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Bring It On, Ghost: Episode 15

For Bong-pal to fight the Big Bad, he’s going to need to know all of the secrets of his past. The race is on to save Hyun-ji’s life and vanquish evil, and so much happens in this episode it nearly gave me whiplash. Learningwhat makes the demon tick and why he’s been searching all these years is only the first step, and it’s going to take the whole team working together to bring him down for good.

EPISODE 15 RECAP

Bong-pal hears everything from monk Myung-chul — that Hye-sung is possessed by the same evil spirit that once possessed Bong-pal, killed his mother, and now has also killed his father. At the same time, Hye-sung gives Hyun-ji tea laced with something that makes her dizzy, and she tries to stumble her way to the restroom.

When Bong-pal learns that Hyun-ji is the last person who had the ritual tool needed to banish Hye-sung’s demon, he remembers that it was broken during his exorcism. But Myung-chul says that Bong-pal’s mother made a new one, that she in fact had great spiritual powers.

She had refused to use those powers to accept any spirits, though, because she was pregnant with Bong-pal and wanted to raise him like a normal child. One of the spirits she refused grew angry, and so it eventually possessed Bong-pal, and now Hye-sung.

Myung-chul explains how Bong-pal’s father gave Hyun-ji the ritual tool, but she was struck by the car before she could find Bong-pal and give it to him. The tool was lost, and the spirit began hunting Bong-pal’s father again.

Bong-pal blames himself for all of this evil happening to his loved ones, but Myung-chul says that it’s not his fault. Bong-pal just turns to go, bent on seeing Hyun-ji. On the way, he tries to call her, but Hye-sung has her phone and he turns it off. That worries Bong-pal, and he breaks into a run.

Hyun-ji succumbs to whatever Hye-sung put in her drink, and she collapses in the hallway. She claws at her throat, and accidentally loses the necklace that Bong-pal gave to her. Hye-sung hovers over her menacingly, and he reaches out to push the hair off her face.

His ticking watch near her ear triggers her memory of the day of her accident, when someone had touched her the same way, wearing a loud watch. Hyun-ji recognizes Hye-sung’s voice now, then suddenly recalls seeing the car just before it hit her.

Hyun-ji looks up at Hye-sung in realization, and asks him why. He knows she remembers now, and reminds her softly that he told her to forget all the bad memories. Hyun-ji’s fingers find her necklace on the floor, and she breathes Bong-pal’s name just before passing out.

Chun-sang and In-rang stake out the clinic, since Myung-chul asked them to keep an eye on Hye-sung. They spend most of their time bickering, but In-rang spots Hye-sung loading something into his car. The boys follow him when he drives away.

Bong-pal first goes to Hyun-ji’s house, but her mother tells him that she hasn’t come home. He runs to the clinic on foot, but it’s locked up tight. He throws heavy rocks until one shatters the glass door, and runs downstairs looking for Hyun-ji. She’s gone, but he finds her abandoned necklace on the floor and knows that she was here.

The police arrive and Bong-pal tells Detective Yang what’s happened, and Yang tells Bong-pal to go home and rest while they investigate. Myung-chul arrives, and all Bong-pal can say is that the demon has Hyun-ji.

The police determine that Hye-sung definitely planned this out in advance — he gave his nurses their vacation days, and his phone is turned off. Detective Yang issues an all-points bulletin for Hye-sung’s car, and orders the DNA found on Bong-pal’s father to be compared to Hye-sung’s DNA.

The police notify Hyun-ji’s mother that her daughter is missing, and then they visit Hye-sung’s mother to see if she knows anything.

Hye-sung drives a bound and gagged Hyun-ji to an empty parking garage, with Chun-sang and In-rang keeping a close tail on him. He changes cars, and now In-rang realizes that it’s Hyun-ji he’s transporting. Hye-sung seems to hear the boys whispering, and starts to stalk towards their hiding place.

Luckily, a security guard asks what he’s doing, and Hye-sung heads back to his car. The guard complains that the car has been there for several days, then turns his light into the car and spots Hyun-ji lying there unconscious. He tries to walk away without arousing Hye-sung’s suspicion (and presumably call for help), but it’s too late.

Hye-sung grabs the guard by the throat and throws him violently at the car that the boys are hiding behind. They manage to keep silent, even when Hye-sung approaches the car again. Lucky for them, he decides to get out of there without investigating further. The boys rush to their car as soon as the coast is clear, but their battered old van chooses this moment to die.

