If You Wish Upon Me: Episodes 13-14
by quirkycase
It’s a heavier week as we deal with our less than welcome guest at the hospice, gangsters, and some emotional turmoil. After learning the mysterious patient’s identity, our little supervisor tries to handle the situation on his own. And he’s not the only one – you’d think Team Genie would act as a team to solve problems, but instead, they each try to take on the burden alone to disastrous consequences.
EPISODES 13-14 WEECAP
After the Ki-joon identity reveal, Gyeo-re is rightfully suspicious of his father’s uncharacteristically meek demeanor. Gyeo-re even visits the unpleasant director of the orphanage where he grew up. She confirms that his father didn’t ever come to see him – in fact, Gyeo-re was the only child without a single visitor, which she attributes to his parents being horrible.
I thought Gyeo-re might hide his identity from Ki-joon, but I should’ve known he’s too straightforward for that. He comes right out and tells Ki-joon his name. Ki-joon tears up and promises that he truly lost his memories, but the moment Gyeo-re leaves, his mask drops.
The jerk has known from the start who Gyeo-re is, and now that he’s been found out, Ki-joon starts causing trouble. At this point, half of the hospice has seen him awake and roaming, but since NO ONE TALKS TO EACH OTHER, nothing is really done about it. Everyone just tries to solve it themselves (surprise, surprise – that doesn’t work).
We get some accidental secret sharing when Yeon-joo overhears a conversation between Ki-joon and Gyeo-re and learns that they’re father and son. She brings it up with Gyeo-re who confirms it’s true. Naturally, Yeon-joo feels guilty for unwittingly putting them in each other’s paths.
Meanwhile, the orphan siblings’ grandmother passes away, leaving them without a home. Gyeo-re is determined to save these children and even looks into whether he could be their guardian. But their aunt still wants to take the kids, so he has no choice but to let them go. He does buy a phone especially so they can call him, though. His bond with these kids is so sweet.
In Gyeo-re fashion, he threatens the aunt and her partner that he’ll be watching to ensure they treat the kids well. Thankfully, the aunt turns out to be okay. She even thanks Gyeo-re for his interference and vigilance, crediting him with making her better with the kids.
Now that Ki-joon is back, Gyeo-re can’t help but see his father in himself whenever he loses his temper or almost gets into fights. When he gets down about it, Yeon-joo reminds him that he’s a good person who is loved by many.
In case we needed further proof that Gyeo-re isn’t like his father, Ki-joon’s evil is on full display. Despite being an abusive, horrible father who doesn’t deserve the title, Ki-joon gets angry that his son likes Team Genie enough to leave them his money. So Ki-joon freaking stabs the nice social worker who’s on Team Genie and then starts rumors that Gyeo-re did it. He also starts a rumor that Gyeo-re came to the hospital to steal their morphine.
I knew Ki-joon was terrible, but what the heck? How dare this man ruin his son’s life for a second time out of pettiness?! If he wants Gyeo-re to like him that much, I don’t know, maybe try not being horrible. Yeon-joo is not having his nonsense and confronts Ki-joon about it, but it does no good. And now I’m just worried that he’ll target her because she admits to loving Gyeo-re.
In Ki-joon’s twisted mind, this is all Tae-shik’s fault. I can understand him being mad that Tae-shik landed him in a coma, but he’s actually angrier that Tae-shik “stole” Gyeo-re, the son he’s currently framing for murder. He may not love Gyeo-re, but he’s super possessive of him.
He goes so far as to try to get Gyeo-re to turn Tae-shik in by promising to let Yeon-joo and the others off if he does. Ki-joon took a video of Tae-shik attacking him, so there’s no doubt that he’ll be charged. Gyeo-re isn’t about to play his father’s games, but he can’t go so far as to kill him either – he tries to strangle him but can’t go through with it.
Oblivious to the dramatic goings on at the hospice, Tae-shik makes saving Joon-kyung his new mission at the hospital. Once she recognizes him as Gyeo-re’s mentor, she’s borderline nice to him and hopes he can help her be happy too.
Tae-shik does some digging and discovers that she was a survivor of an apartment fire. Joon-kyung’s mother died getting her out. Learning that her family didn’t abandon her changes her perspective, as does the realization that Seok-joon is a survivor of that same fire. His backstory is particularly awful: his parents poisoned themselves and him, and only he survived. Afterwards, he and Joon-kyung were taken to the orphanage together, which she had forgotten.
When she sees a text from Seok-joon agreeing to her murder proposal, Joon-kyung is healed enough to care, I guess. She warns Gyeo-re and apologizes. So not only does Gyeo-re have to deal with his abusive father ruining his new life, he now has to avoid getting murdered.
Ki-joon makes his next move and calls Tae-shik, spilling the beans about having been at the hospice this whole time. As Tae-shik rushes to the hospice, Ki-joon gets back in touch with his gangster minion, the same gangster gunning for Gyeo-re because of the money. They then steal a bunch of morphine and ready a second victim to blame on Gyeo-re.
