The Frog – K-drama Episode 4 Recap & Review

I Think She Killed A Child

Episode 4 of The Frog picks up further in the past with Sang-jun excitedly showing Eun-gyeong and Gi-ho around the Motel before they buy the place. All of this harks back to his wife’s suicide note, where she writes about how she just needs to be at peace, and this is her way out. She leaves a message for Gi-ho within this too, telling him that she loves him very much.

Sang-jun shows up at the prison and speaks to Hyang-cheol. He wants to know why he deserves to go through hell since he showed up. Hyang-cheol throws it back on Sang-jun, asking what he was doing out on the bridge that night. He thanks Bo-min for helping him out and seeing the killer one more time, before leaving.

Now, it seems Bo-min has her own agenda here as she finds herself fascinated and a little excited about diving into dangerous murder cases. This is where she gets the nickname “It”, with the captain here likening it to a dangerous game of tag as she finds all of this a big adrenaline rush, although she doesn’t reveal as much to her captain who questions her over this.

Back in the present, Yeong-ha shows up to see his daughter, Ui-seon, in Seoul, believing her life is in danger. Sung-a is still sniffing around the area, but Yeong-ha loses her while chasing the woman in the street. He also visits Yong-chae too, but keeps it quiet that he thinks Sung-a killed Si-hyeon.

When she gave the reservation a year back, she did so under the name of Si-hyeon and the number given was out of service too. Yeong-ha is a man possessed when he returns to the Motel, and remains fixated on figuring out what secrets she may be keeping. However, it soon becomes apparent that whatever she is hiding, is on her laptop.

However, Yeong-ha isn’t exactly stealthy and he takes the laptop to a computer repair shop, trying to break in. The repairer reveals that the only way to do that is going to be reformatting it, which includes deleting everything on it, which is less than ideal.

On his way back, Yeong-ha notices some white trucks approaching on the road. They don’t hit him, thankfully, but they do drop off numerous plants in the motel, which Yeong-ha notices when he returns. There are a whole bunch of art portraits out in the pool too, completely ripped up.

Yeong-ha is a man possessed, and next looks in Sung-a’s car, where he finds medicine from the local pharmacy. In all of this, he eventually confronts Sung-a after finding out that she’s called removal men to get rid of his furniture. He’s pissed and rushes over to Sung-a in the pool, pulling her under and choking her.

Sung-a survives though, thankfully, but her cool facade is definitely starting to slip. She’s obsessed with art, and while Yeong-ha investigates her, he eventually confronts her that night at dinner.

The dashcam footage he saw was of her leaving alone, and he found bloodstains while cleaning up her room. The rest – the towels missing and the shower stinking of bleach – we already knew about. So all he’s really got is a bunch of half-truths and Sung-a calls him out for this.

Sung-a scoffs at his “smoking gun” and is confident that his word isn’t going to hold water. She knows that he didn’t go the the police and on to of that, he could be tried as an accomplice, keeping all of this a secret for a year (and we still don’t know why).

No, Sung-a decides she’s going to keep doing what she’s doing and he’s going to allow it, but keeping his distance from her. The dinner ends with Yeong-ha leaving, but it’s clear this conflict is far from over. This is especially true as Yeong-ha has recorded the entire conversation and even has her laptop too.

Yeong-ha shows up at the station but he deliberates over the recording, especially as he too could get incriminated for this. When he turns the car around, Sung-a floors it and smashes right into Yeong-ha.

The Episode Review

This game between Sung-a and Yeong-ha is starting to get interesting now and it’s clear that Sung-a has a serious grudge against Yeong-ha for some reason. Quite how all of this ties together remains a mystery but it’ll be intriguing to see how the puzzle pieces slot together.

The mystery of Si-hyeon remains prevalent here, and this also ties back into Bo-min too, who clearly suspects that something is up and has a knack for solving cases. Her nickname reveal s a nice inclusion here, as is the reveal surround the name of “The Frog” and what significance this has.

Either way, everything is set up nicely for the next episode, and as we move into the second half of this show, hopefully we begin to get more answers to these mysteries.