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Heart to Heart: Episode 2

Things get a bit more interesting as we start to learn more about Yi-seok’s family background, and discover exactly how crippling Hong-do’s anxiety can be. Though Yi-seok is off the hook for the stabbing, he’s still in hot water for drinking on the job, and his personal life takes a turn for the worse on top of everything else. And while Hong-do takes a huge step towards normalcy, it makes her realize that it’s time to seek help in the last place she expected.

 
EPISODE 2 RECAP

In agonizing slow motion, and with skinned and bloody knees, Hong-do runs desperately through the streets. Interestingly, she’s not wearing her protective helmet, but instead is dressed nicely with her hair and makeup giving her a soft, pretty look. But her face looks scared and panicked as she runs.

Doo-soo gives chase, his expression giving away worry and concern. Hong-do momentarily loses her hat, but manages to grab it without being caught, and continues her flight.

Sometime earlier, we go back to where we left Yi-seok, hanging from the ceiling by his tie and calling for help. Hong-do hears his gasps for breath and grabs his legs, but this only makes things worse (and oddly hilarious) as she swings with him. She changes tactics to push his desk near him, climb on it, and cut the tie with scissors.

They both crash onto the sofa with Yi-seok on top of Hong-do, and he quickly jumps up to listen again to the message that Doo-soo left. He hasn’t even caught his breath yet, but he smiles to hear that his patient woke up and has admitted to stabbing himself in the neck. Then the anger kicks in, and Yi-seok screams his frustration.

Hong-do’s phone rings in his pocket and he answers out of habit — it’s Doo-soo calling Hong-do. She tries to grab the phone but Yi-seok fends her off and rips Doo-soo a new one for believing the “crazy woman” and not him.

He hangs up and rounds on Hong-do, shoving her against the wall and blaming her for his being treated like a murderer and for his near-suicide. He orders her never to show her face to him again and walks out, leaving her to mutter to herself that she saved his life. Yeah, I knew he wouldn’t be grateful.

Yi-seok drives to the hospital to confront his patient (whose name is Park Man-dong), angry about the marks the tie left on his neck and not realizing that Hong-do is following him on her scooter. He finds his patient’s room and walks right in, as Hong-do tries her best to hide between some chairs and the wall, ha.

Yi-seok asks why the man stabbed himself, and whether he’s okay, but in the patient’s presence the painful ringing in Yi-seok’s ears begins again and his vision blurs. He’s struggling to breathe by the time the patient’s daughter enters the room, and Hong-do creeps in behind her (as if nobody will notice a woman in a helmet on her knees, haha).

Hong-do grabs Yi-seok’s hand and asks for her phone back, and instantly the ringing stops and Yi-seok feels normal again. He pushes her out of the room and the ringing starts again, but stops right away when he pulls her back inside. Okay that’s strange, and oddly familiar.

Yi-seok shoves Hong-do into the hall again, the ringing rushes back full-force. In the process he also pulls the patient’s daughter this way and that, and now the father looks angry. Yi-seok crawls out of the room and the moment he does, he’s back to normal. Hong-do asks for her phone again and he denies having it, but it’s right there in his pocket ringing again with another call from Doo-soo.

He plays keep-away with the phone as Hong-do jumps around him, assuming she and the detective are in some kind of relationship. Hong-do finally loses her temper and screams at him to give her her phone now, that it’s all his fault she ended up at the station and that Doo-soo saw a side of her she wanted hidden. She bellows that he’s just a drunken quack doctor, drawing a crowd.

Yi-seok is amused by her outburst, but denies that he’s a quack (he allows her other accusations though, ha). He grabs her helmet and forces her to look him in the eye, and asks if she wants to fix her blushing and social anxiety. He says he can fix her in return for three minutes of her time, and grabs her hand to pull her back in the hospital room.

