On The Way to Airport - Episode 5 and 6 Summary

Soo Ah (played by Kim Ha Neul) inspects the plane the next day when the flirty flight attendant, Joo-yeon, asks if she remembers her—Joo Yeon had gossiped about “Pilot Park’s wife” the last time they’d worked together, and she wants to apologize now. Soo Ah, however, coolly brushes it off. When she’s alone, the professional façade crumbles as she checks the messages from Do Woo (played by Lee Sang Yoon): Can we meet? I want to see you. She hesitates before powering off the phone. Soo Ah checks the passenger list for Do Woo’s name. When Do Woo finally appears late, he walks calmly toward her, their gazes locked, until Joo Yeon guides him to his seat. 

Hye Won (played by Jang Hee Jin) finishes up a meeting at home with her business friend, but they haven’t discussed anything—her friend wants to wait for Do Woo, but he’s not picking up Hye Won’s calls. Outside, an older lady waits. It turns out that this is Ji Eun’s mother, who is old friends with Grandma. They reminisce about the old days and laugh together, but Ji Eun’s mom isn’t here to talk about old times.

Hye Won’s business friend explains that Ji Eun’s mom’s grandson is approaching his first birthday and is planning to make his identity seal. Hye Won scoffs that it’s not important enough a matter to require Do Woo’s presence, but her business friend insists that Hye Won’s house has been an important part of the business for years. 

More importantly, as Ji Eun’s mom explains to Grandma, she wants to put an end to Do Woo and Ji Eun’s small business and expand the idea of mixing culture with practicality into a franchise, making Do Woo director. She plans to send Ji Eun to Sydney for an exhibition, though Ji Eun thinks that she’s being sent away for being unsuccessful. According to Hye Won’s friend, Ji Eun’s mom wants to make Grandma’s work and name famous. That’s all she knows for now though, and future information will be decided when Do Woo returns. 

Soo Ah struggles to stay professional on her flight with Do Woo staring at her. However, when he waves her over for a glass of red wine, she has to accommodate him. As she pours his wine, he lifts his hand until they are nearly touching, and later, when Soo Ah helps another passenger, he purposely squeezes past her through the aisle, placing his hands on her back as he sidesteps her. She freezes at his touch, and when he calls her to the back for “assistance,” she follows. Joo Yeon catches sight of her following him and of Do Woo drawing the curtains closed after them. 

Finally alone, Do Woo turns to face her. She tries to eke out a warning, but he only reaches out, his hand hovering closer and closer to her face, until at last he drops it back to his side. Soo Ah looks up at him, both relieved and disappointed, and he laughs at himself for running here just to see her. He asks how long she’ll be in Cebu, and she stammers that she’s returning on the next flight. In response, he says, “We’re on shaky territory—you know that, right?” He tells her that they should return on the same flight when Joo Yeon suddenly tears away the curtain, startling them both. Joo Yeon watches suspiciously as Do Woo and Soo Ah give awkwardly polite goodbyes and part. 

Joo Yeon finds Soo Ah in the back and asks if she knew Do Woo before. Soo Ah answers: “He’s my daughter’s… friend’s… dad.”Joo Yeon comments that the atmosphere sure seemed heavy, but Soo Ah quickly changes the subject. In Cebu, Do Woo isn’t able to buy a returning ticket in time. Soo Ah looks at Do Woo’s empty seat and returns to Korea alone, but as she returns home, she thinks, “The feeling of being alone… is becoming unbearable.” 

In Incheon Airport, Mi Jin runs into Ji Eun, who is waiting for her flight to Sydney. Mi Jin asks about Do Woo, and Ji Eun sighs that he and Annie were so close even though they weren’t related. Mi Jin immediately texts Soo Ah the newsflash. When Soo Ah calls Do Woo, he doesn’t pick up—but just as she gets up to leave, she gets a call from “Airport.” 

Still on the phone, she turns around to see him just a few feet away, still unaware of her presence. He tells her that he’ll come find her, but Soo Ah wants to confess something instead: “I returned without you, and it felt like I was breaking a promise. But these emotions… they’re not right.” When he finally looks up to see her, he starts to walk toward her—but Soo Ah orders him to stop. Soo Ah finally explains that she saw Annie’s death firsthand and knew she was Seo Eun-woo. She knew that if she’d stopped the girl, she could have saved Do Woo’s precious daughter, and it makes her miserable. 

