Shark: Episode 3 Recap

The episode opens with Yi Soo running into a phone booth with an envelope tightly in his grasp. He takes out the detective’s business card and begins to dial the number.  The call goes through, but we (the viewers) are unable to hear the exact context of the conversation, as we watch Yi Soo fearfully speak to the detective.



He hangs up the phone and takes out a key from his pocket, joining it with the envelope he is holding, and begins to dial another number. Again, we see Yi Soo speaking on the phone, but are unable to hear what he is saying. The only difference is that Yi Soo seems more distraught and fearful than his initial phone call. [Who might he be speaking to? We shall find out…]



In the midst of the call, a bright light shines onto Yi Soo’s face. He looks up and sees a truck heading towards him at full speed. Visibly in shock, Yi Soo is unable to move as the truck charges closer and closer and…. BAAAAMM!! The truck rams into the phone booth, completely demolishing the booth with Yi Soo still inside. The scene immediately shifts to the title screen, and we’re all left on the edge of our seats wondering if Yi Soo survived. […yeah.. and then we remember the fact that he’s already an adult in the present. Phew! He’s alive! The only question is, how the hell did he survive that kind of head-on collision?!]



Yi Soo is sulking in his holding cell when detective Byun (the good detective) arrives. Yi Soo refuses to acknowledge the detective’s arrival and ignores the detective completely as he speaks to him. It isn’t until the detective tells Yi Soo, “You thought that your father didn’t cause a hit-and-run accident may, perhaps, be right,” that we see Yi Soo’s eyes light up.



In the meantime, Yi Hyun is examining the key she found in the music box. As she looks it over, even trying to see if the key fits into the keyhole on the back of the music box, she notices Grandpa Jo (Hae Woo’s grandfather) in front of her. [He’s sending off a serious creep vibe in my opinion... ughh] He asks whether Yi Hyun has eaten yet, but she replies that she will eat with her brother when he returns. Determined, [because he’s a creep, but also because he’s trying to get Yi Hyun out of the house] Grandpa Jo tells Yi Hyun that it will take Yi Soo a while to return home, so she should eat with him. Resigned to listen to the creepy grandpa, Yi Hyun stands up, but before she follows him, she slips the key into her front pocket.



[Back at the police station] Yi Soo wants to know if Detective Byun really (really) believes him. The detective admits that it’s merely just a hunch, and would rather know what Yi Soo knows about the situation. Disgruntled by the detective’s avoidance, Yi Soo tells the detective that he’s already told him what he knows and that he has a witness. The detective then tells Yi Soo that he thinks Yi Soo may already have a culprit responsible for his father’s death in mind. He continues by trying to dissuade Yi Soo from investigating any further on his own, because there’s a chance that he could fall into a trap. Detective Byun insists that Yi Soo can trust him, because it is his job as a detective to uncover the truth, but Yi Soo doesn’t buy it. Yi Soo is cautious, he knows full well that even the police can be corrupted if paid the right amount of money...*cough*Detective Mun Chul*cough*



Hae Woo demands to know as to how the detectives can detain a “powerless child” there. The detective counters Hae Woo with the fact that Yi Soo punched another detective—he assaulted an officer. Undeterred, Hae Woo confidently defends Yi Soo’s actions because she knows that he had to have had a reason as to do such a thing, because he is not the kind of person to do things without a reason. Riding on that momentum, Hae Woo demands that Yi Soo be released. The detective hesitates, and tries to tell Hae Woo that there are procedures—suggesting that they cannot just ‘let him go’—but before he can finish, Hae Woo interjects, “Have you received a call from my grandfather? He said he would call.” In that moment, Crooked-Detective Mun Chul appears in the background and calls out, “Let him go."



[Back to Yi Soo and Detective Byun] Detective Byun holds out a picture of a man [who we know as Hee Soo], and asks if Yi Soo recognizes him. However, Yi Soo admits that he does not know the man, and asks who the man is. The detective tells Yi Soo that the man in the photo is the last man to see his father alive, and was recently murdered. Taken aback, Yi Soo tries to get more info from the detective, specifically asking if the man was murdered the same way his father was murdered, but the detective is unable to say more. Detective Byun admits that he’s already said more than he is allowed to say, and before he can continue, Crooked-Detective Mun Chul appears in the background (again) and chimes that Detective Byun has indeed said too much. He concludes by telling them that Yi Soo is free to leave.



