Gyeo-rye receives a call from one of the two goons – Seok Jun – who asks Gyeo-re about the $320,000 but Gyeo-re shuts him down and ends the call. Gyeo-re then visits his old acquaintance Jin-goo’s veterinary clinic to collect his pet dog and his bag full of cash. He learns from the vet that Sonny (translated from a word that means Son in Korean), Gyeo-re’s pet dog is terminally ill.
Sonny won’t be able to recover even with surgery. Gyeo-re hands the dog bag back to Sonny. Sonny hands Gyeo-re a few wads of cash for his help but the vet refuses to take the money from him. The two bicker and it is here where Gyeo-re mentions meeting Jin-goo at the orphanage. Jin-goo mentions Ha Joon-kyung but Gyeo-re the clinic leaves with Sonny.
Gyeo-re checks into a hotel and hands wads of cash to the receptionist who doubted him when he requested to stay in a suite. Inside, Gyeo-re offers a huge sum of money to the bellhop.
Later that night, Gyeo-re is celebrating his birthday by using more wads of cash as cake but he eventually breaks down realizing that he doesn’t even know when he was born. He notices Sonny is lethargic and not eating his meal either, leaving him upset and lonely.
Kang Tae-sik is a volunteer worker at Woori Hospice Hospital. He is always greeted with a smile by everyone at the hospital, and it is revealed that he is not actually a doctor. Kang freshens up and goes to the cafeteria to get a meal prepared by the hospital lunch lady.
Soon-ja and Tae-sik talk about Mr. Yoon who is on his death bed. Soon-ja suddenly asks about Seo Yeon-joo, the hospital nurse. Tae-sik mentions how she is possibly working out. As Tae-sik bathes Mr. Yoon, nurse Yeon-joo as well as the rest of Woori Hospice’s staff start using artificial snow sprays to fulfill Mr. Yoon’s last wish.
Team Genie grants the last wish of the patients of Woori Hospice. Today, it is Mr. Yoon’s turn. Mr. Yoon is the founder of Team Genie and a former doctor at Woori Hospice. Tae-sik asks Mr. Yoon to plan a Christmas party with his wife, Gyeo-re, since it is snowing. Gyeo-re is sitting at the bus stop when he decides that he needs to go to the ocean in order to cheer Sonny up. ..
At the hospice, Chi-hun is the resident doctor who has feelings for Yeon-joo. He asks the nurse out to celebrate her birthday. Meanwhile, the staff at Woori Hospice are preparing to bid Mr. Yoon a farewell as they set up a Christmas Tree in the middle of summer. Tae-sik is taking Mr. Yoon out in a wheelchair when the patient takes off his watch and hands it to the volunteer worker.
Mr. Yoon stated that his time was up, which set the volunteer worker off to realize that Mr. Yoon was about to die soon. Yeon-joo and Chi-hun join Tae-sik as they leave the hospice in order to visit the grave of Mr. Yoon’s wife. Soon-ja hands out some food to be offered to Mr. Yoon’s wife’s grave while Chi-hun contemplates taking a patient so far when he is in a critical condition. ..
Yeon-joo and Gyeo-re say that they were going to do this because they wanted to. The rest of the hospital staff bid them farewell. Gyeo-re bought a second-hand car by making a payment in cash. The car dealer noticed the rose tattoo on his arm and alerted Seok Jun about it.
As Gyeo-re is on the highway in his sports car, he is being chased by Seo-jun and his goons. On the other hand, the Woori Hospice Ambulance is on the same street where Mr. Yoon’s pulse suddenly starts dropping. Chi-hun refuses to review the patient as Mr. Yoon had signed a directive beforehand to refrain from reviving him.
Yeon-joo performs CPR and revives him in order to successfully fulfill his final wish. Tae-sik speeds up the ambulance but as they are on the highway, Gyeo-re causes an accident that fractures Tae-sik’s ankle. Tae-sik pulls Gyeo-re out of his car and forces him to drive the ambulance to its destination because he had rendered Tae-sik unable to drive.
