The Frog Episode 5 Recap: Now that we’re halfway through the show, one expects the resolutions to begin unfolding. But ‘The Frog’ continues to drop bomb after bomb, keeping the viewers on the edge of their seats throughout. We are continuing the Episode-wise recap of the show and here goes the recap and summary of Episode 5.
Episode 5 starts with an older Yoon Bo-min catching the news of the alleged suicide of a journalist in pursuit of writing a biography on the serial killer. The scene jumps to a younger Yoon, spilling her secrets to decode crime to another journalist.
We are then transported back to where episode 4 left off, with Jeon and Yoo’s car crash. Jeon is admitted to a hospital where Yoo tries to find him. While he manages to successfully hide from her, he reaches home only to find out that she has done away with the evidence troubling him. She reiterates her plan of never leaving unless Jeon can convince her otherwise.
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Meanwhile Jeon, with the help of his friend comes up with a plan to take multiple reservations so as to keep Yoo out of the house. He ignores her calls and messages and takes booking after booking to keep the house occupied at all times.
The Frog Episode 5 Recap
In the meantime, we also repeatedly spot Gi-ho, now older and without his parents, making dubious appearances. First, we see him trying to look for his grandmother, Jong-du’s mother at a hospital. And later, we allegedly see him exiting the apartment of the reporter writing the biography of the killer, who killed himself. This connection can be made by the fact that the ultimate scene of the last episode saw him seated in front of the killer responsible for his family’s downfall.
Yoo on the other hand, is frustrated about not being allowed to enter the villa and having no contact with Jeon. Until one day when the local police officer Kim Seon-tae befriends and invites her. Jeon makes a sudden reappearance and sits down to have dinner with them. He warns Kim about Yoo without disclosing much information. Kim however, is under the illusion that Yoo works for Jeon and the latter illtreats her. Back in Jeon’s room, Yoo comes up with an alternative deal for them to coexist peacefully.
She offers to live together, if not, she threatens to let him in on how she killed her child. With Jeon so helpless, the place was virtually already hers. Jeon loses his cool and strangles Yoo, leaving her only seconds before she is asphyxiated. A seething Kim sees this and goes after Jeon, only to be stopped and distracted by Yoo seducing him.
Jeon drives away, and in the middle of the road spots a wild boar, the same one he claimed to have seen before. In a fit of rage, he attempts to run the boar over but seemingly misses. On returning home, he finds Kim and Yoo sleeping in his bed and vehemently beats Kim for trespassing. The scuffle ends with both of them back at the police station, with Jeon declining to press charges, and offering to forget what happened.
Kim however remains unsatisfied with the series of events and goes back to the vacation home to investigate further. There he finds Jeon’s bag with his laptop and microphone, the pieces of evidence Yoo claimed to have done away with earlier. But before he can do anything about it, he comes across Yoo, who will go to any lengths to hide her reality, and thus, runs him over. While he does manage to call his senior at the police station, his fate gets the best of him.
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Yoo, dirty from all the mud and blood calls Jeon who reluctantly agrees to sell his home to her. The episode ends back where it first started, with a young Yoon narrating her case studies to the reporter, and transitions into an old Yoon at the vacation home, proving why she is, as the episode title suggests, ‘it’ in this game of tag.
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