*NEEDS PICS* Dark Hole: Episode 7

 

Previously on Dark Hole

Now: Episode 7

Flashback time with Hwa Sun and her husband, walking down a bridge on a lovely ass morning. As they sit on the bench, they chat about sappy happy feels. He asks what she is thinking about and she says she is just vibin'. She feels content to where she is in life and says that without him, she doesn't know how else to feel. You know she's dropping truth because this is one of the rare times she is actually smiling! It's a sweet scene because this is where he proposes to her!!!! 

Now we're back to the dismal present where her and Do Yoon are running with their gas masks on when she gets that abrupt pain in her brain. Do Yoon is just confuzzled as hell because Hwa Sun pushes her aside and tells her to run.

Upon the survivors getting on that school bus, Dong Rim asks where those 2 are in which Chang says where. Without any hesitation whatsoever, she snags a gas masks and and runs like hell to aid in their escape. 

Hwa Sun starts hallucinating and hears Lee Soo Hyun's voice provoking her so she turns around and in the empty hallway, she sees this:

She whips out her gun and charges at this unseen hallucination. Do Yoon is actually right behind her so she tugs at her coat calling her Unni (big sister in Korean) begging her not to give in or change. As you may have already guessed, once you give in to this "dark passenger" (yes, Dexter reference) marks that change to the evil side like Jin Seok and Principal Song. 

Hwa Sun turns to face Do Yoon while she has tears nearly streaming down her face so while she is giving her puppy eyes, Hwa Sun gets flashes of her late husband as well that is is begging her to not go deeper than what she already has. Lee Soo Hyun's taunts and attempts of instigation gradually get less and less as Do Yoon makes her snap out of it. She gives her big ol hug.

Enter Dong Rim who caught the tail end of it. 

People on the bus are totes getting impatient and want to GTFO like right meow. Luckily the 3 burst out of the school and make their way on the bus just when more mutants were approaching. Choi puts the pedal to the medal and hauls ass out of there.

Wow, seems like this bus ain't a match for these very dedicated mutants. They come in swarms and as if they are running a marathon, they keep running in pursuit of the bus. One or two even jumps on top of the bus! Crazy, right?!

But, bitch, I am a bus!

Meanwhile checking in Tae Han, while he is driving, he suddenly remembers the first interaction he had with that murderer dude. When he first found him 2 episodes back, the murderer dude asked him how far it will take to reach the highway since he thinks leaving Muji City is the safest route to take. So that's why Tae Han is where he is. Sucks he isn't up to date on his whereabouts though.

In the hospital, Ji Hye pushes and pushes and she successfully delivers a healthy baby! Her husband, Officer Jo arrives in the hospital with tears streaming down his face to see Doctor J holding the newborn and placing in Ji Hye's arms. Everyone is crying happy tears now. Happy Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

In the main area of the hospital where the survivors are primarily at, some people are starting to wig out. A man and woman nearby by are sharing their frustrations of how much longer they are going to be confined there. Is there even a rescue team for their asses? No one knows.

The man gets peeved at the woman behind them as she is praying obnoxiously out loud. She doesn't pay him any attention. As it is overshadowed by the much bigger group praying in front of the black blob.

Sunnyeo, the revered eccentric evangelical, of course up and center feeding into all this shit.

It gets rudely interrupted when the single prayer lady throws a water bottle at her to feet to tell her to stop this shit. Why?

Flashback to the very first episode. Pre pandemic when Sunnyeo lost her mojo the very same lady accosts her for losing her "spiritual powers" stemming from cutting her foot on those blades. She is verbally berating her. Oh, how the tables have turned. 

Sunnyeo looks at her and tells her dead ass that if she is so confident in her christian god, then prove it, sister! Go outside and proof that the lawd will protect her from the mutants attacking her then. She picks up a stick with bells and slowly walks towards a window.

The lady is trying her best to tell everyone not to listen to her and that she is fake as fuck. This seems to fall on deaf ears.

Upon placing her hand gently hovering over the window, the bells starting rattling around. She swirls her hand to and fro in a circular motion and it is revealed that the black smoke on the other side of the window is mirroring her hand movements! Swirling and swirling as Sunnyeo is in a trance like state and BAM she stops her hand and the black smoke immediately gets propelling the in the opposite direction. Her followers gather around quickly in their ooh's and aah's galore to what they just witnessed. She claims to kow how to stop the smoke.

Sacrifice.

