Flying away to the recesses of memory
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shallownessButterfly - 1.6 Annyeong
This started off with a chase scene, as, soon after David had seen Gun carry an unconscious Rebecca off into an SUV, a motorbike came down the road, he flagged it down and took it (and the helmet). For all the exciting chasing that ensued, the SUV got away, and David had to go to his in-laws’ compound, and, despite his missus’ worry, ask his father-in-law for men, weapons and help to get his daughter back. He agreed to do it if David agreed to do a ‘favour’ that had both David’s missus and mother-in-law worried. Also, his missus had felt obliged to check if Rebecca had been taken by Caddis or had gone with by choice. (Fair.)
Rebecca was chained to a desk in a very large, light room, and won round one of her verbal skirmish with Juno by revealing that Oliver had run to Dawson, believing his mother had been trying to kill him. Round 2 started with Juno unconvincingly eating one bite of a burger, and pressing on Rebecca that she was family, that Juno’s amorality made her happy with who Rebecca was. Rebecca fought back ambiguously, but as the news came that the FBI was raiding Caddis’s main offices (wait, whut? The FBI? In South Korea? Have they got jurisdiction? Wouldn’t it at least be a joint operation with the local law enforcement? But then, this is the sort of show where you’re meant to let these things pass.)
Rebecca was given a choice: to escape the country with Juno and start anew, or stay where she was and probably be killed. She chose the first, and once released hugged Juno, who allowed herself a smile of victory. They went into an SUV with Gun, Juno’s right-hand guy at the office and some thugs. Rebecca’s chat on the journey was all about the ambiguity, suggesting that she wasn’t as untroubled by all the killing she’d done as Gun was.
David met his team, and, knowing Juno was heading for her private jet, he’d set up a trap involving wayward traffic lights, lorries and the like in her way, herding Juno’s convoy of three SUVs to an industrial estate to pick off the vehicles and their thugs.
Gun got sent out to fight David. Turns out that knives are better than guns that have run out of bullets. Meanwhile, Rebecca decided that the moment was right to take on the rest of the car, using kicks, seatbelts and other people’s guns to kill or subdue people.
In the mano-a-mano fight, which got quite brutal, the older hero got the upper hand, and then one of Gun’s knives. Gun’s piece of wood was no match for the inevitability of the narrative, and so David was able to come to Rebecca, who was proud of not needing to be rescued. The Jungs had a bit of an argument about what to do with Juno: David wanted to shoot her dead, Rebecca was sentimental (!?) enough not to want that. From the sofa, I was arguing for shooting her in the leg or somewhere, although by this point, she wasn’t a physical threat.
The Jungs got away to have another disagreement over which on-the-nose song to listen to on the car radio. Eventually they got to the in-laws, where the missus was very relieved to see David back alive. David encouraged Rebecca to think again about college and her future.
Juno and her right-hand guy had got to her private plane, mostly unscathed, when Oliver called her. She tried to apologise for being a terrible, if loving mother, but eventually the signal cut out.
The Jungs had gone out for dinner, David and Rebecca had changed, but there were echoes of abrasions on their faces. Rebecca’s stepsister pelted her with questions, David and the missus got soppy, and then the missus decided to use the bathroom before leaving and Rebecca volunteered to go with her. They made the kid do a gratuitous reference to Hawaii, because David is played by Daniel Dae-Kim, and then David started thinking that the ladies had been there a long time (not really in real-world time, I thought.) And also the restaurant had got quiet.
So he left his littlest daughter alone to fall asleep on the chair (!) and went to investigate, and found his wife, bleeding out from a wound to the throat. The bathroom was fairly rank, with no towels or soft cloths to help. He wanted to know who’d done this to her, she couldn’t speak, and he started concluding it was the suspiciously absent Rebecca.
Knowing the show was cancelled had made me worry about whether there’d be a cliffhanger, and there was. It’s as plausible that Rebecca didn’t kill her stepmother, but was taken (even if not by anyone Caddis related) as it is that she would kill this woman for macking on her dad and being part of the new life she was excluded from, because she really is that broken. I find I don’t care that I will never know, and that is probably why the show was cancelled. I mean, even the reveal that Juno had got Oliver a dog and because she hadn’t researched the breed had ended up putting it down and lying to Oliver about it was lame.
