"While You Were Sleeping" drama: episodes thirteen and fourteen recap

 Air Dates: September 27th to November 16th on SBS, airs Wednesday and Thursday nights at 10:00 pm, two episodes per night

 Ratings(Nielsen) for the two episodes- 8.6% and 10.0%

Main Cast:

Bae Suzy as Nam Hong-Joo

Lee Jong-Suk as Jung Jae-Chan

Lee Sang-Yeob as Lee Yoo-Bum

Ko Sung-Hee as Shin Hee-Min

Jung Hae-In as Han Woo-Tak

Shin Jae-Ha as Jung Seung-Won

Hwang Young-Hee as Yoon Moon-Sun

Park Jin-Joo as Moon Hyang-Mi
Kim So-Hyun as Park So-Yoon
Lee Yoo-Joon as Oh Kyung-Han

 Bit of a slower pair of shows but the ones on Wednesdays usually are as the episodes for Thursday seem to be much more suspenseful and action packed. However there is an interesting story which started at the end of the fourteenth episode and the fans seemed to enjoy that show as it's the first time an episode has hit double digits for it's rating.

 Episode twelve ended on quite an exciting note, won't refer back to it that often so may help if you read that recap first. We originally thought that Jae-Chan had arrested the murderer Kang who had killed his younger brother to collect a huge insurance settlement. However the arrest hadn't happened and Kang wasn't going to go down without a fight. He and Jae-Chan get into quite a scrap with
Jae-Chan being on the short end to start off. He recovered quickly as heard the screams of Hong-Joo but also his police backup finally arrived to help him subdue Kang.
 Jae-Chan had taken quite a beating but it wasn't severe enough to go to the hospital. Can't say the same thing for Woo-Tak who is laying on the floor in Kang's chicken restaurant after a severe pummeling. He is breathing though and is whisked away to a nearby hospital, like most victims in dramas Woo-Tak healed very fast and was going to be released from the hospital. But he had nowhere to go, he told Jae-Chan and Hong-Joo he couldn't take care of himself yet and didn't want to stay with his overly protective parents.
 Not sure why it happened but while Woo-Tak recovers he'll be staying at Hong-Joo's apartment where she lives with her mother. Jae-Chan is dismayed at this happening, both him and Woo-Tak have a crush on Hong-Joo along with millions of others. Jae-Chan had even offered to have Woo-Tak stay with him but he insisted he needed the care of females, don't we all?

 Kang is finally in a jail cell and that's where he should have been two episodes ago. As you can see he's demanding that his corrupt lawyer Lee Yoo-Bum be summoned. Since the first episode we've seen what kind of devil Yoo-Bum is, will admit he's one smart lawyer and is very adept at a trial but will do any underhanded act to get his client found innocent and it always works.
 He was able to get Kang off easily from the charge of killing his brother, the prosecutor had tried the case as a murder from a car accident but the killing was actually done with potassium cyanide. When Kang was freed he went on continuing his killing of the neighborhood cats and the total deaths climbed to over a hundred. He also was planning on killing his sister Cho-Hee to get the insurance money from her death. He had her trapped with Hong-Joo on a factory roof which is where the episode began and also the facts of why he wasn't behind bars.
 Hmmmm, said it may help to have read the previous recap but after those details maybe not. This time around Yoo-Bum is refusing to represent Kang at a trial, he knows the evidence is stacked against him and there would be no way to get him off. Yoo-Bum confided to Jae-Chan he only takes sure win cases or to himself cases where he can manipulate the evidence. Those scenes were in the first half of episode thirteen and unfortunately we don't see Yoo-Bum in this recap again.

 Kang eventually stood trial and had zero chance of winning as Jae-Chan built an unbeatable case. Besides the murder of his brother there was the killing of a hundred cats, the attempted murders of Hong-Joo, Cho-Hee, Jae-Chan and many other charges. Jae-Chan asked for a sentence of life in prison and it appears as though that was the outcome but we never did see the judge's verdict.
 Above you can see Hong-Joo reporting about the trial on TV as she's now returned to work as a reporter for the SBC station. She's still a bit scared of going into work everyday but Jae-Chan is there each morning to make sure she goes. Hong-Joo had a recurring dream for a long time of her dying at the top of a mountain in her work uniform. Lately she hasn't had that nightmare and perhaps though the details weren't the same it was a dream of what happened on the factory roof.
 As I mentioned a bit of a slower pace through an episode and a half though it did pick up towards the end. Woo-Tak has been staying with Hong-Joo and her mother which has made Jae-Chan quite jealous. He's even sent the pair out to do shopping for him, bit of a mistake as Jae-Chan and
Hong-Joo seemed to grow closer. Then again have started to wonder if Woo-Tak, even though he's crazy about Hong-Joo, isn't playing matchmaker for the two?

