After a wonderful premiere week organising the main conflicts and mysteries, “My Perfect Stranger” stays in 1987 as our two leads attempt to plan the easiest way ahead. Yoon Hae Jun (Kim Dong Wook) and Baek Yoon Young (Jin Ki Joo) are understandably cautious of one another as two strangers thrown into cohabitation in a decade they don’t belong in, however they’re going to need to belief one another and quick. There’s homicide brewing within the sleepy city of Woo Jung, and, surprisingly sufficient, the important thing to the reality Hae Jun’s been trying to find this complete time is probably not among the many scholar physique he suspects however with Yoon Young.

Spoilers for episodes 3-4 under.
Warning: temporary point out of sexual assault.

1. Yoon Young returns to highschool

Hae Jun has an ironclad cowl in 1987, however Yoon Young is out of her depth. Given the turbulent political scenario on the time, outsiders to a city or metropolis who acted unusual have been seen as North Korean spies. Yoon Young definitely doesn’t assist issues given how she doesn’t have an ID and hasn’t spent as a lot time learning the customs and popular culture of the period. Yet, she’s decided to remain in 1987 to look at over her mom Lee Soon Ae (Seo Ji Hye) and asks Hae Jun to faux that she’s a distant relative who’ll be attending the identical highschool that Soon Ae attends and the place Hae Jun teaches. He’s in opposition to the thought however has to do exactly that when the native police officer Baek Dong Shik (Choi Young Woo)—additionally a relative of Baek Hee Seob (Lee Won Jung)—comes calling, nonetheless believing that Yoon Young is a spy. And identical to that, Yoon Young turns into a excessive schooler in 1987.

Past or current, highschool stays a lawless land. Yoon Young shortly makes the cognizance of the native imply women headed by Kim Hae Kyung (Kim Ye Ji). She additionally finds that Hae Jun’s nickname is the “5-Second Prince.” Why? Because he appears superb…till he opens his mouth and spews a collection of tremendous old school guidelines on how ladies shouldn’t be out late at night time and the way learning is finest. In actuality, Hae Jun does it as a result of he is aware of that the primary homicide takes place in three days, however the college students simply assume he’s a little bit of an previous fart, even when he’s cute.

Yoon Young and Soon Ae bond over their love of books, and Yoon Young wonders what occurred for her mom to surrender that curiosity as she grew older. She doesn’t have to attend lengthy to search out out. Eavesdropping on a younger Ko Mi Sook (Ji Hye Won) reveals that she’s been having Soon Ae rewrite all her literature assignments and sucks as much as Hae Jun, asking what he thinks of her writing. Hae Jun has no concept that Mi Sook didn’t write it and dryly says that she’ll hit it huge if she retains it up (which he is aware of). The worst half is that Mi Sook gaslights Soon Ae by says that the work is Mi Sook’s as a result of “anyone can rearrange words.” It’s the identical factor she did to Yoon Young in 2021. Soon Ae and Yoon Young mainly rewrote the work for her. What Mi Sook fails to understand is that nice writing is greater than an amazing concept; it’s with the ability to set down an amazing concept in nice language. Otherwise, it’s nothing greater than an idea. Yoon Young is livid at Mi Sook for profiting from Soon Ae and vows to report it to Hae Jun when Soon Ae fights again. She’s too variety for her personal good and helps Mi Sook. Yoon Young has no alternative however to face down, and Mi Sook smirks. Still, Yoon Young warns Mi Sook that she has her eyes on her. Only, Mi Sook warns Yoon Young that the sensation is mutual.

2. Hee Seob being a father three many years too early and three many years too late

Mi Sook isn’t the one particular person Yoon Young has to deal with in her safety of Soon Ae. Hee Seob is besotted with Soon Ae, and Yoon Young is set that the disastrous marriage that led to her start by no means occurs. Hee Seob merely can not perceive why Yoon Young is so against him flirting with Soon Ae, however he tries to anyway, haha. He’s miles from the drunk wastrel in 2021. This Hee Seob has desires of being in a punk rock band and an entire ton of empathy. When he mutters that Yoon Young should have turned out like this as a result of she doesn’t have mother and father, Yoon Young fortunately says that she does actually have a ineffective father who by no means bothered to point out up for something in her life for many years.

Yet, Hee Seob takes that to coronary heart and sweetly takes it upon himself to point out Yoon Young a number of the finest methods to face as much as bullies that his mother and father taught him. He says that that is the kind of factor her father ought to have taught her and is definite that her father should have had some kind of motive for doing what he did. Yoon Young is set to not be moved by her dad’s youthful self, however it’s fairly clear that a part of her is beginning to surprise simply what occurred to alter this happy-go-lucky man into the one she is aware of in 2021. It all appears to come back again to the collection of murders, which unbeknownst to Yoon Young, are about to start. And not solely does she not know that her dad and his finest buddy have been two of the three suspects however that Mi Sook’s brother was the person arrested for the killings.

