The morning brings a new day of business at the airport. At home, Soo Ah (played by Kim Ha Neul) checks on sleeping Hyo Eun before receiving a text message from Jin Suk (played by Shin Sung Rok): “Planning to send you a manual re: Hyo Eun.” Soo Ah can’t stop thinking about Do Woo’s expression at the river, however, and finally has to bury herself in chores to shake away the memories.
Meanwhile, Uncle Suk is waiting at Grandma Eun Hee’s shop for Do Woo (played by Lee Sang Yoon) to return from Malaysia. Do Woo unloads the suitcase that Soo Ah packed for him from the trunk, holding Annie’s belongings. When Uncle Suk asks who was kind enough to take care of Annie’s things, however, Do Woo just smiles secretively to himself.
Inside the house, Do Woo checks on a sleeping Hye Won (played by Jang Hee Jin). Just like Soo Aah, however, Do Woo can’t stop recalling the night before. A flashback shows us that the drive back from the river to Soo Ah’s house was awkward and silent, and only when they arrived did they break the silence. When Do Woo had asked if they could see each other again, Soo Ah had agreed, thinking that he meant with Hyo Eun as well—but he’d looked straight at her when he said decidedly, “I’ll see you again.” Now, both Soo Ah and Do Woo sit in their respective homes, thinking of each other with conflicted expressions.
Do Woo checks on Grandma next, who asks if he brought Annie’s belongings back safely. He assures her he did, and Grandma expresses her gratitude at the kind person who packed Annie’s things for them.
Later, Hye Won notes the umbrella Do Woo left outside to dry and asks him about it over breakfast. She muses absently that it didn’t rain at the house, before suddenly realizing where it did rain—Incheon. Realizing that Do Woo went back to Malaysia for Annie’s things, Hye Won rushes to the room to find Annie’s ashes and luggage. A flashback shows us Hye Won and Annie’s conversation on the phone, when Hye Won ordered her not to return. Annie had whimpered: “I want to go home. I did well. I can do well. I won’t make any mistakes.”
Frantic, Hye Won digs through Annie’s suitcase in desperation. Do Woo watches her sadly from the doorway, telling her that he had to bring it back because of his promise to Grandma, but Hye Won demands that he throw it all out—she doesn’t want to go through all of her belongings for fear of what she might find. “What if she wrote that she hates me?!” she demands.
Hye Won tells him that she knows she wasn’t a good mother—she’d given birth to Annie when she was barely twenty and was forced to juggle school, work, and childcare all at once. She’d taken Annie to her father’s, then brought her back multiple times, both sobbing at their hardship. “What if she wrote that she hated me—how do you expect me to live then?” She begs for him to end this at bringing back Annie’s ashes, and to throw everything else out.
Do Woo listens carefully, then tells her he wants to make one thing clear: “Annie’s father abandoned her—but you raised her.” Even if Annie did hate her, Hye Won did nothing wrong; she has no reason to feel guilty. Do Woo promises that he’ll throw out her things if she wants, but this time Hye Won stops him: She’d like to go through Annie’s things alone. Do Woo places a hand on her shoulder in comfort.
At the airport, Mi Jin overhears two flight attendants gossip about Soo Ah, calling her the “Ironing Woman” (darimi-nyeo) because there’s a rumor that she irons everything. Mi Jin calls Soo Ah to inform her of this nickname, but Soo Ah misunderstands her nickname as the “Woman with Beautiful Legs” (dari-minyeo), Mi Jin is quick to clarify that the ironing rumor stemmed from the iron Soo Ah had in her bag.
Soo Ah is unperturbed, telling Mi Jin about the truth of the rumor: The iron belonged to Do Woo’s daughter, who died. Mi Jin demands details when Soo Ah mentions that she already delivered the iron, but Soo Ah only looks out the window, wistful and distant: “The airport, the rain, the dawn… It was only a few hours ago, but that’s all I remember.”
Do Woo places Annie’s ashes in a columbarium and pins her baby pictures to her grave, lamenting that he has no recent photographs. At the same time, Soo Ah unpacks Hyo Eun’s things, where she finds piles of pictures of Hyo Eun with Annie. She texts them to Do Woo right away, and he immediately prints them out, writing back: “You must be able to see me. You always seem to know what I’m struggling with.”