Myung-chul reassures Bong-pal that Hyun-ji is safe for now — Hye-sung won’t hurt her until he finds the ritual tools. Bong-pal asks why he wants them so badly, and Myung-chul says that he has to destroy them in order to possess Bong-pal. Bong-pal inherited his mother’s strong shamanistic powers, and Hye-sung wants to control his body for those powers.

In-rang calls Bong-pal, who bolts upright and tells the detectives where they saw Hye-sung and Hyun-ji. Of course the CCTV in the parking garage is broken, and the boys didn’t see Hye-sung’s license plate clearly. Detective Yang figures Hye-sung has this completely planned out, and orders his call records and CCTV footage at the clinic investigated.

Myung-chul tries to convince Bong-pal to go home and rest, but Bong-pal isn’t interested. He doesn’t know how he’ll find Hyun-ji, but he refuses to sit back and wait. Myung-chul points out that Bong-pal is in great danger from the evil spirit, but Bong-pal says that so is Hyun-ji, and that he should do something since this all happened to her because of him.

Chun-sang and In-rang decide to go with Bong-pal, and Myung-chul realizes that he’s been outnumbered. He heads back to the police station, and sighs at the board listing all of Hye-sung’s victims. Detective Kim reports that Hye-sung’s car has been sighted, and is being tracked.

Hye-sung’s mother is led into the station, and she nearly breaks when she sees the board with the list of her son’s victims. Detective Yang asks for her help, and she answers his questions the best she can. From a nearby seat, Myung-chul listens intently.

Bong-pal tells In-rang that Hye-sung is looking for something that Hyun-ji once had, and that she was bringing it to Bong-pal when she had her accident. So, he figures, that means the thing must be in Seoul. If so, then coming way out here to change cars was an attempt to distract them, and make them think he was leaving the city.

Sure enough, Hye-sung is heading back into town with Hyun-ji still unconscious in his back seat. Chun-sang gets the van running again, and In-rang has a sudden epiphany. He grabs his laptop and climbs into the van Hye-sung abandoned, and hacks into the van’s GPS to find the places Hye-sung has searched recently. This kid is brilliant.

It takes In-rang less than a minute to discover where Hye-sung must be going, and he beams at Chun-sang, who asks, ”Who are you, really??” HAHA. They discover that Hye-sung is headed to a closed-down shopping center, and rush to the location.

Hye-sung’s mother is visibly shaken by the time they finish questioning her, but she insists on getting herself home. Myung-chul follows her out and asks if he can talk to her for a moment. They relocate to a coffee shop, where Myung-chul says that he has some questions the detectives wouldn’t think to ask.

He asks gently, “When did your son change?” He tells her that he knows there’s an evil spirit in Hye-sung, and asks when it started. Hye-sung’s mother seems to wilt, then says that it’s all her fault.

We see the day that Hye-sung’s father died, but this time we enter the scene while he’s still alive. He’d been beating young Hye-sung, and his mother had rushed in to grab her husband’s arm and yell at Hye-sung to run. The boy had fled the apartment, and his father had turned his wrath onto his wife.

That was when the evil spirit found Hye-sung crying on the pavement, and had offered its help. Hye-sung had refused, but the spirit’s sinister whisper that it could help him save his mother had gotten the boy’s attention.

He’d gone back upstairs and seen his mother’s new bruises, and his father smoking by the open balcony. The spirit had whispered urgently, “Kill, him, kill him, KILL HIM!” and a black mist had burst from Hye-sung as he pushed his father over the railing. His mother saw him do it, and the black mist, and knew that her son had changed.

Soon after, Hye-sung had come home to find the apartment cleaned out, and his mother gone. The police had found her, and though she clearly felt uncomfortable around her son, she’d taken him back in.

Now she tells Myung-chul that Hye-sung had changed since then. He went to boarding school soon after, and he and his mother had drifted apart. She blames herself for this happening, because she couldn’t do more to protect him.

It’s morning by the time the boys make it back to Seoul, and Hye-sung has Hyun-ji tied up in a room of the abandoned mall. In her drug-induced sleep, Hyun-ji remembers more of the day of her accident.

Her mother had packed too heavily for a visit to her uncle, so Hyun-ji had rented a locker in the subway station and stowed much of it away. One of the items had been the bag of ritual tools that Bong-pal’s father had given to her.