Soo Ah: “But worse… after hearing that she’s not your biological daughter, I thought to myself that maybe I could feel less guilty—that it would be okay to tell you that I saw Annie. I tried to justify Annie’s death to myself, and to make sense of it. But none of this makes sense. Ever since our first meeting, everything about you doesn’t make sense.” Lowering the phone, she gets on the airport bus and takes off. Do Woo drives home alone and stops on the bridge to take a photo of the sunrise for Annie. “Annie, can you see the sunrise?” he asks. 

When Soo Ah returns home, Grandma flatly orders her to sit down and shows her Hyo Eun’s abysmal test scores. Soo Ah gasps, starting to make an excuse for her negligence, but when she recalls her last flight flirting with Do Woo, she insists that work is fine. Grandma agrees and laments how nice it would be if she could get a steady paycheck. Soo Ah has an idea and offers Grandma that monthly paycheck that she wanted. Grandma suddenly brightens, promising get Hyo Eun’s grades up in no time. Afterward, Soo Ah sits on the edge of Hyo Eun’s bed while she sleeps, looking upon her face in a mixture of emotions. 

Uncle Suk asks Grandma if Annie ever asked about her biological father. Grandma tells him that she’d tell her that he was good with his hands. Uncle Suk explains that Do Woo recently went to go visit him, but that Annie’s father wasn’t there. Grandma scoffs, sure that Do Woo must have simply went to the wrong house when she’s hit by a sudden, confusing flashback about Annie. Noting her pain, Suk quickly agrees. Grandma tells him to move into the house with Do Woo. 

Do Woo sits by a basketball court, thinking about Soo Ah’s confession. When the ball rolls to his side, he picks it up and shoots a perfect three-pointer to the sound of cheers. Do Woo starts to smile, but it quickly fades away. Back at home, Soo Ah puts a tired Hyo Eun to bed before she gets another phone call from “Airport.” She ignores it. 

Do Woo heads to his office, where Hye Won is waiting for him. He comments that it’s unusual for her to come all the way here to talk, and she points out that it proves she’s making an effort. Deciding that she’s going to sleep at his office tonight, she takes his hand and tells him that her dream is to protect the things they’ve lost and to preserve those ties. He notes her serious tone, but she cuts him off with a sudden kiss. Do Woo is still for a moment, but relents, kissing her back. 

At home, Soo Ah looks out the window while sipping a beer when she receives a call from Jin Suk (played by Shin Sung Rok) in Sydney. He tells her to keep Hyo Eun’s grades away from Grandma before finishing off with a, “Oh, and… I’ve arrived safely in Sydney.” The sweet couple talk surprises her, and he quickly hangs up to end the awkwardness. 

Jin Suk calls Mi Jin next, who stares at her phone in distaste and ignores his call. Ji Eun is hanging out and complaining about her business in Mi Jin’s room with her until someone knocks loudly at the door. Thinking it’s Jin Suk, she tells Ji Eun not to open it, but it’s just a couple of younger coworkers who want to know about the Sydney bar. Mi Jin snaps at them to not go to places like that. 

Ji Eun teases Mi Jin about talking from experience—Mi Jin had drunkenly told her she met her ex-boyfriend at a bar in Sydney. Ji Eun rattles off everything she knows: Mi Jin’s boyfriend lived with her for a while, then abroad, and then with other women—until he finally ended up marrying her friend. (I had a feeling that she likes Jin Suk in the past)

Meanwhile, Hye Won lies with her eyes closed at Do Woo’s office while Do Woo stares out the window. After a moment, he says, “Hye Won… I went to visit Annie’s father a few days ago… but they said there was no one like that there.” Hye Won immediately snaps to attention and demands to know how Do Woo knew about Annie’s father. Do Woo tells her that he had driven Annie there a few times, and Hye Won goes livid, demanding to know what else they were hiding from her. She accuses him of giving Annie false hope, finally explaining that Annie’s father is dead. Hye Won didn’t want Annie to know that her father died so she tried to keep up the act. 

Do Woo is confused—if Annie never even knew her father, then why would she continue to try to go to that house? Hye Won answers that she must have been imagining him. He asks why she never told him, and she answers that she didn’t want it to seem like she still had feelings for a dead man. But when Do Woo asks when he died, Hye Won has had enough: “Are you interrogating me? Annie is my biological daughter. Why does it matter to you?” She tells him that she forbade Annie to talk about her father because she loved Do Woo and wanted him to be Annie’s only father. 

