The DalHee relationship has finally encounter its first real situation of danger. While I do understand and support Youngdal's actions during the kidbapper's call scene, I don't get why he doesn't explain himself later. Is he giving up on their relationship for real? :( I cannot with this.

I guess Youngdal is even more determined to keep Junghee out of his revenge battle now that some harm is actually inflicted on her because of him. He might think he could explain everything to her once it's over.

Youngdal has time to comb his hair and pick out a new outfit while his girlfriend is in danger? Only in kdrama.

Only in kdrama where you'll see Dongsoo is fine after a coma and JungHee is fine the next day after a traumatic abduction. Though I kind of hope that she'd be traumatic so Shinhye can treat her as well.

i think young dal will use jiyeon for take the revenge to yang ha...he said something like backstabing yang ha back...and if this is happened before he know yang ha is his bro..i can't imagine young dal feel..he already feel so guilty because he can't protect his bro

Thank you for the recap.

Episode 18 wasn't as bad as I expected from reading comments, though there are some pointless scenes at the casino dealers lounge after Junghee's abduction.

I like Youngdal's scene in the car talking nonchalantly to Mr. Kidnapper while his eyes are crying blood and tears. Jaejoong is good in scenes required intense emotions, the kinds that are easily underdone or worse, overdone by actors with limited experience and training like himself.

I totally understand why Junghee gives Youngdal the cold shoulder given what she's been through (I would punch him if I were in her shoes, and I am not a violent person at all). Her only fault is being persistent in her involvement with Youngdal while maintaining completely ignorant about who Youngdal is up against and what those despicable man are capable of.

Shinhye is really a demigoddess who guards over both boredom and unattainable ability to obtain the truth from vague assumptions. I almost believe we need to worship her.

I think I have more to say but I need sleep for my thoughts to be coherent. And France vs. Germany in a few hours. :D

This episode was physically painful for me to watch. I have no idea how I'd act if I was kidnaped, but when Jung-Hee was in the warehouse for a good minute ALONE and kept crying someone save me and clearly getting no response, I kept yelling please try to move!!! Hop the chair over behind the pillar, inch it, make it fall over, do something other than just sit there and cry. It would have made the actual kidnapping much more bearable.

I also know she was terrified and traumatized, and I totally get where her anger is coming from. BUT, seriously?!!!! How many times has Dae-Gu warned her about these upcoming dangers and how he will have to act despicable for quite a while longer. How many times has he told her how much she means to him that he can't risk dragging her down to his level?!! That embrace? I applaud her rejection of his rejection, but Jung- Hee, you kept saying you'd watch over and protect him, and now that you got the first actual conflict ......?

And fucking Yang-Ha!!!! Damn it, who gave Go a piece of the pie KNOWING he was a murderer?! The lackey may have been targeting Dae-Gu but YOU were the one who hired the man he was indebted to. And you would have never been able to get to Jung-Hee if it weren't for Dae-Gu giving you the critical information that linked those two thugs together!

And it ticks me off to no end to see him rush in and rescue her acting as if he's a badass against these gangsters and taking all the credit. Dae-Gu was the one who swallowed his pride and called a temporary ceasefire despite his underhanded back stabs. And seeing him go out with Jung Hee, with that smug shit faced grin? It makes me want to knee him in the balls and slap her with a white glove! Seriously Jung Hee, you wonder why he is so fixated on you? Because you DO things, like go with him to casinos to learn how to bet, or now dinner, and for FUCKS sake whenever he starts his poor little unloved rich boy spiel walk the fuck AWAY!!!! Cold-hearted ness be damned. STOP hearing him out!!!! I mean geez, he talks about taking your feelings for someone else like their a prize. He fucking PROPOSED ( or at least said he would eventually) to you when you haven't even been on an actual consensual date. That in and of itself should have creeped you out and sent you running at the sight of him.

