Choosing Love Means Letting Go ❤️‍🩹 | Heart Code EP 7 Finale Reaction

We start the finale with a little bit of levity: Noey and Pete bantering and getting so close to Noey that the nurses will misunderstand them as he brings her some cake from a favorite bakery, but Pete doesn’t care as long as she doesn’t misunderstand her, because if she wasn’t a key witness he wouldn’t hang around day and night. But she didn’t think he would be this kind to his key witness, and he tells her to call him sugar daddy. He wants to know whether she has talked to Thara lately, but she hasn’t and she has ghosted him, too, but Noey tells him not to disturb her on vacation with Vicky, but Pete is more interested in the hand she used to stop him from calling. But she was just stopping him from calling her. 😊 After the credits, Vicky and Thara are reaching Phakphum’s house, with Vicky wanting to know everything but Thara argues they’re out of time. Vicky tells her that if she’s going to handle everything of her own, she should just get out of her life and pretend she doesn’t know her. But Thara argues that the most important thing right now is her father’s life, she wants to save her first and promises that afterwards, she will tell her everything. But Vicky protests that she actually wants revenge on her father, not to help him. Thara begs for Vicky to trust her just one more time, then she leaves for Burin’s house alone. Thara enters the house gun in hand, but she is alone, so Bawornthat can easily surprise her with a gun of his own while she making her way through the large house. He points his gun to her head and threatens to blow her head off to force her to give up her gun; he tells her she could have been the lady of the house by now if she hadn’t played hard to get, then brings her to Burin, and hands her a flash drive that she found in Vicky’s mother’s house, presumably containing the evidence against him. We see quick flash of a two versions of a death certificate for his father back in 2006: the first one claiming he suffocated, and the second one claiming he died die to the fall. As Vicky makes her way to them, Burin argues that she should have taken the evidence to her superior and put Burin and Phakphum in jail, but she didn’t, because she fell for Vicky. Then, she tells her what really happened to her father: he was not giving up the fight though Phakphum begged him to, so he sent one of his men to strangulate him, and then make it look like a suicide with Phakphum faking his death certificate to make it look like he committed suicide. He admits that he had to get rid of him because he was stubborn, but that Phakphum was the one who made it look like a suicide. He scolds her father as a fool who thought he could fight big money, but failed to realize what money could do, which get Thara riled up arguing that things have changed now, and the opposition is closing in on him and argues that is clock is running out even if he kills Thara and Phakphum, but he maintains he will survive, and he never intended to kill her, but wants her to kill him and join his side. He brings Phakphum forward, his hands bound, and gives Thara a gun, which she only reluctantly takes, and asks her to betray Phakphum like he betrayed her father 19 years ago. Thara point it at Phakphum, but then tries to kill Burin, but that gun isn’t loaded. Her calls her a scumbag and slaps her but she proceeds to kick him and in the resulting brawl she takes the two guns that Bawornthat carried, plus Phakphum overpowers hit guard and takes his gun – but another guard has captured Vicky and threatens her with a gun. Burin calls her stupid, asking for death and dragging others down with her. Vicky and Thara have some crucial eye contact, then Vicky overpowers and disarms her guard using the technique she learned at the VIP training. The three of them use Bawornthat as a human shield to guard their retreat. Thara tells Phakphum and Vicky to leave, then handles Burin’s bodyguards one by one, until Burin follow them downstairs shooting at her and preventing her from grabbing then gun. He wants to shoot at her, but gets shot himself – by Vicky who has returned to save Thara, they hide from his gunshots, then Vicky tries to go boldly – but Thara stops her from doing so and takes her gun, kissing her passionately , but misses Burin, and it’s her last shot – but just in time, Pete arrives with a police team to clear up the mess and arrest Burin, Bawornthat and their henchmen. Outside, Phakphum is carried by Vicky as Pete tells them to rest, and they get into her car, with Thara avoiding them. As they leave, it is revealed that Thara actually got shot. We get an off-commentary by her stating that sometimes, the truth we’ve sacrificed everything for doesn’t really make anything better. Phakphum and Vicky reach their home, with her father claiming that he disappointed her deeply, and Vicky admitting that she doesn’t know what to feel anymore, suddenly, everyone feels like a total stranger. Phakphum apologizes and admits it all started with him abandoning his ideals instead of seeing things through and standing by Thara’s father – and we get a flashback of him receiving a not-so-subtle threat on her wife and daughter. And while Thara’s father chose to protect his ideals even if they killed him, her chose to abandon his ideals to protect his family, knowing what he did was wrong. But back then, he argues, he had