Elements: The Earth - EP 3 - Uncut Gems

Also I think the keep mentioning it’s a fake marriage to convince themselves the don’t actually have feelings. Rose wouldn’t say yes in her own words if she didn’t and din wouldn’t be so excited and happy if she didn’t

Hey great reaction. I know what you mean. if the law works the same everywhere when it comes to marriage rose would probably be in even more danger because if they take out din dins property and everything will go to rose. Also love the cousins also glad they are just using the nicknames. When I came to rose din nam lom and fai i can only pronounce nam and loms actually names

The episode starts with a repeat of last week’s ending, after the motorcyclist fires once, and Rose tries to hit them with the car. But they swerve and then shoot her tires. Finally, Rose exits the car and the cyclists take aim again… … but is shot by another cyclist who quickly approaches, which turn out to be Din’s cousin Lom (played of course by Freen) accompanied be several fellow police men who take the attackers into custody. A Flashback reveals this all to be Din plan from an earlier conversation with Lom, where she proposed to trap the bad guys into openly attacking her. Kaew also greets Lom and is startled by Din’s plan, and apologizes to her for not telling her earlier. At night, Din returns to Rose who is worried about her, and wanted to make sure that she returned from Chiang Mai safely. Then, Lom comes in and greets Rose as well, having hears much of he because Din talks about her a lot – and then Din shuts her up with a hand over her mouth, explaining that she’s a cop helping her with Thip’s case. Rose then excuses herself to let the cousins talk. Did asks her what is wrong with her, but Lom just claims that Rose is pretty so she complimented her. But she’s not your friend, Din claims to which Lom apologizes for forgetting that she’s Din’s girl. Lom asks her if she’s going to tell her what happened that day, but Din doesn’t want to scare her. Lom sarcastically comments that this is very caring of her. 😊Later, Lom talks to her colleagues of the phone, and the shooter had to be let go on bail, cause they refused to tell the who sent them and claimed to be sideswiped by Din’s car, so they went after her to pay for it. So they have powerful support, and Lom suspects that the superintendent is with them, so with Din cautions her to watch her mouth, lest she will be transferred far away again. But Lom doesn’t care, and asks Din what to do now. Din believes to have to find a way to take Wasu and Wasupol down completely, like Thip tried to do. Lom can’t let her take a risk like that, but Din thinks she got an ace up her sleeve… …and contacts journalist Fah (played by Mew who was Dr. Bow in “Poisonous Love”). She’s already working of the case after she received tips on their page that girl have gone missing lately. They found indications that it’s human trafficking but haven’t got enough information yet no implicate the top bosses. They agree to share information and prompt Lom to investigate further. Did thinks Wasupol is aa complete bastard, and if he gets his hand on Chomchan farm, we would probably be invincible. Lom suspects he’d do anything to acquire that land, did thinks she has to get Wasu to change his target to get Rose out of the firing line. But Lom thinks that’s easy: if he wants to marry Rose to get her land, don’t let him marry her – by marrying her herself, if Rose agrees. Make Wasu think the farm passes to Din, and Rose is out of the way, and Wasu will probably go crazy. But Din fears she won’t agree, yet it’s the only way to keep her safe, Lom argues. The next day Did joins Rose to visit Thip again, and Din tries to get something of an approval from the unconscious man when Rose gets called to his doctors. The doctors tell Rose that her father might be in this condition for a while longer, and Din takes Rose home to her farm, to collect some of the Roses from her mother’s garden. Did helps her with cutting a rose, then suddenly goes down on one knee and asks her for her hand in marriage like when they played “prince and princess” as kids. Rose is completely shocked and doesn’t reply but flees the scene. (That went about as well as could be expected. 