Pandora Beneath the Paradise Episode 8 introduces us to various truths and Tae-ra’s important action toward Kim Sun-deok. The Korean thriller, aka Pandora: Jojakdwen Nakwon (판도라: 조작된 낙원), is an action drama that brings the story of a woman who has to reach the top to protect her family. Directed by Choi Young-hoon, the drama stars Lee Ji-ah, Lee Sang-yoon, Jang Hee-jin, Park Ki-woong, Bong Tae-kyu, and Shim So-young, alongside other cast members.
The show will have 16 episodes and takes over tvN’s Saturday-Sunday 9:10 PM KST timeslot previously held by Crash Course in Romance. Pandora Beneath the Paradise episode 8 has a run time of 60 minutes.
Disney+ synopsis of the show reads:
HONG TAERA LEADS A LIFE ENVIED BY ALL, WITH A PERFECT HUSBAND AND A LOVELY DAUGHTER. HOWEVER, HER LIFE TAKES A TURN WHEN REPRESSED MEMORIES RESURFACE.
-Pandora Beneath the Paradise Episode 8 Recap Contains Spoilers-
The episode starts with a flashback of the day when Ha-jun, the brother of Tae-ra, shoots president Tae-sun. Apparently, Sun-deok trains Ha-jun as No. 150, and when Tae-ra finds out about it, she immediately saves him. However, the scene cuts when a young Ha-jun is almost run over by a car.
Now back to the present, Tae-ra hugs the adult Ha-jun and asks him to forget the day he killed President Tae-sun. However, Ha-jun says that he will get back and live a normal life with her as her brother only if she can throw her daughter Jiu and husband Jaehyun behind. Tae-ra remains quiet and Ha-jun drives away, remembering all his past.
Meanwhile, Sun-deok and Jaehyun are sitting inside a car watching the death news of Chairman Song. Sun-deok tells Jaehyun that No. 150 is very skilled, to which Jaehyun replies that at the end of the blood is thicker than water – meaning that Tae-ra and Ha-jun might join hands. Sun-deok affirms to him that she has trained him as a mother so he won’t betray them. But, when she visits Ha-jun, she realises the love he has for his sister and hits him before warning him.
Moving ahead, Haesoo believes that her father-in-law, Mr Jang, has set up a conference to bring out the truth. But in the press conference, he announces details that fall positive on Jaehyun’s side. Haesoo furiously yells at Mr Jang before leaving the office. Then, we see Haesoo’s husband (who is Mr Jang’s son), Do-jin, saying that he knows about Jaehyun blackmailing his father with the murder of Dr Kim Sohye. Then Mr Jang opens up business matters and convinces him that he did it all to save Kumjo.
Tae-ra receives information and figures out that her husband Pyo Jaehyun, is in a deal with Sun-deok. She starts to piece things together. Meanwhile, the campaign for the president starts. Later, Mr Jang finds that Kyojin, his other son, is missing, who was kidnapped by Jaehyun to conduct Hatch research on him.
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Simultaneously, Haesoo gets closer to finding one of the main killers of her father, president Tae-sun, and she finds a shareholder, Jake Company. When she tells it to her husband, he is alerted since he finds a name similar to what his father gave him. He rushes to get the details behind the company before it goes to Haesoo’s hand. As he suspected, Jake’s company belongs to Jang and it’s solid evidence to prove he murdered President Tae-sun.
Tae-ra visits the Hatch lab and finds Kyojin there. As the researcher is on the side of Tae-ra, he hides her presence from Jaehyun when he unexpectedly visits. Apparently, Kyojin is pretending to be in a coma so that he can find the truth. He asks Tae-ra to bring his mother and they both meet. Later, Kyojin finds the real truth behind the entire mess, that is, they are planning to steal his research.
Haesoo then receives info about her husband, Do-jin is conveyed to her, and she requests the team to give her the data which was collected Do-jin. On seeing her father-in-law’s face behind the owner of Jake Company, she is startled. We are then moved to the final sequence, where at a party, Mr Han enquires Jae-hyun about his bodyguard Ha-jun being at the spot where Mr Song died. This leaves Jaehyun perplexed, and he yells at Sun-deok.
Sun-deok orders her men to beat Ha-jun, but Tae-ra, sneaks out and protects him. Then in the last scene, the lights go out for a while before we find Sun-deok dead. Tae-ra comes and joins Jaehyun, and the latter seems suspicious of her.
Pandora Beneath the Paradise Episode 8 Review
A lot of events happen in this episode, and each of them has a crucial role in the plot. From Tae-ra trying to understand why her husband is behind the mess to Jae-hyun going to extreme levels to become the President, the crime thriller just keeps adding mystery to mystery while also untying the knots slowly.
Overall, the episode is jolty but still makes sense. The actors are doing a brilliant job, and the genre is satisfied with lots of mysteries that increase viewers’ curiosity.
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