This started off with a chase scene, as, soon after David had seen Gun carry an unconscious Rebecca off into an SUV, a motorbike came down the road, he flagged it down and took it (and the helmet). For all the exciting chasing that ensued, the SUV got away, and David had to go to his in-laws’ compound, and, despite his missus’ worry, ask his father-in-law for men, weapons and help to get his daughter back. He agreed to do it if David agreed to do a ‘favour’ that had both David’s missus and mother-in-law worried. Also, his missus had felt obliged to check if Rebecca had been taken by Caddis or had gone with by choice. (Fair.)
Rebecca was chained to a desk in a very large, light room, and won round one of her verbal skirmish with Juno by revealing that Oliver had run to Dawson, believing his mother had been trying to kill him. Round 2 started with Juno unconvincingly eating one bite of a burger, and pressing on Rebecca that she was family, that Juno’s amorality made her happy with who Rebecca was. Rebecca fought back ambiguously, but as the news came that the FBI was raiding Caddis’s main offices (wait, whut? The FBI? In South Korea? Have they got jurisdiction? Wouldn’t it at least be a joint operation with the local law enforcement? But then, this is the sort of show where you’re meant to let these things pass.)
Rebecca was given a choice: to escape the country with Juno and start anew, or stay where she was and probably be killed. She chose the first, and once released hugged Juno, who allowed herself a smile of victory. They went into an SUV with Gun, Juno’s right-hand guy at the office and some thugs. Rebecca’s chat on the journey was all about the ambiguity, suggesting that she wasn’t as untroubled by all the killing she’d done as Gun was.
David met his team, and, knowing Juno was heading for her private jet, he’d set up a trap involving wayward traffic lights, lorries and the like in her way, herding Juno’s convoy of three SUVs to an industrial estate to pick off the vehicles and their thugs.
Gun got sent out to fight David. Turns out that knives are better than guns that have run out of bullets. Meanwhile, Rebecca decided that the moment was right to take on the rest of the car, using kicks, seatbelts and other people’s guns to kill or subdue people.
In the mano-a-mano fight, which got quite brutal, the older hero got the upper hand, and then one of Gun’s knives. Gun’s piece of wood was no match for the inevitability of the narrative, and so David was able to come to Rebecca, who was proud of not needing to be rescued. The Jungs had a bit of an argument about what to do with Juno: David wanted to shoot her dead, Rebecca was sentimental (!?) enough not to want that. From the sofa, I was arguing for shooting her in the leg or somewhere, although by this point, she wasn’t a physical threat.
The Jungs got away to have another disagreement over which on-the-nose song to listen to on the car radio. Eventually they got to the in-laws, where the missus was very relieved to see David back alive. David encouraged Rebecca to think again about college and her future.
Juno and her right-hand guy had got to her private plane, mostly unscathed, when Oliver called her. She tried to apologise for being a terrible, if loving mother, but eventually the signal cut out.
The Jungs had gone out for dinner, David and Rebecca had changed, but there were echoes of abrasions on their faces. Rebecca’s stepsister pelted her with questions, David and the missus got soppy, and then the missus decided to use the bathroom before leaving and Rebecca volunteered to go with her. They made the kid do a gratuitous reference to Hawaii, because David is played by Daniel Dae-Kim, and then David started thinking that the ladies had been there a long time (not really in real-world time, I thought.) And also the restaurant had got quiet.
So he left his littlest daughter alone to fall asleep on the chair (!) and went to investigate, and found his wife, bleeding out from a wound to the throat. The bathroom was fairly rank, with no towels or soft cloths to help. He wanted to know who’d done this to her, she couldn’t speak, and he started concluding it was the suspiciously absent Rebecca.
Knowing the show was cancelled had made me worry about whether there’d be a cliffhanger, and there was. It’s as plausible that Rebecca didn’t kill her stepmother, but was taken (even if not by anyone Caddis related) as it is that she would kill this woman for macking on her dad and being part of the new life she was excluded from, because she really is that broken. I find I don’t care that I will never know, and that is probably why the show was cancelled. I mean, even the reveal that Juno had got Oliver a dog and because she hadn’t researched the breed had ended up putting it down and lying to Oliver about it was lame.
