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I Hear Your Voice: Episode 11

Ready for another spin on the rollercoaster? It’s time for our hero to face the music, but it turns out there are more terrifying things than facing a jury when you may or may not have killed a man. Like the realization that you just might be all alone in the world… *whimper*

Ratings broke 20% today: Episode 11 recorded 22.1%, which in the current weekday drama climate is the first big hit in months. (Queen’s Classroom: 7.5%. Sword and Flower: 5.4%.)

 
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EPISODE 11: “I’m sorry I hate you”

We backtrack a little to the break in the trial, and Hye-sung comes in to tell Su-ha about the change in direction—they’re going to argue that Min Joon-gook is still alive. Meanwhile he’s still having searing headaches accompanied by visions of attacking Joon-gook, and is freaked out to high heaven that he might’ve really killed him.

He grabs Hye-sung’s arm and asks how she can trust him, more than he trusts himself. She simply says he promised her. Su-ha: “Just because of a promise?!”

She sets him straight about what a promise means to him—he searched for her for ten years to keep one little promise he made. That’s the kind of person he is, and that’s what promises mean to him.

The trial resumes and we catch up to the scene that ended the last episode, with Hye-sung arguing that Min Joon-gook could still be alive, and that he’s just as likely to be the culprit behind it all.

They’re forced to defend their stance without introducing any new evidence, but thankfully Hwang Dal-joong is already on the witness roll call. He’s the clincher in this argument, since the Left-Hand Murder was the case that sent him to prison, and he testifies that he told the story to his prison cellmate Min Joon-gook.

They argue that this case is a copycat one, where Min Joon-gook kills two birds with one stone (er, hand). He gets to disappear and be presumed dead, while Su-ha takes the fall. Now we’re talkin’.

The prosecution brings Nice Cop in to testify about Su-ha’s outburst in the station (that he’d kill Min Joon-gook himself if they didn’t do their jobs), and then when the defense cross-examines him about the time he falsely suspected Su-ha of stealing his gun, Hye-sung does this hilarious finger mime at him: Tell the truth or you die. I’m watching you.

Onto the knife: Su-ha’s fingerprints are all over it, but the defense argues that Min Joon-gook’s prints are on it too, and he’s the last person seen with the weapon, taken on the night he attacked Hye-sung and Su-ha.

So far so good, and the defense seems happy about the direction of the trial. Hye-sung and Kwan-woo even exchange a furtive high-five.

Meanwhile Pretty the Paralegal is still at the fruit stand talking to the ajumma who tipped off the cops, and he gets on her good side by buying two boxes of peaches before making chitchat with her about Park Su-ha being very pretty and glamorous. Ha.

She falls right for the trap and agrees that Su-ha is well-endowed (hahaha) and then Pretty points out that Park Su-ha isn’t a girl. She panics, thinking he’s here to reclaim the reward money, and shuts him out before he can ask how she reported a person she’s never even laid eyes on.

It’s time for closing arguments, and Do-yeon actually uses Mom’s murder case against them, speaking regretfully about how they let reasonable doubt keep a murderer out of jail when the facts were there in plain sight. She uses a puzzle metaphor, saying that with eighty pieces of an elephant puzzle, it doesn’t suddenly turn into a lion without those last twenty pieces.

Kwan-woo gets up to speak for the defense, but Hye-sung changes her mind and holds him back. She gets up and tells the jury that the case Do-yeon just spoke of was her mother’s murder, and back then she was the one who cursed the rules and the law, speaking frankly about how she thought it was all for the dogs.

She turns to face Kwan-woo as she says that it’s only now that she understands why these laws exist, and now here she is, the person who hated those rules more than anyone, arguing to protect someone with those same laws, and desperately at that.

She uses Do-yeon’s puzzle metaphor to say that sure, without those last twenty pieces, an elephant doesn’t become a lion. But those twenty pieces could be the difference between knowing whether that elephant is stepping on a person or a ball.

She reminds the jury that if two possibilities exist, then there’s reasonable doubt, and adds that putting someone away in the prime of his life is something that they can never take back. She says, voice trembling: “It’s the damned law that let my mother’s killer go free, but it’s also the final straw of the law that could save the defendant’s life.”

As the jury deliberates, Do-yeon catches up to Hye-sung outside the courtroom, and Kwan-woo overhears them. She asks if Hye-sung isn’t the least bit ashamed to her mother, for using Kwan-woo’s defense for Min Joon-gook like that.

With tears brimming in her eyes, Hye-sung says that she believes Kwan-woo did the best he could as a lawyer. Do-yeon scoffs in disbelief, adding that she actually feels sorry for Mom, who must be turning over in her grave.

Hye-sung: “No, she would tell me I’m right. She’d tell me I did a good job.” Oof, you can feel her willing it to be true even as she says it, and Kwan-woo starts to cry as he watches her walk away.

She goes to the bathroom and washes off all the notes she had written on her hand for her closing argument, and looks up at her reflection. She cries as she asks, “Mom, I was right, right? I did a good job, right?”

