Glass Mask Episode 1

I've been meaning to check up on Glass Mask even though it stars Seo Woo (I just don't really like her) and is 100 episodes long.

 

Kang Yi Kung stands on a cliff overlooking the sea. She thinks to herself how everything has been a lie and she intends to find out the truth and set everything to right. Suddenly Kang Seo Yun comes up behind her. Yi Kung quickly hides a disc (DVD? Blu Ray?) behind her back and proclaims she was willing to give up everything for Seo Yun. The other woman feels the exact opposite, believing Yi Kung was trying to take everything. Yi Kung tries to remind her they're sisters. Seo Yun declares they're enemies and takes a threatening step forward, forcing Yi Kung back towards the edge of the cliff. Alright, starting off with the murder of Seo Woo! (I just don't like her!)

 

Darnit, Seo Yun just falls to her knees and apologizes for being such a bad person, then refers to something that happened the other day. Yi Kung tries to walk past her kneeling sister. Seo Yun grabs her hand, the hand that's holding the disc. They fight over it, causing the disc to go sailing through the air and landing just off the edge. Yi Kung (wearing dangerous shoes) tries to retrieve the disc and starts sliding off the edge herself. Seo Yun quickly grabs her hand and starts to pull her sister back up, but then she sees the disc and decides here and now is a good time to end their relationship. She lets go and Yi Kung falls to the water below.

 

Now let's jump back to 1984. A good year. One dude is beating up another dude and demanding to know where Shin Ki Tae is. The beater is Kang In Chul, a cop who plays by his own rules. (I thought we only had those in America.) A tip comes in that Ki Tae has been spotted at his lover's place. In Chul jumps into his jeep and races off alone, because a cop who plays by his own rules doesn't need backup.

 

In Chul kicks in the door and points his gun at the suspect. This Shin Ki Tae tries to proclaim his innocence. He didn't do all those terrible crimes. As the two men stand off, down in the street below In Chul's partner, Park Seong Do, shows up as well. He gives his gun into the keeping of another cop as he knows there's a pregnant woman up there and he doesn't want to make the situation any more unsafe.

 

The pregnant woman, Yoo Ri, dashes out of a side room and knocks In Chul's gun from his hand while yelling for her lover to make a run for it. As Ki Tae indeed starts to do that, In Chul recovers his weapon and takes aim. Yoo Ri jumps up to shield Ki Tae and In Chul unintentionally shoots her. Outside, a man in sunglasses that I've never seen before is witnessing all this. Who is this guy?

 

As Ki Tae cries over his pregnant woman, Seong Do comes into the apartment and tries to get In Chul to put his gun away. As they're arguing, Ki Tae attacks, knocking the gun away. It's Seong Do who ends up wrestling more with the suspect. Ki Tae gets the man down on the floor and starts strangling the policeman. Ki Tae (again) recovers his weapon and (again) takes aim at Ki Tae. Again, his timing is awful. Just as he pulls the trigger, Seong Do manages to get back up and is the one who ends up shot. This would be tragic if it wasn't so funny.

 

(You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of that episode of Bridal Mask when our hero was crashing the party the Japanese were throwing for themselves. Kimura Taro repeatedly tries to shoot Bridal Mask, only to be hitting everybody else, including his own men, instead.)

 

As In Chul cries over his partner, a still breathing Yoo Ri begs for Ki Tae to make his escape. He jumps out of the apartment window and lands right on a squad car. Bad timing all around.

 

Now most of our characters are at the hospital. As a bleeding Yoo Ri is wheeled away, Seong Do's very pregnant wife, Shim Hae Soon, comes in and goes over to ask In Chul what happened. Before he can answer, everyone hears the ominous flatline tone coming from where Seong Do is being worked on (unsuccessfully) by the doctors. As she's crying hysterically over her husband's body, she grabs her big belly in pain while blood starts to flow down her legs.

 

While In Chul is back at the station beating up Ki Tae, Yoo Ri's baby is saved but she dies. In another OR, Seong Do's baby is stillborn. After the procedure, the doctor tries to tell Hae Soon her baby is dead but the woman won't allow herself to believe it. They're lying to her. Her baby is somewhere in this hospital! Later that night, the not-quite-all-there woman goes to the nursery and simply picks up a baby and takes it home with her. (Apparently no one working at the hospital thought, "Hey, we've got a missing baby! And that woman who had a miscarriage but kept insisting her baby wasn't dead is also gone. I wonder if there's a connection?")

 

For killing all these people and capturing Shin Ki Tae, In Chul receives a commendation award from the police department and a promotion. Meanwhile, Ki Tae receives a visit at the jailhouse from Sunglasses Dude. Seems Ki Tae was planning to turn over inside information to the cops, so Sunglasses is the one who set Ki Tae up for the fall. Sunglasses "suggests" to Ki Tae to confess to everything, even the killing of the cop, and stay in prison. Otherwise, Ki Tae's daughter's life will be in danger.

 

In another scene, Sunglasses Dude meets with In Chul. In order to preserve himself, In Chul turns over to Sunglasses the evidence Ki Tae had given to the police.

 

Because of his reoccurring freakout visions of a bloody Yoo Ri, In Chul finally gets around to looking into her fate. He learns Yoo Ri died and her baby has been put up for adoption. In Chul goes to the orphanage and falls head over heels for the smiling Buddha baby. He adopts the little girl and names her Yi Kung. He goes out to buy some baby clothes and right after he leaves the store, here comes crazy lady Hae Soon in with "her" baby, Seo Yun.