Hiding behind a smile and a kind image, In-seong turns out to be responsible for the killings in Blind.
Sung-hoon finds Yu-na dead bleeding in a cabinet. Finding the culprit on his own, he gets stabbed. Tracking down the weapon and Yu-na’s dying message, Sung-jun discovers the real identity of Jung In-seong.
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Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 & 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 & 10 | 11 & 12 | 13 & 14 | 15 | Finale + Review |
Blind Episodes 11 and 12 Highlights
“The despair that I was completely cut off from the world made me accept that inhumane treatment as if it were fate.”
Na Guk-hee gets appointed as the new minister of health and welfare. Sung-jun confronts his parents for lying, but to justify their actions, they wanted Sung-hoon to grow up well and only found Hope Welfare Center by chance. He then recalls how he believed all along he was the one adopted for being treated differently.
Sung-jun requests that Sung-hoon’s location be traced, but only his last location was found, which is the center Eun-ki works at. Arriving there with doubts about his brother, Sung-jun rushes to see what Sung-hoon was burying. Eun-ki comes out, and Sung-hoon explains how he doesn’t trust the police, so they didn’t call them when they saw the culprit wearing black.
Aware he is being suspected, Sung-hoon firmly states he is not the culprit even though he admits to being number 11. He receives a text message from an unknown number implying Yu-na is in danger. In the attic Eun-ki was staying in, Sung-hoon finds a cabinet with seeping blood and sees Yu-na lifeless in it.
Interrogated by Sung-jun, Sung-hoon tells how he was in the center to apply as a patron of Yu-na and claims he didn’t see the culprit. He confesses he heard Yoon-jae died before he was adopted, and narrates the horrors they endured in Hope Welfare Center as if it were their fate.
Wrong about Sung-jun, Chief Yeom tries to convince Mr. Baek on teaming up again to attack Sung-hoon, number 11, even after his betrayal recently.
“I’m human too, after all. I just did my best not to repeat the same mistake.”
Eun-ki tries to inform Yu-na’s mom about her daughter’s death, but Yu-na’s remains unbothered even after hearing it earlier from the police. Consoling each other while grieving over Yu-na’s death, Sung-hoon lets Eun-ki stay over.
Sung-jun agrees on keeping her until the culprit is caught since the jurors are all targets of the culprit’s revenge.
Investigating the cabinet where Yu-na was found, Sung-jun sees “Jo Eun” written with blood, thinking it’s a possible dying message. He then arranges a security detail for Eun-ki. He also ensures the jurors’ safety by having them tracked with a smartwatch. Since only Mr. Bae can’t be tracked; they agree to file him as missing.
Confronting her mother working at Hope Welfare Center, Eun-ki convinces her mom to speak about it. However, she learns how her mom tried to report it, but the PD never aired it.
On their father’s last trial as a judge, Sung-hoon asks their father if he had any regrets, to which his father answers there are.
In Yu-na’s pictures on the phone, Sung-jun sees Sung-hoon entering Mr. Choi’s place and notices the differences in his brother’s claims of seeing the drone, which turns out to be an ad balloon.
The police receive a tip about Mr. Bae, and Sung-jun finds the locker at the station empty. Watching the footage, they see a man with a black cap, which reminds him of Sung-hoon.
Sung-jun checks the details on the found footage of Jung Man-chun’s death with his brother and looks over his things, and he sees the black clothes in Sung-hoon’s trunk.
He tries to confront Sung-hoon, but his brother leaves their place. Tailing his brother, Sung-jun sees Sung-hoon stabbed.
“Plus, when did we go after something knowing we’d find it? We look for it because we have to find it!”
In his dream, Sung-jun sees Sung-hoon calling the boy who was about to push him from the playground Yoon-jae.
Meanwhile, Sung-hoon remains unconscious in the hospital after being stabbed. Aware his brother was going after the culprit on his own, Sung-jun regrets suspecting Sung-hoon.