And then she breaks down in sobs, and it breaks my heart all over again. As she wails, Kwan-woo stands outside the bathroom, just listening and crying to himself silently.

Kwan-woo sits with Su-ha in the holding room as they wait hour upon hour for the verdict. Su-ha thanks him for everything today, and Kwan-woo says he’s the one who should be thanking Su-ha: “You don’t remember, but I owe you a big debt.”

He says that that debt was what kept him away from Hye-sung, but this trial is his chance to return to her. Su-ha notes that he must like her, and Kwan-woo says he does; a lot.

It’s time for the verdict: Judge Kim gives a recap of the case, and it’s a nail-biter to the finish, because you can just feel the whole room waiting and waiting and nearly bursting out with tell us the damn verdict already. Or is that just me?

The jury is split 5:4, but after all the arguments are laid out, reasonable doubt is the name of the game, and Su-ha is acquitted. HOORAAAAY!

Kwan-woo fist-pumps and Hye-sung buries her face in her hands, and Su-ha smiles for the first time in eons.

He stands outside in the hallway once the trial is over, wondering where to go from here. Hye-sung comes out and asks why he isn’t going home, and he has to point out that he’d like to, but doesn’t know where home is. She offers to take him there. But… what about your house?

Lawyer Shin finds Kwan-woo standing in the dark courtroom all alone and asks what he’s still doing here. Kwan-woo: “I want to remember it—today, this moment.” He explains that he’s storing it away so that it gives him strength when times are tough as a lawyer, and that he’ll use the memory of this trial to endure.

Hye-sung brings Su-ha to his door and leaves him there, which of course ends up with him pushing random numbers on the keypad lock like an amnesiac, ’cause of… the amnesia.

Thankfully she comes right back and calls the locksmith for him, and they sit in the hallway and wait. Or he could go to your house. Just sayin’.

He asks now if Min Joon-gook is still alive, then doesn’t that mean Hye-sung is in danger? Maybe she’d be better off if he killed him after all. I love that he’s still worried about her first, even without his memories.

She quickly puts a stop to that line of reasoning, and says that Min Joon-gook being alive is a hundred times better than Su-ha being a murderer. Agreed.

The hallway motion light keeps blinking off in intervals, and when Su-ha claps the lights back on, he sees that she’s nodding off to sleep. He sits down next to her with a smile and tucks her mouth closed and pulls her head onto his shoulder. Ohmygah, this, and you don’t even remember how much you actually love her.

He takes her hand, and notices the half-erased scrawl marks that she had written down furiously during the trial. He thinks back to it now, and lifts her hand up to his lips and kisses it softly. Kyaaaaa.

He clasps her hand in his and kisses it again as she sleeps. By the time Hye-sung wakes up, she’s lying on his couch, and he’s fallen asleep resting his head beside hers. She reaches over to touch his face and it looks like she might, for just a split second, but her hand lingers in the air and she pulls back.

She gets up to write a note, and as Su-ha sleeps, he has another memory flash: It’s nighttime and he’s running for his life, and gets hit by a truck on a dirt road. There’s an ajusshi behind the wheel, but it’s not Min Joon-gook, and he looks as frightened as anyone.

The memory startles him awake, and he finds that it’s morning and Hye-sung is gone. But on the fridge is a series of post-its, like a to-do list of things he needs to do.

Among them are practical things like checking his bank account and seeing a doctor, to taking a high school equivalency exam and preparing for college, to “make a girlfriend,” and “don’t call me anymore.” Boo. Hiss.

Do-yeon tells her parents about the case and the defense’s theory about Min Joon-gook copying Hwang Dal-joong’s murder, and Dad tenses up again at the name. Lawyer Shin goes to visit Dal-joong in jail, and Dal-joong surprises him with good news/bad news. He’s due for an early release, but it’s for medical reasons—there’s something in his brain and he doesn’t have much time to live.

Sung-bin comes by to do Hye-sung’s nails, and Hye-sung asks if she’s met up with Su-ha. You sure are curious for someone who told him never to call. Sung-bin’s due to meet him later today, and Hye-sung asks her for a favor.

Sung-bin meets Su-ha while he’s shopping for a new phone, and sticks to him like a giant magnet and wailing that she missed him terribly. He’s taken aback, and she swears that he liked her a lot and chased her around all the time. HA.

But Choong-ki arrives just behind her and yanks her away, with the warning not to trust anything she says. Hee, foiled.

He hands over Su-ha’s stuff including his journal, and Su-ha asks if they know Hye-sung’s phone number. Sung-bin does, but she says that Hye-sung made her promise not to give it to him. Aw, that was the favor? Boo again. Choong-ki sighs that the ajumma sure is playing hard to get.

Kwan-woo moves into a private office across the hall, intending to take cases until he can apply for the public defender’s office again. Lawyer Shin doesn’t know of ex-public defenders ever getting picked again, but Kwan-woo says he’ll just work extra hard.