Hae Woo waited for Yi Soo to come and, and they leave together. As they walk, Yi Soo is visibly distant and Hae Woo determinedly tries to get him to talk to her. He, of course, is not listening. Instead, he flashes back to the night he saw Hae Woo’s father pull up onto the driveway with a shattered windshield, and then stagger out of the car and into the estate. [He’s onto something.] Yi Soo thinks further back and remembers the golden watch Hae Woo’s father obnoxiously jangled on his wrist during their initial meeting. [*LIGHTBULB!* The witness remembers seeing a shiny watch left behind.]

Yi Soo abruptly turns to Hae Woo and questions her about the whereabouts of her father’s watch. Surprised by the sudden interest in her father’s watch, she assumes that her father reported his golden watch missing, naming Yi Soo as the culprit. When she asks if that’s the case, Yi Soo tells her it’s not, which makes her want to know the reason he’s asking. For her sake, since it has to do with the evils of her family, Yi Soo refuses to tell her and walks away, leaving her to believe in her assumption.



A mysterious figure clothed head-to-toe in black is rummaging through drawers in the dark, and searching around in Yi Soo’s house [This is why the grandpa wanted Yi Hyun out of the house]. While the intruder lurks around the house, Hae Woo and Yi Soo are at a bookstore waiting for the owner to return. Apparently he has a book about Hae Woo’s favorite painter, Chagall, for her. After waiting for over half an hour, Yi Soo is determined to head home because his sister is waiting for him. As he heads out the door, Hae Woo stops him by asking if he’s mad at her, since he seemed angry ever since they left the police station, but Yi Soo replies that it is not HER that he is mad at [it’s her family].

“Well I’m about to get mad at you,” she retorts. Hae Woo continues about how Yi Soo has yet to tell her why he fought with the detectives; thus leading her to ask, “What am I to you? Am I of no comfort to you? Do you know how it worries me to not know where you are and what you are doing?” In a heartfelt moment of honesty, Hae Woo admits how she worries about losing Yi Soo—so much so that she can’t sleep at night. Yi Soo assures her that she needn’t worry, because that won’t happen. Unconvinced, Hae Woo reminds Yi Soo to think about what the criminal did to his father, but before she can finish, Yi Soo has heard enough and leaves.



When Yi Soo arrives home, he meets Yi Hyun in the living room. She hands him the key she found in the music box, which he then takes to examine. As he contemplates the meaning of the key, and what to do with it, he notices that on the back of the key chain it reads: “Young Bin Massage Parlor” and at the bottom there’s a phone number. Unfortunately, two digits have been scratched off, so Yi Soo writes out all the possible phone numbers and calls each of them. It was extremely tedious, but eventually Yi Soo called the right number and found out the address to the parlor.



Meanwhile, Grandpa Jo is in his office speaking on the phone to an unknown caller. He’s trying to get to the bottom of “who” it was that Yi Soo’s father was going to meet. He tells the person to find out for him, and that's the end of the phone call. After hanging up the phone, he lets out an exasperated sigh and flashes back to the conversation he had with Yi Soo’s father about the envelope Professor Kang [the guy Hae Woo’s father hit with his car] had with him. Grandpa Jo asks Yi Soo’s father if he had that envelope by chance, and with a worrisome expression, Yi Soo’s father replies that he got rid of the envelope.



On the other side of town, Hae Woo’s father meets with crooked-Detective Mun Chul under a bridge, near the river. Hae Woo’s father is paying the crooked-detective off in exchange for his golden watch that was found at the crime scene. As soon as Mun Chul hands over the watch, Hae Woo’s father immediately snatches it and throws it into the river.



At the police station, Detective Byun is speaking to another detective. According to a member of Professor Kang’s research team, the professor received a document envelope from an unmarked sender 2 days before his death. The detective with Detective Byun is convinced that something is up, since it is said that the professor immediately acted strangely after reading the contents of the envelope. The detective continues with how the day after the professor received the envelope, he sent that message about “turning the world upside down from what he’d reveal”.



[Back at the mansion] Yi Soo is standing outside of the mansion when Hae Woo’s father pulls up. When they meet, Yi Soo points out that he is not wearing his golden watch. He continues by telling Hae Woo’s father that according to a witness, the person responsible for the hit-and-run dropped his watch. Therefore, his father is not the culprit since he left his watch at home that day. After realizing that Yi Soo is suggesting that he is the culprit, the truly wicked nature of Hae Woo’s father is revealed as he tells Si Woo that they should have never taken in a “brute” like him. The two exchange some final words, and Hae Woo’s father storms into the house. As soon as Hae Woo sees her father, she confronts him with whether or not he reported his golden watch missing, and told police Yi Soo is the culprit. He denies it, quickly questioning what exactly Yi Soo told, and she says, “Nothing."



