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You’re All Surrounded: Episode 7

It’s an hour full of rom-com hijinks, and it’s not even my birthday. Awkward confrontations and budding feelings put everyone on edge, but thanks to police work and dramaland’s rules of proximity, there’s nowhere to kiss and run. Luckily there’s no shortage of crime to keep the excuses coming. Wait, that’s a bad thing, right?

 
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EPISODE 7: “A person coming…”

Soo-sun tosses and turns in her tent, replaying Dae-gu’s surprise-attack kiss in her head until she sits up in defeat, realizing she’s too worked up to sleep.

We go back to 24 hours earlier… where an ajumma arrives at Seoul Station decked out in what must be her version of fancy vacation wear. Oh ha, it’s Soo-sun’s mom, and she calls her daughter with zero advance warning that she’s here to visit.

Soo-sun jumps up in alarm and next thing we know, the whole team is gathered on her rooftop. She confesses that she’s been living in this tent, and begs the boys to let her pretend she lives with them just for one night while Mom visits.

Tae-il and Gook are shocked that she’s been living at the precinct, and readily agree to roommate cosplay for Mom’s benefit. Dae-gu on the other hand, remains unmoved. He says no, and Soo-sun threatens to jump off the roof if he doesn’t change his mind.

He peers over the edge and casually tells her to go ahead: “It’s three stories so you won’t die.” Pfft.

At that, she clasps her hands together and cries, “I’m sorry! Mom’s already at your place!” The boys freeze and Dae-gu looks like he might just pitch her over the ledge himself.

But then we cut to the ridiculously giant spread that Mom has cooked for the boys, and suddenly it doesn’t seem so bad that she’s there. She hand-feeds Dae-gu and calls them all her sons, and Soo-sun is a little miffed that the naysayer is the one getting all the best parts of the fish.

Tae-il pours Mom some more wine and she can’t believe how handsome they are, deciding with a cackle that they should call themselves Eye Candy. But then they’d have to be a rock band, and then we’d have Cop Rock on our hands.

After dinner, Mom comes out of the bathroom ready for bed, and Soo-sun doesn’t know what to say when Mom asks for her room. But Dae-gu’s already got a blanket and pillow for the couch and lies that his room is Soo-sun’s, and she just hasn’t had time to unpack yet.

Mom heads off to bed, and Soo-sun looks over at him gratefully. Aw, you just know she reminds him of his mom and he couldn’t be rude to her if he tried.

The foursome heads to the roof for some beers, and Soo-sun thanks the boys for helping her not appear homeless in front of Mom. She asks how they feel after nabbing the hit-and-run perp, because she expected to feel like she’d saved the world, but she’s feeling rather subdued.

Tae-il says that Batman saved Gotham but he wasn’t exactly happy, and Soo-sun cheers up to be compared to Batman. But Gook is the one to say that he was ecstatic, because the moment he saw footage of that little boy alive, he knew he’d do anything to catch the bastard who killed him.

He says he felt for the first time that maybe he’d done the right thing in becoming a detective. They’re surprised to hear him say that, after his whole “Nothing we do changes the world” speech. They declare that Gookie has returned to his old less-jaded self.

Soo-sun narrates: “Gook might be right. The world doesn’t change. But today we took out something that had been sitting in a worn-out drawer for a long time…”

Sa-kyung goes home that night to find Pan-seok waiting on her doorstep again. She gives him the brush-off and says they can talk tomorrow, but he stops her and says he might’ve put it off to tomorrow in the past, “But in doing that I’ve let too many things slip by.”

He knows he asked her why she came to Gangnam and why she became a detective when she so hated his job before, but he realizes that none of that matters now. “What’s important is that the moment you walked into the precinct, I don’t know how you’ll take this, but… My heart started to race.”

He asks her with such hopeful eyes, “Can we start over?”

Soo-sun continues her narration: “…For some people, love.” Tae-il takes out a picture of his brother(?) and puts it up on his desk. “…For some people, pain.” And in her tent, Soo-sun opens a drawer and takes out the necklace that Combat Boots went in search of the night Dae-gu’s mom died. “And for others, an old memory.”

Wait, why do you have that? Combat Boots dropped it that night when he went after Dae-gu in the school. I assumed he picked it back up, but she must’ve found it after they were both gone.

The next morning we catch up to the moment when Soo-sun suddenly recognizes Dae-gu as Ji-yong thanks to his Clark Kent specs, which makes more sense now that we know she was thinking about him just the night before.

He panics when Pan-seok approaches and kisses her, and it does the trick—Pan-seok flees like he’s seen something horrifying. Soo-sun breaks away in shock and puts a hand up to her lips, and Dae-gu is so flustered that he just bolts out of there.

