The episode then cuts to a scene where Seo-joon is filming for one of his upcoming projects. The director of the project keeps delaying his shoot and disrupting his schedule. Seo-joon’s manager Baek Ho-min too is unable to speak up for the actor as the assistant director of the projects seems to be under a lot of pressure. ..
Seo-joon plans to run away after abandoning the shoot. He explains that the assistant director and the rest of the crew were not sleeping well to meet the director’s demands. This could potentially disrupt the rest of the shooting schedule which is why Seo-joon was being the bad guy now so that the crew could rest.
On his drive back, Seo-joon threatens Ho-min by saying he will stop working on the rest of his schedule. He asks if Kim Pil-hyun, the CEO of his acting agency, TB Entertainment had found the man Seo-joon was looking for. When the CEO states that he was not yet found, Seo-joon throws a tantrum.
The CEO says that the man will be found soon and Seo-joon agrees to continue working for another day. Seo-joon goes back home and recalls a flashback scene of being greeted by Ji-woo at the door. In present time, Seo-joon enters an empty room and it is obvious that Ji-woo has left him after a sour breakup.
Seo-joon tries calling Ji-woo but his number is still unreachable. The next morning, Seo-joon has another flashback of the good times they had as the chef wakes his boyfriend up. That day Seo-joon is shooting an advertisement for a jewelry collection. ..
As he exits the green room, he steps on a bracelet belonging to the jewellery designer – Jung Sung-yoon. He offers to compensate her for the item of jewellery but she declines and asks him to compensate her by working hard on the advertisement.
After his shoot, Seo-joon visits Pil-hyun at the TB Entertainment headquarters. The CEO informs the actor that he had found the person he had been looking for. Pil-hyun states that Ji-woo’s partner Chef Kim Hyung-ki.
Pil-hyun reveals that Ji-woo had started his own restaurant – Ti Aspetto in his hometown. Curious about his ex-boyfriend, Seo-joon immediately leaves to visit Ji-woo. The restaurant is a three to four hour drive away from Seoul. Seo-joon states that Ji-woon had gone too far from him. ..
Ji-woo had broken up with Seo-joon by leaving a note by calling it quits before he disappeared without an explanation. He reveals how he managed to cope with Ji-woo’s disappearance with the hope that the chef would return someday but that never happened.
In the present day, Seo-joon tells the story of how he reached out to Ji-woo after learning that the chef had left him. He says that he only wanted to know what had happened and why the chef had left him.
Ji-woo’s restaurant is now closed, and the village chief tells Seo-joon that Ji-woo was not very friendly with the locals and his business was not even doing well because he served Italian food in a rural area.
Seo-joon, who had just been about to enter Ji-woo’s house, was left dumbfounded when the chef walked out of his house with a plate of food. Seo-joon then saw Ji-woo’s young child address Ji-woo as “dad” and shock Seo-joon. ..
The actor, Ji-woo, asked the little girl why she called Ji-woo her “dad” when her mother clarified that they were just close to the chef and were friends. Ji-woo told the lady that she didn’t have to explain herself and handed the plate of food to them asking them to eat by themselves. ..
Seo-joon is shocked when he learns that the girl he thought was his daughter is actually the chef’s daughter. He asks her not to call him just anyone her dad, and she explains that they share the same surname which is why she jokingly addressed him as her father. After the woman and the child leave, Seo-joon invites himself inside the chef’s house.
Ji-woo breaks up with Seo-joon. Seo-joon asks Ji-woo to explain why they broke up, but Ji-woo just leaves without an explanation. ..
Ji-woo and Seo-joon are on a date in the future. Seo-joon hopes that the two will live in a low-key town in a hut-like home, but Ji-woo says that it would be hard to imagine the two together after so many years. He states that he would still like to see it through. ..
The Episode Review
The show’s only redeeming quality is that it lasts for only 30 minutes.
The second season of “Running Man” has taken a leap and a lot has changed. I expected the lead couple, Seo-joon and Ji-woo, to have had differences but given the journey, the two had in the first season was very refreshing. It is very strange to have Ji-woo just up and leave in the second season after breaking up with Seo-joon over text.
If Pil-hyun had been friends with Ji-woo for years, I wonder why it took him so long to trace the chef. Nevertheless, it seems like our boys have differences, and knowing how most stories end with a happy ending, I wish the first season ended with a cliffhanger, perhaps having Ji-woo leave so that the plot would have built further up.
