Perfect Family – K-drama Episode 4 Recap & Review

Episode 4

Episode 4 of Perfect Family starts with Hyun-min asking Sun-hui to look inside the room in her house. When she goes inside the house, Eun-joo asks if everything is okay. Eun-joo does not tell Sun-hui anything about the man when she asks who he is. Sun-hui goes to her room and thinks about the comment made by Hyun-min.

Later that night, she tries to look inside the room Hyun-min had mentioned during their conversation but runs back to her room when her parents leave their room. The next day, Hyun-woo talks to Sun-hui about Kyeong-ho’s death and their bond as friends. He states that he is here for her, stating that he is aware that Sun-hui is hiding something from him.

Sun-hui and Hyun-woo take a half-day off from school and rush to her house. Sun-hui calls Eun-joo and learns that her mother is at the supermarket. Taking advantage of the fact that her mother won’t be home for a while, she tries to break into the room on the first floor. Sun-hui goes through her parents’ room and Jin-hyeok’s study table to look for a key to the room.

A flashback from Sun-hui’s childhood shows Jin-hyeok warning her about entering the room. Sun-hui musters up the courage and tries to open the lock but fails. She eventually asks Hyun-woo to help her climb into the room from the window using a ladder. Sun-hui tries to unlock the window from outside the house but Jin-hyeok shows up there.

Hyun-woo distracts Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo as Sun-hui finally makes it inside the room. When Sun-hui enters the room, she is shocked to see that it looks like the bedroom of a male child. Sun-hui picks up a photo frame from inside the room.

At the same time, Hyun-woo fails to distract Sun-hui’s parents and they rush inside the house looking for Sun-hui. Eun-joo tells Jin-hyeok that Sun-hui is not in her room. Jin-hyeok takes the key to the upstairs bedroom out of his pocket and is about to unlock it when Sun-hui leaves the shower in her bathrobe. She tells her parents that she is in the shower and goes to her room.

Eun-joo checks the bathroom to confirm if Sun-hui had a shower and gets suspicious when she finds the dustbin clean. Sun-hui goes to her room and looks at the photo frame she collected from the locked room.

That night, Sun-hui talks to Eun-joo about her adoption and wonders why they picked a female child instead of adopting a boy. Sun-hui blames herself for Eun-joo and Jin-hyeok losing contact with their extended family. Eun-joo yells at Sun-hui, asking her to stop talking like that.

That night, Eun-joo tells Jin-hyeok about her conversation with Sun-hui. Jin-hyeok suggests that they move their plan forward. The next day, Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that she is going to visit someone after school. Hyun-woo follows after her and the two arrive at an old house.

The steward learns Sun-hui’s name and allows the kids to enter. He calls out the master of the house – an elderly wheelchair-bound woman. Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that the woman is her grandmother. Sun-hui tries to talk to her grandmother but is met with an angry response.

When Sun-hui shows the photo frame to her, it consists of a family photo with Jin-hyeok, Eun-joo, her grandmother and a teen boy. Sun-hui starts asking questions about the boy in the picture which causes the grandmother to become upset. She kicks Sun-hui out of the house and throws a glass vase down injuring her.

Hyun-woo takes Sun-hui out and helps tend to Sun-hui’s wound. He also tries to reassure her and tells her how he feels about the fact that Sun-hui is hiding something about Kyeong-ho’s death from him. He reassures Sun-hui and calls her a close friend whom he cares about. He drops Sun-hui home.

That night, Sun-hui writes in her journal how Hyun-woo is the only person she can trust. We see a flashback from when Sun-hui was in middle school and his parents gave her a new journal for her birthday.

A few days later, when Sun-hui returns from school after having a bad day, Jin-hyeok goes through Sun-hui’s journal and reads all about the girl that is bullying her. One day, Sun-hui learns rumours about the girl who bullied her.

One of Sun-hui’s friends claimed that the bully had died. The episode returns to the present day as Sun-hui leaves home to meet Hyun-woo. Her parents grow suspicious and Jin-hyeok goes to Sun-hui’s room.

In the internet browser history, he finds that Sun-hui has been looking for information on adoption certificates and death certificates. He also finds a journal entry wherein Sun-hui states that Hyun-woo is the only person she can trust. Near her house, Sun-hui tells Hyun-woo that she needs to go somewhere by herself.

Hyun-woo tries to help her out and the two chat. At the same time, the cops keep an eye on Sun-hui. Eventually, Sun-hui musters up the courage and tells Hyun-woo the truth about the accident that killed Kyeong-ho. Hyun-woo wonders why Sun-hui did not report Soo-yeon to the cops for killing Kyeong-ho.

Sun-hui holds off on revealing her parents’ possible involvement in the fire that killed Kyeong-ho’s family. Sun-hui refuses to talk to Hyun-woo about it. However, the next day, Sun-hui gets a text from an unknown number. The person claims to be Soo-yeon and asks Sun-hui to come outside the school to meet her. Sun-hui runs outside but finds no one there.

An epilogue shows Sun-hui’s grandmother looking at the photo frame. The steward claims that he has never seen her this upset in the past 25 years of working for her. Grandmother shares an incident in which she found her son being bullied by his classmates.

She tells the steward how she got so busy with expanding her business that she never cared for her son. The episode ends with the steward being shocked after learning such an intimate detail about his master.

The Episode Review

As the show progresses, the questions continue. What is happening between the parents and Sun-hui is unexplainable as of now. From what we know so far, one can assume that Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo had a son who may or may not have died. It is also possible that Hyun-min is Sun-hui’s birth father who is here to take her back with her.

I am worried that now as they assume that Sun-hui could tell Hyun-woo her  “secret”, Jin-hyeok and Eun-joo would try to eliminate him just like they tried with Soo-yeon. Moreover, Soo-yeon is alive and possibly back to torture Sun-hui.  I am excited to watch the upcoming episode as this show opens a new can of worms every week.