Pretty the Paralegal helps him move into the new office happily, and then remembers (only NOW??) to tell Kwan-woo about the fruit stand ajumma who reported Su-ha, but didn’t even know that he wasn’t a girl.

So Kwan-woo marches over to Do-yeon’s office, where she’s busy applying for an appeal to a higher court. (Is there a loophole in double jeopardy?) He asks why she’s not looking for Min Joon-gook, while she thinks it’s a waste of time to look for a dead person. So he shares the suspicious story about the fruit stand ajumma, hoping that it gets her wondering.

Su-ha spends his days busily making his way through the post-it to-do list. He does it all with a smile on his face, that is until he gets to the girlfriend one, which he crumples up with a frown. Heh.

He takes a break from studying to read the journal again, and as he ponders the entry we saw him write in the first episode, he has a momentary flashback to a happy moment with Hye-sung, after they figured out how to win the grandpa case.

He repeats the last words of the entry aloud: “I miss you.”

He makes a decision and packs the journal in a bag and stops at the fridge. He’s down to his last one—the don’t call me post-it—and stops to have a staring contest with it.

At the office, Hye-sung jumps out of the way to avoid running into Kwan-woo, thinking of his not-a-proposal from before the trial. He waits to get the jump on her anyway, and doesn’t hesitate to ask her now if she’ll date him again, like he said he would.

She takes a deep breath… “I’m sorry. My answer now is the same as it was then.” His face falls, and he asks if she still hates him. She says with no animosity in her voice that she doesn’t hate him anymore. Kwan-woo: “Then can I ask the reason why?” She purses her lips and doesn’t answer.

We cut to Su-ha running down the street, searching desperately for her office, literally going up and down streets scanning every sign for a lawyer, and just asking random passersby if they know where Hye-sung works.

Luckily for him, he runs into Lawyer Shin and Pretty the Paralegal, who laugh at his question and escort him inside to their office. Nobody’s there, or at least it looks that way to everyone except Pretty the Paralegal, who spots Hye-sung hiding under her desk. Pffft.

Su-ha says disappointedly that he’ll try again tomorrow. Hye-sung comes out once he’s gone and gives the excuse that she just finds it annoying to have to deal with him now that the trial is over. Said the lying liar who lies!

She heads over to the courthouse for her next case, where she’s defending a con artist. An entire group of plaintiffs and victims are waiting to give her a piece of their minds and they attack, pulling her hair and throwing flour at her for defending scum of the earth like him.

Judge Kim comes upon the scene and screams to bring the group to a screeching halt, making it clear that Hye-sung is a public defender who doesn’t make money from the case. He walks her to the courthouse expecting a thank you, but she just nags him for publicly taking her side instead, as it might look bad in court.

Just as he’s gaping at her, she sees Su-ha waiting for her by the door, and literally hides behind the judge’s robes like it’s mommy’s skirt. HA. And then she orders him to walk ahead while tiptoeing behind him until they get past Su-ha. Who’s the child now?

Judge Kim points out that she didn’t say thank you for that either, and when he tells her that her skirt’s turned around, she just flips it right around and holds her head up high like nothing happened. I love her.

Kwan-woo’s ploy works like a charm, and Do-yeon finds herself curious about the things that don’t add up. She goes to the fruit stand to find out for herself, and when she threatens to take away the reward money if she doesn’t tell the truth, the ajumma admits that a man gave her the tip.

Do-yeon takes out three photos to ask if she recognizes any of them. Min Joon-gook’s photo is among them, and the ajumma gets shifty-eyed. She clearly recognizes one of them, but lies that she doesn’t, and Do-yeon stops her questions there.

The ajumma gives a nervous glance across the street, and then we see that someone’s watching her from a truck… and he has what looks like a prosthetic hand. Oh crud.

It’s Min Joon-gook, dressed like a fisherman and sporting a grizzly beard, and yup—he’s got a prosthetic hand. Great, they managed to find a way to make the creepy killer even creepier. Thanks for that.

Su-ha waits outside Hye-sung’s office and finally catches up to her in the revolving door. She goes for another spin to try and avoid him, but he traps her in until she agrees to talk to him.

She remains cold and distant, and asks what he wants to say. He fidgets nervously, saying that there’s so much. He starts by thanking her for the trial, and then asks why he can’t call her. She acts like she’s far too busy to bother.

He asks again if he really disliked her, and she sticks to her story—that he was rude and nagged her all the time. “What about you? Did you hate me?”

She hesitates, but then says that she didn’t just hate him; she hated him to a tiresome degree, with his banmal and acting like an adult. He asks why she defended him like that in court then, and she reminds him that it was all because of Min Joon-gook.

She says that she recovered her (admittedly miniscule) faith in the system through his case and learned what it means to be a lawyer. She gets up and says that she’s grateful for that, but that’s as far as it goes.

He runs up to grab onto her wrist and pleads, “I’m sorry… I’m really sorry… But even if you hate me, can’t you stay? I feel like every string that kept me connected to the world has been detached. If you let go of me too… I… ”

And then Kwan-woo picks that moment OF ALL MOMENTS to call her, having followed them there. He sees them inside and knocks on the window, urging her to pick up. He guesses that this is a situation she wants to get out of, and suggests she use a movie date with him as an excuse to leave.

