Fiddling Women: Episodes 5-Half-Dozen
New opportunities are cropping up for our heroines like mysterious bluish orchids. Our eldest sis has a shiny new job — provided she tin live precisely who her employer wants her to become. It’second nigh equally expert equally the shiny new family unit our youngest has gained! Meanwhile, our center sibling is at the mercy of her Great Aunt’second generosity. All the spell, a dark conspiracy closes inwards about them…
EPISODES v-half-dozen WEECAP
So — Hwa-immature prepare some other new life, sealed with In-joo’sec stolen signature. But, why her? And, why Singapore? The answer lies four years inward the by, when the two shared a holiday at that place, originally intended for Hwa-young’second female parent. Despite Hwa-young’s bereavement, In-joo was the first to dissolve into tears. After her divorce, she thought she’d never enjoy herself once again. But inward that second, eating kaya toast in the sunlight, she knew that if she could alive hither, wealthy, for just ane solar day, she’d croak happy. Hwa-immature, who presumably did non pop off happy, took those words equally gospel.
In-joo’s non the entirely one with unfinished business organisation inwards Singapore. Her get-go duty every bit Sang-ah’s assistant is to ready for her employer’sec spur-of-the-instant trip abroad — together with to continue it nether wraps from her hubby. In Sang-ah’second absence, In-joo’s master task is to throw an entire chemist's shop’second worth of medication at the anxiety-prone Hyo-rin.
Back at the mansion, Hyo-rin as well as In-hye giggle uproariously over last calendar week’s revolting TV interview. It’second touch, inasmuch as it’sec the almost fun whatever of these characters are going to have over the grade of ii whole episodes. It’second likewise brusk-lived. Whilst TV-Jae-sang waxes saccharine well-nigh how he adores his family unit, the existent-life Jae-sang swings a golf game gild at the covert, raging over Sang-ah’s disappearance. His girl quietly hyperventilates.
Later, Hyo-rin insists she’s fine — but it’sec a lamentable state of affairs when a teenager talks well-nigh the ER similar it’s an old friend. With 1 paw inwards In-hye’second, as well as one belongings a hesitant In-joo inwards home, she matter-of-factly cycles through her breathing exercises.
It’s besides much for In-joo. Do-il catches her storming out, announcing that the entire family is insane. As if to test her bespeak, he ushers her out of the way of ane of their omnipresent security cameras.
Do-il is withal determined to telephone exchange the incriminating ledgers for Hwa-immature’s 70 one thousand thousand won. His speak of wealth, escape, too far-off villas overlooking the Aegean Sea are like a siren vocal to In-joo. But, every bit e'er, she’second loath to trust him, especially since Jong-ho recognized him equally a notorious coin-launderer. In a charged minute — in addition to an equally charged analogy — Do-il asks her to imagine she’second on a galloping Equus caballus, nearly to scale a tall contend. He’second that horse. They must both believe inwards one some other to make the spring.
Meanwhile, In-hye sneaks a shaken Hyo-rin to the orchid room in the basement. Bathed inward the tree’s eerie green glow, Hyo-rin confesses that when her parents struggle, it frightens her — to the extent that she used to cut herself to calm downwardly. But, In-hye has a cure for fright: whenever she imagines something night, she paints the picture inward her head. The query is, what scares Hyo-rin the virtually?
The side by side twenty-four hour period, In-kyung follows Aunt Oh to her role. When she’second announced every bit the company manager, the alone 1 more than astonished than her new colleagues is In-kyung herself. Still, resistant every bit she is to let her Great Aunt write, straight, in addition to produce the entire grade of her career, In-kyung never met a stack of information she didn’t straightaway plough through — in addition to the numbers say a distressing tale. The company is flirting with collapse. Aunt Oh seems spectacularly unconcerned: alongside close to good-placed property redevelopment, five years downwards the business, she’ll live on the upward. Long-term investment is a privilege of the wealthy.
Sang-ah returns domicile to her hubby, drunkard together with total of elegant rancor. She has enough of excuses for visiting Singapore — the claustrophobia of her dwelling life primary amongst them — merely Jae-sang is coolly adamant she’s lying. He tears through her suitcase; she screams. It’s clear why Hyo-rin fears their fights.
