While You Were Sleeping

The Good, The Bad, The Weird part 1

The police and paramedics descend on the scene of the car crash, and as everyone gives statements, it appears more and more like our heroine Hong-joo is there with prosecutor Jae-chan, and not her actual date.

Said date, lawyer Yoo-bum, glares at them the whole time and exchanges pointed looks with Jae-chan.

Hong-joo does her own share of staring at Jae-chan, remembering how he appeared in the snow to rescue her like a goblin. You can practically see the hearts in her eyes, and Jae-chan finally has to ask her to look away.

He asks how she could possibly believe him, thinking that distrust and anger are the expected reactions to his crazy talk. But she says she believes that he saved her, and shocks him by guessing that he had a dream, and that dream kept coming true.

"I have dreams like that too, and those dreams always come true. Like you," she says. That only seems to confuse him more.

At a piano concert, a woman in the audience is covered in sweat and looking anxious, and pulls away from her husband's hand while trembling.

After being checked out at the hospital, Jae-chan asks Hong-joo if she has these premonition dreams often, insisting that he's not asking because he believes her or anything. She tells him that she has them often, and there's no consistency since sometimes the incident happens minutes later, or sometimes months later.

He asks if her dreams have ever been wrong, but she says no—some have yet to come true, but they haven't been wrong yet. And when he asks whether she's ever been able to change what happens in her dreams, she says that's why he's amazing.

He reiterates that it's not like he believes her or anything, but he wonders what happens if she's right and he really did change the future—what happens now? Hong-joo says, "If you block the flow of water, it will make a new path. You blocked things that were supposed to happen, so time will probably flow in a different direction?"

As she says this, we cut to the young man in the Batman cap that Jae-chan saved, Han Woo-Tak, putting on a policeman's uniform. He tells his coworker that he almost died tonight.

At the piano concert, as pianist So-yoon gives interviews on camera, the woman who was covered in sweat suddenly faints at her feet. It turns out to be her mother, and everyone gasps to see her blouse covered in what looks like footprints.

So-yoon glares at her father, and the TV reporter who was conducting the interview calls the police right away to report domestic abuse. The dad screams that it wasn't him, but his daughter doesn't seem to believe him.

While all this commotion is going on, Jae-chan's little brother runs into the concert hall with flowers in hand. Aw, is this the friend's concert he was so eager to see?

As Little Bro arrives to see So-yoon, we ominously cut back to Jae-chan as he asks, "If time flows differently, what direction does it go in—better, or worse?" Hong-joo admits that she doesn't know, since she's never been able to change the future. But she guesses that at first, things won't seem that different, but the more time that flows, the bigger the difference will get.

So-yoon's mother gets taken away in an ambulance, and her father gets taken away in a police car... and one of the cops happens to be Batman Cap, Woo-tak.

Inside, So-yoon stands stoically, tears streaming down her face. Little Bro walks up to her with his flowers, but she doesn't seem happy to see him. She grabs him by the collar and growls at him never to speak of this, and he meekly agrees.

She's still gripping his lapels, so he tenderly covers her hands with his and promises sincerely not to say a word. She stays like that and lets herself cry as she thanks him quietly.