Bo-ra reveals that she knew aliens had taken Ji-hyo all those years ago. She had searched for Ji-hyo in the field and found her camera. At the same place, she had noticed the alien’s symbol in the field. When Ji-hyo slapped her, Bo-ra decided not to tell her about it. ..
Ji-hyo suggests going to the field of reeds to try and jog her memory. Before they leave, Doctor Ma gives Ji-hyo some medicines and asks if she wants to go to a real hospital. He is concerned but she leaves anyway. ..
Ji-hyo and Bo-ra reach the location where the field used to be but now it’s just an empty construction lot, surrounded by other buildings. Ji-hyo apologises to Bo-ra for blaming her for everything, including Ji-hyo’s hallucinations. Ji-hyo remembers her father saying that she was rambling some gibberish when she had been hospitalised. She calls her father to ask him what she was saying but he gives her a shocking piece of news instead. His father had been right; she was speaking gibberish when she was in the hospital!
Detective Kim is investigating a murder at the psychiatric hospital. The staff feed him a fake story about Ji-hyo being schizophrenic, to justify her ‘emergency hospitalisation’. Despite being shown a video of Ji-hyo being ‘violent’, he is suspicious of the hospital. After he leaves, another policeman tells the hospital staff that they will handle everything.
Ji-hyo and Bo-ra enter their home. Bo-ra thinks her father’s call was a trap, but Ji-hyo goes inside anyway. Inside, she sees Lee Si-guk sitting in their living room.
Detective Kim calls the Jeonju jurisdiction’s police station to update his senior officer on the investigation. He tells his senior officer that he has something suspicious about it, but his senior does not believe him.
Direct Kim asks Bo-ra if she can offer him a room when the horn of his car starts blowing up. It is his daughter, Young-gi, otherwise known as Abigail. She has tied her hands and legs and she is trying to escape. He takes her inside the café and asks Cap to let them stay there. Cap agrees at the price of 200,000 won per night.
Ji-hyo’s father brings Si-guk some food. He tells Ji-hyo that he was told that he tried to kill himself. He woke up in Thailand and then slept again and woke up in Korea. When he sleeps, Ji-hyo checks his scalp for surgery marks but doesn’t find any. ..
Ji-hyo asks her father about the gibberish she was saying when she was in the hospital. He doesn’t tell her but his stepmother remembers. Ji-hyo had kept repeating the phrase, “Come back,” which made her feel like she needed to come back home.
Ji-hyo called Bo-ra and told her about the call, but Bo-ra was too busy and hung up the phone quickly. Si-guk left the house and asked Ji-hyo if she wanted to come along. ..
After bombarding Young-gi with questions, she finally tells Bo-ra that Ji-hyo’s life is in danger. The church has already announced her death and so needs to ensure that she dies. At the funeral, ‘Father’ plans to take the Messiah’s divine power and use it for ‘ascension’.
A police officer turns up at Ji-hyo’s home and asks her parents about her whereabouts. Her stepmother says they haven’t been in touch with her at all. ..
Sea Hwa-jung, a young woman working at the Holy Mother’s house, is being berated by her boss for her mistake with Ji-hyo. “Father” takes mercy on her and says she will die with everyone else. As “Father” talks on the phone, we see the old woman also has a surgery scar on her head. ..
Si-guk is looking for his cat, Ji-hyo asks if he really believes he tried to kill himself, even though nothing adds up. ..
Ji-hyo arrives at the cafe. She is angry to see Young-gi there, but Bo-ra calms her down. Ji-hyo is frustrated that she doesn’t have any evidence about everything that’s happened. ..
Detective Kim goes to the divine light church on a day of memorial service and finds it empty. He sees a calendar marking the day of the service.
At the cafe, the group realise that ascension means the church members will commit mass suicide. Ji-hyo is hell-bent on going there and getting back the chip they took from her head. Bo-ra stops her.
Detective Kim is given a religious book and a hard disk from the church.
Direct Kim is having a smoke when Ji-hyo approaches her and asks where the memorial is. When she pretends to accept her role as Messiah, the young girl helps her.
Direct Kim and Ji-hyo were attacked by masked men, but Young-gi came to her aid. Captain Price fought off the rest and then Ji-hyo took off with Young-gi. Before leaving, Ji-hyo thanked Cap for everything and told him to pass the message on to the others.
The Episode Review
This episode of Glitch is a mix of action and emotion, with some well-done plot developments but also a few touching moments that make the story more interesting. Bo-ra going against her principles and approaching the police to help protect Ji-hyo shows just how much she cares about her friend.
It was nice to see Ji-hyo’s stepmother stand up for her as well, even as her father seemed unsure about lying to the police. It speaks volumes about how she feels. Ji-hyo feeling responsible and wanting to fix things while not putting the others in danger, along with her heartfelt message of thanks at the end, is also moving. ..
This final stretch of the show is more about cults than about aliens. Ji-hyo’s memory and her firm belief in aliens keep one going.
Si-guk’s return seems to add more questions than answers, and I hope we get some more insight into their relationship before the show ends. ..
