This episode opens in shaky-cam documentary style. The cameraperson runs up to an old lady who is standing in what looks like a subway tunnel or covered alley (what do I look like, an urban explorer?), fixing the roof of her cardboard house. She turns, and it's Old Yeonhee. Apparently, this documentary show is called "The Life of a Hermit", and Yeonhee is the star of today's episode. She's still using the name Yeonhee, and is thus still a massive idiot.
She reveals that she's been living in the tunnel thingy "ever since [she] was wrongly accused." When the reporter asks what happened, she spouts out some vague crap about cockroaches and says that you have to be careful of three things in life: "binoculars, cockroaches, and universal stars."
Reporter wonders why you have to be careful of "universal stars", but Old Yeonhee screeches at him to get out, and shoves the camera and mic away violently. Some sappy music plays over faraway shots of Old Yeonhee, and the documentary's narrator wonders "when will her long and cold winter end? When will spring come to her?"
[snerk] Sounds like the kind of sappy BS a teenage girl would come up with. Heh. Hey, I wonder what Old Chanyeol's up to. Probably died from an overdose.
Mama yells "Why aren't you eating?" and we cut to the present, where Yeonhee is sitting at the breakfast table, wrapped in a comforter with a thermometer in her mouth. So It Was All Just A (day)Dream then.
Mama pulls the thermometer out and declares Yeonhee's fever to be gone. Yeonhee sneezes, and Mama says it's her own fault for leaving the window open. Mama tells Yeonhee to eat something so she can take her cold medicine. Ah yes, that famous Korean cold medicine that absolutely MUST be taken with food. You know, you'd think that with all their advances in other areas, they could formulate a cold medicine that doesn't need to be taken with food.
Mama offers to make Yeonhee porridge if she goes up to her room. Slightly worried, Gwangsu wonders if she's actually sick. Mama scoffs that Yeonhee's an idiot; it shouldn't be THAT hard to clean a house. (She's never cleaned up after teenagers, has she?) Oh, wait, Yeonhee's 23. Dang, I keep thinking she's 17 or something, what with her maturity level.
In House EXO, three of them are sitting at a table in a small room (the breakfast nook?) while D.O. reads something and paces. Chanyeol glares fiercely at Yeonhee's window, and angrily asks no one in particular why she isn't there yet. (Why does he expect her to be there every day?)
D.O. looks at the window and says quietly, "Maybe she got so scared she fell ill." [BAHAHAHAHAAAA] WOW, Kdrama girls are fragile.
Baekhyun: *walks up to D.O. and sassily snaps his finger in his [D.O.'s]
face*
Baekhyun: *offers to help him with whatever's troubling his [D.O.'s] poor
little soul*
D.O.: It's nothing.
Baekhyun: *eats a strawberry*
Fangirls: *scream and faint*
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| They're totally wearing lipstick tho. |
Sehun: Bull. You keep staring at that house like you want it to have your
babies (D.O. X House Yeonhee 4ever) 왜, 왜, 왜, 왜??
Chanyeol: Hey, I wasn't staring (he totally was)
Sehun: I've totally cracked the code, you guys! She's not here because
Chanyeol yelled at her to get out!
Baekhyun: Oh, THAT's what you're worried about (yeah, it's not like Suho
hurt himself or something)?? Just call her and ask her why she's not
coming (I <3 Baekhyun bc he has a brain)
Sehun: I have her number!
Other 3: Wut?
Sehun: Uh, well, I have her brother's number, actually.
Chanyeol: *blinks*
Chanyeolbot: ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Inside Gwangsu's tent:
Gwangsu: *his back to Sehun, sitting cross-legged and talking like Miyagi* That girl is severely ill. " 'Tis critical."
Sehun: Why are you talking like an old guy and not looking at me? *paws cutely at Brother's shoulder*
Gwangsu: I don't talk face to face with friends I've met outside of school. Mind your manners.
Sehun: Wait, how old are you??
Gwangsu: Shut your face. Oh, and BTW, my sister thinks you have an ugly rear end.
Sehun: Wut?
Gwangsu: She said you were "ugly ass", so if you're thinking "impure thoughts" about her, then stop.
Sehun: Wuuuut??
[lololol]
Inside Chanyeol's room:
D.O. and Sehun are sitting on Chanyeol's bed, Baekhyun is leaning against the headboard, and Chanyeol is leaning
Cut to Yeonhee in her bed, cocooned in a pile of puffy blankets. She remembers D.O. touching her face (this flashback is accompanied by soft piano music and tinkly chimes and I'm laughing my head off), and then recalls Chanyeol jerking her arm (when he was in a bathrobe, remember?). The music is very nice, though; it sounds like it would fit well in a sci-fi movie that explores the nature of humanity or something (Mr. Nobody or Solaris maybe), or a touching moment in a Pixar film. The flashback of her and Chanyeol continues, and we learn that she is utterly ignorant of the fact that she and "Chan" were childhood friends.
Meanwhile, Chanyeol is in the kitchen, looking at something on an iPad. He mutters that there is "too much information." Guess he found a 19+ EXO fanfic site. Apparently, he is following the pattern of "jerk with a heart of gold" that is oh-so-popular in K-dramas and *attempting* to make Yeonhee honey tea for her cold. (I feel like I have to stress the fact that his character in this show is in direct odds with the REAL Chanyeol, or at least the Chanyeol I've seen on EXO Showtime and interviews.) Anyway, he burns himself with the hot water, and gives up in anger and embarrassment.
In the car [?] D.O. is flipping through a book, when he is suddenly sucked into the Flashback Wormhole as well--back to the porch scene with him and Yeonhee. This Extended Remastered Director's Cut of the iconic Porch Scene reveals that he was so worried about Yeonhee that he wanted to call an ambulance. D'awww. But seriously, I don't blame him--it looks like there's something seriously wrong with her face when she blushes.
Flashback Yeonhee stammers that she's "not sick, just embarrassed" and D.O.'s eyes are so pretty during this scene that I can't be bothered to mock it. Then Yeonhee starts boo-hooing that "[her] face hasn't been this red in three years" (WOW, it must be nice not being a pizza face like me). D.O. handles the "crying girl" situation remarkably well and they both profusely apologize to each other. Yeonhee pauses in her crying and "어떡해"-ing for a moment to blow her nose right on the picture of D.O. [!]. He only makes a slight, if adorably disgusted, face. Back in The Present, he asks the driver to make a quick stop.
Gwangsu interrupts Yeonhee's Dreams of Electric EXOs to deliver a cup of tea from "apron guy". D.O., being the sweetie that he is, got her honey tea for her cold and even gave her a cutesy Post-It note message (I swear, it's like K-dramas are required by law to always have cutesy Post-It note messages *cough* Flower Boy Next Door and Let's Eat *cough*).
In the next scene (which I assume is several hours later) Yeonhee gets up, stretches, and pronounces herself perfectly healthy due to a good day's rest. She decides to do some damage control with EXO, and goes to clean their house. As she's wiping off Chanyeol's desk, he enters and demands to know (rather rudely, I might add) why she's back. She goes to leave, but he grabs her arm, apologizes for his terrible behavior, and gives her the green light to keep working there. Yay.
He leaves but stays right outside the door. Yeonhee apologizes through the door, and explains that she "wanted to make things right before [she] quit." She explains why she did what she did, and is about to tell him her name, when he comes in and says "I know your name. You thought I didn't??" With that oh-so-shocking revelation, the episode comes to a close.
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