100 Days of Deception Episode 2 Recap

Who's in the cast:
Kim You-jung as Lee Ga-kyung
Park Jin-young as Kim Tae-ung (Sato Hideo)
Kim Hyun-joo as Yoo So-ran
Lee Mu-saeng as Yoo Philip
Jin Sun-kyu as Sato Shinichi (Inspector General)
Kam Woo-sung as Keum Seok-jung

Shots at the Yoo dinner

At the Yoo house in Gyeongseong (Seoul), gunfire breaks out from the bathroom. Sato Hideo shouts at his father, the new Inspector General Sato Shinichi, to stay inside. Police break down the door, and the gunman, wearing a cake deliveryman's uniform, flees. Yoo Philip rushes to his wife, Yoo So-ran, while the interpreter Suzuki Hiroyuki lies wounded. Hideo finds his father unharmed.

The police chief turns on Lee Ga-kyung, the pickpocket posing as the Yoos' maid, as a possible accomplice. Hideo steps in. The gunman dragged her into the bathroom as a hostage, he says, and she warned him of the attack, so she saved him and his father. He then asks the chief how an armed man got past security. Ga-kyung starts to say she has something to tell them, but So-ran collapses and cuts her off, calling her on the spot by the name Keum Seo-hee.

Philip threatens to hold the Government-General, the Japanese colonial administration, accountable through the U.S. Consulate if anything happens to his wife and their unborn baby. Aside, the Yoos tell Ga-kyung to cooperate if she wants the 60 won they owe her. She answers that she nearly died too, so her price is now 100 won.

When the police find a gun on Philip, he says he carries it for self-defense and had it on him during their search before dinner. The chief is told that Philip fired at the killer and missed. Philip warns that he could write about the attempt on the Inspector General. He asks how Japan would look, with the world already watching it over Manchukuo, Japan's new state in Manchuria. He vouches for his maid and orders the police to leave her alone. Word then comes that the real deliveryman from Itsukoshi was knocked out on his round and woke without his uniform or bicycle.

Ga-kyung refuses to take sides

Once the police step back, So-ran turns on Ga-kyung for wrecking the day she has waited so long for. Ga-kyung says none of it would have happened if they had paid her on time, and she will not hand over the bullets without the money. Asked whether she cares about her own country, Joseon, the colonial-era name for Korea, she says she was born under Japanese rule and owes it nothing. "What has Joseon ever done for me?" she asks. When a gun comes out, she points out that the police are still outside and that she has told them she is the live-in maid. Philip tells So-ran to let her go, and Ga-kyung, made to return what she stole, hands back the American passport. She meant to swap in her own photo and leave for America, she explains, and Philip tells her America will not take her.

Alone with So-ran, Philip guesses the gunman is an independence fighter. He doubts the man belongs to the Provisional Government, which knows of their own plan to kill Shinichi. So-ran names him: Keum Seok-jung. For 13 years she has not known whether he was alive, and she has wanted only to track him down and kill him. "He's my husband," she says.

Outside, Hideo blocks Ga-kyung's way and demands the truth, since a maid who rides first class and speaks English makes no sense to him. She claims she is fetching medicine for her mistress and threatens to complain to the Inspector General, until Hideo calls him his father. She recalls him shouting for his father during the attack. Hideo offers to let her keep the wallet and its cash if she returns what was inside, but she denies having it and suggests he fears what the police would find. Philip calls her away and takes her and So-ran by cab to the Imperial University Affiliated Clinic. On the way he asks what she was discussing with Sato Hideo, and Ga-kyung learns his name.

At the clinic, Suzuki is in surgery with a gunshot wound. So-ran tells a doctor who is in on the plan that someone else with the same goal fired at Shinichi first, then escaped after a shootout with Hideo. Their cover story is that the shooting made her miscarry, and a small cut made on purpose backs it up. A doctor tells Ga-kyung the baby could not be saved.

Sato Shinichi blames the Gugukdan

Shinichi assures the Governor-General that the American reporter is unhurt. He tells his staff that Philip must see no sign of unrest, because the Government-General needs the League of Nations Commission in China to recognize Manchukuo. Hideo reports that Mrs. Yoo is in the hospital with bleeding.

At the clinic, the Yoos ask Ga-kyung to stay the night and watch over So-ran, promising her 100 won the next day.

