The Tale of the Nine Tailed: Episodes 1 and 2 Recap

The Tale of the Nine Tailed Fox recap



Synopsis:

The kdrama is about the mythical nine-tailed fox, or gumiho, Lee Yeon (Lee Dong Wook) who has just settled in the city. He is able to transform into human form, he goes about cleansing human spirits, all the while creating havoc. 

Enter the talented television producer Nam Ji Ah whose current show features urban myths. With nerves of steel, she will stop at nothing to secure unusual, if not dangerous, subject matter to showcase. She sets her sights on Lee Yeon who appears just too good to be true; irresistibly handsome, intelligent, fit; in fact the ideal guest. But his heartlessness will render doubt in her that he is indeed of this world. 

Step-brother to Lee Yeon is the captivating Lee Rang, reputed to be the most dangerous of all gumihos living among humans. Despite being half-human himself, he harbors a deep-seated contempt for all people. For sport, he will unleash his seductive prowess upon his human-du-jour, by promising to grant them their wishes, only to trick them into paying a hefty price for their earthly desires.

Trailer:


Episode 1:

The narrator says

“When a fox turns 100, it can become a beautiful woman or a man with a single love interest. When a fox turns 1000, it becomes a celestial fox with powers to see what lays ahead”.

Its 1999 and our lead Ji Ah (Jo bo Ah) is travelling with her parent's in a car. All street lights go off and they're in the dark on a completely empty road. Suddenly they hit something and the car flips. Her parents look like their dead but she sees two look alikes peep into the overturned car. 

Promptly she wakes up at her house and her parents are there well and alive. She realizes they're not her parents and tries to fight them off and hides in her room. We hear noises and Lee Yeon (Lee dong wook) enters. He has killed the two impostors. He asks her if she A Eum. He looks at her and tries to hypnotize her into forgetting. Later we see that it doesn't work on her.

Its 2020 now and Lee Yeon goes to a wedding. The bride is a man eater (fox maybe not revealed). He kills her. Ji Ah is in the wedding hall next to the one Lee Yeon was in. 


She hears the news of the bride who disappeared she goes to investigate what the matter is (she runs a TV show called Unveiling Urban Legends and believes that monsters and ghosts exist). While she is investigating she finds red hair turns out its fur. She goes to a vet Gu Shin Joo who helps her and her production house. He tells her its a red fox and that they're found here. 

Lee Yeon arrives at the Afterlife Immigration Office. Here we find out that He was a mountain spirit once and he gave it up so that his lover would be reincarnated.



Ji Ah meets with a boy that she refers to as an informal. He says he has information about the man with the red umbrella(Lee Yeon). The boy tells her Yeou Gogae (the road where her car had crashed years ago) is where he saw the mystery man.



We see this informant transform to a really hot Lee Rang (Kim Bum) as he walks through the parking garage. His friend/assistant Kim Yoo Ri (Kim Yong Ji) was waiting for him in the parking lot.



Ji Ah arrives at a bus stop and there is a girl and a drunk man. The drunk man stops her from getting on the bus and she misses it, she also sees Lee Yeon sitting in the bus. She then carries this man and when reaches where he asked her to take him decides to take a cab. When she turns she sees that he's not there anymore. She gets into the cab and we see that the man was a spirit of a tree. The bus has met with an accident. When she reaches it she sees the girl is alive. After keeping her in the hospital the girl says that shes not safe and he'll (Lee Yeon) will kill her. 

So Ji Ah takes her home. The girl at Ji Ah's house narrates the story (her eyes turned yellow and she was the one that killed everyone in the bus but she doesn't tell Ji Ah that). Ji Ah realizes the girl isn't the victim and we see that the girl transforms into Lee Rang. 

Since Ji Ah had left a note at the hospital for Lee Yeon to find he reaches at her house and we see the two brothers meet and fight and explain that their family is a messed up family. Lee Rang tells Lee Yeon that if he doesn't find the girl( his lover who reincarnated) by the end of the month she'll die.

Episode 2:

We see a flashback and Lee Yeon in traditional clothes sitting besides a Tiger. This is the backstory of him and his lover who has the face of Ji Ah. 



Back to 2020 Yoo Ri and Lee Rang arrive at a funeral house. There Lee Rang meets a man. He asks if her remembers him. The flashback shows the man trying to make a wish in a wishing fountain. He tells Lee Rang he wants to marry his girlfriend but his parents disapprove.

In the present Lee Rang congratulates him on his wedding. He says that its a good thing his parents died so there was no one to disapprove. 

Next we see Lee Yeon asking Ji Ah to send his parents death details. They decide to meet and he tells her they're alive. Ji Ah gets a call that her co workers mother has died. She tells Lee Yeon that they're all getting nightmares. He tells her he'll show her his world. 

Ji Ah tells a security guard that she forgot something in a store room. When they reach there she drops a few coins. Instantly the security guard's eyes turn yellow and he starts to eat the coins. 

Lee yeon comes there and interrogates the Bulgari(They feed on nightmares). He tells him that his brother said that there'll be alot to feed on here(at the company). Lee yeon takes him along and asks him to call Lee Rang. 



Lee Yeon meets Yee Rang. Lee Rang tells him that if he doesn't find the woman she'll die. He also seems emotional. He says that for one woman he abandoned The mountains the family and him.

The next day Lee Yeon goes to an island with Ji ah to find the girl and Ji Ah goes to investigate a case. There they find out that similar incidents have happened before (a man died and his skull was found by some fishermen so Ji Ah came to investigate). On the island Ji Ah and Lee Yeon come across a Tree Spirit. The spirit tells Ji Ah that she has a history with these woods and to go north to find her answers. When she goes there she comes across a cave that she had seen in a picture of her parents. 

We see Lee Rang next, on a call (most probably with Yoo Ri) saying this is a haunted house(we see people dying). On the other hand Ji Ah who was hurt suddenly gets aggressive as if possesed. We see scales on her neck and she tells Lee Yeon that shes been waiting for him.


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