The K2: Episode 6
by gummimochi
New dangers are in store for Je-ha, and they’ll require the use of his heart rather than his gun. Reopening deep emotional wounds can often be an unpleasant task, but if that’s the cost of getting one step closer to the bottom of the truth, then our bodyguard is more than willing to pay that price.
EPISODE 6 RECAP
Following a lengthy series recap, we pick back up at the sub-basement where Je-ha steps into an empty corridor that leads him to a glass door that requires a two-step identification verification for entry.
Behind that door houses an expansive glass conference room, where Yoo-jin, Secretary Kim, the head of JSS, and Chief Joo are reviewing the profiles of the scholarship foundation’s board of directors who had sought after her dismissal.
Je-ha takes a seat as we zoom in on the ongoing conversation inside. Yoo-jin plans for a long, grueling legal case against one director and putting him on a recruiter’s blacklist. There’s video proof of another director getting it on with another woman, which Yoo-jin says they can expose to the world and have someone make sexual assault claims against him.
But then on second thought, Yoo-jin decides that the director’s children should see that video first. Everyone else is taken aback by those words, and she finishes Chief Joo’s sentence about the children’s reaction to seeing a sexual video of their father: “Wouldn’t they want to commit suicide?”
Or maybe not, with this video alone, she concludes. But the topic of death has been lingering in her mind—when she was faced with the rest of the family at the funeral, she had thought to herself what method of death would bring the least amount of pain?
Seeing Je-ha waiting patiently outside, her face splits into a faint smile before composing herself once more.
Anna overhears Mi-ran and gossiping about Je-ha being part of Cloud Nine downstairs. Mi-ran’s world comes crashing down when she realizes that means there’s no one on night duty tonight, and Anna looks up to the cameras.
Je-ha steps inside the glass-encased conference room once the others leave. He admits he’s impressed by this structure Yoo-jin probably spent a pretty penny to have built. Not only are they several stories underground, but it’s also soundproof, making it ideal in keeping out potential eavesdroppers.
He gets right to the point—why did she call him here? She wants to hear every bit of his life story because not everyone runs into a den of enemies with an umbrella and handkerchief these days. She’s curious about the man behind those actions, and when Je-ha asks what she really wants to hear, she raises her eyebrows in surprise. “But it’s true,” she thinks to herself.
Since she’s heard about his army days, Yoo-jin says she’d like to learn more about his time in Iraq. She tells him: “Soon we’ll begin the hunt on Park Kwan-soo. Is that enough of a reason for you?”
His eyes flicker, attentive now, as she reminds him that no one will know what they share here thanks to these soundproof walls. He asks who’s listening in on the mics in this room then, and Yoo-jin identifies the computerized voice as her Magic Mirror, like the one in Snow White.
He scoffs at that, so to prove it, Yoo-jin chants, “Mirror, mirror, who in this land is fairest of all?” Her computerized magic mirror voice answers, “Snow White.”
While Anna picks up on a news story about her father visiting a church tomorrow, Yoo-jin shares how her Magic Mirror is smarter than the other artificial intelligence systems available today.
This room acts like the brain of JSS, a hub that stores all the secrets of the world. Her Magic Mirror is a highly-advanced software whose function is to comb through all that information and give her the most accurate answers to her questions. So if Je-ha shares his story, Magic Mirror will satiate his curiosity.
“Why do you think there would be things I’m curious about?” Je-ha posits in return. Yoo-jin replies that he wouldn’t have joined the JSS if he weren’t curious. She knows he doesn’t have a comeback for that, and tells him that she’s the only one who can access the encrypted data because Magic Mirror only responds to her voice commands.
Anna sneaks downstairs into Mi-ran’s room, rummaging through her drawers for her JSS ID badge. She takes a few more items, then discovers a stash of syringes.
We cut back to the glass house where Yoo-jin asks what happened to him and why he’s after Representative Park. Je-ha sits down and breathes deeply before starting his story about Rania.
We’re taken back to the day of Representative Park’s visit to the Blackstone campsite when Je-ha had seen the secret deal go down. He had tried to grab her attention for a few moments before settling in for a nap in his car.
Representative Park had given another mercenary a nod before climbing into his car, and Je-ha had witnessed Rania being taken. We know how this story goes—a gunshot followed by him seeing her body on the ground.
But we learn something new now: someone knocks him out with a punch, and Je-ha found a gun in his hand when he’d come to. He’d thrown it aside to stagger toward Rania’s body, and was still wailing when he’d been apprehended.
He’d essentially been framed for Rania’s murder and managed to escape a week later. Representative Park had been long gone by then, and the private military company had already moved their campsite. So he traveled with a group of Syrian refugees and eventually made it to Europe.
“That’s the reason why I must kill Park Kwan-soo,” he states, his bottom lip quivering. Yoo-jin considers that a good enough reason, so she instructs her computer to answer all of Je-ha’s questions.
Per Je-ha’s request, Magic Mirror brings up Representative Park’s activities on September 15, 2015. But when he asks to learn why the politician was at the Blackstone campsite that afternoon at 15:30, the computer is unable to identify why.
Yoo-jin instructs her computer to widen its search parameters, and now Magic Mirror states there was a 53.3 percent chance the politician was in a secret meeting. When Je-ha asks with whom Representative Park was speaking with, the computer asks for a location.
