When the Cellphone Rings: Episodes 9-10
by mistyisles
With only one extra week to go, When the Cellphone Rings amps up the depth on all fronts. Dramatic confrontations, dire accidents, extra kidnappings, and long-awaited solutions abound. However whereas there’s loads of dangerous information included, the excellent news is our couple have one another — plus a number of surprising allies of their nook.
EPISODES 9-10
Whereas Sa-eon lies unconscious within the burning fish store, Hee-joo sits anxiously at house. She will’t report him lacking with out giving his identify and explaining the entire kidnapper/blackmail state of affairs, so she threatens asks his mother and father for assist as a substitute. They don’t supply a lot, however one among their aides secretly shares a clue: youngster Sa-eon had heterochromia — identical to her kidnapper.
In the meantime, Sa-eon and the fish store proprietor JIN-SEOK (Kim Joon-bae) are pulled from the flames by none aside from Sang-woo, who adopted the lacking orphan path there. Since Hee-joo retains calling Sa-eon’s cellphone, Sang-woo informs her he’s taken Sa-eon to the hospital. After watching them collectively and listening to Sa-eon name her his solely household and guardian, Sang-woo accepts that Hee-joo isn’t in any hazard from Sa-eon in spite of everything. Sa-eon apologizes for misunderstanding him, and okay, I suppose I do too. (Truthfully, he and Yoo-ri are very candy collectively, and I like that he’s a real ally for our couple now.)
Now it’s Hee-joo’s flip to care for Sa-eon, and she or he takes it very critically — so critically that she decides one of the best ways to guard him is to show the kidnapper’s cellphone (and thereby herself) over to the police. However Sa-eon catches on, intercepts her in entrance of the station, and talks her out of it. Again on the hospital, she climbs into his mattress to observe over him whereas he sleeps, like he’s completed for her — however, wrapped safely in his arms, she falls asleep first.
As soon as Jin-seok wakes, he and Sa-eon have a heart-to-heart about what’s occurred within the time since Sa-eon grew to become, effectively, Sa-eon. See, not solely did Jin-seok elevate our Sa-eon underneath Chairman Baek’s orders, however he additionally disposed of a number of our bodies for Chairman Baek… as a result of the true Baek Sa-eon moved on from killing animals to killing different youngsters. After drowning his personal grandson within the lake, Chairman Baek took our Sa-eon because the alternative. Besides, the true Sa-eon wasn’t fairly useless when Jin-seok went to eliminate him, and Jin-seok couldn’t carry himself to complete the job — a second of pity he now deeply regrets.
However that’s not all. It appears our Sa-eon is definitely Chairman Baek’s illegitimate son, making him his present adoptive father’s half-brother (yeesh, this household is difficult). It’s unclear whether or not both Sa-eon is aware of this, however that certain explains all of the animosity between him and the remainder of the household. (Additionally, our Sa-eon apparently by no means had a reputation of his personal (!), so we’ll preserve calling him Sa-eon for now.)
In any case, as soon as Sa-eon recovers from his accidents, we take a quick interlude from the household skeletons so he and Hee-joo can stand on stage collectively whereas she interprets his speech at a giant occasion. It’s a kind of tremendous candy moments the place they share secret glances, oh so pleased with one another, however there’s a latent pressure within the air that makes it tough to completely calm down. And for good motive, as a result of solely after sending Hee-joo off in Do-jae’s care does Sa-eon study that one of many youngster victims had a twin who now goes by the identify Park Do-jae.
Sure, Do-jae was the mastermind all alongside, and the one who pushed Hee-joo off the cliff. He thought he was concentrating on his brother’s assassin, whereas unknowingly teaming up with that very assassin to perform his revenge plan. Now he is aware of the reality, although, and leaves Hee-joo unconscious within the automobile whereas he assaults the kidnapper for mendacity to him. By the point Sa-eon arrives, the kidnapper has stuffed Do-jae (alive) in a bag and is driving away with Hee-joo nonetheless within the backseat. However Hee-joo, now awake, places up sufficient of a combat to make him crash and escapes into Sa-eon’s arms. Within the tussle that ensues, Do-jae takes a knife to the intestine that was meant for Sa-eon, and the kidnapper will get away.