3. Ko Min Soo, the psycho

In 2021, Hae Jun narrowly saved Ko Min Soo (2021’s self performed by Im Jong Yoon) from taking his life. He genuinely believes Min Soo’s pleas of innocence for one motive: the killings continued after Min Soo’s dying. So he’s horrified to search out that 1987’s Ko Min Soo (Kim Yeon Woo) is a psychopath.

When Yoon Young accepts a trip residence from Min Soo, it’s as a result of she’s attempting to assemble info on Mi Sook. Min Soo doesn’t appear to love his sister a lot and warns Yoon Young that Mi Sook is sensible and has already latched into Yoon Young’s weak spot: Soon Ae. Yoon Young expects him to be an ally. She doesn’t anticipate him to slam her head into the sprint or to get up in a house the place he tries to sexually assault her. Hae Jun bursts onto the scene earlier than the crime happens and sends Min Soo straight to jail. He’s particularly shocked as a result of he believed that Min Soo was harmless. Now, he wonders simply how a lot of what 2021’s Min Soo stated was true. With barely any time left till the primary homicide and not one of the three suspects appearing suspicious, Hae Jun’s out of clues. That is, till the primary homicide sufferer exhibits up.

4. The new instructor

At first look, little about Lee Joo Young (Jung Ga Hee) is sensible. She’s a scholar instructor from the distinguished Seoul University, however one thing about her story doesn’t add up. Her garments are worn, her footwear scruffy, and her data of present popular culture is sort of missing. Hae Jun is aware of that she’s going to be the killer’s first sufferer and asks that she be assigned to work underneath him in order that he can guarantee her security. It’s a tough line to stroll as a result of Hae Jun must not come off as creepy whereas keeping track of her. But his questions repay when he notices Joo Young mendacity in her solutions. She pretends to be dwelling with family members within the space when her case information listed her as having no subsequent of kin. She refuses Hae Jun’s affords of help and appears unusually closed off.

Even Yoon Young notices one thing amiss. Despite even having seen Joo Young earlier than, there’s one thing unusually acquainted about her. Yoon Young and Hae Jun haven’t been sharing any info with one another up to now (understandably in order they’re nonetheless strangers), which has resulted in them unwittingly having all the knowledge that the opposite celebration wants. Hae Jun is horrified to listen to that Joo Young has gone lacking a day sooner than she was speculated to, and he wonders if his and Yoon Young’s arrival has modified issues on this timeline. He races out to seek for her, whereas Yoon Young realizes the place she acknowledges Joo Young from: Mi Sook’s first novel. The one her mom very seemingly wrote. It’s the outline of the homicide sufferer within the story.

5. All playing cards on the desk

Despite Hae Jun’s warnings to remain at residence, Yoon Young chases after him to inform him that she is aware of the place Joo Young will probably be. If the e-book’s occasions are about to happen, then there’s nobody higher knowledgeable on the matter than Yoon Young, who’s learn that e-book dozens of occasions. She places this along with the matchboxes that Hae Jun appears involved over and the identical matchbox she discovered floating on the scene of her mom’s homicide over 30 years later, and she or he is aware of that one thing’s critically mistaken right here.

She asks Hae Jun if the homicide detailed in Mi Sook’s e-book is about to occur and if that’s the rationale he’s been coming to 1987. And our duo is lastly able to be trustworthy with one another.

Next week guarantees extra revelations and a gradual construct as much as the primary killing—except Hae Jun and Yoon Young can cease it. In the preview, Yoon Young appears satisfied that Mi Sook is the perpetrator. She’s definitely devious sufficient to be a killer, and her whole record of books contain feminine killers. But the very fact stays that it was Soon Ae who wrote the e-book that propelled Mi Sook to stardom. So by that logic, would the true killer be shy, candy, and repressed Soon Ae? The similar Soon Ae who has been bullied for years? The scary factor is that it nearly is sensible, save for the truth that Yoon Young doesn’t know that her mom was killed in 2021 by the identical killer. Here’s hoping that she realizes that quickly as a result of it isn’t simply 1987’s Soon Ae she has to guard however the mom she misplaced sooner or later as nicely.

It isn’t clear as to what the butterfly impact will probably be of Hae Jun’s and Yoon Young’s actions. Time continues to movement in 2021, with the grownup Min Soo and Mi Sook having a clandestine assembly that hints to a harmful, shared secret. Just what is going to Hae Jun discover as soon as he repairs his automobile and heads again? Perhaps subsequent week will inform!

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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she works as a lawyer, fangirls over Ji Sung, and makes an attempt to write the best fantasy romance of all time. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be happy to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “My Perfect Stranger,” “Tail of the Nine-Tailed 1938,” “Stealer: The Treasure Keeper,” “Dr. Romantic 3,” and “Black Knight.”
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