no better options – but he vowed to himself that he would stay alive until they day he had enough power to right this wrong. He didn’t tell her the truth because as any father, he would like to be a hero and a good man in the eyes of his child. He apologizes for letting her down as she keeps crying on his shoulder. He argues that many children have their childhood taken from them and are forced to grow up broken, and of them is Thara, he argues as we see Thara is carried into the ER – your Looknam. He claims that she has been through so much, had to endure so much to grow into the person she is today. But she has always cared about Vicky, he claims. If there is anyone who deserves his hatred, it should be him and not Thara, he argues. Two days later, Thara awakes in the hospital, and wants to know whether anyone visited, and Noey tells her that her colleagues took turns visiting her with Pete using every free minute. But Vicky, she tells her, she waited outside the OR as she was treated, and stary by her side day and night until she fainted, and Noey had to tell her to return home this morning. But she was just suffering from exhaustion and low blood pressure, otherwise she’s fine. Noey claims, and argues she should get better soon so that she can make it up to her. Then, Pete comes in delighted to see her awake, and tells her some news: Phakphum gave her superior Ken all the evidence against Burin before he was abducted by his men, knowing very well that he would be caught in the resulting scandal, too. And we get another Montag of her recovering while stating that the list of charges against Burin is a mile long, and even her father’s case is being reopened. And Bawornthat is just as bad as his father, facing money laundering and drug charges in addition to the murder of Dr. Ann. Phakphum has been suspended pending investigation. She meets Phakphum on a bench, giving him a coffee, and he calls her Looknam and apologizes – and we get Thara’s thought that sometimes admitting their mistakes is the bravest thing a person can do. At night, Vicky is alone at the bakery, as she finds Fundee, Thara’s frog plushie, on the counter – and we get a final flashback to when Looknam actually said goodbye to Vicky, and she gave her the plushie, arguing that when they grow up they might not recognize each other anymore, but using this doll she will realize that she is Looknam. Vicky argues, as Thara comes out of the shadows, that she had so many chances to come clean, so why did she stay silent about being Looknam, she asks her. But Thara argues that if she had told her before she knew the whole truth, everything would have ended right then. But she was scared every time she held her, she was so afraid that if the truth came out, what they had would be over. She was scared that she would hate her, but had to follow through with her investigation as a loyal daughter. She wants to love her with all her heart, but doesn’t dare to – yet, not loving her is something she just can’t do. Vicky admits that she felt guilty as she learned what Thara had to go through, but she was so good to her, knowing everything all along, and wasn’t angry as she said goodbye – and argues that she didn’t even hate her a little bit. So, how could she ever be angry with her, she claims – and they fall into each other’s arms crying. And we get flashes of them as kids, also hugging. Noey is packing for something, and Pete claims that Thara told her she is going to study abroad, and he scold her for not telling him and argues he hasn’t even found a girlfriend yet. But Noey argues that’s his problem, she can’t just stay until he found a girlfriend. But he argues that he had to watch over her day and night and that’s why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. But she argues that he would still be single if he hadn’t. Yet, Pete still doesn’t want her to go, he’s actually scared that she will find a boyfriend. Noey is arguing that she will not leave in the next days. Pete argues then why she is packing. She has been invited to then beach by Vicky, she claims, and we close the scene by Pete pleading to go with her. The final scene is at Vicky’s mother’s old house, where Vicky in sleeping until Thara wakes her up in the most romantic fashion with a rose and a few kisses, then flips her over on her back and kisses her some more, more wildly. They playfully eat breakfast then Thara show her a few photos from their VIP training including the one she took on the pier – and she admits that this was the moment she stopped loving her as a sister, and started to love her for real. We end the series on their love confessions and a kiss. ___ That was the near perfect ending to the second-best GL of the year. We started with an action-packed, well-choreographed half hour showdown before things got emotional in the second half, where it was never really in doubt that they would forgive each other, they only had to deal with their own guilt. I wouldn’t have minded see more of Vicky and Thara, but that’s the best kind of series wanting to see more of them. I hope they will star in another GL in the future – Monomax has no GL track record yet, but I will surely check out what they’ll present in the future. As for “Heart Code”, or “สืบลับจับใจ” (“secret investigation that captivates the heart”), I’m giving it an 8.5 / 10 or a B+ in U.S. letter grades – the second best GL of the year at the time of airing.