Later that day, Soo Ah and her brother watch Hyo Eun practice dribbling a soccer ball. Telling Soo Ah that he’s working hard to make up for the easygoing life he led when their mother was still alive, her brother asks for 55,000 won per day to babysit Hyo Eun. Soo Ah adds in free soccer lessons and agrees to the price.
Soo Ah’s mother-in-law speaks with Jin Suk over the phone, but her face falls at his next statement. Soo Ah, who also gets a phone call at the soccer stadium, reacts similarly, and we soon find out why as Soo Ah and Hyo Eun chase after a moving truck. Furious, Soo Ah calls Jin Suk, who only tells her that the truck took Soo Ah and Hyo Eun’s things—because they’ll be moving in with his mother.
Soo Ah snaps at Jin Suk’s sudden decision, but Jin Suk shoots back that after Soo Ah’s mother died, New Zealand and Malaysia fell through, and now they need help to get back on track. Soo Ah demands to know why he didn’t even discuss this with her, but Jin Suk replies dryly that she never discussed bringing Hyo Eun back from Malaysia with him, either.
When Soo Ah tries to get him to explain the situation to Hyo Eun himself, he tells her that he’s busy, but Soo Ah knows her husband: “No, you’re just drinking beer!” Sure enough, Jin Suk is sitting alone at a bar, helping himself to a cold beer. Freaked out but shameless, he hangs up on her and sits back, praising his own problem-solving capability.
Soo Ah's mother-in-law tells Soo Ah that she needs time to accept this. She shoos Soo Ah away before she can ask a single question. So Soo Ah goes outside without a clue of what to do. She considers calling Do Woo, but ends up at Mi Jin’s place instead. Promising she’ll only stay for a bit, she lies down on the couch to rest. Mi Jin complains that she wanted to stay at home alone for once, and Soo Ah sighs for her poor mother-in-law, who probably felt the exact same way.
Soo Ah decides to call Jin Suk to check whether he spoke to Hyo Eun as she told him to, putting the phone on speaker mode. When the line picks up, however, it’s a young female voice that answers, calling out, “Choi Sunbae?” Both Soo Ah and Mi Jin pause as another laughing, female voice joins in, asking Soo Ah not to misunderstand—Jin Suk left his phone behind for a moment, but they’re only having a team dinner.
Soo Ah switches off speaker mode and coolly assures the girls that she won’t misunderstand, and hangs up unperturbed. Mi Jin, by contrast, is incensed, demanding if the flight attendants were giggling. Soo Ah: “Hm, were they?”
Unsurprisingly, the two flight attendants at the bar include the young girl who was flirting with Jin Suk before. Her friend scolds her for lying about it being a team dinner and for answering Soo Ah’s call at all, but the girl just brushes it off, unable to stop grinning.
Mi Jin asks if Soo Ah is really cool with the situation, and Soo Ah nods that she is. That piques Mi Jin’s interest—then where does Soo Ah draw the line? Soo Ah says that talking at a bar and even at a hotel is fine if it’s only for a few hours. But when Mi Jin asks if even talking all night is okay, it triggers Soo Ah’s memories of sitting in the airport with Do Woo. “Well,” she says quickly, “if they’re in a lobby, the conversation could get long, right?” Mi Jin lauds Soo Ah’s standards, calling her level of indifference amazing.
Soo Ah points out that she’s not the type to get insecure easily. Mi Jin finds this strange and asks if Jin Suk really does have something going on, but Soo Ah denies it, asking Mi Jin to let her know if she hears any rumors. When Soo Ah gets up to leave, too drained of energy to pack as she’d originally planned, Mi Jin assures her that their young coworkers are infatuated by Jin Suk’s charisma, but in the end, everyone knows he’s married to Soo Ah.
Back at the bar in Sydney, Jin Suk returns to pick up his lost phone. He starts to ask one of the waiters for it when he spots the pair of flight attendants waving at him. After recovering his phone from them, he looks through it for any suspicious activity, although the girl explains willingly: She “accidentally” answered a call from his wife. Jin Suk, however, only checks to see whether they know that his wife is Soo Ah, their sunbae. They do, of course—they just don’t care. She tells him he’s welcome to join them, but he declines the offer and leaves to pay his bill.
