![]() ![]() It’s sad, it’s lovely, and it might have wrecked me a few weeks ago, but at this point I think I’ve given Tomorrow all the tears I have to spare. He’s not only the one that’s able to comfort his mother in her grief and guilt, but later, he even breaks protocol and briefly gives her her memories back, so that the two of them can find closure. In the end, Ryong-koo is able to fulfill his heart’s desire. They have to enter her dreams to figure it out… and guess who has recently left the Risk Management team for the Sales Team, who regularly go into people’s dreams to conduct reaper business? Ryong-koo. Interestingly, her levels go into the green zone when she’s sleeping, and Ryeon and Jun-woong quickly piece together that something’s happening in her dreams that is giving her peace. Sure enough, the next alarm to pop up on the Red Light app is for Yu-hwa, and the show just has no mercy, as usual, showing us the anguish she’s in. The baby dies during childbirth, and it sends poor Yu-hwa into a very understandable tailspin. ![]() At first, she seems happy, and both Jun-woong and Ryong-koo watch her going along with her husband, about to birth their first child.īut yeah, this is Tomorrow, and sure enough, sad things are coming. ![]() It’s to this reincarnation of Yu-hwa that we turn in Episode 12. And, as we saw last week, he’s finally found her. And that, my friends, is why he’s been clocking off on the hour for a good hundred years: he’s been looking for his mother. ![]() He knows it’s his only chance to locate his mother again now that their fates are no longer bound - he also knows that the pain of her past life might be in her next life, and he vows to protect her this time, instead of blame her like he did in the past. In the afterlife, rather than be reborn, Ryong-koo chooses to stay with Ryeon and work as a reaper. It’s what happened to Ryong-koo and his mother, and – as we might suspect - Ryeon and her beloved, as well. The point, though, is that of the fate between mothers and their children, and we visit this point the same way we visited it a few episodes ago: suicides must be stopped at all costs because they break the red thread of fate. Then, he falls prey to the lure of the opium den that he’s been working as a guard of sorts for, and his life ends in a drug-induced haze. It’s not until years later that he learns the truth about his mother’s past, and - convenient for the plot though it is – he finds the horrible men responsible, and promptly slaughters them. She winds up killing herself, and Ryong-koo lives in his anger. The mother is “taught a lesson” by the three henchmen of the governor (omg, Show, please stop with these storylines!), but is even more broken by her son’s horror over her past. It’s a heartbreaking end for this adoring mother and son. Yu-hwa was raped by a disgusting governor, but later left the gisaeng house to raise her son.īut the past comes back to haunt her, and at the same time that the governor - so many years later - finally finds her, Ryong-koo learns about his mother’s “dirty” past from the neighbor boys. That scholar, though, was ruined and sold her to a gisaeng house… which is how little Ryong-koo came into being. Turns out she’s actually the daughter of a scholar. Ryong-koo’s mother, LIM YU-HWA ( Min Ji-ah), might seem like a peasant, but she’s quite well-educated and teaches her son to read and write. Little Ryong-koo is smart and hungry to learn, but he’s bullied by the other boys around. Ryong-koo’s most recent life was in the Joseon era, and we see him as a young boy, raised by a poor but loving mother. Their connection makes even more sense now, as does Ryeon’s understanding of Ryong-koo’s need to clock off on time. Ryeon confirms that Ryong-koo not only killed four people in his past life, but that she was the reaper (in the Crime Unit at that time) that collected his soul. In his own words he “badgers” Ryeon until she tells him Ryong-koo’s story, and we take an episode-long dive into the past. Ryong-koo’s facing disciplinary action for going into vigilante mode during their last case, and it leads to rumors about his past reaching the ears of our teddy bear Jun-woong. Nor has his ugly haircut done him any favors, but I digress. Yahoo, it’s time for Yoon Ji-on’s moment in the spotlight, and I’m glad for it, since the drama hasn’t really given him a ton of story up to this point. It’s as heartbreaking as the rest of the side stories Tomorrow has offered, but it’s also filled with hope… and more clues as to what happened in our team leader’s past life. When the team’s next case hits close to home, we learn more about one of our reapers, and take a journey into his past. 19 Tomorrow: Episodes 11-12 by missvictrix ![]()
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