I often waver between completely hating Yang Ha, especially the scenes where he's a baby looking so adorable. But right now, I'm so mad at this upheaval of DaeHee's relationship that I want hope he lands in a padded room when he finds out about his brothers.

Rich Girl with the bangs, you're not my favorite character, but for the love of DaeHee, do whatever it takes to get Yang Ha (except hurting Jung Hee) abduct him in a creeper van. Chain him to an anchor, stalk and obsess over him; let him get a taste of his own medicine for once and see how he likes it! Do something! Dig your manicured nails into his heart and don't you dare let go!

The abduction. Ah. no comments.
JH reaction is expected, I don't know why people criticize her.
As for YD, even if it breaks us, he better keep his distance from JH at least for now, until it's safe.
Let's see what happens next episode.

What I find really strange is how at the end of this ep, psychologist suddenly decides that she knows YH is the baby brother. Like seriously!

What bothered me about Jung Hee's response to the abduction wasn't so much that it was unreasonable, but that it seems out of character. So far the series has presented us with a female lead who has had a tough upbringing and is now head of the family. In the first episodes we see her slap Young Dal for mishandling her (never to be seen again) brother and later stand up for her colleagues who were bullied by their seniors. Knowing this and the fact that she's told YD that she wants to look out for him despite seeing firsthand the type of trouble he's been in kind of suggests that she isn't one who would cry and beg, not at least without a fight.

I don't mean to downplay the scariness of the situation, I just wonder if the character's suffering and reaction was used in this episode as a device to heighten the conflict between the pairing and make out YH to be a hero. It feels very artificial to me.

Also when Man Bong stroll into the warehouse it's strange how she doesn't react to them. I mean she doesn't know if they're friend or foe, and YangHa isn't going to be much protection...

I personally understand Young Dal's decision not to approach her after the abduction. Telling her the reasons for his behaviour and then following up with, 'now you see why we can't be together' isn't ideal. He may have given her that hug last episode but I read it as a genuine response in the moment type of thing that happened in private. He probably underestimated the possibility of someone actually kidnapping her. Now that it has happened, he knows she is in real danger especially should they continue to interact in public. He has already told her he can't ask her to wait, so going up to her, apologising, explaining then saying goodbye would be cruel, as much as leaving her to believe those words is also cruel.

I would rather the one I love be free than be under a lingering hope that if enough time passes we can reunite.

Out of snarks mind, back to some discussions for the sake of a kdrama.

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What I don't understand is mostly why do people think JungHee will go to YH just because he saved her? JH felt gratitude for him to be there, it make sense to me for her to treat him to dinner. And let's not forget, JungHee is left out of a lot of things in this story. Yet people are expecting her to be wise and a know-it-all to understand what YoungDal did. She is not ShinHye, she does not yield the power of kdramaland knowledge for the plot of Triangle. Leave the poor girl alone, her boyfriend broke up with her when she was in the middle of life and death. The man that she loves knows she's in danger but decided to leave her to the wolves.

Though I joked that she went to work the next day looking fine, but she broke down right after she came home and it seemed that she is still confused and angry at him and is trying to find something to do to get that thought out of her mind. Of course this is just the ending of ep 18, we need next week to see how she acts. For now, I'll just say she is putting up a front. She is going to be seeing him in the casino often, love and affections don't go away in just a day even after something traumatic as that.

I see a lot of people, kdrama watchers on viki and other places are blaming Jung Hee for eating a dinner with YangHa or being nice to him? Why is it her fault? She is a nice girl since the beginning, I mean she went and date YoungDal when he's known to be a gangster. Blame YangHa for being a creep and not knowing how to respect her, actually this kid seemed to not understand 'friendzone'? Girls can be nice to men that they don't have romantic feelings for. Maybe tell the men to stop thinking everything as a 'flirt' and 'leading' them on. Also, just because she's with YD doesn't mean that she's not allow to go with another guy to dinner, don't bar the girl from hanging out with anyone she wants to be friends with, we're in 2014 not 1960's.

