W-Two Worlds Apart

episode 4

The detour before Kang Chul's business trip turns out to be a meeting with Ajusshi, who finally gets his manhwa introduction: His name is Sohn Hyun-seok, and he's Chul's dad's best friend, who now runs that crime investigation TV show that Chul bought the broadcast station for.

Ajusshi is busy surveying trucks at a container terminal in Busan, and tells Chul that no amount of searching has turned up the random truck of doom from his sudden attack in the street. More than anything, Ajusshi is concerned about Chul hiding Yeon-joo from the police, and says he saw the video of them in that clothing store.

Chul realizes that Ajusshi heard about all this from So-hee, and Ajusshi chides him for not recognizing how great So-hee is. He says that everyone's just waiting for Chul and So-hee to marry, and wonders what his relationship is to this mysterious Oh Yeon-joo. Of course Chul just smiles without explaining a thing.

Ajusshi updates him on the nurse who tried to poison him in the hospital, and says that she had no motive and nothing adds up about her-no matter how much the detectives grill her, she can't remember why she switched the meds. Chul isn't surprised, and says that everything that's happening to him lately is out of the blue and without context.

Chul says that the recent attacks were all like that, even the night he got stabbed. We see it in flashback as he explains that he got a call from someone saying they had information about his family's killer, but he can't recall who it was or why he believed it. He also doesn't know why he left his bodyguards at home when he was going to a dangerous meeting.

He stood there on the rooftop unprotected, just waiting, when the hooded killer just walked up right up to him and stabbed him. Chul tried to fight him off, but he got stabbed over and over again, until he collapsed to the ground in a bloody heap.

In the present, Chul says he has no memory of why he exposed himself like that, and let the attack happen to him so easily. The truck, the nurse, his own actions on the roof-they don't make sense, because murder should have motive and a culprit, but all he has is a series of inexplicable incidents. He says it's like ten years ago when his family was gunned down, for no apparent reason.

He argues that they should've found a lead by now, given that their criminal investigation TV show is really an excuse to hire the country's best and use them as a personal investigation unit. He says that they've solved every other case, unintentionally earning him national hero status as a result, but they still have no leads on his family's killer. Well that was a clunky bit of exposition (I hate it when characters exposit to the only other person who already knows this information, but whatever).

Chul doesn't know how to make it add up, and says that lately, he's even had the thought that maybe the killer lives in a different dimension. Ajusshi: "Are you saying it's an alien?" Ha, that's your go-to guess? Chul laughs and says sure, maybe, though they look like regular people-like Oh Yeon-joo.

Chul explains that Yeon-joo seems to know everything about him, including personal secrets he's never shared with anyone. It's as if she's looking down on him from the heavens, he muses, but the good news is that she has good intentions toward him and wants to save him. The thing he doesn't know is why.

It's his theory that the killer lives there too, wherever Yeon-joo is from, and when Ajusshi looks at him like he's a few marbles short, Chul says that he'd think differently if he saw a woman get shot through the heart and live. What, you DID shoot her in the heart?! Boy, you'd better have a good reason for knowing she'd be invincible.

What Chul does know for sure is that Yeon-joo is the key to his life-the only person that'll open the secret door.

Yeon-joo gets a shock of her own when Chul's staff arrives with mountains of designer clothes, purses, shoes, and makeup for her to choose from. She gasps and wonders how much all of this stuff cost, and darts around awkwardly when an attendant tries to help her zip up a dress and put on makeup.