[The next day] Yi Soo is sitting in the library looking at the key Yi Hyun gave him. Hae Woo notices him at the table and goes to sit with him. Before she sees the key, Yi Soo tucks it away. Hae Woo wants to go to the villa (and their secret spot at the lake) on Sunday, and she wants to take Yi Soo with her. She tells him that he should go since she promised Yi Hyun that the three of them would go, but Yi Soo declines, saying he has someplace to go. When asked where, Yi Soo tells Hae Woo that he’ll tell her later. When asked why, he doesn’t answer. Clearly displeased by Yi Soo’s insistence to not tell her everything, Hae Woo tries to comfort him by saying that she and her family—primarily her grandfather—are here for him. However, Yi Soo interjects that he doesn’t need help from a family like hers, which immediately offends her.

Since Yi Soo can’t explain why he can’t depend on her family, Hae Woo gets the impression that, like her family, she means nothing to him. She quickly leaves and when she’s outside, Joon Young sees her crying, so he immediately goes to confront Yi Soo. The two encounter each other on the soccer field, and Joon Young tells Yi Soo to go apologize to Hae Woo. Yi Soo tells him he has something to do, resulting in Joon Young asking, “What’s more important than Hae Woo?” Yi Soo admits, “Nothing is more important than Hae Woo,” and walks away.



Yi Soo heads straight to the Young Bin Parlor, and as he enters the building, we (the viewers) can see that someone is following him. [Most likely the intruder from before.] When Yi Soo asks if the key belongs to the parlor, he is told that the key actually belongs to a train station locker. Yi Soo immediately runs to the train station and finds the locket that the key belongs to, but when he opens it up, it’s empty. He goes to the front desk, and clerk brings him the envelope, telling him that they typically hold on to the contents of lockers if people forget to come back for them. Once Yi Soo has the envelope, he quickly reads the contents of the documents and memorizes everything. As soon as he comes to terms with the TRUTH he’s just discovered, he runs to the phone booth to call Detective Byun.



He tells him that he has a document that may not be able to prove who the person is that killed his father, but it will definitely explain why he was killed. Yi Soo is afraid to disclose the documents' content over the phone, so he tells the detective to meet him at the phone booth. Yi Soo hangs up and is clearly distressed by what he’s just discovered. He gathers himself, and calls home. Yi Hyun is at the house with Hae Woo, had just made spaghetti for the both of them. After he promises Yi Hyun that they will eat together every day and go on walks together, he asks to speak to Hae Woo. At first she refuses, but gives in to Yi Hyun’s persuasion.



Before he can get a word out to Hae Woo, he trembles and breathes heavily over the phone. After a moment, he manages to admit to Hae Woo that he’s having a hard time. On the edge of crying, he continues to tell Hae Woo that he doesn’t know what to do and that he can’t trust in anything anymore. Hae Woo is immediately worried by how Yi Soo is speaking and wants to know where he is. Yi Soo doesn’t say; rather, he asks Hae Woo if she remembers what he said at the lake, “We can only do that which we can control.” She agrees, so Yi Soo tells her that things are going to get hard and they may even get hard for her—unbearably hard. He continues with the comforting words of how, no matter what, they will always be together. He tells her to never forget what he said, and repeats that they will always be together. Before he can say it once more, the truck comes D’X



The mystery man, who was seen following Yi Soo earlier, stops out of the truck and walks to Yi Soo’s (supposed) dead body. Without even hesitating, the man literally walks over Yi Soo’s dead body and retrieves the envelope. Sometime afterwards, Detective Byun finally arrives, but Yi Soo’s body is nowhere to be found. All that’s left behind is the evidence of the collision and a pool of Yi Soo’s blood. While Detective Byun glances over the scene, he notices the locker key on the ground and picks it up.