He gives it, and the computer generates four names: Representative Park, Rania, an unidentified Blackstone agent, and the leader of the Kumar group Abdul Omar. He asks for the reason for their meeting, only for the computer to state that the reason is unknown.
So Je-ha asks why Representative Park had Rania killed, to which Magic Mirror says there is a 68 percent chance it was because she knew information that couldn’t be leaked. Je-ha slams his fist on the table upon seeing the results, and asks to find out what the men discussed.
But that information can’t be traced either, and Yoo-jin says it’s pointless to inquire more deeply when the data isn’t there. Then Magic Mirror states that Abdul Omar escaped the CIA’s grasp two weeks following that meeting and assembled a new military group.
Yoo-jin wonders if that means Representative Park has been supplying arms to Abdul Omar’s men.
Meanwhile, Anna sneaks outside dressed in Mi-ran’s suit after slipping some of the contents of the syringe into her mug. She jumps when the security car outside flashes its headlights, and she uses her earpiece to communicate that she’s out for an errand.
Anna climbs into a taxi by early morning and sticks her head out the window to feel the breeze. She puts on her sunglasses to protect her sensitive eyes.
Yoo-jin surmises that Je-ha must’ve loved Rania, but he isn’t sure whether he found love during the most miserable days of his life or what he felt was useless compassion. “Useless?” Yoo-jin repeats, and Je-ha explains that he was the one who introduced Rania to the Blackstone mercenaries.
Je-ha gets up to leave, but he refuses the offer to stay in the JSS residences just because he’s part of Cloud Nine now. But Yoo-jin emphasizes that she protects her inner circle including their families.
He says that sounds an awful lot like calling him her slave, and Yoo-jin says she’s never betrayed anyone who hasn’t ever betrayed her. To that, Je-ha bites back: “There’s no such thing as a master who does not betray his slave.”
He turns to leave, but then looks back at her: “There are people who don’t betray their friends, though. Isn’t that right… friend?”
Anna gets off at her old neighborhood and stands outside her childhood home. She thinks back to happier times with her mother when they would cook outside and dance together, a memory that brings tears to her eyes.
We briefly check in on Je-ha’s ride back from the JSS headquarters, where the bodyguard who drove him there believes that Je-ha had failed to be included in the elusive Cloud Nine.
Anna imagines more happier memories with Mom while she roams the streets. Seeing an old photo of her and her mother on display outside a local photo studio, she inquires about it with the owner who needs a little push to remember her.
The owner remembers Mom with fondness, sharing how the movie star once came in with Anna to have her passport photo taken before she left for the States. Evidently Mom had also wanted a family portrait as well, so the photo on display was of her, Anna, and a family friend.
He shows Anna how he folded the photo so that the third subject wouldn’t appear in the frame. Seeing the photo now, Anna remembers that there was a family friend.
So when Je-ha returns to the house to find Mi-ran asleep and Anna gone, Chief Joo calls his superior to suggest that that they search for Anna without letting Yoo-jin know. He berates Mi-ran for her ineptitude and breathes a sigh of relief when she gets transaction updates on her phone because Anna is using her credit card.
Anna takes another taxi to pay a visit to that family friend who resides at a sanatorium. She finds the woman lying in her bed, barely lucid. She calls Anna by her mother’s name Hye-rin, and asks for food.
Anna bends down again and identifies herself. This time the woman repeats her name correctly, then rises from her bed in alarm, calling Anna by her mother’s name again. “Hurry and run away! Go to America with Anna!”
“Choi Yoo-jin has found out everything! Run away!” the woman cries. “That person will kill you and Anna! You must hurry!” Anna is taken aback by the woman, but now she has confirmation that Yoo-jin wanted her and her mother dead. She tries prying for more information, but the woman has slipped back to her babblings.
Thanks to her stolen earpiece, Anna finds out that the JSS agents have arrived at the sanatorium. Mi-ran checks the patient’s room but Anna is nowhere to be found. Je-ha isn’t surprised that the news of Anna’s disappearance has reached Se-joon’s ears when he calls Chief Joo, though Se-joon has instructed that Anna doesn’t show up at his scheduled church appearance today.
Just then, someone walks out the door behind them—it’s Anna, disguised as a nun and telling herself that her father is under Yoo-jin’s influence.
Yoo-jin and Se-joon look like saints when they help an elderly woman up the hill to the church. Conversely, Representative Park’s car obnoxiously honks its horn to make way, much to the attendees’ chagrin.
Se-joon and Yoo-jin help the elderly woman to the pew, then nervously look around hoping that Anna isn’t around. Representative Park loudly insists that they join him in the front pew, and sees the couple modestly accept seats next to the old woman.
Once Mass begins, Anna enters the church with a group of nuns. She sees her father in the pews and utters, “Dad.” Se-joon narrows his eyes to get a closer look, then looks away.
Anna sees her father quietly grab Yoo-jin’s attention, and Yoo-jin turns from surprise to bewilderment once she sees Anna. She texts a clue to Chief Joo, who then relays the intel to the rest of the team.
The priest stops the JSS agents from interrupting the service to apprehend Anna. She remains standing even after the song ends, her tear-filled eyes fixed on her father. Je-ha internally tells Anna not to expose herself and calls off the order to move in.
The priest says there’s another song, and Anna opens her mouth to sing “Amazing Grace.” Her angelic voice carries throughout the chapel, and the other nuns join in on the next verse.
