[chilling music]
[printer warming up]
[soft footfalls]
[printer printing]
Two coffees, please.
[Female] Okay.
Flashbacks...
Dream sequences...
Aww, karaoke! I love karaoke!
Of course, you do. Everybody loves karaoke.
It's Dramaworld.
Cure and incurable diseases...
Fainting spells?
Oh.
Leading men, even second leads, they can't let women hit the ground.
It's like... totally subconscious.
[female] Your coffee's ready.
Try it. [Claire giggles]
Hmm...
[breathes nervously]
-Are you okay? -Oh.
You're lucky I just happened to be here.
Thank you.
-[Claire] Neat! -[female #1] Are you ready to order?
-[Seth] This is Dramaworld. -[male #1] I'd like an ice americano.
Some things just have a magnetic pull on characters.
-They can't help it. -I'll have to remember that.
"Chapter nine, Justice."
Oh, not that kind of drama.
Okay. Um...
Ooh, oh! Off-screen manipulation, yes! Okay.
"The power of facilitation lies behind the scenes..."
Blah, blah, blah...
"While grand romantic gestures take the audience by surprise...
they are truly the culmination of hard and studious
-off-camera abetment." -"Off-camera abetment."
[car screeching] [big bang]
-[Claire] Oh my god, are you okay? -Ugh
-Oh, you're alive! Seth, he's alive! -Ugh.
[romantic music]
-My ideal woman! -[female #2] Siwon, are you okay?
What's wrong with you?
-Snap out of it! -My ideal woman!
-Where are you going? Give me your number! -What are you doing?
Let go of me!
-I need your number! -Siwon!
[Seth] Claire, you have to be careful here.
This world is sensitive.
-He got hit by a car! -[female #2] I said, come here!
It's Dramaworld, man! Cancer, memory loss, hit and runs...
they're all just furthering the story.
-But... I.... -Okay, look.
I'll clean up the mess you just made,
but you can't be background now. You have to go be Seo-yeon's advocate.
I really don't think I can do that.
Okay. I can only clean up one mess at a time, Claire.
You need to go to Joon and get him to rehire her.
How?
Here! Go!
We're not open yet...
Seo-yeon!
Did something happen?
Do you mind if I hang out here while I look for a job?
I'm too broke to go to a cafe.
I've got plenty of coffee. Do you want some?
-Yes. -Come on in.
-Claire, hi. -Hi.
Um, listen, about last night...
You really shouldn't have fired Seo-yeon.
Really?
Hang on one sec.
Okay.
Remember when she first started working as your dishwasher, right?
She would walk past you way too often, just so she could see
however you were cooking, whatever you were cooking.
Right?
[upbeat music]
Um...
Okay. Remember, right... when she...
slipped and sprained her ankle, right? But she wouldn't go home.
So she just spent the whole shift hopping around on one foot?
Can you look over there for me? Okay.
Like, far off into the distance... Farther... Okay. And...
Remember, uh...
Um...
How do you know all this stuff?
You've only been here two days.
I'm... I'm like... really smart.
You're...
different.
Uh, you need to rehire Seo-yeon.
Why?
Mm, hang on! Sorry.
[Claire] "Confident, handsome, arrogant,
but always believe in lady's best interest at heart."
Okay. The reason you opened this place
instead of taking over your family business was because
you hated the idea of everything being frozen.
You wanted a place with warmth.
Right?
It's a metaphor! It's your heart that's frozen.
[soft music]
This is a place where people find comfort and a home and... love.
Don't you want it to stay that way?
-You're right. -Yes! Up high!
Okay.
So, what, what are you going tosay? Are you gonna invite her to sing karaoke?
Karaoke? It's not even noon yet.
Oh, right...
[texting beeps]
There. [phone clanks]
Did you apologize?
Better.
Go wash your hands.
[text message beeps]
[sighs deeply]
How about a drink?
I'm not really in the mood.
Not even rice wine?
You're ridiculous!