At the Sato residence, Hideo's graze is dressed. Shinichi's young daughter, Sato Hanako, refuses to go to bed and calls for Hideo. He remembers the day in his childhood when he learned that his mother had left home.

The next day, the gunman is still at large and the police are drawing a sketch. An officer reports that Han Cheol-yong, a senior figure in the Gugukdan independence group, was seen in Jongno three days earlier. Cheol-yong was behind an attempt 12 years ago on the Jongno police chief, and he left for Shanghai after his release two years ago. Studying his surveillance card, Shinichi remarks that he has not heard the Gugukdan's name in a while. When someone calls the group's involvement a guess, he says it no longer matters who the attackers were. He will tell the Governor-General the Gugukdan did it and use the attack to wipe them out.

At the Yoo house, Philip doubts Ga-kyung will come back, since he saw her with Hideo. She arrives with seaweed and beef for So-ran's recovery. The Yoos hand her the 100 won and agree to say she quit out of fright. She takes only what the food cost and says that, since they should never meet again, she will keep what was in So-ran's bag.

Philip wants to warn their comrades about her, but So-ran tells him that hurting someone is not like him. He says her safety matters more to him than any life and asks her to promise never to pick up a gun. So-ran reminds him of their deal in Shanghai: the guns are hers, and once Shinichi is dead, his pen will tell the world what Japan has done. Philip replies that even as her husband, he is not counted among her comrades. So-ran says she will have killed Shinichi and gone before Ga-kyung could come back for more money.

In the Gyodang-ri shanty town where she lives, Ga-kyung hunts for the pawn ticket she found in Hideo's wallet and stashed at home. Lee No-ma tells her they feared she had left for America without a word. The paper turns up with Bang Kkot-nim, who took it to the outhouse but never used it. It bears the name Sin Tae-jin and the year 1919. Ga-kyung decides to hold on to it as insurance until she reaches America, and to stay clear of the Yoos and their cause.

Hideo's new post

At the Government-General, Shinichi tells Hideo that Suzuki is on sick leave and names him temporary English interpreter, in charge of the Western press. He tells Hideo to watch Philip, an American of Joseon descent whose gun bothers him, and to visit the Yoos in his place. Shinichi adds that he does not trust Joseon people, and when Hideo asks whether his father trusts him, Shinichi calls him his son. Then comes Hideo's plea, which stays in his head. On the day his mother left, his father pointed a gun at him, as he has now done again, and ever since he has tried to earn his place for fear of being abandoned. "What do I have to do to be your son?" he asks silently. When Shinichi asks whether he has anything else to say, Hideo answers no.

So-ran's daughter

Back at the Yoo house, So-ran tells Philip that Seo-hee, the name she gave Ga-kyung, was her daughter's name. In 1919, soon after the March First Movement, the nationwide independence protests, Japanese troops burned villages in reprisal, and hers was one of them. An officer demanded that Seok-jung, a schoolteacher, name the others who led the village protest. Seok-jung insisted he acted alone, and the officer ordered the girl shot. When the officer threatened So-ran next, Seok-jung gave up three names: Na Byeong-sun, Choi Man-chun and Kim Pung-san. The officer had the village set on fire anyway, and Seok-jung was dragged away.

So-ran says she and Seok-jung had waited ten years for their daughter, and that she herself could neither read nor write. She made her way to the Gugukdan in Shanghai and learned to shoot so she could kill the officer herself. She waited years while he was back in Japan, and wept when she heard he was returning to Joseon. Then the man standing in her way turned out to be her own husband, the one she had sworn to kill if they ever met again. The daughter's name slipped out because she once said it constantly. Every year on Seo-hee's birthday in Shanghai she made seaweed soup, and she tells Philip she cannot eat the seaweed Ga-kyung brought.

The search for the maid

Hideo visits the Yoo house with his father's condolences. Philip says So-ran is asleep and that he has kept his promise not to publish a story about the attack. When Hideo asks after the maid, Philip says she quit in shock and he does not know where she lives. Hideo says he only wanted to thank her for saving his father. After he leaves, one of the Yoos remarks that they are looking for her.

At a pawnshop that also rents rooms by the hour, the pawnbroker pays Ga-kyung for the bullets and jokes that she should marry him. She asks whether anyone ever leaves a pawned item unclaimed for 13 years, and he says the interest alone would come to several times the item's worth. Then Hideo walks in and asks how long the shop has been open. Ga-kyung runs, and Hideo catches her.

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