Happiness Battle (Season 1), Episode 6: In this episode, we get to see what happened between Yu Jin and Jang when they were in high school. Jang is getting attached to the kids. Jung Ah has pictures and information on Yu Jin and Jang’s past. Na Young has woken up after being treated. Yu Jin’s husband is awake in the hospital but still has not opened up about what happened the day Yu Jin died. Some revelations have taken place though many mysteries remain to be solved.
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Happiness Battle (Season 1), Episode 6 Recap:
The episode begins with Na Young attempting suicide with a noose made out of her husband’s tie. Jang finds her and calls an ambulance. Na Young’s husband blames Jang for Na Young’s actions. The other mothers gossip and Jung Ah adds to it by saying Yu Jin has a temper, and so does Jang. Jung Ah, to be careful, removes the image she had uploaded of Jo and her child.
Jang is on her way to pick up Ha Yul and Ji Yul, but a kid riding a bicycle falls down, unable to control the cycle. Jang waits for the kid’s mother to come pick him up. She reaches the kindergarten, and the kids tell her that they wanted to go to the kids’ café, but they did not take them along. Jo tells Jang that she was uncomfortable last time and was looking after them. She asks what happened with Na Young, and Jang asks her to ask Na Young herself. Jang takes the kids home and promises to let them do what they want.
She and Jung Ah’s husband have a romantic chat over the call. Jung Ah buys perfume for all the other mothers. She offers to help one of the mothers find an essay tutor for her child. The mothers badmouth Jang, saying they did not know anything about her but let her in. One of the mothers says that she was cold from the beginning and never liked Jang. Jung Ah feeds off their energy and tells them that Jang had accused Na Young of Yu Jin’s death, and they had to keep a distance from her. Jung Ah asks her detectives to dig up Jang’s past, especially stuff from their high school years.
Jang receives a call from Yu Jin’s father-in-law informing her that he has found a nanny to look after the girls, who can start in a few days. Do Jun reads about the murder case using his father’s phone. Jin Seop calls Jang to check on her, and she tells him about Na Young’s suicide attempt and her plans to return to work. Jin Seop lies to her that he is home but spends the entire time at the bus stand talking to her. He consoles her, saying everything will be okay. The kids want to sleep with Jang, but she refuses.
Ji Yul and Ha Yul do not want to go to school the next day by leaving Jang. They do not want her out of their sight. Jang bumps into one of the mothers, who gives her a nasty look and a cold shoulder. Jang packs her bags and returns to work to talk to her senior. She tells him she will start working from Monday. Jin Seop tells Jang that everything will fall into place, but he feels terrible for the girls as kids their age understand who abandons them and who does not.
Jung Ah asks the other mothers to create a separate chatroom which excludes Jang. She receives information and pictures of Jang, and Jung Ah thinks aloud if Jang was acting all this while. Jang visits her mother and finds out that Yu Jin had visited her mother before she married and gave birth. Jang is furious that her mother had not told her this before. Jang tells her mother that the last time they spoke, they fought with each other and wondered about all those times Yu Jin came looking for her. Maybe she wants to make up to her.
We see a flashback to Jang and Yu Jin’s high school years. Yu Jin and Jang bond and have the same love towards each other as real siblings. Jang was happy as everything was going smoothly. She had ranked second in her class. One day, as Yu Jin and Jang are fooling around, Jang loses her balance and falls down a flight of stairs. Their mother yells at Yu Jin, blaming her for Jang’s fall. Someone asks Yu Jin and Jang’s father to carry Jang as she cannot walk. Jang’s mother is not happy about it. Jang’s mother asks her to cut her hair short, and Jang fights with her mother, asking why she does not yell at Yu Jin. She replies that it is because they are different.
Jang is crying in her bedroom, and Yu Jin comforts her. Jang asks Yu Jin why their mother discriminated between them. Yu Jin tells her that some mothers get jealous of their kids, especially when they are growing into a woman. The following day, Jang refuses help from Yu Jin, and in their fight, their bags fall, from which many condom packets fall out. A number of students and teachers notice this.
Their mother is called to the school. The mother tells the teacher that Yu Jin has inherited her mother’s temper, and she is curious about many things. Yu Jin hears this and blames everything on Jang. They start to fight. Things get out of hand when Yu Jin and Jang begin a physical fight. Jang pushes Yu Jin, and she hits her face on a stone. Their relationship deteriorated following this. Yu Jin’s ugly side comes through, because of jealousy, as she makes up rumors about Jang publicly in school and is blackmailed into killing herself if she does not admit to those things. Everyone blames Jang for all their miseries.
In the present, the kids are crying, telling Jang that they hate her. Jang jokingly tells them they are on their own. The kids ask her if she is going to abandon them too. Jang hugs them, and the three of them cry. Jang puts the kids to bed, goes through Yu Jin’s stuff, and finds an album containing hers and Jang’s pictures. Jang asks one of the mothers if she could have brunch with them as she has questions about Yu Jin. That mother tells her that it will never happen. She calls Jung Ah and asks the mother to keep pushing Jang away. The mother tells Jung Ah that some teachers and other mothers had visited Na Young. Jung Ah is shocked to hear Jo was one among them too.
The episode ends with Jang receiving a message asking her to meet in the parking lot, as the person sending the message had a deal to make. They ask her to bring the USB.
Happiness Battle (Season 1), Episode 6 Ending, Explained:
At the end of the episode, we hear a voice reading the message, which sounds like Ji Ye. The person sending her the message can be Ji Ye or Jung Ah. Jang’s life may be in danger as she has no idea about the USB, and if she does not deliver, the person who sent the message might threaten her.
Jo may have arrived at the hospital, and it will be revealed to the other mothers the real reason for Na Young’s actions. In anger, Na Young may also reveal things about Jung Ah. In this episode, we got to see Yu Jin and Jang’s past, from their early bond all the way up to its decline. We understand the characters a lot better now. Yu Jin grew up with a mother who abandoned her and a stepmother who discriminated between the kids. Jang was a clueless child who did not understand the repercussions of jealousy.
The next episode will be filled with action – Jang dealing with this person asking for the USB, Na Young’s reaction to Jo and her revelation of her husband’s truth, and Jung Ah’s next move as she has information about Jang’s past.