Heads up!
You okay?
[Claire] That's okay.
It happens all the time.
Grate that.
Sprinkle a bit of sea salt,
a touch of cider vinegar,
give it a toss, and then a dash of...
ghost pepper hot sauce!
Super careful with that.
It's pretty much the spiciest thing on the planet.
[clears throat] So... um, what are we doing?
Getting Seo-yeon back.
With radishes?
Some men are poets. Some men...
this is all we got.
-Let me take just one photo! -[Do-hwan] I can't do it.
Please, just one picture!
-Please, Do-Hwan! -Fine, fine, Seo-yeon!
Do-hwan! [screaming]
[upbeat music]
So, Claire...
Tell me about yourself.
What's your deal?
Uh... me? I'm... I'm nothing.
Hey, don't you think that Seo-yeon is much nicer than Ga-in?
Seo-yeon?
She's a fantastic sous chef.
Where're you from?
Oh, it doesn't matter.
Of course it does.
My father says that if you don't know where you came from,
you don't know where you're going.
Said.
My father passed recently.
Yeah... I heard.
He didn't just pass,
he killed himself.
And if I could just understand why...
then maybe everything else might make sense.
Yeah, um... [scraping sound]
Well, like...
Ow!
-Careful. Did you hurt yourself? -Uh, no.
No, it's not bad. It's just a scrape.
[Claire mumbling]
What's your father like?
My dad?
He worries about me a lot, I think.
Especially since Mom...
Well, since she's been gone it's been different.
-Did she... -Yeah.
He's changed a lot since it happened.
He doesn't smile much anymore...
I guess she was the one that always brought the happy to the relationship?
You know, she, she was a lot like your dad. Just... full of joy.
How do you know about my father?
Oh, I... I don't! I mean, I... it's...
Uh...
Claire?
[Claire winces in pain]
No, no, no, don't! That's just going to make it...
-Ah! -Worse.
Okay, there you go.
All right. [panting]
Calm down.
You okay?
What is that? Liquid fire?
Basically.
Hold on.
In just the right amount...
Oh my god!
Uh, we should...
Right, back to it.
[sizzling sound]
[Claire] Grand romantic gesture, done...
Done, okay! What time is she coming?
She didn't write me back yet.
You apologized and she just left it?
What did you say to her?
[Claire] "You're not fired. Can you come in now?"
Yeah.
That's not an apology!
What're you talking about?
"I'm sorry" is an apology.
-Boy, you are... -"I was a jerk" is an apology.
I'm not very good with words.
You don't need to be good with words to say sorry, Joon! Sorry is one word!
You need to find where she is and apologize to her, properly!
Fine, I'll go.
Let's just eat this now then, okay?
So it doesn't go to waste?
Fine.
Just hurry.
[ominous music]
We need to meet.
Let's go, come on! A little urgency here?
We just had a huge meal. Relax.
Savor.
Yes, you just made me the best meal of my life.
I really appreciate it. But I need you to focus up!
-Okay? All right. -Right. Right.
'Cause you need a sous chef.
And you know as well as I do that the only person who can do that is...
-Yeah? -Is...
Yeah, Seo-yeon, I know.
Joon?
Yeah?
Who is that?
It's a girl.
Drunken piggybacks. "Magnetic pull".
Weird.
[chilling music]
There's a new problem.
[zipper squeaks]
[Claire] Okay, she's going to open the door and then you say,
"I was a jerk," and "I'm sorry."
And that's it, it's really easy. Do you want to practice on me?
[clears throat]
Or... maybe not. I mean, we're here, so...
[doorbell rings] [Claire] It's fine.
You better have an explanation for this.
You told me it would all work out for me as long as I followed your directions.
So how do you explain what Joon is doing with her?
[Seth] An unintended consequence.
If I don't get what I want
you won't get what you want, either.
[Seth] You should watch your tone.
[chilling music]
And don't worry.
I always get what I want.
[ominous music]
[theme music]