Skilful Chore: Episodes Vii-Eight

This calendar week on Undercover Boss — I mean, Good Job — our chaebol too his nifty-eyed sidekick disguise themselves equally members of his fellowship’s janitorial crew, in addition to toilets aren’t the alone thing they’re cleaning. There’sec about corrupt direction that needs to live trashed, only tossing out the riff-raff upsets the status quo together with paints a target on our hero’second dorsum.

EPISODES vii-8 WEECAP

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

We selection up this week where nosotros terminal left Sera too Sunday-woo: surprised that they’ve woken upwardly inward bed together — fully clothed, of course, because they are on that deadening-fire romance track that nosotros dear oh-and then-much. Once Sera gets her bearings, she leaps out of bed, concerned that she was the 1 who pounced on him final dark. Not exclusively did I get a expert snicker out of her thinking she was the more than likely attacker, merely it warmed my heart that she trusts him not to accept non taken advantage of her. Dawww!

Lord's Day-woo assures her that she didn’t take advantage of him spell she was boozer. Instead, she vicious asleep, he carried her to the sleeping room, and similar a proper gentleman, he crashed on the sofa. At roughly indicate inward the night, though, he went to the bathroom, together with out of habit he climbed into the bed instead of returning to the sofa.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

After sorting out what happened the dark before, Sera in addition to Sun-woo purpose his secret tunnel to accept a shortcut to operate. Sera sets out for Tae-joon’s role unaware that Tae-joon instantly knows she’sec been spying on him. Plus, after pondering her identity a picayune longer, he last recognizes Sera equally the adult female in the pinkish clothes who and then elegantly compared him to a monkey’s scrotum.

Dominicus-woo realizes — either telepathically or via Tae-joon’s cloned call, non certain which — that Tae-joon is onto Sera’second existent identity, then he tells her to abort the mission. He volition help her observe a fashion out of the building undetected. The design: hide her inwards a trashcan as well as smuggle her by Tae-joon, who is on the hunt as well as out for blood.

While he does cope to throw Tae-joon off Sera’sec odor amongst a strategically placed durian, Lord's Day-woo’sec chosen disguise complicates matters. He as well as Sera are false for existent members of the janitorial staff, too they are lay to function! Coincidentally, their get-go task is to make clean the function of Manager KIM HONG-SOO (Kim Joon-won), who has seemingly disappeared after logging into the fellowship forum in addition to posting a tell-all exposé publicizing Tae-joon’s slush fund.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

After searching Hong-soo’s part, Sera together with Lord's Day-woo come to iii conclusions. One, Hong-soo was non liked, particularly amid the female staff. Two, somebody left-handed drugged his coffee, and so he’s likely not hiding of his own will. And lastly, whoever drugged the unlikable sexual-harrassment-case-on-legs was in all likelihood not Tae-joon, because Jae-ha is too searching for Hong-soo.

From that indicate on, our hero’s investigation is repeatedly stalled past a serial of tasks handed downwards by the managing director of the janitorial staff, which yields a bunch of comedic hijinks every bit they try to solve their latest mystery as well as avoid detection. The misfortunate lofty chairman roughs it for the twenty-four hour period and has to make clean the toilets of his own company.

Not alone does he have the misfortune of seeing in addition to smelling or so things that he’d rather forget, only he too learns that the members of his cleaning staff are under-appreciated too mistreated. Company policies position inward place past — yous guessed it — Tae-joon have made them moment-form citizens, pariahs that should remain unseen as well as un-smelled by the residue of the fellowship staff.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

Dominicus-woo’sec stint every bit a janitor likewise makes him can to a lot of fellowship gossip, and eventually he puts all the clues together to figure out that a old employee drugged Hong-soo in addition to posted the message on the forums nether his username. She wanted to let on non alone Tae-joon’s slush fund, simply the toxic and sexist work surroundings that she as well as her female coworkers had experienced. Ashamed past his ignorance in addition to failure to protect his employees, Dominicus-woo encourages her to file a case and part her testify of the slush fund alongside the law. He has her dorsum.

