Recap Korean Drama "Trolley (2022)" Episode 13

Trolley episode 13 starts with a devastated and drained Hye-joo putting two and two together surrounding Joong-do’s secret rendezvous meetings – she realises that Soo-bin might be right, Joong-do might have met Ji-hoon that night that the latter died.

She confronts her husband without beating around the bush and asks him straight whether he met Ji-hoon after lying to her about it. Joong-do tells her that he didn’t meet him, but he also can’t tell her whom he met. Hye-joo immediately asks him whether he’s having an affair and why he can’t disclose whom he met.

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Meanwhile, Woo-jae gets a shocking phone call from Yeong-su, who informs him that a post written by Seung-hee is making the rounds and gaining steam quickly. Woo-jae immediately informs Joong-do, who immediately tells his wife that they need to put this to rest once and for all and that they have to go on TV to win the public’s opinion.

Hye-joo is still annoyed with her husband, though and asks him whether he has already made up his mind about this. Joong-do promises that he hasn’t and tells her that they are out of options at this point. Hye-joo refuses to believe him but promises him that she will think about going on TV. Unfortunately, she doesn’t understand what he could’ve done that is so bad that he’d rather that she thinks that he’s cheating on her.

Elsewhere, Jin-seok and Soon-hong meet up, and they try to come to an interesting mediation. Soon-hong promises to pass at least 10 of Daehan Party’s bills on the condition that the party opposes Namgoong Sol’s Law. He lists out the reasons why it would be a mess to get passed anyway and thus asks her to consider which will be more beneficial for her and the party in the long run. The proposal makes Jin-seok think.

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The next day, as Joong-do thinks of a way to tackle the mess that Seung-hee created, Hye-joo gets heckled at home when a random reporter comes out and demands answers over a megaphone. A scared Hye-joo runs out of the back door while Seung-hee finds out where Ki-young was the night her mother got into an accident.

Meanwhile, Hye-joo rushes to the studio and asks Yoon-seo to come to the studio as well instead of going to the house. She further talks to Woo-jae after not being able to get in touch with Joong-do, who asks her whether there is anything else about the Seung-ho case that they need to know and whether she can get on the news that evening because things just are not looking good at the moment. Meanwhile, Ki-young tries to persuade Yoo-sin to tell Seung-hee the truth, but his mother-in-law refuses to budge.

Ki-young tries to win his wife over, but Seung-hee is too entrenched in lies to see the truth. Plus, finding out about Ki-young scheming against them behind their backs also doesn’t help his case, and, in the end, he gets on his wife’s bad books, and she asks him to leave. At the office, Joong-do gets crap for his wayward home life, and he begs for the party’s help to win back the public’s opinion.

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Interestingly, Yoon-seo accuses her mother of lying to get money and asks her to her face whether she made all of this up in order to get a leg up in life.

Either way, she agrees to go on TV after the incident, and Joong-do informs Woo-jae that they will let this turn into a wildfire before going on air the next day. In the meantime, he informs Ki-young about Seung-hee’s antics and asks him to hand over the evidence about the land speculation fiasco. Ki-young promises to do so.

Hye-joo, meanwhile, gets a call from Ji-soo, who tells her that Soo-bin has had a miscarriage and that the baby wasn’t Ji-hoon’s. She got pregnant while he was in prison, and the news shocks Hye-joo, who realises that Soo-bin fabricated everything in order to get into their lives. Soo-bin, meanwhile, meets her ex-boyfriend acquaintance, who tells her that Hye-joo made the news that morning.

Anyway, Soo-bin realises that he knew about her pregnancy and has been through her phone, and the guy blackmails her into doing him a favour, thanks to him using her bank account to deal meth. Hye-joo, meanwhile, gives Soo-bin a call. She later tells Yeo-jin what she discovered over the last few days and mentions that she is unable to trust anyone except Yeo-jin, who looks extremely guilty at the mention.

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That night, Woo-jae meets Soo-bin, who asks her a ton of questions about her past with her ex, JD, and promises to keep her safe if she agrees to cooperate with them and stay away from Hye-joo. Soo-bin agrees but doesn’t look too convinced. Meanwhile, Hye-joo and Joong-do get into it again after he comes back home, and she asks him who he met that night.

Joong-do, after listening to her tell him how she feels about the entire thing, finally tells her whom he met the fated night, and it is indeed Ji-hoon. A shocked Hye-joo questions him whether that’s true, and he breaks down and tells her that that night he had scolded him.

We finally see what happened that night and how Ji-hoon had called him after getting drunk and that he scolded him badly for not getting it together. Either way, he tearfully tells her that he lied because he didn’t want her to worry about Ji-hoon, and then he died, and he got too scared to tell her the truth. Hye-joo seems to believe her husband, especially when she remembers how she had also scolded Ji-hoon pretty badly at one point as well.

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That night, as it starts to rain, Hye-joo meets Soo-bin suddenly, who was moved by Hye-joo’s voicemail from earlier. In the spirit of helping the woman who truly cares about her, Soo-bin finally tells Hye-joo the truth – Joong-do and Yeo-jin are having an affair and Ji-hoon, and she saw all this with their own eyes the day he died. She further tells her that Joong-do might have killed Ji-hoon because the latter was supposed to confront him, but then he turned up dead.

Hye-joo is left speechless, and at home, Joong-do and Yeo-jin stare at each other intently.

Trolley Episode 13 Review

What a mess of an episode. That last revelation is totally believable but is oddly tame and boring. I mean, come on. The cheating thing is the most uninteresting thing that can happen at this point; the murder is a better option though. I thought Ji-hoon found out that his father was moving funds around or dealing in the flesh trade or something. This is just tame in comparison.

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That being said, I really just need Soo-bin’s ex to stop existing in this storyline. He’s annoying, adds nothing to the story and is just all-around unnecessary. The same goes for Seung-hee; it’s interesting to me how a grown adult can act like a petulant child. I guess trauma does that to you, but come on. Get some therapy. She adds nothing to the storyline except for appeasing her equally crazy mother, who is obsessed with her dead son.

I get it, but it’s just so sluggish. It’s weird because a lot happens in the story, but I guess they have been hinting at it for so long that it’s not even a shock anymore. For example, Yoon-seo going crazy about her friend’s father cheating serves as a beacon for what is to come in the future. So, you know, we were at least prepared.

Let’s hope the next episode comes with something more than just two people cheating. But for real, what kind of sick a-hole do you have to be to romance your apparently bestie’s husband? What the heck Yeo-jin?