Player EP 10- UNCUT

The episode opens two months later than the last one, with Ploy moping over the show that Pun saved from falling in the first episode. We learn that Ploy know what Pun was looking for from the first minute as she was talking to Phetai back then. After the credit, we continue with the flashback, and Ploy talking to Phetai in New York, wo thanks her for helping her out with money and asks why he has to keep Pun in the dark about his upcoming return to Bangkok. She knew when Pun got a call from him to meet up, and instructed him to return Pun’s money to her – but at a time and date of her choosing. Which was the date of their Hong Kong trip which Pun bailed on because she was getting a call from Phetai. Phetai wants to know from Ploy what’s the reason for all of this, but Ploy says it’s none of his business. He even urges Ploy to tell Pun how she feels, or end the relationship cleanly, but Ploy isn’t open for a discussion. Jay und Jae discuss how her proposal plans keep failing for more than two months now, and Jay hasn’t given up on it, but Prang is stressed about Pun, who returned to NYC and remains unreachable. She thinks proposing know will kill the mood, and she doesn’t want to risk it. She is hurt because she’s barely been able to talk to her, because Prang says talking will just bring her down, but she worries about her. Prang tries again to reach her sister without success. She was talking to Phetai, but Pun still hasn’t called her back as Jay is asking. Jay recommends to give her some space, but Prang argues she hasn’t talked to her in months. Jay remarks that she isn’t a kid anymore, and she has to let go, but Prang just wants to talk to her and sort things out. But she isn’t ready to talk, Jay argues, she doesn’t want her to be disappointed about the money. The more she pushes, the more she will drive her away. But to Prang, it isn’t about the money at all, and thinks Jay really doesn’t understand her at all, to which Jay just says “sorry” and wants to leave. Pun asks her what’s wrong, and Jay deflects by saying she will go to the gym. Ploy tries a monologue about a flower and a butterfly in the mirror, but get distracted by thinking about Pun – we get flashbacks of their time together and Ploy reaction apart – and eventually breaks down crying and falls to the floor. She lies on her couch at home and remembers when Pun caught her cheating – but Ploy stopped her Hong Kong adventure with Pinky before it went all the way, as we learn from a flashback. Then, she got a message from Dream that she had arrived. Prang visits Ploy and has brought her rice porridge, but Ploy tells her to go; Prang wants to know whether she talked to Pun at all, but she argues there’s nothing to talk about – yet, she still asks Phetai about her, which Prang knows because she is also talking to him. She apologizes for dragging her into this mess, but Prang thinks she’s the wrong person to apologize to – to whom, to Pun who lied to her und used her over and over for months, Ploy asks defensively. Prang thinks they are both bad, and argues Ploy lied to Pun as well. She tells her to stop acting as the victim, if she weren’t like this right now she would probably slap her, which she proves by slapping her hard as Ploy tells her not to hold back. She tells her that this is from her as Pun’s sister, then hugs her from someone who sees her as family, and asks her whether she knows she’s never been like that before. She usually cuts someone off right away when they take advantage of her, so why did she let this whole thing with Pun drag on this long? But Ploy maintains if someone plays games, she plays back and if someone takes advantage, she gets even. Ploy flinches as Prang raises he hand again – but she just strokes her hair and asks her why she puts herself though this, doesn’t it hurt. Then she hugs her again and leaves her crying silently as she returns to Jay. She tells her she’s okay, then tries to contact Pun again. Jay asks her if she really doesn’t want to talk to her, and she complains that the other day, Jay didn’t want to talk to her. She claims she knows that she’s stressed about Pun, but wonders when she will be herself again, and argues that they barely spend any time together and hardly talk. She wants to help her, but argues she won’t let her in. She feels like she’s on the outside, and Prang apologizes and didn’t mean to make her feel that way – then she asks her to go out that Saturday. Ploy sits at the bar alone and remembers getting a call from Pun’s friend Best, who told her that Pun is taking it hard, and gave her a heads-up that Pun was meeting her “first kiss” Bee at the bar. She arrived – as we saw last week – later at the bar with a friend. Best gathered immediately that Ploy wanted to make Pun jealous and left again. As Pun is sitting alone, Bee arrives and speaks to her, admitting that nothing happened between Pun and her, and argues if she can’t let go, why not talk to her, and argues that this has something to do with her because Pun used her to make her jealous – and if she know that, then she also knows that Pun loves her, she states matter-of-factly. She remarks that Pun has been through it and admits she hurt her once as well, and she thought she’d sworn off after that. She claims she has no idea what they argued about, but from what she saw, they both still care, and there’s no point in staying angry and hurt each other and themselves in the process. That was all she came to say, and wishes her good luck as she leaves. She remembers the various talks as she sits home alone with a glass of wine, and we see that she talked to Best to collect Pun from the airport, remembers the fragrance Pun mixed for her and tells herself it will fade away repeatedly, but she doesn’t believe it, and she cries again. Prang takes Jay to a cinema booked for them alone, arguing it has been ages since they spent time like this, Jay tells her that just being with her make her happy – but feared that Prang might have forgotten about her, for