Ji-hyun (in Yi-kyung's body) beats In-jung in the race to get to her house first to retrieve the seal. She introduces herself to her mother as Ji-hyun's friend and has the benefit of knowing how to explain her presence to a mother who's never heard of this particular friend before.
She says she's a friend from an online cafe, and lent her a magic-trick video that she needs now. She reminds Mom that last year, Ji-hyun performed a magic trick at her parents' anniversary, which they'd practiced together. Mom's still wary about never having heard of her, but Ji-hyun says (a little sadly) that it's because she's just an internet friend.
Ji-hyun finds her wayward seal in the kangaroo pouch, but in her haste doesn't notice that the necklace inside gets pulled out. She takes the magic CD, and on second thought, also a digital camera - but she whispers up to the Upstairs Boss that she's just borrowing it, not stealing.
On her way out, she tears up at the sight of her exhausted mother, and tells her to eat something. She adds that Ji-hyun adored her mother and wanted to become a mother like her, which is just the thing to pick up Mom's spirits. She'd always thought Ji-hyun was Daddy's girl, so it moves her to hear that Ji-hyun did love her just as much.
Mom eagerly asks if Ji-hyun said anything else about her, but before she can get an answer, In-jung buzzes the gate. Realizing she has seconds to slip away, Ji-hyun hurries out and ducks behind a tree just in time to avoid being seen.
A flashback shows us how Ji-hyun came up with her plan to retrieve her seal:
The Scheduler had told Ji-hyun to use her head, since your IQ improves while in spirit form (lol, I love these rules - they're arbitrary, but that's what makes them entertaining). Ji-hyun had guessed that he must be telling her a hint on purpose, making the Scheduler stammer a denial. Ha. He may be breaking rules for her, but obviously he can't let anyone find out.
Ji-hyun had thought about it, then gotten the idea that DUH, while she's in this body, nobody has a clue that she's Ji-hyun. Man, if this is proof of an enhanced IQ, I shudder to think how earthly Ji-hyun ever functioned in this world.
Thinking of how she has thwarted her cheating fiancé, Ji-hyun goes off skipping happily.
In-jung comes in with the excuse of having left behind her cell phone, but her search turns up nothing in the kangaroo doll. She wonders if Ji-hyun's mother found it, and asks Mom casually about the dolls. But Mom and the housekeeper are more concerned about In-jung's suddenly odd behavior; for instance, despite living together "for all those years," In-jung had forgotten that Mom doesn't eat certain things.
Considering that In-jung had been Ji-hyun's bestie for a decade and lived with the Shin family, it's interesting that she's handling them all wrong, and arousing suspicion in the parents now. Clearly she's not going to get anywhere with this doll issue.
Mom sighs that she should've fed Ji-hyun's sad-looking friend earlier, which pings In-jung's radar. An unknown friend?
When she reports the latest news to Min-ho, In-jung can't let go of her suspicions about that friend. Min-ho dismisses her concern, pointing out that there's no motive for that friend to be involved. Nobody knows of their plans, so there's no need to take that seal. He adds that everyone carries at least one deep secret - a comment that makes her look at him sharply. So what's his secret?
Time's ticking, and they have to take care of payment on the Haemido land deal soon. Min-ho assures her he'll take care of it, sure that he can think up a way out with a little more brainstorming.
At the restaurant, Kang continues to be bothered by Yi-kyung, having run into her at the hospital. He tells Manager Oh about the encounter and concludes that she must really be terminally ill after all. Firmly in denial about caring, he sighs that he wishes he'd sent her along that first day, and wonders why Manager Oh hadn't stopped him.