Pan-seok watches them go off in opposite directions and wonders if they’re acting like nothing happened because they do this all the time, ha, and wonders just how much hanky panky is going on around here.

That night Soo-sun sits in her tent wondering what it means: “Does he like me?” But then she argues that he’s always yelling at her and being mean. “Is he a pervert?” Hahaha. “How long has he liked me? Was all that just playing me hot and cold?”

Dae-gu thinks over the kiss as he brushes his teeth that night, and pauses to look at himself in the mirror as if asking, Why did you do that? He quickly gets back to his furious tooth-brushing, thinking he can clean the memory off his lips.

Soo-sun drops Mom off at the train station in the morning, and Dae-gu goes to see his doctor to ask for sleeping pills because his insomnia is getting bad lately.

They arrive at work at the same time, and Dae-gu spins on his heels the second he sees Soo-sun heading toward the elevator. But then he stops himself and decides that he has no reason to run.

Soo-sun hides when she sees him approaching and tries to get the elevator doors to close. He makes it, but then so does Gook. He asks Soo-sun about Mom and she thanks them again for letting her stay.

Gook worries about her tent situation, but she says it’s just for two months. He tells her that if ever things get dire she should stay with them, and Dae-gu shoots eye-daggers at him silently.

Someone watches them as they get off the elevator—eek, it’s Combat Boots, who wonders why Dae-gu became a detective and came here.

Meanwhile, Pan-seok goes to a department meeting and apologizes again for his conduct, and Chief Kang warns him not to go anywhere near Prosecutor Han again.

One of the other detectives pulls Gook aside in the hallway and warns him not to be too nice to Tae-il because there are rumors all over Gangnam that he’s gay. The ignoramus warns Gook that if he’s too nice Tae-il might confess undying love or something. Why do straight guys assume gay guys have no standards? It’s insulting. You wouldn’t be pretty enough for Tae-il anyway!

Gook isn’t exactly open-minded about it not mattering which way Tae-il swings, but he does defend his friend in his own (albeit misguided) way. He swears up and down that Tae-il isn’t gay, and yells at the guy not to go spreading lies.

Soo-sun runs into some trouble when Chief Toad finds a stash of her belongings in the precinct, and she ends up having to tell Pan-seok the truth about her living situation. She begs him to look the other way for just two months, and Pan-seok agrees to cover for her and tells her to do a better job of hiding her stuff.

The team gets a new case involving a pojangmacha assault, where a drunk man came along and bumped into a pair of scary looking thugs, who beat him up and stabbed him with a kitchen knife.

The victim made it through surgery, and they’ve rounded up possible suspects for the pojangmacha owner to identify in a lineup. The ajumma comes in and Pan-seok assures her she can’t be seen through the glass, and they wait patiently as she dismisses group after group.

But one of the men clearly scares her, and they see her shaking despite her denial that she recognizes any of the suspects. Pan-seok kneels down and asks if she’s too frightened to identify the gangsters, and she admits that people warned her of being a witness—what if they retaliate?

Pan-seok promises her in his most earnest reassuring tone that she can trust them to protect her. Augh, the look in Dae-gu’s eyes when he hears that familiar speech. I’m cringing at the confrontation to come.

Pan-seok continues to persuade the ajumma, and Dae-gu’s anger builds and builds until he finally tells him to stop. He tells the ajumma that she doesn’t have to do anything, and it’s within her rights to walk out right now. That’s exactly what she does.

Of course that gets Pan-seok roaring at him, and Dae-gu says he’s stepping over into coercion when she’s clearly too afraid to identify the suspect. He rattles off dates and cases and says the thing they have in common is a second crime that the police failed to prevent in the name of solving the initial case.

Pan-seok screams back that a detective’s job is to solve the case in front of him and catch the criminals in the first place, not worry about a second crime before it even happens. And then Dae-gu names the case he shouldn’t—his mother’s—though he only calls it by date and town, as if it’s just one of the others.

It’s Pan-seok’s sore spot, and Eung-do gasps to hear it brought up. Pan-seok’s eyes light up in fury and he asks if Dae-gu’s been doing background checks on him now. Dae-gu says just a quick search of the legendary Seo Pan-seok will bring up that case, acting like he just read about it on the internet.

Dae-gu yells at the top of his lungs that he doesn’t understand how Pan-seok could have lived through that case and still be coercing witnesses to this day. Pan-seok tells him he doesn’t have to understand—he can just sign his resignation papers and get the hell out.

Dae-gu goes to the roof and takes out his frustration on the punching bag, kicking himself for letting it get that far when he’s waited eleven years for this chance.

Pan-seok takes out Dae-gu’s file and tells Eung-do he’s going to get rid of him through proper channels. Eung-do clearly doesn’t want to, but there’s no talking Pan-seok out of it today. He’s surprised when he sees that Dae-gu is from an orphanage, and Pan-seok tells him to look into his past to see what Dae-gu has against him.

