Ghost, Episode 3

So... Before the Episode 3 recap... A few things that came to mind after thinking about the first two episodes:

A pondering Marielle + Recap

- How he looks after reconstructive surgery is kind of unrealistic. I mean his whole body was CHARRED. And after a year, he looks perfectly fine and only with a few scars...?

- Funny how even his voice became different... ^_^; I wonder if they were the same height too?

- I didn't type this in my last recap because it was only supposed to be a basic one, but while Ki Young was in the hospital, the guy who tried to kill both him and Woo Hyun sneaked into the hospital and tried to kill him again by stealing him away and almost gave him lethal injection. ANYWAY..... After Kang Mi takes him away and saves him... Why doesn't he try to go back and kill him? I think I might have missed something, but maybe he was told by a higher power to stay back? No idea... But I would think that since he's up and walking again, then he would be in danger of being killed again as well....

Anyway, on to Episode 3. The episode starts off with a girl (who was scared crapless by a mysterious Phantom hacker at the end of ep 2) waking up, turning the lights on in her bathroom, and seeing "Remember the sin made by your hands" written in lipstick on the mirror. Then on her forehead, "Go die" is also written. This creeped me out SO much. What an awful way to start the morning. >_<

Next, we see Kang Mi try to help Ki Young be as "Woo Hyun"-y as possible. She shows him pictures of people he would work with and what their relationship is with Woo Hyun. She also tells him what's "Woo Hyun"-like and not very "Woo Hyun"-like - Like how he never drank beer, so Ki Young shouldn't be drinking beer either. That'd be too strange. Also, he has to be aloof at work because that's how Woo Hyun is like. If he's greeted, just greet back politely and don't smile. That sort of thing.

He gets back to work and finds out, unfortunately, he'd been demoted from Team Leader. The new Team Leader is Kwon Hyuk Joo, who was the crimes chief in charge of the investigation (also, he knows almost nothing about computers, but he's very good with crime scenes).

A surprise welcome back party is also thrown for him. Aww....

Anyway, 2 other women besides the girl in the beginning of the episode are also cyber stalked and die. And the girl at the beginning dies too. In each case, the cyber team finds the women in their apartments with scary writings on the walls saying stuff like "Die Die Die!", and the deaths made to look like suicides. They find out that the things that tie them all together is that the writings on their walls are actually comments that they had made as netizens being all anti-Hyo Jung when she was going through her sex scandal. News starts to spread... Hyo Jung haters are dying for saying bad things about her? It turns out that the cyber stalker who killed these girls is NOT the one who killed Hyo Jung... But Ki Young determines that he must know Hyo Jung's killer... since he saw a half-pic of the killer on cyber stalker's hard drive after hacking into it.

They realize that another connection between the 3 women is that they all saw the same musical and all received an email to get a VIP ticket to the show. The musical is called "A Magician's Dream". When investigating the theatre and talking to the worker at the front desk, they find out that all VIP tickets are to the same seat - that is D7. So, whoever is stalked and murdered.... must have also sat in that same seat. Are they all connected or is it just a coincidence? Hmmm...

They are about to leave when Ki Young's assistant at the online newspaper he used to work at - Seung Yoon - shows up and claims that she received an email for a VIP ticket. Uh oh.

Seung Yoon and Kang Mi end up switching seats to see what would happen... The show starts, and it's two stories about couples falling in love, with the help of a mysterious "Phantom" who does magic tricks (to make the scenes more romantic, I guess).

In the meantime Hyuk Joo is interrogating a man named Seung Jae, who is suspect #1 as Hyo Jung's killer, because he was the boyfriend of one of the women who died. Also, he used to be Hyo Jung's manager until 2 months before she died. He claims he did not kill her, and his girlfriend was not the one who wrote those hateful comments online - He did. He also mentions that it all started with that musical - And actually, he was the one who received the VIP ticket to the show. He just forwarded it to his girlfriend so she could watch it...

Back at the musical, the couples on stage end up with happy endings. The Phantom asks who will accept his love, and the spotlight shines down on seat D7 - on Kang Mi! The theatre lights go off, and when they go back on again, Kang Mi is gone...

Episode 3 was just as interesting as the last two. I read a comment online that says that the portrayal of hacking is so creepy, it kind of makes me want to not check my email ever again. ^_^;; Overall this episode was very good. Very suspenseful, and the whole hacking thing is creeping me out. I thought it was very nice that certain character traits are being channeled (not going to say specifically what since this part of my post isn't hidden ^_^;), but it's nice to see some emotion in our main male lead.

Also, there was a scene where The Stare is given between our main male and our main female, and I SO hope that doesn't mean that they're going to unnecessarily add romance in this drama. >_< At least, romance that is so out of place and prevents our female lead from making rational decisions.

Scenes of note: There's a good hacking/cyber team running around trying to catch the bad guy scene. I'll have to time it later on, but it's a good scene that shows both the hacking and police aspect. Could be used for both the Police and Suspense category if we choose to keep them.