Yi-seok parks Hong-do in a chair and, keeping one hand on her helmet, tells the patient he has a lot of questions for him. But the patient isn’t interested in talking and tells him never to come back. Yi-seok settles for asking him why he stabbed himself, so the man motions him closer.

Yi-seok reluctantly lets go of Hong-do and the patient pulls him in uncomfortably close, and whispers if he’s curious about him now that he’s seen his daughter. If he’s implying what I think he is, that he’s been inappropriate with his own daughter, this man is a true sicko.

He orders Yi-seok never to come near his daughter, and the ringing begins yet again as Yi-seok pulls away and staggers out of the room. Sick to the bone, Yi-seok stumbles to the elevator and tosses Hong-do her phone when she asks for it one last time.

Some days later, Hong-do cheerfully applies her old-woman makeup, preparing for her first day as the chairman’s typist. She wonders to herself how it will be, but figures at least she’s not cooking or cleaning.

But when she arrives at work, the chairman claims he didn’t intend to hire her and tells Butler Ahn to pay her and send her away. Hong-do enters the room and gently comments that he must be prejudiced against older people, asking him to give her a chance.

It doesn’t work and she heads back downstairs, but starts and nearly trips down the stairs to see the picture of Yi-seok on the wall. The head housekeeper tells her proudly that he’s the chairman’s grandson, and Butler Ahn rushes in to fetch Hong-do since the chairman’s decided to give her a chance after all.

Yi-seok’s mother calls him to remind him of his grandfather’s birthday soon, and she’s clearly in the manic phase of her bipolar disorder because she’s dressed to the nines and in a fantastic mood. (Bipolar disorder, for clarity, is a disorder that causes extreme mood swings from manic highs to depressive lows. It’s not, as many people mistakenly think, a form of multiple personality disorder.)

Yi-seok is sick and hung over but assures his mother he’s fine, agreeing to go shopping with her for a gift for his grandfather. He hangs up and chastises himself for not realizing his stabbing patient was that ill.

Chairman Go dictates to Hong-do then asks to see what she’s written, but dismisses her after saying that he only gave her a shot because she wanted it so badly. She astutely figures out that he can’t actually see what she’s typed and shows him how to use a smartphone as a magnifying glass, which blows his mind and he reconsiders hiring her.

Butler Ahn walks Hong-do out, and she waves him back inside. She hears a cry and sees Yi-seok carrying his mother’s many, many shopping bags while she limps on a hurt foot. Hong-do hides her face in a bush, peeking out to see Yi-seok scoop his mother into his arms and carry her inside. Hong-do marvels at Yi-seok’s easy smiles and laughter — he’s a different man with his family.

Doo-soo and his partner Yang grab lunch at a convenience store, Doo-soo fending off Yang’s teasing that he likes Hong-do. Doo-soo tries to call her again, insisting he’s just worried about her, and types up a text when she doesn’t answer.

He’s so intent on his text, he completely misses a stark naked woman running past the store window. Yang points her out and the two cops run out of the store after the woman, and Doo-soo’s text gets accidentally sent half-finished.

Hong-do is tending her indoor garden when she gets the partial-text from Doo-soo. He thanks her for the porridge and asks if she wants to… something, but it cuts off halfway through a word. She wanders through the house repeating the half-word, wondering what he could possibly have meant. She types a response asking what he means, but drops her phone in horror when she accidentally sends it.

The naked woman streaks through the streets with Doo-soo and Yang in hot pursuit, managing to evade them for quite a ways. Yang keeps up admirably, hilariously calling to shocked bystanders to look away, HAHA, and Doo-soo takes a shortcut in an attempt to cut her off.

At the same time, Yi-seok’s sister Se-ro is on the set of her film, dressed in a bikini and lounging poolside next to the movie’s lead actress, seemingly as an extra. Every time they start shooting, she manages to get her face or leg in the shot and obscure the leads, hee.