😊) Lom is ignored by Rose as she returns, then Did looks defeated. Lon asks if Rose’s father’s condition has worsened, but it’s Din who is in trouble – because Rose reacted badly to her proposal. Lom thinks she did it the wrong way around, causing her to be shocked by a sudden proposal instead of explaining her plan first and telling her that the marriage is supposed to help Rose. But Did doesn’t ever dare reporting her of the events the day before for fear she would say no to that plan. But Lom asks her why she would agree to this without explanation, she probably thinks Din has gone nuts by now. Lom asks to give her some time to calm down – time which she should use to come up with a reason why Rose should agree to marry her. At this point Lom ends the conversation exasperated. Rose smiles at the rose that Din gave her with the proposal and thinks back to her childhood playing prince & princess with her, then remembers that she was proposed to and drops the Rose embarrassed. Meanwhile, Din is thinking about the “proposal from hell”. The next morning, Din sneaks around in her own house, careful not to meet Rose. Lom teases her that she’s clearly avoiding Rose than pretends that she appeared behind her, causing Din to abruptly flee the scene and Lom to chuckle. Later, Rose leaves her room careful not to encounter Din. But Mod Daeng appears behind her and she takes her aside to tell her what happened the day before, that Din proposed to her. She expects her to be as stunned as she was, but this couldn’t be further from the truth, because Mod Daeng is elated that she proposed only a few days after they reconnected. She recounts the episode where she protected Rose mostly from Wasu, and claims she would say “Yes!” to that proposal at once. They’re not lovers, Rose argues, but Mod Daeng thinks that will come soon after marriage. And she argues that whoever gets a chance to be close to Din will surely fall for her. But Rose as adamant she will not marry her, and rejects her prodding. Rose asks the house keeper where Din is, and she has gone to the office which is ten minutes from home. Rose intend to walk there but Mod Daeng accompanies her carrying an umbrella for the sun, they reach the office but only meet head worker Kla there knowing her because Din told him about her, but she isn’t there because she has gone to the city centre with his daughter and her assistant Kaew. Did asks Mod Daeng about Kaew and she claims they are close but only friends and asks if Rose is jealous. But Rose is just curious she claims – if they are that close why didn’t Din propose to Kaew instead of her. (definitely not jealous…) Back at the house, she meets Lom again, who wonders why she returned alone, but Rose hasn’t met Din all day. Is it because of the proposal, she asks directly. Rose wonders how she knows about it, and Lom confesses that it was actually her idea; she told her to do that because it would keep her safe from Wasupol’s harm, by marrying her everyone would think Din now owns everything, and Wasupol will lose his excuse to marry her to his son. So, Did proposed to her because of than plan, Rose asks, and Lom confirms it, arguing that her cousin is just bad at communicating. Lom asks whether that has convinced her to accepts to proposal but for Rose marriage must come after love not the other way around. But she argues it’s just a fake marriage, and waiting for love might make it too late. Rose doesn’t want Din to sacrifice that much for her, but Lom argues that Din chose to do so freely. Rose promises to think about it, and they end the conversation. It’s late at night, and Din has not yet returned. Mod Daeng is close to sleeping and Rose orders her to go to her room, she will wait for Din. Rose pleads with photo of her dad on her phone to wake up soon, because she is co confused right now. Shortly before midnight, Din returns with Kaew, and Kaew (correctly) thinks Rose still waits for her because there light in her house, but Din doesn’t think so. She asks Kaew about her wounds from the drive with the motorcyclist but she’s getting better – just as Rose arrives on scene. Din introduces Kew to Rose and vice versa, and Rose accuses Din of overworking her, but Kaew thinks it’s no a big thing, she is used to flexible working hours. Then Din asks why Rose is still awake, and she wanted to continue their talk from earlier. Kaew tires to excuse herself but Rose says she’s welcome to stay, then says it’s about her marriage proposal – cause she has an answer: she will marry her as soon as possible. Now, it’s Din’s turn to be shocked. Even later, Din wakes Lom up to tell her she’s getting married, but midnight is too late for her to react sensibly to that. Din wants to give Rose a respectful ceremony and Lom tells her she will congratulate her the next morning – and goes back to sleep. Rose is also crying out loud at her own audacity. The next day Rose and Din run into each other in the kitchen, and they awkwardly talk about getting up early, then talk about the previous night. Din goes first, and asks her if she was serious, Rose confirms it. Rose tells her not to be so serious, but Din argues that although it’s a fake marriage, the plan will only work if everyone believes it’s real. So, they must keep the fakeness a secret to everyone apart from her cousins. Neither Mod Daeng not Kaew should know it’s a fake marriage, they agree. Her cousins will welcome her into the Watinwanich family so