She wakes to find herself tied up, and Hye-sung waiting patiently. She asks why he’s doing this, seeming more angry than scared — that’s my girl. Hye-sung just says that she’d know if she’d gotten all her memories back, and he tells her not to resent him. She should resent the one who gave her that item in the first place.

With a creepy smile, Hye-sung tells Hyun-ji that without those people, the two of them would never have met. He asks if she’s scared of him and Hyun-ji says no, that he doesn’t scare her one bit. Hye-sung says that’s good, because the only thing worse than being scared, is getting caught being scared.

For just a moment he lets Hyun-ji see the demon inside of him, and good lord it’s terrifying. Hyun-ji asks what he is, because he can’t be human, and Hye-sung asks what she thinks — what he is, depends on her answer.

He leans in very close and asks where “it” is, but Hyun-ji remembers Myung-chul telling her that it’s something very important to Bong-pal. Hye-sung assumes she doesn’t remember, and offers to “help.” He puts her phone to her ear, and her mother answers.

Hye-sung only gives them a couple of seconds to recognize each other’s voices before he hangs up again. He asks Hyun-ji if she remembers now, and says that she’d better, or those she loves will die. Hyun-ji jumps out of her chair, but Hye-sung backhands her and she falls to the ground.

The boys arrive but the mall is huge, and they have no idea where to start looking. Hye-sung watches them through the window, and Hyun-ji takes advantage of his momentary distraction to grab her phone and type something into the text field.

Bong-pal spots Hye-sung and the boys run upstairs, so Hye-sung grabs Hyun-ji off the floor and leaves the room. Bong-pal finds the room they were in and picks up Hyun-ji’s phone, and sees that she’d typed the name of the subway station where she hid the ritual tools.

Myung-chul goes to see his shaman friend and tell her Hye-sung’s whole story. His feelings towards his father allowed the evil spirit in, and by now there’s almost certainly nothing left of the original Hye-sung.

Myung-chul retrieves his ritual sword from the shaman, who’s etched talismans onto the entire blade. She warns Myung-chul that he may not be strong enough to control the powerful spirits contained in the sword, but he just fondly calls her a nag and says that he has to finish the job he started eighteen years ago. If he doesn’t kill the spirit, Bong-pal will be in great danger.

Hye-sung managed to get Hyun-ji out of the mall before the police had arrived, and he drives her to the subway station. He unties her hands and warns her not to do anything stupid, or her mother dies. They descend into the underground station, just before Bong-pal and the boys pull up.

Myung-chul meets Bong-pal and the boys here, and confirms that they called the police. He wants to go in alone, but Bong-pal is determined to do this himself and follows Hye-sung and Hyun-ji into the station, with Myung-chul and the boys right behind.

An attendant tries to stop Hye-sung since the subway is closed, but he just grabs the man by the throat and snaps his neck. Bong-pal finds the man’s body, and they figure that Hye-sung can’t be far ahead. Bong-pal runs deeper into the station, calling Hyun-ji’s name.

He gets close enough that Hye-sung and Hyun-ji can hear him, so Hye-sung just grabs her and moves faster. Bong-pal runs into a ghost, but it just hisses at him and leaves, and he keeps following after Hye-sung.

Myung-chul and the boys catch up with Bong-pal, who admits that he can’t find Hyun-ji anywhere. He shows Myung-chul the message she left on her phone, and Myung-chul wonders if she mis-remembered the location since it’s been five years.

In-rang has another burst of brilliance, and recalls that if it was five years ago, it wouldn’t have been here. There was a fire five years ago and the old track was shut down — but they’re at the new track.

Hyun-ji leads Hye-sung to the correct lockers, and he throws her to the ground. He violently kicks the locker open and flings her belongings out, and Hyun-ji grabs a can of something (hairspray?) and hides it behind her back.

Hye-sung finds the pouch containing the ritual tools, but Hyun-ji attacks, spraying him in the face and grabbing the bag. She runs, with Hye-sung walking behind her as if there’s no reason to hurry.

Bong-pal and Myung-chul find the old section of the station and rush right in, but Chun-sang and In-rang hang back, scared of such a spooky place. They decide instead to go meet the police and lead them here.