Annoyed, the girl whips out her phone to text him: “Did I do something wrong?” Jin Suk reads the text and ignores it, right in front of her. They’d gotten to know each other, with her sharing her difficulties at work and him his emotions of loneliness, and she thought they were getting rather close—and yet, when they returned to Korea, he’d started ignoring her completely.
Meanwhile, Hye Won digs through Annie’s luggage, flipping through her diaries and books, apparently in search of something. At the same time, Do Woo pulls up to his friend’s restaurant. His friend complains that he was just about to close up, though he nods Do Woo inside.
Do Woo reflects to himself that so much has happened in just one day since his time with Soo Ah; back at home, Soo Ah thinks the same. Later, Soo Ah sits at the edge of Hyo Eun’s bed and watches her sleeping face, while Do Woo spends the night in his office, looking at the pictures of Seoul’s sky that Annie loved so much.
The next morning, the young flight attendant appears at Jin Suk’s hotel room, but Jin-suk flatly tells her that just because they had a few conversations doesn’t mean they have some kind of exclusive relationship. He strolls out, leaving the girl humiliated and furious. As the crew checks out of the hotel, he greets each of them with an unperturbed and professional smile.
Back at Do Woo’s house, Grandma surprises him by pushing an ornament she worked on all night toward him, asking him to give it to the person who packed Annie’s things. She tells him that relationships are precious: “Everyone is connected to each other, thread by thread.” He accepts it, looking both surprised and touched.
Soo Ah, meanwhile, reads Jin-suk’s “manual” out loud to her miserable mother-in-law, which instructs them to stay at his mother’s house for six months and reorient themselves. He’s already arranged for Hyo Eun’s transfer to a local school, and so Soo Ah walks an uneasy Hyo Eun there for her first day.
When Soo Ah turns around, a plump woman with short hair is looking curiously at her. Soo Ah takes a moment before she recognizes her as an old friend: “Hyun Joo unni?” Soo Ah and Hyun Joo find themselves at a café to catch up, where Hyun Joo helps herself to a waffle. She tells Soo Ah that she regrets being so self-conscious about her body when she was young, and now that she has three kids, she’s sworn herself to sugar and enjoying herself for a few years.
Su-ah tells Hyun Joo about moving into her mother-in-law’s house so that someone can reliably take care of Hyo Eun. She knows that everything could be solved if she just quit her job, but Hyun Joo cuts her off to tell her not to quit—she’s good at her job. Besides, they both note that they married the right men for them.
Soo Ah's mother-in-law asks Soo Ah to talk to make plans about Hyo Eun, as per Jin Suk’s manual. At the same moment, however, Do Woo texts her, asking if they can meet up. Eager to get out of the house, Soo Ah makes up an excuse to leave, feeling frustrated.
Soo Ah runs outside to find Do Woo waiting in his car for her. He’s about to get out when she suddenly walks away, trying to get out of view of the house. Surprised, he follows her slowly in his car until she approaches him, asking what he’s doing here. In response, he hands her Grandma’s gift bag, telling her his mother made it for her for packing Annie’s things. Soo Ah, however, is dodgy and distracted at the thought of someone seeing them, and even ducks behind the car when someone who looks like her mother-in-law walks by, though she knows that she has no reason to hide.
Soo Ah reaches for the bag, but draws her hand back at the last second—if her mother-in-law finds out that she skipped out on their conversation to pick up a gift for herself, she’d be furious. She asks if she can accept it the next time they meet, and he agrees.
Their gazes keep lingering for too long, however, and Do Woo tells her she can join him for a drive if she feels frustrated. Once again, Do Woo has pinned her emotions exactly, and she seems to feel even guiltier. She gingerly takes Grandma’s present, telling him that they probably shouldn’t meet again. Do Woo’s expression falters, but he takes it in stride and drives away. When Do Woo catches sight of Soo Ah in the rearview mirror, however, the sight of her watching him leave gives him pause. He brakes, watching her, and Soo Ah even starts to look hopeful… before he goes back into gear and drives off again.
