Ajusshi comes flying in to defend Mom's honor, but before anyone gets hurt Mom tells Ajusshi to let go of him. She yells at everyone to just leave Joon-young alone, but Gook-young is all We have to find him first!"
Mom goes outside for some fresh air and finally lets herself worry about Joon-young. She wonders where he is, and who the girl is that he's with. She gets a text from a friend that Assemblyman Choi Hyun-joon was at the concert, and she doesn't know that from a nearby car, Choi's wife is watching her.
In flashback we see Assemblyman Choi conducting a business meeting, which he cuts short when he sees a woman who looks like Joon-young's mother. He calls her by Mom's name, but the woman claims to be "Madam Song," and gives him her business card to come see her at her new business in Cheongdamdong.
When Eul gets back to Seoul, Na-ri tells her about the rumors flying around, that Joon-young only agreed to do the documentary because she's blackmailing him. Eul thinks that's nonsense, but her face is all over the internet regardless, and Na-ri helps her work on a disguise.
Gook-young calls Eul again, now accusing her of lying about not knowing where Joon-young is. She yells (while Na-ri tries unsuccessfully to shush her) that she doesn't know, and to call the police if he's that worried.
Haru hunts down Jik to ask how he knows Eul, and why he's so determined to protect her. He skirts the question and refuses to tell Haru where Eul is, even when Haru whines that she's worried Eul did something to Joon-young. He picks up Haru and tosses her in the dumpster, telling her to leave her trashy thoughts in there, ha.
Eul's ridiculous disguise does more to draw attention than deflect it, and Gook-young is still calling her. She recalls another memory, of getting up the previous night to throw up again, and seeing Joon-young washing her filthy clothes outside in the cold. Awww.
She tells Gook-young again that really and truly, she hasn't seen Joon-young since last night, but that his car was on the pier so she figures he's driven himself home by now. She sends Gook-young the location where Joon-young left his car.
There are reporters swarming outside Na-ri's place, forcing Eul to hide behind a car. Ji-tae sneaks up on her and quietly leads her to their restaurant to feed her. He takes off her floppy hat and sunglasses and gives her his ball cap, and Eul calls him a coward for running away last night.
Ji-tae meekly agrees that he's a coward, and that he should be ashamed of himself. He admits that he's as confused as she is, and wonders if he should have gotten her hangover soup. Eul asks how he knew she drank last night, and he says that she drunk-dialed him from Joon-young's phone.
He asks if Joon-young was there, but Eul doesn't remember calling him at all. She asks what she said, and Ji-tae nervously says he doesn't remember, either. He steps outside to take a call from Jung-eun, and tells her he's in a meeting.
Someone told Jung-eun that they saw Ji-tae at Joon-young's concert, but he denies having the time for such things. Jung-eun says the friend must be mistaken, all the while looking at a photo that clearly shows Ji-tae holding Eul's arm outside the theater.
Inside, Eul is berating herself, clearly remembering her whiny pleading call to Ji-tae last night. She also remembers waking in the night to find Joon-young lying next to her, watching her sleep. She'd turned over with her back to him, and Joon-young had softly wondered, "What should I do? The weird girl who turned her back to me, won't even cast me a glance. Instead she wants the guy who abandoned her."
He'd muttered that he's Shin Joon-young, and wondered if he should comfort her, or threaten to hit her. He doesn't know she's lying awake, listening to him ask if he should take her to a doctor, questioning if he was too late. "Should I give up and send you to that guy?"
Ji-tae goes back inside to find Eul gone and his hat on the table — she grabs a taxi and goes all the way back to where she last saw Joon-young (and ouch, that cab fee). His car is still there on the pier, as is Gook-young, who says that nobody in the area has seen Joon-young.
Eul is genuinely concerned now, but Gook-young says he hasn't called the police because that would trigger a huge media storm. He turns on Eul, accusing her of killing Joon-young for his watch, heh, and she just threatens to kill Gook-young as well. He hits a little closer to home when he brings up Joon-young's public confession and Eul's equally public rejection, saying that Joon-young is nothing without his pride.
Eul heads back to the ajumma's place where she spent the night, but the ajumma hasn't seen him either. Eul goes into their room to look for any clues, and she sits in the dark, worried that she may have said something in her drunken state to cause Joon-young to do something to himself.
Another memory surfaces, of Eul waking in the early hours to see Joon-young sitting next to her. She imagines him there now, and sees what he must have been looking at — a picture of a nearby island. She asks the ajumma how to get there, and waits outside the ferry office, huddled under newspapers for warmth.
She ends up asking a local fisherman for a ride, and by morning she's running all over the island calling Joon-young's name. But he's nowhere to be found, and she calls Gook-young, who by now is crying with worry. But at that exact moment Eul spots Joon-young sitting on an overlook, fast asleep.
She yells at him for sleeping when everyone is worried sick about him, complaining about everything she did to find him when he was fine all along ("I got bitten by a seagull!" HA). Joon-young doesn't say a word but stands to walk away, and Eul cuts him off, asking if he thinks this is a dream.
She says that she's really here right now, but Joon-young still just stares at her. Eul reaches out to pinch him and he stops her hand, and just says one word… "Go."
He's serious, and he tells Eul again to get out of his sight. He walks past her, leaving her standing there, stunned.