Maestra: Strings of Fact: Episodes 11-12 (Remaining)
by mistyisles
Our story crescendos to an intense finale as secrets and techniques are bared finally — it’s time for our extensively adored conductor, and the individuals who so adore her, to face the music. Some goals might come true and others might shatter, however the one technique to know for positive what the long run holds is to step bravely into it.
EPISODES 11-12
Not solely was Pil lured to the identical riverside spot the place Bong-ju was murdered, however his attacker injected him with the identical poison that somebody has been exposing Se-eum to. Since this guidelines him out of the primary suspect checklist, the detectives and Se-eum concentrate on figuring out girls with the identical blood kind as Bong-ju’s assassin. There are three within the Han River Orchestra: Ah-jin, Ru-na, and one other violinist who has a stable alibi and no motive. Se-eum declines a private safety element from the police, however asks Jung-jae to have his folks watch over her father and finest good friend, particularly if one thing ought to occur to her.
Whereas the investigation proceeds, Se-eum takes Tae-ho again as her assistant (as long as he genuinely desires the job and the spying stops) and confesses to the orchestra that the following live performance might be her final as conductor. Ru-na objects to each selections, so strongly that she will be able to’t focus throughout rehearsal. When Se-eum asks what’s incorrect, she explains that as a twice-abandoned orphan, seeing Se-eum carry out on TV — and hoping to sooner or later play alongside her — was the one factor that stored her going. If Se-eum has to go away, Ru-na begs to go along with her.
Fortuitously for the police, the poison that was used on each Se-eum and Pil may solely have come from one of some analysis labs within the metropolis. It doesn’t take lengthy to slim down not solely which lab it was stolen from, but in addition which worker was at all times on obligation when miniscule quantities vanished from the data. His identify is KIM JIN-YOUNG (Bae Jae-sung), and he’s engaged to Ru-na’s sister… or he was, till he was caught dishonest. Ru-na was the primary to catch on, and he or she used the information to blackmail him into stealing the poison for her.
That’s proper: Ru-na is our perpetrator. She reduce Ah-jin’s brakes, killed Bong-ju, tried to kill Pil, and has been poisoning Se-eum all alongside, possible desiring to step in as caregiver. And when Tae-ho occurs to overhear Ru-na arguing with Jin-young concerning the police coming after him, she lures Tae-ho into her home and smashes a flower pot over his head, leaving him unconscious in a pool of his personal blood. Fortunately, Se-eum and Jung-jae put all of the items collectively simply in time to hurry over with the police in tow and get him to the hospital (Jung-jae stays anxiously at his facet for days, and Tae-ho finally makes a full restoration).
Within the aftermath, Ru-na’s sister confesses to Se-eum {that a} very comparable state of affairs occurred earlier than. Their adoptive mom was hospitalized following a diabetes complication, and Ru-na dutifully stayed by her facet till the very finish. However it has since turn out to be evident that Ru-na manipulated her insulin doses to maintain her within the hospital when she may have recovered, simply so Ru-na may have their mom all to herself. Proper after their mom’s passing, Ru-na latched onto her subsequent obsession: Se-eum.
Ru-na has disappeared following her assault on Tae-ho, so Se-eum hatches a daring plan to attract her out of hiding. She proclaims publicly that on the upcoming live performance, she’ll play a violin duet… with Ru-na. What’s extra, she’ll play the very piece that caught Ru-na’s consideration within the first place. There’s no manner Ru-na will go up the possibility to make her final dream come true. Se-eum plans to do the efficiency alone with a plainclothes police viewers, however the remainder of the musicians aren’t about to let her take such a threat by herself. Even Ah-jin insists on taking the stage with Se-eum this one final time.
The live performance arrives with no signal of Ru-na. However as Se-eum begins to play with out her, Ru-na seems in the back of the auditorium and performs as she walks down the aisle to affix Se-eum onstage. It’s a wide ranging efficiency, emotionally and musically, and it leaves Ru-na in tears. She gushes due to Se-eum afterwards, solely to comprehend she’s been betrayed when the police interrupt. Vowing to verify Se-eum by no means forgets her, Ru-na grabs a pointy object, lurches towards Se-eum, after which stabs herself within the neck.
She survives, however lives out her days in jail with a horrible scar, and refuses Se-eum’s go to so Se-eum’s final reminiscence of her might be their duet. Pil additionally survives, however his reminiscence is caught up to now for causes that mystify the docs, and he spends his days alone within the nursing house scribbling barely legible compositions (serves him proper). Ah-jin apologizes to Se-eum, and the 2 half on considerably amicable phrases as Ah-jin leaves to start out over far-off.
As promised, Se-eum steps down from the orchestra, planning to journey the world and simply take pleasure in her life, nonetheless lengthy or brief it could be. She waits till she’s alone at her mom’s grave to learn the outcomes of her Remington’s check, and although she doesn’t share the contents even with us, her expression suggests she’s at peace with no matter it says. It doesn’t change her journey plans, however when Jung-jae begs to return with, she offers a teasing, noncommittal reply as an alternative of flatly rejecting him, which he takes for permission.
And that’s the way it ends: open-ended and hopeful. At first, I used to be annoyed that we didn’t get a solution to the Remington’s query, however I believe the purpose isn’t a lot us figuring out whether or not she’ll inherit the illness — the purpose is that Se-eum is aware of, and that she’s able to face her future as an alternative of working from it. Apart from, given what number of instances her medical data was accessed or shared with out her permission, I’m prepared to let her have some privateness for as soon as.
As for Jung-jae, my emotions about him haven’t actually modified, but when Se-eum is pleased with him now, I’m completely satisfied for her. I believe the intent was to distinction Ru-na and Pil, who had been outwardly thoughtful however secretly obsessive and egocentric, with Jung-jae, who was outwardly obsessive however did actually appear to care about Se-eum. I simply want he’d completed extra rising over the previous a number of episodes, so it might really feel much less like his controlling behaviors had been being excused. There was a flash of vulnerability about him when Tae-ho was hospitalized that I believe may have gone a good distance towards making him sympathetic if it had been explored extra and earlier.
However, to reiterate, if Se-eum is completely satisfied, I’m completely satisfied. I can’t imagine I began this present considering she is likely to be something near unlikeable, as a result of if there’s one factor that Maestra totally satisfied me of, it’s that whereas Se-eum didn’t need to be surrounded by so many terrible folks, she definitely deserved all of the admiration she obtained after which some. So, since we weren’t instructed definitively both manner, I’m going to imagine that she goes on to dwell an extended, completely satisfied, fulfilled life doing no matter she desires.
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