode 3 (or was it 4?), Cho-rim immediately went to apologize to Mu-gak after she learned that he begged the troupe leader to give her a chance. Or, in the recent episode, Mu-gak went on to visit Cho-rim in the restaurant to clear the buy-one-get-one free misunderstanding. I have hope that this kind of dynamic would stretch on to the bigger reveal in the future.

Girl Who Sees Smells is not as strong as the other mystery thriller genre, but it's not like it's failing us all. It takes on a quite simple logic in the scene connections, but not to the point that it's illogical. More than that, it definitely wins in the romance and comedy. It's one thing for each lead to perform well on their own, but it's entirely a grander thing when they actually click together on-screen.

Thanks for the recap, Lollypip! i enjoy reading your insights about this show. I'm glad you chose to do recaps for this, otherwise I wouldn't have started watching it. I hope this drama receives more love because it's one of the few airing dramas these days that's actually enjoyable. (And woah, this part was posted just last night, and the comments already reached 200+) I hope the...

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...latter half does well!

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Thumbs up. I pretty much agree with every word you said here.

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Well said!

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Well said!

I agree with your opinion as well. At first I was concerned with plot holes, and also lazy writing (example:the letter Dr Chun wrote to Cho Rim which 'accidentally' being packed together with the books that Dr Chun supposedly returned to Chef). I felt like the writer just throw everything as long as it makes sense. It does but honestly it did bothered me but not anymore.
Plot holes or lazy writing aside, the story of our leads makes up for everything, at least for me. I decided to ignore those stuffs or else I wont be able to enjoy this drama ^^

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I was going to write this comment, but you made it so I didn't need to! Thank you :)

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to think that I came with a low expectation, this show is exceeded my expectation honestly! I enjoyed it so far..A LOT!

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Thanks so much for recapping! This drama didn't really catch my eye until I started reading your reviews, then I spent the better part of yesterday catching up and I have to say I'm pretty smitten. Our leads have awesome chemistry and I pretty much like all of the characters, apart from Jae-hee, whos's been pretty dull up to this point. I'd like it if they would elaborate on the murder plotline without losing any of the lighthearted moments which make this show so endearing. By the way, is anybody else impressed by Lieutenant Yeom's character? I can't say why but she's growing on me. Anyhow, looking forward to the next episode!

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Actually i didn't understand why Dr Chun knows about the witness thing? Does it mean he was a partner of the Barcode killer chef jaehee? if not how does he know about the case? and if the chef jaehee was really the barcode killer that cho-rim witnessed, then why did the chef jaehee kill the wrong eun-seol? isn't it weird? and we did see that it was Dr chun who had the bloody sleeves in ep1 and knocked Mu-gak right? so rly, what happened there?? i'm still puzzled with these pieces and i'm not sure if its because i've missed some details out or there are really pieces left not revealed?

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How Dr Chun knows about the witness thing? Coz in ep5, Mugak stormed into his room, grabbed his neck, and showed him his sister's photo and told him his sis wasn't the witness. Dr Chun wasn't told of her name (he would only know she's a Choi) and she was the wrong witness for what kind of case though. Like all the other "plotholes" in this drama, we weren't shown how he connected the dots.

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I rewatched ep 6. Ok, it did show Dr Chun connecting the dots while he was packing his stuff in his office. I think Mugak did mention "Eun seol-i" but this wasn't in the subtitles. LollyPip also has recapped this part: He finds Cho-rim’s medical files and packs them too, and suddenly connects Mu-gak’s screaming at him with the name Choi Eun-seol. He says to himself that if the wrong Choi Eun-seol was killed accidentally, then the true witness must still be alive. He staggers a bit with the realization: “Oh Cho-rim is the witness.”

Dr Chun also knew that CR is the daughter of the fishermen couple, so I guess that's how he linked it to the Barcode Murder.