Hyun-ji keeps running deeper and deeper into the station, but she can’t shake Hye-sung. He eventually gets fed up and hits her with a blast of black mist, knocking her to the ground. He steps on her hand and forces her to let go of the pouch. He picks it up and takes out the beaded bracelet, which immediately starts to burn his hand.

Now that he’s got what he wants, Hye-sung has no more need for Hyun-ji. He grips her throat and lifts her into the air, saying that he’ll put her to sleep now that she’s served her purpose.

Bong-pal and Myung-chul split up, and Bong-pal manages to find Hye-sung and Hyun-ji before Hye-sung can snap her neck. He tackles Hye-sung to the ground, making him release Hyun-ji. The beaded bracelet falls to the ground, while Bong-pal unleashes his rage on Hye-sung.

Hye-sung takes a few blows, but he finally gains his feet and grabs Bong-pal’s fist. He calmly thanks Bong-pal for saving him the trouble of finding him, and grabs Bong-pal’s throat to throw him into a pillar.

Bong-pal staggers up to confront Hye-sung again, but now that Hye-sung is on guard, Bong-pal is no match for his otherworldly strength. He hits Bong-pal so hard that he flips in the air, and lands unable to move.

Hye-sung smirks that he’s waited so long for this moment, ever since he was kicked out of Bong-pal’s body. He yanks Bong-pal up by the hair and tells him they’ll be together again soon. Hyun-ji tries to intervene, but Hye-sung easily swipes her aside.

He takes Bong-pal by the throat again, but just as he’s preparing to enter his body, Myung-chul comes flying in, sword swinging. One slash shoves Hye-sung away from Bong-pal, but the second blow stops short, repelled by Hye-sung’s power.

Myung-chul snarls for him not to use his wicked tricks, and pulls back the now-glowing sword for another blow. This one connects, slashing into Hye-sung’s face, but he’s so strong that it heals almost instantly. Another swing by Myung-chul sends Hye-sung flying, and the monk turns to check on Bong-pal and Hyun-ji.

He tells Hyun-ji to get Bong-pal out of here, but Hye-sung, weakened but still not banished, calls out that that won’t happen. He tells Myung-chul that if he truly plans to kill him, he’ll have to kill the body he occupies. It will make him a murderer.

But Myung-chul is prepared to do whatever it takes, and says so. He charges Hye-sung with a mighty roar, ready to run him through with the sword, but the sword stops before penetrating. Hye-sung throws the monk then disarms him, then holds the sword to his throat.

Hye-sung raises the sword to strike, but Bong-pal finds his feet and grabs Hye-sung’s arm, making him drop the sword. The two grapple, and Myung-chul finds the sword, while Hye-sung approaches Bong-pal again, preparing to possess him.

Myung-chul is weak, but he tells Hyun-ji to find the ritual bracelet. They see Hye-sung standing over Bong-pal, the black mist leaving his body and moving towards Bong-pal. The monk slices his hand with the sword and lets his blood fall on the blade, reciting prayers while the runes glow red.

With a screamed word of power, Myung-chul levels the sword at Hye-sung, and the empowered runes fly off the blade and through Hye-sung. He stands for a moment, then a guttural noise comes from deep down, and the evil spirit leaves him. Hye-sung falls to the ground, an empty shell.

Myung-chul is bleeding from the mouth and shaking violently, but he gasps, “It’s done.” But it’s not done – he and Hyun-ji watch while the evil spirit’s black mist rises from the ground, and moves to hover over Bong-pal. Myung-chul finds his last bit of strength and puts himself between the spirit and Bong-pal, holding the evil thing off with the glowing sword.

He screams to Hyun-ji to find the ritual bracelet, as it’s the only thing that can kill the spirit once and for all. She finds it, but before she makes it back to the monk, the black mist forces its way into Myung-chul’s body.

COMMENTS

WHOA, that was intense, in the very best possible way. It was a final fight worthy of a show this good, and the showdown between old enemies had me literally biting my tongue with anxiety that the good guys would fail. Monk Myung-chul put up the fight of his life, but in the end, his shaman friend was right — he no longer has the strength and power he once had, and the spirit overcame him. But if we’re going to lose Myung-chul too, at least he went down swinging, and his sacrifice for Bong-pal was so much in character. He’s gone from a goofy comic relief to Bong-pal’s biggest supporter and savior, and I’ve grown to love him for what a great, selfless person he is in Bong-pal’s life.