For what is for sure not the beginning time, Hyo-rin watches the CCTV equally her mother drives away. She can’t protect her. All she tin do is accept In-hye’sec advice, in addition to pigment what frightens her the virtually. In-hye, impressed past her morbidity, peers over her shoulder to run across a hanged woman in vivid ruddy heels.
Elsewhere, In-kyung together with Jong-ho play detective over again. Last episode’s address leads them to the out-of-the-way Jeongnan School, where they position equally a horticulturally-inclined documentary crew. Founded past none other than Sang-ah’sec father, General Won, the schoolhouse does indeed own its own blueish orchid. Moreover, it’second every bit creepily propagandistic every bit one would await from a main school whose patron ran security for a dictatorship.
The students accept been drilled to recite General Won’sec personal mantra: I tin reach the highest home, fifty-fifty if I’m from the lowest home. It’s precisely what Dal-su said prior to his death. And, amidst the notable alumni? In-kyung’s colleague, Ma-ri.
Meanwhile, the General’second girl plays apparel-upwards with In-joo, swathing her inward stern black designed to radiate efficiency. This is pretty ambitious for our self-confessedly ditzy heroine, just not to worry! Sang-ah is excited to sculpt her into the perfect assistant. (I, for 1, am worried.)
In-joo’second not the solely i playing against type. Sang-ah views her ain gleaming gown equally an elaborate, self-deprecating jest; masquerading equally the frivolous socialite makes her married man wait all the more than competent. In reality, she’sec quick to realize they’re beingness tailed by Jae-sang’sec detective, spiriting In-joo away to hide inwards Hwa-young’second former apartment.
Here, Sang-ah collapses in addition to cries over the woman who stole from her — the 1 whose friendship she hopes wasn’t a wholehearted lie. The hem of her clothes rides up, revealing a series of ugly scratches on her thigh. She confides that she is a failed actress. Her lack of success onscreen convinced her to convert her reality into a novel role: Jae-sang’sec love wife. They both play their parts to perfection. If yous disputation your head together with squint, it’s most similar beloved.
In-joo is stricken; it’sec clear that Sang-ah is beingness abused. But, Do-il smirks at the suggestion. Sang-ah, he’second certain, is playing In-joo similar a fiddle. In-joo’sec greatest charm, he observes — somewhat patronizingly — is her straightforwardness. It’sec deeply exploitable.
In-kyung, for her part, considers Do-il himself bad intelligence: a grim sequel to In-joo’s previous relationship disasters. In 2012, Do-il was caught in a auto accident with his girlfriend inward Mexico. The lady friend’s trunk was never plant; it was suspected she savage afoul of a Russian coin laundering grouping. Moreover, Do-il likewise was a General Won scholarship pupil. But, In-joo is resentful of her sis’sec meddling — and her baseless accusation that In-joo has a shell!
Later, In-kyung receives devastating word: she’sec been fired from OBN. As if that could end her. She explodes into activity, crashing a press conference with Jae-sang. Here, inward full sentiment of the cameras, her colleagues, and the human himself, she reveals the truth she learned from her Great Aunt’s records.
Jae-sang’second male parent was non the pauper he e'er claimed. Far from it. He owned properties all over Korea, adding upwardly to a net worth of 8 billion won. For in one case, Jae-sang is rendered satisfyingly speechless.
In-joo, meanwhile, has made an unpleasant uncovering: Hyo-rin’sec hidden picture looks an awful lot similar the scene of Hwa-immature’second decease. But, confronting a traumatized teen with a makeshift murder investigation works nearly too as y'all’d await; Hyo-rin clams upward inward horror. She doesn’t know. She tin’t retrieve. But after, she’s plant cowering inwards ane of the extravagant cars cluttering the garage, every bit dashcam footage plays. The footage is from the dark of Hwa-immature’second death. It shows a stony-faced Jae-sang… heading towards the presently-to-live victim’s flat.
As Hyo-rin comes back to herself, she recalls that terrible nighttime. Abandoned in the aftermath of some other fight, she cutting herself, waking inwards a bloodied blur on a hospital bed. The image inward the picture came dorsum to her, clear every bit aroma — only non for the offset time.