The rest of the team finds Dae-gu brooding alone, and Soo-sun gets all stiff and awkward at the sight of him. Gook sighs that he’s going to put up a talisman in the interrogation room, because anytime they go in there, Dae-gu and Pan-seok are at each other’s throats. Heh.

Eung-do calls Tae-il and Gook out to go follow the one suspicious possible suspect from the police lineup, and Soo-sun trails after them, wanting desperately not to be left alone with Dae-gu.

At the station, Sa-kyung walks past Pan-seok and does this brush-pass where she sneaks something into his hand. She just keeps walking without looking back, and smiles to herself. Okay, that was hot.

Pan-seok looks down at his hand and finds a heart-shaped note telling him to come to the place where they first met at seven o’clock tonight. He grins like a boy with a crush.

His face darkens when his secret phone rings. It’s Combat Boots, and he wants to meet. Pan-seok says they should meet now instead of putting it off, and Dae-gu listens in wide-eyed, realizing this is his chance. Pan-seok gets behind the wheel, and Dae-gu follows.

The rest of the team is mid-stakeout just waiting for their suspect to come out and make contact with his partner. They eat jajangmyun in the van and wonder if they’ll be able to go home tonight, and Eung-do says a detective’s schedule is pretty much at the mercy of criminals.

He asks the kids if they knew Dae-gu was an orphan, and they’re all shocked, having expected him to be the only son of a wealthy family or something. They know that his mother died when he was fifteen, but never imagined that meant he was an orphan.

Soo-sun sighs that she’s his partner but she really knows nothing about Dae-gu. Tae-il says that it reminds him of the poem: “A person coming is a truly big thing. Because one person’s lifetime comes along with it.”

Dae-gu follows Pan-seok into a crowded shopping mall, but the covert meeting hits a snag when Pan-seok spots their pojangmacha suspect just waltzing around in the mall when he’s supposed to be at home.

That’s news to Eung-do and the gang, who are still sitting in the van parked outside the guy’s house. Dae-gu still doesn’t know what’s going on, and follows Pan-seok following someone, thinking it’s Combat Boots.

Pan-seok follows the suspect, who eventually notices the tail and makes a run for the subway. Pan-seok goes running and frantically chases him down onto the train platform and goes running from car to car.

He finally jumps off the train at the last second, and of course he spots the suspect inside the train just as it pulls away from the station. Pan-seok growls at him through the glass, and Dae-gu finally sees that it’s not Combat Boots they were chasing after all, and deflates.

Pan-seok gives Eung-do an earful about gabbing his way through the stakeout and losing their only lead, and so Eung-do sends Dae-gu and Soo-sun to the suspect’s hometown to see if he shows up there.

He tells them to get a room for the night, which surprises them, until they hear that the suspect is from an island. Woohoo, island stakeout date?

They take the boat ride in silence, and after checking to see that the suspect hasn’t come yet, they get a room for the night until the first boat in the morning.

Meanwhile, Gook and Tae-il are in a car outside the suspect’s apartment. They talk about Dae-gu and how they should probably be nicer to him, since maybe he’s so prickly because he grew up all alone.

Gook asks if they’re true friends, and cautiously broaches the subject of secrets, offering to share a deep dark secret of his to prove that they’re friends. He says that nobody knows this, but he likes… And Tae-il interjects, “Soo-sun?” Gook is shocked that anyone could notice, ha.

And then he asks Tae-il for his secret, and prefaces it with: “I’m your friend, so no matter what you’ve done or whom you like, I’ll understand.” Awww, Gookie. You ARE a good friend! He braces himself for the secret, and Tae-il whispers it into his ear. It must be something unexpected, if we’re not allowed to know yet.

The boardinghouse on the island only has one room of course, because this is a drama. To top it off the room has no door, which the ajumma thinks isn’t that big a deal. When Soo-sun asks for a second room the ajumma asks why they’d need one assuming they’re a couple, and they can’t exactly say they’re cops on a secret mission, so they let her assume.

Dae-gu ends up sleeping outside, and Soo-sun sits anxiously in the room with no door, wondering how to deal with this awkwardness between them. She finally goes out and pokes him to chat with her outside, so he follows.

She launches into this long prelude about how hard she worked to get this job and how much she really likes it now and wants to become a good detective. And then she finally asks, “Do you like me?” and quickly adds that she doesn’t have any intention of dating in the workplace.

Dae-gu scoffs, “Is this because of that kiss? So this is what total loss of reason is like.” Ha. Before she can even react, he deadpans, “I don’t like you. We good?”

What cracks me up is that she’s worked herself up for a soft rejection thinking she’s going to be nice and let him down easy, but now she’s the one who’s upset that he doesn’t seem to be in love with her.