Only a part of the weapon used is retrieved, and the police deduce that the identities of numbers 12 and 24 are not yet confirmed even though 24 is claimed to be dead. Mr. Baek gets sent to the mental hospital after appearing to have lost his insanity.
Sung-jun confronts Chief Yeom about Hope Welfare Center, but he gets redirected to his own mother. Meeting his mother, Sung-jun sees the lady sent away by Na Guk-hee after acting kind.
Asking for help for her son with developmental problems from Hope Welfare Center, Sung-jun tries to talk to the boy who is number 45 and knows number 24.
In-seong reveals to the restaurant lady that he is her lost son, and Charles watches outside. Rejoicing, the lady invites Sung-jun’s team to their celebration. She thanks Chief Yeom, who says it’s better her son can’t remember anything after his car crash in the US. Saddened to hear that, the lady remembers how she abandoned her son after giving him vanilla ice cream.
With experience in handling children with traumas of abuse, Eun-ki attempts to meet Jin-gu and sees the numbers the boy drew, implying the other children in Hope Welfare Center. Narrating what happened to Sung-hoon who is unconscious, she wishes for Sung-hoon to regain his lost childhood like Jin-gu.
“Some truths are better off kept a secret.”
Celebrating at Charles’ restaurant, Kyung-ja still feels cold. Sung-jun notices the scar on In-seong’s ankle and remembers that it was said that number 12 has a scar there after being caught in a trap.
Asking him about it, In-seong tells he cannot remember it exactly and only has nightmares of it after being chased. Based on that, Sung-jun and his team feel certain In-seong is number 12, and Charles is just the brother of number 24.
Seeing the picture of the skeleton with the necklace of the Jung siblings, Sung-jun requests to reconstruct the face of the skeleton, which results in a face looking like Yoon-jung. Meanwhile, Mr. Bae is beaten up with his mouth taped.
Receiving a report that the knife used to stab Sung-hoon is a sashimi knife, Sung-jun visits Charles. Seeing he hid something while hearing from Eun-ki that number 24 is Lee Hyun-soo, Sung-jun locates the weapon and brings Charles to the interrogation room.
Unconvinced he is the culprit, Sung-jun traces where the knife was bought and sees Jung Yoon-jae in the receipt. Squeezing information, Charles remains to claim he doesn’t know where his brother is nor if his brother is impersonating Yoon-jae.
The police find skeletons of the children in the welfare center, and Seok-gu sees the jacket of number 24.
Decoding Yu-na’s possible dying message, Eun-ki recalls calling In-seong a ‘nice guy’ which matches the characters found written in blood.
Sung-jun searches through the adoption records and discovers that Jung In-seong is Jung Yoon-jae.
Escaping the mental hospital, Mr. Baek begins to look for Sung-hoon, number 11. However, In-seong arrives at Sung-hoon’s room. Waking up from being unconscious, In-seong tells him he survived his attack.
Blind Episodes 11 and 12 Musings
For Sung-hoon’s character to be emotional, it’s rare and this episode debunks the idea that he’s the culprit. As helpless as he felt when he was at Hope Welfare Center, it’s disappointing and frustrating to see how Yu-na’s mother processed her own daughter’s death.
The focus on the recent episodes shifted, and it hints more at the selfishness of the adults connected to the center. Moreover, it looks over at numbers 12 and 24, which were initially thought to be unconnected to the murders.
In the beginning, suspicions pointing to Charles were weak. Although his profession was plausibly related to the methods used by the culprit, doubts about him were easily dismissed.
However, the view of his character changes as he becomes an accomplice in hiding the weapon used to stab Sung-hoon. His real connection to the murders and In-seong is something that twists the facts that have already been presented in the past episodes.
By far, these episodes were the most engaging and baffling since the direction went into showing that In-seong was the lost child of the restaurant owner, but later reveals he is Jung Yoon-jae.
Sung-hoon’s discovery still catches you off-guard and leaves you speechless even though it was quite predictable. Next week’s episodes shall fill viewers with In-seong’s backstory that people were tricked to believe.
Find out more about In-seong’s story and motivation in Blind every Friday and Saturday on Viu.
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