In episode 4 of Behind Your Touch (Season 1), Ye-bun’s powers continue to develop as she learns to see memories by touching people’s butts in different ways. Meanwhile, Jang Yeol is determined to solve the case of the robbery at the Mujin tourism center, and he takes Ye-bun’s help. Amidst the backdrop of investigations and personal entanglements, the episode culminates in a shocking cliffhanger that raises questions about the true motives of various characters and sets the stage for more intriguing revelations in the episodes to come.
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Behind Your Touch (Season 1), Episode 4 Recap:
In this episode, we continue from where we left off. Jang Yeol takes Ye-bun for a meal. He finally believes in her powers and gives her suggestions to try various methods like poking and kneading to see memories of specific times. Ok Hui tells Ye-bun that she is right and wrong, and she wants to know how she knows. Ye-bun decides to tell Ok Hui about her powers. Ye-bun takes Jang Yeol’s suggestion and takes Ok Hui’s permission to test out her powers on her. Ye-bun realizes that doing certain actions allows her to see the past. Like scrolling on the phone, she can see the desired memory. Meanwhile, Jang Yeol checks on Sia at the hospital but is annoyed to see her use this situation as a streaming opportunity.
The team that went ahead to catch Ted Chang was successful in catching him but with the help of Special Forces. This chase came with certain casualties. Jung Muk tried to use a pencil to take down all the Ted Chang members, but he was thrown out after being hit and punched while holding the broken pencil. Assemblyman Ju-Man comes to the hospital to congratulate the team that caught Ted Chang and took photos with them. Jung Muk was taking a jab at Jang Yeol as he had left the group to catch the kidnapper. He is annoyed with Ye-bun because he lost his chance to go back to Seoul because of her.
Sia is doing a live stream in the hospital, and Ju-Man asks his members who she is and how many followers she has. He realized she was popular, took advantage of the situation, popped into her live stream, promoted himself, and asked people to vote for him in the coming elections. Jang Yeol takes out his frustration on Ye-bun and blames her for not being able to go to Seoul. He gives her huge case files and asks her to help solve the cases. Ye-bun tells him that she will lose her hair if she overuses her powers. He threatens her by saying she should shave off her hair so it won’t be a problem.
They start by solving smaller cases. Ye-bun pretends to be a masseuse to catch a villain. He chases her into the parking lot, and she tells Jang Yeol that he is at a karaoke bar singing a particular song; she starts singing it, and the villain joins in. By the end of the day, Ye-bun is tired, and she tells Jang Yeol about her delicate hands. He uses harsh methods to strengthen her, and that method, in turn, gives her burns on her fingers. She rushes to the convenience store as she would also get a chance to meet Sun-woo.
At the store, she meets Mr. Park doing a live stream on Metube. Sun-woo helps her by putting an ointment on her fingers. They have a meal together, and Sun-woo asks her to be his friend. He also mentions that he was interested in some girl. Ye-bun is curious as they walk home. She attempts to touch his butt to know who the girl is but fails. Finally, she makes an excuse to touch his butt, but her vision is blurred. The next day, she cannot see anything, even when she feels animals’ butts. Ye-bun’s aunt takes her father to the hospital, and a slight misunderstanding occurs between him and Sia, and Sia is rude and obnoxious to them.
At the hospital, Hyun-ok (Ye-bun’s aunt) sees Jung Muk and tries to comfort him but ends up hurting him even more. He complains that she always pretends to help him, but he always gets hurt. Ye-bun realizes that her powers are not working because of the burns. Mujin Tourism Center is robbed, and Jang Yeol is excited as solving this case would help him return to Seoul. During the questioning, Ju-Man explains that one of the people who donated did so with his wife’s name, which could harm his reputation during elections. He had wanted to send the donation back as there was a cap on the contributions, but the document was stolen.
Jang Yeol rushes to Ye-bun to ask her for help but is met with bad news. Hearing the situation, Jang Yeol buys every hand skin care product available. He also visits Ok Hui’s store, and he ends up dropping a lip balm, and he asks Ok Hui to use it as her lips are chapped. Ok Hui’s heart skips a beat as she starts falling for him. Meanwhile, Jang Yeol is massaging Ye-bun and taking care of her hands. Ok, Hui walked in on them when they were in an awkward position. Ye-bun explains to her and tells Jang Yeol that she also knows of her powers.
During the investigation, they realized a homeless man was in the view where the robbery took place, but he wasn’t answering any of Jang Yeol’s questions. Ye-bun takes the man to a meal and finds a way to touch his butt. She gives her his card and tells him to call her when he wants free meals. Ye-bun tells Jang Yeol that the man had seen the incident, but at an important time, he had fallen asleep.
Jang Yeol takes Ye-bun to a political rally and asks her to touch everyone’s butt to find the robber. She is shocked but takes Ok Hui’s help to achieve her goals. Ok Hui selects people from her group who can create havoc during the rally, giving Ye-bun a chance to touch everyone’s butt. The mission begins, and Ye-bun runs around, touching everyone’s butt.
She touches Ju-Man’s closest men and realizes he was in the office that night the robbery occurred. She tells Jang Yeol, and he tells her that he must have a good reason to do so. Jang Yeol asks Ye-bun to touch a woman’s butt who was watching from afar. As soon as the woman saw Ye-bun running towards her, she started to run, but Ok Hui threw a shoe at her and fell to the ground. Ye-bun touches her butt twice. Jang Yeol asks her if she saw anything, but she looks him in the eye and says she cannot see anything.
Behind Your Touch (Season 1), Episode 4 Ending, Explained:
In Ye-bun’s Vision – Who Robs Mujin Tourism Centre?
Sia gets released from the hospital, visits the convenience store, flirts with Sun-woo, and decides to drive herself. She was on a call with her boyfriend while trying to light a cigarette, and at that moment, she did not see a truck coming towards her, and she swerved off the road, hurting herself. Kwang-shik, the truck driver, offers to help her, but she refuses. She was alone, and a stranger in a black cloak knocked her out and dragged her away while holding a knife. The episode ends with Ye-bun returning home to see her grandfather. She had seen memories of touching the woman’s butt. She had noticed that the culprit had shoes similar to Dr. Jung’s.
This episode leaves us with many questions. Sia, who we had assumed to be a harmless streamer, is a rude person in real life. Someone again kidnaps her, and we don’t know who it is or why she was abducted. Could it be her boyfriend or a stalker? There are also many infatuations intertwined. We know Ye-bun has feelings for Sun-woo, and he has feelings for someone, and that someone may be Ye-bun. Sia is flirting with Sun-woo. Ok Hui has feelings for Jang Yeol and assumes he has feelings for her too.
We are yet to understand if Dr. Jung really did steal that document, and if yes, then why? It is also going to be interesting to see how Ye-bun will handle this situation. There is also something off about Sun-woo, and we would like to learn his real intentions in the coming episodes.