She’second adamant on i signal: the dashcam footage is hers. If In-joo takes it, she’ll kill herself. In-joo, inward an human action of shameless manipulation, swears to respect this — and so, grinning, hands her sleeping pills. In-hye catches her sis attempting to bag the footage patch Hyo-rin lies drugged.
In-joo is all indignation: she refuses to comprehend up a murder instance. But, In-hye scoffs at the thought at that place’second been a murder at all. Boy, is our girl toeing the companionship line of work — she accuses In-joo of prejudice against the rich. Later, both teens seal their pact of silence past burying the dashcam carte du jour beneath the orchid tree.
In the wake of the disaster In-kyung has wrought on his crusade, Jae-sang receives a invitee: Aunt Oh. Ever since she paid In-hye’sec infirmary bill, her society has been faltering. She knows who to blame. She’sec non interested inward Jae-sang’second denials — or his curiosity virtually how she managed to endure the General. She’second hither to finish the common cold war brewing between their families. But, non without an elegant jab nigh how Jae-sang’second male parent — her friend — asked her for an anti-diarrheal drug before he died. He didn’t want to ground himself.
Do-il, meanwhile, is concerned for In-joo; alongside Su-im dogging their heels, he’sec had to pretend they’re having a passionate matter to allay suspicions. He’s utterly unimpressed — and unsurprised — when In-joo brings upwards Jae-sang’sec interest inward Hwa-immature’second death.
The worst disappointment is when In-joo confronts him amongst his girl’s decease. He’second hurt! At least, equally injure as his 70-billion-won-where-my-heart-should-live put allows. The truth? He helped her false the accident — together with has proof that she’second thriving nether a novel identity. In-joo smiles. It’s plausible. She’sec relieved.
Jae-sang may be a murderer, merely he’sec too a master of spin. It takes less than 24 hours for him to convert In-kyung’sec exposé into a guaranteed swing inward the polls. At an emergency press conference, joined by his family — in addition to In-hye — he claims to take known aught of the slush funds… only he’sec committed to doing penance for the sins of his begetter. As such, he’ll live using every penny of the corrupt cash to supply scholarships for his foundation.
In-joo, watching the carnage on TV, is horrified to learn that Do-il was inwards on this — in addition to, moreover, that it’sec to her do good. The money Hwa-immature stole was Jae-sang’sec campaign fund; it’second only worth trading for the ledgers if Jae-sang really wins. Power comes at the price of principles.
Aunt Oh is living proof of this. When she calls In-joo, alert her to find In-kyung, it’sec clear she was inwards on a system to brand her grandniece suffer one final indignity. Back at the conference, In-kyung calls out to In-hye, who is trailing inwards Jae-sang’sec wake. Sister stares at sis. Then, In-hye’sec face hardens. As In-hye turns her dorsum, In-joo arrives simply in time to draw In-kyung out of the thronging reporters.
Humiliation, Aunt Oh tells them subsequently, is a helpful tonic. Stay low, as well as live to contend some other twenty-four hours. Their enemies are everywhere; protecting her family — together with society — is primal.
But, how did Aunt Oh go rich? In-kyung has her suspicions — insider information. It all comes tumbling out: as a kid, In-kyung wanted and then badly to similar her; she wished on every star that her Great Aunt would live expert, simply —
Aunt Oh cuts her off. She was born inwards the 40s, uneducated, married against her volition, then divorced. In-kyung’sec thought of “skilful” would have led to certain expiry. It’second fourth dimension for her nieces to button upward, encompass ignorance, together with stay here where it’second condom. In-joo is half willing; In-kyung is outraged.
Aunt Oh’second correct nigh one affair: our heroines are inward grave peril. At a strategy meeting, Jae-sang crows near the fact that In-kyung tin can’t win: the more she reveals, the improve it goes for him. Still, she’second outlived her usefulness — as well as Su-im, thug extraordinaire, is already fondly listing schemes to dispose of her.
Do-il’sec pokerface visibly flickers when she suggests they have out ii sisters for the cost of 1, murdering In-joo piece they’re at it — but Sang-ah is appalled. That’sec her loyal subordinate/bestie they’re talking near! It’s settled: In-joo lives; In-kyung suffers an accident.