She does just that. Gah, no. You can’t leave him there!

He watches them go and suddenly starts to panic with his hands pressed against the window: “Don’t go! Don’t go!” AUGH, how can you go like that?

He runs after them, but they get in a cab and leave him behind, still crying for her not to go. She turns back to look at him, which just hurts even more.

She thanks Kwan-woo for the rescue, and he insists on seeing her home. Su-ha sits outside the coffee shop and the moment actually brings back a memory of the time he saw Hye-sung and Kwan-woo together, when he felt that same pang in his heart. “There must’ve been another time just like this one.”

Hye-sung settles in for the night, but then it starts to rain, and she gazes out her window.

Kwan-woo stands at the bus stop with his briefcase over his head to shield the rain, and then sees Hye-sung running back out with an umbrella to catch a cab. Eeeee, is she going where I think she’s going?

He thinks back to their earlier conversation, when he’d asked the reason why she didn’t want to date him. We go from Kwan-woo at the bus stop, to Hye-sung in the cab, to Su-ha sitting on the stoop in the pouring rain.

We go back to her answer earlier that day, as she starts to say that it doesn’t make any sense at all, but…

Cut back to her arriving at her stop… It’s the coffee shop! It’s Su-ha!

Back to her answer: “That kid just keeps worrying me.” She walks over to him now in the rain, and he looks up with his puppy eyes, lighting up the second he sees her. She mutters aloud at him: “You drive me crazy.”

And then back again to finish her answer: “It doesn’t make any sense, but… I think I like that kid.” Eeeeeeee!

She crouches down in the rain and lets the umbrella fall out of her hands and asks what on earth she’s going to do with him. He just looks back at her with this smile… In flashback she tells Kwan-woo that she’s going to get over it—she has to, and she can.

Su-ha picks up the umbrella and holds it over her to shield her from the rain, not caring that he’s getting soaked. He just meets her troubled expression with a beaming smile, as if daring her to get over it.

I’m making a sound only dogs and bats can hear right now.

 
COMMENTS

This is So. Great. I actually didn’t expect her to come around this quickly. I knew we were in for a big fat vat of denial, but THIS. Her copping to her feelings sooner than I expected totally makes up for the episode of pain. Causing Su-ha’s heartbreak back when he had a one-sided crush and could read her mind was one thing, but the lies to keep him away when he’s powerless and adrift—that was killing me. I can never hate her, because she’s clearly doing all of it to deny her feelings. It’s just that the whole puppy in the rain thing is too much for my bleeding heart to handle.

Poor Kwan-woo finally got his answer, though the non-answer the first time he non-asked the question should’ve been a giveaway. I haven’t minded his mode of persistence so far, because it’s optimistic, not invasive. I certainly screamed at him for the first time ever when he called Hye-sung out of the coffee shop today, but given the reveal of her answer to him earlier, I can see why he’d think that’s what she wanted. And she’s the idiot who jumps at the chance to run off and thanks him for it, because she’s up to her eyeballs in denial. The thing I’m worried about is that he’s going to either become invasively persistent from here on out, or that Hye-sung will even use him to try and get over Su-ha. I can actually see the latter happening, which I hope isn’t the case, for Kwan-woo’s sake.

I was genuinely surprised that Hye-sung admitted her feelings so soon (to herself that is), and I love that she did so while Su-ha has amnesia, because it’s a way to fabricate the reversal—this time she loves him first, if only because he doesn’t remember how much he loves her. And it was a great use of the fact that he can’t read her mind anymore. She takes advantage of that and lies profusely to fuel her denial, and he can’t counter anything she says. But this time it isn’t Su-ha who calls her out on her lies, and there’s nothing better than the fact that she comes back for him on her own.

So far we’re using the amnesia in a great way—Su-ha’s reversal is even more poignant than Hye-sung’s, especially when he breaks down in the coffee shop. After a lifetime spent being a protector, when he pleads with her to stay by his side like she’s his lifeline, he seems more childlike than ever, and vulnerable and alone. And of course it’s all the sweeter because we actually get to see Su-ha fall in love like it’s the first time. There’s just something about the way he repeats similar actions without knowing it that really gets me in the heart—protecting her, being there for her to lean on, getting soaked to shield her. Like the memories are incidental, but the person is the same. It’s not so cut and dried, of course, but I like that romantic notion that even if everything else changed, he’d still be Su-ha and he’d still fall in love with her all over again.

 
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the moments between hye-sung and su-ha were just beautiful, particularly the rain scene and the scene where he lets her sleep on his shoulder as they wait for the locksmith. for the first time, i'm buying the romance. i'm sure it's because the show's makers want us to, and are actively leading us that way now, but at least they're being successful at it!

i still think the show would have been just as great without linking these two together romantically. i'm just not a fan of shows doing this. not everything has to be a Great Romance, you know? life doesn't always work that way. but the two do have chemistry. lee jong-seok does look young for his age, and lee bo-young looks her age, but something about those two work.

i'm so glad su-ha's trial wasn't dragged out! of course there's the appeal, but at least he's free to run around (after hye-sung, ha!).

