Pluto EP 4 - May played dirty and Lost hard

When are we getting more episodes of Pluto? 😢 patiently waiting for

The first watch through, I was also conflicted on how I felt about May helping the driver get off on a lighter charge. I know she did it to be free of her dad and also to protect Oom from him, but it caused something else to happen to Ben besides leaving him permanently disabled. It also made it so that the driver didn't get the deserved punishment for what he did, he intentionally tried to run over Ben and would have been in jail longer if May didn't help reduce it to a DUI charge. I don't know how much you remember from the show as I am assuming you are pulling this from your vault. I also think that she is paying for what she has done by becoming blind and trying to advocate for better accommodations for the disabled. After rewatching this show 2-3 times, I was able to notice more about the plot and the details that completely flew over my head the first time.

The episode starts with May and Ai-oon preparing – as expected - for a joint ride on the motorcycle. Ai-oon explains that whenever she’s thinking too much she likes to take a ride and let the environment noises drown out her thoughts. May asks what gives her such misery, but Ai-oon doesn’t get into details; she’s also wondering if the outside noises can really silence the noises in her head. That, Ai-oon says, may must find out for herself. May is clearly enjoying the ride, they are driving through town with Ai-oon doing deliveries calling May her girlfriend when asked about her passenger. Then, she gets 1000 Korean Won as payment for a delivery (though Ai-oon may not know what that is worth exactly – about 17 US cents – she realizes she’s being scammed). May steps in and says she has recorded the conversation, so they can sue the customer for fraud, which causes the customer to give up their scam attempt and come up with actual money. Later the sit by the riverside eating ice cream; May says ice cream tastes better when you’re blind, but Ai-oon is still swooning about the cool move May pulled earlier. She doesn’t want May to sue the customer though, as she was recently deported after working illegally in Korea – but May hadn’t actually recorded anything. Ai-oon isn’t mad, she claims her heart was almost busting out of her chest when she realized May was protecting her, for May that was returning the favor as Ai-oon protected her previously. Then, Ai-Oon notices May’s ice cream is dripping onto her hand – and licks it off, claims to protect the hand. May jokes that’s more like stealing ice cream – and pays her back by stealing some ice cream of Ai-oon. The continue to share Ai-oon’s ice cream… …when May is startled by other motorcycle approaching. May thoughts flash back to a time when she cried for Ob-Oom’s help as someone was breaking the windshield of her car, and later trying to flee from the attacker, she is visibly startled as Ai-oon is trying to keep her secret, she tells the motorcyclist that she’s Ob-oom and her with he girlfriend. Ai-oon tele her the name of the unknown motorcyclist – Kosol – and mentions that he doesn’t know about May – because he’s her ex. This revelation changes May’s mood completely, she wants to return home. At home, she wants to rest and doesn’t invite Ai-oon inside, but she goes in anyway and later tells May that she wasn’t particularly popular within her family, a bad student, and generally not someone you could rely on. She only had her few friends and with Kosol it became more than that, they started dating. She’s wanted to know hoe it feels to love someone and to be loved. When May asked how it was, Ai-oon just remembers her encounters with May and recount how she felt with her: filled with something bigger that made her almost float. She compares Love to the air in a balloon – and May is worried that this balloon may one day float away for her. Ai-oon makes and important distinction: she has felt like that only when May loved her. May likes how Ai-oon tells her story, it’s like reading a novel. We then get a flashback to a younger May drowning out the noises of a fight between her parents by reading a novel. Ai-oon announces that she is going to write a novel, and May asks if she will do that while working as a flight attendant, and Ai-oon confesses that she is not a flight attendant anymore (well, she never was one…) but just another jobless person. She says she did some writing in high school and recently thought about starting again, asking for her support. May kisses her, but Ai-oon wanted a hear a bedtime story to inspire her. May begins to recount a story about a city of stars we fade away to the Bhumibol Bridge, a 700 meter long bride the crosses the Chao Praya river twice and in-between crosses another major road at 50m elevation. Later, Ai-oon meets Pang and Kosol. Pang has filled him in about the charade Ai-oon is doing with May, and Kosol asks Ai-oon if she has quit smoking because of the promise she made to Ben. We flash back to a scene where Ben, Kosol, Pang and Ai-oon we riding bikes of the street only to get followed by an unknown