At first I was upset at the twist, but then I realized that this is really the only thing that makes narrative sense. This is really Bong-pal’s story, and Bong-pal’s fight, and he was really overpowered by the evil spirit this time and couldn’t even put up much of a fight. Myung-chul did everything he could for Bong-pal, and he very nearly succeeded — but now it’s up to Bong-pal, and he’s going to have the added trauma of having to fight his only remaining father figure. But it only makes sense that Bong-pal has to be the one to finally vanquish the spirit that killed his parents and wants to possess his powers. He’s got a short time to learn to harness his own abilities, and use them to get rid of this evil thing once and for all, but he’s strong, and experienced, and he has the best support system ever.

Speaking of which, I knew it! I knew that Chun-sang and I-rang were heroes, that under their bickering and bumbling and silly antics, that they had the hearts of lions. Bravery isn’t about not being afraid, it’s doing what needs to be done even when you’re terrified. They were clearly terrified, but they’d been given a mission to watch Hye-sung and they put themselves in harm’s way to do what they needed to do for a friend. It’s particularly touching given that neither of them really knew Hyun-ji when she was a spirit, and barely know her now that she’s awake again. Even though Hyun-ji probably couldn’t pick Chun-sang and In-rang out of a lineup, they were willing to endanger themselves to do what they could to save her. They may not be the kind of knights who slay the dragon and save the day, but without them Bong-pal would never have found Hyun-ji and had the chance to save her life. If that doesn’t make them stone-cold heroes, then I don’t know what does.

And how refreshing is it, to have competent detectives who follow proper procedure and actually get things done. Detectives Yang and Kim haven’t been large players in the story until now, but I’m so glad that they’re here to put together the clues that they’ve been gathering on their hunch about Hye-sung. It got the search for Hyun-ji taken seriously right away, and didn’t just leave saving her up to inexperienced college kids like would usually happen in a drama like this. Yes, Bong-pal and company got there first, but the cops were right behind them every step of the way. I’m just thankful once again for the smart writing that’s obviously been in place since the beginning, that’s kept these characters on the right track so that when they were needed, they were there to do some actual good.

It’s yet another symptom of how well this drama was planned out from the beginning, and I just get a thrill every time small, seemingly insignificant things add up to make something that turns out to be pretty important. Every detail is considered, even down to the locker Hyun-ji hid her belongings in. Just when I was wondering how nobody in charge would think to open the locker when the renter didn’t come back for five years, we learn that there was a fire in that part of the station, so it’s no surprise the lockers sat unopened all these years. The sword that seemed to be a small plot point in the beginning, turned out to be a strong weapon for fighting the demon. Every character and plot point has been carefully planned and executed, and I just appreciate the fantastic storytelling that lets its audience sit back and relax, knowing that all will be answered and nothing will go unexplained.

 
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In-Rang is definitely the hero of this episode.

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wwonderful drama! thanks for the great recap. ilrang is a genius :) love the quirky odd couple <3

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I'm really going to miss my Kim So-hyun-ji fix next week.

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Wow you had this up fast, Lollypip! I'm really enjoying your recaps. What a wild ride this show is! Can't wait to see the finale.

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As always thanks Lollypip! I'm going to miss this show...hooray for their jeju vacay! generous tvn thanks!

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Hye-sung is terrifying! Yikes! I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.

And I lost count on how many times I screamed for them to find that damn weapon! It was VITAL but no one thought to look for it until the last second?

Even with that annoyance, this episode was great and I can't wait for the final episode! Even though I'm sad this show is ending.

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I dunno abt you..but if i was caught it that situation..getting beaten up and thrown here and there by an evil ghost or person..i dun think i remember abt the tool. I'd be trying to stay alive n fight back...but then.. my brain is like a colander...so..heh.

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Can't begin to tell you how much your recap has been helpful! Thanks!!

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Thanks for the recap. I'm going to miss this drama and the recaps.

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Lollypip - thanks so much for mentioning the detectives!! It's something I've really noticed about this drama - how all the characters are doing the right thing according to their roles. The detectives have been right-on every time they're on scene and I confess I almost hold my breath waiting for them to screw up or to be shown as lame and inefficient because so many dramas treat them as dummies. This drama is so perfect in so many ways. I love love love it to bits and am going to miss it terribly when it's over. Kudos to the whole staff - the excellent and adorable actors, the superb scriptwriter and director, the editor and cinematographer - the entire production staff. This drama is a winner - and might have surprised us all in the process.

