Player EP 8 - Member Special

This episode has me beyond stressed and frustrated. Pun has shown that she is constantly making some spectacularly dumb decisions. And Ploy isn’t any better either, I totally agree with you on her toxicity meter placement for her. Girl definitely needs to consult her therapist for many many things. Honestly everyone was running on high emotions this episode, except maybe Jay. Poor Jay is just trying to propose and she is getting lashed out at by Pang because of the situation with Pun.

The episode starts where the last one ended: with Pun getting a call from Phetai. Pun postpones their trip to Hong Kong and tells Ploy to wait for her in the airport lounge while she runs “an errand”. Ploy offers to drive her but she rather goes off alone. Pun waits for hours at the bar but Phetai doesn’t show up and is unreachable by phone. As she leaves Phetai finally calls back and want to move the meeting to that night at the bar where they bumped into each other last week. Before Pun can say anything, he hangs up. Pun gets advice for her angel and detective personas once again, and in the end delays her trip to Hong Kong some more and tells Ploy that she has a work emergency will join her the next day to fly to Hong Kong with her. In the end, Ploy tells her that Hong Kong can wait and her work should have priority, but she is clearly not happy about it. Then, as Prang leaves work and talks to Jay on the phone, Put pulls up in front of her, but doesn’t see her. She tell Jay she’ll call her back then hangs up to follow Pun. We see that Jay had prepared another proposal. Then, Phetai on Pun meet again, and Pun punches him first. Pun wants her money back but Phetai tells her to be quiet. She laments she isn’t even his girlfriend, and accuses him of dragging her down with him. But Phetai tells her to calm down and that he didn’t mean for it to happen, and claims he didn’t know they would come after her in the house. She asks why he ran, and he claims otherwise he’d be dead. But she argues he should have warned her first – and we see Prang listening in from the other side of the restaurant. He claims he didn’t want to involve anyone, but Pun accuses him of being selfish, and lucky that they didn’t follow him back to Thailand. But Phetai claims they are still on his tail or why else would he be hiding. But Pun thinks he just runs from debt, which causes Phetai to tell his whole story: He was gambling without anyone in New York noticing, at first only to blow off some steam for fun, but one day he got cocky and started betting more and more. In the end, he lost everything, and kept playing trying to win it back. So, he got a loan form the casino owner who is a big-time mafiosi in New York, with insane interest. But he booked a flight back to Thailand beforehand, because he didn’t trust those guys. If nothing had happened he would have gone on vacation. But of course, something went wrong – and we see in a flashback that they actually threatened to kill Pun. So, he fled to Thailand, but was surprised that they could get to him here, too. So, he’s constantly in hiding. Pun registers this tale astonished and asks about her million Baht, didn’t they help at all? And what about Golf’s money, how much does he actually owe, she wants to know. but he claims the interest rates were insane, and even after paying them quite some money, he still owes more. But why did her contact Golf, she wants to know, and he claims he paid him back to get him off of Pun. Jay is still waiting for Prang to return. Going out of the restaurant, Pun asks him whether he’s been in contact with her sister, and he admits that they are talking sometimes, and that he even asked her for help at first. She then asks her to stop bugging Ploy, She is his sister, he claims, but Pun wants to keep her out of his mess, and he claims he’s been working with the police to get these guys behind bars. Once that is done, he’ll probably head back to the States, and that will be the end of it. Then, He transfers her money back to Pun. He asks her if she still wants that citizenship – at no charge, he promises. But Pun isn’t convinced that he won’t screw her again. He asks her to think about it, then leaves – all under Prang’s observation, who is signed out by a cop for her suspicious behavior, bet she is a celebrity, after all, so with a lift of her sunglasses and an autograph, she clears all suspicions. 