Tears roll down Anna’s cheeks and drop from nearly every eye of the attendees, including angry ones from Yoo-jin. Once the song is over, Je-ha takes a few steps toward her and stops, trying to communicate to her with his eyes: “Don’t do it, Anna-yah. You can’t.”
Anna stands for a few more moments then walks off to the side. She turns to get one last glimpse of her father and Yoo-jin’s scowl. Je-ha tries catching up to the nuns to find Anna, but she’s already gone.
One nun hands him a note, though, and he delivers that to Se-joon. In it, Anna writes that she must’ve lost her way. She asks that her father come and get her: “You know where that is, don’t you?”
Se-joon is well aware that everything will come crashing down if Anna’s identity is exposed to the world now. What he wants to know is how Anna was treated that she would resort to such extreme measures, but Yoo-jin will have none of it today and tells him to figure out the location in Anna’s note.
When he says he doesn’t know, which Yoo-jin finds hard to believe. Even she’s saddened by how Anna is convinced that a father like him would come and find her. She instructs Chief Joo to leave, and now that they’re alone, she reminds him of the last breakfast she ever made for him fourteen years ago.
She wouldn’t have despised Se-joon as much as she does now if he had just left her that day. That was the day the news of Anna’s mother’s supposed suicide hit the front page, and Se-joon had dropped a cup in shock.
Before he could storm out, Yoo-jin had threatened him that Anna would die if he left now. Back in the present, Se-joon asks, “Should I have left Anna to die in your hands then?”
“You murderer,” he sighs. Yoo-jin had shared a similar thought—that Se-joon was trying to protect Anna from her, but now they both know the real reason why Anna was kept hidden from the world: “You were afraid that Anna would be an obstacle to your ambition!”
Whereas the JSS is nowhere near cracking Anna’s code, we see Anna sitting alone on a park bench. She remembers the day she went to the amusement park with her parents, who did their best to make sure she had a good time.
When the speakers made an announcement about a missing child, Se-joon had asked young Anna what to do if she ever lost her way. He was impressed when she chirped that she’d take a taxi, then asked what she’d do if she were abroad.
“I’d have to hurry and find you,” she’d answered. Se-joon had bent down to meet her eye level and explained how it’d be impossible for him to find her if she kept running around. Instead, she should stay put at the exact location where they lost one another.
“No matter how scared you get, you must endure and wait,” he’d instructed. “Then I’ll come find you where you are.” Young Anna had told him that he had to promise to come and get her.
So that park bench must be where Anna and her father had lost one another. A pair of girls stop to take a selca, unaware that Anna is in the background.
But that photo pops up on the JSS’ systems, and the agents are sent to her location. In the car, Je-ha asks Team Leader Seo for a favor.
Anna prays in earnest, and when she opens her eyes, she sees her father walking towards her with a big smile and an ice cream in each hand. She smiles, and the camera pans behind her to reveal that it’s actually Je-ha.
She looks crestfallen, and Je-ha tells her that her father was busy, so he sent him. He takes a seat next to her and says she put up a strong front back at the church. But she’s still fixated on her father’s reaction to her sudden appearance. Was he mad?
Je-ha says somewhat unconvincingly that her father was worried about her, and offers up the ice cream, telling her that her father wanted her to have it. She accepts it, since it’s from Dad after all.
While Team Leader Seo and the other JSS keep watch from a distance, Anna shares how this park used to be an amusement park called Dreamland. She describes that it was also her own sort of “dream world”, a phrase she says in Spanish.
She was so happy that she got to spend time with her father back then, because that gave her something to brag about. He empathizes with the joyful childhood memory, but her breathing becomes increasingly shallow as she says she couldn’t brag because no one was supposed to find out who her father was.
She struggles to breathe as she shares how her mother told her that her father was a powerful man, and bad people will come and harass him if they ever found out about them. She didn’t know what that meant at a young age, and she gasps to say the next few words: “But I was afraid… of the bad people… harassing my father… so I think I held it in.”
She’s gasping now, and Je-ha places a hand on her arm, asking if she’s okay. She utters in Spanish: “Wishful thinking.” Fighting for breath now, Anna says she realized that she was that very bad person all along.
With that, Anna faints in his arms. Je-ha calls for an ambulance while Chief Joo learns that Anna has a severe strawberry allergy.
Je-ha reports that Anna has a faint pulse, and he’s instructed to make sure that Anna keeps breathing. So he starts mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and screams at her to wake up. She opens her eyes for a brief moment before slipping into unconsciousness once more.
COMMENTS
As much as I’d been looking forward to Anna’s re-emergence into the world, I have to say watching her behaviors and actions in this episode was disorienting. Gone is the girl holed up in her room and avoiding strangers, because now she’s been replaced by a girl able to both initiate conversations with strangers and is surprisingly okay with personal space.
Sure Je-ha isn’t exactly a stranger to Anna, but their interactions have been limited and short in duration so far, save for the two nights he was on night duty. But it’s strange to watch Anna act as if her social phobia was a thing of the past now that she’s thrust into the real world. What’s even more astounding is that she can even correct people and clarify what she actually means, which begs the question—if she’s been kept hidden for so long, where did she learn these communication skills from?
Her proactive decision to sneak out and find her father is less surprising, since we’ve been told that was her primary reason for escape. Once she learned that her father was in Madrid, she ran out of the monastery with purpose, even if it meant running barefoot. We saw some progression when she had cleverly used a thermal blanket as a cover, but that simple trick suddenly evolved into a much more complex level of foresight in her latest escape and a master of disguise. So while I’m glad that we are seeing Anna has a sense of agency when there is a motivation, the leap was so great that I’m not sure what the requirements are for Anna to have a sense of agency—access to resources? A familiar environment? Superpowered ramyun?
