Ha Myeong Gun and Jang Tae Ha are staring at each other through the train window. Yet just as Tae Ha attempts to board, the automatic doors close and the train begins to move. Tae Ha starts running after the locomotive because DramaKoreans love to chase after vehicles.
As the train starts to pick up speed you think Myeong Gun is going to get away. A-ha, not so fast. On the very last car Tae Ha jumps and grabs a handle bar. He struggles a bit and you think he may fall off. A-ha, he doesn't. He even finds the door on the back is unlocked. He's in!
Tae Ha starts moving towards the front of the train where he saw Myeong Gun. The tension builds (it really does!) as he moves up from car to car. Finally he spots Myeong Gun sitting up ahead. The only thing standing between him and vengeance is the snack cart. Tae Ha pushes the cart and the hungry passengers aside only to discover Myeong Gun has disappeared.
Holy Hannibal, Myeong Gun has jumped off the train!
Time jump to three years later.
Yoon Hwa Young is sitting on the front stoop of the house as she sings a song to herself. There's a tell-tale bandage around her wrist. She sees Eun Joong coming up the street returning from school. Smiling, Hwa Young goes out to greet him, throwing her arms around the boy for a big hug. Yet a different camera angle shows this is Jang Joo Ha with short hair. She must be used to this as she simply pats the crazy woman on the shoulder. (Why does this girl looks so much like a young Lee Seung Hyo?)
Go Joo Ran comes out of the house and knocks crazy Hwa Young aside. Joo Ran tells the other woman she needs to accept that Eun Joong is dead and gone. Mother and daughter go back inside so I take it they're back to living with Tae Ha. It turns out Joo Ran is intentionally cutting her daughter's hair so Joo Ha will look like a boy. She even makes her daughter dress like a boy. I worry that my beloved Ahjumma has been fired by this trailer trash but my heart is soon at ease as I see her in the background. Don't you dare go anywhere, Ahjumma!
Tae Ha is looking a little bit older, some gray in his hair. (Engineer Kim still has those huge UGLY glasses, though.) Tae Ha reminisces with Kang Ho about how they've scoured the country for the past three years with no results. He dares to even wonder aloud is perhaps Myeong Gun did away with the boy. It's coming up on the anniversary of Geon Young's death so they think Myeong Gun might do something and finally show himself.
Now we skip out to the country where an older Eun Joong is trying to teach his "sister" Soo Young the same song Hwa Young had been singing to herself earlier. I'm not sure if Soo Young (who was a baby when her birth mother died) thinks Eun Joong's mother is her mother or if Eun Joong thinks Soo Young's mother is his mother. Either way they both think their mother is dead.
As Myeong Gun gives Eun Joong a haircut, the boy begs to be allowed to go to school. Myeong Gun keeps coming up with excuses as to why Eun Joong can't go. (Most eight year-olds I've encountered are the opposite and beg not to go to school.)
Hwa Young comes home to find Joo Ran is burning all of Eun Joong's drawings and pictures. It takes her awhile to work up the energy but finally Hwa Young bitch slaps the other woman. It doesn't take any time at all for Joo Ran to slap right back.
The show makes it a point to show us Tae Ha has put up a security camera at the front gate. I'm sure this will be important later on. Tae Ha gets to come home to two screeching women fighting each other. As far as I'm concerned that's his just punishment right there.
The TV is playing when Myeong Gun comes home from the store. The news reporter goes on and on about how Taeha Construction is doing so well here and overseas. Tae Ha's face is splashed across the screen. Myeong Gun starts getting that crazy look in his eyes again. When Eun Joong tries to talk to Dad #1, Myeong Gun takes it out on the kid.
(Okay, sad music has been playing straight for the last thirty minutes and everybody is acting depressed. Enough already! You're harshing my mellow, Show.)
Myeong Gun has bought the candy Geon Young loved to be a part of the funeral offerings. The kids don't know this and they've just helped themselves to the whole bag. Myeong Gun finally cracks and roughly throws Eun Joong out of the house. More sad music plays as this show just keeps dragging me down.
Hwa Young wants to start up the search again and asks her husband for the money and manpower to search all the elementary schools. Tae Ha makes a condition that in exchange Hwa Young must leave the house. She's got it in her mind that when Eun Joong comes back he'll come to this house so she needs to be here for him. But since she needs the money for the search, she packs her bags and starts to leave.
Before she gets to the door she receives a phone call claiming they have found her son. The guy is going by the age, blood type and a distinctive scar on the boy's leg. (Ya know, they had DNA testing way back in 1991.) Hwa Young knows that old biddy Joo Ran is listening in on the extension so she's all, "Oh that must be our son for sure!" just to stick it to Joo Ran.
Kang Ho has been hanging around Myeong Gun's home village in hopes of finding him. Myeong Gun has told the villagers that he's on the run for debt and this Kang Ho guy is here to collect. The villagers band together to protect one of their own so they keep hiding and lying about Myeong Gun.
Kang Ho has a close encounter with Eun Joong and Soo Young but a villager intervenes and claims they're not who Kang Ho thinks they are.
Hwa Young heads over to the orphanage where they've supposedly found her son. None of the adults seem to notice that this poor lady is totally out of her mind. The buck toothed orphan gives such a sad tale of missing his mom and wondering if his mother would ever come back for him that Hwa Young is moved.
Then that old hag Joo Ran shows up at the orphanage. Again, just to stick it to Joo Ran as well as Tae Ha, Hwa Young claims the boy is her long lost son.
Which is totally not right! Now Hwa Young is just as evil as all the other adults in this drama. I'm disgusted with all of you.
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