😊 Pun can’t reach Ploy; she call her manage Ji, but Ji thinks they went together to Hong Kong, and she dropped her off at the airport, and by checking Ploy’s IG account she confirms that she went to Hong Kong without her. She asks Jieab for advice while faking a play she visited, she asks if a guy cancelled a joint trip to Hong Kong last minute, would she be mad, and she confirms it and asks if he was really busy. She hears that Pun is frantic, and Pun asks if that would be a relationship-breaking kind of offense, and Jieab says it depend on the person and the relationship. Pun claims she must get back to work and hangs up. (at after 11 p.m.?) She drives off before Prang can talk to her. Both Pun and Prang get into traffic jams on their way home. They arrive shortly after one another, and Prang catches Pun as she’s about to follow Ploy to Hong Kong. She wants to know why she didn’t tell her what’s going on, and Pun is a bit unsure what she’s talking about, but Prang admits to also have been at the bar. Pun claims she then already knows she got the money back and want to leave, but Prang says this is serious and they need to talk to their father, she not worried about the money but about her. Pun just tells her to stop trying to fix things for her and claims she and dad never expected anything from her anyway. She needs to go she claims, and claims to they’re going to fight about this, they will need to do it later. They she leaves, telling her to stop messing with her already. When Prang comes home to Jay, she is already asleep on the couch, but wakes up and quickly hides the ring as Prang site down next to her and starts crying. Jay takes her in her arms and consoles her. We move to Hong Kong where Pun waits for Ploy to arrive; when she comes in, she’s accompanied by Dream. Pun asks Dream if she’s staying there and Dream confirms it and uses the word “we” to suggest they’re staying together. She asks if Pun just got there and Pun claims she’s been there for hours, but she couldn’t reach the person she wanted to see (meaning Ploy, of course). Ploy’s face doesn’t show any emotion whatsoever, and Dream asks if Pun wants to stay at the hotel, she can make arrangements but Pun claims to be able to handle it herself. Then, Dream wants to leave with Ploy as she’s exhausted but Pun hasn’t eaten yet, so Ploy lets Dream go up alone and takes her to the restaurant. At the restaurant Ploy is evading any questions about Dream, but as Pun claims they were supposed to go together she mentions that Pun refused to go. Pun reminds her that she wanted to pay for their delayed trip all by herself, but Pun asks whether she really had to work, and Pun hesitantly confirms it. Pun admits that she was wrong, and asks her to look at her, but Ploy claims that they will talk later and withdraws her hand from Pun’s. After the meal Pun’s paper rose bouquet drops as Ploy move her suitcase, and Ploy gives it to her and asks whether she doesn’t care at all about it, but Ploy asks her back what if Dream stays with her, What would she do then? Pun claims she would book a room for her and Ploy, then – should she? They apparently enter Ploy’s room together, and Pun apologizes for bailing on their trip, for being late and claims she didn’t want to. Then she questions Ploy behavior, taking her to dinner, then up to her room, without even looking at her. She hugs ploy, who then claims to have to care for her as Prang’s sister. This astonishes Pun, and as they are trying to figure out who will go to the shower first, a knock sounds from the door. Ploy makes no attempt to open it, so Pun goes to the door – and it’s Pinky who states she’s there as agreed before with Ploy. Pun angrily closes the door then grills Ploy about what just happened, and asks her if Pinky was there to sleep with her. Play doesn’t directly deny it reminding her she was exhausted, but Pun want to know how she could do such a thing to her. Ploy then returns the question and accuses her of ditching her to reconnect with Golf, Mick or someone new. But she is unable to disclose what really happened, and Pinky starts to knock again, claiming that her lipstick is still inside, admitting the she has been to the room before. Ploy then states that it’s fine if she found someone new. At least then she’d know that neither of them really meant it, making things easier. But Pun maintains that she has no one else, but Ploy does. Ploy then tells her to leave, and Pun leaves dropping the paper roses into the trash. There, the episode ends apart from a little coda showing Ploy and Pinky in bed together. ___ Well, that was the least fun episode of “Player” to date, where the realities of Pun and Ploy’s relationship were crashing together- I can understand, though not condone both sides. Pun kept her excuses going for far too long afraid that telling the truth would lose Ploy, where really it’s the lies that she kept telling that ruined their relationship. And Ploy has always been a deeply distrustful of others and would rather break a relationship that being tangled in one, so naturally she accuses Pun of going back to one of her guys. Pun needs to be truthful for once, and then hope that she can convince Ploy to give her another chance – but first, Ploy needs to stop with the cheating if she still cares for Pun at all.