Trolley season 1 episode 9 recap & review: Sincerity

Open Go TV / January 17, 2023 / Reviews

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Trolley season 1 episode 9 sees Hye-Joo discovering Ji-Hoon’s phone and the shocking contents within it, while Soo-Bin leaves Hye-Joo’s home and meets her mother.

Recap

Hye-Joo is gasping for breath after discovering Ji-Hoon’s phone in Joong-Do’s drawer. She rushes off to meet Soo-Bin, only to find she’s not in her room.

Yeo-Jin helps Hye-Joo collect herself while the latter reveals to her what she has found. Yeo-Jin tries reaching out to Joong-Do but he’s busy with his meeting.

He does respond when Hye-Joo calls in and gets worried as his wife heaves while trying to address the revelation about Ji-Hoon’s death, eventually dropping to the ground and getting hospitalized due to a panic attack.

Yeo-Jin confronts Joong-Do about his poor job of keeping the text messages and Ji-Hoon’s phone a secret from his wife.

Joong-Do later talks with Hye-Joo and tells her that he didn’t want to worry her with the discovery which is why he kept Ji-Hoon’s texts a secret from her.

Meanwhile, Seung-Hee meets Seung-Kyu’s parents and proposes that they team up as victims and go after Joong-Do and his family for what they did to their loved ones. During their meeting, the parents reveal that Gwi-Soon’s granddaughter was a sex worker.

However, they refuse to pursue any action because it will again reflect badly on their dead son. Kang Soong-Hong’s chief advisor, however, learns about the same as well and decides to work with this information to further make things worse for Joong-Do.

It’s also revealed that chief advisor Hyeong-Tae used to be a regular client of Gwi-Soon’s granddaughter and was also blackmailed by Soo-Bin’s friend once, and she helped in collecting the ransom.

Soo-Bin, meanwhile, visits a store and calls the store owner her mother, meaning she lied about being an orphan. However, it wasn’t completely a lie as it is revealed that she had been abandoned by her mother in her childhood.

Her mother now lives a happy life with another daughter who’s unaware of Soo-Bin. She’s so apathetic that she won’t even pay much heed to her daughter and her tribulations, or even how she must be coping with her life and pregnancy.

Soo-Bin storms off her store in anger and leaves her phone there, which receives a call from her friend who introduces himself as her boyfriend to her mother. Following this, her mother gives her phone away to said man and Soo-Bin learns about it later on.

Meanwhile, Hye-Joo reaches out to Soo-Bin’s old contact and sends her a message, which would now be seen by her suspicious friend who is revealed to be working with the chief advisor.

Before the online sentiments can sway significantly against the victim, Woo-Jae publishes the video of Seung-Kyu’s father beating Joong-Do at the hospital.

Gwi-Soon learns about the video and lashes out at the Assemblyman for visiting the parents of the man who killed her granddaughter. Joong-Do, Hye-Joo, and Woo-Jae all try to calm her down but she’s too upset for that right now.

Hye-Joo learns about the video from Yoon-Seo and hugs her husband, apologizing to him for being rude earlier while he’s been going through so much himself.

Soo-Bin calls her own number and the friend who blackmailed Hyeong-Tae with her picks up her phone, while the chief advisor sits beside him, before Trolley season 1 episode 9 rolls the credits.

Review

A number of revelations are made, and Trolley keeps putting Joong-Do’s character in the most suspicious light, which becomes tiring after a point, what with all the nudges and hints all of which could just be red herrings.
Speaking of the trite, the perennially mopey atmosphere starts to almost feel suffocating.
Along with Joong-Do’s persistent suspiciousness, Woo-Jae continues to be relentless in his clever yet diabolically political maneuverings that might result in a real storm for the Assemblyman and his family at some point in Trolley.