The Day (2023) K Drama Episode 5

The Kidnapping Day Episode 5 Recap

Episode 5 begins with Ro-hee and Myung-joon waking up at a well-equipped home which Eun-sun tells them is a place prepared by Ro-hee’s father to present the achievements of his experiment to his investors. While tests are run on Ro-hee to see if she is still in good condition, Eun-sun explains to Myung-joon about the experiment conducted on Ro-hee and how important it is to keep her safe and the experiment ongoing.

Myung-joon understands the importance of this experiment and sees that Eun-sun really cares about Ro-hee which makes him agree to her arrangement for him to leave soon. Meanwhile, Sang-yoon is asked to leave the kidnapping case by his seniors after the chasing fiasco which has been broadcasted everywhere, bringing shame to the officers.

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However, he is not ready to give up on this case and asked his immediate senior to give him some time to bring Myung-joon and Ro-hee to him. He is given only two days and Sang-yoon does not waste any time to begin looking for clues. His first stop is the orphanage where Myung-joon grew up, where he gets insight into what really happened with his previous murder case.

Turns out that it was an accident that happened during a martial arts competition, however, it wrecked Myung-joon badly and he was unable to forgive himself. Later, he married Seo Hye-eun his friend at the orphanage and later the two had a child. This brings Sang-yoon’s focus to Hye-eun, however, he is now focused on the incident from 30 years ago when Park Cheol-won attacked Choi Jin-tae’s father.

On the other hand, Myung-joon tries to make the most of his last day with Ro-hee without letting her know of his departure only to fail because it is not easy to hide from her. Instead of getting angry, Ro-hee tells him that she has given up on finding the killer of her parents after getting most of the memories back.

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That night, Sang-yoon meets a nurse who had worked at the hospital where the incident with Park Cheol-won happened. The nurse tells him that Cheol-won had meant to attack Choi Dong-eok after assuming that he had failed to save his wife and child, when in truth the surgery was never done by Choi Dong-eok. Unfortunately, Cheol-won ended up attacking Choi Dong-eok’s daughter after which he quickly settled the case with him.

Sang-yoon understands the incident, however, he tells the nurse that Choi Dong-eok only had a son by the name Choi Jin-tae and there was no daughter. But the nurse tells him that it was a daughter as she was the one who used to braid her hair. Later, he finds out that Choi Jin-tae was adopted two years after this incident.

As for information about Hye-eun, she had participated in a clinical trial on the day of the incident and the details are not accessible. On the other hand, Eun-sun treats Myung-joon’s wound after which he sees Ro-hee sitting indoors reading a book. He then decides to take her out to the beach and gives her a time filled with fun and laughter.

He later tells her that he is relieved that the people here seem to care about Ro-hee, however, she tells him that she is useful to them which is why they are treating her kindly. She tells him that Eun-sun’s daughter has a developmental disorder which is why she is so invested in this experiment.

If she is worthless to this experiment, then their lives too will become worthless to Eun-sun. She then tells him to never tell her the truth about being experimented upon and abused by her father if she ever loses her memories again. She wishes for Myung-joon to lie to her about being her father again.

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The scene of them being together is seen by Eun-sun who decides to let Myung-joon leave tonight, but Myung-joon requests to meet his daughter one last time before leaving. Later, she receives news of another investor Jayden, making his way to this place and she gets tensed as Ro-hee is more than just an investment to her.

Meanwhile, Sang-yoon approaches Cheol-won and asks him about the incident from 30 years ago. However, Cheol-won is not ready to open up about the incident and tells him that it was his guilt which made him settle the case so soon. Sang-yoon gets no information from him, however, information about the junkman’s body being found near Myung-joon’s house is brought.

He rushes there and sees the clean cuts on the body which only let them know that a professional was involved in this murder. Later, he arrives at the police station to see the nurse waiting for him with another piece of information. She tells him that an AIDs patient had been to their hospital during the time of this incident.

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This was a secret kept by the staff back then as it would have affected the reputation of the hospital. However, Cheol-won had used a knife which was in contact with the AIDs patient and had them worried that Choi Dong-eok’s daughter contracted the disease after she was cut by the knife.

She then tells him the name of the little girl which was- Choi Hye-eun, who was also the adopted daughter of Choi Dong-eok before he adopted Choi Jin-tae. They rush to find Hye-eun while elsewhere, Ro-hee looks through the news on her parents’ murder. Right then, she gets another flashback and remembers that it was not a police car which was parked in front of her house that day but the car belonging to the CCTV company with yellow siren lights.

She regains the will to search for the killer, however, the conditions are too restricted for her to make any move. Myung-joon tells her to escape with him and find the killer and soon Ro-hee makes the plan to meet at national highway number 391 after he has left and she has escaped.

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Myung-joon soon leaves to meet his daughter and gets emotional in front of Hee-ae after which he is brought to the docks to leave. Meanwhile, Ro-hee escapes from the house and runs away, but is found out by Eun-sun who leaves behind her.

However, before she can get to Ro-hee, it is Jayden who stops in front of Ro-hee and greets her. Meanwhile, Myung-joon tries to leave the boat in exchange for the money he receives but is made unconscious by those on the boat.

The Kidnapping Day Episode 5 Review

Episode 5 brings out secrets, Ro-hee’s pain and a bigger danger for the runaway duo who are going to be on the run once again. This episode brought us to Ro-hee’s pain and this was really a heartbreaker because she was made to remember that pain once again.

Meanwhile, finding out that Hye-eun was once adopted by Choi Dong-eok, Choi Jin-tae’s father, it seems like there is a deeper secret behind the Choi family’s research. And this also brings us to the possibility that Ro-hee too may have been adopted like what Choi Dong-eok did back then.

Thus, this may all be a revenge planned not just by CHeol-won but also by Hye-eun, and probably mainly Hye-eun. However, listening to Ro-hee’s request today, there’s also a possibility that she will lose her memories again and this time Myung-joon will be her father forever.

Myung-joon really is the right choice for the genius Ro-hee and while the two give us some good laughs, they also melt our hearts.