In truth, I used to be anticipating Sa-eon to be Do-jae’s lacking twin. However the actuality — and the end result of Do-jae’s failed revenge — is a lot extra tragic. Fortunately, although, Do-jae survives the stabbing. It takes a number of nudging from Sa-eon, however Do-jae ultimately agrees to assist catch the kidnapper. And he even admits he was relieved to find that the Sa-eon he’s come to know wasn’t actually his brother’s assassin. With assist from him, Jin-seok, and Sang-woo, the police unearth and establish all 4 homicide victims and set about monitoring the kidnapper’s whereabouts.
However one among my favourite issues about this week’s episodes is the brand new partnership between Hee-joo and In-ah. Although the latter initially meant to rescue Hee-joo from her marriage, as soon as Hee-joo explains that she’s staying with Sa-eon by selection, they staff as much as untangle the reality about their household’s previous. Like the truth that their youthful brother will need to have seen the true Sa-eon’s face, therefore the automobile “accident” that killed him quickly after. And that it was Sa-eon who despatched In-ah the DNA report so she’d again out and he may marry Hee-joo as a substitute. (Hee-joo repays him with a romantic candlelit night, new marriage ceremony vows, and plenty of kisses.)
So whereas Sa-eon tracks down the burial website, the sisters go round surprising varied relations with their information and Hee-joo’s potential to talk. In-ah, being superior, seems on an interview with Sa-eon’s father simply so she will ask pointed questions (“How come Sa-eon doesn’t resemble his mother and father? Can we see some child pictures?”) and depart confusion in her wake. Hee-joo, being simply as superior and more and more courageous, lastly calls her mom out for gaslighting and manipulating her. Due to Sa-eon, Hee-joo is aware of what love actually is, and this isn’t it!
Out of everybody, In-ah’s father is the least fazed to listen to their voices. However upon studying that the true Baek Sa-eon continues to be at giant, all his composure goes out the window. He takes a gun to Chairman Baek’s annual memorial service, and if he weren’t interrupted by an explosion, I believe he may need used it. Sa-eon arrives late to seek out the place in flames and Hee-joo lacking once more. And that’s when his cellphone rings. It’s the kidnapper, who nonetheless hasn’t discovered that kidnapping Hee-joo by automobile isn’t the perfect concept. When he gloats that he’ll make Sa-eon undergo — and Sa-eon guarantees to rescue her anyway — Hee-joo tells Sa-eon she loves him and crashes the automobile by a guardrail and over a cliff, into the river beneath. The (totaled) automobile is quickly discovered. Its occupants are usually not.
After the information identifies the crash victims as Sa-eon’s spouse and her kidnapper, Sa-eon holds a press convention. Wanting completely damaged, he confesses that he’s not the true Baek Sa-eon — however the kidnapped lady is his spouse, and the one true factor about him is his love for her. Then he reveals her identify and face and begs the nation to assist discover her. And to twist the knife deeper into our hearts, the epilogue takes us again to that candlelit night when Sa-eon had declared her the one factor making his existence worthwhile.
I don’t imagine for a second that Hee-joo is useless (she’s already survived one tumble off a cliff, in spite of everything, and that one didn’t even have water on the backside!), however her sacrifice and Sa-eon’s devastation hit exhausting all the identical. All these two need is to stay a cheerful, love-filled life collectively away from the general public eye, however as a substitute they’re caught taking turns in hospital beds and counting the few treasured seconds they handle to get in one another’s arms. I’d say it’s as a result of that they had the rotten luck to be born right into a pair of households who don’t care a bit about love and happiness, however I feel Hee-joo hit the nail on the pinnacle: what these individuals name love isn’t love in any respect — it’s egocentric, grasping manipulation. And eventually, it’s going to explode of their faces.
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