In a recent case, an art major student claimed to have been abducted by aliens who put a chip in her head. She said she could use the chip to communicate with them. Soon after, she disappeared. As Bo-ra puts up UFO stickers in the van, Ji-hyo says she wants to see the aliens with her own eyes.
Direct Kim, a blogger who has been critical of the divine light church, posts something on his blog that leads Bo-ra to believe he is the man from the church. When she barricades herself behind a door to avoid him, he admits to being Direct Kim and shows her proof. ..
The two girls enter Direct Kim’s house. He tells them that his wife and son are in New Zealand. He joined the church four years ago in an effort to find his daughter, but he hasn’t yet. Ji-hyo asks him about the crop circle symbol and the aliens but he says it’s nonsense.
Detective Kim, meanwhile, continues to investigate the elderly suicide case. He gets a call from Ji-hyo’s colleague, Se-hee, who tells him that she found his card while snooping through Ji-hyo’s things.
Kim tells the girls that he suspects a volunteer group called the Newbeginnings Peace Corps or NPC, within the church, of kidnapping his daughter. He plans to join them and find his daughter. However, he doesn’t have any concrete evidence, which frustrates Bo-ra. ..
Ji-hyo and Bo-ra run away on Ji-hyo’s scooter after stealing Direct Kim’s hard drive.
They search through the drive, where Direct Kim has saved all the church members’ social media pictures. After a while, Ji-hyo comes across a photo of a sketch. The sketch is of the exact place where Si-guk disappeared, where she found his watch.
The real estate woman, Seo Hwa-jung, and Direct Kim are practising her levitation in the church, with the help of a wired contraption. At the same time, Ji-hyo and Bo-ra try and break into her car. They manage to do so but are unable to switch on the GPS. By that time, Hwa-jung and Direct Kim come to the parking lot. Direct Kim stalls Hwa-jung while the two girls hide in the trunk of the car.
Oh Se-hee, a woman who has been in a relationship with Detective Kim for over two years, tells him that she hasn’t seen or heard from Ji-hyo in over a week. ..
Ji-hyo is hiding in the car when she begins to get flashbacks of her and Bo-ra in the field of reeds. A young Ji-hyo hols up the alien waves detector up to the sky. Bo-ra suddenly slaps her awake. Hwa-jung has left the car by a large house, somewhere far outside of Seoul. Bo-ra says they should investigate.
Bo-ra takes the alien waves detector and looks around the house. She sees an old woman inside and decides to investigate. Hwa-jung comes in with the food and calls out to Bo-ra’s ‘mother’. The old woman eats from Hwa-jung’s hand, then Bo-ra turns on the TV and watches as it starts to rain outside. ..
Detective Kim tells Se-hee that Si-guk might have joined a cult. Se-hee says she will help him.
After Hwa-jung leaves, Bo-ra and Ji-hyo search the house. The old woman seems oblivious to them. When a piece of fruit falls from her fingers, Ji-hyo hands her another piece. Bo-ra finds a photo album with pictures from the old woman’s past. A lot of them seem to have been taken at the same location - a place called “The Cliff”. ..
Ji-hyo and Si-guk go to another room and find it covered in a number of framed sketches. One of which is the photo they saw on the hard drive, of the place where Si-guk disappeared. Someone else arrives in a car but it turns out to be Direct Kim. He gives them a ride back, saying he lied because he knew they would get up to such antics. He tells them the old woman is the Holy Mother of the church and she’s the one who drew the pictures.
The woman in the pictures, Ms. Back Yoon-sun, has been identified by Bo-ra as the person who stole her photo album.
The group discusses how Yoon-sun was interviewed about her contact with aliens. She disappeared after the interview, never to be seen again. They think she was at the place in the photographs — Baekil National Welfare Centre. They look it up to find it is now New Hope Psychiatric Hospital. The place is four hours away in Jeonju. Cap agrees to drive them there.
Ji-hyo tells Bo-ra that she has been seeing strange things lately, things that make no sense. She says she can’t explain them, but they have been happening for an hour or so and she needs to leave before they do something dangerous. Bo-ra suggests that it could be a screen image — a phenomenon when the mind experiences something shocking and incomprehensible and so covers it up with something familiar.
Ji-hyo, the son of the ‘mother’, has been drawing in a sketch on an easel in front of the mother’s portrait. Seo Hwa-jung, the daughter of the ‘father’, is shocked to see what she believes is her mother’s true form. She calls up her father and tells him that he has finally found his true identity. In front of her, is a sketch of Ji-hyo.
The Episode Review
Episode 5 of Glitch is an entertaining segment of antics and mystery. Ji-hyo and Bo-ra continue to make a fun pair of quirky investigators. The show truly feels like it’s them against the world. ..
The reveal of the old woman’s identity was an enthralling one. The Holy Mother, who is also the missing woman from all those years ago, who also draws eerie sketches? Truly exciting to see where this is all going.
The show has a comic tone, but it would be better if the characters were more honest with each other. Hopefully, the following episodes don’t shy away from being earnest. ..