And every bit some other human activity of benevolence, he remodels the janitors’ break room and revokes all the rules Tae-joon established to segregate the cleaning staff from the residual of the operate population. It’second unclear if the cleaning staff eventually recognize Lord's Day-woo from his cardboard cutout inwards the foyer, just either mode, he’sec earned their loyalty. And I loved this wholesome secret boss resolution. Sure, it may have taken us on another detour away from the whole murdered mother plot line, simply I honestly don’t attention if the revered Queen’sec Tears necklace e'er gets mentioned once again.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

Oh right, the necklace! Now that Tae-joon’s slush fund together with Sera’s alliance amongst Dominicus-woo take been exposed, Sunday-woo drops all pretenses in addition to goes for a more than straight approach. He straight up asks Tae-joon how he came into possession of the necklace. Tae-joon’second confusion over the affair indicates that he didn’t kill Sun-woo’s female parent, which was pretty obvious from the first, only his round-most mode of skirting the truth points to the more likely (in addition to historic period appropriate) culprit: Wan-soo.

After a celebratory dinner with Sera, Sunday-woo walks her habitation — omo, they’re and so about holding hands! — as well as reveals that he believes Wan-soo is the villain that they are going upwardly against. That’second when Dominicus-woo notices the gangsters lurking inwards the shadows. Trying non to alert Sera, he abruptly cuts their conversation short in addition to urges her to head habitation. Sera, who definitely wants to linger, reluctantly follows his orders, merely she entirely gets and so far earlier turning dorsum too witnessing the gangsters assault Lord's Day-woo.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

When Lord's Day-woo unexpectedly puts up a contend, 1 of the gangsters stabs him, which was non part of their master design. Unsure of how to go on without their boss’s orders, they abduct him, merely Sera — together with a no-questions-asked taxi driver — pursue their getaway van.

Sera uses her super-sight to say the driver which turns to brand, together with inward between instructions she calls Jin-minute, who is trying — inwards a roundabout manner — to define his relationship amongst Na-hee. When they take heed that Sunday-woo has been kidnapped, they hop in the batvan, together with while Na-hee drives in addition to weaves through traffic, Jin-second clings to the “Oh, shit!” grip and uses his laptop to track Sunday-woo’sec prison cell phone.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

Our trio regroups at the gangsters’ hideout, where their leader PRESIDENT BYEON (Ryu Sung-hyun) calls Tae-joon as well as updates him on the current situation. Yeah, they were only supposed to crude upward Lord's Day-woo a trivial chip, simply ane of his guys got a petty stabby-stabby, so what should they do with Lord's Day-woo now?

Tae-joon panics at the messy plough of events, then Wan-soo takes the phone away as well as tells President Byeon to accept care of Sunday-woo — permanently. After hanging upward with Wan-soo, President Byeon puts Lord's Day-woo inside an oversized fish tank with a lid, in addition to it’sec clear his murder method of option is drowning. But it’second a irksome process — what with filling the tank in addition to stuffing Dominicus-woo within it — so Sun-woo tries to remain his execution past explaining to President Byeon that he’s worth more alive than he is dead. As President Byeon considers the offering, Sera in addition to the residuum of the rescue squad suit up too arm themselves.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

Entering the warehouse to what sounds like a bootleg version of the Ghostbusters subject song, our battle-ready heroes come charging inwards alongside a forklift, lead pipes, glacial acetic acid, and a slingshot as their master weapons of selection. The skirmish is merely equally chaotic equally it sounds, but like all of Jin-moment’s backup plans, it works, in addition to Sera in addition to Lord's Day-woo escape into the forest.

Unfortunately, the gangsters follow them. Sunday-woo’second protective instincts outweigh his injuries, in addition to he tells Sera to operate spell he holds the men off and herds them in some other management — a direction that leads to him falling off a cliff. When the law make it on the scene in addition to comb the wood, they are unable to locate Sunday-woo, and Sera fears the worst. To brand matters worse, Wan-soo too Tae-joon moved chop-chop as well as flipped the narrative, causing the media to report that the missing Dominicus-woo is a corrupt chairman involved alongside gangs too drugs.

Sera is non able to idly sit down about in addition to expect, and so she goes back to the scene of the law-breaking inward search of him. She’second not the entirely one searching the woods, though, together with she inadvertently stumbles across President Byeon’second men, who accept been ordered to complete the chore they started. But before they encounter her, she’s grabbed from behind in addition to pulled out of sight — past none other than Sun-woo!

