The Chairman’s Will
Young-Min’s determination to save a life is still alive and well in the present. Seung-Tak, on the other hand, has had to let go of that feeling in order to focus on his own life.
The patient is taken in for surgery but this is Chief Ban’s surgery and they need to wait for him to arrive and take over. The thing is, the rate of death increases if they delay so they make a big decision and start operating without him present.
Both surgeries are flashed back and forth as we see the similar fates for these characters begin to intertwine. Only, who possessed Young-Min all those years ago? And how is he still able to possess all those abilities? Time will tell… ..
The successful surgery and Seung-Tak’s brash attitude only makes our main trio of doctors more suspicious of him. They believe something is going on with him now and remain determined to find out what. ..
“Outside the hospital, Seung-Tak and Young-Min talk. Unlike Seung-Tak, Young-Min can’t actually see the ghosts that possess him. Young-Min’s desire to operate on Jessica and make sure she’s okay stems from a promise made 10 years back.”
Seung-Tak doesn’t want to continue this anymore and continues to mention how they need to be separated. The thing is, Seung-Tak was the one who stopped the stretcher on his own accord and because of that, he played his part in helping to save another patient.
Young-Min is facing a life-or-death decision as he tries to save as many patients as possible. ..
The Vice President sits with Mi-Ran, the mother of Seung-Tak, and reveals all. He’s been well aware of the strange occurrences around the hospital, and specifically that of Seung-Tak’s abilities. Given he was constantly goofing off in America instead of studying, the Vice President uses this as leverage over her.
The motorcyclist has had a cranioplasty to improve his appearance. He seems to have forgotten some of the important moments in his life, such as when he was called by the lawyer and Vice President.
Young-Min is brought in for questioning by the police. She’s still comatose, and her shifty side-eyed glances are telling. However, she seems to be honest when she says she doesn’t remember what happened. The police are able to determine that the motorcyclist was hired to cause this accident, but they’re not able to determine who was driving the bike at the time of the accident.
Thanks to the wise wisdom from Tess, he reveals to Young-Min that when one returns to their body again, they don’t remember their time as a ghost. This seems to be a way to keep the universe in balance.
Meanwhile, Young-Min has a touching chat with the chairman outside. He wants to keep his son’s sins a secret from Se-Jin and allow him to deal with this sticky situation himself. When Young-Min races back inside, he implores Seung-Tak to keep this all a secret.
Lawyer Im arrives with the chairman’s final will, which means that Min-Ho, who is forced to listen as the chairman decides against any more DNR treatments, will have to die. It’s a touching moment as Tess plays with the Chairman in his room while Se-Jin says goodbye to her father.
The Vice President is faced with a difficult decision when the doctor is caught up in the controversy. He decides to fire the doctor and tell him to leave the hospital, but Seung-Tak decides to work together with Young-Min and do all the surgeries offered. This shows that even though Doctor Ahn may have been wrong, he still has respect for his team and wants them to succeed.
Ban and the others are even more suspicious of what’s happening to Seung-Tak given some of these surgeries are difficult to pull off, Ban remains determined to get to the bottom of all this. Well, it’s Ahn who acts first, determined to save his own skin. He meets the Vice President and shows him the operation records written by Young-Min and Seung-Tak.
While this is going on, Seung-Tak and Young-Min join forces for their next surgery…but there’s trouble brewing as Young-Min’s brain monitors begin to crackle into life.
The Episode Review
Ghost Doctor returns with a strong follow-up episode that sees closure to the Chairman subplot and more development circling on Seung-Tak and Young-Min’s connection. There’s a really nice chemistry between the two in this episode and seeing the pair join forces toward the end to actually do what’s best and do their duty to the patients is great to see.
It seems that their days are numbered by the Vice President and the other doctors, who remain determined to find out what Seung-Tak may actually be hiding. Those operation records are almost certainly going to get Seung-Tak in hot water and it’ll be interesting to see exactly how he manages to get out of that.
The brain activity for Young-Min at the end of the episode is another intriguing element of this story and it could well be that Young-Min wakes up again soon. If that happens, what will it mean for Seung-Tak and his fate? We’ll have to wait and see what next week’s episode has in store for us but for now, Ghost Doctor continues to deliver decent drama.