Or perhaps it’s because the writing would like to push the reminder that this story contains some fairytale influences from Snow White. Yoo-jin would be the evil stepmother seeking to rule a kingdom while trying to do away with the fairest in all the land, Anna. And who should she send but her own huntsman Je-ha. If we’re following the fairytale now, many of us will know that the Huntsman shows compassion to Snow White, which is similar to how Je-ha sees Anna at present.
Even though Je-ha had lied about acting under her worried father’s commands, I still found it a bit strange how she opened up to him so quickly. It seems that night in Spain when he left her to her captors is a long lost memory in Anna’s mind because there isn’t an ounce of resentment in her voice when she’s speaking to him. Bringing it up now makes it seem like I’m the one holding a personal grudge in her stead, but surely that moment of abandonment in her greatest time of need would bring with it some relational consequences?
Speaking of relationships, I thoroughly enjoy watching Je-ha and Yoo-jin electrifying interactions onscreen. Not only is Yoo-jin genuinely interested in Je-ha’s backstory, she also knows she has something to gain (bringing down Representative Park) if she can help Je-ha exact his revenge. I’m relieved that Cloud Nine is a possible outlet for him to vent, and this fancy software will hopefully be a helpful way to acquire more information later on. What’s important is that Je-ha is part of Yoo-jin’s inner circle now, and he’s right to take her word of trust with a grain of salt because you could work for years to build her trust, but it takes just one moment to destroy it.
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51 samantha1
October 10, 2016 at 12:55 AM
I'm only watching the show just for Song Yoon Ah and Ji Chang Wook. I liked their interactions more than the whole second half of this episode..And bonus, I really like the colorful "moving" wall in Cloud 9.
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52 Belinda
October 10, 2016 at 1:06 AM
I wanted to like this show but so far I'm terribly unimpressed.
I can't stand YooJin and no amount of backstory is going to make me emphatisize with her.
We are at episode 6 and I'm not understanding where they are going with this storyline. Is this about bodyguard Jeha and his charge Anna. Or crazy YooJin and how she's misunderstood and should be able to imprison others and make them pay for whatever slights she feels.
This show has only 16 episode and we are almost half way through with no signs of a romance formulating between the leads. Which is what the premise of the show is according to the various plot summaries I read. I'm a hold out for next 2 episodes but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to drop it no matter how good looking JCW is. ?
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Sera The Ms Temper
October 10, 2016 at 1:39 AM
"Kim Je-Ha (Ji Chang-Wook) is former solider for hire. He is also called K2. He is hired as a bodyguard by Choi Yoo-Jin (Song Yoon-A). Choi Yoo-Jin is the wife of a presidential candidate (Cho Seong-Ha) and the daughter from a chaebol family. Meanwhile, Ko An-Na (Yoona) is the secret daughter of the presidential hopeful. She is also a recluse."
This is basically the shortest synopsis that I found.
No signs of a romance? LOL forgive me, are you sure? I have seen it in this episode. The premise of this drama never for a romance only. It is melodrama, political and action.
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53 shelly
October 10, 2016 at 1:28 AM
magic mirror, who's the bad guy?
cannot compute.
magic mirror, where did the bad guy go?
cannot compute.
magic mirror, what did i eat last night?
cannot compute.
lol. i hope this was not PPL for computers and AIs.
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imbuk
October 10, 2016 at 5:55 AM
Ha ha.. we should probably ask this to the magic mirror as well.
But, jokes aside, I actually like the use of technology in this drama. Though I am not sure whether they do exist.
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Rhumball
October 10, 2016 at 11:40 AM
Hahahha.. This scene makes me raise my eyebrows too. Suddenly we re in superheroes tv series with artificial intelligence who was also snow white stepmom. If the writer can just focus on the plot and not trying too hard, we actually have a good drama here.
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54 dxhanj
October 10, 2016 at 1:46 AM
Hi! Do you know what background music did they use during the K2 and Anna kissing /cpr scene? Thank you
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xingii
October 10, 2016 at 2:19 AM
The song is the first OST song that gets played at the end of every episode thus far.
Kim Bohyung (Spica) - Today. Here is the audio. Enjoy :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L-2IR_gLaM
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55 Riya
October 10, 2016 at 2:30 AM
I don't think it was disoriented. In the 1st episode, she wasn't afraid to ask anyone for help, I mean she asked Jeha for help without any hesitation.
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56 snorelax
October 10, 2016 at 2:52 AM
If we want to talk logic, let's start with the fact that one raging evil woman has been running the most sophisticated spying agency under the nose of the every government and no one knows?
Why are we we suddenly concern about whether Anna's sudden developmental growth is logical? If you have come this far to watch 6 episodes and accepted the JSS story then we should be prepared to accept all the crap logic.
I accept all crap as long as it is entertaining, isn't that is what makes Kdrama interesting? I stop trying to reason logic in Kdrama long long time ago, when i watch and if i smile and feel entertained at the end of the episode. I am happy.
Btw, i don't think Anna has social phobia, it is what the JSS team says. Would you be friendly to the people that kept you captive for 14 years ? I think it is fair that she does not want to talk to them but the fact she spoke spanish meant she must have some communications with the church/nuns over the 14 year period.