which Prang apologizes. Jay wants to be someone Prang can rely on – but, as she is about to confess her history of failed proposal attempts, Prang’s phone rings and she walks away – but, then the cinema goes dark and a proposal video is played of the screen. Prang returns with a bouquet – and Jay’s, ring which she found before and got told by Jae Ang about her many failed attempts. As she asks the question to which Jay of course says “yes”, they both tear up, and she even brought a second ring; they fall into each other’s arms, and Jay mentions that they almost didn’t make it there. She apologizes and thanks her for everything, she wouldn’t have become who she is without her. Prang apologizes for not giving her enough attention before, and promises to do better. They both admit that they love each other, and finally, they kiss. Prang then proposed to go to the honeymoon suite, stating that no one cares that they’re not married yet. Dream has brought Play back to high school to the spot where they first fell in love, because Ploy disappeared after Hong Kong, and Ploy claims there nothing left to talk about and wants to leave, but Dream hold her back. Ploy asks what does she want, and Dream claims she wants her. But Ploy says it’s really over, and she hasn’t missed her at all. So, everything she did was all to find out what Pun really felt, Dream asks, and takes Ploy’s silence as an admission, adding that it didn’t end too well, she heard. Ploy claims that’s none of her business, and Dream asks whether Pun scammed her or something, but Ploy says that is rubbish and wants to leave but Dream hugs her and asks for another chance and argues that Pun wasn’t serious about her anyway, and the one who truly love her is Dream – but Ploy doesn’t want to talk to her about sincerity, her being the first person to show her that no one in this world is sincere, anyway. Ploy forgives Dream, but doesn’t want to see her again, and leaves. Ploy congratulates Jay and Prang to their engagement. Jay want to get her blessing but Ploy argues she’s not that much older. Jay mentions that she’s been third-wheeling, nay, supporting them the whole way, and Ploy gives in and wishes them all the love in the world. Then, Jay asks her about Pun, is she really not going to talk to her. But Ploy claims it’s over, but Prang argues that as Pun’s sister, she knows when she really loves something – or someone. She believes that Pun’s love for her was real, but Ploy isn’t sure what real even means anymore. Jay argues that Pun didn’t mean to lie to her all the way through but argues that things got out of hard because Pun is stupid – to which she adds everyone in love acts stupid – no one makes the right choices in love. Prang gives the example of Jay and her proposal attempts as stupid 😊 but Jay just wants her to try talking to Pun again, and claims they all want to see her happy. Prang add that the two people who deserve love the most and Pun and Ply, she really want both to be happy … … but we don’t hear that until later, as Ploy checks out the OJ Pun squeezed for her which is still good. Play and her parents are making merit for her dead sister Pailin. Her mother pray for Pailin to visit her in her dreams, as otherwise her life would be empty and meaningless. She promises to one day be reunited with her daughter and pleads with her to wait a little longer. This frustrates Ploy who asks not to say things like her life has no meaning or that she wants to be with Pailin, she doesn’t know how it feel to lose a child, but thinks this hurts her husband. She still has her husband, Phetai, and herself – but her mother again accuses her of being responsible that Pailin isn’t with her anymore. Ploy asks if she should have died instead, would that have made things better. Or should she die right in front of her? Her mother slaps her for that, but Ploy continues that if she died, her mother wouldn’t be waiting to join her, she would be glad, wouldn’t she. Someone once told her that she deserves to be loved (that was Pun!), but she never felt that love, not even from her mother. So, she wonders, doesn’t she deserve to be happy? Her mom tells her to stop right now, the leaves. Then, Ploy returns to the apartment that Pun lived in while she was in Bangkok, and she looks at the collage of butterflies Pun made. She picks a few of the butterflies, and finds Pun’s messages in them – “Our first time in Pattaya”, “Good deeds never go unrewarded, it’s real” – “You deserve to be loved, Ploy Pitcha” – “Please come back” – “She’ll never forgive me, will she?” – “I miss you” – to which we see scenes of their relationship, then, finally, she unfolds the big portrait to her in the middle, and she breaks down crying, now accepting that what everyone told her was true: Pun really loved her. Then, the focus switches to New York, where Pun lived for two months now, and is everything is fine, her work is finally talking off, her inspiration is working, and her heart is in a place where it finally belongs. Phetai has quit gambling and has started to take his restaurant busyness seriously. And Catherine, her mentor, want to send her back to Thailand to promote the university, but she wants to think some more about that. Then, Phetai calls her to return for dinner, and she mentions that he teats her really well and even tries to get them legally married for free. As Pun return home, there are three glasses of OJ on the table and Phetai introduces his honorary chef for the day: Ploy. And there we end the episode. ___ I have to admit that you were spot on: it took Ploy two months and a bunch of people telling her that Pun really loved her to realize the truth, but Pun’s butterflies were the dedicand factor. This was an hour of Ploy pure, and now we understand her better – and she didn’t even cheat. Now, it will be an uphill battle to get Pun back, but Ploy can do it, and I doubt that Pun will toss her aside again. 😊

Can we appreciate Amena’s acting this episode. 👏👏👏 I wasn’t as strong as you, I cried and it’s my 3rd rewatch.