As Do Woo drives away, Soo Ah runs in the opposite direction until she arrives at the edge of the Han River. She looks over the water and talks to Annie:
Soo Ah:“When I talk to him, I feel sorry to my husband and to the world. But feeling sorry gives me the strength to live on. I know it’s an awful excuse, but can I just go on a drive with your father as if we’re friends? Just one drive?”
Soo Ah waits at the school gate to pick up Hyo Eun, now sporting a sour expression from a bad first day. Soo Ah pushes her to try to be happy with the fact that Dad let her come back to Korea at all, and tries to lighten the mood by asking Hyo Eun about her classmates, but Hyo Eun just stomps away.
When she finally spins around, she asks Soo Ah to let her return to Malaysia. School in Korea is too suffocating, and the soccer club won’t let her in. Hyo Eun even blames Soo Ah, telling her that she should have convinced her to stay in Malaysia.
Soo Ah tells her sternly that no matter what, Hyo Eun’s opinion will be her priority—and that way, Hyo Eun will figure out what she really wants and take responsibility for her actions. Even more annoyed, Hyo Eun tells her not to expect so much from a kid and storms into the house, leaving Soo Ah to pound her chest in frustration.
Alone, Soo Ah gets in a taxi and calls Mi Jin, asking her about the name of the beer restaurant they went to for Ji Eun’s party, pretending she’s just curious. She arrives at the restaurant but then feels suddenly ridiculous: “I must be crazy.” She sighs and turns around, but not before the Do Woo’s restaurant owner friend spots her walking away through the window.
Do Woo’s restaurant owner friend, whose name we finally learn is Jang Hyun Woo, comes up to tell them he thinks someone’s here for them. Surprised, both Do Woo and Ji Eun look over the balcony to see who it is. Ji Eun doesn’t recognize her, but of course Do Woo does; his face lights up and he tells Ji Eun to leave and leaps away in search for his phone.
Hyun Woo stops Soo Ah on the street and brings her back to the restaurant; meanwhile, Ji Wun assures Do Woo that whatever he’s doing with this woman, she’s on his side, not Hye Won’s. Do Woo waves her away, still looking for his phone.
Soo Ah heads up the stairs to Do Woo’s balcony, at the same time that Do Woo starts to go down to see her. They look at each other on the stairs, unable to hide their happiness. Do Woo invites Soo Ah in and offers her a drink, looking blatantly thrilled to see her; Soo Ah, on the other hand, fidgets awkwardly and avoids eye contact. She finally opens up about her situation, explaining that her husband moved her stuff to his mother-in-law’s house, and that she’s been wandering around ever since. She really did want to go on a drive with him, she adds, but couldn’t say it then.
But Do Woo just smiles gently and tells her he’s glad she came. Soo Ah says that she’s used to working like crazy and taking care of Hyo Eun. Everyone else has it just as hard as she does, she says, but somehow it’s so hard for her. And yet, she says:
“When I board a flight to an unfamiliar city, I go for a short walk. The wind blows, and my worries are gone. It makes me wonder why I was worried earlier. It helps me back on my feet. It feels like that when I’m with you.”
Do Woo listens quietly, and then smiles at her: “That’s the greatest compliment in the world.”
At the moment, Hye Won drives up to Do Woo’s office and notes his car parked in front. She calls his cell, but Do Woo ignores the call without even checking the phone, telling Soo Ah that he doesn’t have any urgent business. Spotting Hye Won, however, Hyun Woo heads outside to stall for time, but he doesn’t have an excuse as to why he can’t let her in. Thankfully, Hye Won suddenly remembers that she forgot the brochures in the car and turns back for a moment.
Do Woo’s phone rings again, and even though he insists that he doesn’t have to answer, Soo Ah goes to find the phone herself and hands it to him. It’s from Hyun Woo, who tells him: “I don’t know if it’s unnecessary to tell you this, but… Hye Won is here.”
Do Woo’s face freezes, but he takes it in stride. Hanging up, he takes Soo Ah’s hands and tells her earnestly that she’s welcome anytime she feels frustrated. But for now, his wife is coming upstairs, so she’d better go downstairs to Hyun Woo. Soo Ah is shocked at his words, and hurries down the stairs, gripping the railing. Thankfully, Hyun Woo keeps Hye Won distracted so she won’t look up and see Soo Ah coming out of Do-woo’s office.
