He bids Ji-woo a farewell and goes back to his vanity. He calls for a taxi to go back to Seoul. On his way home, Ji-woo compares his two past relationships with Seo-joon and Sung-yoon.
Ji-woo recalls how his loneliness made both his partners feel lonely. He thinks back to when Seo-joon cancelled his plans to be with Ji-woo. He did not want to feel lonely with Seo-joon over time as Sung-yoon did with him in the past.
Ji-woo is resentful of being alone all the time when Seo-joon has his plans. He hates it when he’s by himself and wants to be with someone. Back to the present, Seo-joon is back on set filming his action movie and during a scene, he gets injured. The team breaks up and Ji-woo is left feeling lonely.
Director: I don’t want you to shoot this movie any further than you need to. Seo-joon: I’m not fit to do this. I’ve been injured twice already. Director: You’re not fit to do anything. Take a break.
Ji-woo asks the director to refrain from talking behind Seo-joon’s back and asks him to talk face-to-face. As he is in his car, in order to not cause controversy with his injured face, Seo-joon goes live on social media and tells his fans about the filming accident. That night, Ji-woo is out on a walk with Sung-yoon.
Ji-woo and Sung-yoon reminisce about their high school days when they were close friends. Ji-woo realizes that he misses Seo-joon and regrets not being able to help him when he needed it the most. ..
The next day, Seo-joon is home when Pil-hyun and Ho-min yell at him for missing their calls. Seo-joon is sleepy and wonders why they were looking for him on a holiday. Pil-hyun yells at him for the trouble he caused on set with the director.
The makers have killed his character in the movie after he argued with the director. As Pil-hyun scolds Seo-joon, Ho-min accidentally drops a piece of glass on the ground triggering Seo-joon’s trauma.
He kicks them both out and starts having a panic attack. Outside his house, Ji-woo confesses to Pil-hyun that Seo-joon got into a fight with the director because of him. In the village, the villagers are gathered to see Pil-hyun’s show on TV.
Da-kyung informs the villagers that Ji-woo is yet to arrive but they insist on playing the episodes without him present. Sung-yoon asks them to wait for him but the village chief states that he asked Ji-woo not to come. Da-kyung informs the villagers that Ji-woo is yet to arrive and requests they wait for him, but the village chief insists they play without him. Sung-yoon asks them to wait for Ji-woo, but they refuse and proceed with playing the episodes. ..
Ji-woo’s parents introduced a fraudulent man to the villagers, and the man scammed money from them. Ji-woo’s parents worked hard to repay the money to the villagers before they died. ..
Both Sung-yoon and Da-kyung defend Ji-woo in front of the old villagers. The two women along with Yoo-ha leave the villagers. Outside, Ji-woo overhears the chaos. Da-kyung apologises to him for forcing him to return to the village. Ji-woo reassures him that he is okay. Meanwhile, Seo-joon still struggles all by himself as he lays in bed.
Ji-woo, a Korean-American chef, is the host of a cooking show on TV. One morning, he sees a woman dressed up for school walking past his tree and remembers how much he enjoyed his cooking show the previous night. ..
In Seoul, Pil-hyun and Ho-min read the comments to the first episode of “Running Man” and are glad with the positive reviews. Ho-min mentions that Seo-joon will have to go to the restaurant to film a second installment of the show. ..
Pil-hyun gets a call from his girlfriend who is a reporter. She apologises for not being able to stop the release of the news. Just then, the phones start ringing at Seo-joon’s agency.
Yoo-ha rushes to show Ji-woo the released article about Seo-joon that claims his health condition was worsening and that his phobia has relapsed. ..
The Episode Review
The new season is driving on the success of Season 1 so all things that are happening in this season seem very unnecessary. From Ji-woo’s family problems to his past relationship or people from his town being bitter toward him over something that happened years ago.
Season 1 hinted at Seo-joon’s trauma, but Ji-woo’s trouble is not making sense anymore. ..
This episode was rather slow and it is obvious that the main leads need to be around each other more for the episodes to seem interesting. I hope the next episode picks up as we are now nearing the end of the show.