Suddenly the set is interrupted by the naked woman, who runs past everyone and jumps into the pool. Yang leaps in after her, and Doo-soo grabs Se-ro’s towel and finally coaxes the naked woman to him and covers her. Se-ro looks more annoyed that her only scene in the movie is cut out of frustration for the interruptions, than any concern over why a woman would be running starkers through the streets.

Yi-seok meets with a psychiatrist sunbae of his, Dr. UHM GI-CHOON (Seo Yi-seok) and fills her in on the details of the stabbing incident (but glossing over the marks on his neck as hickeys). He says the patient claimed to have been depressed since his wife passed away, and he just took his words at face value and didn’t look deeper. He confesses that now he’s concerned by the man’s unnatural obsession with his daughter.

Dr. Uhm says the man’s suicide attempt was a cry for help, but quickly changes the subject and asks Yi-seok why he’s been drinking. She says he’s in no condition to be practicing and assumes he’ll be quitting since his patients have left anyway, but Yi-seok only protests his innocence.

The naked woman is picked up at the station by a family member, who assures a worried Yang that she’ll take care of her but doesn’t seem to take the situation seriously. He’s concerned because she seems on paper to be a normal woman with a good job, and he wonders what would possess her to run around naked in broad daylight.

Hong-do hangs out in the bushes outside Doo-soo’s home, wondering aloud what she’ll do if he meant to ask her out. She bends to tie her shoe, which sets off a sweet imaginary sequence where her shoes and his shoes meet, his shoes tap and coax hers into dancing, and they end up nestled together as their occupants are presumably busy kissing.

Just then she gets a text from Doo-soo apologizing for the confusion, and he does indeed ask her to lunch the next day. Thrilled, she imagines herself helmetless and dancing with abandon in the street outside his home, looking absolutely radiant.

The next day she gets ready for her lunch date, excited but nervous, and leaves the house looking very pretty and most of all, dressed normally and without her helmet. She has a momentary setback when the taxi can’t get near her front door and she has to walk a couple of blocks to meet him, but she manages by hiding her face with an umbrella.

In the taxi, she pretends to be sleeping to avoid having to make small talk. A phone left by the previous customer ruins her careful plans by ringing, and the taxi driver literally screams at her to answer it, ha. The driver finally answers, and gets pulled over for being on the phone while driving.

The driver begs Hong-do to explain to the police, and to avoid another conversation with strangers she throws money at him and leaps out of the taxi. But she doesn’t pay enough, and the driver jumps out to chase her.

Meanwhile Doo-soo waits for Hong-do at the restaurant, looking nervous and perking up at every woman who walks in. He notices a suspicious-looking man alone at a table, and recognizes him from a police sketch of a wanted man. The man notices Doo-soo and runs, with Doo-soo chasing right behind.

Ah, so the opening sequence wasn’t Doo-soo chasing Hong-do, but each of them chasing, or being chased, separately. Hong-do flees from the cab driver, colliding with a biker and cutting up her knees, dropping her cell phone in the process. Doo-soo manages to catch his man, despite stopping to return some kids’ ball and help an ajumma pick up cardboard boxes that she dropped like the perfect hero that he is.

That night, Yi-seok and his family gather for the chairman’s birthday dinner. Mom is super perky and dotes on Yi-seok while practically ignoring Se-ro. The chairman is in a bad mood, asking Yi-seok about his practice and his drinking on the job and making a point to criticize everyone at the table.

The festivities are interrupted by Yi-seok’s father, causing Mom to become downright terrified. Later the three men meet in the chairman’s office, and Yi-seok is furious as he tells his father he has no right to come back here. Interestingly, the entire time he dresses down his own father for abandoning his mother and cheating on her, he never once actually looks at the man.

Shocked and scared, Mom takes to her bed, and Yi-seok goes to her room after laying down the law with Dad. He assures Mom that he’s got everything under control and she needn’t worry, that he’ll keep Dad far away from her.

