“My Perfect Stranger” delves deep into the central thriller this week as Yoon Hae Joon (Kim Dong Wook) and Baek Yoon Young (Jin Ki Joo) search to stop the primary homicide. But there’s one thing suspicious about its meant sufferer, and the 2 rapidly uncover that their stranding in 1987 might not be as coincidental as that they had believed.

Warning: spoilers for episodes 5-6 under.

1. When they discover the scholar trainer earlier than the would-be-killer does

In the unique timeline, Lee Joo Young (Jung Ga Hee) vanishes on the night time of her very first day and is discovered by the river, trying spooked. She insists that nothing’s unsuitable to those that query her however vanishes agin two days later and is discovered useless. Hae Joon is aware of the second half of the story from the police stories after Joo Young’s demise, however Yoon Young is aware of the primary half from Go Mi Sook’s (2021 self performed by Kim Hye Eun) manuscript. She’s sure that Mi Sook has one thing to do with the murders, seeing because the novel was written in an autobiographical method and within the type of a confession as if Mi Sook was letting the world know that she had gotten away with the crimes. Hae Joon isn’t as sure, particularly since Mi Sook’s identify wasn’t on the suspect listing.

But how thorough was the police investigation again then? Because when Joo Young vanishes, it’s Hae Joon and Yoon Young who rapidly discover her by the river as per Mi Sook’s novel. Baek Dong Shik (Choi Young Woo), the native cop and relative of Yoon Young’s father Baek Hee Seob (Lee Won Jung), stays woefully behind our group of sleuths. In reality, Hae Joon’s outraged to seek out that he let loose Mi Sook’s brother Min Soo (Kim Yeon Woo) that morning. Hae Joon spots a black-clothed determine watching Joo Young by the river (who might have killed her then and there) and provides chase however loses the determine when Dong Shik unintentionally interferes. With the mounting risk that the investigation into the murders could have been horribly bungled, Hae Joon and Yoon Young warn Joo Young to maintain protected. But Joo Young stays evasive, not explaining why she was crying by the river or why she stored saying that “it wasn’t her” when she was discovered.

2. When they shield Joo Young from the police

His focus is on getting Joo Young out of city earlier than the killer tries to focus on her once more. Unfortunately, his repeated tirades at Dong Shik to do his job appear to have paid off within the unsuitable approach. Dong Shik thinks that Joo Young is shady, as an alternative of taking a look at why she was panicking in the midst of the night time. He finds that she took half in some protests towards the militant authorities on the time and was arrested for it. He sees this as proof that she’s a harmful traitor and takes an entire ton of cops to have her arrested at college. What an fool.

Yoon Young and Hae Joon handle to cover Joo Young within the nick of time. She begins to belief them and admits that somebody was chasing her the earlier night time, threatening to out her to the varsity, therefore why she was hiding by the river. As a outcome, Hae Joon insists that Joo Young stick with him and Yoon Young for security causes.

2. When they stake out each attainable path and individual Joo Young encounters previous to demise within the authentic timeline

The timing to the primary homicide shortens, and our duo is out of clues, in order that they stake out each attainable path between the teahouse the place Joo Young was final seen (the identical teahouse from which the killer took matchboxes to depart beside the victims). It’s a three-minute stroll from the teahouse to the inn Joo Young is staying at, however she one way or the other vanishes in that point.

Hae Joon patrols the streets on what ought to have been the night time of the homicide and encounters all three suspects. Joo Young was seen talking to a person in a blue hat. Hee Seob walks in carrying one. But he surprisingly isn’t there for Joo Young. Instead, he meets together with his buddy Yoo Bum Ryong (Jo Yeon Woo), the second suspect who had stolen Joo Young’s ring and appears to be blackmailing her.

Hee Seob calls for that Bum Ryong return the ring or he’ll inform on him, and Bum Ryong reluctantly agrees. They go away in reverse instructions, and Hee Seob goes together with his brother Baek Yoo Seob (Hong Seung An). Hae Joon additionally runs into the third suspect Min Soo, who’s beating up Mi Sook in an alley. Hae Joon interferes to cease the struggle, however Mi Sook doesn’t wish to press expenses. She simply smiles regardless of her accidents and says that he’ll go away her alone now that he has stolen cash from her. These two have such a tousled sibling dynamic. She genuinely hates him.

4. When saving one life almost takes one other

With all the culprits within the space, Hae Joon is stumped on who might have dedicated the homicide. He makes use of the principal’s (who could also be his grandfather) fondness for him to get the police off his again (extra like get them drunk and hold them drunk) till he can get Joo Young a bus out of city the following morning. He succeeds, and all appears nicely. Dong Shik finds out that Joo Young has left approach too late to do something about it. But as he’s arguing with Hae Joon, screams rise from a close-by constructing. Hae Joon isn’t fussed; he is aware of that the fireplace didn’t kill anybody, till he finds out that Dong Shik’s kids have been within the constructing.

In the unique timeline, Dong Shik wasn’t compelled to remain out late together with his colleagues and picked up his children, therefore why there have been no fatalities. But on this time line, to save lots of Joo Young’s life, the principal stored Dong Shik there on Hae Joon’s orders. And nobody picked up the children. Hae Joon almost goes insane, bursting into the burning constructing. They discover the lacking baby, close to demise, and rescue him. But it might have been actually dangerous. Never has the butterfly impact of his selections been so clearly outlined to Hae Joon, and he panics, taking it out on Yoon Young when she asks him what’s unsuitable.

He reveals the reality to her, that the one cause he’s attempting to stop these murders is for himself and that he’s the killer’s fifth sufferer and her mom was possible the fourth. He’s brutal, treating her like an undesirable variable that might break every little thing, however Yoon Young refuses to take it, saying that she’s going to go examine herself and shield these she cares about.

5. When Hae Joon and Yoon Young discover a hidden fourth suspect

Yoon Young’s investigations lead her again to Mi Sook’s manuscript as she tries to seek out the clues in there. Police stories are impersonal and infrequently don’t draw a transparent image of the individuals concerned within the matter, however Mi Sook supplies clear perception into the earlier than, throughout, and after of the crime. Seeing as there’s nobody who would know what Mi Sook’s phrases imply higher than Mi Sook, Yoon Young causally asks her what she meant by “the man with blue hair stood between the sun and the moon for days after the murder.”

It appears like despair, guilt, or concern. But “between the sun and moon” seems to be the identify of a file retailer. Yoon Young heads there and sees a person in a blue hat. She returns, shaken, to an apologetic Hae Joon. He’s ready to inform her that he noticed her dad in a blue hat when she tells him that she is aware of who it isn’t. The man she noticed, the unique proprietor of the hat, isn’t Hee Seob. It’s her uncle, Yoo Seob. Hae Joon flashes again to his patrols and remembers seeing Yoo Seob ready for Hee Seob outdoors the teahouse. They each notice that there was a fourth suspect that the police by no means thought-about, somebody near all of the events however who was virtually invisible. And that’s a very harmful perk for a killer.

Next week guarantees additional murder-averting shenanigans. The second homicide was two days after the primary, which doesn’t go away Yoon Young and Hae Joon a lot time to avert it. But issues are beginning to basically alter in 1987. There’s an entire individual alive now that wasn’t alive then. Is Joo Young doomed to die sooner or later too? What made the killer begin killing after 34 years? Could looking down his killer previously be the rationale for Hae Joon, a seemingly unrelated individual to the city of Woo Jung, turning into a sufferer? One factor’s for positive—this present is promising solutions.

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