Soo-sun: “Then why did you kiss me?” He says it was for a different reason, one he can’t tell her. He points out that she should be happy since she didn’t want to be mixed up with him, which she agrees is technically true.

Dae-gu: “Why, does it seem unfair? You can kiss me too then.” *blink blink* He hurriedly says that that clears things up then, and goes back to bed, leaving her speechless.

She comes out a little later and sees Dae-gu curled up on the patio watching cartoons on his phone, and tosses him a pillow and blanket. His phone dies, and he mutters that there’s no chance he’ll fall asleep now. Soo-sun: “Why, because you’re thinking of me?”

She admits that she was a little miffed to think that he was just messing with her, but she decides to put it behind them and just be good partners. She puts out her hand for a shake and he swats it away. She smiles that now it’s just like it used to be and she can relax and forget about the awkwardness. She skips off to bed happily, while he remains annoyed.

In the middle of the night, Dae-gu heads to the outhouse alone, and turns around twice from fear before ultimately running away. Hahahaha. He’s too scared to pee alone.

He tries to hold it, which doesn’t really get him very far, and then he finally goes to Soo-sun’s room to see if she’s awake. OMG. I love that he needs her to go with him to the scary bathroom.

So she actually escorts him there with a flashlight, and he keeps making sure she’s still outside while he goes.

She gets bored waiting, so she offers to sing a song. It’s Lee Hyori’s “Ten Minutes,” (posted above) of course, which was her anthem in high school. She’s just as terrible at the singing and dancing as she was back then, and Dae-gu peeks out from the window to watch her.

He can’t help it—a huge smile spreads across his face. She’s so terrible but she’s so into it that you can’t help but love her in the moment, and he naturally remembers that day when he caught her singing and dancing to the same song in her school’s broadcast room.

She stops to ask if he’s still not done yet, and he lies that he needs more time just so he can keep watching her dance through the window. She gets back to it, and he breaks into a goofy smile.

Soo-sun narrates, repeating the poem Tae-il shared: “A person coming is a truly big thing. Because one person’s lifetime comes along with it.”

EPILOGUE:

Masan, 2003. Ji-yong pines as he watches his noona crush receive yet another love confession from a boy. Ding Dong wonders what’s so great about her when she seems like she’s keeping all of them on the hook, but Ji-yong sighs that you can’t help loving someone.

Suddenly Soo-sun busts into the snack shop with her posse, and “Ten Minutes” comes blaring through the speakers as if on cue. She struts over to the pretty popular girl from Seoul and calls her outside. Ah, so this is the prologue to the fight on the pier, and the first time Ji-yong ever saw Soo-sun.

 
COMMENTS

Cuuute. I love anytime we get flashbacks, because their teenage counterparts are so adorable and spunky. And any reference to the teenage Soo-sun is entertaining because she’s so earnest and good as an adult that I often forget that she was such a rowdy troublemaker. The best part is that Dae-gu is falling for her first, despite himself. And it’s not the kiss, which he frankly does more for self-preservation than anything, but her adorable off-key, off-beat song and dance that puts a smile on his face. I’m actually happy that he swore he didn’t like her, because now the more he likes her he’s going to die of embarrassment.

The thing that bugs me is that it feels artificial to have Soo-sun accept his don’t-ask answer about the kiss and forget about her momentary flash of Kim Ji-yong when she saw his glasses. Why is she not more suspicious? It’s one thing if the thought that he has a crush on her took over her brainspace, but once they clear the air, shouldn’t she wonder why the heck he kissed her, and remember that she may have uncovered a secret identity? I guess she’s been slow on the uptake before, but it feels like a glaring omission to just accept that she could forget about it.

I’m at least glad that she’s the one with the necklace, which should prove useful when they finally connect some dots and go after Combat Boots together. There’s obviously more to Pan-seok and Combat Boots than Dae-gu is anticipating, but so far I can’t tell what their relationship is to make Pan-seok want to see him face to face. Is he not evil? But we saw him kill Mom. On the upside, Pan-seok IS suspicious enough to go digging into Dae-gu’s past, which is the confrontation I’m really waiting for. He can’t be that antagonistic and expect Pan-seok to leave it alone, can he? It’s another way in which they’re the same—a temper that precedes reason, and gets them into trouble every step of the way.

I’m happy to watch all the love blooming, from Pan-seok’s second chance with Sa-kyung (yay), to the rare moments when Dae-gu lets his guard down around Soo-sun. And poor Gookie of course, who’s going to get his heart crushed. Tae-il might not even be gay (they’re teasing it so much that it seems like an obvious setup for a twist), but I like that the point isn’t his orientation, but Gook’s very supportive moment of being a good best friend. I would like very much for Mom to just move to Seoul so that the threat of her popping by at any time would get Soo-sun in the apartment, because I seriously can’t believe the boys just let her go back to that rooftop tent. Until then, outhouse dates will have to do.

