When last we left our time traveler and surgeon, we saw what they did the first time. It was a lot like what they did the second time.
And now we get to learn more about Tonkla
Which starts with a cat, but unfortunately we’ve gone deeper into the past and this is the cat Tonkla’s Dad murders. We see more than I’d like but it’s not too graphic. Tonkla tries to stop his Dad and Dome drags him away.
Dome optimistically suggests they contact the police, even though they did nothing last time. Tonkla has a better solution, he kills their father. This I didn’t put together but it makes a lot of sense. He holds his cat’s collar as he lies to Dome about their father having an accident.
A father-son pair mud fishing/trapping/something near the lighthouse finds the dashcam footage of Title and Great. They hand it to the police chief. He watches it, destroys it, and threatens the father-son if they tell anyone about it.
Win learns that the DNA/fingerprint results from the rock are for Title, the chief’s son. He realizes there’s a cover-up and searches for more proof. He finds some CCTV footage of Title beating up Dome, but once he leaves the video guy calls someone to tattle on him.
I was right the first time, confused the second time
I had things mostly right at the end of episode 4, not in the last episode. It’s not that the pre-credits stuff is the first timeline. Tonkla and Win are living the miserable, Dome-dead, first timeline. Korn is in the first timeline with Tonkla, in the cardiac-arrest-second-timeline with Great.
Anyway, Tonkla is hacking away at juicy red tomatoes. Win calls to tell him Title killed Dome and he’ll use social media to expose him. Tonkla hallucinates the black cat, which I realize he also hallucinated back in episode 1. Black cat = he’s feeling murderous? Because he looks like it with an evil smile as blood-red tomato juice goes down the drain.
Those guys on the motorcycles shoot Win in the arm and steal the CCTV footage. Tonkla finds him in the emergency room. Win went to The Sign school of police work so there’s no backup but he’s determined to get More Evidence.
Tonkla looks near the lighthouse for that evidence and finds the father-son duo. The son is smarter than Win, he has a backup of the dashcam footage on his phone and shows Tonkla.
Thanks to social media, Tonkla realizes Great is Korn’s brother. And the hallucinated cat reminds him about a gun he has sitting there. Probably from Win? I don’t remember it.
Thankfully they don’t show us him killing Title again.
We catch up to the fifth episode
Great’s family is leaving the country but Great is missing. Korn learns his brother has been shot.
Den gets heart cookies from his 4 Minutes cardiac arrest patient. She remembers that it was her boyfriend’s voice that brought her out of the 4 Minutes world before she died. Den is stunned, but she and her boyfriend are now broken up. So everything is fine.
Den sees the bloody Great arrive and calls Tyme as scheduled, leading us to the Tyme-running-down-the-hall scene. His face is injured in this first/real version because he got beat up trying to rescue Nan.
He’s full of guilt for using, rejecting, and yelling at Great. Den tells him it’s not his fault. Tyme says everything was under his control, but he can’t go back and fix it. Does that have a deeper meaning?
He visits an unconscious Great, holding his hand and asking him to forgive him. Is this connected to the note asking for forgiveness on the Thai tea? I’m still working that one out. Tyme wants to take him out to a meal when he wakes up.
Great’s eyes stay closed but you can see his eye moves. Tyme cries.
We catch up to the first episode
Tyme’s home is ransacked. He video calls Grandma so he can see her say things are fine before she gets shot to death. It’s Korn’s evil uncle helper, Warit. I’m surprised he did this hit himself. He gets on video chat to be a villain and reveal secrets to Tyme because Tyme is about to die.
Specifically, he says he’s the one who ordered the hit on Tyme’s parents. He regrets letting Tyme grow up to damage his business.
But rather than kill Tyme, he’s killed Tyme’s grandma and left some other guy to shoot Tyme in the stomach.
We move further back in time
It’s young young Great with his parents, when things were innocent and happy.
His Dad is having business troubles, so his mom offers to bring in some investors she knows. These are Tyme’s parents, who own casinos on the border.
Thus, like many drama couples, Tyme and Great met as kids. Great shared his candy and Tyme shared his video game screen. Young young Great gets scared by a dog and hides behind Tyme. Did Tyme remember his fear of dogs from this incident? He didn’t remember anything about his parents owning casinos.
It’s not a time-loop show so much as a past repeating itself show
Tyme’s parents are in trouble and could take the business down with them, so evil uncle Warit will take care of things. Like Korn, Great’s Dad doesn’t want them to be killed. Once upon a time, Great’s Dad was a nice guy too.
Young Tyme gets left with Grandma by his mom, who hands Grandma a red book and promises to come back.
Tyme remembers this as he gets shot in the stomach in the “present”. The hitman is distracted and Tyme runs away. But we already know how this ends. Great is being defibbed while Tyme gets shot again. Tyme’s heart beats furiously. It’s 11 and there is the sound of flatlining.
Then Tyme is standing, just fine, in his living room, facing a clock. It strikes 11. Grandma calls for him to eat some food. When he gets something for her, he finds the red book. Inside it says, “Tyme, Mom and Dad are sorry”.
Grandma says it’s his Mom’s diary. She gives him a choice, put it back or keep it.
Someone slowly dims the lights on Tyme.
I feel like I’m watching a whole lot of backstory
I like that the cat turns into this hallucinatory portent of doom. It’s a nice kind of revenge for its terrible death. Also, the actor playing Tonkla is impressive with his ability to go from sweet and innocent to malicious and bloodthirsty. Despite the backstory feeling of this episode, he made his scenes a pleasure to watch.
The first five episodes seemed to be Great experiencing the cardiac-arrest-4-minutes phenomenon, but here we ended on Tyme’s heart pounding and possible hallucination. So was he going through the same thing? Will this open-the-diary-or-not-open-the-diary choice change anything in real life? Is it tied to Tyme saying he controlled every decision?
Warit has a timeless, evil feeling, will he be more than a horrible greedy murderer?
We’ve only got one episode left and I’m hoping it doesn’t reveal this was all 5 episodes of Great hallucinating while in cardiac arrest followed by 2 episodes of backstory. But I’m worried.