Do Woo steps toward her, but Hye Won holds up a hand. “Please… let’s never talk about this again.” She tells him that the woman that existed before he met her is gone now. He goes to her, but she stops him and goes to sit at the bar alone. 

Do Woo thinks about the first time he met Annie—she was wearing the same sweater as the one in Grandma’s flashback, and Hye Won hadn’t responded when he’d first asked who she was. Later, he was driving her somewhere in his car when he’d asked whether she looked more like her mom or her dad, and she’d had a very detailed response—she claimed to have her mother’s eyes when she smiled, but her father’s eyes when she was unhappy, and the exact same nose as her father. He sits alone in his office, unable to believe that all of that was a lie. 

Hye Won comes back while Do Woo is in the shower and grabs his keys from the table. She sneaks out to check his recent GPS entries but fails to find anything, and hesitates before picking up his phone for information. However, she doesn’t know the password and gives up. 

Soo Ah is taking a walk outside when she decides to call Do Woo. Hye Won sees the caller ID as “Hyo Eun’s Mom” and picks up the phone, but just as Soo Ah starts to speak, Hye Won hears Do Woo shut off the shower and hurriedly hangs up. 

Do Woo goes downstairs, surprised that Hye Won’s still there. She mentions that he got a call from “someone’s mom” while he was showering, and how strange it is for someone to call this late. Do Woo tells her that he’s been in touch with a few of the parents from Malaysia, and that they call occasionally after hearing about Annie. 

Hye Won only sighs that he’s talking about Annie again. She notes that he never even noticed her when she was working as an intern, and he only took interest in her after meeting Annie. Do Woo takes that harshly and asks, “Are you saying that I only married you because of Annie? Is that how you see me?” He tells her that he’d always been interested in her, and that Annie was a plus. “I wouldn’t marry someone out of sympathy. Don’t question my love.” 

Hye Won starts to leave, but Do Woo has one more thing to say: Annie was always grateful to Hye Won for giving up her youth and life for her. She kept her meeting her father a secret because she cared about her. Suddenly, however, Hye Won tells him that Ji Eun is thinking about leaving their business. 

Do Woo calls Soo Ah back once Hye Won’s gone, joking that it’s a big faux pas to call a married man in the late hours, and that he and his wife usually do “it” around then. Flustered, Soo Ah starts to hang up, but Do Woo laughs. He tells her that he scored a perfect three-pointer yesterday on the basketball court, and he called to tell her. 

When he asks where she is, she lies and tells him that she’s on her veranda, where she can see the Han River. He offers to come meet her, but she can’t leave because of Hyo Eun. So instead, he turns around on his own balcony to face the Han River, so they can at least pretend they’re looking at each other. He turns the conversation to her confession, comforting her for having kept it bottled up for so long. 

“We talk every so often and see each other once in a while—is it that hard for you?” he asks. “For me… your existence alone is a comfort.” He tells her that he thought he could simply comfort himself until he’d met her, but he’d been arrogant. 

Do Woo:“My mother told me that before people die, they always find a way to leave behind something they know their loved ones will need, through some kind of mysterious sense. Before Annie died… she brought you to me with her mysterious powers. If she hadn’t, how could we have met like this? The emotions that you say are too much for you… I’m sorry, but I can’t live without them. They’re a gift from my daughter.” Soo Ah can’t hold back her tears any longer and excuses herself, saying the wind at the Han River is too strong before hanging up. 

At her last words, Do Woo realizes that Soo Ah isn’t on her veranda after all, and immediately heads out toward the river. He calls her again, and Soo Ah tells asks now: “Do you think it’s possible to have this kind of relationship? Between a married man and a married woman?” Do Woo: “I think it’s possible. It’s not like we set out to do this. It happened naturally, and we started to need it… all we need to do now is make it possible.” He laughs that such a thing is easy to say in words, but those pesky things called emotions are always in the way. 

Soo Ah tells him that she always feels guilty: for looking at him, for touching him, for yearning for him and waiting for him. But in return for having this relationship, she suggests having three “No’s” to force this relationship make a little more sense: no wanting, touching, or separating. And then one more thing: She doesn’t want to define what this relationship is. “Let’s leave it as an uncertain relationship,” she says. When he asks why, she says, “If we do that, it’ll last longer.” 

