When last we left the cop and the witness, there was a head injury and a hit-by-car injury.
We start with the head injury
Thup’s fine. Sing scolds him, but Thup is unscoldable.
Also, I got it wrong: it wasn’t the statue that broke, but the incense holder, warning Thup that Sing was in trouble.
King arrives to tell them about Darin. They find Sey, who blames himself for not being there and stopping the car. King does one thing right and reminds Sey that it’s not his fault.
Darin needs blood and King’s matches. Sey is reluctantly grateful to King for not being a monster and helping. I mean. Fine. And now Sing thinks he owes King. Why?
Sey wonders if Sing and King will get together again. Sings says it’s not completely impossible. It should be.
Thup brings food and blood
King size shames him, saying Thup can’t donate blood because he’s so small. Oh, burn? Later, King makes a point of showing how he knows what Sing likes to eat.
Back at Sing’s place, Sing is fine with his new fish. Thup is Not Okay with Sing not eating the food he got. Sing wants to know why Thup is angry, and after some pushing, Thup asks if Sing and King were more than coworkers.
Sing says it’s the past, and Thup doesn’t need to be involved.
Back at the hospital, King tells Sey how to act around the unconscious Darin. Then he tells Sey to stop talking. I hate him so much.
Thup pitches a tent in Sing’s living room and zips himself in. He ignores Sing in the morning, forcing Sing to investigate another victim’s home alone.
Outside the victim’s home, Mek spots the statue in a leaf-covered pool. Split-mouth ghost grabs him and pulls him in, holding him there until Sing rescues him. He swears to Sing that it was a ghost, but Sing is doubtful.
Sey thinks Sing needs to make up with Thup
Whether or not they believe in ghosts, others do, and Thup is useful. So they need him back.
Sing brings home flowers to use as an offering and a rosary. That works, Thup is easy.
Thup admits he got too upset, and Sing doesn’t have to tell him about King. But Sing says he and King grew close while working together. We’re almost forced to watch a flashback kiss, but Thup saves us.
They aren’t anything anymore, and Sing’s happy alone. Thup takes this as an invitation to make moves. Sing is flustered, they nearly kiss, but … Sing’s not ready yet.
Later, Thup is alone in his tent when a blackout hits. It looks like another ghost is after him, but it’s just Sing in a facemask. He’s there to keep Thup company. Awww.
Thup cuddles a “sleeping” Sing, who lets him.
Sey is doing the same with Darin
Darin wakes up, and there’s smiling and flirting and hugging, even though one of them was recently hit by a car.
Thup and Sing join them. Neither Sey nor Sing believes a ghost chased Darin, but Darin recognizes the split-mouth ghost from Thup’s drawing.
Sing thinks the doll from the mall went with the last victim, since they didn’t find one at her home. And I was wrong, the hair on the doll isn’t Thup’s. It doesn’t match anyone, except probably the killer.
Everyone goes to Santi Tham House to investigate. Thup is the expert, and King can’t stand it. King makes a thing out of knowing Sing is a Saturday baby. But Thup was also born on a Saturday, so he wins.
This is very silly. King is a rude jerk, and Thup stares him down, good for him.
7 people were murdered, let’s focus
A woman serving food recognizes 3 victims from their photos, but not others. Thup agrees to take food, giving them an excuse to walk past an old clay kiln.
There, Sing finds pieces of clay dolls.
Sing’s main suspect is now Ta Khuean, who handles the account for Santi Tham House. There’s a master named Aisoon, but he’s ill, so Ta Khuean has more power.
At the hospital, Sey apologizes to Darin for their last conversation. He wants to be together again. Darin wants to know if he thinks they won’t end up the same way.
Sey said he tried dating someone else, but ended up back with Darin. That’s… romantic? Oh, Sey means he’d rather risk it ending the same way than be with anyone else. That is romantic. Gentle hug this time.
Sey brought food from Santi Tham House, and Darin realizes the victims had the same thing in their stomachs, bamboo shoots.
The ghost is becoming a problem
First, it goes after the cops collecting clay dolls at the other victims’ homes. Then it tries to kill one of the officers as he puts that new evidence away.