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ps. i couldn't help but cringe whenever they did close-ups of the jury, so conspicuously nodding or shaking their heads whenever a significant point was made. such awful, terrible acting. that stuff needed to go.

pps. loved hye-sung's interaction with the bumbling cop in court—the neck-slitting, pop-your-eyes out motions if he didn't speak straight, haha! lee bo-young can be so cute.

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This drama is so perfect! I can't wait to watch episode 11, now knowing the glorious scene waiting for me at the end of it.

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Soo ha is so cute - doing all the post-its until "don't call me" was left. Oooo baby, so sad! Love when he's reading his diary ~

is anyone else confusing the roles of the guy who plays both Scale in Cruel City and the witness who's in jail for 26 yrs for the left hand murder case in this drama? Creepy in both dramas!!

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The noble-idiocy here works well... I didnt hate this one because the reason is solid. And I also have a feeling that Do yeon might be Hwang Dal Joong Daughters... Whis makes her much sadder than hyesung.... So far, the story slow its pace but didnt loose its momentum.. I pray hard for this drama to ends well.. If, I said if it do got its extension, I pray for this drama have a worthy end and become one of the memorable and trendy drama of 2013....
P/S: I watch Lee Bo young and Lee Jong Suk drama before... I got to admit, their character deliver is the best in this drama... from facial expression to dialog lines pronouncement... Should I thank the writer of the director? I guess I thank both...
*drama god, save this drama*

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About the age difference, I have to admit that it bothered me a little in the beginning of the show, but I quickly got used to it. As a friend wisely pointed out, Su-ha is far more mature than his years, and Hye-sung, well, was a bit immature. Their pairing being good became quite clear in the episodes where Su-ha was living with Hye-sung to protect her. They were wonderful together.

Strangely, the age difference is a bit bothersome to me in this episode, with Hye-sung more mature and Su-ha as the vulnerable, amnesiac puppy. Hmmmm. If he gets his memories back and lays another steamy kiss on her like the one in the aquarium, all will be right in K-drama land again.

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I feel like I should LOVE this show as much as everyone, but I honestly can't get emotionally attached to it. Now that there's going to be an extension, I guess it's time to drop it.

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Su ha and hye sung are the most amazing thing in Kdrama this year...everything about them feel so natural and worthy. They balance out each other. Make each other better...i hate the amnesia plot before. But now it makes sense. They are meant to be together. One of the most important thing in every relationship is trust issues. I love how hye sung trust him when he cant even trust himself. How can he not love her all over again? Their love is just soooo sweet and perfect and flawed at the same time (age gap and all the past craziness) which made it real..

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Thank you for the recap!! I haven't refreshed a page so hard before. Such a nice twist that Hye Sung finally accepted her feelings.. can't wait for more twists unfolding! ♥♥♥

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Thank you for your recap! I always wait for this after the episode aired :D

This episode is beyond dreamy for me, because we could see the growth of Sooha and Hyesung's romance. I didn't expect this episode to be sweet but actually it was beyond that.

I love how Hyesung was in denial, because it means that she really loves Sooha in a state that she couldn't take it. I guess she never ever imagine that she will like Sooha so she tries to deny it. I also love the way Sooha's falling in love again. I love how he shows his love to Hyesung innocently like a little child, with his puppy eyes after all haha.

Now we can clearly say that Min Joongook is alive, and I thought I should be ready to go with this drama's twisted plot soon. Both 10th and 11th episode's pace were slow (even with the case going on, I guess), so I expect something bigger for the next episode.

Oh, and now it makes sense why the grandfather who took care of Sooha said that Sooha is his distant relative (which once became a big issue for Hyesung and Gwanwoo because it's suspicious). I think he felt guilty because he's the one who made Sooha becoming amnesia.

I'm ready for the 11th episode~ and I'll be waiting for you recap too~ hwaiting! :D

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Wait, wait, wait. WHY AM I CRYING?

God, those two are gonna be the death of me. This show is freaking amazing. I have no more words.

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I am not going to lie I was totally shipping Her and Kwan Woo but I jumped ship since the MJG trial. I feel bad for KW because I know he really likes her and he didn't want the case and etc etc. But damn it I just want Su-ha to be happy!

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Oh I heard about the extension and this is the first time I agree with it. There is just so much I don't want to see rushed. More time can allow them to finish this on a high note with all the stories threads coming to a nice close.

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So intense! I love that HS and SH have had a complete reversal from the beginning, when she was a bad lawyer and not at all like he remembered her and he had all these feelings from their past. Yet he still stuck by her and fell for her even more. And now, he's PupSoHa, it's HS's turn to stick by SH when he's a shell of himself. And even though it's a complete headache (I mean I like PupSoHa, but I really want my socially competent SnarkSoHa back), she finds him in the rain.