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57 voice
October 10, 2016 at 3:50 AM
this is an awesome gif set, i love the parallels between snow white and this drama:
http://lavenderbyun.tumblr.com/post/151551092047
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58 pollyanna
October 10, 2016 at 5:04 AM
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59 jliann
October 10, 2016 at 5:22 AM
I'm loving this show despite all its flaws because the writing makes sense to me. Every episode, I get to revise my theory of what *really* happened to Anna's mom, and I think that's what the plot is going to hinge on.
My speculation?
Yoo Jin, after finding out that her husband has a mistress and daughter, decides to get rid of both so as not to hinder her husband's political career.
She fakes the mother's suicide, but when Anna gets pulled in for questioning, the little girl mistakenly thinks that she had something to do with her mom's death. So the press decide that Anna is an unstable and mentally ill child, and Yoo Jin kills two birds with one stone -- because now she can get rid of the troublesome daughter as well.
Yoo Jin tells her husband that Anna is better off in Spain where she can be "rehabilitated", but then she uses Anna as leverage against her husband. Ex: "If you put a toe out of line, I'll arrange for Anna to die too." *hint hint*
Meanwhile, her husband sees Anna as partly responsible for his beloved mistress's death, and partly as a roadblock to him being president, and while he has fond memories of her, he wants nothing to do with her in person.
So as a consequence: We have one very confused daughter (Anna) who can't decide whether she is responsible for her mother's death, or whether Yoo Jin is. And the fact that her father supposedly (according to Je Ha's lie) sent her a death-inducing ice cream seems to point to the fact that he's chosen to believe Yoo Jin instead of her.
If I were Anna, I'd probably want to die too at that point. Since she has no concept of her father's political ambitions, all she knows at this point is that he doesn't love her anymore.
I can't wait for more clues to the truth behind Anna's mom's death.
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60 Kendi
October 10, 2016 at 5:29 AM
Ok so Anna was a result of an affair or did I miss anything here? Is That why Yoo Jin wanted Anna and her mother to die?
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61 Amy
October 10, 2016 at 6:04 AM
I think Anna's photo taken by a designer in the first episode will come to play some role. I dont think that scene was introduced just to show that she is sensitive to flash lights....esp when we are given an elaborate scene about who he is and how influencing he can be....
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62 jheart
October 10, 2016 at 6:54 AM
"it’s strange to watch Anna act as if her social phobia was a thing of the past now that she’s thrust into the real world. "
Because Anna never has social phobia to begin with. T.T
The fact she is being much normal and sociable than expected that made it even sadder.
All those years being locked from the world and being treated as a abnormal, strange child.
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jess
October 10, 2016 at 8:40 AM
Yeah... it's sad :( I'm under impression that Anna never really has social phobia as well. Like many pointed out, she begged for Je-ha's help first because he's a fellow Korean. By then I already assumed she'd be more at ease when she come back to Korea.
I guess socio phobia is a super convenient excuse from JSS/Yoojin to keep other people away from Anna. While it's natural for Anna to be not friendly with her captors, that phobia excuse will make ppl like the nuns and the bodyguards to treat her differently and give her a "space" while actually isolating her in the process. It also seems in line with how YJ planned the demise of her enemies.
I havent watched Yongpal but I heard it plagued with character inconsistencies? So maybeee it's the writer after all lol *shrug*
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63 chicann7
October 10, 2016 at 7:54 AM
I loved Anna's heartbreaking "Amazing Grace" performance. The scene was beautiful with the myriad of emotions displayed by the drama's main cast.
However, I wasn't happy with Je Ha and Anna's face-to-face reunion. I was expecting a little hesitation on Anna's part, not because of her social phobia. I guess I was hoping to see a little more conflict or awkwardness between the two... I didn't get a sense of that during the said scene.
It would have been nice if the two characters met at the house prior this scene. It would have served as a good jumping board to somehow explain Je Ha and Anna's "closeness" and familiarity with each other at the park.
They should have added more scenes to better transition a plot or character's development in this episode rather than the lengthy opening recap.
Anyway, despite some of my frustrations on the storyline, I'm still looking forward to upcoming episodes. I'm an avid JCW fan - hehe!!!
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shelly
October 10, 2016 at 9:41 AM
they did meet face to face at least twice - once as she was begging him to rescue her from the spanish police, and the second time when he came back to shoot yoo-jin and anna became hysterical asking him to do it.
then she couldn't make ramyeon, and the second day ramyeon was there almost ready. she's not stupid, she can put two and two together.
then again, she wasn't expecting je-ha in that park, she was expecting dad. anyone coming would have gotten the same reception.
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64 9jagirl
October 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM
FYI people, that is NOT how to do CPR! I repeat, that is NOT how to do CPR- if this was a real life case- she would be dead by now. Blowing into someones mouth doesn't do anything if your are not compressing the chest. The scene just really irked me - like was he trying to kill her? argh!
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JT
October 10, 2016 at 9:02 AM
Hah! I thought of the same thing. They really did have to throw in some chest compressions to make it more realistic. But let's face it this show is not about trying to be realistic at all. The entire Cloud Nine scene was just over the top. And Anna suddenly being so savvy and showing no signs of her crippling phobias tells me the writer will just advance the plot lines according to whatever serves the purpose. Never mind all the gaping holes. I guess for those of us who want to keep watching we have to suspend our rational thoughts and just go for the ride.
