Nine: Episode 11
We start up with the kiss and the
montage from April 7, then Sun-woo tells Min-young not to ruin her life
and goes to talk to Dr. Boyfriend, who is banging on the gate. He
fobs him off; says the record is his, those initials are his
ex-girlfriend's, and generally tries not to mess up the engagement.
He calls a taxi; she sits in the back watching his reflection in the
outside mirror. He lets her out a block from her house, tells her
that girls often get nervous right before their wedding, and leaves
watching her in the mirror. The next day she recalls that he said his
girlfriend had amnesia and turned out to be family. [15:45] She calls
him again but he sticks with his story: it's not real and it's
disgusting.
Jump to Dr. Choi on April 9, 1993 at 2
pm. He calls hyung to his office and tries to get him to go to
America. Hyung asks if Dr. Choi loved his mother when he was young.
The answer: we all liked her. Hyung goes to see his fiance, Yoo-jin,
at her record shop. She tries to get him to go and he tells her also
that he won't.
Jump again to Dr. Choi on April 9, 2013
at 2 pm, getting out of his court hearing. He will likely get ten
years. Chief Oh comes to congratulate Sun-woo and invite him out to
celebrate their win. He tells him again to get his headaches treated.
Yoo-jin comes to meet him in the foyer, saying hyung is taking
depression meds and can't sleep. She wants them to make up but he
refuses, saying they both are having a hard time.
A dark city-scape shows us it is night.
Dr. Choi's lawyers advise him to stall and counter-sue and delay the
verdict. Trials are all about time, they say. Nice thing to say in a
time-travel show. He yells at them it won't shorten the verdict and
to just end it. They hang their heads lol and he pulls the kdrama
tantrum of knocking everything on his desk onto the floor.
Back in 1993 Evil Minion [32:00] brings
Dr. Choi the CCTV footage of Sun-woo paying for his mother's glasses
at the optical shop, and they get a look at Sun-woo's face.
Present-day Choi gets the new memory while dozing in his chair
reflected in a small desk mirror. Ha. He doesn't realize it is a new
event, he thinks he just suddenly remembered it. His 1993 self
remembers bumping into that man outside the hospital and driving away
looking at him in the rear-view mirror. His 2013 self puts those
memories together and recognizes the man as looking like Sun-woo.
Sun-woo tries to be friendly with the
lady anchor, but as they walk out together at the end of work he gets
a call from Dr. Boyfriend saying he and Min-young had a fight and she
is missing. The wedding is in three days, and he's worried. Actually
she called it off. Sun-woo goes back into the office, sets his
assistant to trying to contact her, and runs around town in the rain
looking for her. He probably thinks she is doing something rash.
He goes home and finally at 3 am she
calls. She explains how frustrated she is with this memory becoming
clearer; that she even called the hotel in Nepal but they had no
record of them being there. He asks where she is and she answers,
“Where Joo Min-young first kissed her love of five years.” A
flashback shows her drunk at a playground with some co-workers. She
called him and when he arrived she tumbled down a slide, landed on
him, and kissed him.
After we get a look at a red
Dr.-Who-Queen-Inhyun telephone booth, he shows up at the playground.
It is still raining and they are both drenched. She asks how he knew
where she was. He replies, “You said it was our first kiss.” Now
she knows he knows, and he knows she knows he knows. And we know he
knows she knows he knows. He goes on, “You know the word I hate the
most in the world? Uncle.” I love that line. It's eminently
quotable.
He pulls her in and kisses her and they
wrap their arms around each other.
Up until now
everyone except Sun-woo and Dr. Han have been oblivious to the
timeline shifts. Hyung doesn't remember that he had been lost in the
Himalayas. Because he married Yoo-jin he didn't ever go there. Chief
Oh doesn't know Sun-woo had cancer once upon a time, because
Young-hoon found the pills and they treated the tumor immediately.
Everyone had been dropped into a new
life and gone on blissfully as though it had always existed. (Does anyone wonder what happened to Min-young's original stepfather?) But now
two new people can perceive the shifts. Min-young remembers things
she knows are different from the present but she doesn't know why;
and Dr. Choi thinks he suddenly remembered something he had
forgotten. The new memory didn't conflict with his present, so he doesn't know there are different timelines. However
there is now a new one. Timeline Past5 started because Young-hoon
found the pills, which caused him to change his actions. Timeline Past6 has now started because Dr. Choi knows something that will change his
actions.
Running count – time travels: 11;
remaining incense sticks: 2; Timelines: Past6, Present4.