And even though he's a shell, I'm pretty sure he's going to give her reasons to like him even more. (I totally got a "I dare you to find flaws in me" vibe in the scene where he picked up that umbrella!)

[PS, comment newbie here. I love all your recaps!]

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i love it!!! thanks so much for the recap GF.

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Like, I'm just saying this but Min-Joon-Gook is actually really really smart. I mean, I do know that this is just a drama, but the plot is just fantastic. And if he was really a true character, that would be absolutely horrifying because he is sooooo good.

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KYAAAAAAA............oh my god!!! that was great! i love him!! i love them!!! I'm delirious!!

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Did anyone catch that the fruit stand was called "Min's"? As in Min Joon Gook's? I think the woman is his mother. Or something.

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Sister or cousin or aunt?

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I noticed this as well. I can read Hangul, but I don't understand it so I didn't know if Min was the name or part of a bigger word.

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This drama makes me smile and cry uncontrollably, but if it throws all semblance of an actual legal system out the window for the purposes of the storyline, I'm going to be so disappointed. Prosecutors can't file appeals! That's double jeopardy.

But other than that, I was sooo happy when she went back to Soo Ha. And his vulnerability now that he has amnesia pulls at my heart strings so much! He's too adorable aaaaah!

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thanks so much for the recap! as always, I love reading you & jb's little inserts into the recap as well as the commentary - when I read observations that I've missed it makes me appreciate the drama so much more :)

normally I instantly groan when I hear there's going to be an extension (and I'm still wary about this one), but there's so much story I still want to hear - why MJG killed Soo-Ha's dad, DY's birth secret/HDJ/Judge Park, what happened to SH between leaving HS & being found (which I think will be revealed soon), not to mention the final wrap up with MJG which I'm sure will not be simple - that I'm hesitantly trusting that it won't drag.

gah so surprised but happy that HS admitted feelings! but i agree, i want snarky SH back (with or without his powers)! first drama that's gotten me hooked in a while gahh can't wait.

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So many things that my mind is blank !

One thing I know ! LJS is one star actor !
The moment he smiles when he sees hye sung sleeping, walking over, closing her mouth, taking her on his shoulder, that expression in his eyes !
I believed for one moment that su ha is back !!! And he has had his memories all along ! Even it's established it's not, that expression made me believe in the alternate for a second !
Then realized that's the expression when su ha is in love with or without memories !

And that is called acting !!! Damn !

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This is so.. weird. Just a few days ago, I was thinking of looking for a book or something with the "no matter how many times I lose my memories, I will fall in love with you" notion (like Autumn Concierto), I am really happy with how IHYV used the amnesia. I love it!

Soo Ha can really tug on my heartstrings... And when she realized her feeling, I totally squealed!!! Now, I don't quite mind her being in denial (but I hope she doesn't hurt Lawyer Cha in all this).

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“no matter how many times I lose my memories, I will fall in love with you”

Second that!! :D

Am in the middle of re-watching Queen In-Hyun's Man right now, but loved the use of that theme in IHYV!

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Am I the only one who is rooting for Lawyer Cha to get to be with Hye Song? The noona romance is very cute and Su Ha is adorable, but I'm just not feeling it. <\3 I hate second lead syndromeeeee. T_________________T

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Thank you so much Girlfridays....thank you for your awesome recap. Best roller coaster ride ever :) I was doing a mini dance inside the toilet room< so people at work wouldnt think i was a loony bin.

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GIVE ME A KISS SCENE (NOT A FAKE-ONE SIDED KISS) OR I SWEAR I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN, WRITER-NIM!
Gawd was that a super satisfying episode or what. I can't stop myself from squealing and jumping up and down in my seat.
And that scene where Suha kissed Hyesung's hand, goodness.
You melted my heart like it was mozzarella on a hot pizza pan.

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Wow, the raining scene was fantastic. ♥

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ALL THE FEELS IN THIS EPISODE. ALL THE FEELS. THIS SERIES IS WAY TOO GOOD FOR MY FRAIL HEART BUT WHO CARES?

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What I like most about this writer is how she develops all the relationships between the leads so organically. I remember in DH as well when I had no idea who the OTP was (although I was clearly rooting for HM-SD) simply because she makes the feelings for all parties involved so realistic and the situations that they are caught in such that if YOU were the lead you might have a similar dilemma.

I super loved the ending of this episode and wanted to give it lots of hugs and kisses (the puppy in the rain!!). I really enjoy watching the story unfold (minus the terrible lawyering that is.) On one hand, the psychotic killer is still alive. On the plus side SH is NOT a killer!! And while copping to her feelings is a good thing - WHY does she want to get over him hello?! It's damn hard finding this calibre of guy in RL! ...not that this is RL but just sayin'. This guy is a keeper m'dear.

