Monday, January 29, 2024

Korean drama: "Night Has Come", episode ten of twelve recap

 


 Air Dates: December 4th until December 21, 2023 on U+ Mobile TV, aired on Monday to Thursday nights for three weeks and there were a total of twelve episodes that were about 35 minutes in length.
Director: Im Dae-Woong Writer: Kang Min-Ji.... subs by MrHulk

Main Cast: Always need to edit the info at the top as we go along, may did set a record for this show with how many changes there were! One problem was who to add onto this list? The top few characters were around for most of the series but besides them who knew what character(s) would be killed off in each show! Below is the chart featuring everyone who was around in the first show, slowly most were killed off! The basic premise is that this is heavily influenced by the 'Werewolf Game' films and TV series. The setting is the Muryeong Retreat Center where three classes from the Yooil high school would be spending two+ days at. However only one bus arrived which was for class 2-E, what happened to the other students?

 Right below is the chart of the characters and most were killed off. The characters in the middle are your more major ones so will have most of them listed below, only a few if any of the side ones. This takeoff from Werewolf is called the 'Mafia Game', more info on the game a bit further down. If you like horror dramas and films this may be right up your alley as the killings have been quite gruesome, after four shows already sixteen have met their fate! **** Have kept updating this section as so many events take place and sure there will be changes right to the end. Though a takeoff of the 'Werewolf Game' franchise this drama is so, so much better than any film or the TV series.


 Lee Jae-In as Lee Yoon-Seo.... It seems she will get more screen time than any other character though she does remain a bit of a mystery. Yoon-Seo appears to be a smart student and is best friends with Jung-Won, they're rooming together at the retreat center. Yoon-Seo is a daring young woman but is also easily scared, she has such a huge crush on the next student. Her game position is that of a Citizen. After two episodes she's the only living student who I know what her game designation is. Yoon-Seo does have asthma but it hasn't been a problem yet, since the first show she's seen ghosts and spirits around but no one else has.



Kim Woo-Suk as Kim Joon-Hee.... Class president and seems like a very responsible young man though does try a bit too hard in making sure order is kept among the students. Yoon-Seo above has a crush on him but not sure if Joon-Hee has realized that. But did get the impression in episode one he too has a crush on Yoon-Seo, both are too timid to confess to each other. Now it's too late for either to do that for in such a shocker at the end of the sixth episode Jun-Hee was voted to be a Mafia person and drowned himself in a pool. Really thought he would remain until the very end. EDIT: He may remain until the end for at the beginning of the seventh show Jun-Hee came back to life! Not as a Zombie but had been 'saved' by the one Police person who is unknown, Jun-Hee was 'saved' just before he drowned himself. 



Choi Ye-Bin as Oh Jung-Won.... Yoon-Seo's best friend who is a tech whiz and also the number one student in her class at Yooil high school. So far she's been a very conservative young woman who does not like to take chances. In episode ten I began to have some suspicion about her, could she possibly be a Mafia?



Cha Woo-Min as Go Kyung-Jun.... Every class has their 'toughie' and that's what Kyung-Jun is though really when only surrounded by his two cohorts. That's him in the middle below, to his left are his two 'gang' members Seung-Bin and Jin-Ha.  At the beginning of the seventh show Seung-Bin was killed by a Mafia person. However Kyung-Jun is a smart lad and he's very adept at conniving others. Thought he would make it to the end but that wasn't to be as Kyung-Jun was slain by the Mafia person Da-Bum in the ninth episode.


Jung So-ri as Kim So-Mi.... Pretty and popular girl but can be a bully and has picked on Yoon-Seo on occasion but don't know why. She's the class vice president and is in the middle below. It was revealed at the end of the sixth show her identity is a Mafia. At the beginning of the tenth episode So-Mi was voted to be the Mafia person which was true, she died by strangling herself.