My guess is being abducted is way over what a tough girl can handle. I think I'm pretty tough too but I really don't know how freak out I'd be if I was duck-taped to a chair in an empty parking lot, especially after all the evening murder news. Logics and critical thinking are extremely hard when we are in a panic state.

But yeah, she treats Man Bong like he's a fluffy teddy bear who is there to comfort her.

its kdramaland, what do you expect! there are and will always have tons of non-logical situation. LoL. but i still find this show is somewhat interesting.

this show its keep getting better in a slow pace. with a few more episodes left and i'm starting to wonder if there could be possibly a tragic ending for this show. well one of the brothers might get killed in the end. (though i really hope for a happy ending)

as for this episode, i find it to be more tense than before. as DalHee shippers, i get frustrated why must pushing the one you love away is the only way to protect the other? urghhh. and i find shinhye to be the most genius human being ever!! LOL. her character is important here but it just feel like 'does she has psychic power?'. shinhye is like too awesome to be true! hahahaha

Thank you for the recap, GM!! Finally can write my thoughts down (although my apologies again for letting some things slip in the past recap).

When Ji-yeon caught Young-dal's eye in ep17 (even more so after finding out her connection to Yang-ha), I knew that Young-dal's "she's not my girlfriend" declaration to Frankenstein Man smelled like both a plan and a way to save Jung-hee. It's looking like both Young-dal and Ji-yeon will use each other for their own means--she will be getting back at Yang-ha for liking another woman (never scorn a woman) and he will gt back at Yang-ha for putting the moves on Jung-hee.

Although it still rankles me that Young-dal continued to keep his distance and let the misunderstanding hang (seriously, he couldn't give a simple explanation at home?? Argh) I get that he's doing if 'til he gets the threat out of the way.

But the easy flips over to Frankenstein Man and co. gives me concern about the "plans" that Young-dal has in his quest to take down Skunk Go, Yoon and Yang-ha. If they're depending on unreliable, easy to flip dudes and giving such impossible tasks to small-change wannabe gangsters (Jerry and Jang-soo) who are easily outsmarted by Yang-ha. I know it's not an easy task by any means, but seriously...for someone who's notorious for being the "trash of Sabuk," Young-dal should know better. Can't fight a 'clean' fight against scum...gotta do whatever necessary to win -- even if it means playing at their level and playing dirty. I mean, I would have thought he'd use toughie Manbong as his second-hand man to reinforce his gangster ways.

As for Jung-hee...I didn't think she would be so easily swayed into the arms of Yang-ha, the very jerk who was so trying so damn hard to force his feelings on her. Did he really seem like the knight in shining armor, saving her from distress?? -.- Of course she was in a life or death situation and Young-dal seemingly avowed her when they called to taunt him for kidnapping his girl. For someone who was so trusting and honest, I found it difficult that she'd just believe everything he said without questioning why -- didn't she think it was odd that he was saying all thee callous words to her kidnappers, claiming she wasn't anything to him...and took his words at face value?? Guess their "perfect" relationship needed some angst before the finale...since every drama otp needs that unnecessary breakup before reconciling.

And Shin-hye's ability to make the conclusion that Yang-ha = Dong-woo just from a few details is amazinggg *sarcasm* Seriously, was Yang-ha the only boy adopted from there? Despite the eye-rolling moments, I had wondered how they were gonna introduce Yang-ha possibly being Dong-woo. Thanks, plot device mover Shin-hye :/

So I am still going to watch on, despite the it holes and unnecessary angst towards the finale. I'm still itching to see how Yang-ha's reaction when he realizes Dong-soo and Young-dal are his bros...

