Trolley (트롤리) is a thriller-mystery Korean drama series directed by Kim Mun-kyo, written by Ryu Bo-ri and stars Kim Hyun-joo and Park Hee-soon in lead roles. The series takes over SBS’ Monday-Tuesday 10 PM KST timeslot previously occupied by Cheer Up.
Trolley episode 5 has a runtime of 60 minutes.
Netflix’s description of the series reads:
A SUDDEN TRAGEDY BRINGS THE WIFE OF AN ASSEMBLYMAN OUT OF HER PRIVATE LIFE AND FORCES HER TO CONFRONT FAMILY SECRETS AND HER OWN TROUBLING PAST.
– Trolley Episode 5 Review Contains Spoilers –
Trolley episode 5 starts with Hye-joo getting the biggest surprise of her life when she finds Seung-hee at her doorstep. Thinking back to her past, when she ran from her hometown with blood on her hands and found herself in Seoul – ultimately changing her name legally and moving on with her own life.
In the present, Seung-hee calls her a murderer, and Hye-joo stands there looking rather shocked and scared. When Soo-bin comes out of the house, she asks Seung-hee to talk later since she’s busy that day, and she gives her her phone number to keep in touch. Soo-bin picks up on the odd behaviour and looks at Seung-hee suspiciously.
Meanwhile, Joong-do and Woo-jae meet Ki-young, who tells them to stop doing what they are doing. Joong-do starts to chat about Hye-joo and her fond memories of her hometown, from where Ki-young also hails. The comment takes him by surprise, but he doesn’t say anything. After Ki-young leaves, Joong-do is shocked to find out about Seung-kyu’s mother’s suicide attempt and thinks about Ji-hoon’s death.
No sooner does Seung-hee gets on the bus home, she starts to threaten Hye-joo and asks her whether Joong-do knows about her past. Seung-hee then tells her to meet at Youngsan the next day, and Hye-joo is left heartbroken and scared. At home, Seung-hee gets into an argument with her mentally abusive mother, who always finds fault with her and, afterwards, texts Hye-joo to meet her at an address.
That night, Soo-bin decides to take initiative and deliver porridge to Hye-joo but gets screamed at for coming in and checking her ringing phone without permission. However, Hye-joo’s love for Yoon-seo later on, makes Soo-bin rather heartbroken. Meanwhile, Joong-do goes to meet Seung-kyu’s wife and gets royally harassed by his father; the entire interaction is caught by Woo-jae, who secretly records the entire thing.
Later, Soo-bin, unable to find her lip balm, goes to Hye-joo’s workplace in a last-ditch effort to find it and finds the sesame oil from Youngsan that reminds her of the interaction between Seung-hee and Hye-joo. Back at home, both Hye-joo and Joong-do feel heartbroken surrounding their personal predicaments but are unable to share them with each other.
The next morning, Hye-joo is a bundle of nerves as she wonders whether to go to Youngsan or not. Soo-bin’s snooping doesn’t help, and when she breaks a red paint bottle in the middle of the workday, she is immediately transported to her past, thinking back to washing away the blood from her hands. She later gets a call from Yeo-jin, who tells her about another politician from Daehan Party whose wife murdered someone and ran away from the crime scene.
Hye-joo can’t help but draw parallels between their lives and her own.
While everyone talks about Ko Ji-seop’s fate, the others in Joong-do’s office discuss the merits of having a quiet and trouble-free wife like Hye-joo, who, in the meantime, is getting calls and texts from Seung-hee. She talks to her after some thoughts and promises to travel to Youngsan later.
Meanwhile, Joong-do finds Gwi-soon cleaning one of his office’s steps, and after they bid her goodbye, we get to know that Seung-kyu had, in fact, leaked the revenge porn video before ending his life. Joong-do personally hired a specialist to get all the videos off the internet. However, it’s not an easy task in the slightest. But, for Gwi-soon’s sake, Joong-do hopes that there are no follow-up articles in the news anymore.
As Hye-joo reaches Youngsan, she thinks back to the night of the incident – it turns out that, like Seung-kyu, Seung-ho was a piece of human garbage and couldn’t keep his hands to himself. He sexually assaulted Hye-joo and tried to cover it up by bribing her. When she wouldn’t fall for that, she bribed her with a sure-shot chance at higher education. Being an orphan without the means to pay for university education, a heartbroken Hye-joo had no other option but to take it in lieu of her silence.
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However, Seung-ho had the audacity to slut shame her right outside the door, and after she saw that people were celebrating her assaulter’s victory, she went to the police. Of course, being a coward and a generally bad person with no sense of taking responsibility for his own actions, Seung-ho committed suicide and his mother and sister, like enablers, blamed the victim in all this mess, forcing Hye-joo to run away eventually.
In the present, when Hye-joo reaches her destination, she finds Joong-do there with Seung-hee and Ki-young, and Seung-hee looks rather cocky as if she has pulled off the biggest switcheroo in history.
Trolley Episode 5 Review
I am so confused as to what Hye-joo is scared of – I had genuinely thought that she murdered someone with her own hands and is thus running away. However, she was a victim of a violent crime committed against her. She literally had no other fault unless her account is skewered and isn’t the entire truth.
I am confused as to why she is letting Seung-hee terrorise her like this. I am sure she is still reeling from the past trauma. However, she is an adult with her own child; it has been 20 years since the incident. You’d hope that she’d gain more perspective about the situation at this point, considering she has her own daughter who is almost the same age as the past her.
Meanwhile, we see literally nothing of Soo-bin in this episode other than her snooping around to find her lip balm. There’s something sneaky happening with her, and I am almost certain there’s something going on between her and Joong-do. However, that still remains to be seen.
Woo-jae’s surprising video capturing is also another curious aspect, and now I have a feeling that he is also teaming up with Soo-bin, maybe. I might be totally wrong, but there’s just something going on here that is not quite on the up and up.
The series has created a curious mystery that I am very interested to know. Trolley episode 6 is a bit infuriating, but it does try its best to bring an interesting story to the forefront.
Trolley is streaming on Netflix.
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