 Hong Min-Ki as Jang Hyun-Ho.... One of the school's best athletes and can't stand the bully Kyung-Jun as he constantly stops him from picking on others. There's a shy girl named Na-Hee who has such a crush on him, he does too but neither can admit and one better hurry for the end is coming soon. Too soon as Hyun-Ho was killed for not voting at the beginning of the fourth episode, was shocked he was killed so soon and he was a Citizen.


 Ahn Ji-Ho as Jin Da-Bum.... Seems like a decent guy but him and his best mate Ju-Won are constantly harassed by Kyung-Go and his two cohorts who also make them pay a fee for not beating them up! At the beginning of the second show his best and perhaps only friend Choi was killed even though he was a Mafia person. Not positive but 95% sure and that's of Da-Bum being a Mafia person which he semi revealed at the end of the eighth show. But by the ninth show it was confirmed that Da-Bum is a Mafia.


 There are others and may add in some more in if they survive to the halfway point! Below on the right is the student's teacher Kim who we only saw briefly in the first show. He left the retreat to see what happened to the other two busses and hasn't been heard from since. Here we are near the end and Kim still hasn't been heard from, isn't the school missing these students?


 Rules for playing the Mafia Game

 Like the 'Werewolf Game' there are four kinds of people a player can be. Citizen is your average person and most students will be one. Mafia is a group that can kill the targeted person between midnight and 6:00 am. Doctor is someone that can save a targeted person from the Mafia and don't think there's more than one or two of them. Fourth and last kind of player is Police, they can also prevent a killing which has happened once. The Police has a special power where they can prevent a student from dying after they get voted as a Mafia person. The vote may not be correct/just as a Citizen could get killed and seeing as how there's more of them it does happen quite often.


 The Citizens, Doctors and Police are part of one team, Mafia are by themselves. Whichever side gets wiped out first means they're all dead(!) and the other team wins. There seems to be about thirty students, it hasn't been revealed how many are Citizens, Mafia, etc. There is a boundary surrounding the retreat but it does stretch into the nearby forest, if you go over the boundary you're immediately killed in a gruesome manner and oddly you end up killing yourself! There's no cell phone service to the outside but whoever is running this death game can send the students messages which baffles them, how are they doing that?





 List of those who have been killed, will be updating it for each recap

There was one death in the first show but four in episode two! The third show had a trio killed at the end bringing the total amount of living students down to 23. In episode four eight students died in the first ten minutes which brought the total living down to 15 from 31. Seven of the eight deaths were from not voting who was in the Mafia by midnight. Episode five just saw one death and that's okay as don't want the entire cast to disappear yet. The sixth show saw two more dead leaving the total alive an even dozen. The killings have slowed down, by the end of the seventh show eleven are still alive. Two more deaths took place in episode eight, one Citizen and the Doctor(!), ten now remain. Episode nine saw one killing which was another Citizen, the total remaining is nine with three of them being the Mafia. Two killings took place in episode ten, one was a Mafia and the other the only Police person which left seven students still alive.

Heo-Yul.... Boy who was a Citizen, died at the end of the first episode as he was voted off the game by his classmates! His death was from jumping through a third story window.

Choi Ju-Won.... Was killed overnight but not discovered until the following morning, it almost appears he may have killed himself in a bathroom stall. The death had to take place between midnight and 6:00 am, the only ones that can kill are those classified as Mafia. Which Jun-Won was so why would his own group kill him the students wondered?

Kim Hyun-Saek and Lee Sang-Hwan.... Both were citizens and killed at the same time in episode two and both had a part in the others death. The two boys had stepped over the boundary line outside of the retreat, that means an instant death. An eerie sound was heard but only by them too, both began to head butt each other brutally before taking their own lives!!!! 

Kim Dong-Hyun.... Fourth student killed in the second episode and it happened right at the end. Dong-Hyun was in the nearby forest with many other students, he fell and went over the boundary line. Like the other dead students his eyes became a solid white and he even punctured them with his fingers before rolling into a tree stump which was the final blow.

