After a superb premiere week organising the most important conflicts and mysteries, “My Perfect Stranger” stays in 1987 as our two leads attempt to plan one of the best ways 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 must 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 will not be 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 state of affairs on the time, outsiders to a city or metropolis who acted unusual have been considered 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 finding out the customs and popular culture of the period. Yet, she’s decided to remain in 1987 to observe 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 towards the concept however has to just do 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 similar to that, Yoon Young turns into a excessive schooler in 1987.
Past or current, highschool stays a lawless land. Yoon Young rapidly 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 to be like wonderful…till he opens his mouth and spews a collection of tremendous old style guidelines on how ladies shouldn’t be out late at night time and the way finding out is greatest. 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that the primary homicide takes place in three days, however the college students simply assume he’s a little bit of an outdated fart, even when he’s cute.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 seek 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 large 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 “anybody can rearrange phrases.” It’s the identical factor she did to Yoon Young in 2021. Soon Ae and Yoon Young principally rewrote the work for her. What Mi Sook fails to understand is that nice writing is greater than an excellent concept; it’s with the ability to set down an excellent concept in nice language. Otherwise, it’s nothing greater than an idea. Yoon Young is livid at Mi Sook for benefiting from Soon Ae and vows to report it to Hae Jun when Soon Ae fights again. She’s too form for her personal good and helps Mi Sook. Yoon Young has no selection 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 cope with in her safety of Soon Ae. Hee Seob is besotted with Soon Ae, and Yoon Young is decided that the disastrous marriage that led to her beginning 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 goals 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 dad and mom, Yoon Young fortunately says that she does the truth is have a ineffective father who by no means bothered to indicate up for something in her life for many years.
Yet, Hee Seob takes that to coronary heart and sweetly takes it upon himself to indicate Yoon Young a few of the greatest methods to face as much as bullies that his dad and mom taught him. He says that that is the type of factor her father ought to have taught her and is definite that her father should have had some type of cause for doing what he did. Yoon Young is decided 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 return 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 greatest 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 cause: the killings continued after Min Soo’s dying. So he’s horrified to seek 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 collect data 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 count on 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 mentioned 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 reveals 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 celebrated 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 below 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 maintaining a tally of her. But his questions repay when he notices Joo Young mendacity in her solutions. She pretends to be residing with relations within the space when her case recordsdata listed her as having no subsequent of kin. She refuses Hae Jun’s presents 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 data 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 get together wants. Hae Jun is horrified to listen to that Joo Young has gone lacking a day sooner than she was purported 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 doubtless 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 times. 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 he or she is aware of that one thing’s significantly incorrect 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 sincere with one another.
Next week guarantees extra revelations and a sluggish construct as much as the primary killing—until Hae Jun and Yoon Young can cease it. In the preview, Yoon Young appears satisfied that Mi Sook is the wrongdoer. She’s definitely devious sufficient to be a killer, and her complete 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 virtually 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 properly.
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 stream in 2021, with the grownup Min Soo and Mi Sook having a clandestine assembly that hints to a harmful, shared secret. Just what’s going to Hae Jun discover as soon as he repairs his automotive and heads again? Perhaps subsequent week will inform!
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