Hye-Suk’s Sacrifice
In the latest episode of Bulgasal: Immortal Souls, Sang-Un stabs Hwal with a pair of scissors in order to get the truth. However, Hwal’s memories are fractured and obviously different to Sang-Un’s interpretation. When Hwal returns to his family, Eul-Tae’s words about him killing everyone echo in his mind. He immediately turns his attention to Hye-Suk, claiming she’s to blame for putting them in danger.
The family of the young woman who is living with them does not seem to accept her, and she decides to leave. However, Do-Yun and Si-Ho do their best to stop her from leaving. ..
Detective Kwon urges Hwal to let him try and find Eul-Tae. With his contacts, he can stay undetected and track him down without endangering the family. The thing is, Eul-Tae is smart and he uses the talents of Min-Su, a deranged killer, to go after Sang-Un.
Si-Ho tells Sang-Un that they need to stay away from her memories because they keep coming back. They may be memories of the past, but they also could be memories of the future. If she gets her memories back, it could mean a relationship with Hwal is going to be difficult.
Kwon’s memories are not making much sense, so he begins to eliminate properties in his name in order to find Eul-tae. Unfortunately, the final property he arrives at happens to be Min-Su, who menacingly clutches a shovel on her approach. The monster doesn’t strike though, but does tell him that Eul-tae isn’t there. Kwon can tell he’s not himself based on his mannerisms and confirms this to Captain Han in the car soon after. To avoid a nasty altercation, Kwon decides to leave.
Eul-Tae has been manipulating the family for his own gain, and now he’s ready to take them down. He’s set up the monster deaths as a way to get Sang-Un and Hwal to work together, but they won’t be able to resist. They must fight for their lives against Eul-Tae and his forces, or else they’ll all be destroyed.
With Hwal and Sang-Un on the run, we learn that the real targets here were actually Do-Yun, Hye-Suk and Si-Ho. The police are under orders from their higher ups, which leads them back to Eul-Tae. Captain Ham is unaware of this but he too is taken as collateral damage.Thankfully Kwon rings him first and warns the officer that he’s messing with dangerous people. The voice of Min-Su in the background is enough for Kwon to get a good sense of exactly where they are and scrambles up to find them.
As all the pieces begin moving into place, Eul-Tae rings Sang-Un and reveals that he’s doing all of this to show who Hwal really is. Only, when she passes the phone to Hwal, his words fall on deaf ears as Eul-Tae hangs up.
Eul-Tae has turned to Min-Su and offered up Si-Ho as a hostage in order to bring in Sang-Un. Unfortunately, this doesn’t go well for them, with Hye-Suk fatally wounded in the ensuing skirmish.
As Hwal walks through the abandoned building, he finds Kwon unconscious on the floor. Do-Yun and Si-ho are being held by Min-Su, who takes them away from Eul-Tae’s hideout. However, Hwal and Sang-Un notice Hye-Suk lying dead on the floor and are crushed. Hwal turns his rage against Captain Han but before he can kill him, Sang-Un jumps in and urges him not to give up his promise of killing humans. ..
The Episode Review
The death of Hye-Suk is a difficult event to stomach, as it comes off the back of Hwal being horrible to her all day.
Some people could argue that he doesn’t care about her death and is only angry about her shaman abilities being lost. However, the tear that almost formed in his eye seems to show that Hwal is really affected by her death. ..
Regardless of the outcome, Eul-Tae’s plan has grown more sinister and with Si-Ho and Do-Yun’s lives hanging in the balance, big questions remain over exactly who is going to make it out of this alive. ..
The similarities between Eul-Tae and Hwal feel a bit forced, mainly because the two are so different. I’m not getting the vibes about the pair being intrinsically linked with their motivations. Likewise, the romance between Hwal and Sang-Un has felt pretty labored and it feels forced. Thankfully, we don’t get a lot of that here. ..
The show manages to keep us guessing right the way through regarding the origin of these three characters, so we’ll have to wait and see where that leads next. For now, everything is left on a precarious knife edge ready for tomorrow’s follow-up!