she will not face this problem alone, everyone will help protect her. Din and Rose promise each other to always let the other know where they are going. Din promises to do her best to make the wedding look as real as possible, and they must sign a marriage certificate to make it legal, so that Wasu and Wasupol will believe them. But she will sign a contract not to touch her belongings or assets, and if she wants to divorce her she can do so anytime. Rose agrees that the marriage must look legit both by law and in practice – Din asks her if she knows what in practice really means and Rose admits she does. Finally, if she meets someone she loves she will let her go, and Rose promises the same for her and they seal this deal with a handshake. Did wants Lom to plan the wedding, but Lom is not a wedding planner. Din tells her that she is the most experienced of the sibling, which Lom takes as an insult because she hasn’t found anyone to marry yet (but you will in “The Air” 😊) and proposes to ask Nam instead, she may be not as experienced as Lom, but she manages a hotel that has hosted many marriages. When Din calls Nam (played by Engfah, of course) she already knows about the wedding because Lom told her last night. She will come over and organize the best wedding possible. She asks her to tell her youngest cousin Fai also, whom she can’t get a hold of – probably she’s on a deserted island or in a mine somewhere. We get a quick bit of Fai reacting quite emotionally to the fact that Din is getting married. Din reports to Lom that Nam will take care of the wedding, but Lom argues that Din has to take care of herself first. So, Din and Rose meet up at Best Love Studios to select a wedding gown for Rose which stuns Din while looking at it, and she has to be asked twice before she answers that it’s beautiful – even though it’s a fake marriage, Rose will be the most beautiful bride in her eyes. Rose trips on her gown while stepping back and Din catches her, close before hitting the floor, and they stare perplexed into each other’s eyes. They apologize to each other and Din asks her if they could stay that way for a while. 💕Afterwards, they select wedding rings for each other; coming out of the jewelry, Rose thinks Din invests too much in this fake marriage, but Din argues that they have to make it look as real as possible. They talk a bit about the wedding experience… … as Wasu aims at them, only to be stopped by his father’s men. He claims he doesn’t care, if anyone dares to steal what is his, he will kill them. But Wasupol thinks blowing her head off in broad daylight would be the wrong move, especially with the police hot on their tails, and he shouldn’t do anything reckless. But he claims that Rose is getting married in a few days. Wasupol promises to talk to Din the next day. Din and Rose are discussing wedding options as Nam and Fai arrive. Hothead Fai opens by attacking Rose, and telling her to marry her instead, she won’t let Din risk her life like that. Fai continues to propose this idea until Lom comes and hugs her closely while Din is admitting she may look unfriendly, but deep down she’s a nice person. Din introduces her cousins Fai and Nam to Rose which takes a while 😊 then Nam proceeds to plan the wedding, which should take place at Saen Rak, and they want to keep it small and private, but will invite a few senior officials from the province to make it look legit and prevent Wasupol and his men from causing trouble. Nam proceeds to look around with Fai to location scout the venue and organize the wedding. Din tells Fai that no matter what, she will marry Rose, and asks her to play nicely. Did proposes to do the prewedding photoshoot at Chomchan farm because of the better pictures. Then, Mod Daeng comes running to them to report that Wasupol is her to see Din. And that’s where episode 3 ends. ____ This episode took a sharp turn into romcom territory, but I didn’t mind, because Din is so funny when she tries to hide her real feelings for Rose, Rose is positively flustered for most of the episode, and Nam, Lom and Fai bring hilarious sibling dynamics to the table. MVP today is Lom, of course - without her, Din would probably have failed to communicate her plan properly. This has been the funniest episode of the year, funnier that both “I wanna be sup’tar” and “Be my angel” who are generally funny all the time. But I fear that starting next episode – or the episode after that, things will turn darker, when Wasu(pol) retaliate.

I love the dynamic between the cousins so much! It took me longer than an hour to finish this episode because I was completely fangirling over P’Freen and P’Engfa appearingin the episode. It also didn’t help that I was rewatching so many scenes throughout. Rose agreeing to the marriage out of jealousy was the funniest thing, and then we have Lom being a whole menace 😅