Do Woo agrees to think about it. After hanging up, Soo Ah can’t believe the things she just said. 

It’s not long before she gets another call from Do Woo—and this time, he’s right behind her. They walk toward each other, and he agrees to the three conditions. “I want to know what kind of relationship that is, and what kind of person you are.” 

The next day, Soo Ah struggles to hang up Do Woo’s framed gift somewhere around the house. Thinking back to the final moments of their conversation, they’d agreed to meet unexpectedly, by crossing paths if it so happened that way. “I want to know too,” she says to herself, “who you are to make me want to meet you, even like this.” 

Do Woo and Suk sit outside with a bottle of makgulli, trying to summarize the Annie family situation. According to Hye Won, she raised Annie alone, and Annie’s dad died a few years ago. But according to Annie, she received a gift from her dad in elementary school, exchanged a few letters with him, and even found out where he worked. Then, Do Woo decides, either Annie lied about him being alive, or Hye Won lied about him being dead—but he’s not sure whether it’s more important to find out who lied, or if he should at all. 

Later, Suk emails a former intern to ask about Hye Won, the intern he recommended, and asks for her application materials. Soo Ah, meanwhile, heads to Grandma’s ornament store. When she arrives, however, she finds Hye Won working on a project. Hye Won turns to ask if she has any questions. At that moment, however, Hye Won receives a phone call, and asks Soo Ah to come back later. 

When Hye Won picks up, it’s Mary, the homestay mom from Malaysia. Hye Won asks if she got rid of Annie’s things like she asked, and Mary stammers that of course she did. When the camera pans out, however, we see that Annie’s things are still safely in their boxes. Suk receives a phone call from the ex-intern he’d emailed. To his surprise, the intern doesn’t know anything about Hye Won since she left Grandma’s shop, and her application is sitting in a pile of disorganized files that will take forever to go through. 

Soo Ah walks around the periphery of the shop when suddenly she sees Do Woo, still sitting outside with his makgulli. He glances at her and sits up straight, unable to believe his eyes: “Is this really a coincidence?” 

She asks what he’s doing here, and he explains that he works here sometimes, or just chills with makgulli. He steps toward her, a boyish smile on his face, but she steps back at the same time—until Suk calls for him. Startled, Soo Ah grabs his wrist: “We have to run!” She obviously doesn’t know where she’s going, and so he takes her hand instead and leads her away until they find themselves in one of the traditional-style rooms, sitting close to one another.

Soo Ah and Do Woo hide out in one of the traditional houses, though Do Woo doesn’t understand why they’re hiding in the first place – they didn’t do anything. Soo Ah calms down a bit, saying, “Right. Why are we hiding?” Do Woo then asks if her coming here really was a coincidence. Soo Ah shuts down his idea of this relating to fate, insisting she came to find him. She knew Do Woo’s mother worked with preserving tradition, so Soo Ah came with some expectation, though she was still shocked to discover that Do Woo was actually here (she believes he’s here for work, not that he lives here).

“So you really did come intentionally,” Do Woo notes, “I’m even more touched.” He smiles sweetly at her, his gaze so strong that it takes her a few seconds before she can look away. Do Woo can tell Soo Ah’s gotten a little uncomfortable again, so he opens the window to ease the tension. Soo Ah admires the beautiful scenery outside while Do Woo admires her delighted expression. Damn, I didn’t think I’d swoon this early.

Elsewhere, Hye Won strolls outside as she talks to Ji Eun over the phone. Hye Won asks if she knows who this “Hyo Eun’s Mom” is, making Ji Eun go wide-eyed. She calls Hyun Woo right after, wanting to confirm if that woman she’d seen on the balcony was Hyo Eun’s Mom. Hyun Woo is his usual aloof self and doesn’t reveal much, but Ji Eun ignores him and rambles on that she should’ve done more to prevent Do Woo from marrying Hye Won when she gave off scary vibes.

Soo Ah jumps at the sound of Suk’s voice and shoves herself away from the window to hide. Do Woo smiles at her like she’s the cutest thing in the world and scoots over to cover her from view. Suk comes up to Do Woo, wanting to share newly found information from the employee who’d left before Hye Won was hired. Do Woo stops Suk there and tells him they’ll talk somewhere else, successfully driving him away for now. Once he’s gone, Do Woo leans in close to Soo Ah and suggests she wait a while before coming out. Before he leaves, he asks with another dimpled smile, “Why might I be here?”

