my healers

my healers 2

We begin Episode 2 as Chae Young Shin (Park Min Young) rushes to get out the door to work. She and her father live above his coffee shop. Father is a part-time lawyer and part-time coffee shop owner. Turns out several of the former criminals that Father defended now work at the coffee shop. Darling two part flashback: Part 1 – Former criminal teaches Young Shin as a young girl how to pick a lock. Part 2 – As a teenage she in turn pickpockets his keys and locks him out of the coffee shop much to the glee of the other former criminals workers. Father and former criminal worker get her to eat a bite before she rushes for the bus stop. After she boards the bus Healer enters behind her. When the bus takes off, Young Shin falls into Healer. He rights her then quickly turns away. She tries to catch his eye but he avoids her gaze. He sits behind her hoping to pluck a hair for the DNA test his client (Moon Ho) has requested. No dice, she puts on a hat. Young Shin is aware that he is watching her. As she exits the bus, she notices that he follows her. Healer creates a diversion and snatches her purse hoping to find a toothbrush or hairbrush in the backpack. No such luck, as Healer surveys the contents of the bag. Young Shin boldly accosts him and asks him to return the bag. In some nifty maneuvers she almost gets a clear view of him, but he wraps her from behind stunning her as he clips her fingernails. He quietly tells her she should not follow strange men then leaves.

Next Healer drop off the package with Young Shin’s fingernails to Kang Dae Yong who whines that she is tired of deliveries and wants more challenging work from Min Ja. Healer stays out of that discussion, cutely putting her helmet on her head and sending her on her way. The package is delivered to a locker and the client (Moon Ho) receives a text with the combination. He retrieves the package and gives it to his long suffering assistant Lee Jong Soo for delivery to the lab.

Next day at work Moon Ho (Ji Tae) sweet talks the producer to forgiving him for his off script comments on the broadcast. She warns him the network bigwigs cannot be sweet talked because their primary sponsor is the company doing the layoffs he reported on

Moon Ho gets a phone call from his sister-in-law Choi Myung Hee (Do Ji Won) and goes to his brother’s house to visit. She chides him for missing the memorial service for her assumed dead daughter yesterday. Ah, the daughter Moon Ho is trying to find no doubt. Moon Ho looks chagrined and she immediately forgives him. Ji Won has a terrific smile! When his brother, Moon Shik, enters the kitchen the mood gets more serious as he tells his wife it is time for her medicine. Moon Shik talks to Moon Ho outside and mentions that Myung Hee is resisting her medicine and rest. Moon Ho sweetly tucks her in for a nap and they reminisce about old times. Moon Ho remembers Myung Hee’s kindness to him as a boy and his brother’s longing for her, though she loved another. It is obvious both brothers care deeply for Myung Hee.

Hanging out in his brother’s study Moon Ho retrieves an SD card from a stealth camera in a bookshelf. Wow! Moon Ho has bugged his brother’s study! Later he watches the video listening intently when his brother tells his henchman that the man with the package and the Healer must both be eliminated. The henchman frets eliminating the Healer will be difficult.

The lab calls Moon Ho. Young Shin’s DNA matches Myung Hee – they are mother and daughter! Moon Ho is stunned his search is finally over.

We get a sense of the Healer’s jobs. He describes himself as a courier – NO killing, that is an absolute. He does not care if he is working for the good guys or the bad guys as long as they pay the fee, they can have his courier services. He only has 3 numbers in his cell phone – Min Ja (job coordinator), Dae Yong (delivery girl) and his favorite eatery. He states “Family, friends, colleagues – I don’t have any”.

Moon Ho tasks the healer to find out about Young Shin though a series of questions.

Question 1 – was Young Shin abused by her adoptive father? Disguised as a nerd in dorky glasses (that still have the heads up display) Healer heads to the coffee shop. He plays the nerd well and timidly orders and waits for his food. While he waits Young Shin comes down the stairs for breakfast. She and her father banter and enjoy each other. Her father puts on a record and sings at the top of his lungs while Young Shin dances about. Min Ja observes the song and dance routine through the display. LOL as you see her write to Moon Ho – client not abused by adoptive father – not applicable!

Question 2 – what does Young Shin do for a living? Healer follows Young Shin as she searches for the license plate of the famous man she believes to be having an affair with the famous actress. Recall she feigned sickness as a delivery person in episode 1 at this actress’s apartment to gain entry. Healer does not know why she is looking at all the license plates, declaring to Min Ja that she is aimless. Young Shin observes a man slapping around a woman in the back of a car. She wants to intervene but the henchmen outside the car glare at her and she realizes she can do nothing. Then the famous man drives and parks next to Young Shin. Jackpot! As she hurries to follow him into the apartment building she is unable to enter because she does not know the code. The famous man slips into the elevator. The abused woman enters the building allowing Young Shin to slip in. They ride the elevator together. The woman is in a daze and does not engage when Young Shin talks to her. Young Shin exits the elevator at the famous actress floor. She decides that disguising herself as a police officer will garner her access to the apartment. Healer goes up the elevator and stops on the same floor as Young Shin. She spots the woman’s bag on the elevator floor. With a sense of foreboding she enters the elevator to try and find the woman. She ends up on the roof and sees the woman on the ledge ready to jump.

Wrapped in emotion Young Shin pleads with the woman not to jump. The woman does not respond. Young Shin confesses to the woman that she knows what it is like to be abused. She shares how when she was 5 years old her parents dumped her. She was in and out of orphanages until she was 7 when she was adopted. She confesses the man beat her, and she too considered suicide as the way to make the pain stop. The woman finally looks at her and tears stream down their faces. Unbeknownst to the women, Healer is streaming the conversation to Min Ja via his eye glasses. The woman takes Young Shin’s hand and comes down off the ledge. Park Min Young knocked that scene out of the park…well done!

When Moon Ho watches the confession of Young Shin’s life he cries. Moon Ho remembers his brother’s longing for Myung Hee, though she loved another.

A cyber detective, Yoon Dong Won (Jo Han Chul), shows up at the scene of a crime. A man was pushed from a bridge. On the man was the healer’s email address. Dong Won tells the detective he has been tracking the Healer for years to no avail. This email is his first big break.