Yoon Soo Wan, now played by Gu Hye Seon, is working at the fire department. Suddenly reveille is played signaling an emergency. (A much nicer alarm than the annoying screech from Emergency.) Soo Wan and her team move 'em up and head 'em out. Oh dear, they've gotten into a traffic jam and the TSTL civilians will not pull over! (You can get into big trouble in America for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle.)
When the crew finally gets to the sight of the call it is only to find a couple of punks were pranking them. (Again, you can get into big trouble in America for making a fake emergency calls.) But this isn't America, this is DramaLand, and all the punks get are empty threats from the fire chief. At least Jan Di - sorry, I mean Soo Wan - pours beer all over the head punk and then flips him over her shoulder.
Meanwhile Dong Joo is arriving at a hospital where I take it he's going to work. He barely avoids being hit by an incoming ambulance. While the paramedics rush a woman inside, they leave her crying son alone in the vehicle. Dong Joo comforts the boy with a bag of peanuts. Hopefully the kid doesn't have any food allergies.
The emergency room is in chaos. Dong Joo tries to give advice to the bungling doctors. Strangely, they don't seem to want to listen to a complete stranger who has just wandered in off the street. Security is in the process of throwing Dong Joo out when another doctor arrives on the scene and informs everyone Dong Joo is a new doctor to their staff.
Because of the whole punk-flipping thing, Soo Wan has to go to the police department where her old friend, Cha Min Soo, books her for assault. Say, Min Soo, why aren't you booking those punks for making a false report? Hey, even Soo Wan is asking the same thing.
Dong Joo goes straight into surgery on the woman from the ambulance. (Did anyone ever go get the kid?) The other doctors and nurses don't think the woman will survive the operation. We know better.
Icky gooey surgical scene. Dramatic music plays. The woman is saved.
Back at the fire station, rookie Teddy Seo arrives for duty. (I don't know who this Seung Ri is but all the viewers over at Viki are getting their squee on.) Soo Wan is put in charge of him.
Dong Joo is introduced to the other surgical doctors. Soo Wan's dad, Doctor Evil, is still working at this hospital. Despite twelve years having passed, Doctor Evil recognizes Dong Joo immediately even though Dong Joo uses his American name of Dylan Park. Also in the room is neurosurgeon Kang Ji Woon (played by that fine Kim Ji Suk).
And now the required rooftop scene. Turns out Doctor Evil knew Dong Joo because he's been helping (i.e. keeping the boy out of Korea) all these years with Dong Joo's medical career. Doctor Evil is upset that Dong Joo left a cushy job in Boston to come to this Podunk hospital. Dong Joo asks that Doctor Evil keep calling him Dylan.
Alone in his office, Doctor Evil looks at Dong Joo's note he had left for Soo Wan. It included the address of Dong Joo's aunt in America. (BTW, Hye Joo survived whatever illness she had and chose to remain in the USA.) Through flashbacks we see what I already suspected, that Doctor Evil purposely didn't do anything to try and revive Dong Joo's mother so the good woman would die and give her eyes to Soo Wan.
Racked with guilt and alcohol, Doctor Evil keeps tabs on young Dong Joo in America and helps pay for the kid's medical school tuition.
Dong Joo is walking by a scene of an accident (no rubbernecking or anything) when he hears someone call out Yoon Soo Wan's name. He just stands there and watches her in slow motion. Now that he knows his first love is working for the fire department, Dong Joo's stalking is made easier.
He finally goes over to where she's washing (and washing and washing) her ambulance but doesn't introduce himself. He's a bit disappointed she doesn't recognize him after not seeing him for twelve years. Dong Joo asks for directions to the observatory, hoping that will stir her memory, but it doesn't.
Detective Kim Woo Chul is still around although he's retired from the police force. Is he still looking for the hit and run driver? Or is he looking for his next bottle of soju?
There's a potential bromance brewing between Dong Joo and Ji Woon. Or a potential rivalry.
That evening Soo Wan and rookie Teddy Ruxpin are struggling to take a patient to the ER. The guy is literally mental and freaking out. He manages to get ahold of a scalpel and takes Soo Wan hostage. Soo Wan tries to talk him down. The man hears the police sirens coming near and freaks out even more. Dong Joo arranges to have all the lights turned off in the ER, giving Soo Wan the opportunity to break free of the man's grasp. The police move in and subdue the mentally ill man.
Dong Joo grabs Soo Wan and holds her in his arms. For one brief moment she's reminded of her long lost love. Then she goes running to Ji Woon's arms.
Ah, so rivalry it is.
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