Though it’s after dark, both Doo-soo and Hong-do arrive at the restaurant where they were supposed to meet. Doo-soo goes in and asks if anyone has seen a girl wearing a helmet, while Hong-do hangs outside, too nervous to talk to him.

Hong-do listens while Doo-soo calls her phone, but the person who answers tells him she was hit by a bicycle and lost it. Doo-soo walks right past Hong-do on his way to pick up her phone for her, though she hides her face from him.

All day, Hong-do’s perfect plans for her first meeting with Doo-soo have been ruined, and as she thinks of the final plan — to smile brightly at him when she sees him — she breaks into great sobs of disappointment. This is the one thing she could have done, yet she let her shyness take control and missed her chance.

Hong-do goes home and drinks soju alone in bed, and she gets a random urge to wash her bedding. As she strips the bed and complains about her dirty house, she hears Doo-soo call to her from outside, and quickly shuts off the light.

Doo-soo smiles when the light goes out, knowing she’s in there listening, and says that he came because he heard she was in an accident and was worried. Again overcome by crippling anxiety, Hong-do crouches in her bedroom and covers herself with her blanket.

Doo-soo leaves her phone by the door and apologizes for today, assuming that Hong-do waited for him. He asks for another chance, and she doesn’t answer but sits silently with tears streaming down her face. Doo-soo says that the person on the bicycle said she was wearing a very pretty dress, which makes him regret missing their date even more. He leaves but asks her to call him, saying that he’s very persistent. She pulls the phone in through her window and finds medicine for her scraped-up knee inside the bag too.

Yi-seok goes to see Dr. Uhm again, complaining that his father is back in the country and plans to move back into Grandpa’s house. She tells him that she got a call about his drinking and the stabbing incident, and that his license wasn’t suspended. But she’s in charge of him for the time being, and she orders him to quit drinking and start coming to work at her clinic, where she can keep an eye on him to make sure he stays sober.

He complains about having to work here instead of his own fancy digs, but doesn’t seem to have a choice in the matter. Dr. Uhm asks if he doesn’t want to become a real doctor — one who can cry alongside his patients when they cry.

With her blushing back full-force, Hong-do regards her helmet and remembers Yi-seok’s claim that he can cure her anxiety. She makes a decision and tells the helmet that she will meet Doo-soo again, and she won’t be needing its help that time. First thing in the morning she heads out on her scooter to see Yi-seok.

Yi-seok arrives at his clinic to find it totally cleaned out of all his furniture and belongings, but before he can even process this, Hong-do approaches him. Her face is burning and she stumbles over her words, but she determinedly removes the helmet and reveals herself.

Seeing her bright red face and wild hair for the first time, Yi-seok is taken aback and asks her what’s wrong. He realizes her condition is more serious than he thought, and she haltingly asks if he can help her. Gaining momentum out of desperation, she tells him that even if he’s a bad doctor, even if he’s a psycho or a swindler himself, he has to fix it.

Starting to cry, Hong-do tells him that if he can’t help her, she’ll die. She meets his eyes and simply pleads, “Fix me. Please.”

 
COMMENTS

The show is definitely growing on me, as we learn more about our leads and their backgrounds, and now that the basic plot has been laid out I find it intriguing. It’s simple — Hong-do needs help so she can meet the man she loves, and the only doctor who can help her is more of a mess than she is — but sometimes the simplest stories are the ones with the most potential because the writers hasn’t written themselves into a tight corner. There are a lot of places the story can go from here, and I’m interested in the characters and their issues enough to be willing to see where this all goes.

I do get the sense that this show will be a slow burn (no pun intended), and that we could be peeling back layers for some time to come. It’s fascinating that, even though they know very little about each other and what they do know, they dislike, Hong-do and Yi-seok seem to already be helping each other. Hong-do has, twice now, found her voice in front of Yi-seok and spoken her mind, which she hasn’t been able to do unless behind her old woman makeup. And I’m even more intrigued by whatever is going on with Yi-seok whenever he’s near his patient Man-dong, and how having Hong-do close by calms his bizarre reactions.

