ENA 'Honour' Lee Na-young fell into a trap set by Seo Hyun-woo. With the spine-chilling ending that summoned the trauma from that day 20 years ago to the present, the ratings for episode 7, which aired on the 23rd, rose from the previous episode to a national 4.3% and 4.2% in the Seoul metropolitan area, setting a new series high and continuing its upward trend. (Provided by Nielsen Korea, based on paid households)
ENA Monday-Tuesday drama 'Honour' (directed by Park Gun-ho, written by Park Ga-yeon, planned by KT Studio Gini, produced by How Pictures, hereafter "Honour") in episode 7 first continued the suspicious actions of Han Min-seo (Jeon Soyoung), who was revealed to be "Green Hood." Han Min-seo had previously attacked Yoon Ra-young (Lee Na-young) and Hwang Hyun-jin (Lee Chung-ah), and stayed at Yoon Ra-young's house in exchange for providing information about the illegal sex-trade app "Connectin" to the law firm L&J. After killing drug offender Lee Seon-hwa (Baek Ji-hye), she hid the laptop of reporter Lee Jun-hyuk (Lee Jun-hyuk) that Lee Seon-hwa had stolen from L&J. Moreover, even when Park Jae-yeol brutally assaulted her and demanded to know the laptop's whereabouts, she kept her mouth shut, insisting until the end, "I don't know." At the same time, she shook up the situation by exposing that Yoon Ra-young had copied a phone for his wife Hong Yeon-hee (Baek Eun-hye), and displayed inscrutable behavior such as secretly bringing the knuckle used when Park Jae-yeol beat her, increasing the sense of mystery about her motives.
The fact that Han Min-seo was the one who had been communicating with Park Sang-a (Kim Tae-yeon), Park Jae-yeol's daughter, via direct message capped the mystery. Park Sang-a knew that her mother Hong Yeon-hee had been the victim of domestic violence. Afraid that her mother might die, and thinking that if her father was in a good mood he would not hit her mother, she gritted her teeth and tried to behave. A painful reversal was hidden beneath what had seemed an unusually affectionate father-daughter relationship. But Park Sang-a discovered that her mother had resumed drinking, which she had thought was cured after treatment, and was so disappointed that she left home and contacted an anonymous SNS friend with whom she had talked whenever she felt troubled and distressed. The person who approached her with the reply "Shall we meet?" was Han Min-seo. Questions about what schemes she hid inside, what her true identity was, and the hint that she was a dangerous person with independent motives heightened the tension.
Meanwhile, Kang Shin-jae formalized his engagement to Baek Tae-ju (Yeonwoo), CEO of the IT company "The Prime." He informed his mother Seong Tae-im (Kim Mi-sook) of the news and said he had received the establishment of a public foundation for L&J's independence as a wedding gift. Seong Tae-im's eyes shook violently as if struck by the axe her daughter had given her. Hwang Hyun-jin told her husband, detective Koo Seon-gyu (Choi Young-Jun), about the events from 20 years ago, and he, having understood why the three L&J lawyers risked their lives to track "Connectin," decided to help his wife.
After reexamining the case that Park Jae-yeol had suspended prosecution on, Koo Seon-gyu identified another likely victim, "Lee Da-eun." He also tracked her phone location, pinpointed the hotel where she was staying and raided it. At Kang Shin-jae's request, Baek Tae-ju also lent his support. As the person who designed the hotel's security system, he enabled remote access to trigger the emergency alarm so rooms could be checked. Thanks to that, they barely discovered the unconscious victim. With Baek Tae-ju and Koo Seon-gyu joining forces, the newly arranged cooperation amplified expectations. But at the same time, a hotel employee was caught secretly using the "Connectin" app to trigger an alarm and evacuate a VIP, adding to the creepiness of the scene.
Meanwhile, the reason Yoon Ra-young was relentlessly devoted to defending women victims of sexual violence was also revealed. She had a daughter born from the dating violence she suffered from Park Jae-yeol 20 years ago. The baby shirt kept deep in the closet and taken out from time to time belonged to her daughter. Yoon Ra-young, who was very young and deeply wounded at the time, had no choice but to give her daughter up for adoption, but for some reason the adoptive parents and the daughter died on the same day.
One reason she chose Hong Yeon-hee as a counter card was that she sincerely wanted to pull her out of hell. If luck had been worse, Yoon Ra-young thought, she herself might have lived under the same roof with someone who could kill her and struggled to save her child from that karma instead of Hong Yeon-hee. Yoon Ra-young told Hong Yeon-hee about the existence of "Connectin," in which Park Jae-yeol was involved, and that Lee Seon-hwa had also been killed by him, and tried once more to persuade Hong Yeon-hee. Seeing her face on the autopsy table, Hong Yeon-hee was seized by the fear that she might one day die like that, and decided she would no longer endure it in order to protect her daughter.
But Park Jae-yeol, who had already realized it, sent an SOS message reading "Help me" to Yoon Ra-young, who had been waiting for Hong Yeon-hee. Unaware of that fact, Yoon Ra-young risked the danger of possibly encountering Park Jae-yeol and went into the house. In the darkened living room, with the sound of the door locking, Park Jae-yeol appeared saying, "I've been waiting, Ra-young," reviving the terror of that day 20 years ago for Yoon Ra-young in a chilling ending. Episode 8 of ENA Monday-Tuesday drama 'Honour' will air tonight (24th) at 10 p.m. on ENA and will be available on KT Genie TV and Coupang Play.
[Photo] ENA 'Honour' broadcast screen capture
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