The Frog Episode 3 Recap Netflix: Starting from where the previous episode left us, the third episode begins with Gi-ho, the son of the motel owners bringing the stolen liquor bottles to his bullies. The scene cuts to a flashback of a young Jeon, back when his wife was alive. He discusses selling off his apartment and leaving his job to fulfil his dying wife’s last wish of building a vacation home. However, Yoo’s arrival, as shown in the last episode snaps him back into reality.
While both Jeon and Yoo are familiar with each other owing to the gruesome events that took place a year prior, they act aloof in front of Jeon’s daughter, who has come by to visit her father. Reluctant to offer her his home, Jeon tries to refuse Yoo’s offer but gives in to his daughter’s request. At dinner, Yoo gifts the daughter a bottle of wine in gratitude, which Jeon finds suspicious. Once again, Yoo has given Jeon sleepless nights as nightmares of him, mistaking Yoo for his wife trouble his sleep.
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Meanwhile, the motel owners continued to do menial jobs to undo the damage the motel business caused them. Eun-gyeong is caught sneaking sips of alcohol and is fired from her waitressing gig. She has a mental breakdown and decides to quit smoking and drinking to become a better wife and mother.
The motel too, is on the verge of being sold, giving the family the perfect opportunity to start afresh. However, Gi-ho is still being bullied into bringing his bullies alcohol, and steals some from the refrigerator, before his mother empties out the rest. Gu Sang-jun narrates his tragic life story to his friend, reassuring himself that this too shall pass. On the other hand, Eun-gyeong seeingly undergoes post-traumatic stress as she reimagines the scene of the murder in her dreams.
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Unable to bring enough alcohol to his bullies, Gi-ho sneaks in his mother’s cigarettes and sleeping pills to appease the group. Things soon take a turn for the worse when one of the kids overdoses on the substances, and everyone has to rush to the police station. There, the other kids blame Gi-ho for their situation, who passes out from the maximum intake of sleeping pills.
On his palm, his mother reads the words ‘Murder Motel; 9 pm’, indicating that he was bullied into the act. Back at home, Gu Sang-jun, furious at the gall of his son threatens to beat him up, before his wife tells him about the bullying. He then barges into the parents’ meeting at school and beats up a parent who blames Gi-ho for everything. But, his friend’s mother, an old acquaintance of the police commissioner gets him out of trouble. The sale of the motel also falls through, as the parent he beat up was a close friend of the buyer.
Back at his friend Jong-du’s supermarket, Jong-du fights two naysayers who call the motel a washed-up tourist attraction. But their brawl is interrupted by the newbie police officer, who shows up with a journalist, to redeem the notoriety of the motel. Jong-du tries to convince Gu Sang-jun, but the latter is uninterested as he thinks it is unimaginable for the motel to go back into business again. The reporter wishes to bring to light the other lives that were affected when the murder took place- the lives of Gu Sang-jun and his family.
The scene cuts to the police station where the young officer receives an emergency call from Jong-du and hurries to the location. Here, the previous ambiguity of timelines becomes a little clearer as the cop’s name is revealed to be Yoon, similar to that of Yoon Bo-min, the older police officer. While we were aware that the two storylines of the murders do not take place in the same time and space, the distinction is now made clear. Young Yoon finds Gu Sang-jun in a helpless state as his wife lies before him, seemingly overdosed on alcohol and sleeping pills. She tries to resurrect the body by giving it CPR but fails to do so.
Back at the vacation home, Yoo cooks the same meal she cooked for her son before committing the crime, and Jeon, appalled at the voluntary coincidence, shoves her head into the dish. They then discuss why she is here, and the scene cuts to Jeon standing in the lake, with blood-stained hands, foreshadowing him presumably killing her. However, since the lines between hallucination and reality are often blurred in the series, one has to wait for the upcoming episodes to uncover the whole truth.
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He hastens towards the police station, where he once again hesitates to tell the truth and in the process, gets a nosebleed. While the police officers offer him a tissue to clean it up, what he discovers in his pockets rattles him from the inside out. He runs out of the police station and unravels a family photo with his wife and daughter, with the latter’s face circled red. The scene cuts to Yoo, in Jeon’s bedroom, acquiring the photograph from the frame.
Is Jeon’s innocent daughter her next victim? Or is she just messing with his head? These are just some of the questions we anticipate, going into the next episode. ?
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