When Hye Won goes inside the restaurant, Soo Ah is sitting at the bar as if she’d only come for a beer the whole time. She sits with her back turned to Do Woo and Hye Won, listening as he rejects her offer to have a drink. Hye Won nods good-naturedly and orders a beer to go from Hyun Woo, but when he tells her he’s just sold out, she unthinkingly offers up her own beer—and immediately regrets it, having drawn attention to herself. Hye-won doesn’t think it strange, however, and thanks her for the drink.
As Do Woo follows Hye Won out, Hyun Woo pours Soo Ah a shot of hard alcohol. She takes a sip, and the burning reminds her of her time with Do Woo: the airport, the rain, the sunrise—and most of all, seeing the lunar eclipse in the cockpit of the airplane. She recalls the pilot’s words: “You feel like you’re going to burn up, but you’ll be fine.”
Gasping for air, Soo Ah relates: “I feel like my body is going to burn up… but nothing is happening to me.”
After Do Woo and Hye Won take their leave from the bar, Soo Ah is so rattled that her hand shakes as she gives her credit card to Do Woo’s friend, Hyun Woo. This doesn’t go by Hyun Woo and he passively tells her goodbye… as well as a veiled warning for her not to forget about today. Soo Ah looks at him with surprise. “You must have sensed something,” Hyun Woo continues. And he tells her once more not to forget, curious if she even knows what these feelings are. Soo Ah merely replies that she won’t forget.
After dropping Hye Won off at home with her car, Do Woo tells her he’ll head back to the bar to pick up his own car. He goes back on foot and calls Soo Ah just as she’s about to get in a taxi. Soo Ah hesitates at seeing his name, waiting to take the call until she’s inside. Do Woo seems disappointed to hear she’s already leaving and asks if he can see her. Soo Ah smiles faintly and says she’s already gone pretty far. And besides, the short walk that she needed away from her troubles is now over. Meaning it’s time to get back to reality.
She ends the call there, opening the car window as if to wake herself up. Although it really looks like she wishes her “walk” with Do Woo could’ve lasted a little bit longer. Do Woo’s looking pretty deflated after that conversation too, but he perks up a bit to see that Hyun Woo’s prepared another round of beer. Hyun Woo watches his friend drink and blurts out, “If you cheat on your wife, I won’t see you again.” Hyun Woo elaborates that he’d always thought Do Woo was the best guy, and far too good for someone self-centered like Hye Won.
“Eun-woo…” Do Woo says Annie’s Korean name as if that answers everything. Hyun Woo nods in understanding. He knows that someone like Annie deserved the amount of love Do Woo was capable of giving. He also knows that look Do Woo gave Soo Ah after she gave up her drink to Hye Won. Do Woo acknowledges the feelings there, but he sighs that he’s unsure of what will happen.
Soo Ah returns home late after packing up the last of her stuff from the apartment. Hyo Eun greets her at the door and jokes that she shouldn’t have left just because they had a little tiff. Soo Ah gives Hyo Eun a grateful smile and asks for a much-needed hug.
The next morning, Hyo Eun and Soo Ah recall another time when Soo Ah had come back late. A younger, tiny Hyo Eun (Omg, so cute!) had been waiting for her mom after swimming, chanting “She’s coming, she’s coming.” When Soo Ah finally did come, she’d found Hyo Eun sitting on top of a high wall, since she had wanted to make sure she’d be totally visible to her mom. In the present, Soo Ah grips Hyo Eun’s wrists and tells her to always chant things like “It’ll work, it’ll work,” or “I can do it, I can do it,” when having a hard time. However, when Soo Ah glances down at their wrists, she instantly flashes back to when Do Woo had held her hands at the bar.
Soo Ah walks out of the room to encounter with her mother-in-law, who jumps up as if she’d forgotten she was no longer living alone. Soo Ah's mother-in-law has Soo Ah sit to lay down some ground rules, handing over an actual contract that lists her daily activities, her sleeping schedule, and the living expenses she wants Soo Ah to pay for during the next six months.
Before visiting Annie’s columbarium, Do Woo and Uncle Suk enter her old room, only to stare in shock when they discover it’s completely empty. Suk angrily shouts out to Hye Won, asking why she cleared everything out.
