My Safe Zone EP 5

Jane and Lin are so cute in this show, and then we have Pie and Tim who can't seem to take no for an answer. Both Jane and Lin have made it abundantly clear that they are not interested in them, well, Lin still have work to do setting physical boundaries. It also surprised me just how stubborn Lin's mom was regarding the matter about Kate too. It was also nice to see LingOrm in this episode too, it was fun to see how much you fangirl over Ling. I also melt over how gorgeous she is, but when she puts on a suit...lord have mercy. I completely malfunctioned when her Calvin Klein ads and photos dropped. That woman is lethal to my well being...

We start once again with a flashback to high school times (which also doubles as a milk ad) when Lin played basketball – but landed wrongly on her feet, causing her and Jane to fall to the ground, and Jane hurt her wrist, needing a cast. Then, we get back to the situation at the photo shot, where the roles are reversed: Lin saves Jane from being run over, but in the process the fall to the ground, and Lin hurts her wrist. We then get a bit, with Tawan and Alya, who are preparing Ayla’s photo shoot, and getting distracted by kissing; es they are discussing food options, they get notified of Lin’s accident. Tawan takes a quick look at her wrist and states she needs to go to the hospital for an X-ray, as there might be a fracture. Lin doesn’t want to delay the shoot, but Alya says they can reschedule and Tawan adds that Lin can’t work with the injury anyway. Pie doesn’t look too happy about that, and Jane feels guilty for causing the delay with her carelessness. Pie comes to them and say she will need to hire a replacement for her, as the photo shoot is tied to a product launch with a deadline, Lin understands this and leaves to get a cast. Pie then blames Jane for causing he situation as her presence caused the accident and in turn lost Lin her work. She recommends sticking to her job as a chef, rather then complicating things for Lin and Pie. Returning home, Jane apologizes again for causing her to lose an opportunity which might not come again, but Lin is not worried, she’d rather get hurt then letting something happen to her. Then, we get a quick scene with Pie suggesting that she was behind the accident which targeted Jane, but hurt Lin. We get a little bit of teasing between Lin and Jane and the word “everything”, then, Jane states that she’ll get Pie a table at her restaurant as an apology for causing trouble. Lin asks her then to help her showering one-armed and Jane is happy to comply. Jane puts Lin to bed after showering then wants to sleep on the floor, but Lin doesn’t let her; they fall asleep next to each other with Lin resting her arm on Jane’s torso. A few days later, Lin is without cast again, but Jane is making her breakfast all the same. Lin is mentioning the Pie will visit the restaurant today, but Jane is worried about her anymore, knowing that Lin loves her. Jane states this she loves Lin, having loved her for more than eight years, not knowing if and when she would return. This triggers a flashback in which Lin wrote a card to her for her birthday, but getting nothing back but a phone call from Jane’s aunt asking her not to send messages to her anymore. We get a scene with Tuk and Aom in which Tuk admits to telling Lin to stop calling Jane, because she was a mess back then and constantly crying. She never told her about Lin trying to contact her, though, and Aom mentions that she will get exposed once they reconcile. Then, it’s Pie with Lin at Jane’s restaurant, and Pie is mentioning that she got a table just because of Lin’s accident; Lin claims that the Jane’s schedule is full and it’s hard to squeeze in people. Pie wants to see Lin’s hand, but Jane quickly steps in and claim no touch because of doctor’s orders. Jane’s staff warns her the Pie has got a reputation for talking business, but acting flirty towards her male – and female – business partners. Jane mentions that Lin is not free to Pai, having to help with photo shoots – of food, not her. Pie wants to find Jane an expert for food photography, but Jane isn’t interested, claiming Lin is exactly what she wants. Then suddenly a rock get thrown though the restaurant window, shattering it and hitting Jane on the head, causing her to get a bleeding injury and to lose consciousness. Jane wakes up in the hospital next to a worried Lin; then, she motions Lin to get into bed with her. She thinks it was probably just some hooligans who did this, but Lin wants her to be careful until they know who did this. Then, Jane’s aunt comes in and get a startled Lin to fall out of bed and into the floor. Aom also comes in looking at her daughter suspiciously. Jane wants to know who told them about the accident, but Tim comes in and tells her they got informed by the assistant Pete. This is the first time we (or Lin) see Tim, and she remembers the flower bouquet that gets delivered every 15th of the month to the restaurant which had a note “Happy anniversary – Tim” attached to it. Tim scolds Jane for not telling