Delivery Man: Episodes 5-6

by quirkycase

This week’s episodes bring more clues about Ji-hyun’s past and the circumstances surrounding her death. While our living-dead pair make some helpful discoveries about our amnesiac ghost’s memories, they face new challenges when their feelings threaten to complicate an already complicated situation.

EPISODES 5-6

After Young-min realizes he might be in love with a ghost, he takes off to stay in a public bathhouse overnight and clear his head. That leaves Ji-hyun stuck at his house having one-sided conversations with Boon-ja as they both fret over why Young-min isn’t coming home. But he can’t stay away for too long given that the cell phone needs to be charged to keep Ji-hyun from getting sent back to purgatory.

Young-min decides to keep his feelings to himself and finally takes Ji-hyun to meet with her ex-classmate, assuming that she’ll accept his feelings and move onto the great beyond with him. He waits outside on pins and needles while the ghost confesses his feelings. But he doesn’t have any reason to worry since Ji-hyun has no intention of moving on yet.

She lets the ghost down gently, saying she wants to find her memories before moving on. The ghost senses it’s more than that and leaves her with an ominous warning – falling in love with a living person can also cause a ghost to move on since it can relieve them of their grievances. If Ji-hyun wants to find her memories, she’d better not fall in love with Young-min. (As if a living-dead romance wasn’t complicated enough…)

Then we learn that there’s yet another complication for Ji-hyun. She’s been showing signs of “powers” like being able to physically grab Young-min to prevent him from falling or telepathically move things when she’s desperate. We don’t learn yet why she can do these things, but it’s not a good sign: ghosts who exhibit these abilities can easily turn into evil spirits.

On the bright side, our duo does make some headway when it comes to Ji-hyun’s past. Thanks to a talisman the shaman gave them, Ji-hyun starts regaining pieces of her memory. When she sees a woman get knocked over by a motorcycle, she recalls waking in the back of a taxi and seeing a woman lying in the road (Young-min’s mom?) as a motorcycle zoomed away.

She also remembers her pregnant friend Min-seo dying under suspicious circumstances. We see in flashback that Ji-hyun was a cop, like her dad, and became obsessed with her friend’s death. It was ruled as natural – Min-seo died of cardiac arrest after being taken to the hospital – but Ji-hyun suspected medical malpractice.

Elsewhere, the cops now track down motorcycle man (the one they suspect of putting Ji-hyun in the cab) who makes a visit to the hospital where Kyu-jin works. It could be coincidence, but that seems unlikely given the few shady characters at the hospital. There’s the too-perfect Kyu-jin, a secret chaebol who donates to charity, is well-respected, and beloved. Then, there’s the head nurse who might have known Ji-hyun and was definitely at a convention Ji-hyun attended the day she died. She also gets weird when she sees Young-min at the hospital, as if she recognizes him although he doesn’t seem to know her.

Finally, there’s sketchy resident Jung-woo who has been regularly stealing tranquilizers. Kyu-jin grows suspicious of Jung-woo, who’s not exactly known for being a good doctor. After learning that the death rate has quadrupled since Jung-woo has been on staff and catching him stealing red-handed, Kyu-jin fires him. (Something tells me we’re not done with him yet, though.)

Meanwhile, Young-min and Ji-hyun get their next client who surprisingly is not a ghost but a very alive little boy named Ha-joon. He’s able to see ghosts, which is how he learned about the “wish-granting taxi.” He begs Young-min to help him find his teenaged sister who just went missing. The police assume she’s a runaway and aren’t doing anything, so although it’s a bit unorthodox, Young-min and Ji-hyun can’t ignore Ha-joon’s pleas.

Ji-hyun goes into cop mode and starts investigating while Young-min takes care of a family emergency. His grandmother was visited by the debt collectors and now knows about their dire financial situation. Young-min assures her he’s handling it, but Boon-ja doesn’t want him to shoulder all this himself. He’s confused when she tells him to sell one of his mother’s plants, until he looks it up and learns it’s worth thousands. Ha, maybe he should’ve clued Boon-ja in sooner.

With that out of the way, Young-min rejoins Ji-hyun to help find Ha-joon’s sister Ha-yeul. They meet up with a group of shifty girls who clearly know something. One of the girls was a friend of Ha-yeul’s, and she wants to talk but has been threatened into silence by the queen bee bully. When the girls leave Ha-yeul’s phone by the river with a fake suicide note, Ga-eun finally gets the courage to tell Young-min the truth.

On the day she went missing, Ha-yeul went into the mountains to save Ga-eun from the girls bullying her. She got into a fight with the queen bee and fell, hitting her head on a rock. The girls covered her body with leaves and ran, threatening to kill Ga-eun if she talked.

Ga-eun takes Young-min (and Ji-hyun) to where the girls left Ha-yeul who is miraculously still alive. Young-min rushes her to the hospital where Kyu-jin struggles to save her. But she flatlines, appearing briefly as a ghost to say goodbye to Ha-joon and thank Young-min. Then, she flickers out.

Except it seems her heart only stopped momentarily, and the doctors manage to bring her back. So it’s a happy ending after all. Little Ha-joon is so grateful that he even sends in a story about the amazing Young-min to a radio show, giving him a national shout out.

Riding high on the success of his wish-granting ghost taxi, Young-min confesses his feelings to Ji-hyun. She’s stunned and brings up the valid point that there’s no happy ending here since she’s dead, but Young-min is undaunted by this minor complication. Ji-hyun keeps the fact that she could move on if she loves him back to herself.

She does agree to help Young-min fulfill his wish of putting up a lock on Namsan Tower (usually done by couples). While there, they run into Kyu-jin on a date with Young-min’s friend So-ri. Seeing Kyu-jin triggers another memory for Ji-hyun – she’d once asked Kyu-jin out after he’d treated her for an injury. Ji-hyun shares this with Young-min, so he shows Kyu-jin a picture of Ji-hyun. We end as Kyu-jin says that he knows Ji-hyun.

Something else to make Kyu-jin even more mysterious… I am curious about what’s going on with him and how he connects to all this. He’s linked to Young-min’s mom and Ji-hyun, and works at the hospital that is the epicenter of shadiness. Even if he’s not directly involved, he probably has some key information on at least one of the cases.

I don’t know if it’s because of how many cases we’re dealing with or if it’s the abrupt transitions between certain scenes, but I found this week’s events hard to follow in parts. Sometimes, it feels like we’re just bouncing between them, the interrelated cases and the ghostly case-of-the-week, making it hard to keep track of it all. Now that everything is starting to come together, I hope there will be a more seamless integration of the many pieces that make up the main mystery.

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Delivery Man: Episodes 5-6