Ji-hyo has been trying to find out the meaning of a symbol. A woman at an office of alien languages claims to know it but asks Ji-hyo to pay a membership fee to get more information. Ji-hyo leaves and crosses another name off a list.

She gets a call from the detective who says a girl is making a report against her at the police station. It turns out to be Bo-ra who is making a complaint against Ji-hyo for breaking the mirror of her scooter. Bo-ra swaggers out of the police station and tells Ji-hyo to follow her and make up for the damage. Ji-hyo ends up settling the issue by buying her a meal, although that meal consists of multiple plates of food and several drinks.

Ji-hyo tells the story of Bo-ra, a girl she used to know in school. Ji-hyo and Bo-ra were friends in middle school, but after Ji-hyo tried some of Bo-ra’s drugs, they became enemies. Ji-hyo found her 72 hours later unconscious and unresponsive. ..

Bo-ra knows that Ji-hyo doesn’t believe the police. She says all the evidence they found can be fabricated with a few clicks of a keyboard. She takes her to the UFO forum’s café and shows Ji-hyo one of the videos from her YouTube channel. It details the story of a man, with the username Direct Kim, whose 16-year-old daughter disappeared. He was investigating a church and around that time, vanished himself. The screen then shows the same symbol Ji-hyo had found on the ground. ..

Detective Kim arrives at Ji-hyo’s house to give her a new e-cigarette. He is greeted by Ji-hyo’s stepmother, who invites him in. While talking with her parents, Detective Kim inadvertently reveals that Ji-hyo is looking for Si-guk, who has gone missing. ..

Ji-hyo is learning more about the Direct Kim case and becomes convinced that it is connected to the disappearance of Si-guk. The other three boys, nicknamed Cho Phillip, Captain Price, and Dong-hyuk respectively, are arguing about EMPs and the crop circle symbol. Ji-hyo has an outburst about how all she wants is to find her boyfriend. Bo-ra agrees to help if Ji-hyo signs a contract that allows her to use the investigation as content for her streaming channel. For the sake of Si-guk, Ji-hyo ends up agreeing. ..

Later, Ji-hyo goes to a restaurant to meet her father for their usual father-daughter dinner but is surprised to find her boss, a friend of her father’s, over there as well. Her father invited him to try and smooth things over between them. On the way back, Ji-hyo tells her father that he needs to stop interfering in her career and that she has been working on some important projects. He says he is well aware of Ji-hyo going to alien meetings and having broken up with Si-guk. They argue until Ji-hyo mentions how Si-guk suddenly moved out of his apartment. At this, her father is struck with an idea. ..

Bo-ra is streaming in Captain Price’s café. The latter tells her that she needs to find a place of her own. Bo-ra mentions that she was kicked out of her home. She gets a call from Ji-hyo who says that if Si-guk was kidnapped, the person who moved out all his stuff from his apartment is their next best lead. ..

Ji-hyo and Bo-ra go to Si-guk’s apartment to look for an apartment. Ji-hyo asks the real estate agent about landlords and moving companies. After the visit, they sneak back into the apartment as Bo-ra saw the entry code.

She takes out a bunch of equipment and starts scanning the apartment. On Ji-hyo’s questioning, Bo-ra says she is looking for narrowband microwaves, similar to the ones on Si-guk’s watch. The SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) standard artificial electromagnetic bandwidth. She tells Ji-hyo she should know all this since she was the one who invented the device. Everything Bo-ra is now doing, she learnt from Ji-hyo in school. Ji-hyo seems shaken at the realisation. Bo-ra tells her to repeat the words “My boyfriend was abducted by aliens”. Ji-hyo is unable to do so. ..

The new group of people in the room are chanting a prayer similar to the one heard in the very first scene. Ji-hyo and Bo-ra look on in shock as they hear noises of the real estate agent coming back with some other people.

The Episode Review

Episode 3 of Glitch brings us deeper into the mystery of these missing people, as well as some hair-raising deaths and a spooky cult-like group of people. Bo-ra’s alien detecting gear and antics add to the feeling that we’re finally on the main track of the story. ..

As expected, Ji-hyo and Bo-ra make a fascinating pair who are lovely to watch. Bo-ra’s quirks and eccentricity are a delight against Ji-hyo’s matter-of-fact behaviour. Although, it was nice to see Ji-hyo have a bit of an outburst.

There is something important about Ji-hyo’s past with Bo-ra, something that explains her lack of memory and her change in attitude towards aliens. Not knowing it is an itch that keeps you going forward and hopefully, the following episodes offer an insightful look into Ji-hyo and her life. Overall, an exciting episode that made for a refreshing change!