Ji-hyo is looking through a scrapbook of clippings about alien abductions and UFO sightings. The voiceover says hypnagogia is easy to achieve. Ji-hyo lays down on an open rooftop and puts on headphones, listening to audio that guides her into lucid dreaming. Her body slowly floats upwards. In reality, she is running around the roof, with her eyes closed and arms stretched out. ..
Another young girl arrives, her headphones tuned in to a baseball game and a cigarette in her hand. Young Ji-hyo realises and is about to leave when the girl spots one of the news clippings and asks her if UFOs are real.
Ji-hyo is talking to her father on the phone when she gets a call from Si-guk’s real estate agent. The agent tells Ji-hyo that Si-guk hasn’t paid his rent and hasn’t answered the phone for days. Ji-hyo goes to Si-guk’s house, but only finds his cat there. Ji-hyo uses one of Si-guk’s digital tablets to find the location of his smartwatch. Ji-hyo goes to the location and finds the watch on the ground. The watch has been damaged, and Ji-hyo realizes that when she brings it closer to her phone, the phone also glitches. ..
She goes to the police station to report on her findings from her previous meeting with the detective. The detective tells her that they can’t do much in the case of adult males, but they will try their best.
She is curious about the alien and decides to look more closely at the website. She finds a article about people who have gone missing where electronic device errors occurred and sees a logo of an alien on the website. She is curious about the alien and decides to look more closely at the website.
She logs in to the forum and finds out that a meeting on Saturday is scheduled for the UFO forum.
Ji-hyo walks into a café to see three people discussing UFOs. She is about to leave and borrows a lighter from a girl sitting outside the café. They strike up a conversation about why Ji-hyo is here and Ji-hyo ends up calling the UFO meetings ridiculous and baseless. The other girl heads inside the café and Ji-hyo realises she insulted her. ..
Ji-hyo quietly enters but ends up calling attention to herself as she moves a chair. The others welcome her but during a game of Mafia, the other girl calls Ji-hyo out for her previous insults. As she storms out, Ji-hyo notices the same green alien as a badge on the girl’s bag. The girl rushes off on her scooter but Ji-hyo gives chase and is able to ask her about the badge. The girl says that it was Ji-hyo herself who drew that. Doesn’t she remember? We see a flashback to the two girls inside the van. Ji-hyo realises the girl is Heo Bo-ra, who was once her friend in school.
Ji-hyo relates this all to the counsellor, Doctor Ma. She says Bo-ra was a fan of the Unicorns and that is why the aliens in her visions were wearing Unicorns helmets. ..
She goes to Si-guk’s house again and finds that the apartment has been emptied. The person conducting an open house over there tells her that the previous tenant took his stuff and moved out two days ago. She then gets a call from the detective saying that Si-guk’s bank statements show that he booked a plane ticket, seemingly to go somewhere abroad. ..
Ji-hyo, who is already in trouble at work, takes a leave of absence. She is lying down on the bench where she found Si-guk’s watch when she sees the alien again and throws the watch at it. She goes to pick it up and when she does so, she sees that hordes of butterflies and other insects have gathered in the shape of a strange symbol on the ground.
The Episode Review
The Glitch in the second episode was a bit slow. While Si-guk does disappear, the mystery doesn’t get very intriguing until the last few minutes. And no sign of alien conspiracies yet either!
In this episode, Bo-ra makes an impressionable appearance but unfortunately, we don’t get to see a lot of her either. Watching her and Ji-hyo team up is definitely one of the show’s draws, so it would be nice to get there quicker.
Ji-hyo’s strange visions have been explained by the show, but there is still much that remains mysterious. Hopefully, the show doesn’t drag on too long and we get more revelations in episode 2.