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GOSH! I can't wait to download this episode! Just from reading the recap i already cried poor Su Ha deserves some LOVE! i'm sure it will be worse when i watch it ;_;

And THANK YOU SO MUCH! <3

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To the people who think SuHa kissing HyeSung's hand is creepy, I beg to differ not because Im shipping them but because there is a lot more to it than just a romantic gesture. SuHa is grateful and also regretful or rather sad for HyeSung after seeing the half gone notes on her palm... The kiss was sweet and more like a thankyou or reassuring gesture. Since she was sleeping, the kiss seems more affectionate and and impromptu gesture if care, thankfulness, gladness, love, assuranc (clasping and pressing if the hand) etc... Their relationship is so much more deep and soulful and since they are not strangers even if SuHa lost his memory, the gesture shows closeness and warmtness. I dont like when the hero kisses the sleeping lady especially when he is lusting after her or has those feelings at that moment like in the film 'Introduction to Architecture' where the hero kissed sleeping Suzy and it was exploitive... The scene here is no where

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I agree. Nicely expressed.

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Oh my... I see lots of spelling mistakes and unfinished comment. Actually I read the recap on my phone and was replying/ typing with passion with my large fingers over my tiny touchpad of my phone and this led to so many errors... Mi-an-hye-yo~

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I am really glad that I caught this drama. Thank you, thank you, thank you Dramabeans for the heads up that started me watching it.

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As much as I love the reversals brought on by the amnesia, I so desperately need him to go back to being HER SOO-HA pre-car accident. The Soo-Ha we know and love.

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Thanks for the recap.

I have to say I did feel emotionally punched watching poor Puppy banging on the window and crying, but THAT is NOT the person HS developed feelings for. The scared little boy whom she protected in the courtoom - twice now - is someone she cares for, but not romantically.

If he doesn't snap out of it, they cannot resume OTP-hood. I am guessing her plan is to help restore him to a self-sufficient adult type, and walk away, patting herself on the back for a job well done. But in reality, she will find herself instead, falling harder for him, and unable to make a clean break from him.

I want to see SH back in man clothes!

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but she can tell herself it's to protect him and guide him back to self-sufficiency, until it's too late to let him go, even if he comes back to his former self.

i don't see how he would come back all the way, though, since he's not reading minds any more and a part of who he was is directly connected with the ability. some measure of certainty would go away when he's not able to tell what the other person is thinking, or judge their emotions or replies based on their inner dialogue.

even more, he might be even less prepared to deal with the normal world now, that he has no way to judge the sincerity of the people around him. we all deal with uncertainty in our lives, but su-ha was the human lie detector and now he doesn't have any normal defense mechanism in place to deal with the new stresses. in other words... he's more human now :D

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that screencap of Kwan Woo with his briefcase over his head .. is just adorkable ..

can never hide his dorkiness despite the suit and without the glasses ... my heart breaks for you though ..

pat pat

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AGAIN.... i fall in love with this drama ^_^

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awww, puppy love... nothing better. then of course there should be puppy kisses :D

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I haven't watched this yet because I knew I couldn't handle falling for Su-ha if he's the third wheel of the love triangle. But I'm definitely watching it now. <3

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aint they already said its noona love drama? ....

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Love reading all of your comments.
Love this drama so much and soo ha/hye sung.

I just wanna say, as long as soo ha has amnesia hye sung wouldn't be confident in her love for soo ha. So soo ha has to quickly regain his memories or hye sung will drift away.

Now i think hye sung felt pity more than love which is not good for soo ha.

Come on, baby.. Quickly be a man.

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I know we're all blown away by LJS in this epi, but LBY is damn amazing too!! In the last scene, the distress on her face shows so clearly... I felt her pain.
This was such a satisfying epi. Show, I love you~~

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Park Soo Ha better be with Hyesung!!! If they aren't, then this kdrama will suck!!

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imo dramas suck when the writer doesn't go by their opinion but go by fans reactions to please them.

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I was squeeing and flapping my hands at the end of this episode and yes, I too was making sounds only bats could hear.

I DID NOT like the episode title. And there were so many instances of folks saying flaky "thank yous" that I kept hoping (although i knew i was wrong) that each Thank you instance was going to lead to the hate you. But nooooooo. Ah, writer-nim, never have I endured iffy thank you's with such stress. You did good, writer-nim...as always.

I was sooo glad/surprised the denial/separation thing started breaking down in this episode. I was also surprised she actually told Lawyer Cha.

Shipping our OTP so much and just looking at the wonderful need Su-Ha has for her. It's true love: an interesting true love mix of young male needing older woman, needy folks who are both alike, protective love, loyalty. Sexual attraction is so low on the pole of this pairing. (Of course it began around aquarium but it wasn't the first cause of the love.) There's something so much deeper. Just such a marvellous love.

Shipping: Do-yeon and Pretty, Pretty's secretary and Lawyer Cha, Orange Hair and bothersome classmate.

