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Friday, January 19, 2024

Korean drama: "Night Has Come", episode five 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 set a record for this show with how many changes there will be! One problem could be who to add onto this list? The top few characters should be around for most of the series but besides them who knows what character(s) will be killed off in each show! Below is the chart featuring everyone who was around in the first show, slowly most will be 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 many will be killed off, already four through two episodes! 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. 



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. 



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. However Kyung-Jun is a smart lad and he's very adept at conniving others.


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.


 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.


 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. 


 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 but so far not sure how and what their powers are. 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.

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.

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


The below video is a behind the scenes one for the fifth and sixth episodes.
  
 
 

 It's a twelve episode series, the last show is over 43 minutes in length while the others are between 33-36. However this episode was just a little over 28 minutes so of course not as much took place but have noticed the intensity level keeps rising and rising! Just one death in this episode which took place at the end, the third Mafia person was killed and there can't be many more of them left. Fourteen students from Yooil high school remain, possibly two Doctors and am presuming one Police. So that leaves eleven others and if three are Mafia that means they're badly outnumbered, if those three get killed first then the other team of three identities wins and the Mafia Game is over. Let's get to the action and there were two cliffhangers that ended the fourth episode. 








 Those two cliffhangers were a pair completely different stories so will talk about them separately, the second one that will be discussed was much longer and key to the plot. The first screenshot above is how the last episode ended with Yoon-Seo finding a room in the basement with computers and cameras operating. She had stumbled across this room in the second episode but none were running, probably because who is running this Mafia Game expected her. In the last show Yoon-Seo had discovered a crawl space in the retreat's freezer room. She showed her best friend Jung-Won and another girl Na-Hee the passageway/tunnel and told then she was going to see where it led her. Somewhere in the tunnel the floor collapsed and Yoon-Seo ended up outside that computer room. So she has discovered that the 31, now down to 14 students, have been monitored and who would be running such a sick game of Death? Yoon-Seo found more than that and in some unexplained happening somehow found herself on the second floor of the building, she was just in the basement and how could that happen?

 Have been thinking for the last two shows there's something very Supernatural taking place, so doesn't Yoon-Seo now and what could it be? This second floor she ended up on was never ending, there were so many corridors and none of them led anywhere. Yoon-Seo did find a records room and in the middle screenshot above found a file full of old photos that were labeled. It appears this Death Game has been going on for many years with quite a few classes of students killed in these gruesome games, no one ever noticed so many students had disappeared? Jung-Won had gone looking for her best friend with no luck, was surprised she didn't notice the hole Yoon-Seo fell through. Jung-Won did make it back safely and was going to look for help in locating Yoon-Seo when she suddenly reappeared out of the tunnel. Yoon-Seo showed the girls the file with photos of previous classes who may have played this Mafia Game, of course the discovery was very important but there's a much more pressing matter that I will discuss for the rest of the recap. What Yoon-Seo had discovered won't be brought up again until the next show.










 Everything that Yoon-Seo had done was over by the ten minute mark, the rest of the show dealt with the outcome of cliffhanger #2. Which was who to vote off as a Mafia person, doing that means one of their classmates will meet their end! In the top screenshot above is Kyung-Jun, what a ruthless punk and lowlife he is, he's someone who can not be trusted! Kyung-Jun got his two cohorts to vote the student Woo-Ram as the Mafia person, his 'gang' then threatened a few others to vote that way also. So quickly the vote was up to seven for Woo-Ram to be the Mafia person and die but he was a very likable student. He was good friends with the class president Jun-Hee who got Yoon-Seo, Jung-Won and two others to vote Kyung-Jun as the Mafia person, two more voters need to cast their choices. That's the couple in the second screenshot, the girl is Ji-Soo while the boy is Yu-Jun, it appears they have been dating. Woo-Ram, along with the class VP So-Mi and Jun-Hee, had tried talking them into voting for Kyung-Jun, he's a man who will stab anyone in the back and was the reason the very likable boy Hyun-Ho had been killed.

 Yu-Jun was prepared to vote for Kyung-Jun but not so fast said Ji-Soo. She doesn't quite believe in Woo-Ram and could he have been the killer of the female Ju-Young in the last show? She had been killed by a Mafia person and Woo-Ram had said some bad things about the girl when she rejected him but does that make Woo-Ram a killer? The voting has to be done my midnight, it's now a little past 11:00 pm and Kyung-Jun wasn't taking any chances. He convinced the girl Mi-Na to get Woo-Ram to come to the broadcasting room, I haven't liked that girl from the first minute! It was all a trap as Kyung-Jun and his two cohorts tied up Woo-Ram and beat him senseless. Kyung-Jun stabbed him hard in the leg with a pen and even took a box cutter to his eyes saying does Woo-Ram want to spend his possible last hour blind???? That was too much for Woo-Ram who got on the intercom and told everyone that he was a Mafia person! What was heard shocked everyone and during this time Jun-Hee and a few others were looking for Woo-Ram with no success, that message could have come from only one place so everyone dashed to the broadcasting room. I was a bit surprised that Woo-Ram had given in to Kyung-Jun's threats, admitting he was a Mafia person was like signing his own death warrant.










 The room was locked, Yoon-Seo found an axe which Jun-Hee used to smash the door in and entered to possibly save the day. Jun-Hee, along with Yoon-Seo and Jung-Won, was stunned at what they saw had happened, Woo-Ram had been beaten brutally but was still had his wits about him. Soon a few other students were in the area and it didn't take much to surmise that Woo-Ram had been forced to say he was the Mafia by Kyung-Jun, how to get back at him? Obviously getting the remaining two students to vote for Kyung-Jun as a Mafia person but that wasn't to be. For before anyone could find Ji-Soo she had voted, it was for Woo-Ram as the Mafia person. That was his eighth vote and he's now the next student who will meet his death! Before that could happen Woo-Ram wanted revenge against his enemy Kyung-Jun and grabbed the axe from Jun-Hee, he wasn't going to die alone!

 Sadly dying alone was how it ended for Woo-Ram as the game announcer's voice came from the intercom saying Woo-Ram has been voted off, how will he meet his end? All of the killings are self inflicted, as you can see in two screenshots above Woo-Ram took the axe he was holding and smashed it against his head a few times, once again what a gruesome death. Of course the students were in a daze over what took place but the time was approaching midnight, that's when the Mafia can kill anyone so all dashed to a room and locked themselves in. There was an announcement that Woo-Ram had truly been a Mafia person, in a brief flashback we did see that he had killed Ju-Young the previous night. So Kyung-Jun had been correct but then again perhaps he just lucked out(probably) and that's him in the bottom screenshot above looking quite bummed out about things, that ended the episode. No cliffhangers going into the next episode which I haven't viewed yet, when this show ended all of the fourteen students were locked up in a room. Few more screenshots of what took place and the next post has the recap for episode six.













 

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