Guess who they all collectively look at? The opposing woman gets even more aggressive and shouts fraud and scam trying to get them all to their senses. Obviously ain't working, girl. The more she shouts the more the groupies are convinced in Sunnyeo. Sad.

Off in the distance are some stragglers including the security man who reluctantly gives the nod to Sunnyeo and walks off. He arrives to the room with the dude that is still tied up to the chair with his mouth back to being gagged. He begins to wheel him in to the front, despite the man's protests. 

Sergeant Park Soon Il is in the bathroom sink splashing water on his face slapping himself back to his senses after reeling from the events with Snake Eyes, the shooting and mutants taking over. He is shooketh.

Hold up now, the sacrifice is about begin.

The poor man is being rolled up in the center of the room where it looks like an even more bigger group that before. More follows than not (freaky!) Sunnyeo walks over to him and claims that he is the reason why the black smoke is here to begin with. The followers take note of the rolex he is wearing saying it belonged to Mr. Kang so WTF, bro!

Sunnyeo removes the gag so this man explains that Mr. Kang forced him to work without pay but that's not why he killed him. 

Sunnyeo is just continuously fanning the flame (is that the correct saying???)  Followers are getting hella riled up so one of the followers puts his mouth gag back on and says to ask HIM for forgiveness. With that bells on a stick still on hand, she goes around him and tappity taps the bells in a ritualistic way. With the knife in the other she slits her hand and places it on his forehead and calls him scum. Now, roll him away, bois!

Except nah. Sergeant Park comes in for the clutch and fires a warning shot and asks just what the fuck is going on here!

Being ever to smug, she slowly walks right up to him and his shaky gun and calls him on his shit and his skeletons he's hiding in his closet. Unfortunately he is outnumbered. A follower snuck behind him and knocked him out. Shit on a stick, that bites. Where is Tae Han when you need him?

Well, plans are resuming and the sacrifice is being wheeled out with a small group tailing behind him as he reaches outside. 

Sergeant Park is still conscious, actually. Two of the brainwashed idiots manhandled him and forced up him against a window so he can see for himself of what this devil lady is about to accomplish.

The sacrifice is wheeled off to an overpass where he is promptly unbound all the while Sunnyeo is inside doing her chanting thing and waving her bells til the cows come home. And plop, these motherfuckers actually dropped this poor man to his death!! And Park had to watch it all despite his protests! Trauma AF.

And just like that, all the black smoke has subsided and everyone inside is like PRAISE BE!!! 

Meanwhile the christian lady is off to the side and she now looks conflicted. I hope she doesn't shift gears but maaaaaan.

On the bus, Choi is inquiring on where exactly to go and Hwa Sun suggests to Muji hospital. So yeah. They are about to walk right in the middle of a shit show but lets see how that pans out. Shit is cracking.

Dong Rim is poking Hwa Sun's brain wondering why the mutants haven't killed them when they had the chance earlier. Hwa Sun is convinced that the black smoke is actually controlling the mutants and if they want to put all this crap to an ultimate end, they must find the root of the problem: the master.

Spooky vibes, bro.

Dong Rim wonders if this is "god" that is utilizing this black smoke mutants as a means to purge bad people and whatnot and perhaps the people that have died deserved to die. Something along those lines.

In another section of the hospital, Doctor J walks around wondering where Nurse Lee be at but she is nowhere to be found. While she is walking down a hallway, something catches her eye. She spots a random ass foot sticking out of a door and as she slowly opens. Well, there is Nurse Lee. And it looks like she killed herself. Holy shit! Left beside her is a suicide note saying sorry but she cannot handle this life anymore. Wow, that's kind dark, man.

So the yellow bus arrives as close as it can to the hospital as there is immense blockage. Like, no way to get around at all. Rather than giving up and walking on foot, they instead decide to take a detour and turn on another road.

Tae Han is still in the ambulance car when he finally spots the police vehicle that is now empty as fuck. Wielding his handy dandy ax, he takes it to the streets. This is like Blues Clues! Instead of a blue paw print, it's pools of red blood! He decides to follow that trail. 

Shit is indeed getting worse and worse. The murderer police officer impersonator is show to have already been mutated and is seen walking through a different entry point of a store. His eyes are black as hell, skin in that freakish vein-y texture, he creepily continues walking further inside

Funny thing about the bus. It stopped working. Dammit. Mr. Choi broke it!After being worked to death, now they have no choice but to get out. 

