Direct Kim has been admitted to the hospital with a serious injury. Bo-ra is called to the hospital to help cap the situation.
Young-gi, the driver, lays out a plan for Ji-hyo and claims she will even risk her life for her. Ji-hyo tells her to focus on driving and leave the planning to her. ..
At the memorial, Seo Hwa-jung is receiving the cold shoulder from everyone.
Bo-ra snoops in Direct Kim’s phone and finds messages from Hwa-jung. She pretends to be him and texts back, asking for the memorial’s location. Hwa-jung sends a ticket with a QR code. ..
Detective Kim goes through the hard disk Bo-ra gave him. He then goes to Ji-hyo’s house and questions Si-guk about the last time he saw her. Outside the house, he calls Oh Se-hee. She is going through a register of names found on the hard disk. She finds that the names of all the people involved in the mass suicide were crossed out. One additional name was crossed out too. As the detective finishes the phone call, Si-guk calls out to him. He overheard him talking about a cult and wants him to explain.
Father: I’m going to ask one of the men about the drugs. What do you know about them? Man: They’re being given to people as they enter.
A memorial area in honor of the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing is crowded with people. As they arrive, they are given a flower and a cylindrical necklace with a tablet inside it. ..
Ji-hyo and Young-gi arrive at the church. Ji-hyo asks Young-gi if all the other church members will believe in her the way she does. Young-gi tells Ji-hyo that she believes in her and that all of her fellow church members will do the same.
Father’s eyes light up with joy as he sees Ji-hyo walk up to the stage. He knows she is ready to talk and they begin to speak in front of the crowd. Ji-hyo tells Father she was wrong about him and that she loves him. The crowd erupts into applause and Father thanks them before giving Ji-hyo a standing ovation.
Bo-ra arrives at the memorial only to be told that it has been cancelled as Her Holiness has risen.
Detective Kim, Se-hee and Si-guk visit the man whose name was crossed out on the list. He is a doctor who used to know pastor Moon Hyung-tae. They used to intern together at the psychiatric hospital but Hyung-tae got obsessed with the woman who said she had met aliens. He believed there was something inside her head. They fell in love and soon started their church. The doctor doesn’t have any evidence of their crimes, but he shows the others an invitation to the memorial.
At the memorial service for Ji-hyo, her father, and the other victims of the cult, Ji-hyo asks her father to give her back her chip. He refers to it as gospel and asks if she has been awakened and knows her true purpose. She pretends to be awakened and confesses that she had met Father Light. ..
Bo-ra is watching from the hall but suddenly gets up, pulls a gun on a guard and forces her way into the room where Ji-hyo is. She tells Ji-hyo to come back with her but Ji-hyo doesn’t comply. The guards get a hold of Bo-ra and put her inside a small room.
Ji-hyo visits the memorial area to remember her friends. Bo-ra tries to convince Ji-hyo to leave with her, but Ji-hyo insists on staying. When Bo-ra says she doesn’t believe in the impending destruction of mankind, Ji-hyo gets upset since she has finally decided to believe in everything. She tells the guards to take Bo-ra out of the memorial area. ..
Father tells Ji-hyo that he has agreed to give her the gospel and apologises for his arrogance.
A white light washes over Bo-ra, and she is taken outside by the guards. She is sitting on the road and thinking about everything that’s happened. Suddenly, a mysterious white light appears, and Bo-ra is able to see everything that’s going on around her.
The Episode Review
Episode 9 is an intriguing penultimate episode. The comic timing of Ji-hyo’s claim to being Messiah is a bit off and evokes more second-hand embarrassment rather than laughter. Nevertheless, the showdown between her and Father keeps one on tenterhooks. Particularly as Father’s sinister smile could be hiding anything behind it.
The show’s main characters, Bo-ra and Ji-hyo, continue to be the show’s anchors. Their relationship has grown stronger over the episodes.
The cliffhanger in Glitch has put a new spin on things. Are we going to finally see an alien in the final chapter?
