Dalah: Death And The Flower’s ending takes so long coming that by the time Dalah confirms who killed Ohm, you may have taken a small nap and returned. The Thai drama is a whodunit mystery about two rich families trying to forge an alliance through marriage. However, the death of the groom completely changes the course of things for the Uathepa and Tangsinsup families. What should’ve been a celebration becomes a tragedy, leaving both families distressed because the bride becomes the prime suspect. The show follows a straightforward narrative that provides us with little tidbits in each episode until the concluding episode, where we get all the answers. Who killed Ohm? Who killed Dalah’s mum? And who really is Dalah’s dad? Let’s quickly dive into the final episode and figure these things out.
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Who Killed Ohm? And Why?
Dalah: Death And The Flower’s finale brings both families to Dalah’s flower studio. Here, she reveals Risa is pregnant and that she’s perfectly well, because this was all part of a plan to figure out who killed Ohm and why. Through the show, we find out early on that Ohm was the scum of the Earth. He had many enemies within the two families, so the killer could’ve been anyone. For one, we know that Pam was destroyed because Ohm raped her girlfriend and she discovered a video of it along with dozens of other videos of Ohm assaulting girls too young. Pam first went to Risa to ask her to expose Ohm because she was a known feminist, and she was mad that Ohm had hijacked her campaign, but there was a reason that stopped Risa from exposing Ohm before the wedding. See, during the engagement, Risa’s father was so overjoyed by the turn of events that he finally had pride in his eyes for Risa. Risa, longing for this feeling of pride, decided she’d marry a horrible human being just because it brought joy to her father, fulfilling the duty of a girl child, i.e., marrying into a rich family. What’s worse is that she got pregnant with his baby.
Then there’s Kris, who we know hated Ohm, also because he knew the truth about him. This is why he fought with Risa on the day of Ohm’s death, not because aunt and nephew were in love with each other (eww). There are many people in the family who are connected to the crime scene and the time of the murder. Dalah tells them an elaborate story about how the flowers proved to her that Ohm was killed between 10:20 and 10:35 and how, because the transformer exploded, there was no electricity in the room, which would’ve messed with the timing of his decomposition. But anyway, we’re here to find out who killed the guy, so let’s get to that.
To understand the motive behind Ohm’s murder, one has to first look into the Uathepa brothers, Ekapop and Ekosit. When their dad died, Ekapop, the elder of the two, became a father figure to his brother. However, when his wife became pregnant with a son, the son became the most important member of the family. This made Ekosit sour, and he started to feel like nobody in the family cared for him. However, Ekapop had to deal with another problem, Emma, Dalah’s mother. See, Ekapop isn’t Dalah’s biological dad; Ekosit is. He used her mom and cast her aside as if she were nothing back in the day. Emma never gave up on fighting for the rights of her kid, but this is why Ekapop had her killed by Koon, the driver. Guilty of having taken money for killing a woman, Koon couldn’t bear it, and so he admitted everything to Dalah.
In the end, all three men born in the same family were horrible people. It was Ekosit who killed Ohm because he didn’t want to be the Uathepa scapegoat any longer. Ohm had received blackmail (screenshots of his videos), which would’ve ruined his prime ministerial campaign, so father and son had decided to blame it on Ekosit. All that was visible of the man in the pictures was his ring, which all Uathepa men wear. Angry about everything he’d been through because of Ohm, he decided to fight him physically at Dalah’s shop. Ohm then pointed Risa’s gun at Ekosit, and as you can imagine, while trying to get rid of the gun, Ohm got shot, and Ekosit ran from the scene of the crime.
Who Is The Real Black Sheep Of The Uathepa?
I suppose the message behind this show is that being a prick is hereditary. Of course, there’s no science behind this, but basically, all the men of the family are horrible people. Ekosit hurt Emma, Ekapop covered up for Ohm, and we already know how Ohm is. There is one mention of therapy for Ohm in this final episode, but clearly, he never thought what he was doing was wrong, and Ekapop basically enabled him by looking in the other direction. If he’d never been blackmailed, Ekapop would’ve never mentioned getting help. It’s funny how men in power think they can get away with basically anything. It’s ironic that Ekosit ended up killing Ohm when he wasn’t much better either. Sure, their crimes were of different degrees. Well, what Ekosit did can’t even be considered a crime, but he did hurt a woman all the same. What’s worse is that if their mother had cared in the same way for Ekosit and Ekapop, he might’ve never been upset about anything, and maybe things would’ve turned out differently. But he did pay off countless women for Ohm’s sake, so he was an enabler, too.
What Does The Cross Mark Signify?
In Dalah’s ending, Mantree thanks Dalah for helping solve the case and basically opening his eyes to his own issues. Mantree got his big post with the police thanks to Ekapop, but now he’s finally able to stand up to him, thanks to Dalah. Both Uathepa brothers get arrested together, truly tarnishing the family name. Mantree then tells Dalah that the cross mark on Ohm’s face was made by a stray fingernail. Dalah knew that her mother died with a cross mark on her face, even though the case was dubbed with the word “cross” in the title, so she decided to mark Ohm’s face too to wake Mantree up from his complacency and actually work on a case properly for once. She was basically just lighting the match; the rest of the fire started on its own.
Does Dalah Get Her Closure?
In the end, Dalah doesn’t care if Ekosit is her dad or not; he does try to tell her that Emma was the kind of woman who slept around, but Dalah doesn’t care. What she’s grateful for is that she wasn’t raised by Ekosit or in the Uathepa family, because she may have turned out a completely different person if she had. I suppose, at the end of the day, it’s all about nature vs. nurture, and Dalah didn’t want revenge. She didn’t come into the Uathepa world to kill the person who killed her mum; she only came to find out the truth of what happened because she still has the good nature of her mum and the nurturing of her stepdad. Even if we never see him, we can imagine he’s a good person. In the end, Dalah looks happy; she finally gets closure for what happened to her mum, and she also has her floral arrangements to keep her going. Dalah’s passion keeps her connected with her mom always. But also, yes, she and Sarath will eventually be together because we already saw the sparks.
How Will Risa’s Kid Turn Out?
In truth, nobody can answer this question. I feel like Risa will separate herself from her family, finally realizing that she doesn’t need her dad’s approval anymore. She will raise her kid on her own so that they don’t end up like Ohm. We already know Risa’s a feminist, and she’s got a lot of people to help her raise this kid with love rather than hate. Guess they might turn out like Dalah.
