E04 starts with a guy drawing in one scene and a woman sewing in another. The girl is then seen walking around outside and she's obviously sad. She stops walking and you can see a tear in her eye. The guy that is drawing is drawing the sad woman and he is crying. They cut back to the sad woman and there's a truck coming down the road. It jumps the curb and strikes the woman.
OMG. I thought she was going to walk in front of it (because she was sad) but turns out it was a freak accident.
In a previous episode, we learn that Rinko has a difficult relationship with her mother. Her mother had called her and said she was having surgery. There are forms that need to be filled out and the mother tells her she'll send them over to her if she doesn't want to go there. Last episode, Rinko remembers her bicycle getting stuck on train tracks when she was a little girl. The train is approaching and the guardrails are down. Little Rinko is desperately trying to get her bike off the tracks. I'm yelling at the TV for her to just leave it when the camera angle changes and you see the guardrail with her mother standing there just looking at little Rinko struggling. In the beginning of this episode, they revisit the phone call about the forms.
The girl who died in Japan was Vietnamese. The plan is to cremate her there and then send her home because it's cheaper. The story goes to Vietnam where an older man is talking to a picture of his deceased wife. He's asking her if she's met up with their daughter Xuan. In the background are 2 younger kids, probably about 10 years old. The man is their father. They walk over to him and ask if Xuan isn't coming home. He hugs both of them.
Nothing much has happened and already I'm dying over here because these little kids won't see their older sister again. Man and kids lost their mother and now the eldest daughter.
The second story is about a Japanese couple who died in the US while on tour. Angel Hearse is hired to bring them back. This team points out "...only those two died on the tour". Turns out, they were not a couple after all. They were both at the same hotel, on the same tour and working at different companies. The spouses are enroute on the same flight and they're worried "all hell might break loose".
Nami arrives in Vietnam and sees the girl. She is given Xuan's backpack and they take us to the moment Xuan was packing that backpack before leaving. Her father mentions how she took on a huge debt to be able to go work in Japan. Xuan assures her father it'll be fine. She will make a lot of money there and she'll be able to send her sibblings to school and she can buy a house for them to live in. He tells her to be a good girl. She hugs her brother and sister and then her father helps her put on her backpack. He tells her to take care of herself. She walks out the door and waves goodbye. She walks a few steps, turns around and with a big smile, she waves to her family. They cut back to Nami loading up Xuan's body into their suv.
Since Nami was mad at Rinko for her "attitude", she left her behind and took Mitsuko with her instead. Rinko was paired off with Yuya to handle the spouses of the deceased coming back from the US.
Excellent episode again. You'll learn more about why Nami is so dedicated and what she did for one of her colleagues in the past.
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