And what’s that all about anyway?! Clearly something about Man-dong is triggering Yi-seok’s symptoms of ringing ears, blurring vision, and feeling weak and sick. I’m dying to know why he reacts that way to the man and what’s causing it. Does he have some sort of psychic sick-bastard radar that the man is setting off? And why does Hong-do’s proximity make it all stop? There was nothing about Heart to Heart to indicate there’s any sort of supernatural angle to the story, but for now I can’t think of any other reason why this particular patient would be causing Yi-seok’s strange reaction. But I like the setup that he and Hong-do have to work together to help each other, and I like the fact that they have an interesting chemistry that’s not animosity and not friendship, but just a sort of resigned acceptance. It’s a different kind of start to a romance, and it will be fun to watch it play out.

Doo-soo, on the other hand, seems just a little too good to be true. I wonder about his motives for trying to draw Hong-do out of her shell, because “she’s been bringing him food for seven years and he’s curious about her” seems a little too easy. Maybe I’m wrong and he’s just that nice, but it feels more like she’s a project to him, than an actual romantic interest. I do like that he understands her and respects her boundaries, but like I said before, someone in her condition doesn’t need to be coddled, they need to be helped to heal and lead a more normal life. Especially since that’s clearly what she desperately wants, and even more especially since he’s the reason she wants it. It could quickly become frustrating to Hong-do to reach out for help, and have Doo-soo instead give her space. Giving space is nice, but only as long as the person wants that space, you know?

Which is why I think that, despite all his freakishly strange issues, Yi-seok has the potential to be better for Hong-do in the end. Aside from being an actual psychiatrist, he’s not the type to sit back and let people just do what they want when he sees it’s harming them — it’s his instinct to help. I think that’s why, in the first episode, he was so good at helping the woman on the roof, but got so frustrated and twitchy with his patients in the office. The woman on the roof needed, and responded to, his prodding for her to open up and accept his help, while his regular patients only wanted someone to listen while they whined. I can understand how that would turn a man like Yi-seok, with his drive to take action, to drinking. By coming to him and asking for his help, Hong-do has already started a process in Yi-seok that will help him get better too, because he’s a man who needs to be needed (more evidence — his relationship with his mother). I can already see how they will be good for each other, as patient/doctor and potentially as romantic interests.

 
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Thanks for the recap! Holy cow, there's a lot going on in this drama already. Yes, first thought was M. Sun when the ringing stopped. I hope that will give her the upper hand soon and makes Yi Seok behave with some expect. Sometimes, male leads should be on a choke chain through the first 5 episodes of a show so the women can give them a yank when he's behaving too horribly. :)

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Respect!

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Seriously? Maybe we should just start demanding realistic male leads.

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Yeah, I get that he has good reason to be angry with her and the situation but I always cringe at the "guy screaming at girl" scenes, knowing she's gonna have to fall in love with him later. Ugh. I just want a male lead I can like. Can't he have problems AND self control?

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Same here. I don't know why writers write so many male characters as cut from the same cloth. There is a great deal you can do to make your lead character appear egotistical without making him yank the girl around or shout at her. Make him appear fallible in our eyes while he thinks he is god's gift or something. After telling her all that about how he can cure her and all, why did the writer give him lines like "are you a thief or something?" when they next meet just to make it look funny. He knows about her condition, then why make him act so unprofessional forcefully taking her helmet off and things like that? He would have been much funnier if he had been written better without taking recourse to the same tropes.

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healer. healer is the show you're looking for

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Figuratively. I didn't mean to suggest violence.

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Thanks for the recap. I do not think his condition is supernatural, but perhaps he has some form of anxiety/panic too. He sees Hong Do as embarrassing, so it's possible she helped him relax in a very charged atmosphere, where he had to face a patient who almost died due to his negligence and issues.