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9jagirl
October 10, 2016 at 12:50 PM
Well to be fair, despite the shows many flaws, An-na never said she has social phobia and nothing she has done has suggested that( She always asked people for help when she ran away in spain, she also asked Jeha for help as well, also when Jeha was about to blast Yoo-jin ( aka Machiavelli's BFF) brains out, An-na literally told Jeha to kill her. It was the female body guard( I believe) who said she has social phobia. Lets be honest, that body guard is the worst bodyguard in the history of bodyguarding and she has never said anything positive about An-na. Most of what we know about An-na has often been what OTHER people said about her. Its only now that we realize that she's smarter that what Yoo-jin and JSS realize. Just because someone is introverted ( social phobia, whatever the case may be) or has been locked up for years doesn't mean they are stupid-"when there's a will, there's a way"
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Rhumball
October 10, 2016 at 11:36 AM
Hahhaha.. We all know this is just an excuse to get kiss scene. After all the dramatic plot, super tech "Flash" level secret dungeon, the writer cant think of other way to get these 2 to become closer, hence, the old cpr plot.
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maryalvin
October 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM
And poorly executed too. Like she's gonna get up and be like "you saved me!"
when in fact he's the one who actually (almost) killed her.
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65 magge
October 10, 2016 at 9:19 AM
I want this to be the fucked up love story between Je-Ha and madam. I know that won't happen but their chemistry is crazy. I hope it at least will be love from madam and not "friendship" that Je ha seems to be pushing.
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shelly
October 10, 2016 at 9:42 AM
she's obsessed with him, he's obsessed with anna - true love all around. and kittens :D
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Rhumball
October 10, 2016 at 11:34 AM
I agree, Je Ha has more chemistry with the old nuna compare to yoona. His fondness over yoona seems awkward and forced.
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topper
October 11, 2016 at 12:23 AM
The sexual tension is definitely palpable, unintended or not.
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stedens
October 23, 2016 at 1:44 PM
i really do not want to see any more fucked up relationships in popular media. between 50 shades of grey and joker/harley, i need a break from that crap lmao
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66 JohnandVan Jackson
October 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM
Yoona is doing well with the role as currently written, I've never had a problem with her acting, check out Prime Minister and Me, really good, though the ending took me down a road I didn't want to go.
K2 should not I repeat not be about JeHa romancing either woman, if it does then what a waste. I would love to see JeHa uncover the truth behind his woman being killed. I want Yoona's character to find out why her mother died and who did it, and Lady Evil should hopefully end up resolving her daddy issues, and then kick said cheating husband to the curb and run for president herself, in my world this would happen if not, off to fan fiction land to create it myself and yes I sort of see mother child dynamic, with Lady Evil, JeHa saved her more than once, which is something I believe has never happened, if only she had a son or nephew like him who had her back how awesome!
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67 justwaytooboss
October 10, 2016 at 10:55 AM
SUBWAAAAAYY is HERE!! lol. That's seriously all i could think about during most of this episode.
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68 Rhumbakk
October 10, 2016 at 11:32 AM
My problems with this drama are the yongpal writer and the music. It has yongpal writer feels all over it; artificial intelligence in secret room? Are we watching Flash? The music is so over the top. It becomes so noisy to me. Like when yoona found that old lady, omg, what the heck.. I want to turn off the music.
And J4, is this bodyguard hired to guard VVIP? Apparently none of the bodyguards havel real skills except K2.
This drama has potential, main cast is good. I am still having big doubts on the writer who seems to always try to do over the top, eventho it doesnt fit, and end up ruining it.
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69 BossyPixie
October 10, 2016 at 3:16 PM
I'm a little late to the commenting partytoday, but here goes. First, thanks for the recap. Second, I am enjoying this show, despite some of the problems. It's sort of like watching a James Bond type movie, yes the gadgets (or AI) is ridiculous but fun. So, just go with it. Now, on to the characters.
Anna: She obviously has some condition related to flashing lights due to her childhood experience with the reporters. We've actually seen, and not just been told, this in action. However, regarding the social phobia, we've only been told that she has this. I agree with the other who think that this is a lie cooked up by the few in the know and Yoo Jin. Being a body guard of a seriously troubled/mentally ill young woman is one thing, being a jailer of a political hostage is another. More on that subject later. Anna is obviously very smart. She has run away time and again. JSS was using guards disguised as or recruited from the police. Its no wonder she continued to be caught. I suspect that each time she ran away the security around her was tightened and more things were taken away. I think her lack of a wardrobe other than nightgowns is because of this. She has continued to look for her father in the mistaken belief that his will save her once he is fully aware of her plight. I think when she comes to the realization that he doesn't care when he turns his face away in the church. She wants to give him one last chance with the note. When he doesn't come, but Je Ha does instead, I think that is the last straw for her. So, she eats the ice cream knowing she could very well die. Her seemingly out of the blue openness with Je Ha is kind of like a suicide note. "In case anyone wonders this is why I did it.