Because no one has learned to stop keeping dangerous secrets to themselves, Yeon-joo sneaks around the hospice by herself and records the theft. She gets caught by Ki-joon but is saved by Tae-shik’s arrival. He’s had it and starts strangling Ki-joon who seems to be enjoying himself.
Gyeo-re gets there next and reminds Tae-shik how hard everyone worked so he wouldn’t be a murderer. Plus, he’s just giving Ki-joon what he wants. That convinces Tae-shik to stop strangling Ki-joon.
Then, the gangsters join the party. Ki-joon looks surprised that they know Gyeo-re, but he just stands and watches as Gyeo-re struggles unsuccessfully to fight them off. The episode ends as the gangster boss swings a bat toward Gyeo-re’s head.
Not that Ki-joon really cares if Gyeo-re gets hurt, but I seriously doubt he’ll be okay with his subordinate having the audacity to attack his son. I hope we get all this gangster and evil daddy stuff resolved quickly because we’ve only got a week left, and I’d like to get back to the warm, healing part of the drama. More Gyeo-re bonding with adorable children and less bloody fights, please and thank you.
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1 onetempi
September 23, 2022 at 8:15 PM
I loved the way this show started, and I tried to let the whole Room 403/gangster plot pass without too much dislike on the thought that it might be developing the story. But at this point, I don't know what this show is supposed to be. It's like it's being written by several independent groups of writers that have no idea what the other writers are doing. Also, I can suspend some disbelief so that a drama can move forward but let me just list some of the nonsense this show is offering: (1) how did the patient in room 403 get back in after he first started wandering around? was the code to the door lock written down somewhere?; (2) where did he get street clothes from?; (3) why is his phone still charged/useable?; (4) what is he eating?; (5) why does he keep greeting people with that creepy "hi"?; (6) why aren't police swarming all around the hospice investigating the attack on the social worker?; and on, and on, and on, and on. There are only 2 episodes left so I will watch them but I anticipate at least one death and a lot more violence, and that's not what I thought this show was going to be like.
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ixion
September 23, 2022 at 8:25 PM
Agree - the Room 403/gangster plot is so unnecessary! There is already so much to develop, with the sad shared history of the orphans, granting the final wishes of the dying, and Gyeo-re's found family. With only two episodes left, what a waste of time.
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latebloomer
September 23, 2022 at 8:52 PM
I ff'd through this weekend's episodes. There was one satisfying moment when JK realized her mother had died protecting her. But even that conversation was a little too easy. Would she really have admitted her fear of abandonment to Mr. Kang?
The big brawl at the end of ep. 14 was pathetic. Just why would YGR start by bashing the hospital's computers with a baseball bat? Does someone innocent have to die before this plot line can wrap up? And please don't try to redeem YGR's father or force a reconciliation.
This show started well and lost its way. I'm wondering who it thinks its audience is? People who loved the little dog, the elderly patients and their wishes, the terminally ill actress and her favorite star? Or people who want to watch vicious beatings, suicide attempts, and things being smashed with baseball bats? There's a huge disconnect, and it's really unfortunate the show didn't stick to its strengths.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 23, 2022 at 10:37 PM
This line sums up what I have been thinking for a while 👉 ‘ This show started well and lost its way. I'm wondering who it thinks its audience is?’ Thanks for saying this I have been confused about this for a while.
It is a trend that keeps ruining the rom com/slice of life format that is my favourite genre. The perfect example was the housekeeper and ex friend & manager conspiracy storylines inserted in to Shooting Stars which would otherwise have been a perfectly executed no brainer rom com.
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Messy
September 24, 2022 at 6:31 AM
YGR was literally an abandoned child growing up on his own with no proper guidance or love from a parent and a look at that unpleasant woman/director of the orphanage says it all of what a sad life YGR had in his growing years. I suppose his only expression of showing his frustrations and anger is swingIng that bat at something. Same goes for Joon Kyung too when she swept off all the food from the table when Gyeo Rye was unresponsive to her urging to come and eat. Her expression of frustration is lashing out at something too. These children grew up never learning how to manager their anger. Seon-joon, Joon Kyung and Gyeo Rye are victims of circumstances beyond their own control and they couldn’t help being who they are. All 3 have my sympathy.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 24, 2022 at 8:54 AM
I can not believe that people are so grateful to have someone run an orphanage that the Director was given the job her coldness was off the scale cruel. The damage she must have done to countless children who went through that home over the years is immeasurable.
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Messy
September 24, 2022 at 10:24 AM
Just looking at that cold face of that director from the orphanage could send shivers down one’s spine. Her indifference denotes a streak of meanness in her. Imagine orphans were like little lost souls seeking warmth and affection from whoever were their guardians but for YGR, Joon Kyung and Seon-joon, they had to deal with someone as unpleasant and cold as that woman. There are many forms of child abuse, physical, mental and emotional, and any one of these is enough to ruin a child for life. Abused children are capable of harbouring deep resentment and grow up with the tendency to hit back at whatever that gets in their way.
Actually the most pitiful of the 3 of them was Seon-joon. I could see that defenceless and defeated demeanour of his when he was being brutally beaten to a pulp by his boss tells a sad story that he’s kinda used to being bullied and beaten by people who had power over him. Probably when he was a kid in the orphanage, he had that kind of beating too and he’s used to it, with no reiteration at all....