 
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Thank you so much for fast recap. Off to read

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Teenage Soo-sun is LOVE!

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i love this show ekkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!

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Thanks GF! Been waiting all day :-)

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What a quick recap! Thank you. Such a great episode. Lee Seung-gi is wonderful in this. And...love that big goofy smile.

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He smiled! Miracles do exist.

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That was a million dollar smile. It took 7 episodes :-)

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lol, my first thought was that all the beanies here would be so happy Puppy finally smiled!

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Yeahhh, I'm not even gonna lie, Seung Gi's smile is hands-down my favorite episode ending yet, simply because I missed his smile THAT much lol.

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That smile, it got the same effect on me as his smile at the ending of my girlfriend is a gumiho ep 7 also, he flashed mi ho with his best smile which made me insanely loving him.
Now at the end of ep "7" he gave his million $ smile again, oh god I lost my mind for an hour or more, and the preview, she was scweezing his cheeks é_è, I want to do the same he's ssooooooo CUTE I can't help it

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Thanks, gf! I'm watching this episode right now: lots of interesting developments, but I think my favourite so far is the rekindling between Pan Seok and his ex. Their respective smiles when she slipped him that note were just too cute. Pan Seok and Sa Kyung, fighting!

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I know!!! I love that part! They make such a cute couple.

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Also, that island bed & breakfast ahjumma was saucy! "Make good memories!" (Was she really expecting them to get all, um, cozy in a guest room that doesn't even have a door?)

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What do you think Tae Il told Gook in the car? I don't think it's that he's gay since Gook was expecting that and his expression was one of surprise. Perhaps Tae Il is a chaebol heir? Or he's the son of the Chief of Police? Just wild conjecture on my part.

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I think he may have said that he has a crush on Sa-kyung.

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my exact thought as well. Maybe he revealed that he likes Sa-kyung

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either a) he told Gook he likes him just to mess with him ;p or b) agree with crazyahjumma, he told him he likes Mrs Seo Pan Seok.

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Love the smile. :D Good episode.

It did slightly bug me that Soo Sun kind of forgot what she might have found out, but I'll chalk it up her mind being elsewhere the majority of the episode until the very end.

Okay, but it is silly that Dae Gu is TERRIBLE at keeping his secret and yet nobody has found it out yet. I do think SS will need another moment to jog her memory and PS will find out soon.

I love that PS didn't actually have much issue with what he saw lol. Though I suppose he can't say much when he's having his own office romance.

Dae Gu is falling fast! On top of everything else, Soo Sun represents good memories of the past so I'm actually not too surprised. Now I'm wondering how she'll get interested, since she isn't at all yet and how long it'll take DG to admit he actually does like her. I'll guess it's going to be awhile.

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Daegu's behaviour reminds me of an angsy teenager. My 'theory' is that even though he's grown physically and intellectually, mentally he's still trap in the mind of 15 yr old child. That's why he needs cartoons to fall asleep (in someway, it's comforting to him) and that's also why he's so bad at reigning in his emotions, like a typical teenager. Someone commented in one of the earlier episodes that if he wants to find out about PS's secrets, he needs to get into PS's good books and win his favour. But I think that DG is incapable of that, cos mentally, he hasn't grown up yet - that's why he just says what he wants and when he feels like it.

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He definitely can't keep his emotions in check. I kind of like how he uses the same excuse every time though lol. That PS is legendary so of course he knows about this...

Despite what DG is doing, he's pretty honest in his feelings and he's not calculating at all. He's spying on PS, but he's not acting like he's friends with everyone. He's just not the type to be able to play nice to PS when he hates him. It's not the best course of action to take, but it also makes him less super spy and more hurt kid trying to find out answers.

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Frankly I was wondering why did Soo-sun forget that she outed him as Ji-yong. I hope that she remembers it soon, otherwise I'll see it as a) as GF mentioned, a glaring omission in the writing, and b) Soo-sun is too dense which means I can't take her seriously as a detective. I'm really, really hoping that both Soo-sun and Pan-seok suspect him MORE than ever because then it'll be more exciting to watch, and I can't wait for them to team up together and unveil the mystery behind Combat Boots. Fast.

We still don't know who S is. And Combat Boots. And what really happened 11 years ago. Arghhhh. It's killing me that the writer is giving us breadcrumbs episode by episode. I gotta tell myself that I can wait. But but....give us more breadcrumbs than usual by next episode? :P

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Though I like her as a person, Soo-sun certainly does not seem like detective material at this point. She misses obvious clues, and gets distracted by almost anything not related to the job or task at hand.