Soo Ah hangs out with old friend Hyun Joo again, and they chat about work and parent life while also reminiscing about the fun times they shared together as flight attendants. Thoughts of Do Woo keep finding their way into Soo Ah’s head, so she tries to shake it off by asking Hyun Joo why she quit her job so long ago. Hyun Joo explains that after having her third child, it was just too much for her. She tried to juggle it all at once, but after one of her flights one day, she happened to notice a woman hanging out her laundry on a balcony.
“She looked so peaceful,” Hyun Joo remembers. It was then that she took a good look around her and questioned why she was living so crazily day after day. And that’s when she quit. Soo Ah’s face starts to crumple at the story, but she laughs it off, saying she must be feeling stressed. Like the awesome friend she is, Hyun Joo offers to lift her spirits up with a waffle and tons of whipped cream.
After leaving her friend, Soo Ah thinks to herself that it’s time to set things right with Do Woo. Even though nothing even started, she’ll go over to his office and tell him that whatever they had is over. “He’ll probably laugh, right?” she thinks, “He’ll be shocked, right? As if we did anything.” Even so, she’s determined to tell him. “But if I go… If I go and he’s not there…” her thoughts drift off.
As it turns out, Do Woo isn’t there. Instead, Soo Ah comes face to face with Hyun Woo again, who voices her his exact thoughts: “You knew [Do Woo] wouldn’t be here, yet you hoped he’d be here. But you’re relieved he’s not here.” Soo Ah tries to explain that she came with the intention of picking something up and only talking to Do Woo if he just so happened to be there. Hyun Woo muses that she’s pretty indecisive. I swear, this guy is a walking conscience. Nevertheless, Hyun Woo lets her go up to Do Woo’s office. Before she does, she asks Hyun Woo not to jump to any conclusions, since it’s making her uncomfortable.
Annie’s memorial service is small and quiet, but her family sends her off with love. Do Woo glances down at Hye Won next to him, but she refuses to look at him, much less at Annie’s picture. Once everyone files out, Do Woo gets a text from Hyun Woo saying that “that ajumma” is in his office.
Soo Ah does find the gift she’d left behind last night, but she lingers in the office for some time, admiring the architectural models on Do Woo’s desk. She gets a text from Do Woo asking if she’s still there, making her gasp and jump to her feet. She immediately texts back that she was just leaving, but Do Woo’s response makes her stop: “Raise the blinds.”
Soo Ah does as he says and is overwhelmed with the stunning view of Seoul that high up. She grabs a stool and sits right in the center, gazing out at the city. The way her entire face lights up is so endearing – it’s as if all the worry she’d been suppressing has been knocked right out of her. Do Woo’s text continues to tell her to enjoy the view for a short while and rest comfortably.
Uncle Suk confronts Hye Won about a call he just received confirming that there’ll be construction in Annie’s room. Hye Won coldly states that she’s changing the bedroom into her own personal library, and frankly, she doesn’t care what Suk or even Do Woo has to say about it. She doesn’t want to leave a single trace of Annie in there.
“Does that make everything disappear?” Suk argues. It’s not like erasing Annie from everyone’s memory will erase Annie’s entire existence. Hye Won doesn’t drop her gaze and spits out that Suk should watch what he says – only she, as the biological mother, has the right to say this or that about Annie at this point.
Hye Won is still frustrated as Do Woo drives her to work, muttering that Suk has never liked her, but that she’s not going to hold back any longer. Do Woo just keeps driving, unsure of what to do or say.
Once Do Woo drops her off, Hye Won’s face softens as she tells him not to let what she said about being Annie’s biological mother to heart – it was meant for Suk. Do Woo says that he doesn’t mind it, but with Suk being like an older brother to him, he asks Hye Won to give him some respect. Do Woo takes off without another word, leaving Hye Won somewhat uneasy.
Do Woo hurries toward the bar, texting Soo Ah to take a step out onto the balcony next. He calls her after that, explaining how Hyun Woo owned the bar first and then Do Woo and Ji Eun set up the studio above some time later. Soo Ah smiles as their conversation grows more comfortable and casual. She says that talking to him like this puts her heart at ease.
