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Episode 6: 26 April 2025
Episode 7: 3 May 2025
Episode 8: 10 May 2025
Episode 9: 17 May 2025
Episode 10: 24 May 2025
Episode 11: 31 May 2025
Episode 12: 7 June 2025
Episode 13: 14 June 2025
Episode 14: 21 June 2025
Episode 15: 28 June 2025
Episode 16: 5 July 2025
Episode 17: 12 July 2025
Episode 18: 19 July 2025
Enjoy the rewatch!
Hi All, I’m in and out… I will be back!!!
We start in an hour right? I have.
Lost track having missed the last two. I am reading the drama beans recaps and The rewatch comments from the last two weeks.
Hi @MM, yes, we start in an hour. 🙂
@GB
I noted your comment from last week about it being fluid who is the perpetrator or victim, depending on context- words, for example, that can or cannot be trusted.
@WE This is one of my most frequently rewatched dramas and as @GB suggests it always has more to reveal.
I have totally rewatched it since we decided on this drama for rewatch.
Hello, anybody here?
Hello
Hi @FF, @WE, @MM Let’s go!!!
We start with SH telling HS that she could be wrong in the middle of the road crossing.
Hi GB, FF and MM.
We start in the middle of the street.
Many funny reactions from HS so she can admits “in some way” she’s wrong after denying it.
Hi @WE, @GB, @MM.
@FF, yes… HS cannot admit that she’s wrong just like Do Yeon. She tries not to hear. But she really hates to be considered similar to Do Yeon.
I could not finish comments from last week in time so here I am for this week. I think I may have missed the more fun episodes and am now tuning in for some major grief either this episode or the next!
On a different note I remember sh**ping the SML for awhile in this show on my first watch.
@WE, HS ‘convicts’ herself by passing judgement on DY and then falling into the same error.
How good is the script on this scene:
HYE-SUNG: (flustered) Yah.. that was.. (at a loss for words)
SOO-HA: Am I wrong?
HYE-SUNG: (glaring at Soo-Ha resentfully/E) This clingy bastard.. I thought he’d be my lifeline, but he’s a rope tying me down.
The words hit Soo-Ha like a nail driven into his chest.
Without realizing it, he lets go of Hye-Sung’s hand.
Hye-Sung turns and storms off.
Soo-Ha, frozen in place, watches her go.
I like the way SH tells HS that she should leave the legal profession, indirectly telling her that she should admit her mistake. But HS hurts him by saying that he is tying her down, burdening her.
Oh HS turnaround so fast, admitting that she could be wrong lol.
She has too much pride. 😀
@WE Nice double transitions. First of 18-year old SH walking towards the Public Defenders’ Office and it changes to his uncle’s home and he walks in as a child.
Then we see the link… he remembers when he was also regarded by his uncle as a chain holding him back.
At the same time he had also hurt his hand as a child, and this transitions him back to the present to the plaster on his thumb and HS comes out to demand that he takes back his words about her.
What’s funny, in W (with Lee Jung-suk too) there is also a shopping situation like this, classified as “a romantic act”. 😉
Her thought about him tying her down like a rope Is much better than viki’s translation.
@FF, SH has a fascination for fish in tanks or a fish bowl and later in the aquarium. A metaphor of himself being trapped?
@WE, I guess ‘playing house’ like a couple doing the grocery shopping is ‘romantic’.
And links much better to the next scene with his uncle saying how this child clings on
@MM did you read the script. Probably far better than subs.
I was also wondering about the fish bowl.
I never made the connection before between him being injured.I think both times in his thumb, as a child and as an adult. His uncle does not take him in but she does.
@GB, was there an explanation for SH’s fascination with fish in tanks later in the drama?
Now we come to HS feeling out if the twin is lying. But she lacks confidence so he treats her with contempt, saying the law is to be used and not something to abide by. To an extent, that’s how the attorneys have been using the law… they have to find loopholes to save their clients. However when they did that, they were not ruthless and out to get away with crime.
@GB, yes for the flashback transition.
