Our Sticky Love Episode 6 Recap

Who's in the cast:
Jung Hae-in as Jang Tae-ha
Ha Young as Go Eun-sae
Heo Sung-tae as Baek Sang-gil
Jeon Bae-soo as Hong Do-yeop
Kim Young-ok as Go Yeon-hong
Jang Hye-jin as Pang Hui-ja
Cha Cheong-hwa as Cho Maeng-suk

Go Eun-sae has lost her memory and lives in Gujin Taffy Village with Jang Tae-ha, the boxing coach who says he is her boyfriend. She has turned back from a memory treatment in Seoul to be with him while his grandmother's health is in question. At the hospital, Tae-ha regrets that she skipped it. She thanks him for the socks and the MP3 player and promises that, whatever the test results, she will be beside him.

Elsewhere, Gwak Chi-hyeon, Mayor Ju's former aide, apologizes to Baek Sang-gil, whom he calls sir: the woman he calls Prosecutor Go never showed up to meet him. He confirms it is her, and Sang-gil is stunned she is alive. Sang-gil wonders why she has kept quiet when the watch was not all she had against him and Mayor Ju. One detail struck Gwak as odd: on the phone, she called him by his full name. Sang-gil tells him to find Go Ji-won fast if he wants to keep breathing.

Over a meal, Eun-sae asks the village women for advice. She has remembered a man, either an ex or someone she cheated on Tae-ha with. Bury it like a corpse, they tell her, because the news would eat at Tae-ha like a crashing stock. She agrees to lock it away.

Later, Sang-gil suspects that Tae-ha deceived him, a trick learned from his old coach, Hong Do-yeop. A flashback shows a young Tae-ha crediting Coach Hong for a win and vowing to give his all at the Olympics with the Taegeuk emblem of the national team on his chest.

At An Mental Health Clinic, Eun-sae's doctor, An Gi-jun, tries Tae-ha's trick on nurse Min Su-ji: an MP3 player of G-Dragon songs and a pair of socks. Su-ji scoffs and tells him to approve her resignation instead.

A grandmother's wish

Tae-ha takes his grandmother, Go Yeon-hong, and Eun-sae on a picnic, and she says it reminds her of the war. She asks him to stop spending money on her treatment, and he vows to save her. He has been saving her all his life, she answers. She lost his mother to illness, and he is the reason she survived every sorrow since. Instead of painful treatment, she wants to make taffy again and spend her last days with him, Kim Song-wol and the villagers. She asks him to let her. When Tae-ha cries, she tells him not to, then asks whether he means to marry that girl.

That evening, Kim Gang-rok, Tae-ha's junior and houseguest, has his cast off. Eun-sae tells him to find a house and asks how long she must lend him her man. He already has one, five minutes away, and leaves tomorrow.

Yeon-hong starts to raise Tae-ha's marriage, but he tells her not to worry. Walking home, he thanks Eun-sae for making the day special. Asked about the marriage talk, he says it was nothing. Cho Maeng-suk, listening in, decides they are setting a date.

The rumor mill turns

Eun-sae reaches a similar verdict: Yeon-hong wants a quick wedding, and Tae-ha is planning a proposal. She resolves to play dumb and hint that a small bouquet will do, and the next day she gushes about baby pink roses.

Out in the village, a neighbor finds Tae-ha with a shovel, off to tidy Gang-rok's new yard, and asks for the wedding date, since Maeng-suk heard them planning it. Tae-ha says there will be no wedding. The neighbor takes this to Pang Hui-ja, who has news of her own. Dropping off boiled pork at Tae-ha's that morning, she overheard him say he is not keeping her by choice: she has no family and nowhere to go, so he feels bad. Hui-ja left before it became clear he meant the dog, who now runs to him without barking. Still, the women cannot believe it of Taffy Village's great romantic.

Eun-sae, hoping to set the mood once Gang-rok is gone, finds her pajamas frumpy and studies an ad for push-up pads. When Su-ji needles her that, without her memories, she cannot know Tae-ha well, Eun-sae offers her a wedding invitation, then feels an odd pang of pity.

