Ji-hyun finally puts some of the pieces together (and thank god, really, because one can only be endearingly naïve for so long) and shows the Scheduler what she's found: a graduation picture of him, aka Song Yi-soo, aka Yi-kyung's boyfriend.
He's stunned, as he stammers, "...But...that's me..." She peers up at him curiously, clocking his reaction, and then rushes out the rest of what she knows-that Yi-kyung and Yi-soo were in love (furnishing the birthday card as proof), and that Yi-kyung still cries over him to this day.
His eyes grow wide. "I...loved...this woman?" He points at her, Ji-hyun standing there in Yi-kyung's body. It's so strange that they're talking about her in the third person, while her body is standing right there.
It takes a moment for the shock to wear off, but then he denies it, thinking that Yi-kyung can't possibly be the girl he loved. Ji-hyun reminds him that he said he had something important left to do-couldn't it be for Yi-kyung?
He can't remember, of course, and Ji-hyun's insistence just sends him spinning into the land of denial. After a moment's pause, he puts his hand to his face... "This face... do you think I borrowed it?" HA.
And Ji-hyun, ever the gullible one, gasps, "Can you borrow faces??" These two.
He wonders why Ji-hyun of all people found him, and thinks that something went horribly awry. She thinks it's an easy thing to confirm: he just needs to appear in front of Yi-kyung. And what, give her a heart attack?
But he nixes that idea, since there's already a built-in failsafe that prevents him from appearing as himself, to anyone from his former life. (It's the Dead Like Me thing, where he automatically appears with someone else's face if he happens to bump into someone he used to know.)
She tells him that he should still try, so that he can confirm for himself, since he's the one who's got unfinished business that he's spent five years working for. He flatly denies that it's about Yi-kyung, since it could be for his parents, or some sort of revenge. She tells him that he's an orphan, and to stop denying what's right in front of his face. They're yelling at each other by now, and he dismisses her, asking for some time to think.
On her way out, Ji-hyun lets out her anger, blaming him for not remembering Yi-kyung. "How could he not remember, when this unni is crying over him?" Aw, it is SO CUTE how she's taking her unni's side. I love how much Ji-hyun's attachment to Yi-kyung has grown.
Meanwhile, the Scheduler thinks it over, recalling the moment in the café, and then again in Jinan, when he felt a weird connection to Yi-kyung. He calls Biker Granny to ask if maybe she could just tell him what his reaper-wish was (the thing he asked for in exchange for the five years of reaper duty, way back when he died). He gets an earful for even asking, and I love what he mutters under his breath: "thisunni." Ha. Part of me still wishes Yi-soo ended up being Yi-kyung's gay little brother.
As Ji-hyun walks along the street, she sighs that Yi-kyung's got it rough, living like that because she's unable to forget Yi-soo. But from her perspective, she muses that no one will remember her that way when she's gone.
She sighs that she wasted three days at Min-ho's, and then thinks, "I miss Kang-ee. He must be worried." AWWW. She checks her phone but there aren't any messages from him. She pouts, "He's not worried, he's mad."
Min-ho gets some backstory on Yi-kyung from his lackey-that she's been living off the grid, and that her boyfriend died some years ago. He thinks all of this lines up with why Ji-hyun and Kang befriended and/or helped her.
He goes to meet In-jung, who basically tells him that his time to think is up. What's he planning to do about the fact that Kang and Yi-kyung know about their plan? His answer: nothing. He trusts them. What's more is that he's not going to stop seeing Yi-kyung either.