Thanks for the recap!
I did enjoy this episode than previous one. More action had taken. Youngdal made a right decision to cut off Junghee over the phone to save her, of course. And same time giving Myungjae a dilemma. I just hope Myungjae is the last big gangster to show up for this drama (same time, i'm thinking of Mrs Min's husband who suppose to be top of the top gangster). Salute to Jaejoong acting in car scene. No more no leas. It's the right emotion he should have. Yaungha reaction to Junhee crisis is just a lil' bit fuss IMO. He seems to take his save and jump her into next step. But knowing his psychological conditions, he seems to find no other way. I'm still rooting dalhee couple. Break up to make up, huh! I believe youngdal can easily handle junghee's misunderstanding by one kiss or one big hug. Not that I underestimate Junghee. But in kdrama, it can happen. Youngdal is right to push JH away since his battle is complicated. Better don't mix business with pleasure. If i ever have any slight disappointment? Yes. Shinhye finding about Yaungha's adoption history. If she keep finding of all 3 brothers past, the plot become more duller (on her part). I was hoping, since Youngdal is the one who is working closely at Daejun grp, YD should be the one who find out about YD. But, I'm not the writer. Like many other viewer, I hope Youngdal would not end up sacrificing himself (either his life or his future with JH) in the end for the sake of Yaungha to whom he had lost once. Next next episodes will be more and more interesting. Finger crossed!

If I were Jung Hee, I would wonder how Yang Ha know her whereabouts when she's kidnapped. I would also wonder why Young Dal, who were so genuine about his feeling before then turned so cold toward her. Was it only because he's rich now? Then what the meaning of his back hug in her house then? She shouldn't have to ignore Young Dal just like that, but confront him and ask for explanation face to face, see his emotion through his eyes and hear the emotion through his voice, just see the "truth" from there.
I wonder whether Jung Hee knows the "message" that she has to avoid Young Dal for the time being, but that doesn't mean that she has to stop her feeling for him.
I'm a Dal-Hee (even Jae-Hee) shipper so this episode really breaks my heart :(

Before Triangle started I was so excited anticipating how the brothers would discover each other. I know I should just try to enjoy the fantastic acting but the Shinhye clairvoyant role is a bit too much for me, how and why did Choi choose such a boring reveal method! (I think the original story must have been planned for more episodes and we ended up with chop suey) Makes me wanna cry, my hopes for the revealing moment with body tingling crying happy sad feelings whoosh gone by once again with words from a lacking character. It would have even been better if Dongsoo found Dongwoo first, helped the evil cute brat, betray Dongcheol (painful as may be, with us all cursing the writer) then find out later he's the brother, some drama with the story, give me the feels please. I admit the scene with Jaejoong at orphanage brought me much tears but only because his acting is just incredibly good, so why couldn't Shinhye have sent Dongsoo there with Dongcheol and have his memory at that memorable spot instead of blurting it out at a table in a cafe (yeah I know he was in hospital, so wait a few days Shinhye the plot spoiler), brotherly reminiscing I want, thanks but no thanks sh ice queen.

I'm neutral with Dalhee (seems like the storyline is for these two to be together and lots of folks like this couple but I just didn't get enough of the warm lovey dovey fuzzy excited feeling from them), though because of Dongcheol sad story, it would be nice for them to end up together, I have an inkling she'll find out the truth after much pain (a must in kdrama) type scenes like we just saw, and run back to him, I just pray that doesn't become the focus, at least give us the remaining episodes since we've gotten so little of, BROTHER focus, any interaction, fighting bonding just more please. And dear god please some new flashbacks, no more old ones that we've seen multiple times (that thousand piece puzzle which we only got a hundred pieces, can we get remainder now).

Even though I sound like a complainer, I am enjoying every episode (just with a lot of oh o.o really). Jaejoong acting is beyond awesome, LBS is so good as always, and first time seeing Siwan, what a cutie he is and I'm impressed with his acting, I've seen Jinhee in several dramas, always liked her. So I'm gonna hope for the final stretch, bases loaded in the ninth and that winning home run, leaving us all with cheers for Triangle.

Gummimochi and Headsno2, thank you both, your recaps and comments are the best! Always look forward to your point of view!!!