The Bequeathed (2024) K Drama Episode 4

Episode 4 of The Bequeathed starts with Young-ho driving back home, mumbling about having to take ownership of the land so the killings can stop. He does not realise someone else has been snooping around his house as he walks in and lies beside his father’s alter, talking to his picture. He begs him for help to take ownership of the land, or the killings will continue.

Young-ho finds a note beside his father’s portrait saying that “Yoon Seo-ha and Kang Hong-sik will die,” and he wails, screaming at whoever left the note to stop and then burns the note. Sung-jun follows up on the temple investigations and arrives at Gyeongamsa Temple while Jung-hyun continues to follow Young-ho under Sang-min’s orders.

Sung-jun arrives at the temple, which is more of a fortune teller’s house, but no one answers when he knocks on the door, so he looks around while taking pictures. Meanwhile, Seo-ha receives a message from Hong-sik, who asks to meet in person and sends him an address, and she hurriedly leaves the house. Young-ho follows her hot on her tail, but when she sees him, Seo-ha takes a diversion. Young-ho can follow through the traffic, but the detective cannot follow them. Back at the Temple, Sung-jun finds a lot of animal blood in a shed when suddenly a woman pulls a gun at him. 

Seo-ha is still wary of her half-brother, and she does not pull over, thinking he is trying to harm her. Young-ho manages to cut her off after a long chase, but she locks herself in her car, refusing to talk to him. Young-ho frantically tries to warn her about the land, telling her the only way to end everything is by giving up the land.

The detective catches up to them and arrests Young-ho, who begs Seo-ha to give up the land so she can live. The detectives take Young-ho to the interrogation room while Seo-ha waits there. Sang-min sends a police officer to the address Seo-ha provides, and he finds Hong-sik’s half-burnt body inside his half-burned car.

The woman at the temple is willing to talk to Sung-jun, and he asks her about the drawing on Seo-ha’s and Young-ho’s doors. The woman says she inherited the temple from her grandmother 15 years ago. She does not know the man, and the drawing looks old-fashioned, like something her godmother would draw. The godmother is at a nursing home, and Sung-jun requests to pay a visit.

Meanwhile, the detectives find out that Seo-ha has been texting with Hong-sika, and she had sent her to dig up dirt on Young-ho. Seo-ha blames Young-ho for killing Hong-sik and says that they should have listened and arrested him. She is afraid that she will be killed next. Sang-min is convinced that Young-ho killed both Seo-ha’s husband and the private investigator. The interrogation between him and Young-o gets heated as Young-ho remains adamant that he did not kill anyone. 

Sung-jun arrives at the nursing home accompanied by the woman from the temple. The godmother is at first afraid of Sung-jun, but when he shows her the drawing, she starts scolding him like a person from the past. She says that the drawing is wrong and that if the person wants to become her disciple, he needs to start listening to what she says. She tells Sung-jun that he dragged his child with him and begged her to let them stay, and she felt sorry for them.

She adds that the child she refers to is not the chosen one, and he is not chosen to be a Shaman since he has neither the talent nor the gift. Sung-jun deciphers that the godmother might be talking about Young-ho and his father. 

Sang-min asks the chief for a warrant to search Young-ho’s house, betting everything on the fact that Young-ho is the culprit. The chief warns him that he will be done if he is wrong this time. Sang-min sends his men to Young-ho’s house, but they do not find anything significant, not even the murder weapon. In addition, Sang-min receives a call from the precinct with a report that a trace of the locations of Young-ho and Hong-sik’s phones show that they never overlap, meaning that the two never met before Hong-sik’s death.

Therefore, the detectives have nothing to do, and Sang-min tries to plead with Seo-ha to file a case against Young-ho so they can hold him longer, but she says she will not file a complaint. Coincidentally, Sang-min receives a text from the chief, who is angry because they did not find anything and asks him to relieve Young-ho immediately. 

Meanwhile, Sung-jun receives a call from the medical examiner and tells him about a blood stain found on the Seo-ha husband’s neck. Contrary to Sang-min’s belief that the two murder cases are not related, Sung-jun has been investigating under the notion that the murder of Myung-gil is connected to the murder of Seo-ha’s husband.

Things get tricky when the medical examiner says that the blood sample shows that Young-ho shares a maternal lineage with the blood sample and Seo-ha shares a paternal lineage with the blood sample. In addition, the source of the blood sample is a female with type A blood. Therefore, the culprit might be a woman related to Young-ho and Seo-ha. 

At the end of the episode, Young-ho is released from police custody, and a group of people kidnap him when he stops at a red light. 

The Episode Review

I am as confused as you might be about the medical examiner’s explanation of the relationship between the possible culprits, Young-ho and Seo-ha. If they share a maternal lineage with Young-ho and a paternal lineage with Seo-ha, does it mean that Young-ho’s mother and father are blood relatives? Four episodes in, and the plot gets even more confusing. We have more questions than answers, and the mystery is becoming frustrating.

The plot thickens in this episode and adds a layer of suspense at the end with Young-ho’s kidnapping. Therefore, we look forward to a possible resolution to the intricate story in the next episode!