My bet is that next episode she will miss the guy they are chasing because she is mooning over her partner.

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Really she's been quick on her feet these past 2-3 episodes. After the whole stalker-stabbing fiasco I think she finally realized that her act-first think-later tactic does NOT flow well with her eagerness/earnestness. So she reeled back and has been competent and doing her job ever since. If this had happen and she'd forgotten a couple episodes ago I'd chalk it up to her being a bird-brain again but it really is forced here.

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Even in the last episode, on the stakeouts, she seemed to be paying little attention to actually "staking". I am worried that she is so hung up on that "shutup" kiss that she will totally lose her focus.

And why is it always the girls that lose focus?

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I love it more. Now i'm feel better and waiting it!

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DING DONG!!! hahaha
I loved Dingdong and DdonkoJin's relationship in Best love :)

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Am I the only person who though Sa-kyung grabbed Pan-seok's butt when she walked past him?

I almost re-watched it to double check before it was revealed she actually passed him a note. Either way I like frisky Sa-kyung ;)

I am still holding out hope that Pan-seok is a good guy. Seung-Gi and Seung-Won are so funny together. If Pan-seok is evil their will be no reason to laugh.

Loved the Gook and Tae-il BFF moment.

Sadly still not feeling the romance between the two leads. For me the chemistry still isn't there.

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Finally, our daegu smiles! :) <3
His inner ji yong is coming back! YAy!
Give us more smiling DAEGU writer-nim! :D

Thanks for the speedy recap GF! you Rock!

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Can someone please explain why knives are censored in kdramas? I'm really confused about this.

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Me too, what's the logic? They'll show the guy convulsing on the ground with a stab wound but blur out the edge of the knife? What's with that? And most often the blurring doesn't even really hide much.

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There is no logic, it is a remnant of the old days (like 10 years ago) when TV shows and movies were a lot more heavily censored. It is not officially "censored", but if it is not the show will not get a TV-14 rating, which means it has be shown later, past prime time.

It is an extremely stupid rule, and people in the industry have been trying to get it changed for a while, but the film "censorship" (ratings board) is one of those old entrenched bureaucracies that seems stuck in the days of when Korea was still a semi-dictatorship (run oddly enough, by the current presidents father).

Doctor Stranger is a perfect example of why that rule is so stupid, blood and guts all over, but no knives. There used to be a 3 min parody up on YouTube where some guy with a penknife was attacking, and the knife was blurred, but it showed like 85 gallons of body parts and blood and guts splattering all over.

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Thanks for clearing this up! Also I'm really interested in how the Korean political system works/the public sentiment about it. I wonder if Javabeans and company would ever do some explaining for us...

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Gah! I feel this drama getting better by the episode. The hour flies way too fast, although I admittedly prefer if this is a full out rom-com because Dae-gu and Soo-sun are just absolute love together.

I really love the first and last parts. Soo-sun's mom is awesome and maybe someone Dae-gu really needs in life. He lost his mom way too early, and I'm anticipating he'll have someone who'd be able to ease that pain at some point. I do love how sweet her was to her. His prickly nature doesn't hold a candle against a mother's care.

I really like Tae-il's secretive character. He's fun and there is a sense of mystery behind his identity. I definitely think he isn't gay, but I'm very excited to see who he really is, and why he's here. I also love how supportive Gook is, I hope he doesn't get too heartbroken over Soo-sun. He's most fun when he's being dorky and adorable.

Loved that rooftop scene! It's great to see all three of them breaking Dae-gu's walls. He's now ready to drink with them and listen to their stories even when he doesn't talk himself. When Gook said they should treat him better, I was inwardly telling myself they always did! For his prickly nature and closed-off self, if I were them, I'd have ignored him the first time we met. They're really understanding and caring towards him, and probably now more so after they found out he is an orphan.

And I agree with GF. What is with Soo-sun completely forgetting about Ji-yong? That's some serious plot hole if she doesn't mention it at some point tomorrow. I want her to suspect him, but even just for consistency's sake - at least the writer should tell us why she's acting as if that never happened. But I'll let it go because HOMG, that Seung-gi smile in the end, along with all the rom-com-ness of the episode just makes me squeal! Soo-sun just amuses me with her reactions, and its hilarious how upset she got when she found out he didn't like her. It's like she wanted him to, but then didn't.

Seung-gi and Go Ara reminds me so much of Seung-gi and Hyo-joo. I definitely loved the latter more, but they had 28 episodes to build on the chemistry. I think it's Go Ara's hair, or Seung-gi's character - both of which have slight resemblances to SI. In any case, I'm so excited to see more moments between the OTP. I could care less for cases if they just keep being petty, cute, intelligent and bird-brained all at once. And Soo-sun needs to pet him to sleep ~ very soon!

