Jang-mi in the street, and she pleads with him not to come any closer. He asks if she's okay, but she cries again for him to stay away. (Agh, Shin Seung-hoon's "You Reflected in a Smile" is playing. My heart, it already breaks.)
Jang-mi: "It's all because of you!" Ki-tae hangs his head and apologizes, but it's no use; she tells him again to go, and this time tears trickle down her face. "Go. Please, go." Lightning strikes and the wind kicks up...
Rewind to: One day before the typhoon strikes.
Jang-mi and Yeo-reum have fallen asleep in Hoon-dong's restaurant, unaware that everyone and his mother, literally, are on their way. Yeo-reum is the first to stir awake and when he hears the door open, he runs for cover, leaving a confused Hoon-dong to find Jang-mi sleeping there on her own.
He shakes her awake and she screams bloody murder. He wonders what she's doing here and she wonders the same, until she spots Yeo-reum hiding and motioning for her not to say anything.
Hoon-dong totally jumps to conclusions and decides she must've come to him for solace and waited all night to see him, and grabs her in a hug before she can explain. She gasps for air and reaches for Yeo-reum to save her, while Hoon-dong continues to overreact with promises to protect her now.
And of course, THIS is the scene that Ki-tae's mom and Hoon-dong's mom witness as they arrive for their brunch. Egads. Ki-tae's mom is shocked to hear that Jang-mi is the stalker she heard so much about, and that these events were very recent.
Hoon-dong defends Jang-mi and declares that he loves her, and she sneers when he says that he's having a hard time because of the pain he caused her. Hoon-dong's mom whines for him to stop embarrassing her.
Ki-tae's mom says there's nothing shameful about love, and then turns to Jang-mi to add that the truly shameful thing is to lie. Jang-mi apologizes to Mom, but Ki-tae's voice interrupts from the doorway and he snaps at for apologizing when she did nothing wrong.
He says he's the one giving Hoon-dong a hard time ever since he fell for Jang-mi, and despite Mom's insistence for him to drop the act now, he says he's going to marry her. Mom walks away embarrassed, and he reminds her that she said love wasn't shameful.
Hoon-dong tells his mother that it's true-he's about to get his girl stolen by his friend. Yeo-reum overhears all of this, leaving him even more confused about the guys Jang-mi is involved with.
Up in his office, Mom calls Ki-tae out on his ruse. Jang-mi seems ready to admit the whole truth, but Ki-tae swears up and down that Mom's got it wrong. When Mom calls Jang-mi a stalker, Ki-tae tells her not to poke at her wounds, and repeats what he said at home last night: "If it's not Joo Jang-mi, I won't marry at all!" Oddly enough now it's Jang-mi and Mom on the same side, wondering what the hell he's talking about.
He says he knows it's nuts, "But this must be what love is." He declares that if Mom disapproves, he'll spend the rest of his life as a bachelor. Jang-mi can't even get a word in edgewise, and Mom counters that if she finds out he's lying, he'll have to marry a woman she picks out.
As soon as Mom leaves, Jang-mi hits him for putting the train back on course when they worked so hard to derail it last night. But Ki-tae is dead-set on getting justification to live the rest of his life as a bachelor. Downstairs, Hoon-dong whines that if his mom doesn't help, he'll lose Jang-mi, and he knows how much his mom wants everything that Ki-tae's mom has. Yes, because daughters-in-law are just like purses.
Ki-tae asks now what the heck Jang-mi was doing at Hoon-dong's restaurant, and realizes she's still wearing the same clothes and therefore spent the night with Yeo-reum. As they drive home, he asks warily, "You didn't... did you? Did you do it? Did you, or did you not do it?" She flails at the implication and swears she fell asleep. Ki-tae: "Did you say anything about us?!" Oh, THAT. She thinks probably not, though she might've.