Not yet, though.

Before they can even open the door, a rock smashes through one of the windows. Everyone immediately puts on their gas masks and rushes out to scatter in all directions of the wind. Very few remain with Choi and Hwa Sun.

What a surprise, it is none other than mutant Jin Seok that is the one responsible for this tomfoolery. Jesus.

A separate group of survivors are running behind houses and buildings when we see another rare appearance of a tentacle!!!! It grabs a woman and despite everyone's best attempts, it pulls her far and away. Scary as fuck.

Hwa Sun and the rest of her group make their way into a random building. Dong Rim seems to be missing. Oh noes. Choi wants to head back out to find her but one of the men stands in his way and NAH, FOOL! I still don't know this guy's name but oof too late, a tentacle smashed through the window and impaled him from behind so now we'll never know. But holy fuck this got a little bit graphic. The tentacle just as quickly released his dead corpse and retracts.

Only to dart back in the building and flailing around all derped up. Unfortunately, the tentacle makes a bee line towards Do Yoon so Hwa Sun dives right in front of it. The tentacle lunges at her but for some reason, it doesn't strike her.

She takes her sweet ass time to turn her head but when she does this motherfucking tentacle is staring at her dead ass. Like face to face. I don't think a tentacle as a face but you know what i mean!

The tentacle gets even closer as in inches from her face and then gently retracts. So, what the fuck? Everyone re-emerge from their hiding spot once everything is clear. Choi is like BRUH! What happened!?

Hwa Sun says that this was intentional. Next time, it will attack for sure. With an even smaller group than before, they take their leave. Someone places a jacked to cover the impaled man and exit.

They very quickly run into another survivor group from the bus. This includes the surviving 2 of the 3 close friends (the long haired one was got to by the mutant last episode). Sadly, Dong Rim is not with them.

Tae Han continues to follow the trail of blood and he reaches the inside of a store. As he reaches the back room, Murderer guy is not that far off. He is slowly walking to and fro trying to find the Nurse but yes, she is there and hiding just out of his sight. Tae Han finally reaches him but the mutants super duper powers tosses him like a sad of potatoes. 

A fight ensues. 

This guy is like T1000 here because this crazy cat looks unstoppable! He is unable to reach his ax as he is pinned against a bulk of probably never to be sold products. He takes the knife thingy that Nurse originally stabbed him with and re stabbed him in the face! He gets his ax and does a final death blow. He is dedz.

The knight in shining armor finds Nurse Byeol and they gleefully reunite. As he helps her up, she walks and spots the now dead police guy impersonator and is like "Damn, I was going to kill him." In a monotone crazy killer way NOT in a sarcastic dark humor kind of way. Tae Han stops in his tracks is like NANI?!?!? (wrong language, I know). This is when he thinks back to Hwa Sun originally telling him about her husband was murdered, and then of course to the findings of the another body during their rescue mission. He pieces it all together now.

IT WAS HER!

She whips out a syringe and lunges for him but he is too ninja and blocks her.

Choi and the rest of the group are walking when Hwa Sun's walkie pings and it's Tae Han who relays to her his enlightenment that he is confident that he has Lee Soo Hyun. He has her handcuffed (thank Sergeant Park for those cuffs!) at Jingan Mart but the signal cuts off. The now revealed Lee Soo Hyun whom I will refer to now, cackles at him.

Turns out Jingan Mart is not too far away and she doesn't have time to drag everyone with her so she just says for Choi to take every to the hospital and she doesn't want to get them up to speed on it either. She says parting words to Do Yoon and yeets out of there.

Lee Soo Hyun's facade is finally dropped and she is just being such a villain yo. She has the audacity to bring up Young Shik saying he is probably long dead already. Good thing she didn't get her hands on him. Going dark side mutant was probably a better death.

Once the group realizes that bad ass boss Hwa Sun is gone, some of them get in a crisis. They honestly don't think they are strong enough as a group to make it to the hospital and actually want to go wherever she is going. She really put an impression on them didin't she?

Wriggling in the handcuffs and knowing she is not going to go anywhere, he stops out presumably to change batteries for the walkie or something. He doesn't say much to her. While out of sight Lee Soo Hyun looks like she REALLY wants out of there so she ends up dislocating her thumbs and frees herself. The second she steps out the fucking black smoke enters her!!! So there she is in the black void. Welcoming it. Shit fuck shit.