Meanwhile, Sang-ah invites In-joo to the room where her father lies in a coma. As infirmary monitors chirp, she instructs In-joo to attend the Orchid Festival inward Singapore inwards her stead. But, In-joo must understand, this isn’t but nigh the flowers. It’sec a coin-laundering method of near-infinite capacity. She too Hwa-immature started it together.
What, she asks, was In-joo’second childhood dream? Marry a rich man, In-joo admits, promptly. Laughing, Sang-ah hands her a sealed blue orchid. Keep it shut when yous slumber, she says. It’ll demonstrate yous what y'all genuinely desire. Incidentally, she doesn’t believe In-joo. She suspects that, like Sang-ah, In-joo yearns to succeed on her own terms. As such, if In-joo proves herself, her orchid will be added to “the Father Tree” as a fellow member of something called the Jeongran Society.
In-joo is halfway seduced by the prospect. But, she’sec intercepted past Do-il, for whom a blueish orchid sets off distinct alarm bells. In-joo, primed past Sang-ah to crave independence, brushes him off: if she wants to huff a establish of dubious provenance, and then she damn well will!
Meanwhile, In-kyung’sec investigations hit a roadblock: Aunt Oh has shredded the bear witness. She manages to piece together a photo labeled every bit “Jeongran Society,” in addition to alongside the help of Jong-ho (and nearly-lethal quantities of java candy), she looks into the sometime owners of Jae-sang’second begetter’second belongings. Dal-su is on the list. So are a number of familiar names inwards the conspiracy. All died unexpectedly… as well Aunt Oh.
That night, unable to terminate thinking well-nigh Aunt Oh’sec claim that 1 chooses to go rich, In-joo asks for her advice almost the bargain with Do-il. Aunt Oh issues a familiar warning: to hold 70 billion won, In-joo must become a completely dissimilar person. That’second fine. In-joo can make out amongst that. She virtually welcomes it. What she tin can’t eat is the idea of ushering a slimeball like Jae-sang to ability. What if she tin can purpose her noesis of the orchid murders to keep the money, together with accept downwardly her enemies?
But, In-joo is visibly drooping. Lethargic, she sinks into a troubled slumber — haunted by visions of Jae-sang hoisting Hwa-immature into her cupboard. Her eyes flash open. She treads through the home like a sleepwalker.
Meanwhile, In-hye is convinced that she as well as Hyo-rin must make for the future. She urges Hyo-rin to inhale the aroma of the orchids, in addition to remember where she saw the crimson-heeled adult female. Hyo-rin recalls the stairs she used to climb every bit a pocket-sized child. But, before our teen detectives tin investigate, they’re caught — past Sang-ah.
In-kyung returns late, finding the door ajar. There, inward the primary room, sits In-joo, smeared with blood. Nearby is an iron bar. An orchid. And the trunk of Aunt Oh.
Alas, hapless Aunt Oh! Your knowing smiles as well as cynical wit volition live remembered fondly. Meanwhile, your warning that inward lodge to be a billionaire, In-joo must become another mortal, volition, I daresay, live on.
This calendar week, identity is a fundamental subject, and wow does it get gritty. In-joo seems to mean she can shed personalities similar a serpent. But, does she actually accept what it takes? Part of her yet seems to believe that becoming some other soul entails a change of circumstances, non character. Sang-ah knows better. Once you lot’re inward, the entirely mode to survive is to genuinely commit to the deed. She’sec spent years of her life prettying upwardly a cardboard cutout of a relationship. The life that she flaunts earlier the cameras — Jae-sang’sec perfect nuclear family — is no more real than the doll’sec house In-hye then covets. And, hither she is: a doll past option.
Hyo-rin, who would kill for a lilliputian authenticity, tin can attest to how toxic all this smoke-together with-mirrors business can be. But In-hye has already abandoned family for the sake of prosperity, too I wonder if In-joo will live threatened with the same selection. One matter’second clear: inwards this exhibit, you’ve got to determine what yous’re willing to sacrifice. For Do-il, it’sec his principles. For Aunt Oh, it’s dignity. For Hwa-young, perhaps everything. As for our sisters — who knows?
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