Light Be With You!
Ji-hyo is asked if she remembers anything about the van that she was in when she was last seen. She shakes her head no. The policeman says that there were alcohol bottles found in the van. Did she drink anything other than that? Ji-hyo shakes her head no again.
Bo-ra shows the three boys the video she took while she and Ji-hyo were hiding in Si-guk’s old apartment. But the video is shaky and doesn’t show enough of the group of people chanting.
She and Ji-hyo discuss what to do. Bo-ra wants to follow the real estate woman while Ji-hyo wants to go to the police station. Bo-ra argues that the police are useless. She tells Ji-hyo to trust her but Ji-hyo says she already got burned once by trusting her, so how can she trust her again? She refers to the time when they were kids and Ji-hyo was passed out for three days. She asked if Bo-ra even bothered to look for her. Bo-ra says she doesn’t even remember what actually happened. The two argue about who cut off whom. Bo-ra walks away.
Ji-hyo is found unconscious in a field with a crop circle symbol on her notebook. Bo-ra, Ji-hyo’s younger sister, visits her at the hospital and later takes her away for questioning. It is revealed that Ji-hyo had seen the symbol in the field where she was found and had drawn it in her notebook. Ji-hyo then slaps Bo-ra across the face in tears, tearing a page from her notebook which reveals the crop circle symbol. ..
Captain Price’s café is a place where Bo-ra tests her strength by asking him to get out of a hand-lock. He easily does and even lifts her off her feet. Bo-ra is happy and tells him to come with her.
Detective Kim is trying to convince Ji-hyo about the group of people chanting in Si-guk’s old apartment. He doesn’t take her claims of a cult seriously and is frustrated when he realises Ji-hyo broke into the apartment.
Ji-hyo’s father calls her colleague Se-hee to ask her to have a serious chat with her about what’s going on with his daughter. Se-hee is hesitant at first, but after talking to Ji-hyo and getting to know her better, she decides that it’s the best thing for her daughter.
The woman, who is identified as the real estate woman, tells them that she has been following them and that she is there to help with their religious beliefs. She asks Captain Price and Bo-ra to leave because she does not want them to be recorded. The men refuse and continue to ask questions. Eventually, the woman leaves and the men leave with their video recorder.
In a separate room, the man admits to the group being a cult but asks the two of them to just quietly leave. Bo-ra lies and pretends to be suicidal, saying she now wants to know how all the people of this church are so happy. When the realtor comes in, Bo-ra hides her face by pretending to be crying.
It is a religious service that Cap will soon be attending. He is introduced to the group of churchgoers and they ask if he has seen the light. They refer to extra-terrestrial incidents, but do not call it that. Outside the room, a group of people are walking and singing together. Each of them has a set of cardboard VR glasses. Bo-ra asks what it is and a man tells her it is the March of the Blessing that the people do before the light calling service. It is not for newcomers.
Ji-hyo tries to find a link to Direct Kim on the internet.
She takes a phone from the toilet and walks outside to a busy street. She takes a video of herself on the phone, walking and talking with people, and posts it on her YouTube channel.
They head to a room where everything is dark except for a green light coming from everyone’s VR glasses. Ji-hyo sees her video streaming and contacts her to get out of there, but Bo-ra doesn’t listen. A woman stands in the middle and guides everybody. They talk about the divine light in the evil darkness. They talk about a Messiah coming. The woman removes her glasses and calls for the light to cleanse her body. Everybody else is also praying to be saved. Lights project stars all over the room and slowly balls of light float towards the middle, forming a 3D version of the crop circle symbol. The woman gets lifted into the air. Watching, Ji-hyo gets flashbacks of similar images from her childhood memory. At the same time, smoke begins to enter the room through a pipe. ..
Meanwhile, the man from earlier finds Bo-ra’s phone among her other belongings. He sees the notification about her live stream and opens it to find her video. ..
Bo-ra begins to feel disoriented from the smoke and rushes out of the room, coughing. The increasing views and follower count make her giddy with happiness but it’s short-lived as the man enters the stairwell and finds her. ..
Ji-hyo, a recent employee at the company, helps her friend, Se-hee, during a difficult time. Despite trying to have a talk with Ji-hyo, Se-hee hurriedly leaves work to go help her friend. Ji-hyo calls Detective Kim on the way.
When she reaches the building, she spots the man and recognizes him from the video. She chases after him and stops him from driving out of the building. She uses a fire extinguisher to force him out of his car, tackles him to the floor, and asks him where Bo-ra is. The cops soon arrive but end up arresting her instead of him. ..
Ji-hyo is at the police station when Bo-ra and Cap seem fine while Ji-hyo has to write a letter of apology to the man. She confronts him about the symbol but he doesn’t say anything. Even Bo-ra pretends to not know anything and Ji-hyo ends up discredited in front of Detective Kim.
Later, Bo-ra and the guys are celebrating her 1,000 followers when Ji-hyo interrupts and confronts her. Bo-ra says she doesn’t trust the police, which is why she didn’t say anything. She asks why Ji-hyo came to save her and Ji-hyo exclaims that it was her choice to do so.
A flashback shows a scene from the van, with young Bo-ra and Ji-hyo. Ji-hyo mentions how another student was talking about Bo-ra sniffing glue with some other students, but Ji-hyo doesn’t believe it. When Bo-ra asks why, Ji-hyo says it is her choice to believe Bo-ra over the other girl. ..
Ji-hyo, a college student, ends up drinking alcohol at the café and passing out. ..
Detective Kim finds the symbol in a case of mass suicide by elderly people. The symbol is drawn on the floor at the scene of the crime.
Ji-hyo is introduced to the missing Direct Kim by Bo-ra, who tells her that the man from the divine light church is looking for him.
The Episode Review
Although a lot of this is credited to Bo-ra rather than Ji-hyo, her infiltration into the cult definitely took the cake in this chapter. From the eerie chants to the 3D lights and the floating woman, there were plenty of visuals to enjoy.
The two girls fighting and working together is a dynamic that is as entertaining as ever. The significance of their shared past is also increasing and it seems Bo-ra knows, or remembers, more than Ji-hyo. Something tells me Bo-ra wasn’t to blame.
The mystery deepens as the twist reveals at the end that Direct Kim is actually Ji-hyo and Bo-ra’s ally. Detective Kim is slowly getting more involved, and I’m seeing the beginnings of a fun team. ..
Ji-hyo’s alien visions have been missing for a while now, and she hopes that the thread is picked up again soon.