After some time, Soo Ah heads out, pausing at the sight of her shoes, which Do Woo had neatly turned upright for her. As she finds her way out, Soo Ah notices she’s lost one of the buttons on her cardigan. Her eyes scan the ground until a friendly voice calls out to her. Grandma approaches her and begins tying a small intricate knot to replace the button. With a quick hand, Grandma finishes the knot and sews it onto Soo Ah’s cardigan. Soo Ah praises Grandma for her skill and gives her a grateful smile. They exchange their goodbyes, but the sight of Soo Ah closing the gate makes Grandma frown.

The image sets off a series of flashbacks. We see that Grandma had met Annie over a lost button as well. Grandma then saw a man hiding behind the gate and Annie hesitantly approaching Hye Won as if for the first time. And then later, Do Woo and Hye Won had brought Annie in to greet Grandma. Grandma had told the girl that they’d seen each other before, but Annie forced a smile, claiming this was their first meeting.

To make things even stranger, Suk informs Do Woo that there is no registered marriage and no Eun Woo listed in Hye Won’s files. Do Woo can’t seem to process this, so Suk looks him in the eye, asking, “Do you trust Hye Won?”

Grandma babysits Hyo Eun as she plays soccer with friends. When the ball comes Grandma’s way, she trips while trying to kick it, sending her straight to the hospital. Hyo Eun diligently works on her homework on Grandma’s hospital bed while she watches. Soo Ah then walks Hyo Eun to her tutoring class, but Hyo Eun refuses to go. Soo Ah argues she should go if she feels guilty towards Young-sook. Hyo Eun argues right back that Soo Ah should feel guilty too, since she obviously wasn’t working with the outfit she has on. She tells her mom to lie properly next time and stalks off.

Hye Won’s business friend meets with Do Woo to explain that the sponsorship given to him by Ji Eun’s mom will soon be cancelled, including the sponsorship of his office space. Hyun Woo reminds Do Woo that Ji Eun has always been reckless, so there’s no point in hearing her out. On that subject, Hyun Woo also brings up the fact that Ji Eun called about Soo Ah. And that Hye Won knows about her. Do Woo’s face falls.

Jin Suk and crew ready for their return to Korea. On the plane, Mi Jin deals with an angry passenger yelling for a blanket he can’t have until takeoff. The passenger won’t accept Mi Jin’s apologies, wanting the captain to come out and apologize instead. The guy’s about to lose it when Jin Suk surprisingly does step out to apologize. 

It shocks Mi Jin and the other flight attendants since he’s never done this before, though it finally gets the passenger to quiet down. Later, Mi Jin visits the cockpit to deliver coffee and to thank Jin Suk for saving her back there. And when she asks if he and his co-pilot want anything special to eat, Jin Suk just looks ahead and smirks. I really don’t like that look…

On the way home, Do Woo runs into Hye Won. She’s heard about the sponsorship getting cancelled and she’d like it if he didn’t continue his work with Ji Eun anymore. Do Woo becomes defensive, but Hye Won is tired of hearing the same old thing over and over again. Do Woo searches her face as he asks, “Why did you start this work? This work with my family, I mean.” Hye Won’s silence only furthers Do Woo’s uneasiness. He remembers Suk questioning if he really trusted Hye Won, and right now, it looks like he doesn’t. He walks away from her, and from the looks of it, Hye Won is looking pretty uneasy too. Maybe even scared.

Both Soo Ah and Do Woo go about the rest of their night, both alone, both thinking about the three conditions they’d promised to keep. In honor of that, Do Woo sends her a simple “Sleep well” text and smiles when she replies the exact same thing. But they can’t allow even those words for themselves – they both delete the exchange from their phones.

That morning, Grandma expresses to everyone that she no longer wishes to use her name. She’d rather watch others continue her work. Hye Won suggests having Do Woo run the business, earning some side-eye from him. Do Woo tells his mother it’d be hard on him, but Hye Won could certainly play an important role. Hye Won looks mighty uncomfortable now.

Grandma doesn’t notice this and casually brings up her first memory of meeting Annie and sewing her a new button. She remembers seeing a man with her who could’ve been her dad. Do Woo and Suk’s eyes widen at that, but Hye Won quickly states that that girl couldn’t have been Annie. Grandma nods, thinking it must’ve been her memory wishing for that girl to have been Annie.

