Lee Joon Gi’s two-faced character is out in the open! And we are only on the second episode of Flower of Evil.
For its opening week, Flower of Evil has driven an impressive picture. One that piques interest right away because the process of discovering your lover’s dark side usually involves third party in K-Dramaland. But, now Moon Chae Won‘s character has to inescapably confront that her sweet husband is not who he is.
In the premiere episode, we were introduced to the loving couple Baek Hee Sung and Cha Ji Won. Blessed with an adorable daughter, they lead a regular life. Ji Won is a detective while Hee Sung is a metal craftsman. However, a looming change will come into their lives.
Flower of Evil Episode 2 Recap
“If it hurts too much, don’t hesitate to tell me.”
Night went by and Ji Won starts her day to the sight of her husband cooking breakfast. When she gets to work, they take on the case of a victim with missing fingerprints. The same MO of the notorious Yeonju city killer.
Hee Sung, with a captive writer hidden under the basement of his work shop, visits him. A flashback of how young Moo Jin condemned him to be his father’s accomplice in his crimes sees the writer’s evil blood.
Remembering that painful middle school moment, Hee Sung tells him the same line he said when he and his friends threw rocks at the tied Hee Sung in a forest.
Begging for his life, Hee Sung tells him to stop since like his serial killer father, he does not feel empathy. Scaring him more, he whispers to Moo Jin that he really killed the village foreman. Learning about his work schedule, Hee Sung locks him up and hides his phone inside his bag.
“I’m on your side. I’m going to raise you to become a nice kid.”
While chatting with Moo Jin, Hee Sung failed to answer the phone call from his daughter Eun Ha’s school. Ji Won argues with the mom of her daughter’s classmate, who punched Eun Ha because of touching her doll.
When Hee Sung arrives and heard of what happened, he asked Eun Ha to apologize. It makes Ji Won mad, but Hee Sung knows well how to calm her fury.
Later, Hee Sung treats Eun Ha to her favorite pastry and lectures her of why he asked her to apologize. He endearingly explains how she now has a good reputation. That if anything bad happens, no one will doubt her.
Ji Won’s team deduces a copycat killer is involved in the case they are working on. The culprit even made use of a serial killer’s trademark to confuse the police.
Based on the lipstick mark found on the victim’s body, her son’s involvement is likely not the case even if he keeps on looking for her money to feed his gambling addiction.
“There were so many stairs.”
Through CCTV captured photos, Ji Won and the team discover the real culprit. True blue psychopath that she is, she reveals her motive is how she hates the stairs going to the old woman’s house.
Hence, when the old woman tells her that she hopes to live her life talking to her every day, she lost it and stabbed the weak old woman to death.
Managing the complicated situation he’s in because of people from his past who reemerged, Hee Sung has to tackle not just Moo Jin. In the dead of the night, Hee Sung visits the Chinese restaurant of his old classmate in contact to Moo Jin and kills him.
Ji Won wakes up without her husband by her side and sees him coming from the door drenched with water from the pouring rain with a look she’s not familiar with.
Episode 2 Peak Points & Afterthoughts
The narrative is balancing Lee Joon Gi’s dark hero role by showing his harrowing past of being condemned of what he’s not. Thereby, justifying his atrocious acts which of course in real life still cannot validate the sins he committed.
There’s much to Baek Hee Sung’s back stories that need to be delved on. Inevitably, the world will crumble once the hinted investigation tangles the happily married couple.
Something feels off about Hee Sung’s parents, and I’m scared to think of a family of psychopath killing people mercilessly while blending in well to the society. Their daughter-in-law chasing after them is quite not an engrossing scenario as well.
Disclosing the main leads characters and how it will play out when the conflict heightens demanding resolution is one that we should look forward to in the series.
Flower of Evil airs on tvN every Wednesday and Thursday.
Photos: tvN | Screencap from Viu
