Fallen Flower 2
Eun-Bi’s memories continue to be a source of amusement for Gu-Ryeon, who finds it difficult to focus on anything else. Jun-Woong tries his best to comfort Hye-Won, but the latter is not willing to let go of her friend’s laughter.
Eun-Bi is taken outside with several other girls and beaten down. She’s forced to laugh every time she hears the clicking of a pen, suffering repeated kicks to the stomach, milk poured over her head and horrific mental abuse. Jun-Woong has enough and shields Eun-Bo’s body.
The death angels are real. They’re trapped inside memories, and if Hye-Won becomes aware of them, the world will shatter and fall apart. ..
The office building they run through happens to be Eun-Bi’s place of work. From the train, they use the key and make it back to the office. Only, Jun-Woong accidentally breaks the memory key on the way back in, as awkwardly out of place comedic music plays. Jun-Woong wakes up in a different time tomorrow morning, with no idea how he got there.
We now know that Hye-Won bullied Eun-Bi and that she is deeply traumatized by it. Her interview last episode hit harder, given her book is designed to “bring comfort to victims of bullying.” Of course, that’s horribly ironic given she bullied Eun-Bi so viciously.
Jun-Woong, now aware of Hye-Won’s bullying in the past, struggles to watch as she begins bullying Eun-Bi again in the present. She clicks a pen constantly; a throwback to those moments in school. Unfortunately, it begins again that night as Hye-Won confronts Eun-Bi and starts clicking the pen in her face, forcing her to laugh. This, unfortunately, pushes Eun-Bi over the edge as her chances of committing suicide skyrocket. ..
Eun-Bi bolts out of the room, hurrying to the rooftop as Jun-Woong scrambles to follow. He promises to help her however he can. Only, Gu-Ryeon happens to be waiting on the rooftop and gives her some tough love, calling Eun-Bi out for whining. With Jun-Woong forced back into the hallway, Gu-Ryeon tells Eun-Bi she should have just “got over it” and moved on rather than dwelling on the past.
Eun-Bi goes on to call her a nuisance, and how she needs to fight back and stand up for herself. Eun-Bi goes on to claim killing herself is going to be a fate worse than she’s currently suffered, encouraging Gu-Ryeon that she needs to get over this. And as Gu-Ryeon approaches her, Eun-Bi falls off the balcony… only to be caught by Gu-Ryeon who stops her and saves her.
On the ground, an office worker shows up and starts praising her, dancing in the street. He makes Eun-Bi laugh, which is enough to stop her from being suicidal. “Thank you for hanging in there.” Jun-Woong says, hugging her warmly. Jun-Woong’s influence helps to drop the number down to 20, way lower than it’s been before.
Gu-Ryeon eventually heads off to see Hye-Won, telling her she needs to apologize to Eun-Bi formally. In order to show how much Eun-Bi is affecting, Gu-Ryeon turns the tables and forces her to play out the past in Eun-Bi’s perspective. She’s shocked, but not as much as the news reports when it’s revealed Hye-Won used to be a bully and her victims are coming forward to share their experiences about her. ..
Jun-Woong and Gu-Ryeon team up to try and save the day. However, their relationship is not as smooth as they thought it would be. Gu-Ryeon is still trying to get over her past with Jun-Woong, which makes for a difficult team dynamic.
In the epilogue, we see Jun-Woong actually paid off the earlier office worker to make Eun-Bi smile, so the whole thing was staged and not a genuine act of kindness.
The Episode Review
Tomorrow returns with a rather subjective episode that’s going to be a bit of a love/hate affair for many people. For me, I’m on the fence with this. After a strong opening episode, the moral compass in this chapter is skewed all over the place. The whole “tough love” idea for Eun-Bi could have easily pushed her over the edge, and it leaves a sour taste in the mouth knowing that the whole thing with the office worker was staged.
Eun-Bi steps forward as a victim of bullying, and many others do as well. Hye-Won then hides, but is now going to be vilified by the media. If she becomes suicidal, what will the team do? These sorts of questions are not answered in the story, leaving holes in the worldbuilding and general make-up of this reality. ..
This show is still in its early stages, so it’s hard to say how well it will handle bullying cases. However, compared to other shows that have tackled the topic, this one seems a bit more mixed bag. It’s still early days though so we’ll have to wait and see how this show tackles more cases alongside its other stories.