J4: I think that at one point J4 was probably a serviceable guard. I think she even tried to be kind to Anna at first. She new Anna wanted to see her father, and she reported this fact many times, it seems. I think she may also have been the one to inform Anna that he was going to be in Madrid. J4 says that she had expected Anna's father to visit at that time. Also, from what she said, I think that J4 thought she 2as getting an elite position and instead ended up in a dead end position. She became disillusioned and lazy and resents Anna. Now she's terrible because she has stopped trying. Further notes on JSS, I think that they have so compartmentalized anything to do with Anna and so restricted her that only the cook knows her allergy and only she supplies her food. Therefore, there would be no reason for anyone else to know. JSS obviously has employees of different levels. Most of them are just normal security guards who would either quit or report the situation if they knew the truth. Others, like the one sent to kill Je Ha and anyone he had contact with, are an entirely different level. I think this leads to some confusion.
Je Ha: I agree with those who are saying that they don't see any romantic feelings for either woman yet...
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BossyPixie
October 10, 2016 at 3:51 PM
Cont. As for his reactions to Anna, I think he feels sympathy, pity, and guilt. My take on the whole ramen/dance thing is that initially, he was bored. When Anna appeared, he started talking to "her" much the same way some people talk to inanimate objects while working, particularly by themselves. I know that I do this a lot. It can relieve boredom and sometimes help me to focus on a task. Because I believe Je Ha is at heart a kind and compassionate person, his befriending of Rania and the elderly couple are prime examples, he made ramen for Anna. As far as him watching her make and eat it, I think that there are two parts, one it's his job and two he finds some happiness when his act makes someone else happy. In many ways, Je Ha is a very guard person. He doesn't want to be betrayed and hurt again . So he doesn't show th gentler side of himself to other people. When he is in the guard room by himself, he is free to let that guard down. So his dancing along with Anna could be seen as him expressing not only his enjoyment of that moment but also other moments that he didn't feel free to express. Along those same lines, I think that he didn't find Master Song or the doctor to be a threat. So Je Ha was able to let his guard down a little and play along.
Regarding Je Ha's relationship with Yoo Jin, I don't see his reactions to her as having any romantic feelings at all. When he rescues her from the car, I think that was simply because that is who he is. It is not in his nature to leave a trapped person to die regardless of who they are. After that, he had no desire to remain anywhere near Yoo Jin. He only joined up with her reluctantly to get away from Assemblyman Park's guys and then to get the revenge he wants. From that point onward it serves his own interests to protect Yoo Jin and her power. He places his hand on her back in a position that is natural to straighten ones posture in order for her to not even lose the appearance of strength. Finally, in Cloud Nine he calls her friend echoing Yoo Jin's earlier usage. I think that it was both somewhat sarcastic and challenging. I believe Je Ha was indicating his refusal to be in a subordinate position even though he nominally works for her.
Yoo Jin: I don't understand the people who are sympathetic to her. While it is true that we are not positive that she was responsible for the death of Anna's mom it seems likely she was. She ordered Je Ha's probable death because of what he saw. When he left, she ordered the death of anyone who helped him. So while she may have been betrayed by her husband and family, Yoo Jin has fully chosen to walk the dark path. Thus, she deserves no sympathy. Speaking of her husband, Anna's father is a sorry excuse for a human being who has chosen to allow Yoo Jin's actions to continue and has chosen to sacrifice Anna to her power, all in service of his ambition.
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Drama ajhumma
October 10, 2016 at 7:11 PM
@BossyPixie
Agree 100% with everything you've said. That's completely my take on all the characters too! It gives the drama its narrative sense despite some OTT moments. Enjoying the ride so far ...
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stedens
October 23, 2016 at 1:56 PM
i think a lot of people defend yoo jin too much. saying that she only takes revenge on ppl and it's "an eye for an eye" is just inaccurate. like you mentioned, she ordered for je ha and everyone close to him to be killed, and for what? because je ha caught her husband cheating and it would hurt her reputation. even if it was just to take out someone with bad information on them, the fact that she will go beyond that and hurt all the innocent people he associates with? nah, not much sympathy from me.
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70 crispachu
October 10, 2016 at 7:09 PM
Am I the only person who feels like Je Ha's character is all over the place? Sometimes he's like a cold, cynical guy who's all about revenge. Then he turns into some weird sap who dances while he watches a girl dance on the camera. I don't get him.
In fact, come to think of it, it's only his scenes while interacting with Anna that throw me off. Everything else - his interaction with Yoo Jin, Song Young Choon, Chief whatsisname - sort of fit together.
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coffeebay
October 11, 2016 at 11:24 AM
The inconsistency of JH characterization is entirely Yongpal's fault because as a writer he can't decide if female fans like a cool guy or an aegyo guy, so he was thinking, lemme kill two birds with one stone, imma make JH broken and cute at the same time to satisfy various demands so ppl will forget my last writing disaster and call me brilliant. Last time I made Sleeping beauty knock off, this time Snow White, thank you Walt Disney for the inspiration, next project will be Bambi...why you kill my mom, Hunter...
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stedens
October 23, 2016 at 1:57 PM
he was dorky with his first love. i don't find it that out of place. people have multiple sides.
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71 topper
October 11, 2016 at 12:21 AM
I ship Yoo-jin and Je-ha. The sound proof room was such a good setting for some hot loving.
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72 coffeebay
October 11, 2016 at 11:07 AM
Considering the fan war on page one, actually at this point I'm too afraid to ask, but this Amazing Grace thing bothers me so much, see I'm not a nun but I sing in church choir, and if suddenly an unknown girl sneaks into our group we'll be like, "who are you girl, are you lost? we have to go through audition to get here, you're gonna ruin our harmony, go away... ", and if the strange girl starts to sing solo, we'll be like, "ain't nobody sing solo in our choir group...get out of here...stop making scenes...", there's no way a group of nuns will form a backup choir to support an unknown girl's solo.