Can reveal something we didn’t see, but most of it is like a resonnance with the previous situation, saying how much he’s hurt by HS words. The curse to read people mind.
I’m going to admit.I am wrong you idiot. I laughed when she said that and the next images is of him laughing.
Now it’s Cha’s turn to pretend he cannot hear her voice. LOL, her face is imprinted on his coat.
She insists she is better than the average person in that she can admit she was wrong😅
AHAH! The little scene at home: HS mocks Attorney Cha “he’s stupid, he covered his ear (not wanting to hear) and screaming Eeeeeehhh”.
When she just did that at the beginning of the episode. 😀
@FF, I don’t recall any explanation for the fish tank, but the aquarium became a significant place.
SH is the facilitator between the 2 women.
@GB I did not get organized enough to read the script this episode. Another example of how reading the script
Is valuable.
@WE, it’s great that Writer uses SH’s ability to bring the attorney and prosecutor together, to do their first adult collaboration (although it’s not quite right for the lawyer to do this).
He had to tell HS that DY wanted to ask for help and he even sends DY a message so that HS cannot back out. He has long arms! LOL
@MM, I didn’t had time to read it fully, but will complete reading after the rewatch. 😉
Just many scenes in first part jumped at my eyes, details, parenthesis, etc.
@FF, yes exactly. Otherwise they might never have met up to work together and slowly mend their friendship.
@MM I’ve been too busy to read it too. Or to pre-watch it as I normally do.
Min Jong Kook has that cold icy look, so scAry.
LOL Cha can only think of something nice to say about HS even when her behaviour is suspicious since she should not be collaborating with the prosecutor.
@FF He looks so warm and helpful then his face changes. That’s what makes it scary. His mask is so good.
Is the legal case realistic? When I feel it’s far-fetched, there are however tons of legal details and law citations about it, making it true.
So now HS goes back to telling her client to plead guilty however this time it will be to avoid being prosecuted and to get the other twin into trouble.
He is so
Tall and she crawls on his back to get her phone. So funny!
@WE, yes I’m asking that same question about the law. How can a confession of guilt, if it’s the only evidence, absolve a person from being tried and prosecuted for the crime.
@MM, I like both their expression here. That smug look of SH after sending the message to Do Yeon.
@MM HS and SH behave more like siblings and close family members. So free with each other.
I like how everyone converges in the courtroom. HS has to appear to defend the client while getting him to confess at the right time.
@GB, we would need to do serious research about that. Anyway, what I observe is: the writer did the best about to make me believe it. 😉
Once again KW Is wearing his rose tinted glasses.
Lawyer Shin dishing out points that HS overlooked, so harsh.
@WE, So interesting that they name this law, the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
All the evidence is cancelled out so it’s time to confess.
Min Jong Kook seems touched when HS’s mum gave him food for celebrating his birthday, yet he killed her ruthlessly in a later episode.
@FF Now we get them both confessing and selling each other out. The way to break up the brothers.
Shin however is observant and knows that HS should not have done that with DY.
One situation where I can see this law.Being helpful is when someone confesses to a crime they did not commit. I have seen this scenario in dramas where someone is protecting someone else, falsely believes he or she committed a crime, Or is psychotic.
@FF, usually, villains kill the cat, but as a variation, this one put mom food in the trash. It’s really a moment when we realize, anyway what he suffered, this guy is a piece of shit.
However in these dramas they do not use that law and often condemn the person who confessed. All in the service of the script.
So now instead of SH saying that HS is like DY, she hears Shin tell her that she’s like a prosecutor instead of a lawyer. She cannot deny it and this messes her head again. Such a big blow (2nd time) when she was feeling so proud of herself.
So good: about to celebrating, Shin says the truth: she didn’t do her job as attorney, not understanding motivation of killers. What we could see in a short cut in the previous episode: there was a worried young woman on the bench of the public.
@WE, MJK claimed that SH’s father killed his wife but I don’t get why he said that and not even sure if that is true.
@MM yes that’s a good example of when that law is useful.
Another small example that relates to the theme of this episode In the scene about the pickpocket.