person in a car, first driving Pang and Ai-oon of the road, then hitting Ben. Pang says afterwards they went on with their lives – but not Ben, says Kosol, who suffered in that accident, becoming disabled, who is still bedridden, but he’s more upbeat now – and wanting to see both Ai-oon and Pang. Ai-oon says she’s been busy lately – with her sister’s girlfriend, Pang remarks – and Kosol wants to know if she feels something when they are kissing – and Ai-oon can’t lie as her face tells them everything. She say she doesn’t know why she feels that way – maybe it’s because it’s a woman for that first time. Kosol tells her to sort her feelings out before Ob-oom wakes up, and Pang remarks that she shouldn’t forget that May believes she is kissing Ob-oom, not Ai-oon. The next day, grandma is opening her shop – and Ai-oon is apparently in a hurry, at first forgetting the stuff she is supposed to drop off at the shrine. Meanwhile Pang is in bed getting eaten out by Phim, but she’s not in the mood. Phim want to lift her spirits by bringing her breakfast, so she leaves for the shop. Ai-oon arrives in the meantime, wanting to hide. Phim meets Jan at the breakfast place, who quickly surmises, that Phim is dealing with woes in her relationship with someone, as she’s currently far away for her home or place of work, bought two portions, but came alone to the shop. Phim is impressed, saying she must give her a try as a fortune-teller and this time she takes Jan’s card. Meanwhile, Ai-oon tells Pang that she has written a novel, as May mentioned she likes those. We get a flashback a high school of Pang suggesting that Ai-oon should write a novel. Ai-oon wants Pang to read it – but Pang refuses. The reason becomes clear right thereafter: She wonder why – if Ai-oon is into girls now – she couldn’t be into her. Ai-oon asks her is she still feels this way, and Pang can only reply back “You knew?!?” Ai-oon confesses that she notice a change in her behavior when she was dating Kosol. Pang admits that she wasn’t okay with that either – but at least Kosol was a guy, so she had no chance. But know, she’s wondering why it can’t be her, admitting she has always had feelings for her. Ai-oon tells her this has nothing to do with her liking men or women, but only with the fact that she doesn’t feel that way about her, and reminds her that she has a girlfriend – Phim. She adds that May should be the first one to read her story, then she leaves Pang in tears alone. Outside, we see Phim sitting and the stairs; she apparently has a camera inside Pang flat and has followed the whole conversation. Ai-oon wants to go to May – but she has a council meeting, or has she because she’s talking to someone who shall help her with finding out if Kosol is indeed the attacker that turned her blind. We get a flashback to 2023 when May was defending a guy who apparently tried to run over another person – it’s that guy that we way hitting Ben’s motorcycle earlier in a flashback. She manages to get the offense for him down from attempted murder to driving under the influence. A text later reveals that she did it so she could be with her girlfriend in peace. Later we see her at home dining with her parents when her father tell her that he’ll stop interfering with her and her girlfriend as long as doesn’t make it obvious. She gives him the 10.000 Baht (almost USB 300) cheque she got from that client to pay for her freedom – in addition to what she did for that client, or course. She leaves saying she just wants to love somebody, she drives away while leaving a message for Ob-oom to call her back immediately. She stop on the way to wherever she’s going because she has a flat tire – someone has sabotaged her car. Then, a motorcycle appears causing May to lock herself into her car. They we get the scene from earlier: May is calling Ob-oom again asking for help, as the unknown motorcyclist smashes in her windshield. And we’re back in the here and now where May mentions that wrongdoers must be punished. The next day, Ai-oon is driving to May, carrying a rose – but Ton is also there and he brought along May’s first girlfriend. That is the perfect way to end this episode. ____ I found this episode to be way better that the last one, because so much stuff was happening, and we got a few glimpses into May’s earlier life, and (presumably) the attack that caused the blindness. Plus, we got to see a little bit more about Ai-oon’s past life which has a possible connection to May’s blindness in more ways than one. And the Phim-Pang-Jen love triangle developed further, plus Pang’s feelings for Ai-oon were revealed. I think that the Methee that was texting May was actually her dad wanting to get the drunk driver off with a lighter sentence, something which May only did very reluctantly . The show made it actually look like a was in fact Kosol (Ai’s ex) who assaulted her, perhaps as revenge for Ben, as the drunk driver got off lightly. And May wants to bring him to justice if he’s the assaulter . Ob-oom just became available again as May was sitting in the car, that’s (and she was her emergency contact) why she called her for help.