Safe Zone EP 4

We start the episode with a flashback to high school: Lin is sitting somewhere, having received a break-up message by someone called Whan. The rain starts, and Lin is getting wet, not moving. Then, Jane comes around getting an umbrella over her head, she asks why she sits in the rain risking to get sick, and Lin admits that Whan broke up with her. She consoles her and claims she still has her. Back in the now, Lin is talking through the door to Jane who is still upset about the “Pie situation” – and Lin isn’t getting through to her, even though she claims that there’s nothing but work going on. We get a different cut of the scene from last week, where we see that Pie noticed that Jane was approaching and faked an incident spilling water all over her and having her hand wet, needing Lin to reluctantly put some tissues onto her, resulting in the compromising situation that Jan witnessed. We see Pie at a bar over some drink hoping Lin and Jane will break up soon. Then, she meets a guy for an investment meeting; it is clear that the guy in mainly interested in her a not in investing, but she hold him off for now, wanting to talk business first. But the meeting turned somehow cause the next day, Pie is waking up in her bed alone, finding a note from the guy declining her offer to invest, but offering himself as a “drinking buddy”. Pie is angry. Lin is contemplating ringing at Jane’s door, but ultimately decides against it. We see Jane waking up still sitting on the floor, then cleaning up the floral arrangements she created the day before. Meanwhile, Lin buys two coffees from a café nearby and runs into her ex Whan, who is surprised to see her in Thailand. She notices that she’s got two coffees and asks her if Jane is with her, she denies it, but admits that she’s on her way to see her. Whan is sorry for never breaking up with her in person, then tells the story of how she broke up in the first place: Jane had caught her with someone else, and made her break up with Lin, arguing that she is not just an option and threatening her “business” of selling test answers. Lin returns to Jane’s place, two coffees in hand, and rings. Jane lets her in, but is still not willing to talk and just leaves for work. Jane’s employees notice Lin sitting in front of the restaurant soon thereafter; they tell Jane, she acknowledges it, but does nothing further. After a while she asks them what they would do in her place, but before they can answer she accidentally cuts herself with a knife, prompting Lin who just entered to care for her wound, not taking no for an answer. She puts a bandage on her and asks whether it happened because of her, but she doesn’t answer and instead tries to leave again. Lin asks her flat out if she doesn’t love her anymore and why she wouldn’t believe her. But Jane responds that Lin claims it was nothing, but what she saw wasn’t nothing, so what does she expect her to think? Lin claims it was just spilled water she cleaned from her shirt, and she swears it’s not what she thinks. Jane claims she needs time, and Lin will give her that, but won’t let her turn her back on her for something she never did. Lin proceeds to drink beers with her employees and ask her question again: can she really trust Lin, but their employees aren’t really helpful, the ask her the same question back: How much can she trust Lin, arguing that she knows her best, and should be able to judge if she’s faithful. And Jane admits that Linn would only love one person at a time. Jane goes looking for Lin, but she’s not waiting in front of the restaurant anymore, and she’s not home, either. But at night, she returns to Jane carrying a big bouquet of flowers, and giving it to her as she apologizes. Jane hugs her and claims she should be the one apologizing for not trusting her, admitting she should have asked her instead of assuming. Lin offers not to work with Pie anymore stating that Jane is her priority number one. But Jane doesn’t want to keep her from the job she loves, admitting she was starting a fight over nothing and apologizes for making her choose between her and work. Lin kisses her gently, and states that she know how much it hurts to be betrayed; and she would never, ever hurt her like that. She kisses her again, then claims that from now on, no matter what, she will always choose her, the most important thing in her life. They kiss some more, then start to undress each other as they slowly make it back to Lin’s room and bed. Afterwards, Lin tells Jane that she met Whan again, and she told her about Jane making her break up. Jane admits that when she they broke up she only pretended to be sad, but secretly was thrilled – yet didn’t dare to admit her feelings. Lin tells her not to held back anymore, if she doesn’t like something she should tell her. The next morning, Pie waits as Jane returns home; she wants to hire Jane for catering, but she isn’t interested at any price. Jane warns her not to pull a trick like with the water again. She wants Lin to talk her into catering, but she doesn’t know if she can change her mind. She doesn’t even want to, she admits later to Jane, but as they will continue to work together she’s trying to keep things civil with Pie. Jane is fine with that. Pie, meanwhile, is looking at her balance, which is all red; she’ll have to close down the company soon if she doesn’t find an investor. Then, her assistant comes in claiming she has found the photographer she’s been looking for. (Another photographer?) Meanwhile, Lin is taking photos of Jane working in the kitchen. Then, she wants to know why Lin’s mother love Kate so much. Lin claims that at first, her mother wasn’t okay with her dating a woman, but Kate won her over se that in the end, she love her more than Lin. At least, she wouldn’t have to go through what her mother experienced who she broke up with her father, she thought. (Well, how did that turn out?) Lin still remembers going after her father in vain as they broke up, and doesn’t understand why her mother want her to reconcile with Kate – but Jane claims she just doesn’t want her to struggle like she did. Lin maintains that if she has to become stupid to keep the relationship, then she will rather earn her own money and keep her pride. At night, Linn invites Jane to the photoshoot. Jane at first thinks it’s a trick to get her to cater the event, but Lin just wants her to be there so she sees that nothing shady is going on. Then, she offers to shower with Jane even though she already showered; they make out in the bathroom. At night, Lin sneaks out of their bed to secretly check for e-mails but none arrived. At the photoshoot, Pie gets notified that Lin has arrived – with Jane. Pie wants to talk to her in private – about work, she claims; and Lin goes with her. Pie wants to start an online magazine with her as a business partner, and Lin wants to think about that. Pie agrees and asks her to tell her soon. Lin tells Jane about the offer, which would keep her in Thailand, and Jane says if it were anyone else she wouldn’t mind. She wants to think about the offer, but that runs in front of a car as the episode ends. ___ I found the – obviously empty – coffee cups annoying.😉 That was an exciting end to a so-so episode that was dominated by Lin and Jane fighting again. Nothing much happened this week apart from the two of them eventually reconciling, with Pie still in the mix to stir up trouble. But we got glimpses of the love for Lin that Jane carried secretly for years, and the chemistry of Lena and Miu kept things from getting boring. But we are already halfway through the show – the next episode promises to stir up same drama, though.

Pie is another level of unhinged, for pouring water on herself and the shenanigans that she pulls later on as well. Speaking of P’Ling, did you see her Calvin Klein photos? My god I stopped functioning for a solid 10 minutes seeing those.