Angel Eyes Episode 4

Dong Joo has to go outside for a breather after experiencing a double whammy. First was seeing Soo Wan in the arms of another man. (How dare she move on with her life after not hearing from him for twelve years. How dare she!) The other whammy was after the attack when Doctor Evil came to check up on Soo Wan and Dong Joo learns for the first time that Doc Evil is her father.

 

I'm going to go off on a mini tangent here for a second. Why did it take Dong Joo twelve frickin' years to learn this fact? I mean, when you first start dating someone and are getting to know them (favorite food, favorite band, favorite color, etc.), the identity of the person's parents is like one of the basics. So why didn't Dong Joo ask? Why didn't Soo Wan mention it? What is wrong with you people?

 

Soo Wan sees the doctor sitting outside and she goes to check up on him. Perhaps he's still rattled after the drama in the trauma. As Soo Wan is bending over him, Dong Joo sees that she's still wearing a necklace he gave to her back when they were played by other actors. Suddenly he does the required wrist grab that denotes romance in a Kdrama. He drags her into one of the examination rooms. No, don't get excited. He just wants to treat the nick on her neck Soo Wan got from the mental patient.

 

Dong Joo goes back to his office for a flashback. Messy Doctor Evil has come to see med student Dong Joo. Doc is talking about his daughter (without saying her actual name) and his hopes that she will marry the neurosurgeon at the hospital. Wait, does this mean Soo Wan is engaged to Ji Woon? Oh my.

 

The next day the doctors are all talking about what happened last night and what a hero Dong Joo/Dylan Park was. Doctor Oh, the chairman of the hospital, gives extra thanks as she's the mother of Ji Woon. Doctor Oh wants Doc Evil and/or Ji Woon to get Soo Wan to quit her dangerous job.

 

Cha Min Soo takes Kim Woo Chul out for some nasty looking food. They discuss how Woo Chul was forced to retire or else he was going to get fired for accepting some money on the side.

 

Soo Wan and her emergency squad are called out to a high rise where a guy is threatening to jump. Third time this month. The squad leaders decide to send Soo Wan up the big ladder to get the jumper. After all, she's got experience dealing with crazy people.

 

 

Soo Wan rides the cherry picker up to the man holding on to the balcony railing. She chats with the guy, pointing out that there's no guarantee he'll be any happier dead than alive. He still refuses to move so she signals for the ladder to swing away. As it is taking her down, Soo Wan spots an elderly woman lying on the floor in her apartment. Soo Wan radios in a possible other emergency. The jumper is totally forgotten about.

 

Soo Wan and Teddy Roosevelt rush Grandma to the hospital where Dong Joo is on duty. Faster than Dong Joo can say, "I need a neurosurgeon," Ji Woon is there. Seems Soo Wan had called him earlier from the ambulance. To the other doctors, this is a breach in protocol. Who cares as long as Granny gets saved?

 

Knowing the other doctors are watching to see how he handles this, Dong Joo has to act (at least I hope it is an act) like a dick towards Soo Wan because she stepped out of line. Soo Wan follows Dong Joo in order to apologize over the incident. Then she asks if they've ever met before. Dong Joo answers yes, they have met before - when he asked her directions to the observatory.

 

Later, Doctor Evil again tries to talk Dong Joo into leaving this nowheresville hospital and move on to bigger and better things (away from Soo Wan). Dong Joo hints that he doesn't plan to stay long anyway.

 

Bromance time! Dong Joo and Ji Woon have a pickup game. Afterwards, Ji Woon takes Dong Joo to his apartment building. He drops Dong Joo off with the keys while he goes to buy some beer. Dong Joo lets himself into the apartment only to realize Soo Wan is already there. He ducks out before she can see him.

 

Dong Joo goes back to the steps where he and Soo Wan had their first kiss. He drinks beer by himself and broods over all the cute moments between Soo Wan and Ji Woon.

 

 

Ji Woon comes to pick up a hungover Dong Joo as they have a meeting this morning. He gives Dong Joo a thermos of fish soup (ick) that Soo Wan made last night. Ji Woon comments that it is one of her best dishes. Dong Joo knows the fish soup comes from a recipe his mother gave to Soo Wan.

 

Over at the police station, Min Soo learns that someone named Dylan Park has been asking for Kim Woo Chul and she decides to look into it.

 

Ji Woon and Dong Joo come upon a terrible car accident. A car is trapped beneath an overturned truck. As the emergency squad is in the process of freeing the people from the car, the truck starts leaking fuel. The responders are ordered to evacuate the area until it is safe. Soo Wan refuses to leave as a woman is still caught in the wreckage.

 

When the doctors hear their mutual love interest is in danger they leap into action. The woman is pinned in by some metal rods. Dong Joo notices there's a baby trapped beneath the woman. He's able to get the child out of the car and hand it off to Teddy Pendegrass. Then of course there is an explosion.

 

The fire chief demands everybody leave now as it is too dangerous for anyone to be here. Soo Wan still refuses to leave the woman. Ji Woon and Dong Joo strip off their jackets and get to work. We don't get to see exactly what they do as the scene jumps to Soo Wan's ambulance. Dong Joo treats the woman they just mysteriously freed.

 

The woman doesn't make it and dies on the way to the hospital.

 

Once again Soo Wan seeks solace in Ji Woon's arms as Dong Joo looks on.

 

Sometime later, Soo Wan goes to the observatory. In the lobby they have what they call a wishing tree. You write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it on the tree. Soo Wan hangs her wish up ("Hope you grow up strong" - probably for the now orphaned baby) when she sees the other wish ("Hope I find you") Dong Joo hung up earlier. He signed it with his real name.

 

Since no one else in Korea is named Dong Joo, it has to be her long lost love. Soo Wan starts frantically searching the observatory. She finds "Dylan Park" but fails to put two and two together. And of course he's already playing the Noble Idiot and won't confess the truth because he doesn't want to spoil her happiness with Ji Woon.

 

Still, Soo Wan invites Dong Joo to get drunk with her since they lost a patient. A tipsy Soo Wan tells "Dylan" about her two mothers: the one who died and the one who died. She cries for them both. Dong Joo cuts her off but not before Soo Wan also sheds a tear for her long lost love.

 

And then she passes out.