Hae Woo steps out from her reception and walks with Yi Hyun in the corridor. Yi Soo is there too and passes by Detective Byun, but the detecting doesn’t recognize him. Hae Woo and Yi Hyun greet the detective, and it turns out that the detective adopted Yi Hyun [that's so sweet!!]. Jun watches the three interact until the detective and his (adopted) daughter Yi Hyun leave. Hae Woo watches the detective and Yi Hyun leave the building, and suddenly remembers the detective discussing the accident with her grandfather. That is, there was nothing left of Yi Soo except for his blood at the scene.



Hae Woo walks out onto the balcony and lo and behold, Yi Soo is there too. Yi Soo (who Hae Woo doesn't recognize) formally introduces himself as Jun Yoshimura, Jun Kim in Korean. They spark a conversation in which Yi Soo mentions the moon. He comments on how the moon is like the North Star, which reminds Hae Woo of the conversation she had 12 years ago with Yi Soo regarding Polaris (North Star). He continues by mentioning how the North Star always points lost travelers home, that's why its a dear friend of travelers. [He basically just said the exact same thing he told Hae Woo 12 years ago.] Hae Woo is shocked and reminded of Yi Soo even more that she breaks down to tears. Yi Soo hesitantly moves towards her to comfort her with a hug.



Grandpa Jo and a group of other powerful men have gathered in the dining hall. Hae Woo’s father and Joon Young’s father (Prosecutor Oh) are there as well. While the men discuss the events of the wedding, Hae Woo’s father receives a call from the crooked-detective, Man Chul. He excuses himself from the table and leaves to discuss why Man Chul is calling. As it turns out, Man Chul is STILL receiving money from Hae Woo’s father because he is continually blackmailing him about the incident that occurred 12 years ago. After Hae Woo’s father tells Man Chul that they can meet at their usual spot, Prosecutor Oh walks up from behind with a concerned expression, and asks if it was Man Chul. Hae Woo’s father angrily admits that he should have killed him when he had the chance. Mun Chul begins to head to the spot, but is knocked unconscious by an unknown attacker.



After the reception, Hae Woo is in her hotel room staring out of the window when Joon Young gets out of the shower. He stops to look at her and remembers how devastated Hae Woo was 12 years ago when Yi Soo went missing. Back then, Hae Woo locked herself in her room and refused to come out, as Joon Young helplessly stood on the outside calling out for her to open the door. There was even a moment when Hae Woo attempted to drown herself, but Joon Young was there to stop her. After a nice slap to the face [hehe] Joon Young lectures Hae Woo that she should live for Si Woo’s sake—to have some dignity and find out the truth about what happened to him. Joon Young then continues to tell Hae Woo that he will help her, that he will be by her side and be her strength. [Seriously... Joon Young is one of the rare ones that made it out of the Friend Zone. Good for you dude, you waited ten years to get her ;p]



A secretary from Giant Hotel shows up in Jun’s hotel room. She reminds Jun that he has a meeting the next day, and tells him that she scheduled his usual wake-up call with the front desk. The two appear to know each other, and as she turns to leave Jun chuckles; prompting her to turn towards him to wish him good night. When she’s got into the hallway, she turns back to look at the door as if she’s looking right through it at Jun. [There’s obviously some history between these two.]



Joon Young and Hae Woo are awoken by a sudden phone call.  It is three AM, and the call is for Hae Woo. Half awake, she answers the phone and the caller tells her that he knows the truth about what happened 12 years ago. She immediately jumps up and wants the caller to explain. As it turns out, the caller is Mun Chul, and he tells her that if she wants to know the truth she should come to a specific location. She agrees to meet him.



Man Chul is tied up in a chair in some unknown abandoned warehouse. [This is a FREAKING awesome moment!] Yi Soo slowly walks towards Man Chul and steps into the light. [*SWOON*] Man Chul is scared out of his mind and wants to know 'who' is doing this to him. Yi Soo crouches down in front of Man Chul and tells him that, "The world needs balance. If only one side were to suffer unfairly..that would upset the balance. Don't you think you life could use little balance?" In that moment, Yi Soo offers Man Chul a chance to tell the truth about what happened 12 years ago. Man Chul without any hesitation spills his guts and hopes he's said what Yi Soo wants to hear. Yi Soo provides Man Chul a false sense of hope by telling him, "I believe you." The warehouse door opens behind Yi Soo, and his accomplice--the one that knocked Man Chul out--enters.



The unknown person walks back into the warehouse and heads for Man Chun. [Just look at his face, he knows what’s about to happen to him haha] He squirms in fear and the scene shifts to black. We are left with the sound of Man Chul screaming along with the sound of a gouging/stabbing like noise.