Like Flowers in Sand: Episodes 9-10
by missvictrix
Our penultimate week is right here, and with it, our previous and current storylines — and characters — converge on the heart of the story. Scratch that, the characters are the middle of the story, and it’s actually heartwarming to see the drama pull all of them collectively once more. However all of the whereas, the investigation comes nearer to dwelling, and the time to unravel it’s operating out.
EPISODES 9-10
I’ll attempt to maintain again the standing ovation I’m prepared to present this drama till subsequent week when we have now to say goodbye, however goshdarnit it’s been such a fantastically woven story with a gentleness I actually love.
We open up this week with Mi-ran’s surprising look/admission on the health club, and a no-holds-barred dialog takes place between the three of them. Nicely, Baek-du principally stands there gawking (he didn’t know, like we did, that Mi-ran already knew Yoo-kyung was Doo-shik and a cop), and the women discuss. We hear Mi-ran’s aspect of the story, which fits proper to the center to say the least, however doesn’t give terribly a lot by means of clues.
What we do study is that Choi Chil-seung needed to inform the reality to Mi-ran as soon as and for all, however was stopped from doing so by a continuous caller on his cellphone. They had been supposed to fulfill later for her to search out out who was accountable for her father’s loss of life — and it’s an individual who lives on the town — however that’s the night time he dies, and Mi-ran learns nothing extra.
Nevertheless, what Mi-ran didn’t study in information she acquired in proof. That enormous black bag is stuffed with gazillions of received, in addition to the match-rigging ledgers that may spell recreation over for the entire thing. Mi-sook tells her workforce they will do the remainder of their investigating from Seoul now that they’ve the ledgers, however Yoo-kyung needs to stay round Geosan. It’s clear she needs to dig even deeper than Choi Chil-seung’s loss of life and again into the previous difficulty along with her father, and this brings us to an essential thematic second of the week: loss.
Mi-ran, in fact, misplaced her father at a younger age. Yoo-kyung misplaced her treasured childhood — and we study this week how a lot that actually meant to her. And as for Baek-du? Nicely, he is aware of he misplaced one thing too, however when Yoo-kyung confronts him on not having the ability to perceive deep loss, he can solely sputter — after which strive to determine what treasured factor he is aware of he as soon as misplaced.
It’s lovely and so Baek-du-y that he is aware of, however he doesn’t know. Like we realized about him early on, he’s so instinctual — residing in his personal world so deeply — that others round him assume he’s too dumb to get stuff, or underestimate him. Anyway, our boy lastly finds his phrases (and emotions) when he learns that Yoo-kyung has ten days left earlier than heading again to Seoul. He tells her: you’re what I misplaced. *Gah!*
The guts-piercing earnestness that’s Jang Dong-yoon’s efficiency right here as Baek-du is sufficient to promote this scene 100 instances over, however the childhood flashbacks proceed to tell a lot of the emotion right here too. There’s a lot nostalgia and innocence within the childhood sequences that we are able to’t assist however really feel the preciousness of that point for the characters as properly.
Nicely, from there it’s a brief street to Baek-du’s romantic confession (“I such as you, I actually and actually such as you”), and it’s much more particular as a result of it’s about Yoo-kyung as a complete individual. He stated when Yoo-kyung first returned that he and Doo-shik had been soulmates, and this confession is actually that: one between soulmates.
Nevertheless, there’s some gossip brewing within the alleys of Geosan, which began when a city ajusshi noticed Baek-du and Yoo-kyung chatting on the bus depot a number of episodes again. As soon as he tells his spouse it’s throughout, and the gossip practice goes from a neighborhood freight practice to a runaway shinkansen. Fairly quickly everyone seems to be shaming and blaming Baek-du behind his again for his “affair” with “a married lady.” Everybody in Baek-du’s household (and Hyun-wook as properly) can inform that one thing is off, but it surely takes some time for the gossip to spill all the way down to his mother. This ultimately results in a back-alley confrontation between Baek-du, and properly, everybody else.
Like this drama has accomplished so properly from the beginning, it balances a lot humor with the extra deep and severe storylines, and this presumed affair can be dealt with in the identical method. When it lastly culminates, Baek-du’s coronary heart for Doo-shik so a few years in the past comes out, and he single-handedly calls out the whole city for a way they believed gossip a lot it grew to become their reality. He berates them for the previous, and the way they let Doo-shik’s household go, and this pivotal second alerts a shift within the city gossip. Now, moderately than centered on a presumed affair, it’s all about what actually occurred with Doo-shik and her father all these years in the past. Everybody felt dangerous, however buried their guilt over time; now, due to Baek-du, all of it involves the floor once more.
The sensation of all of the items of previous and current coming collectively can be echoed with our grown-up children group, and this results in our ending scene this week, which was most likely considered one of my favourite moments to date. Seok-hee ultimately fell for the city gossip about Baek-du, however when he tells Jin-su that Baek-du thought Yoo-kyung was really Doo-shik when she first arrived, it’s like a lightweight goes off for him. All of a sudden, Jin-su not solely sees their relationship for what it’s, however he is aware of surely that Yoo-kyung is certainly Doo-shik. (I like the offhanded method he tells Seok-hee after seeing their childhood image once more that “she seems precisely the identical.”)
In the meantime, Baek-du has simply realized who Mi-ran actually is, and each of them are pulled into the investigation (Baek-du by virtually begging his method in). Because the episode closes, Yoo-kyung, Hyun-wook, Mi-ran, and Baek-du have a “secret assembly” at her cafe, however they’re quickly joined by Seok-hee and Jin-su. Fairly shortly, the reality involves gentle, and Yoo-kyung drops her cowl and terrifies Seok-hee identical to she did again within the day. I don’t know why, however seeing this group of 30-year-olds operating round just like the hooligans they had been as children made me smile a lot.
So far as I’m involved the drama might have ended with this scene of all the youngsters chasing one another across the desk — as a result of I acquired all the pieces I got here for and extra already — however we have now yet another week to tie up the wrongdoer lurking within the city, and determine what’s going to occur to Baek-du and his beloved Doo-shik.
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