HAPPINESS

EPISODE - 2

While the virus makes news with more outbreaks, our leads are busy settling into their new apartment complex. Our special ops agent spends some time getting to know her new neighbors until a crisis sends her on another visit to the quarantine site. Meanwhile, our cop grumpily works a case with a new, unwelcome partner.

Soldiers carry out bodies from a homeless shelter as Tae-seok goes inside to investigate. Ji-soo reports that a homeless man was given pneumonia medication. Since the medicine was donated, they didn't realize it had been recalled.

At SOU headquarters, Seung-young watches a news report about cases of a new infection around the world. He recognizes Tae-seok from the footage of the homeless shelter and worries that things are about to get very bad.

Sae-bom is much more blasé, as usual, and takes the news in stride. Seung-young and Sae-bom have both been getting calls from a reporter, and Seung-young seems tempted. Sae-bom reminds him they signed an NDA

Sae-bom proudly tells him she's off duty for six months and is moving out of the dorm into her very own apartment. All she had to do was earn some more points as a newlywed. Seung-young doesn't look all that surprised that she's marrying someone for better housing and asks who the guy is.

She says it's someone she rejected a long time ago. We flash back to her pitching marriage to Yi-hyun who immediately surmised her true goal. Sae-bom tried to convince him it's because he's a good catch and makes her case that she's not so bad either. Yi-hyun clearly wasn't buying her excuses but shocked her by casually agreeing anyway.

Seung-young congratulates Sae-bom on her sudden marriage, although he understandably looks a little baffled. She notices he keeps rubbing his throat (Is he ... thirsty?) and asks if he's okay. He says he's fine, but she looks skeptical.

Sae-bom steps aside to take a call from Yi-hyun – they're moving into their new place today – and Seung-young is gone by the time she comes back. Outside, he meets the reporter who offers good pay for an exclusive. We see in flashback that Seung-young was scratched by Jong-tae's victim during the incident, but he hid it from Sae-bom. (Now that's just irresponsible during an outbreak.)

Meanwhile, Jung-kook congratulates Yi-hyun on finally making it happen with Sae-bom, albeit unconventionally. He did a background check on Tae-seok for Yi-hyun and shares that he's an infectious disease expert. He got licensed through the military and later retired to work for a pharmaceutical company.

Interestingly, Tae-seok went to trial for assaulting the CEO but was found not guilty. He then returned to the military to serve in the Central Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters [CDCH].

In the car, Sae-bom's conversation with Seung-young weighs heavy on her mind. He'd worried about the man Jong-tae had attacked because no one but Sae-bom has come out of the CDCH alive.

Sae-bom has her first neighbor encounter in the elevator up to her new apartment. Tenant KIM SE-HOON (Han Joon-woo) from unit #1501 eyes her disapprovingly and hands her a mask, asking her to wear it in the building.

His eyes widen at her SOU hoodie, and he freaks out like a fanboy when she says she's an officer. Se-hoon eagerly asks if she can get him an SOU T-shirt. She finds his request odd but agrees to try.

Yi-hyun is already unpacking when Sae-bom arrives. She's surprised to see the massive picture of them he blew up for the wall in case a city official stops by to see if they're truly married. It's a photo Jung-kook took the day she pushed Yi-hyun off the roof.

Sae-bom approves of the photo – it makes them look like they've got a good story behind their relationship. They both chuckle at the image of them standing there looking sullen while Sae-bom is in handcuffs. Heh.