They Don't Kiss Until Episode 16

Han-Na and Mun are trying to prevent Mr. Ma from killing Park Seong-Uk and consuming his soul, but they fail. Mr. Ma makes one of those telekinetic blasts and throws Mun to one side of the abandoned, slightly demolished building they’re in and Han-Na to the other side; in doing so, Han-Na is impaled on a pipe.

Mr. Ma consumes the soul and is officially an evil spirit. Now Mun is on board. He was trying to save Mr. Ma from himself, but seeing the soul consumed, he realizes that Mr. Ma is not Mr. Ma anymore.

They fight. But despite all of Mun’s preparations and even offering training sessions to the team, Mun can’t seem to get the upper hand on Mr. Ma. Of course, from above, the Evil Duo are watching and waiting for the perfect time to strike. Gelly is proud that she modified Mr. Park’s memory to make it actually seem that he killed Min-Ji. Why is this important? Because somehow, Mr. Ma has the same powers as Han-Na. Thus, when he touched Seong-Uk, he saw the memory of the murder in Seong-Uk’s mind, justifying in his mind killing him.

Somewhere along the way, Mun gets the upper hand and sees that Pil-Gwang visited Mr. Ma in prison. The real Mr. Ma has come to the surface, and as Mun is beating the crap out of him, it seems Mr. Ma has resigned himself to whatever fate he has. Mun gets ready to exorcise Mr. Ma but stops, not because something stops him but because he simply senses Pil-Gwang. I would have kept going. Pil-Gwang would have had to rip me off, Mr. Ma.

Pil-Gwang taunts Mun, “Haha, I made your hero a zero,” type of thing, and they start fighting.

Han-Na is not doing well. She frees herself from the pole, but Gelly doesn’t care. Gelly is intent on getting revenge for her missing eye. Just when Gelly thinks she will win, Han-Na tells her it is Gelly who should worry because she is alone, unlike Han-Na. Just then, the rest of Eonni’s gang shows up, and Gelly realizes that Pil-Gwang has run away with Mr. Ma and, deciding Mr. Ma is more valuable, leaves Gelly behind without so much as a word. Realizing she can’t beat the entire gang alone, Gelly runs too.  

Pil-Gwang meets with the evil spirit inside Mr. Ma, who informs him that Mr. Ma is still resisting and needs to be further provoked. On the other side of the coin, Yung is finally meeting! They decide not to tell Mr. Ma that the man helping him enact his revenge is the murderer of his wife. If Mr. Ma confronts Pil-Gwang, it doesn’t matter who wins; one will consume the other and possibly become a complete evil spirit. These spirits apparently can absorb the Territory’s power, like Counters, and the territory that Mun summons can be used against him. 

Where is this coming from? Why does evil suddenly have access to the good side’s powers, huh?

Anyway, plot holes increase when Ms. Chu heals Han-Na from her mortal wound. In season one, we were alerted that Ms. Chu had to use her powers judiciously or die. Yet, she heals Han-Na from a mortal wound and, besides fatigue, is right as rain. She doesn’t even get a nosebleed.

Mo-Tak tells Mun next time he sees Mr. Ma, don’t hesitate; he is an evil spirit. Mun is like, but riddle me this, I’ve always thought my job was simple: save the world from evil, but if a good person, so morally sound as Mr. Ma, can become evil, then what is the whole point of all this. 

Touche, So Mun, touche.

Pil-Gwang has decided that the key to twisting Mr. Ma’s heart is to set Mr. Ma in further opposition to the Counters. He tells Mr. Ma that the CEO of the Baekdu company, Lee Chung-Jae,  the head of the housing scam, is alive and well (the news reported him dead) and the Counters knew about it all along. That is why they keep trying to stop Mr. Ma’s revenge. Pil-Gwang tells Mr. Ma to go and see for himself. 

Mo-Tak chastises his police for not investigating the housing scam properly, which could have avoided some of the chaos that is happening now.

Gelly is spiraling. She visits Wong in prison and realizes that without the evil spirit, he is a shell of his former self. Deciding that living that way is worse than death, she kills Wong.

Outside of the prison, Pil-Gwang confronts Gelly. He’s like, baby girl, why are you so angry? You know I need you; you know I wouldn’t abandon you. Gelly is like, “Absolutely not, sir, you are a lie. And she lets Pil-Gwang know that she knows he is only using her and he uses everybody. She even pulled her stabby brass knuckles on him, so you know she is done.

Eonni’s gang is finally doing some work. They investigate and see that the same gang that started the first housing scam is about to start another. They’ve also made the connection that Pil-Gwang will use Mr. Ma to kill the CEO of Baekdu because he has stolen, the stolen money from Pil-Gwang. 

The gang stops the second scam from happening and gets all those guys arrested except for one, Lim Jae-Youl, who was Ms. Chu’s first save. Eonni’s gang comes across Do-Hwi, Han-Na’s crush/first love from high school. The gang eats with Do-Hwi and gives their stamp of approval to Han-Na’s new relationship.

Ms. Chu decides she is going to try to steer Lim Jae-Youl back on the right track, but little does she know that Lee Chung-Jae (who is also the head of the gang) has put a hit on him, deciding that he must have led the police to them. Mot-Tak and Ms. Chu arrive at Jae-Youl’s apartment just in time to intercept the hit.

As the gang strategizes how to find Lee Chung-Jae to prevent Mr. Ma from becoming a stronger evil spirit, we learn that Lee Chung-Jae is a truly horrible person sans an evil spirit. And if it wasn’t for the whole complete evil spirit thing, you totally root for Mr. Ma to take him out. I mean, he spat in Min-Ji’s face. The woman is on her hands and knees, penniless because of you, and you can’t even give her a lie. Or have your ruffians move her to the side. You bend down, tell her it’s raining, and spit in her face?

We learn, before the Counter’s do, that Mr. Ma’s path of revenge includes anyone who enabled Lee Chung-Jae to do what he did.  Mr. Ma shows up at the medical examiner’s new office (an office he was able to get with the money that Lee Chung-Jae paid him to lie about his death) to see if Lee Chung-Jae is really alive. He does the read-your-mind thing, and turns out, yup, totally true. He blinds the man. The Counters show up in time not to fight Mr. Ma but to help the medical examiner.

On the way back home, the Counters are dejected. They realize that their hunch was right, Mr. Ma is going after Lee Chung-Jae and anyone in his path, and they don’t know what to do. 

Han-Na gets a text from her boo thing Do-Hwi. You first think, oh she is going to stand him up again, but no, she goes on the date with him in her black tracksuit. But you realize that she is breaking up with him. Han-Na gives Do-Hwi a pat on the shoulder and turns to walk away when she senses something is wrong. She turns around, and there is her favorite person, Gelly, holding Do-Hwi hostage with her spikey brass knuckles. 

She has been waiting to fight Han-Na alone ever since Han-Na told her she always has backup, unlike Gelly.

But, as has been the case all these episodes, Han-Na spends the first half of the fight getting her ass handed to her. She suddenly remembers I need to sense their movements; watching them is too slow. But when she closes her eyes, Do-Hwi wakes up and jumps in front of Gelly, thinking he will save Han-Na and Gelly, and instinctually stabs him in the back. Just when she is going to finish the job, in desperation, Han-Na uses telekinesis to push Gelly back. Now the fight really gets started, and the episode ends.

We finally see a little crime-solving and strategizing from the Counters, but at this point, I’m just watching the show to finish it, and it’s not the worst way to spend my Saturday and Sunday evenings. But this season lacks the depth and excitement that the first season had.  And it gets worse in episode 8.