P.s. I just love Eung-do! And is it just me, or do I actually see Pan-seok having a slight crush for Soo-sun even if he's very much in love with Sa-kyung. Maybe I'm weird but when Soo-sun was begging him to let her stay at the roof top, I felt he was being much because he feels something for her. Or maybe he just likes her best out of all the rookies...

P.s.s. Seung-gi absolutely nailed that scene in the balcony when he let out his anger. He does his emotional scenes so perfectly!

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He feels something for SS, but I don't see crush at all. She's the teacher's pet and she's too cute and earnest to scold. He definitely has a weakness for her, but it's like the weakness a man has for his daughter to me. Idk, after he has called them his kids I'm all for Papa Bear PS so I can't see it anyway else.

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Yup! I concede, that's probably it. There was something soft in the way he looked at her. Like he couldn't be angry the way he can with the boys. But you're right, its probably a more protective sort of care he has for her. The drama is most likely not going that route especially when he and Sa-kyung are working out their issues. And even if they hint it, most likely it would be just to make Dae-gu feel like someone's threatening his place in her heart. I suspect Dae-gu doesn't feel Gook is a legitimate competition, lol.

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How is Pan-seok letting a young female detective in his charge, and not getting her a place to stay somewhere, counts like "showing affection"? The whole "living on the roof" thing, and all the guys are OK with it?! is the strangely overlooked script's folly.

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I'm still hoping that the sleeping on the roof thing will be addressed by Pan Seok offering his place for Soo Sun to stay at. It would be an indication of his growing fondness for "those kids" (even that formerly long-haired one), and it would also be a way to stir up the kinds of romance-related misunderstandings (Dae Gu, Sa Kyung and Gook would all be wondering what the hell was going on) that kdramas are fond of.

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I think that it would be very inappropriate for PS to offer SS his place to stay...unless he moves in with SK! (hint, hint)

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Oh yeah, totally inappropriate, but with such potential for confusion and hi-jinks! It doesn't seem like the drama is going in that direction, though, so just wishful thinking on my part!

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She's Papa Bear's little princess, I'm pretty sure if she pout-wiggled him the way she did to Dae-gu, he'd give her the world on a silver platter. He loves all those kids like his own, he just doesn't know it yet.

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I think that it would be very inappropriate for PS to offer SS his place to stay...unless he moves in with SK! (hint, hint)

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This episode was fun and makes sticking with this kdrama worth it. Writers and actors know a drama will be good because they know the end from the beginning, but the viewers take a chance especially when it takes 7 dramas in to realize that (and not all of us stick it out for that many every time).

The glaring omission, as you pointed out, girlfriday, is a bit annoying with the kiss and recognition and all. But Soo-sun is so darn cute, I love her so much! And Gook - you are the best! Bromance - not one size fits all, hey?

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i recognize the place when pan-seok following the suspect. It's kingdom mall! and it would be nice if the camera caught joong won and gong shil wandering around the mall.

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oh, i spotted kingdom mall!

well it would be nice if the camera caught joong won and gong shil wandering around the mall.

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that would be wonderful, miss them both so much!

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Excited to read the Recap after watching ep.7 RAW last night-:)

Finally Seunggi, showcase his killer smile and dimple, by witnessing Oh So Sun's hilariously dance move..

Off to read.. thanks GF!

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I wish the Hong Sisters had written this show. It would have been so epic! As I see it, the writing is still a bit lacking but at least it's not terrible. My fondness for CSW, LSG, and GA has kept me hooked but the production really needs to step it up.

Just a random thought... I started watching 49 Days and I kinda did a double take when I saw Lee Yo Won as Song Yi Kyung. The way she looked and dressed was very similar to Go Ara as Eo Soo Son when she still had the long hair. It was so uncanny!

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THIS! The Hong Sisters would have made this a laugh riot with a lot more great OTP moments. I'm really seriously loving YAS but I can imagine it being my uncontrollable obsession if they wrote instead.

UGH. Still waiting for their drama announcement. And with most time slots taken for fall, I'm assuming they'll have theirs at winter. I'm excited to see what they'll come up with next.

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Drooling over the food they were eating in this episode.....

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HE'S SMILE!!!! *freaking out*
I missed Puppy's smile, he's never been this SERIOUS before, even at Gu Family Book, he's beastly sweet *rawr*

Me too GF, I was cringing when the confrontation to come.
I loveee this show (have I told you before? :))

The scriptwriter knows how to make everybody in this drama stood up, not as shining as the lead actors, but they have their own part, their own story.