“Just talking?” Do Woo wonders. He seems a bit uneasy about this, then asks how long she wants to just talk on the phone, since she claims they’re both too busy to be meeting. “For how long? How many months?” he asks, only for Soo Ah to reply, “Forever.” Do Woo wonders if there is such a relationship where people talk on the phone their whole lives, which is when Soo Ah switches the subject to the reason she came in the first place.
She had something to say, she adds, but when Do Woo asks if he should come over, her reply is a quick: “No. Never.” But then Soo Ah pauses at the projection slide she mindlessly turned on. A slide of a traditional Korean tassel with very familiar-looking beads. She remembers seeing this tassel at the exhibition with Hyo Eun in Malaysia and learns that it’s his mother’s work. It all comes to a very harsh realization as Soo Ah pieces it all together: the exhibition, the dropped bead, the girl in the car accident.
“Did Annie have a Korean name?” Soo Ah asks, her voice dripping with fear. Do Woo answers that it was Seo Eun Woo, giving the final confirmation Soo Ah needed. Her head reels as she realizes Annie was the poor girl who had gotten hit by the car in Malaysia. The revelation proves too much for Soo Ah and she quickly comes up with an excuse to hang up on Do Woo.
She rushes out, dropping to the stairs for a moment to breathe, and then hightailing it out of there. She gets outside just as Do Woo is nearing the building, but she can barely look at him. She quickly hails a taxi and leaves before Do Woo can close the distance.
She finds herself wandering to the soccer field of Hyo Eun’s school, and she drops to her knees, emotionally drained. Suddenly, a soccer ball comes hurling right at her. She catches it, though the force sends her falling backwards. Hyo Eun and her friends ask if she’s okay, but she just lies there on the ground, looking up at the sky and thinking this must be a punishment from heaven.
Soo Ah tries to keep herself busy with cleaning, but when she runs out of things to do, she just takes a stool and sits in front of one of the windows, her head hanging low. She gets a call from Jin Suk, who decided to stay at their old apartment for now. He gives her his usual speech about Hyo Eun’s education and how preparation for boarding school is for everyone’s benefit.
But, right now, Soo Ah is in no mood to argue and just goes along with it, catching Jin Suk off guard.
That night, Soo Ah stays in that spot by the window, beer in one hand and phone in the other as she chats with Mi Jin. Mi Jin scoffs that Jin Suk must be living it up since he’s given himself freedom from parenting or house chores. Soo Ah says it can’t be helped – it’s the price she has to pay for bringing Hyo Eun back home.
Soo Ah takes a swig of beer before gathering the strength to bring up Do Woo. She reveals that the girl who’d died at the airport was indeed Do Woo’s daughter, just as she’d initially feared. And she feels terrible, thinking she could’ve stopped Annie and prevented all these bad things from happening.
Mi Jin sits up, shocked to hear Soo Ah crying. Mi Jin: “Are you having a hard time?” Soo Ah: “No, I just… I feel so sorry towards that child.”
Soo Ah watches Hyo Eun as she sleeps, thinking that if only she’d grabbed Annie’s wrist, Hyo Eun wouldn’t be here right now. She would’ve stood up to her husband. And she never would’ve met Do Woo.
The next day, Suk shows Do Woo the little treasure box he’d made for Annie. Luckily, he got to it before Hye Won could toss it out. And inside, they find the cell phone Annie had used before going to Malaysia.
At home, Mi Jin hops onto her computer to check her next flight schedule, hoping to God that she doesn’t get Jin Suk as the assigned pilot. Unfortunately, she does. “Should I quit being a flight attendant?” she wonders, grimacing at the name.
Soo Ah checks her schedule as well, and to her disappointment, she’s been given a handful of flights that will take up most of her time – time away from Hyo Eun. Her mother-in-law is displeased of course, since this inevitably places her on babysitting duty. Soo Ah says that she will get her brother Je Ah to babysit tomorrow, so all she asks is that her mother-in-law cooperate for the time being.
Meanwhile, Jin Suk just sits there with his arms crossed, saying in a low voice that this is all because Soo Ah brought Hyo Eun home. As they head out, he asks if Soo Ah regrets bringing their daughter back now. Thankfully, Soo Ah isn’t about to take this from him.