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

Our favorite chaebol didn’t endure a stabbing as well as an attempted drowning just and so he could let a fiddling autumn off of a cliff kill him! He’second gone into hiding, biding his time until he tin can put the next stage of his plans into movement. If Sera had stuck around the batcave a few minutes longer, she would accept seen the coded message that Sun-woo sent to Jin-minute.

But if she hadn’t gone looking for Sunday-woo, so he wouldn’t have whisked her away to his underground hideout (his childhood family home). And that’s waaaaaaay more enjoyable for us to scout — especially since their lonely time together allows them to lower their barriers together with open the door to more than intimate conversations — together with skinship!

Lord's Day-woo’sec wounds demand dressing, and Sera innocently assists him, wrapping the bandage around his bare abdomen. For a woman who and so recently feared that she’d drunkenly pounced on Lord's Day-woo and ended upwardly inwards bed amongst him, I cannot fathom how she didn’t spring him inwards that extremely charged minute. I approximate her business concern for his wounds outweighed her attraction, simply if the await Sun-woo was giving her is whatsoever indication, he wouldn’t have said no to a little… pouncing.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

But earlier anything happens, Sera notices a photo of his mother. It was taken at the very orphanage where she grew upwards, and it confirms that Sunday-woo’s female parent is the “Angel Ajumma” that was then squeamish to her equally a child. Unlike the other kids together with adults at the orphanage, Dominicus-woo’s mom believed Sera when she said she could come across things that other people couldn’t.

Being able to verbalise openly nearly his mother amongst individual who also has memories of her softens Sun-woo even more, too during their fourth dimension together, they naturally grow closer. He holds her paw and falls asleep with her caput inward his lap when she wakes upward from a terrible nightmare, and he indulges her every whim when she drags him into the nearby town to store too eat street nutrient. Then, they both take a cycle built for ii — only peddled by ane because Sera doesn’t desire the injured Sunday-woo exerting himself — to a spot past a lake where both of them once (separately) visited with his mother.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

I know it’second overly platitude that they have a childhood connectedness, just inwards this case I don’t heed it because — even though Sera’second nightmares lead me to believe they power take crossed paths the night his mother was murdered — it doesn’t appear that they otherwise met as children. Instead, there is a degree of separation through Lord's Day-woo’second deceased mother, in addition to past making her their mutual earth, the two are able to bond over their shared memories together with have their relationship evolve organically.

Sadly, their individual getaway must come up to an finish because Wan-soo together with Tae-joon take already moved to fill up the vacant chairman’s seat alongside — no surprise here — Wan-soo. They’ve called a board meeting, simply simply when everyone acquaint is virtually to make the official vote, the boardroom doors open dramatically.

Enter Dominicus-woo, looking like an absolute snack inwards his white adapt, too at his side are Sera as well as Director Hong — who accidentally stumbled upon Lord's Day-woo’s batcave as well as is at once a fully initiated member of Lord's Day-woo’sec hole-and-corner team. Oooowee! I actually do love a practiced, “Surprise, bitches! I’one thousand non dead!” cliffhanger.

Good Job: Episodes 7-8

It’sec rattling rare that I tin can expect dorsum on an episode of a present too think, “Wow, hardly anything happened inward the terminal 60 minutes to progress the plot, together with I’thousand totally okay amongst it.” But that’sec exactly what happened to me this calendar week afterwards watching Episode 7, too it made me realize that a big office of this drama’s charm is that it doesn’t endeavor to complicate its overarching plot (viz., who killed Sunday-woo’sec mom) alongside a ton of twists and misdirections. Instead, it spoon feeds us the (fairly obvious) clues one-by-ane as well as fills the gaps betwixt each new lead alongside mini capers, situational comedy, together with romance.

And speaking of romance, this week’s episodes had me squeeing out loud, which is a pretty unsafe affair to make spell watching dramas on my dejeuner break. Thankfully, no i heard my squawking happy noises in addition to mistook them for cries of hurting because if mortal had come up to cheque inwards on me, it would accept been a chip awkward if they’d caught me watching the shirtless Sun-woo scene. Seriously, I can’t be the solely one who watched that quasi-backhug as well as idea, “Oh my,” inward George Takei’s vocalization, right?

Good Job: Episodes 7-8