And what would she achieve by disguising as a nun in front of her dad? She wants daddy to hug her and acknowledge her mentally unstable daughter, sneaking in choir, crying n dressing up as a nun? That'll be an embarrasment for her dad, she coudn't think of that? How 'bout show up in normal clothing as normal girl?
And how come she dressed up as a nun in a mental hospital/nursing home but she could end up in a church where his dad n step mom attend a Sunday mass? Is the hospital attached to the church? But why would important politicians attend nursing home's church? And why dad and stepmom went to a temple in the last eps.? Family is Catholic or Buddist? And why the distance between J4's right eye and left eye are so far away? So many questions...
Magic Mirror, what can a girl do these days to watch JCW in action series? subway, ice cream, ramen, strawberry...god knows what other food they're gonna use in eps.7.....there's just enough bullshiit a girl can take in one episode....hiks...drama god, please do something...hiks....
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tesshan
October 15, 2016 at 4:29 PM
The priest said that some nuns from different convents were attending...maybe they never rehearsed for the funeral together and this was she could sneak in? Maybe growing up in Spain with nuns taught her some secret handshakes only nuns know... :p
She wants her dad to acknowledge her and in her desperate attempt I guess she thought that doing it in public would be a good thing to do. Push him and the stepmom the limit and get some reaction. But nothing happened...poor kid.
Church for sure not attached to the nursing home...just Anna smart enough to change her clothes and walk away. They did not know she did dress as a nun so I guess it was easier for her to sneak around. Then maybe that is the only order of nuns they have in Korea so they all have the matching dress.
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73 Darla Dee
October 11, 2016 at 11:24 AM
Hi! Do watch my FMV I made with The K2’s OST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfO70dihZMg
Im honestly wondering why Anna would still eat the strawberry ice cream if she knew her father really sent it to her. Like if she was waiting for her father all the while, why would she want to die now?
Btw that was some sexy cpr, but a quite useless one too tho i think (?)
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coffeebay
October 11, 2016 at 11:58 AM
she has to eat it so JH can give her mouth to mouth resuscitation, there is simply no logic behind it, notice the change in music cue, the director is planting the allergy for romantic skinship. Just throw away your thinking cap, there is zero subtlety in this drama, director's too afraid we're gonna think two plus two is five, so he writes it in bold 여러분, 2+2=4 알았지?... If J4 needs to shiit,we're gonna hear multiple farts sounds. If JH is sad, he's gonna weep like a baby. If Anna likes ramen, she's gonna dance for 5 minutes before she eats. Shut your brain n just enjoy this stupiid ride.
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tesshan
October 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM
Yes, sexy CPR...ahahah.
I think she knew the ice cream was not sent by her dad as he is aware of the allergy. I think she knew that JH was just trying to not make her sad but without realising it gave her an option to leave and be done with the mess. I think she is realising that as an illegitimate child she can endanger her father's chances to become president. That could really be a hit to his political career in Korea (at the last elections one strong candidate lost because it emerged that one of his sons did not do military service! he was deemed underweight for it and people thought this was just a way to avoid it which was considered shameful) so maybe she thought killing herself would solve it all? End her suffering and help her father?
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74 Buvie
October 13, 2016 at 10:54 AM
What a Shame!
And I watched all 6 eps today :(
What a waste?! TPTB give me back the time I wasted on this drama :(
Ji Chang Wook >..< I don't know what the hell CPR is not equal to kissing"
This isn't just bad writing, its no writing!!!!!
*cry me a river* coz I ain't gonna continue with this travesty anymore :(
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75 Harem
October 15, 2016 at 1:56 AM
many seems to forget, Yoonah'character is in her late 20- She stayed at the church for god how long, and yet she was unable to come out with any effective plan to escape but then all the sudden, magically after a month or two(maybe) at korea, she become like some she-bond.
And one more thing, rather than conventional snow white/rapunzel fairy tale, I think the writer was influenced with Maleficient with yoojin as jolie and yoonah as the pure Aurora, the husband as the traitor king Henry, who is also Aurora's father. Their characteristic seems match up.
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76 tesshan
October 15, 2016 at 4:15 PM
I as well found the fact that all these bodyguards tasked with protecting her unaware of the allergy and with no epipen at hand a bit laughable. Like you all said it should be written in bright red on her file.
I do as well think that she does not have a social phobia. She is not used to many people but she is ok in conversing with the ones she is familiar with. The social phobia was probably one of the many lies about her to keep her away from public life. Anna is probably realising that the only one that showed her come compassion is JH. He did try to help in Spain (as a total stranger he did more for her than any other person), he is not abusing her like J4 or anyone close to her. And the Ramyun gesture is as well something she never got from anyone. JH in that instance showed her that he is treating her like a person and not as a hostage.
Her attempt at escaping was more thought through than the one in Spain...probably because she does feel more at ease in Korea and she does remember places to go to? Although after 10 years it is surprising that most of the places she remembers are still there.
When JH recalls the events in Iraq it gave us more info than before. And when he says that he is not sure if he loved the girl or if he just feels guilty for putting her in that position he is maybe not even lying but just admitting it to himself as well?
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77 Bongsommie
October 24, 2016 at 4:51 PM
Ooooooooooooooooo
Someone's in troouubllee in ep seeveeennn
And i thought CPR required chest pumping or?
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