The mother ghost warns Thup, and everyone runs the three miles to the evidence room to stop the man from strangling himself.
Thup thinks the ghost wants to destroy the evidence, but since ghosts fear Sing, he should take it home. King sneers that Thup would mess with the evidence, but Sing is willing to take responsibility for it.
Really, Sing wants to protect his officers from whatever is happening. Once home, he wants to be sure Thup will be okay, but Thup feels safe in Sing’s home. Sing and Thup flirt over whether Sing will immediately kick Thup out once the case is closed.
Ta Khuean is Thup’s Dad, right?
Mek, Sing, and Thup go over what they know: Ta Khuean used to be a cop, and… attacked? His wife and kid. Who are now dead, though they don’t know why. But there’s no record of any homicide. Thup is an orphan.
Alone, King goes through his own files, showing Ta Kuean came from Sisaket. The same place Thup is from.
I’ve been wrong a few times, so we’ll see.
They’re at the hospital for Darin when Thup sees one of the ghost-hunting streamers chanting in a wheelchair. He follows, only to be attacked by the split-mouth ghost. She says she took 7, and she’ll take 7 more. That’s. Bad.
Then her mouth starts opening super wide to… eat him?
But Sing arrives and gives the anti-ghost hug Thup needs. Darin tries to help with an amulet, but Thup gives it back. No god can help him, only Sing.
They see the ghost streamer again, and he won’t stop saying the ghost calling chant. Except to say Wednesday, which is Darin’s birthday.
At home, Sing remembers when his mom got the Thao Wessuwan statue
That’s it. There must be more, but Sing’s flashbacks aren’t sharing.
Thup thinks the ghost is repeating the ritual because something went wrong the first time. He’ll reach out to people in Sisaket for what they might know.
Sey bathes Darin in a sweet, rather than sexy way. Darin is still anxious, and Sey wants them to be happy in the moment. Kissing! Soap bubble flirting!
Thup is led out of his tent by a ghostly voice telling him to follow. Sing sees him walk mindlessly across the room, pause to look at him, and then go outside despite Sing calling for him.
This reminds Sing of blurrier flashback times, when his younger sister Maysa did the same thing. I assume something bad happened to her? But we don’t see.
Sing grabs Thup and calls desperately for him to return. Thup doesn’t respond at first, but eventually he comes back. There is some electric, electric guitar, and Sing gives him a big hug.
Thup has been upgraded to sharing Sing’s bed!
Sing seems out of it and admits seeing Thup walk off reminded him of his sister. Thup gives him a side hug, telling him that it must have been hard. He can share more whenever he wants.
Hugggggggging! Kisssssing! Shirt coming off! But then Sing stops and says Thup is his witness. Once he’s not, then maybe…
Thup is happy to stay a witness. A witness to… he pushes Sing down aggressively. Sex? Of some kind, maybe? Morning cuddling for sure. Thup says he followed the rules and was only a witness. Sing is flustered and cute, Thup is teasing.
Uh oh, here’s King with some documents, putting Thup under arrest. I hate that guy.
I like puppy-Thup’s aggressive side
And I think Sing does too. He acts stern, but he’s a pushover with Thup. He let him move fish into his house, erect a tent, and then, er, witness him. I think he likes letting someone else be in charge. Someone cute like Thup.
I wonder if seeing ghosts requires that you believe in them at least a little? So far, the most susceptible to the ghost attacks seem to be Mek and Darin, who believed from the start.
In theory, Sing hasn’t seen anything because of whatever power Thup sees in him. But Sey and King, our other non-believers, also haven’t seen the ghost yet either.
I’m curious if whatever past tragedy with Sing’s family and his sister involves the split-mouth ghost. It feels like it’s a different ghost that called Thup from the tent.
I’m not sure how Sing got the name Ta Kuean, but I’m happy that we’re still being given real, specific clues. The whole thing with the 7 victims and days of the week feels very creepy and ritualistic.
I wonder who else will become a potential victim of the split-mouth ghost besides Darin. It feels like any and all of the other characters could be in danger. I want them all in danger.
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