But also desperately shipping Do-yeon and her soon-to-be-dead father. Wondering what'll happen with Prosecutor Dad in the end and how evil he might actually be. "Taking care of the child of a bad guy" is one thing, Stealing the child of a guy one knows to be innocent is quite another. And he BETTA have had nothing to do with the actual murder or with hiding the truth of the name of the actual murderer. It's k-drama so anything is possible. I guess they could slip that in with the extension...which (extension) i totally do not want.

Thanks for the recap.

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Just think, there are two creepy Stumpies walking around with no left hand. Because Do-yeon's dad did not kill anyone.

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just finished watching it on gooodrama n oh my god that last scene it is so awesome..............

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To fill the 2 ep extension they could explore Do Yeon's story more.

MY SPECULATIONS:

*Seo Do Yeon is Hwang Dal Joong's Daughter.
*Seo Dae Seok was "the other man."
*Hwang Dal Joong's wife's love triangle was exposed & she decided to leave Seo Dae Seok and go back to Hwang Dal Joong.

* In rage at being left behind, Seo Dae Seok murdered Hwang Dal Joong's wife.
* Seo Dae Seok blackmailed Hwang Dal Joong into going along with guilty verdict to cover up murder by adopting Hwang Dal Joong's Daughter and keeping her safe as long as he's in prison.
*Seo Dae Seok is afraid of Hwang Dal Joong because he knows Hwang Dal Joong has nothing left to lose as he's going to die from brain tumor anyway.

Is it weird that I characterizethese people as:
Seo Do Yeon = "Snotty"
Seo Dae Seok = "Judge"
Hwang Dal Joong = "Lefty"
Jang Hye Seong = "Bumptious"
Cha Gwan Woo = "Goofball"
Park Soo Ha = "Puppy"
Eo Choon Sim = "Kick Ass Mom"
Sin Sang Deok = "Dentures"
Min Joon Gook = "Creepy" aka Song Joong Ki in 15 yrs
Seong Bin = "Orange Head"
Choi Yoo Chang = "Pretty The Paralegal"
Choong Gi = "Blowhard"

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Bravo at the nicknames! :D
Except for Mean Joon Gook. Because I think Song Joong Ki will be eternally a Baby Face.

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lol @ kumi
"Bravo at the nicknames! :D
Except for Mean Joon Gook. Because I think Song Joong Ki will be eternally a Baby Face."

I see similarities in their facial features. I can imagine as Song Joong Ki ages and he matures, his face will still retain a hint or more of his boyish charm.

I don't really think either of them would be offended at the comparison. They are both fantastic actors and get COMPLETELY immersed in whatever role they are playing.

Song Joong Ki has shown glimpses of a dark side in his acting and Min Joon Kook has had more cutesy roles at the beginning of his career. their body types are very different though....

Min Joon Kook also played a villain very well in "Nice Guy" with Song Joong Ki. It was great to see them act together.

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Aw, whom did Jung Woong In play in Nice Guy? Sorry, I can't remember now.
Yes, I agree, their facial structure is similar. Good eye.

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sorry, I goofed. it was Han Jae Sik that played the villain role in Nice Guy with Song Joong Ki.

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**errrr** actor Yang Ik-June played the role of Han Jae Sik against Song Joong Ki in "Nice Guy".

I don't know HOW on earth I got those roles/actors messed up....I've must have seen wayyyyyyy too many dramas within the past year I guess!

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Anyway, Mean Joon Gook is Mastermind Rancor to me :)

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star wars reference! *snicker* hehehehe

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Yep! Eternally....
and he looks way better than Mean Joon Gook!!
(I hope he's more of a Won Bin)

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is it me? or i always find the noona love amusing.. lol...i just LOVE THIS DRAMA TOO MUCH ...

i just love your line in the end...

"I’m making a sound only dogs and bats can hear right now"..

i really love the lines you write like that.. HOW YOU EVEN THINK OF THOSE THINGS??........ love your writing skills...

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this ending made me grin like a fool :D

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Soo-ha is the BEST. Although the verdict reading drove me crazy, mostly because the happy music started playing HALFWAY THROUGH. I was like, seriously? Guh...

But Soo-ha following people around to find her was just too cute. I'm scared of this extension, though. Very scared...more than a wooden armed fisherman murder man...

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If Lawyer Cha turns into the perennial cock block I'm going to dislike him even more. The wide eyed idealist is something I can't get behind and as a second lead I've never really felt Hye sung connect with him. If they keep the conflict between him and Su Ha instead of trying to force Hye Sung and him together I'm all for it

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Hye-song, can I have lawyer Oska?

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So I've had some time to think about it and I realize how unconvincing Hyesung's confession last night was. I wish had shown some more of her conflict up to this point. Up until now, she had shown concern for Suha but it has all been very fraternal. Maybe if they had shown her reaction to the kiss I would buy it, but I forgot it even happened. Now, all of a sudden, she likes him and she is so very conflicted about it? I felike she only likes him because this is the part of the drama where she is supposed to start liking him to keep the story going.

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great! tnx gf.. ep12 plz!

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I don't understand how Lee Jongsuk manages to look good in every single outfit, even in sweats and t-shirts tucked in dress pants XD

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