When the Telephone Rings: Episodes 5-6
by mistyisles
After an excruciating two-week wait, When the Telephone Rings is again in motion! Truths are advised, bridges are begun, and better of all, our leads are studying methods to hear to one another. However let’s not overlook there’s nonetheless a kidnapper on the free — and he appears as intricately linked to them as they’re to one another.
EPISODES 5-6
Seems, Sa-eon is barely midway to the reality, too blindsided by the revelation that Hee-joo can communicate to dwell on the query of who she may be talking to. Nonetheless, he hesitates to confront her, for concern she’ll throw his personal secret-keeping again in his face. And although he’s confused and a bit harm that she’s lied about it for the previous twenty years, he doesn’t appear to carry it in opposition to her. In spite of everything, he is aware of what each of their households are like, and he has sufficient context clues to guess she was compelled to turn out to be mute for In-ah’s sake.
Which is precisely what occurred — an accident rendered In-ah deaf and killed her brother, and Hee-joo grew to become her silent interpreter. Now that In-ah’s again — and has since gotten surgical procedure to repair her listening to — she flippantly provides Hee-joo permission to talk once more. She doesn’t appear all dangerous, per se, however Hee-joo is rightly affronted by her admission that the entire charade occurred as a result of In-ah needed somebody to share her distress. Hee-joo angrily tells her (in signal language, which In-ah by no means bothered to be taught) that she’ll be the one to determine when she reclaims her voice.
However the principle motion driver this week is Hee-joo touchdown the interpreter job at Sa-eon’s workplace. This yields all types of enjoyable communication and miscommunication situations, together with an unintentional “coronary heart eyes” emoji textual content (from her), presents and admonishments by no means to promote herself quick (from him), and Hee-joo changing into Sa-eon’s signal language tutor. It additionally yields a congratulatory celebration from Sang-woo, which serves to 1) have Sa-eon and Sang-woo butt heads once more, 2) reveal that Hee-joo’s longtime dream was to turn out to be a newscaster, and three) place our couple on reverse sides of the road so Hee-joo can sort out Sa-eon out of the trail of an oncoming truck. Sa-eon, naturally, fixates on the truth that she screamed his identify earlier than saving him, however his makes an attempt to coax extra phrases out of her show futile.
For each step these two take in direction of one another, nonetheless, one thing all the time occurs to interrupt. As an example, in the course of an organization dinner, Sa-eon’s secretary PARK DO-JAE (Choi Woo-jin) pulls him outdoors to ship the un-scrambled recording of one of many “kidnapper’s” calls. There it’s: Hee-joo’s voice, clear as a bell.
Sa-eon drinks himself foolish to the purpose Hee-joo has to half-drag, half-carry him inside once they get residence. One factor results in one other, and he or she falls on high of him, lips to lips. When he wakes the subsequent morning, he’s stunned and confused (although, actually, when is he not stunned and confused today?) to seek out them each on the ground and her asleep on his arm. Solely Hee-joo remembers the sort-of kiss — and that when she requested about his true emotions, drunk Sa-eon confessed outright that he likes her.
However there’s nonetheless that pesky voice reveal, and sober Sa-eon flip-flops between shock, betrayal, and incredulity that he missed all of the clues. At their subsequent signal language lesson, the primary phrase he asks to be taught is “I forgive you,” solely to declare it tough and finish the lesson early. This leads as much as their most sincere dialog but, and in a roundabout manner, it’s all because of that lingerie Hee-joo’s mother gave her: Sa-eon finds it whereas looking out her room for solutions, one factor results in one other, and he or she falls on high of him once more. There’s no lip-locking this time, however the closeness does jog his reminiscence, and he goes for a run to clear his head — simply in time for the “kidnapper” to name.
They strike a deal: every individual asks one query at a time, in turns, and no mendacity allowed. Hee-joo confirms that Sa-eon made a cope with In-ah to marry her as an alternative. And Sa-eon lastly explains himself. He’s preferred her since they have been youngsters and watching her follow signal language at night time helped soothe his nightmare-induced panic assaults. He married her to try to free her from the jail that was her stepfather’s home, solely to appreciate (now) that he grew to become her jail by preserving her at arm’s size.
He believed she needed nothing to do with him, and deliberate all alongside to launch her, so he avoided any semblance of affection — each to keep away from pressuring her to reciprocate and to forestall himself from getting too connected. If she nonetheless needs a divorce, he’ll comply. But when she needs him to place in effort and deal with her like a husband ought to, he’ll gladly do this to the very best of his skills. In fact, that is all thinly filtered via the pretense of him telling the “kidnapper” this stuff, and by the tip Hee-joo is so flustered she hangs up.
Then it’s time for some workforce bonding by way of a weekend journey for the workplace employees, and Sa-eon will get proper to work placing in effort to indicate Hee-joo the eye and affection she craves. It’s candy that he’s attempting, besides now their coworkers are confused in regards to the apparent chemistry between this famously married man and a girl who (so far as they know) isn’t his spouse.
However, but once more, they’re interrupted. After the group hikes to a lookout level, Sa-eon is swarmed by followers, and nobody notices Hee-joo is being jostled towards the ledge till she’s already fallen off the cliff. (And oof, isn’t that painfully symbolic of their relationship?) At this level, I truthfully thought it was a fakeout, however no — she’s actually mendacity injured on the backside. How she survived, I can’t let you know, however we’ll roll with it. Additionally, she didn’t fall; somebody pushed her. I’m not naming names simply but, however I do assume it’s awfully handy that Do-jae was standing proper there carrying the identical shade of sleeves as her tried assassin…
Sa-eon, in the meantime, panics. I assume it’s tough to seek out the underside of the cliff straight under the place she fell, as a result of he locates the tree she should have hit on her manner down, however by the point darkness falls, the search remains to be ongoing. Hee-joo lastly works up the braveness to name him on the kidnapper’s telephone (hers is damaged) and ekes out, “You mentioned to name when there’s a corpse, so come and get her.” Crying with equal elements aid and fear, he continues (for her sake) to faux he doesn’t know he’s speaking to her straight. There’s a flare in Hee-joo’s bag — I hope she’ll discover and use it. Do you assume she’s chilly? She must drink water. Inform her I’m coming! It’s deliciously over-the-top dramatic, and Yoo Yeon-seok and Chae Soo-bin actually promote the desperation, ache, and concern.
Whereas we (impatiently) await their reunion, I’ll shut with some fascinating tidbits gleaned from Sang-woo and Yoo-ri’s orphanage investigation and Sa-eon’s mother and father’ reminiscences. A number of youngsters from Sang-woo’s orphanage went lacking after being adopted, considered one of whom had a twin. The horrifying expertise that made Sang-woo flee the basement in terror was an encounter with a boy who preferred to torture animals. And, it appears, Sa-eon’s mother and father had a son who additionally demonstrated animal cruelty — and whom Sa-eon’s mom locked in that very same basement room. The items are coming collectively! Now we simply want our couple to get on the identical web page, communicate the identical language, and belief one another sufficient to use their soar rope technique to actual life.
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