Hye Won pulls Do Woo aside, telling him it would be unlikely for his mother to give her work without him in the picture. “You asked me why I started this work, right? It was because of your mother. Because of Master Go Eun Hee’s work.” For Hye Won, this is work she truly loves and she hates that it’s so underappreciated by the public.

“I believe you,” Do Woo says, “I believe in your sincerity towards my mother. If I didn’t believe even that, I wouldn’t be able to hold onto you.” But Hye Won can see his doubt and she acts hurt that he still doesn’t trust her about Annie’s biological father. Do Woo isn’t willing to let it go – if what Hye Won said is the truth and this father doesn’t exist, then what happens to the Annie Do Woo believed in? He lost her once and he doesn’t want to lose her again this way. He requests that Hye Won concede a bit.

The stress getting to him, Do Woo texts Soo Ah and asks what she saved his name as on her phone. He smiles to learn that she nicknamed him “Airport,” after the place they first met. He decides to nickname her as the place that comes second to the airport. A place they could coincidentally meet. He tells Soo Ah he’s heading to that location now, so she hurries out from her grocery shopping and replies that she’ll head there too. Do Woo: “Then, will we meet coincidentally again?”

Meanwhile, Grandma visits Suk’s workshop, and while she doesn’t find Suk, she does find Hye Won’s employee files tucked away. She picks it up, her eyes scanning over the family relations. The contents seem to shake her so much that she grips her stomach in pain. As it turns out, Soo Ah and Do Woo don’t get their coincidental meeting. Soo Ah ends up at the ornament shop and Do Woo ends up at the Han River. They text each other their current locations, figuring that these coincidental meetings could only happen once.

They sit and rest in their respective locations, only to discover that fate might’ve had something else in mind for them. Do Woo happens to be in the exact spot where Hyo Eun and Uncle Je Ah are playing soccer, and Soo Ah happens to be right in front of Grandma’s room. Grandma invites Soo Ah inside and takes a good look at her. Soo Ah mentions that Grandma’s gaze reminds her of someone else. Grandma laughs at that and then asks Soo Ah for a favor. As repayment for the button, she’d like Soo Ah to buy her a bowl of red bean porridge.

Do Woo looks up at the sky, asking Annie if she feels it’s unfair that he said he’d believe Hye Won’s words over hers. He tells her to give him a good kick then. Like clockwork, Hyo Eun’s soccer ball rolls right up to Do Woo. He locks eyes with Hyo Eun with a smile. The two sit together and catch up, Hyo Eun voicing her sadness over not getting to say goodbye to Annie when she’d tried to go to Seoul. Annie had wanted to go home all the time, but she never could, so Hyo Eun figured she wouldn’t actually go. This is news to Do Woo, and he’s shocked to hear just how much Annie missed him and everyone else.

Hyo Eun had assumed Annie couldn’t go back because of something scary like bullies, but Annie had responded cryptically with, “Do you know what’s really scary? Not being able to protect what’s precious to you. That’s what scares me the most.” Do Woo trudges home, now realizing just how much Annie was keeping from him. And with a newfound fire in his eyes, he promises Annie that he’ll find out what she’d wanted to protect.

Grandma happily finishes the red bean porridge Soo Ah bought for her. She tells Soo Ah how her own grandmother had enjoyed the same dish right before passing away. Grandma repeats the phrase her grandmother had always told her – that before anyone dies, they always do one thing they know their loved ones will need. Soo Ah smiles, remembering how Do Woo told her the same thing over the phone, though she doesn’t think much of it.

In return for the porridge, Grandma holds out a green bracelet similar to the bracelets Do Woo and Annie once had. She shakes her head when Soo Ah holds out her wrist and motions her over. She ties the bracelet around Soo Ah’s ankle instead, telling her to be good to her feet since she must always be traveling.

Grandma is suddenly hit with those same flashbacks of meeting Annie, and she wonders out loud why these images are coming to her. She turns to Soo Ah and asks her to deliver a letter she left for her son. But first, she wants Soo Ah to get Suk – Suk and no one else. Soo Ah runs out, but something makes her stop. She turns back towards the room just as we see the flashbacks all coming together for Grandma.

