Miss Night and Day is a terrific K-drama that balances comedy, drama, and a few thriller elements on one big weekend platter. The end of episode 4 certainly had me gasping and desperate for the next episode. Netflix sure knows what it’s doing when it comes to weekend K-dramas. After Doctor Slump and The Atypical Family, I have apparently become glued to my screen come Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Miss Night and Day has got to be the funniest of the lot, though. While Doctor Slump was hilarious too, it was a darker show overall, but for the moment, Miss Night and Day seems to mostly be giving us fun rather than anything emotional as of now. However, mark my words, I know this one’s going to be a tearjerker somewhere down the line. For now, though, let’s quickly dive into the major plot points of episode 4.
Spoiler Alert
What Happens to Lim Sun at Work?
In Miss Night and Day episode 4, we learn that Ji-Ung isn’t a big fan of working with the elderly. I suppose we’re meant to believe his work is just too advanced for them. Maybe they’re too slow to be able to do it. Anyway, Lim Sun is, of course, young at heart (quite literally) and is ready to do anything to meet his standards and prove how great she is at this new special job. Simultaneously, Mi-Jin has developed a little crush on Ji-Ung, thanks to working with him all day and seeing how kind he truly is, unlike the stuck-up side of him everybody else sees. Mi-Jun gets her friend Ga-Yeong to do her makeup the next day for her first day as a civil servant. At work, because Ji-Ung’s boss isn’t willing to hire anybody new and young, his assistant Byung-Duk cooks up a ruse to make her quit by herself. However, they don’t realize how determined she is to do this job.
Soon, they try to put her on tasks that are impossible even for a young person to handle, but Mi-Jin, having worked multiple part-time jobs, somehow has the accumulated skill to do all of these tasks impeccably. She’s able to work Excel like her brain’s an actual computer and type 1000 words in under a minute (wait, what?!). After a hard day’s work, Lim Soon immediately leaves work because she can’t get caught turning (like a werewolf at the sight of the moon), but Ko Won ends up following her on her bike and gets shocked when he sees a different human after turning a corner. He even gets a picture of her thanks to his dash cam, but he can’t understand what’s happened. On the other hand, Ga-Yeong makes her way around town to the cat shelters but doesn’t find any like the one Mi-Jin encountered.
In the meantime, Ji-Ung learns that there was fentanyl involved in the case he’s working on, and yet again, there’s a resemblance to his mom’s case back in the day. Ji-Ung realizes that the fact that the killer tried to return to the crime scene means that he was looking for something or someone, so Mi-Jin is in danger because she did see the car, and the killer got a good look at her, too. He calls her while they’re at work and asks to see her at night. Lim Soon tries to take the call secretly and hurriedly agrees to meet him at a cafe that same night. It seems the drug that Ji Dong-Kwon, the guy who tried to attack Ko Won with the acid, used had traces of fentanyl in it. According to Ji-Ung, it didn’t make sense for the guy to leave so many traces behind and do it in such a public setting. Ji-Ung tells his assistant to find out about all the transactions related to fentanyl in the city.
At the cafe, Mi-Jin is late, thanks to the extra work Ji-Ung gave her. Well, Lim Soon, but you know what I mean. Ji-Ung is worried for her, so he puts a tracking device on her phone (without her knowledge, of course), gives her a bunch of self-defense tools, and tells her that she’s a witness in a potential murder case. However, he hasn’t told the police about her because he’s worried that will make her a bigger target. Ji-Ung tells Mi-Jin to trust him, and when he drops her off at home, she accidentally calls him in excitement (nah, but Eun-Ji has no business being so adorable), and she tells him that she does trust him.
What Happens at the Club?
Back at home, we see that Mi-Jin is truly overjoyed with the fact that she finally has a job. It’s like the moment she’s been waiting for her whole life has finally arrived. Even her parents are relieved and also finally realize that it’s not that she didn’t want to work; she just never had the opportunity. The next day at work, Ji-Ung discusses Club Hovan with his assistant. Apparently, this is where the fentanyl distribution happens, and to get to the crux of it, they must visit the club. As it goes, not anybody can visit such a fancy club, and Lim Soon immediately volunteers to go there undercover. This doesn’t make any sense considering her age, because nobody would let such an old woman into a club (tsk, tsk, your face is old). Now, obviously, Ji-Ung didn’t believe she could get in, and just as he thought, one of the bouncers called her ajumma and tried to throw her out, even physically pushing her, but that is the moment she turned back to her young self and got escorted inside the club directly.
At the end of Miss Night and Day episode 4, Mi-Jin gets invited to the VIP room at the club, just as she’d planned, and she tries to snoop around with a little camera in her bag. Ji-Ung starts to worry because Lim Soon told him that she was entering the VIP room and cut off communication. While he can hear what’s happening in the room, he can’t talk to her directly. (Also, because she’s now Mi-Jin, I don’t know what she was planning on doing, but okay.) Finally, he tries to enter the club, but the bouncer thinks he’s using a fake ID. Ji-Ung beats them up and makes it to the VIP room. There, he makes it just in time to see one of the boys in the room trying to hit Mi-Jin with a glass ashtray because he found her camera. Okay, I’m all for an independent woman who can defend herself and has no fears, but I do quite like these two, and if he’s saving her, I’m okay with it. I guess we’ll have to wait for the next episode to find out what excuse Mi-Jin will use to explain why she’s the one in the club instead of Soon.