 Jae-Chan is kind of a cool guy though also a bit inept at times, that's him above trying to kiss
Hong-Joo in his car but was stopped  by his.... seat belt! Sure he'll get chance again as both him and Hong-Joo have dreamt of them smooching and underneath all of the intensity there is a love story which is slowly taking shape.
 The intensity was lacking a bit in these two episodes but does pick up a bit at the end. Not as much happened either as we're already about about ten minutes into the fourteenth episode. There's another minor mystery that was added in this episode and that's about some envelopes of money being sent each month to Jae-Chan and his younger brother Seung-Won. This has been going on for a decade now, Jae-Chan has kept all of the envelopes and hasn't spent a cent.
 Seung-Won hasn't known of the sender's identity but Jae-Chan knows who the person is. It's an officer who used to work with his father, he was the brother of the soldier who had shot Jae-Chan's father in a convenience store over a decade ago. The officer has felt so guilty about the actions of his brother he keeps sending the family money. That soldier is now dead, in episode four he was the person that had blown up a bus and some of the unknown facts of that case came out in this show and even more in the next two episodes.

 Above is a younger Jae-Chan when he was about sixteen, he had gone to the funeral for the bus driver. There he met the driver's daughter who most people think is a boy because of her looks and baseball skills. At the funeral the officer had confessed to Jae-Chan that his father's murderer was his brother. Jae-Chan was a bit upset but not too much as the officer didn't do the evil deed plus he was a nice guy who had helped Jae-Chan out in the past.
 What I've been noticing is the dreams the trio had been having has been declining very rapidly, very few of them since that incident with Kang and even when they do dream they're pleasant ones. On to the finale, not much happened in these shows but this recap ended up getting long. We meet a new character though not for too long, the new person's name is Yoo Su-Kyung. She's a household name in Korea as she's a champion archer who won the gold medal at the last Olympics.
 She lives with her mother in a smallish apartment, being an archer must not be a high paying profession. Su-Kyung keeps having problems with her internet and it seems two days a week a technician is at her place to fix it. The repairman's name is Do Hak-Young, appears as though he has a crush on her and though he has to keep fixing her connection he always asks Su-Kyung and her mother to give him a high rating on the company's surveys.

 There was finally a dream as you can see above with Hong-Joo warning Woo-Tak about some impending danger, more on that very shortly. Also above is Su-Kyung and her archery days are behind her as she's been murdered or at least it looks like that was the cause of death. The death occurred shortly after Hak-Young had left her apartment, he's soon to be the prime suspect as many CCTV's caught him departing and he was the only person in her place all day long.
 What was a bit eerie was that a pentagram was drawn around the body with the blood. It was a mystery to the investigators that there was no other blood in the apartment and except for the cameras there was zero evidence. Seems as though Hak-Young would be the most logical suspect but there's no evidence for the prosecutors.
 In the final scene Hong-Joo's dream came somewhat true as Hak-Young went to Woo-Taks's apartment in the middle of the night. The pair has known each other since high school and up until eighteen months ago they were roommates. Hak-Young pleaded with Woo-Tak to help him, he insists that he didn't commit the crime. As an officer Woo-Tak does have a duty to turn him in but can't do that to his friend, think he truly believes Hak-Young is innocent. Hak-Young also tells Woo-Tak if he doesn't help him he'll reveal a dark secret, one that could end his career with the police force? We don't what the secret is as the episode and this recap finally have hit their conclusion.

 Not much more to add in, granted it was a little slower than the previous shows but even with that slower pace it's been better than any other recent drama. As usual a bit of a thrilling climax and the following post has the recap which has all of the action on how the murder case ends.