As she heads to the debt collector’s office to give him the cash, Kyunghee tries to stop her, telling her it is inappropriate for them to go and pay this debt.
Sunja takes the pocket watch given to her by Koh Hansu and sells it for the sum of the debt. (There’s a distinct, lovely sense of continuity here, a call back to little Sunja bargaining in the fish market.)
#MY HAUNTED HOUSE SEASON 5 EPISODE 5 FULL#
Kyunghee is fearful, dithering, and Sunja steps in, telling the debt collectors she will have the full sum for them by the end of the day. Sunja learns from the collectors that the debt was taken on to pay for her and Isak’s passage to Japan and that with interest, the sum has more than doubled. That day, a pair of debt collectors come to Kyunghee to say Yoseb has incurred a debt of 160 yen and that he has not been able to pay the sum back. Because we have seen Sunja more than 50 years in the future, we know the answer: The ache never goes away. Sunja sobs, asking Kyunghee when the ache of missing goes away. Together, they begin to hang laundry when Sunja realizes these are her clothes and that Kyunghee has inadvertently washed away the smell of home that she’d purposefully allowed to linger. She wakes up late, but Kyunghee is kind to her, saying a mother needs sleep to grow a strong baby. His vulnerability touches Sunja, and the two make love for the first time in a tender scene lit in soft blues and greens.Ī month later, Sunja is still getting used to her life in Osaka. He has a chance at a legacy, a family, something that may not be a leap into the future but a link nonetheless. By marrying Sunja and by naming her unborn child as his own, he’s defied the death that had always haunted his sickly life. He doesn’t want her to be in debt to him, he says, and when Sunja protests, he tells Sunja that he sees her as a courageous, brave person, someone from whom he can borrow a bit of courage. Isak opens up to Sunja in bed that night. Isak, a figure who up until this point has been removed from Sunja’s sorrow in leaving Korea, confesses that he too feels that he is less than welcome in this place - Osaka, Japan, perhaps even his brother’s own home. Sunja remarks that it seems she’s a disappointment to her new family and that it feels as if this place wants no part of them. In a different room, lying on a futon together, Sunja and Isak can hear everything their brother and sister-in-law say. Yoseb speculates that perhaps Suja trapped Isak.
Not to mention, Sunja is much further along in her pregnancy than anyone expected. Later that night, Yoseb complains to Kyunghee that he doesn’t know what his brother was thinking marrying Sunja. Seeing this, Sunja cries, clearly still bereft at the sudden separation from her mother. She lifts a lid on a rice bowl to reveal a steaming mound of white rice, the very same delicacy Yangjin prepared for Sunja upon her departure from Busan. The couples sit down to eat, and Kyunghee says she’s prepared something special for the occasion. But Kyunghee’s warm welcome, her face breaking into a beautiful smile upon seeing Sunja, anchors her in the present moment. By the time Sunja and Isak reach Yoseb’s home, it’s clear Sunja is stunned, exhausted, and unsure of what to make of her surroundings. They seem friendly, filled with chatter and laughter, and yet they also feel dangerous, with pigs snuffling underfoot. The streets are dark, crowded, and noisy. When the trio reaches Ikaino, the Korean neighborhood of Osaka, Sunja continues to struggle to take it all in. Beside them, Sunja is wide-eyed, tossed between wonder and bewilderment at her new surroundings, as Isak remarks that it feels as if they’ve leapt into the future. Together, Isak, Sunja, and Yoseb ride a streetcar as Yoseb and Isak talk about the biscuit factory where Yoseb works and the plans to build a subway in Osaka, a new development that Yoseb proclaims will change everything. In 1931, Sunja arrives at Osaka station, where she meets Yoseb, Isak’s brother.
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