Lee Soo-Bin, Park Ji-Hoon and Oh Jin-Seok.... All were killed at the end of the third show for not voting, it happened just after midnight. Lee and Park had fallen from the ceiling in the event's hall room, how did they get up there and they weren't noticed missing? Oh had stuck an electrical wire in her mouth which short circuited the electricity, a gruesome way to die but her death seems to have gone unnoticed or at least until the next episode. All three were Citizens.

Kong Ye-Won.... Killed in the fourth show for not voting, the second Mafia person to die.

Lee Hyun-Jun, Park Jung-Eun, Oh Hye-Seung and Kim Yeon-Ju.... All too were slain by not voting and none were major characters as their names had never been mentioned. The four were all Citizens.

Baek Eun-Ha.... Once the students got their phones back Eun-Ha was the person who got the most votes for who they thought was a Mafia person. She wasn't and all of the deaths in this drama have been self inflicted in gruesome manners.

Lee Ju-Young.... Killed overnight by the Mafia, she was a Citizen.

Jang Hyun-Ho.... He too was a Citizen and saved his fourth episode death for last. Hyun-Ho was the first major character killed and it was because he didn't vote. it wasn't possible because the thug Kyung-Jun had kicked his phone under the gym bleachers. Shame he died because he was one of my favorite characters.

Park Woo-Ram.... Killed at the end of the fifth episode, he was voted off by his classmates who thought he was a Mafia person. At the time most didn't believe but had been bullied by Kyung-Jun to get rid of Woo-Ram or else! So in a twist after his death it was revealed he truly was a Mafia person who had killed Ju-Young, now three Mafia are deceased.

Park Ji-Soo.... Citizen who was killed at the beginning of the sixth episode by a Mafia person. Won't reveal the identity in this section until the next recap

Kim Jun-Hee.... Killed at the end of the sixth episode and this was a shocker as he had the second largest role to date. Jun-Hee was the class president and was well liked until the third episode when a huge mistake of his led to some students dying. So he did lose mush respect and in a tie-breaker round was voted off and accused of being a Mafia. However it was never said in this show what his identity was. ****EDIT: This edit is extremely important! Though he 'drowned' at the end of the sixth episode Jun-Hee came back to life in episode seven! It appears he was never officially dead and had been saved by a Police person, their identity is still unknown.

Shin Seung-Bin.... Was a Citizen and was murdered by a Mafia person near the beginning of the seventh show. He was one of Kyung-Jun's lowlife cohorts and was not a likable guy.

Cha Yu-Jun.... Was beaten badly by Kyung-Jun and Jin-Ha as the seventh episode ended. At the beginning of the eighth is when he finally died and the students lost someone very powerful. That's because Yu-Jun was the only Doctor which meant he could stop a death from happening and he was the one who saved Jun-Hee

Kim Jin-Ha.... Killed at the end of the eighth show and it was because he was voted to be a Mafia. Which Jin-Ha wasn't for he was a Citizen and not many remain. Though he had that identity Jin-Ha did take part in killing Yu-Jun which is why he was voted off the game, he died by throwing himself off a third floor balcony.

Go Kyung-Jun.... Citizen killed by a Mafia person at the beginning of the ninth episode, the person was Da-Bum who Kyung-Jun and his two mates had bullied for a long time. Though Kyung-Jun was a lowlife thug and bully he gave the impression to us viewers that he may have been a decent person and had wanted everyone to survive the game. That wasn't to be as he was tricked by Da-Bum and his Mafia associate So-Mi which led to his death.

Kim So-Mi.... Was voted to be the Mafia person at the beginning of the tenth show and took her life by strangling herself. It was true that So-Mi was a Mafia and she had a huge role in why this Game began as she had bullied the dead girl Se-Eun at school which led to her suicide(?).