Poor blissful Tae Han. No idea she escaped. Getting batteries, confirmed. However, while he was doing so, he heard a loud BANG so he immediately goes to follow, leaving his walkie behind because well WHO THE FUCK IS AROUND TO TAKE IT HUH!

Lee Soo Hyun indeed.

Sergeant Park is still tied up in another room when in walks in Sunnyeo and her goons. They somehow know that he was packing. Not a gun but the Master Key. This was the proof she needed to confirm that he killed Snake Eyes. More casual manipulation that nobody would believe him. Would Tae Han after knowing that fact that he framed him? Sunnyeo announces that he will be the next sacrifice.

Upon walking back to the front, one of her follows asks what happens next. All she says is to wait until He speaks again.

The christian lady looks like she might have an idea and once those two pass her up, she tip toes away.

Hwa Sun reaches Jingam Mart and once inside, she spots the same blood puddles as Tae Han once did and follows that darn trail with her handy gun and flashlight in tow. She makes her way into the back of the warehouse and spots the dead murderer and to her horror she sees the empty handcuffs where Lee Soo Hyun was supposed to be at. Right when she was about to ping Tae Han on the walkie, she speaks up first.She says to meet her on the rooftop because it's a cool cliche.

Where is Tae Han? You are probably wondering, While he was prowling the hallways searching for those mystery metal clanking, he hears wails. Spotting outside, is a woman running with a mutant tailing close behind her.

Choi and the group spot them too. One of the students recognizes as her music teacher so Choi tells them to stay put as he goes to help her. The teacher lady is able to get inside a car and right in the nick of time it's actually Tae Han who gets there first and pummels the mutant with the ax. 

Hwa Sun reaches the rooftop parking lot and holy shit. She wastes no time in taunting her about her dead husband. She continues to laugh and cackle all unhinged and shit while Hwa Sun's gun is still pointed at her.

Choi and the group reach the supermarket with Tae Han and the teacher closeby. Once everyone is inside, they barricade the front sliding door. Choi and Tae Han get properly acquainted for the first time as he probbaly recognizes his voice on the walkie. Do Yoon perks up and begs him to help Hwa Sun  as she doesn't want anything to happen to her.

Speaking of which, Hwa Sun and mutant Lee So Hyun get in a really bad scuffle. Both are dodging between cars until Lee Soo Hyun gets the upper hand and with her mutant strength is able to choke her with one hand and lift up her whole body as she is asking her if she knows why she killed her husband, Sung Beom? Well, that was the only was she would be scared of her. 

Her eyes begin to water as she says he was the love her life. As she says it her eyes also begin to blacken as if that anger was refilled yet again. With that energy she is able to break free of her grip and chucks her aside.

In a split second now both are seen in the black void. Lee Soo Hyun laughs as she realizes that she was also a mutant, or at least en route to become one anyway. She tries with all her might to feed more of that anger and instigates more anger when she mocks her husbands last words. This sends her in a full rage and overpowers to and now she is the one to choke her on the ground this time. 

Lee Soo Hyun is egging it all on practically begging to be killedso that she can go dark side. She reveals that she hated being patronized by Hwa Sun. 

Right when things were coming to a head the hallucination of Sung Beom appears before her and says she was doing so well up until this point. Hwa Sun gets a series of flashbacks of previous incarnations such as when he prevented her from almost blowing the head off of Tae Han on their first encounter and then in the tunnel just before the black out happened when he told her to not go any deeper. Those were all warnings to her to keep her from turning into a mutant. But here she is now. In the black hole.

"It's unlike you."

She continues to have flashbacks with Do Yoon on one of their last interactions in the beginning of this episode where she is begging for her not to change into a mutant. 

With that, Hwa Sun finally comes to her senses. Lets go of her anger and lets go of Lee Soo Hyun. The tentacle gots her now.

Flashback to the night of the murder of her husband.

I think this is when Hwa Sun meets Lee Soo Hyun fo rhte first time. This is at the crime scene where people are murdered and she is still on the ground still clenching bloodied scissors. She approaches the young girl with compassion and sweetness. With that, she actually lunges at her. With a hug.

This seems to warm her heart. 

The flashback continues as Sung Beom is telling his wife that he just can't fathom that she is a suspect of such atrocities because of how sweet this girl is. But little did Hwa Sun know that the so-called warming hug hid an evil smile. She knew just WTF she was intending to do again and again.

Outro: 🎵NIA "Save"🎵

Episode 8 is next.