Gyeo-re fears that Seok Jun will catch up to him, so he agrees to drive the ambulance. He drives the Woori Hospice staff to The East Sea. Gyeo-re throws some money into the street to cause a commotion as people rush to pick it up. As they arrive at the grave of Mr. Yoon’s wife, Chi-hun notices that the patient’s pulse is slowly dropping. ..
Mr. Yoon thanks Tae-sik, Yeon-joo, and Chi-hun and finally breathes his last breath holding onto his wife’s gravestone. Gyeo-re and Sonny are at the beach where Gyeo-re contemplates drowning into the ocean with his pet after he suffers a trauma attack. ..
Gyeo-re recalls being in a room that is under fire with his sister. As he is about to go further into the ocean, Tae-sik grabs a hold of him. He takes Gyeo-re to the police station to report the accident and discovers that Gyeo-re is homeless and has a wound on his back. Gyeo-re also does not know who his father is. Tae-sik grabs Gyeo-re by his collar as he left the station to inspect the scar and realizes that Gyeo-re is his son.
At Mr. Yoon’s funeral, his son and daughter-in-law make a scene in order to push their guilt of negligence over to the hospice staff. They accuse Tae-sik of theft for wearing Mr. Yoon’s expensive watch but the volunteer worker calls them out for neglecting Mr. Yoon when he was alive.
Yeon-joo and Chi-hun discuss the death of Mr. Yoon and the doctor states that he did not approve of what Team Genie was doing in order to fulfill a patient’s last wish in their final moments. A few days pass but Tae-sik hasn’t returned to the hospice. He is with his homeless friends as he rests with them on the skywalk.
Tae-sik returns to the hospice after court and is greeted with excitement by the team. They discuss how they will move forward with their mission now that Tae-sik is injured. Just then, Tae-sik recalls his hearing from earlier that day where he was fined $5,000 for causing Gyeo-re’s road accident. ..
Despite having the money, Gyeo-re is against paying the government. That night, Gyeo-re returns to the hotel to find Seok Jun and his men asking around about him. Recalling how Sonny is still in the room, he exchanges clothes with the bellhop and escapes the hotel with Sonny who appears to be in pain.
Gyeo-re takes Sonny to Jin-goo’s clinic and finally convinces himself to euthanize the dog in order to end his suffering. As Jin-goo tries to take the dog away, Sonny moves closer to Gyeo-re’s feet. This makes Gyeo-re rethink his decision and he takes Sonny back.
Gyeo-re, a young man in his early twenties, received a text message from someone he knows suggesting that he fulfill community service at Woori Hospice instead of paying a fine to the government. Gyeo-re was excited to have the opportunity to volunteer at Woori Hospice and showed up for hours together, but then he left without explanation. ..
Yeon-joo runs towards Gyeo-re’s car, kicking his rear-view mirror off as she does.
The Episode Review
The show’s trailer hinted at a fun comedy K-drama about an orphan with a terminally ill dog. However, the show seems to have more to unpack than that. Gyeo-re’s loneliness may be due to being an orphan with no one to help him, and his dog Sonny may symbolize that feeling.
The revelation that Tae-sik is Gyeo-re’s father in the first episode of the show seems pretty shocking to me. It’s possible that Tae-sik is the employee Gyeo-re’s father was beating up. It’s also possible that Gyeo-re had been assaulted by his father as a child, which is the same wound Tae-sik noticed on his back. ..
The Dutch driver who started fulfilling the wishes of his patients who were on their deathbeds has promised to fulfill the wishes of many patients. The story promises one patient after the other to have their wishes fulfilled by the Genie Team.
With each wish fulfillment, Mr. Yoon risks one death, but the show promises to be a wholesome healing show that takes fans on a wild ride of emotions.