It's also possible there is repressed childhood trauma involved, which would explain why he himself looked confused. He has trouble sleeping next to women, trouble connecting and this guy who got stabbed had a weird obsession with his daughter, so perhaps Yi Seok has experienced some abusive behavior from a family member as a child.

We will see if other people or patients trigger it, but with this one case, it's looking more like a trauma issue.

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Was thinking the same.

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'Does he have some sort of psychic sick-bastard radar that the man is setting off? And why does Hong-do’s proximity make it all stop? '
Simple Hong-do more crazy than the sick bastard so she over rides his psychic whats it..like static sound or somethink...'dear korean writer it you read this feel free to steal the idea'.

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It feels like his ringing ears issue might be related to Dad and why he can't look at Dad (nice catch, Lollypip!). But maybe I've just seen too many KDramas.

Lollypip, I laughed out loud when they both were swinging from the ceiling, thought what a sicko I must be, and then laughed out loud again when you wrote about it. Why was that so funny?

I really like this show already. I like this world!

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Thanks Lolypip for the recap!

Im really liking this drama which is unexpected cos I thought I had an allergy to Choi Kang Hee and PIE but this drama looks really interesting and I already like both of their characters. I am going to check out a few more episodes before fully committing but it certainly has my attention now...

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I honestly have NO idea what's going on with Yi-Seok. I mean besides being an alcoholic. There's no glimpse of the man on the roof with the suicidal girl from episode one. I mean there he actually seemed to understand the human psyche (whether or not he meant what he says to her almost doesn't matter because he understood enough o do his job), but then later he is totally disinterested and doesn't seem to understand people at all. I dunno.

And we've only seen the ringing in his ears etc. with that one patient but I'm trying to figure out if it's really only with him or it's just because that's the only patient we've seen. Although there really can't be a scientific explanation for why the one girl makes him feel better when the touches her, right? I agree that it's a bit Master's Sun in that way. I doubt there will be a real explanation for that portion of it.

And yes, Doo-Soo seems to good to be real but I don't think that he's *coddling* her or that it's the wrong approach. It's a more gentle approach. He let's her take baby steps - come meet me outside, communicate with me beyond just leaving food, etc. I don't agree that basically the concept of *tough love* is what gets people out of their issues....although I fully understand that's what this set up will be (and is the case in many kdramas). I do think that without these other plots, Doo-Soo's approach would be fine. He makes her feel secure and motivated to seek out ways to improve. But I'm also fully aware that he will not get the girl so I won't get too attached.

He can just be mine, right? I mean for once it's actually an actor my age! Woo!

I am hoping there are some hidden levels to this Chaebol family and granny plot. What a messy family. But nothing too unique about them yet in terms of other kdramas.

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I was thinking the same about Doo-Soo, I don't think he coddles her. He's been trying to talk with her for maybe 7 years now, if he does more than what he is doing she would just run away. He asked her out, what more could he have done? I thought it was really weird that she was able to go out wearing regular clothes so easily.

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I don't know that it was that easy for her. She was still mostly covered but her real worry is her face - so she had the umbrella. But the entire time she was out she was either trying to shrink into her seat or she was running away in a panic. I think she is improving albeit quite slowly, but obviously a professional would help her move along at a much better pace.

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I agree with y'all about Doo-soo. I think he's interacting with Hong-do in the best way that he can.

Remember, he is not a mental health professional. The only person who should "push" Hong-do is a mental health professional, and that should only be once she has sought that person out of her own accord. A layperson trying to "tough love" someone out of their anxiety is a recipe for disaster.

I would like some more background on how Doo-soo and Hong-do originally met, because frankly, her bringing him food for seven years is a little weird and stalkery. I'm sure that the show could give me a background that would make it less creepy (i.e., maybe his family knew her family when she was growing up), but as it stands right now, it's a little weird.