Ahn Na-Hee.... Died midway through episode ten by the Mafia and what a mystery she had been up until then. I felt sure she was a Mafia and had said so starting in the seventh episode but that was way off base as Na-Hee was the only Police person! She had saved Jun-Hee's life and let him know her identity but even that couldn't save her life. How Na-Hee died is still mystery as there was no blood on her body.

Previous recaps 
Think it would help out checking the recaps as so much takes place




The below video features behind the scenes footage from the ninth and tenth shows
  

 

 Have the final trio of recaps today and thanks if you've been reading them. There was a pair of killings in this show so with two episodes to go there are seven students left, fairly sure the total stands at five Citizens and two Mafia. That above section is getting quite huge but have updated it with each post and it really does help explain what has happened up until now so it may help if you're a bit confused about anything. I wasn't confused but was way off the mark with what I had brought up two recaps ago which was the identity of a Mafia person. That wasn't to be as the female student was the only Police and sadly she died halfway through this show which really hurts the five Citizens. Will explain all of that below and haven't viewed the next show as not to spoil anything.










**** If you've been following this series you will know what is going on as I don't have the time to discuss a lot of what has taken place. So if you haven't been reading these recaps they will be helpful, especially the last one for the ninth episode which has all of the details for Park Se-Eun.

 Just about every episode has ended on a suspenseful note, one where a student was just killed or the vote to see who a Mafia person is taking place. The ninth show ended with the voting about to begin and it looked like the conniving So-Mi's days are over. Above she is in the second. third and fifth screenshots. Most believe that girl Se-Eun's death was because of So-Mi, either from bullying that may have led to her suicide or pushing Se-Eun off their high school's roof. So it appeared most will be voting to eliminate So-Mi and there were nine students at the beginning of this show. However So-Mi accused her 'ally' Na-Hee of being  a Mafia person and that she had killed two students to date along with having a hand in Se-Eun's death. In such a shocker Na-Hee took out her phone and pressed So-Mi's name on it, coming up was the message that So-Mi was truly a Mafia person! No other student has access to that kind of info about the student's identities and why does Na-Hee? Will explain why very shortly but with her death impending So-Mi once again accused Na-Hee of being a Mafia, shortly after blood began to spurt out of her mouth! There was an announcement that a Mafia person is not allowed to reveal the identities of the other Mafia and the penalty is DEATH!

 But that didn't really matter as the eight students voted for So-Mi to die which she did. In the fifth screenshot she grabbed some sort of lining rope and strangled herself to death, thought she would make it a bit further in the series but that wasn't to be and now eight students remain. The boy Da-Bum was very relieved as he is also a Mafia person and it appeared So-Mi would identify him too so for now he's safe. Na-Hee admitted then that she was the only Police person and that has some special powers. Such as saving others which she did to Jun-Hee and she can also look up the identity of any student. But there must be a catch as why hasn't Na-Hee revealed to the others who the last two Mafia are? The only person before who knew Na-Hee's secret was Jun-Hee as she felt he could be trusted but now that the cat is out of the bag Na-Hee could be the next target of the Mafia! **** Will admit up until the end of the last show I though Na-Hee was a Mafia and bet most viewers did too so what a shock it was when she revealed herself to be the only Police. In the third to last screenshot is Da-Bum who was talking to the other Mafia member, that person is still unknown. He said getting rid of the Police is their next goal and guess what took place overnight.... Na-Hee was murdered by the Mafia! That was another shocking incident and why didn't she surround herself with other trusted students for protection?