@WE, although the camera did always include the young woman in court, it’s only in this rewatch that I actually looked at her, since I remember the end of this case. However it’s true that HS did not do a thorough job of investigation before taking on the defense.
Poor Sung-Bin is so transparent for Soo-Ha. 🙂
I found the actress was in “Jang Ok Jung”, as Jang’s assistant in the first epsiodes!! It’s something like: I somehow remember this actress but why? Then I got the revelation! 🙂
Or an extracted confession as mentioned at the bus stop.
@GB, yeah but you saw: all is planified, best screenwriters don’t improvize. Everytime I go on a screenwriting forum, I still see people asking “should I do an outline?”. And even when you say them: it’s the basic, you have to do it the most as you can, those people doesnt trust it. Well, it’s just saying you are already a best screenwriter than most of those people, even when you didn’t write a screenplay. 😀
@GB, through all these confusions HS has to learn to do more research into the cases that she takes on, look at the cases from various angles and not a one-track mind.
@FF, there was an indirect reason to why MJK’s wife died that links to SH’s dad.
@WE, I can’t be a screenwriter… I can just watch dramas and be and armchair critic!!
Such good Irony: Shin is saying that the lawyer of guilty parties like the twins should get them to confess and plead guilty so that can get a reduced sentence. This was exactly what HS had been doing in the beginning before she became a lawyer who really cared about doing a good job.
HS, full of pride, has to find an escape from this so embarassing situation: hide under a table of the restaurant. LOL!!! 😀
When you want to make a story good and funny: give to a lead an awesome human flaw!! Then, it’s like magic, many funny and good scene popup. Here with HS being too pride. Or for my of my heroine, being too stupid. But comedy is almost a given with that. 🙂
@FF, I did not see if there’s any title to the episode. The theme seems to be about whether to be wrong/to have made a mistake or to be considered different.
Cha also sees HS as being different from him (not wrong)
Shin sees her as being wrong
SH saw her as being both wrong and different at first… then changed his mind to say that she’s different from DY.
@GB, SH’s father is a reporter. Did he think that something that SH’s father wrote led to his wife not getting treatment from the hospital? But that is such a lame reason to kill a man, how can he prove the link between his articles and her death?
Another conversation in front of the statue of the scales of Justice About how professional or not she is as a lawyer.
@GB – Episode 6: Left Alone at the Edge of the World –
@FF…. SPOILER….
SH’s father managed to get the organ (heart?) for SH’s mum that was meant for MJK’s wife. So indirectly Min’s wife died because of this. Min being in prison led to his son and mother also dying.
STUPID COPS !!!!! Ahahahah 😀
HS Asking SH To tell her ten times that she did The right thing Is her asking for validation to shore up her positive feelings about herself which are suffering right now.
@MM also another scene at the side of a busy road where instead of crossing over to Cha, HS grabs a cab and rushes home to SH. I guess this shows clearly that she’s not meant to ever end up with Cha.
She protects SH but she also wondered if he ever could have taken the gun.
It has been an hour so I think I will stop watching now. Have to get back
To real life- Chores and fun.
The part of this drama about the killer going out Is already engraved in my mind. It was so frightening
Going after her mother.
@FF, thanks for the title. In the end it’s not SH that’s abandoned but Cha LOL.
Cha is so sweet to pretend that he’d gone home so that HS would not feel back.
Only halfway through though🤔
@GB, I see so he killed SH’s father and he went to prison because HS pointed him out as the killer. During his time in prison his mom and son died so he blames HS and tries to kill her.
@WE we need the stupid cops to have someone to vent frustrations on.
I like that HS advises SH about not taking the law into his own hands. She tells him: Don’t be like the twins who did not trust the law but committed murder. They are only fine in the eyes of the law if they remain the victims but all their good reasons for killing Min would disappear if they became the murderers.
@WE, cops are stupid most of the time in Kdramas.
Bye everyone! See you next week! If we don’t get a new thread, we’ll continue on this thread. 🙂
See you all next week,
I go, see you soon. I’ll try to post more on BOD before new week. 😉