The Lost Jacket
In the fifth episode of Ghost Doctor, we see a flashback of Seung-Tak as a child at the hospital. This explains his connection to the hospital and how he was able to see Young-Min at the end of episode 3. ..
Seung-Tak, the surgeon in charge of the surgery, is clearly possessed by Young-Min, who manages to help save the patient. He also berates Tae-Hyun too, telling him not to touch the patient and that he’s lucky they’re in front of a lot of people. ..
Vice President Seung-Tak is shocked when he learns that the surgery Seung-Tak had was some of the best they’ve seen in a while. He decides to get footage from the surgery to see for himself. ..
Young-Min hounds Seung-Tak until they’re alone. Once there, Sung-Tak admits that from the start he’s been able to see ghosts, including the trio of comatose patients too. At one point, they even tried to jump into Seung-Tak’s body.
Apparently, Young-Min is the 250th spirit he’s seen since his childhood, which puts everything we’ve seen into hilarious perspective, given Seung-Tak has been ignoring his superior and keeping a straight face the whole time. ..
The verbal sparring match between the doctors continued until one of them noticed a patient opening his eyes. When the patient’s family arrived and greeted him, Seung-Tak smiled warmly but there was pain in his eyes. Through flashbacks we learned that he had lost his wife a few months ago. ..
Seung-Tak’s birth father died when he was younger, after drowning in the lake. Seung-Tak actually saw this happen, and that could well explain why he’s so committed to helping patients. ..
The reporter from Jaemin News is persistent and they keep coming back. Eventually, Seung-Tak agrees to talk to them and reveals that he was actually the one who did all the work in helping to spread the news about the Vice President’s surgery. He was just trying to protect himself and his family.
While Seung-Tak heads off, avoiding the gazes of doctors and nurses as they marvel at him, he learns his mother has just shown up at the hospital. However, Young-Min is stuck behind in the Vice President’s office and learns more about this man’s plan. He intends to let Seung-Tak rise up so his fame can hit that much harder when he inevitably falls from grace.
The coma patients stop Young-Min as he’s walking down to see Seung-Tak, the three of them decide they should go and talk in private. They ask Young-Min for different gifts, ranging from a DVD to walnut cakes.
Young-Min is still mulling over this bizarre request, and finds Seung-Tak stuck in a precarious position. He’s to remove the chest tubes from Suk-Joo but his clumsy hands make that difficult. He needs help, but Young-Min refuses to do so. So naturally, Seung-Tak decides to use Young-Min’s clothes as a bargaining tool, throwing one of his jackets out the window a little later on.
In the midst of all this, a shadowy version of Young-Min waits in the shadows. It watches from afar, seeing all of this drama take place. I’m sure we’ll see more of this revealed over time but for now, this remains a mystery unsolved.
Chairman Jang and Young-Min discuss Se-Jin and her affection for other patients. While they talk, Chae-Hyun appears with syringes and begins injecting the chairman’s body with something. While Chairman Jang believes this is to help him, in reality it’s keeping him sedated. Young-Min remains quiet about that for the time being.
Doctors rush around as Suk-Joo, Young-Min’s patient, goes into cardiac arrest. As fate would have it, this man is also the motorcyclist that plowed into the side of Young-Min’s car originally, and his ghost form shows up next to Young-Min, asking if he’s going to die.
After a heated argument, two surgeons team up to save patients in an operating theatre. ..
The Episode Review
Ghost Doctor returns with another solid episode, this time focusing on Seung-Tak’s gift and how he’s able to see ghosts. The little flashback at the start of the episode is certainly welcome, and it’s followed up by a good dose of humour in the present, as Seung-Tak and Young-Min bicker and argue. This is definitely the best part of the whole episode, and their banter is brilliantly written and witty.
The Vice President is a major player in this story, and his agenda is causing serious drama.
Ghost Doctor is a great show and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.