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@lunatic4kd, thank you for the excellent response. Took all the words right out of my mouth. :) now I don't have to type it.
Just to add a bit to it:
@lollypip, thank you for all your recaps! I look forward to them every Mon/ Tues!
I'm so happy you noticed the little things too. I, too, am super impressed with the drama's focus on the minute details, ie. The lockers explanation, pt, good detectives, etc...
I am blown away by this drama tbh. I just wasn't expecting it to be this amazing. I watched it for KSH and Taec, but definitely became addicted to everything else. I may or may not have gotten a lot of my friends hooked too! Oops! Happy finale watching y'all!

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To digress a bit, this is actually the kind of epic showdown I was expecting from Mirror of the Witch. *sigh* So I was also kind of worried that this show would miss out on that, but I am sooooo happy that it gave us a satisfying match worthy of the buildup. :) :)

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You know, when the monk was telling Bong Pal that the ghost was doing all this in order to take over his body, my Noble Idiocy alarm went off so fast you have no idea. I nearly closed the tab then and there.

But bless this show's writers, no idiocy. Yet. (But you can't put idiocy in the last episode, can you? CAN YOU?)

Thanks for the recap as always <3 I'll just sit in a corner and wonder how Kim So Hyun can be so awesome at acting and then I might cry idk

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GOOD LORD, I COULDN'T EVEN BLINK IN THIS WHOLE EPISODE!

It was awesome, and terrifying, and brilliant, and kept me on the edge of my chair for the whole 58 minutes of it!

*takes a deep breath*

Alright, I'm ready for more!

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+1 So intense. Wow I missed cute stuff, but this was good too! Waiting for happy ending.

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I like the episode but i also felt everything too convenient and cliche. Director and Writer has done a good job but i also felt the Hero Side got a lot of benefits from Director and Writer.

In Rang and Chun Sang acted more like plot tools than supporting characters in this episode and Everything else was just that so a fight could happen.

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"And how refreshing is it, to have competent detectives who follow proper procedure and actually get things done."

A cynic might think Korean police are only incompetent when the bad guy is a chaebol.

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Thank you so much for the quick recap. I was hoping for a fast one and have been checking every hour. Great job in recapping. ^^ Never thought I'd be hooked by this show. It has been an amazing and fun ride...so excited now for the finale. Thanks to LollyPip and the DB team. ****

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Ah, I had a hunch the monk wouldn't make it since a few episodes back.

And yay for competent detectives !

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Did anyone else think that the magic bracelet got the worst of the encounter with evil vet's hand? It looked charred / destroyed to me. So maybe Bong-pal & Hyun-ji will have to find another way to win ???

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amazing!!!!! The writer is a genius!

I've been waiting for this episode for ages! haha!

Thank you very much LollyPip for the recap! Can't wait for Episode 16!

Il-Rang is the best here!

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Chun-Sang and In Rang Manse! They are the most amazing sidekicks ever!
I was expecting that the ghost would either go into the monkn or Hyun-Ji. I was kinda expecting that at some point during the fight Hyun Ji would be hurt and then Ghost Hyun Ji would show up and kick the evil spirit's ass.
I don't know how the final fight is gonna go down. Here's to a happy ending for all the characters (except maybe for Hye Sung because it's too late for him)!
Can't fight for tonight! Squeeee

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So well crafted. This is a writer that fully knows what it intends to tell in 16 episodes. This episode didn't waste a single minute.
Sometimes we find side characters under utilised. I'm so happy to see In rang and Chun Sang, our dynamic goofball duo to be involved in this final fight. It cements their friendship with Bong pal and them Hyun Ji. We also see their progression from scaredy cats to stepping up despite the fear to help their friends in need.

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I like to be a member of the Sundae Club, where do I sign up? lol...I like to have friends like them

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This is going down in my list of dramas that were well planned and did the job right. Such a good show.

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Absolutely agree! they obviously planned everything well and for once we have characters that are cooperating with the police! and the police aren't slacking.

