The Frog – K-drama Episode 2 Recap & Review

Who Will Come Knocking At The Door Of My Destiny?

Episode 2 of The Frog picks up with Si-hyeon heading out in the rain. He heads over to play with the toy dog, but there’s something up with Sung-a. She’s entranced and although she looks after her son, she seems disturbed, like there’s something not quite right.

Remember the bloodied vinyl? We cut right after dinner to see a blood-spattered Sung-a put the Bobby Bland record on and head outside. Did she kill Si-hyeon? There are a lot of question marks right now but could these questions be answered through Bo-min? She’s in the middle of a case and she runs into Yeong-ha, who’s shocked and still has blood on his fingers. Yeong-ha thinks about telling her about the blood and Sung-a but thinks better of it, for some reason. Instead, he heads over to see Yong-chae but he keeps all of this a secret and even stuffs the tissue Bo-min gave in his pocket.

Bo-min is the new police captain in town, and is quite the character. She has a nickname called “It” and she’s incredibly skilled at her job. She’s resolved numerous murders in the past, but it seems like we’re going to be seeing how this ties in with the 2001 Motel Serial Killer case in due time.

In our 2001 timeline, the dead body is taken away but a rookie Bo-min spies Eun-gyeong and notices her collapse in shock outside. Understandably, Sang-jun is also shocked but he’s also wracked with guilt. He gave the guy his best room and also helped him out too in the rain with directions. It doesn’t take long for the serial killer, Hyang-cheol, to be captured and arrested. Sang-jun races up to get a glimpse. He notices Hyang-cheol heading to the vacation rental, mostly to re-enact what he did with the body using a mannequin, flanked by police.

Back in the present, Yeong-ha notices things aren’t what they seem when he starts cleaning Sung-a’s room. The place stinks of bleach and it appears there’s a new toilet brush too. It’s clear that she washed absolutely everything before leaving without a trace.

Yeong-ha decides to find the dashcam footage from Yong-chae’s car and what he sees is rather shocking. We only see Yeong-ha’s face though, which is absolutely agonizing. Whatever this is, isn’t good news. Yeong-ha decides to carry on like normal, burying any suspicions and putting it behind him. However, when he collects up some towels to take to the laundrette, he realizes he’s missing a couple. These happen to be up on the balcony outside Sung-a’s room. When he collects them up, Bo-min shows at the vacation rental.

Yeong-ha contemplates whether to say anything to her, but he decides not to. Bo-min is a good detective and does notice that he’s out of it, and wonders if he may be hiding something. She doesn’t pry further and when she leaves, Yeong-ha burns the towels and cleans up the vinyl, proceeding to lock the door to the basement again.

Yeong-ha continues to work but drifts off, clinging to blind hope. The extent of his psyche is still unknown right now, but it could well be linked back to the 2001 timeline.

In the past, Eun-gyeong receives a prank call as it becomes apparent that the Lake View has a bad reputation. It’s being called the “Murder Motel” by many. Business is not doing well and after half a year of struggling, Sang-jun broaches the idea to Eun-gyeong about selling the place. She’s barely covering her expenses and helping pay for Gi-ho’s tuition and this is the last straw for her. She’s not happy and eventually walks away, despite Sang-jun trying to explain himself.

With Eun-gyeong gone, Sang-jun breaks down, smashing the place up and eventually heading into the murder room and cleaning furiously. Jong-du arrives to try and help his friend and eventually holds the guy as he screams and breaks down, crying and letting his grief out.

We then hard cut to the station where Sang-jun does, in fact, shut the motel down. We cleverly see through a newspaper clipping that Bo-min has in her possession that it has been a year since the murder. However, Bo-min remains fixed on the vacation rental, and even keeps a picture of it on her desk. The same picture at the top of her box in episode 1.

While Sang-jun works as a logger, Eun-gyeong works at a restaurant but the motel incident follows her everywhere. Gi-ho, her son, works hard but he’s also being bullied by other students, who force him to do their bidding which involves collecting up a bunch of alcohol.

In the present, Yeong-ha prepares to welcome his daughter up at the Vacation Rental. A red car crosses paths with Bo-min en-route, and as the driver arrives at the Rental place, we see that this is none other than Sung-a!

The Episode Review

This thriller continues to twist and turn now and it’ll be interesting to see what connection the 2001 and the present case have with one another. As always, any theories here are done in the moment, and not with further knowledge of the series, but it could well be that Sang-jun and Yeong-ha are related, or that Yeong-ha is actually Gi-ho all grown up, just going by different names.

What did Yeong-ha see on the monitor too? Could it be that something happened to Si-hyeon and Yeong-ha had a hand in covering it up? Why is he reluctant to tell the police anything?

The case is just starting to get interesting now so we’ll have to wait and see where this one goes next.