I wish I'll see Cha Seung-won here just like he was in Family Outing, ridiculously childish with his best friend Kim Soo-ro. Just because Cha Seung-won couldn't come to Kim Soo-ro wedding, LOL
Can we have this moment, scriptwriter-ssi??? *wink*

thanks GF, always feeling great reading your recaps \m/

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Thanks for the recap GF.
Aww..outhouse date. Knowing that it's the vice versa of the common drama rules we usually see where it's the girls who's usually scared makes me happy. That scene and the confrontation between Dae Gu and Pan Seok are my favorites.

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Best scene of the episode had to be the shouting match between Dae Gu and Pan Seok about whether it's okay or not to force a witness. The anger sizzling between Cha Seung Won and Seung Gi, my god!

Also, did anybody else catch how Pan Seok was yelling at the Team Leader and tried to calm down a bit when he looked at Soo Sun? I thought that was a really sweet moment.

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what is the title of the song played around 0:12:00 ??

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I think it's this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCSVdbRQeA

YAAS OST Part 1
What’s Wrong With Me – San E Feat. Kang Min Hee of Miss $

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The writer does a good job of introducing some "mundane" part of policing work into a DRAMA. This is certainly not easy because the tendency is to do the opposite. Jazz it up or gore it out would be the easier route. (Like what she did in the first two episodes.)

Policing work is large part legwork. So expecting the writer to put more details of it into the show is not very reasonable, certainly not ratings friendly.

What I tried to say is that during the course of busy days and busy nights, not to mention an out of the blue guessing game of love, I understand why Soo-Sun could not focus her mind on a face long disappeared from her life.

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The dimple is back =) So nice to see a smile on Dae Gu's face!

This episode was great and I was totally surprised when it was over already^^ Time flew by pretty fast which is a good sign!

Though it does bother me a bit that Soo Sun just forgot about her hunch of Dae Gu possibly being Ji Yong but well...

I really want to know what Tae Il told Gook though! I hate when they tease us like this :P But I adore their friendship =)

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Me too! I'm wondering if Tae Il told Gook that he was really gay, because Gook looked a little uncomfortable after the disclosure and I'm dying to know what was said!:-)

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No one else flashed back to the Nana dancing scene in Monstar? Of course, the performances were just a tad different. I wonder how many takes Go Ara had to do before she could get through that without giggling.

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Judging by the preview at the end it probably won't be long til she's back at their apartment. Permanently ;) Heck even without the preview, I kinda thought sooner or later, when daegu falls even more for soo sun, that he's gonna drag her into the apartment anyway for her safety because she's his one true love forever.

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The timeline of the kiss and Mom's visit totally confused me.
What is a flashback & what isn't - wasn't clear to me. I do, however, refuse to believe she slept in a tent while her mom was in town. So my gut says
kiss
flashback-tossing/turning
mom's arrives
flashback to the flashback & finding the necklace

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Was he calling her "___'s mom" when he said he wanted to start over? She could take that as very sweet (since she is still a mom) or very harsh reminder (since it reminds her of what she lost)

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The thing I feel most curious about is why soo sun became a detective. It feels likes there's something other then the money. And what happened to her dad.

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Awesome and fast recap!!! Thanks bunches!!!!! GF!!
I am really loving this drama more and more and more!:)

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I'm starting to like increasingly more this drama. I didn't think I'll like it soooooooooooo much. And the song, 10 minutes, it is great. I love it! And thank for the recaps!

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Gotta give credit to Soo-sun - the girl deserves applause. She dealt with the white elephant between her and Dae-gu head on without avoiding it, acting shy or prevaricating.

I'm glad she came straight out to ask Dae gu about the kiss and his feelings for her, and cleared it up to restore a good working relationship between them. It's commendable, and I hope more Kdrama females are this honest.

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Hmmm... Tae Il likes.... Sa Kyung!!

Oh please...
Taeil is not gay!
Taeil is not gay!
Taeil is not gay!

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Thanks for the recap digging the show and the fun.

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Is it me or everyone has pink lips on this show. I keep thinking its the way the photography is set up, but I don't know...

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Everyone's caught up with Eun Dae Gu, but Tae Il is reeally starting to look suspicious. Remember when he went up to Sa Kyung and asked her if he remembered him? Hmmm..

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Anyone know who's playing that HyeJi noona? she's soooo prettyy

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Is it just me or did SS tie her shoelaces the way Ji-young did for her when she was young? Like during short shot of it when she was dancing and Dae Gu was watching her. hahaha

ok i think it's just me. but i think it'll be cool if she actually ties her shoelaces that way after all those years :P

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Im pretty sure I wasn't the only one who smiled like a fool when Daegu Daegu finally gave that million dollar smile towards the end. His smile is so infectious! I can't stop smiling now. <3 :))

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that mall! that's jo joong won's mall! goshhh! how i have missed TMS!

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Rewatching this drama and omg I forgot how good it was... I feel bad for my friends cuz I can't shut up about it as we are watching it...lol trying to restrain myself. :))

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