Gang-rok, meanwhile, confesses to Tae-ha that he is smitten with Su-ji, Tae-ha's old classmate. Tae-ha never saw her that way. Gang-rok asks whether he can really send Ms. Go away. Once her memory returns, Tae-ha says: "I can let her go." The women overhear and conclude he pities her and will drop her when she recovers.

So when Eun-sae arrives padded and eager for tonight, they sit her down. Tae-ha has no plans to marry her, they say, so she should keep her pride. He is kind out of pity, one adds, "like taking in a stray dog." Eun-sae insists it is a misunderstanding: Tae-ha is crazy about her, and everyone should come for banquet noodles, the Korean wedding dish. She hurries off as someone yells that her pads will fall out.

Eun-sae corners Tae-ha

At home, Eun-sae proposes that her room become their bedroom. Tae-ha pleads tiredness, notices the dog is missing and bolts. Alone outside, he seems rattled by how hard she is coming on. Eun-sae wonders why a tired man would sprint after a dog. She decides his eyes were not lying, until the stray-dog line comes back to her.

Tae-ha returns with the dog, rescued from a farm ditch. Eun-sae asks outright whether they will sleep together tonight. He is tired again. When she asks about their wedding, he says they should talk after her memory returns. "You said we were planning on getting married!" she shouts, and accuses him of living with her out of pity and kissing her anyway. She leaves to meet the village women, known as the S.E.S of Taffy Village after the 1990s girl group, refusing an escort: unlike the dog, she can find her way home.

Gi-jun asks Su-ji to stay at the clinic and keep dating him; he has no idea what would satisfy her. She tells him Tae-ha and Eun-sae are getting married, that Tae-ha's sincerity shows rather than gets said, and ends things. Irritated that Eun-sae would marry without checking the facts, Gi-jun phones her.

When he finds her, she has emptied four bottles alone. Asked about marrying Tae-ha, she repeats the word married, then confesses she truly likes him. When Gi-jun tries to call Tae-ha, she pockets his phone, sure Tae-ha would hate her more like this.

Gi-jun brings her home, then asks Tae-ha whether he is really her boyfriend. Fooling an amnesiac would be easy, he says, and a former gangster would not be above it. He asks how Tae-ha won over her, and everyone, without proof. Tae-ha thanks him and warns him to watch his mouth. Alone, Gi-jun seems to wonder whether it is all a lie. Next, Gi-jun phones Gwak, saying he knows Go Ji-won well. Gwak immediately asks where she is, and Gi-jun asks to meet.

A confession, misheard

Sang-gil recalls an arowana he received about ten years ago, when his people took over Osaka's Hijikata faction. The fish never loses its urge to leap, he was warned, so the tank must stay covered. A headline hails gold medal hopeful Jang Tae-ha. Tae-ha was a trophy he was proud of, Sang-gil says, but he has no use for one that splashes him. Someone calls after the chairman to wait. His order: find Jang Tae-ha.

At home, Tae-ha scolds Eun-sae for drinking alone instead of calling her boyfriend. She calls him a liar. She knows everything now, she says, including who Jang Tae-ha really is, so he can stop pretending to like her. She means the pity rumor. Tae-ha, stricken, asks whether her memory is back. Memory or not, she says, he should never have lied about something like that.

At Hong's Boxing Gym, Tae-ha tells Do-yeop that Eun-sae says her memory is back. Do-yeop is relieved: she will understand she must leave Korea, and all that remains is getting her out safely. Tae-ha says the act ends tomorrow; he was never her real boyfriend anyway. Do-yeop insists his feelings were real and urges him to go to Japan with Prosecutor Go. Tae-ha cannot leave his grandmother. Be selfish once, Do-yeop pleads, because once she is gone, it is over. Tae-ha repeats that he is fine.

Tae-ha's mind drifts through fragments: a voice calling a match rigged, another greeting him as a future gold medalist, Eun-sae explaining why she liked him, her vow to shield him from the rain. Then the end of his talk with Yeon-hong plays out. She knows he likes the girl a lot. Eun-sae has to leave soon, Tae-ha says, because it is the only way she lives. Yeon-hong asks where she would go without him. He cannot explain, he says, but she has to go.

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