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Thanks LollyPip for the recap. Yi Seok's family sure needs pyschiatric care themselves.
Hong do n Yiseok are off to a mutual help start and i am anticipating many funny moments with them.

Thanks for pointing out thsat he is a great psychiatrist to people who genuinely seeks help instead of just whining about the problems.

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Eh. I actually strongly resented the statement that Yi-seok's other patients were "just whining".

A therapist is someone that you talk to about things that are bothering you in your life. You don't go to a therapist's office and just talk about puppies and kittens and sunshine. Each of the patients that we saw in that montage clearly had stuff going on their lives that was hurting them, or that they needed help overcoming. Just because they aren't about to hurl themselves off a roof doesn't mean that they don't have Real Problems.

Yi-seok's complete apathy to the suffering of those patients is actually what turns me off the most about him (and that's saying a lot, since he's also a player with a drinking problem who shouts at people). I have been in therapy myself, and if I had a therapist who looked that bored and disdainful when I was paying them to help me, I would be so angry and hurt. If he is bored by the more run-of-the-mill problems that these patients need help with, then he is in the wrong profession and needs to quit practicing, for the sake of anyone who would come to him for help, as well as his own.

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Thanks for the recap, Lollypip. You are right on target with
Doo Soo. She really needs help and for him to regard her as an alternative to blind dates doesn't speak well for his own emotional well being.

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I think he regards her almost as a mystery friend so far, the dates are just something his family sets up.

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I don't think it says anything about his emotional well-being. It sounds like he goes on a lot of blind dates, at least that seemed like it by her reaction when she heard him on the phone last episode. If he wants to take a break from all that failure then it's not that odd. With her he may not see her as the end all be all but at least there's some connection.

My feeling is that his blind dates probably have trouble with his line of work and the time it takes up. He probably doesn't get to spend time or connect with people easily. So if there's a moment to try and have dinner with this girl then is that really not being emotionally stable?

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It is one thing to regard this young woman as an object of compassion and another matter to see her as a possible romantic partner. Why would a bright , handsome, and capable man have that kind of interest in Hong Do? She is not an equal partner in a potential relationship.

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Wow. That is just so wrong. In so many levels.
I don't even consider him handsome, not that it matters obviously, but why can't he be interested in this person who obviously has feelings for him and is quite attractive. She can get help, she can get better, where does it say people have to be interested only in someone exactly equal? Not that I even agree with this equality level.

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Because real people do not date as if they live in Dramaland? Plenty of people without mental disorders date people who suffer from them. Tall people date short ones, skinny people heavy ones, rich people poor ones.

Not everyone is looking for "equal partners". Some just let go and like who they like, despite differences or incompatibility in the eyes of third persons and no, that does not make them emotionally unstable, just human.

But in his case, it looks like he just likes her as a friend and invited her because he wanted to get to know her as one, since she has been so nice to him all these years. It's natural wanting to connect to someone who has been in your life a long time. It does not necessarily mean he has a romantic interest. Going by his behavior, he does not.

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Aside from delivering food to hom, he doesn't know her at all. Most people stroggle with some sort of mental illness in there lives, but srarting at ground zero, with no real basis for a relationship, I have to think thar he has some issues.

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People ask people out on dates (romantic or otherwise) all the time without knowing each other, starting from ground zero, with no established basis for a relationship. It's called getting to know someone.

She's done him the kindness for several years of bringing him delicious food and leaving him notes regularly, she was brave enough to come to the police station and give a statement in a case he was investigating (even getting assaulted by the suspect in the process). I think that's enough of a basis for him to be like, "Hey, let's have a meal together and become better acquainted."

I find it difficult to see how that could be an indicator of emotional disturbance. Unless it later turns out that he fetishizes her condition in some way, I have no reason to think that he "has some issues" because he wants to get to know her better.

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I don't think she started giving the food out of nowhere. It could be the subtitles but I swear at some point (first episode?) that he says something about having last seen her seven years ago or so. I think something made them meet and then she started giving him the food. I would bet he knows more about her background then it seems.