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I very rarely comment, but this show is just so awesome, i couldn't help myself. At first, this show was just easy to watch, it was downright funny and just made me feel happy to watch it. But, as the show progressed, it became much more than that. And that's because, i started to see the depth in the characters.
1.In rang and chun-sang are probably the most awesome friends you could ever find. Once they include someone in their group, they stay with them through thick and thin.
2.Kim hyun ji with her super martial arts skills and by kicking noble idiocy, she broke all types of drama heroine cliches and with this episode's thoughtfulness (where she typed in the station's name, i am sure i would have never thought of that) and with her quality of living life to the fullest, even when she was a ghost, she is just incredible.
3. Bong pal in the starting was just gruff and a loner, and he was annoyed at hyun ji for disturbing his privacy, even then he was never a jerk to her and that quality alone made me like him from the start. But, after that, he cooked for her, cared for her, protected her, he became irresistible.
4.Then the monk, for him i can only quote this from the how to train your dragon-2 "how can you be someone that brave, that selfless, that great? you can only try, i guess". I really hope he lives or is that too much to ask?
So, thank you show for all these awesome characters and than you LollyPip for your recaps, your were an added bonus to watching this show.

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Number 2 made me impatiently wait for monday/tuesday from beginning to end

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The monk is brave and selfless, but also part of a giant plot hole as well. He's known for a long long time that Professor Ju is bad news, and yet he said nothing at all to Bong Pal. He did nothing at all for Hyun Ji, and yet he must have known that she was in danger. All he did was have the Sundae soup guys watch professor Ju, which seems of little use. Well it was useful today but it just seemed like he could have warned people a lot earlier. Our main characters are tough to kill, but because of him, a lot of innocents got their necks broken. I was a bit worried that Soyeon would be one of the victims.

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So far that's my only complain of the drama. Did we really need to way until the 15th episode for mr monk to tell the truth to Bong Pal? Especially the "your professor is not a human" part?

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Even i wondered why he never told anything about the professor to bong pal from the start, but maybe in his mind he thought he was protecting BP by with holding information. It might be because he thought he could handle the evil ghost all by himself without involving BP and endangering him. But, BP had a right to know how his father died, so he finally told him everything. With HJ, he almost told her, but he ended up not telling thinking that as long as she acts normally around him she might be safe from him. I am not sure whether i am defending this show because i like it or whether these actually could be the reasons! :P

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I think your reasons are right and that the monk just wanted to protect them because ignorance is bliss. But I still think he took too much risks, especially since he's dealing with a really bad ghost. If he was not going to tell them anything then he should have organized a sort of elaborate protection to make sure both Hyun Ji and Bong Pal are alright.

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If you click on my name, Wag_a_Muffin to the right of 25 (as I write this, it may be 26 or later by the time I hit enter) you will be taken (magically) to my blog, where I did a cartoon alternate ending.

I LOVED this show. But too many things didn't make sense. So I tried to figure out the reasons why characters in this drama did what they did. And the result was "Bring it on, Ghost, an Alternate Ending."
(It will be published on DramaFever News either Thursday or Friday. But--exclusive special for Beanies, you can view it today by clicking on my name!)

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Hahahaha! Awesome! and hilarious. I hope you're watching Cinderella because I have a feeling that'll need an alternate ending also.

PS- sometimes you write Hyunji as "Hyunjin". Thinking about Oh Hae Young still? :-)

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sometimes you write Hyunji as “Hyunjin”

Thanks! I'll fix that

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Huhuhu. Monk! Nooooo!

Well, at first, I felt Taecyon was a stiff acting again, but then when he saw the dead dude in the subway, YES, THAT's how you WORRY. But still, acceptable, considering how much he's grown in this series. :D

In Rang and Cheon Sang SUPER HEROES!!!

Can't believe this is ending today! :(

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Heyo! I was just wondering, like how long does the subbed versions of the episode take to be put up? Like how long after it airs I mean, I guess it changes for each drama approximately is there a time frame? >_< Thank you!!

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Wow intense episode! Inrng nd Chunsang were awesome!! Im wondering if Hyesung is really dead?? Or if hes alive, would he go to jail because of the evil spirit? Thats not fair :( Aside from that worry, Im a bit pressed with the way MC handled the evil spirit... He knew his power wasnt the same so why not inform and train Bongpal for the big fight to make up for his lost strength? And also, teach him how to use that damn bracelet?? Why only kinda tell Inrang and Chunsang, that despite being wonderful allies, dont have spiritual power or actual fight the spirit? Maybe he thought the evil spirit would know that Bongpal was aware of its existence?