her business partner that someone threw a rock into the restaurant; she claims it will only cause a few days of closure, but Tim is not worried about that – he is worried about her. Lin continues to watch Tim with suspicion causing Jane to want to go to the bathroom, for which Lin accompanies her after Tim briefly trying to swoop in. It turn out that the bathroom was just an excuse to let Lin ask her questions about Tim. Lin wants to know who is he and what is her relationship with him. A business partner and friend, Jane replies, but Lin isn’t convince yet and asks her about the “anniversary bouquet” – and Jane explains that it’s for the restaurant which opened on a 15th, so her sends the flowers every month. Lin remarks that without interest he wouldn’t send the flowers every month, but Jane claims that his side, as for her, her girlfriend is right here. Why should she care about anyone else? Returning to the sick room, Aom and Tuk want to leave, and Aom wants to talk to Lin, so they take her with them. At home, Aom and Lin once again fight over Kate. Aom thinks that over time anger may fade, and Lin admits that she might forgive Kate someday, but she will never understand how she could do that to her. She’s sorry if that disappoints Aom, but she will never get back together with Kate; she closes the conversation by saying she’s sorry not to be the daughter she can be proud of. Jane asks Tim to go home; he says he’ll help run the restaurant. Jane claims she can do that herself, but Tim reminds her the doctors talk her to rest for a week. He promises to get the glass fixed and reschedule to bookings, and Jane accepts telling him to do what he needs to do, not to waste time at her hospital bed. Then, Tim claims to have waited for Jane for years, she responds that she has told him many times not to wait. He claims that she has no one (not anymore) but she states that she just doesn’t like him that way, they’re friends, nothing more. He mentions that nothing she says can change his feelings for her and holds her hand – but she quickly puts his hand away. Just as he leaves, Lin comes in, very emotional and carrying a small bag, and falls into her arms. She has left home, stating that she wants to make her mother proud, but in a way that she can be proud of herself, too; she doesn’t know where she will stay next. But Jane mentions the she needs to solve the conflict with her mother, as she will remain her mother’s daughter anyway. Tuk scold Aon as well for not sticking with their plan to tell Lin that it’s okay to break up with Kate, that being single doesn’t kill anyone, and that has her own source of income. But Aom has a reason that she shows Tuk on her phone – but not to us. At the hospital, Jane asks Lin to stop seeing Pie, telling her of the reputation that Pie has, going out with both men and women – but Lin claims she can’t, she has no choice, because she was fired from her job in New York. Jane want to know why she hasn’t told her that, but Lin claims she was embarrassed, having been successful then losing everything. She want a way out where people won’t look down on her, and Pie is the best option she has right now. Jane claims she has to accept her situation, and start again with what makes her happy. If that’s photography, then do it; life goes up and down, but search for a way to be happy when it’s down. She will support her no matter what. Tim is at the restaurant, the police having gone, he wants to install more security cameras and will talk to Jane about it. Pete tells him that it will take a week to replace the broken window. Bam reports that she postponed all table bookings to a week later. Then, he wants to know who Lin is. But we don’t hear their replies. Lin is sitting sullenly at the window of Jane’s hospital room and Jane wants her to smile a real smile – a girlfriend smile. Her smile gets wider, and she kisses her on her hand, but Jane wants first two cheek kisses, then a lip kiss, and Jane complies. Lin wants to know where to kiss her next, but Jane warns her that it will turn into more than a kiss. Sometime later, Jane and Lin return to her home – where Aon awaits her, and she is not alone. There, the episode ends. ___ I found this episode to be strange. The big problems – the two accidents, the restaurant attack, Tim and Pie – turned out to be non-issues; yet, the problems that shouldn’t be one – things about the past that should have long been solved and Aom’s strange infatuation with Kate – came up again and again, wasting time. I don’t get Aom’s behavior; probably she got wind of Lin’s termination in New York, but to just want her to ignore the cheating is really something. The better advice came from Jane who told Lin to just strive for happiness. I felt bored at times with the narrative, which three times cut a scene right as it became interesting. I get that they need to keep stuff for episodes 6 to 8, but that made episode 5 feel incomplete to be. Maybe this episode will improve as the next ones air, but so far, it is one of the weaker episodes in a narratively already weak series. We will see.