Annie had asked for a person named Kim Hye Won, pausing to look uncertainly at a man hiding behind her. Annie then approached Hye Won, telling her that her name was Eun Woo. Grandma concentrates on Hye Won’s lips moving now until she remembers Hye Won’s exact words: “You’re Eun Woo?” The memory is too overwhelming and Grandma’s eyes slowly close.

Soo Ah manages to find Suk and gets him rushing over to Grandma’s room. Hye Won follows Suk, asking him if he’s seen Do Woo. Soo Ah stops in her tracks. Her eyes follow Hye Won as it clicks with her memory of Do Woo’s wife in the bar. And then it clicks as to why Do Woo was here the other day. Soo Ah waits until she’s at home to confirm all of this. She calls the shop and starts to ask the intern if Grandma is related to Seo Do Woo when she hears someone else’s voice: host mom Mary.

Soo Ah hears Mary tell the intern that Do Woo was expecting her, but she can’t contact him. The intern explains that Do Woo’s mother collapsed, and that’s all Soo Ah needs to hear. She asks which hospital they’re staying in. After checking on his mother, Do Woo finds Hye Won in the hallway talking on the phone. All of Do Woo’s suspicions come crashing in until he’s stuck with that same question Suk had brought up: Does he really believe Hye Won?

Hye Won hangs up to tell Do Woo that Ji Eun’s mom is on her way. Then she asks if they can try asking Grandma about expanding the business. Do Woo angrily throws the door open, showing Hye Won his frail, unconscious mother. It at least gets Hye Won to drop the subject for now.

Do Woo and Suk stay with Grandma all night, with Do Woo refusing to leave his mother’s side. He thanks Suk for finding her and for giving her the red bean porridge. “That wasn’t me,” Suk tells him. It’s then that Do Woo realizes that the last person his mother must’ve seen was none other than Soo Ah. “Mother,” he says softly. “This person… Who is she?”

The next day, Soo Ah suddenly leaps up, remembering the letter Grandma had left Do Woo. But…It’s too late. In Grandma’s room, we see the family huddled over her, tears in everyone’s eyes. She’s gone. Soo Ah runs straight to the funeral home, her heart sinking to see Grandma’s name listed under the deceased. She heads back out into the fresh air when she gets a call from “Airport.”

“What are you doing out in the rain?” Soo Ah freezes at Do Woo’s voice. She frantically scans around her until she spots Do Woo sitting on a bench, looking right at her. At the same time, Mary spots Soo Ah, calling out “Hyo Eun’s Mom!” and gaining Hye Won’s attention. But Soo Ah can’t hear her – she can only concentrate on Do Woo now as she runs straight for him. It seems like miles for her, but she finally reaches him.

They just stare at each other, confirming that Grandma was Do Woo’s mother and that Soo Ah was the one who’d given her the porridge. With a trembling voice, Do Woo thanks her. Soo Ah can only cry, saying she doesn’t know how to comfort him. Do Woo answers that by desperately gripping her waist and releasing his sobs. Soo Ah immediately wraps her arms around him, and they just stay like that, letting the tears fall as they hold on to each other.

Personal Thought:

It's kinda strange for me actually to not understand the meaning delivered in one drama, specially in each episodes, the drama would probably want to tell its focus. Sadly, it was not for On The Way to Airport because I really have no idea as to where they are going to bring this story. 

Not to mention the background song, the cast, the editing scene or even the cinematography, everything was perfect. I had no complaints at all. But regarding the story line, I had many questions actually in mind. Why somehow I feel that this story encourage marriage couple to have affairs? And why Lee Sang Yoon always do this kind of drama? I still remember how he acted as a University Lecturer who falls for an Ahjumma who is married and have a son. I know, that there will be much triggers as to how things happened that way, either the spouse cheats on them or maybe there are lack of affections which resulted in an affair. I have no problem with this kind of story line, yet there are possibility that the true love or we can call it the one destined for is not someone they get married to. But with this kind of story line and considering the society values and norms, I think it's best to address this drama, specially the story line in a wise way rather than giving a false hope for the audiences.

I know up to these episodes, everything was still in a normal way. There is nothing that has crossed the line so far. Both of our leads also know there is a line they cannot cross over it. But a feeling might not go on the way you've always wanted. It's an unexpected thing and I think in more episodes to come, we would see some progress on it. Anyhow, I have a feeling that things might not end in a nice way. It's either with a divorce or a break up. That's the only choice but I guess the production team might focus on the healing of feelings rather than telling the choices someone has to choose.