Kind of curious how it started to....maybe from a case? Hopefully not some sort of super melo family tragedy case.

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@4D This is on the official site, so I don't think it's a spoiler, but warning anyway.

Hong Do's character description says her grandmother died 7 years ago. So I assume the police would certainly be involved. Any death needs to be reported and I don't know if the police must also be called to the scene in Korea. Maybe Doo Soo helped her with the process then and she appreciated it.

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@orion Thanks! It's not really a spoiler but that would explain some things.

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I think she's more than an object of compassion. Whether or not she has romantic potential is a whole different thing...but I think he's not even sure of what's possible. It's very early stages. Also, as others have pointed out, real life couples are not just about being "equals" in the eyes of the outside world.

She too is attractive and bright (in fact she seems to be quite gifted in multiple areas), but she does have a social phobia. However, despite this phobia she has shown him kindness an generosity for seven years without expecting anything in return. Just because his blind dates may look more "equal" on paper doesn't mean they're a good fit. He clearly hasn't found them interesting.

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When she began melting down, pleading for help to overcome herself and be "fixed," my heart totally broke for her. I'm on board with this show.

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I was impressed with how much emotion came through during that scene even with the red everywhere. Props to her.

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The second ep left me scratching my head. There were some great moments and then some that just left me confused at best. I loved the dancing feet (such a clever way to show expectations in Hong-do style!) and the overall Hong-do´s-going-on-a-date, but what´s with the naked woman, just for laughs? Or why is Doo-soo constantly running and helping people at the same time? And what´s with...oh well...sudden fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas kicking in while looking at a certain patient?

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whelp ... this is the fastest my wife has ever leaped onto the Second Lead Bandwagon ...

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Hehe. Can't blame her. :)

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This drama is alright, DooSoo is adorable, and I'm still in to see if our little heroine can a hold of herself~

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Thanks for the recap!! There is sooo much going on in this show. So many questions.

It broke my heart when Hong-do realized her well planned steps to a happy date weren't going to work as she needed them to. The distance between where she is and where she WANTS to be socially crushed her.
The good news is she WANTS to change. Hopefully this newly awakened motivation remains strong enough to carry her through the upcoming struggle.
The biggest enemy we face is ourselves, isn't it? Since we have to knock down both our fears and our desires to reach our goals. I really hope the doctor can follow through on his promise to fix her. She is ready!!

PS, do you think the Hong-do is named for the same Hong-do in the in song Go Soo sang in Will It Snow for Christmas?http://www.dramabeans.com/2009/12/will-it-snow-for-christmas-episode-3/

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That shoe scene was so sweet. Thanks for the recap!

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in what universe does a girl kick Detective McDreamy to the curb for Dr. Wackjob? Especially when you've had a seven year crush on him. I'm not buying it. I don't care how much childhood trauma they throw at me to get to sympathize with Yi-Seok, I'm just here or Doo-Soo!! THis is like in Flower Boy Ramyun shop where they tried to convince us that anyone would choose some snooty high schooler over that Beuatiful Onion Man. Nope, wasn't falling for it then, not falling for it now.

The only caveat is if they revealed one whopper of Dark Secret about him. But, keep in mind that we've currently got a show airing where everyone wants to snuggle with a serial killer who buried a man alive. So, Doo Soo pretty much needs to be playing kickball with puppies in his spare time for me to change my mind about him.

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Well since yu seok cant sleep with women in the same bed.. and idk i just got the feel something bad happened and that prolly also started the ringing.

or not. Lol

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Does anyone know where I can listen to the drama soundtrack please?

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I also love the soundtracks!
They give this airy and laid back feeling.

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I hope they keep recapping this drama and I also hope people would watch it. It starts off a bit slow and uneventful but give it until episode 4 and you'll love it guaranteed.

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