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At last!! Nam Goong Min finally stops being a shady is-he-or-isn't-he smooth-talker and becomes an outright villain, in a deliciously evil nail-ring-twisty kinda way *muahaha*

There's still plenty of mysteries left to solve, and plenty of room for an accomplice (although I think Chef Jae Hee doesn't seem much like he's one for team work). Some of my burning questions are:

- When will Lt Yeom and Mugak find out that Cho Rim is Eun Sol, the missing witness? I'd love for Dr Chun to survive but since he wrote that confessional letter, his fate is pretty much sealed, drama-wise, I reckon. I just hope Dr Chun's letter doesn't find its way into Jae Hee's hands just yet - that would be just too easy.
- Does her adoptive Dad reaaaally believe that it's safe for Cho Rim when there's a killer on the loose? Or is he acting this way because he knows something about the killer?
- How did Mari's car not get detected by the CCTV cameras in the mountains when it was towed to its clifftop position?

Last but not least: can the forensics lab tell if the victim's last meal was a Michelin starred rare steak cooked by a celebrity chef?

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LOL at your last sentence!

Regarding Dr Chun's letter, although in his narration, he addressed CR as Eun Seol at first, I hope he didn't actually pen down her old name! But since this is a drama & now the letter is with Jaehee, I would think he did after all!

If it's not Jaehee who gets to the letter first, it could be Mugak, and that would be how he finds out about CR's old name.

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I hope it's not Mugak who gets it first, but perhaps Lt Yeom or even one of the bumbling detectives, just to prolong the suspense a bit longer!

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LOL at your last question. :D

I think Lt. Yeom knows that OCR & Eun-sol are the same person. Remember in episode 4 when OCR was drunk & MG brought her in the police station, Lt. Yeom was looking at the file of OCR's parents & she saw Eun-sol's picture too. But since EUn-sol/OCR doesn't remember who she is, & is under witness protection she cannot reveal it yet.

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but i think Lt Yeom's suspicions were sort of dismissed? since Mu-gak introduced her as cho-lim so she might just think that two people look similiar. so now its safe to say other than Dr Chun and Cho-rim's foster dad, no one knows yet that Cho-rim and Eun-sol are the same person? but i got a feeling Lt Yeom is still suspicious haha

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bahaha so nam goong min doesnt have that much of a smooth skin like a baby's butt and that just changes how i see him #superficial

no really doe. dis HD camera. i never noticed till now. did they do it on purpose now we know he is the baddy? hahahaha

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lol so many people complained about plotholes.

to be honest when i started this drama i knew its gonna be fluff, with mystery as a side dish. unlike healer. also unlike realistic dramas such as the reply series, so it doesnt really bug me.

for me the story can be crap as long as the main lead have chemistry im hooked (but not makjang crap like hotel king bc cant handle).

that said, CHO RIM AND MU GAK ARE SO QTP2T TOGETHER ARGH

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Having fun reading the comments. I don't really mind the flaws of TGWSS coz I am loving the OTP. They are adorable & I can't get enough of them. Plus how creepy is Jae-hee? The church scene gave me goosebumps, and I really hope Dc. Chun is still alive. Poor him.

Thanks for the recap LollyPip. :)

Oh I wan't Jae-hee's library, too. ^^

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Supporters
Onlookers
Party poopers
Looks like everyone is here.

Live with it dear show, YOU ARE POPULAR! :D

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I've got so many questions in my mind now, can we have episode 7 already?! :)

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Can somebody tell me what was Dr. Chun referred to when he got panic about "witness thing" and said that "the witness still alive and Oh Cho Rim is the witness"?
I don't get it what it means. Please help.

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I mean, is he know about whole killer series? I thought dr Chun knows OCR as comma-patient not fishermen's daughter.

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Doctor Chun knew that OCR once lived as Choi Eun Sol before (he has seen her before at the hospital when she's in her comma). I assume bcos at that time his wife needs a new heart that badly, he defintely did check her background as well (ex: who is her name, why she's admitted to hospital, whose child she is, medical record etc)

Few years later, she saw her again living with different name. After checking up with her x-ray photo, he's realised that she live as OCR now. Moreover, Mugak confronted him and screamed that he killed the wrong Eun Sul. Then he must be realised that the true witness still alive aka OCR.

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The drama is truly enjoyable.
I hope Cho-rim joins the police for or starts going to a police academy by the end of the drama. ?

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Actually its Mugak himself who pieced together all the scent info that she provided him. Eg she just told him that she smelled strong Japanese muk root on the suspect but its Mugak himself who linked that info to maijura and high electricity usage to locate the suspect.