3 of them grew up angry, violent, lost and pitiful.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 24, 2022 at 10:37 AM
@abz008 having a background in child protection, fostering and adoption and children’s mental health, these elements in a story are not entertainment for me. It’s disappointing that most shows will show the aggression, substance misuse, prison, and mental health symptoms but rarely even mention the treatment or healthy coping mechanisms that bring relief and long term healing. I am hoping the drama - Morning comes to the psychiatric wards too will be a positive awareness raising show.
2 emsel
September 23, 2022 at 9:32 PM
This was a wonderful show in the beginning, but now it is dragging its feet with the unnecessary parental plot. Sigh!
Gyeo Rye has changed so much, but he still restorts to violence when he loses his temper. That scene at the chicken shop was unappealing and the conversation of the aunt telling he isn't wrong is even more distasteful and weird. He was about to hit the guy with a glass bottle, but she thanks him and tells him he was right??!!! I'm baffled. I understand it is a case of "Don't judge the book by its cover", but to condone violence is wrong. The worst is he did not even apologize. He just left the shop overwhemed and embarassed. Where is the protagonist we all loved to see growing up🙄🙄
I actually wanted Gyeo Rye's dad to be evil and the show actually did it, but not calling the cops and each one hiding the blackmailing part was terrible to watch because they put so many lives in danger to save one person. Grrr!
I loved Joon Kyung's scenes because it was tearful and impactful. The abandonment issue fits with all her previous actions. Hope Seok Joon also finds peace and both start working in the hospice and find happiness. All these three kids really deserve better than the crappy adults they had as kids, but given the drama's love for drama either Seok Joon or Joon Kyung will die saving Gyeo Rye from the hit. It is unlikely for the evil dad to protect his son.
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3 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 23, 2022 at 10:25 PM
I read the weecap and realised that I didn’t watch the second episode and didn’t even miss it. I don’t want to watch it based on the content mentioned here by the weecap and beanies.
This whole gangster storyline is ridiculous even if everyone else was covering things up the doctor would have called the police as soon as he could leave the building. There is a hospice full of vulnerable people, their relatives and nuns and yet a gangster is left roaming around who has already caused a scene in the reception with his mates. Why no one called the police on that occasion is shocking because even a relative hearing the shouting would have been on the phone. Who would keep their dying relative in a place that feels so unsafe.
I liked the grandmother’s death scene and the peaceful scene in the garden but don’t understand how the random relatives would have passed the social work assessment to be allowed to take the children with no questions asked after the funeral. I still don’t get how they knew about the grandmother and the children in the first place but I am guessing the second episode explained all that.
This has become a bean of disappointment so I hope the violence is tied up in the first few mins of episode 15 and we can move on with Taeshik’s goodbye and the happy ever after for all the characters so I don’t need to fast forward through too much.
I am struggling to see how team genie can survive when the doctor has been proved right that it would come to no good. It has caused mayhem to all the innocent bystanders who just want a place of peace for their loved one’s last moments on planet Earth.
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4 Toodlepip
September 24, 2022 at 3:29 AM
These episodes were like wading through treacle. Really difficult to get through. I'm barely hanging in for a happy ending. A lighter ending please!
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5 FormAnOrderlyQueue
September 24, 2022 at 6:57 AM
I echo all the points Beanies have already made - what a mess of a show! I could not care less about Gyeore's father - and I'm suspending disbelief to accept that he cares either. You ran once, sweetheart - keep running maybe?
Another fail for me is the lack of progression in the relationship between Gyeore and Yeonjoo. Their date was so sweet - but then the whole relationship just stopped. And having them kissing at her place just felt weird - we've shown you no relationship development at all, but hey, lets get JCW and SY making out, cos they're both pretty people and good at these scenes. What? Show us why we should CARE!
I am beginning to get fatigue from shows messing it up this year, and have far many more beans of disappointment than I want. Sigh.
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6 OLakes
September 25, 2022 at 1:51 AM
Allow me to jump on the bandwagon. What happened to this drama?! It started out so well! The progression made sense. The relationships and interplay between the characters made sense. And then at ep 10 it just all fell apart like a house of cards. I gave 11/12 a pass because I feel like most dramas have a clunky transition week, but this one wasn't really better. This whole gangster thing and Room 403 are just taking up too much oxygen in this show that started out as being about relationships (with ourselves, with found family, etc.).
I just nerdily checked my stats, and I realized that this will be only my fourth bean this year - and all of them are to some extent beans of disappointment. 2022 feels like the Year of It Was Fine. With only one week left, combined with my fangirl love of Sooyoung and my genuine admiration for how Wookie is playing with what he's been given, I'll finish it. But I'm disappointed in a show that clearly showed us that it could be so much more.
One positive thing I will say for it: I'm glad they didn't add any unnecessary angst and breaking up for GR and YJ. They should have given us waaaaay more relationship development between eps 9 to now, but I appreciate that they haven't suddenly made YJ this insecure noncommunicative candy.
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