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WOW!!! Just Wow!!! It's been so long that I can't even remember the last time I was literally at the edge of my seat watching a single drama episode entirely filled with heart-stopping moments. (Sorry, I haven't seen "Signal" yet though I fully intend to.) I keep trying to remind myself to breathe because I was so wrapped up in it.

That climactic, charged battle at the end was epic and comes full circle especially for Monk Myeong-chul. It was worth waiting 14 episodes for.

Hats off to the talented writer and director who created such rich characters with a believable story and made all of them come to life with such palpable energy.

If there is one thing I could criticize it's that I wished Bong Pal discovered or at least suspected Hye-sung's real motives rather than it being an info that was just handed to him by the detectives and further confirmed by Monk Myeong-chul.

Bong Pal being the catalyst of the story should've been poised to uncover the truth as everyone else around him had in one way or another been pulled into his life due to the evil spirit's desire to possess him. So it was kind of a let-down that Bong Pal was the last to know and would've remained clueless had he not been told by the people around him.

But I refuse to linger on such lost opportunity because I wish to relish the finer and stronger points of this drama (which are a LOT!!) that are far more numerous than the tiny might-have-beens.

I've always known that Kim So-hyun aces any role she's given, so even if Taecyeon did a pretty decent job, it really was Kwon Yul who did a breakout performance in this drama. A real standout!!!

Now if the final episode can just let in some sunshine and lasting happiness for the four Soondae Soup Crew then that's all the happy ending that I need. I need loads and load of blissful bickering from Chun-sang and In-rang please!!!

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Team Monk Myung-chul all the way. That ahjusshi brought the pain when he needed to.

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Most intense 58 minutes of a drama episode EVER.

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How come this drama is so good?! I thought it was a ghost of the week show. With goofy characters. And now with the best rollercoaster episode ride in episode 15, if the final episode doesn't suck (plsdunsuck plsdunsuck) I think this could rank amongst my top 3 favourite kdramas of recent time.

LP, thank you again for the lightning quick recap!!!

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I have to disagree that this was a beautifully constructed and well-executed storyline, because I wouldn't even know where to begin with some of the absurdities, esp in ep15. The professor is so overpowered he could have ended everything in ep1. And don't even get me started on the monk. Every time I heard PBP blaming himself for his family/friends misfortunes, I wanted to PUNCH monk.

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great episode! i was at the edge of my seat the whole time.

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Am i the only one here that feels sorry for Hye sung (the human part) and resentment towards his mother? That woman (and i spit while using the word) left her son to the mercy of a monster not once but twice. I felt so angry and empathic to him when i saw the flashback from his childhood.

First she stayed with the abusive husband who beat her and her son to a pulp. So much so that the poor sweet kid ended up making a pact with the devil just to try and save his mom whom he loves dearly, even it would seem as possed Hyesung he loved her because he always made sure she had everything she needed. Yes he killed his father but frankly, men who beat children, i would dip them in a vat of acid..alive..so i consider HS being mercyfull. He just wanted to save his mom, anyone who does NOT feel hate towards such an abuser at that time is not human in my opinion and that's just the perspective and emotion of a bystander.

And then she left the poor kid! First abandoning him , moving away, then leaving the spirit in her son, she could have saved him if she called an exorcist but she was too busy wringing her hands and playing the victim, avoiding and ignoring the whole thing . Poor Hyesung ended up being what Bong Pal might have become if his parents had not intervened. Maybe had she been a better mother and loved him more, he would have been saved. Jibbering ,bleating idiot that woman.

Let's not forget that human HS did not kill anyone else after that untill 18 years later, under the drive of that spirit who felt threatened. So even with that darkness in him he kept a lid on it.

I think the veterenarian career and the lost puppies he saved might have been the human bit of HS shining through. Shame really.

And shame on the others for sugesting HS was at fault because he felt anger towards his dad and so let the demon in..he was a child ! a monk and a shaman mother could not even dispel him from another childs body, so why do they assume he could have done it on his own. Too many people running from their responsibility (Bong Pals dad, HS his mom) or hiding the truth and not speaking up and asking for help.

The demon however, got exactly what it deserved.

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eehm, no idea why that comment was made with the name Dramabeans, just to specify, this is my opionion, me..cocobeans, not the people from DB or any user that might us this name..very odd..did i mistype? anyways, sorry bout the mixup

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Hehehe

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Hi Mary *wave* hi wag_a_muffin i'm back to the comment section ofter just lurking all this time:) scatterbrain and typo's and all :)

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