Before he can leave, she holds his car door open, and tells him not to act as if he’s watching someone else’s business. Jin Suk stubbornly says that he’s going to follow his own plan for the next six months, prompting Soo Ah to slam the door in his face.
Do Woo gets Annie’s old phone restored, but for some reason, there are no messages or phone calls listed. The only things left are a few pictures of an unknown field, all with dates posted on the bottom. Do Woo investigates it further with Suk, who recognizes it as the place Annie would go to see her biological father.
Soo Ah tries to get a schedule change with one of the higher-ups, and though her boss agrees to work on it, she urges Soo Ah to stop putting so much on her shoulders and to consider dropping either her work, her home life, or childcare in order to make things more manageable.
That only makes Soo Ah feel even more conflicted, and as she makes her way down the terminal, she spots the same bench where she spent the night talking with Do Woo. She rests on that bench now, looking at Do Woo’s number on her phone. She changes the name from “Annie’s Dad” to “Seo Do Woo” and then finally, to simply “Airport.”
Soo Ah gets a call from her mother in law saying Je Ah and Hyo Eun never showed up, so Soo Ah immediately contacts her brother. Worried, Je Ah explains that Hyo Eun must’ve run off to see a soccer game and now he can’t find her. Soo Ah instructs him to go back to the school and to check any high places. Je-ah goes mad running through the entire neighborhood until he finally finds Hyo Eun sitting on top of a high wall, just like when she was little.
Do Woo finds the same place where he used to drop Annie off to see her real father. A man who seems to work there lets Do Woo into what looks like a pottery shop. The man explains that Annie would always come through the entrance only to go out the back door. She never actually met her father – she came there in hopes that one day, he would come. And whenever the man who worked there asked when her dad would arrive, Annie would only respond with, “He’ll come.” But he never did.
Do Woo ventures out the very door Annie would go through to find the wide, open field that was photographed on her phone.
Back in Malaysia, host mom Mary receives a box containing evidence from the scene of Annie’s death. Inside, she finds the phone Annie had been using before she died, the calls to Hye Won still listed.
As Hye Won watches workers refurbish Annie’s old room, she recalls the last conversation she had with her daughter, which we finally get to hear. Annie had wanted to come home and tell the rest of the family “everything.” She tried to convince her mom that she wouldn’t make any mistakes. Hye Won then resorted to bribing Annie with her real father’s location if she promised not to come.
Annie had insisted she’d find her dad on her own. Hye Won’s frustration blew up: “Why do you think your dad sent you to me? You really believe that he’s wandering around with his projects and suffering financially?” Hye Won says something else we don’t get to hear, but whatever it was, it definitely shook Annie.
With every step in the airport, Soo Ah is flooded with memories of Do Woo. She receives the pictures of the field from Do Woo and pauses before texting back that Annie must’ve been waiting for someone.
Now standing where Annie once stood, Do Woo takes in the scenery, his heart in his throat his it dawns on him what Annie must’ve felt. Constantly waiting and waiting, holding onto every ounce of hope that someday, someone would eventually come.
Just then, Do Woo gets a call from Soo Ah and numbly answers by saying, “Can you see me?” Soo Ah gets tears in her eyes as she confirms that Annie must’ve been waiting, even though in her heart she knew no one would come.
Do Woo doesn’t answer that and instead asks if they can meet. “I miss you,” he says.
Soo Ah sucks in a breath, the feelings she’d tried so hard to hide away now rising to the surface.
Personal Thought:
This episode works more on the relationship progress between our main lead, though now we get a better understanding with each characters' role and past. I never thought that Annie was actually Hye Won's biological daugther and Seo Do Woo is not her biological father. Because on last episode, Do Woo seemed to love her so much meanwhile Hye Won tried many times to stop her coming back to Korea. Is that because she's her illegitimate daugther? What a scary world.
And so, that means Seo Do Woo is still a single who doesn't have child at all, yet he's married to the girl legally? #Ihopeso. If that's the case, then the story would seems to make more sense though I don't know why Lee Sang Yoon always choose a drama with marriage couple as the background story. Let's admit it to Twenty Again when he falls for an Ahjumma and he seems as the third party though we can't blame it wholy to him since the other guy was also at fault.
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