 However with the help of Jun-Hee Na-Hee had taken precautions to keep herself safe until morning but as I've seen there is no safe place from the Mafia!!!! He hid Na-Hee in the ceiling of a men's bathroom which seemed as though it was safe but obviously not. This sham Muryeong Retreat Center is quite large and a more remote location at it would have been better but it still was a decent hiding place. So a question could be how did Da-Bum and/or the one other Mafia person find Na-Hee's location so quickly? The following morning Jun-Hee had found her body on the floor of the men's bathroom so she had to be brought down from that hiding place in the ceiling and of course he was devastated. Another question is how did Na-Hee die as there was no blood on her nor was it ever revealed how it happened. But there was one other precaution set up in case her hiding place was found out and that was courtesy of Jun-Hee. To get to the trapdoor on the ceiling a person would have to stand on a sink, he had lined that with a mix of air freshener and neon paint which would be unnoticeable. But not if you used a special light in the dark to view the mix so whoever entered the ceiling would have that on their shoes. Everyone was called to the men's bathroom and Jun-Hee explained what he had done, all of the eight student's shoes were checked for the mixture and only one had any on them.

 Which belonged to the girl Mi-Na who always wears a pink shirt and it was just a small splash along the side of one shoe. If any student had stood on the sink it would have been all over the shoe's soles and why wasn't that the case for anyone? So with her being the only student with any of that mix on her shoe Mi-Na was the lost logical person to blame, like all the others she denied the charges and like those others did sound convincing. Mi-Na had been friends with the slain Mafia girl So-Mi and had bullied Se-Eun to an extent plus did help out Kyung-Jun and his bullies on occasion. But to me she's never appeared to be a killer and her pleas of being innocent was convincing to me. Not to anyone else as someone had to kill Na-Hee but Mi-Na did find an ally in Yoon-Seo who asked why was there just a small blotch on her sneaker? Plus she had discovered some of that mix had spilled onto the floor and that's how it easily could have gotten onto Mi-Na. None of the other students was satisfied as who else was there to blame(?) but the case against Mi-Na wasn't that strong. As mentioned Na-Hee had no blood on her dead body but in her ceiling hiding place there was some fresh blood, odds are good it was from the Mafia person when he was trying to subdue Na-Hee. That's the key bit of evidence needed to find the killer and that person should have some marks and bruises on their chest.










 Mi-Na can be quite overbearing and was even more so trying to convince the others she was innocent. She brought food to the two boys Eun-Chan and Yeon-Woo who rebuffed her, they remembered her relationships with So-Mi and Kyung-Jun. Plus the class president Jun-Hee is still a bit leery about Mi-Na, she never explained fully how she was able to get Kyung-Jun's keys which could open many of this sham resort's locks. Assigned to keep an eye on Mi-Na while the others investigated was Jung-Won on the left in the second to last screenshot. She's the top student in the class and also such a tech whiz plus she's Yoon-Seo's best friend. Jung-Won is a bit quiet and had always seemed to be a dependable person but to me she may not appear to be the innocent type. Hard to explain but I became a bit leery of her during this episode and not saying she could be the other alive Mafia person though if she was it wouldn't surprise me. Yoon-Seo came up with an idea, that was to bluff the others by telling them there was a camera set up in the men's room and it filmed who had entered Na-Hee's hiding place! But in a message Jun-Hee sent he said the camera needed to be recharged and it would take at least half an hour, the camera would be in the cafeteria and said all should meet there in thirty minutes.

 Of course it was just a bluff to get the killer to come and destroy it, one person did show up secretly. Who was the Mafia person Da-Bum who found there was no recording of the incident, arriving right then was Jun-Hee and Yoon-Seo. Their ruse worked and how could Da-Bum talk himself out of this mess? Who knows for he never had the chance or at least yet, the trio heard some screaming from the infirmary room. Dashing there they found the other three students hovering over Yeon-Woo who is in the bottom screenshot. He had slithered away to the infirmary alone but was soon found and what he was doing there was mending some freshly made cuts on his chest!!!! Were those new gashes courtesy of the now dead Na-Hee and that's some evidence Yeon-Woo will have a tough time explaining where they came from. Of course he began to plead his innocence and just as he did this episode came to it's conclusion with yet another cliffhanger. That wraps up this recap, the one for episode eleven is the next post and haven't viewed that yet to keep the suspense up.















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