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You guys. I love Song Jong-ho. Why isn't he more popular. I want him to have his own show. Now. He's already 38!!! He needs to get starring roles while he still can!!! (Sorry, ever since Mandate of Heaven, I cannot seem to get over how hot and wonderful he is.)

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oh I loveeeed him in MOH! He and Kang Byul were my favorite in that series! I wish him to have his own show too coz i adore his acting talent so so much! was surprised honestly when I saw him in 1st ep of this drama since I didnt hear any news about his casting in this so I guess his appearance only just for a few eps tho I wish he will survive and continue his plan to go to Senegal :D Murim, save him please!

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This crap is so full of plot holes...it gets too silly.

Why didn't the Doc just go to the police???

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@sojuboy

The failure of otherwise intelligent characters to do the most logical or expected thing is what I'd call a plot device to enable dear Doc to meet Chef so that we viewers get to see what's what, and so Doc can now disappear for a bit or forever (I'm not sure). So now we can concentrate on the tension build-up over Cho Rim being unwittingly in the clutches of a mass murderer, without Doc as a possible 2nd lead protector, with our hopes pinned on MG and Yeom putting the pieces together. :)

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Well said @ GB unnie...

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Wait. Then who killed Officer Choi's sister?

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@ Jojo,
We are still trying to figure that one out, and figure out how he did it.

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Uh-oh. I knew that the chef was hiding something big. He turned totally psychopath here. I personally found it creepy that he cooks for two even if he's the only one there. He's probably trying to keep doctor alive until next year, but then that's not it because he already wrote the doctor's death date on the book. I was afraid that he might poison Mu-gak with the coffee but then that doesn't seem like the best move for him. What's his motive for all these murders anyway? Or is he just a complete psychopath?

There's still the big question of, why does he not recognize Cho-Rim's face if he saw it very clearly? Again, maybe he just has a really good poker face.

Doesn't really explain why Mu-gak's sister got killed, though that probably might relate to looking for a heart transplant for his wife, but then why would he chose a perfectly fine girl for that? He wanted to choose Cho-Rim because she had very minimal chance of living.

I thought the scene for investigating the bar codes was gonna come up with something big, but all they get was that the bar codes represented books. How about showing us what books? What good would it do if they can predict the bar code pattern of the next victim if they can't tell who it would be?

Am I the only one who think's that Cho-Rim's hairstyle look's like Im Yoona's? Really reminded me of her character in Prime Minister and I when Cho-Rim was wearing that bonnet in the restaurant.

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loving this drama for the mini crimes being solved in each ep while the biggiebarcode psycho killer looms ahead. the brilliant detective here is actually MG ? altho Cho Rim feeds him the clues through her ability, MG pieces the story together with the clues and shows remarkable analytical skills. I dun get the vibe that he likes her altho he keeps showing up with excuses to see her. I get that he is "Mu Gak -- no feeling guy" but his underlying emotions and interest in her should still come through. so i find their relationship rather cold up to this point! hey, guys, u need to work harder and get handsy or throw lustful looks at each other, ok? and hahaha, i am starting to like detective Ki and company altho they were to totally mean to MG initially. the way they said they were inspired to join the police becoz they found the badge/handcuffs etc cool was hilarious ! and they are pulling their weight by giving suggestions on how to solve the crimes. Also, i enjoy how MG gives them payback subtly by pushing them into the gambling den, or punching them in this ep. and all done with a blank look on this moonface! Awww.... i am so gonna miss you , Yoo Chun ! please do not become too chiselled and skinny in the army!!!!

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows where to find the original web comic version of The girl who sees smells and if it's in English context. Thanks!

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WhatI am curious about is what the last digit stands for...I have watch this episode over and ovr again and I still can't find out wht the very last digit stands for.does anyone here know?

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The last digit of the barcode btw..forgot to mention..huhu

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I don't get the book part... like why did the victims right in the book? were they hypnotised or did they just right or smt

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*shock
Just shock
I don't think I've been this surprised by a show that has finished airing. I mean i knew all along that the chef was the murderer because he got a beanie mention for best villian but i thought all along he was working with the doctor.....but their conversations seemed a bit off mostly when they were taking in private because it wasn't revealing...now this??
Sensory couple...you've got me now
*liftng up hands to be cuffed

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